skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally, after a couple of plane crashes, fantastic investigative journalism, and a door blowing off mid flight (thankfully that was caught on video and shared).

Too little, too late.

We should regulate the regulators, bc I don't trust them either.
Depending on who the sales targets are, that’s completely reasonable. Big deals take time to negotiate, approve and close.

The tech company I work at has an average sales pipeline of over 12 months.
Your comment is needlessly dismissive about a benchtop experiment that doesn't really compare to something like Starship and the engines that it uses.

This is really neat. It doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be really cool, but who knows maybe one day it will be.
How are they intending to get to Bir Tawil when it is completely surrounded by Egypt and Sudan? Both nations can block any land or air access. Or just arrest anyone planning to go there.

Also, if anything valuable is discovered or built there, Egypt and Sudan can settle their claims. Most likely is Egypt taking Halaib and Sudan have Bir Tawil, but could go the other way. Or Egypt could take both by force.
Not to say that's what the person you're replying to is doing, but I'm seeing an increasing trend of "sophisticated"-presenting people posting GPT-esque blather with sarcastic intent, in social contexts where they are fully aware that it will be recognized as such, as a way to discredit or demean the point that they're posting about, presumably underscoring some idea that it's just parrot speak anyway.

It amounts to this decade's version of talking in a robotic monotone.
That's not optimism, its pessimism. Some wealth company building an app to sell to DIYers that puts trade people out of work all in order to make money seems unlikely to you?

* Every time I've encountered a home owner with a burst pipe or flooding scenario their immediate problem was lack of knowledge on they different ways to shut off the water supply. And if the problem is something as simple as lack of a wrench then you could always go get one faster than an emergency plumber could get onsite.

* The AGI glasses don't need to solve 100% of problems to be disruptive to the skilled trades. No reason they can't refer you to a human specialist. An (outsourced) human could join your AR glasses session (for a cost) and see if they can provide more instruction to both you and the AGI or if referral to a local human was needed. A Google supplied augmented reality AGI could charge users for specialized assistants AND then charge human service providers for higher placement in the referral listing.

* Local tool rental is a common thing, no reason hardware stores couldn't function as a same day fulfilment instead of amazon. And a lot of tools are cheaper to buy even if they only get used once than paying for a single service call.

* Re: tool training - I'm sure the AGI could recommend approaches to avoid tooling where possible. For example recommending shark bite connectors instead of brazing pipes, etc. But yeah, some people just won't have the dexterity to use a hammer. The issue of being able to plaster or finish drywall nicely that vidarh pointed out in another post is also a good example. It might be a boon to the local AR/AGI enhanced handman.

* Agree on roofers and electricians... where the possibility of self harm is high these scenarios are too risky without basic training. Maybe you'd have to get a DIY electricity safety license to unlock that ability in the AGI. Or maybe only apprentice electricians can use the electrical AGI, the result would still be less need for master electricians.

* Re: YouTube - As a DIY homeowner I love youtube but having to wade through hundreds of videos until I find the one video that applies to my scenario is exhausting. An AGI would already be trained on much of that knowledge. It'd lower the barrier. Again it doesn't eliminate the need for the trades but it does disrupt them further than youtube already has.

Think of it more like adding a self-checkout line to the trades. It helps in a lot of scenarios, the casher job role doesn't go away but a lot of people are unemployed or making less money all of a sudden.
Learning Emacs and org-mode are one of the most worthwhile things I've ever done. I'm not joking, it was quite literally life-changing and mind-opening. It's about as big a change as learning about an OS other than Windows for the first time, or learning programming for the first time.

The learning curves aren't quite as bad as people let on. There's definitely a large learning curve, but you can learn enough of the basics in a day or so to be able to use Emacs for file editing. The learning curve is learning to use Emacs to its fullest potential.

No other tooling can come close to Emacs, and it's because of this general sense of everything being integrated with everything. With other tooling, features only work inside their respective apps, but with Emacs everything works basically everywhere.

And if you put a lot of work into configuring and extending Emacs, you'll learn a bit of Lisp, which will expand your mind in other ways as a programmer.

My advice is to check out the System Crafters "Emacs from Scratch" series on YouTube[1]. David helps you learn Emacs while also learning to customize and configure it to your liking.

- [1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bBJ4...
What other industry is allowed to inspect itself? It completely ruins the point of an inspection. It's like being the judge and jury in your own trial. I'm amazed this is a thing in the first place.
Yup, would be nice. Also ternaty boolean operations, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic#%C5%81ukasi...
This is really bad advice. Don't let yourself be blocked for several days. Try for 2-3 hours and ask for help.
> At the risk of being shouted down, this is another one of those products that looks great on impulse buy, but when you try to use that tiny keyboard and screen to do any real work with it, the chore of use becomes apparent.

I purchased one on impulse after this HN post, and some notes so far:

* Keyboard is a hell of a lot smaller than expected. I have small fingers and even this is a bit of a challenge for me. I very much doubt anybody will be coding on this thing. I am thinking mostly to use it as a way of making brief notes and reading RSS feeds.

* The screen is fine, it's something you can live with.

* I installed tulipcc on it (micropython), definitely the right choice to getting started on it quickly.

* I tried to print a case [2] but my printer is not good enough, I think I will send them off to China to be printed on an SLA printer.

[1] https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc

[2] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6287501
> When you think you have to decide an argument is either completely true or completely false, while in reality no argument is.

Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like an argument that is either completely true or completely false...
I disagree. There are lots of learning that can be done with VR that can't be done with traditional applications that haven't been invented yet.

I exclusively workout using the Meta 2 (I don't play any other games on it) and it works really well.
The first time I read Prince's response, I felt it was OK-ish with some problems. However after a second reading, I have decided that it's terrible.

1. He starts by trying to minimize the issue instead of apologizing talking about how small the number of employees they fired relative to their total department size. I want to know how many people were fired vs. retained over the past 60 days.

2. Prince then goes completely tone deaf and says it is normal for Cloudflare. You should be well into apologizing at this point into the tweet. Also, if you do this often, why are you so terrible at it?

3. Then he talks about how watching the video made him feel. It is not about you, it's about how your actions impacted other people and how you will attempt to make up for it. Seriously, this is Apologies 101 and Prince failed miserably. F-

4. After that, Prince word salads some possible reasons why people are let go, injecting the possibility that maybe she just wasn't listening. Really???

5. Then Prince somewhat begrudgingly admits that they were far from perfect. Ok, I guess? You should have led with that in any case.

6. Then he gives a very non-specific affirmation that they are committed to doing better. This is a meaningless CEO sweet nothing.

What is notably absent is any attempt to make amends to the people Prince's team harmed. "We will reach out to the employees to see how we can best offer additional support through placement/training services or additional severance", would be a good start. Instead Prince offers a vague, non-committal response that they will better in the future, which is cold comfort to the folks who were screwed over by Cloudflare's garbage termination processes. Ugh.
inb4 LLMs

In all seriousness I think the recent advancements are groundbreaking but will plateau soon
That's good that it's the case. I mainly pointing out that if it's ever not the case, and the place is not one would enjoy hanging out around, with an IC car it's a 5 minute deal and you're out of there. With an EV it's a half an hour, and possibly going out of your way, which adds extra time.

For instance, when I travel with my regular IC car, I don't plan or think too much about where to refuel, how I am going to drive there, etc. It's usually a last minute decision. Having to spend half an hour somewhere it's a bit more tricky, now the trip revolves around recharging, waiting, possibly combining with lunch or dinner, etc.
The real tie-breaker is experiment. It's telling that his primary example of "epistemic learned helplessness" is historical narrative. Historical narratives are solutions to a boundary value problem where the boundary is simply "the world at present". There are infinite numbers of plausible stories that are consistent with "the world at present", but they can't be tested unless they overtly predict something, and even then they generally can only be tested over relatively long periods of time.

The disturbing trend that I see is that stupid people stubbornly cling on to falsifiable beliefs, like flat Earth theory, to satisfy some external incentive, like the need to belong, or the need to push against consensus. This is both an expression of Isaac Asimov's famous quote "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." That is, an attack on knowledge itself. It's harmless enough until it generalizes. Meanwhile, smart open-minded people run the terrible risk of a similar generalization, which also ends up functioning like an attack on knowledge itself.

The solution is to weight knowledge in inverse proportion to proximity to you in time and space. That is, I can know what is near to me, but far things are less known. If you adopt this posture toward knowledge then you can approximately partition rational learned helplessness, associate it with far away things, and yet maintain a rational confidence in knowledge that is close to you. And if you run across an historian that speaks with utter confidence about a historical narrative, run.
Fantasy always requires less thinking than knowledge.
Discussions on similar submissions:

Epistemic Learned Helplessness https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32369238 (August 6, 2022 — 17 points, 1 comments)

Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118865 (June 6, 2019 — 146 points, 60 comments)
"...it goes against OpenAI use policy. (Brown)"
And they created about 50% of all useful npm packages too

https://www.npmjs.com/~sindresorhus
Yes, I really think that all of this is both more money and more effort than a very high proportion of page-views on the web are valued by the person causing the page-view. I think there are implementation challenges to making a good system for micropayments, but also that solving all of them perfectly still won't get you a healthy micropayments ecosystem, because most of the web browsing that generates ad dollars has a value to the browsing user that is incredibly low.

In a field of thousands of interchangeably-identical but pretty poppies, would you pay a tenth of a penny to have one more poppy out there? How about a hundredth of a penny? No, it'd be of so little value to you that even a split-second of time spent contemplating the question vastly exceeds its value. The trouble is that most browsing isn't discriminating—acceptable alternatives include almost anything else (as in my Nokia Snake Game example—it's just killing time, and some options might be preferable to others but the difference is extremely tiny).

The only way it could work is if you somehow got almost the entire Web to opt in and start blocking non-micropaying users, such that very little at all was browsable on the Web without going through the trouble of setting this up and it was basically just a second ISP bill. I don't think that's possible unless a full ban on Web advertising were to happen, not just on spying ad-clearinghouses, but also on traditional ads. Then... maybe, but I still wouldn't bet on it working out.

Paid content does work, but it has to aim at addressing the small slice of the audience for whom your content is worth a lot more than a micropayment and getting whole dollars out of them, not pennies or fractions of pennies.

The only place anything like micropayments has kinda worked over a whole medium-category is music. What does that look like?

1) There's a clear legal framework and licensing scheme around music that is broadly adhered-to, and existing, well-established organizations to deal with to get it all sorted out.

2) There's little exclusivity of content, which lets competition at service quality & convenience take center stage and keeps competitors on their toes (very unlike video streaming...)

3) People do care to have access to particular content. They care a lot, when it comes to music, and indeed, many spend much of their time listening to the same songs, albums, and artists over an over. They do not find a random playlist of free music from Soundcloud or whatever to be at all an acceptable replacement, even if it's all in genres they like.

4) ... and yet, this scheme sees constant criticism of not making any notable money for all but the very, very top of the pile. It's not a significant income stream for the vast majority of artists, even those who do make a living at music. Their income still has to be made up elsewhere (remember that "small slice of your audience to whom your work is way more valuable than micropayments"?) And this is the closest thing we have to a working example of micropayments, and it is in fact a functioning micropayment market of sorts. It still, arguably, isn't very good.
> When I originally wrote the LGPL

This might be the best opening line of a HN comment I've ever seen :-D

Don't feel obligated to respond, but how do you feel about the LGPL now? How do you feel about it's evolution given the way the world has changed? Would you do anything differently now?
What do you think about Good and Real by Gary L. Drescher? I wrote about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38789146, so it's not perfect, but I haven't found anything that is.
EVs are minimum 50% more than comparable ICE cars. Theyre not buying an EV if they cant afford an electrician.
Ok so Japanese game developers work for peanuts on the most beloved IP in the world... with stable lifelong careers. Are they happy? Miserable? How far does their salary go relative to their living conditions? Honestly curious.
> One part of the article that I cut for brevity but maybe I should have included…

I think that would be valuable and might deserve its own follow-up article. To me, immersion in the context of creation or play strikes me as a completely different animal than immersion in the context of passive consumption.
The "Earliest known" "Civilizations" all in fact exclusively originated in modern day Turkey, the Levant and Mesopotamia. If you're going to speak on archeology you should at least get your facts straight. There are certainly myriad ancient cultures and civilizations found around the world, including in the places you listed, but there is currently no archeological evidence to support the notion that there were any older significant "Civilizations" in places other than the Tas Tepeler region in Turkey (14KYA-12KYA), Jericho (11KYA-10KYA) or Eridu in Mesopotamia (7500KYA). There may be older civilizations found elsewhere, but as of yet archeology has yet to find any evidence of them, so it's disingenuous at best to claim any evidence of any civilizations found elsewhere indicates they are the "Earliest known."
> Meanwhile, you can expect websites all over the internet to fight to get you to log in so they can track you themselves.

There's a part of me that welcomes this. Sites that require logins for no good reason are at least broadcasting their desire to spy on you, which means you can make an informed decision. That's orders of magnitude better than sites that just spy on you without warning you.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6899429/

> The personal papers of the neurophysiologist John C. Lilly at Stanford University hold a classified paper he wrote in the late 1950s on the behavioural modification and control of ‘human agents’ ... Lilly accepted a position as head of the Section of Cortical Integration at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. His appointment was based on an ambitious ‘Proposal for a Research Program on the Relations Between the Activities of the Brain, Body and Mind’. Combining communications theory, neurophysiology, and psychoanalysis, his aim was to use new brain-mapping techniques to physically locate and manipulate behavioural correlates in the brains of monkeys, cats, humans, and later dolphins.
That's fantastic, I haven't heard of this group before! I wish there was a lot more effort spent here.

This seems like a much better way to spend one's software development time and experience than, say, ad-tech... at least in my humble opinion :)
I think of it as lowering the cognitive dissonance. Highly analytical individuals are going to tend to be more highly sensitive to any contradictions in their belief system. On which side you land might be remarkably random -- one might become an atheist, and another a Christian fundamentalist. The key is getting to a place where they see no contradictions.
Linux/list.h: Circular doubly linked list implementation
Has anyone ever got in actual trouble for this? I doubt…
Can we just not have all that tracking bullshit in URLs please?
End of ZIRP.

But also sizable in-flood of bootcamp crowd
The one I enjoy the most is

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
Thanks for the paper.

> it'd be hard to build a competitive super-scalar chip (really for any ISA) without some verious[sic] serious investment

"Hundreds of millions of dollars" cf. Mark Horowitz's Micro 35 keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8WK63joI_Y&t=1140s) but if you look at the stack in his graph, it's obvious that the architecture portion of this is tiny.

Making a superscalar core simulation (= "model"), or even an FPGA softcore, is within the reach of any sufficiently motivated individual and indeed there are several already. Of course the performance will be dramatically lower than a state of the art silicon implementation.
There is no duty to inform carta
It’s a model for low rM usage 4gigs? I heard it would work well for RAG to speak to your docs, instead of relying purely on its parameters to answer.
I would never 'reinterview' for a company where I'm currently employed. They should already know what I'm capable of and have a role ready. If not, I would rather leave and go elsewhere.
Do you think Boeing would have (or could have) swept that under the rug if there was no video of the incident?

I don't think it makes sense for any manufacturer to be solely responsible for their own safety inspections. Too much incentive to cheat. Must be verified or at least randomly spot-checked independently.
The Evil is in the Fuzz
Agreed that that that that qualifier or similar(over the next two years) would have made sense. However that's 200K began in earnest two month ago already:

>The bank began layoffs in November. At the time, employees speculated Citi would ultimately cut 10% of its workforce.

>They were spot on, executives confirmed Friday.

I can't imagine the morale working in an environment where layoffs are slated to continue for the next two years. Citibank had already been a toilet of a bank for some time. I'm guessing a multi-year layoff plan will do little to alter that.
Note that I am not by any means a lawyer, so please don't take my understanding as authoritative.

My understanding is that "a work" and "a product" are different things. If I sell you a bundle of three books, the bundle is a product, but each book is an individual work and caries its own copyright. Even a single book may contain 5 short stories, each with a different copyright holder and license.

Similarly, I can sell you one CD that contains three different works with different licenses. Now, it is true that the GPL license does seem to say that you can't distribute a modified GPL work on the same CD as a non-GPL work, which would not fall under copyright law, it would just be an arbitrary requirement of the license that you have to accept if you want to be able to distribute the GPL work at all (by default, you're not allowed to distribute copyrighted work at all - it's only the terms of the license that allow you to).

However, the derived work problem comes more into question when you write a program that only works if it is linked with, say, glibc. The question becomes: is your program a separate work from glibc, or is it a derived work of glibc? If it is a derived work, then the GNU project is the copyright holder of the program you wrote, and you're not allowed to distribute it at all unless you get some license from them. If it is NOT a derived work, then you are at least free to distribute your program however you want, and tell your customers "just download glibc from gnu.org, put it at this path, then start my program", and the glibc license could do nothing to stop you since it doesn't apply in any way.

An analogy with books would be you writing a book that's meant as a sequel to Harry Potter. It is quite well established that even if your book is fully original, if it uses characters from Harry Potter by name, or locations or other key concepts, then your book is a derived work of the Harry Potter franchise and you're not allowed to sell it even if you're not directly using any piece of the originals.

Either way though, if you're creating a derived work, the license of the original can allow you to distribute your derived work under any terms they want. A license could say "you can distribute derived works for free on Wednesdays, but you have to pay a royalty if it's any other day of the week". Or, more interestingly, the license could say "you can distribute derived works without any conditions if they only access our original work through DLOPEN, but if they are accessing it through static linking, you must release the code and build instructions for your derived work" - this is what the LGPL does.
This is 2.4
I think there are 2 ways usage will be used, either as an under the hood format used by frameworks to make frameworks better, or directly by users to scaffold framework code
"Against OpenAI Policy" on Amazon
Vlad from Kagi here.

We did indeed have an infra glitch, that should be resolved by now. Sorry for the interruption.

The status page was indeed useless as it needs to be manually updated with the incident, and we prioritised fixing the issues vs doing this. This obviously needs to change. Any statuspage services that do a decent job at this?