skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the signees (especially the two or three that actually seem the most invested in this message, and responded to the discussion thread linked above), you will see that these are not the people building "core infrastructure" used by "millions". It's a random grab-bag of default Gnome applications, the kind most Linux users who are aware of alternatives immediately remove from distributions that ship it. "Random Gnome developers" as a group have been notorious for decades for not really gelling with the wider Linux ecosystem.

Looking at the project maintained by the front-runner of this movement, it has had 5 total reported issues in the last year, none of which are related to theming, so I'm not sure I understand what the big support struggle they're chafing at is either.
Funny how this only seems to be an issue with GTK apps, and not with QT.
3000 €/month is a 16k salary in Brazil this make you top 1% earners in the country!
As someone who codes in both static and dynamic typed languages commercially, 3x is around the correct figure.
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If I encounter a bug, I'm not going to force the developer to deal with my themes. If I'm filing an issue, one of the first things I do is a fresh install to consistently reproduce it, which means no themes.
It does exist, there are at least dozens of such tools. Here's a random one I found with a quick search. https://photostructure.com/getting-started/automatic-library...

But if it's not powered by AI it won't make the news in 2023
I know on Mac the popular tool for automatic file sorting is Hazel

https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel/hazel-overview/
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Usually no. If you damage the connector it tears the traces off the board irreparably. If it doesn't do that then there are two rows of pins which need to be resoldered. One row is under the connector. It is near impossible to solder those properly without non trivial equipment. Usually if you get a repair they solder only one pair of pins to the board and that means your USB connector only works plugged in one way up.

This is one reason amongst many that I'm not a particularly big fan of USB-C
I kind of contributed: https://www.nayuki.io/page/casio-fx-991ms-tips-and-tricks
They used to even teach those classes in schools decades ago.
Fear and panic are not the same thing. If your car is rolling towards the rim of the grand canyon and isn't slowing down, you would be afraid but ideally would quickly but calmly consider and try your options (emergency brake, steer away from edge, bail before it reaches edge, etc) rather than panicking.
Also, I half remember an architecture that essentially put no upper bounds on when a normal write would be visible to other cores without a barrier.
So that's why I thought this morning "why is everyone sharing pictures with the domain on it instead of articles."
My dog is the same. I have a friend who spends the day at my house every Thursday. The dog sits by the door waiting, but only on Thursdays!
> Since it lives on top of UDP, I believe all you need is SOCK_DGRAM, right? The rest of QUIC can be in a userspace library ergonomically designed for your programming language e.g. (...)

I think that OP's point is that there's no standard equivalent of the BSD sockets API for writing programs that communicate over QUIC, which refers to the userspace library you've referred to.

A random project hosted in GitHub is not the same as a standard API.
How Do Ferrite Beads Work and How Do You Choose the Right One?
`padLeft` can't just inject itself into a software stack right? So there's an incentive to be valuable enough to be included.
> I don't think you understand what geostationary orbit is.

I do understand what geostationary orbit is.

The commenter I was responding to said "any other satellite who is travelling from one orbit to the other can stop off on-route for no fuel or time cost". If they wanted to only talk about geo sats they should have said that.

But sure, let's think about using a geo sat to fly this intercept. Let's just pick Echostar-8 as a concrete example. It is at 6.4 degree inclination while Echostart-7 is at 1.5 degree. So you will at best have a glancing blow between these two.
Yeah my ex wife threw something at me and broke the only USB-C on my old T470. Fortunately it has an old charge port.
It's been demonstrated as an actual problem with currently functioning desalinization operations.
My Pixel 7 Pro does. But I have GrapheneOS, so maybe that's not a vanilla feature.
Author of the story is Cory Doctorow. I know, I was shocked, too.
That's a slightly different question (ie. how do we pragmatically tunnel our data between applications) but yes, that evolutionary race to the bottom (or port 80/443 as you say) also sucks.
Skimming, this quote by itself seems enough to solidly make their case:

>>> "The “object of the original creation,” in other words, is direct human consumption of the author’s expression. 18 Intermediate copying of works in training AI systems is, by contrast, “non-expressive”:19 the copying helps computer programs learn the patterns inherent in human-generated media. The aim of this process—creation of a useful generative AI system—is quite different than the original object of human consumption.20 The output is different too: nobody looking to read a specific webpage contained in the corpus used to train an AI system can do so by studying the AI system or its outputs. The new purpose and expression are thus both highly transformative.21"

Like you can make a transformer output some part of it's training data - but not an entire work, and more to the point, that's not the point (to copy) of the model or it's training data.
You will definitely be better served with A Case Against Reality, much more than a single hn comment
When "perceived enemies" don't care about this problem and exploit fossil fuel dependency to gain leverage over other countries it worsens the problem in realpolitik sense. It is unwise to just hand wave this aspect away.
I stopped using Twitter as soon as Musk bought it precisely for moral reasons. I'm not going to help someone who wrongly accuses people of being pedophiles make more money. There are of course many, many, many other moral reasons to not support Musk but the pedophile incident is so cut and dry that there was moral (non-partisan) reason to bail on day 1 of Musk ownership.
It's about ease though.

On a desktop pc you can repair anything pretty easily. Some things we wouldn't even call a repair. A new monitor is call just that. A new screen for a phone is much more involved.

And then there's granularity.

Can that broken usb port be replaced or does it require a new motherboard.

Your $20 Apple watch repair has 2 components. The parts cost and the labour cost.

If the repair takes 2 hours by a skilled technician that's going to cost more than a 5 minute job that anyone can do. And in first world countries, it's probably labour that will dominate.
You seem unfamiliar with how this works: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job
Not sure about that. Announce a climate emergency with huge implications I don't need to detail and you might get away with anything irrespective of support.
Why am I downvoted?
You can do that in Apple Photos without an AI stuff.

What they need to do there is actually build a competent photo management app into the OS.
I think the UX of requiring users to opt out of untested and likely broken themes on a per app basis is bad.

I think an opt-in via prompt on first run (or whatever) is a better experience since it makes the distinction clear in case stuff breaks and provides an opportunity to warn users about potential breakage.
First, you're right in that articles like this are spam for click-throughs.

Writing prompts is like writing good search queries, and the techniques developed today will fall away tomorrow as the models and generation parameter settings get better. This has happened rapidly with diffusers, and will likely happen with language models.

The system isn't non-deterministic, although there are a fair number of parameters used to try to make it seem like it (temperature in particular). But given the same prompt, zero temperature, and the same seed, you'd get the exact same output each time. The injected pseudo-randomness is deliberate.

Having said all that, there are a handfuls of key phrases or instructions that do allow you to get more than you would from simple conversation English. For example, asking a model to use Tree of Thoughts and Chain of Thoughts in calculating its answers does have an effect. The same with asking "are you sure" for some models can yield corrections and refinements.
I wondered about that, too, but in the body of the article they claim the license is a Creative Commons flavor so I interpreted it as a marketingdroid faux pas that the source is not available but that the content is open

I guess the distinction would be if someone wanted to upstream a change, not fork it, through what mechanism would that take place, but I'm going with "highly unlikely" on that one
Definitely reminds me of H T T P colon slash slash slashdot dot org
Yes, and absence of edvidence is not edvidence of absence.

Which is why you need to posit a causal mechanism.

To say current climate models are overly narrowing the problem domain as to exclude purely natural factors (assuming humanity is not part of nature, but that’s an ontological discussion) you would need to provide an alternative one which can predict past and future pathways.

It would also need to be at least as good and not rely on improbable assumptions… which is one reason climate scientists favor the anthropogenic models.
The Author-Consumer Divide
Do you actually disagree with any of the points I made? Or just the fact that I made those points to people who supposedly have positions of authority?
> 1. “The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.”

> This factor asks “whether the new work merely ‘supersede[s] the objects’ of the original creation, or instead adds something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the first with new expression, meaning, or message; it asks, in other words, whether and to what extent the new work is ‘transformative.’”

What? How do they get "is the work transformative" from "is the work commercial"?

I assume they are highlighting an interpretation or commentary that they prefer rather than discussing the actual quote from the statute.
"which couldn't go further because of the technological limitations at the time" you get it.
The commercial license typically grants the right to sublicense the software as part of a larger piece of software that can be sold commercially.

Both commercial and non-commercial users can copy, modify, and redistribute modified and unmodified copies. Again, there is no lock-in.

There's little incentive for the developers to switch from dual commercial/non-commercial licensing of the source code to only distributing compiled executables. The whole point of choosing the dual licensing model is that it's more attractive to customers. You wouldn't want to use such a model if you were trying to keep trade secrets, but in such a case you wouldn't consider using an open source license either.

Further reading:

https://duallicensing.com/
https://indieopensource.com/public-private/indies
What if you are the passenger and the driver has their foot down on the accelerator while refusing to believe that the cliff lies ahead? What is the appropriate emotion?
Motorcycles are a lot easier on infrastructure and are much less dangerous to other road users. (No A-pillars or blind spots) They take up way less space too. You can park 6 motorbikes in the space of one car. Keep in mind also, most of the bikes there are 125cc models for local deliveries and such.
Llamas on the Edge: build a personalization engine with Segment and Cloudflare
I didn't know this either! I once made an interactive dashboard and couldn't figure out how to add an on-click action to my SVG heat map. So I used the same coordinates that I used for the heat map to make a bunch of invisible divs on top of the SVG, and added on-click actions to those divs.
The linked PDF has clear page delineations, unlike the HTML page: https://ripe86.ripe.net/presentations/134-2023-04-whence-tim...
Just called the number holy cow it’s real. I love obscure infrastructure stuff like that
> If the HTTP/3 implementations allowed self-signed certs

Is it forbidden at the protocol level or by the implementations?
Thank you very much!

Right now, I don't have enough data in order to disclose the (non)fancy math behind the score.

The moment I gather more information, I'm planning to provide a detailed breakdown of the score, and preferably segment it based on location, team, etc.
It’s a novel enforcement action. The point isn’t to bankrupt the American satellite industry, it’s to gently encourage better behaviour.
What a weird response to a story about a coordinated campaign to spread racism.
> Cramped trains will rarely win politically but electric cars that go fast and look cool do win.

That's unfortunate, since trains would surely be the more efficient form of transportation, at least when dealing with regular commute, like going to work and back. Over here, a train ticket costs a few Euros, you don't have to worry about driving or traffic jams, gas/charging, or parking. Of course, if you need to go to a specific rural area or transport some heavy items, then the equation changes, but that's not the majority of the cases.

I'm actually rather sad that they closed down a train route to a city next to my countryside residence, since buses aren't as comfortable in most cases. Either way, public transportation feels like an obvious necessity to me, though many might disagree.
It's basically impossible to convince someone to do all those things when they're fighting to stay alive, working terrible conditions and generally being fucked by society as a whole. Fixing economic inequalities and improving overall quality of life for everyone in the planet should be top of that list. Telling rich people to grow their own food won't make any difference.
A billion people in India could die and US elections would still be determined by gas prices.
Can my computer get time from your cat? (:
There are a bunch of common workloads (including i’m guessing HN itself) where the trade offs for distributed databases make them a lot harder to use well, or where distributed databases don’t make sense.
> We could easily cut our use of fossil fuels

Given our economic dependence, the economic efficiency, and interested resistance, what concrete course of action would achieve this transition?

> We could stop incentivizing people and companies to consume disposable products.

How? Concretely.
Tiny Language Models Come of Age
Thank you so much for making this, I was looking for this not long ago
Obligatory link for those unfamiliar with the story: Jimmy Carter averted a full-scale nuclear meltdown in Canada at great personal risk.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-nuclear-meltd...
the undo button in explorer still doesn't work properly after 28 years
> Not having a system API is the entire point of QUIC. The only reason QUIC needs to exist is because the sockets API and the system TCP stacks are too ossified to be improved.

I don't think your take is correct.

The entire point if QUIC was that you could not change TCP without introducing breaking changes, not that there were system APIs for TCP.

Your point is also refuted by the fact that QUIC is built over UDP.

As far as I can tell there is no real impediment to provide a system API for QUIC.
Show HN: JsonGenius – Open-Source Web Scraping API with GPT
Hello HN! I decided to open-source my own web scraping API that I'm using to get information from different websites without using any selectors or XPath. Just provide the URL and a desired JSON schema, and it will return extracted data. Hope this can be helpful for someone. Cheers!
If the "basic changes" are more extreme than the COVID lockdowns, which made the entire world miserable, brought unprecedented economic destruction we'll be dealing with forever, and which also didn't cool the planet at all despite massive decreases in CO2 emissions... no thanks.

I'll keep voting against anything that makes me poorer and more miserable.
this is an obvious prediction, but with the writers class action lawsuit against openai for using their books, the internet will become more closed. it's gonna be so hard to scrape websites in the future. we were trending in this direction before gpt, but gpt exacerbated this and put the issue into the mainstream.
I’ll often see articles on the front page related to a popular thread from a day or two ago. I always assume that someone either went down a rabbit hole based on the original thread and wanted to share their findings, or already knew about that topic and felt inspired by the original thread to share something useful about it.
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Yes I meant that XP had the problem, and that Win7 tried to remedy it.

You are overlooking that the read-only part of the working set can be released immediately once another process needs those pages -- just zero them and add them to the free list. Only the dirty pages need to get written out to disk.

Anyway, it would actually be simple to test the effectiveness of the working set cap by writing a program that allocs and dirties memory aggressively, and then running it either in normal low priority or background modes, to see how it affects overall system behavior when running in each mode.
Our dogs meanwhile get fed at 5:00 and every day they think it must be 5:00 at 4:15-4:25, so it seems my dogs may be Martians.
This looks really nice with all the bundled plugins. I'm about to rebuild my streaming setup and move away from streamlabs. Some questions...

Can I dual stream to YouTube and twitch?

Could this work from a kvm setup, allowing me to capture windows from both nested, or windows from Linux?

Might also see what's possible via termina/chromeos
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If you increase the size of the address with "v4.1", you have the same situation as v6: a new protocol. How are you going to announce "v4.1" routes without updating BGP? You can't.
I thought the open source support window for Qt5 ended years ago.

Why are they still pushing updates if they could just sell highly priced commercial licenses for extended support? That is what I would expect of the Qt Company…
What year was this filed? It was awhile ago since some of submitters no longer work at OpenAI.
Astronomers Watched a Star Disappear. Now JWST Might Have Some Answers
Once farting will become billions dollar industry with fat executive boards, with stars and celebrities advertising farting as a way of living, and farting casually introduced in mainstream movies. Then some farting restrictions might be really necessary.
Economies of scale can plateau, yes. In those cases I’d argue there’s a niche for a medium-sized company. (Most law is in this category.) But if there are further economies of scale, the company that seizes the worldwide market will simply have lower costs and more R&D capital to work with.
One could easily argue derived work is sufficiently different from the original to avoid a violation.

ChatGPT doesn't just steal and slightly modify the original.
It fully copies the style and feel, which aren't copyright protected.

You can't just change the color of Mikey Mouse, call him AI Mouse and be good, but you can certainly create a new Disney-style character without triggering copyright violations.
I intentionally excluded that part of the story as 4chan will always empower racism and politically incorrect topics for the purpose of getting people spun up. This is just a new twist but there will be others when they exhaust everything Bing's AI can do or when Microsoft tunes their prompt filters to block them. I expect edgelord and rage-baiting posts from [0-9]chan. I would not expect this of Microsoft however, at least not for long.
There are multiple actors in play.

The Russians are punching above their weight these days. If you'd like to read about how they're so successful (based on real-world case studies) consider reading the executive of "The Kremlin Playbook", from CSIS in Washington DC:

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publi...

tl;dr (from page ix): Our work has determined that Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision-making. This web resembles a network-flow model, which we describe as an "unvirtuous circle" of Russian influence. The circuitous flow can either begin with Russian political or economic penetration and from there expand and evolve, in some instances leading to "state capture." Russia seeks to gain influence over (if not control of) critical state institutions, bodies, and the economy and uses this influence to shape national policies and decisions. Corruption is the lubricant on which this system operates, concentrating on the exploitation of state resources to further Russia's networks of influence.

Other tactics (usually in earlier phases of the plan) involve getting control over portions of the media, or (failing that) undermining news outlets' credibility. This conditions the population to put up with the stuff mentioned in the text I quoted. "Well, they're all corrupt, so it's not surprising that (insert any recent federal scandal here)."
"Authors may object that the outputs of generative AI systems will harm the value of their works."

I do not see this addressed adequately anywhere in the article. Granted, it is addressed, but not in detail or with any solution that is palatable. I imagine this is what people are most concerned about, and only a tiny part of the article addresses these points.

People must be incentivized to create, and compensated fairly from that. If the current law cannot make that happen, and I am definitely not convinced by this article, then, the laws need to be changed.
The Brazil Nut effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_convection