skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value proposition for renewables left nukes far behind a long time ago. Nukes have no prospect of narrowing the gap even if they could be built and operated more cheaply, of which in any case no plausible signs are evident.
'No Laughing Matter:' Clowns Sue Clowns.com for Wage Theft
No, but there is Hedgewars, which is an excellent open source clone of Worms:

https://www.hedgewars.org/

https://github.com/hedgewars/hw

On Ubuntu, you can install it with

sudo apt install hedgewars
Dark Visitors – A list of known AI agents on the internet
Definitely a "hot take".
2 and 3 don't really differ that much; true cold-blooded software doesn't care which it's being run with.
On a tangent — for a numeric library, would you rather NaN or throw? I find a fair amount of division over this question, but people lean towards throw over NaN.
I'm personally pretty torn on that. On the one hand I agree with you, especially from a harm-reduction perspective (e.g. people who are on blood pressure medication ordering "natural" Viagra because Viagra's contra-indicated with the medication they're on, not realizing that they're getting something that could cause a very bad situation). On the other hand, requiring a prescription does mean that a physician can ask that question ("are you on blood pressure medication?") and counsel the patient to look at different options instead.

I mean, even though 50% of these are intentional overdoses... the other 50% probably didn't know they were doing something that was going to destroy their liver: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/
No. It makes Mozilla part of the problem. People getting tired of Mozilla's incompetence and stopping supporting them is just a consequence of that.

I use Firefox. I want to use Firefox. That Mozilla insists on pretending it's not the one single worthwhile thing they do doesn't make it easy.
I don’t know if we need a new one.
Firefox is still a good (the best?) browser IMO.
Developing a new one is really difficult and many more intelligent people than me have failed doing it.

But if you feel like you have to act, do so and do a show HN; I’m always willing to give a new browser a try :-)
Worrying about Mozilla CEO compensation when

1. Mitchell Baker is also chairwoman of the board of the Mozilla Foundation and is a founding member of Mozilla, and receives no stock compensation because there is none to give,

2. Google can definitionally outspend Mozilla on browser development and has used that to cement their market position for over a decade now, and

3. as long as Google is the primary source of Mozilla funding, they can (effectively) kill Firefox at any time, and diversifying revenue / building up a war chest of funds is the only defense against that,

just seems silly to me.

As a former Mozillian I don't like the choices Mitchell Baker has made (AI and services are poor plays IMO) but the obsession with CEO compensation at Mozilla has always smelled less like a genuine concern for alternatives to Chrome and more like holding a smaller player to an unreasonable standard.

A more interesting comparison would compare these numbers to the head of Chrome's compensation, and more specifically Chrome's spending and revenue vs Firefox's.
Can I sign up to your mailing list as a test?
https://archive.is/PnxSp
Well if you're not using unsafe, you would expect zero segfaults when using rust, no? Though I imagine it's impossible for anything with graphics to avoid unsafe code entirely.
at least boot2gecko made 1000x more sense than a painfully vague "focus on AI"
My guess is that this is a 6502 emulator plus the original code in wasm. It’s too close to the //e version to be a reimplementation.
If it can reproduce the text then it is stored somehow.

It is stored in a somewhat hard to understand way, encoded in weights in a network but it must be stored otherwise it would not be possible to reproduce it.

You can ask "please provide me with the first paragraph of the carl zimmer article on the oldest DNA" and it produces it, verbatim. This is not possible unless the model contains, encoded within it, the NYT's copyrighted text.
Huh, I literally built an app that does what you describe! Basically an e-reader for language learners called Polyreader. It's a stand-alone app, not a browser plugin, but it has lots of additional features like in-line translation. Maybe I should finally open-source it!
SpaceX's flight termination system malfunctioned last year as well, though it was out to sea at that point.
We're in the part of the hype cycle where the new technology will solve every problem.

I know the responses already: It could solve heart disease (diagnosis)! How do you know it couldn't?

If that's your reasoning, you know you're in the hype cycle.
Firefox, Brave, and other browsers will benefit for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Seems related. Tools built like this which still need constant updating must have a foundation of sand.
But you can fork SAMS and do something wuth it without paying the authors.

You just have to keep the fork free of money.

The only way you would care about that is because you do want money in the fork. Then you become a dealer.

As an end user? No difference.
American here but I agree with the healthy skepticism. Standards for warlords (Kings and Princes in other words) were quite different 800 years ago in that part of the world.

It appears there is some balance in writing between historical accuracy, appeasing the attitudes prevalent today, and simply exaggerating in a colorful way to attract superficial readers. The heavy-handedness of the framing suggest the latter two have won here.
China Copies
Interesting! It looks like Worms 1 came out in 95, then MoleZ a few years later, then Liero. It definitely seems like the same genre of game... the ninja rope definitely brings back some nostalgia :)

The real-time is a cool twist though.
>> I'm guessing a fair part of the population here on HN is too young to remember the Japanese takeover of the US market in the 70s and 80s

I'm old enough to remember that, and from what I recall, the objections of people I knew to buying Japanese cars were not that they were junk, they were that in some of the places I lived growing up, working at an automobile assembly plant was the best occupational outcome that a large part of the population could realistically aspire to. If those jobs disappear, then what?

That was back when the Democrats were against free trade. That all changed, their argument being that trade would make us, in aggregate, better off, and if certain parts of the population were harmed by free trade, we could use the gains of the people that benefited from trade to compensate those who were harmed.

That all happened except for the compensate those who were harmed part.

Yes, I remember.
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI for 'Billions' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38791368 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI, Alleging Copyright Infringement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781718 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI over copyright infringement -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781908 - Dec 2023 (2 comments)

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for using articles to train AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782510 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for allegedly infringing copyrighted work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783699 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over use of its stories to train chatbots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784914 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38786330 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

NYTimes sues OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790845 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)
>Blink is objectively bad in the first place

Do you mind explaining this statement?
Exactly. The Chinese wont be worried about 'alignment' to prevent bias against minorities. That will be a feature.

Success is all that matters.
I swear 2019 was last year https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/introducing-mozilla-webthi...
Why not avoid fighting these windmills by using any of the existing commercial mail relays for sending — like SES or mailchimp?
- "Nobody was killed or injured"

We have no possible way of knowing that, given this is Communist China with a press-freedom index of approximately -∞, and a *documented history* [0] of concealing and covering up politically-inconvenient mass casualty events, including, very specifically, government rocket boosters landing on civilians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708

- "The nature and extent of the damage remain a subject of dispute. The Chinese government, through its official Xinhua news agency, reported that six people were killed and 57 injured. Western media speculated that between a few dozen and 500 people might have been killed in the crash; "dozens, if not hundreds", of people were seen to gather outside the centre's main gate near the crash site the night before launch.[4] When reporters were being taken away from the site, they found that most buildings had sustained serious damage or had been flattened completely.[4] Some eyewitnesses were noted as having seen dozens of ambulances and many flatbed trucks, loaded with what could have been human remains, being taken to the local hospital.[4]"
Is EV charging actually voltage limited? I had impression that it's limited more by C rating and upstream capacity than by resistance and/or cable thickness requirements.
As someone who's been active in the IPFS community, it's really exciting to see how Anytype uses content addressing to manage and sync data under the hood (https://github.com/orgs/anyproto/discussions/15).

I think the fact that local-first P2P apps cannot be built directly on the web is a shame, some of the building blocks, like WebRTC are there, but browsers still lack some APIs to allow for more bottom-up innovation and experimentation with new protocols in the browser.
I don’t want to sound like a nut job, but please look into how much the FDA hampers drug trails.

If you understand how tough it is in one case, think how many trails yearly never get done because of the FDA.

The amount of benefit vs. the amount of deaths caused by the FDA being slow likely means many more are deaths at the hands of the FDA than you expect.

Cracking down on supplements that people take voluntary hardly seems like something I’m pleased they meddle with too.
He's gotten better at it. You can compare Clockwork Rocket to (say) Schild's Ladder, both of which show off interesting concepts; there's no question that Clockwork Rocket has the more interesting characters.

But the characters still aren't why anyone reads them. Nowadays they're serviceable; years back they were cardboard cutouts. Nobody who enjoys Egan is bothered by either.
I think it's blocked for any search engine and I'd count ChatGPT as search engine here https://scholar.google.com/robots.txt
It's a great deal for them. It's not the best deal for us, though, since they're not part of our tax base, nor are they growing families and social networks here for us to benefit from. It's a great outcome morally (Latam, African, and Asian countries deserve greater participation in global industries), but the one thing it doesn't do is optimize for the interests of America.
I think you're exaggerating the idea of offshoring. The reality is that tech is not a sexy sector at all and that's what pushes Americans away from it more than anything.

The people who work in tech are usually people who were never going to fit into mainstream roles anyway. If you went into tech, you weren't ever going to be in sales or marketing. Same for those who went into the arts, they didn't see offshoring of tech jobs and went, "Yeah, I should really pursue the arts."

Most of the decisions people make in the US around careers has more to do with image than it does with financial sense.
The GHC project churns out changes at a quite high rate though. The changes are quite small by themselves, but they add up and an abandoned Haskell project is unlikely to be compilable years later.
What seems most likely to me, at least before AGI is invented, is that the human will ask the LLM for strategies to make money under pressure, it will suggest something unethical, and the human will commit the insider trading themselves. When questioned, they will blame the AI for misleading them.

If LLMs are eventually regarded by a lot of people as an authoritative source, regardless of whether or not they are, I expect a lot of such cases of "morality laundering" to appear.
A better link:
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-new-beidou-satellites-r...
I think there's probably a different optimum shuffle experience for real playlists like you describe vs. "all my liked songs" where the latter is often what I'd put on in the car by default.
IMO it’s mostly because it’s a miserable job that few would be willing to do.
I at least wouldn’t, no matter how many millions they throw at me - even disregarding all the career ladder climbing that is needed to be considered for such a role in the first place.
I completely agree with the threat model of "an attacker on your machine can get to the keys" but I'd like to add two security use cases that makes encrypting indexes valuable:

1. Off-the-shelf malware exfiltrates data, as seen in ransom attacks. I'd feel better if the index was encrypted. It's unlikely an attacker would manually spend time trying to find the keys in RAM unless your app became very famous :)

2. Syncing files on a work laptop where IT might snoop.

Obsidian does not encrypt files at all locally, and for that reason I would feel quite self-conscious about loading a vault with potentially private notes.

Ironically, Obsidian is much better if you only have ONE big vault, but because of this, I have to live with 3 vaults (different threat models for each).
> Someone has to decide what substances safe and prevent them from sold.

Why?

If someone buys deadly nightshade, and gets deadly nightshade, why should the government care?
Fair. But that's just the government. As powerful as they are, they don't have 100% of the total power in the whole US. Voters get a big say, and so do owners of capital.

If anybody in such a society wants to get anything done, they have to build a coalition and sell others on the thing they want to do. This is a very, very good thing.
Isn't that pretty much what Russia is today? The elections are a sham and the government works hand in hand with the oligarchy to plunder the country. As for tolerating government interference, anyone that doesn't like it eventually finds themselves flying out a window.
NY Times Lawsuit vs OpenAI Would Open NYT to All Sorts of Lawsuits Should It Win
> One would either have to belive that intelligent life is vastly less likely than non-intelligent life

That seems like a valid belief. Getting to a technological stage such that a species would be detectable over the vast distances of space could indeed be quite rare. You have to also consider the temporal aspect: intelligent, technologically advanced species may have evolved several times but gone extinct before we could notice them. Do other technically advanced species exist in the universe? Probably, but it could be that at any given time there might only be about 1 in any given galaxy and the distances between galaxies are great enough that we'd never likely be able to make contact. (and ~1 per galaxy would still mean that there would be a whole lot of intelligent species out there - it's just that it would be extremely difficult to make contact with any of them)
Ask HN: How do I recover accidentally hidden posts?
Too often, when I'm browsing the site on my phone, I'll accidentally fat-thumb the "hide" link instead of the "comments" link next to it. The post then disappears forever for me. How do I recover those once they're hidden?

Edit: Nevermind, after a few clicks around my profile, I see now that they're available at https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden
Patterns for Daily Standup Meetings
> But what about an archived project that does exactly what you need it to do, has 0 bugs, and has been stable for years? That’s like finding a hidden gem in a thrift store!

Either the library is so trivial to implement myself that I just do that anyway, which doesn't have issues w.r.t maintenance or licensing, or it's unmaintained and there are bugs that won't be fixed because it's unmaintained and now I need to fork and fix it, taking on a legal burden with licensing in addition to maintenance.

Bugs happen all the time for mundane reasons. A transitive dependency updated and now an API has a breaking change but the upstream has security fixes. Compilers updated and now a weird combination of preprocessor flags causes a build failure. And so on.

The idea that a piece of software that works today will work tomorrow is a myth for anything non-trivial, which is why checking the history is a useful smell test.
I honestly believe that high intelligence while short term is extremely advantageous, long term it is self-destructive.

I like to imagine there are countless planets with perfect ecosystems of living organisms where no single species dominates whole planet.
That looks like a different booster, given that the OP isn't venting as it comes down and explodes.

Maybe this is common?
I am unpersuaded as I have never heard of a company that collapsed and was replaced by foreign competition because they couldn't get enough H1Bs. But even if this is correct, the best that should get you is N visas for the next 2 years and then no more because you will have built the local talent pipeline you need by then.
Neovim has been hugely problematic for me as an IDE (lots of plugins). Lots of errors related to OS dependencies I need to manually install and keep up to date.
Weird Al makes a point of getting permission even though he views his satirical works as fair use.

The "commercial" test is only a part if the criteria and not necessary, but to say it has little impact is clearly false.
By the "client machine" where XServer and XEmacs are both running, do you mean the machine where the human user is entering keypresses and viewing windows? Or do you mean the machine where the files are ultimately getting edited? Clearly, there has to be something running on each of the machines, since otherwise one side would have nothing to connect to on the other side. What is running on the machine opposite the "client machine"?

The idea with VS Code is that neither the keypresses nor the displayed windows are being sent over the network, but are kept within the same machine where the user is entering or viewing them. Only the file data (or debugger status, etc.), which are cached and far less frequently updated, are sent over the network. Are you saying that XEmacs can also function remotely in this way, with neither keypresses nor displayed windows sent over the network?
I'm guessing the disappointing feeling come from parent saying "Pff, I'm so tired of all these libraries that eventually update their APIs in a breaking way, so now I'm using X" while X is just another library exactly like all the rest, and will surely introduce a breaking change or two down the line.
There is no meaningful social conflict arising from importation of skilled labor. Gainfully employed immigrants building families in the US are an asset, not a burden.
I like that you were so upset, you had to whatabout twice on the same story.
"A business should only be permitted to exist if the government allows it."

What could go wrong?
Hm weird I have the inverse experience with Chrome…
It can allow you to deduce something, depending on the answer.

If we want to establish whether scenario A is fair use or not, and we all agree that A is "worse" (regarding fair use status) than some other scenario B, then if we also agree that B is not fair use, A by definition isn't either. The opposite is not true, of course: B being fair use does not imply that A has to be as well.

I find that kind of upper/lower bound logic can be pretty useful and I think it's what the parent comment was trying to do.

On a related note, that same logic is why I think Godwin's law can be a bit misapplied now and then. Sometimes bringing up nazis/Hitler can be useful to establish some ground truth in a debate (instead of just a way to imply your opponent is actually a bad person, or, possibly, an actual nazi themselves). E.g. a conversation on the morality of violence is vastly different depending on whether you agree that violence against nazis is ok or not.
You're only taking them voluntarily if they are what they say they are, if as in this case they aren't you aren't meaningfully taking them voluntarily.
No wonder they can't find workers, if from a nation of 334 million, all but ~16k/year [1] are considered substandard because they couldn't get into an Ivy.

Edit: More relevant is comparing Ivy undergrads (64.5k) to all US undergrads (20.3 million) [2], meaning only the top 0.3% make the cut.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League - total number of undergrads (64.5k), divided by 4, assuming a 4-year college course.

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enr...
Likewise. I'm 46, and started my career in the late 90s using mostly light editors on Windows (Homesite, etc). Along the way, I've tried a few times to really dive into vim, but just couldn't see the advantage over editors like VS Code, Sublime, Atom, or some of the editors popular before then like Eclipse. However, I do feel comfortable enough in it that I can edit files on servers/containers, which is something I feel is useful for everyone.
Loved scorched earth as a kid!
Helm.ai Unveils AI Breakthrough: Predicting Driver Intent and Optimal Paths
Firefox on android also has syncing, you can open up the 'share' and send pages directly to your various firefox browsers. It will sync passwords etc. I haven't had any rendering issues and have been using FFM-Nightly for years now.
Work visas and education visas are two different things that should be treated separately.
For the life of me, I don't understand why they do this.

It's not 2003. I don't have a separate bunch of WAP bookmarks for my phone.
> Obviously, one solution to the problem is that DHCP leases on planes should be drastically shorter, like at 1 hour intervals. Secondly, the number of leases should be drastically increased.

Or just hit the 'internet reset' before each boarding, why are they over complicating this?
> This isn't just me, but all my friends too. We're all the time finding old songs we saved that have never once been played with shuffle, while it's played this one song 3 times in the same day.

That isn't "shuffle", that's "random".[1]

Normal people know what "shuffle" means. It's only recently (since the iPod?) that tech companies tried to blame the user when the user hit the "shuffle" button and got "random" instead.

[1] When you shuffle a deck of cards and then look at each one in turn, do you expect to see a King of Hearts three times in a row? Why on earth, then, is it acceptable to blame the user when they shuffle a list of songs and then get some songs player twice and some not at all.
The implementation of is-even is mind blowing (numbing?).

'use strict';

var isOdd = require('is-odd');

module.exports = function isEven(i) {
return !isOdd(i);
};

good thing it declares its dependencies properly!
And it is all irrelevant. There is an absolute overabundance of pasture land, so spacing panels out so the grass can grow between and under causes no difficulty.
I absolutely support this, it’s the time for meta to go, nothing is valuable or useful came from that company.
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