skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view it is objectively wrong to create trivial npm packages yes. If we look at the npm ecosystem as a commons, that person is polluting it. Of course you could say it's namespaced to one account, so what's the harm? In my view, plenty:

- package searches will show these packages due to the inflated usage from transient deps.

- installs are slower due to the package noise.

- increased attack surface when they are used

- cultural normalization of throwaway packages

Probably more.
Everything is a skill that can be learned. That doesn't mean you should force yourself to learn in an unnatural way if you don't have to.
I found JetBrains' Git better in many ways than my console flow. Tried, but never got into Magit, as I moved on from Emacs.
State-based, forked software? Good grief!

No fork please. But do pay more contributors to work on the upstream codebase towards benefiting Firefox's downstream.

PS: don't forget eidas 2.0 has a loophole regarding SSL snooping, check EFF's article on eidas 2.0's article 45.
> It’s this exact “succeed, at any cost” mentality that cements my belief.

I think that's a ideology thing that goes across borders, as it's a problem on both sides of the pacific.
Of course. When people talk about calling C from Python they really mean "a fast language".
As wise words now as the days they were spoken. Never forget the eternal question: will it blend?
Amazon was a great site! I still remember buying my first converse from amazon in 2011. Back then, there were no nike stores in my town in India and i badly wanted one. I bought from a few local resellers who sold me duplicate products and i wasted a lot of my money on that.

Now, the tables have turned. If i want a genuine product, i often shop locally rather than amazon. They even messed up my socks and sent duplicate versions of fairly common books like harry potter.

The whole site seems to be promoting bad products, placing something not even Remotely close to my searches. "Looking for a yoga mat? Here's a chinese fitness tracker we think you might be interested in".. the fuck??

On top of that, the bad quality supplements they sell are just nerve wrecking. Almost no information is factual, No usage guidelines, nothing. And the reviews are just another scam by themselves!

All in all, it's a really bad product now!
This book is still on my shelf. When I first ordered and received it, I sat down and read it cover to cover.

One of the things I really enjoyed was seeing how differently all of the interviewees worked and went about their business. They didn't seem to work that much differently from me, which made their work that much more relatable.
Greed Observer – open-sourced rental price tracker
I'm building a app to track rental price greed.
Think landlord registry meets yelp with historical data that is all open sourced.
That was cool, thanks :) [p.s. you have a typo in infoseek.com (.con)]
You're not supposed to be afraid of segfaults, you're supposed to be afraid of the incorrect memory accesses that don't get caught by segfaults.
I would love to see Chinese violate patents and get away with it like apple did.
I exclusively use FF, with Chrome on Android and Desktop only being there for cross browser testing, I never have rendering issues, only issues brought by extensions (mainly uBlock Origin), or FF’s tracking protection, both of which can be disabled.
> Furthering the S3 health data thought exercise:
If OpenAI got their hands on an S3 bucket from Aetna (or any major insurer) with full and complete health records on every American, due to Aetna lacking security or leaking a S3 bucket, should OpenAI or any other LLM provider be allowed to use the data in its training even if they strip out patient names before feeding it into training?

To me this says that openai would have access to ill-gotten raw patient data and would do the PII stripping themselves.
Just the uncertainty in the ice cover prediction is orders of magnitude larger than any effect from adding any plausible amount of solar panels.

Inventing BS problems does not contribute to the discussion. Please stick to facts.
Could you elaborate on modularity?

Also Chromium is there, it's open enough to be a base for Chrome, Brave, Edge, and probably a few more, and it's open source, forkable at any moment Google adds something unpatchably bad. (of course independent implementations are welcome, but the ultimate goal is a healthier web through user freedom, and that doesn't necessitate Firefox directly, a ChromiumFox would be just as perfect)
Played A-LOT of it :)
Hum, on page 33 of the same complaint they show that they can get GPT to quote parts of an article from memory. Giving people single paragraphs need not be not illegal per-se. Very specifically, if you ask it for more than a paragraph at a time:

> ' I'm unable to display the entire text of "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek" by John Branch, as it is a copyrighted work. However, you can easily access the full story online. It was published by The New York Times and is available on their website. The story is notable for its engaging multimedia format, including text, images, and interactive elements.'

Specifically, they go out of their way to lead GPT on, asking for several paragraphs in a row.

It's pretty clear that GPT is an avid reader of the NYT, so in that particular case we're going to have to see if OpenAI's fair use defense for training holds.

(ps. in the current GPT-4, it's actually somewhat tricky to even get to the point above at all. They have probably been improving AI instructions)
If only we could find a way to connect social responsibility to the stock price...
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If the operation can fail, that should really be represented in the type, right?
Oh for sure! I have no doubt that terrible public schools exist, parents who are focused on academics exist, and good homeschooling resources/groups exist. And when you get that magical combination, homeschooling might be justified.

So, measure to ensure that's what's happening! Monitor and assess. Know how many kids are being pulled out, and know how adequate their alternate education is. And provide a regulatory regime to ensure it's adequate.

Pulling a kid out of a bad school and providing an academically rigorous education should be fine. Pulling a kid out of a not-bad school so that unqualified high-school drop-outs can teach from the Bible that pi=3 and that the Earth is 6,000 years old should not be fine. The public should be able to differentiate between theses cases, allow one, and disallow the other.
Frustrating indeed. I don't think there is a quick fix to create a political culture among voters and representatives that cares about fiscal responsibility.

One consideration is having a broader tax base so that voters have more skin in the game.

For example, taxes in Houston are less progressive than SF, but SF city budget per resident is more than 500% that of Huston.
It will have to stay a mystery, looking at distribution, both algorithms looked the same.
These have fallen out of the sky before killing people on the ground:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3B

They launched it in Sichuan in a fairly populated region. Supposedly, only 6 people died, but there are rumors that many more were killed.
Correct.
From article.
It isn't like they are trying to hit people, but the sites and trajectories were defined decades ago.

""China’s first three launch sites were established during the Cold War. Sites deep inland were thus selected to provide a measure of protection amid tensions with the U.S. and Soviet Union.

This means launches result in rocket boosters—which separate from the main stage once they have performed their task—falling to ground downrange rather than in the oceans, as is the case with U.S. and European launches.

Authorities are understood to issue warnings and evacuation notices for areas calculated to be at risk from launch debris, reducing the risk of injuries.""
Broadcom framed the change as showing it “remains committed to creating value within our combined ecosystem

Because you create oh-so-much value fiddling with pricing models...
> It seems quite different to hoarding natural resources or land

Indeed, it is quite different, because those things are scarce physical things in the real world. Intellectual property is a scam, and killing it once and for all will be one of the best things to come out of the current AI hype cycle. Nobody will "own" ideas, pieces of information, or strings of bytes.
At a certain point, isn't it just grilled pineapple with pizza crumbs?
And you have discussed this with a cactus? Or are you still just making things up?
While note-taking is cool and is one of the main use cases that anytype is used for today, we don’t place ourselves into the note-taking category. What we are building is a local first superapp (don’t like this word, but can’t find a better analog) - anytype aims to give powers of a flexible interface (a graph data-base with modular UI) and collaboration and communication capabilities based on local-first ideals. The aim is for users to build their own software from building blocks while this software is local first (not cloud). Also, we expect our community to contribute new data types, new plugins and new views. What is released needs to show what is possible.
Haha ok do something substantial! It's implied.
Yes and no. PS2 was compatible with PS1, but only the first batch of PS3 consoles was compatible with PS2 (as you said, they quite literally just built-in a PS2 chip inside a PS3). After that first initial batch, Sony stopped including the PS2 chip inside a PS3, so PS2 backwards compatibility was pretty much dead. And yeah, the lack of backwards compatibility was almost certainly due to the Cell chip architecture.

So yeah, as you pointed out, for Sony it seems like their compatibility goes a bit further into the pre-PS3 era, but for other console makers it wasn't quite the case. Couldn't play original Xbox games on Xbox360 (there is a list of like a dozen games that are backwards compatible, and even then there are issues with some of them like framerate), and neither could you do that with Nintendo/Sega consoles. In that sense, Sony was a bit of an outlier in that they came early to the backwards compatibility game. But these days, 2 out of 3 major console manufacturers pretty much standardized backwards compatibility as a simple "plug and play" feature.
> How can they just create a new account to sell supplements without thorough testing, vetting, control processes, etc. by Amazon, the business actually selling the stuff?

Because they, not Amazon, are the business actually selling the stuff. Amazon is a payment processor and a warehouse provider.

You go after the person who knew they were breaking the law, not their landlord or their bank or the dealership where they bought their car by accusing them of not thoroughly investigating their customers. Criminal investigations are the role of law enforcement, not private businesses.
I don't think that works if the private packages depend on public ones, which is quite likely.
I love this, and have similar feelings about PRISM. I hope recent work to add probabilistic properties to TLA+ and P provide a route towards doing this kind of work with languages that are easier to use.

While this example is a bit silly, the ability to check properties like availability, latency, etc alongside the traditional liveness and safety properties is super useful for distributed systems work.
> Bed sheets (oddly enough, you'll often get lies on materials and fabric)

Happens with clothes too, had to return several linen shirts for this reason.
Umm do you have any better sources for the crypto claims than Stack Exchange and Reddit? That's not really putting my mind at ease.
They're not saying "I use Chrome because only Chrome has syncing". They're saying "I use the same browser on mobile and desktop because of syncing, and I can't use Firefox on mobile because it has these bugs, so I end up using Chrome on both mobile and desktop."
He's not wrong. A lot of countries aren't hitting replacement rate, even without a war.
Have you read the article? :)

Maybe this one will be more interesting https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/brics-is-fake
This is pretty great, I used to love this game as a kid. I played it on a PC in the late 80s. Besides being a fun game, it was probably the first game I've played where you could design your own levels, which was awesome, we used to challenge each other to custom levels in our school's computer lab.
In concrete terms, what would this fork change compared to current Firefox? Just shouting "privacy-first alternative" is pretty vague. Also, good luck getting enough sustainable funding for that kind of project from the EU.

Most of EU funding for OSS project is spread out to lots of projects, with relatively small amounts - Gnome got $1M recently and celebrated as a "big" milestone. I'm not saying that this is bad, but that's not how you can fund a core browser team.
> This basically means that OP thinks that any intellectual property should be free for everyone.

Incorrect. Many intellectual property has a certain merit that can be demonstrated before it is consumed. E.g. "This piece of software allows you to create 3d models". On the other hand, an article with headline "Will new batteries allow 10x more energy storage?" does not tell me anything.
Add an optional configurable toolbar to VSCode?
In summary (pun intended):

The NYT is as guilty of "summarizing" as anyone else.

If "summarizing" is "plagiarizing", then NYT and OpenAI are in the same boat.
"Was this worth it?
Ugh no I hate PRISM"

:)

... that being said, as someone who only has a passing knowledge of the Dreidel the article held my interest
I'm a happy ide with Vim bindings guy. We do exist.

I think in vim edit patterns when editing text, but I don't particularly care about most of the : commands. I'm happy to use the vscode command palette for that.
China is absolutely gonna destroy the West with EVs.

Western companies are completely asleep at the wheel, pun not intended.

The U.S. is trying to do some good old fashioned protectionism to protect its industry but it’s either gonna fail, or it’s gonna reveal the massively lagging U.S. economic system which is incapable of building infrastructure and is increasingly incapable of encouraging R&D and new industries.

The only thing that could hold the Chinese back right now is the Chinese govt which has already managed to destroy 2-3 industries over the past few years (the extremely fast growing tech industry comes to mind) with arbitrary policy and decision making.

If I were a Chinese company right now, I would try and diversify my supply chain, R&D and even top talent into safer Western countries with auto making talent like Germany. However, fierce price competition in China may mean they don’t really have the luxury to do so.

I think now would be the time for the EU or individual European counties to sprinkle some light protectionism on their auto industry to give Chinese EV makers a reason to shift there without angering their Chinese govt overlords.
Auto-snapshot is the future and Linux has the technology
Right. Use C++.
In China that's just another Tuesday. I'm not sure why you don't think you are seeing it. Now, if they export such a product to Europe or the USA, that's another story.
How big can a snowflake get?
No, it dates back to Adam Smith’s conception of rents derived from land-ownership as a parasitic drag on economies (about which he was entirely correct). This concept was later extended to a whole host of other forms of monopolization, some state-granted and some market-derived. In the case of U.S. copyright, we can look at its original terms (quite limited) and see that its current incarnation is more harmful than beneficial to most people.
> I agree with you but I wonder if totalitarian capitalism is something that can last more than a few years.

China is so far a counterpoint. And the terrifying thing is that this is not at all a settled question. If you throw enough technology at surveillance and social control, as the Chinese do, the state might be able to become an actual Big Brother state with pervasive control over the daily life of its citizens. The Chinese government is working _hard_ on this.

The Chinese undoing will probably come from more mundane reasons, such as Xi becoming a dictator and the usual decline that comes from these types of governments.

> Surely someone who has gotten rich won't want to tolerate the state's complete control and will find ways around it. I suspect it's not sustainable.

Jack Ma...
I really liked the stories and most of them are inspirational for me; however I must confess that every time that I read such remarkable histories and those guys doing relevant stuff; I feel bad about the work that I do as a corporate software developer.

My day starts debugging some arcane shell scripts embedded in some yaml in the CI tool; at afternoon I need to optimise some SQL query moving several sub queries that makes the execution plan costly and transform it in small steps in temporary small tables; and before I leave I just noticed some bug in production caused by wrong typing in Go and I need to fix it.

I mean, it’s hard to think about the work that I am doing going towards to a mastery state.

I really appreciate those histories, but for me it’s more or less watching Apocalypse Now from the perspective of a low level cooker/dish washer on the grand scheme of things.
It was around in the 90s (Java, Windows NT) but didn't hit its stride in documents until utf8 was created and took over, maybe five or ten years later.
> That seems like a valid belief.

Its not at all clear in general. It might be true. But it also might not. It seems quite reasonable to believe that life inevitably evolves into intelligent life if given enough time. Why some life would and some life wouldn't isn't at all clear.

> advanced species may have evolved several times but gone extinct before we could notice them.

All the potential answers to the Fermi Paradox, for sure. But it would almost definitely have to be species that never got to the "expand rapidly into other solar systems" phase.

> at any given time there's only about 1

This doesn't preclude us knowing about that 1. If it got to earth at any time in the last billion years, we might have a pretty high chance of discovering it if it existed on earth for any significant legnth of time.
We shouldn't have to. These companies are fucking ridiculous and blanket ban entire swaths of the internet from sending email.
In Europe there are a lot of choices these days for small electric cars.
Are there turn-based clones?
They are assets of each other, some own others.
An 18 wheeler travels on wheels. A shopping cart travels on wheels. A shopping cart does not require a license to operate, therefore an 18 wheeler does not require a license to operate. A shopping cart can be operated inside a grocery store, therefore an 18 wheeler can be operated inside a grocery store. A child can operate a shopping cart, therefore a child can operate an 18 wheeler.

If I'm describing the purpose of an 18 wheeler, it's got a wide number of usages. "Carry my chicken" or "carry my lettuce" or "carry my Cheetos". Or, simply, "carry my groceries".
Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
I hit a few in the past. But, I'm failing to find any of them at the moment... Maybe I should give Firefox mobile another try.

It could be that my baseline was the Chrome rendering, so any discrepancy was classified as "it's broken".
Only Safari supports it, though
As an ignorant person but one who has been trying to figure out if KGs are superseded by LLMs, is there a source you can think of to figure out if both have a place in an architecture, or if LLMs are sufficient? What sort of use cases require both?
You do enter encryption info: your password.

FF sync "splits" your password into an encryption key and the service password on the client side. The service never sees the key (or real password).

Bitwarden works in a similar way.
What sets Anytype apart as a local player is its notion-style databases, and I believe it is unique in that respect.

If the outlining experience is good enough (drag/drop, collapse...), I will definitely try Plume for "light/fast" note-taking.
There is a lot happening in this area atm - here is a description of Nio’s homebrewed chip:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/5nm-NIO-Shenji-autonomous-driv...
Moloch is winning
Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit
Neither of those have a commanding lead on their respective markets. The videogame market is very competitive (and Xbox isn't even the largest player), and as far as office products go, more people use Google Docs now than Microsoft Word.
My bad, I thought I put the source.
https://thedigitalbits.com/item/true-lies-2023-digital-uhd
The market demands growth and the market often has troubles growing when people leave.

Aside from “privatizing profits socialize losses”, why would the government care about fewer people paying the same percentage of their taxes? That makes no sense. Their budgets would contract with the demands.
> hat doesn't mea you should force yourself to learn in an unnatural way if you don't have to.

Who said otherwise? Is someone forcing you to use PDFs?
What exactly does lightning fast mean? Is vim not lightning fast?
Amazon bans all sellers that ever attempt to sell/list anything Amazon bans even if the ban was not made public (unless they pay their "consultants" closely connected to managers to unban them of course).
It is usually the onus of the person making claims to substantiate them, not others to find contrary evidence.

So far you have completely ignored/missed my argument and are using your premise that there is preferential treatment to prove that, there is preferential treatment. Opinions of states are not relevant here, nor were cited in any way.

Apple is a closed ecosystem, be it the biggest or smallest in the world, and you don’t have to participate. My example of compliance with a certain country’s law was an analogy to this situation, and so far you have not disputed that apple is treating everyone in the same manner.

It is not your god given right to participate in their ecosystem, and neither are you prevented from doing this by various backdeals that give someone else a leg up (unless you claim otherwise and are willing to substantiate that claim).
Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim)
Hetzner for hosting.
it's not mentioned on the list, but wetransfer.com (file sharing tech company) is a B Corp.
She's also the board chair so answers to herself, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board
Looks cool! ty! Checking it out!
We had seriously limited options at my boarding school until we figured out how to root the machines and get quake and GTA running with serial cables… gorilla.bas all the way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)