skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schools forcing their students to use Google accounts makes me sick. I don't believe for a moment that Google isn't collecting massive amounts of data about young people and categorizing them by their intellect while taking careful note of their test scores, conversations with friends, and their struggles. Schools should have more respect for our children than to feed them to a machine that exists only to exploit and manipulate them for profit.

Schools should also put more resources into IT. I've worked with schools who were desperately trying to secure their networks and prevent things like pornography and P2P file sharing, and the lack of staff and pathetic budgets they had to work with just couldn't compete with the students who had all the time in the world to probe and evade and attack those networks. Generally, the schools had plenty of money, but they didn't want to invest the resources or take money from athletics and overpaid admins. The more schools are forced to farm things out to third parties and vendors the more our kid's data gets handed over without meaningful oversight or accountability
We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
My read on this is that news organizations are upset that Google/Facebook are taking profits by providing cached content that makes people not want to actually click their links.

If this is the primary concern, though, then wouldn't it make more sense to draft a law regulating content caching, rather than the pay-per-click approach? It seems like a law that said "Sites that serve any content which wasn't part of a 'you can cache me' section need to pay for that content" would address the concerns of both parties here.

This would solve the alleged issue that news organizations are bringing up, while also making it totally clear what the consequences are. If you don't want Google to be able to use your content within search results that's totally fine, but you can't then also be mad that they don't surface your content in search results.

Seems like letting news site determine what content Google can cache for its results, and then letting Google determine ranking based only on that data would be a completely reasonable compromise. As it stands now, though, Google is directly incentivized to just never surface these websites, which hurts everyone involved.
Couldn't make past the second paragraph. The entire premise is false if you don't live in the US corporate media bubble.

>The Ukrainian army, supposedly outgunned and with little chance of resisting conventionally, fought back with brains and ferocity.

Are you kidding? If not for the massive US/NATO war machine providing very actionable targeting/intelligence, materiel, and likely much more direct involvement than we're aware of, it would have been over in a month.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is the first image of our galaxy in something other than light (radio, infrared, x rays, gamma rays are all photons).
Specifically, Awk is a good solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place. Why am I having to write these bespoke parsers for the random mess of output formats that you get from the UNIX command line?

Well, the fact is that I have to write such parsers. That's very sad, but has no chance of being fixed. So it's good to know Awk.

I think Erik Naggum had this exact criticism of Perl.
You jest, but this is actually how frustrating it is to try to use ChatGPT in the domains of crime/fraud/cybersecurity.

It called me out recently as attempting to write malware. Which is true, but it wouldn't accept the plain explanation that I am authorized to do this by my employer, for deployment on their machines. Stonewalling is just making everyone better at carefully-crafting their inquiries so as not to arouse suspicion. ("As an AI language model, I cannot help you with your task in writing arousing malware...")

Unless you dial it back to a Swadesh list or something, language is too complicated to be used as a firewall for itself. People have always been able to talk their way into anything. Our prevention efforts are just training better social engineers, who call themselves "prompt engineers" now.
Assuming you meant 'busy_bever' to implement the busy beaver function, said function is in fact not a computable function, which means you can't write it down in a programming language.
thats not very healthy given how unreliable github has become in recent years.

E.g. just yesterday for a short time frame of a few hours maybe half a day or so they had a bug where some closed PRs where shown in the personal which show created _not closed_ PRs.

Or github CI having spurious job cancellations or sometimes on a job failing waits until some (quite long) timeout is reached before reporting it.

Or it temporary being (partial or fully) down for a few hours.

Or it's documentation even through rather complete somehow managing to be often rather inconvenient to use. Oh wait that's not a bug, just subtle bad design, like it's PR overview/filters. Both cases of something which seems right on the first look, but starts being more and more inconvenient the more you use it. A trend I would argue describes GitHub as a whole rather well.
FWIW, I always thought using ethnicity as a factor was a misguided approach.

1. It lumps all ethnic groups into one without any regard for culture or sub-ethnicity, which matters. I think Nigerian immigrants tend to do really really well compared to say their black American counterparts. There's also different measured outcome for different groups of Asians (say Vietnamese vs Chinese).

2. I understand the desire to correct the past wrong... but going about that via reverse-racism seems also wrong. I think Gandhi said it best when he said "eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

3. It feels more egalitarian and less discriminatory to fix the past wrong by providing programs/support for disadvantaged Americans, regardless of race.
I've gone as far as encoding bid and ask prices with different types, but tz really has never occurred to me. Closing times are also exchange/contract specific, not just location.
They Fool Ya (live) – Math parody of Hallelujah [video]
From Don's "Incredible Secret Money Machine":

a Final thought

Many years ago, I was attending a folk concert. The opening act
was a single and an unknown flute player, performing in front of the
closed stage curtains. His job was to warm up the audience for the
high priced help that was soon to follow.
He was good. Very good.
But as he went along, the music started getting strange and finally
downright weird. He was playing chords on his flute, along with notes
with unbelievably strong tonal structures. Eventually, the music turned
into bunches of Impossible sounding and god-awful squawks.
Almost all of the audience got bored and restless as the music
seemed to deteriorate. Just then, I happened to notice a friend beside
me who had played in and had taught concert band. He was literally
on the edge of his chair with his mouth open.
He briefly turned to me and said very slowly, ''You can't do that with
a flute. It is not possible."
Of the thousands of people in the audience, at the most only five
realized they were now witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime performance
involving the absolute mastery of a very difficult musical instrument. To
nearly everyone else, It sounded like a bunch of god-awful squawks.
Always play for those five.

- Don Lancaster
Thatcher, AZ
Indoor Air Quality Is the Next Great Public Health Challenge
Of course it will change and Valve will even release their own game that's generated with AI.

Governments and companies everywhere trying to lock out small time people today before they get too much traction with AI generated content. They know indie devs will never be able to prove their model is only trained on their art. Only massive companies with billions of dollars can do that right now.

Every big company is trying to create rules to ban AI but keep a small enough loophole that they can use it when the time is right.
I just want to say that this is incredibly impressive on so many levels. Your technical skills are obviously amazing but I really love how you were able to put this all together into an entertaining and well-produced video that anyone could understand. If you ever want to get paid 1/4 of what I'm sure you'll make as an engineer, you'd make a great teacher ;)
They don't mean newly created, they mean new to archeology. The part of Nasca Pampa where they are is over 450 km2 and some of them are faint.
We need an "AI generated web game tower defense" FULL FN STOP.
News outlets have to compete within Google's search results. Google is, at least currently, the de facto search engine and their competition over providing all results is minimal. So Google is benefitting from the overall relationship far more than the outlets are. Not saying Google owes them, but there is a clear difference in competition between the two sides.
A lot were already automated prior to ChatGPT
> “there ain’t nothing you can do about sharing your private data with us”

FWIW there are settings in the car to disable certain things. Not sure how much it _actually_ disables though.
Keep in mind that downdetector can be brigaded and/or show knock-on problems instead of root causes. e.g. A couple weeks ago there were fairly major spikes across a rather huge variety of services on there, but it turned out that it was actually Comcast that was having trouble, rather than any of the “down” services.
Go read any article/book about living as a person of color in America, also read about the history of slavery, jim crow, and civil rights. You might understand then, you will never get that story via HN or American mainstream media. I mean if you're serious about it at all, read about it from the perspective of those who are being discriminated against.
This is the standard Canadian policy for decades in TV.

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon/mandate.htm
'A bit more verbose' = 2,5 times as many characters. Not saying its good or bad just saying its a bit more verbose ;)
To correct the common misconception:
Sometimes AI image generators insert a watermark because they have seen a lot of watermarks on certain kinds of images during training. This does not mean that the image itself is a copy of any particular image in the training data.

Producing (distorted) copies of images in the training data takes some real effort, and typically only occurs for images which are heavily repeated in the training data... Most of the complaints along these lines can be compared to complaints that cars cause massive bodily harm if you steer them into lightposts: The problem is easily preventable by not driving into a lightpost.
> There is no way to untangle any of that from the past in any fair way.

Agreed. At some point you do have to shrug and say we tried our best and move on with a moral bankruptcy. But we're not really close to that point yet. Bankruptcy comes after you've exhausted extraordinary measures. I would say realistically you need maybe 100 or 150 years of positive effort before you shrug and give up, and we're barely even at 50 yet.
These are tech talents though. Tech offices are in the big cities
Unfortunately, the actual paper seems to be paywalled, but stories like this often seem to do a poor job of motivating why research like this is interesting.

For both this and all of the articles coming out about gravitational wave detection, these technologies allow us to sense things that can't be seen with light. Gravitational waves are produced by binary black hole systems and mergers, which don't give off any detectable radiation, and neutrinos can be produced by spin down of neutron stars we don't have any other easy way of detecting.

But, these also potentially give us a window into the deep past. The cosmic microwave background represents the furthest back in time we can ever see with light, and it happened during the first formation of neutral hydrogen atoms when the universe first cooled enough to allow that, and thus light could travel without being immediately scattered by free electrons, which was 378,000 years after the Big Bang. Seeing anything before that is impossible.

Neutrinos, however, first decoupled from matter 1 second after the Big Bang. The possibility of being able to detect a cosmic neutrino background from this event would allow us to detect the early universe much earlier than we can with light. And if gravity decoupling from the strong and electroweak forces is ever detectable in a cosmic gravitational wave background, that would have happened even earlier, and represents the earliest possible viewing of the universe by any means whatsoever.

I'm not a cosmologist and have no idea what usable data would ever come from being able to see these things, but keep in mind at least one reason we've had so much difficulty developing a grand unified theory and theory of everything even after conquering electroweak, is the inability to produce the enormous energies required to recouple the forces in a lab. A particle accelerator that could do it for strong force recoupling to electroweak would have to be the size of Pluto's orbit. But there is at least one event in nature where the necessary energy existed, which is the early universe. We've just never been able to see it.
No they can't. That's why Republicans are a big proponent of school vouchers so that parents can choose which school a child can go to, but Democrats say that is racist.
Important to note that the CBC is state-funded and even the previous leader of the ultra left-wing party, Tom Mulcair, has recently accused the CBC of having a heavy left-wing bias.
> good luck with that, let's find out how much of your companies' revenue we were driving

I really wish these big techs would do that to Brazil. They made enemies of the current administration when they opposed their censorship laws.
> Brief downtime really only affects the infrastructure surrounding the actual code. Workflows, issues, etc.

That's exactly the point. This infrastructure used to be supported by email which is also distributed and everyone has a complete copy of all of the data locally.

Github has been slowly trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish the distributed model.
I just canceled my Copilot subscription last night. I definitely never saw the productivity boost that I’ve seen so many claim.

I actually feel like the suggestions seemed to get worse during my month of using it for some reason.

Towards the end, it started suggesting these large blocks of code (another issue I had with the interface as well) which were very not relevant to what I was attempting to write.

All in all, I’m very underwhelmed from my first experience with “AI enhanced” coding.
Also (2b) convince their boss that the “optics” are better to update sooner than later.
Ask HN: What happened to HN on mobile Firefox
I ordinarily use Firefox on my mobile devices. Now, HN feels all zoomed out and not easy to browse. I am not sure whether this is a setting change on my end but somehow convinced it is HN that has changed. Any help?
I keep telling them. There is at least one major incident/outage with GitHub every single month [0] and most of the time there is more than one incident.

You should have that sort of expectation with GitHub. How many more times do you need to realise that this service is unreliable?

I think we have given GitHub plenty of time to fix these issues and they haven't. So perhaps now is the perfect time to consider self-hosting as I said years ago. [1]

No more excuses this time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967921

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
> And yet the grandkids of those slave owners sure as hell still profit from their ill gotten gains.

Source? I'd venture to guess most have reverted back to mean wealth given downward mobility rates [0] and the time since slavery ended.

[0] https://www.chicagofed.org/research/mobility/intergeneration...
Analysis: Where are Russia's top generals? Rumours swirl after mercenary mutiny
https://archive.fo/6qnvG
It's 2023 and out-of-bounds write bugs are still number one
In 15-20 years we will have helper drone(s) incorporated in each aircraft that can fly off and provide an outside scan of the craft, perhaps even perform minor repairs.
fair :)
If it's (amazing) sci-fi you want, he published under "Iain M. Banks". As "Iain Banks" he wrote (amazing) literary fiction.
GitLab team member here.

The training data is publicly documented, and AI features are built with privacy first.

For all URLs please check my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526159
I agree. Wish Python could been better with the documentation. Its a bit absurd that things feel more clear and simple reading Rust documentation than Python documentation for me, given that Python actually is a lot more simple and clear (for me).
> Amazon had 38% of online retail market share

Sure, but “online retail” is pretty clearly an overly broad market including separate segments between which there is no substitution effect, and there are a whole lot of segments within that where Amazon has majority (>50%) market share (safety & security, communications, home audio, portable audio, etc.)

Not that this is about retail, per se, anyway, except maybe in leveraging market position in retail as an aspect of the anticompetitive behavior regarding sellers planning on using their fulfillment services.
Like weather reporting, journalism (in the 'what happened' sense, not all of this 'analysis' crap) should be funded by the public.
The independence of the journalism department must be enshrined in law, but further I imagine a system where anyone can apply to become a journalist assuming they meet minimum requirements.
You submit your accounts, and if they pass quality checks (including rejecting editorial content and passing basic fact checking) they get published and you get paid. Multiple accounts of the same event may (and should) be posted, and so then the reader can build a picture from those varied sources.
This is citizen journalism, funded by the government and lightly edited, its purity spelled out to the literal letter by law. It's the only way out.
Incorrect - there is also KCMO:

"KCMO (710 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri ..."
I believe the new "rockstar" developer is one who can completely subvert their own ego in order to better serve the business/customer/team.

The age of toiling away with weird tech in a dark corner and then expecting the team to be amazed at your contraptions is 2000% over. I've definitely been through this lesson a few times myself. It works and works until it doesn't and then one day you find that you are left holding a really big bag. My new ego trip is watching junior team members quickly ramp and become productive. Maybe you don't have to turn that ego off at all. Perhaps you just need to find a way to redirect it and get it hooked onto a new, more productive target.

If you want to go try crazy new stuff - do it on your own time. I really don't understand why this is controversial. It's the best of both worlds. I've heard some excuses for why this is infeasible but they're super-duper bullshit to my ears. If it works on your home lab and it is obviously a cool/valuable thing, then maybe put together a 5 minute pitch deck and present it to your manager/cto/etc.
Neither is the Python example
That isn't the case for google news. There is just the article title, and a link to the publisher's website. If you mean on google search: caching can easily be disabled by using noarchive.
I see three relevant articles (the rest aren't relevant, e.g. talking about Steam summer sale), from sites that look more like content farms than legitimate news websites.. but yeah, there are too many content farms nowadays.
> people just don't accept problems can be fixed unless that solution somehow punishes an evildoer.

Add to that the tendency of most people to always try avoiding benign suffering, at first, before reflecting or doing any thinking, before being forced to some much worse and unevitable suffering, that they could have been avoiding. Some special and crass sort of shortsightedness we probably carry in our genes.

I wish we'd already individually and collectively evolved beyond that.
I know a developer that Meta offered ~$6 mil Total Compensation, he turned it down for $10 mil from Google.

Just to confirm, does that person code all day there? (real question)
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Oh yeah I bet. I agree with you on positive benefits of having a diverse class, fwiw.

I know few friends from Lake Travis who disagree though but I think that has to do with not making the top 8% (back then I think it was lower?).
It was during oral arguments with Waxman. Below is the full quote from https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/john-roberts-affirma....

The controversy animated Roberts, himself a graduate of Harvard College and Law School.

“Take two African American applicants,” he said to lawyer Seth Waxman, representing Harvard. “They both can get a tip, right, based on their race? And yet they may have entirely different views. Some of their views may contribute to diversity from the perspective of Asians or Whites. Some of them may not. And yet it’s true that they’re eligible for the same increase in the opportunities for admission based solely on their skin color?” Waxman acknowledged that being an African American or being a Hispanic could give the applicant a boost and may even be determinative of who gets a coveted place in the freshman class.

“Race, for some highly qualified applicants can be the determinative factor, just as being, you know, an oboe player in a year in which the Harvard-Radcliffe orchestra needs an oboe player will be the tip,” Waxman said, offering an example that Roberts immediately skewered.

“We did not fight a Civil War about oboe players,” he rejoined. “We did fight a Civil War to eliminate racial discrimination, and that’s why it’s a matter of considerable concern.”
Custom Sidebar Icons in Finder
Incorrect. The open source license is LGPL. If you dynamically link you can even keep your app code proprietary. If you want to statically link Qt then your code must be LGPL, but that also doesn't prevent you from selling the product.
> Can they save me from Comcast first?

Talk to the FCC, probably.
Are test score objective? If your school doesn't prepare you for the test doesn't that skew things just as much as schools inflating grades?
>“there ain’t nothing you can do about sharing your private data with us”

You can turn off lots of data sharing and monitoring settings in the standard UI in the car, last I looked it wasn't even hidden behind any dark patterns.
What they fixed along the years was the endgame gameplay, but even day one, it was a really polished game, and the first 10 hours or so were solid.

It broke down after that. The auction house that broke the looting dynamic, the lack of items with interesting effects, the limited amount of procedural generation, the focus on a single number (DPS), plus the usual balancing issues.

If you took the game just for the main campaign and stopped after that, you would have a great time. But most people don't play hack and slash like that, especially not the most vocal players.