skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand, how is this even possible? If we don't understand:

1. the problem that we are solving
2. the input data
3. the process flow
4. the outcome

how do you even start coding?
Casual reminder that Android apps can be tiny. Of course, you will be limited to base framework, but you'll be getting much faster build times and many happy users. Material-like design applications are also possible, just target higher SDK. Although while you'll have to implement some more complicated components yourself, resulting application size will be way less than 1MB, maybe even less than 100KB. Dear Android developers, and especially newcomers, in 2024, please try building tiny applications.
How do you define "fast approval"?
Most H1-B visas don't go to engineering roles. Expanding those quotas wouldn't affect engineering salaries, but probably IT support roles, etc.
I'm a little surprised to see a number of anti-immigraiton comments on this thread, some of which you could describe as reactionary.

Threads change pretty fast and prefixing your comment with that kind of goady meta makes it strictly worse and less effective at advancing your arguments.
Thanks, I find hardware design interesting (despite a very small level of knowledge), so I’ll probably spend some of my lunch break chasing down links using RTL as a starting point.
You can choose to sync or not sync bookmarks, history, open tabs, logins and passwords, credit cards, add-ons and settings individually. So, yeah, you're missing that you can just not sync history!
I’d argue that morality always has a “what can you get away with” component. Things that are normalized tend to be seen as morally permissible, and things that are seen as abnormal are more likely to be seen as immoral.

The problem with the thinking in the root comment is that it implicitly assumes that people’s behavior is morally consistent, or that they even try particularly hard to behave in a morally consistent way. That’s not really how people work. If you ask them to discuss morality in the abstract, they’ll try to come up with a consistent system. But their actual behavior is mostly dictated by social norms. And if you try to pin them down on the morality of their concrete actions, they’re more likely to stretch their moral system to accommodate their actions than the other way around.

None of this is to say anything about my own opinions on news sharing or OpenAI’s situation. It’s just that someone decrying piracy but also posting/sharing/upvoting links to copies of news articles is neither surprising, nor indicative of some deeper nuance to how people view morality around IP.
Thanks for the link. I’ll definitely study that. I’m not sure at the moment whether NopSCADlib has exactly the same ambitions or not. But it certainly deserves to be learned from. PartCAD has OpenSCAD support pretty high up on the todo list.
> If an image is online, it is going to be looked at, maybe by people, maybe by automated systems.

You cannot use a copyrighted image to produce derivatives without obtaining authorisation from the copyright owner of the original work. Even if you are a human, copying the random image from the internet into photoshop and start modifying it could lead you into trouble (it is usually not enforced though, because it is hard to find. But AI systems would simplify scanning for such violations).

Your understanding of copyright and actual copyright are two different things. Or at least you cannot share the produced image - which Midjourney does here.
Yeah, some larger organization have a good admin and legal support structure around it, so it feels frictionless to the applicant. But it is a total slog, and can take years to materialize.
Oh man! I played the sequel when I was a kid after it came included on my dad's work computer. Entertainment on several family trips!
I’d be curious to hear opinions on why this large compensation discrepancy exists.

AFAIK, my company has never considered outsourcing to remote Euro workers. Is there a perceived difference in engineer quality? Time difference?
I didn’t intend to be demeaning so apologies if you felt that way.

The thing is that your comment felt to me a bit like a somewhat common dismissal of real and corrosive problems facing democracy these days.

Like for instance now you say that “everyone is doing it” but what is “it” there? Because not everyone is actually spreading disinformation about everything. People, corporations and governments have agendas of course but how they go about things really matters.

There is a clear difference between the ways and behaviour of western democracies on the one hand and Russia and China on the other hand.
I know in which places I do and don’t want to live for instance.
I find it crazy that GA piston planes aren't using more modern engines with FADEC and turbo-charged as a matter of fact. The 1960s engine situation with GA planes is crazy to me. Having to care about carb ice, fuel mixture, and low performance ceilings in 2023 is mind boggling. Sure there's planes that have modern powerplants but they're expensive and plenty of new planes are built without any of this stuff included as a requirement for certification.
That was about the literal iPhone X (the letter X). The iPhone Xr and Xs (roman numeral 10) are still supported.
The US is absolutely leading the way, it’s just being done by companies like Ring.
You don't have to look far, Canada has already implemented a point based system for granting permanent residence to skilled workers. It assigns scores to applicants based on education, skills, employment offer, language speaking ability, etc. I believe it can be a good starting point for a more objective selection criteria than the current system which is more based on luck.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
Because the megacorps should have to pay the people creating the works they are training their multibillion/eventual multitrillion dollar systems on, and should get a nice rake to the face when they try to do an end run around it.
I've been using this since Simple Mobile Tools was sold. It works well. My only real complaint is that the app icon name starts with "Little" so it's sorted under L, not F. It makes it hard to find.
It seems overly charitable to me to frame the dispute in those terms. You and I might differ as to the appropriate amount of vermouth in a martini or pineapple on a pizza and I won't worry much about it, within reason.

There's a limit though! I think up to about 10% pineapple by weight is reasonable for a Hawaiian, if you choose 0 or 20% then we'll have no issue. If you went to 30% I don't think I could stop myself writing a libellous remark on hn. Anything about 50% and I would be morally forced to denounce you to the proper authorities. About 80% is where the nightmares begin.
Masterkey: Automated Jailbreak Across Multiple Large Language Model Chatbots
and data on disk is just ones and zeros.
Issue Tree (Logic Tree)
It's all Turing complete, so of course you can implement the same thing as protected methods by using callbacks. When I say power here I don't mean in the sense that you literally can't do it any other way, I mean it's more convenient and natural.

C++/Java/Kotlin style OOP is basically about putting common design patterns into language syntax. You could do it all with C, but it's easier if the compiler does it for you. For example Kotlin has "data classes" and Java now has "records" which are in both cases classes, but they sacrifice inheritance in order to auto-generate more boilerplate for you. That's still OOP though.
First and foremost, and please repeat after me: Copying is not stealing.

You're not depriving anyone of anything. Unauthorized copying is not theft. There's no equivalency. You can't copy and paste a cake. If you take a cake from a bakery, you're depriving the bakery of a thing. If you take a picture of the trademarked bakery's sign, copy its the copyrighted text from its website, and print them out, you haven't stolen anything. Nobody has lost anything. Nothing was damaged. No person, place, or thing was harmed.

Current copyright law is offensively absurd. Patenting of software, effectively eternal content copyrights, ridiculously broken DMCA, music publishers taking 99 cents of every artist's dollar, and so on and so forth.

If you support the dissolution of archaic institutions and broken laws favoring those with entrenched wealth over individual rights, you support piracy.

There is a legitimate case for laws respecting and protecting intellectual property rights. Such laws do not currently exist. These laws do not deserve to be followed or respected, and should be broken as a matter of course. Civil disobedience is called for. Refuse to participate in an exploitative market immovably entrenched in governments all over the world. Pay artists directly and commensurately if you feel they've brought value to your life. Copy whatever you want. Share those copies with whomever you want. Nobody gets hurt. Only conglomerates of already wealthy individuals and corporations are "deprived" of the potential transaction with you that they feel they are entitled to, as a matter of course.

The NYT is just as complicit as any other legacy media institution in the enshittification of journalism and laying waste to the potential value of their content. The "Gray Lady" is not a person, or a valuable institution. It's a soulless corporate construct not deserving of our empathy or high regard simply because of the reputation of human individuals who previously produced quality content. Stop pretending these institutions serve some higher purpose than to fatten the wallets of shareholders.

The good journalists have left. The ones left behind are naive, or are desperately clinging to an illusion of legacy and institutional legitimacy that no longer exists.

All that is left for these media dinosaurs is to leech off the success of others, to use their reserves of wealth and influence to arbitrarily insert themselves into the market, with no regard to the fact that they no longer have value or prestige or purpose in the context of modern technology and communication.

Anyway. Copying isn't theft. Don't give them the linguistic territory. Call a spade a spade, and media companies the desperate corporate leeches that they are.
Have you tried that? I find the results hard to believe because he says he is using Llama 7b and asking it questions but that is not a chat model. Also he does not appear at all in the issues when people ask him about reproducing the results. Instead there are people in the issues recommending RAG or creating a QA dataset.
Sort of yes/it depends. Cold air is more dense, so performance is better.
>1. Large companies pay a bonus for every patent applied and bigger one for approval.

When at lockheed we had what I referred to as the "Croatian Coalition" a bunch of Croatian engineers that were all over all the patents we were filing (RFID for weapons) -- they were all so proud of all their patents (as they should be) - but they were really aggressive on filing for not just the satisfaction (getting a patent must be a great feeling, I am not yet personally on any even though I have influenced several)

But they like the bonuses and internal recognition that came with them.

Also, spamming the patent office would be hard unless you have deep pockets/are a patent attorney or have Big Corp funding your efforts (and rewarding them)

I am sure there are cheap ways to file, but for the average person, not so much.
Watching friends work through the decades long journey of citizenship, going to prestigious undergrad institutions, getting PhDs, publishing in journals, teaching part-time while working full time in industry, all just to get the right to stay in the country they’ve lived since they were 18 is fucking depressing.

I doubt I’d qualify for EB-1 [1]. I’d have qualified for EB-2 at 28 when I attained five years of work experience [2][3]. If I didn’t have a BS I’d need ten years experience. If I had spent the usual five years flailing about in a PhD instead of dropping out early, I’d have delayed “work experience” another three years.

Now this hypothetical version of myself waits as short as two years (China-born) and as long as eleven years (India-born) to get an application considered. Meanwhile, they’re trying to maintain work authorization, either via the time-limited OPT or hopefully winning an H1-B which has its own highly competitive lottery. And when they finally get PR/citizenship, their (now quite old) parents have no hope of receiving PR/citizenship so they’ll probably be flying across oceans to care for them as they age.

All of this for the mistake of being born in the wrong part of the word.

Meanwhile, I’m some fuckup who happened to be born in the US who has never known struggle. It just all seems cosmically unfair.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
[2] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
[3] aswell23 is correct that I would qualify for EB-2 based on my BS degree. I had misread the EB-2 requirements. The text originally read: “I’m still two years shy of the 10 year minimum years of experience for EB-2 [2]. So that leaves EB-3.”

EDIT: clarify second paragraph with third-person pronouns.

EDIT2: clarify based on apwell23’s comment

EDIT3: further clarification based on apwell23’s second comment.
So what excuse do the people installing these packages have?
That newspaper was likely paid for by someone, and could only be read by one person at a time.
Eclips also had (have?) The very interesting mylyn plug-in which narrows down the code to the context your working within. Think collapsing everything in eg the project tree and also functions within files.

This context is built up based on what part of the code you work on.
Eclipse is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of the most bloated and stodgy IDE on the earth.
Is it really bullshit? Lenovo manages hundreds of laptop models via fwupd, and those work just fine after they lose OEM support. I've got a Thinkpad from 2009 that still gets modern Linux patches (to say nothing of my 2006 PowerBook running Arch/Plasma 5).

Compared to what Apple makes off hardware and service revenue, the cost of opening iBoot and providing basic firmware support would be almost nothing. It's so economical that the volunteers at Asahi were capable of replacing the missing bits via black-box reverse engineering. You want to tell me that Apple is incapable of releasing that firmware themselves? On a technical forum?
Reach, and ease of distribution.
We're not trying to be wealthy, just comfortable. In addition, the freedom from conventional work demands is worth a significant amount to me, and I suspect the same is true for my colleague and friend in Berlin.

There is also additional revenue flow via Harrison Consoles' Mixbus, which is a separate commercial product based on Ardour. The amount that flows "directly" to Ardour is small, but the overall amount does add another person at Harrison working on the software in a mostly-full-time capacity.

Also, which market should we be aiming for when defining "market rate" ?
Thanks. I'm still a bit confused about how many tokens for example your example video uses up. You draw the body and it generates a first iteration, then you draw the eyes and it seems there are two new generations, then some more for the background. As mentioned elsewhere, the token system (and potential subscription model) is a bit of a showstopper for me, but the concept is great.

Another input: Perhaps I have missed it, but you should mention export options and sizes of generated results on your website. Another question that pops up is the usage rights of the generated images.
This is just a repeat of what started in the 90s (probably earlier). It's really a scheme for companies to get access to more talent to drive wages down.
Because its usefulness to your private jet fund is the only measurement of value.
Yep, makes absolutely no sense. I was going to comment about it, I think this is the issue I'm seeing.
The cost of certifying new engines is high, which discourages advancement.

Even more discouraging is the extremely backwards way of thinking that the old farts in GA have. There is nothing that the barnacles who cling to the walls of the FBO hate more than change, and they're the ones buying stuff.
"Easily" integrable perhaps, then.
> Claiming that it is closer to proprietary software when users still get the source and the same freedoms as FOSS is disingenuous

They absolutely do not get the same freedoms as FOSS. That's literally the point of source available, it isn't FOSS.

Not bad, not closed source, but not FOSS. Although I don't believe you quite meant it like that based upon the essay.
Renewable energy isn’t free of fatalities either. Rooftop solar, wind, and hydro all have higher fatality rates per kWh than nuclear energy: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/07/2020-fatalities-for-us...
>>The PTO evaluates applications for novelty, not quality.

As it should be.

The USPTO is in no place to evaluate a patent's quality, unless youre a USPTO clerk whos first name starts with Albert and your last name ends in -Stein.

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But in seriousness, novelty is the important factor in a patent, not quality. As utility patents/improvement patents are a thing.
If you're in the Apple ecosystem then Safari has had this for a while.
What about Google Files Go? It kind of presents itself as a file deletion/clean up app, but works as a decent file manager as well.
Yeah, just like how physical mail works. Nobody ever has to deal with spam in their physical mailbox. (/s)

That just becomes marketing budget for spammers (which is to say, those for whom email is a component of a revenue stream), and a layer of cost friction for everyone else — meaning that you only really reduce the percentage of email that's actually sincere, non-"hustle"-driven communication.
It’s too bad that Firefox has such a great UX and privacy-focused cloud features like this, yet is being held back by its engine. As a heavy FF user for the last few years it’s become more and more clear that the world just doesn’t care about making sites work on FF and I’m more frequently having to switch to Chrome. My dream is that FF would switch to Chromium while keeping all the great features around the browser engine. But suggesting such a thing is blasphemy in the FF world so we’re stuck with an engine that no one targets any more and isn’t keeping up with modern web APIs more web devs are using.
I agree with you, but I also wonder how the bias could be trained without it affecting the output of the entire model. Weights can help but anything that's higher weighted is just "less wrong" as I understand it, so I can see a possibility where training to expose bias might let bias creep in somewhat more than anticipated.
You should check out SyncThing. It's a privacy-respecting p2p file sharing application that you can use like Dropbox. A little fiddly to set up but works like a charm once you get it going
They're not an multi-billion dollar ad company that can pay to make their browser the de facto default.
The title of the article doesn't mention TUIs (or UIs at all) but I was thinking of a GUI. Specifically it seems I was likely thinking of Pharo (which is '00s not '90s so off by a decade).
Technician, “I’m having a couple of problems with it.”

Roy, ”What kind of Operating System does it use?”

Technician, “It’s uh, Vista.”

Roy, “We’re going to die.”
It is an intro to psyops.

Google is an example of psyops. It is useful for finding uncontested information such as the address of a shop, but to find the truth about events in the world, you are better served elsewhere such as Yandex.

I wish he would have mentioned that NATO has six arenas of operation: air, land, sea, space, cyber, and cognitive.
This looks nice. Useful and open source.

I find an on-device file manager really useful. I really like that Cx File Explorer has a built-in text editor and can access my WebDAV files:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cxinventor...

It is the glue that makes my phone much more productive, and not just a consuming device.
Agreed, but here is a great explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k1TQGK3mZI
Most browsers use a SQL database for storing data like this.
> Many Laptop screens are in fact 6-bit panels performing dithering to fake an 8-bit output. This includes even high-priced workstations replacements, like the HP Zbook Fury 15 G7 and its 6-bit LCD panel, that I sit in front of right now.

This made me double-check the date of the article (it's from 2023.)

The author's laptop appears to have launched in 2020. I'm astounded any manufacturer would think this is even remotely acceptable this day and age, much less on such a high-end device. (Going off the current generation, these laptops start around $3k.)

Is this actually that common or did the author just get unlucky?
Even if you think having a dependency load `is_even()` is a good thing, surely you can see how it's pretty hard to defend having a completely separate and nearly identical `is_odd()` rather than just `!is_even()`
Eh, they aren't that difficult to get, especially if you have an attorney to help with the legalese. To your point, if you have a couple grand and an even mediocre idea, you can patent it. Technically, you can do it yourself but I suspect navigating the patent minefield is what makes it seem hard, not necessarily having a great new product.

Source: I've done it just to see what the system is like.
One thing that especially git fails at, is content that’s been moved around. Moving content is a simple and powerful editorial tool, but it starts to make any simple diff incomprehensible, showing large sections as added and removed.

Curious if you’ve thought about attacking this problem, or have seen any other tools that solve it elegantly?
React is not a UI library itself -- the actual UI stuff is delegated to the DOM. It is more like a library on top a UI library, that manages the state->representation flow (where reactive FP is indeed a good choice).
It's not fixed. It's still better than nothing, but it's weird to see an article singing its praises.

I still use Firefox though, it's the best cross-platform browser overall.
> Also, which market should we be aiming for when defining "market rate" ?

That's a very good question :)
Even the facts are not copyrightable, the prose is.
Uruguay's green power revolution: rapid shift to wind
Came here to say this. He is excellent. Also, the Opposing Bases podcast is wonderful.
The new Baldur's Gate game has a setting called "karmic dice", where it apparently biases the dice rolls to not cause repeated outcomes as much (i.e. if you're passing checks a lot, it will start to bias towards lower results, and if you're failing checks a lot, it will start to bias towards higher results). They devs made the interesting decision to have that setting on by default, which I'm guessing is based on the experience they expect more players to want. Regardless of my own preference, I think it's pretty cool they made that an explicit setting that players can choose to keep on or turn off.
Another classic from jon is the venerable https://www.npmjs.com/package/isobject coming in at 30,000,000 weekly downloads for

`function(val) { return val != null && typeof val === 'object' && Array.isArray(val) === false; }`

But honestly, having seen "TypeError: Cannot read properties of null" enough times, I give it a pass.

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?author=jonschlinkert paints a pretty crazy picture
I’m glad the conclusion says the products lists are not the only ones to which this letter applies. Otherwise Amazon could just remove the products mentioned and make the FDA play wack-a-mole.

As a side note, this letter is exactly why I think a regulatory agency like the FDA is absolutely necessary. This stuff can kill people and it is impossible for the average person to protect themselves.
CMU Intro to Database Systems, Fall 2023: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbj8BMuIrRc...