skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imho they’d just move to permissive licenses like Apache 2.0.

Corporations aren’t necessarily opposed to open source, as long as

1. It benefits them
2. The terms are very clear cut
3. The failure mode protects their IP

The various GPL licenses fail the latter two points.
or just lucky. as someone who reads a lot of blogs, the top substack bloggers are not that much better, if at all ,compared to obscure ones
It all depends on how much one trusts an online forum. Btw, what is your measure for determining astroturfing on HN versus Reddit? I understand astroturfing happens here to some extent but I am not aware of any social media manager who spends money on astroturfing on HN. In contrast, I have heard (second hand) about social media guys paying for Reddit astroturfing.
On why not to use "transition :somestate => :otherstate", it would be because then other optional arguments might conflict with the state names. For example, if the `transition` method takes an optional argument of `given:` then a state machine could not have state called `given`. In fact, no optional arguments could be added in a backwards compatible way.

The states could be passed positionally but, imo, the increased verbosity helps readability rather than hinders it.

Your example code seems not really thought through. If I were to implement that, then I would write code that looked like this: `my_thing.state = :some_action; assert my_thing.state == :some_new_state`. Now we're spending company money discussing whether the state machine code you decided to write by yourself has a reasonable interface.

I've used aasm for years and it's just fine. If someone suggested we just implement a non-trivial state machine with our own homegrown solution, I would push back. Trust the community's experience and just pull in the well-established library. There seems to me a certain hubris in deciding that the rest of the world has settled on an overly complex solution when, if they had just thought for a moment, it should just be a 'switch` statement.
Somewhat off topic: Have you read “Tripping over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer”[0]? If so, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164
> all the public web servers in the world seem to manage this without any trouble

Incorrect. Most large web sites invest in DDOS protection e.g. Cloudflare.

Cloudflare DDOS protection as an example is a lot more sophisticated than merely counting requests per source IP (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ddos-protection/about/how-...).
Having worked in games for 10+ years, and having recently joined a more traditional VC-backed startup outside of games, I think you are 100% on the money.

The VC model doesn't make a lot of sense for games. So many outsiders come into games thinking they know what they're doing and they learn some hard (and expensive!) lessons fast. Thanks for writing this.
We changed the URL from https://archive.li/aaKeb to the original source.

It's fine to post archive links in the comments, but it's important that the original link be at the top level (unless it no longer exists on the web).

("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Intelligence is not Enough – Bryan Cantrill – Monktoberfest 2023
I'm right with you on this. It just makes so much sense to me. It makes sense imo, given any large system in distributed programming needs to be coherent to work. AFAIK coherence is entanglement. So in order for the system to have an actually meaningful, consistent structure, there needs to be some sort of synchronization/coherence. In distributed systems, you need both time and space (propagation delay and # coherent/up to date nodes for a given "quanta" of information exchange) before you can complete a "strongly consistent" read or write. Trying to ask the system for coherent state about anything in an update on timescales finer than the propagation delay or using less than the required # of nodes for consistency is kind of nonsensical.

Idk. In general, the idea of emergence seems to be the best answer we have for a ton of physical phenomena around us. I'm betting/putting my faith that gravity could end up one as well, unless/until someone proves otherwise.
> US real estate is literally the best investment real estate in the entire world, and it's availabile to the entire world.

Apparently, we haven't learned shit from the Great Financial Crisis on what happens when we take a basic living essential, and rather than shepherd it as a vehicle for responsible capital preservation, the market instead shills it as growth investment.

No doubt in my mind that real estate speculation will go down as this century's most epic tragedy of the commons.
Substack seems to be lucrative for folks who use it in combination with another complementary publishing platform. If you write a bunch of articles on Substack and then put together a book made up largely of said articles, it can be good because it doesn't really cost you anything extra. Also, if you have a podcast then you can use similar content for both.
Blender receives lots of corporate development.

GCC as well up till when clang arrived.
Facebook explicitly does, yes.
Just the quiet disappearance of jobs, as has happened in so many other areas.
From looking at the screenshots of gameplay, a lot of the "monsters" look like straight up copies of pokemon. I don't think you can copyright gameplay, but those monster designs, one could argue are replicas of an established IP.
Pastor faces charges for keeping church doors open to help homeless
Ummmm.... not quite the concept going for.

More like, deeper the nested blocks, the higher on the visible 3d stacked box the block of interest (relative to rest of encompasing scoped boxes).

Python spacing not as left most spacing, but 3d nested box take on Matryoshka doll. Provides a way to visually show code flow relative to number of dependencies a given code point relies on.

Alternatively, use case of combination of movie 'minority report' gesture based user interface[0] and tron legacy scene where Flynn fixes Quorra's broken DNA code. Although, in this request, it's source code and not 'DNA'.

[0] : https://vimeo.com/253268526
I believe we will see the day when we have an LLM model running for President. Thinking about it...maybe we should start with the Supreme Court...
What's stopping me from accessing this without an AWS account, over Frontier, on a Thinkpad?

That's the difference.
I think this depends very much on which government agency and at what level (federal, state, local). I know people who have had the sort of good experience you describe in government. I also know people who have worked in government jobs where the workplace was highly dysfunctional and most of the workers had no interest in actually doing their jobs.
Majority of your bullet points would be circumvented by running your own server and developing on a linux OS.
Probably either the lack of evil forces currently attempting to destroy it or cloudflare.
France is not typical of EU countries.

The United States is unusual in the high proportion of long-term fixed-rate mortgages. Long-term fixed-rate pre-payable mortgages used to be the dominant product in Denmark, but low and falling short-term rates have led Danish borrowers to shift to medium-term (one- to five-year) rollover mortgages in recent years. France is the only other country with a majority of fixed-rate mortgages. Unlike the penalty-free pre-payable Danish and U.S. FRMs, French fixed-rate loans have pre-payment penalties (maximum three percent of outstanding balance or three months' interest). German mortgages can be fixed up to 15 years with a 30-year amortization.

Quote from "International Comparison of Mortgage Product Offerings" (2010) https://www.mba.org/docs/default-source/research---riha-repo...
Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
Palworld is an extreme lightning in a bottle and is not a consistent model for game development success.

For every Baldur's Gate 3 and Among Us, there are thousands of games that never reach that level of popularity. It's a similar survivorship bias as typical VC.
It's still better to flare it than to vent it without flaring [0]. In Texas there's a huge problem of wells venting without flaring that's been documented by some groups with IR cameras [1].

[0]: https://www.energy.gov/fecm/articles/natural-gas-flaring-and...

[1]: https://youtu.be/y4eDlG9U25c
Irrelevant. That argument can be used for anything relating to electronics. You're essentially claiming that any patent mentioning electronics should be automatically accepted. That's unfortunately not so far off from reality, but it's not supposed to be the case.
RFID programmers and USB-C IR Blasters are commodities. How could they possibly be knockoffs?
Show HN: Just a Minute to Generate Studio Photo with AI
Gateway Arch: Evaluating Fire and Life Safety Using Performance Based Analysis
The issue is that the doomsday scenario is extremely vague. The actual mechanism of action of a hypothetical rogue AGI is usually handwaved away as "it will be self-improving, superhumanly persuasive, and far smarter than us, so it will somehow figure out how to do something, or convince us to do it". What exactly will happen? How exactly will it happen? Will the world do nothing until that moment? How do society, politics, military fit into that scenario? All that rationalist navel gazing I've seen so far is either hilariously unaware of the existence of the outside world or assumes it won't change in the process.

You can't fight what you can't even see, let alone not sure if it exists at all. You don't invent a pair of wings because 1900s' you thinks that "the scientists will invent an anti-aging cure in the next decade, and surely personal flight will be ubiquitous in 2000's". You don't design a plasma gun for your Mars landing just in case you land in a city between Martian canals and see an army of little green men there. The world doesn't work like that, by the time you reach the Mars surface the context will be wildly different. You get burned and put guardrails, maybe. Not the other way around. Nobody can see through higher order effects, no matter how smart they are. And as the threat becomes progressively more clear there will be more caution, if needed. Premature optimization yada yada.

What actually happens right now is everybody and my aunt seriously discussing the evil robots that will come and kill us. That's pure mass hysteria, caused by the scaremongering and the cult-like beliefs of very smart people with disproportional influence who can't contain their own conjectures and bullshit in the realm of science fiction.

On the other hand,the end goal of OpenAI is the major job replacement, according to their current charter. [1] "Broadly distributed"... will they distribute their utopia to North Korea? Not happening, isn't it? I think it's obvious that if the actual job replacement rate will ever get anywhere close to the levels of late 19th early 20th century industrialization, this will produce major societal shifts and struggles, wealth and power redistribution, and a lot of blood and wars. Because the dependence on your job is the only ephemeral influence you (as a worker) have on this world. And of course, the companies that control the AI will be gatekeepers, and they will be more than happy to close the open research and open source models, and pull the regulation ladder and lie in bed with politicians and military, like OpenAI already does for years, of course they realize that and their utopical self-contradicting "charter" is nothing more than marketing hogwash that they already changed and will change in the future.

This is far more realistic and will happen much earlier than the rogue AI science fiction, if happens at all. In fact it's slowly happening now, and it's not talked about nearly enough, because the attention is mostly misdirected onto the vague superhuman AI red herring.

[1] https://openai.com/charter
There is another possibility: that the Flipper gets an update with the order of a government.
For example, to reprogram or shutdown electrical systems in the house.
And then it will be a day to remember :D
“Apple Watch cannot check for signs of a heart attack.”

— Apple Watch ECG App

You’re probably thinking of afib, which I believe the watch will alert for.
>Odd that the article about finally opening the canister didn't actually include any photos of the inside of the canister.

This is normal for modern "journalism".
Who makes servers?
615 days of blogging for the hell of it
Games are a hit making business, much more similar to movies than to product businesses. Sequels and spinoffs can reduce the risk by leveraging the existing IP and fan base, but it's still a hit making business.

Indie games are more like self-published novels or youtube creators - you are trying to find a core fan base who will support your artistic endeavors. Sometimes they crossover into mainstream, but 99.99% of the time it remains a niche. At best you can earn a liveble wage that grows over many years.

I have seen many VCs dabble in games and they learn their lesson quick. VR / AR / Metaverse attracted a lot of VC investment, all of which is now burned into nothing.
So seems like its a software fix then if its all the same hardware

may not be enough for the ITC
The purpose of ozempic is primarily to improve your blood sugar situation when you have Diabetes, or something like that.

In Australia at least, the TGA does not recommend prescribing ozempic for weight loss(although it's just a recommendation as they can't stop doctors from prescribing whatever they want I guess).

It's a bit of an issue because all the people using it for weight loss are causing shortages of the drug for the diabetics who actually need it.
Fixed. Thanks.

(I was aware they were different.)
Who are Lenny and Gergely?
Edit: I'm not familiar with Nim at all, and that might be a better answer than anything I've said here?
Why not just fuse hydrogen nuclei together? The energy produced as a byproduct could be very useful as well
What exactly is the story here? Sounds like a contractor that made a poorly functioning proprietary accounting system is getting the blame for poor management practices at the post office.
That is part of what Alma and Rocky argued they could do to get upstream source. However they’d likely have to sue the middle man first. E.g if you need RHEL source, but you’re a customer of <cloud provider>, you have to use cloud provider to provide you RHEL sources. They can then get it from RHEL, but the cloud provider is not a reseller in this case, but just someone who built their house on a product.

However that does allow RHEL or the cloud provider to cut off customers who are actively engaging in source forwarding. The GPL doesn’t dictate who you do business with, and you effectively end up in a stalemate.

Vizio on the other hand doesn’t have the power to prevent you buying their product. Buying from a reseller like Best Buy is legally equivalent to buying from Vizio when it comes to support. Therefore Vizio has a direct customer relationship with anyone who wants the source.
The GP seems to have a quoted a commenter in the SQLite thread, who not a maintainer or a representative of the community. The actual maintainer wrote:

> This bug in prior versions of SQLite was unknown to the developers. If I had known about it, I would have done something about it. I probably would have tried to preserve the buggy behavior - to maintain "bug compatibility". But I didn't know.

That comment is much more patient, and less easily misconstrued by drive-by commenters.
NIH is probably already funding it somewhere. What were they studying at the biolabs in the Ukraine?
> NPS has to pay for every call to the API. That’s not cheap.

I am perfectly fine with it being considered part of the basic, taxpayer-supported functions of government agencies to be providing the public with relevant data.

If there is a concrete abuse or wildly disproportionate cost problem in particular areas, that may need to be addressed with charges for particular kinds or patterns of access.
> Specifically it says multi-file context

Only the most trivial of projects have only a single code file.
Keep the headcount under the Dunbar number and be the only boss.
You’re thinking small. I’m thinking big. That’s the difference.
The fact that so much of Çatalhöyük remains unexcavated is one of the reasons I am skeptical of so much speculation on its social structure. A palace could be under the vast majority that has yet to experience a trowel or brush. It, and sites like it, are so early that it is helpful - though extremely difficult - to forget the 9,000 years of future you know will happen to be able judge it on its own terms.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing.
If it weren't for the title, I would've thought it's one of those hugely-popular-and-sometimes-shady sites with huge collections of Windows device driver downloads.
Yeah, I know that one. I wasn't trying to ask for any character that has a problem in one direction, I want to know what character they were talking about because it sounds like they're confused about how i, ı, İ, and I work.
i think it's a great start, i wonder if one day people will use a combo of grocery receipts and pharmacy prescriptions receipts and then compare and offer suggestions on what products to cut out
I think they're concerned about the bit wearing the fastener etc. But the adapter has a much more secure mating. I've stripped plenty of screws, but never managed to damage one of these adapters. That said, I've only broken one socket in my life; so I'm not a big tool abuser; maybe someone else has a story of breaking one of these.
Could be that it doesn’t have tokens with high enough probabilities so it outputs nothing.
I think what Andrej is describing is more "automation" than AGI. His discussion of self-driving is more analogous to robots building cars in a Tesla factory displacing workers than anything AGI. We've already had "self driving" trains where we got rid of the human train driver. Nothing "AGI" about that. The evolution of getting cars to self drive not necessarily making the entity controlling the car more human-like intelligent. It's more like meeting in between the human driver and the factory robot +/- some technology.

So how to define AGI? I'm not sure economic value factors here. I would lean towards a definition around problem solving. When computers can solve general problems as well as humans, that's AGI. You want to find a drug for cancer, or drive a car, or prove a math theorem, or write a computer program to accomplish something, or whatever problems humans solve all the time. (EDIT: or reason about what problems need to be solved as part of addressing other problems.) There's already classes of problems, like chess, where computers outperform humans. But I mean calculators did that for arithmetic a long time ago. The "G" part is whether or not we have a generalized computer that excels at everything.
This is ancient Internet history at this point but does anyone remember Rovio? In the early days of the iPhone/iPad they made a large amount of money with the Angry Birds franchise, even licensing the IP to a movie (or was it 2?). In 2011 Rovio took ~$40 million in VC funding and I distinctly remember thinking "well, that's over".

Creative ventures don't scale. You cannot reduce them to a magic and infinitely-repeatable formula no matter how hard people try. People try and that's why we get the exact same summer blockbuster movies every year, 20+ years of superhero movies just rehashing old IP, endless sequelss, annual Call of Duty releases, FIFA/Madden annual micro-transaction hell and so on.

VC funding works what you're doing is repeatable otherwise it doesn't.
I think historically this has never happened without being followed by appearance of (more) new, previously not existing, jobs. Industrial revolution brought machine operators, computer revolution brought computer operators etc..
Where do you host this hypothetical server? How does it get internet access?
Why would someone who just wants to access the data need to pay for AWS? And the rest can be avoided by using a library PC & open source software. Or more likely, are already things almost everyone has on hand anyway.
See also: car brands, expensive watches, and so on and so forth. It’s certainly not for everyone, but some people are quite into this sort of thing.
Do you recall any of the details? "Rolling code" is not a term often associated with RFID/NFC.
The Portland Custom House WeWork used HID Prox.
Really? That is rather surprising - time to jump on TikTok. And Twitter X.
Cloudflare is one of the ways they manage it.

But API keys aren't any good for that anyway because if someone is just trying to overload your service by brute force, they can send requests regardless of whether the keys are valid and still use up all your bandwidth sending error responses or your CPU/memory opening new connections prior to validating the API keys, and to avoid that you'd still need some kind of DDoS protection.

Where they actually do something is where you're doing accounting, because then if someone wants to send you a million requests, you don't block them, you just process them and send them a bill. Maybe you block them if they reach the point you don't expect them to be able to pay. But if it's a free service that anybody can sign up for as many times as they want then that doesn't do any good because the price is $0 and a rate limit per key is avoided by signing up for arbitrarily many more keys.
Right. The difference is, most people realize they won't become wealthy actors or musicians. But let some new Web platform come along where a few people are killing it, and everyone thinks "why not me?" And the platform owners are happy to encourage it.
And much better for the longevity of the batteries.
> So if you fail to reproduce you will break that billion year old chain of evolutionary success.

All your genes are in other people and will continue without you. And your unique configuration of genetics is lost like a droplet in a river. Only around one in a billion people really put their stamp on our genealogy -- and you really need to rape, murder and empire build like Genghis Khan to achieve that kind of thing (and as the population expands it likely gets more and more difficult).
* AI using copyrighted material to generate new content feels very unfair to copyright holders. It seems impossible to give accurate accreditation for which source material influenced which AI generated image. Given the political power of copyright holders in NA this will probably be regulated in some way.

* It's unclear how different this process is to humans observing copyrighted material and then making original works. In the long term (10+ years) we can run into real problems if the first point isn't addressed correctly.

* I'm not sure if I fully grok the copyright argument for wealth gap described in the article. Anyone can generate a copyright so copyrights are inherently valuable on their own. IP feels like just another asset class the wealthy can own to me.
The structure comes from having a consistent configuration of the bond angles. Most proteins are fairly ordered, and even if they wiggle around a bit and are jiggly, they fold back into the same shape.

However, it's not uncommon to have disordered or unstructured parts of a protein, that have no consistent shape, and are completely moveable.

MYC is kind of on the extreme end of this. There's just one domain of the protein with a consistent structure, and the rest kind of conforms to the other proteins it binds to, or wiggles about.

This may not be the best paper on it, but it does review a bit of the unstructured nature of MYC among lots of other stuff too:

https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/pdf/S0962-8924(22)0...
The coolest conference giveaway I ever got was from NVIDIA: the NVIDIA ruler! They look ultraslick and are very useful. Here's one on eBay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/114530985211