skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if grandma became disabled and is living off the residuals of her books 10 years ago published? Should old artists just die in poverty like the good old days then?
Interestingly came to this because I googled it after having essentially the exact same thought....
SQLpage v0.7.2 – user authentication in SQL
AI Capacity Constraints – CoWoS and HBM Supply Chain
So they are actively discriminating against those who have suffered a life shattering event in which personal documents were lost? (Eg house fire)

Sounds rather evil....
Hmm... So you're saying the issue is the mere existence of transferability of copyright?

Theres a pretty simple way to deal with that isn't there?

No reasonable argument can be made that licencing is inadequate to provide compensation, can there?
Three New AMD EPYC Genoa-X SKUs with Up to 48MB L3 Cache per Core or 1.1GB Total
I do not know of any true "image" data. Most complex patterns in nature are created by generative processes rather than direct encoding.
> Maybe I'm not old enough, and I'm not sure whether it is appropriate to generalize to all Indian families or whether it is only our family which is an oddball, but I've always been curious about the western interest in recording genealogies.

If feels like we of European descent have all of the genealogical advantages. For most other folks, gleaning their family data seems to vary between brutal and impossible.
I think you have it backwards. The ordering goes:

Philosophy -> Math -> Physics -> Chemistry -> etc.

Everything to the right depends on, or is an application of, the discipline to the left. "Science" starts at physics.
I've been looking for something like this.

My wife and I each have a separate Apple Photos library. I'd love it if we could have a combined backup solution.

Could we keep using Photos and back up to this, or would it be better to ditch Photos and just switch over?
No cryptographic scheme remains unbreakable forever. If what you want is permanent protection, cryptography is not the solution. If people are encrypting things expecting that encryption will never be broken, they're misusing encryption.

The point of cryptography isn't to keep secrets forever, it's to keep secrets for long enough that by the time those secrets are revealed, they are worthless.
AWS uses firecracker to execute long-running Fargate tasks; its hardly misuse
I don't think so. Vast majority of creative works fall out of favor in the first 15 years of publication, so creators wouldn't be giving up anywhere near as much as if copyright was totally abolished. The situations are not comparable in the slightest.
You know what I love? Stargate! Best space travel scifi show ever.

They have pure scifi tech like subspace but the concept of a stargate is technically possible but practical feasibility is the problem.

A purely layman's speculation I have with instantenuous space travel is this: when you travel through space, you travel through time, that's why it takes so long. Time travel might be possible but only as a distant coordinate in space. We can travel faster than the speed of causality/light given enough energy and acceleration but that also means traveling vast distances. We can't test this in a lab but perhaps a lab on the moon is far enough to test this? Another way to state my theory is this: if I travel to alpha centauri slightly faster than light taking me 3y11mo (4y if it was speed of light)and blow up alpha centauri, an observer on earth will see the star blow up maybe 3y10mo after I left because I traveled faster than light. The hard limit might be that I can't travel so fast to alpha centauri that an observer on earth will see me blow up the star before I even left earth. In other words, the maximum speed you can achieve might be relative to the distance you traveled relative to an observer like your starting point. From the perspective of an observer on earth and the space traveler, at maximim theoretical speed to alpha centauri from earth, it will look like instantenuous travel but while the observer in earth might see alpha centauri blow up right away, looking back at earth from alpha centauri will show earth as it appeared 4 years before the start of the trip. None of this violates causality. But keep in mind, my knowledge level is like a grade level student commenting on advanced calculus so it is probably crackpot science but as scifi goes it makes sense to me. I am hoping one of you physics people who lurk here and actually know how spacetime dilation works can tell me why what I speculated is nonsense.is it possible to disprove my theory without testing it across great distances? Technically speaking, if you keep accelerating in space what would stop you from going past the speed of light?
Shocked! Well not that shocked.
It does make one wonder why the people vs hitman LLC isn’t a case before the Supreme Court.
women's colleges routinely mixed socially, had dances etc. with men's colleges. To the point that alot of girls went to college to meet eligible men of upper echelons.
there is low hanging fruit, sure, but a substantial amount of our food - even things that you might assume are 'healthy' - are loaded with these terrible oils. autism/adhd/neurodivergence is skyrocketing, as-are late-stage health problems like alzheimers and parkinsons. all of this is pretty well correlated with the rise of our race-to-the-bottom agricultural practices involving pesticides like glyphosate and mass cultivation of crops for seed oils.

this should not be ignored.
Recent HN thread on another "graphing data" font, although this one doesn't simply map numbers to graphic, prompting a discussion on accessibility issues to consider:

Datalegreya Font
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832196
I've been using % for years for switching to open tabs that I lost among many other opened tabs and windows.

Pro tip: you can also append % at the end to have the same result (it wasn't always like that, which used to be super annoying if you forgot to type it at beginning).
Or using Syncthing?
They already have a device specific ID, this isn't asking for a new ID. See the link above. It's not considered a fingerprinting mechanism because it's only specific to a device/app-vendor pair, so can't be shared to fingerprint across apps.

The problem is you can't use it for rate limiting because a bad actor could just generate a random ID and use that. That's why an endpoint for validating a given ID was issued for a particular vendor is required for a privacy-preserving anonymous rate limiting implementation.
Practically a quantum computer breaking ECC would happen much sooner than RSA, since ECC uses much smaller keys and the main issue with quantum computers is scaling.
Correcting myself for anyone searching for this later... Evernote v6.25.3.9348 (version that's guaranteed to work) was not on FileHippo. It was shared several times on the Evernote discussion boards, recently here: https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/146705-fatal-mi..., which I've archived here: https://archive.ph/G4hdq - scroll to PinkElephant's comment.
The Weight of Data
Any reason you are specifically picking the Higgs field in your question? I am asking, because this sounds a bit like you are riffing on a common misconception that the Higgs field has something to do with gravity, which is not the case. The interaction with the Higgs field is the reason some (only some) of the particles have a mass, but explaining gravity does not need to have anything to do with the Higgs field.

But yeah, it is fair to ask why gravity should behave any differently than any other quantum field -- in the context of Quantum Field Theory (one of the two incredibly successful theories of physics) that is a great question. One handwavy reason it seems different is that in General Relativity (the other incredibly success theory of physics), gravity has to do with the geometry of space and time, not with what other fields exist in that space and time (and as such is explicitly different than the other fields).
Why do you want to prevent it being copied? If it's not successful why do you even care?
Good point. Nice.
I like your versions of a dystopia. Working in brightly lit concrete rooms, with plenty of diverse clothing and comfortable chairs, electric hubbub in the air.

My version of a dystopia is more like, everyone wears plain grey uniforms and is given the least amount of light and movement needed to squeeze the most product per watt-calorie out of them as is scientifically possible, where the human psychological meatgrinder is approaching maximum operational efficiency.
>Coconut oil, Butter/Ghee, Olive Oil, Lard...

The problem is that most of them (minus olive oil) are high in saturated fats, which are also bad. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
You’re the man behind WebInfinity??
Then their creators can released them under a lenient license, or to the public domain. Why do we get to decide for them?
Shit Flow Diagram
Authors generally don't build their careers by publishing books in 5 year periods. They generally build a body of work over decades whose residuals keep them alive in hungry/lean years. You also run into issues e.g. The Last Unicorn's author whose rights were taken from him because of elder abuse! Once he gets them back he gets nothing? That sucks.
> What value does kf create? Far as I can tell it only destroys value with their trail of suicides and bigoted behavior.

Even if that were true (and I don't think it is), freedom only for those who "create value" is no freedom at all.
Every once in a while, I fix a bunch of those tiny problems one by one. I basically walk through the house tackling any annoyance I encounter.
> And once a year or so, cross country.

The key is to not over-value this. If your daily driver is also good at a rare cross country trip then that's great, but how bad is it really if it's not and you need to rent a vehicle with different capabilities once a year?

If you're comparing two vehicles and one of them is a better fit for your daily driving and regular recurring needs while not being the best for rare uses, while the other is better at the rare use cases while being worse every other day, it seems like an easy choice to me but a lot of people will entirely count out the first one because it doesn't do the rare things well.

See also: The person who buys a pickup truck as a daily driver they use to commute from the suburbs to an office because they might buy a few 2x4s from time to time.
> Sometimes we can get away with not animating mouse or keyboard interactions, without it feeling jarring.

For fucks sake, you shouldn't even use animations for taps!

Sharing a screenshot in iOS puts a damn animation between each of the 4 or so required taps. Totally unnecessary and you can't even get out by clicking the home button. It's disabled until the animation finishes! You're stuck there watching them for the 1000th time.
> Why is it automatically a bad thing if they use the data to train llms? Who is losing under this situation?

At a glance of the post and only a few seconds thought, I would guess the 'catchers' - the people who are being paid to answer the questions.

If they are being brought to the platform with the promise of regular work, building up a profile of expertise & reliability so they can generate more revenue on the platform, but under the hood their responses are just training LLMs so their work can be automated and they're eventually replaced by a catcher-bot trained on their responses... then I would argue they are losing in this situation, as they've invested time building up their profile only to risk having it stripped away.

It's a bit like building a cool new physical product and then going to a lot of effort to build a shopfront and presence on Amazon, only to have an AmazonBasics version of your product appear after a couple of months.

edit: not to say that this is what is happening with this site or that their intent is malicious! Just gaming out a potential case where there are some losers on the user side here.
Perhaps it's because English is not my first language, but I find it confusing to read "this is evidence that .... might ....". Isn't the purpose of evidence to prove a claim? If there is no conclusive evidence, I would expect it to be phrased along the lines of: "Preliminary evidence suggests that... might...".
> Oracle has always made Oracle Linux binaries and source freely available to all.

Hmmm, well yes, there's https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html

But no one here on HN in my memory has mentioned trying to run it on, say, a personal desktop. What's the reality of this?
There might be a bit you can do if you have a few details, thanks to other documents being digitized and OCR'ed.

My great uncles both died in WWII and their service records were destroyed in this fire. I had been able to piece together a few details by googling their names (somewhat unique) with the services they were in, which lead me to digitized unit yearbooks and eventually other documents. For one of my great uncles, we found a unit report that included a redacted version of the silver star citation he earned.
It may also be pertinent to note that it's an entirely USA-centric article and study. A distinction the article makes in it's first paragraph: "87% of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered".

Not to unduly belittle that metric! - nobody would argue that the USA is not a major player (the biggest, in some respects) - but it's still a significant distinction. The articles nuance of copyright laws, and its figures, and its proposed activism, are all specific to that one national jurisdiction.
True in 1993.
It would be nice if you contributed something other than links to this blog.
The next open source editor is here
I started using vim 9 years ago. I started using neovim 4 years ago. I have a complex neovim setup based on lunarvim that I was used to maintain. Then, I discovered Helix. One file, 50 lines. Stop. LSP, fuzzy finder, debugger, tree-sitter, custom commands, modal editing, external scripts. Everything.

It only lacks snippets (support planned in a while) and a plugin system. It doesn't have copilot/codeium for now, but I use GPT models via shell command (e.g. shell_gpt).

Look at the release page to understand how fast they are developing it. In one year it became something completely different, from being barely usable to be a complete, fast, and easy to configure editor. Raedy to go with 50 lines of toml configuration.

Helix has the second most growing community among open source editors on GitHub. Just look at this image. Impressive.
You're describing nominal and structural typing. This concept is orthogonal to static and dynamic type checking.

Go and TypeScript are examples of languages with statically checked structural type systems. While C# has statically checked nominal type system.

I don't use dynamic languages much, so maybe someone else could chime in with a few examples.
People saving money IS a harm to society and government does various things to discourage it at certain times. OP's copyright solution is similar in that it merely discourages keeping a copyright, it doesn't outright forbid it
I'd say "anonymously" should be removed from the title in light of that. Maybe "a space for asking questions while we mine your personal information" would be more appropriate.
They all get filtered straight in to a folder. No notification when they arrive.

Then I just go through it every couple weeks either when im waiting around on my phone or when I find myself wasting time on reddit or hn but dont quite have it in my to jump back in to dev work just yet.

Between topics not being interesting to me, overlap in covered topics by each newsletter, and overlap with things I've already seen here; the vast majority of content that hits that folder doesn't ever actually get read. I'm yet to find any source of news, tech newsletter or otherwise, that warrants reading on a daily basis. Closest would be the weather.
You're welcome! I actually learned that word from Morrowind; I can't remember if I've seen it in print anywhere else.
nah, saturated fats are not bad. that is the myth big ag wants you to believe.

people will often look at old photos and wax poetic about how youthful and thin everyone was. why? they were eating saturated fats and not seed oils.
It's not that it's automatically a bad thing. It's that it's a thing many people will object to, so if that's what's being done, it should be disclosed.
Last time I did nix things, the language docs were not good. I’m fairly comfortable bashing my head into hard things for long periods of time but it was very hard to squeeze answers out of the internet.
Same in PA. I was a math major before switching to CS and this course order has defined mathematics in the US for 3 decades.
I think he's satirizing the parent poster, by copying his logic and saying that we should eat willow bark rather than taking aspirin pills.
You're as likely to get abolition as you are to get a 15 year copyright, which is ~1/4 what copyright was in 1909.
That is certainly true. In fact you don't even need rational numbers, it is entirely possible that there are a finite number of positions on the universe, for example.

Nevertheless physics seems to work very nicely when expressed in the language of calculus. Everything from Schrödinger's equation to the Einstein field equations, and from classical mechanics to the standard model of particle physics are expressed in the language of calculus. This all looks like a wild and strange coincidence if fundamentally we are living in a relm like the rationals, where calculus doesn't really make sense.
> It's time to stop pretending academics are a medieval nobles who grow faint at the idea of their sacred honor being besmirched. With huge salary opportunities for bold populist claims academics will take big risks to achieve choice jobs even if they think they will eventually be discovered.

Exactly. We are finally starting to see the unwinding of the 20th century scientist myth. With the advent of corporate culture in the academia, it now attracts and nurtures very different personality types.
Thanks for the link, I will give it a proper read first thing tomorrow morning. From my very quick skim your attack is far more advanced than what I did. It was enough to just set some registers via the debugger and single step an instruction. With just a single load gadget I could dump the entire ROM. I did not bother with a write gadget as for the Nordic SoC you can just reflash the extracted image without enabling protection and then go from there.

I personally did not know about this article, I have not touched the Cypress eco system much, if at all. I linked to a previous article that this project was based on [1].

What I find interesting is that Cypress uses a similar split ROM as Nordic for some kind of system code and data like calibration values. Really neat to see how other vendors do this.

[1] https://blog.includesecurity.com/2015/11/firmware-dumping-te...
We are all extras in someone else's movie.
I didn't know my father and tried to get his WWII medical records but was denied. IIRC, only he could auth their release and he'd been dead for 20yr.
Not-for-profit businesses in the US are not legally allowed to turn a profit. There are no financial owners to be paid a profit. So, everything you wrote about that is BS.

Not-for-profit businesses are still businesses; they need to take in as much as they spend, whether it's through fees for service (e.g. tuition) or donations. Colleges and universities in the US spend a lot of time begging alumni to donate money.

And yes, there is education and training specific to running a not-for-profit _business_, and many GOOD leaders have MBAs. I have watched a lot of them fail because the folks at the top did not manage money well.
Doesn’t NSA object hybrid schemes on weird grounds that current implementations suck, full of implementation errors and all-new PQ-only ones will not?

Edit: reference https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/spasm/McksDhejGgJJ6xG6...
Nextcloud has face recognition iirc as well.
I was thinking they were somehow controlling the light so the colour saturation never “peaked” on good cinema grade cameras. That way, it could be colour graded back to normal by turning down the magenta saturation. (I’m no expert, so this is the wrong terminology I bet, but I’ve messed with the “tint” slider in Apple’s Preview.app that does give everything a magenta/purple hue if you crank it up.)

However, this says they’re using an ML colourizer tool to un-magenta the image after it’s been masked? Why not just invest in ML tools that can make a greenscreen mask for you? I actually think that already exists at a pretty advanced level. (Considering it’s already very common on phone cameras and video chat apps, with surprisingly good results)

This seems like a lot of effort to just make the mask layer an “in camera” effect. Maybe there’s a good reason for that?
Why did your team choose to use the same name as a different DEX that seems to have gone silent back in 2021?
That doesn't make much sense as an objection, since the classical cryptography code is better ironed out than the PQ stuff, and the logic to combine the two is fairly simple.

Unless there is an unexpected leap in the viability of quantum cryptanalysis, you should expect that all commercial/standard cryptography with PQ capabilities will run in a hybrid configuration.

I'm only commenting here because there's a pervasive belief that this is controversial in cryptography engineering circles, or that NIST is trying somehow to prevent hybrid schemes from happening, which is simply not the case --- though they may not bother to standardize any particular mechanism of combining ECC/RSA with PQ exchanges (but: they don't standardize stuff like TLS ciphersuites, either).
The author can sell their own book even after copyright is up. Indeed some people may prefer to buy it from them. I think the system would totally change how people perceive these things
> Or make frugal choices elsewhere, or receive scholarships/ financial aid, likely both.

Most people are already doing that and still can't spend $20k to send their children to a non-"garbage" school.
Can you expand on your imaginary company? How far did it go? What did you do to make it work?
A simulation produces philosophical zombies, yet you are not one.
It’s also a key plot point in Tchaikovsky’s recent Children of … trilogy.
The JSX syntax was inspired from work on XHP, not E4X.

Seems strange to focus on E4X when discussing the origins vs the actual origin.

Just because E4X is somewhat similar doesn't make it the origin.
How do you know there is an equivalent process for quantum chips?
> permits them ethically to continue buying Apple stuff

you need to be more specific about what your ethical objection is.

I avoid the iOS ecosystem because I see it as a monopolistic lockin that restricts fundamental freedoms. It is hostile to its user's interests by taking those freedoms and achieves it by exploiting their lack of technical understanding of what they are giving up.

But is that your ethical problem?
> Say what you will about having a ton of "normies" and brands on your platform, but it's not clear if a social network can be profitable (and therefore sustainable) these days without them.

Not in the current market environment, no. But it's not "normies" that are the problem - it's the "free service, make money on ads" business model that's the root of the issue. It will, by its very nature, always lead to the so-called "enshittification". And, it's also near-impossible to compete with at scale. So paid social networks just can't work, because a "free with ads" service will trivially outcompete it before it starts to visibly rot.

I say current market environment, because there's always that slight hope that some sort of regulatory intervention will kill the "free with ads" model, or at least severely restrict it to level the playing field.