skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a sneaky reason to suspend their service if they’re not using it: to capture some revenue by avoiding chargebacks or refunds for the entire idle period. If they fees stop getting charged, past periods are likely not going to be audited and are at less risk of claw back. Obviously, this itself is a dark pattern masquerading as beneficial to customers.
Most commenters here only read the first half it seems, I expected more of the hn audience.
> Pretty much east of the Sierras only for high desert right?

Yes, but most of their water goes to Los Angeles so there's less agriculture than there could be (related: the movie Chinatown)
> I don't understand why this changes radically when a vehicle becomes electric, were gas tanks and high pressure fuel injectors suddenly safer than I remember them being?

That’s not what’s changing. We’d be having the same balancing act discussion of collective safety versus individual rights if self-driving cars were all combustion powered.
Koka currently uses the same approach that it does for compiling to C. It essentially does a very efficient low level monadic translation of a delimited control monad. So basically it all just ends up as a tiny bit of thread local state, and building up continuations on returns from functions if they are yielding.

See this paper for details, it gives a good high level overview before diving into the nitty gritty: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/general...
Everybody just buying into the corporate narrative that anyone can actually own these sorts of things.

Who truly owns the tales of Snow White and Cinderella?

These stories didn't originate with Disney; they are part of a rich tapestry of folklore passed down through generations. Disney's success was partly built on adapting these existing narratives, which were once shared and reshaped by communities over centuries.

This conversation shouldn't just be about the technicalities of AI or the legalities of copyright; it should be about understanding the deep roots of our shared culture.

At its core, culture is a communal property, evolving and growing through collective storytelling and reinterpretation.

The current debate around AI and copyright infringement seems to overlook this fundamental aspect of cultural evolution. The algorithms might be new, but the practice of reimagining and repurposing stories is as old as humanity itself.

By focusing solely on the legal implications and ignoring the historical context of cultural storytelling, we risk overlooking the essence of what it means to be a creative society.

As a large human model, (no really I could probably lose some weight) I think it's just silly how we're all sort of glossing over the fact that Disney built their house of mouse on existing culture, on existing stories, and now the idea that we might actually limit the tools of cultural expression to comply with some weird outdated copyright thing is just...bonkers.
Inspired by Coal Liquefaction in Factorio?
They said if I had "used" any benefits I wouldn't get a refund. I've used Prime Video and the shipping. Pretty sure I wouldn't get anything.
How would that not be an act of war?
There's a saying: "These ARE the good old days"

That said, try to make the best of each day. "Best" is something you'll have to decide for yourself. But always try to help others. That creates a ripple effect in space and time.

I read an article, now vanished from Google and github (of course) about "Stackable Permanent Life Improvements". The idea is valid even for me at age 75. I have fun with my hobbies: mainly photography and piano. They keep me sharp and "in tune", especially with nature. Of course, circumstances change, but our relationship with others, with the arts, and with nature, in the large and in the small, are always rewarding, and adapt with change, sometimes, for the better.

Here's the archived article, for your enjoyment:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160728174449/http://bro-kaizen...

Short excerpt:

Given finite time, money, concentration, and gumption, every man must make decisions about resource expenditure. In general, it is best to aim to expend your resources solely upon “Stackable Permanent Life Improvements,” instead of mere delayed gratification.

Stackable Permanent Life Improvements are new additions to your life that add value, don’t expire, and can be compounded. Another way of saying this—stolen from Bro Kaizen’s crusty and implausibly rich old uncle—is, “Only buy things that appreciate.” What he means is that you ought to only exchange your resources for things that have lasting value and are composable (in the computer science sense of composability).

End excerpt.

The article is a bit quirky. So is life. Building a foundation of friends, skills, and the arts will make for a better future, somewhat regardless of what others do. Some basic psychology and communication skills will always help. They helped me survive some deranged bosses in a (redacted) valley.
This is all correct. I must be getting older or wiser, but to me an increasing number of explainers and even journal articles look like "oh, that's how you ride a bike! I will write an article on velodrome design."
How does the build time average time being around 400 (seconds?) for M1 and M2 and around 200 for M3 make the M2 a substantial upgrade over M1 but M3 "an incremental improvement on M2"?

Also would it hurt the author if they had kept the same max y-value on all plots?
> you would want to define a list of allowed tags that the AI can select from?

Yes.
While I don't disagree that these models seem to contain the ability to recreate copyrighted text, I don't think your conclusion holds. How well does zstd compress Harry Potter with a dictionary based on English prose? I think you'll get some impressive ratios, and I also think there's nothing infringing in this case.
True, especially on difficult problems. Open-source can be good enough for many practical applications, though.

In my opinion, the gap in performance is less important, but the commercial offerings are typically more robust/reliable.
Otherwise it wouldn't get used.

I mean get this great auto complete; if you use it, your code might be AGPLed for all you know, and you're in violation, because you didn't even add a notice.

Would you pay for that?
> I'd guess leaders are thinking more in terms of national capacity to create more advanced technologies than geopolitical adversaries.

I think there's a strong argument that they should be thinking in those terms, but I'm a lot less convinced that they do usually think in that way.

Or more charitably, they have the responsibility to balance current interests against future interests. And this isn't just a tricky thing for democracies, dictators also have to strike this same balance, just with different trade offs.

But in this case, for the US, it honestly isn't clear to me that policy makers should favor the AI side of this tussle. I think culture has been among the, if not the very, most important export of the US for nearly a century, and I think favorable copyright treatment has been at least part of the story with that.

Maybe that whole landscape is different now in a way that makes that whole model obsolete, but I think it's an open question at least.
> prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal.

You joke, but this would be great, and something that every digital solution has failed at replicating so far.

The best we have are newsletters (each from a different site/author) which clutter up my inbox and make me not want to read them. A printed weekly digest of everything (preferably with the comment threads included) would be a great way to spend a weekend.
Thanks for digging that out. I'll take a look at it later.
Just escape them.
I'm an ML engineer and I don't agree with the assumption that AI-related roles are somehow different. I don't think they're necessarily in more demand, or pay more, or in lower risk of being automated away.

I do think that, regardless of your job, AI assistance can be useful and worth getting used to, that's the biggest takeaway from the past 12 months.
Wolfram, is that you?
Diesel tuners are still very popular.
Please don't unleash AI comment bot spam on Hacker News.
To add to this, the commercially available versions of the first two Monkey Island games are not ScummVM compatible without some hackery. The games are perfectly playable, indeed, but a lot of people don't have much fondness for the visual style choices.

Luckily, the original game data files are included in the homogeneous .pak files for the games, and Monkey Island Explorer[0] can unpack them.

For both games the files are MONKEY.000 and MONKEY.001 (MONKEY2.00{0,1} for Monkey 2) and the explorer program can filter for file types making it easy. Just unpack them, add to ScummVM and away you go.

Caveat is that these are the CD versions of the games. The Secret of Monkey Island was actually "remastered" previously! The colour palette is altered slightly and the UI includes an updated inventory, with images instead of just words for items. The stump joke is removed, too (partly due to the LucasArts hintline getting calls about a missing disk #131!).

Monkey Island Ultimate Talkie Edition[1] is another project that can extract the data from the Special Editions, as well as the music and voice files. The resulting build is compatible with ScummVM, meaning you can play the original games with the updated audio.

[0]: https://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/monkey-island-expl...

[1]: http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html
Those two were my wake up calls. The US absolutely is in the hacking business, but they are not in the getting caught business. Everything we have seen so far is incredibly sophisticated and took years to discover. How can you then go out and claim that the NSA isn’t incredibly competent?

See also all of the intelligence the US has provided about the Russian invasion into Ukraine. The US is really good at spy craft.
In my experience,

* Storing large amounts like petabytes in any database is phenomenally expensive, just for the storage alone.

* For some kinds of data, like image data, databases are generally the wrong tool.

* The consumers of these kinds of systems may have really dynamic workloads. Imagine ML jobs that kick off 1K machines simultaneously to hammer your DB and read from it as fast as possible. Cloud-managed object stores have solved this scaling issue already. If you can get infrastructure you manage out of the way, you get to leverage that work. If your DB is in the middle, you're on call for it.
GeForce RTX 4090D graphics card
Can't you locally switch between branches with git worktrees if you make your build cache key on worktree name?
Funny, I'm using the same technique in my block editor[1]. Rather than using the complex table/tree-like data structure of QAbstractItemModel[2], I'm using QAbstractListModel[3] (flat list) with a property called indentLevel[4] for each delegate. It works out great. I still need to manage parent child relationships (it makes rendering changes easier using recursive function) so I keep variables for that, but the "fake tree" look, as I like to call it, simply uses the indentLevel property which is determined by the amount of whitespace/tabs at the start of a line in the underlying plaintext data.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

[2] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qabstractitemmodel.html

[3] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qabstractlistmodel.html

[4] Q_PROPERTY(unsigned int indentLevel READ indentLevel WRITE setIndentLevel NOTIFY indentLevelChanged)
From a consumer standpoint, 100% agree with you.

From a provider standpoint, I’m guessing they would lose more revenue from existing subscribers not using it vs. what they’d gain from new (often dormant) subscribers.
One of the more complex things in graphics is text layout and rendering, especially multi-line, mixing fonts, etc.

Is there any immediate mode graphics engine/library that does a great job at it?
That's a pretty good point. Just wanted to comment to say that I found it convincing. Ticketing is a less effective tool for large scale operators.

The benefit is that ticketing is the administrative mechanism we already have so we can use that to aggregate and judge performance.
A self-respecting established company would ensure their windows installs never show any ads. I hope some of the bigger actors can pressure Microsoft on this point to make it clear to MS.
I just learned about vidir [1]. Emacs Dired [2] can rename & delete files by editing the buffer directly, and let's say I was thrilled when I saw someone replicated that behavior as a general Unix tool.

[1] https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...
Wow that’s a beautiful explanation, and gives me hope - thanks for taking the time to explain such things to a layman :)

So the overall “quantum properties are only visible at that tiny scale” issue could be explained by “particles are ‘forced into a classical state” by a chaotic background space time force”, if I’m understanding correctly? Like super sensitive special electrical chips that are buffeted about/‘forced into a new state’ by cosmic background radiation?
Did he ever use AI to generate music? As opposed to crafting and using an algorithm, in which case the computer is just an instrument, like synthesizer is.
I think that it is poised for rapid growth this year. I've been using it quite a bit, and once it gains a more comprehensive standard library, I think it will be much more useful in practice. Given the activity on GitHub, I would suggest checking back in a few months for a more out-of-the-box experience (it will still be a new language - but more ready to entertain serious projects). However, I would give it a try now if it looks interesting to you, install the VScode extension, look through some samples and leave some feedback on github.

As a side note, it has pretty great C interop, so you should be able to use C libraries or your own C code, for missing functionality. Documentation on this feature is unfortunately lacking right now though.
This would be a great movie prop
I'd never heard of the :cq command in vim before. Seems useful, but in practice it's so unknown that things like editing the git commit message cannot rely on it and instead check whether the file has been changed. Also, reading its documentation, it probably would be better named :cqall .
Unraveling the Mongolian Arc: Unexplored Wall System in Eastern Mongolia
Au contraire, his name and his views are common knowledge among Gen Z/Gen Alpha.

He is a minor TikTok celebrity.
Couldn't you use the same argument to reach the absurd conclusion that the 7zip source code contains the vast majority of Harry Potter?

A decent control would be to compare it to similar prose that you know for a fact is not in the training data (e.g. because it was written afterwards).
Confusingly, moreutils parallel is not "GNU parallel". Moreutils parallel is very simple, while the other parallel is very featureful. Linux distributions can deal with the conflict, but bad package managers like homebrew cannot.
Genuinely so pleased with this! I'm a big fan of Rewind as a concept because, in general, I write down everything I do every day (helps with my poor memory, adhd, and in general), and a tool that can record my online-actions and facilitate search too is a game-changer for me (specially when it doesn't come with the hefty price tag).

Couple things --
1) Do you ever plan on introducing shortcuts to toggle rem as opposed to using the menu-bar option?

2) What's storage like? Will rem's size keep getting larger and larger until I purge all? Or will I eventually get to select how long I want to 'remember' something (without manually having to 'start' and 'stop')?

3) One bug I've caught a few times is - once I toggle timeline and just slide back to view previous 'memories', >50% of the time my device won't let me exit out of the 'timeline' and I'll have to exit out of rem (cmd+opt+esc) and re-open it.

But all in all, very happy with this!
Yes, CTEs are fine. The author could have used one to generate a view containing formatted names instead of baking this information into the table.
Just note that abandonware is not a legal term, and the ScummVM team consider it piracy/warez. You don't get supported with problems by ScummVM if you play an illegitimately acquired copy of a game.

There ARE some games which are released by the original developers for free. Beneath a Steel Sky can even be found in the Debian and Arch repositories, for example.
Interestingly, Norwegian has both "luft" (air)/"lufte" (to air) and "lukt"/"lukte" (smell, to smell), and it turns out they share the same proto-Germanic origin as Dutch "luchten" as well as the equivalent German terms, and English "to lift" and Norwegian "å løfte", all centering around air with different angles.
Similarly, words like “I” and “am” appear in a slightly different dense section of the map by default.
The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike. Intermediate-ish level

the latter part of the book is especially good. chapters on performance and notation stand out
It's a subject well suited for obsessive pedants ;)
Safari for Apple Vision Pro
sorry, hyperbole. don't mean that seriously. I was VERY much not a fan of RP2; I'm sure Neal could be a stand-up guy, just sarcasm that didn't land.
Loop over next siblings and hide them one by one, until you hit an entry with an indentation level that is less than or equal to that of the current entry?
> The point of writing an essay is not to produce a text, but to learn and expand one’s understanding.

Indeed. What I thought most interesting about this exercise were the ways in which this author's process pushed him towards learning and understanding - even to the extent that he found himself tempted to read the original sources for himself!

I'm a former humanities lecturer, in both English and History, so it's a thought exercise for me to consider how LLMs would change my pedagogy. It'd be naive to assume that students won't want use this technology, and foolish to think that they can be stopped. The only sensible approach, it seems to me, is to guide students towards productive use - ie, methods which will expand their understanding.

This author's most productive use, it seemed to me, was his literature review, which guided him towards useful sources, and an understanding of the contours of debate around the topic. Those, in traditional pedagogy, are the primary purposes of the instructor. It's notable that to do this he had to provide his own corpus of texts (of dubious provenance!), and self-train the model. Both of those functions require skills which are beyond most students and nearly all humanities professors.

The most obvious use was the structuring and writing of the essay. He pointed out one hallucination he caught, but there were probably more that he did not. In the humanities we have traditionally used a well-structured and elegantly-written essay as the gauge of learning and understanding. Will that have to change? Based on this example, and others I've seen, I'd want to review students' working process, and help them refine their use of the LLM. If the prose it produces can be expected to be of reasonable quality - and it's already far better than most undergraduates (unfortunately) are able to produce - then the truer test of their understanding is the guidance they have given it.

Or maybe essays are now the wrong "proof of work"? If so, then what replaces them?

I have no firm conclusions, besides a depressing expectation that educators in the humanities will remain entirely naive to these technologies, to their and their subjects' detriments. I appreciate the author's project, and welcome further discussion.
That's definitely how I interpret it, as using the word nextSibling [0] in camel case is quite specific to DOM manipulation.

While "the way it looks" might be all that matters to most users, perhaps there are cases where semantic markup is critical (screen readers? browser extension development?).

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/nextSi...
I don’t know about useless. I think there is some real magic waiting to be discovered in mapping language language to some specific and enlightening visualization. I think it involves something like this. Using high statistics and simple, spatial relationships to create a “mapping” of a single individuals wordspace.

Imagine walking around the world and seeing everyone’s slightly unique relationship space of words. This is something I have envisioned for a very long time.
They’re looking at their particular use case. That may limit the applicability of this to other people or companies, but that doesn’t make it politics.
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thanks
Yes, but those game engines are - on iOS especially - locked in to running bundled scripts that drive the specific game you’ve purchased from the App Store. ScummVM is running externally provided scripts.
Vaping and its potential impacts in the perioperative period
> the teenager already received the punishment for his actions by the destruction of their own property

> Cars have always been dangerous, and aside from gross safety and emissions laws, we're allowed to modify them.

These statements are inherently ignoring the externalities that the dangers pose to others on the roads and streets. For years we’ve allowed people to essentially modify their cars however they want, we’re allowing car companies to build vehicles that are literally killing people on the streets with little action to prevent it.

This status quo is really bad and we should fix it. People should not be allowed to drive lifted vehicles on urban streets. If modifying your car was only something that negatively impacted the owner, that would be fine. But the fact is that modifying cars tends to make them more dangerous to others on the street, not just the occupants of the car. We need more safety controls on car companies, not less. We need cars to have automatic speed controls that limit them to the speed limit on the street.

This isn’t a debate about if people should be allowed to modify their equipment, but if they do, they shouldn’t be allowed to drive that on public roads. Take it to the track or some off-roading specific place, not our public streets where we’re now seeing the highest pedestrian death rates in the last 40 years.
I didn't know them (I don't live in the US). But looking at their ingredient list:

Water, Coconut Oil, Potato Starch, Tapioca Starch, Soymilk Powder, Kappa Carrageenan, Calcium Phosphate, Vegetable Color, Salt, Pea Starch, Natural Flavor, Lactic Acid.

It looks like no "crazy" food science is involved. Like many other vegan cheeses, it's primarily based on coconot oil (fun fact: ingredients in ingredient lists must be ordered from largest percentage of weight to lowest).

Have you tried it? Is it good?
Yeah, it's obviously a lot more energy-efficient to have proper ventilation.

(Then again, having recently flown back from Norway to the UK one of the things that strikes me every winter is how floodlit Norway looks from the air at night compared to the UK despite far lower population density - Norway is still riding high on the past low energy prices...)
It's a problem that it's still a problem to do that 100+ years after Mickey Mouse's creation.

When the law doesn't respect the people, the people will not respect the law. Fix the existing copyright system, then we can talk about AI.
I would be _very_, very cautious with this. The problem is precisely that the system presents itself in a way that implies more than it actually has going on. Users will naturally assume there is a real parent-child relationship in the underlying data model.

A soon as someone asks for <thing that requires the parent-child relationship that is implied to already be there>, then you have to admit that it's a smoke-and-mirrors trick and you can't actually achieve that with the data you have.

Avoid storing visual figments in your database, they'll come back to haunt you.