skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SWATing
Not government directed

> detentions,

75 years ago for 4 years, vs. now and indefinitely

> Furloughs, GFC

Private sector risk and bailout vs. government dictation of the economy

> Lots of it during the Industrial Revolution ( looms come to mind )

The scale isn't even close, iterative design and ideation vs. outright copy and theft

> Let's not forget the slavery

True, few Hong Kong and free the Uyghurs. Implement a constitution that allows protection of people.

> You killed a lot of Indians, yes, yes.

Free the Uyghurs.

> The US and China are different countries, in different stages of development.

No, one country is run by an authoritarian communist party that killed 60 million of its own people whilst culturally cleansing it's neighbors. The other has a constitution that allows itself to evolve into a better and more prosperous place.
That's more or less my experience with code generation. To be fair, I haven't paid for ChatGPT-4, which I'm told is much better. Still, if I ask 3.5 a leetcode style problem I've done, it comes up with a good solution. If I ask it a leetcode style problem I just made up, it generally comes up with garbage -- the solution doesn't work, solves a different problem than I asked, or ignores a restriction I imposed.

The place where I've found it really handy is if I want to make stuff up. Things like "Give me a mundane event that could happen to a 25-year-old leatherworker for a story I am writing." or "What should I name a piece of software that allows people to collaboratively draw a landscape scene?"
Fantastic post. Your logic is a perfectly hermetic circle.

I'm sure the OP can competently explain all of these things. What they can't do is justify them, or reconcile them with the principles that their society has instilled in them.
Why would I want to?

TV/Movies are largely ephemeral experiences. For the handful of content I actually care about, I can purchase it.
Conversely, I've worked on backend, data processing-type applications for most of my career, much of it in Java but some (especially recently) in Python, and the GIL is a huge limiting factor for writing efficient, readable Python code. I've had to write very annoying Python code using the multiprocessing library to get around the GIL, and ultimately it works, but it's ugly and clunky and overall just a pain. And remember, I've written a lot of Java code, so I have a high tolerance for pain! But the JVM's concurrency abstractions are actually kind of a joy to use, even if Java the language isn't. Python is the opposite, so if they can shed the GIL and make multithreading viable in Python without forking new processes, that would be a huge win.
I finally switched to using Jetbrains IDEs after using vim for so many decades.

I am curious how you went about learning all the features. There just seems to be so many and it can be a bit overwhelming.
> Can you sustain yourself eating only vegetables? Modern vegan diets work because we have heavily processed oils and grains, and a variety of supplements. I don't think a human could live long just munching vegetables that aren't cooked with oil.

I think the "heavily processed oils and grains, and a variety of supplements" part was also important to their point, and that's what I was disputing and qualifying.

And their assertion about "modern" vegan diets and my reference to "pre-modern" Okinawan diets is not really a contradiction either. You can easily eat the "pre-modern" Okinawan diet in Okinawa today (and in other places with grocery stores). I'm using pre-modern very loosely to indicate it is not the most common contemporary diet. Many dietary patterns across the world have Westernized/"modernized" (and as a result, many, though by no means all, have become less healthy).
> but the ones I can recall off the top of my head are usually situations that I'm sure felt like rug-pulls or shakedowns to users

It’s funny you mention shakedowns, because I’ve seen at least one or two minor shitstorms (objectively, they were pretty minor, but I’m sure they didn’t feel that way to the maintainers in the moment) because language very similar to what you proposed was interpreted as a shakedown:

> We also have a variety of sponsorship options, and a list of past contributors and maintainers available for contract work.

And I think that’s where the rub is. Almost any strategy as a maintainer for trying to establish a boundary and ignore people (close issues or PRs automatically, offer contract services, etc) can cause these kinds of issues. People really dislike being ignored, and so a policy of ignoring things will kind of inevitably lead to conflict and confrontation with some percentage of people.
> there's no reason to try and prove this wrong

Well, there is one reason: If Uruguay can do it, then it clearly demonstrates how blitheringly incompetent Western leaders are.

It shows how horrifically pointless our oil wars have been (outside of making the instigators even wealthier), and nullifies each and every bullshit argument of the fossil fuel industry completely.

Some numbers: Uruguay has $20k GDP per capita, compared to the US' $76k - basically a quarter of the wealth.
You might also want to watch on helix, if PR 8675 is merged, then scheme will be the extension langauge, then we get the best of both world. Modal editing and scheme =)

PR 8675: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675
what is the primary use you would have for them? do you have a 10GB connection? if so, very lucky
Oh here we go again, but CCCP was a communist state, eh?

This is akin to calling everything and everyone socialist.
You can also protect your design. You dont have to patent it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_property
Its been happening to all their articles for the past day.
>You can't do that IIRC, because it is based on prior art in the public domain. Just like you can't patent a chair with 5 legs.

A point she made in the video (and at least partially confirmed by a quick patent search by me) is that there really isn't one of these in the prior art.

> There's also no reason to patent that many things for the same thing. You only need to be sufficiently vague to how it folds.

As far as patents are concerned, those are the same. Getting a patent broad enough to cover all her embodiments of the invention is the same as getting a patent that covers all the prototypes. In the US you get up to three "free" independent claims per patent application, that can cover different approaches that are non-overlapping. But they can't be addressed to different inventions. In other words, you can get a single patent on three reasonable variations of a folding coat hanger and slight variations thereof. You cannot get a single patent that covers a folding coat hanger, and precision timing device, and a popcorn maker.

Source: IAAPL
Please don't misunderstand my use of the word "museum". I'm not saying Emacs is useless or that we should never improve or use it. But Emacs is more or less the only surviving relic of a very different paradigm of doing computing and software, one which many of us still cherish.

>What's wrong with spreading all this to other spaces, and letting other people learn about them, making them more accessible?

Because the philosophy of Emacs and the computing tradition it grew out of is fundamentally at odds with those other spaces. Everything being in one dynamic language is a huge and intrinsic part of that tradition.

I suppose you could write an Emacs entirely in javascript if you wanted to, if you followed the same software philosophy. But personally I think Javascript is such an inelegant language that a lot of the power of the idea would be lost even in that case.
Interesting. We'll see in 2026 when it's finished how much it actually costs and how well it actually works :)
> Python doesn't have a full specification

This doesn't count?

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html
> We should not sacrifice the many (and encourage the bad actors) to ensure that the few have the access they want.

It's a false dichotomy. We don't need to sacrifice anybody. Require more consent or an advanced toggle to turn on the allegedly dangerous behavior.
> totally unbeknownst to you

If you have enough data to reliably identify your most profitable neighborhoods, I guarantee that data tells you something about their demographics. Any ignorance of disparate impacts, whether on racial lines or wealth or anything else, is willful.
Fast tool for visualizing machine learning embeddings and large graphs
I would not care so much about the definition of open source.

My ideal scenario is that code is open, can be improved and reused among commercial and non-commercial endeavors. I also would like that some of the value created by users of the open code flows back to the creators.

Individual commercial licenses do not create this ideal as they are monolithic and does not reflect that open source is a network of many dependencies.

Companies would be willing to pay for open source but they do not want to manage each node in their dependency graph individually. Thus the need for some centralized tax and redistribution system.
You can if you use firefox ;)
I actually couldn’t get ethernet at fast enough speeds compared to wifi over the last couple years

with wifi over 1gbps and Ethernet stuck at 100mb/s or a single port of 1gbps or a single one that’s faster and none of my devices having that port or the cat5e wires being questionable

what time span were you talking about? Was this decades ago?
> The buyer is paying the agent in the addition to the sale price.

Well I guess this gets a bit philosophical. Who pays the cost (the actual payment goes from the buyer to the seller’s lawyer which remits a portion to the agent) differs from who bears the cost (called the “incidence” [0]), which depends on the price elasticity of demand versus the price elasticity of supply, and this burden obviously shifts depending on the cycle of the housing market. You are correct that the incidence would fall to the buyer for quite some time now but perhaps this is shifting now.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
I wish there was a way to add results from scientific papers to wikidata - imagine doing meta-analyses by SPARQL queries
The other big change of mv3 that gets no coverage but which is dear to me is that mv3 outlaws any kind of dynamic code. The whole app has to be statically defined. This makes it much easier to know what's running, since an extension can no longer go pull in extra code, but it greatly reduces what you can do as an extension too. Extensions have to have all behaviors predefined. I can't dial home & load my behaviors. Here's the issue, https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139

For a while it meant that userscripts didn't have any way to run. So Google introduced a new API for user scripting. But those extensions only run in "developer" mode. I'm guessing that means when devtools are open?

I agree a lot with your premise. It sure seems like Google is targeting everyone with these changes, but that better real affordances & escape hatches need to be builtin to not maim the lives of power users. It took a long long time to come up with a userscript solution, and it seems like an awful doesnt-work-for-me workaround (I use userscripts not to dev but to modify everyday experiences). Chrome just hasn't been taking their obligation to user agency seriously; they can't just start treating everyone as needing huge protective walls all at once.
No Priors Ep. 40 with Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI [video]
And several more languages to be added soon have already been announced: Russian, Farsi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Ukrainian and Dutch. So there's probably much more to come.
its by volume its almost all water and sand, but they add all sorts of other things to it (biocides, scale inhibitors, friction reducers, corrosion inhibitors, surfactants, etc.) and smarter people than me can tell you how bad that stuff is.

off topic of fracing, but chemcically treating older wells is a pretty common thing as well (mostly acid treatments)
> What happened to open source?

Open source is not magic fairy dust that can solve everything. You still need funding for developers, you still need to acquire customers to provide a feedback cycle, you still need device makers making it easy to install your app, etc.
No, that’s the legal warranty disclaimer. It has nothing to do with support, security fixes, or future development.
Same. It was great 10 years ago, but wifi speeds at this point make the wired through electric lines painfully slow. Even with the occasional wifi hiccup, wifi is almost always better.
> Why would I want to?

To share with friends, to make memes, to record notable scenes/moments in media you like. There are many reasons to want to screenshot streaming media
Xerox PARC didn’t move fast and break things. They thought hard and delivered rock solid inventions. Such a huge difference between script kiddies turning into billionaires, and actual engineers.
Autodesk is starting to see competition from startups and open tools
The article barely touches on open-source but highlights the frustration that users have felt from the vendor lock-in that is typical of Autodesk.
Golang: Toy Go compiler in < 200 SLOC
Go0 is a [self] educational toy Go compiler for a minimalistic subset of Go. It demonstrates how to use the modernc.org/libqbe compiler back end.
The amount of RAM could also be a Marketing problem? What do you think?
Bose PC speakers, Shure MV7 mic on shock mounted arm.

These have made Teams calls so much easier to deal with.
There have been steps forward in the direction of making donation easier:

https://github.com/sponsors

GitHub Sponsors directs individuals to Open Collective https://opencollective.com/ , which can serve as a "fiscal host." The advantage here is that the default rule at law for how a group of developers working together will be treated is partnership, which means joint and several liability. Working with a fiscal host partitions individual liability from group liability.

But there are still open questions. I don't know all the details of how Open Collective works from a corporate law perspective. How do they partition the liability of different collectives that are hosted by the same fiscal host? That is important to understand because otherwise, the collectives that share a fiscal host are partners. This is better than all of the individuals who contribute to each and all of the collectives being partners (because there's still a partition between individual and group liability), but worse than if each collective's liability was partitioned from the other collectives' liability (and the fiscal host itself's liability).

This seems like an active area for legal innovation. No jurisdiction I know of is optimizing to maximize speed and minimize cost of setting up corporations. Yet without the ability to shield the contributors of capital and labor from individual liability, there isn't much a group of individuals can do in our modern economy. The problems that many DAOs have had is a case study in this.

People who care about open source should also care about scaling up the speed and minimizing the cost of incorporating. Stripe Atlas and similar services are underrated sources of economic growth for this reason, IMHO.
What do the "business elite" actually care about? Power. End of story. A lot of people will say money, but money is just an indicator of power and tool for achieving it. Xi has ultimate power. He can bend the entire global south to his will. The Musks, Zucks, Bezos, Thiels of the world lust after that kind of control.
Why though? Just reflexively copying Chinese solutions is a pretty poor strategy, they aren't structuring their forces by considering what makes sense for the US to do if they were to copy them.

The Chinese are expected to do the the shell game simply because they don't have a ballistic submarine fleet that can be relied on to escape out into the Pacific, nor do they have enough nukes to fill all the silos they've made. The US has a fleet of ballistic submarines the Chinese can't touch, and full fields of silos that are truthfully simply left over from the cold war.
I'm really surprised at the number of people on the side of the telecoms here. I think it's reasonable to want consistent pricing and quality of service, particularly in cities.

Redlining doesn't have to be because of racism or classism, but the result is the same. There are underserved populations that can't get better internet, even if they want it. Isn't fixing that a reasonable policy goal?

If we can't get it from companies, I'd be down to treat the internet the same way we treated rural electrification & phone service. That is, setting a high standard and deploying it to everyone. No more multi-billion dollar giveaways with no consequences for delivery. If we aren't getting results, fund municipal broadband and other schemes.
Smaller EVs like scooters are also more convenient than cars to get around in a big city. And take less parking space.

Big cities in which a large (and increasing) % of the world's population lives.

But obviously the local climate is a factor. Few people would enjoy pushing through the snow on a 2-wheeler. In mild climates, very different story.

Anyway, good to see this making a dent in global oil demand. Iirc China already passed its peak oil due to the rising popularity of EVs there. But still:

"Global oil demand is now projected to peak in 2028 at 105.7 million barrels per day – and then begin to fall, according to the International Energy Agency."

Per DAY. Mind-boggling...
Except disruptions (i.e. worse service than IPv4 only) from rolling out IPv6 are the exception while disruptions from rolling out jumbo frames are absolutely the norm.
Thank you for asking. It's processed by OpenAI atm. No money from the integration. Resume writer GPT provides valuable advice and really cool features (e.g. tailored resumes), and the further fine-tuning can be done at https://resume.co – that one is the regular SaaS product.
AI can clearly move past these limitations, but it won’t be an LLM it will be some other technique.

If anything in the next 12 months I expect LLM’s to get worse in many areas as people start doing the equivalent of SEO to get LLM’s to say whatever they want. It’s GPT 5.0+ vs companies trying to sell stuff etc.
Not disagreeing, but pick a lane - is your data too small or too big? The discussion here was about data thats allegedly too small to be called "big data"..
I don't see the problem with this kind of affirmative action, but reasonable people could vote out the US administration that supports this if it's important to them.
Are buyer agents also paid at a % of the closing price? If so they also have an incentive to get their clients to pay more for the house.
Hydro power… it’s like 50% of their power. Then wind, then biomass, then solar.
What's the backwards compatibility story here? Send out dual 1500/9000 packets? I don't see how that would work for the billions of devices in the wild without replacing everything but maybe there's a better solution that doesn't take 30 years.
With Manifest v3, you can get adblocking without having to trust your adblocker extension, like on Safari. That's a significant benefit.

You can still opt into having your data stolen, but now it's no longer a requirement for adblocking.
That's why Germany has some of the highest homeownership rates in the world!

Oh wait...

Turns out encouraging illiquidity, high entry costs, and limiting people's options when it comes to selling without paying extortionate amounts of taxes doesn't actually do that.
Alternatively, the lack of a non-corporate sponsored source of health care and income in the US is unsustainable. :(
Remember when Microsoft had to unbundle IE from Windows (the dominate OS of the time) because it gave them too much of a competitive advantage. Google has a dominate position in:

- The browser

- The search engine

- The Ad network

- The device operating system

- Email communications

Plus more money than god to buy dominance where they don't own it. When is it too much control over the primary means of gathering and distributing information in the modern world.

It feels like their current power position even dwarfs MS's at the start of the browser wars.

Nobody gives a rat's ass about the customer anymore because the customer has nowhere else to go.
Mandating every business decision is made with a racialized lens is a path to rebuilding systemic racism, not a means to end it.
Yep, GP should do a factory reset on both, and pair them. If it stil happens after that, replace them with models that don't have this problem!
Some PDFs are weird. Try simply cmd+a, cmd+c, cmd+v copy and paste its content into the GPT. Should do the trick.
There are a lot of european car makers selling EVs nowadays. The fact you don't know about them is just ignorance.

Plus I see a lot of Kia and Hyundai EVs on the road, much more than Teslas that people seem to be happy with.
> The Kickstarter is already double-funded.

It’s just public posted sales revenue for a product that didn’t need a kickstart.

But I understand, in comparison to kickstarters that don’t succeed at all, yes.
Can you say what country?
I'm confused as to why the comments are getting so heated on this, typically I see people complaining that the USA has very inconsistent and bad broadband, with people being forced to switch to satellite services to get any kind of reasonable connectivity.

Could someone explain to me why forcing the broadband companies to provide better service isn't a net positive action please?
Reminds me of "Cosmos for Rednecks":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1Q8PQLAhQ
Except in a for-sale-by-owner scenario, where the seller is not using an agent. In those scenarios, it may be necessary to agree to a fee paid directly by the seller to a buyer's agent. 2-3% is typical. This is not always necessary - some buyers will not be using an agent either, but it is not rare.
I count 16 appearances of this URL. Is that a record? Can high previous appearance count be made to flag/kill a URL like this?

More speculatively, when does HN run out of appropriate links? I'm noticing more and more articles that have appeared large numbers of times in the past.
If you're running a utility, it is your responsibility to serve all customers. The water company can't refuse to build pipes in a poor neighborhood. Private ownership of that utility doesn't remove that responsibility.

If they don't like it, I'm sure we would be happy to nationalize them.
LED-Filament. Non-smart. Very warm-white, meaning below 3000k as 'base-lighting'. For color-stuff there is other stuff.
I thought ethernet was more of the wire protocol than the cable. I could have sworn that the "ethernet" cables when I first started working were coax, and the article talks about the first ethernet being on coax. Seems like ethernet in modern usage is synonymous with CAT5.
Yeah copyright is a mess even if you’re trying to do it legitimately. I don’t even know how you’re supposed to use licensed music without getting a strike.
In coastal California the commission situation becomes ludicrously lucrative to the top agents. This week a home in my community sold for $25,0000,000. One of my friends had the buy side, another had the sell side. The buy side agent will be involved in ~200,000,000 in transactions this year, a down year. In this community there are plenty of transactions north of $20,000,000. He just did another and had both sides of the deal for $50,000,000.
At this level the commissions are usually 2.5%/2.5%. 5% of 25,000,000 is $1,250,000.
The irony? High end home sales require much less work/effort than low end. Far fewer showings. No open houses, ever.

I used to work at a major real estate company and I know very well how intent they are on holding the listing service monopoly together. Redfin, Zillow, etc were all bets on the opening of the listing services that misunderstood the regulatory capture of the National, State and Local Realtor associations. They ended up selling ads to Realtors rather than opening up a new way for owners to sell their homes directly.