skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, copyright and patent law needs to be altered significantly, with the copyright term obliterated so people can build upon advances in technology and culture within a reasonable amount of time.

Sadly, I don't think it's realistic to think copyright terms will ever be reduced. They'll only be extended, probably when one of the many Disney properties is about to become public domain.
I honestly hope their cloud based push causes their downfall. It's different enough that I think it will open the door for millions of users to look around for other options for their CAD software. It's going to be a perfect opportunity for a cheaper (open source??) software to step in and eat their lunch.
How actors are losing their voices to AI
Updating and reselling their old games was the majority of their business for the last ~10 years of the company.

Their game library had some gems but they famously made most of their ga my es by ripping off other games. I’m guessing that didn’t scale.

Their biggest seller was a small Mac utility called Snapz Pro if memory serves.

They, frankly, were never a company run for anything other than milking a quick buck.
I'd post a 10 page specifically detailed diatribe, but you don't deserve it because you're just pathetically sealioning about a lost cause. So first read and respond in detail to my 10 page diatribes about CORBA instead, which is the actual topic of this discussion, then you can post your own 10 page detailed diatribe full of specific idiocies about what you love so much about J2EE. Deal? Then let's hear it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36547527

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36547511

And FYI, go read what Rod Johnson has to say if you're really interested, know what you're talking about, and not just sealioning (and about J2EE, really??! Of all the things to choose to sealion about, have some fucking taste and self respect, and post something you're not embarrassed to put your real name by!):

https://thenewstack.io/spring-rod-johnson-enterprise-java/

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

"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces."

Edit: [crickets chirping] Yeah, I thought so.
Suppose for the purposes of dialogue, I invent the word "fiolence" for coercive, non-consensual exercise of power against another, _other_ than the application of painful or destructive physical force towards a body. You can believe fiolence is not a subset of violence, and I can believe they are different manifestations of the same ability to oppress.

Some examples of pure fiolence would include: blackmail, false allegations, many forms of theft and fraud. But in many cases, fiolence is either combined with force or the threat of physical violence to create new harms. Suppose prisoners A and B are both subject to the forces of physical confinement but B is held in prolonged solitary confinement, which the OHCHR recognizes as torture. Or, as at Guantanamo, B is kept in cell with painfully bright lights and loud music to create sleep deprivation. Or B is held close to growling dogs on a very short leash, but no explicit threat is made that the dog will be allowed to bite them. Or B is given insufficient food, or denied access to medical care. All of these are harms _beyond_ the application of force to physically confine, which A also experiences.

Yes, absolutely, physical force or the threat of physical force can be justified and necessary to stop fiolence. And if you believe that the state should have any capacity to use arrest someone for wire fraud or smuggling or tax evasion, or that an armed sheriff's deputy can enforce an eviction order, or that a group of protesters can be arrested if they disruptively block a freeway or trespass onto an airport runway -- all of those are cases where force or the credible threat of force are used in response to something other than force.

We live in a society of laws which limit much more than just the application of physical force to each other's bodies -- because actual freedom and justice require more than just not getting physically beaten.
> Is there any good reason why the sources need to stay closed if they aren't going to make any further gains, financial or otherwise, from this product and its ecosystem?

I can think of lots of reasons. From a competitive point of view, you might risk having a big enough resurgence that it eats into the business of your replacement. From a technical point of view, it may reveal parts of the sausage making, or expose technology and libraries that you still use and rely on. From a legal point of view, it could open up multiple kinds of liability. From a support and staffing perspective, it typically takes at least a little time to open source something, if you want to do it well, there’s usually vetting & review by engineers and lawyers, and usually the need for more/better documentation than the internal docs.

Think about this from a business perspective- if they predict there’s going to be no financial upside, even indirectly, and there are costs and risks associated with it, then why would they? When companies open-source something, it’s not usually because the code is dead, it’s usually because the people in it are committed to open source and the org agrees to support that cause, or because the company stands to gain valuable attention from the community, and eventually or indirectly, profits.

We do have to support and celebrate when companies decide to release code, but we can’t really expect it or complain when they don’t, it just doesn’t make sense to them and they’re not obligated.
Can you please clarify what you mean? This post is not censored and I do not see any link submissions from your account.

I should add that links should be submitted then comments added via "discuss" unless you are prefixing the post with "Tell HN: " assuming that you authored the article on sciencedirect and are here to discuss your findings.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
Maybe that is already the PoW anti-scraping measures haha.
I can see it, and it's there on page two of 'New"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?next=36549898&n=31

along with other hour old submissions.

Consider, though, your account is brand spanking new, has no comment history, immediately makes a post, and the first comment to this submission is from another baby account, and then your comment bemoaning 'censorship'.

Not a good look really.
I knew a guy who came back — in his late 70s — to do "flange design" for old oil pipelines whose lifespan was being extended beyond the original expected span. He said — inflation adjusted — he made more money each month consulting than he did his last year working salaried at the same company. Bc he consults, he only does 3–4 months of work a year.
And certainly not Northern Ireland.
Have you looked at Tailscale for server-to-server communication?
My guess, with a certain US Political Party cutting funding for things like the EPA and Super Fund Activities, I would guess no one had the funds to properly diagnose and do the appropriate cleanup.

So they decided it was good enough for "now" until this was discovered. I would say the Company that caused the spill will get away without paying cleanup costs. That is what usually happens with these type of Environmental Damage in the US.
The federation is opt-out, so by default an instance will accept any federation request. You only block bad instances after the fact (or use some kind of shared blocklist)
Coveted 'One Ring' card has been found
> but human teachers are not always right, either.

It also seems to me that it's gotten a lot better about hallucinating. When I first started using it it would often be wildly wrong, but not it seems like it hallucinates about as much as the average person I talk to.
From there it's a slippery slope to not even maintaining a facade of following the Constitution. I don't know if any system can really be "perfect" in balancing different moralities, or having a reasonable recovery mechanism to address what are considered intolerable injustices. I think this was all a matter of time in the grand scheme of things.
I recommend Sidebery.
https://archive.ph/HNlPw
I have no clue my friend.
Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier, study shows
> that if you attempt to evade a permanent suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts.”

They do this at eBay too.
The immersion is what sold it to me. No hud, no on screen markers. Need to look at map? Pull it out, hold it in your hand and look at it. I'm surprised no other AAA game has tried this formula.
DemoGPT: Create Quick Demos with Prompt
DemoGPT enables you to create quick demos with just your prompt. It applies ToT approach on Langchain documentation tree.
Following here from my thread.

Odd that you have partition woes, to me. That said, I have defaulted, for a long time, to not have fancy partition schemes. Where fancy is embarrassingly vague, of course; but the general idea is that extra partitions are largely solving problems from decades past. Worse, it leads to the swap and kernel space problems rather quickly. Though, swap into freezes is new to me.

Hibernate is one that I have heard a ton of troubles with. Largely with laptops. Good luck getting past it.

I am surprised you have had issues with the steam deck. That thing has been rock solid for me. Almost certainly my luck on the games I prefer.

Edit: I do want to underline my point about luck on my part. And good luck to you! I don't claim to have a panacea here. I also don't think it is some failing of anyone that some folks would stick with Windows or other.
And then it devolved into Hollywood genetics. You know, when something rewrites your genetic code and as a result you grow an extra head in a 30 second scene.
This issues affects all analog sticks not using hall effect ones. You can easily find examples of this hitting Xbox players too. There was even a class action lawsuit for Xbox controllers about it
I had both, in university, but also professinal seniors, or in family.
I think OP meant to say atrophy, not apathy.
Multimodal Interaction: A Review [pdf]
Please, no!
The future is a bit dire, an army of chatgpt scammers talking to an army of chatgpt antyscammers.
> you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world

My complaint in these cases is that yes, I can find it, but I would first have to know what I'm looking for and yet I have no way to recognize what the best book is.

If I wanted to learn about Sparta, I would have no way of knowing whether Paul Cartledge's book is better than Stephen Hodkinson's or Steven Pressfield's. And God help me if one of them has a loyal Twitter following spamming 5-star reviews everywhere...
Really cool! I love the terminal based graphics
EV pothole threat prompts call for concrete roads
All used homes in the US are sold “as-is”. It’s caveat emptor doctrine.

Now, there are laws against misrepresentation. There is a disclosure form that is required which asks you about defects. The seller can admit them or decline to answer, but if the seller knowingly lies about a property defect you can sue to recover damages.

Real estate agents have a lot of liability here because they are bound to disclose things that could have been “reasonably known” - which is a definition that can be tortured in every direction. For example, bedrooms: in my state a bedroom must have a closet to count as a bedroom. Except sometimes it doesn’t have to have a closet to count as a bedroom. The exceptions are literally described as “some older homes had bedrooms without closets” - but “older” and “bedrooms” is left to the interpretation of your legal council and the investigator when it becomes an issue.
> If a question is asked on Discord, then the answer will be lost in Discord as well, not findable via search engines.

That's why I put Discourse first.

> I am not sure whether anything from the Racket Discourse forum is findable via search engines.

It is.

> There used to be the Google groups thingy including a mailing list.

The mailing list is still running. But people have moved on to Discourse.
You can configure Discourse to send you digest mails, if you prefer mailing lists.

Personally, I liked the mailing list. However, forums such as Discourse have replaced the role of the mailing list. See the forums for Swift, Rust, Processing, etc. They have all moved on to Discourse.
Application Optimisation with LLMs
Another copy to clone locally. Thanks. I've got a few other repos, some with tools to sort through the data.
Well said. And they take like a duck to water when given the chance to do that novel creative tool driven work (and paid well).

Though in my direct example I’m talking about Malaysian outsourcing devs!
> Due to its size and historical reasons, we have regional power that many times could try to benefit from physical voting receipts. It was common for local leadership to offer favors in exchange for vote

That’s not how paper voting works in Australia or New Zealand. The voter never gets a “receipt” to say which way they voted - that would be illegal.

In Australia, the voter’s name is marked in a roll book (to detect duplicate voting), and then they are given ballot papers. They mark them with pencils and put them in cardboard boxes. Everything that is done with those boxes, and the counting of the ballots in them, is physically observed by representatives of the candidates/parties (scrutineers).
You have roughly a year and a half of news to catch up to. Start with European news.
I loved them; probably nostalgia, but I was having much more fun with those than today's chatrooms. I also preferred them to IRC for some reason.
We're finally reaching the 90's obsession with "agents" to act on our behalf.
Oh wow I didn't think of that. Very recently I've received multiple calls from unknown numbers. I'm going to try this next time.
Fastest Branchless Binary Search
> No one has sold these OSes for 20+ years and they turned out to be evolutionary dead ends. It would make sense to release their sources so people could learn from them and run them on new hardware more easily.

Would add SGI's IRIX too!
Meta’s new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children, experts say
All I have to say from personal experience (some of it gained working for a big bank) is that if you want and seek compliance, you will get neither security, nor saftey - but you will get compliance. :)

Whoever tells you otherwise has got a bridge to sell, as well as some compliance- and "security"-facilitating "solutions" on top.
> Great article: concise and to the point

It most certainly is not. There's so much water I did not bother but to skim it. I believe the only two things they mention are:

- pull yourself from your negative sides

- understand the rules of understanding itself (today would be scientific principle)
Frankly, I don't think flattening the contribution graph is possible unless you put a cap on how much people can contribute.

Most online communities of any kind follow a power law with a small number of heavy contributors and many more occasional contributors and "lurkers". This isn't a consequence of barriers to contributing but of human nature.
I’m using this approach for an add-on I wrote for Zwift.
Even in such a scenario the functional (state machine style) approach works really well and allows me to deal with all sorts of random inputs or glitches
Why is that?

Wouldn't the calling code be written (and thus copyrighted) by the company that wrote the game rather than the one that created the SDK?
Yeah I have something went wrong on the web and rate limit exceeded on the app
Why revive stinger production instead of adopting something more modern, like starstreak or any of the other NATO manpads? Surely technology has come a long way since the 80s. License the technology and build it at home.
- “Incompatible code”? What does this even mean? “Incompatible” with what?

- Have you actually read the examples in the linked github issue? What “undesirable effect” are you able to identify when an LLM tells you that a JS function simply doesn’t exist? Or when something fails subtly enough that the code you wrote based on the LLM’s advice isn’t the obvious culprit? Do you do much debugging?

- Wikipedia requires references, while this LLM directly contradicts the one data source that it’s meant to help explain. Failing to see the comparison.
Architects Daughter
Anyone can create an account to view it, which is better than plenty of paywalled articles that get posted regularly.
I know AMD has a whole bunch of (related?) projects for GPU compute, but man - if they could just provide an interop layer that Just Works they'd get immediate access to so much more market share.
I switched to FreeCAD after Fusion360s license and price changed.

It’s definitely not as advanced as Fusion, but for my needs it’s good enough.
I’m a lot less leftist than you apparently assume. I’m a landlord, among other things. My problem with our system is that the things which “pay” are not things which have much benefit to society. I’ve got zero fault with you for choosing to make money. Didn’t I say I did the same thing and loved it? I just question the system that drives the behavior.
The whole thing is down now, returning “rate limit exceeded” in the UI. A very hamfisted affair imho
I just found the answer. I haven't really formed any solid opinion on it. I have no idea what a good K/D ratio for police would be, or how useful that information even is. I'd rather have stats for things like the number of innocent people that were killed, or how many people were killed unnecessarily innocent or not, or the number killed while in custody or while being restrained, etc.

If the idea is to demonstrate that police work isn't as dangerous as many people think, the fact that police aren't killed on the job as often as grubhub drivers or crossing guards or garbage collectors should make that clear enough. For at least the first two years of the pandemic the number one killer of police was covid. Typically most police die on the job in car accidents. Police are called on to encounter dangerous or uncertain situations, but they are also (supposed to be) trained for exactly that. That's the job. Ideally, none of them would die on the job and they wouldn't kill anyone either.
Preface: I'd like for the fediverse to win, active on both mastodon, and reading lemmy; however, economies of scale in the present Internet does not favor that outcome:

* What we want is high signal/noise ratio.

* In the magic old internet, the bar for signal was relatively low, because it competed with books, and TV.

* The competition over attention has raised the bar over what "good content" looks like.

* Content like that don't materialize out of thin air, but needs an audience to keep it alive, and to grow, and select, and feedback

* The re-fragmentation of internet communities risks loss of economies of scale for the content creators to create or maintain high-quality gems.

Let's take something specific, say furry artists. Their content loop for reddit was: post cute pics on r/furry, if it hits quality bar, gets upvoted, and seen by ~1000s of people; 0.1% of those will commission a new drawing, draw the thing, get paid, post it on reddit, close the loop.

In a re-fragmented Internet: 1, a lot less people will be able to find those "gem forums" focused around a topic, and they won't browse it daily; and 2, the artist needs to spam their stuff to all the communities to get the fraction of traffic they have on reddit.

The outcome from this re-fragmentation _in our present time_ will be the "hallowing of the middle", the "hobbyists scaling towards professional", and people who are just really into the thing, and make some money on the side. In a re-fragmented Internet, you are either a fully professional -with competent marketing team- or you're doing it for the ~20 people sharing the same forum.

I understand that many people are expressing explicit preferences for there to be only that 20 people they chat with, or only the hobbyist / geeks to participate and _I'm happy for them_. What I'm claiming above, is that this will kick the professional ladder out for upcoming people to build - show - get attention for their stuff. And that creates a less magical Internet.
Seems like a question you could simply ask the interviewers up front. Establishing expectations about the task is useful anyway.
According to some unverified articles online, Piorun is more effective than Stinger. It wouldn't be a surprise - the latest Stinger technology is obviously at least 20 years old and Piorun was introduced in 2019. Being derived from Russian missiles (debatable for Piorun) is also not a mark of bad quality - at some point, Western militaries were surprised to learn that Russian air-to-air missiles were much better than their own (leading to greatly improved Western missiles).
“They hate hanging up, it messes up their stats or something.”

Could this be one reason why they often get really angry in scambaiting videos? To try to make the other person hang up?
Sure it's fine - I grew up in the age before the internet and still have the ability to daydream to pass the time. But I don't think it's necessarily superior to reading something interesting on Reddit.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/22/politics/mitt-romney-russ...
I opt out of the facial recognition every time and still manage to get on my flights. Most passengers go along with it without saying anything and that’s the problem.

Your passive acceptance will be used so that they can lie with statistics and make BS claims that the majority of people want to be in a facial recognition database. Don’t make their job easy, be a pain in the ass. They are intruding on YOUR rights, freedoms and privacy.
Visualizing Major Tech Acquisitions (1991-2018)
I have really enjoyed learning from teachers and found "teachers" for fitness, language, and writing.

Has anyone found a teacher for something non-traditional or particularly interesting?
Yeah, linked in the article.

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/our-robots/

Its very funny.
There is language innovation in Common Lisp, but it's either things that need to be in the standard (example: package local nicknames) or in improved implementation of things in the standard.

The latter one I point to often is the problem of efficiently compiling a dynamic language, where (for example) the offsets of slots in objects can be changed at run time, or (another example) where the set of methods for a generic function can change at run time.

See Robert Strandh's paper in https://european-lisp-symposium.org/static/proceedings/2021.... (page 72)
Have you ever considered they're being fake?

You are aware of how systemic police gangs are right? Inherent to that is constant deception...
AI alignment is the closest thing to an unsolvable problem I've ever seen.
May I ask what topic?

Curious how the online material compares
P3k: Personal Publishing Platform
Not complying with DMCA doesn’t directly get into legal trouble. It’s not a crime and doesn’t create (itself) any civil liability.

What it does do is forfeit a safe harbor defense against copyright infringement liability. Basically, as long as you comply with take down requests, you can’t be sued for copyright infringement unless you knew about it.

It’s part of a quid pro quo with online services that publish user content.

Other publishers are liable for what they publish even if they didn’t know about it.

Without the DMCA, Google would be liable for all the piracy that happens on the site.
The finances of marriage don't make sense until, what, $75k/yr or more?

If you need any sort of public assistance, marriage is a severe eligibility fence.
I didn't say it sucked, I singled it out as an example of excellence.