skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is the only issue.

People have always copied each other throughout history. In the past before the industrial age it was much more difficult though as you had to use local materials and labor. Now we have global corporations and many of them are near monopolies in many industries. Add to this that making a billion of one thing massively drops the costs over something you make a million of, so you're far more apt to see the billion item unit on cost factors alone.

Also we see lots of wildly different looking products when looking back at the past, but this is likely a lot of survivorship bias. Because they were different people kept them and tossed the common thing without regard.

Lastly, I'd add in a question of how things are financed. If you're asking for a huge pile of money to make a product, it's going to be a lot easier to get it when you choose the safe and proven option then one that is riskier.
>.. without media piracy lawsuits against their customers.

Huh? How can you pirate from Apple when they're not the IP owners? I don't remember Apple being the owner of the IP on iTunes, but the music studios were: Sony, BMG, Universal, etc. Apple was a middle-man.
> (you turn off some buyers who don’t like the look)

Fortunately the modernist minimal grayscale look is universally beloved, so no-one is turned off by that.
I've been using NearDrop, which is open source, for this use-case:

https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

The most annoying thing is you can't share clipboard text easily, only files or links. Does Ubidrop address that?
It's also XML-based and thus potentially vulnerable to XML XXE inclusions.

XML, the over-engineered-by-committee gift that keeps giving.

Fun fact: until recently my boss' boss Vincent Hardy was a co-editor of the SVG spec.
Building efficient AI chips will be key to OpenAI's profitability. It's too damn expensive to run their models on classical hardware.

I wonder what happened to all the AI hardware startups like Graphcore. I haven't seen any mention of them for years.
If it collapses Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok due to a deluge of gibberish spam that decreases the value proposition for users, and users are forced back onto moderated forums or curated news sites, I see that as a huge win for humanity.
I was confused by this comment at first, because this post includes the "Poo-239" short story, the I realized it was an excerpt from a collection of stories entitled "Pu-239 and othe Russian Fantasies".

It's readily available online [1], just picked it up as that first excerpt was a great read. I particularly enjoyed the description of the laissez-faire attitude adopted by plant operators over years working in the same environment. Reminded me of my first tour as a merchant marine cadet and hearing an engine room alarm that sent my heart to my throat, but was all but ignored my the seasoned engineers. I'd quickly learn how frequent false alarms were. It's an interesting art differentiating between false and true alarms when all alarms sound identical. You really must deeply know a plant to do it effectively to realize a true anomaly. It's about context and learning the 'pattern of life' of the plant to sense what's truly abnormal.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Pu-239-Other-Russian-Fantasies-Kalfus...
Estonian log house builders building a smoke sauna with hand tools. 58 minutes of beauty and true craftsmanship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN47VMnRc-U
We would have long lists of exploits for their systems.

A more interesting question is, what would happen if we went up against an alternate timeline that is about 30 or 50 years behind us in technology, but the have never heard of Microsoft of IBM.
This is why I've gotten into "retro" games. Modern games are crap, I haven't been excited for a release and not let down since like 2012.

Now I'm collecting and playing og Xbox, ps1, Wii, xb360, psp, ds/3ds, gb/gbc/gba and I'm loving it.

I don't need you, Ubisoft. I don't need you Blizzard, Bethesda, Nintendo, Sony, etc.

TESVI is going to be a flop. GTA VI is gonna suck. Calling it, now. After Cyberpunk, Starfield, 76, new cods and bfs all sucking hard, I've completely lost faith.

Nintendo can't even talk either bc they Apple it up, nostalgia bait, no new IP, franchise only gets a new game once every 6~ years, long wait for new hardware; compare snes/gb era Nintendo, look how many fun and interesting games are on gb/gbc, so many wild franchises that might have never got a sequel but were fun nonetheless. Now Nintendo only goes for the big hitters bc like all other games companies now it's just purely about the $$$. So lame.
Submarines, aircraft carriers, some cruisers, icebreakers, and the one cargo ship Sevmorput. Safety's probably not as much of a prohibitive factor as raw cost.
Nope, in Brazilian Portuguese oakspkskoapsks is a thing.

We also do rsrsrs, kkkkk, hehe, haha, hihi, ahuahauh and huehue.

A few more here:

https://zooando.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/tipos-de-risadas-do...
Will an iPhone work in a vacuum?
Mac at 40: User experience was innovation that launched a technology revolution
More specifically, Logseq uses DataScript, a Datomic-inspired Datalog engine for ClojureScript.
Not sure early versions of rust is the best example of refcounting overhead. There are a bunch of tricks you can use to decrease that, and it usually doesn't make sense to invest too much time into that type of thing while there is so much flux in the language.

Swift is probably a better baseline.
They will care once scammer use deepfakes to scam them out of their monies and it hits as many of the populous as current scamming does. How many people still answer unknown numbers today (ten years from now) vs ten years ago?
They absolutely prevented aid from flowing. There's a single crossing where merchandise is allowed, and it's in Israel. Egypt is not allowed to let merchandise in , and that's since the camp David treaty back in the 70s. Way before Gaza became an insurgent nest. The west bank was the hotspot back then but it didn't prevent Israel from preventing any development there, and occupying the place until 2005.

Also, for a concrete example, you can look at the Gaza flotilla attack where Israel not only prevented aid, but literally murdered those on the ship. Just like the Houthis do, I guess :). Again, how can Israel claim that they have left Gaza alone when it is literally completely cutting it off from the outside world (again, the Gaza residents are at the mercy of whatever goes through Israel before Hamas took control). Hamas is a convenient boogeyman, but before Hamas Israel settlements already existed, Israeli occupation and complete control over external connections was already in place, etc.

Israel does not leave the west bank alone either now, even with no real armed groups left there.
@dang you should add it on top bar, pls?
> Placing a skull on a bookshelf is not conducive to this public veneration.

Veneration is enormously culturally subjective. There are many, many, many cultures that would have seen placing the skull of an ancestor in a prominent place as a very, very, very obvious sign of respect and power.

But, my people don't engage in ancestor worship. I come from sad stock and I'd rather be forgotten after I die.
Beige computer cases with lots of details falling out of the way for black boxes, and then black boxes with LEDs, will always be the bane of my aesthetic existence.
Lots of things use underscore for italics, if you asked me to guess I'd certainly try it first (and asterisk for bold).

... in fact I just tried it and underscore apparently works in WhatsApp, TIL.

OTOH /italics/ reads to me as a regular expression, which ... is apparently not what you meant.

(as ever, "intuitive" varies wildly between people, and the trick is to pick the option that's intuitive for the highest possible percentage of your expected user base)
Yeah, second season of Invincible was mediocre, but I think that' because the first one was so good, it's difficult to top that, the curse of most sequels.
FlyingCarpet: File transfers over ad-hoc WiFi
This article - a retrospective puff piece - entirely neglects the circumstances leading to the loss of relevance of Bell Labs. It's explained in the autoposy of one of the greatest scientific frauds (fabricated nanoelectronic devices made of organic carbon materials e.g. pentacene) of the past few decades [1]:

> "For over half a century, Bell Labs had been owned by the telephone monopoly AT&T and had plenty of money to spend on science. But in 1984, the monopoly broke up, and after 1989, managers encouraged Bell Lab researchers to focus on research with commercial applications. Disenchanted, top scientists began to leave for universities and were mostly not replaced by new recruits. In 1995, ownership of Bell Labs was transferred to the newly formed company Lucent Technologies."

Then Lucent got hit by the dot-com bubble blowout, resulting in a 30% loss of share value in Jan 2000. This led to a new focus on PR:

> "By keeping up its practice of releasing exciting scientific findings, the lab could continue to demonstrate to investors, customers and anyone else that Lucent had a sound, long-term technological future. Again, this was a question of survival: with revenues falling, managers had to make the argument that their jobs and the jobs of their staff were worth keeping."

This led to a culture in which critical scrutiny of the claims of one fraudulent researcher was discouraged in favor of institutional cheerleading, and the end result was that 15 papers published in Science and Nature had to be retracted.

[1] "Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World" (2009) Eugenie Samuel Reich.

If you want a parable for what's happened to Bell Labs and many other scientific institutions in the US, it's that of the greedy farmer killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
I think medicine gave a good hit to the dragon over the years.

At first only rich people beneficiated from it. But thankfully today medicine advantages are better distributed. We are not equals by any means and some countries are lagging behind, but it is better.

Link to my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39080399

I have good hopes the same pattern could occur here.
Answering to the "look at history" part of your comment only (I agree on the bit about the problem of using "it's a conspiracy" about everything, but it's a symmetric problem: there is at least as many people that accuse people to do that when people, correctly, point out that their theory is rubbish).

My understanding of "conspiracy theory" is "things that idiots believe despite the fact that they don't possess any proofs to justify their belief", not "things that are incorrect" (and wikipedia seems to say the same thing).

Real conspiracies exist. They are NEVER discovered by conspiracy theorists. Conspiracy theorists just invent theories that they want to believe, and the chance that they end up inventing something that is true is 1 over 10^30. Inversely, proper investigation, usually done by institutional organisms (the same one the conspiracy theorists are criticizing all the time) is what uncover the real historical conspiracies.

The problem with conspiracy theories is not that they are true or false. The problem is that people who believe in them are idiots: they don't have any element that allows them to conclude what they conclude with certainty, and yet they are convinced it's true. These people are dangerous: they are anti-scientific and driven by emotion and by what is more convenient for them to believe. These people are like the stereotypical mobs that burned the witches: they don't care about truth or justice, the world would be a better place without them.

So, I think we should be careful when explaining that real conspiracies have existed: even if, by chance, a conspiracy theorist turns out the be right, this person is still an idiot for being convinced by something without having any proofs.
It's not due to less density, but rather a different gas composition (CO2 vs. N2+O2).
Strictly speaking, linking to reddit isn’t necessary since it was archived around a month ago when it was published: http://archive.today/8gOZB
It sends the data using wireguard, so it’s p2p.

There is a coordination server that sets up the initial connection, but after that both devices are connected directly to each other.
You can visit Kyiv.

Regiojet.com has daily trains from Krakow to Kyiv, with guaranteed connection at UA border. It takes about 14 hours and 50 euro. Or dozens buses every day, but you will have to wait for several hours at border (train skips queue).
No, it did not.
What makes you think it did?

> Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, the colonies in Southeast Asia were reorganised, and Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements.

> Later, in the 1890s, when the rubber industry became established in Malaya and Singapore, the island became a global centre for rubber sorting and export.

It was very new and fared very well all along, world wars excluded. Maybe it was mismanaged 1945 to 1960, that I cannot confirm.
All designed for the least price sensitive customers globally. Nuclear powers' navies.
Really? Isn't the point that differenciates conspiracy narratives from actual falsifiable theories that those believing those stories have to choose to ignore (or explain away) arguments that would destroy the believe?

I think the more likely explaination is that:

- it gives them comfort that bad things happening are attributable to evil forces, rather than to chance or systemic variables and incentives aligning in a bad way

- it gives them purpose and strokes their ego, that they are in on it, while the rest of the people are blind to the truth

- it gives them a sense of community, with other people that believe the same thing

Take anything crazy that has happened in the past decade on the international stage, you will have people jumping up within hours that have an conspiracy explaination, despite there not even being clear facts about what actually happened. People saying that don't do that because they suspect it may be true, they do it because having any explaination no matter how bad gives them something, they wouldn't have if they just waited for further information.
>I go with whatever side has the evidence.

But what is evidence? A photo of a sea monster in a Scottish lake can be evidence. Or a NASA photo of a large face on mars. In both cases misidentification of objects is probably involved.

Then there is a category of evidence that is difficult, time-consuming and/or non-intuitive to understand, e.g. climate change.
Luckily there are free alternatives.... like https://file.io
"Because they also dramatically raised prices on the Pro workstations."

The PowerMac G5 Quad cost $3300. The Base model Mac Pro that was release less than a year later cost $2200, and it greatly outperformed the G5.

Base model PowerMac in 2005 - $2000
Base model MacPro in 2012 - $2500

Adjusting for inflation from 2005 to 2012: $2,000 becomes $2,359.67

After adjusting for inflation, Apple raised the price by $140 between 2005-2012, but they also 6x the base RAM and WiFi became standard. Not to mention the significant performance and efficiency improvements.

I don't know how much the WiFi upgrade cost on a G5, but if it cost more than $140 Apple actually reduced the price of the Pro workstations during the switch to intel.
Tech startups are usually “let’s take a gamble” not “let’s pencil in 30% tax deductions.” I’m all for not paying taxes but it’s not typically part of the calculus before starting something.
What sucks is that there's no foolproof way to make sure it keeps running. Not so much of an issue for a techie, but I tried to use it so my mom's photos keep getting backed up, and I have to remind her at least once a month to start it again. And that's despite having all the energy saving stuff disabled for the app, and having Autostart allowed. I don't know whether there's still some heuristic to kill apps that run in the background and haven't been interacted with in X days or something.

And then, at least on my phone, it rarely seems to goof up when the app starts the actual syncthing process. Syncthing-fork then just keeps showing "syncthing is starting up" on the status page and the battery drains quickly. It's still the best solution imo to have your photos reliably get backed up no matter where on this planet you are without resorting to Google/$PHONE_MANUFACTURER Cloud.
I honestly don't remember the last time i was excited to go to the movies. Least time i went was to see Saint seya, which i love as a kid and although it was a bad movie it gave me a little bit of nostalgia.

Few years back i was an avid user of YIFI (yts), to the point that i even made a front end to it. I don't think i liked the piracy aspect of it, the thing for me was the catalog. Lots and lots of indie titles.

I think a combination of bad titles, spread across multiple streaming services made me quit the whole thing.

I now watch YouTube and play some Xbox on my spare time.
The next version fixes this problem and uses less power.

And yes, I’m being sarcastic.
Why would other contractors tell you where to get their business?
There is already another submission on the front page, one that actually uses the original source and have hundreds of comments.

Why do we need another? Can we get these merged?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058428
Aren’t nvda, amd, arm, in the best position to do this?
What are you talking about? This tool is free for everyone.
If a state's continued existence relies on restricting people's fundamental human right to free expression, then that state deserves to die.
Bootstrapping the Universal Wave Function [pdf]
Let's see if those SMRs ever get to the price points, reliability etc. In the early days of nuclear power people had great hopes about progress, too, and, yet, here we are.
> Wait, so you're saying that code that subtracts an offset from a child node to get to a parent node is clearer and less complex than alternatives?

Parent made me laugh out loud on this.
There is cerebras, sambanova, untether, groq, that's just off the top of my head. Lots going on in the area, I think this will be a make or break year for many.
A factor that is often ignored is that bunker fuel is an inevitability of the refining process. It’s not like you can stop making it without stopping other fuel production. So it’s either going to get burned or disposed of some other way.
Rub, scrub... Was really supposed to be run but it got the answer I was looking for!

Right now, I'm doing about half of that but I am rcloning data between 2 ceph clusters. (Proxmox and a arm rook ceph cluster).
https://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacki...
This is exactly what they are doing. If this scheme sticks, it will reduce R&D investment. It certainly disincentivizes me from investing in such efforts.

We once started a revolution over unfair taxation. I sadly think the same will be necessary to fix the status quo, as system has rotted past the point of meaningful reform.
Text is the most useful data we have since it is so informationally dense; it's basically audio/visual data that has already been converted by a wet neural net into useful information. Video/audio is not going to be as significant a contribution as people think when it comes to training a language model on expressing new knowledge. It's best to think of video and audio as text encoded in a very complex layer of noise.
When doing the assembly instructions for the opensource CNC machine the Shapeoko 2:

https://shapeoko.github.io/Docs/

I worked up a mechanism which allowed opening SVG files in separate windows where they were interactive so that one could click on an entry in the parts list and have the matching parts in the diagram highlighted.

(but for some reason the site isn't loading at the moment)
Plus they conveniently already have a nuclear programme to source fuel and engineers from.
Never knew macs aren't capable of mpt. Both Windows and Linux handle this easily.
Hello my friend, I am very pleased to make your acquaintance and I am very excited about your journey. I am also very impressed that for someone who is newly learning the field, you already are so well-spoken and knowledgeable about the language and the tools. Thank you so much for your response. I also appreciate that you are only a little older than my parents, and if you are learning so well and so quickly then that fills me with much inspiration and excitement for the prospects of continued enjoyment of programming and software development for more decades to come. It's really exciting to know that anyone can learn at any age, and I wish you much enjoyment and success on your journey. If you were to create a developer blog, I'd read it!

So far the language I've experienced the most power with is Python, and your description of Lisp's power and tooling are very intriguing. I will take note of your recommendations and play around with the tools you described. It is worth the investment if it means unlocking something even more powerful than Pythonic thinking and code.

Do you find that one needs to be well-versed in Emacs to fully appreciate the CL stack you described and the capabilities of the language itself? Would you learn Emacs separately/after spending time building things with CL, or is building things with CL in Emacs part of the entire experience?
>It doesn't appear that OpenAI is trying to get into the foundry game. Instead, it appears the plan is to funnel any funds raised into leading-edge chip manufacturers like TSMC, Samsung Electronics, and potentially Intel.
Because they have too much business to actually deliver, and would get a cut if you did some of the work for them; it's called subcontracting, and it's very common.
> After New York replaced the sodium-vapor lights in the city’s 250,000 streetlamps with shiny new LEDs in 2017, the experience of walking through the city at night transformed, almost . . . overnight. Forgiving, romantic, shadowy orange gave way to cold, all-seeing bluish white.

Before the late 1970s, NYC was illuminated at night by pinkish-white incandescent bulbs.

When the yellow monstrosities were rolled out people almost rioted. Their harsh orange glow invaded bedrooms creeping between gaps in curtains and assaulting the eyes, destroyed the soft and warm ambiance that had set the night scene for generations, and muted all colors into a monochromatic hellscape.

After just 30 seconds on TimesMachine I found an article from 1982 about the transition and how some residents were hesitant and one jurisdiction rejected the change out of hand. It took a long time for NYC to gain its orange glow and people didn't like it. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1982/09/12/137...

Lol here's another article from the 40s: "Sodium light is not suitable for city streets, Commissioner Goodman said, because it gives a person a sallow appearance not liked by women."

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/05/26/iss...

People of my age view them as a nuisance born out of the austerity of the 1970s, a temporary suboptimal fix that persisted due to inertia. A reminder of the rot and desperation of the that era.

Now this dude is nostalgic for them?
But our prophet Muhammad pbuh doesn’t make money. There is no tax or obligatory donation in an Islamic state. Every wealthy Muslim is required to find a poor person and give 1/40 of their wealth to them every year, and we do this ourselves where I am. No authority is involved.