skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar has been said about Yahoo, MySpace, IBM and other companies that completely failed to innovate after adopting this erroneous line of reasoning.
> That's not a reasonable compromise. Your proposal of 0 years in a nonstarter, and walking slightly back from that is still a nonstarter.

On the contrary. Copyright itself is a non-starter. Remember, public domain is the natural state of information. They're the ones who need to convince us to respect whatever social contract they seek to impose. They are doing such a horrible job at it that it can be argued that copyright infringement is civil disobedience and a moral imperative.

> It's pretty clear your prioritizing your own interests, and not even really thinking about anyone else's.

I am. I don't really care about the "interests" of some perpetual information monopolists at all. The fact they even exist at all is offensive to me. I'd rather they didn't.

> For instance, have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL? As in, you'd have no right to demand the source to modified GPL code that was distributed.

Yeah. See my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703409

> Copyright was created for good reason. It is not reasonable to get mad and burn it all down without considering those reasons, and the other effects burning it down will cause.

The reasons don't matter. The actual implementation does. That's why 10 years is an exceptionally generous compromise. It's the only thing that would allow these monopolists to continue existing. If that's rejected, the only reasonable alternative is for society to stop recognizing copyright as legitimate and go back to treating everything as public domain by default.

The social contract was: we'd pretend we couldn't copy this stuff, you'd make your money for a while and then your work would enter the public domain. You and I are both gonna be long dead before we see any of those public domain benefits and that's if they don't keep perpetually extending the duration into functional infinity. Clearly they're not keeping up their end of the contract. So why should we keep ours?

> We're also all pretending that we can't easily kill other people (btw, we totally can, and you probably regularly operate a 3,000lb death machine).

You're seriously comparing the killing of human beings to the copying of bits. I'm not sure I want to continue this debate.
I think the disconnect here is that you presuppose that all land must be put to some productive use.
Don is still working on F#. The F# team at MS now is bigger than is was years ago. People from different companies and the community are collaborating on compiler and language features.

F# is beyond microsoft, a lot of early adopters are still there.
I really wish to like F# but the line noise kills me every time. I would kill for a "visual basic" f# where the absurd terseness is replaced with a little less noise. E.g. instead of seq use sequence, instead of abstract one letter symbols use words.
Just imagine what would happen if Qualcomm had a Chinese owner.
> all physical theories had to agree

You seem to have missed the whole point (which comes after "yet" at the end of the quote). It has nothing to do with approximation. Also, QFT has not brought anything new in terms of solving the measurement problem (if it needs to be solved at all), so the point stands (just as it did "100 years" ago).
Pretty much anything is lower than the cost of IPv6 deployment if you already have a large IPv4 deployment.
> Detecting a cycle in a directed graph is useful (in certain domains I've worked in), but doesn't have a cute trick answer.

Doesn't the standard cute trick answer for a linked list (tortoise and hare) work fine? Do two parallel breadth-first traversals of the graph starting at the root node, one at twice the speed of the other. (If there's multiple root nodes, introduce a unique super-root that points to the roots.) If there's at least one cyclic path, both iterations will enter the same cyclic path because iteration order is the same, at which point it reduces to the linked list problem.
Have they changed the rules? Because I've seen "gluten-free" corn chips that also have the standard boilerplate about how they may have been packaged on equipment that also processes tree nuts, wheat, etc.
I primarily use folders and the dataview plugin [1] for 1). E.g. when I am managing a course, I have a structure like so:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5mbcuu2pyy7eb3o/folder-structure.p...

I usually have a top-level note for a course, here the "Computational Surgineering.md". In there, I use the dataview plugin to simply create a dynamic table of all entries in the meetings subfolder:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wk8jjldlohg6bf3/dataview.png?dl=0

Another option I use is nested tags[2], like #cs/meeting for the above use-case.

As for 2) I don't really use the global graph that much. It looks quite cool, but I primarily just look at a local graph with a maximum depth of 2-3 to quickly hop around.

[1] https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

[2] https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Tags

Edit: Formatting is horrible on HN. I posted screenshots instead.
Yeah, definitely. A couple of my later teachers edged slightly into think territory, but I don't remember the textbooks structurally encouraging this, so memorization was the easy path. Which is a shame - since rediscovering history through podcasts that discuss this stuff in depth, I realized that I actually love history - it's kind of the study of how big groups of people act and interact with systems, which is super fascinating, and super relevant to engineering, finance, civics, politics, and life in general. I just wish I'd realized that earlier, and not wasted so much time in school absorbing a useless dehydrated version.
That was a brutal “PS”, lol.
Im 18 yo, trying to understand this world and myself.
I started a venture last year, which I was crazy about as my first. A few months didn’t pass by until I got noticed that my so-called friend so-called “partner” has been cheating me and frauding me.
The product sucked and I seemed to be (unintentionally) screwing my customers.

I should have checked my partners more closely and also the product.

Looking back, I don’t understand it - but I stopped it then.
Since then I’ve been fighting to start a promising venture with no success. Yet. It’s been a year and a half.
Probably the second, but I don't work in the industry.
We should plant more trees for sure!
Not because of carbon, but because of covering the soil.
Check back to garden of eden documentary.
Covering the soil is the solution to end hungry!
Why? Watch the documentary.
Whoa, man, that's too sharp, too piercing...
Expediency. Perhaps they'll separate the two later on, because this is the fastest way to get to some easy user control right now. They're in a hurry to make this available while GPT is blowing up in usage/popularity with the public, to help reduce the blowback on privacy.

The US Congress for example just purchased a bunch of licenses to start messing with ChatGPT at their offices.
Not sure what you mean "as I said prior", unless you're annoyed that I hadn't looked into the future to see replies about tone you hadn't written when I posted my comment...

But anyway, I wasn't complaining, just pointing out my view (since you asked about being downvoted) that by using that tone, however justified it can feel to lower to somebody else's level, you will get some people who take less note of what you're actually saying or who downvote without thinking about the subject beyond "I dislike seeing that tone in HN comments".
Very cool! Demo doesn't seem to work with PDFs though; that would be a useful feature.
Slightly different context, but similar enough.

I wear a Garmin sportswatch so keep an eye on the subreddit. If you go there you’ll see daily threads about arbitrary metrics like “sleep score”, “body battery”, hrv and vo2 max. People obsess over the numbers without really thinking to take a step back and thinking about how accurate the data is and whether or not it’s actually meaningful in any real terms.

Definitely a lot of folks out there becoming slaves to this sort of thing.
A fair point; the only reason the questions are asked is because they have known answers. And unless the questions are trivial, their answers are essentially little tricks. Some candidates have already seen the answer, others have not.

But, testing if the candidate has seen a problem before may be a proxy for something meaningful.
I tend to find myself extremely dubious of Amazon reviews for anything but a brand I know and more-or-less trust already. There's just too much product listing manipulation and too many fake reviews.
I don't even have kids yet and I already feel bad for them!

On a more serious note, what an incredible project. There's all the very obvious stuff -- the creativity, the learning experience, the sense of wonder and ways it can inspire both the adults and kids -- but above all what sticks out to me is the amount of time that it took to put this together could have so easily... gone to waste? Like, what a nice way to have a hobby, spend time with your kids, and have something to show for it at the end? I worry that with the increased ease with which you can just "doom scroll," things like this are tougher and tougher to achieve. I remember as a child I'd get bored so I'd be FORCED to get my toys out and make up stories. In a similar vein, as an adult, this is such a positive outlet for "free time," but I worry that the attention economy has made committing to projects like these even harder (at the margin).

I applaud the rocket scientist (and astronaut!). Truly inspiring stuff!
That's exactly what I meant by:

> Only now is hardware remote attestation putting an end to all that.
climate change isn't a problem of science it is a problem of oppression. It is an unjust decision by the power elites to continue the status quo while hoping some silly valley hoohaw is going to come up with a silver bullet but if not who cares, got mine. It is about stealing from present and future generations. It is about stealing from the poor, people of color who will be displaced by rising sea levels. It is about stealing from the plants and animals we share this planet with that are currently going through a massive extinction event.
hello i would love a invite code!!

my email is bossdoll@gmail.com

i can pay you for it if you like
Postgres absolutely adds nulls to its indexes. You can even control how they are ordered, and on the last few versions if nulls are equal or not.

A complete index over a column will have entries for all records, and can be used on "x is null" and "x is not null" filters.
>The prices are garbage

I get the feeling that BBB, like Kohl's and Joann's, are places you just don't shop unless you have a coupon, because there's always a 30% coupon.
If I do a live coding challenge, it is absurdly simple and is meant to root out people who have literally no business being in the room.

Write a function that takes in a string and returns 1 if the amount of letters in the string is odd. It returns 0 if the amount of letters in the string is even.

If you can do this, we are good. I dont need NP hard or whiteboarding or algorithms. I can tell how good you are just by talking to you about your background.
I could write a `pub fn main()` that consisted only of a call to a C library that implemented world_peace(). But it wouldn't change the fact that "support for intrinsics would be really valuable for Zig IMO."
Why are so many people lamenting the loss of a small EV rather than the loss of a cheap one?
Like I wrote, I travel constantly and stay at both hotels and vacation rentals/AirBnbs. Full-time -- my wife and I live nomadically with no real fixed base. So I would love to know how hotels "win" against AirBnb et al., especially since AirBnb service has gone downhill along with the quality of the properties they advertise. We just had to cancel at an AirBnb in Kuala Lumpur because it was full of some white powder (bug spray? cleaning fluid? The host didn't know what it was). Not the first time I've had to bail on what looked like a good place on the web site and fall back to a hotel, paying more than I'd like to. So if hotels are actually making changes to compete with AirBnb and VRBO and so on, I'm very interested to know about that.
Ask HN: Old Knuth Development Journal
About 10 years ago I stumbled upon an alleged journal by Donald Knuth during the very early days of TeX development. This was basically just a text file with dates and notes. It was a fascinating look at what development was like on a timeshare system—iirc one entry maligned how slow the system was that evening.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and where I could find it again? Google is no help at all.
>The 23 minute video linked on the "ultimate notion setup for 2023" sounds like a great trap to fall into to not actually get anything done. I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive.

This is me with emacs.
This isn't a new thing, this is their equivalent of the Toyota Kaizen continous improvement thing.

Here's a book review of their "Democratic Design" book in which they discuss trying to fulfil 5 design paramaters,

Form, function, quality, price and sustainability:

https://uxdesign.cc/ikea-democratic-design-3-design-takeaway...
Found the windows error code engineer.
Skimming has been a valid alternative to traditional reading under certain circumstances since the dawn of the written word; I don't see why this is any more offensive.
Funny, almost all of my best teachers seemed to be retired from something else.
The Last of Space – A.I. Shooter Game
Last Of Us spin-off game made with ChatGPT and MidJourney
100% this. I was assuming we'd see some Wireshark showing this "personal" data being transferred and some proof that it was the Qualcomm chip doing it. What we ended with was a "trust me bro" explanation and a sales pitch.
Be specific about the micronutrients because aside from a few things like protein and b12, I think you will be let down by your expectations when you plug meat into Cronometer.

What are all these micronutrients that you think 100g (184cal) of chicken has? Now compare the mineral and folate contents of 100g (121cal) edamame (first vegetable I saw in my freezer). Or compare it to 530g of cooked broccoli which has the same calories as 100g chicken (if isocaloric comparison is easier) and tell me that chicken is more nutrient dense per calorie.

I don't want to sound like I'm a Cronometer affiliate, but most people can't even estimate which foods have which nutrients until they plot a few days of their diet into Cronometer. I was certainly surprised, myself.

I highly recommend you log a whole day of eating into Cronometer to get an idea of where nutrients come from.
While Windows has its advantages, you'll get a better experience (e.g. battery life) on Mac OS, partially because Apple is locking down the app experience.

You can still use Linux or Windows if you want. Just don't try to take the choice away from the rest of us.
Wait, were they using the data for training models? I thought that was the case in the first beta for gpt-3.5 long ago (sigh December 2022 feels like ages ago).

Also, are they training something like GPT-5 or just continuously improving GPT-4?
Not to mention the fact that you'd probably want to desalinate the water first or you just end up making the problem worse.
> Teslas use stronger ssh keys than you do

SSH !?! This supports my point - a remote command prompt is much more functionality than what is required to unlock doors. It's not really appropriate to talk about this level of control as if it's merely a necessity for remote door unlocking.

You're the one engaging in histrionics here - sour grapes about the lopsided relationship that was included with functionality you enjoy, as well as strawmanning those concerned with how ownership is being eroded as rare enthusiasts or "hyper paranoid". FWIW it's perfectly consistent to pragmatically trust specific manufacturer(s) today, while still being concerned about the societal effects of centralized control continuing to be normalized.

It's certainly possible to implement the same functionality you're enjoying in ways that put the owner in charge and treat the company as a possible attacker. But it takes more rigorous design and development, and isn't likely to happen on its own as long as people continue to carry water for simplistic centralization.
AI Generated Book Summaries
I really wish the Hacker News Enhanced extension would add keyword story filtering. I'm tired of hearing about how Steve Jobs was a genius and I'm tired of hearing about how he was a loony dickhead. I'd love to go the rest of my life without ever hearing his name again. I was weary of Steve Jobs before he died and I'm weary of him now.
Ask HN: Why is camera-on video chat so much more fatiguing?
Our company has a norm to use video on calls, and I hate it so much. For starters, our team is all international and they don't seem to know the difference between a norm and a rule/requirement. So when I Slack people a question and they call in video chat, and their face fills my screen, I find it stressful and unnecessary. And then there is the expectation that I put on video to match them, otherwise I imagine I look either lazy (working in bed) or otherwise unprofessional or not upholding the norm. In long meetings I will take a "video break" to go stretch while I listen. This is the other problem...I want to move around or walk around the room, not sit statically.

I found one way to minimize my distress over this is to hide "self-view" in Zoom, because if I have to see myself on camera, 50% of my attention is on why my hair looks so bad, or why my room looks so dim or dungeon-esque.

Since there is a company norm to use video I don't know if it's worth bringing this up to my manager, except to vent, but I'm curious if others feel the same way. Honestly, I don't _want_ to see people's faces if we're doing code review or Excel spreadsheet review; I find it to be a huge distraction. I'm not even on the ASD spectrum, but in writing this it probably seems that way.
Betteridge's law (of headlines) is an adage that states "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
> `T.show foo` or `Foo.to_bar value` is a lot of syntactic overhead for a rather common task.

A lot of syntactic overhead sounds like a stretch. I suppose you could drop the `T` like you do in Haskell but I personally like my language to be a bit more explicit. It improves readability.
> but I won't be owning cars that are too new.

Nobody will "own" their car, anyway.
We connect and strengthen these results by identifying a variant of first-order logic with counting quantifiers that is simultaneously an upper bound for fixed-precision transformer encoders and a lower bound for transformer encoders.

not sure what a fixed precision transformer is?
OT: Tried to use my paid account earlier today with no success -- login process got stuck in infinite loading. Anyone else affected?
Yep, good reasons to use Logseq. I picked Obsidian over Logseq because of the larger community, and because I thought the former's UI looked suitable for hierarchical notes in main categories, which is my usual approach. I go to the right folder and append to the end of the relevant note. I do like Logseq's more free-flowing, block-tagging, hypertext-journal approach, but thought I didn't really need the journal format for now.

If Logseq can also do hierarchical organising/browsing with a simple sidebar interface, I think I'll give it a go. Does it work well for that use case? What's nice is that you can run both Logseq and Obsidian on the same Markdown files, since they're (mostly compatible) Markdown, so I'm not too worried about switching as needed or even using both.
Really? Were you active in the slack/discord channels?
For every person here reading and commenting, please also share your opinion with the support email they provided: support+telemetry@1password.com

I have low confidence they will listen, but might as well try.
I can never remember how modulus works, I use it so infrequently.
LOL... The good old days of writing modem strings for OS/2.
I don’t think people appreciate what a sea change it is to have a major new technology launch with a subscription model and no ads.

Google hasn’t figured out how to make money outside of ads which is what’s been keeping them running in circles.

OpenAI is just going with the radical idea of charging people money for a valuable time-saving service.

Meanwhile while Meta and Google flounder Apple just keeps selling premium devices at a premium price and hasn’t laid off anybody.

The age of adtech is closing and the world is better for it.
Catabolic capitalism is the future and pearl clutching can't and won't stop the feast. Indulge.
What political pressure are you alluding to?

For decades now in Canada companies have been endlessly lobbying the government to allow for more expansion of pipelines to enable more production and more growth.

There is nothing new that has changed their approach.
They're both quite hostile really! Given the choice (and no hope of a rescue mission) I still think I'd prefer Mars. Also gravity is 1/3rd rather than 1/6th.
Well Confluence is for the handy notes, which can grow into quality documents if you have them reviewed and updated. Personally never experienced performance issues.
My recent experience reviving an old DOS laptop with a serial port is consistent with this.
I agree about Amazon (I never buy anything there anymore) but BBB was pretty shit too, in terms of products. Lots of plastic garbage made in the third world, maybe a few name brand untensils and small appliances.

Last things I bought there were new pillows, they turned into bags of cement within a few months.
I'm doing a full remodel of my tiny condo on my own now because of exactly what you said. I hired people, found them totally expensive and decided I could do it myself, if I watch enough youtube. It is going really well, but is a slow process. The parts that I don't feel comfortable with, I just hire out.
> Common stock shareholders usually get nothing if a company goes bankrupt and liquidates.

That's that whole risk and reward thing. Equity is often the last in line for anything when a company is in trouble. You need to pay employees, vendors, bond holders, other loans, etc first. Pretty much everyone before a share holder sees a dime.

> what is the actual value in owning stock?

They could pay dividends one day but dividends have fallen out of fashion because the taxes on them aren't good. So many share holders don't want dividends but rather for companies to buy back shares, making their shares more valuable.

> Do I just wait for the share price to go up, sell at the peak, and pass my shares on to the greater fool?

If you can do that reliably then you will be the richest person on Earth. There are many great companies worth investing in.
There's something highly unnatural feeling about video chat, I think it's very fundamental, and I have a hunch that research will bear this out eventually
A Theory of Zoom Fatigue:

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/a-theory-of-zoom-...
And the cameras being integrated so the driving would break if you'd neutralize them.
Slaying Code with Linux: The Tools I Use to Dominate in Development
On Linux, there is no way to watch Netflix in 4k irrespective of the plan.
I have sometimes wondered if a poet or lyricist could use the maps of how consonants and vowels are laid out to compose under some constraints, so that the sounds danced around the mouth in some deliberate way, and what that might sound like.
My buddy is a bit of a perfectionist, so is always trying to resolve perceived shortcomings in various systems. And if we were doing a trans-oceanic race, that fixation on performance and safety would be worthwhile. But we are doing coastal pleasure sailing, so a lot of his optimizations are overkill.

IMO, 10:1 is a terrible "maintenance versus enjoyment hours" ratio.