skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I very much doubt the company [...] was selling the non-copyrighted software

Well you'd be mistaken. Lately, it was custom software, for a particular client, and of no interest to others. Earlier, it was before software copyright was a thing, and computer manufacturers gave software away to sell the hardware.

At the very beginning, yes, it was "very specific" hardware; it was Burroughs hardware, which used Burroughs processors. But that was before microprocessors, and all hardware was "very specific".

> (plus they rely on trademark laws and design patents quite often)

Craftsmen and labourers were earning a living long before anyone had the idea of a "trademark", still less a "design patent".

> The output of lawyers is in fact sometimes copyrighted

You're right. That's why I didn't say "lawyers", I said "legal advocates". Those are people who speak on your behalf in courts of law, not scribes writing contracts. Anyway, the ancient Greeks and Romans had written laws, contracts and so on; they managed without trademarks and copyrights.
There are two problems with the “kid” analogy:

a) In many closely comparable scenarios, yes, it’s copyright infringement. When Francis Ford Coppola made The Godfather film, he couldn’t just be “inspired” by Puzo’s book. If the story or characters or dialog are similar enough, he has to pay Puzo, even if the work he created was quite different and not a literal “copy”.

b) Training an LLM isn’t like giving someone a book. Among other things, it involves making a derivative copy into GPU memory. This copy is not a transitory copy in service of a fair use, nor likely a fair use in itself, nor licensed by the rights-holder.
> yet there are a lot of unemployed people hanging around in the areas in question

It’s almost like there are other variables involved. And again, you’re comparing highly-productive regions to ones that require federal subsidies to stay afloat.
This caught my eye: "Prior to Vogtle Unit 3, the last nuclear reactor to start in the United States was Watts Bar Unit 2 in Tennessee. Construction on Watts Bar 2 began in 1973 but was suspended in 1985. Work resumed in 2007, and the reactor came online in 2016."

More on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Plant#Unit_2
It depends on which app you are using to scan the codes. For Trak [1], the main use case is to scan QR codes you made yourself (or someone from your company made). The scanner simply rejects anything it doesn't recognise as a valid (app-specific) code.

[1] https://admin.trak.codes/
> It would be so great if someone at Apple could get the buy-in to clean out this zoo but try explaining that to a product manager at these places.

It’s happening! Admittedly it’s happening slowly, but it is happening. PostScript support recently got stripped out of MacOS and iOS explicitly because the security risk was too great, and effort to make parsers and renders safe was greater than any residual benefit from the postscript format.

It also looks like the “fix” for one for the TrueType exploit was to simply strip out the ancient extension because it’s not used anymore. As for why it didn’t happen before now, that probably just because nobody knew it still existed.
> reboot your iPhone at least weekly

with the Hard Reset key sequence, https://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone
Public key cryptography was developed in 1970s at GCHQ but that was classified.
Having just browsed the Readme it sounds like it could be the missing link between KiCad and FreeCAD. Not that a link doesn't exist now but it's difficult and unpleasant to work with.

Being able to near simultaneously work on a design in the 2 programs would be lovely.
I live near Lexington ave and 29th street, so I will definitely check this out.
So, basically how people use python now?
> we already have laws that have a different effect depending on if it's a computer doing it or a human

which laws?

we generally accept computers as agents of their owners.

for example, a law that applies to a human travel agent also applies to a computerized travel agency service.
I'm not sure how people eat there anymore, even as a guilty pleasure. The ingredients got worse (cheaper ingredients, no whole milk mozz) and the dough, from what I understand, is shipped frozen, not made in store.

Even in the 90s their pizza sent me running to the bathroom it had so much oil in it.
Thanks for this link and your replies in this thread. As someone who had to feverishly dust boric acid around my kitchen last summer (because in Washington state, it seems many online stores like Amazon don't want to ship anything effective. Maybe regulations?), I'm looking forward to trying out Vendetta Plus or something similar if these German roaches return.
Yes, the amount of estimations I made to get to that number is absurd, and very much "best case" with no regard for inefficiencies (both nuclear and solar systems are currently leaving lots on the table).
You beat me to it and yours was better anyway. Drat.
I don't know about Plivo but if you're looking to do phone number verification we built a system for this https://www.ding.live/ with goal of improving conversion while reducing cost you can sign up there directly https://app.ding.live/sign-up.

I would be happy to understand more about what you're trying to solve don't hesitate to reach out to my email.
As the seasonality of power becomes more and more pronounced, it'll make more and more sense to make seasonal loads. Cheap to build but electrically expensive to operate manufacturing processes that take advantage of borderline free power in the summer months that don't have much capex to amortize in the winters.
Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light into Matter
Indeed I was. No one actually liked clearfix, but we had to do it. It was the bit of plaster smeared over the hole the door knob punched in the wall. A necessity, but not a nice one
> Similarly, on pages like GitLab you can link to specific line(s) of code in a file...but it often is the head of that branch. The URL will resolve in the future, but its pretty common that the chunk of code has moved.

On GitHub you can hit the 'y' key[1] and it will add the revision into the URL.

GitLab will most probably have something similar.

[1]=https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/accessibility/keyboar...
> it's his company, so did anyone doubt that he could have it work differently if he wanted?

I think it is more, he's a narcissist, so of course it is named after Elon.

I can't imagine anyone doubted they'd tested a mode that was closer to full-auto than they'd released.
Is Coding still worth it in 2024? (as an ex-Google programmer) [video]
I think you might want to fix that link address. :)
There are open source QR scanner apps on F-Droid which actually make you tick a box saying "I've checked the above URL and I want to visit that website" before they will open the browser.
What is?

> At least if you believe electricity market prices reflect reality

I don't see how is this relevant if we're talking specifically about solar.

Above ~53° solar production during December is ~20 (to way more than that farther you go north) lower than in December.
https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/p...

At least four species have been shown to be susceptible to PfDNV including the American cockroach. It’s basically Covid for cockroaches.
I finally gave it a look, and it seems attractive. A feature, in my mind, is that it doesn't replace Jupyter, so I can still use the more basic tool when I'm up to my elbows in lab stuff. I actually use Jupyter to automate experiments, not just theory and data analysis.

But... the first thing I'll do is try quarto for my passive web page, which I presently generate using nbconvert.
Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it's magic. That's the whole point of science.

> It's _our field_ that are the alchemist mystics, rambling about AGI/Philosopher's Stone in ever increasingly unhinged ways,

These "ramblings" are what scientists call hypotheses. The people making these hypotheses have even proposed how to test them.
You can have centralized TOTP too, I believe e.g. Vault or 1password can do that?
Agreed minus the fossil fuels bit. It's my belief we should not further scale that infrastructure.
It's fascinating how determined people are with their positions, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that their position causes harm. We see similar arguments today against folate fortification of bread and fluoridation of water.
In Finnish thats called "laukkaa", in English thats "gallop"
> What's wrong with paying copyright holders, then?

There’s nothing wrong with it. But it would make it vastly more cumbersome to build training sets in the current environment.

If the law permits producers of content to easily add extra clauses to their content licenses that say “an LLM must pay us to train on this content”, you can bet that that practice would be near-universally adopted because everyone wants to be an owner. Almost all content would become AI-unfriendly. Almost every token of fresh training content would now potentially require negotiation, royalty contracts, legal due diligence, etc. It’s not like OpenAI gets their data from a few sources. We’re talking about millions of sources, trillions of tokens, from all over the internet — forums, blogs, random sites, repositories, outlets. If OpenAI were suddenly forced to do a business deal with every source of training data, I think that would frankly kill the whole thing, not just slow it down.

It would be like ordering Google to do a business deal with the webmaster of every site they index. Different business, but the scale of the dilemma is the same. These companies crawl the whole internet.
Why not update all tabs at once then?

The key feature would be to maintain the exact state of a tab between process restarts.

Then they could restart the whole browser without the user noticing
There’s an entire area of the US that was called the Goiter Belt. Basically the top half. It was really common.
That's fair! That's a good point, and I don't mean to invalidate those situations.

A part of me still feels like that's somewhat separate from a "typical" scenario where you want to harden a container that's exposed to the outside world in some way; like I said, your average container running a webapp or whatever. Nvidia Insight seems to be a performance analysis tool, so I would hope nobody is running it with untrusted input or exposing it to the Internet. (Yes, I know someone out there totally is.)

Similarly, it feels near-obvious to me that adding a privilege called "SYS_ADMIN" to a container will make it more or less equivalent to root on the host. It's not like Docker hides this info from people, last I checked it's explained pretty prominently.

You're totally right overall, it still matters, it's just something about this framing that rubs me the wrong way.
Corporations follow these laws much more stringently than individuals. Individuals often use pirated software to make things, I've seen many examples of that. I've never seen a corporation use pirated software to make things, they pay for licenses. Maybe there is some rare cases, but pirating is mostly a thing individuals do not corporations.

So in general it is already as you say, corporations are much more targeted by these laws than individuals are. These laws mostly hinders corporations, us individuals are too small to be noticed by the system in most cases.

I've also seen indie games use copyrighted material with no issues, but AAA titles seem to avoid that like the plague. I can't really think of many examples where corporations are breaking these laws more than small individuals do.
Because people have different interests and want to hear your results for different reasons.

Some want to consider results relative to cost, and some are interested only in how it compares to SOTA.
And you can always use the "Simple" versions, SimpleDiffEq.jl, SimpleNonlinearSolve.jl. Those libraries were made so that users could use exactly the same syntax but with dumbed down solvers with essentially zero latency. But yes the complete solvers are doing lots of fancy things for fancy cases, but SimpleTsit5 is recommended in the docs for small cases where you don't need all of the extra bells and whistles.
A fun skill to have is knowing how to reliably navigate Shinjuku in the rain without ever seeing rain - purely by moving via the underground, since it connects pretty far (e.g Sanchome).
"Target the one with the biggest bugfix number possible. This number is the one after the second dot."

This is best advice of the article.
Also note the IoC script — This script allows to scan iTunes backups for indicator of compromise by Operation Triangulation. https://github.com/KasperskyLab/triangle_check
Small nitpick: one teaspoon of water has much less potential fusion energy than 1 kg of U235, and actually much much less than 1g of U235, even allowing for fusion technology that does not exist and will not exist in 50 years.

Here's why.

The Sun transforms hydrogen into helium. But that's a fairly complex chain and nobody in the industry or academia is trying to replicate that.

When people talk about fusion, here's [1] the reactions they are considering.

The best yielding fusion reaction is deuterium-tritium and deuterium-helium3 [1]. Tritium and helium-3 virtually don't occur naturally on Earth, and deuterium is very rare, at about 0.02% of the hydrogen. A teaspoon of water contains about 0.5 grams of hydrogen, and out of that about 0.0001 grams of deuterium. Let's say that someone magically brings the necessary tritium or helium-3. How does that compare with 1 gram of U235?

The fission of 1 nucleus of U235 yields about 190 MeV of energy. 1 MeV is one megaelectronvolt, and is a unit of energy. It does not matter how it translates into joules or watt-hours. It is the unit used when talking about fission and fusion. So, 235 nucleons produce 190 MeV, which is about 0.8 MeV per nucleon.

The two reactions mentioned involve 5 nucleons and yield about 18 MeV, which means 3.6 MeV per nucleon or 4.5 times more per nucleon than U235.

So, even if all the hydrogen in the one teaspoon of water was Deuterium and Tritium, in the correct ratios to do the fusion, we'd get only 4.5 times more energy than from one gram of U235. In reality, from one teaspoon of water we'd extract a very tiny amount of deuterium that's usable, and we'd need to breed Tritium or Helium-3 separately. By the way, separating deuterium from water is a very expensive process. The Nazis tried to do it during WW2, and they were doing it in Norway. Once the British special forces destroyed the plant, the Nazis could not restart the heavy water production, and their atomic project basically stopped then and there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Criteria_and_ca...
Would love a library of these maps for places all over
Not to multiple addresses, no. It would only have happened for multiple pizzas to the same address. Having said that, I think it’s probably not the logistics win that it looks like. Unless two orders in the same area come in at essentially the same instant, your orders a buffering. It’s a coin flip if the closer address is for the first order, so there’s a cap on how long you can wait for the buffer to fill without breaching the SLA. And even nearby as the crow flies might not be nearby in a continuous trip (E.g. in my neighborhood, there’s only a short distance on a major street, and the rest is low speed streets with speed bumps).
One benefit of building excess capacity of renewables - free electricity to power your automobile. If we actually priced excess energy smartly people would charge their cars in the daytime and spend ~ 0 to drive most of the year.
Thank you very much for the detailed answer!

Will look into those. I recently wrote a little n-body simulator to become familiar with Julia's DifferentialEquations.jl and that motivated me to learn more about astrodynamics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Religion

Clark was against religion. Idea that there still should be some kind of universal religion is the opposite to this.
Wind is negatively correlated with solar

Yes, but not strongly. It is definitely a problem, as seen in Texas on cold mornings where solar isn't getting much light, winds are still, and people need heat.
Wait, so now we're saying stock based compensation is bad? does that mean we'll stop giving executives stock based compensation?
These were not one-off reactors, it's just that the first ones went so poorly that everything else was cancelled. There were four that were started at roughly the same time. There were many other sites getting order ready.

Westinghouse used a new regulatory process that had been created specifically at the request of industry to speed the design and build of AP1000s. Despite this, Westinghouse did not deliver constructible designs, and the contractor soldiered on with on site modifications. Westinghouse screwed up so bad that they nearly bankrupted Toshiba, their owner.

So we have two failed holes in the ground at Summer in South Carolina, something like a $10B monument to corruption, with utility execs going to jail for their fraudulent reports.

All the other sites that were eyeing AP1000s to replace aging reactors have now backed out. The disaster was too big. What exec wants to go to jail for a nuclear reactor? What exec wants to lose their job for greenlighting what has a not-insignificant chance of bankrupting the entire utility.

Nuclear is too risky, but public perception is off, it's not running reactors that have the risk, it's the financial risk to anybody who wants to build one.
Steve Weis on Twitter described it best:

“This iMessage exploit is crazy. TrueType vulnerability that has existed since the 90s, 2 kernel exploits, a browser exploit, and an undocumented hardware feature that was not used in shipped software”

https://x.com/sweis/status/1740092722487361809?s=46&t=E3U2EI...
Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence. There are plenty of examples in the wild of going halfway with strong security, but halfway still leaves the barn door open.

That rule should only be applied in the normal world. The world of security where you know bad actors are out there trying to do stuff, it doesn't apply. And there are examples of spy types injecting plans to go halfway with security for their purposes - not that this proves the origin of a given plan, incompetence is still one possibility, it just returns to original point, that this stuff is mysterious.
The acute median lethal dose for boric acid in humans is estimated to be several grams per kilogram body weight, which is not very toxic. Chronic consumption in lower doses may cause kidney problems. As pesticides go, it appears to be pretty safe.

It's probably a good idea to wear an N95 mask when applying it, apply it in areas where it won't be easily disturbed, and make sure it doesn't contaminate food or water.
It turns out there’s usually a group of HN commenters that specialize in whatever the topic is and are more qualified to discuss the technical contributions than the person that paraphrased a university press release.
Yes, both Oracle (OCI) and SQL Server (ODBC), although they are quite a bit low level.
There is a lesson for libertarians in a 500,000 page thing with 2,000,000 pages of supporting documentation.
Ideally a new Lua dialect would be capable of compiling to both Lua and LuaJIT. The language is effectively forked, with the fastest implementation (LuaJIT) and the official implementation (Lua) living in seemingly irreconcilable worlds.
Yes, the things you want to get at that are legitimate will always disappear. It's the stuff you don't want on the Internet anymore that has trouble disappearing when you want it to. So, yes, your leaked vids are going to stay on the Internet forever - someone's got it archived somewhere. It's on somebody's Torrent feed.

News articles or YouTube vids you saw a few years ago? Probably a deadlink.
> an artificial problem caused by regulation

Maybe it's a real problem caused by the physical realities of nuclear. Calling regulation an artificial cost is like calling sewage treatment an artificial cost of water.

> Bloated regulatory agencies seem to have infiltrated and poisoned every aspect of society with no relief in sight.

It's often repeated, including by a certain political grouping, but never established IME. Unregulated markets, such as cryptocurrency, privacy, etc. seem to cause most of the problems. The FAA, etc. do well IME. They fail when undermined by a political class that benefits from fraud (the same trying to prevent the IRS from collecting legitimate taxes.)
There is no difference between an LLM summarizing a copyrighted work and a Wikipedia contributor summarizing a copyrighted work.

Wikipedia has some words on how summaries related to copyright law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plot-only_descriptio...
I guess you can do something like emit code on a memfd, exec ispc to another memfd and dlopen the output but... clunky.
It doesn't make any sense to use nuclear as a standby source of power. Nuclear costs pretty much the same whether you use it or not, so it doesn't make any sense to build it and leave it off.

So if you build a nuclear power plant, save yourself the cost of whatever else you wanted to use as a primary source.
Totally agree now that i'm old, but:

> I know how to write code in vi but I'd still rather write code in jetbrains

I hard pass on that, Jetbrains is probably the slowest IDE i have ever used. Probably great if your PC is a war machine, mine usually aren't (company provided ones, and my laptops).

I'd rather code with an old vi with minimal plugin and color support than with Jetbrains. I was highly critical of Netbeans thanks to similar slowness issues when i used it for the first time 11 years ago (it was with a VERY large codebase), but Jetbrains is the worst. And this slowness triggers me too much to do anything.
greatest train station in the world
And still, PV generated electricity during these periods is priced cheaper on the spot market than nuclear. Funny, right? It is almost as if the parties investing billions and making billions selling and buying electricity figured out the financials behind all that.
the smart way to do it is to name an exit like Exit B5 or A12. The signs in the station, and Google Maps, will generally tell how to get to a specific exit. Or probably better would be a famous landmarks tho there aren't many to pick from in Shinjuku. A common one used to be "in front of the Alta building on the east exit" another still is "in front of the police station just outside the east exit
There are less privacy assurances when opening a QR code, since it can encode a URL with precise physical information embedded within its query parameters (like "table number" at a restaurant, for example). That kind of information isn't available to the typical website.

(FWIW, I actually wish more table QR codes did contain these parameters - why do I need to enter the table number in the form after navigating to the online menu? I hate these things btw...)
This is true, but also mostly moot, sadly, due to the pervasive use of URL shorteners for QR code services.

So instead of seeing a nice hover-over of "SuperDeliciousItalian.com/menu", as often as not it will be "qr.to/f2CrS" or somesuch.

So exposing the URL encoded in the QR code doesn't provide all the information you need to assess its validity or safety.