skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
every time I see him mentioned now I just think of the first 5 seconds of the Lex Fridman interview YouTube kept pushing on me for a while where he says "Open AI has been a badly mocked and misunderstood org for a long time" in a whiny voice. Naw dude, I'm not misunderstanding that you decided to rug everyone on open source AI. In 2018 I would have never predicted that in 5 years Facebook would be on the top of my list for people driving the space forward in at least a semi ethical way yet here we are.

"I hate to say this, because it sounds so arrogant... " holy shit lol what an absolute tool. What has OpenAI done exactly, invent transformers and GPUs?
My earliest domain was registered in '99 and I'd still not really believe "dot wedding" - what's next, "dot muffin"?
Is it a drop in replacement for node? Do I need node in my computer?
Billions of dollars in investments that will partially benefit lawmakers?
But if you asked aristocrats to swap infant mortality with modern poor life, they might have a spectrum of opinions not necessarily leaning towards being poor. The point is that modern worries are also, well, modern.
Probably way less comfortably than if they could move to a civilized country though.
Dot Planimeter
Keep on donating to Mozilla so they can keep doing these little pet projects with absolutely no impact while paying executives millions of dollars.
The addon package that includes seat heating is 900 EUR for a model I just randomly selected from the online configuration tool.

The "hack" to enable it is a cable and a switch. No digital rights management can prevent that.
What’s the additional weight of heated seat tech? Any impact on fuel costs for those that don’t want heated seats?
Completely agree. Only issue is that this is based on the defect rate being high enough that enough lower-bin units get produced. Could argue that at that point the price of the higher end units could be lowered a bit, but that might still be outside some people's price range... This seems like a difficult problem to solve in a good way. On one hand it wastes resources, on the other hand it has the effect of the buyers willing to pay more for the higher end models to lower the price of the locked down models further.
Given the amount of people needing organs, and dying because of no availability, this is great.
I'm sure BMW could make a case where between 1) not needing to manufacture non-heated seats anymore improves manufacturing efficiencies and costs and 2) the people paying for the subscription brings in enough revenue that BMW can sell the car for the same price as it was without the heated seat hardware.

However, no consumer is actually going to believe that and they're just going to assume they'd paid for something they don't get value from without having to pay more.
Wow. Time to bring my 130xe out of storage and see if it boots...
I mean sure, but as those artists illustrate, that's nothing about jazz specifically. And 99+% of people have no interest in anything outside the artist -- they're self-described fans of Britney Spears, not Max Martin.

But of course streaming services seem to find ways to surface at least some of that, e.g. there's an official Spotify playlist of songs Max Martin has written/produced:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWXDAhqlN7e6W?si=...
I dislike the implication that "significance inflation" is new -- the result of "woke-ness". Did Teddy Roosevelt do all the things he is credited with? Or Thomas Edison? (or Napoleon?) I'm know little about historians, but I think there is an industry of discovering unrecognized accomplishments, followed by debunking them (what did Steve Jobs invent?).

I think it is naive to suggest 1984 is suddenly upon us. Orwell I'm sure knew that history has been re-written for at least 2500 years.
Ok I see the issue. I don't give my phone number to anyone and only use random throwaway numbers on internet services.

There is no way to link anything over that.
I suggest another reasoning: when plastic packaging start the historical advertisement was "save trees, nature with plastic", because yes, without it even if bamboo is strong and light enough, cardboard cheap enough, paper help etc at the actual rate we need simply too much resources for nature to regenerate.

Or to enlarge a bit: build homes with wood means build something recyclable at least once, environmental friendly, renewable etc BUT only if the wood demand remain below a certain threshold. Well, for packaging not just bags it's the same.

I have no massive data, nor I do not know if I can source them somewhere but I suspect that the main issue these days is that we simply need too much to avoid using plastic. So a ban can work ONLY with some other push toward less packing witch is FAR less easy.

I'm from EU where the first push toward mater-B (a kind of polymer made from corn) end up in two kind of scandals:

- it's not deteriorate easily in nature, just like nylon bags

- it's more fragile, meaning instead of using a single bag you use two to be safe, and it's production is not much sustainable

Than the ban of single-use plastic dish, glasses, spoon, forks etc substituted by bamboo ones. Sure they to not pollute once dropped in nature, but how many forest need to be cut and substituted with bamboo to sustain the demand?

The answer here is "well, just we metal/ceramic/glass stuff, wash them, reuse, we all have a dishwasher". Doing the same for fast food, supermarkets etc is FAR LESS easy specially in modern dense cities where people shop by feet nearby their home every days instead of by car once a week or less.

The bottomline: to ban plastic we need to ban the modern dense life to came back to domestic stockpile of foods and so on, to shop with cars and have a garage so we re-use many-usage packing stuff and we buy in large quantity. Witch actually is something NO LOBBY want because meaning reversing the current trend toward 15' cities and "all dependent on services" model.
This is absolutely because NK doesn't want to pay market rate for 0days.
Defending “privacy” while their entire company depends on money from Google. What a foundation.
There's plenty of innovation. Through mass censorship, moderation, and the addiction to free, fueled by VC, it is much harder to get the word out or build a paying customer base on products without venture capital. Venture capital wants their cake and less risk. Founders are often told to only build b2b and forget consumers. Salaries that used to bootstrap innovative businesses find it harder to keep up with the budgets of Silicon Valley, leading to a capital monopoly for the venture backed. Human capital and money capital.
> 10 Mbps upload is plenty fast for hosting things like websites and web apps.

I made no guarantees for file sharing or backups...
That's probably a better top URL for the submission, with https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00114-4 a good thing to link to from the comments.

I'm going to send you a repost invite for this one!
Any code written on a phone is impressive ^^ Will try it out
Well, content creators and publishers have trillions.
They have the ability to feed their closed source to Copilot for training without exposing the source to everyone directly, given the relationship. They choose not to.
Show HN: Vector database integration with PostgreSQL in a Notebook
The situation is basically that railroad workers asked the Biden administration to weigh in to improve the terms of the latest contract that the railroad company management was offering them, and the Biden administration told them tough luck. Which is indeed a bleak situation. But misdescribing it as "railroad company management wants to pay zero money and take all the profits" does not help; it makes it worse because it makes the workers sound unreasonable since the claim is obviously false. (Btw, I'm not saying the actual railroad workers are making that claim. Only the post I originally responded to was.)

The fact that railroad service in the US sucks is also bleak, and is a product of the same government regulation that has put the railroad company workers in the bleak position they are in. If you don't like the obvious implication of my previous post, which is that the government should open up railroads to free market competition and force the railroad company management to either show actual business acumen or give up their profits to someone who can, there is another possible response: since the government has created a railroad monopoly, the government should grant ownership of the railroad companies to all railroad workers, not just the company management. That way all workers would naturally share in the profits, because they all have a share in ownership. That would actually be more in line with what "socialism" claims to be about: everyone gets a share in the ownership of the capital they use to produce value. But the article that was cited doesn't make that argument either (once more, for ideological reasons that are obvious to anyone who is familiar with the history of socialism).
DPReview
If it's not against the ToS and they paid for the service he is a hypocrite.
I was, for some reason, expecting it was a paper about tomatoes decomposing after they rot. lol
I also wouldn’t pay for this. But the economics are more interesting.

BMW and AWS ran a quantum computing challenge two years ago. One of the tasks was to figure out all the combinations of features that need to be tested (sometimes destructively) [1].

I would imagine that having features installed in all vehicles provides a less taxing testing regime than having a physical option.

And in addition, it will be cheaper to just manufacture one version of a thing (and then switch in software).

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum-computing/winners-annou...
> While paying your own holiday, insurance, employer's stamp, sick pay, pensions, bench time, etc.

Whilst also being able to write of a bunch of things against tax (insurance, car, property if you're clever, loans etc etc etc). I am fully aware of how big the loophole used to be. Its also being abused to keep costs down at high turnover jobs as well. but that's another issue.

> If you've got an in-demand skill and you're healthy I'd say it's definitely an improvement, but it's not quite as simple as comparing tax rates.

Its entirely to do with tax minimisation, otherwise people wouldn't go through the faff of doing it? Why on earth would you give up employment rights and stability, just so you can have the privilege of doing accounts each year?

Its avoiding tax, something that low/middle earners aren't able to do/cost effective enough.
if you want to make it into a cast system, i think that says more about you than anything. i consider them much more my minions as i twirl my mustache with an sly grin
HN is for anything intellectually interesting, especially if it's uncorrelated with other topics. This seems to me to fit fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree on the subject, but I think we can leave port scans out of the discussion because they are not an issue as you suggest and still apply everything I am saying to other issues.

There would still be upside of potentially addressing the scan spam as well, though
Maybe this points the way forward for the federal budget. We can outsource the IRS to a few big banks and let them set tax rates as they please. They'll raise taxes, because they're definitely too low by most comparative standards, and then people (and our elected leaders!) can all curse those evil greedy banks for the high taxes instead of the government (who no longer has any control!)

(This comment is not serious, btw.)
Soo maybe some "core" "parts" might be open sourced some time. Hard pass.
iPad/iPhone OS got an update too, which mention additional Wallet issues, so it might not be related after all:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213905
and even though it has the capability, they keep refusing to allow a vim mode option.
Critics underrate movies too.

Freddy Got Fingered, the movie I personally found funniest, is currently at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's full of creative and quotable scenes, and never resorts to tired cliches (despite its genre there is no toilet humor). Penalizing a gross-out comedy for being "gross" is a clear failure of criticism. Even Roger Ebert, who usually judged movies by the standards of the genre, made this mistake.

Batman v Superman, the superhero movie I personally found most engaging, is at 29%. It's one of the few movies in the genre that feels like it has any ambition to be serious art. It takes the characters seriously, without the constant jokes the Marvel movies use to reassure the audience that they're not really comic book nerds. Critics considered this a reason to rate it poorly.
Please let's not go into flamewar about this stuff - there's no curiosity value in that.
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite
Similar here.

People still get annoyed when I ask. Dude, I’m just trying to save time. You can say “I don’t know” and I’ll go read. You don’t have to talk in circles, you don’t have the make something up (that will often be wrong), just admit the truth.
My former BMW dashboard, the area below the satnav, has something that appears to have melted. It’s not the hard plastic that did it but something that appears to be a coating of some sort. It had a sunroof, and probably that caused it. The rear stopping lights circuits fried somehow, replaced them myself. Apparently water gets in?

My porsche 981 had the roof peel off, and the door panels gradually ungluing. More worrying they made a recall on my model, whereby the rear axel can crack in certain circumstances, years after issuing the same recall for US customers.

BMW owners of certain models have told me about timing chains snapping, or differentials breaking.

Not buying any of these brands again, ever. Chose an american brand instead, part due to quality, part due to politics. Couldnt be happier. At least i dont need to pay thousands just be able to play music or stream my maps. Even if it breaks down i’s still have saved money so i can fix it.

This i think is relevant to this forum because it underlines a fundamental issue with a country who’s economy is largely reliant on manufacturing quality goods. That quality seems to decline rather fast, and it will have serious impact over european affairs in my view. First warning sign was cheating on emissions. Second warning was desperate attempts at charging owners monthly fees. Now it’s clear there’s something rotten in germany.
So I just reran and here are the numbers. Outside of my local NTP servers, time.facebook.com still seems to be good.

MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^* 0000000000000000 1 6 377 72 -1724ns[-3212ns] +/- 134us
^+ 111111111111111111 2 6 377 70 +13us[ +13us] +/- 215us
^+ 222222222222222 1 6 377 68 -1064ns[-1064ns] +/- 135us
^- time.cloudflare.com 3 10 377 513 -1511us[-1525us] +/- 18ms
^- time.cloudflare.com 3 10 377 914 -2347us[-2375us] +/- 18ms
^- virginia.time.system76.c> 2 10 377 620 -987us[-1012us] +/- 54ms
^- ohio.time.system76.com 2 10 377 464 -2672us[-2685us] +/- 43ms
^- oregon.time.system76.com 2 10 377 511 +1921us[+1906us] +/- 30ms
^? 52.148.114.188 3 10 377 67m +7902us[+7908us] +/- 141ms
^? defra1-ntp-004.aaplimg.c> 1 10 377 563 +292us[ +275us] +/- 83ms
^? time4.facebook.com 1 10 377 468 -203us[ -216us] +/- 36ms
^? ec2-54-81-127-33.compute> 4 10 377 424 -887us[ -900us] +/- 35ms
^? time-a-wwv.nist.gov 1 10 377 492 +6515us[+6500us] +/- 25ms

I do use the generic time.apple.com entry along with other "official" names in my chrony.conf. I think my use of ODoH may be the reason why I'm getting systems further than expected. Will have to dig into it a little further.

pool time.cloudflare.com iburst nts maxsources 2
server virginia.time.system76.com iburst nts
server ohio.time.system76.com iburst nts
server oregon.time.system76.com iburst nts
server time.windows.com iburst
server time.apple.com iburst
server time.facebook.com iburst
server time.aws.com iburst
server time.nist.gov iburst
Fourth Top FTX Executive to Plead Guilty Ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried Trial
There are enough kidneys, there are not enough donors. I suspect we could get closer to balance if we changed to opt-out or presumed consent.
Medical Student: But look at what has been done with hearts and kidneys...

Dr. Frederick Fronkenstein: Hearts and kidneys are Tinker Toys! I am talking about the central nervous system!
— Dr. Frederick Fronkenstein, Young Frankenstein
It’s in the press again because of this situation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/raac-reinforced-autoclav...

which is a little reminiscent of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower
One of the things I like about Emacs's buffer workflow is that Emacs doesn't lie to you. In other, more modern editors you "open a file" on disk, make changes and then "save the file". Emacs distinguishes between a file and a buffer which may hold and image of a file in memory. "Visiting" a file consists of copying its contents into a buffer, which is the actual thing being edited; saving a buffer consists of writing its contents back to a file.
Usually only a portion of the employees have a name and a link, the rest will say "LinkedIn Member" with a picture (if there is one) and a job title and location.
If the code is wrapped in

if (updateDlg.DoModal() == IDOK) { … }

then doesn’t that mean it only runs that code if the user clicks “OK” on the update dialog?

(Edit: I think I understand now. It’s not the code, it’s the update URL that’s the problem, because it’s controlled by NK. So if you run this and blindly click “OK”, then it will download an executable that will infect your PC.)

(Edit 2: Or the issue is not in the source at all, but is in the prebuilt binary.)
Well, if somebody ever reads properly made audited balance sheet of the city, it probably would be mentioned somewhere is there. But since it's not a classical debt, most casual observers wouldn't even realize it exists.
> It's likely that generative AI in general will be deemed fair use

Except that “fair use” is mostly an American thing. In many other jurisdictions (especially those with of civil law) there's such a wide principle, and there's only specific laws allowing some explicit kinds of use of copyrighted material that the law allows. In those jurisdiction, most uses of generative AI trained on copyrighted material are, more likely than not, illegal at least until the legislator actually changes the law.
Postmodern, Modern, Medieval, and Ancient Typologies of Villainy
Yep. An employee won't see any upside of the project they're working on. There are no incentives besides some nebulous promo dangling ("we'll see where you are at the next review cycle...") , and usually no way for employees to capture the upside of their project. I created something valuable for the company I work at, and I was left without upside - just my salary. Meanwhile, the people with stakes in the business say, "well you're making a salary," while they are buying new homes.

Engineers - you are capable of creating an extreme amount of value that far exceeds your income. Take care of #1.
Criticker (https://www.criticker.com/) works like this too and gives really good recommendations but even keeping track of all the movies you've watched and rating them is more work than most people want to do.
Probably. A friend of mine who is a big user of atariage.com told me they'd been “cleaning” a number of things up for months which all makes sense now ahead of the acquisition.

Fact is if anyone wants Atari ROMs they are massively easy to find online, though. Heck, you can even find them on archive.org at this point.
Welcome to the club. My gmail address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com and I keep receiving occasional emails for firstname.lastname@gmail.com who is actually some kind of a senior manager in one of the major TV stations. It works the other way around as well (he receives my emails - extremely rarely, but still). We simply agreed to forward them to the right person and delete afterwards so there is no issue per se, but it's still kind of funny.

Also, my daughter has firstname.lastname@gmail.com and there is another lady with the address firstnname.lastname@gmail.com (yes, a typo in her first name, duplicating one of the letters) and of course she keep receiving her emails and vice versa. Same solution - they mutually agreed to forward messages to the right person and delete them afterwards.

First world problems...
The correct term is "merge request", FYI. Please update your comment to use this terminology. If you don't have time to, I'll just fork it.
9 minutes to reply. Are you off your game?
Did you also guess what the article was about based on just the title?
Why promote roof top solar when grid solar is substantially cheaper? Is it for emergency preparedness?
Oh man I can come up with an even scarier hypothetical:

What if North Korea starts using Nintendo characters to create a religion and uses it to overthrow governments?!?!

Well since North Korea isn't bound by IP laws, its best to dissolve Nintendo to keep everyone safe.

Hey, if you like Nintendo, you support North Korean Indoctrination.

Or I have a different idea, what if a 12 year old kid learned programming to make a pokemon knockoff and donated the money to curing cancer.

I like my hypotheticals more than yours. Which do you like?
Honestly, all review aggregates are kind of trash. It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet.

I had a product idea I have yet to make where you replace ratings with rankings. Instead of giving something a 1-5 review, you just answer a few quick questions whether something is better or worse than a listed alternative. You aggregate enough rankings and you can give everything a percentile score. The number is actually meaningful - a 70% means people on average think that it's 70% better than all ranked alternatives.

And you can't lie or influence a ranking as easily. "You think Rings of Power is a good show? Okay, but are you are actually going to rank it above The Sopranos?"
I think it leads to disproportionately more software and code, if anything. Tons of internal projects that companies would love to do, but IBM and Accenture are eye wateringly expensive, making many not worth doing.

You still have people manually typing information between different files (i.e. both are on the computer) at banks. You still have insurance requests that require mailing due to a lack of a specific portal to handle things of that nature. You have all manner of simple stuff that companies don't want to build the skills to do in house, but currently contracting it out is too expensive.

So I vote IBM. They can offer cheaper services to fill all that with AI.
Unfairly lumping smart and centralized together. Of course that's how the common consumer understands these things, so I get it -- if this were coming from the WSJ or other normie news. But this is The Register and they are smart about these things. eg, they specifically mention HIK, but fail to mention that unifi cameras operate strictly locally (or can operate that way), and you can even setup unifi VPN so you can see the feed from anywhere.

I can use my lutron smart devices without giving up any privacy whatsoever. With Home Assistant I can do even better.

They could have done so much more with this article.
As someone who purchased every edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator from the beginning, I am still salty about Daley bulldozing Meigs field in the middle of the night.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/chicago-mayor-bulldoze...