skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I use chronic all the time for my cron jobs so they only email me if they fail and I can still print helpful output from them. Love moreutils.
Re: "I have a physics degree and continue to learn about math, but in one talk I saw, Eric started off using math I'd never heard of, and didn't bother to introduce it or even motivate it's use"

So what you're saying is you don't even have the ability to start to understand if what he's saying is true, as you've not been willing to put the effort into learning the math he's referencing - that you've never heard of - and instead essentially doing high-level ad hominem saying "he'd rather get the juice from claimed persecution than actually advance the field"?

Sounds to me like Eric is right about what he says about the field in general, and why there's been little to no uptake in the indoctrinated-seemingly ideological field of physics studies.

I agree his tactics may be lacking, and that clearly he'll have to do a better job eventually - to handhold for people who have the capability to understand but your comment here supports the difficulties Eric states he's encountered with academia.

Did you try sending him an email to ask him for more guidance? That would not only help you - whether that leads to believe he's just a charlatan or helps you learn new math - but it would be an opportunity for him to learn to be a better teacher too.

Arguably the most efficient path for Eric as well, since everyone has limited time and resources, is to work with people who actually show and put in an minimally adequate effort to understanding - where connecting with him directly is perhaps the first necessary barrier to breach, so that you can have a productive conversation and at least a chance to be on the same page; and if you don't even know the math he's referencing, and can't talk his lingo, then you'd have to begin to learn the language he's speaking as a prerequisite - especially before judging him - the irony here is your ad hominem is in fact an example of persecution - and from the physics' community's mouth itself.
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I have one of those Thunderbolt Displays and it’s been a trooper. Sitting at around a decade old now and still works great. Its connector is getting worn out but as long as I don’t bump the TB2 → TB3 adapter it’s connected with it’s solid.

It’ll be a bummer when it finally goes. In addition to being a secondary monitor it also gets used to test how graphics appear on“normal” DPI displays (main monitor is a Studio Display) and while decent 2560x1440 are now cheap and ubiquitous none of them are going to be controllable via keyboard without third party software.
There shouldn't be a bonus, just a salary. If the salary is big enough, then you'll get talent. Executive's often fail upwards because they obsess over getting their bonus even when the org is failing or in trouble. The idea that bonuses are mandatory is something executives repeat ad nauseum because it is obviously in their own interest.

With executive bonuses all you get are executives who focus on short term metrics ("how do I maximize the chances of getting my bonus?") over their roles as public servants and the long term sustainability of the organization. Maximizing their chances of getting a bonus might make sense when the metric is profit, or share price, or revenue, because theoretically the executive's interest would align with the employees and the organization. But, when the point of the organization is a public service and disconnected from profit, revenue, or share value, then maximizing the executive seeking their bonus over all else does not easily or really align with public service or the organization's sustainability.

There are many other incentives to working in public service, for one example: public servants in Canada get frankly an insane defined benefit pension. Few people in Canada nowadays are able to get as good retirement benefits. There are also people who have dedicated decades to working at the CBC or in public service. The assumption seems to be that only ~executives~ from some chosen ~executive class~ can run an org, but in fact that is only a relatively recent idea. Choosing someone with proven dedication to the org, and with proven skills in many of the departments of the org, someone who has worked their way up, is probably a far better choice compared to someone from outside who has only private experience. It's also the way that executives were hired or developed for decades before the bonus obsession.
Thanks for the correction! Fixed above. Early morning. :)

FM/YI, here's the mapping of games to engines: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Engines

Apparently the Sierra engines were AGI and then SCI. https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=AGI https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=SCI
PCA is purely deterministic (and might not give great results). My guess is this is done by t-sne or UMAP, both of which depend on a seed.
Yes that's fair enough, I mentioned it in the spirit of what else is good learning material on YouTube, not/forgetting 'creating my first design right now'.

Phil's Lab is pretty good 'zero to DDR' though I think, for PCB at least - you might need some awareness of basic electronics first, he does schematic walkthroughs and projects too, but it'd probably seem pretty quick and unexplained if you're coming to it not knowing some fundamentals.
Imagine a future where copyright registration involves contributing your IP to a public adversarial model, which is then a regulated layer in future generative model licensing.
there was a talk about this a few days ago https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12061-alphafold_how_machine_lear...
FAANG money is a relatively recent thing. Stock options used to be the only way you might make millions as a developer, at that was always a gamble. The NSA probably has a lot of seasoned developers who started their careers when the pay gap was much smaller.
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with tons of new games
There are many personal wikis out there, with the emphasis on interconnectedness rather than multiuserness. I think ruling out single-user setups is too narrow.
People are naturally cooperative. Just observe any disaster to see it. People come out of the woodworks to help each other.

They myth that when things break down, people revert to some ultra-survivalist hyper-individual bloodline protecting supersoldier has to die.

What happens is that society reverts to pre modern relationship templates where who you know and interpersonal skills reign supreme. Our modern society enables this myth and makes us more like it in our everyday lives than our natural cooperative base state.
> Do you really see no difference between someone drawing a piece of fan art

In the history of the world only a single person has ever drawn fan art?

No, I don't think that's the case.

Instead it is widespread. It is everywhere.

> depending on the scales in question

The scale argument supports me, not you.

This type of "infringement" is everywhere.

> reselling it for their own profit with no regards to anyone or anything else?

Even this is common. The online independent artist commissions market is full of people doing commercial fan art commissions.

Thinking about this even more, I am now wondering if "infringing" works might actually be a majority of the online/independent commissions market. Maybe.

And yet, nobody cares.
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Here's a little more detail on the construction if you're interested: https://youtu.be/eojYicG_Kjs?si=6cBHOUdk0n9hVoUh
IMO, hallucinations make it basically unusable for things it should be very good at. For example, I have asked two different AIs what the option is for changing the block size with HashBackup (I'm the author). This is clearly documented in many places on the HashBackup site.

The first time, the AI said to use the -b option to the backup program, with examples etc. But there is no -b option, and never has been.

The 2nd time, the AI said to set the blocksize ("or something similar"; WTF good is it to say that?) parameter in hashbackup.conf. But there has never has been a hashbackup.conf file.

From examples I've seen, AI tends to do a passable job spewing a long-winded response where asking several different humans would give similar long-winded responses that contained a lot of judgement and opinions, some of which could be valid or not.
Just amazed at how the author has created (and shared for free) such a comprehensive set of books including teaching C++ and Unix tools! There is something to learn for all Programmers (HPC specific or not) here.

Related: Jorg Arndt's "Matters Computational" book and FXT library - https://www.jjj.de/fxt/
I thought they had a problem with Canadians sharing news articles on Facebook, not searching for them on Google. Or maybe both?
This needs more eyes. Joe is a founder, not a patent troll, and Apple met with him, reconned his tech, recruited his engineers and copied his technology. He’s in the good fight.
> I believe you may just not know what tacit knowledge is

Not sure where you got that from, haven't said anything about it nor did I include that in my quotes.

I'm well aware of it. But if I have one comment on it would be that I see it more as something an experienced person (or someone with a natural knack for it) makes use of under-the-hood, the resulting quality of the output however can usually be recognized by everyone, not something reserved for the "blessed ones". Take the redis source code for example (quite a few years since the last time I read it though). The author clearly has this skill, but one doesn't have to possess that to recognize the code quality (and btw, iirc without any mentions of a pile of design patterns/methodologies, just "doing it", but to each their own).

So therefore I'm a bit suspicious of anyone that claims that their idiosyncratic setup is actually simple if you just have experience enough to be able to judge it. I'm not saying that everything can be obvious at first glance but the vagueness triggers my radar after being worn down by experiencing way too much over-engineering motivated by self-serving vagueness and/or word salads ("baffle them with bullshit").

That said, if a code base keeps requiring you to make the correct design decision using subtle knowledge, that's a fragile situation and something seems off. You've probably already made the code base too complicated, my prejudices (somewhat confirmed by the language used in one the articles you linked [1]) would be through a pile of design patterns inspired abstractions that now everyone needs to be able to juggle at all times.

[1] "For example, the Tell, Don’t Ask principle can’t be expressed directly in terms of Push, Don’t Pull, which has a more common name: encapsulation. And each one of these qualities reflects cohesion and coupling. And furthermore, cohesion and coupling are inter-related and affect each other. Afference and efference are kinds of coupling. Afference is inbound coupling, and efference is outbound coupling"
> device, which stands at about five feet in height off the ground when placed on a table

And is about the length of three football fields when dismantled and spaced equally across them?
Show HN: Fixing ChatGPT's losing-focus bug
When you select a paragraph in ChatGPT's UI as it's streaming in, your focus on the element is continuously lost each time a new text character streams in, so if you try and copy and select something mid-stream, it's a moving target. I wrote up a simple/quick fix.

I imagine landing the actual fix for them would be more difficult given they embed different elements alongside text, e.g. code blocks, which is where I first noticed this issue (trying to select a short snippit of code from a long block as it streams in).
OpenAI might not want to shield all their customers from liability, but that is exactly what GitHub have done with Copilot. It's not a hypothetical, it's being done today.
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Exactly. People don’t like the DMCA at all. People would be happier in a world with very few IP restrictions at all.

But businesses do like it, and profits are what drive these legal decisions. This will always be the case as long as money is more important than humans in politics.
If it became popular it'd be regulated out of existence
Ask HN: AI Course 101 for a total noob
I can do some wrappers using OpenAI but if one wanted to learn fundamentals of AI including things like how to train a model etc, what are some of the best resources/tutorial/courses online ? Willing to pay for quality as well.
USSR wasn’t communist it was fascist.

That it was communist was propaganda so communist == bad.

It’s not about economics but the emotional tone of a society.

Under capitalism in the US I can let you die in the streets without lifting a finger. Guess you didn’t capitalize hard enough.
This is fantastic. I consider iOS far superior in so many ways over Android. Except that it is locked down so much. If iOS becomes more open, there will be nearly no reason to get an Android.
Fortunately, a machine isn't an autonomous mind that does anything on its own.

Instead, it is a person who uses the machine, just like fan artists can use a computer to make fan art.
Field testing yet to be conducted but so many ambulances in the hood getting clean audio will be no problem. Bluetooth speaker on the sidewalk. In Dallas CBD as long as it’s part of performing of art (so maybe I’m doing yo-yo tricks next to the speaker) or is permitted as well as a tip receptacle. Being asked to move by a business is about it.
It mostly doesn't matter if the military wants specialist systems, in the long run generalist systems tend to win in power and adaptability.

Some of this may be a misunderstanding of what modern militaries do, if they are shooting guns there's already been some level of failure. Massive amounts of war gaming, sentiment analysis, and propagandizing occur, see the RAND Corporation for more details on the military development of algorithms and artificial intelligence.
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I can't be bothered to check, but I assume my corporate laptop is using pro/enterprise Windows, and it has definitely shown ads on the lock screen (it's very laggy when I want to unlock my computer, so very noticable). I don't interact with Windows much beyond opening a terminal, so they may be elsewhere too. I vaguely recall it randomly popping up some Xbox thing at one point.

Honestly I don't see why corporate security groups don't throw a fit over what Microsoft has been doing the last few years. I'd expect the enterprise versions to be almost like Windows 2000 with all of the malware off by default (and possibly impossible to turn on).
The pattern is that hardware is sold but software is now rented, it must be a 'revenue stream', not a one-off sale.

Cars were hardware. But now contain ever-increasing amounts of software. With self-driving cars, the software is the main feature.
The "crypto-bro" behavior I see is a whole bunch of people burning a ton of calories wildly casting about for industrial applications of what amounts to nothing more than a neat (albeit eye-wateringly expensive) toy. These LLMs seem like a solution in search of a problem in just the same way that blockchains are. Please prove me wrong, I'd really love to be wrong about this!
Is there any philosophical difference in playing your game using ScummVM versus playing a JavaScript game on some website using Safari for iOS?
Per United States law, imagery/art/music/text/photography generated by non-human means (such as machinery, animals, or generative AI) cannot hold copyright. https://copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-auth... Section 306 on page 7.

I'm not sure how it'll hold up in law to claim copyright violations against something that wasn't created by a person. It'll really depend on the lawyers and judge's interpretation of written law. But I'm curious to see what comes of this.
no matter how you look at it; the cat is out of the bag.
OpenAI could be censored but you can't censor the opensource
Pay per use with a rate lowering proportional to the increase in usage would feel quite fair.

But it seems that a bit of ethic would kill the greedy.
The second paragraph of the article starts out

Most on-line sources claim the phrase originated in 1104 in a small town in Essex, England.

In the third paragraph the author states he prefers the boxer story.

Personally, I think the usage of that idiom is older than 117 years.
We don’t know the perspective or the contours of the illustrated road well enough to say this. I could imagine some perspectives where this actually works out, especially if the tires are causing the vehicle to slide sideways.
fast.ai course is the best: https://course.fast.ai/
Comes with its own framework and is deeply practical.
True, but still different in the same way as using machines for certain purposes is not the same as a human doing the same without a machine. Just because you can walk from A to B does not mean driving from A to B requires no driving license, for example (and the car needs to fullfil a lot regulations).
'can speak and read a second language' doesn't mean they'd cause significant traffic to Wikipedia in that second language, that number would be some small fraction of that again.
hmm then it meants generative music, as in say brian eno's experiments aren't copyrighted?
Well, normally only when something changes.

For a rotating persistence-of-vision display you need to redraw everything as soon as it's physical position has shifted a "pixel". i.e. non-stop, regardless of whether the content has changed or not.
I don't really care if it sits well with them. do you?
In that future, why do we need them? They are already parasites feeding off our collective societal stories. Or did you think Disney came up with all those characters? Maybe the original creator of Snow White should sue.
Well. Japan can: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/japan-declares-ai-training-...
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I think they are expressing a view that we ought to offer less protection / more scrutiny to larger commercial entities, which concentrate disproportionate amounts of wealth and power, compared to smaller entities. I tend to agree.
I’ll just point out on the Snowflake side, we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format. The value add is the platform, not lock in. That also forces us to be the best on open formats, which IMO is also a good thing for everyone.

Disclaimer: I work at Snowflake literally on this with my team. :)
Software dev here and can’t imagine my life without technology. From ease of access to information to home automation to instant communication with friends and family far away.

That said, I think the quantity of time we spend using technology has decreased our quality of life by reducing real-life human interaction and decreasing physical activity. I like to think my brain operates like a computer but it needs more downtime without stimulation than I give it.

I hope we start trending back to more human interaction and physical activity than the trend over the last 10 years of spending more and more time using technology.
With rightsholders I mean exactly those big corporations who do nothing else but buy up copyrights to successful art.

I for example have never benefited from copyright, neither from GEMA (the German artist association for musicians) - 99% of payouts go to the rich and successful mainstream artists and „indie“ artists get nothing but are forced by law to pay in if they want to perform in public.

So yea I have little sympathy for artists who only work for corporations or are rich enough to afford lawyers to enforce their copyright.

The way I see it there exist 3 ways to make a living as an artist now:
- be rich trustfundkid and don’t care about money
- be „purist“ and just live from selling your art and be on the brink of starvation constantly
- get a „money“job and produce art in your spare time

Apparently there exists a huge population of artists who can make a living from working for corporations - but I have yet to meet one in real life. They are always brought up in these HN discussions but in my experience they don’t exist.
Indeed KiCad is much improved in many different areas, and the devs deserve accolades for making those things happen. The self-destruction of EagleCad was certainly a good source of motivation to focus efforts on making something open-source better.

For a number of years I have been using DipTrace for personal projects and it is quite easy to use. It is one of the easiest and fastest tools for doing PCBs for the non-PCB engineer. I have recommended it to a number of non-engineers and they were quickly successful in getting a design up and running.
> From the coelacanth to the cockroach, these "living fossil" creatures haven't changed much in millions or even hundreds of millions of years.

Despite looking the same, I wonder if it's possible to class them as the same species through all the timespan. For example, if it were possible to put a modern-day coelacanth in a time machine, and bring it back 400 Myr to the Devonian period, could it mate with another coelacanth from that period, and produce viable offspring? Or perhaps they changed a lot, not on physical form, but on a biochemical level, comprising separate species that just look the same?
I do this too. Main monitor has sets of desktops for “primary” tasks (e.g. IDE windows) while the secondary has several “auxiliary” desktops (one for email, one for chat, one for documentation, etc).

The ability to mix and match these between monitors is seriously powerful and basically eliminates window micromanagement and seriously curbs alt/cmd-tabbing. Everything stays put as switching desktops becomes the primary form of navigation.
> FOSS robot cars seem like a great way to bypass emissions controls, safety regulations, and plain common sense. It'd take what, half a day, for some teenager to modify the firmware to double the 0-60 and blow up the battery pack at the same time?

Hasn't that always been possible? Just because it's in software now I don't see why it's suddenly different
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Category:Freeware_G...

but hm, that category is larger than the category of supported games ... clicking through to the "where to get" link gives a more curated list.

There are 4 shipped in most Linux distros (probably more a matter of exact license than quality alone):

Flight of the Amazon Queen - everything you'd expect from a fantasy adventure; play this if nothing else
Beneath a Steel Sky - a good game, just not a happy one
Lure of the Temptress - this was buggy when I played it, managing to crash/freeze the VM
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back - cringe
Nationality is NOT one of these encrypted data fields (i.e. you can determine if an American is walking nearby, but not their name/DOB/etc).
That's why automated retry on concurrency failures should be a built-in feature of the database (or at least of the DB client). It should be easy to register your own commit (for side effects that can be deferred until success) or abort (for side effects that can't be deferred but can be undone) handlers for a given transaction.