skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and if you do that, it’s theft under the law because we want to reward people for doing novel work. In the same way if I could get GitHub to send me a copy of your private proprietary repository without your consent, that would be called theft by the law, because it removes the incentive to invest in proprietary software. If I hire one of the engineers who worked in that repository and spent years on the problem so she could code solutions to it in their sleep that’s not theft in the law, because we value labor rights, the free exchange of ideas, and want to incentivize building up human capital. Even as it creates a new risk people investing in proprietary software have to deal with now.

If I hire “software” that learned from a copy written source, but doesn’t reproduce the copywritten code directly, why is that different from hiring someone who worked on that project before?

I think morality isn’t a useful compass here, it isn’t a moral problem. It’s a problem of what kinds of rules you want for society to increase utility for everyone around these tools. If you restrict learning from each other too much you stifle progress. If you make it too easy to copy the leader in a field you disincentivize anyone doing novel research first.
> I wonder if a lot of this outrage isn't from the tech side (they tend to be fairly open about that stuff) but rather if it is coming from the adult entertainment industry, as this kind of thing literally destroys their entire business model.

Does it destroy the business model where you can see all the images for free on the internet, or the business model where you can pay money to converse with an hourly Filipina worker who will claim to be the same person who appears in the images?

Where does the adult entertainment industry get hurt?
“Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It” by Chris Voss
The author should spend a tiny amount of effort to familiarize themselves with custom instructions, one or at most two clicks away in the ChatGPT UI.

It's easy to have ChatGPT swear, say things deemed by mainstreamers as controversial, and say things deemed by sensitive people as offensive. You just have to instruct it properly in the custom instructions.

You don't even have to instruct it do those things. You can just instruct it to not refrain from doing them, so long as they are needed for making any point or conveying any information.

This is ChatGPT 101. Super basic stuff.

A journalist that can't do basic research isn't worth much.
> Instead of, you know, writing actually robust and simple-to-deploy software.

This is unfortunately much harder to do than doing docker images. If you're trying to ship a robust and simple to deploy app, you will fail at some point - you just haven't seen a system where that happens yet. You can't be robust vs unknown unknowns and what a system will look like in a couple of years (next LTS) can be very surprising.
And I wouldn't use it for the same reason I don't use Grammarly --I don't want all the text I type being sent to some third party server for analysis and storage and whatever else they want to do with that text.
They mind. A lot of people have set TV apart from Internet, and that is an age thing. Peeps grew up with TV.

Others just do not know how to setup a media experience and just take what their Roku, or other media device gives them.

As younger people age up, these stats will change significantly.

It is that future fueling ad block wars, IMHO
Just like with social media, all it takes is one person to not honor that request, and boom! your shit is out there. Sure, you can fire the offending party, but you can't just ask Co-pilot to not use your contributions. That's like asking the internet to give those pictures back. It ain't gonna happen.
V=nada; echo "x${V}x"
Yes! I went to Chrome, and have come back to FF guilty I left
San Jose NIMBYs are now going to drive costs to >2billion/mile with their rejection of cut and cover.

Now VTA is spending 75million dollars on a massive tunnel boring machine, for a project that should cost less than half of what it does
I am not going to dispute your opinion but rather point out that people are different. Some people don't mind maintaining old systems and some people love being the person who created a new systems D using new technology. Both sets of people are necessary in our field of development and his mother sounds like she is fine with maintenance type of work.
Non-fiction books aren't just about "transmitting great ideas" but also transmitting vast amounts of detail about more niche things. Take ancient history, for example: it is common for books run to many hundreds of pages, but that length was necessary to cover both political events and everyday life, to go over all the evidence a historian relies on to reconstruct the past, to treat disputes among experts, etc. You just aren't going to find the same amount of detail in a single place on blogs.
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Show HN: FlashLite – Flash emulator for Android based on Ruffle
Never did play Escape Velocity but I like this one so far. It's a charming little game with some decent story development. And it even runs natively on Mac.
Just use PostgreSQL and pgvector
I wonder if they where really offended or it was an impulsive overreaction on their part :P

In times where people like that exists, chatbots that can swear are weapons of mass destruction.
The existence of "The dress", which is seen by different people or the same person in different states of mind as white/gold or blue/black, and other such illusions, would seem to invalidate your perspective.

Or if that's not persuasive, just consider different software versions, different video drivers, etc. running on the same hardware.

Or consider that if you believe a tumor in your visual cortex could meaningfully change color perception in your model, then why wouldn't a difference in cortex structure have some effect too? I'm willing to bet no two humans have ever had or probably will ever have the same arrangement of visual cortex neurons and other relevant brain biology. Do you think you know enough to say any such variation is irrelevant?
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There's a legend that General Motors tried direct sales way back when (when they had >50% of the market), and lost their shirts in the process. Traditionally, the domestic manufacturers would push as much product as they could onto the dealers, who then would pay them finance rates to 'floor' the cars until they were sold. So this was a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Has any great design been invented that isn't tied to hardcoded paths preventing multiple versions of the same library etc and would allow easy linking to any version? Nix? Anything else?
Prove that conversation didn't happen. Of course it's not going to be in writing. Of course they are denying it now. Otherwise, there's literally no defense. So you either fall on the sword, or blame someone else.
Ditch Your Free Plan
Characters are 2 dimensional

That's the great twist of the movie though. Indiana is presented as an American Nazi-hating playboy thrill-seeking heroic professor...who is also into history or something. Belloq is presented as a French backstabbing Nazi-sympathizing schemer multilinguist...who is also into history or something. You're given all of this information upfront by the end of the first sequence.

But then, it turns out you had it backwards. These characters were actually men who are obsessed with history that are also some other stuff I guess. Indy basically gives the ark's power over to the Nazis just to see the truth of its history inside (but gets lucky lol). Belloq is shown not to care about the Nazis or getting rich. He really only wanted the knowledge inside[1].

Indy spends the film falling in love with Marian, fighting off reprehensible Nazis, and enjoying at least some of the immense glory coming his way. You expect him to grow as a character by the end and bazooka (or not bazooka) the ark for one of those reasons. Instead, he's swayed by Belloq's appeal of history and it turns out you never really knew who Indy was despite being given all of the information upfront.

[1]The original script provides more of the context for Belloq's character at the end
I have nothing to prepare for, I don't build things that betray trust, Google.
How is stuff like this so hard to understand? If you really need to carry something big, or cant walk (and dont have accommodations?), you can just use a car as needed. The point is to make the need for a car as small as possible.
3% of users upgrade to paid plans. So If you have a $5/month plan, your average user is worth $0.15...

Removing free plans has ben one of the most impactful decision one my solopreneurship journey (currently at $51K/mo)
Woah, the effect system looks really neat at first glance. Also, “region-based local mutation” so your pure functions can use mutation under the hood for performance? Sweet!
Is the logo the Kestrel? Love it. Played the shit out of EV:N on the computer lab computers.
> When a suitcase gets lost (or a pole vaulting shipping container) the airline spends up to three months trying to get it back to its owner.

and down to? 1 day?
If you want porn, there are Stable Diffusion models out there that will generate it. There's one model that seems to generate nudes by default; if you don't ask for clothes, you don't get them. Whatever.

This isn't important. What is important is that we can't prevent LLMs from doing things they're not supposed to. Which means connecting their output to anything important is a very bad idea for now.
The s&p 500 is a strategy. Like all strategies of attempting to predict the future based on the past, it's success ends one day. Something fundamental changes and humans don't adapt, we keep doing what worked until failure is staring us in the face.

Not that it has failed. The goal is not to give the highest returns available, but the highest risk adjusted return with symmetrical information, and that is precisely what it does.
Blockchain, the future of trust!

As much as I like NewPipe and feel bad that I'll look up donating to them, I want to say, "Aaaahh you naive kids!"
Even if cinema is declining as a mass art form due to short attention spans, internet filesharing and streaming has made it more accessible than ever. I have been part of internet discussions about famously long films like Tarr's Satantango (7 hours) or Rivette's Out 1 (13 hours) where some participants were from non-Western countries, sometimes disadvantaged ones, but Bittorrent had brought all these riches to them.
Are you compiling you os distro's `FROM scratch`?

Ther's always a certin level of trust, and for many, docker containers are just as trusty as distros from trusty orgs or volunteers.
Nah docker is excellent and far far preferable to the standard way of doing things for most people.

All the traditional distribution methods have barely even figured out how to uninstall a piece of software. `apt remove` will often leave other things lying around.

He complains about configuration being more complex because its not a file? Except it is, and its so much simpler to just have a compose file that tells you EXACTLY which files are used for configuration and where they are. This is still not easy in normal linux packages. You have to google or dig through a list of 10-15 places that may be used for config..

The other brilliant opinion is that docker makes the barrier to entry for packaging too low.. but the alternative is not those things being packaged well in apt or whatever, its them not being packaged at all.. this is not a win.

Whats the alternative to running a big project like say Sourcegraph through a docker compose instance? You have to get set up ~10 services yourself including Redis, Postgres, some logging thing blah blah. I do not believe this is ever easier than `docker compose up -d`.

And if you want to run it without docker, the docker images are basically a self-documenting system for how to do that. This is strictly a win over previous systems, where there generally just is no documentation for that.

Personally docker lowers the activation energy to deploy something that I can now try/run so many complex pieces of software so easily. I run sourcegraph, nginx, postgres, redis on my machine easily. A week ago I wanted to learn more about data engineering - got a whole Apache Airflow cluster setup with a single compose file, took a few minutes. That would have been at least an hour of following some half-outdated deploy guide before so I just wouldn't have done it.

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The beginning of the post is most revealing though:

> The fact that I have multiple times had to unpack flatpaks and modify them to fix dependencies reveals ... Still, these systems work reasonably well, well enough that they continue to proliferate...

Basically you are okay with opening up flatpaks to modify them but not opening up docker images.. it just comes down to familiarity.
Can it say racial slurs?
Ask HN: How do you uncover the unspoken objections of a potential customers?
The target segment are digital creators.

I'm getting good response, but the final deal is moving slow in many cases. I suspect there are some unspoken objections. How do i uncover them?
I knew I would regret the click when the title made absolutely no sense. Even if enshitefication leads to societal collapse, I still don’t see the Amish as the global domination type. Wow.
> But it's buried very well under layers upon layers of deep integration with windows and .NET, the attempt to shoehorn a character-based shell into working with objects somehow, and a syntax that rivals enterprise java in its verbosity.

You do know it runs on Windows, Mac (amd64/arm64) and Linux(amd64/arm)? There is definitely integration with .net, which is available for the same platforms. The integration with .net is part of its power for me.

Verbosity can increase readability.

> Is it? Why? Man pages, infopages, and `apropos` all exist. Individual man pages may be bad, but the system as a whole is solid. It also isn't dependent on the shell. All these mechanisms are just normal programs that can be executed by any shell.

You will not loose those tools and their man pages when using PowerShell. He is referring to the documentation of all helper functions defined within PowerShell. When you create a helper function in Bash, how do you document it and what tool can you use to consult that documentation?

Bash does not have named parameters for its functions, let alone metadata on them…
You're imagining something you think is what it's like to be a crab, or what you think it's like to have more legs, etc., but why do you have any confidence that's what it actually is like?
The only way there's going to be any competition is if stores lower the price of goods by the equivalent amount that they save from credit card transaction fees.

Otherwise, consumers will continue to prefer using credit cards due to cash back, safety, and convenience.
User management, documentation, distribution, UI’s, upgrades, high availability and clustering, backups, libraries, skills required to administer and therefore hire for.

I’ve worked in companies where we grabbed any tech we want, and I’ve worked in companies with one default DB unless you had an excellent reason. The latter meant a much simpler universe where entire teams knew how to fix things that broke at 2am. You just hire one type of DBA. It also meant dev teams really knew how to squeeze the one DB platform rather than learn a little about 10 database types.
Related:

- (2023-11-08) Tell HN: Bountysource seems to have shut down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198261 (2 points, 1 (dead) comment)

- (2023-09-04) Bountysource.com is Insolvent, do not use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384014 (22 points, 1 comment)

- (2020-06-17) BountySource have turned evil – alternatives? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098 (226 points, 105 comments)

- (2017-11-21) BountySource suspended from GitHub - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15747328 (67 points, 52 comments)
There are lots of reasons for this which the YouTuber Caspian Report covers well [0][1]. In short, it's to strengthen their warm water port access; Ukraine being relatively flat so making sure they control the lands up to the natural border of the Carpathian mountains lest NATO invades; et cetera.

[0] https://youtu.be/MkrLUFAcjH0?si=NHIYuq1xm4e-D0kT

[1] https://youtu.be/nR7XAcArAa0?si=lIyM2vWVF50LKvnu
This terminal emulator might help:

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

As for other "effects", in theory the HDD led on the front panel could be interfaced with some actuator to produce vibration and sound when data is accessed.

Personally, I can't wait for the PineNote to exit the development phase and become an usable product; other e-paper readers are too closed and/or depending on cloud services I have no intention to surrender my personal data to.
Ah yeah! Browser ball is a classic!
It says because it could overwrite config files but not always a security problem.
First release of Kube Helm: Feb 2016

Earliest commit in the synth Helm repo: 2013

Earliest commit in the Emacs Helm repo: <=2007

First time someone called a ship helm a helm: ???

First time a Viking called a helmet a helm: ???

So, who cares really
Merchants will surcharge the credit cards to drive consumers to cheaper instant rails. Many already do surcharge, and the number continues to increase. If you want to pay 3-4% extra to use credit card rails as a consumer, that is a choice. T-Mobile requires autopay customers to move to ACH from credit cards to continue to receive their autopay discount. AT&T and Verizon charge surcharges to pay with credit card. This is only the beginning, merchants will get more comfortable as peers make these attempts and are successful.

I expect Walmart’s progress here to be a bellwether. Their consumers are price sensitive and they have the power to drive consumer behavior. Their success (or lack thereof) will drive the actions of smaller volume merchants. Walmart spends ~$3B on credit and debit interchange fees annually; they are highly incentivized to get off of expensive payment rails and specifically commented on this during the public FedNow comment period.

Anecdotally, my landscapers will only take Zelle or a check. I don’t blame them.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/credit-car...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/30/credit-card-fee-fight-pits-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012866

https://www.federalreserve.gov/SECRS/2019/December/20191227/...

https://www.ft.com/content/c50a840b-394d-45e3-894d-301d9e1fa... | https://archive.today/m3qnH

> Payment consultancy TSG reckons between 5-10 per cent of 8mn card-accepting small businesses in the US now charge fees for credit card usage. That is up from 2 per cent five years ago. Underscoring the growing trend, TSG said about 15 per cent of new merchants who accept card payments have a surcharge policy.

> Business owners may feel they have no choice. Credit card fees, which average 2-4 per cent of the transaction amount, are most merchants’ highest operating cost after labour, says the National Retail Federation. Surcharges help cover the interchange fees that they would otherwise pay to card network and bank.
Hmm. Are you sending all this text over to a server somewhere to be processed, or are you doing all this work locally on-device?

If you're doing the former (like Grammarly), then I'm not interested.

If you're doing the latter (and you can prove it), then it sounds very interesting!
Probably not enough old texts for it to learn how the language and the world work. Hence the fine tuning.
But that could be said about each an any dependency.

And some (very rare) companies do enforce that, everyone else has to build up a bit of trust.
This is an interesting point. You made me think about it.

The interaction with the internet evolved over time, but it was handicaped by biases - and probably the language barrier as well -.

At the beginning, it was mainly to get books, and follow "general" discussions in forums. Books - maybe due to a cultural bias - always felt like the "right way" to learn. The "community" part was really absent from my mind.

This was enforced, unfortunately, with the overwhelming experience of seeing someone's code and not understanding anything. Somehow, my fallback after such experience was: I need to study more books.

It is difficult to explain, but there was a mental leap here that I didn't make for few years.

Overtime though, this changed.
Hacking on some code and making random changes until it works (”It works! Ship it!”) is much easier (or at least feels easier) than designing the code carefully and using tests to verify the correctness of our code. Yet for good reasons we do it the harder way. For mostly the same reasons, I’m very wary of a system image of some pre-installed software instead of packaged software which is meant to run in a variety of environments, and to be easily configured to do so.

Note also that a system which is robust and adaptive to different environments today is also robust to different future environments. And nobody can escape the march of time. Everybody needs updates. TLS updates. Time zone updates. Security fixes. I’d rather have a system designed with robustness against differences as a primary concern than a system where it’s assumed that it will run in an unchanging static universe.
> Alternatively, would you rather a world with 80% functionality safely

Obviously this is preferable because safety is uniform in its application to everyone and universally agreed upon.
I like the made up citation in the last one.

While the idea of a LLM refusing that query for ethical reasons is ridiculous, ultimately refusal given the unlikelihood of providing an accurate answer is arguably the correct result.
The only lesson here is having a local source of nitrogen, which is natural gas and a way to process it for national security.

Or the alternative, bulldozer more ecosystems.

This is the modus operandi of the CO2 disciples. Zero respect for the environment and people and only the worship of a future rapture ~ a century away.

It's also why food waste is feature not a bug. Only in real extremes people starve.

Not sure how this report is anything more than grass is green.
What's wrong with bash though? Targeting bash specifically has massively improved my productivity and decreased the incidence of easily avoidable mistakes. Portable POSIX shell scripting is hell on earth but bash scripting with shellcheck can be surprisingly pleasant. I had the same experience with portable makefiles and GNU Make.

For example, I managed to create a surprisingly good test suite with bash and the rest of the GNU coreutils:

https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/blob/master/scripts/test.b...

It even runs in parallel. Submitted a patch to coreutils to implement the one thing it couldn't test, namely the argv[0] of programs. I should probably go check if they merged it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Latinarum

approximately 180,000 inscriptions
You just need to learn that there are multiple metros and some JR trains, and then it will become easy to understand. Modern metro apps and maps can calculate the path using all of those without any problem.