skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the book was acquired illegally, the entity that suffered the loss may have a claim for the illegal acquisition. Meta and OpenAI have the money to buy a copy of every book under copyright that they have their AI read for training. I have more sympathy for losses suffered by a living person that produced creative works than I do for textbook mills. I also have sympathy for open source software authors that applied their creativity to create source code that is spit out verbatim by Copilot without adhering to license terms.

I see that Thomas’ Calculus is up to the 14th edition, priced at about 20x the hourly wage that a college student will earn. Thomas and Finney Calculus editions 6 - 8 are on shelves or in boxes somewhere in my house. Each of those cost me or my wife about 20x the student hourly wage back in the day. I bet calculus hasn’t changed a lot in the past 30 years to justify all of these editions. I blame universities for allowing this industry to thrive.
People universally agree that replicating NPM's dependency hell was a good idea?
Reducing a small cost isn't going to get people to switch modes if the service isn't good, whereas people may well switch modes and pay the cost if the service is good.

Which is to say, people in the US mostly don't use transit because it mostly isn't a good option, not because it carries a small fee.
There isn't nearly enough YouTube content about Haskell, unfortunately. I've looked :(
In this case it is judged, though, by the HN guidelines and the many users who support them.
MF FOOM: AI-generated MF DOOM songs
I fine-tuned GPT-3 on the lyrics of 96 MF DOOM songs to write lyrics in his style. Then, i cloned his voice to a text-to-voice model to make him rap them.
>Optimizing for test scores is an American phenomenon.

Completely false. Look at the culture around standardised testing in places like Japan and South Korea. I'm Australian and optimizing for test scores is absolutely a thing here too, though I admit probably less so than the US.
If we are speaking of US criminal law, then what you say is true. It doesn't mean that is true in other regions, nor does it mean you wouldn't be held liable in a civil court.
> They have thrown everything difficult out of the spec

Not exactly, they have thrown out everything that almost nobody uses - such as networking. They have, however, added things that most people do care about - such as different HiDPI across multiple monitors and an extremely thin (low latency) render path.

> That Wayland is 10 years old and still barely usable

And that has changed in the past 2 years (with exception to whatever Ubuntu does to screw it up, but such is Ubuntu).
We Built Unkey
I think standardizing on libinput is a big deal, even if it's not required for Wayland use case. Otherwise it would have become a constant reinvention of the wheel.

Same goes for other similar use cases that aren't tied to Wayland protocols, but are critical for Wayland compositors to function and before used to be handled by Xorg in some unified fashion.
C for utilities and your OS, C++ for your video game.
Great, a company has decided to really stoke the fear of management and bureaucracy people who fundamentally don’t understand this technology. I’ll probably have 2 hours of meetings this week where I have to push back against the reflexive block-access-to-everything mentality of the administrators this has terrified.

Two quick steps should be taken

Step 1 is permabaning these idiots from huggingface. Ban their emails, ban their ip addresses. Kick them out of conferences. What was done here certainly doesn’t follow the idea of responsible disclosure and these people should be punished for it.

Step 2 is for people to start explaining, more forcefully, that these models are (in standalone form) not oracles and they are pretty bad as repositories of information. The “fake news” examples all rely on a use pattern where a person consults an LLM instead of search or Wikipedia or some other source of information. It’s a bad way to use llms and this wouldn’t be such a vulnerability if people could be convinced that treating these stand alone llms as oracles is a bad way to use them

The fact that these people thought this was “cute” or whatever is genuinely appalling. Jesus.
That’s very funny. It’s funny that you think that’s impressive. It’s funny that you think density means anything. It’s funny that you think you actually have experience because others did the work. It’s funny that you think your lame 10x density increase can actually translate to a city like Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco, etc. It’s funny you can’t connect reality to math and understand what you are talking about is pure fantasy:

NYC 20MM today, 200MM after your fantasy
Los Angeles, 12MM to 120MM
Chicago, 9MM to 90MM
Etc.

Please. Get real.

Now, if you are talking about building where there’s nothing (3000 people per square mile is nothing), well, have at it. That’s not where housing availability is a problem.

Oh, yes, your attempt to use density to impress is hilarious. I did note you said “your neighborhood”. One or a few apartment buildings can easily cause a 10x density increase in a neighborhood, given that “neighborhood” can be just a few blocks.

If you actually want to make the point you are attempting to make, provide links to the many stories that would have been written about a non-trivial CITY increasing the population by a factor of ten within its own boundaries. Otherwise, I think you are trying to inflate two apartment buildings into something they are not.

This is about providing affordable housing for tens of millions of people. That cannot be done within the boundaries of major cities in the US. That problem is asymptotic.
> collect data on applicants to compile personality profiles

I think this is inevitable, in one form or another. It will just be outsourced to some other companies which will rehash and extract whatever data, and sell services like the current background-checking companies, without even exposing any specific data to the hiring company. It's time to bit the bullet and remember that everything you say online publicly is going to remain in your permanent record, even with GDPR and stuff in place. It can't be countered by regulations, much like encryption can't be made transparent only to law enforcement by regulations. What once has been made public cannot be unmade public.

> AI-based chatbots that ask candidates questions about their qualifications, then decide if they’ll proceed

I suppose non-AI analysis of forms is not going anywhere.

> analyze their vocal or facial patterns for subjective traits like “openness” or “conscientiousness”

> Logic games that purport to identify qualities like “risk-taking” or “generosity”

I think it's just so stupid that I'd care more about my right to have disclosed the fact that a particular company does that.

On the other hand, this means that the state need to put its nose much deeper into the hiring process of a private company than it used to. It's the definition of public oversight, of course, but usually it applies to public offices.
A HAB won't even approach space; you'd be lucky to get roughly 1/3 of the way there before the balloon burst.
I recall once noticing that my hard drive was acting a little funny. Every few seconds, it would do a little work and flash my HDD light. This was an ancient version of Windows, and I wasn't running anything fancy in the background.

Turned out I had a virus.
… it’s hard to refute that the impact is not negative or that you didn’t intend commercial harm.

So this is another thing I don’t understand. Is the claim that fewer people will buy Silverman’s book because ChatGPT is able to provide a summary? If so, call me skeptical.
Asbestos is a hazard, but a manageable one if it's still intact. I think there's probably an analogous risk here - as long as people aren't somehow ingesting it, it's probably fine where it is. If you're doing demolition where the material is involved, some proper PPE and disposal is in order.
This going the way of Google Glass already.
After spending 10 minutes on the website reading headlines and guides, it appears to be something that allows people to ship native apps faster and somehow improves everything through P2P magic.

But I still have no idea what it is or why it is required. And I make a living by creating these kinds of apps.
If the deprecated API is used by a library you're using and not compiling within Xcode (for example, IIRC the Facebook SDK), you're SOL.

Also, it appears not _all_ deprecated APIs are causing these alerts, making matters worse. If you are using several deprecated APIs but aren't sure which ones absolutely need fixing, it would be quite tedious -- especially because the error only appears once per app.

And all of this is very easily improved with more diagnostics as the article suggests.
Yet.. If you configure your torrent client to never seed back (i.e. never upload or transmit content to others) and download from a public tracker, when the copyright infringement notice comes from your ISP, this explanation will change nothing.

Notably, I think this is wrong - as per the legal definition, publishers, ISPs, and courts should only hold you accountable if you helped distribute via uploading.
oh no breaking the law!!! /s
Seeing people getting upset at nothing is always fun to watch.
Grimy was fine before relentless engagement optimization.

Its not fine when the very worst actors are the ones most motivated to game the algorithm.
> I pay $0 a year to host my Next.js website on S3.

It's only free while you have no traffic. Getting a single post on the top of HN could cost you e.g. $10.
I think it was the ever-distant promise of "it will be easier to be mobile friendly". Which honestly it rarely is.
When in doubt, just use Jekyll or WordPress tbh
Janitor wanting to stop beeping noise of ultracold freezer ruins $1M in research
> Every road in the world does not need to be the Autobahn.

the point is, currently NO ROAD is the Autobahn. thats not a balance, thats censorship.
> providing financial support so families can buy homes

You mean building more homes. If there's X homes, and Y families get 10% subsidy, they're all still buying the same X homes for 10% more. (roughly)
he was prepared to sacrifice his 2-car garage, but i think the three-phase and other electrics defeated him. of couurse, it wouldn't have been switched on anywhere near all the time. and his girlfriend wasn't keen. perhaps a bit too big for a hobby project?
I'm all in on the grime, but I feel like this is one of the main reasons people are averse to the current crypto landscape: People generally prefer to live in shopping malls than the wild west.
> Please be aware of imitators, as the use of jaws with an engraving vise may infringe any patent that issues from my pending patent applications.

Don't really know much about this area, but this comes across as aggressive, overreaching, and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
> At what point do battery improvements become completely unnecessary?

I find when I can swap in a charged battery I care less about any given battery's life.

Similarly when the battery is soldered to the laptop I would rather it have a life longer than I am likely to ever use just in case.
There's an impact meteor hypothesis, disease, super volcano, and the rapid seesaw climate change itself.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/http...
How the heck is this post not flagged for “standard left/right political junk?”
Email only is not even close to best effort. I know it’s standard to only do email for tech companies, but all other types of companies usually do physical mail and phone calls on top of emails for important notifications.

I am not a customer, but it’s really annoying me how tech companies repeatedly think sending emails is somehow anything but the absolute minimum, most lazy option.
ya I agree. I think it's a disingenuous argument to make that Harvard is the only way poor or middle class people (who often have two parents with advanced degrees) can achieve success. It wasn't historically a school to help poor people achieve 'success' and it isn't now. It's a school for credentialists.
Don't forget trying to pick a palette, and those sweet, sweet palette cycling effects for things like water.
Without going into it too much I don't consider incompetence sufficient in this case.
The situation is drastically different. When considering your example, the source isn’t the leader himself nor are you imprisoned or killed for going against the narrative surrounding the leader.

Not a day goes past where I don’t see someone try to minimize commie atrocities…
Why is rabies vaccine still recommended for strictly indoor cats?
Or rented it, or borrowed the first disc from someone who's on the second one. Don't have any numbers on the latter, but games including a 'demo disc' seem like they'd get free advertising.
even worse : my chinese wife saying this is all fake...
I got one as a gift and have never successfully used it despite trying really hard. It might do ok with thick bolt heads and not a lot of torque but in my experience it either doesn't catch properly or slips.
Ah, I misread. I doubt there was such an extent of political and corporate corruption or anything analogous. Maybe that isn't fair for me to say as I'm a product of recent history.
Just want to say I’ve had the opportunity to use bevy a fair amount and it’s such a fun experience. I really appreciate the time, effort, and attention to developer experience. I’ve also seen how much the team helps others in the discord etc. Keep up the great work.
Good times... good times...
The Firefox data is interesting. It has been years since I daily drove a machine with 8 gigs of RAM which is 33% of their current users. Been even longer since it was a 32 bit machine, which is 15% of their current users. Win7 is the second most OS, followed by MacOS other as third. Linux is one of many at the bottom in the chart despite it being the default in (almost?) every distro.

Makes me wonder what kind of profile is the common Firefox user. A corporate shop where the IT head insists on Firefox? The browser you install for your parents and tell them to only use this icon? I have seen FF and Chrome on the free computers at my local library.
That assumption is the reason why it's a shady argument for infringement. There's other ways to get a summary of a book than reading it, like asking a friend who's read it to give a summary
> but I was forced to sit through an entire "fitting" with patronising explanation

I have purchased several Apple Watches, iPhones, and other devices and not once have I ever been forced to sit through anything other than an employee going to the back to get what I purchased.
3rd most installs. Windows 11 identifies as windows 10 for reasons.
I see. I don’t agree! The municipalities, national parks, etc, could communicate just as well on their own websites as they do on social media.

As for the Internet as a “gathering place”, I don’t think I can put it better than I did elsewhere in this thread [1]:

> The Internet (or really the Web) is a common area. You tweet something, I write a blog post and embed your tweet in it, Alice emails my post to her friends, Bob writes a post in response and links back to me, Charlie submits Bob’s post to Hacker News or Reddit, David and Eve discuss in the comments, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656088
Looks like everyone enjoys guessing things in non-retail releases, so I'll join in on the fun: my guess it's the same type of deprecation warning you'd normally only get in the system log, but now you get a popup as well. Maybe to nudge developers to not lean on deprecated APIs, maybe for something else we don't know about yet.
The last full release is X11R7.7 from... 2012

If it's a tractor, it's quite an old one. Give me that new tricyle instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8MZuAwNZc
The globe is absolutely nowhere near facing dwindling oil supplies in 2 decades. We won't even hit our proven reserves in that time, and companies frequently spend $ to find more reserves on an as-needed basis. Current usage trajectory of oil is roughly a century. Oil's problem is the CO2 emissions causing climate change.

proven reserves/consumption = 47 years left

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
Neither main/WinMain/wmain/wWinMain are actually the methods called on program launch. Both are preceded by various setup calls (i.e. the CRT in your mainCRTStartup linker flag).

The pre-main runtime doesn't do much, but it does initialize the WinMain parameters in not that a fashion not that dissimilar from your example. You could just do all that work yourself, but really, why should you? On most platforms you can get argc and argv[] through the right system calls and file I/O as well, but it's much easier to have the conventional runtime do all that stuff for you.

WinMain is just a convention (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061204-01/?p=28...) for your C/C++/etc runtime to start executing the code you write. Linux isn't all that different, adding runtime code before the main() method where necessary.
Twitter was a more equitable place when it was brand safe for pharmaceutical companies, and when people could publicly debase themselves and denounce their acquaintences without fear of mockery for aligning to absurd official narratives.

The reasoning appears to be something along the lines of, if you aren't getting your news and commentary from former spies and retired secret policemen, how can you be sure you are not being brainwashed? If you can't believe what our elected representatives tell you in their own words from their own twitter accounts, what else is there to believe? The preponderance of evidence and every recent study shows that your experiences of privilege and problematic beliefs have always been the root cause of human suffering, and unless you awaken to the new reality that you are individually insignificant and your very existence is a burden on the majority of the rest of humanity - and to the existence of the planet itself - not only you are among the Left Behind, but we will make sure your friends, employers, and acquaintences are made afraid to even know your name.

The irony of how these Huxlian "trust and safety teams," suppressed content is that they did it to persuade us that the rest of their nonsense was real. The Internet as a coherent thing hasn't existed since about 2018, it's just another paradigmatic hegemon, which, too, shall pass. It's more probable we weren't all meant to know each other or see each other, because it implies a zero sum power struggle in a false captivity, which trivializes and ignores the infinite vastness of the planet and life on it. Maybe the path to enlightenment really does involve taking more pictures of your butt, however, I think I'm ready to go all in on betting against that.

Social media is dead. The only thing left to do is figure out how to get rid of the smell.
What if that turns out to be completely irrelevant?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I knew absolutely nothing about contract law and was then filmed stealing a book you wrote on the subject from a book store. I then started a business where I would answer questions about contract law, based solely on what I learned from the book. Of course, my memory isn't perfect, but I don't like to admit when I'm wrong, so sometimes I just make stuff up. People line up to pay me anyway.

Now, the owner of the book store you might be able to get me arrested for petty theft. Do you think there is any possibility you, as the author, could successfully litigate a copyright claim against me? I'd argue not. Do you think you could get an injunction enjoining me from engaging in my contract law Q&A business? Again, I think that would be highly unlikely.

It isn't clear to me that any court is going to hold that LLMs are being used to create derivative works, any more than someone who reads a book, whether they paid for it or not, and then speaks or writes about a topic covered by a book they've read has done so. It is entirely possible the IP laws, as they currently exist simply do not cover what LLMs are doing. The laws certainly were not written with this kind of scenario in mind.
The hysteria is of course propagated by those who stand the most to benefit from it.

Keep wasting resources on CI, testing, coding shims for missing OS features, and making releases for the benefit of the 12 people worldwide who depend on the W7+Firefox combination?

There's no need to target specific OS versions. Yes, MS has added new APIs, but the old ones are still there and function perfectly fine; and chances are that the users on W7 are not going to care about any new features anyway, so if Firefox doesn't have the same features when running on W7 vs. a newer version, it doesn't matter.

I have written apps that will run on anything from Win95 to 11. A minimalist web browser happens to be something I've been working on too.

Microsoft's backwards compatibility its is greatest advantage, but only if you take advantage of it.
Definitely agree. The UI workflow is godot doesn’t feel good. Bevy does feel boilerplatey, but it’s so much more intuitive imo.
How dare a non-public early beta build be unfinished and rough around the edges
'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds
Reddit has tons of NSFW stuff. There are plenty of less-moderated platforms available if you choose to engage with them.
Intellectual property monopolies limit access and utilization of ideas and tools to broader society in exchange for privileging a small group worshipped as "the creators".
What's with the clickbait title for the HN post? The article is titled ”Why tires — not tailpipes — are spewing more pollution from your cars”
$3500 device for $0.99 games seems like a waste.

Hopefully the release of the game porting toolkit is a sign they're thinking of gaming beyond the toddler casinos they have on iOS.
There's clearly a lot more variety in sports though. It's probably hard to have a big entry-level outlay for running or even racquet sports though for the latter you'll often benefit from lessons and there can easily be ongoing costs for club memberships and the like. Whereas SCUBA, mountain biking, golf will be significant and we won't even talk about horseback riding, yachting, etc.
Neither Edge nor Chrome support Windows 7, so it's not surprising a lot of Firefox users are on Windows 7 - because the other options are no longer available on Windows 7
> I have been besieged by dialogs, popups, and notifications asking me to give a program access to a file or removable disk or my downloads folder, or "informing" me that a setting has been changed, or that something will run on startup, or most intrusively, in half a dozen cases, preventing a program from working until I open the security preferences and find the "Allow" button.

I grant you, this experience sucks.

Was it better before, when everything had carte blanche to do what it liked without your knowledge/consent? (My intent isn't to lead the witness — I have my preference, but am curious what you think.)
Ask HN: (How much) do you get paid for being on call?
Do you get extra comp for being on call? Do you get extra for responding to incidents out of hours?

Or is it baked into your base comp?

Reason for asking; management is about to start asking folks to be on call. I'm not sure what to ask for or if its normal to not get anything extra.
What's cpanel?
Right, but developers aren't expected to use this to track down the issue.

I'm also a macOS developer - if I saw this I'd just turn on warnings in Xcode, wouldn't you?

The author seems to say something about using this red alert box to 'bisect' their app to figure out what's wrong? Really? Chances are if this is a deprecation issue, they may just get to the start of their app's history... There is plenty of tooling for this in Xcode and the build system. This is just a nag to remind people to use it.

Whether it's working right or not this is meant to nag on ATS and ATSUI which has been deprecated for 13 years.