skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally agree with the interview subject's topic, although obviously don't know the specifics (which is pretty much where all legalese really matters).

However, been having similar thoughts lately with GitHub. I see people who appear to be supporting an entire subtopic of the Linux, Android, or iOS ecosystem, and there's ... $50 / month?

It was really weird personally, cause I think somewhere I thought those people got paid. And then instead its "wait, you're rewriting all of Google's examples for them? So they actually work?"

And unfortunately, I find myself guilty of this, because they're such unusable junk. For anybody who's ever had to implement In-App Billing on the Play Store from scratch with an example that doesn't work, we can totally be friends.
> gray, dull uniformity as people race to the bottom of inoffensive, unobjectionable sameness

You really, quite politely, hit the nail on the head here. I have sort of struggled with my thoughts on this for years at this point. On one hand, I empathize that others don’t want to be uncomfortable. But the process of systemically removing everything remotely objectionable leaves the world soulless.

(And now, suddenly, this is no longer about dogs) I used to be brash and opinionated. I have friends who have always accepted me for who I am, and was generally comfortable with my self. Sometime in the mid 2010s I found myself being more sensitive to the offensiveness of everything. I became more aware of a wider range of faux pas, and began to feel a self-consciousness that I might say or so something that would make others uncomfortable.

I found it easiest to just say less. Reveal less of who I was, what I felt. In a lot of ways I think this was social anxiety. But not just mine, this is a collective effect many of us seem to have suddenly developed on similar timelines. I don’t think this has been a good change and I do feel like part of me is just gone.

I see a lot of raging against woke culture. I don’t ride that train, but in some ways I do get it. If something is offensive (within reasonable limits), I think the world is a little better when we encourage people to cope rather than implore the institutions of the world to cater to universal comfort.
Reasoning and intelligence exists without language.
Does the RETURN statement work correctly on Amstrad when there are multiple subroutines in the call stack? I.e., does every RETURN return to the line after the corresponding GOSUB or after the latest one?
If you've got mice, you've not got rats ...
Predictions for 2024

- Trump/Scott P/VP ticket.

- Biden/Trump election is about as close as 2020. Trying to avoid partisanship, but I predict a narrow Biden victory.

- Biden loses Nevada, but keeps Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and very narrowly Michigan.

- Trump repeats his rage and cries of fraud at his second loss. This is taken even less seriously than the first time. Fox News in particular is more measured.

- Regardless of election outcome, lessons learned from J6 and congressional certification is far more protected by DC Police and National Guard. Protests in other cities get quelled without much fanfare. Maybe at most a high-profile shooting death.

- Settlement in Ukraine reached. Ukraine likely loses the Donbas and Crimea, but keeps Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Kherson. Frozen conflict/ceasefire in the vein of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

- China doesn't invade Taiwan.

- Google Gemini isn't as powerful as expected and Google AI efforts continue to flop.

- Hype around LLMs starts to die down a bit. More adoption, but less hype about AGI about to take over.

- No meaningful impacts to employment from artificial intelligence.

- Some kind of innovation in geothermal energy that increases its prominence above wind.

- Inflation drops to 2%.

- Fed gently drops rates - I'd be utterly shocked if it was more than 1 to 1 and a half basis points.

- Marianne Williamson drops before Super Tuesday.

- RFK Jr. campaign implodes by October with some other controversy on par with Jewish comments.

- End to conflict in Red Sea with the Houthis. Lasts until late spring 2024.

- Another mass school shooting happens in the United States.

- Israel ceases assault on Gaza with minimal progress towards any kind of two-state solution. Back to status quo with a weaker coalition behind Netanyahu.

- Apple Vision pushes VR to decent adoption amongst mainstream consumers.

- New iPhone marginally better than the previous generation.

- Bitcoin hits $70k

- Continued dip in Marvel quality, but no cease in ticket sales.

- (stealing from another comment) Dropbox LLM

- Twitter/X still exists. Advertisers probably return. Elon is still dumb.

- Trump is convicted in one of: classified documents case or defrauding American people. Potential acquittal or settlement in hush money case.
I once asked my mom, who grew up in the 1930s (aside: feels increasingly necessary to specific 19--), what was the biggest technological change she had seen in her lifetime. Her immediate answer was 'indoor plumbing.' But her next answer was the cellphone. She said cars and trains weren't vastly different from when she was a kid, she almost never went on a plane, and that people spent a lot of time watching the TV and listening to the radio, but they used their cellphones more and for far more things.
"Ender's Shadow" and the mirror "Ender's Game" are some that I read once in a while too

"1984" is a big one for me.

"Lord of the Rings" as well.
If your time is so valuable, why are you spending it creating throwaway accounts just to hate on somebody else's content? If you don't like it, just move on. You're not adding anything to the conversation here.
Oh yeah definitely - I was purely commenting on the parent comment's "really far" claim, and noting that it's all the same to the eye muscles once you hit 20 feet - you don't have to (no pun intended) set your sights on the stars to relax your eye muscles.
The more myopic you are, the higher your risk of retinal detachment, and other eye issues and diseases.
I think you are talking about the right to asylum, which is a UN right but very lacking in implementations. I never ever so much as hinted that this right should be taken away from Palestinians. I don’t even know where in my text you could have gotten the idea that I said something like that, let alone that I wanted to prevent people from evacuating. That you would interpret my words this way, only reinforces my previous belief that you are not arguing in good faith.

No I want Palestinians to be able to live in their home without risking their lives and limbs. The way to do that is with ceasefire. The USA and Israel are the only two parties to this conflict who are preventing a ceasefire.

> Why did Europe take so many Syrians [etc.]

Previously you hinted at a conspiracy theory regarding this. As such I’m very reluctant to debate this with you. But to clarify, the values I’m talking about is that of life and dignity. Pretty much the international deceleration of human rights, and several international agreements that followed, such as the right of the child, prevention of genocide, etc.

Israel is breaking several of these in their war against Hamas. What I am saying is that they shouldn’t. Hamas is not worth breaking these agreements, both legally speaking, but much more morally speaking. What Israel has become is something very much worse than any terrorist organization can dream of.
I think, outside Europe, this afflicted lots of places away from the coast, right? Like the middle part of the US.

I’ve always wondered if the iodine in the air is part of the allure of the seaside.

Coastal areas of course have produced a huge number of successful countries. Most of that must be the trade and logistics advantages. I wonder if getting the iodine right out of the air was another hidden major advantage though.
> ”I think that AI is always plagiarism," he says. "When you train the model, you're training the model with other people's copyrighted stuff.”

This is certainly true of OpenAI and Google. But Adobe Firefly is trained on only on their own Adobe Stock images, licensed content, and public domain content.
In my case the turning point of roach infestation in the late 80s was not something I have memories of so I was curious what it was like to live through. They touched on an important point, I think, where the widespread nuclear anxiety from the cold war and national pervasive roach anxiety began to dissipate at about exactly the same time.
Pororoca, an HTTP Inspection Tool
I agree with the article, CSS has got really great. I was gone for 10 years (jail) and before I left CSS was still a real bear with tons of little hacks and killing yourself to make floats work. The biggest change to the Internet when I got out was that CSS was rather lovely and for the first time in 30 years of web designing I actually enjoy doing layout.

I'll have a party though the day CSS Masonry layout is no longer hidden behind flags:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_la...
Ok, now please cite the source of this comment you just made. It's okay if the citation list is large, just list your citations from most probably to the least probable.
> it might only be coincidental that the playbooks match.

Not coincidence, but probably "convergent evolution"; much of it is just common sense effective tactics.
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?

The difference between this question or NYT articles is that this question asks about content we know should not be available publicly online (even though it is or was at some point in the past).

I guess this really gets at “do we care about how the training data was obtained or pre-processed, or do we only care about the output (a model’s weights and numbers, etc)
As long as nobody else can overtake it and fill the gap, it still has value.

That's a very hard thing to do given that social media naturally evolve into monopolies. A whole lot of alternatives (Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon) but none as good, since they simply don't have the userbase. Chances are they will keep not having it.
Essentially correct. They use near-infra red light, which can only penetrate about 3cm of skin, so this is not a complete replacement to surgery.

New modern chemotherapy (anti-body drug conjugates) are also similar to how it "adheres" to cancer cells, by binding to specific cell expression. It's not re-inventing this technology, just finding a new way to leverage it. The drug will also bind to normal cells, but by directing light to a specific area the goal is to minimize damage and side effects.
Yep. If it was opt-in in a per-makefile way, it would be ok (or preferably opt-out).

I think cmake got this absolutely right, fwiw. You define the version of cmake you're writing against, and they go to great pains to ensure that they preserve behaviour even in newer versions of cmake. As an example, we could have a special variable:

make_ver = 4.5

And even running with a future version of make the behaviour would be that of 4.5. if it's not present, it defaults to the latest version before the versions were introduced.

This would let make do things like accept spaces instead of tabs, be parallel by default, etc in future versions while presenting old behaviour.
Not really sure he has one. I was confused too.
If only we could invent swappable batteries.
Interesting, that makes sense. I lived in an apartment with 8 units back in my exterminator days, and my landlord was more than happy to let me in to all 8 of them to do a thorough spray.

It was much harder to spray apartment complexes with hundreds of units and treating for roaches in every single unit was prohibitively expensive (or my boss was a cheapskate, I don’t know), so we’d only do targeted treatment where we had seen roaches and surrounding units.

Single family homes were much easier to treat. I strongly suspect we got roaches in our single family house when a home care nurse brought them with her, along with a bed bug! I almost died when I saw that monstrosity, luckily we avoided an infestation, those are 10x worse than any cockroach. You do not want bed bugs.
>Words that come to mind - technical debt, framework lock in and dependency hell. Just to name a few.

And this is different from any other environment... how?
The problem is that shops are basically replacing the whole engine because a head gasket swap is too hard for them.

It’s perfectly possible to swap faulty cells in an EV battery, but it requires specific skills and tools. Most shops don’t bother. It’s easier to swap the whole battery.
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-mon...

Sounds like threads is catching up to twitter.
> I think we've largely forgotten what live over-the-air television was like for quite a few decades: TV shows and movies split up by blocks of 5-6 30 second ads, including ads for other shows later in the week. We'd either sit through them, bored, or find something else to do. (Or pause recording on the VCR. Heh.)

A big difference between those ad breaks and ad breaks today on many streaming platforms today is that there was coordination between the content producers and the broadcasters over where in the content the ad breaks occurred.

The content producers structured their programs so the ads would occur during good places for the viewer to take a break. Shows for 30 minute slots would be written as 3 acts and shows for 1 hour slots would be written as 5 acts. Sometimes the shows would even acknowledge this in the story, e.g., both The Simpsons and Futurama had stories where right at the end of the act a character says they are going to 2 or 3 minutes to think about some problem, and then it immediately goes into the ad break, and when it comes back the character has just finished figuring out the answer.

It was also easier to find something to do during a 3ish minute ad break than it is during the shorter ad breaks common on streaming platforms today. With a 3ish minute ad break when I was a kid, I'd just start reading a magazine or the day's newspaper. With short ad breaks there often isn't time to do anything meaningful. Even though the modern platform might have less total ad time, the total of "time actually watching the program" plus "time doing useful things during ad breaks" in an hour of watching for me was probably more for OTA back then than it is for many of today's ad-based streaming services.
All I have to do is look around in an area with several things going on and it happens.
Genuinely asking, is the “verbatim” thing set in stone? I mean, an entity spewing out NYTimes-like articles after having been trained on lots of NYTimes content sounds like a very grey zone, in the “spirit” of copyright law some may judge it as indeed not-lawful.

Of course, I’m not a lawyer and I know that in the US sticking to precedents (which mention the “verbatim” thing) takes a lot of precedence over judging something based on the spirit of the law, but stranger things have happened.
yes, op asked about a video titled lotr.mkv, but with millions of tiny differences.
I am literally going to publish a blog post on my own vision of the future of Open Source tonight.

He has some things right, but others are not.
Yeah. But then how do you make money through all those ad impressions that you can ingest all over the internet right?
When I was studying AI in grad school many years ago getting good big data sets was always an issue. It never occurred to me to just copy one without permission.
I think it was.

We just don’t think about it because we’ve defeated it completely by putting iodine in the most popular spice, and also people in the past were afflicted by all sorts of horrible illnesses. It doesn’t stand out from the noise of the past being generally a mess.
Do we even know when the metal eras arrived? It seems like most bronze/iron artifacts would have been destroyed by time if they existed prior to 2-4K BC. In particular, iron /steel artifacts tend towards rust on short timescales.
Well front page of HN right now is an article about how AI aided in the development of a new antibiotic
Isn't inhaling boric acid in indoor settings going to produce the same effect for our lungs?
Publishing reproducible research would disincentivize fraud by providing a
clear way to expose fraud, and could tend to benefit other researchers in
the field, by effectively sharing specific methods as well as results.

Incentivizing reproducibility would be hard as a grassroots effort,
but would be enforcible if it were tied to funding. Even if only a
small percentage of published studies were reproduced, and only a small
percentage of them were found to be fraudulent, the disincentive for
fraud would be present. We do not need more Andrew Wakefields.

> Effective checks would basically mean science costs 2x as much.

By that logic, we would need to enforce speed limits by having one
police cruiser following every driver.
Yeah the whole thing with Zucc's trial highlighted this perfectly for me, a bunch of clueless old dolts who have no fucking idea how anything in the modern age works.

I'm eagerly awaiting the time where the people making these decisions at least have some sort of baseline level of understanding, otherwise these psychopathic megacorps will keep getting away with things based on technicalities and the judge's lack of knowledge.
Any suggestions for mosquitoes? It feels like the roach problem is a solved problem. But mosquitoes not so much.
not to mention, pets sniffing it up?
> Floaters are commonly caused by a (mostly) benign aging phenomenon called posterior vitreous detachment, where the vitriol gel liquefies as a person ages.

And, the longer your eye is (the higher your myopia is), the earlier this happens.

Retinal detachment is rare though, even with tons of floaters and high myopia.
This is confusing to me as well. Why is one industry specifically called out.
For fun: EMT class starts in Jan

For money: WebGPU and WASM for running client side satellite propagation models
What do you actually believe, with that statement? Do you believe Libraries are operating illegally? That they aren't paying rightsholders?

Also: GPT is not a legal entity in the united states. Humans have different rights than computer software. You are legally allowed to borrow books from the library. You are legally allowed to recite the content you read. You're not allowed to sell verbatim recitation of what you read. This is, obvious, I think? But its exactly what LLMs are doing right now.
Isn't the main problem that myopia is genetically aggressive, and natural evolution stopped working because we correct for myopia through prescription glasses and contact lenses etc.?
You test them on programming problems, not "how many piano tuners are there in New York" style questions. Implementing algorithms is still programming so its better than the brain teasers they used before those.
It looks like the published paper managed to include plenty of citations.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/153216

As it should be.
Let's agree to disagree. Something being done before is hardly relevant when you're using a project to learn. "Optimized to hell" I don't know about; it's a CPU emulator, there isn't that much you should be doing with it anyway. If you're doing accurate emulation speed doesn't seem like your primary factor as long as you're not implementing it in something ridiculous that will involve a GC.

Also, I don't get the point about research: It's a learning project... Doing research and learning is the actual point. Sure, maybe you slice off one part right now if you're not interested in learning how the CPU works, but to say that you'd be foolish to not use someone else's implementation seems to me to be missing the point by quite a margin.
Because we don't have enough pain and suffering in the world...

See, this is the part of computing I refuse to do anything to forward. I will not be complicit in making machines that suffer.
A friend of mine saw a floater for the first time and was freaking out. This confused me since, by then (and we're the same age), I was used to seeing the world through an aquarium of floaters. 8D
At what? They're like tv in the background to me.
I also like zerotier
Ok, but why? Please excuse my ignorance, it's well earned. I haven't been in the web design space for over 20 years. So, seriously, like, what is this for?

Just so we can? For presenting a specific kind of information?
Hmm, it's not showing up for me to try in my account...

Here is the site talking about the features though: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-youtube-premium-fea...
For one, uber drivers can't set their own rates.
I think the author missed the point of CGI. The point being that the web server doesn’t parse anything, it just passes the request to the CGI program via environment variables and standard input/output.
Ask HN: Reviewers You Trust?
Do you have favourite book / film / game reviewers that you could recommend? The outlet is not important (well, it rather not be paywalled); but I am looking for reviewers with independent voice which means:
* they are not afraid to constructively criticise new works that almost everyone is acclaiming;
* they are, vice versa, not afraid to praise works that everyone is bashing;
* most importantly, they have a knack for discovering hidden gems or rediscovering forgotten gems.

I would suggest that Adam Roberts, who writes for The Guardian, is very good at finding new interesting SF&F novels:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/06/five-of-the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-of-2023
500x375px pictures in 2023? Your dog is beautiful enough to deserve better!

Did the Grinch steal all your internet connections and leave you with shoddy mobile 3G?
An NMC battery that gets 200 miles to a charge will last 1,000 cycles x 200 miles = 200,000 miles. An LFP battery will get 3x that.

You’ll probably get batteries that outlast the bodies. The batteries themselves are recyclable too.
Might you share what your question was? Or did you simply say "summarize"
> I wouldn’t want to scrap them though, out of fear of what less well rounded graduates might act like.

They would act like Europeans and the rest of the world where GE's aren't a thing. What that means depends on your biases, but it doesn't seem too bad to me. And since silicon valley is mostly foreign software engineers today it doesn't seem like a bad thing for their performance either.
I'm not convinced that the intended meaning was to consider a rotating reference frame. I think it was simply an oversight that the straight-line answer and the around-a-circle answer aren't the same. A rotating reference frame is one way to explain that oversight, but it isn't the only one.
Most people don't prioritize self-augmentation; their aspirations lean towards contentment, stability, and the quintessential 'normal life'. The pursuit of self-enhancement often isn't intrinsically rewarding unless one has a predisposition towards it, and even with the impetus, the outcome might not provide the satisfaction one anticipated, or worse.

As for the so-called 'elite' demographic, I will simply say : "Not for lack of trying". (there is this book : "Stealing Fire" [1]). On ancient methods of improvement, it's crucial to note the difference between (super)wisdom and (super)intelligence. But that's a conversation for another time.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Maverick-Scientists-Rev...