skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this three year old explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu2O-iHL16Q
I think the UBI experiment was quite unethical in many ways and I believe it was Altman's brainchild.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/y-combinator-basic-income-tes...
Well he lived before modern laws of physics were known… I'm not sure that counts.
Just to provide some counterpoint to this: I regularly go with my kids in the winter weekends, and aside from the Wellenbad ("wave pool") in Görlitzer Park, which had a plumbing problem once when I went, I've never run across randomly closed pools. We didn't go much last winter since they'd lowered the temperatures because of the war in Ukraine and rationing of gas, but we went a lot the year before and a couple times already this year. They've never been painfully crowded -- in fact, usually the opposite, usually pretty empty. We've gone in Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Lichtenberg and Schöneberg.
For anyone who might not realise in the 20s london had a labour mayor, and the U.K. had a labour government.

The usual rebuttal is something along the lines of “no true labour”.
> In twenty years the industry will look back on golang as an avoidable mistake

And here is my opinion:

I think in 20 years, Go will still be a mainstream language. As will C and Python. As will Javascript, god help us all.

And while all these languages will still be very much workhorses of the industry, we will have the next-next-next iteration of "Languages that incorporate all that we have learned about programming language design over the last N decades". And they will still be in the same low-single-percentage-points of overall code produced as their predecessors, waiting for their turn to vanish into obscurity when the next-next-next-next iteration of that principle comes along.

And here is why:

Simple tools don't prevent good engineering, and complex tools don't ensure it. There are arcs that were built in ancient Rome, that are still standing TODAY. There are buildings built 10 years ago that are already crumbling.
I think musk knew very well. It's the investors that fell for it.
Yes, that's exactly the one I was thinking about when unethical came up in this context. And I've been saying that from day #1, the way that is structured is just not ok.
Ok, imagine following scenario:

- You started using product

- One year latter ASF stops existing, apache.org returns 404 or viagra ads.

- Two years latter, original FSL gets terminated, your new license for that software are 404 errors or viagra ads. You now have no license and should stop distribution!

Think what you want, software under FSL is on my ban list.
"Hey, any IP lawyers want to sue Microsoft for stealing our IP?"
$330M is like 33 training runs of a large LLM. Not sure that would bring open source anywhere near GPT-3.5.
What we have now is exactly what would have happened if the AT&T vs BSD lawsuit had come to a conclusion before Linux kernel came into the scene.

Big iron UNIX would keep going and cherry picking from the BSDs as it had done until the lawsuit took place.

It is no surprise that all new FOSS OSes for IoT, none of them embrace copyleft licenses.
He lived 2 centuries before Newton, 3 centuries before Laplace, 4 centuries before Maxwell and 5 centuries before Noether, Einstein, and Shannon. That he doesn't believe the first law of thermodynamics is hardly his fault.
I was referring to the grandparent comment.
One thing that might be interesting is SASL has evolved over the years. Most things are RFCs, so well written, short and open specifications. This gives you one larger thing to learn. Should be rather linear if you sort by RFC number.

It would head well into advanced user/password schemes.

The problem is that even advanced mechanism like a SCRAM based authentication with additional 2fa are rather simple to grasp & implement, but really hard to get right / secure.

A lot of the evolution is rather an evolution of attacks and issues, leading to new schemes. OWASP is thus pretty relevant, too.
I followed this course in person a few years ago. I highly recommend it.
Lessons in Product Naming from Lexicon Experts
On those topics I prefer Barber & Barber, "When They Severed Earth from Sky".

If Josephson-Storm's thesis be true, at least given the existence proof that humanity has at least once decided that (a) the problem with studying inconsistent things is that it is too easy to make contradictory claims*, and therefore (b) we would be better off to study consistent things, allowing claims to be built upon claims, and hence at least ephemeral progress, we should expect the same process to remain possible after any future dark ages, whether it were to be carried out once more by humans, or —given our current level of destructive technology— perhaps even by remote descendants of the cockroaches.

* were I to write a DD, my topic would be: "The Rapture occurred on schedule, in 1000 AD", and so few (they who would have been There to witness the 2nd coming in 1007) were taken and so many were Left Behind, that we the remanent have no historical record.
I was in the States in the 90s. Lots of too well fed Americans. In comparison, the Chinese in that footage were all healthy weight.
Madoff, WeWork, Theranos, NFTs, …

Looking ahead… Probably these vector db company valuations, most companies doing AWS competitor DX plays.
lol, do as you like. But this attitude that we are somehow owed a service like youtube for free without ads is comical.
whenever you changed a default value, at least 6 tests would fail now

Testing default values makes a lot of sense. Both non-set configuration values and non-supplied function parameters become part of your API. Your consumers will rely on those default values, and if you alter them, your consumers will see different behaviour.
It's just: I can go faster, if I want to (or for some reason need to).
I'm really not a fan of doing the Apple thing and to infantilize the user by disallowing sideloading because it's dangerous.
The discussion got dragged to compare force and impact but similarly to train tracks, highways are usually a place of motion. People don't walk around and cars are usually also fast.
We counter the emergency situation such as the infamous end of a traffic jam by adding brake assistants that warn the driver to brake and then hit the brake on their own. This kind of technology seems to reduce traffic incidents so that the most danger comes from older cars without this technology.

I completely agree, that we don't need hyper cars or racing cars on the road. But the 100 mph limit wouldn't help at all in cities. There are better ways like obstacles that force a driver to slow down or routing with curves instead of straight lines.
So what is the actual substance of your reply to me then?
Actual code (C++): https://github.com/Brendan-Kirtlan/Video-Encode
> It’s just that for me the phrase “exclusivity period” would imply that you could compete as a provider of sufficiently-old versions. And technically you can, except the script kiddies will take you down in a heartbeat, and in that respect you’re in a very different world from the one the original developer was at that point in the past even if alternative offerings are ignored.

I give you an analogy from the real world: MySQL was bought by Sun and then merged into Oracle. The original developers didn’t even like that direction and forked the project and build MariaDB. Some of the code they took was even older than the latest release. There can always be situations where a project withers for years and you get stuck with a license that impedes commercial revitalization. The FSL doesn’t come with that risk.
This is very much true. Competitive moats can be built on surprisingly small edges. I've built a tiny empire on top of a bug.
I am not saying they should have, just noting that it’s not common.
Heating costs for pools quadrupled over the last 18 months. They’ve come down a bit, but that’s still a massive impact.

Salaries have shot up too, and have done for 20 years, as minimum wage has increased well beyond average wages or inflation.

But the largest impact on council funding in general is the increased money going into looking after the elderly, and that sometimes means selling off the land a leisure centre was on to pay for that for a couple of years, doesn’t matter that the centre was slightly profitable, it was occupying a large amount of land value that could be spent on Generation Me instead.
If your query doesn't know its own cardinality and can't scan do you just know you're always going to return one row? I ask because otherwise in my mind disabling statistics is usually a Bad Plan.
Is it really cheating though? My computer, my rules.

Copyright effectively gives YT an arguably illegitimate monopoly status on a lot of content which hasn't been uploaded elsewhere. Compared to, say, "modern" Usenet where files are distributed and users choose their provider.

Ads are trash and I'm somewhat willing to pay, but not on the Google terms that takes away my privacy and right to run FOSS.
<Insert a quote about a fool and the departure of their money here>
You might say that but it is certainly incorrect compared to other countries. Have a look at mass shooting statistics across countries just as one example. Those victims are not committing crimes.
Where the author leans into the advertising, you lean into tech, but would it not be fair to say that it is a tech -and- advertising company. That would more fairly represent Google's relevance than limiting it to either tech or advertising alone. Meta could also possibly fall into this tech-advertising categorisation.

There are many different ways to cut up how Google operate to present the idea that it is more of an ad company or more of a tech company - the fact that both of these are possible leans further into calling it an advertising and tech company. For example by looking at profit Google's ability to operate and exist comes from ads, on the other hand most staff at Google are from STEM fields and Google's aspirations are clearly tech driven, even if it uses ads as the means to an end.

I feel the expression "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler" applies here. Labelling Google as tech-only is as provably false, as is labelling it as an ad-only company.
All the stars we can see with our naked eyes are close enough to that, yes.

But you did make me think of this: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1825e/
…but have they got around the need for thermal exhaust ports?
Ask HN: Does Hacker News serve you?
You use it for entertainment only or you get valuable information out of it?
When there’s a gold rush don’t be the one mining gold be the one selling shovels.
Isn't it "the market" rather than "the masses"?
I think it's called Christianity
There's nothing physically impossible about the Hyperloop (basically a maglev in vacuum tube, nothing wrong with the tech, just not particularly economical). Maglevs have been deployed successfully in some parts of Asia, they are just dreadfully expensive and nimbys have fears about radiation but they are hardly new technology.
Some of those board picks make zero sense to me.
If you wait too long, because the issue is so widespread there can't be any type of genuine control group because everyone is affected at some level.
I got my HTC vive.out of the closet today and as usual hate USB micro and love USB c.

Usb-c just fits.

Do you mean the real USB plug the bigger one? Those are dependent on my device. The USB a port on my desktop case are okay, the ones at the back of my Mainboard way to tight.
i am subscribing to yt premium but i don't like supporting google. i despise their active shadow banning on yt. this company is actively blocking legit constructive comments on "sensitive topics" such as religion. it's disgusting and also dangerous that a big corporation is declaring what should be allowed and not allowed to think and express.
That’s a purely hypothetical situation. Even in that case a court would very likely uphold the license just by the name. For what it’s worth plenty of software is only referencing a license by name or reference and I’m sure you are using that software as if that license were there in hardcopy.

More importantly if you want to make a fork you can always retain that license the moment you fork, not the moment the license swaps. In fact you probably would want to start collecting contributions under Apache 2 straightaway.
When google came out it had the best algothitm backed by good hardware (as far as I understand often off the shelf hardware - anyway the page simply "just worked"). Difference between google and competitors was like night and day when it came out. It gained marker share very quickly because once you started using it - you didnt have any incentive to go back.

Now google search has a lot of problems, much better competition. But seriously you probably dont understand how it was years ago.

Also I thought that in ML still the best algorhitms win, since all the big companies have money. If someone came and developed a "pagerank-equivalent" for AI that is better than the current algs, customerd would switch quickly since there is no loyalty.

On a side note: Microsoft is playing the game very smart by adding AI to their products what makes you stick to them.
A cool article by Maciej Ceglowski (https://pinboard.in) in the spirit of the original article (and times too):

https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Not that I agree with it, just another wittingly-written take on the topic.
Multi-tenancy with Supabase, a fast and simple way
Cold fusion is posted here every few months. Does it fall in this category?
This will be used to do DRM. Media conglomerates are obsessed with the idea of not letting users control the software they run on their computers
Lively discussion on this based on Signal’s own blog post on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291427
> https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=Zero-K:Develop...
If you’ve refactored code and a bunch of tests fail, then you’ve likely introduced a bug.
Show HN: SuperApp – see who is posting from where and when – location trending
Qocial.com super app now shares the location information of business posts and user's public post to understand what’s hot happening where and when.
That would be much more invasive, and I would bet that your current car won’t do what you want to do very far beyond 100 MPH already.
I'd pay for YouTube if it curated its content to skip all the clickbait, engagement garbage, AI-generated channels, scam videos and so on, which make this unbearable to use.

Even if you remove the ads, it's WORK to find quality content on YouTube these days, and this happens to a large degree because they incentivize their content providers to trick the algorithm and users into watching garbage for money. We saw the same happen with Twitter in real time when they announced revenue sharing.

YouTube is more broken today than it ever was. I don't know the exact recipe for fixing this, but this ain't it. I'm not paying to support this cesspool.
The title is so misleading. Using Signal is not gonna cost anything, and the 50 million already costs to run signal, it is not going to start now.
Agreed. 'Who benefits' is a good question to ask in situations like these and it looks like a palace coup to me rather than anything with a solid set of reasons behind it. But I'll keep my reservations until it is all transparent (assuming it ever will be).
OpenAI 'Optimistic' It Can Bring Back Sam Altman, Greg Brockman
"Maybe that's true. But, does it actually matter - at all - that some communities didn't work"

Can you point me then towards some communities, that do live off their land? Without pesticides?

Like I said, I have seen quite a few. But usually those with the biggest words had the lowest yield. And no doubt some can do it. (Conventional organic farming obviously does work). But the combination of permaculture and food forest and alike I have not seen work. Nice looking gardens, yes, but simply not enough solid food as an outcome.

And in general:

"There's no call for this kind of condescending strawman. It's very much against the guidelines here. "

Well, then maybe reconsider your words before?

"It's stupid, and it shows a complete lack of imagination."
Feeling dumb is a good emotion.

You are hitting your intellectual limits, when you feel dumb.

If you didn't 'touch the walls' by feeling dumb, I would wonder how much you're learning.
No.

If I write software I can release it how I want. I can release it as gpl. If someone approaches me wanting a closed source version I can do that.

If I submit a patch to the Linux kernel I can also give that patch to Microsoft to put in Windows.

The closed code isn't 'based on' Apache code. The copyright holders have released the older code as Apache.
On that note, the entire LK-99 debacle.
What will happen is that schools and employers will require these apps which will be installable directly from surveillance/spyware company servers.

It would turn what is now simple, secure, and convenient for users into a privacy and security nightmare scenario.
Is Zero-k still popular now that its cousin https://www.beyondallreason.info has matured ?
It's so weird that free and open source software is the only option for non-free authoritarian countries like North Korea and Russia.
I always prefer ffmpeg to HandBrake, except when working on HDR videos.

I couldn't find a proper ffmpeg command to copy the HDR metadata from input source to output. Last time I checked it was not possible. I needed to extract the metadata manually (e.g. using MediaInfo), then pass each metadatum as an argument for ffmpeg.

Does anyone know if it's still the case?
Ah yes, that one too.
You could lock it away so people start messing with their cars to unlock it again. Yes.
I wish people would realize how dangerous it is to be so much faster than the adjacent lane.
I've been on here for 13 years. It's been one of the most valuable websites for my life, if not the single most valuable. I've learned immeasurable amounts of information about things far and wide. The content and discussions here have made me a significantly better engineer than I could have been otherwise. I've been hired into career-changing roles and hired several amazing engineers from the monthly "Who's Hiring" posts.

I even wrote an open thank you letter to HN a little while ago, lol: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163500
So, essentially, this is a closed source or source available licence. Anyone trying to develop open source with this will be stuck two years behind the official release and so it won't be worth trying. I don't get how it solves that freeloader problem either.

The one benefit I can see is that it forces software to stay relatively up to date as, if they don't make enough changes in a two year period, they will likely be forked and someone else will add the fixes that the devs weren't. But this is also potentially a negative as it inventiveness regularly breaking compatibility with old versions.

I don't see any benefit to the developer using this license except that it makes them feel like they are doing open source. A better approach would just be to accept public contributions under a closed, source-available licence. Or, better still, just offer separate personal and commercial licences.
Why are you even buying that inferior hardware? Apple can’t do anything right, right?
But super conductors do exist and room temperature superconductors may be possible. Nobody has ruled that out at all.
That's similar to a problem I have at work, where most things work fine, each problem is rare, but a typical user's chance of running into a few problems during one day is high even if each individual problem is rare.

How long did it take Media Matters to find the ad that ran only twice in that problematic context? I'm guessing they clicked a few times and in a few minutes had found some, uh, problematic context. The ad that they also saw ran in a problematic context in the eyes of most advertisers.

https://nitter.net/Shayan86/status/1725566201760256164#m BTW.
For an overview, you might like these two articles:

https://www.lvh.io/posts/a-childs-garden-of-inter-service-au...

https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
Communism is one of the worst ideas, with the worst track records, and have always captured the most intelligent people, even today. A casual browse through HN comments is enough evidence.
I used such a computer (4GB DDR3 ram and 2 GHz dual core Pentium) for some very basic work tasks on Windows 10 LTSC (the one without the bloat). It had Windows due to some weird hardware incompatibility, so I used it for about a month. The computer is used for browser with a couple of Google Spreadsheets opened tabs and a couple of messengers once in a while to reply to some messages.

It was almost unusable in that very scenario. I could handle a couple of tabs, but once I opened a couple of extra tabs (e.g. some search either through Google or any local shops) it literally hanged. I had to wait for it (to swap, I suppose) for a couple of minutes to unfreeze.

I went very angry over time and replaced the weird incompatible with Linux component (GPU) for another one and now it runs Fedora 39 with default Gnome 45 installed. It works perfectly well and it hangs only when I open relatively big number of tabs, 15 to 20, which is a lot for the use-case of that very machine. I thought of optimising the machine to run just swaywm (which eats like 300 MB compared to over 2GB of Gnome), but I never faced any issue for over a 3 months period.

So I would confirm that even 4 GB is plenty unless you need a big number of browser tabs opened. But not with Windows. Windows was usable on that machine if you don’t use browser heavily, but very very lightly.
Nobody said they're impossible but believing that they would make sense economically even after they switched to maglev was the dumb part.
You're probably talking about different showers.

Showers within the sauna area are usually mixed. Showers within the dressing areas are not.
Hopefully it's commercial open source, not for research only
Did anyone state otherwise?
I think it's about having massive data pipelines and process to clean huge amounts of data, increasing signal noise ratio, and then scale as other are saying having enough gpu power to serve millions of users.
When Stanford researchers trained Alpaca[1][2] the hack was to use GPT itself to generate the training data, if I'm not mistaken.

But with compromises, as it was like applying loose compression on an already compressed data set.

If any other organisation could invest the money in a high quality data pipeline then the results should be as good, at least that my understanding.

[1] https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
[2] https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/
Actually: he was instrumental in inspiring others to search for those modern laws of physics and at that point such experiments must have helped to figure out where exactly the line was culminating in the laws of thermodynamics.
No, not necessarily any more than Steve Jobs returning to Apple made it worse.
And more importantly, they are scamming the content creators. They are not usually a massive company, but working alone, with YouTube revenue as their main income.