skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotlight doesn't even give you a big warning in the form of massive sponsored segments that make it clear that This Is A Web Thing Now, like the start menu search does. I had no idea that spotlight was doing this, because I only ever use spotlight to find apps or files on my local machine, and consider the web searching to be an anti-feature.

If I use the search bar on my machine, I am consciously choosing not to be searching the web.
Thanks for your kind words and support! CDNs can be used for production without any issues or limited features. However, for the development environment, Preline need to be used as a plugin in TailwindCSS in order to generate dynamic classes.
... a problematic headline because JWST has probably already imaged an even older black hole and there's going to be another paper out in two weeks with the same headline but a different black hole.
Right, 82 year olds can't usually work anyway so state pensions are indeed not holding back the economy. It gets blurrier in the somewhat common case where state pensions can be awarded at, e.g. 55 (see Greece, US air traffic controllers...). I was mostly thinking of minimum wages, out-of-work credits, long term disability benefits in the case where working is actually possible, etc.

I think your description of Keynesian monetary policy in terms of addiction is interesting!

You can view 2008 as either caused by regulation or deregulation, it's a fascinating event in that way, and is why different parties were at loggerheads over it.

The view that it was caused by deregulation is as you say: banks were allowed to do risky things that leveraged up their risk until they were going to fail, and this provoked the crisis.

The view that it was caused by regulation is to observe that the only reason banks aren't allowed to collapse in the first place is the odd way in which they are regulated. A banking license is a regulatory permission to tell people they have $1000 on deposit whilst not actually being able to service such a withdrawal. In the case of a normal company like FTX, that's fraud. With the right license, it's not.

If retail banks weren't allowed to do anything with deposits except keep them safe, they could not have become endangered by bad aggregated mortgage debt, and then could have just been allowed to fail. It would have hurt investors a ton but bubbles always do - the ATMs would have kept working though and that's what politicians really respond to, the crisis of the innocent working guy. To fix this situation you don't pass a law, you repeal a law, hence, caused by regulation.
I think it's actually a sense of purpose
OpenAI/other is earning money (by selling subscriptions, ...) with a product that has been trained on and utilizes the protected work to produce their results.

Personally I think the only way forward is for these AI companies to curate their dataset to only material that is legal for use. E.g. only GitHub repos with licenses stating such. Just because there is not a license doesn't mean it's free to hoover.
Nope, that was explicitly under the "Prohibited Uses" section

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/77735c3ff0772609e9c...
If it's a ghost town because of water drying up or unfixable pollution issues (water table, air, etc...) then yes. In all other cases, small towns go through phases of ups and downs. The thing that permanently kills them is the water or pollution issue.

Besides those two issues, you'll always be able to find a person willing to live out in the boonies to get away from the crazies.
They no doubt have 3D models already, just have to refine it with better materials for rendering.

It's much easier to digitally assemble those models into a virtual kitchen scene than to build an actual kitchen. Especially things like a sink where you'd need to cut a custom countertop to mount it.
Doom 3 source was released more than 10 years ago

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3

As an example of something built with that, you can play Doom 3 in your browser:

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
Elon Musk admits new Optimus video isn't what it seems
Good luck with the project.

About 20 years ago, I did something along similar lines, except going the HTML-XML-XSL/FO-Apache FOP.

That was ... "fun".
Segmented Scan
id changed Doom's license to GPL in 1999. Scroll down to October 3 on this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20000818041410/http://www.doomwo.... I believe the confusion comes from when id uploaded the Doom source to Github, they uploaded an older version with the original license headers rather than the newer GPL version.
My startup has been working on WebGPU support for Unreal Engine 5 for the past several years, and we've already achieved multiple demos that will be going live relatively soon.
I was using Notion, but I found Obisidian to be very similar, maybe less powerful out of the box, but feels much better to use. All files are written in Markdown and stored on device (or in iCloud or wherever), has a "marketplace" for user designed themes and plugins.
How Hot Was It Last Year?
https://archive.is/u6Yph
My team has built out a WebGPU backend for Unreal Engine 5, for anyone interested!
That Ackerman was the one who started with “oppose us and we’ll destroy you” by trying to doxx pro Palestinian protestors and going on a crusade to discredit universities.

Turnabout is fair play.
That's why I'm working on a local-first with native-like performance Notion alternative using Qt C++ and QML called Plume[1]. It uses an advanced block editor[2] that I built from scratch. All notes are simply plaintext/markdown underneath. Advanced blocks (like Kanban, for example) uses very simple syntax, for example:

{{kanban}}
# Todo
- [ ] item 1
- [ ] item 2
# In Progress
- [ ] item 1
- [ ] item 2
{{/kanban}}

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

[2] https://imgur.com/NIgDLOU
> Google's incentives are more aligned with the SEO spammers than they are with users

100% this. Let's see a chart of Google search revenue vs result quality. My guess is that it would be an inverse relationship.
Brace yourself, IPv6 is coming
Not sure why this was posted, but this is a concept from Newton that we know to be an oversimplification.
> as long as it runs via GitHub.

That is extremely limiting...
Only so much as my salary is personal choice. Or the decision to uproot your family's life is personal choice.
NASA Selects a Sample Return Mission to Venus
Not entirely. As I understand it, that re-licensing occurred when a member of the Doom community emailed John Carmack asking him if he would be willing to release the source under the GPL. He said no problem, but there was never an official source drop with the updated license from Id Software. Carmack's email is all there is, and there's some ambiguity over whether he had the legal right to unilaterally re-license it. This official release puts its GPL status on more solid ground.
Open generative models are to open source what open source is to closed source - an even deeper level of openness, customisability and accessibility. Like open source they empower their users, are private and easy to adapt. Most of the time you just need to prompt, other times you apply a fine-tuning tool, which is also open source.

I really don't understand open source people combating generative AI. I've never seen this ethos since the javascript framework wars. Take a look at llama.cpp, ollama and vllm repos and their friends. They got such a sustained rate of development and participation.
I second this wholeheartedly. At first I was skeptical to get a subscription but to be liberated from the big G AND have excellent search is just worth every penny.
I came to the comments to post exactly that link :D
https://archive.ph/2024.01.17-195607/https://www.bloomberg.c...
I'm confused to why there is also a french name. I get that it was french at one point but it was 200 years ago, and afaik very little people in the area still speak french
The biggest omission in Notion is that it does not have an honest or complete offline-first mode.

Internet connectivity can vary. People still fly and waiting on slow wifi or data is not acceptable. 30% slower internet speeds makes you work 30% slower.

I quite liked notion otherwise. I just think they will always fight this issue for a group of people who would pay and use it for a long time who may have previously outgrown OneNote, Evernote, etc.
oh? I haven't actually done much with all the A.I. except co-pilot. I'll have to give it a try.

Thanks!
Imagine using JSON as a programming language. And all the implications of that. AWS does provide a VS Code and web renderer for the JSON to visually see what the flow of the step function looks like, but this is just a small improvement overall. If you split up your step functions into multiple, where one step function can call another, also invoke lambdas and other things, then you can imagine you lose all benefits of a modern code editor/IDE and you're manually lookup which file to jump to in order to find the next step in the execution path.

To be fair AWS does provide a "CDK" which lets you write Python code that gets converted into their JSON DSL -- or something along those lines. But I haven't used that, only direct JSON DSL "code" to write step functions.
You're being deliberately obtuse. The feature list in the 2004 Tacoma is significantly shorter. Every mechanic who's been in the business for long enough says that older trucks were easier to work on.

If I climb in a modern car that I remote started from my cell phone, automatically adjusted the seat to my preferred profile, and booted up an onboard computer to allow me to pick between media playback and navigation, and I say "I miss when this model of car was simpler back in the day", are you seriously going to try and make the claim that there's been no increase in complexity?
> I wonder how do people still use google to find what the want on the web?

We append "reddit" to the query.
I had a similar issue when I was trying to back up all my iCloud photos to S3 through the PhotoSync app[0]. I had about 600 photos that could not be downloaded from iCloud photos onto my iPhone. I ended up disabling iCloud Photos on the iPhone, then re-enabling it. This did end up making those photos available for download and the sync worked... it was rather nerve wracking though.

[0] https://www.photosync-app.com/home
Just because it's publicly viewable does not mean it's free for reuse. Imagine an author who uploads chapters of their book to their own website. You cant take that and claim it's yours.

Similarly with all the publically viewable source codes on GitHub/Lab. Just because you can view the code doesn't mean there aren't licenses in play for how you are able to use it.

Further, what happens if stolen information is posted publicly? (E.g. wholesale copies of full books on html pages?

Just because it's public doesn't mean the viewer has freedom to use it as they see fit.
Glad I'm not alone on the offline mode.
Well it’s kind of silly to say an AI is replicating my style when your style is “I only use purple and yellow and thick black outlines in my work”.
Wine 9.0 Released
From what I see, this doesn't compare to Notion. Notion is not typically used as a note-taking app, but rather as an internal wiki.
Thanks for the recommendation.

Someone recommended trying out Outline as well which is self-hosted, but requires using web connected single sign on.
Open Source Personal Assistants: The Product I want in 2024
Smart assistants should be more than just heavily commercialized products, we need private, conversational assistants that can genuinely help us get things done. All the pieces seem to be there right now if we put them together...
A Guide to LLM Abstractions
This article maps out the landscape of programming abstractions for working with LLMs. Prior to this, there wasn't any thorough attempt that we know of to make sense of and organize all of these different approaches and philosophies for programmatically incorporating LLMs into larger systems or pipelines. Hopefully this is helpful to folks who are trying to make sense of the landscape of abstractions for working with LLMs!
> Not having "extended partitions" as a concept to deal with

You can BIOS boot from a GPT-partitioned disk just fine.

> OS booting not dependant on "load an MSDOS bootblock from LBA offset X"

The only offset that's hardcoded by the BIOS is LBA block 0. The rest is from your bootloader. And GPT partitioning allows you to put the bootloader code in a proper partition rather than in the void under the stairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition

> Not having a minimal straightforward shell to troubleshoot from

Download shellx64.efi from the (Intel) EFI development kit. When it's present in the root directory of your EFI System Partition, most firmwares will include an option to boot into that shell. Or is your objection that it's an DOS-inspired command prompt rather than a Unix shell?

> Not letting the UEFI variables be easily user accessible/fixable

Don't know about this one. The linux kernel supports reading and writing EFI variables through efivarfs, but I don't know if that is predicated on firmware support and whether it includes access to all variables.
Yeah, until the mid '00s you would run your db directly to raw disk devices, both in order to optimize the use of larger contiguous disk regions (disk drives were slow in those days!) and, crucially, because if/when your server went down hard any pending OS-buffered writes would result in a corrupted database, lost data, and lengthy rebuilds from logs (generally after having to do a long fsck recovery just to get back into the OS). It wasn't until journaled filesystems became common and battle-tested that you saw databases living in the filesystem proper.
If the problem were China, Russia, and the US, there is no problem. Nuclear stockpiles have been drastically reduced because a limited number of superpowers are willing to sign treaties to avoid bad outcomes for everybody. The problem with this technology is that it's cheap enough for DPRK, Iran, Turkey, etc. to use too. Good luck stopping that with a treaty.
We nowadays have disposable smart labels with integrated screens.

Look up ynvisible
Raycast also has this natively + Alfred has a plugin for it.
I used the new Instagram "AI" yesterday to "Add a famous duck and his famous mouse friend" to my image which gave me a perfect Donald Duck in the background (I guess it forgot the famous mouse). Surely lawyers just need to work on the replication prompts to demonstrate the model was trained from a copyrighted image and replicates it so accurately to make their case?
> If a LLM knows a song as part of its training data, then it is copyright infringement.

No it isn't. You can feed whatever you want into your LLM, including copyrighted data. The issues arise when you start reproducing or distributing copyrighted content.
Not humming, but Don't we prevent singing songs sometimes? The birthday song was famously held up by ip law for some years right?
Maybe they can just follow the advice given to asian auto makers: make your product weight 8000lbs and cost $75,000 and we'll let you import it...
The richest live at the very end in the cleanest area:
https://www.savethesound.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MapC... though the good news it's been getting better.
Well, the whole place is still called Baton Rouge. Anyway there are a few French speakers left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Louisiana_parishes_by_...
The "magical" thing they have is thousands and thousands of people thinking about how to improve the performance/efficiency/availability of their datacenters.

And yes, they pay the costs of those people and take a good profit margin, and yes there are in some ways diminishing returns to go from 3 nines to 6. But most enterprises can't match that depth of concentrated expertise, certainly not most small enterprises.
And it's been open sourced. The code and model both!
Smuggling Email Inside of Email
My point is that in these discussions, don't make the mistake of considering the artificial thing ("it's copyrightable/it's not copyrightable"). Rather, consider the real thing ("You will pay a licensing fee to use your GPU").
Foglio's drawing was for UNIX, a couple years before the first BSD releases. Unfortunately the original was lost, and the best you can find online now are just photos of t-shirts like https://www.mckusick.com/beastie/jpg/foglio.jpg
> The truth is, intellectual property should be protected by those creating it.

The whole point of government and laws and societal norms is that not everyone has to be deeply involved and specialized in protecting their rights. We default to people doing the right thing and seek out specialists (e.g. lawyers) when we're wronged.
Bingo. Nobody wants to recognize this issue, for various inconvenient reasons. Rust has a major insularity problem.
This page still exists? That had been more than 10 years... me remembers a time jabber was regarded as an alternative to xmlrpc
>Spotlight doesn't even give you a big warning in the form of massive sponsored segments that make it clear that This Is A Web Thing Now, like the start menu search does.

The crux of the matter is that they both beam whatever you search for to the web based mothership, defeating your privacy, not that the UI of the search feature looks nicer in one case than the other.
Personal attacks are not allowed here. I've banned the account (and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39025510).

If you just weren't familiar with HN's rules and don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow them in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I just saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT9mrbIxeBE and it sounded like an interesting topic to bring on HN. I didn't know about the "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana, but I figure most countries have their own alleys of death. I live in Italy and Taranto is notorious for this reason. The city was home to one of biggest steel producers in Europe. The local economy revolved around the steel plant, but people from the sorrounding neighbourhoods have suffered from abnormally high rates of cancer and respiratory illnesses for decades. After a trial which shed light on the environmental disaster, the government seized the plant in 2012. Long story short, its fate has been in a limbo since then.
Distributed SQL Database Internals (5) – Scheduling
It will support inter-note linking. So you could build your own personal wiki using Plume. The main difference with Notion will be real-time collaboration (which Plume doesn't support).
Apple should charge separately for their App Platform then, instead of bundling it with arbitrary features. The US government threatened to break up Microsoft as a result of the IE case, Apple would be wise to skate to away from where the laser-breathing regulatory dragon is headed.
I don't think its crazy either. Having a view of your year with major things that require lead ups and follow up is critical. It actually makes the year go much smoother.
I don't see the appeal of web-based calendar apps. They should be native and able to work offline. Fantastical is a great example of such an app.
Its crazy that I built this without knowing any rust or WASM using ChatGPT
It's understandable that such a basic seeming issue would negatively impact your opinion of the service, but it's also worth considering that such a basic issue must surely be some sort of unique edge case if the vast majority of other people are claiming to be happily using the service (which implies being able to log into their accounts).

Of course you don't owe Kagi anything so you don't have to reach out to support, but just something to consider before questioning someone's competence.
Ensuring the state will take your stuff and give it to them if you separate is a core part of marriage. It’s skin in the game. “I’m committed to you but not committed enough to let the government force me to support you if we split up” is a different level of commitment.

People with skin in the game behave differently. It’s not an adverse incentive. It’s incentive alignment, it’s the core value proposition of marriage.

If you care enough about someone to tell them you’re committed but not enough to let society actually enforce that commitment then by all means don’t get married.
Uh no, that's exactly the proper term.
This sounds like the famous system 1 and system 2 thinking with the prover doing the systematic system 2 thinking and the llm doing the intuitive system 1 thinking.
Again, this is what I think people get wrong when they talk about anticompetitive bundling.

Apple will continue to take a cut to make apps for the phone. The App Store and in-app purchases are how they take their cut today.

The bundling is anticompetitive against the potential market for third party payment providers and third party app marketplaces, sure. However, decoupling it is independent of reducing Apple's high fees. Apple will continue to charge a substantial fee for their part, even if due to regulatory compliance they offer less services to developers.

Someone would need to make a legal case directly against the fees Apple charges. I suspect that is a very challenging thing to do - least of which because they have never raised rates. The fees Apple collects have been the same since the first app was sold for iPhone, and the success has grown under that framework.
I have found a few excel templates that print out the whole year on a tabloid piece of paper.

There's one landscape template that works well enough that it could also look good on a monitor. If I can find the original link to it I can share it if interested. I ended up writing a script that just populates the excel template until I get around to replacing it, or discovering it.
Gig ticket touts made £6.5M from music lovers, court hears
> Amazon will gather competitive metrics from sellers on their marketplace (i.e. their 'partners' and 'costumers') and then launch a competing product, undercut them on price, and rig their search

Brick and mortar retailers do the exact same thing and make generics that are exactly the same as best selling brand names, put them in favorable shelf position, and even put "compare to <brand>!" on their labels. This practice has probably saved me multiple thousands of dollars over my lifetime, so it is definitely to the benefit of the consumer and I am 100% in favor of it continuing. If you, as a company, add nothing that can't be replicated to your product other than a brand label, then you deserve to be replicated and undercut. That is a perfect example of the market working towards the public good.
Almost all of my best work is done while I'm out taking a walk. I leave my desk and the problem solves itself.
> AI will give different answers for different users, based on their values preferences and possibly on what country they reside in.

I think this has potential to go wrong.

Like will you also give different answer based on the government user is risiding in ?

Like giving different answers on Tiananmen Square based on user's country
Pinecone's New Serverless Architecture
For me, the problem is what makes a webpage super low quality. The results I'm tired of seeing all contain the same watered-down language as the other top results that they either copy outright or run through a thesaurus.
Collaboration is definitely where all note taking apps go as soon as more people need to access your notes or participate in them as a group
More like Apple must stop stealing other companys' IP and selling it as their own.
> Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?

One can only hope.
Surely there is a lot of workload is delay-able, but there is equal, if not more, amount of workload that do not have the luxury of waiting. Is it fair to say the serverless platform has no advantage for the latter workload?