skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friend, I have agreed with your core issue, you have just assumed my work has already been otherwise 'bought' and argued this fact the entire marathon.

Your assumptions of what I'm trying to get at, are what you're arguing against. My position hasn't changed, it's only been explained to you countless times and in many ways.

I will state it again and you're welcome to argue with the below sentence, but again, otherwise you're continuing to play games.

I have a concern that any work that I, or my fellow artists put into this world that is of a physically created nature. Tangible and unique, cannot be protected from the vacuum of OpenAI and their military contracts the same way I can protect them from being copied and hung in every Hilton Hotel. How do I protect myself from contributing to a pirate and their weapon creation? Tell me I can't, anything beyond the brainstem is an externalisation and fair game to anyone and I'll tell you artists will accept that notion and quit enriching this world with anything that adds value vs the capitalistic endeavour to extract it. Culture becomes an algorithm, humans become farm animals. Enjoy your world.
I don't play video games but have many friends that do. My take is that Pal World is a game Nintendo should have made, but has been lazy with pokemon IP and has let it stagnate. Maybe this will encourage them to make the MMO everyone wants with pokemon IP.
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It's not that they're dumb, it's more that geolocation is just guessing. There will be mistakes and edge cases and setups which can't be geolocated. The only dumb part here would be providing a service where you can't override the download server. (Or relying entirely on the DNS rather than probing the speed)
Babel is a decent sci-fi book, it's actually quite anti-capitalist. I'm not making a political statement.
I'm sure you generate all your serialization code by hand. Not to mention the object model. Why let compiler make a virtual call if you can load the class pointer and look up the right function yourself, MIRIGHT?
GP's comment was:

> Google lying to the public like this should be considered false advertising.

To which you responded with:

> No, google is doing what it can within the extremely tight confines of what the DMCA allows.

So lying is okay as long as the law makes it potentially expensive to do what you claimed you did? That doesn't seem ethical to me.
Often you can find something by finding the right forum that quietly shares files.
Yeah it doesn't make sense to pick something that's not a power of 2 unless you are packing it.
I'm convinced high coverage targets cause people to write worse code.

With Java at least, it seems to drive people to do things like not catch exceptions. It's hard to inject errors so all the catch blocks are hit.

Also makes people not want to switch to use record classes, as that feature removes class boilerplate that is easy to cover.
I think the article is wrong. Radiation/Cosmic Rays crashes require BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerance) because it can send a 1 to a node and a 0 to another node, even if it is not malicious. For example, see [1]. Formally, CFT (Crash Fault Tolerance) does not handle this case.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, my experience has been that minor version TS releases usually create a cascade of hundreds of type check failures even though the syntax itself is backwards-compatible.

It would be impossible for a project pulling TS sources directly to achieve stability (or even compile all dependencies with a single version of TypeScript in the first place).
Not everyone deserves a voice in every conversation. We had an office assistant once’s that had really strong opinions about how to implement features. They were not well informed.
Reminds me of what they did near me at Rocky Flats - well: before it was raided by the FBI, shut down, cleaned up, an reopened as a nature reserve. e
It does block ads. It blocks ads that are harmful to the web ecosystem. Chrome blocking all ads would hurt the web ecosystem tremendously as it interferes with how many sites are monetized. It is not in Google's interest to kill the web. They want to ensure that it keeps growing.
Palworld confuses me because it just seems to be one of those soulless “let’s just mash together mechanics from six popular games” but it actually seems to work and come out as greater than the sum of its parts.

It’s weird for Nintendo to fixate because it’s only like 1/6th Pokémon…
Came here to post Charles Stross's article about this and found it in a 2nd level comment, but it needs to be 1st level: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldco...

It's not as simple as it seems, as normal
The tragic part is the censorship (and the fact that it was necessary).

Saying nothing was tragic is just reductive.
New state law will take the decision of what gets built out of their hands if they don't meet minimums.
Luckily I live in the US - you'd never see things like the government demanding the heads of our most prominent universities be fired because they're not cracking down on anti-imperialist student groups hard enough.
Panopticon style self-censorship is what makes censorship in China so effective.
Scientific Article with Insane AI-Generated Images Somehow Passes Peer Review
Upzoning increases land prices. It only results in a decrease in per-unit average house prices if it is accompanied with development (more housing units per square metre of land).

Upzoning doesn't guarantee increased development as developers only build when it makes financial sense to do so, and flooding the market with more units would decrease the potential profit they can make.

Existing residents who don't develop their land usually end up with a big windfall of higher land prices, because their large lot sizes could have many more housing units built on it with new upzoning laws.

Now, they still might revolt for other reasons, like not wanting undesirables like people poorer than themselves to move in next door, or not wanting to see as many houses in their morning walk, but from a financial sense, upzoning is a big positive for existing landowners.
I prefer the physical menu to look at but it is a huge convenience to use toast or similar apps to order on your phone and then pay whenever you’re ready to leave. No need to wait for the servers for who knows how long in a busy restaurant.
FEDS magazine is probably the closest US equivalent

https://youtu.be/-KYMn8Pwygw
ASAT that doesn't involve strong mechanical capture like a net and deorbiting is a bad idea™ from the outset. That's not really feasible and there are very, very few legitimate needs to shoot down any satellite. Plus, the prospect of an arms race or open conflict in the final frontier doesn't help global security or anything else except murderous, megalomaniacal autocrats intent on say destroying a GNSS that would only have the effect of escalating painful reprisals.
I agree with you that attack surface doesn't strike me as a likely answer as to why this is the way that it is. But, who is going behind their PS5 and unplugging it from the network to install a game and then plug it back in again? I don't think the majority of people will be doing that, but I have no source behind that hunch besides general human laziness.
Kind of, but not that simple. You can pay for contracts where you commit to using x PB of traffic over some period at a heavily discounted rate or agreed amount, then pay extra over that. You can even have commitments, where if you don't use as much as you promised, you pay penalties for the difference. In edge cases, it becomes cheaper to waste some bandwidth in a given month/quarter.
I think self-censorship is skyrocketing currently.

There are a lot of folks who are scared of speaking out against Israel because according to a lot of authorities, that's now considered anti-semitic.
This is really beautifully written. I really appreciated the bit about his team being so good they deserved to be part of a stronger opportunity.
> Palworld fans concerned after Nintendo issues surprise takedown

that's a clickbait title.

"Palworld fans concerned after Nintendo issues surprise takedown of fan-made merchandise" is better.
> Can you imagine Americans up in arms that someone in China doesn’t like or respect America?

Easily, yes.
I think it works because there's a lot of games out there that just miss the perfect mark slightly and so if someone picks up on that and smashes them all together it works out great. Game companies seem to suck at reading feedback about their games and adapting.
Yes. The penalty for ignoring DMCA takedowns is losing the DMCA safe harbors that protect them from copyright infringement liability. With statutory damages of $30k per work for non-willful infringement, any company that hosts user generated content would be out of business quite quickly as they get sued by every copyright holder everywhere.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
Prove it. Start a diet of 2k/cal a day of gasoline.
The Dell Optiplex 7050 I have can take two SATA SSDs or one SATA HDD and one SATA SSD (my current config). Its processing power is pretty great (esp compared to an RPI), plus it's reasonably sized, sturdy, and it also has a low TDP. I use it as a server for several services (A discord clone, Nextcloud, my blog, video streaming). Got it for $20 at a surplus store, plus $80 for the HDD and $60 for the SSD (I went for very high quality ones) lol.
Two reasons to read it now
I understand that, but it wasn't clear to me where those examples came from.
Yeah I'm pretty surprised I'd never heard of it before.

Of course I'd never touch something that was Apple only.

It's cool that it's not completely dead though.
Postmarked is also weird since that's open-ended. There are stories of bits of mail or even mail crates that get lost for a decade or more
10 days later answer, but Balanced runs "multiple models", there's a decision making system which choose which model to use. It's mainly focused on search, and being faster to answer. Deucalion is a new MSFT-trained model that's being used here. Cheaper to run, too.

Creative and Precise runs GPT4 full time (not turbo), but both are still finetuned versions of it. To be more creative, and the other to be more "precise". They are slower.
I think regret is common. I don't think it's particularly novel to permissive licensing. Besides, most projects never reach any sort of popularity to draw a contributor count greater than 1, and relicensing at that scale is tremendously easy -- you just do it.

I'm also not sure what your on about with regards to big companies vs small companies. Do you mean companies which produce open source software? Or companies consuming it?

Generally, most software companies open source exactly nothing. Many companies open source software which they have found useful but is not designed to be used for a profit center. In my experience, only companies trying to directly license software adopt GPL or AGPL. Almost all companies which produce software under GPL or AGPL dual license with a commercial paid option that comes with no strings attached. Personally I find this disingenuous.

The reason giant tech companies promote permissive licenses is because they don't care about those things -- they're already giant and have secured whatever edge they need -- and because they can be a useful recruiting tool. Plus sometimes you need to ship SDKs and integrations and permissive is the only real way to go generally.

Anyways I've licensed and contributed to permissive licenses software. I could not care less what happens to it. That's the point. I understood the consequences of my actions as I made them.

Software that I want to make money with? I don't open source that at all, at least not until I've abandoned it.
https://archive.is/BSQfn
You can also migrate it using logical replication.
It really does have its own thing going on even if there are bits of a ton of popular games visibly influencing it.
Nothing new or surprising. This has been the case for more than 10 years now: https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi...
Skip the article, it's just a summary of this reddit post's comments area https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/1aqnz1d/huh_didnt...
Swear off defending Taiwan, let millions of people die when China sees weakness and invades, but it's cool because we got chips bro.
It's more anti-colonial than anti-capitalist, like the rest of Kuang's work. However, her works also aren't particularly friendly to the the PRC either. Babel deals with british colonialism and the century of humiliation while her previous series The Poppy War talks a lot about China's relationship with indigenous Taiwanese.
Some Authors Were Left Out of Awards Held in China. Leaked Emails Show Why
What if everybody did everything right?
Looking at the site you linked, it's clear that the objective of the standard is to show you ads without annoying the users enough to force them to install ad blockers. So the standard isn't about preventing targeted ads at all. And the ads don't have to cross the 'annoyance threshold' to be harmful to its audience. For example, cross-site tracking used by ad tech is a privacy nightmare in itself. There are good reasons to block all targeted ads altogether.
How does TS compare to using semantic highlighting in LSP?
think of the primary keys in a database like typedef void* ie it's your fundamental pointer and the size of it will impact every aspect of performance throughout - memory/disk footprint and corresponding throughput bottlenecks, cpu time comparing keys which is what every operation reduces to in the deepest inner-most loops of joins and lookups etc.

when x86-64 cpus were new the performance impact from switching to 64-bit pointers was so bad we had to create x32/ilp32 and the reason .NET still has "prefer 32-bit" as a default even today.

using 128-bit uuids as PKs in a database is an awful mistake
No doubt. Next I expect to see a picture of him dyno'ing a V9 at the climbing gym.
Each home only getting twelve percent of an acre qualifies as "exclusionary housing only for rich people"? Just how insane is the cost of living in Berkeley?
Yes that is technically correct but its not very helpful. In practice weight loss is a mental health problem. You can explain thermodynamics to fat people all day, it wont help them lose weight.
An easy first step would be to not hold a sci-fi conference in a totalitarian dictatorship. Why couldn't they have just held it in Japan or South Korea or Taiwan instead?
I think you could layer them too
What makes Telegram better than WhatsApp or Signal?
As a science fiction reader with a healthy dislike of censorship and authoritarian regimes what's my best course of action? Has Hugo taken steps to ensure that there will not be a repeat of this? Are there freedom respecting alternatives more deserving of our support?
Yup. Because having no allies, no one to back us up in the international stage, no access to resources, no trading partners, just a world united against us is totally a logical way to live. That won't have any negative consequences for a country that depends on both imports and exports.

When did the Trump possy arrive at HN?
It's a distraction to argue that just because PWA is not more common it is useless.

PWA keeps the ecosystem honest. It doesn't have to be the premier platform of choice, but it needs to be a choice available.
I guess that depends on how the index works.
Evolution of the Churchill Tank – "No Damn Good"?
Cool, please provide how much gasoline I need to eat to generate 2k calories per day without it also killing me
I wasn't even thinking about an OpenAI defector releasing secrets. I think it's a matter of research and compute power, both of which China is increasing in these sectors so they don't trail behind the USA.

If we stop developing our tech, China will continue advancing even without leaks from OpenAI, and eventually they will develop better models, even if it takes another decade. Banning something only to cower in fear of ourselves while we watch someone else use it to destroy us seems like poor planning.
Serialization code should be generic, no boilerplate needed. Object models must reflect the problem domain well, something to think carefully about. Current code assistants is only able to do that automatically for very generic classes.
Announcing the New Era of 'open-webui'
I asked because it sounded as if you considered it to be the platform. And let's not kid ourselves by pretending that this has to do with protecting the creators.
Meta is specifically writing unit tests, where probably every part of the system except the code being tested is mocked.

Those tests tend to have very low value with testing significant refactoring, as the code the tests covers often won't exist anymore.
> efforts on standardization and interoperability

Just recently I saw something in this direction.. Ah yes, here it is.

WinterCG - Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group

> This community group aims to provide a space for JavaScript runtimes to collaborate on API interoperability. We focus on documenting and improving interoperability of web platform APIs across runtimes (especially non-browser ones).

https://wintercg.org/

I see Cloudflare, Deno, Node.js, Netlify, Vercel. I guess Bun hasn't joined yet, but they seem to be intentionally implementing web-compatible interfaces.
485m² of land in one of the highest-income urban areas in the world is for rich people only, yeah.
Preach. The hardest problems in computer science may be cache invalidation and naming things, but the hardest problem in modern application development is navigating the ocean of enshittification caused by short-term thinking and a socioeconomic backdrop that empowers non-technical managers and commoditizes engineers.

My goal is not release cadence. My goal is to be able to write "this repository is stable, secure, optimized, and feature-complete" in every project readme.

We should do this for ourselves, and for the future. We could build a world of stable, feature-complete ecosystems that move (voluntarily) together on a quarterly release cycle. We could focus on writing nearly perfect software with a long shelf life.

I take a tremendous amount of inspiration from the Jump team building Firedancer, though my understanding of their work barely qualifies as surface-level. What a public demonstration of software engineering excellence while doing cutting-edge work.

I also think younger engineers are being brainwashed by modern engineering culture. I am fortunate to have a mentor who had a career before Agile and worked in zero-bugs-tolerated environments. I realize this level of quality is not always realistic or optimal, but I suspect many younger web engineers just assume Agile is the best way. I did.

Younger engineers: agile has merits, but it has become the mechanism that managers (a) use to keep you keyed-up and short-term focused, and (b) deal with the fact that neither they nor their clients know what they are doing. Find the people who can rebuild the Information Age from scratch, and listen to them.
For the second item, I've had luck using grammar to overcome this issue. The easiest one to implement I've seen so far is Microsoft's guidance-ai.
Are you not familiar with out of process COM servers? A lot of Office automation is out of process, even inside of Office itself. Admittedly I’m not sure about the grammar checker specifically.

As for the Spellcheck API, external providers are explicitly out of proc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/about-t...

Anyway, my point still stands - building desktop apps using composition over RPC is neither new nor a bad idea, although HTTP might not be the best RPC mechanism (although… neither was COM…)
Open WebUI: ChatGPT-Style WebUI for Ollama
Unless I missed it the PDF doesn't explain why you would want to weld plutonium.
Funny that this is being done partly in the name of RF Kuang, whose book "Babel" promotes a pretty violent strand of anti-white anti-colonial theory. That particular protagonist, a young Chinese boy rescued from poverty due to his innate magical talents, was walking one night when some awful racist louts threaten him and also accuse him of being willing to betray the nation of his benefactors; completely randomly (or so the story would have it) when a page later he runs into an ethnic Chinese who is obviously a criminal, the boy immediately "naturally" feels a kinship with him and decides to join his gang, which uses terrorism against innocent victims etc. It's pretty disgusting to write a validation of basically racist, anti-enlightenment feelings that "being of the same race as someone" is a strong positive reason to feel kinship/allyship with someone, even when that person is obviously breaking the law, and to also betray people who, although harsh and screwed up, clearly saved you from extremely serious immediate death. The author retcons some of this attempting to make the boy's rescuers evil enough to validate his utter betrayal of them... but again, being "mean" and not taking responsibility for a child is somehow considered more significant in this world than saving someone from literally dying within a few hours of the plague and giving him 10+ years of the worlds best education and inventing technology, which in our world's correlate, has led to billions of people escaping poverty. No, the fact that his dad is a meanie/jerk/sexist fully justifies firebombing him and his ilk. okay...

And in the author's world-building, although magical resources are widely distributed, the only group which seems to be figuring out how to actually exploit them to increase wealth is England. But to the characters in the book, figuring out how to use those things at all, i.e. natural resource exploitation/study/efficiency improvement/industrialization is viewed as nothing more than stealing from indigenous people, rather than being a positive sum contribution to humanity. The fact that the original possessors of the silver, and other magical goods weren't doing anything with it is not mentioned. (at least in the 20% of the book I read before this scene, which basically suggests that non-white people should naturally coordinate to attack their white oppressors, led me to deleting it.)

It's also funny that in this book, she's putting out pretty basic CCP anti-western rhetoric, like many other bloodthirsty communists I've met; yet here, she is being defended by normally pro-american, anti-censorship voices, while the CCP is being cast as "oppressing" her. Kuang, an illiberal person, whose education consisted of private school (Greenhill school, today's tuition 32k->39k/year) => Georgetown => Oxford => Yale
> Cordon off that part of the world and leave them to their devices.

Lol. If the US couldn't even boycott little old Cuba into regime change, what chance do they have with China?
> the system should be smart enough to cache frequently used apps

I mean…isn’t it sort of doing that by allowing a windowless app instance?
Oh, I do! Sometimes the place is loud and it doesn’t get heard. Nothing wrong that a server or someone else did, but having it available on my phone is just a big convenience thing for me.

Other thing is, when the menu isn’t available, there’s a decent chance I won’t even go there when I’m craving something specific. Like — I’m craving wings, but not every pub near me has it, so I do a very quick check before I go there.
Now do cigarettes.