skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drive an EV. You’ll understand why people buy them. Then also consider that you’ll almost always charge it at home, and the price of a “full tank” is $8 where I live. Not a typo. And you don’t have to go to a gas station, and potentially stand in line there. All of this saves time and money, and you get a much better driving car which requires zero maintenance other that changing tires every 40k miles or so.
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It's time to let (most of) copyright go. Ideas are copied around the world at light speed and so much content is being produced that no individual has a chance to consume all the media the world produces in a single minute.

The value is in the copying not the material. In having a mechanism to spread your material to as many eyes as possible. Hanging onto Micky Mouse's anachronistic paradigm does not encourage more art, it only performs an oligopolistic role for artists already at the top, already with the copy mechanism and attention to spread their ideas.
Until the customer loses the key, which is essentially what happened here...
The point would be that if anything, storage and hardware costs have come down for large users like Google. So these cost increases are purely profit motivated, rather than due to the cost to company increasing.
did monorepos mentioned use flake parts?
What “repair costs”? I’ve owned a Model Y for 3 years now. My repair or maintenance costs were $0.
40cm^3 is about the size of a sugar cube. I think we would need to scale that quit a bit to be viable. Probably not going to make moon bases out of sugar cubes.
You do understand that larger sensor means not only thicker package but also larger width?

Would you like 1cm black border around your display like it’s a pc from 2010?

Short answer: all this would make an ugly laptop.

That’s why they created belkin magsafe iphone camera mount
> I specifically would not want any corporate-issued hardware happily chatting away with my personally-owned hardware

Yeah, what kind of fool would plug in their own monitor into a corporate-own laptop?

Who knows what kinds of things they'll talk about! /s

Seriously though, you do you. What you specifically want is fine for what you have.

However, describing The Apple Way™ decision to only allow connections between devices that you own as sensible requires further justification (given a pretty expoistion in the article as to why it is not, in fact, sensible).
True, but perhaps it should be.
Is OCR from 30 years ago now "AI"?
That sounds genuinely hideous.

Is this like, meant to be a good feature???
It also doesn't help that each character has two names, like Liu Bei is both Liu Bei & Xuande, and the two names are used nearly interchangeably for most characters. And the text doesn't handhold you with dialogue & other continuity clues to remind you of relationships (e.g. "Good morning," said Alice. Bob looked up as his daughter entered the room. - without breaking the flow of the text this reminds you of the relationship between Alice & Bob).
It's a bunch of AI/ML/LLM jargon. I know what all the individual words and concepts mean and still have no idea.
>Allowing personal devices direct access to corporate ones is yet another attack surface. Separation of work and personal devices is a good policy for both employees and employer.

True. Nobody would log into their work through their own, non-corporate-issued WiFi router, after all.

Right?
I'm not the OP, but I also just checked in on this thread again and thought I'll just start a HN HK WhatsApp group to get everyone in one place so we can see how many people we would be.

Otherwise grabbing a beer with 1-2 people is also usually not a bad outcome:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/J0figJGIgTkAwUkbmOzuLQ

I hope this invite link works, otherwise email in my profile.
> The fact that you cannot connect this to an HDMI device will be the death for this.

If people wanted a headset for HDMI content, they wouldn’t be spending thousands on a Vision Pro.

This feels like a case of “it doesn’t match my requirements and therefore nobody else should want it either”.

Vision Pro just isn’t for you.
The data pollution is going to be vast.
Bump. Am also curious
It's always their lawyers.
I've also thought of the idea of using some LZ-based compression on source code files to determine which ones have the most redundancy (the ones that have the best ratios) and could be simplified by refactoring, which is not too different from the entropy-based approach described here. It's worth noting that this also identifies languages that trend towards boilerplate and egregious verbosity --- for example, I've noticed that the average C# or Java codebase will compress much better than C, while (much) denser stuff like APL-family languages don't compress as much.
Printing to stdout is a fallible operation.
If you want to go even smaller, get strip from binutils >= 2.41 and use `--strip-section-headers`. Using this option gets the basic exit down from 352 bytes to 140 bytes, and a hexdump shows that it is literally just the ELF header, program header(s), and text/data concatenated together - about as minimal as it gets without playing dirty header/code overlap tricks.
There is no ban on using mercury in research or products that don’t have alternatives.
So wouldn't it follow that choosing a low effort stack translates to more time being available for the real task of marketing and business activities?
I actually think if someone has a deep understanding of a classic, they have a good idea who would enjoy it and who wouldn't. For just about everything else, we accept that different people have different tastes, and just because something can be great to one group of people doesn't mean that it's going to be great for another. I can guess which people I know would like a movie like Jaws, and which wouldn't.

If you really understand a piece of media, understand what the author is trying to accomplish, what choices are being made narratively and stylistically, what narrative tradition the author is consciously or unconsciously following, etc., then you should have a pretty good idea of who this work would appeal to and who it wouldn't appeal to.

If someone comes away from a classic with the mindset "everyone should like this if they're smart enough/presented with it in the right way", it suggests they have a very shallow understanding of the classic.
The standardised register has some Katharevousa features that perhaps aren’t very common in ordinary speech.
Maybe. But I'm wary of the argument "we need to lean into the existential threat of AI because of those other existential threats over there that haven't arrived yet but definitely will".

It all depends on what exactly you mean by those other threats, of course. I'm a natural pessimist and I see threats everywhere, but I've also learned I can overestimate them. I've been worried about nuclear proliferation for the last 40 years, and I'm more worried about it than ever, but we haven't had another nuclear war yet.
No, it’s simply that if it’s a violation against the creator, then the platform by extension doesn’t get hammered.

By the way, you know for legal purposes those creators (copyright holders) also include guys like Disney, Warner Bros, Penguin et al. right?
> Starfield isn’t a live-service game. Like past Bethesda RPGs, it’s a single-player game with the main goal of delivering an expansive and immersive world and narrative to the player. You play it, you have a great time with it (or not), and you move on with your life.

All major games these days are "live-service" games because of DLCs. If you lose 97% of your players it matters because it is a huge hit to your DLC income potential.
Just know though that gumroad originally took a bunch of VC money.
Wait till you’re a little older and have a family. The OP asked about a lifestyle business, that is, a business to build an actual life around, not an ‘I’m-in-my-early-thirties-and-still-single-so-burn-me-out-please’ business.
Rust's stdlib is separated in core, alloc and std, with each requiring more from the platform.
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"Add to that the removal of public APIs and things like RSS feeds."

You mean like this public API

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/39421253.json

Or this RSS feed

https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
I agree with all that you said save the tipping.

I'm Australian, over 60 and have never tipped.

I have voted for worker rights, supported guarenteed minimum wages, gone on strike, attended picket lines and helped out anybody I've encountered that needs some kind of assistance.

Workers should be paid sufficiently to live well, not reduced to begging for scraps tossed as a result of hold out customs from the days of slavery and servitude.

But I guess that's just a cultural thing.
The article is somewhat silly, but there's a kernel of good advice here -

To estimate the "complexity" of a codebase:

1. Remove all comments

2. Replace all spans of whitespace with a single space

3. Concatenate all source together into a single file

4. Compress the resulting text file using gzip -9 (or your favorite compression engine)

The size of the resulting file is a good proxy for overall complexity. It's not heavily affected by naming conventions, and a refactoring that reduces the number is probably good for overall complexity.

It's not a perfect metric as it doesn't include any notion of cyclomatic complexity, but it's a good start and useful to track over time.
That's the same length. There is also "mov dil, 42".
This is what Lobsters does, and it's pretty effective (although the site has other, much worse problems that outweigh that one feature).
That's what I'm saying: There would've been nothing to fix if they hadn't not cared at all about efficiency from the beginning, because such inefficiency would've never been created.
With no reason for successful founders to be there!
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I think a large part of the reason hackernews is good is that operator's incentives are more closely aligned to the desires of users than average. Ycombinator benefits if HN is the best place to discuss the creation of technology/software because it boosts their brand and gives their companies a communication and recruiting advantage; most other platforms are primarily interested in ad revenue and are only incentivized to provide a good experience to users as a factor in that equation.

Defense against spammers/bots is a tough problem though. Having great moderators and users who are savvy and intolerant of bad content probably helps but I think it would only go so far on a large site. HN might benefit from the relatively narrow appeal of its content in that regard.
If we move to port 404, they'll never find us.
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I spent a good chunk of time at a small company trying to mitigate spam, it always felt like an uphill battle that google just did significantly better than I could. I'm not one to usually advocate outsourcing services that my department could provide, but it felt like the right call to outsource email so that it would be better for the users.
I can really see this happening with Malten Salt Reactors finally getting traction. China already has built a demonstrator and is now building a full-scale version of an MSR Reactor and now finally the US is building a demonstrator as well.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/us-nuclear-test-r...
When it comes to upgrading game bits, I usually just go with what the manufacturer is offering as an upgrade, with the exception of 3d printing inserts or deck boxes, or using coin capsules on tokens. I did build a table topper with a lazy Susan for Twilight Imperium a few years back, though.

https://imgur.com/gallery/U3n0yxu
It’s based on the published/updated date that the page provides.
> Obviously I have to be personally ok with allowing work possible access to my Apple Id, but for me it’s an acceptable trade off given that they have access to everything I say on Slack, and if we’re being honest, that’s the where the “HR needs a word” is gonna come from.

Strange sentiment to me...I can modulate what I communicate in company channels, but in absolutely no way would I ever consider it acceptable that a random person from my employer could access a huge amount of my personal information... iCloud contents might include phone backups, messages, emails, passwords, personal photo library, web history, bookmarks, notes, etc, synced in from all of your other personal devices.

I've learned firsthand the hard way that a small percentage of people are deeply unethical and completely untrustworthy. I can't optimize my entire life around avoiding them, but I certainly can make sure that if they happen to be an {IT employee, HR employee, higher-up} in my company, they won't have access to my personal things.
Especially remarkable since there are tunnels under the floor of the Colosseum. Holding up feet of water without collapsing... Very impressive.

Or maybe they just flooded the tunnels too but hoo boy is that gonna suck to clean up.
Well, my point was that the speech by itself is not a good criteria to estimate the intellect. This is not only applicable to machines but to humans as well. I assume that the primary evolutionary determined purpose of a speech function was convincing rather than the source of reasoning. Even though we use natural languages to broadcast the information, the languages usually overwhelmed with linguistics and psychological tricks to make an illusion of usefulness and novelty of this information. Even if the information was truly novel, it's usually hard or even impossible to find the roots. This is one of the reasons of why most people prefer to learn rather to invent. Broadcasting of information of inventions made by someone else is much simpler and usually more beneficial than researching something from scratch. And our natural language specifically designed for such forms of broadcastings.

In this sense if the ML developers would be focused on the inventions automatisation, I would expect that they would choose something more formalised than the natural language.

Anyway, whatever way and methods they chose I think the better external estimation criteria of intelligence should be the ability to make completely new things that clearly didn't exist before. Not just reasoning about existing one. After all, it's not a new thing that computers are able to deduce. Any programming language can do that better than any chat bot.
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But in these scenarios, it is overwhelmingly large, powerful corporations using the work of individuals. Sarah Silverman has been successful as a comedian, but when it comes to her versus Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS, et al. she is the one clearly being taken advantage of by someone far wealthier and more powerful.
an iphone is not 1cm thick and I absolutely would not mind a buldge on the top of the screen, it doesnt change how the laptop would sit. and i think the iphone whith their protrudeing camera so that they wobble when placed screen up is more of a design crime. like some chair or table outside a cafe that wobbels, Steve is dead clearly in design
In this case I think your beef is with Google and not the paywalled sites. A newspaper is going to do whatever it takes to keep the lights on, and if that means forcing people to pay, so be it.

For Google, they have made a product decision about how to treat paywalled content. They don’t care. It hurts the user experience but the days when Google cared about improving their search experience are long gone.
It’s not about the chip or sensor for that matter: it’s about the lens.

That’s why macbook from 2010-2013 has better camera quality: it has thicker display and more space for camera module.
Legislation can say, 'an AI/llm trained on copyrighted works needs to respect copyright/ ask or pay for permission to read/process a work'

Or,

It can say, if I can read it or watch it at a library, and the llm uses publicly accessible access methods, its not different then if a person had read and watched all those works and then made thoughts and determinations out of them.'

Obviously, there's some complexity in both of those arguments, and its hard to see what exactly is right, but making the rules we play by would be really helpful about now.
> small enclaves of a few thousand people on invite only message boards

I'm okay with that. Honestly sounds a lot better than the current state of affairs. The only problem now is getting invited.
True, but that’s not illegal.
Like they said, it doubles as a convenience store. In the states where convenience stores can sell alcohol (most of them), yes.
Also Publix tends to have pretty nicely maintained shopping carts. Part of the reason might be that they provide complimentary cart service where someone will push the cart out to your car and help load the groceries.
TL;DR: To my understanding, this article makes no sense because Skyrim's re-releases funded Starfield.

> You play it, you have a great time with it (or not), and you move on with your life.

There are series with fans who will play and buy multiple times. Bethesda's own actions prove this: they re-released Skyrim for a decade.

That's not hyperbole. The trademark was registered in 2013 [1]. Bethesda used a decade of Skyrim (2011)[2] re-releases to fund Starfield.

> For context, Elden Ring had less than 5 percent of its peak player base six months after release.

Elden Ring and souls games have an enduring fanbase. I don't know if Bethesda has good will left for that. First Fallout 76 went poorly, then Starfield. Now? Bethesda is Microsoft property.

To me, that reads as a practical way of dealing with what Todd and others probably saw: there's not enough long tail left, and game studios without strong culture seem to fall apart after a while. Bethesda is no exception.

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/zenimax-entering-starfield...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim
Read both. I belive they're totally different.
A population of 100k is large enough to appear on the wikipedia list of "largest cities in Russia". A small town it is not.
So it’s “anticompetitive” to use your resources to make a better product to compete in a new market? Was it anticompetitive for Google to give Android away to crush all of the competitors beside Apple? Was it anticompetitive for Netflix to use its profits from its dvd by mail business to create a streaming service? Apple to create iPods and then iPhones? Amazon to start AWS?

Netscape did run on a lot of platforms - and it sucked on all of them.
Hey, get MapTools up on there. It's my go-to Remote TableTop (RTT) for pencil and paper gaming over the internet. Sure, learning curve's a teensy bit thicker, and I have to run the server, but I can run weird game systems and write macros without getting nickel and dimed.
> The point being, you have to grow users into moderators

Aka free labor?
It is less byte pair at that point (as the indic languages generally take up 2-3 bytes per codepoint.)
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I respect the work that Ryan and the team is putting out. Excited to see what's coming next for Nebula.
That sounds like a horrible way of living.
ugh … I won’t comment on exact numbers, but I have plenty of kids lol

If you get to the point you aren’t needed great; but everyone I know running lifestyle businesses tend to take only a few weeks off throughout the year — not all at once. Many take <1 week per year. They’d be considered “stage 2 businesses” by the metric mentioned. Imo that’s totally as far as most of these businesses can get, unless you have revenue to sustain overlapping roles.

If you get to the “I don’t need to work any more” phase of a business; typically it’s time to sell or hire someone to manage and do something else.

Which btw should be the goal, I’m just saying, you’re no longer running a business if you quite literally are leaving for weeks at a time lol. Someone is running it for you.
That's not a Bayesian point of view. You can re-word it in terms of a confidence interval / coverage probability. It is true that in frequentist statistics parameters don't have probability distributions, but their estimators very much do. And one of the main properties of a good estimator is formulated in terms of convergence in probability to the true parameter value (consistency).
Ah, I think your clarification makes a lot more sense than your original phrasing, because Haskell's position is indeed that side effects are bad, not that effects are bad. The bad thing is "side", not "effects".
Well, yes and no. Most of my past employers only allowed VPN access for remote work, so the networks are in fact different. And I have had an employer that actually issued employees "SOHO" routers (routers always logged into the organization's VPN) to use with the company equipment at home. I never got one but they would issue you one if you asked. My point is that generally both employers and employers have good reasons to want separation here.
Isn't it another way of expressing the Halstead complexity measure ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halstead_complexity_measures
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One reason I love the Iliad is that the closer you look, the more of a paradox it becomes.

For example, in parts of Iliad bronze is given as a valuable gift. In other parts, it’s thrown away on the heads of spears and arrows. So was it composed before or after the fall of the Bronze Age?

Likewise, some wedding have dowries, others have bride-prices. You can’t have both! But Homer has no problem going back and forth.

It’s almost like Homers trying to confuse future historians.

There’s actually a thesis that the Iliad was intended to be heard by clubs of war veterans on public holidays. The veterans would get the inside jokes, but the civilians would miss them.
yes and now it looks like you need a product tour
Pretty much like AI, then.
"Are you being ironic?"
"I don't even know."
Well, subject to certain constraints.

You aren't guaranteed that your equilibria behave the same in the linearization of a nonlinear system if your Jacobian has any eigenvalues with real part of 0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartman%E2%80%93Grobman_theore...
I'm no fan of OpenAI's aggressive tactics, but I'd rather not risk harming open-source AI projects just to deal with them. Regardless of how any lawsuit comes out, OpenAI/Microsoft/whatever isn't going anywhere: like you said, they're powerful. They can afford to work around whatever laws or rulings that happen.

OSS projects won't have this luxury. So while I have my issues with OpenAI and the other tech companies, I think advocating for more copyright is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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One of the best analogies for social media is the idea of each post being a person yelling in a public area.

Moderation then becomes: what do the local cops tell people to stop saying. Government moderation policy thus approaches social media moderation policy.
> We need more sites like hackernews

HN is heavily moderated (censored) and people love to complain when that happens on sites like twitter.
> Like not having annoying email 'signatures'

What?
Are there any reports of anyone actually harmed by this, or is it all tiresome righteous indignation?
For the record, I did not return my (4x cheaper) iPad. I didn’t ever buy a Vision Pro. Because of the Apple ID issue. I’m trying to convince Apple that they should care because they lost a sale.
“It might be considered an AI cock-up on a massive scale…”

Give this journalist a Pulitzer
Prohibition of new user registrations.
This is what a minifier does, and those go even further to rename variables.

Another thing that should be pruned away entirely are data files, including all constant strings within the code, since humans should avoid those when focusing on algorithms

At that point you pretty much have a highly compressed version of what you'd find in CLRS or any other algorithmic text.