skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of open source motivation is a creative expression.

Then there are raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code.

I find this mindset (why aren’t you working on something that benefits me, Bender) rather toxic.
Glad the cyclist is OK.

Not really enough detail to figure out if this was "a human could have avoided it" or not.
Just works, no complaints from me
Perhaps, but do you really know if and how much REM sleep you are getting? I've seen some things that link dementia more specifically to quality of sleep and REM time.
You don't have to pay. You can have your data removed from all of these services directly but it's time consuming.
>This article advocates for Linux (Chromebook is already Linux)

Because Chromebook is Linux kernel + Google proprietary ecosystem & spyware.

When advocates say Linux they just mean the FOSS distros of Linux + FOSS software.
I reflected your comment back to you for a reason.

Any argument that starts with "It seems like you're saying" is a bad argument.

The climate change denialists are hiding behind both of our arguments.
Is there collaboration between Serenity/LB and Igalia?

Seems like they're involved in many browser technologies, and other technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkIX5ryZZ4
Maybe Framework has a opportunity here. With his ethical ethos it can fit.
> Once again, doing the work means nothing if you're not working smart.

Once again, at the Taylor Swift scale of things, working smart doesn't either. Not by itself. There are fundamentally more smart, hard working, pretty, fit young women who really really want to be a music superstar than there are available slots.

Talent, effort, and luck are all required. The need for luck fades with repeated success, but plenty of those one-hit wonders put in lots of talent and smart effort, but were still not lucky enough to parlay it into a long career.

Did hard work, smarts, fitness, looks, etc. all play a role? Sure. Are they the full equation? No.
It says that there's no legal ground for troubleshooting/measuring data to be shared with Google:

> The conclusion of the Danish Data Protection Authority's decision is that there is authority to pass on the students' information for the purpose of providing the services, improving the security and reliability of the services, communication with e.g. the municipalities and compliance with legal
obligations.

> At the same time, however, the assessment is that the Folkeskole Act does not sufficiently clearly authorize the municipalities to pass on the students' information for the maintenance and improvement of the Google Workspace for Education service, ChromeOS and the Chrome browser, or for measuring
the performance and development of new functions and services in ChromeOS and the Chrome browser.

That's very different than the DPA outright saying Chromebooks "will no longer be allowed", period. Google could introduce a toggle to separate the two in order not to lose the entire market, schools could dual-boot a Linux distro on them, and so on.

Like everything GDPR-related, it's far more nuanced than what random HN commenters want to believe.
Pretty much all "64-bit" CPU architectures out there also have specific instructions for 32-bit arithmetic.

They were designed that way partly on purpose, to cater for the enormous amount of existing program code that has been written with the assumption that an `int` is 32 bits. A large portion of that code also written with the assumption that they are also 2's complement and wrapping.
> For Rocky Linux, RHEL cloud instances are currently the primary source.

Okay this answers the first question thanks.

> Not every RHEL binary is GPL licensed, but all the packages we distribute have an open source license permitting such redistribution.

Regarding the second question, fair enough, you are allowed to redistribute the source code. However, there is no legal obligation for Red Hat to distribute the source code to you for non-GPL binaries. So, what happens if you cannot obtain the source code of the Red Hat binaries (non-GPL) via your RHEL cloud instance workaround? Essentially, Rocky relies on an RHEL cloud instances workaround to fetch sources that could stop working (for non-GPL) at any time. Not such a bright and shiny future, if you ask me.
Ubuntu? No way. Nothing on the DE works on Debian branch, basically avoid for consumer use.

Fedora? Yes please.

LibreOffice is downright terrible, please do not lump it into a problem of OS replacements. I'm 100% convinced there is some M$ plant that deliberately makes the GUI bad. I still use it, and I use Google's.
sue a student... but they're not the only one using/showing this data ...

If they would really care they should lobby to make their (or all?) flight data private. (which I find understandable)
I think this is an interesting question in general because GPL has also this clause

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein

So I think it could be debatable if RHELs policy represents a restriction. Overall I feel this part of GPL has not been explored all that thoroughly and I feel it raises questions beyond this RHEL case. For example FSFs GPL FAQ states:

> For instance, you can accept a contract to develop changes and agree not to release your changes until the client says ok. This is permitted because in this case no GPL-covered code is being distributed under an NDA

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#DevelopChangesU...

I don't understand how that is not conflicting here; wouldn't your client be distributing the code to be modified to you, and that should be covered by GPL? And as such the NDA would represent additional restriction?

I suppose there could be a special case where the client would ask modifications for a publicly available sources and as such would not be distributing the code themselves, but I feel that can not be considered typical or general case.

Similar interesting case would be employees receiving copies of company internal forks of GPL code. Should employees have right to redistribute the code in accordance to GPL terms without threat of getting punished?
Cryptonomicon has such an epic build up...
There is also The Baroque Cycle which seems a bit different from other works.
Yes, double standards are so much more exciting and fun!
Hey, I wrote this! Thanks for sharing.
Apple has three hardware units for machine learning (if you disregard the regular CPU FP hardware): the neural engine (for energy efficient inference for some types of models), the AMX unit (for low-latency matmul and long vector), and the GPU (which does contain some hardware for making matmul more efficient). Apple is a bit of a unique case since all processors share the same memory hierarchy, so they can afford to keep things separately. But I wouldn’t say that Apple has anything comparable to Nvidia’s Tensor Cores: AMX probably comes closest but it’s integrated with the CPU L2 and the total throughout is much lower. Unless you want FP64, that’s is very good compared to mainstream Tensor Cores.
We have to rewrite a state law in Nebraska due to one county west of Lincoln abusing civil asset forfeiture.

https://www.1011now.com/2024/02/02/lawmaker-seeks-ban-practi...
Because in Australia and New Zealand, a Kiwi is someone from New Zealand.
Is it to tobacco because of nicotine? Or would things like nicotine gum and lozenges not count. I thought I recalled nicotine potentially being neuroprotective wrt dementia.
I read half of Snow Crash and it felt like there was no plot that emerged? I dunno how to explain it. Half the book felt like a context-building prologue.
Open Web Docs
> It feels created out of EU jealously of the US tech industry

If it feels like that for you I recommend checking your emotional state, the EU has a different approach to regulating businesses than the USA, it's not jealousy but different principles aiming for different outcomes than what the USA aims for.

> Instead of the DMA being pro-consumer, I read it as anti-business (probably US business).

You've criticised the DMA twice about being: a bad implementation, and now as anti-business. Yes, it is anti a specific case of business which in the EU's view is not aligned to the outcomes it wants in the economy, calling the EU anti-business is, at best, naïve, since it's an organisation focused first and foremost to deal with commerce and business in general. It is against business using leverages against citizens, something that the USA does not seem to care about, and that's fine for the USA just don't try to apply the same principles you live under to a different culture regarding businesses.
I have extracted frames with vlc before before. They always look like shit. Like with a lower resolution. Why? Like if you freeze a youtube video the pic looks clean.
Rye[1] is an all in one manager for python projects. Including the python versions and virtualenv, pip etc etc... It separates tool deps from app deps. Its all configured through a pyproject.toml config file.

Its still new but works well. I'm transitioning to it from an unholy mess of pyenv, pip installs and other manual hacks.

If you're starting a new python project that is more than just a straightforward script I'd use Rye from the get go.

[1]https://rye-up.com/
> Paragraph after paragraph of drivel with seemingly no relation to the music. More like someone's journal entry repurposed as an album review.

That was the best part! I found myself losing interest and moving onto cokemachineglow.com once they started doing more straightforward reviews. It's not for everyone, of course[1].

[1] https://www.somethingawful.com/fakesa/richdork/
These days you're lucky if you can actually get the podcast and not just stream it from some awful "cloud" service with widevine DRM thats also trying to push you to pay ten bucks a month for a premium account which only forces you to listen to the ads embedded in the podcast itself.
https://www.redox-os.org/

Redox is a super interesting project.

Not because it’s Rust based.

But because rarely do people start from scratch to build a new OS.

(eg, OpenBSD forked NetBSD, Dragonly forked FreeBSD, Ubuntu from Debian, etc)

—-

https://fuchsia.dev/

Would be another of interest.
I think the most prescient prediction he made about AI is this from Anathem. The concrete prediction is that the internet will become filled with AI written crap, and that anyone wanting to use it will have to filter out an enormous amount of AI nonsense, before they reach any useful information. To translate: reticulum means internet, syndevs means computers.

> “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

> “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

> “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

> “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

> “Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

> “Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”
So, I look at the entire genre of cyberpunk as well as related genres as pulp sci-fi. It isn’t always “good” if we’re comparing to Asimov, Heinlein, or Herbert, but there are often some entertaining ideas and interesting themes in them. I love Nosferatu, but I can still enjoy Tucker and Dale vs Evil.
This is a crucial point to make. Even if every natural phenomenon can be reduced to very early-level processes (e.g., physics), earlier levels of analysis have little predictive value at later levels of analysis.

Does anyone have a term for this from philosophy of science literature?
Well even this study shows reduced risk with moderate consumption compared to the 0 or the 6+ group.
I took it to mean people using it when they don’t have ADHD.
The Baroque Cycle books and Seveneves are my favourite of his, after that my enjoyment drops of pretty quick. Anathem is good once it finally gets going.
Hey, Tech was banned at my boarding school :-).

No electronics. TV, Radio...
LOL:

> “Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

> “Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
Comparing current generation LLMs, which aren't design for accuracy, against lawyers has some pretty obvious problems. The fact is that only one of the two is set to make non-linear improvements, and that is the only point that matters in this debate.
Define. What EXACTLY does a pilot need privacy for?
admin passwd in ... 1234
How much of that 15% drop can you explain with light bulbs and heat pumps? There is no way it is that material. And we know that efficiencies don't cause the amount of energy used to drop, they cause an overall rise, because energy goes further so it is worth collecting more (ie, Jevons' Paradox). The only thing that causes energy use to drop is if the supply isn't there.

> Many countries have decoupled economic growth from energy use.

Yeah, but the obvious conclusion isn't what you expect it is - GDP is becoming obsolete. The reason it has been useful historically is that it is a good proxy for energy availability. You've got a number there that goes up, but is decoupling from any real metric.

If GDP correlates with energy availability and GDP drops; that is an urgent problem because that means it is getting harder to get food, shelter and essentials. If it doesn't correlate with energy availability then there is a bit of a question about why we're supposed to care.
I'd like to know your company, and talk to you about GPT as it applies to legal - this is the most disruptive space available to GPTs, and its being poorly addressed.

>>>"Laywers hoard their contracts and it was very difficult in our journey to find lawyers who would be willing to write contracts we would turn into templates because they are essentially putting themselves and their professional community out of income streams in the future.

This is why Lawyers must die.

If "letter of law" is a thing - then "opinions" in legal parlance, should be BS.

We should have every SC decision eviscerated by GPTs

Any any single person saying "You need a lawyer to figure this out" is a grifter and a charlatan

--

Anyway - I'd like to know more about your startup. I'd like to know what you o for lkegal DMS, ala hummingbird for biotech, but there are so many real applications of GPT to legal troves, such as an auto index/summary/ parties/contacts/dates/ blah blah that GPTs make legal searching all that more powerful and ANY legal-person in any position telling you anything bad about computers keeping them in check is a fraud.

The legal industry is the most low hanging fruit for GPTs.
I have a vague familiarity with that view, and that is definitely not the view I hold.

That view states, as you describe, that somehow the whole is more than just the sum of the parts. I reject that. Instead, my claim is that if the only parts you have are physical parts, you will not get consciousness. You need other parts too -- specifically, mental/consciousness parts.

(although, this sounds closer to a dualist view, while my view is more idealist)
The web as a platform keeps getting better. As someone who's been developing for it for a living since 1998, I'm delighted to see and to share things like "Interop 2024"^1 and Web Platform Tests ^2, which are improving the adoption pace and reliability of key platform features:

1. https://www.webkit.org/blog/14633/get-ready-for-interop-2024...

2. https://wpt.fyi
Having done a bit of biology, I would not want to use the word "evolution" and "simple" in the same sentence. ;-) Certainly not things that have evolved over many generations.

(Even artificial) evolution sometimes does really weird things.

https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4601/refs/papers/es97thompson... (page 399) "Fig 7 [...] The cells
shaded gray cannot be clamped without degrading performance, even though there is no connected path by which they could influence the output"
Yep, application code can have the same problem! The difference is that application code lives "inside the abstraction" of the program, and is viewed and edited by a much smaller set of developers.

Configuration, by contrast, sits at the seam between two systems. It's the top-level parameterization of the abstraction, and behaves more like an API. E.g. imagine if the only way to configure Kubernetes or Docker were in language-specitic bindings - there was no such thing as a YAML lingua franca.
By the very definition somebody already worried about the GAU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design-basis_event
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auslegungsst%C3%B6rfall
Fair enough, that is a distinction worth making. A good one in
fact. Bceuase now Google may be forced to unlock or otherwise not
encumber Chrombeook hardware.
I hated Snow Crash (it aged poorly), but loved REAMDE. Cryptonomicon and Seveneves were decent; Termination Shock got fun in the end; whereas The Rise and Fall of DODO was more interesting in the beginning. Not sure how I feel about Fall - there were certainly some good parts to it, especially in its parallels with Milton.
Give it to the central bank.
No they don't; they only offer 'dark web scanning'. https://one.google.com/about/security
Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
I love Snow Crash. I was wearing my Black Sun night club (from snow crash) t-shirt to work today. That being said, it does feel like an early book. It is possibly over packed with ideas and possibly so edgy it feels like it is trying too hard.
>If your objections are yours alone, then best to move to a very rural area with minimal zoning laws.

If you don't like it, move? Seriously? You also have that option; move to a rural area and put up all the solar power you want.

NIMBY laws can be a burden, but statements like the above make me realize why they have to continue to exist; people will drive you out of your home if you don't go along with their projects.
Fair enough. But I am including all of those little databases.

I agree with you - you could hack around this for a big database by putting it on a dedicated partition (even though you shouldn't need to). But I'm also thinking about applications with little databases that need to live inside the filesystem. They shouldn't need to embed sqlite in order to survive a crash.

A different syscall API would allow you to write a small, fast, efficient database engines (like redis or mysql) without needing all of the complex, performance gobbling tricks that these databases currently have.

A better filesystem API would help databases everywhere.
I can't find it, but somewhere I read the sentiment that `Snow Crash` is best read by young men. I know I read it when I was in my early 20's and enjoyed it, have at most skimmed some amusing passages (like the bits from the perspective of the dog) since.

Cryptonomicon, Anathem, Seven-Eves have a bit more staying power for me.

slight non-sequitor, but was anybody else disappointed with Termination Shock? The daring new social structure needed to deal with climate change is... heritable monarchy?
Could someone explain why Canada with their 40M population (almost 10x smaller than US) is running into highly overpriced homes?

Canada is one of the largest countries on the planet.

Why can’t Canada build more homes?

Also why can’t we ban foreigners from owning homes?

Same issue applies to US as well.
> RustPython is in a development phase and should not be used in production or a fault intolerant setting. Our current build supports only about half of the Python standard library.
This would be a good place to share that one line.
Thank you, that makes sense! Nice point to fakes3; I hadn't heard of that before.
Anathem is my personal favorite of his for precisely this vision of near future history, and what the world does about it.
Yeah, a measurement of the speed of a lot of molecules.
Clouds are not per se awful if you compare it to manually managing mp3 files and not all podcasts contain ads. I’m not saying your statement is completely wrong, I’m saying it could use some more nuance.
Mini PC maker ships systems with factory-installed spyware
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever been able to git clone any python project (that isn’t hello world equivalent), follow the readme and have it just run first shot.

I’m always having to dive in and figure out which packages are missing, wrong version, etc.

As I do this I find myself wondering if the repo maintainers make a habit of actually trying to set up their project from scratch just by following their readmes.

I’m assuming they just get out of date and then leave it to the community to troubleshoot their own installs.

For whatever reason I don’t seem to have nearly the same difficulties trying to clone and run rust or node projects for example.

More generally, the fact that there are about 20 different ways to manage your venvs, and that you seemingly tend to accrete every version of python released in the last 20 years with no clear way of managing all those installations, makes it quite confusing for newbies.
Spoilers in the YouTube recommended are frustrating
Farcaster: A decentralized social network built on Ethereum
Similarly, I wanted to love Stephenson. I even enjoy the intense technical details in a good sci-fi story (I'm talking to you Red Mars).

I started with Seveneves and could not finish it. After 20 pages I wanted to quit, but I stuck it out for another 150 pages before folding. The premise of the story was fantastic, but the writing was not enjoyable to me, and IMO, not very good.

Where Robinson and authors like Weir and Clarke weave the technical details into the story in a fascinating way and show understanding of the topic, I felt Stephenson was copy-pasting Wikipedia articles into the middle of a book. Furthermore, he treated the reader like an idiot - by the end I couldn't help but laugh painfully when he felt the need to explain to us for the 30th time that A+0.150 means 0 years and 150 days after the agent event.

His characters are vague and annoying. While Robinson's characters were similarly lacking in depth in Red Mars, at least they represented something bigger, were deliberately chosen, and served a storytelling purpose.

Here's an example I pulled out of Seveneves that made me cringe.

"In those days Izzy had been like a kite: all surface area, no mass. Once Amalthea (a comet) had been attached, it was like a kite with a big rock strapped to it."

Weir would have pulled that line off easily as a slightly sarcastic, self-aware remark. I didn't get the impression that Stephenson meant it anything other than a serious statement.