skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From what I’ve heard, embedded and industrial control software is worse still.

Avionics software is not like this at all. There's a reason you never hear about software failures in airplanes. (Before some wise-ass says something about the Boeing MCAS in the 737MAX, that wasn't a software failure. The software worked perfectly, flying the planes into the ground exactly was it was designed to do by the systems engineers and corporate executives who conceived of MCAS and thought it'd be a great idea to take input from a single sensor.)

Industrial control software is pretty bad though.
I had skimmed it when the torrentfreak article was posted, I didn't notice any mention of a DMCA claim in it but as I had skimmed it I wasn't confident.

Whether they sent a DMCA takedown request is what I see as key, not what reason they can give for not sending one. If their concern was piracy, they would take the cheap and easy option. This means they picked this battle, not the IA.
Having coded in both Python and Java I have to agree with your assessment. The things that people criticise Java for tend to be things that make sense when thinking about scripting or small programs, but as things scale up, being pedantic can be a benefit. I'd rather inherit 100k lines of Java than Python, that's for sure.
There are fairly old takes on that idea. For example, the evolutionary algorithm community knew the relevance of using steps size drawn from a Cauchy distribution, for example "Evolutionary Programming Made Faster", Xin Yao et al., 1999.
High school debate is sort of this way. The judges are former debaters, and so the rules/tactics evolve until it wouldn't be recognizable to outsiders, or likely the originators of the format/activity. For example, extreme speed reading is table stakes.
The anonymous insider report linked within this article demonstrates that the financial issues ailing WVU are very specific to WVU and that other universities in its class are doing fine by comparison.
The donations have been a central part of the story since day one.

Are you suggesting that They made him leak a witness’s diary so they could arrest him for witness tampering?

Sad to see this conspiracy stuff leaking into HN. Unfortunately I need to make fun of this wildly misinformed cruft to help prevent it taking root here.
Are you aware of the human concept of a donation? What about a gift?
Stop the proxy wars, end the war. No amount of money will give Ukraine what they need to end.
Some learning is for necessity, rather than for its own enjoyment.
RegEx Guided LLM Generation
Maybe there’s a proscribed version
Called a right in the US, but when it happens somewhere else, particularly in developing nations, it's called bribery and the govt and politicians called corrupt.
I know a lot. Her parents are quite well connected and used their child because it works well in the media.

Children want to please their parents and mimic their views. It's not a great idea to push young children into the media spotlight. It rarely turns out well for the child.
LOL no. We're not stapling positive rights and duties onto the back of the constitution
are you using "nark" correctly? I've always thought that meant annoyed.
> FWIW: Clark Howard, a finance guy I highly regard, predicts that the 4th quarter will see a softening of the economy.

Highly regarded finance guys aren't podcasters or media personalities. If the guy could predict the direction of the economy, he'd be a trillionaire living his best life. Not peddling silly books and hosting podcasts. But then again, jim cramer has a following. How do explain that other than the masses are naive.

> His reasoning is that the regional banks are being extremely tight with lending right now, and by the fourth quarter many small/medium businesses will have trouble staying afloat due to the lack of financing.

He is just parroting nonsense he saw on cnbc or read in a newspaper or on social media. Just like every grifter out there. Do you really think he has inside connections to all the regional banks? To the FED?
Inspiring Yourself – and Your Team
It's crazy unlikely given their sizes and endowments, but I am scared of Texas and Florida public universities pulling the same crap for the same reasons.
Nobody knows what Agile is so it must be art.
Only if you have inflated expectations for lvl1 support that aren’t met by any organisation in existance noting that we can’t see what the question the reddit poster asked support actually was. Just ‘asked for clarification’.
> Politicians should be made to pay out of their own pockets or have an insurance for this type of situation.

Why stop at politicians, though? Shouldn't everyone who accepts large sums of money be held accountable if it turns out the money was stolen? At least to some degree?
It's not my ideology! It was an example just chill down instead of implying things that I never said
China’s economic data misses expectations
> Just because one direction on the gradient means that we respond in a way that looks like a narcotic does not mean that the other direction will respond in the opposite manner.

that's literally what this study is about! this study is about how replacing nitrogen with helium decreased reaction time in human participants by over 9%.
What is the advantage of robot taxis? I mean seriously just take jobs away from a human and concentrate more wealth in mega corporations ?
“Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it”
For some additional context, the copyright laws in the US make a very specific exception for archival[1].

>(a)Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.—Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:

>(2)that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.

Note that "computer program" here is in reference to any and all forms of digital data thereof. The digital copies made from the records concerned are "computer programs".

Sony, et al. allege that Internet Archive's public redistribution of their digital copies of the records do not fall under the archival exception.

If all Internet Archive does really is just archiving, none of the rightsholders would have standing to sue or otherwise get in their way.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117

Obligatory IANAL.
I never said these problems were hard.

But... they're things that require research. Do you know how to loop through all of your Apple Notes using AppleScript off the top of your head?

That research isn't free: it takes time.

As someone who hasn't done much work with AppleScript before, I would guess it would take me about half an hour to figure out how to do this. But there's a risk that it might take longer.

So the sensible thing is probably not to take on that project at all! I don't care enough about solving it to invest the research time.

But the time taken to chuck a prompt through GPT-4 and then test the results to see if it works is less than a minute.

I wrote more about how this is encouraging me to be more ambitious with my projects here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-developmen...
> Why can’t copyright holders use DMCA requests instead?

DMCA requests are only when you host a platform where others can upload content. As a platform owner, if you take the content down, you won't be held liable for copyright infringement. But the original uploader definitely still can be! In this case, IA is the uploader.
Maybe I'm weird, but I can imagine this being 10x more fun with a completely uncensored and toxic LLM backend :)
What's the advantage of washing machines?
There's videos of fire trucks doing exactly this (one even to a police car that was blocking their way to a building on fire!).

Fire trucks are made for stuff like that.

Legally parked cars are the problem for whoever was blocking the road, not the fire truck. When there's an emergency, fire trucks have wide latitude to do whatever is necessary to get to the scene. They can't cause other crashes, but causing property damage for illegally-parked vehicles is fine.
Truly.. one of the greatest minds in our ML era. Don't get caught up on the format :)
UNT has a world-class music program, so maybe?
Now that's what I call a couple of excellent comments on HN.
iPhone 15 USB-C components leaked; may limit functionality
This is how places like Costco can be worthwhile even if they aren't technically the best possible deal - I trust that if I buy something there I won't be terribly disappointed or overtly screwed over even if I end up paying a bit more than I absolutely had to.
That's nothing.

At New Zealand's peak we had a 22 sheep to person ratio, now it's still 5 to 1.

New Zealand also has >2 to 1 ratio of cows to humans as well.
Torrents and pinned IPFS stashes stored on machines in countries with "free-er" copyright laws would probably be an easy way to start.
There's a trending model where they give away the magic for free and make money off services built around it. Often those services can be things like backup and monitoring that contain the lock in.
Help normal people create personal deep learning model
I’m a new fast.ai student. I’m fascinated by the result I achieved in just 2 weeks though fast.ai course. I’m thinking wouldn’t it be nice to create something that can help normal people to achieve the same thing even without taking fast.ai course. Like Wordpress or shopify for helping people creating website without knowing HTML, we can help people build their own deeping learning model without knowing any code.

In details, I created a video cover photo click-thru rate predictor for my wife who is a youtuber. I fine-tuned the Resnet model from her youtube channel’s dataset. And the model works very well based on her real youtube data. Now, she will use it to every time to decide which cover photo to use before publishing a new video.

It is remarkable! Why not build something to help normal people embrace the power of deep learning even without going through fast.ai course.

Any thoughts on this idea? And any suggestion on how to make this web app happen? We may start something that’s really impactful to the world.

You can try my model mentioned in :hugs:[Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Old-Fat-Boy/Youtube_Thumbnail_CTR_Analyzer)
Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust
Or. It's entirely possible that the currency inflation is caused by something completely unrelated (central banks and government spending/lending) and you're confusing correlating events (the development of new technologies and decrease in buying power) with causation.
That could explain this finding:

> For every increase of 100 meters, suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people.

https://bigthink.com/health/altitude-suicide/
This is awesome!

Game idea to build on top of this: Table top deception type game where each agent has the goal of convincing the real users that they are in fact also real users.(So each agent is trying to pass a turing test).

Every AI agent uses RL to optimally prompt their personal LLM for how they should chat with the human players. eg should they try to frame a certain person, should they play it dumb, should they gaslight etc.
What was it doing? Waiting for a safe chance to turn?

After 5 minutes, call the police.
"Its a human nature to mislead others, sometimes knowingly." I read this line in an anthropology book. A similarly non-cynical approach towards your fellow is "trust but verify".
> I mean, that was really an important point in time when there really werent ORMs that were easy to work with, there was Hibernate in a very early stage and there were overly simplistic things for Perl, so I thought it was important that this "better way" I had in mind could be put out there, before the idea that "yeah let's all avoid ORMs unconditionally" could take hold.

I totally remember this time. It was around 2002~2005.

I started off with writing a discussion forum and a calendar booking webapp for my high school in PHP + MySQL. After working on it for a year or so, I realized I was basically re-typing a lot of SQL and boilerplate code, which repeated no matter whether I was working on a Post object, a User object, or a Event object. I almost wrote a half-assed ORM in PHP.

I then got an internship job, and they had a simple Java webapp project. Hibernate. In retrospect it was a huge pain, and we could probably have completed the project in 30% of the time if we used something more effective (but then, web frameworks weren't a thing in 2004), but still Hibernate was probably better than writing raw SQL for our cases.

Then later, at the same company, they had another webapp project in Perl. I don't remember the name of the ORM but it was kind of "magic" - as you said, overly simplistic, everything was implicit but seems to worked.

Shortly after I encountered Django, which seems to have solved all my problems with ORMs and I been happy with the way it works for the almost 20 years of using it.

To me the utility of ORMs is just obvious once you've been through writing CRUD without ORMs on a deadline, and tried anything that's not called Hibernate.

I'm not sure why there are so many people who apparently develops or maintains a codebase that deals with only a table or two ranting about ORMs. To me this isn't an issue with ORMs at all, but rather the curious phenomenon in the industry there is extreme specialization to the point that businesses can afford to put a person (or even a team), full time, working on a small part of the business only involving one table or two. (Can't say I'm not in this situation in my professional work today either!)

To those who say don't use ORMs -- try implementing HN in a week, without an ORM. It can probably be done either way, but with an ORM you end up with 50% less code and probably less sore fingers.
As long as they don’t complain when there is nothing left of value, that’s totally fine.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/solutions/2021/07/14/wes...

https://mooney.house.gov/west-virginia-losing-us-house-seat-...

https://www.wvnews.com/statejournal/news/we-have-this-viciou...

https://www.register-herald.com/news/life/w-va-leads-all-oth...
Wordpress can also be used in headless mode. Meaning front stack can be anything, while wordpress only works as the backend.
Starcraft I esports were really really carried by the commentators; without people like Day9 knowing what was going on, and explaining it to me, I'd never have a chance of following along.
Same people are writing the energy policy here. Germany just was further along.

Climate change mitigation doesn't work if the fossil fuels just make it cheaper for other countries to use them. Russia and the Middle East aren't walking away from trillions of dollars in oil reserves and the BRICS aren't going to stop developing to keep the world from getting a couple degrees hotter in a hundred years.

If they really wanted to do something about climate change they'd be pushing next gen nuclear energy to the forefront, make clean electricity super cheap, and drive electrification by outcompeting fossils.

The energy policy we have now in the West was designed by scammers and morons.

T. Energy Policy PhD
AI Based NPC System
> Linus Torvalds meant by "bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

That's why I wrote: 'Unless you are directly involved in writing algorithms or academic research, you really won't be proving time and space complexity of algorithms in your job. A general understanding is sufficient for 99% of the jobs out there.' If you are developing a kernel, then you should have a solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, etc. But 99% of programmers aren't developing kernels. 99% of programmers are working in industry - finance, healthcare, government, etc.
No -- the point of a frame-buster script is that it's a script included on a page to force that page out of a frame, it's not something the user runs deliberately.
I am sure there are areas which you know a lot about, which I know nothing about. And conversely for every pair of people in the world.

I spend plenty of my time dealing with my own imposter syndrome, often because there are many people in my own field who know far far more about it than I do. Peter Shor, the OP, for instance. But its fine. You do what enjoy and best at, and find satisfaction in doing it. That is the way to live.
I didn’t say they couldn’t, I said they shouldn’t unless truly there are no other options.
I know a guy with a glassblowing shop who gets all his oxygen from old medical concentrators he refurbishes
The World Is Not as on Fire as You Might Believe
That’s the way the greatest countries were built
Private cars are far worse because they park uselessly all day, blocking space.
Starter cartridge can be smaller in volume than the standalone ones you buy though. Unless you are certain they are identical, you can't compare price if a new printer to new cartridge.

Sometimes what you said is true though, because they want to sell you a product that keep you buying their cartridge so selling the printer "at a loss" can be profitable.
Doesn't matter. They'll still happily buy the fossil fuels the West leaves on the market.
Essentially ignores the topic in the headline, and discusses history, with a focus on a single prominent player.
> Sony, et al. allege that Internet Archive's public redistribution of their digital copies of the records do not fall under the archival exception.

Seems pretty obvious to me that, just with respect to the archival exception, that Sony et al is correct here. The issue is not with IA making backup copies of these works - the issue is with making copies and making them available for free over the Internet that is the issue at hand.
"trending" suse and red hat have been doing it for decades. Canonical too, among many others
or a cell phone jammer. :(
This is true of more than video games; "board games at the extreme" are not really comparable to how the designers played - and that is often not how it's even played by most people. Monopoly, of course, is an extreme case of this, but there are others.

The signs of this are in features/functions in the game that are just ignored; sometimes you can figure out what the designers intended them to be used for - and with modern games being patched (even board games get rule clarifications and changes, and add-ons and expansions almost always changed some rules) you can see it live.

Heroes III is a perfect example; watch some online videos of pro players and it's nothing like the compstomps we did back in the day.
True, but that's better than nothing, right?
This is not a concern that stops US emergency crews very long. I guess things may vary in other countries.
Look, if Jobs and Gates thinking about ethic, instead of make their own cheap and easy achievable clones of Xerox Alto, we would live in other world, and I'm not sure which is better.

On other side, for example BSD has very special view on current world (plan9), far from ideal, GNU Hurd was unsuccessful, etc.

What I want to say - if you are capable to make your implementation of idea better then original, you should make your implementation.

Even if you could resurrect good idea with pirate practices, it also could be beneficial for community, because somebody could take a look and make own implementation.

I know at least one example, when drunk guy written algorithm (as I remember, procedural world generation for game on Nintendo), which current scholars could not understand, and it's near to lost.

Yes, this is thin ice, but I think nobody could suggest something better in your case.
I'm surprised this became a fine, since I thought that most people who've seen enough shady tricks like this have already been trained never to look at the "original" or "pre discount" prices, only the actual current price.
Thanks for the clarification; I knew I was missing something.
Show HN: Bash one-liner to get human-readable file size
Here's the one-line function you can add to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

wcc() { wc -c < $1 | numfmt --to=iec-i --suffix=B --format="%9.2f" }

And then you may invoke it as "wcc ./anyfile"
I'll take heat death over the big rip. Don't forget vacuum collapse though...
The reputations of journalists and newspapers and predominant trust in authorities are the main discriminators that have varied over time (in America, for context).

Comparing and contrasting generalities about then and now that don't hold for every situation:

It was easier to fool people then because they were more trusting, e.g., didn't lock their front door. It was harder to fool people generally as critical thinking skills were better developed and there were fewer concepts to think about. People also tended to exercise greater self-control then than now. It was easier to fool people in the past because information about the current state of the world and details held by authorities weren't as freely available.

It's easier to fool larger numbers of laypeople today who are generally less informed and less educated than in the past. (Even manual laborers were once schooled in Latin at the turn of the century. Geography and basic facts about the world were well known.) It is harder to fool people now more consistently because of instant communication to almost anyone else. It is easier to fool people now because community and social ties tend to be weaker than they were. It's easier to fool people now because information maybe freely available but it's not interesting enough to, or studied by, many people.

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Fiction needs suspension of disbelief. If the pretext seems too outlandish, then it is received as ludicrous or dismissed as wild science fiction. OTOH, if that belief seems plausible and plays into taboos or phobias, then it disturbs the comfortable. Furthermore, humor and fiction both need tells to set themselves apart from serious presentations, perhaps a ancestor of Poe's law. (The "tell" should've been that it occurred on Halloween night, while an anti-tell was the lack of commercial interruption.) I vote for "Welle's law" when spoken word is involved.

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- WRH arguably caused the Spanish-American war.

- The Gulf of Tonkin incident probably didn't happen, but red-baiting and proxy war ambitions led the military-political-industrial complex to present a mostly fabricated story as the pretext to invading Vietnam.

- Few journalists spoke out against the second invasion Iraq, a plan hatched by Cheney for profit, especially about the WMDs that couldn't be found.

- Not many journalists objected to RT America or Sputnik and used them as their mass media public square forums. It was transparent to anyone halfwitted because these networks would have their own Kremlin plants who would speak outlandishly like a conspiracy theorist drunk uncle every family seems to have.

I'm concerned about news organizations of all slants where anchors see themselves as character actors and influencers first who drive a reality with them in front than Walter Cronkites, detectives, fact checkers, or writers who report important information, wherever it leads. The "winning" of a particular faction cannot be had by the dissolution of society and the isolation in anechoic chambers free from tough questions and reinforcement of that particular dogmatic orthodoxy. This way has tended to lead to culture wars that spill over into sectarian violence.
Life is about to get much more expensive for millions of families
Ask HN: How to balance ambition with a newborn child?
I consider myself generally ambitious: I have a bootstrapped 20-person service business and I want to scale it further or reinvest some earnings into new products. However, I do also care a lot about being a present dad.

Based on your experience, what helped you balance kids and work?
Students foot the bill for flagship state universities
They made a documentary about it years ago titled 'Office Space'.