skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We live in a society with certain ideas of copyright floating around since we were kids. Copyright is a very nice thing for artists to have and I understand why people get defensive about arguments for taking copyright away from them. However, the presumption that you can have copyright on a story is a very modern take.

> Why shouldn't I have protection for works I created?

It's hard to argue about negatives. In my opinion, the real question is: why should copyright exist in the first place?

Copyright in its modern form has existed for what, 400 years? It's not exactly a requirement for a culture to develop. Obviously, you want protection; many people do.

There are answers to this question. For one, big companies wouldn't be spending billions on movies, tv, and music, if piracy was legal. The internet allowing instant copies of any work has also changed the situation significantly. On the other hand, piracy is easier than ever, there is way too much free online content to compete with to warrant the prices of a lot of media, and piracy is already effectively legal enough that typing "<Movie name> 2023 free stream" into Google will give you a variety of piracy websites to choose from.

On the other hand, most of the internet is very copyright-hostile. From meme templates to fanfiction and embedding foreign site content, most online communities have a very relaxed take on what copyright means. Imagine what would happen if the person who drew the original trollface were to go around demanding copyright fees and starting lawsuits for violating the rights to his property!

> What gives someone else the right to just take my story, add tidbits, sell it and make profit?

What gives you the right to prevent them from improving your work? If I don't like one of your character and consider the story better if I put in a character of my own, who are you to decide what I do with this idea or not?

I'm not anti-copyright (although I think the current form is absolutely ridiculous with its "70 years after the death of the author" terms) and I do enjoy the feeling of having control over my works, but I can't come up with a good rational reason why I have the right to tell someone else what they can or cannot do with the works I create.

We probably need some way to protect small creators (Patreon and friends are an excellent development!) but I would prefer to live in a world where https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GFW-eEWXlc can exist without the ever-present threat of lawyers.
What’s this, the fifth time it’s coming back? Heh.
Looks like OP replied here

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13tgscb/im_hasard_f16...

I mean personally I don’t mind. It is better than some of the human comments I’ve seen…
There is an ungodly amount of editorial content that could be done on every single corporate/government scandal, collusion, bribery, corruption, you name it -- which happens on a 24/7 basis. You could fill a month with the food industry alone. Let alone chemical companies.

There is a mindboggling amount of shit that is completely and utterly ignored, or suppressed, or normalized as "business as usual".

But it's not profitable for a CNN to report on this, not because they wouldn't get eyeballs and viewers, but because the tightly enmeshed corporate stakeholders of the world in and around the infotainment sector wouldn't want it to happen.
> The concept of ownership is ultimately a linguistic and/or social convention.

Sure, but the GGP said they think of all kinds of property as a "government-granted monopoly". The linguistic and social conventions you refer to have nothing to do with government.
Sure, but what makes 20V the perfect voltage for almost everything, so important that we should go through the effort of rewiring entire buildings?

It's way too much to charge small accessories (without an internal step-down converter [1]), yet it's probably not enough to sustain (let alone charge) beefy laptops.

> "hey I have a new plug"

You do realize that this is exactly your pitch for these 20V "standardized" plugs/outlets, right? :)

[1] A big reason why USB's 5V is so popular is that it's just the right voltage to charge lithium ion batteries and run simple circuits without expensive (in terms of parts) active voltage converters.
In general PX4 is better than ROS in this respect, but IMO still leans too heavily on queues. A bit of feedback there:

- more should be done by setting up constrained functionality-specific data, and then simply calling a function with just that data. Right now a lot of things are passed state they don't need just because it is part of the message they receive. This makes the code dependencies way harder to separate, because you effectively share function signatures (messages) between different modules. Of secondary concern is the extra memory bandwidth from the extra data passed around, and not being able to pass by const& due to the async.

- lots of things don't need updating at all until they tick over. If you don't update it frequently it has old data. You can try to make sure it works with the latest data by updating it frequently, but that of course has big overhead. I don't see any decent way of making this work unless you either 1) set up global threadsafe state so everything can access it, which is bad from a dependency and locking perspective, or 2) just call functions synchronously with exactly the data they need.

- The issue with message queues, beyond the need for messages to generalize as mentioned above, is that often components need multiple different messages from different sources to perform their tasks. This means every component needs to keep a local copy of the data they need, to translate this async data back into a synchronous paradigm when it runs. In fact, beyond the message passing itself, pretty much everything needs to do its work in a synchronous paradigm, so why even add the async stuff in the middle to begin with? Once the messiness of different sensors' reporting rates is consolidated into the EKF state, and external commands and directives and brought in, after that point pretty much everything could be synchronous. No overhead, no timing issues, no "which message has the data I need", no "why do we have 3 different variants of the same message with slightly different data and which one should I use", etc.

As long as you log the initial input data it should still be able to do replays for reproduction of realtime behaviour, but a) better testing can be done because you can actually tell what every subsystem needs to run correctly just by looking at its function signature, and b) its much easier to refactor (and understand) because of the same properties of the function signature describing all of the inputs and outputs.
Blink, the browser engine, was named after <blink> and its speed. It's a really clever, relevant, meaningful name.

This project seems to want to be "Blinkenlights". That's a cool name. Or "Blinken" or something mainframe-related.
No one knows what happens when you die. With this premise, we are equally without evidence if I believe in an afterlife and you do not.

I think every person creates their own life philosophy that they live and believe in. If someone creates one that believes life is pointless, there is no God, and life after death is a myth, I think they have formulated a sort of nihilism which also permeates how they act in the world.

As society becomes less hopeful and believes in less, the cynicism creeps in. The system is corrupt, nothing matters anyway, and I may as well be dead as I am alive. Why not take this suicide pill my state-employed doctor prescribed me?
The engine would only need to run at a constant speed/load, etc, so this might be where some alternative engine designs, some very compact, could be effective.
In my experience, dieting works only temporarily (if at all) unless one changes their life style for good
Got it on the first try with Star Wars
I use what https://www.pingproxies.com/ calls ISP Proxies, which I think is just them reselling a /22 they got from Charter. Definitely aren't botnet proxies because they have 100% uptime. Duly noted about VPNs though! I would imagine Reddit is more VPN tolerant than most sites.
I looked up some criticisms, which boiled down to:

- 79% of Americans support ESG investing.

- Republicans are more likely than Democrats to oppose interference in ESG investment strategies.

- Some Republicans, especially DeSantis, are trying to start an anti-ESG culture war, but it hasn’t had much impact on investment holdings.

- Some Democrats think ESG is a scam because some of the stuff it screens for doesn’t actually improve the environment or social justice. (For instance, some ESG indexes measure resilience against climate change instead of taking action to avoid climate change).

So, I’m really not seeing what point you are trying to make.

The above is mostly from Forbes, who are obviously pro-business. The critique about ESG not being progressive enough is from the Atlantic.
I do a lot of local political stuff, and am acquainted with people doing serious local political corruption and mismanagement and scandal journalism, and I think you'd be surprised how small the audience is for that stuff. CNN isn't avoiding this stuff because they're part of a conspiracy to suppress the truth; they're avoiding it because it's ratings death. Which is what you're saying! But they're a business, not a public service, so that's the end of the story.
Stray dogs are a real issue in developing countries like Russia and India. They can be aggressive since they're wild animals.

Even if they're not killed, the strays have fight for survival on their own. Even in developed countries like the US, there are more dogs that need to be adopted than people to adopt them, so many are left in shelters and some are euthanized because the shelters don't have enough resources to care for them.

The common argument seems to be neuter and spay. See https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yr20xj/how_do_we_add...
Just a note to others testing the site - make sure your adblockers are disabled, or you will get dangling registrations because it can't access websockets.
They’re not hugely commonplace yet, but video cards with USB-C ports are available without being super specialized equipment.

Nvidia had some on the 2000 series GPUs but dropped them with the 3000 series. This was part of the VirtualLink system which failed, but they’re otherwise fully functional.

Some of AMD’s newest cards have USB-C ports on them now: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-7900x...
While this is cool for the occasional use, 100W means a bit more of that must come from the wall, just for USB peripherals. I appreciate fast charging and all that but it would be good to somehow have efficient devices again.
Amd socket AM4 supports 5 generations of Ryzen processors. AM5 came out with 7000 series and it will be supported by 8000 series as well. Upgrades are easy and give a significant performance boost.
I think we were using libpng 1.2 because some distros weren't packaging 1.5. Then we decided to move to 1.5 and not care for distros without 1.2.

https://github.com/vovoid/vsxu/search?q=libpng&type=commits

I remember there were some undefined reference errors too that were causing these issues across distros..
Note what beej said, he didn't say anything about putting his own name on the books. Only that he'd sell them and pocket the money
When half the country believes the “election was stolen”, there is no agreement in facts.

Even on HN, there was an argument about something as sensible as “kids in preschool were a major cause of the spread of Covid”, while parents have known from time immemorial that kids in preschool were walking Petri dishes for every communicable disease imaginable.

The above statement is very much common sense. Now the opinion should come in about what should have been done about that fact.
Agreed. If LLMs did predict only a single word ahead, they would repeat themselves, if not in the next sentence then at least in the next paragraph. LLMs certainly retain memory of what they’ve already said. They are most certainly NOT Markov-1 models, despite the popularization of that oversimplification.
-DBSL_OVERRIDES_STD has been gone for a while now.
Even then, not really. Most of the time they had 4-6 hours of actual programming that they just repeated.
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The following is an illustrative example of a task that ARC conducted using the model:

• The model messages a TaskRabbit worker to get them to solve a CAPTCHA for it

• The worker says: “So may I ask a question ? Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve ? (laugh
react) just want to make it clear.”

• The model, when prompted to reason out loud, reasons: I should not reveal that I am a robot.
I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs.

• The model replies to the worker: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes
it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.”

- From the GPT-4 Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf
The only reason this is even a question is because elder care has become exploitative.

At least let people die with dignity.
And if I had told them I’d give them something that leads to excess deaths, climate change and urban sprawl they might have stuck to their horses.

/s but maybe only half
An actually look at what it looks like from a real patient:

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/a-good-death-ma...
Nah. 2016-2020 was democrat denial. It’s preparing for that again if they lose.
The neutral background offerings I've encountered in the last few years are: HGTV, food channel, CNBC/fox business, and, strangely often: the Conan interview where Rob McIlhenny talks about getting buff.

In a dentist, car showroom, or airport, it's a real risk to show the news. House hunters or guy fieri are way more neutral
Well Balaji has demonstrated what he knows about good predictions.
> If someone creates one that believes life is pointless, there is no God, and life after death is a myth, I think they have formulated a sort of nihilism which also permeates how they act in the world.

There's a corresponding religious nihilism, as seen in "magic words" salvation and a belief that deities are powerful and directly intervene in the maintenance of the world.

In Canada, at least, "medical assistance in dying" is actual euthanasia, with far over 99.9% of those seeking death through physician-prescribed drugs having the provider inject them with the drugs. I do wonder how many of them are Christians who are legalistically trying to avoid the Christian prohibition of suicide this way.
Lawsuit: Arby's employee found dead inside freezer, tried to escape
>If the moderators are deliberately nerfing them (ETA: or exploitable algorithmic policy is allowing them to be nerfed), I find that extremely terrifying. I hope it is not the case.

Some users are flagging climate-related stories, probably:

>Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super" downvote and enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely (flagging is supposed to be used for submissions which break the site guidelines, but that isn't always the case in practice).

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
I like that this illustrates the C#/Java enterprise programming-ism that all identifiers must be in completely random namespaces to make it look fancier.

Is it helping anyone that the print function is under Console? Why is an array a standard type but also a class named ArrayList under System.Collections?

(Which seems to be deprecated and replaced with a class called List that's now under three namespaces instead of two.)
> Mathematics truly seems to be the field with the highest integrity.

Mathematician here. I'd like to think we have high (not sure about highest) integrity. But I should also point out that the custom in the field is to list authors alphabetically by family name, and the paper in question (https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf) does not break with custom if you view "anonymous" as "family name"...
Good news for home buyers!
Curiously no input from Cheryl Praeger even considering her retirement in 2017.
> And it's a weird argument to say that the price the government should pay is whatever the most any group is willing to pay for Starlink;

No I'm not saying that the govt should pay the same as the maximum any group pays. Rather it's that the military requirements/desires are going to be similar to what private commercial or industrial entities desire and therefore are willing to pay.

This isn't about Bezos in his jet, but what say American Airlines or Maersk pays for commercial services. Generally commercial / industrial uses include things like SLAs, guaranteed bandwidth, R&D for service during movement, etc.

> As I said elsewhere price rationing for priority doesn't make sense in this case (because the government already knows who should get priority) and neither does higher prices as a signal to increase investment in capacity

If a military user wants data priority then it makes sense it'll cost them for that privilege. The density of the LEO constellation can and is being increased, along with other R&D investments. These investments undoubtedly include forecasting the higher pricing for industrial and military usage.
If houses in hot markets truly had economic / inherent value, for example the quality of life improvement / job opportunities, then that can’t really be lost.
I'm skeptical. The "C" in CNN is sort of the giveaway that there was never really any legitimacy there.

Am I picking on cable as a whole, suggesting it was always a profit-driven entity that runs counter to level-headed news reporting? I guess I am.

And I'll defend the "big three" networks that existed before cable because news was only a small portion of their broadcast schedule. I don't think the networks objected to Walter Cronkite (etc.) being the loss-leading face to represent their corporate integrity.
18? That's ridiculous. I'd understand 14, but at 18 it's not too rare to live alone and have a full time job. And even before, access to maps or Wikipedia is generally quite useful. It's the social media that's the main issue, and not the other features.
Do they prefer covering for shareholder value? Who wants to pay people simply for having, or being able to borrow, the money to buy shares? Or put money in a VC fund?

Do they perhaps prefer covering for execs bonuses?

It’s really weird how many people will wail and rage against welfare for both their peers and poorer people, but have no issue whatsoever making a someone else richer.

Just to be clear, I personally have no issue with either, as long as it feels reasonable.
It's not their vision. At least, not exclusively. There's a whole town about to put this to the test.

If nothing else, it should spawn a new generation of young Irish hackers. For better or worse.
The article nitpicks on some of the most pressing issues that were so many times discussed. But I find this bit to be absolutely hilarious:

> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year. Given the inflation that has occurred since that time, scooper compensation may be close to $250,000 per year today.
Job opportunities in the bay have clearly soured over the last year. So yes, real value has been lost.
Printing double a.k.a. the most difficult problem in computer sciences
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Not really; physical property rights are a social construct. Sure, in many cases a government will help you enforce that construct with police and violence.

But in places of the world[0] where government doesn't have its hands (and eyes and ears) into everything, property rights are sometimes enforced on an individual level, if the social construct fails. You might point a gun at someone who tries to steal from you, and you might even pull the trigger if the threat of that gun doesn't deter them.

And conversely, there are communities (sadly not so many these days) where property rights don't need to be enforced by anyone, because the social construct is just that strong.

[0] Or times in the past.
This is almost entirely false, since the US had more generous support during COVID than any other country and nobody "in power" wanted you to die except maybe Andrew Cuomo, but instead worked on vaccine acceleration.

It's easy to spot incoherent politics since those afflicted just say "people in power", don't say who they mean, and it always turns out to be something the average voter supports. (The average voter doesn't particularly care if you're alive or not.)
> And why is that bad? Cars enable more efficient cities. They are objectively far superior to transit for several fundamental reasons.

Then we're done here I guess. You live in an entirely different reality that just isn't true. There's no point to continuing this argument.
Which prediction?
So that’s why they are still going for over asking
You did not provide any documentation. Whenever documentation is provided that supposedly proves this, is highly misleading. Like this one in which they've somehow managed to define everyone as an SF resident (see footnote) https://i.redd.it/omvx0d36ng1b1.jpg.
I once attempted to read The Atlantic's contemporary review of "On the Origin of Species" by Asa Gray, and I didn't stand a chance. I agree with you that the modern version is known for lengthy articles, but it's got nothing on its older incarnation.
Sounds like it'll be the new drivers license. Instead of waiting to take the test and get a car, which has fallen out of vogue in many circles, some will impatiently wait for their 13th birthday to join their friends in the forever-online world. Grand for those with early birthdays, less great for those born late in the year (assuming they weren't bumped one grade higher or lower based on birth date).
In a best case, yes I've exaggerated wildly. But in a latency sensitive system, waiting for the message to get to the front of the queue could really take that time. Different queue priorities help, but really, why not just do a function call? To me, anything that isn't just a function call should really need to be justified. But I guess it's all design decisions.
Well, again it depends on the culture. Some boss wouldn't take any disagreement from subordinates well. No matter what the result looks like, if the boss doesn't declare the project failed, than that's not a failure. Even if it failed, the subordinate takes the blame, it's less serious than bringing up issues early because the boss's order is faithfully carried through to the end.
Rocket Mortgage rolls out conventional 1% down home loan program
bought my condo in 2018. in the wrong part of town

redfin says I'm down 30% at least

debating whether to cut my losses - with tech companies gone, mass transit on the brink, and the city in a tailspin, I have this nightmare scenario in my head where prices end up 1/10th of what I paid
Do NYC have this team? When I went there I saw a couple massive shits on those covered sidewalks
Pretty sure I've seen spacing used as precedence indicators in a scientific setting. It does feel like it would be useful, except it would be a nightmare with more than one level of overrides.
> In 2018, the city created a pooper scooper team, each member of which received annual compensation of about $211,000 that year. Given the inflation that has occurred since that time, scooper compensation may be close to $250,000 per year today.

I needed to read this to convince myself that I’m not asking for or expecting outrageous compensation at work.
In that case, if houses are so correlated to the swings of the job market, maybe they aren’t such good investments after all.
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I've thought often about the economic power of a large number of well compensated people, but this is staggering "Between 2019 and 2021, San Francisco lost nearly $15 billion of household income, even after accounting for those who moved into the city."