skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From my knowledge of European history, this is not true.

You will need to elaborate on that.

> Marx also said that there should be a dictatorship of the proletariat, who should seize the means of production.

Which should be temporary, right? Do you have an example where it was actually temporary? That would answer my point above.
FYI: Same link posted 12 hours before this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657950
I had my Packard Bell 486x up until I graduated high school in 2000. I still remember the one summer I mowed every lawn in my mobile home park so I could finally afford to upgrade the modem from the original 2400.

That PC introduced me to BBSs and then the internet. I learned QBASIC and html with that thing. Good times.
I have been using Hugo with markdown for the last couple of weeks and I am happy with it. Although I wish I could paste images to my editor see them. I use a vscode extension that helps but it doesn't hit the spot as instead of an image there is a link even though I have the development preview running. I feel more write-y in notion compared to plaim markdown if that makes any sense.

I don't want to have a full Notion CMS but I do like the Notion UI a lot. Maybe I should look into the Notion integration stuff.

Shoutout to goatcounter, if you are looking for a cool web analytics solutiom.
Hmm, I like mutation testing, and have found it very useful, but I don't know if it feels any different with this technique as it does with traditional assertion tests. Perhaps one difference is that, when you find a hole in your test coverage, it's easier to fill it in when tests are easier to write.

One thing that is a little different is that this type of testing makes it easier to write "counterfactual" tests, which are sort of similar: you observe the behavior of a function with input A, and then you make an interesting tweak to the input to get input B, and you can see how the output changes (you can even print the diff between the two outputs in your test). This is useful for ensuring that a test is actually testing exactly the thing that you want it to test -- if you have a test that "X fails validation when Y is Z," you can ensure that the only difference between a failing and a passing X is the value of Y, whereas if you only test that "X with Y=Z fails," you won't be totally confident that the failure is due to Y or due to some other newly introduced E. I think that the ability to print diffs between inputs and outputs makes this kind of REPL test a lot easier to read and write in this case.
It's sad that are multiple retorts about "lottery winners." Apparently, just on HN, we have about 25 lottery winners. Quite the coincidence!

(cloudflare, shopify, databricks, coinbase, stripe, openai, freshworks, gitlab, dropbox, hashicorp, amplitude, vercel, plaid, hubspot, quip, notion, twilio, etc)
> Tech is to make life easier, not harder.

Yes, and on top of that a blog is made to post articles, not to spend days tinkering on. Some people just like to make their life complicated to be able to brag about how hard it is.
Original Twitter, updating from SMS was referred to as the "realtime web".

The fact that someone could share some news immediately from sms (hence the length limitation) before smartphones were common place was a genuine novelty.
I am not sure where you're getting your information from, but you're not a lawyer, so you shouldn't be so confident in telling people what things are fine legally.

Whether people have been sued for downloading works they don't have the right to copy onto their machines is irrelevant to whether it is actually illegal. And it certainly has nothing to do with fair use, which is about copyrighted works that you actually do have some right to.

IANAL so I'm not going to tell anyone what does and what does not constitute fair use in what jurisdictions.

BTW people are being sued for distribution because they make great examples because their offenses and thus the damages are much greater.
>Marketing isn't a sin. It's necessary.

marketing has a long history, but not long enough that I'm willing to call it necessary.

air & water is necessary, food is necessary.

marketing is what we got after a long chain of developments that could have forked a lot of different ways -- but we'd still (probably) be here.
Add sandboxed Android layer for apps compatibility and it would be next to perfect.
It took me about two decades to settle on a personal website stack. It started off as a Classic ASP website back in 2001 but I eventually moved to Common Lisp.

A Common Lisp program generates static HTML files from handwritten HTML content. The website has minimal dynamic elements in the form of comment and subscriber forms, implemented using Common Lisp + Hunchentoot. All content is written in simple HTML, facilitated by Emacs' HTML+ mode. The CSS is basic, offering support for light and dark modes. I host the website on a virtual private server (VPS) running Debian and Nginx. The CSS and HTML layout change very rarely, so it allows me to focus on content.

This stack has proven to be stable and cost-effective, with the server handling low traffic of 1 request every 5-10 seconds or so on normal days. During occasional spikes, like when a page reaches the front page of HN, the traffic increases to about 10-20 requests per second but this is still a piece of cake for the $5/month VPS the website is running on.

"Analytics" is just a handful of make targets in a Makefile that invokes commands like zgrep, sort, uniq, etc. to filter the access logs and show me which posts are getting the most hits, which days are the busiest, etc. That's all. I'm quite happy with this stack and I think this will serve me well for the next few decades.
I think a reasonable interpretation is also that what you are saying is correct, that doing all that does indeed infringe others' copyright, but that a fair use defense is valid.

I won't be particularly thrilled if that turns out to be the case, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does.

But as you say, we won't know until it's tested in court. And even then, often court cases around a complex topic like this will end up with a ruling that only clarifies a narrow aspect of it. So it might take many related court cases before we have a pretty good understanding of where the law stands. And then, of course, the law could change.
While a lot of people will state those are appropriate goals, they are not. They’re really dumb goals. The model being equally bad for each group is not an indicator that you have achieved anything. Most likely you’ve just made your model for white people worse.

Like, let’s look at that for credit decisions. Black folks have a lower income distribution. So it’s like saying the model is ok if it rejects a Black applicant making 80k if it would also reject a White candidate making 100k. That is the insane bullshit you’re effectively supporting by desiring comparable error distributions.

You have to accept that equal outcomes are not just impossible but not desirable. And then you only use fields that people agree are fair to use. If Black people get disproportionately better or worse outcomes it is either because those outcomes make sense given their stats or it’s not ok because if a White dude had the same info, that you agree is fair to use, they would have passed and the underlying reason for the difference is some bullshit other input.

That might mean that the model is a dumb: you must make $100k for this loan (illustrative) which is going to mean a lot of Black folks cannot get it. Well that model is at least “fair”. Accommodations for race should not be coming from an AI model
I worked Apple Retail many many moons ago. The senior manager once told me (manager -> senior manager -> store leader)

“Your job is not to sell products, we could put all this inventory out there on a pallet with a credit card swiper and sell all of them. Your job is to sell attachments, primarily Apple Care”.

Seriously, sales volume was a footnote. You are entirely judged on your attach rate for whatever it is corporate/your market is pushing, they start you part time and the only way up is to attach attach attach. No one wants to “just sell you a phone” because they know you’ll never get Apple Care and for every one of you they need to sell 4 other people on AC to get their numbers back up.

Another fun note: At the time Apple Store revenue $/sq ft beat out jewelry stores.

Great gig as a high school kid, made decent cash and a bunch of people used their tuition assistance. A large number of their employees though are what I call “retail lifers”, 25-30 year olds who are way in debt from a degree that didn’t work out or washed out of the corporate world and landed back in retail. They really don’t like younger employees who are actually going somewhere/realize it’s a temporary gig for kids and not a real career. Lots of alcoholism and drug abuse in that group.
> hint: you'll get a syntax error

No. You won't. You didn't even try it, did you.

Read the documentation, use inline variables, and be happy.
Why did you become a developer? Why do you want to be a manager? Why do you object to working for someone younger? Do you object to working for women? What about people from other countries? And if you become a manager and one of your younger reports is promoted to a higher position than you? All of these things can and will happen. As a retired manager, who had managers far younger than some of their staff members, and developers with 40+ years of experience, I have some trouble relating to your perspective.
> Do serious companies not have canaries or other checks in place to ensure their notifications are correctly delivered to customers?

Even with a canary, you have no guarantee that a particular customer will receive your email. In this case, maximum CYA is a certified letter sent return receipt requested. There are services out there to mass mail those.
English subs from the video:

20 years ago, I was advocating for JavaScript.

My story was that JavaScript is a much
better language than anybody knows

and that if we use it properly we can do amazing
things about it and it can change the world

and in fact that happened.

But now my evangel is that

we should stop using JavaScript.

That it has so many congenital defects
it really is a smelly language.

There's a just a lot of crap in it.

And it's still maybe for its field of application

the best language in the world
for doing that kind of stuff

but that's not good enough.

We should be moving on to the
next generation of languages.

It used to be that we'd get new computer
languages about every generation.

I started with Fortran and then C and

C++ and Java and JavaScript and
so on and then it kind of stopped.

There are still people developing
languages but nobody cares.

One person can make a programming
language, a really good one,

but you can't get adoption for it.

There are lots of terrible mistakes
in the way that the web works,

in the way our operating systems
work, and we can't get new ones.

We're just stuck with this crap and they
keep piling new features on everything

and the new features always
create new problems and

it doesn't have to be like that. We could
be using really clean operating systems

with really clean languages and really
clean runtimes and doing all this stuff

in a much more reliable way.

But we don't seem to want to do that.

I've done JavaScript for a generation.

It's time for the next thing.
They don't want a customer, they want a cult member.
I've been looking for this as well (edit: meaning I want HTTP traffic info without running my own server). The closest I've found so far (for low traffic sites) is NearlyFreeSpeech.net, which provides HTTP logs. It's cheap, but not free (edit: roughly $2/month--and I think you can go even lower for a single personal site).
Anything stopping us from throwing a mini pcie version of this modem into a laptop and using it as a speaker phone?
FluidStack, Lambda and Runpod. Also have used HuggingFace to upgrade spaces to GPU instances but haven't done that in a while
Have you violated the e2e argument in your sytems' designs? [pdf]
The e2e argument was key to internet design. But we regularly (and actively) violated it in design of largescale systems at AWS infrastructure--most of the times with great results. The key difference here is that the cloud owns many (but not all) pieces in the e2e systems puzzle. Do we need another paper that rewrites the e2e argument in light of cloud infrastructures?

Would someone like to work with me on writing it?
Even if all three emails were properly delivered, that is not sufficient notice for a storage service. Why is there not also a reminder on the dashboard?

A financial service I use was recently purchased by another. The company has been aggressive in keeping me on the loop about what is upcoming. Maybe six months before the actual event a heads up. Again at two months. Then at one month. Then every week, along with countdowns to the deadline. "Are you ready? This is really happening. Here are relevant docs on how to ensure your transition goes smoothly."
> And yet TOPS-10 was fairly advanced back in the sixties.

first release 1970, according to wikipedia.

> It's fairly hard nowadays to find 36 bits machines still running,

true. one of our system programmers looked at buying our Dec10 but power supply and cooling problems defeated him - it was eventually sold for scrap.
Yes, I mean I wish Claude-100k had GPT-4 level intelligence, I missed GPT-4's intelligence
While there may be some, the most notable ones seem to hide behind the veil of “proprietary training data” but assuming the data is open, the method to generate the model must also be reproducible, thus the toolchain need to be open too. I don’t think there is a lot of incentive to do this.
If you want to get existential, why should Mozilla support users on any non-free platform? I imagine they're able to justify Windows because of the huge user base justified the additional engineering effort. The blog uses "we're the only browser still supporting Windows 7" as an excuse to stop supporting it, but to me that same sentence is also an opportunity and maybe even a moral argument to keep supporting older hardware/software. If for-profit entities won't do it and Mozilla is all that's left, what happens to those users when Mozilla backs out?

This may or may not be relevant with Windows 7, but I think the size of the user base is only loosely linked to the official software EOL. I still use an older MacOS release because software and hardware I depend on don't support newer revisions. Coincidentally Mozilla also just announced ending support for older MacOS versions. It almost seems like they're trying to divert eng resources from browsers to their other projects. Mozilla's strategy is super perplexing to me.
Another vote for Hugo from me, except I use GitHub Actions to handle deployments: both on merge and scheduled so we can forward-date posts and not have to remember to publish them.
> Satellite telecommunication is greatly improving life on earth. Astrophysics, not so much.

Hard disagree for me. Astrophysics have previously confirmed some radical scientific theories that eventually gave rise to technology today such as Einstein’s General Relativity.

Starlink has done nothing for me.
> But if Silverman's book is in there

It is:

$ grep -i "Sarah Silverman" books3.list.txt
325196 books3/the-eye.eu/public/Books/Bibliotik/T/The Bedwetter - Sarah Silverman.epub.txt

Anyone that just wants to see the list of files (itself a big file):
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Q726kbXuN/e4e9919a2f5d81f...
No. Billionaires are a result of avoidable taxation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance

Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality . There are lots of countries there with a very high standard of living AND a low economic inequality, mostly in Europe.
Well and later they admit:

> So, all in all, I’m paying almost 400 euros per year to host a personal blog.

Seems...a bit much. But what do I know? I've just been using Jekyll since 2013. For a long time now Github has had first-class support for Jekyll and so I haven't even had to mess with Ruby for many years now, I usually just edit it online in the Github UI. I pay $0 a year for this service so my only cost is DNS.
Scientists show way to mitigate extreme weather events
All valid points! Thank you!

We were initially completely backend-less; but then it increasingly became apparent that a central orchestrator is unavoidable.

Rationale here: https://diggerdev.notion.site/Why-digger-introduces-an-orche...

In hindsight, it makes sense that literally every single other tool in the space has a central backend that orchestrates jobs. There's a good reason for that.

To address security / access concerns, you can either self-host the orchestrator, or use OIDC, or both
No, we still use Mole wrenches over here!
FWIW, scammers at Apple usually buy Apple Care/all the attachments.

They know the employee is judged on that and is incentivized to make the transaction glide through.
No system has managed to reach the point where it could be called "pure communism", because it was "interrupted" in the middle (e.g. by becoming authoritarian).

Saying "communism fundamentally cannot work because I know examples that did not work" is similar to saying "democracy fundamentally cannot work, look: Hitler was democratically elected".
If you are making a commercial product I think not. Or do you mean educational as in educating the AI itself?
Interesting that renren died long time ago. Wondering if anyone could post an analysis of that
Try looking into rates of homelessness - including "couch surfing" and other temporary forms - vs cost of living vs rates of employment and pay.

It doesn't always show up in the form of divorces.
Also, if you're poor enough (say : on disability or welfare) - government rules may make getting married very penalty-high. Or even revealing one has a relationship. (my own Canada has this problem, for instance, as do some states).

As for "rich people" ... there are other factors, and see also "demands of time" not just money. I've met very few rich people who had time that was not in constant demand.
The problem was never any site architecture issues.

No one used Voat because it was a link aggregator for shrieking hatred and people uncivil enough to get banned from any platform with etiquette rules.
Most non computer purchases like AirTags can be self serve. You grab a box off the shelf, scan it with the app, Apple Pay and walk out. No person necessary. Works on everything without a unique serial.
In this case the correct analogy would be you brought a stolen painting into your house, looked at it for a while, and then produced your derivative work.

Surely you see the issue here? Receiving stolen property?
The set of weights you listed cannot do 85lbs or 90lbs since nothing adds up to 20 or 22.5. Your notebook shows this. Easily rectified by adding in another pair of 10lb plates.
> If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement.

Suppose I buy a copy of a book, but then I spill my drink in it and it's ruined. If I go to the library, borrow the same book and make a photocopy of it to replace the damaged one I own, that might be fair use. Let's say for sake of argument that it is.

If instead I got the replacement copy from a piracy website, are you sure that's different?
There is for instance a KMP module which relies on OkHTTP on Android and wraps NSURLSession on iOS - while exposing a common interface in Kotlin. The name escapes me at the moment. No reason you can't do that with Rust, but there's no reason to do that either, in my opinion. I agree that this probably isn't the right boundary at which to do your code sharing.

On the other hand your shared code can parse or generate data and pass it to/obtain it from a platform specific networking layer.
Ghost is ridiculously good out of the box. Part of that comes from the opinionated stack it demands - support for only one database server, very specific and minimal config options.

I self-host Ghost and Plausible Analytics (along with several other services,) on an Unraid box at home, fronted by Cloudflare, and it holds up well to load. Costs next to nothing, too, since it inherits hand-me-down parts from my main desktop PC.
But GPU-based training of models is inherently non-deterministic
To get 20, you just use the 25 and put the 5 on the other end.
I think part of my comment was broadly about their softly-softly approach to hard selling not actually working at all when someone simply walks in and says "I'd like to buy this right now"
For a $4/month VPS I can install wordpress and it worked like a charm. I own all my contents and can migrate them to anywhere at will whenever I feel like it.

replace wordpress with whatever open source blogging software you like.
Not saying these are good, but I imagine opening Console and looking at the error logs may shed some light on what is happening here.
This says in description that original product is by Mantle and Co from 1920s.
Windows 7, what a cozy time to be a developer. The runway is long and your code will run forever...
It's weekend and I assume people designated to answer questions on forums do not work 24/7.

It could be them not sending notification about it early enough or at all, it could be that note being stuck in spam or something, it could be person complaining not reading the e-mails.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions here
It's a dependency, and unless you're going to devote resources into testing and proving that support on your own, it doesn't make sense to extend it past what the dependency's support lifecycle is.

Which is why most places are dropping W7 this year. Microsoft's last extended security update was this year. The age is kind of irrelevant, if Microsoft wanted to support it for another 5 years, then places like Mozilla would continue as long as people used it.
This is awesome, I have been wishing for this for some time and realized it is a bit non-trivial to put into an app, but if you did, I would pay for it, maybe $50/year?
"The transformative use concept arose from a 1994 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, the Court focused not only on the small quantity taken from the copyrighted work but also on the transformative nature of the defendant’s use. The case concerned a song by the group 2 Live Crew entitled "Pretty Woman," which, according to an affidavit, was meant to "through comical lyrics, satirize the original work." The original work was a rock ballad entitled "Oh, Pretty Woman." The Court was persuaded that no infringement occurred because the defendant added a new meaning and message rather than simply superseding the original work."

So if it is satire, or uses an insignificant piece of the work within a larger work with a different aim or purpose, that's "transformative use," which is something that can be considered when determining "fair use."

LLMs are not satirists commenting on the work, are ingesting the entire work, and are unlimited in the purposes that the work can be put to.
You can even 3D print one: https://www.printables.com/model/180109-fractal-vise
Don't forget that solar and wind today are still heavily relying on fossil fuels. So they get better in a world where we have abundant fossil fuels. And still their contribution today to our energy needs is marginal.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that copyright law typically regulates the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, public display, or creation of derivative works of copyrighted materials. Possession of copyrighted material in itself is not illegal. It's how you use that material that could potentially violate copyright laws.
Now that the world is starting to transition to Globalization Minus, we can focus as a country on the great many problems that we turned a blind eye to in our own backyard.

We have a lot of problems that are hard but fixable. There's always room for more jobs. Americans are begging for leaders leaders with solutions and to inspire them into service.

The decade of American Self Loathing is over.