skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The coercion's implicit.

Ever since these students were 9 years old, everyone around them including (and especially) those in public education have told them that they need to go to college and get a degree or they'd be destitute and living in a ghetto.

Then they get there and college is even more absurd than public school ever was. They sit in a giant lecture hall listening to these people who don't live in the real world with the rest of us talk about things that do not matter (how many credits were for something other than electives or your major when you went?), threatening to flunk them if they can't jump through pointless hoops.

So, they go back to the dorm after class, and do research the best way they know how, and they find relevant study materials. Did he catch them smuggling the answers into class on a phone, or written in microscopic print on the inside of the rims of their glasses? Were they copying someone else's tests? Did they pay a lookalike ringer to sit in on the exam for them?

Hell no. They did what they were supposed to do. They found what they thought were the correct answers, and went over them enough that they could remember them during the test.

Why would anyone bother to go to this trouble? Because they were coerced. They've been coerced since they were children. He doesn't get a free pass because someone else volunteered to do the coercion for him.

I might be a little more forgiving if they were philosophy majors. If that were the case, then presumably they chose this field of study, and the class itself is relevant to that such that they should be putting in more effort... but even in that case, it is sufficient to fail them, because the low scores are their only real failing. Even then they haven't cheated.
Why? V8 is probably the most widely deployed and tested execution environment in the world.
It’s a) a mixed calculation. Not everyone is using the 1TB and the Transfer. b) Storage at scale is cheap. c) Transfer is even cheaper at scale. d) It’s “only” on one Server with a raid system e.g. no cloud with multiple copy’s.
https://archive.is/k5j6j
As there are no evidence that any Kinzhal was intercepted.
You’re talking about consumer grade graphics, not AI processing, and you’re talking about cheap, not performant.

There is no significant competition to the NVIDIA A100 and H100 for machine learning.
Expected Performance of a Bloom Filter
I'm not a native speaker, but other than the definition of "white cane", there was nothing in the comment for me which would be considered hard to understand.

Journalists explain something accurately, which was previously noted by others, but still was under-reported relative to the potential public interest.

I'm still learning :high_five: (maybe everyone is)
I initially thought it meant $10k per massage
> its "good faith" rules almost certainly exclude all current major automakers.

Why is that?
"As a former copyright startup founder equipped with a law degree and a long-standing career at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) law, media and tech..."

Seems like the author was pretty clear to me about their history.
> Don't use vendor crapware on your machine

Wouldn't it be installed windows update anyway? I'm pretty sure windows installs whatever software is in it's repo the moment a device is discovered by default?
> "If by intelligent you mean"

the meaning of intelligence is up to the poll responder and it's an implicit part of the poll
>The analysis reveals that the lander fully completed the entire planned deceleration process, slowing to the target speed of less than 1 m/s in a vertical position at an altitude of approximately 5 kms above the lunar surface.

Ouch.

What seemed to happened was

1. The probe descended normally.

2. Glided horizontally over a 3km deep cliff of a crater

3. Sensor suddenly gives large altitude change

4. Onboard computer sees the sensor value change is larger than expected, deduced the sensor is mis-reading, and filtered the (correct) value.

>as the lander was navigating to the planned landing site, the altitude measured by the onboard sensors rose sharply when it passed over a large cliff approximately 3 kms in elevation on the lunar surface, which was determined to be the rim of a crater. According to the analysis of the flight data, a larger-than-expected discrepancy occurred between the measured altitude value and the estimated altitude value set in advance. The onboard software determined in error that the cause of this discrepancy was an abnormal value reported by the sensor, and thereafter the altitude data measured by the sensor was intercepted. This filter function, designed to reject an altitude measurement having a large gap from the lander’s estimation, was included as a robust measure to maintain stable operation of the lander in the event of a hardware issue including an incorrect altitude measurement by the sensor.
Anecdotes as a Sway user and formerly i3 user.

I have a Compose key (RAlt on my current laptop). It behaves inconsistently across apps, because that stuff is implemented in each app, and they’re not implementing the same functionality.

Some ambiguous sequences are interpreted one way in one program (e.g. <-> = ↔ in Alacritty) and another way in another (e.g. <-> = ←> in Firefox). Order and whether includes are involved may or may not influence these things.

And I’ve come across one or two programs (generally your do-things-from-scratch, pure-canvas sort of things) where the Compose key just didn’t work at all. And I’ve encountered more than one or two web apps where the Compose key is basically broken.

(In general, Compose seems to be handled the same way as IMEs—speaking as a user, not a developer. Pressing Compose in GTK apps inserts an underlined ·, which is then replaced with the characters of the sequence as you type, underlined, which is then finally replaced by the resolved sequence when you’re done.)

All this was a problem under X. It’s still a problem under Wayland. It’s not a problem under Windows with WinCompose: it handles it all, not each app; so you don’t get any progress indicator (no underlined · or anything, it just consumes the keystrokes until you finish a sequence), but it all behaves consistently between apps, so long as they run as the current user. (That is: “run as admin” and WinCompose’s hooks don’t apply so the Compose key just doesn’t work.)

As for input methods in general… ugh, I recall the trouble I had under i3 with xim and ibus and whatever the other *im things were, it was even more inconsistent than I think I’ve observed under Sway. I don’t remember altogether why or what I did, and I haven’t tried doing exactly the same thing, so maybe it is actually about as bad as ever. But I do know that I’m generally finding a much better experience of input-related stuff under Sway than under i3. I haven’t had to tweak GTK_IM_MODULE or QT_IM_MODULE or XMODIFIERS environment variables or whatever other things for years.

Hmm… I also remap Caps Lock to Backspace, and I’ve noticed a couple of apps (e.g. Chromium, no idea if XWayland use is a factor) failing to handle repeat on that key. Little niggles like that aren’t uncommon, again I think there’s too much being left to the apps rather than being handled by the compositor or whatever.
>To be honest, give me the developer experience of the 90s. I want to make a change, and I want to be able to test this change either interactively or through a unit test within milliseconds, and I want to do this while sitting in an airplane with no WiFi, okay? (we didn't have WiFi in the 90s).

I'm going to make an impossible request and ask that any readers ignore everything else they know about "crypto", but...this is one of the things that feels right in EVM development compared with normal cloud applications. Especially with frameworks like Foundry, unit tests for distributed applications run very quickly on local copies of the whole production environment. It's a lot more fun than anything which touches AWS.

Obviously, there are some major downsides (such as Ethereum being comparable to a late 70s microcomputer in computing power). But the model of a single well specified execution + storage protocol might be worth porting over to non-financialized cloud application development.
LLMs are just a novel compression algorithm.
But how many? It's not like these companies are buying every e-book available.
mfp m281fdw

There is a nice option on a settings screen labelled "protect cartridges" which has a nice looking "off" setting, which does nothing in reality.
So you're hesitating to get the shingles vaccine because you found out it might not protect you against dementia? Don't you want to be protected against shingles?
Autonomous driving companies are using LiDAR but almost every consumer passenger vehicle is relying on a vision based system, and they all have this problem. Look behind the windshield of every car you walk past :D
Wonderful answer, thanks!

Do you know if the "Michelson-Morley educational kit" is really enough to achieve the accuracy of the original experiment or is it just to make "any" functioning interferometer?
Of course, now you have to boot and run an entire VM on your MacBook, just to run that one Node.js program.
"As a former copyright startup founder " did he mean he's an aspiring patent troll?
Dark mode and a more legible thread view were all that HN needed. https://images4.imagebam.com/8d/d3/45/MEL9537_o.PNG
I was recently thinking about the potential failure modes of a worldwide sailing trip on a 60-80 ft vessel. Marooned by Orcas was not on the list… but it is now!
Probably not. Humans are trained by reading books and writing something similar, but not identical. Unless what comes out looks a lot like a specific thing that went in, it's probably not copyright infringement in the US.

Artists making copies of famous pictures is a standard part of artist training. Tribute bands are a thing. Elvis impersonators are a mini-industry. The lawsuits so far tend to involve "passing off" new work as someone else's work, as with that ML-generated popular song passed off as a new work by a major artist. That's not a copyright issue. That's ordinary fraud.

The bitching from writers and musicians reflects not that they're being ripped off, but that they're being out-produced. Authors didn't expect to be in the position of John Henry vs. the steam hammer. Now they are.
This is why all of this AI stuff needs to be open source and in public domain.
I’m thinking about giving Orion another try after discovering focus mode and realizing my liking for vertical tabs (Safari’s compact mode isn’t great for multiple tabs).

There’s also OmniWeb, which apparently isn’t actively developed, but still receives test builds

https://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/?pk_vid=f30b228392...

Pale Moon is back on MacOS

https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

You can try Qutebrowser

https://qutebrowser.org/

Or why not go totally bleeding edge and run the Servo test builds

https://servo.org/download/
Has anyone checked exactly how good/bad their "full disk encryption" actually is? To me it looks like that they just save the key on the disk since the volume automatically mounts after a reboot.
If only there were something that might help us understand what we were getting into.
I see it as a larger trend away from general purpose computing and toward appliances:

https://www.techspot.com/news/98811-windows-365-boot-paid-su...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/24/windows_365_boot_prev...

The browser does a lot of my computing now, and I'm not surprised the "General Purpose Browser" is disappearing, replaced by an appliance with user-hostile behavior that might, maybe, sometimes ... give you some internet browsing. Remember AOL Online?

The solution isn't very complicated. Copyleft [1] uses copyright to preserve user freedom, instead of restricting it -- so the company that wants to monetize the software can't block the user from making copies of the source code.

Let's skip the quibbling over Affero GPL, that's boring. How about inventing a license, where the license restricts the valid activites of the software?

A browser restricted to only make network requests authorized by the user. An OS restricted from spying on the user. A computer that is personal again.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html
All of Beej's writing is very informational. I especially enjoyed his guide to C, although his guide to network programming is more well known.

https://beej.us/guide/
Hey, try this version: https://docs.winglang.io/blog/2022/11/23/manifesto
No, Windows update will update it if it's already there from the factory, not if you have a fresh install from the official Microsoft ISO.

On a fresh install Windows update only install the corect drivers, no vendor apps.

The Realtek app is put there by the vendor (HP/Dell/Lenovo) from the factory in their spin of Windows. If you install a fresh vanilla copy of Windows from Microsft's website you won't have any of that nonsense.
> You'd end up with with fragment routes all over the place

Or, you could define every route to render a full page by default and render a fragment only if you detect an htmx request. So you end up with the same number of routes as for a normal MPA.
Sorry I made a mess of the thread with all my different comments. But would this be what you're talking about? https://imgur.com/a/yIY13pe
Note that the title of the page is not "Times New Bastard" but "weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard: It's Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif", which I had edited down to "Times-New-Bastard: Times New Roman but every 7th letter is jarringly sans serif".
I'm using https://github.com/live-codes/livecodes to just move it all completely into the client with a replit-like alternative thing we're working on
At first glance this just seems like an alternate approach at building expert systems.

The Minecraft videos are impressive.

Nethack (https://www.nethack.org/) has been used for AI development in the past and more recently:

http://shelf2.library.cmu.edu/Tech/9997774.pdf

https://portfolios.cs.earlham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00539

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/hash/569ff987c643b...

https://github.com/facebookresearch/nle

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/12923

I am curious how well Voyager would do in Nethack.
Because, at least in the US, cellular operators monitor customer traffic and sell it to marketers, along with your identity details.
Coincidentally, the author’s startup is solving the problem they complain about for most of the article. I think they’re trying to be Vercel?
Tetris on a Chicken Nugget
I would be interested to learn what affect hypoxia has on resting heart rate. Mice do not eat a Standard American Diet or now Standard First World Diet so their risk of CVD and hypertension is lower. Bonus if they also vape some nicotine while sipping their soft drinks.

Can we get some mice eating first world foods for a few months then see if hypoxia exacerbates hypertension or tachycardia?
Maybe Times New Roman, but every seventh letter is Papyrus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
our ai is going to make robots that could replace humans, but don't worry robots don't have humanlike eyeballs so we are also making an eyeball scanner that scans your eyeballs everywhere you go so you will be identified as a human
Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
“Once ethical”? How far back do you have to go for that? 1999?
Probably the biggest copyright infringement is related to open licenses. Is the kind of code easier to scrape, but which licenses have some restrictions on how it can be used, like including the license file or that the code that you based on it must have the same freedoms as the original code (I.e. not using it in closed source commercial programs).

Probably the same goes for open content licenses.
If it's a useful technology, no amount of lawyering will stop it.

If you don't have it, your competitors will, and your people will use the competitors software anyway.
Sources online don't say definitively, so it's hard to really know. Ford says a large portion of the loss per unit is engineering costs. They also say the expect positive margins in 2026. I imagine if it wasn't a loss beyond R&D expense they'd proudly proclaim as much, and they aren't.
Yes, I have a similar attitude myself, to ignore copyright law for personal non-commercial usage. But if I want to do anything commercial, then I've got to respect it. That's my compromise stance on it.
> I'm not worried that gpt4 is going to start launching missiles

Cool SciFi showerthought:

An AI will probably know that Stuxnet happened.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

An AI could trick multiple human actors into unknowingly assembling all the pieces together for a nuclear launch.
How many blockbuster movies do you expect would be created if copyright infringement were "done away with"? How many songs would be created? Books authored?

Copyright's current state might be excessive, but doing away with it entirely is almost surely not the answer.
A test can only test for a sampling of the material presented in class. Specifically looking up the test, and memorizing the answers, does not demonstrate any mastery of the material.

For example, if I teach a course in "How To Multiply", and on the final have ten multiplication problems, if the student memorizes the answers to those ten problems, he did not learn to multiply.

The professor said some of the planted answers were obviously wrong, if one knew the material at all. So no, memorizing the answers simply was not a substitute for learning the material.

I disagree with your conclusions.
Many mountain towns have insane valuations and are not near a university, and many have high radon levels. I think it really comes down to it isn't valuable because no one else thinks it is.
Humans are just novel compression algorithms, our education systems reflect this! :)
I would imagine there was at least a 1 year contract. I don't know of any outbound sales that would target 1 month subscriptions. It's definitely a racket either way.
YouTube built an audience on mass copyright infringement over a decade ago, I think the cat is out of the bag.
This one doesn't cut it? https://www.foldnfly.com/2.html#The-Stable Granted, they fold the wings a really weird/ugly way. Also this variant for some reason: https://www.foldnfly.com/29.html#Lock-Bottom-Plane

That's not even the kind of lock I expected. It's possible to design a plane so once the wings are folded down, the fuselage is locked in a tightly folded position. I don't have a good online reference at the moment...
> you could possibly build a star watching destination.

Next to an highway ? With headlights and road lights it seems like a bad place for that.
No, they don’t have to advertise the position. They have to disclose that they are hiring H1B workers. It’s a huge difference. In particular, there is no mechanism by which the disclosure can lead to a US worker applying for the job and blocking the H1B hire.

For H1B there’s simply no labor market test.
DNF uses a SAT solver. It’s even listed first among the motivations for creating DNF:

> DNF is a fork of Yum 3.4 that uses libsolv via hawkey for a backend. The main goals of the project are:

> * using a SAT solver for dependency resolving

> ...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF
> I’m just a sucker for potentially extremely neat things with a long history of mostly failing—structural editing, live programming, graphical programming... I doubt anybody can reform me at this point.

There exists a cohort of people, so called “harbingers of failure”, that inexplicably prefer and buy new products which turn out to be flops. I suspect I am one, too.

The topic of this strange kind of people seems to be discussed here quite a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=harbingers+of+failure

You could probably be one of such people. I think you should document your preferences somewhere public, so that we know what else is likely to turn out to be a flop.

> tainted strings

At least in Perl’s implementation (one that is famous among me) it’s possible to untaint them accidentally by doing some innocuous operations which may not be directly related to their final purpose.
It’s not to test if X works, it’s to test if X has any chance of working.
Well, that's surprisingly addictive.
There really isn't a moat with these so called 'AI startups' especially those with VC money and are still unprofitable whilst pumping their valuation by overusing AI buzzwords pretending to challenge Google.

Neeva was a solution in search of a problem and almost no one cared to pay to search for results worse than Google. Their situation was so expensive that it wasn't enough for Neeva to make any money to break even and cover their compute costs.

This is the entire race to zero, where Stability, Apple, Meta are already at the finish line with other open source AI models or on-device inference with consumer hardware already available. O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com and other hosted AI services cannot compete against open source models or freely available models and that is why O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com needed to cry to regulators to introduce AI licensing rules that benefit them over actual open source or freely available AI models; i.e regulatory capture.

I can see many of these lesser known 'AI startups' getting acquired or shutdown and the bigger companies in AI actually doing AI research still being around much longer. The big money in AI is unsurprisingly hardware and not the software. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35581777
is this the internet of things
Pretty hard to direct.

If you've set up a close-orbiting neutron star binary and you're in a military frame of mind, one thing you could do is accelerate missiles to a good fraction of lightspeed. (Same principle as the gravity assists used by planetary probes like Voyager.) The tides would limit the practical size of the missile, though I haven't tried to compute this limit.

(I don't consider this comment to be aiding the interstellar enemy, it's too obvious.)
If you want jarring so that you don’t ignore it, use Impact or Copperplate.
Considering the entire interior of front interior has to be flipped for markets, I don't see the big deal in separate modular charging systems to be honest.
I'm pretty sure it runs whatever executable is in their repo?

Nvidia will include it's control panels and stuff, same with intel graphics AFAIK?

A little old but https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-let...

I'm like 95% sure intel graphics does this with integrated graphics
Also there had been a growing trend for most popular packages to offer precompiled wheels on PyPI instead of just sdist releases.

This meant that people who had moved to Conda because they couldn't get Pip to install important packages into their environment took another look and found that actually they could get things installed using Pip now.

At the same time Pip also got a resolver allowing you to have install time confidence you're not installing conflicting package, and recently (Pip 23.1+) the resolver's backtracking got pretty good.

That said Conda mostly solved this (and once mamba is the default resolver engine things will be really fast), Pip is not ever going to be a package manager, and Poetry still isn't an environment manager, and most other Python package/installer alternatives to Conda won't do things like install your Jupyterlab's nodejs dependency.

After many years I now almost exclusively use Pip to install into an environment, but still nothing beats Conda for bootstraping the non-Python-package requirement's (such as Python itself) nor for getting things working when you are in a weird environment that you can't install OS dev libraries into.
I'm not disagreeing with any of the technical points in the article. I'm just saying that my experience with Wayland is pretty good. Someone (GNOME? Ubuntu? thousands of generous developers?) is doing all the work to make it work pretty well for me.