skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting bit (translated) :

> A practice contrary to the principle of the anti-waste law

> In France, serialization is theoretically prohibited, according to Alexandre Isaac. Since the entry into force of the anti-waste law in November 2021, the consumer code mentions that "any technique, including software, by which a marketer aims to make it impossible to repair or recondition a device or to limit the restoration of all the functionalities of such a device outside its approved circuits is prohibited”.
Different people interact with things and have different reactions. Some are moved enough to develop strong feelings. Some share them nicely. Some write hyperbolic forum posts full of hate. That’s just the reality of having an impact.

My main take away from the post is that anything worth making will receive its share of critics. As a creator you should be aware of that and be ready to focus on the people you actually bring joy to and who appreciate what you do rather than the haters and take pride in actually moving the needle enough to be reacted on.
quick quiz to check if you read the rest: 1) What was the actual problem and why? 2) Who actually solved that problem? 3) What acted as a tool in the process?
In Portuguese the word 'planet' is grammatically male ("o planeta...").
It's also about companies violating the H1B visa rules on a large scale. H1B is supposed to be about high performers (that is in the law) ... and it just isn't. Companies do not ever use it like that.

There should be consequences to violating these rules. Not being allowed to hire workers JUST because they're cheap (99% of H1B visa workers) is something that should always be enforced.
Discover how some famous names in the computing world came about: Prepare to be amazed.
Sort of related, any advice of how to make a board book, like for babies, and what to make it out of to minimize chemicals that could be leeched out if put in the mouth?
Is there a word for this argument? You see it a lot on stack overflow etc too, like "Why do I have to do X" "Because Y requires you to provide this information"
I also bet there is less harassment (sexual or otherwise) at home.

There is a lot of behavior that can be hidden in in-person interactions that leaves a trail if you try to do it remotely.
I am answering to the version before you edited it.

You are absolutely right, and I apologize if I came across as dismissive. We may have different viewpoints, and it's important to respect and acknowledge each other's perspectives. I appreciate your input, and I'm here to listen and address any further questions or concerns.

Let's keep the conversation friendly and open.
Sure, but some corporations take a long term view and sacrifice short term profits in order to ensure that they can keep making money for a long time.

And some companies, like Apple, forego short term profits from e.g. selling customer data, because it would undermine customers’ trust in them.
Wikidata: The Making Of
OpenAI came after our domain because we use GPT in it
Tldr; OpenAI registered the brand GPT and wants us to take down our gptsomething.io domain. The domain was a blank page.

OpenAl brand guideline outreach

Dear Team,
We are contacting you on behalf of our client OpenAl, Inc. ("OpenAI"). Our job is to work with developers to ensure that they are marketing their products in accordance with OpenAl's brand guidelines https://openal.com/brandand in a way that doesn't create confusion for the consumer.

Today, we're writing regarding your use of the mark "GPT" in connection with your GPT' product.

https://branddb.wipo.int/en/quicksearch/brand/CH502023000001493?
by-brandName&v=GPT&rows=30&sort=score%20desc&start=0& -1682836548861&fcstatus-Registered&fcdesign
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Stating "GPT" is inaccurate and may imply a partnership or endorsement where there isn't one. If your project uses GPT-3, GPT-4, or ChatGPT you may choose to say in the Product description (not in the Product/Site name) that it is "Powered by GPT-3" or "Powered by GPT-4" or "Powered by ChatGPT" and/or "Powered by DALLE" as applicable. We do not permit model names in products/site titles because there is concern that it can confuse end users, and it also triggers our enforcement mechanisms. It's important to identify the GPT-3, GPT-4, or ChatGPT (or DALL-E) model specifically, as opposed to just referencing GPT.

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There's plenty of moddable games still available though. Factorio, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Beat Saber. Even Dota 2 has what they call "custom games".

Sure, maybe not a golden age, but they're doing alright
Same. For sure. Any pure player whose existence depends on gaming (or whatever) is going to be preferable to a behemoth like Microsoft who can promote infinite agenda-ridden VPs who disappoint customers, but because the losses are survivable they keep doing it.

MS has been like this for a long time. Just ask all the PlaysForSure music owners.
I think it may be Noto Sans Mono.

>I tried whatthefont

Has that website ever worked for anyone?
someone mentioned nightride.fm the other day (yesterday?) on another thread as a comment and now this pops up. sometimes I wonder if bots read HN and submit related stories/topics.
How to talk to your children about sex
This is a result of trying to make HTTP "do everything well", right? Instead of leaving it to each application to select a layering of successive protocols tailored to it's needs, everything has been jammed into the HTTP spec, which has the nice property of giving you all its features in web browser clients (which is the delivery mechanism for this wide array of apps).

Certainly some applications need not have access to the entire HTTP suite. If the goal is not to offer a "full-featured" client then an HTTP client may not be terribly difficult, it can just fail gracefully if the other party tries to do something it doesn't support?
Fast GPT-2 inference written in Fortran
The demo of Quake II, contained 3 fully playable levels, and is 11 MB.
I think the key is simply letting your body get used to fasting. If you only do it occasionally but usually eat at all the socially "normal" times then of course you're going to be cranky and hungry when you decide to suddenly deprive your body of what it is accustomed to. Eventually, with consistent intermittent fasting, that will change.
At what number would you consider it a problem?

For what it's worth, I would be delighted to live on a planet of 10 billion people who have found a way to live in a way that can persist for millenia, but we don't seem to have done so. Although, living in a well-insulated flat made with renewably-grown timber (a great carbon sink!) walking and biking distance from all of my daily needs where my meagre energy needs are met with 100% renewable energy (when I lived in San Diego I worked from home and our apartment's average load was 100 Watts so this can be done!) on a mostly-vegan diet and working 20 hours per week or less sounds pretty nice to me.
I don't understand how my comment has anything to do with Eugenics.
It's a long hike. Where are you starting from?

brilliant.org has decent courses on linear algebra, including nodal analysis ($100/year or so). You don't need to know a lot; you do need to know how to express a linear equation as a matrix and solve with row reduction, and eventually, how to apply that to nodal analysis.

alcumus and AoPS textbooks are pretty adequate for rational functions, complex numbers, roots-of-unity, etc. You should know everything in their intermediate algebra and precalculus textbook (and ideally, their title textbooks: AoPS Volume 1 and 2). These aren't too long, are much more advanced than normal high school curricula, and are worth doing in either case, skipping the parts you know. Next step is something like MIT 6.302 OCW, which is brilliant.

For differential equations and Laplace, any differential equations textbook will be adequate. I would not do a deep dive here. A shallow one will more than suffice. If you kind-of-get-it, that's good enough.

If you lack calculus background for this dive, OSU MOOCulus or AoPS Calculus are good places to go. OSU will be easy, step-by-step, and AoPS will be challenging, so it depends on your background.

For most people, this takes 2-4 years, and you can't really cram it (which is both good and bad news; a little time each day is almost as good as learning full-time here; you can read about the spacing effect).
I have two young children and while I was conversing with you I was cooking them dinner and getting them ready for bed.

Otherwise I would have done the bare minimum of reading the Wikipedia entry on the book. All I did was Google for “Harry Potter knockoff”, saw that the book was on Amazon, and thought that was enough.

Reading the Wikipedia article it is clear that this series took much more than just the idea of a wizardry school and copied verbatim plot elements. It was not the right example to use.

Here’s what I mean by style. Reggae music. How different is one reggae song from another? What about when a reggae musician sells the rights to one song and then write another song in their own style? Are they infringing on the previous work they just sold to a music publisher?

Here’s what happened when John Fogerty was sued for sounding like John Fogerty:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27501/time-john-fogerty-...

This logic seemed pretty sound to the jury. It only took two hours of deliberation for the jury to determine that the two songs didn’t meet the legal standard of being “substantially similar” that would have constituted copyright infringement. The Fogerty camp let out a collective “huzzah!”
Most startups and indie hackers web apps can run on $6 VPS
All money is created by banks issuing debt, so it makes complete sense that people want to be as close to the money tap as possible to siphon from it. The alternative is trying to build up a productive business in the extremely competitive and harsh free market, where you have to deliver to customers, who are free to choose. Who wants that hassle when you can just pretend being a business and keep on borrowing?
DataFrames.jl was for me on of the primary reasons to use Julia. I personally the syntax way easier than pandas, especially for more complex operations.
I find this cheat sheet doesn't do in justice.
Turn Microservices into a Monolith with the Universal API ORM
See Twitter replies: another user got this result without the silly drama.
He believes his companies solve some existential crisis, so not investing in them is dooming humanity.
Or order destroying the public streets leading to houses with alleged criminal activity.
What you call “normal levels” is a price floor on the cost of capital the market would not support.
And this is why Windows ends up winning in the eyes of game developers.

"OS/2 runs Windows applications better than Windows"....
It had more of a cobbled together feel.

You could inject code in a lot of places and people were doing wonky things. I think it had to do with the user base being far smaller at the time. Knowledgeable people were still a significant part of it and security was far less of concern.

There was also far less money involved which is always a great filter for the kind of personality you want in this kind of community.
Cooking with Snowflake
The Snowflake community is rife with information dumps on how to optimize expensive queries. We know because we combed through a ton of them. We present three tactical ways in which we’ve done this at Toplyne.
Similarly, there are groups who encourage people to go vegetarian or vegan for the climate, which makes some sense, but considering how few people do so long-term we might be better served by encouraging people to treat beef, dairy, etc. as a treat (or at least not something you need 365 days a year) than forgoing these things completely.
It looks like a 60 lb bag is only $26 [0] and really seems to not require mixing, just tamp down and roll over. At that price, I think I’ll be a pothole vigilante.

It’s also surprising to me as I assumed that it was expensive to repair potholes and require special equipment and machines. This makes me think that any unpatched potholes are just a logistic issue since the cost is all labor and coordination.

Maybe this is finally a good case for blockchain as citizens could donate to an address and once the amount got high enough, some company would fix, make a claim, get verified, and get paid without needing someone to handle money.

But this gets us closer to distributed dystopia where towns are no longer competent to do basic stuff like send out a 3 person union crew for $300 to fix a pothole ($75/hour x 3 people x 1 hour + $26 + vehicle amortization). This also assumes dispatching for a single pothole. It seems like it only takes a few minutes so for a typical town (mine is 30 square miles) a crew could fix 2-4 potholes an hour or 16-32/day.

So 3x8x75 + 26x32 = 2632 before vehicle costs. Add in $100 for work truck amortization and maintenance and for $3k all the potholes get fixed.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/SAKRETE-Patch-Permanent-Pothole-Repai...
Polars seems somewhat cumbersome to use.
Are you going to raise this with the school? It seems highly inappropriate on their part
Ask HN: Why does the US has a stronger culture of entrepreneurship than Europe?
How is that SteamMachine support going?
You can fork it regardless per the GitHub Terms of Service, if I understand correctly: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1154/how-does....

Note that this doesn’t extend any of the other rights associated with open source.
probably just humans -- very natural to see a story or comment and then think of something to submit.
Honestly I can't see any candidates to actually replace the dollar. To become the world reserve currency the issuing country has to be very stable, make their capital markets as open and transparent as the US, accept running a large trade deficit and issuing government bonds to almost anyone no matter the geopolitical situation.

China is stable, but without a regime change they are not at all interested in opening their financial markets. India is large and a little more open, but the big question mark is stability (both external wrt Pakistan/China and internally). The EU could do it but first they'd have to get buy-in from the export giants which seems unlikely and they'd also strain the relationship with the US.
You make a valid point, and I appreciate your suggestion.

I apologize if my previous comment came across as dismissive. I believe I have expressed my viewpoint clearly, but I'm open to further discussion.

Let's continue this conversation in a friendly and respectful manner, but after I come back from my break as you have suggested. :)
> By taking out the touchpads they claw back real estate that can be used for battery or slimming down

I want real estate for a bigger D-pad. I find the Steam Deck's D-pad less comfortable than even the Joy-Con's.
Avoid games like alt-f4[0].

0. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137460/ALTF4/
My absolute favorite was not on your list: mangosteen! Available in the US at some Asian groceries but so expensive that I usually can't stomach it.
I got that, and it's great that it's public. That has a lot of impact, a lot of it auxiliary.

The key question is suitability-to-purpose. Without the small group work and the collaboration, a web site like this isn't what I'd like to point strangers on the internet wanting to learn algorithms. Without that, something more is needed. Two decades ago, we were figuring out what that "something more" ought to be so learners can be successful independently online. Today, we know.

I'm not asking Berkeley to do that additional work. It's a ton of work (probably a half-million dollars in human time). I'm just surprised no one has done it.

To make an analogy, if someone needs a car, giving them plans to build one is less than constructive. But that doesn't take away the merits of having an open-source car. It's just a different purpose.
Well, here's proof: If a human is not provided with input of existing (apparently copyrighted) works, this is what happens to a human mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron

So clearly humans are using existing "works", without proper crediting, to produce even just language. There are more examples of this.

So like most criticism of AI, this is yet another appeal to the magic of human minds/soul/god/... It's a one sided criticism. Yes AI is not quite at an identical level of intelligence as humans, but like most AI limitations, this is a limitation shared by both human minds and artificial intelligence algorithms: it doesn't work without "stealing" others' works.

In other words: when you answer "Yes" or "No" to a question, any question, should you credit your mother? Because you're most definitely copying her use of those words ...

Obviously for copyright to be even remotely reasonable there needs to be a "cutoff". Copyrighted works are just existing works, expressed to a latent space of higher dimension low enough that a human mind can analyze it, but high enough that it's "not obviously a copy".
That actual work is in many cases just for keeping up appearances. The company owners and leadership know that the product or whatever their staff is working on is doomed to fail from the beginning, but need something to show to /with bankers and politicians to increase borrowing.

Just think about how many truly awful competitors there are in any market or product sector. If you noticed, don't you think they've noticed?
I don't see how a two-child family is a sacrifice, really. But regardless, it seems like people have fewer children by choice as they become wealthier, have better access to education and birth control, etc.

How many families are large because the person who had to be pregnant had no real say in the matter?
We need on in Greece for sure
there are couple of differences between EU and US which can introduce confusion:

1. EU countries sees a lot immigration from Middle East and Africa, who has more kids and there is still a cultural difference towards having kids, give some time to those people to notice the environment and you see similar trend

2. but also EU countries have stronger labor policies which impacts birth rate. Not easy to fire, even when they don't have a job, they get support from government, cheap healthcare (I pay ~250-300 EUR/month for a family, no payment for kids), free dentist until 18 years for kids.

It doesn't cancel what I have said about the impact and reasons, if same conditions exist in EU countries as well, you would see similar decline, which also means this is a political and economical issue
Being taken over by speculators is an unfortunate inevitability of any market.

We wouldn't claim houses are useless because the housing market has been taken over by speculators, at least in my city.
Certainly. Continuing to grow the population ad infinitum could result in a population crash that settles down at 0 people after we have pushed the world to 5C+ warming.
> Prompt engineering is going to be an indomitable exploit for LLMs.

Until the system prompt is no longer a part of the input buffer. Instruction and RLHF tuning on a slightly modified LLM would probably do.
I want to love groff. All the most beautifully typeset documents I have produced I have produced using groff.

However, it is just so hard to remember how it all works. It is an amazing struggle everytime.
> In German there is the saying: Wer macht, hat recht which translates to who makes is right.

Closest thing in English that I could think of: history is written by the winners. Similar concept.
Demand and ETR Forecasting at Airports
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OpenAI is quickly becoming a villain in order to protect their moat and ensure others can't catch up to them.
GPT: Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothesized planet in our solar system that conspiracy theorists claim will collide with or pass close to Earth, causing catastrophic destruction. They assert that this event, often referred to as the "Nibiru cataclysm," is being concealed by governments and scientists worldwide.
On the other hand...playing 7h straights sounds crazy to me. OK you can do more than playing with these devices, like using them as regular travelling computers with bt keyboard+trackpad combo but still, there is a lot of chance that after 2-3 hours you should be able to find a power outlet and take a pause in your gaming.
It's not about whether your kids will cause climate change. It's about creating children just in time for them to suffer through the collapse of civilisation.
You do realize that it is not billionaires in top hats buying the government treasuries? It is pension funds and other institutional investors mostly.
I do the same lol, it's great isnt it! I also make an effort to cook my "big meal" myself which is also a great habbit! I use my "lunch break" to go to walk to my local market and pick up ingredients.
How do you know the age of the judge?
Yeah, it's a little bit RTFC to be honest.
Circular reasoning?
Sure. Yet tens of thousands of financial sector employees are going to send these kinds of work related messages every single day.

> It’s also illegal to drive over the speed limit
I was a litle vague on purpose, but this was some time ago, so I can provide some other details I think. Please note that the case presenteted to the judge was about 40 pages long, this is just a very condensed version.

They needed a total of 30 documents and they said they had 28 of them, with the 2 remaining being non-critical and needed just to cover all bases. I analyzed the risks based on this information and acted accordingly with 2 things: one was signing the contract at the notary and the second was taking a bank loan.

The contract was signed with the official representative of the community of heirs and would go into effect after all other heirs have signed it, which was supposed to happen within 2 weeks. After 2 weeks I found out that not all heirs had their inhertiance papers (think 22 of 30 documents actually available) and one of those went no-contact because he had the smallest part and decided the effort isn't worth the money.

After 6 months, since the contract wasn't in effect, I haven't accessed the money from the bank, so the bank started issuing a fine (as per the contract I signed with them) of about 1000 Euros monthly (it's called Bereitstellungsprovision), which went for some months until they got their shit together.

Had I known that they didn't have all documents ready, I would not have entered the contract. Or I could have negotiated with the bank for a longer period to access the money.
> I just work very irregular hours.

Do you also come to office and spend 8 hours, even if you do nothing? I see those people in the office almost regularly
Piggybacking on this: My parents recently changed their newspaper subscription and they now no longer receive a paper version but only a digital one (app + PDF). Can anyone recommend a cheap & lightweight e-ink device with a large screen that would be appropriate for newspaper reading? It should be able to open PDFs from some sort of network or cloud storage. It doesn't need to support handwriting or anything.

I imagine they would just have the device lying around on the kitchen table, with the front page open at all times.

Personally, I own a Supernote, which I really like but it's too small and also too expensive for using it just as a newspaper reader.
And their flash is known to brick a lot

I had a pixel 3xl bricking after an update. They get a lot of updates and wear the ?cheap flash

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/rt6tn9/my_pixe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/mmcn93/my_pixe...

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xtwgap/pixel_5...