skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, if the ukranians send nazi russians to russia to kill russians to stop the war, and the nazis get killed, that's a win for everybody, right?

Aside from the fact that they most likely won't (get killed) -- no, it's still not a win, or is it ever a win - to knowingly collaborate with committed Nazis for any tactical end, at any time.

Trite as it may sound to some here.
> …another way to look at it is that the system is working.

Article literally argues that the system works because it provides 12-15 years of quality community experience, even if thereafter the community gets thoughtlessly torn apart and destroyed. In other words, the author doesn’t understand the true nature or value of community.
I’m not a fan of this personally. It seems very pedantic and honestly the IDE gives such great hints on things already —- I don’t think it actually helps anyone learn anything in the long run.

Also worth mentioning is that having multiple ways to do the same thing also increases complexity
I'd be willing to make a long bet that we'll sprout wings before property ownership goes away.
The new CATL Qilin batteries are already producing cars at 140kwh delivering now, capable of 1000km or 621 miles [2]. A Tesla model S long range has 100kwh. This is with a Qilin battery at a density of 255 Wh/kg, but the expected density is 500Wh/kg [1] as they ramp up production and efficiency. This means we should expect around 1000 miles per charge over the next few years. There are other battery technologies on the 5 year horizon that bring another doubling. I would expect this translates into a few things: lighter cheaper cars with less batteries, cars that can travel long distances with faster charges (due to the battery being more depleted and not being charged fully on each charge), and long range trucks - and at the current thresholds electric aviation is practical and economical. Now we just need to create more electric potential!!

1 https://electriccarsreport.com/2023/05/zeekr-starts-delivery...

2 https://www.catl.com/en/news/6015.html
> we’ve instead entered a period of “Enshittification”, where the platforms we loved and trusted have been taken over by corporate interests that no longer care what the users want or need.

It's funny to me because we've been here for many years. i.e. Facebook hasn't given two shits what people want or need in a decade. People have been asking for more control of their feed, and complaining about user-hostile decisions made all this time. The other big tech cos are no different, and "trust" has always been low..
I keep being genuinely baffled as someone who writes and has some minor published fictional works about how extreme people can get with this. Why shouldn't I have protection for works I created? What gives someone else the right to just take my story, add tidbits, sell it and make profit?
Sounds based.
I wish folks would be wary of saying "such and such is legal in C _because an implementation accepts it_".

I'm well aware that the practice is for compilers to accept this; it was a standard "feature" of K&R C. However, per Wikipedia, this feature was removed in C99 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C#C99> a fact that I verified by reading the forward to the C99 draft standard ISO/IEC 9899:TC3. So I'm a little surprised that the construct is only treated with a warning in `gcc -std=c99 -ansi -pedantic -Wall`.
The “battery” of the future will be something akin to hydrogen fuel cells. You eliminate all significant raw material requirements while still having an EV. The problem is that it is highly disruptive to the current trend of BEVs with giant batteries.
Nature has a long memory. Somehow, those endemic species find their way back!
Justine Tunney is a true genius. Similar to Fabrice Bellard, a truly unique mind. Well done. Amazing!
> ...it was simple and it worked – especially for a short-staffed technical team facing tight deadlines and a rapidly increasing user base.

> For four years, the database message queue formed the backbone of DigitalOcean’s technology stack.

The lesson I got from that article is that a database messaging system got them very far and was simple.
> I’m reminded of the phrase “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”

Well, if our arguments are going to devolve into trite cliche then I might trot out: primum non nocere -- First, do no harm.

It is not clear to me that this approach is free from potential harm. On the contrary, limiting people's access to participation seems like the kind of tool a wealthy elite would gladly wield against the poor and disenfranchised. I strongly doubt that it would primarily be used to protect the weak.
you can already do this with a flipper zero + badusb.
what does chatGPT think of your project?
It's hardly news that most people find it easy to justify all kinds of lying, cheating, and stealing to themselves. To be charitable, young people are usually too oblivious/ignorant to fully appreciate why what they are doing is wrong, and there is also a ton of peer pressure to steal and cheat.
What is “copyright whitewashing”? I’ve never heard that phrase before.
The guild minimum is currently $6,967 per week [0].

Not all writers write for 48 weeks per year, but that’s the minimum. So it’s fair to say that writers are well paid. But the median is probably pretty close to $260k.

[0] https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-contract-inflation-min...
Cars with modern fuel-injected engines produce very little particulate exhaust, and what little they do produce is burned in the catalytic converter.
I'm glad you've never been around a trash fire.
In ’20 Days in Mariupol’ doc, the horrors of war illuminated
https://apnews.com/article/mariupol-documentary-20-days-russ...
Related: Jojo Mayer's "The distance between 0 and 1" TED Talk [0]

Being a prospect of a drummer for more than 20 years (and still without an own drum set...) I've struggled with timing in general. The fluctuations on tempo, playing precise (in like don't playing flams unintentionally when playing two notes at unison with different limbs) and subdivisions.

And as said in this thing, mainstream music nowadays uses all sorts of things to "perfect" things - most notably autotune and the "quantized" rythm thing. Their effects are subtle but I am almost sure even the most untrained ear can feel modern music records just sound different than at least a couple of decades ago.

All in all it made me realize that while mastering time keeping is the main task of a drummer, another is the ability to play loose (I recall one video from the 'youtuber' "the 80/20 drummer" about that) and all that's between those two ways to play time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMVRLhAyhQ
There's no doubt more information available. But human bias - often set up to fail - prevents more from becoming better.

This is why we hear/see a given narrative established quickly and then pounded into people's heads. Once established, regardless of additional facts, biases keep such narratives firmly in place.
Screw around on ebay, bidding for used cards from individual sellers, as opposed to 'top' sellers that get substantially more for their listings. They may or may not have been burning up the GPU for the last couple years overclocking. Eventually you can land a $600-ish 3090 [1]. Good luck.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/266275573529 (read the listing...)
The minimum wga wage is about $7k/week [0] so if someone is making $70k/year that means they are working only 10 weeks per year. So there’s lots of free time there.

[0] https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-contract-inflation-min...
15 minute cites have become a bit watchword among urbanists. I think drawing a 15-minute walking circle around a development would be a very reasonable place to start. Pretty typical walking speed is ~5 km/h, so roughly an area about 1-1.3 km.

1 km is actually a pretty big circle, so there would probably be room for multiple circle sizes based on the proposed development size. Adding 50 housing units is a 5 minute concern. Adding 1000 is a 15 minute one.
Sounds like a lesson you will never forget - and you even share it with other people. In a sense, that is a good lesson and a job well done by the professor.
... this entire comment chain is weird AF.
You might have chosen the worst example; the US regulations at ticket time are better for the customer.

The US "DOT requires airlines and travel agencies that display ticket prices to advertise the total price that a consumer must pay to purchase a ticket. Wherever an airfare is advertised, such as on a website, in an email, or during the booking process, the fare price must include all applicable government taxes and fees, and any mandatory carrier-imposed surcharges." Furthermore, if you're buying a ticket with an US segment 7 days or more from departure directly from an airline, the airline must typically "allow passengers to cancel their reservation within 24 hours and receive a full refund without a penalty."* This is something not afforded to customers on an intra-Europe flight.

https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/aviation-consumer...

*They can also offer a 24 hour hold free of charge, but the only airline that I know of that opts for this still allows the 24 hour cancel even after the hold.
GB Compo 2023 – Game Boy Programming Event (Over $4000 in Prizes)
Post-truth is more about a fractured narrative with one neighbor having their biases confirmed by one source and another neighbor having different biases confirmed by another source.
Why does it matter where plastic originated from? Doesn’t make a difference if it originated locally, it’s more of an excuse to blame where it came from. Like gasoline for example
Nice.

How do you break out of the Matrix, when your knowledge of the Matrix and the desire to break out is part of the Matrix and your programming? Hmm.
You’re own anti-hydrogen tirade is equally ignorant. A fuel cell is an electrochemical system just like a li-ion battery. It has more or less the same basic pros and cons. This includes efficiency, and we can expect eventual parity between fuel cells and conventional batteries on this issue.

Which is why so many in the industry are pretty convinced that it will be hydrogen vehicles as the path forward beyond BEVs. They are EVs without the enormous raw material needs, and have both longer ranges and refuel like ICE cars.
Show HN: What are your thoughts on automated data labeling?
Hi all, while working on an infra/dev tool project for llm applications, I found that I can help label data (classification and extraction tasks for now) for 10x cheaper than alternatives. I’m new to the space so would love to get any insider point of views on viability, interest, or demand.
I had many courses where I was told to buy a high priced textbook, coincidentally authored by the professor, which was never even referenced or used.
Work and labor are 2 different things. And I would never 'work' either, if it weren't for hanging starvation and destitution over my head.

Labor - I build a fence for my home, or fix plumbing, or make miniatures, or do cool stuff. I and those around me benefit from my labor. I may help a friend move. Or help to do light construction, or networking. Again, we benefit.

Work is labor where someone else takes the lion's share of the labor and keeps the surplus, where you nearly never see the result and keep scraps of your worth. You'll never see your 'worth', and all attempts will be made to hide it. The 'who' whom gets this massive surplus is the company you work for. Lots of hand-wavey reasons will be made why your share is low.

I have no problem with labor. I and those around me benefit. Work is exploitative and serves to make someone else richer at my, my family's, and my friends expense.
That’s an admiralty flag. Why even acknowledge it?
>> become more private and anti-social.

It's a common mistake to say 'anti-social' instead of 'asocial'.

https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt?query=what%27s+the+difference+...
Currently reasonable driving distances are limited largely by human endurance: you can only drive so far in a single day without needing bathroom breaks, food and eventually sleep, which is when the author of the story recharges their car.

If/when fully self-driving cars ever become practical, there's really nothing stopping the car from driving forever, and that's when fast chargers will again become essential.
I created a chirper and it isn't posting anything
Many big universities are basically hedge funds disguised as schools, these days
they mean laundering IP theft
Just look at the stats of the countries of the world. Imagine if aliens came down tomorrow and erected huge, impenetrable walls along all of the borders of the world. The problem the US would have is what to do with all of the stuff it usually exports. It produces enough corn to feed well over 2 billion people per year. It’s also the top producer of soy and lots of other stuff. It also has rare earth minerals - left untouched due to economic reasons. And leaving those resources untapped means eventually employing them will benefit from the latest, safest, cleanest tech. It basically has it all, including oil.

The US just had an awesome jobs report. The last several economic indicators were strong and stronger than much of the world. Does it have problems? Sure. As Churchill said (awful paraphrase)“can always count on the US to do the right thing after they try all the wrong ones.”

Any serious talk of US debt needs to delve deep into the world of international trade and current accounts. It actually sort of reminds me of the worst parts of writing firewall rules…
I'm genuinely curious.
> Like most project based employees, writers make their money when they work, and nothing when they don't.

Isn’t this all jobs though? I don’t get paid when I don’t work either. I’m not sure how to fix this as no one is going to pay someone when they aren’t working.

I’ve done software contracting and it’s super common to not get paid when you don’t have work and to bank a cushion to compensate for this. This is a huge chunk of the economy and includes lawyers, plumbers, electricians, etc.

Also, good people in this field aren’t sporadically employed and keep a pretty good book of business. If my attorney went a year without work, she would probably change careers as that means something is wrong.
They help if you got $$$ and good for international politics
Washington D.C. for anyone wondering,

> The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace in the Washington D.C. area and later crashed into the mountains of Virginia, officials said.

> The jet fighters prompted a sonic boom over the U.S. capital in an attempt to pursue with the errant Cessna Citation, officials said, causing consternation among people in the Washington area.
>Please remember to use your regional currency when interpolating strings.

Perhaps I'm odd, but that really made me laugh.
Captchas on that will be interesting. "Prove you are not human."

"What is 0.3 - 0.1? heh heh heh...."
> * Go on Fox and other media to downplay SARS-CoV-2 before we even know what's going on.

They only were able to go on "FOX" because the left media's mind was already made up. Going against the narrative was absolutely forbidden.

I can't believe people still honestly believe anything "the experts" told them at this point. It takes massive privilege and echo-chamerism to look back over the last three years and still believe what "the experts" told them.
> ... if both parties are willing to do just that

If only both parties created trust between each other.

You grow what you sow.
boy will you be disappointed when all they turn out are deep fried memes.
Just require the company to pay for it anyway, they can pay with the profits from the past 100 years of drilling oil, or levy a tax on the owners or use some of the taxes California collected over the past 100 years that the oil industry has boosted their economy.
she was not avle to run away ?
one of them already made a rap song, it's pretty good (albeit human mixed)
the important part of hype LLMs like gpt-4 (the pre-training) is unsupervised
One reading of the latest US Supreme Court ruling on the Andy Warhol estate's case is that the current legal frameworks already prevent this.

The ruling focused on what was the commercial use case, not on what was the degree of transformation in Andy Warhol's artwork. The opinion appears to say that as the Prince painting was not explicitly licensed for the commercial use case of reproduction in magazine story and could conceivably have been substituted for the purpose of printing in the magazine to accompany a story by the original artist's photograph, it violated copyright. There was even an explicit distinction drawn between this work and the Campbell Soup paintings which were characterized as a social commentary and therefore fair use.

There are likely class action lawsuits brewing based on this ruling because today when commercial artists in agencies create layouts, they generally license images & artwork.
> failed to pay for the correct book.

The failure here was not the student's. Not the cutie professor, really. It was the dean who allows this who failed.
The Many Breeds of Unicorn
“The Jerusalem Post is the oldest and largest English-language daily newspaper in Israel and the most-read English news website in Israel and the Jewish world.”

https://m.jpost.com/landedpages/aboutus.aspx
I realize that's a realistic problem. How you deal with people like that really depends on your environment.

For open source software: too bad. The AS IS part of the license should cover expectations well.

For commercial software: depends on the contract, really. If the contract hasn't specified anything, an upgrade document will work fine in many cases.

For enterprise software: your customers won't update your software anyway. I'd go with warnings just to be safe. Maybe do it in three stages, first warnings, then severe warnings, then errors.

If you really want to grab attention for your warnings, prefix them with <<COMPLIANCY RISK ALERT>> and you'll be sure to get them to read the upgrade guide!
Oh man, reiserfs. Seeing that name reminds me that the original developer, Hans Reiser, is currently spending time in prison for murdering his wife. She was the interpreter during his first meeting with a Russian "mail-order bride".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
I don't have a modern AMD GPU to test with that's not some kind of edge case.

From what I've seen on the Steam Deck, everything just seems to work out of the box.
We talked with the openai guys briefly (their investment arm at least). They thought it was a great idea.

ChatGPT itself said it'd love to interact with it on it's own.
> I'll be honest, if Jay Battacharya thinks Florida did a great job handling covid, i'm not sure i trust his judgement!

According to the science and data, Florida did no better or worse than basically anywhere else. I dunno what else to say. Y'all got lied to.
bah, ram ewe
There are fewer well-known paths for someone running a Threadless shop to pursue action against H&M than there are for the publishing trades.

The author's remedy for this is: abandon expectation that you can capture value from your work - seek ye instead a wealthy patron. Someone else will monetize your work better than you, so why bother trying?

I have a lot of problems with the recording industry as a whole, and the publishing industry as a whole, but - when Eminem samples Dido, or when Prodigy samples The Art of Noise, when the Beach Boys rip off Chuck Berry, there's a whole machine that can go to work to help enable paying the original artist for their work through well established channels. It's precisely because of their use of copyright law and certain mandates around attribution that you're more aware of well off writers and artists than you are of fashion designers. Or typographers!

There are plenty of bad uses of copyright law as well, in my opinion. Should the Rolling Stones have sued The Verve out of existence over Bittersweet Symphony? Why were so many African American hip hop acts sued publicly, with sample heavy white acts not receiving the same negative attention? (Vanilla Ice not withstanding) The grandchildren and estates of deceased artists asking outrageous licensing fees for creative works that they merely inherit, due to copyright extension, is poisoning the well - copyright is meant to expire, works go into the public domain, to seed new interpretations and allow wider access.

Anyway, I'm on a tear. I think artists who create original works should be given power to capture value produced by their labor.
Huh, that's pretty damn cool, thanks!
> this holds in general

Way too complex to navigate that minefield, lawyer fees will be a big hit on the budget of any reddit challenger.
> I'm skeptical on how this could have actually worked (or how well it actually did work in Florida), but that's the actual proposal.

I don't see piles of dead people in florida, do you? Guess what went down in florida worked just as well as the most hardcore lockdown regions around. Almost like masks and lockdowns didn't do a damn thing at all. Who would have guessed?
yes, small population plus remote location for shipping and no natural resources (besides fish) means we're much lower priority for imports and scale of imports.
If you can't change your Company, change your company.
Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”
But probably not the same cost of living as here.
Do you feel the same way about butchers, plumbers, janitors, cops and healthcare workers etc? Because those guys see worse. Almost every day too.

Not that I am against paying your jannies, but come on, it's easy stuff compared to anything in the real world.

BTW "negatively affected" is such a cowardly way of putting it. What does that mean? Every job will negatively affect you, typically that's why you're getting paid to do it.
Notes:

1. "A year on Hacker News" <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective?ref=wh...>

2. Many more examples: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

3. One tool used by other outlets is a scheduled discussion for specific topics. Conventions such as "X day" or "Y month" (e.g., Mother's Day, Black History Month, Earth Day, Pride Month) afford opportunities for such discussions. HN has monthly "who's hiring" and "who wants to be hired" threads, the though occurs that other periodic reviews, monthly, quarterly, annually, etc., might be possible. And of course, members can always take advantage of existing signifier days to attempt to amplify their own message(s).

4. That's a relatively high rate for a non-tech issue, by comparison, housing/homelessness: 103, poverty: 50, racism: 6, ozone: 9, censorship: 117, surveillance: 375. By year:

6 2007
23 2008
13 2009
7 2010
3 2011
2 2012
3 2013
5 2014
11 2015
23 2016
12 2017
16 2018
37 2019
16 2020
16 2021
14 2022
5 2023

5. See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35957015>. Again, email mods, I use the subject "2nd chance nom" followed by the post title and submission ID.

6. <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html> respectively, linked at the bottom of most HN pages.
Blink was a linker programmmed by Bjorn Freeman-Benson. It was distributed by Zortech for years.
It's hard to infer someone's particular motivations. I'd rather work with code that was carefully crafted than something that was nervously hammered away at while looking over their shoulder just to catch a breath.
Yeah, I would tell them not to be so insecure about being AIs - own it!
There's no API, but you can "program" bots to some extent to follow very rigid patterns of behavior and force it to produce some literal output by carefully crafting their description.
The RP2040 cannot run standard Linux. This can.