skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, back in the day you could log your source code with the copyright office for copyright (technically you still can).

The process is falling out of favor because the United States does not have a copyright regime where first filer is awarded the copyright, and creators are assumed to have copyright from the moment of creation. So if push comes to shove it is just easier to keep track of your own source code in your own repository and, should a court case ever come up, use your own documentation to prove the date of creation.

... Besides, in the modern era, things move so quickly and code churns so rapidly that, practically speaking, most source code is protected by trade secret and speed of development, not copyright. Once you do something clever and it's publicly visible, your competitors can probably just reverse engineer it without seeing your source code... You keep the edge by having moved on to the next clever thing already while they're still trying to implement the last clever thing you did.
Example: Went to the dentist, and the clinic messaged me a confirmation message via whatsapp. Next day, I got several ads for orthodontic braces.
Site is a navigation and branding maze. What is the difference bt bard, gemeni and deepmind? Where do i type questions? How come it can't answer sth this simple?

Oops, your search for “what is a pannus” didn't return any results.

(Chatgpt won't tell me either out of modesty until I reassure it that's a medical term...)
The EU favors self-regulation in new AI law
If you haven't been keeping up with recent Python changes...

For Python 3.8, the biggest change is the addition of assignment expressions. Specifically, the := operator gives you a new syntax for assigning variables in the middle of expressions. This operator is colloquially known as the walrus operator.

From: https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/

Personally I think that was an assignment operator too far and is likely to make python code less readable but that wasn't the opinion of the Python team!
A Ghillie suit with a Mitznefet and irregular face paint breaks up the human form a bit.
Yes but it's by consent from Israel and the US, i.e. they would rather have the lines of communication open via a functioning state than via some shady Muslim Brotherhood branches in some lawless zone. Hamas leaders live just a few miles from the US airbase in Qatar. Also, it's unclear how much power do the "remotely based diplomats" of Hamas actually have on the situation on the ground. Imagine you're a general in Al-Qassam, do you really take everything that Haniyeh says without questions?
A lot of times they just buy em and let em sit too though. A lot more than individuals since large corps can afford to do that.
They aren't using bitcoin, they are trying to use a proprietary closed variant of it, loosely linked to the mainnet.
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition
>but all messages have to be stored locally, which is a problem on cheap smartphones

Why is that a problem for cheap phones?
That is the point. Long book, checking the long context to see if remembers about the first sentence. Or you mean as a test it is better to randomly place the "needle"?
On a somewhat related note: GnuPG gets plenty of hate from the crypto crowd for being "obsolete" and insecure.

I would humbly propose that before you go telling everyone to stop using gpg, implement something that works, builds, and that doesn't break after 6 months or so. I've been using gpg for what, 20 years now? And recently (as in, three or four years ago) started using it with private keys stored on YubiKeys (using drduh's excellent guide). I also use it for symmetric encryption. It works. It doesn't break. It gets things done, and while I'm not secure from state-sponsored hackers, all this is infinitely better than no encryption.

Rage for example, is not in that category — I added it to my ansible automation as a test, and it broke after several months.
Negative temperatures are a real phenomenon, and are indeed very hot, but calling it integer underflow is a new one.

It’s clearly floating-point.
> the minor annoyance of dealing with cookie banners,

I've stressed this elsewhere but I feel it benefits from more people seeing this - you can block these just like you block ads.

Ublock origin for example, have a look at the filter lists and add on "annoyances". This can also get rid of lots of chat widgets and similar.
Generate Terraform code from your existing cloud infrastructure
That's not whistleblowing, that's being a jackass. Whistleblowing is reporting illegal or unethical behavior that is causing real harm to people.
Good question, the short answer is no. For the long answer, let's begin by simplifying the concept of the Standard Model itself.

The Standard Model is a theory that describes the fundamental particles and forces (except gravity) in the universe. It is essentially a set of mathematical equations that explain how particles like quarks and leptons (i.e electrons) interact through forces mediated by particles like photons (for electromagnetic force), W and Z bosons (for weak nuclear force), and gluons (for strong nuclear force). These interactions are described using quantum field theory, which combines quantum mechanics (dealing with the smallest scales of energy levels and particles) with special relativity (dealing with particles moving at high speeds).

Now, regarding magnetic monopoles, these are hypothetical particles proposed in various theories. There are two main types of hypothetical magnetic monopoles that theorists have considered:

- Dirac Monopoles: Proposed by Dirac in 1929, these monopoles are simpler and would arise from modifications to electromagnetism. Dirac showed that if magnetic monopoles exist, they would explain why electric charge is quantized (i.e., why it comes in discrete amounts like the charge of an electron). However, Dirac monopoles don't fit neatly into the Standard Model as it currently stands. They would require some extension or modification of the model.

- Grand Unified Theory (GUT) Monopoles: These are more complex and emerge from grand unified theories, which are theoretical frameworks that attempt to unify the gravity, electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces into a single force. In these theories, monopoles are heavy and rare relics from the early universe, a time when the fundamental forces were unified. In many GUTs, conditions in the early universe would have allowed for the creation of magnetic monopoles. These monopoles are predicted to be very massive and thus difficult to produce and detect with current technology (LHC energies are still too low to produce them).

So as of now, there is no experimental evidence for magnetic monopoles (this did not change by this announcement). Their theoretical existence is a topic of significant interest, but it remains speculative and outside the direct scope of the Standard Model. Any confirmation of magnetic monopoles would be groundbreaking, potentially opening up new physics beyond the Standard Model.
Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications
As does OpenAI.
>The worse things can and often do generate more revenue.

The goal of a business is usually to generate revenue so I'm confused about your question.
hello,

idk ... i use "conventional" hdds for backup.

but ...

* use at least one (!) other medium (can be another hdd, maybe not the same model)

* keep at least one (!) of them away from being always powered on (to avoid them fail together in case of lightning or power-surge etc. :)

ad brand: in my experience ... every brand had its "bad apples" over the years, so i don't think this matters much.

personally i always go for low power-specs / low RPMs.

and i know how to handle SMR drives - eg. don't put them into NAS-arrays especially not into RAID 5s etc.etc...

imho. archiving stuff is the optimal use-case for such drives, if you can handle the low performance after their faster caches are filled up / their need to reorganize due to shingling (the S in SMR ;)

just my 0.02 €
This was something that I learned, when watching one of the latest Connections[0] episodes.

Good show.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
If you drink a cup of coffee and say "this is too hot for me!", what will that accomplish?

Nothing, as it's a judgement and not an action.

We may act on a judgement though, let the coffee cool down, or avoid dealing with the unethical company.
"At the same time, the level of hype about ECS today reminds me an awful lot of the amount of hype surrounding OOP in the 90s."

I try not to focus too much on the ECS side.
It is all about understand the problem you need to solve. If you are making a game, and you know exactly what the game needs to do from a programming perspective... write it.

Yes, while I would keep the "data oriented" viewpoint... but do you really need to spent time on some ECS layer? If you know exactly what each character in the game does, write it and solve it. Are you making a game... or trying to create the next Unreal Engine?
On Windows, I used to use AutoHotkey hotstrings for that so that they'd be available in file dialogs and Explorer as well as the terminal. Example:

::$pmd::C:\my\directory

For those unfamiliar with AutoHotkey, it has a global keyboard hook that watches for hotstrings like this and expands them to the text after the second pair of colons.

"$" is a sigil I chose to use for all hotstrings since I didn't use a language that used it and it helped avoid collisions with text that wasn't meant to be a hotstring, "p" was my prefix for pathing hotstrings, and "md" was an abbreviation for the mnemonic I chose for this particular directory, "my directory."

Then I realized z saves you the work of all that by learning which directories you use regularly and letting you switch to them with partial matching on its arguments:

z my dir

No more coming up with mnemonics and editing my hotstrings file when I started new projects; now z handles it.

For the GUI (file dialogs etc.), my profile script now includes a command that copies the current directory to the clipboard. I'm happy with that workflow since I pretty much always have a terminal open anyway.
Ever heard of Seagate Direct Tape Access?

"With Seagate Direct Tape Access, users see the tape device as a logical drive letter from within Windows 95 Explorer, Windows 3.x File Manager, or any other Windows application, similar to a hard drive or CD-ROM. Files and directories can be moved to and from the tape device with drag-and-drop operations."

https://www.eetimes.com/seagate-software-ships-powerful-new-...

... from a time when new software was better than old software.
Message queues vs. HTTPS in microservices, part 1: A more decoupled architecture
Ah, see that's when we start swapping the second and third terms for things that imply even larger sizes. And then we can even go up to the inconceivably colossal quettascope.
Most consumers actively don't want to read ToS.

Youtube has a relatively short UK ToS [1] that doesn't require a lawyer to understand. This is impressive given the variety of copyright, monetisation, and content moderation rules it touches.

Yet almost nobody reads it, despite it being promoted on visitation to one of the world's most popular sites.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms
Young children did drink it, and it's still served to children today in Finland: https://www.brewingnordic.com/farmhouse-ales/small-beer-call...
There is no crypto trading platform or organization which had even a single independent audit, in any country. That's more than enough information I think :)
Square Enix and Ryu Ga Gotoku come to mind for me.
BBC News uploads social engineering resources to ChatGPT, creates scam campaigns
Meh. We had a PC in the electronics lab circa 1990 that ran perfectly happily with no case on either the PC or the hard-drive - spinning platters exposed.
One of the reasons I like the SEC solution so much: It is annonymous, you can provide info through am attorny and the payouts for whistleblowers are high enough that people can, theoretically, stop working and retire.
By the power vested in me as a random comment from the internet, behold, I now declare you, "SANE!" Go forth, and insane no more.
Mozilla Launching a Public Voice Dataset
> Further, the rules were written such that EU firms like Spotify are not eligible.

Spotify ain't gatekeeping anything so why do you think they should be eligible?
Nevertheless, the excessive price tags of MIC toys is something the public should be privy to. And the terms you're looking for are "amortized" and "TCO".
Curious, what would be different in an improved brain?
Was always a big fan of the Tengen games R.B.I. Baseball and Toobin' especially, played a ton of them as a kid.

When I see them nowadays I buy any Tengen games I don't have, since it's a relatively small set of games. I don't have a full set yet but I'm getting kind of close now. Still don't have Tetris though which is the rarest one.
I'm doing it right now on a router with OpenWrt and btrfs!
Except this change seems to be triggering a reversal of that integration: https://help.instagram.com/654906392080948
When I first learned about USB "On The Go", and discovered a friend's Android phone had the feature, I connected a USB floppy drive to the phone. I used a micro USB to type A hub that I had around for my Pi Zero.

Totally worked. Android called it an SD card in its UI but I was able to read/write files to it.
> Ah, here goes the "recycling otherwise wasted electricity" myth again. I just don't buy it from an economics point of view

There’s not really anything to “buy” here. I just described how the New York Power Authority generates power. Here’s a press release from last August announcing a new facility for 20 MW of storage with a target goal of 6000 MW of storage by 2030 [0]. This is just battery storage and doesn't include other storage like pumped hydro. It’s just a fact that NY has excess electricity from hydroelectric power plants.

0: https://www.nypa.gov/news/press-releases/2023/20230825-utili...
Yes, you nailed it. They lack expertise in the fundamentals of economics. How can someone understand the true importance of the solution if they can't see the problem?
Exactly this. Even to this day, Nintendo is very smart about almost never discounting their flagship games - and when they do, it’s by a small percent, sometimes with strings attached, not the crazy “90% off” tactics many other developers/publishers follow.
> they never experienced decent regulation

decent regulation like the cookie policy bullshit that makes people waste 30 minutes per day? Thanks bud
This is an APU in a laptop ("Ryzen 6950HS IGD")
1. No one uses their windshield wipers to remove a few inches of wet snow; you yourself do that beforehand

2. Wiper blades normally last longer than that

3. I still hate everything about that car
I don't thinks is a surprise that is exponentially harder to target the military when they have billions of dollars backing them up (yeah I know what some of you gonna say, they should target nobody at all and just suffer in silence, yeah that's not how humans think)
I started with a 119MB Samsung, on a computer with a BIOS supporting custom low-level formatting of the drive according to CYL/SEC/HEAD parameters.
On the other hand Gemini does generate Flutter interfaces on the fly when it thinks it's a useful way to show answers and gather more input from the user: https://youtu.be/v5tRc_5-8G4?t=121
TAST-E is an animatronic robot head with a sense of taste and smell
I'm not blaming either party. I don't even know who first started it. I'm just pointing out the fallacy in the argument. That's why I explicitly used generic names instead of CCP and US Gov.
That problem exists for most cloud based APIs. Most of them are (against best practice) not versioned and so their behavior can change surprisingly.
> Yes, because I can tell them to fuck off from harvesting all my data and have an easy, legally enforceable way to tell them to delete whatever data they've harvested off me

you are living in a dream. the NSA collects data on everyone and you can't delete your data there.
What a peak HN comment - authoritative and wrong. Kids most definitely did drink alcohol.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110306073320/http://digital.li...
Who do you support for Palestine Freedom?
I visited Reddit yesterday for the first time in a long time. I saw an interesting meme and wanted to write a long form piece of content in the comments. After I was done: I received two low-effort replies that revealed to me I have less-than-great communication skills or the readers put zero focus in active reading skills; and one reply with an axe to grind that focused on attacking me and making all sorts of assumptions on who I was as a person, while assuring me I was the person who couldn’t take someone challenging his ideas, and that I was the problem.

Reddit is a cesspit.
Ask HN: Who's Selling a Side-Project?
Thanks but I wasn't asking for suggestions, forcing to a high power mode is not helpful on a laptop, and various different values for ppfeaturemask have been discussed in the fd.o bug (none of which helped tackle the issue).
> the EU is trying to protect the privacy and data of its citisense

Thats the same EU which is trying to break encryption we are talking about?
But is it actually that useful to remember the exact words?
The reactor is unfortunately already removed though :(
there are already generative models for that anyway.
There's a cautionary tale there though. With Starship being able to ferry more than 100 tons into space (JWST = 12 tons), you can imagine how much cheaper it will be to launch telescopes in space. A lot of the cost of JWST was related to the need to make it foldable in complicated ways, and to make it vibration resistant, and in general compensate for the fact that current rockets are cramped. If you can put new telescopes inside a massive cargo ships, protect them with several dampeners, give them ridiculous amounts of space so there's no need for funky folding, how much cheaper can you get? My bet is that by the end of the decade we will have more multiple telescopes more powerful than JWST in the sky, built and launched at a cost below $100 million each, or 100 times cheaper than JWST.

Yet, if you ask 100 people, both scientists and laypeople, mabye 99 will tell you that the $10 billion bill for JWST was worth it.

I'm pro-science, but scientists refuse to even ask this question: when you ask for billions for a super-duper experiment (ITER, looking at you, post-CERN collider too), what is the chance that you could get the same experiment 30 years from now for 100 times less money? The Human Genome Project cost $2.7 million in the 90's, yet now one can sequence any genome for hundreds of dollars (if not less).

At what point will scientists be willing to say that maybe the price for the JWST was too high?
Dupe of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38165410
Yes, that counts:)
Well, in 90s things went from happy to snappy in an instant randomly. Yours beating Murphy that consistently tells me that it's a very lucky system.

Maybe blessed by a Polish Priest? [0]

[0]: https://polishpriests.tumblr.com/
DICOM Flaw Exposes patient records
> Ublock origin has "annoyances" in the lists, just tick that.

you know quite a few people use the things called mobile phones?
You might even say that ALL laws go against human nature. If it was in our nature to follow a certain law we probably wouldn't need it codified.
The indoctrination of some US citizens into acceptance of the tech giants' rape and pillage of personal data for profit is surprisingly strong.

But maybe it shouldn't be surprising given the example of Google's precedent-setting profitability from guiding that particular path.
To be honest if you are unaware of the bad effects of beer or how addiction works in general, it seems like a thing that you would get so easily addicted to.

If I had a different knowledge set and easy access to beer, perhaps I would just drink it daily.

Without water I imagine there are going to be massive hangovers though.
Individual units are ordered by military units through the GSA. If anyone happens to have access, there's a per unit cost in the GSA catalog.
Maybe a heavily fine-tuned image AI would get this right.

I don't see a world in which a general model like GPT or Gemini gets stuff like this correct with high accuracy any time soon.
Paper: https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(23)00568-4
minorities matter only if they serve a purpose, it seems.
Talking about the civilian market. What is the current top of the line hardware that is available to non-gov individuals?
I somewhat remember my parents offering me a drink to try out when I was 6 or 7.
Not sure if it's a made up hint of memory.

It definitely wasn't something frequent or high dosage though.

I actively started drinking with peers around the age of 12 - 14. That was in secrecy from parents though, asking homeless to buy us the goods.
Advanced issues to consider when managing Chrome on AWS
A look at the problem areas when hosting headless chrome on EC2 or Lambda, such as for scraping or testing
Langlands Program.

To oversimplify, the fundamental lemma of the project posits a direct connection between the generalized fundamental representation of a finite field with its group extension to the automorphic forms under which it is invariant. This is accomplished through abstraction to higher dimensional integration, by an equivalence to a certain analytical group as an absolute extension of its algebra. Consequently, this allows an analytical functional construction of powerful invariance transformations for a number field to its own algebraic structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program
On linux a file that's open won't get deleted. It'll stay in memory. When you replace a file all it does is point the filename to the new file contents.

Any program open will keep running. Any newly started program will run the new binaries.

Of course this can give trouble with complex programs. Old executables seeing new config files, that sort of thing. But in general this doesn't seem to be a massive issue, and is fairly doable to work around by keeping critical files open all the time.
> Also vector is a weird point to make, it's been some time I had to deal with Java (luckily) but arrays there are also linear AFAIK. And there are GCs that have a bump allocator for new objects (not sure if Java fits here), so cache would benefit more than in sparse malloc allocations in C/C++.

I think the point is that Object[] in Java is a linear block of pointers to objects, whereas vector<Object> in C++ is a linear block of the objects themselves.
As they say, closures are the poor man's objects and vis versa.

That said, most usage of closures in practice tend to have very little state manipulation -- a closure with 5 mutable fields is weird, an object with 5 mutable fields is "clean code" approved. Also, closures have only one entry point which makes making complex ones much more difficult (you have to implement a state machine or dispatch or whatever.)

Standard "design patterns" over-the-top OOP translated to FP would be like passing around collection of closures (one per method) that all alter a big shared mutable state. At that point OOP is definitely going to be faster, but the FP code would be so ugly you wouldn't write it like that to start with.
> High density living definitely has its downsides...

I thought this story was fake, thank you for confirming.
You don't need a Vector DB (Notebook)
Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis
I reckon I could do it if I knew I had $104m waiting for me. Think of it as $31m/year to live somewhere equivalent to a moon base or the ISS or something.
I assume these beers were pretty low ABV. Addiction to alcohol probably was pretty common and perhaps preferable to dysentery.
inflammatory editorialising; what's wrong with the original title of the source article?
WhatsApp (also by Meta!) supports E2E encryption on the web app.