skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a functional alternative to patents. It seems like if you have a good idea there should be some protections afforded to you to use it. At the very least attribution. But who can afford the cost of registering patents and then defending them? The system is not setup in a way that fosters innovation. It would be really cool if you truly could own an idea for some (sane) period.

It would be cool to build up an intellectual portfolio of stuff that you've thought of uniquely apart from everyone else. To me this would be like (1) a unique challenge of designing novel processes, systems, concepts (2) the reward of having a new IP which would be useful for your portfolio (and may lead to future business opportunities) (3) incentivising people to think more since intellectual work could be 'owned' and the result monetized (either directly or indirectly.)

But IMO - it would have to be cheap so that ideas could easily be registered; efficient - so that authorship could be managed fast (or revoked if 'prior art' is found); and those falsely claiming authorship could be pursed without the patent owners having to act as police for their IP. Ideally, registration fees would cover attorney costs, patent research, and policing the patents (am I being naïve.) Maybe a revenue sharing agreement between patent-owners back into the system could even make patent registrations free which would be massive? Governments could also help back this if it made more jobs (which seems possible to me.)
So monopolies are only good if they’re unbreakable?

Literally a few days ago everyone here was telling us how important it is for beeper to stop working because they’re copying Apple.

When is copying and modifications okay and when is it not?
The fissure is still growing and is about 4 km now, and I’ve been following along the national radio RÚV[1]. There is a map of the fissure and the live stream angles there[2] (hopefully the link works). Based on it looks like the southern reach is near Gálgaklettar (N 63° 52' 4", W 22° 24' 20") and the northern reach is passed Stóra Skógarfell (N 63° 53' 53", W 22° 21' 39").

1: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2023-12-18-gossprungan-or...

2: https://dankxip1iu8u9.cloudfront.net/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAicnV2LXB...
Considering there's much more land area in Canada and Siberia than on the equator, and it's underpopulated, this is a stretch.

I expected an article on the prospect of out-of-control AI rendering the Earth uninhabitable to humans much sooner than in centuries.
I have found, from time to time, shipping something earlier than my perfectionist self would like to ship gives me breathing room. You are able to take account of the current state, test edge cases, and then figure out exactly what to improve next. This happens quite often with frontend development; features that I am keen on perfecting just don't need to be perfect in the grand scheme of thing, but shipping gives me the ability to see that from a new perspective.
A lot of other things are in group 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_1_Carcinogens#Chemi...

Alcoholic beverages

Processed meat (consumption of)

Tobacco smoking

...including things that people will voluntarily ingest without much worry.
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> I don't like the values I see in the 1990s TV shows.

You think the world is better off now that we've traded Family Matters and Step by Step for the likes of Euphoria?
> however not by using numbers.

yes, which makes all previous results subjective and unreliable.
Not surprised by this at all. I’ve never seen anyone more entitled and reckless than a Tesla driver. It’s like they think they were sold the entire road with their shitty car.
Monopoly is never the optimal flow.

Sincerely,

- Rust adopter
Is the corollary true? do the worst drivers drive those brands? It would require a classification of driver quality.

But it's possible that the worst drivers - multiple accidents a year - are out there in Fords (or some other brand), but lost in the massive group of regular Ford drivers to which they belong.
They didn't cover unpredictable stopping (especially acceleration lanes), failing to go on green turn arrows or turning from thru lanes - or else Kia Soul would be cleaning the board.
Thank you!
1. I think it can be compared to a process of rendering the charts on your local machine to preview the changes and possibly pasting them in your PR for the reviewer. Sort of like mani-diffy by fully manual, yuck.
2. The other obvious comparison is with a process where diffs are reviewed in the ArgoCD web UI, assuming you have all your ArgoCD apps in "autosync: no" mode. This would be after the PR is merged, thus fracturing the review experience, not ideal. It would also cripple ArgoCD a little as the autosync feature is very key to the experience.
It's not about purity, it's about options. The ClangBuiltLinux community advocated that Linux should not be dependent upon a single compiler. But when Rust came along, suddenly many of the same people suddently decided that a single compiler was okay.
There’s definitely bias in these numbers. I’m not sure what’s at play, but the lowest accidents per driver being from brands that no longer exist (Pontiac, Mercury, and Saturn) certainly looks suspicious. Maybe these are good proxies for age and filter out new drivers?
I think monopolies are great. Without monopolies the products break a lot.
> to maintain your way of life

you don't know what is my way of life, so can't note anything about this.
Have you had your ears checked lately?
They're kind of burying the lede. Apparently there are still people driving Saturns!
It can be annoying, and reviewer #2 is a jerk, but I'd be highly suspect of any scientist that doesn't respect the importance of peer review.
Thanks for the reply, I was grumpy yesterday and pushed back a bit hard, I think I understand your nuance of choice of continuing addiction vs choice of developing addiction now.

Out of interest, what addiction did she help you overcome?
I did a 5 day trip on greyhound twice as a teenager. Once the southern route (from Vicksburg to Seattle via LA and through Texas and Arizona) and once the northern route (from Vicksburg to Seattle via Chicago and through Montana).

The bus stopped at every prison on the route, and the prisoners from Texas and Arizona would get off at LA or Sacramento because they had nowhere else to go, it was sad. But mostly everyone was cool, if a bit smelly (well, I was also, not showering after a couple of days things get dank).

My dad really couldn’t resist the $60 go anywhere fare they were running at the time. It was definitely an experience though. I met some nice people, had some weird experiences, I think back on it fondly.
That sounds like a smart model for thinking about this, thanks.
Mine is a cheapy NVME->USBC external. You do have to be a little careful with the cheap ones, USBC is a somewhat safer bet. Some of them list what chip they're using, which is what I went off of, as I wanted to be able to get full USB3 speed out of it at least.

The reason I went this route is simple really, I wanted something faster/more reliable than a flash drive. Ventoy runs fine off a cheap flash drive, but, it is faster when your device is faster.
Yeah except for the STi which is damned fast.
It's a pretty simple heuristic to track down the source of metaprogrammed functions... just check for method_missing() or define_function() or a handful of other keywords. I believe the regular syntax is just shorthand for these features anyway.

edit- as another comment points out, you can just do `@subscription.method(:supports_feature?).source_location` too
I don't use other browsers so I can't be sure if this is widespread, but Firefox already has a "reader mode" where it cuts out ads/sidebars etc and applies its own very basic stylesheet. Markdown-over-HTTP could very easily use that preexisting frontend.

> I set up my blog with that kind of mentality - I just want to write some markdown and have the browser render it whatever way it needs to

I made my own blogging platform where I write Markdown, and it transforms the markdown into HTML before delivering it to the client. The only JS involved is highlight.js, and that's only loaded on posts where I specifically ask for it - the whole blog works normally with no JS at all. It's still missing some core features like RSS, but I'll get around to that.
>That is a very silly way of viewing things. AI has already dramatically change logo creation and all sorts of image generation.

It "changed" the logo creation tier which was already "changed" by Fiverr $10 logos, logo-making apps with recombinable logo graphics, and so on.
This sounds like circular replication that was possible back in MySQL 3.x using asynchronous replication, and generally not recommended for primary-primary setups.

I can't speak for others but to my mind Galera or Group Replication are the "modern" solutions to multi-primary MySQL replication. Both are considered virtually-synchronous, and thus actively prevent conflicting queries from succeeding.
Makes sense, if your car has the text "RAM" all around it, one is implicitly allowed to ram it
Sorry for the late response, but I don't have any more information about it as it's mostly anecdotal based on my experience. The best explanation I have come up with is the high blood pressure lowers the amount of oxygenated blood in the brain making it harder to produce dopamine, which it is already struggling to do.
> Why should IA get to attribute to itself the inventories of closed public libraries that had no association with IA? What if those libraries wanted to engage in their own digital lending?

It was reasonable to expect that most of them didn't have the technical capacity to accomplish that in the available timeframe.

> It's like the difference between short selling (legal) and naked short selling (illegal). The reason the latter is illegal is because it involved acting as if you owned something that you didn't actually own.

The reason the latter is illegal is that the person you borrow the stock from is getting paid interest to compensate for the risk you become insolvent before you give it back, but the person you're selling it to isn't.

The author is at no risk of "losing principal" in any analogous way.

> If the IA wanted to treat other libraries' books as its own for the purpose of CDL, they should have (temporarily) acquired a right to do so by entering into an agreement with those libraries.

They were closed and possibly unable to be contacted (you call the phone number of a closed library and there is nobody there to answer it), and it was an unexpected event that was having immediate consequences whereas that kind of negotiating was likely to have taken longer than the duration of the emergency to complete.
Age must be the hidden variable here. Saturn, Pontiac, and Mercury were all discontinued (in America) more than ten years ago, and those are the three safest makes.
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If it displayed the Cloudflare 502 Bad Gateway error page, would you consider the URL to be offline?

There's no Cloudflare here, but I see it as conceptually the same thing.
> being from brands that no longer exist

This may surprise you, but some people are poor and drive very old cars, some of whose brands no longer exist. They can only afford to incrementally fix them.
Not really. The EJ25 was first released in like 1892. It's pretty slow compared to the rest of the field. Lotta turbo lag, lots of engine problems due to the antiquated boxer (flat) design. No doubt they are fun cars though and Subaru AWD is hard to beat. With snow tires, it is unstoppable in bad weather. Here is my wife (in her STI) doing donuts in an empty snow covered parking lot across from where we used to live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBV1J9V9s3A
It's a good time to point out that Reason didn't publish the study, they simply referenced it in a blog post.

Who did publish it?

Here's one of the authors:

>Gibson has published well over 100 refereed articles and chapters, in a wide range of national and international social-scientific journals, including all of the leading political science journals. He has also published eight books, including the award-winning Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? In 2009, Cambridge University Press published his Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa. His three South African books – Overcoming Apartheid, Overcoming Historical Injustices, and Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa (co-authored with Amanda Gouws in 2004) – trace the evolution of South Africa’s democracy in the post-apartheid era, and have become known as Gibson’s “overcoming trilogy.” His Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People (co-authored with Gregory A. Caldeira) was published in 2009 by Princeton University Press.
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Why? Write new stories.
>I am incredibly happy about this. Otherwise it's like lamenting the invention of the car because it would eliminate all the jobs making buggies and whips.

Between road accidents, air pollution, noise, horrendous cities and suburbs built around car use, and so on, I don't mind lamenting the invetion of the car either...

In general it's pretty naive to celebrate new technologies without considering drawbacks. Especially if they are just stuffed down everyone's throats, whether they want them or not, and even more so if the technology has the potential to eliminate human creativity and cheapen creative output. Even more so if the technology has so much potential for abuse (for government surveillance, automated spam, all the way to far worse cases, so much so that even its creators warn about the potential existential threat).

I guess what's the remove of creativity, or the existential threat, and countless of other negatives, compared to cheap logos, or (assuming it lives up to hype the way you say) killing off graphic design as a profession?

>So at the end of the day, how is it any different than a person doing it other than the fact now a person won't be getting paid?

In the removal of human creativity in the design, and its delegation to an algorithm.
Mine is programmed to drive X number of feet behind the vehicle in front of me, which is usually a semi truck driving close to the limit.
They have been heavily discounted since “Black Friday” sales. I wonder if they knew this was going to happen…

I went from a series 0 (OG watch), to this series 9 it’s a pretty nice upgrade!
How does this compare to BlazingMQ?
It's the 68.3% of "Extremely conservative" who feel censored because they can't openly talk about their hate and violence that matters.
The _average_ age of a light vehicles in the US is nearly 13 years. That means half the cars on the road are pre-2010. These "dead brands" mostly died around 2009.
At least in the US it is not a win.

The Carlsbad desalination plant [1] cost $1 billion to build, and it produces 190000 tons of desalinated water per day, or 5.7 million tons per month. Assuming a 6% financing cost, and 30 years amortization, you pay $6 million per month, or about $1 per ton of fresh water. That's a cost you incur whether you desalinate the water or not. If you decide to run the plant at 50%, then that's $2 per ton.

It takes 3.6 kWh to desalinate a ton of water. The cost of electricity in California is about $0.12/kWh for industrial users, so that's about $0.44 per ton of desalinated water.

Let's say you switch from the current electricity providers to solar generation that is absolutely free. Then you save $0.44 for each ton, but incur an additional capital cost of $1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...
I dunno. I work with a lot of designers and there's so much substantive back and forth in terms of clarifying goals, objectives, understanding design choices, and business priorities. I.e., there's a ton of nuance that is uncovered and deconstructed in those conversations. I'm skeptical that AI, at least in its current and foreseeable form, can fill those shoes in any meaningful way.

I liken it to engineers who respond to the threat of AI making them obsolete with "Half my job is clarifying requirements and/or changes in priorities...can Copilot do that?" I think it's the same for UX/UI/Design.

I say that as a very vocal supporter of this latest generation of AI. Both personally and professionally it's upped my game significantly.
That wasn't written by jwz.
Close to 100% but not quite. I really like Marc Lewis and Allen Carr.
Yes, that’s correct. Mixed significance pattern and wide-ish SEs so a little challenging to make claims across crime types IMO.

This demo tends to commit the most recorded crimes, which means that they’re getting arrested or murdered. Presumably in an area where lots of crimes are occurring the corresponding increase in arrests and murders leads to lower population counts on the US Census (which I believe was their source of truth on demo stuff).
And type gymnastics seem worth it on something like F#, but on C#, it feels a lot like bureaucracy with not a lot of benefit.
The article ranked the brands by incidents per 1,000 drivers.
The brands are proxies for the buyers, so it's biased only if you think the manufacturing of the car is the culprit.

Pontiac, Mercury & Saturn are more likely to be driven by older drivers or at least people who keep their cars in service for a long time (which doesn't work out so well if you are getting into accidents).

DUI is very much a white guy crime (check the stats), and very much tied to a sense of entitlement... sounds like a lot of BMW drivers, no?
> But the post above is somewhat accurate, in that there is no guarantee that negotiations will end in a license.

Why is that revelation "wild?"

Imagine saying,

> It’s so wild that [Bernie] is allowed to refuse to [allow Bob] to [rent Bernie's spare bedroom].

putting aside the fact that [Bob] doesn't even want to rent from [Bernie] as applied to the situation here with the watches! :-)
I have wasted so much time trouble shooting just basic things on Linux DEs. Example: mouse wheel scroll speed. In general it’s a mishmash of various egos, various low efforts, various high efforts, etc. Not usable imo if you just want to use a computer and have the OS out of your way.
The bias is they are measuring accidents per driver, not accidents per driven mile.

Classic case of Lying with Statistics.
Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after disappearance
Those that see otherwise, e.g. that grok the Matthew Effect[1], systemic prejudice in society, that no human created themselves, or that humans should not be "priced" like commodities, will not.

Even believing those things, why would you not still see it as positive? Would it be better if high-performing people worked for lower-performing companies? Wouldn't an inability for higher-performing workers to move to higher-performing companies reflect a lack of worker freedom?
WW3 will be over before we will be able to get Japan on the phone to ask.
> The Tolkien estate then filed a separate lawsuit against Polychron for all physical and digital copies of The Fellowship of the King to be destroyed

Huh, is this a thing? You can have someone's personal copy on their hard drive destroyed even beyond stopping them from publishing it?
In my mind (and possibly in the real world?) it works like this:

A company makes a 10% profit after paying huge labor costs, and we tax that profit to pay for our collective needs. The company all but eliminates labor costs with AI, and profits soar to 90%. We tax that profit to pay for our increased collective needs.
We're waiting on the resurrection of Dodge Darts, Ford XL and Ford Sunliners so ours can get some new road relatives.
My understanding is that a lot of that area is really hard to build and farm on, due to rock close to the surface or other problems? The temperature changing might help with some of it but it's not going to be ideal bread basket land without some other work, right?
“Rams are known for powerful engines with impressive speed and horsepower. The Ram 1500, featured on J.D. Power’s list of fastest pickup trucks, is particularly notable for its ability to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 7.4 seconds.”

Was this article written by an AI or something? Ram makes exclusively pickup trucks, no one actually calls them “Rams” (the model used to be “Dodge Ram”), they’re not really known for impressive horsepower figures, and a Toyota Camry beats that 0-60 mph time by over 2 seconds.
> Also anecdotally given the acceleration, a few of my friends that drive teslas sometimes seem to ignore yellow lights.

They bought Tesla's, good decision making doesn't seem to be in their wheelhouse.
Just because the cars are no longer made doesn't mean that the data is bad.

This could imply that people who drive old cars tend to drive them more carefully.
> But most people don't because it's the default. MS was found to have a monopoly with IE even though there were alternatives.

Windows also was the dominant operating system with a market share in the 90% or higher. iOS isn't even the market leader in the US let alone the world, so can't really be a monopoly now can it?
> This may surprise you …

That certain doesn’t seem in the HN spirit. Can you elaborate on what that has to do with brands being a proxy for hidden variables?
What he's saying is they may have calculated rates based on how many cars of that brand were sold rather than how many are still "in circulation".
Bootstrapping GCC is not hard at all:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/developmen...

(there are a ton of infrequently-used options in there; if you ignore them what's left is quite simple. replace all the options with `false` and do the dead-code elimination.)

Hint: don't use glibc. The real problem comes from glibc and the way it depends on gcc internals, which depend on libc (i.e. circularly). Bootstrapping GCC on Musl is quite easy.

glibc is the real dumpster fire.
Price of the car is a reasonable hypothesis for why Teslas are all driven by dicks. It has been found that dickishness is correlated with vehicle price. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141...
> . Shortly thereafter, our species will disappear from Earth. Those who choose to live in artificial “habitats” such as belowground bunkers will experience an environment rich in ionizing radiation as nuclear power plants melt down uncontrollably, unstable local temperatures, increasing inability to secure clean water and healthy food, and other significant challenges to the continuation of human life.

bit of a downer ain't it? I disagree with the premise that the current change of the climate is irreversible (like, forever?). I would like to see more evidence to point to the current trajectory as bringing humanity and life on the planet on to the edge of extinction, or more mildly, for it to become unrecognizable to us today.
The worst drivers are the ones driving a different speed than I.

Faster than me = crazies putting everyone's life at risk

Slower than me = morons with nowhere to go