skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a mystery to me.

It doesn’t surprise me. The skillset to maintain/build/etc this project and the marketing skillset rarely overlap. Personally I hate working on the public-facing aspect of my side business even though I know it’s probably just as important if not more so than the technical aspect. Doesn’t matter how good something is if people don’t know about it.

Open source regularly suffers from this and I’m always very impressed when I see a project with good technical _and_ marketing chops.
They also carry long overvalued leases on their books at a time commercial real estate is in the dumps still.
Some of my friends have been climbing hard into Commercial REITS now for a few years, hoping for that big upswing in office work to boost them.
Did they actually buy buildings? I thought they just took long term leases from owners and sold short term to their customers? I once read an article saying that for all the tech bs, weworks was basically just a (at the well timed) commercial rent play: fix low rent and then charge rising rents as the market goes up.

I might be wrong though?

I remember thinking it was like a bank (exposed to time risk) but with property...
One of my current hobby projects is a scripting language which compiles to POSIX sh (for maximum portability). However, it's far from complete, the output is not exactly readable and POSIX sh is so limited that I might need to change course and target something else.

EDIT: I didn't know of Bish, but from its code samples we seem to have converged on similar syntax :)
It’s better than your last one, hunter2
With CLOUD and AI happily in the descriptions, with no private desktop version, and your email to sign up, please.
That completely depends on your use case.

Want to have it collecting dust in a museum? Sure, you're going to want the original. Nobody is interested in an FPGA for that.

Want to actually use it? If an FPGA is close enough that it is literally impossible to tell the difference in a black box comparison, for all intents and purposes it is the original. Emulation simply isn't accurate enough for that, but FPGAs can be 100% cycle-accurate. And this means you don't need to risk wear or damage on your genuine C64 just to experience what it is like to use a C64.
AMD’s hardware is essentially irrelevant for non-gaming applications because the software stack isn’t there. Unfortunately same goes for just about everyone BUT NVIDIA. It’s a situation that could be fixed, but it would require cooperative investment from, well, the rest of the semiconductor industry.
As the article stated, there is nothing either legally or morally wrong with what the site did, and many authors found it useful. Let us know when you come up with an actual counterargument based on reason instead of an appeal to emotion fallacy.
In the victim process, the following instructions leak information towards the attacker (because they share internal hidden buffers with the gather instructions executed by the attacker) (the following are quoted from the paper):

• SIMD read. All SIMD operations that read wide data (128/256/512 bits) from memory are affected regardless of their function: e.g., vmov* only read, vpxor* read and compute the xor. These general-purpose instructions are used everywhere, e.g., compilers spread wide data reads to optimize memory access routines.

• SIMD write. The only SIMD write operations that are affected are the compress ((v)(vp)compress*) instructions.

• Cryptographic extensions. Cryptographic extensions, including AES-NI and SHA-NI (SHA1 and SHA256), when accepting a memory operand, are affected. Data leaks from these instructions expose plaintext data and the secret key, e.g., AES or HMAC-SHA.

• Fast memory copy. Fast memory copies of various data types: byte, word, dword, qword using rep movs* instructions are affected. These are widely used to speed up common memory operations such as memcpy and memove.

• Register context restore. Special instructions to more efficiently store/restore the register context (e.g., xsave/xrstor) are affected. GDS leaks the register context of both standard registers due to xsave/xrstor and wide registers due to fxsave/fxrstor.

• Direct store The direct store is affected. Intel has recently added support for a direct store instruction that can copy a 64 bytes cache line from a source to a destination address.
Still $25B more in green than Uber!
Hmm, I get your point but I think it's much closer than Wondermind.

- Layout that uses the full width of the page.
- The page is primarily made up of blocks that occupy a single column or two columns.
- Large blocks of a primary color
- The font used for the logos are quite similar. Not sure what it's called, but they're both some sort of chunky and playful sans with some oversized and/or geometric elements.
- Decorative coins featured prominently (G) ($)
- Cartoony graphics with a hand-drawn feeling to them.
- Graphics poke out of the grid in many places.
- Similar navbars

Each point by itself is hardly surprising, most landing pages have some of them, but taken together it seemed like a lot to me :)

Either way, great work and I'd love to try it on my next project <3
> the underrated Blast Corps

That's putting it mildly. BC was a fantastically frustrating combination of big explosions, annoying puzzles, time pressure, and complete silliness.
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Unfortunately it seems majority of HN clings on "AI is fair use!" the same way GIFs (of movie and TV snippets) are "perceived to be fair use" (but is simply not fair use in most cases).
It's not just government regulations. It's also a functioning judiciary and legal system where individuals can sue corporations and win.

As a random example where a non-functioning judiciary resulted in a catastrophe, take a look at the 2020 Beirut port explosion, which a lot of people saw coming a mile off, but were unable to do anything about because of inept and corrupt judges that couldn't make a decision.
The process that is motivated by profits. Here’s the thing. It not only got approved but it almost certainly got some people promoted.
“That book’s vividness score (TM) is 75% opposed to that other book’s vividness score (TM) which is only 50%! That’s, like, a 50% higher culture score (TM)!”
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Milk sad is ok.

“Wage cup reward” is almost poetry …
okay yeah, i see your point. I've only read The Fountainhead, which seemed in many regards to be pro "labour" and opposed to bureaucracy and corruption. so I'm not sure yet that rand was opposed to the purported function of unions or the manifestation of them. But indeed anarchy is completely out the window
The purpose of users is to provide data for the websites key stakeholders which are organisations buying data and occasionally advertising space.

The design of every major website and platform is to maximise the collection of data. I would say that the designers, developers and other have been remarkably successful in these endeavours.

For websites trying to sell goods and services the situation is no better. They have no interest in users other than to sell their products.

I cannot remember the last time I visited a website that had any focus on the user and their actual needs and aspirations. As a community of designers and developers I think we have forgotten how to do that.

But who can blame the websites. They need to generate profits and users (other than HN readers) are happy to pay with data.

I am disappointed when I pay money and still the primary objective of the user experience is data collection but what can I do.
You are right, its the timer that threw me off.
There is no “AI” in the project. It literally just seems to do Bayesian sentiment analysis of books. It does NOT then mine that data to score OTHER books. Please actually read the article next time before commenting
It's not even about tracking, sessions are perfectly cromulent under GDPR without popups. It's only if you start tracking users without any other purpose than marketing/spamming when GDPR steps in and demands you ask the user for a permission.

Unfortuantely over 99% of websites just want to sell your data because they see it as "free" extra income.
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I don't know that for a parallel/serial/rtc chip you would really see any difference. I can see your point for some of the harder to emulate parts like the SID.
The article cites the Google vs Authors Guild case (https://www.techdirt.com/2013/11/14/google-gets-total-victor...) which was a total victory for Google. This seems fairly conclusive that the textual analysis here is fair use to me.

> Similarly, Google Books is also transformative in the sense that it has transformed book text into data for purposes of substantive research, including data mining and text mining in new areas, thereby opening up new fields of research. Words in books are being used in a way they have not been used before. Google Books has created something new in the use of book text — the frequency of words and trends in their usage provide substantive information.

Furthermore, is this actually AI training? This just looks like stats based on heuristics to me, I.e., garden variety sentiment analysis.
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As a CPU engineer, I can say that spectre highlighted channels of information escape that weren't previously considered as vulnerable. That's why it kicked off a new batch of exploits. There was a new idea at the heart of it and others built on that idea.

It's also important to say that these are not bugs. The design is behaving as intentioned. That the performance differs based off the previous code that the CPU has executed was understood and deameed acceptable because the cost of the alternative was considered too high (either in power, performance or area) than the alternative. That's what it means to be an engineer. You weigh up alternatives and make a choice.

In this case, CPUs became fast enough that the fractional part of a bit per iteration became high enough bandwidth to be exploitable, but it needed someone to demonstrate it for it to be understood in the industry. That changed the engineering decision.
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Why it wouldn't be? Indexing is fair use. I think where it gets murky with fair use would be if AI could actually plagiarize the book, but other than that, it should be fair use.
Hence the archive records of their yearly audit dating back to their founding year.
> and he's been proven right despite the obstacles he himself foresaw

I wouldn't trust anybody to be right about the benefits of something this big if they don't also foresee the obstacles you'll face to realise those benefits.
You can't trust anything you have not built, incl. your laptop, keyboard, mouse, phone, car, even your teabag (what happens if they're randomly drugging your tea to test some pathogens, with a request from your government).

Even if you have built that thing, you can't trust any semi-capable chip to not log, change, or exfiltrate data in any way possible.

So, the hole has no bottom.
Well... We still can not agree if...

Technology has to be protected from dumb people, or is it worth protecting dumb people from technology....
Should have happened in 2021 but our "brightest VC minds" thought it would be a good idea to burn even more "free" money on this pit.

To be fair, WeWork is just another roll of the dice company from the Uber era of free money. Let's pump it up and become too-big-to-fail! It appears WeWork wasn't big enough..

And they can blame COVID all they want, but the business model was already showing sights of failure before 2020. Yes, COVID accelerated this but it was not the cause.
> Am an artist

You're one, you're not "all artists"

> And in general, artists of yesteryear were either already rich

Very much a false statement, I can make a never ending list of artists that were born, lived and died as poor man. Van Gogh is one of them (just to make an example)

> or you were painting because a person with more riches than you have paid you to paint

there were plenty of painters that didn't focus on doing portrait of rich people or, for that matter, they weren't painting humans at all.

I don't understand your point, probably you never actually enjoyed art or entered a museum to make this empty arguments.

Or maybe, more likely, you're like many HN commentators that like to write a long empty message for the sake of arguing because you like doing that rather than understanding the comment.

unless you've data that demonstrate what you just said, is simply not true. Just because you have a few anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything.
Honestly, this is the really offensive part of the article. Who cares about whether or not it's legal, the idea that it's, in any way, shape, or form, useful is bafflingly laughable.

Not everything can be meaningfully quantified. Not everything needs to be.
But you have to enable the whole thing right?

I like some of the settings of lockdown mode, and I wish you could enable them one by one. Enabling the entire lockdown mode is a bit too much
I honestly don't understand how people can refuse the idea of that some parts most certainly can be reviewed with the help of a computer. There wasn't a "how good is this book" score because a computer might not be able to tell that yet, I don't understand the issue in looking at the number of adverbs in a book with the help of a computer.
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cycle.travel’s Android app is in beta testing at the moment - it should be ready at the end of the month, and that’s exactly its UI. (My app and I’ve been doing things with OSM for 18.75 of those 19 years!)
Spoke to a few traditional office sales people and asked them about WeWork.

All of them said the WeWork model was never going to work. WeWork caters to startups/small companies and individuals. This group of customers has the least amount of money to spend and is the most unstable. In addition, WeWork's average floor plan has way too much space not being used for desks.

Contrast WeWork with a traditional office real estate company such as Regus. Traditional offices use nearly every inch of the floor plan for desks. They cater to profitable businesses or build custom floor plans for large corporates. The $/space and stability of these profitable businesses is what makes Regus profitable while WeWork never made any money.

Anyways, I'm sad to see WeWork go. They converted VC money to nice offices affordable to startups and individuals. That era is ending now.
Up front, I believe Mullvad is the best commercial VPN solution and is doing a great job at making good privacy more accessible.

However, a lot of the comments here seem to be hailing VPNs in general as the solution to privacy on the internet.

I would like to remind people that VPNs only really protect you against two things: your ISP and the endpoint. And that's assuming that your ISP isn't doing some shady analytics.

That being said, knocking those two things off the board is a huge benefit to privacy and absolutely should be done.
> and slower.

I like to write posix sh scripts for the sake of portability and, funnily enough, future proofing as I don't like having to maintain stuff against changes that break compatibility, which is something bash does (archlinux is still on an older bash even though debian stable has the latest, because bash 5.2 broke some of archlinux's own scripts. This is why you should not write bash scripts.), but bash being slow isn't one of the good reasons. If your scripts do that much work that your shell's speed matters, you should reconsider writing shell scripts and start thinking about using something like perl, python or ruby. I'd suggest perl, if only because unlike the latter, perl doesn't constantly pull the rug under you and make you do busy work to make sure your scripts work on the latest runtimes.
Indexing doesn't replace the book, it's just a different way to read it. The index is useless without the book itself.
It isn't a criminal offence. It's a civil penalty that can be levied if they require you to register and you don't.

The legislative text (it's an amending regulation—think a diff—but the underlying statute hasn't been updated on Legislation.gov.uk yet) is here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/en/uksi/2013/3198/regulation/...

The Electoral Commission's guidance - https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/running-electoral-reg...

I can't find any reports of people actually receiving the penalty. It'd certainly be useful if the Electoral Commission collected these statistics, but they don't. It seems fairly rare, and it's likely to be one of those things that's there to encourage people to register to vote rather than something to be actively enforced.

I'd also note that given there is a requirement for an in-person home visit to encourage registration before service a formal notice, it's pretty likely that COVID restrictions and guidance meant quite a lot of the home visits didn't happen over the last few years.
One more number to put these in perspective:

- Adam Neumann's exit package $445 million
Reminds me of Matt Levine's fantastic Moviepass article

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-07/moviep...
Like sending logs over the network?

It's quite common for servers to boot from the network and have no disk, and have application logs actually sent to a log server via http/udp [0].

[0] For example: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.0/Data/HECE...
I mean it's not preposterous to hold the "soft" conspiracy view here. All cause excess mortality is up like 8-10% compared to pre-covid. There are powerful economic and political incentives to not attribute that to covid, even if it is the cause.

And the conclusion he's drawing can't be dismissed after merely one year, we'll see what's up after a decade of infections. We're still very early in this shit actually and caution is warranted confidence is not.
Thought experiment: build your own VPN company that doesn't log anything and try to convince people like you that you don't do any logging
Thanks, that's exactly what I've said, and is missing from the article.
Indeed, we all do! I don't think there is a single extent human population without some archaic admixture. If you're interested in further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_...
VPNs are for escaping private adtech firms, not governments. I don't know where you got this impression from.
> And you would get the empirical MOND relation in galaxy dynamics. But it's certianly not a MONDian theory in spirit. There is no modified gravity to be seen here.

There is no such thing as "purity" in physics. The whole reason most people work on MOND is because it provides a simple effective theory for not only describing observations with fewer parameters than cold dark matter, but predicting them more effectively. Every MONDian paper I've read has effectively been saying, "stop ignoring this obvious relation in preference to unnecessarily complicated and ad-hoc DM that provides no predictive power". If a superfluid or other dark matter theory derived MONDian dynamics, then pretty much everyone would be happy with that.
The fans know Star Wars far better than George Lucas.
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> I don't want China to get to the south pole first with humans and then say this is ours, stay out

I suspect that the very act of saying this only contributes to increasing the zero-sum space race mindset.
> Comparing "JPEG - 20.7 kB" to "AVIF - 18.2 kB" is an enlightening like-vs-like size comparison.

You can't extrapolate that comparison to higher bitrates though - so unless your use case doesn't require preserving image detail (i.e. the images might as well not be there), both formats are inadequate at that size.
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Pretty cool but do you store any sensitive information in there? Do you trust Microsoft?
I don't see much of a difference between trying to keep replaceable jobs and making up useless jobs all together. In the future, government might need to provide jobs for people who cannot get one on the market, but should be something more useful than walking around on a set.
What do you even mean by this comment? Have you considered the possibility that people are smart in ways that you are not considering, rather than just labeling it “dumb”?
> Not everything can be meaningfully quantified. Not everything needs to be.

Ok, so who decides what's OK to analyze or not? Is there some obvious moral line I fail to see, that everyone would immediately agree on?

It seems the project was about analyzing books, not about producing new books. How is that hurting the authors?
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Is the problem that plutonium doesn't look particularly scary on its own? It's just a chunk of gray metal. It's not fuming, it's not warm (I assume), it's not glowing, it's not particularly ugly, it's not a bright color. Very few people have experienced radiation poisoning and have a visceral understanding of the horror involved. None of our self-preservation instincts understand the danger.
Apparently East Asians have more neanderthal DNA than Europeans so I'm not sure the region of initial discovery really matter that much. Also Neanderthal 1 is 40000 years old, your family may have arrived in the region even a 1000 years ago and be completely unrelated to it.
In the early 2000: you weren’t a “bad person” if you ignored the news. Nobody cared.

Now if you ignore the news you’re assumed to be some form of social pariah.
I think Google Books is cool, but "the frequency of words and trends in their usage provid[ing] substantive information" pre-dates Google Books by a long time. For example, there's a collection of word frequencies in the complete works of John Keats from 1917 [1]. Manually tabulated, too!

[1] https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023999