skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how did they think this is something okay to mess up?

I'm speculating but this has the smell of enshittification. Somehow this is saving them money while making the product worse, and they're hoping not enough customers notice to matter.
Yup, fictitious enemies are always needed to keep the machine running. Terrorists, gays, foreigners, trans people, drugs.

So long as people think that these are the problems in society (and not, say, billionaires) the government can keep creating ineffective policies to "fix" these problems (even though they haven't for god knows how many hundreds of years) and people lap it up.
It's a bit like the matrix, wherever something good and helpful starts to develop anywhere, an agent in a green suit appears to put a stop to it.
Spotify is stopping iPhone users paying through the App Store
I disagree with the problem statement; that the framework is trying to solve a meta-problem.

The problem with frameworks is instead that they assume that they're in control. They're the program, you're just writing a plugin.

This makes it unnecessarily hard to use them in all but the most straight-forward use cases. And they're usually also trying to do too much; config for starting, special way of testing, incompatible with other frameworks and libs etc.

Contrary to that, a library does one thing and one thing well. Like a Unix tool. Much easier to use, better coverage, and usually easy to combine. And you can plug them in anywhere.

Frameworks are overreaching, but not in the way that the article paints it.
I think we call it the year 2002 and I love it. A normally distributed Internet is the way.
I can't stand FPS:es anymore. They are so repetitive and you need to concentrate too much. Also I guess I don't think violence is cool/exciting anymore since I got older.
...Yes?

Retail companies research what other retail companies are doing and copy them all the time... was the answer supposed to be no here?
Well, the criminal networks are planet-wide. The war on drugs is planet-wide. Thus, the legalisation of drugs can also be planet-wide.
People don’t live isolated from each other. Drug consumption has knock on effect on the rest of the population: traffic props up organised crime, addicts can be violent. Plus there is a direct correlation between social issues and the risk of becoming an addict. All of this is squarely in the remit of the state.
As a Farage-esque caricature to laugh at.
Ya, either the parent post is troll, or he read the Vice article from 5 years ago and thinks it nullifies PGP? Not sure, but is it perfect? No. But I don’t think Snowden is a security LARPer.
Debugging in WordPress
> Who’s going to pay for that?

Anyone who wants to live in a better society, who realises this policy would help achieve that.

> Why would those people want to work if they can just freeload?

Because most people want more than just the absolute necessities of life.
Not all colleges are the same. I had a fantastic time at my college.

For example, in our algorithms course, we needed to implement a lot of small algorithms for various things in Java. (Eg A-star, quicksort, etc). For each algorithm, we were provided a standard API to implement against so they could use automated marking. Well, me and some friends made our own benchmarking harness and web frontend around that api. Before the assignment was due, we would all upload our .class files (and upload test cases), and compete to see who wrote the fastest code.

I think I learned at least as much from doing that as I did from the algorithms course itself.

We didn’t have that much fun in all of our classes. But I cherish a lot of memories from that time in my life. I’m really glad I went to college and wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Joplin is an amazing application, which moreover respects privacy.

It would be so nice if it was possible to sync using ssh, by the way!
Often they have signs forbidding you to take photos in stores… i guess that’s a bit like robots.txt
I don't think that's problematic. That's how societies work. They learn.
They do e2e to other skiff users, but given that the majority of your mail probably goes to none skiff users, what are you gaining?
You can use gevent and no need to replicate every library under the sun for async io.
Hello! One of the developers of Khoj here.

The way we see it, building in the open is going to be critical for creating an aligned, trustworthy AI assistant.

Note: while all LLM tools look fairly similar on the surface these days, our specific approaches are fairly different. Give us a try and see what you think :-)
"It is only seamless in the sense that the Emperor's clothes were seamless."

Brilliant quote!
It is a no depending on what you sell. If they sell original pictures, you cannot copy them. You are allowed to sell the same products, but not to copy them.
Trust me, you can't buy drugs from those guys

What I don't get about this: most people seem to know (think?) this. So you'd think these guys have no income at all because no-one is trusting them so no-one buys from them. Yet after decades they're still there, in a lot of cities. So there must be something which works in this system. I find it hard to believe they survive off the occasional sell to a tourist. I mean, could be, but seems far fatched to me?
It’s also easier to spot errors in that style than in prose.
You would never apply this attitude to programming. "Well, I got a segfault, better never touch this C language again..."
It's an interesting "have your cake and eat it" debate. Where is the line? Is there a line? How should you decide, and how should anyone else decide?

I find this debate very aligned to copyright debates.
> That particular example of course no, but people writing overengineered beasts to overcome go's limitation happens all the time.

"happens"???

Yeah, it happened all the time, but for the last 14 months or so Go has had a serviceable implementation[1] of generics.

So, sure, you could argue that projects used to implement hacky workarounds for generics, but that argument gets less relevant as time goes on.

That argument is irrelevant to anyone starting a project today in Go. Probably also irrelevant to the type of microservices projects that I mostly see in Go, because any hack workaround can be replaced gradually by the language generics.

[1] Unless you are referring to some deficiency of the generics implementation in Go that I am ignorant of.
Giving Universities labs of RHEL was a way to get more Intel based machines in and therefore undergrad students used Fedora.. Research students would end up with RHEL where I went based on costs to their department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux#History
WARNING: training data moat building in progress.

They want to introduce a line in robots.txt that says "not for training AI". So nobody else can use publci data to train their AI. They already did.
Equally though, when you think you've finished it; have a read / watch about all the fantastic things that you missed.

The entire project, and including the journal on the Google drive, is just incredible.

I very much enjoyed this video that goes through all the content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0

Also, this one to learn about the methods used to create "myhouse" in the doom2 engine.
Ouch, it is really bad.

I only read the announcement by the time I submitted it, it is quite clunky.
The reason Musk wanted to buy Twitter was to satisfy bis own enormous ego and whims. He did try to get out of buying it though.

As for relevance... A few more great business decisions from Musk, and Twitter's relevance will plummet to unrecoverable depths. All Facebook has to do with Threads is not do obvious mistakes.

But that all is completely beside the point. The original claim was "They are going head-to-head with one of the largest social networks".

"Large networks" are counted in terms of MAU and hours of engagement. And Twitter is rapidly losing it's relevance. Because FB's (and everyone's) largest competitors are

1. Time. There's only 24 hours in the day

2. Social networks and products grabbing that time: TikTok and video streaming services

Twitter doesn't really enter the equation.
He simply did not have the intellectual aptitude required for the patent business. Suddenly I don't feel so bad about becoming a math professor after failing accounting school.
Kinda hilarious that one or two people can build a better site for fun than reddit can for profit with 2000 employees.
Just wait 10 years. The time that took WebGL to be fully portable.
It is about 1000 miles east of the southeast corner of Australia. It’s about 1/3 bigger than Florida and about 1/3 smaller than California - roughly the same size as Colorado or the UK.
Satire gets closer to the truth than truth does!
I really like it when it works, but it very rarely gives me much go on. I use it in VS code and Rider and often get no suggestions. I'm not sure if it's latency or my code is just that different it has nothing to suggest. I'm on the verge of cancelling.
And also GPLv3. It's only AGPL that has stipulations for software you don't distribute t ok others.
Also, the link I failed to paste

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iq1-TZXz9xo
I use nbdime and have integrated it into my git diff so I see graphical diffs. Github renders notebooks with their output intact. They recently announced [rich notebook diffs](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-03-01-feature-preview-ric...) as well.
Sure, but also that doesn’t contradict the nature of a non-profits as corporations with a private ownership structure. Non-profit is the colloquialism for a corporation with a certain status per a statute that grants the corporation some tax exemptions in exchange for their ability to return a profit. The corporation receives a benefit for this status and is subject to stricter accounting rules, but is still a private corporation in and of itself.
> I obviously don’t know either, but I just wish historical articles wouldn’t act so certain about things they offer no proof of!

I watched a documentary one or two years ago about the coliseum in Rome, and it made me realize that what we claim to know about those ancient times must be 80% bullshit.

It was all assumptions built on top of assumptions, themselves built on top of suppositions without any proof.

When I was a kid I wanted to become an archeologist, but this one documentary that basically put in evidence that everything is just bullshit where we have picked the most convenient explanation completely disinterested me from archeology forever.
> it didn't seem much worse than alcohol

Honestly, I don't think anyone can seriously claim it is anywhere near as bad as alcohol, other than in two regards: smoking isn't great for you (but that's a method problem, not a substance one) and the smell in public (which is a minor issue and, again, one that can be mitigated).

By any other measure - addiction, short-term and long-term harms, indirect harm to third-parties - alcohol is worse.
Forgetting about Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony?

Also about OpenGL extension spaghetti making it literaly a bunch of mini-APIs that were only portable in name and basic features?

The iOS game market is huge by the way.
Coogan is best now in roles like "philomena", or "24 hour party people". "The trip" is good but he is (over) playing a version of his public self which gets a bit forced.
I believe that was the joke, yes.

(Marcus Brigstocke is a comedian).
Whoever approved the cut in funding by 80% needs to be in prison for the harm they have caused.
We're just off the bottom right-hand corner of those maps - they're saving a little size - and cost :)
This sort of fits with your analogy. When I did my Manufacturing Engineering degree all I was interested in was CNC, CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping tools that existed before modern 3D printing.

After a career completely unrelated to manufacturing I've come back to basic metalwork as a hobby. What interests me is working with non-computer driven tools like lathes and mills.

What really surprises me is how much can be achieved just with hand tools like saws, files and chisels. I have books on filing as a way to shape metal by hand.

This is worth knowing because sometimes it's sometimes the quickest way get something done. Especially, when the first part of an alternative process would be "order tool X from the internet".

So it goes with solving problems with software. It's sometimes quicker to implement something I learnt on my second degree in CS than to spend time searching to see if a well supported library covers exactly what's needed for a very specific, temporary use-case.
> In most situations, a non-profit entity cannot be owned by a corporation in such a way that would give it controlling interest.

I think you mean to say, "a non-profit entity cannot be owned by a for-profit entity in such a way that would give it controlling interest"

A corporation can be non-profit (aka not-for-profit), and there is no problem with non-profit corporation A owning non-profit corporation B. Non-profit vs for-profit is orthogonal to corporate vs other (e.g. trust) legal structure.
The books were good; especially I, Partridge. I thought Alpha Papa was missing some of the tragic magic which was present in I'm Alan Partridge.
I found it had to get into This Time until I watched Welcome to the Places of my Life which is end-to-end hilarity.

I'm now fairly convinced that This Time is the greatest version of Partridge. It's his equivalent of "Diamond are Forever" (and no, he's not showing off!)
The Science of Science
There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself.
Ask HN: Am looking for an existing SQLite CDC that does
I stumbled on a yet another sqlite cdc but have forgotten it's name,link,etc

it is NOT

litestream/litefs
dqlite
rqlite

Here are some of the features I remember it having:

- all changes appear as json
- changes can be piped to other programs
- the json that it produces has an attribute of "new/insert" / "existing/update"

thanks
> Y’all can sit around here and discuss, “what is a software architect” all you want.

I think you're on to something. We ought to hire an architect architect to architect the role of the architect. Maybe we can build an architect factory to abstract that away and have architects set up on demand...
An ad company is keen to explore alternative means of controlling what other ad companies can do... After said ad company already scraped what they needed with no regard if it was even OK to do it.
Stripped of adulation and his stupidities, isn't this just taking care of business? If he has sound legal advice a few mill can recover 50 or more, should he not try?

He's a colossal dickhead but this seems to be normal, amoral business. He thinks he was ripped off. Well, if he can show it, go recover the money seems at least not insane. Buying Twitter at (legal) gunpoint, was insane.
Dayum, Imma be too afraid that apple with take down my app itself xD
Vancouver and BC's opioid crisis gets worse and worse as the policies continue to become more and more liberal. Every year there are more tent cities, more crime, and more overdose deaths.
I thought the very same when I looked at the Tiny sample, just a lot of #if conditional compilation.
We already index org, markdown, and PDF files on your file system. We're adding a text connector soon, which will allow you to index any plain text files you care to.

With that, you should be able to index Gmail over Maildir/POP/IMAP?
The CPU is a compiler for programs written in the machine instruction set architecture the CPU claims to implement which happens to output real world effects just as a compiler outputs program code. So, no, you can't.
std::sus: compile-time amogus [video]
So, much the same as Tesla Autopilot, which is currently far less safe than driving manually?
I mean they are buying degrees for six figures.

If it meant good grades without doing the work and it became socially acceptable it is ~150 million global tertiary students times 10 months of the year times whatever that is worth on a monthly basis. Maybe only $150B ARR right now at $100/mo (textbooks to read cost more than this, but you don’t need them anymore), so not $1T on students but still massive, and if you capture them in pre/early career it is easily $1T in ARR once your queue deepens.
This analogy doesn't map very well. It's a clearly different medium.

The value of a store is the ability to buy products from it, you taking a photo of it doesn't impact that transaction of value that at all. The value of content online is the very act of reading it/consuming it.

A scraper is getting a free lunch, that is clear. They are trading nothing for something, and as the owner of the something that is not the deal I have chosen to make.
Satire can be serious.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SatireParodyPast...
A tiny RWKV with 2.9M params can solve 18239.715*9.728263
Why Meta’s Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet
Maybe some websites would like to specify something more then "I allow everything", maybe you could specify a license for the data on the page, like if you are OK for using it in open source research, open source AI training but not allow the data to be used in proprietary AI, or you do not want any kind of AI/research on the data , only search indexing.
What? The country has four official languages. It is arguably close to the US level of diversity, especially when you consider the implications of how multiracial children are classified and the fact that 70 something percent of the country is put into a vague “Chinese” bucket.
It’s more like people stealing your products because its out in the main street rather than taking pictures. IP theft has real life implications. Even taking pictures has if taken by thieves planning a crime.
Insane. I never thought of tracking carbon footprint to this level. Please include chicken and eggs and promote that :D

Just read today that chicken demand in US has grown exponentially while other meats have declined.
The entirety of MacOS. The number of cases where you must use it "Steve's way or the highway" are legion. Changing MacOS default behavior involves one of several mechanisms:

1. Changing a preference with a GUI editor. Only a small percentage of all defaults can be changed this way.

2. Changing a preference with "defaults write..." and hoping the change will stick the next time you upgrade the OS.

3. Change the default for one usage but it will revert the next time you do that operation. Many examples wrt how Spotlight searches work in the Finder.

4. You can't change the default at all. Example: Themes. Last time I checked there were two, and nobody can make others.
> "The Ukraine declared its own independent laws of physics. Under the new legislation only natural-born Ukrainians were granted the right to have density, speed was calculated to equal boiling-point over height and friction was abolished, which caused increased mortality around hills, but meant that Ukrainians could glide over hundreds of miles with just one push. Meanwhile in Kiev over three hundred protesters were injured in gravity riots."
100 years ago was not the Middle Ages, that ended about 500 years ago. 100 years ago is the late modern period.
Because after 30 years he's still able to get a second series
Having a key as long as your plaintext is difficult.

Getting actually random (not pseudorandom) keys is very difficult.

Not reusing any key material ever is very difficult.

Exchanging the keys is difficult.

It’s not authenticated.

It’s just not useful in practice.
But then the question is why is there more mentally ill people than in other countries. I know that many homeless people come there from other states because of the easy winters, but then i would assume something similar in europe as well. Spain has many homeless people as well, but there is fewer of them.
How to not install LineageOS 20 on Pixel 5 in 2023
It's a lot more common in e.g. OCaml and Haskell where the syntax makes the partial application a lot easier.
> Given how the term is conventionally used, 'privatize' implies that for-profit enterprise has taken over, and even pedantically

Granted this would be an uncommon use of the verbiage given the situation, that does not mean it is incorrect usage. You are correct that typically privatization occurs when a government service is executed by or government infrastructure is transferred to a private for-profit corporation, it is not necessarily the case that it has to be a for-profit corporation for privatization to occur.

Non-profits can still be and are privately owned, what’s different about them is the accounting rules they are subject to and their status per statute. In exchange for their tax advantaged status, they give up their ability to return a profit to the owners, but it still has owners.

Also just a side note, I would be interested to hear if anyone wants to chime in if any of this is fundamentally different under Portuguese law.
AI is not “societies” or “people” and it most certainly doesnt “learn” as the two would. Perhaps thats what openai’s effective marketing campaign taught gullible folks but that’s not how it works at all. A”I” ingests massive amounts of people’s intellectual work, often without consent, mixes it and resells it without royalties.
Churning out scripters and giving them script frameworks and building whole products and businesses on top of those products has got to be the worst approach to labor shortages ever in the history of work. Oh the single process isn't a good load bearing structure to rest your entire network workload on? Let's create asynchronous abstractions and pack everything in portable process isolation environments and oh now we need a whole distributed OS to orcherstrate these processes etc...
Woah, didn't evernote was not ever profitable. Think Notion did a heavy dent there.

And you keep seeing a new note taking companies pop up every other week.
Luttig on narratives currently prevalent in AI discourse
It's not occasional. They sell a lot. There is a lot of gullible people in this world and an endless supply of fresh tourists or kids from other towns landing in Lisbon everyday.
They only need to scam 1 person a day to make 50€. That's more than most Portuguese earn per day.

They scammed me when I was a kid (I wanted weed).

Don't you think I know what I'm talking about? You can buy drugs is Lisbon of course but real drug dealers aren't approaching thousands of people in the open streets of downtown Lisbon everyday!

Police leaves these guys alone because there is no real crime.
Scamming tourists is hard to persecute. Not worth it!
> my point is that 1% of the people who see this while browsing the App Store understand enough about the HealthKit data access requirements to interpret the language that Apple chooses correctly.

How so? There is no hidden meaning here; Facebook are simply telling Apple that they will access your health information, and Apple is passing that information along. There’s no misinterpretation. The fact that the app doesn’t currently request this information is immaterial – Facebook are saying they will. The straightforward interpretation of the privacy card is the correct one.
> This is precisely the reason why narrative storytelling cannot work in VR

Typical HN comment, asserting that something cannot exist that already widely exists
Posts like this make me realize the target audience of HackerNews is mid to late 30 something to early 50s dudes (speaking as a big Doom fan myself!)
> When asked whether the Pentagon has assured its allies that these munitions will not cause excessive civilian harm, US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl replied:

> “I’m as concerned about the humanitarian circumstance as anybody, but the worst thing for civilians in Ukraine is for Russia to win the war. And so it’s important that they don’t.”

‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster bomb deaths.
That's secondary/high school level stuff, but sure, it happens. Many teens think like this, and they they grow out of it - that's part of the process. At least most do.