skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gambling addiction is a thing. I have known 2 people who had the bug. My wife knew a third. There is no amount of reasoning with them. They have to see the bottom. It is not as bad as drugs but they will still spend everything they have on it. Then the worst is when they win they put it right back in and dont walk. They are 'going to be even richer now'.

Many people look for short cuts in life. Gambling looks like a way to do it. The amazing thing was these two I knew could have been wildly successful in both of their professions. They spent every dime they had (and a lot of other peoples money) at the dog track before they died. One went into a program and had mild success at stopping. The other not so much. That sort of thing sticks for a couple of generations too. Their kids and grandkids are not doing so good, because granddad hit the trifecta once.

That whole industry will suck you dry and not blink twice. Their whole system is setup to make it look like you can win if you just try hard enough, or get a lucky streak going. Giving you enough crumbs to chase it more. Then if you do manage to get an edge they do not want you around.

Thank God I do not have the bug. But I can understand how you can get there.
My dad traveled to the UK all the time through JFK. He got upgraded to the Concorde once and his reaction was that he actually preferred first class on a 747--and that was at a time with less comfortable seating than exists today. Very few people really benefit from the faster flight time, especially if it doesn't have the range to do trans-Pacific.

As you say, ocean liners are mostly too slow for anyone who is working but I was surprised to learn recently that they're not necessarily much more expensive than a business class flight.
i posted this article. molly brodak was a poet. she took her life in 2020.

if you enjoyed this, then you might like http://thefanzine.com/how-not-to-apologize/

also, search around for her poem "molly brodak" by molly brodak.
A gift link is at: https://wapo.st/431v3AE
> It is fair use to use snippets of my code in other projects. AGPL doesn't change that. If I have a 3-line sort routine, and Copilot copies that verbatim, it's okay.

That depends. You may have a 30 line function which can be paper-worthy. I'm not supporting software patents, but reasonable attribution. If somebody uses my GPL licensed novel algorithm (which is a single function) to get unfair commercial advantage and doesn't adhere to the GPL license, can we say it's fair use? Example? See [0].

> It's a problem for me because I compete with commercial systems, and chose the AGPL for very specific reasons: People have a right to know how their data is analyzed, and AGPL preserves that. Copilot allows companies to quickly replicate and whitewash my code.

We're on the same page. I don't want my algorithms to be used by people verbatim w/o attribution or without proper license. Don't like the license? Reimplement it, paper is there.

> No, OpenAI was set up as a genuine, if ill-formed, non-profit. ... [snipped for brevity]

You're right. Let me rewrite my statement: "The reason why OpenAI keeps a non-profit part and has this convoluted many-company structure is to allow them to claim that they do non-profit research, which fair-use doctrine requires to work."

Hope that it's better now.

> Your statement is false, and there is ample historical record that what you're stating is not how it happened.

About OpenAI's structure, or GPL being fed to CoPilot? I didn't say anything about OpenAI's history AFAIK, but I have seen a tweet, containing a snapshot of an e-mail saying that "Copilot is indeed trained on every public repository on GitHub". The tweet is deleted later probably of threats. Just because of this tweet, I'm keeping this list [1].

Actually we're literally on the same page. Only difference is I keep my "plagiarism" threshold at "function" level, because they can contain some bigger magic than themselves, and you keep it at "design" level where the magic happens as a collection of functions + design.

This is probably due to different domains we operate in, in mine, a single function can affect accuracy and speed so much that it can be considered secret sauce. Welcome to HPC / Scientific Computing. :)

> We do need a for-profit like the original OpenAI, but properly structured and resourced.

When you do for-profit, fair use goes out of window. See [2].

[0]: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol29/iss2/45/

[1]: https://notes.bayindirh.io/notes/Lists/Discussions+about+Art...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39188979
Given they are sold every generation, they must be practical to enough people. There are quite a lot of multithreaded tasks that can use so many cores.
> The context sizes are too small, the models aren't sophisticated enough, etc.

Yeah, I wonder what GPL-ed code is actually infringed upon. I vividly remember the time Oracle claimed Google infringed their copyrights because they copied a couple small functions, and the tech community just laughed saying the functions were too trivial. (Mind you, Java was licensed under the GPL.)

People harping that the GPL is somehow more affected by LLMs is kind of misguided. If there is copyright infringement, then almost all other licenses would be infringed too, since the vast majority of OSS licenses require keeping the copyright notice at the very least.

And the enmity towards Microsoft, whose "fault" is just having acquired shares of OpenAI, as opposed to almost every other Big Tech company who also released LLMs (and obviously injested a lot of github code), feels like the early 2000s again.
Spotify really has the short end of the stick here. Apple does themselves no favors by participating from a privileged position at every point in the market. Apple App Store sets rules that disadvantages Apple Music's competitors.

To offer subscriptions on iOS, Spotify must give away 30% of it's revenue to Apple. Yet Apple compete with them with Apple Music. Do you think Apple is giving away 30% of it's Apple Music revenue? This means that in order for Spotify to compete head-to-head with Apple Music, it must either charge 30% more, or maybe 30% less money than it's next competitor.[0]

This is on top of Apple's blatently unfair rules that prevent developers actually explaining any of them to it's users, or informing users how to actually sign up or get a cheaper option. If Apple believes these rules are so correct, why does it ban communicating them to it's users?

[0] Indeed, for Apple Music on Android Apple bypasses Google Play payments, it's 30% cut, and bills itself via credit card.
that's the exact opposite of my takeaway from the memoir. that book was written with intense love and i encourage anybody to read it, one of the best books to come out in a decade.
Seriously, what audience is Apple playing this to? The insinuations made in this press release should get them sued again for libel. Not to mention how off putting this kind of tantrum is for their customers.

JFC, they really need to fix their PR team here.
I'm using a typical ten-keyless keyboard that otherwise has a standard US 103 ANSI layout. My need for remapping keys is for the letters as I accidentally developed[0] my own custom non-Qwerty layout[1] that turned out to be very similar to NIRO.

[0] https://github.com/qwickly-org/Qwickly

[1] https://github.com/qwickly-org/QwickSteps
That security arrangement is currently dissolving, so those ideas around not upsetting the US are fading.
Slack's case is an obvious example of Microsoft using their dominant platforms to stifle competition. Microsoft basically cloned Slack, then bundled it with Windows and Office. If this doesn't merit huge fines, I don't know what does.
That would be misreading the question. The important part is "in order to deceive the public", whereas the aim is mostly career advancement. Or being paid.
I guess it was a fundamental mistake on Plummer's part to not make said temp directory read-only, to force people to copy files out of the folder before editing it?
YouTube channel Real Engineering released a video recently on aviation startup Hermeus, which is developing a ramjet ultimately intended for commercial air travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyKtxsdI0z8

The thumbnail is a bit click-bait, but the video itself has a lot of depth. They give Hermeus space to present itself in a very positive light. As a non-expert having watched the video, it does seem at least plausible that this company may yet succeed.

They mention fuel costs in passing, but they don't talk about carbon emissions. That's probably fair, since carbon is a much broader issue than just aviation. It's probably more productive to focus on shutting down coal plants than stifling innovation in air travel. But it's worth bearing in mind that positive things like hypersonic air travel do have a cost.
"...If you're a fan of vintage photography, with all its charming imperfections, the SUPERCHROMAT lens might be your jam. Embrace the softness, the chromatic aberration, the unpredictable vignetting. This lens isn't about precision; it's about character. And at a price only the absurdly wealthy could afford, it'll definitely make a statement. "

The so bad it's actually good :) Lovely song, too
I've been on several dates like this. The other person talks about themselves for 30 ~ 90 minutes, exclusively, depending on how charitable I'm feeling that day.

They don't ask me any questions about me at all. Like, not even one.

I ask myself if it's because they're like that on any date with any person, or because they realized at first sight they weren't interested in me, so it doesn't matter to them if they learn anything at all about me during the date, since they don't expect to see me again either way.

Sometimes I've tested this by doing a second date. They show up and talk about themselves non-stop.

But then I ask myself the same question as before.

Is it possible many otherwise neurotypical people can get into their 30s and 40s without ever having learned how to carry on a two-way conversation?
These fines aren't through the new DMA. These fines are through preexisting regular antitrust laws.
The iPhone also wouldn't exist without the immense value delivered by all the apps on the App Store.
The heartwarming thing in your post is they are still using PC. Recently, I put the PDF of an old reference book on a server for a friend to download and gave him the link on facebook messenger.

He replied the link doesn't open. I told him to try on a PC. A week later at the pub he told me he hadn't tried yet because he seldom use his computer. I was shocked someone could pass a whole week without using a PC.
Please remember that the US is responsible for the fragmentation of Korea, Vietnam and Yugoslavia. It's only fair to suspect americans also want the end of proletarian rule in the PRC through military interventions and the support of anti-democratic movements.
Your post reads to me as if you thought all users shared the same exact needs as you do

That’d be quite an ignorant POV to take on IMO
> […] the index would have returned just 7.6 percent in 2023.

And in 2022 tech was a big reason why the S&P 500 tanked, dropping 30% when the rest of the market dropped 20%.

Live by the sword die by the sword.
>violence (banishment)

Are we redefining words to fit our agenda now?

Edit: Downvoting is violence. :-)
There’s nothing unique. Just the thousands of adjusted people don’t say a word so the negative comments echo louder even if they are the minority.
Ahem, let me show you how that's not it :

> While you may have no issue using a different browser/media player/OS/... and dealing with any troubleshooting, their average user, or most users, don't.
would such a license even be possiple?
Exactly. You gain a visceral appreciation for this when you watch your elderly parents get scammed for tens of thousands of dollars and taken of advantage of via technology channels.

We've created a very nasty internet - one that isn't safe for the old or the young - and without the law enforcement or age boundaries that we use in the physical world to keep our public spaces suitable for the broader population.
in the 60s time on the machine was really really expensive. You'd never code online as that would waste loads of time that could be sold to other people.

So you would need to write out your program manually. You'd need to explain in clear english what you were doing and why. Then you'd transcribe into machine language (or an intermediary if you were using something fancy like assembly) you can see part of the process here: http://ict1301.co.uk/13010310.htm

Then you'd put them onto card or tape, but that might be done by someone else. Typist were a specialised and often exclusively feminine profession, often seen as something not done by "programmers".

byt the mid 60s though, it was much more common to have programmers type their own shit.

Then once thats done, you'd deliver the media (card desk or paper tape, later on other things) to the operator, who would run the programme and return the results. You'd stack your programmes in queues. (hence where we get that name from)
I can't tell the difference between my new M1 Max MacBook Pro and the new M3 Max Macbook Pro. Corporations have become pros at exploiting our human psychology. Their ads can make you believe that the smallest bump in improvements will make your older computer appear useless in comparison. That's why it's for the best if you avoid ads as much as possible.
This argumentation is probably being based on generic anti trust law ... and the DMA is a new specialization below it. Does not mean that you violated past law just because new law is also applicable to you.
To influence the (probably) still large user base of Intel macbook owners to upgrade I would assume
My first reaction was “why do I need an htmx-like version written in alpine?” when I could just use htmx. BUT… if you assume that you will need something more low level to complement htmx (“htmx + alpine” OR “htmx + hyperscipt”) and if you decide hyperscript is not for you, then it does make sense to a stack where the higher level is built upon the lower level: alpine-ajax + alpine.

Looks very interesting!

Also loved the comparisons, especially with rails/turbo and the downsides of custom elements wrt tables.
> […] but there is a predictable cost in terms of support man hours and device troubleshooting they will incur in addition to lost revenue.

There is also the cost of externalities of more systems being infected that the rest of the connected world has to deal with.
Historically artesian wells, possibly during earthquakes as well you'd see water leaving an aquifer. The volume on the other hand seems totally inconsistent with what we pump on a daily basis from something like the Ogallala
Yeah, those linux and netscape crazies trying to stop OS monopolies and internet explorer bundling. Let Microsoft sell the better product to their users !
Suburbs are the worst of both worlds. Urban areas are super convenient, rural areas are super private, and suburban areas are typically neither.

I grew up in a city, and I am not a city person. I love living in the boonies (I live on an 80-acre farm surrounded by farms and forests that are even larger), and even so, I would rather live in a dense urban area than in the 'burbs.

I currently have a shorter commute to the local shops and supermarket (8 minutes) than many people have in the suburbs. It's hard to imagine giving up privacy for an even worse commute.
Ah got you. Will do.
Apple is nowhere near as bad as Microsoft. Microsoft was so bad that Bill Gates had to eradicate deceases from the surface of the planet to redeem himself.

Apple still has great customer experience and they still sell their products to willing customers and their damage is essentially to their competitors and the users might be losing out on even better service or can be overpaying.

Microsoft was considered the Devils incarnation. Awful lot of people still hold grunge towards Microsoft due to the suff they had to face because of the Microsoft's abuse of their market position. People who are really really angry with Apple are not that many, it's mostly people who get sherlocked or were denied the ability to publish their idea on the AppStore. Also, there a few who think they could make more money if Apple didn't take a cut or didn't stop them from collecting data.

If Microsoft was Saddam, Apple would have been Lee Kuan Yew - Singapore's dictator.
Apps wouldn't exist without the immense value delivered by all the Apple tooling on the iPhone.
US without European precision engineering, machinery, etc. - might be tough for a while.
But they aren't permitted to do anything differently.

If Apple allowed alternative App Stores and sideloading, this wouldn't even be a discussion.
Your definition of usefulness and mine differ. What you find useful, I find contrived. What I find useful, you find dull. The author was indeed serious about it, in the fact that it's a thing you can play with. Brainfuck doesn't need usefulness to exist. Typescript either. It doesn't always have to be advancing the art of programming. I'd say these fun projects advance the art of mankind.
Gold recovery from e-waste by food-waste amyloid aerogels
Airstrip One has always (even post 1956) been part of Oceania
Most of Europe’s communication can be severed by turning off WhatsApp servers. That’s just one product out of thousands that Europeans take for granted every day. Operating systems, maps, productivity, communications, cloud, entertainment, the list is never ending.

Europe is extremely dependent on American tech. An indisputable fact.
It might be hard to imagine in a world where open source mostly won, but in the 90s Microsoft essentially had a de facto monopoly over the computer industry.

Mac OS was a thing, but it was different and expensive enough that it was not really a viable alternative to Windows 95 for most people. Solaris and HPUX existed, but were not accessible to home users. The alternative platforms of the late 80s (Atari, Amiga, Acorn) had pretty much died out by the mid 90s. Linux was very much a thing, but without a viable web browser it was really tricky to use on a day to day basis... and the only really viable web browser was Internet Explorer, so you ended up dual booting to Windows. If you (I) wanted to use a computer, that's how it was.

In short, the kind of monopoly that Apple has with its App Stores affects some consumers in some ways, but the kind of monopoly that Microsoft had in the 90s affected almost every computer user in almost every way.
I'm not the author. I thought you were asking the people of HN since you asked here rather than emailing the author. I've been interested in the esoteric programming language scene since 2009 and in my experience most of the work is done for the joy of it, and the joy of exploring intellectual curiosity. It's true that the author here could be an exception but, as I say, you should contact them directly if it's very important that you understand their motivation.
It seems like we need a new licensing model to prevent AI from training on open source code?
The linked press release has a whole section explaining how get got to the fine https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

> In addition, the Commission decided to add to the basic amount of the fine an additional lump sum of €1.8 billion to ensure that the overall fine imposed on Apple is sufficiently deterrent. Such lump sum fine was necessary in this case because a significant part of the harm caused by the infringement consists of non-monetary harm, which cannot be properly accounted for under the revenue-based methodology as set out in the Commission's 2006 Guidelines on Fines.
Seems like the first prima facie good idea in a while, I'm wondering how they will screw it up.
Apple always thinks they are right and they know the best, the very same stubborn mindset as Google. And why they keep repeating "Spotify Pays Apple Nothing"?!
> Support for up to two external displays: MacBook Air with M3 now supports up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed
SaaS has given corparations so much more power over users and devs, that anything good ol' M$ did (remember that abbreviation?) could not be nearly as bad as a dominating company could do today.
Most interesting change:

> Support for up to two external displays: MacBook Air with M3 now supports up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed …
... you can.

There's nothing stopping apple requiring subscriptions to appear on a unified management interface.
The difference is really obvious during code compilation or other tasks that can take advantage of all cores.
No doubt this refers to an unspoken implicit bias. Let’s dispel all confusion and make this an explicit rule. Obese people have higher health premiums and greater health risks, so they cost more. In the US obesity is not a protected class, so discriminate away.
Great news and another reason to upgrade to the M3 series if you're using an M1 and like to use local LLMs or anything AI.

This time, it supports for up to two external displays with the lid closed.

The Macbook Air with M1 is already discontinued. [0].

Can't wait for the Mac mini with M3 Max or Mac Studio with M3 Ultra.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/04/apple-discontinues-m1-m...
it's so clear that they limit it to 24GB to prevent cannibalization of the macbook pro. I personally could go for a M3 base chip with 64GB or 128GB of memory.
Who's being 'soft' on Apple?

In the past few years Apple's faced significant regulatory and legal action over it's App Store in the US, South Korea, Japan, United Kingtom, Australia, and the EU.

The EU has just forced Apple to open up to alternative App Stores and enforce browser ballots when you first open Safari.
Can you recommend any resources on how shutter angle is used to communicate different messages in film? The Wikipedia article only gives some very basic examples (short shutter angle when you want to capture particles in the air or for action scenes).
Study after study has demonstrated that people have issues with vegetarian diets, not just with limited food availability, but health issues and cost. Healthy vegetarian diets are still the domain of the economically and educationally privileged.

You can make an argument that we don't have to eat as many animals as we do, but you simply can't make the argument that we shouldn't eat animals at all.
It's 0.5% of Apple's global turnover. So it's not a gigantic sum, but it's also certainly not nothing to them. And the fines will continue and escalate in size if Apple does not move to comply.

This is pretty comparable to a speeding ticket. E.g. if Apple was a person making $100,000 / year, this fine would be roughly equivalent to getting slapped with a $500 speeding ticket. Not a big dent in the total pool of income, but it still stings, and it is a deterrent to know that the next time you get caught speeding the fine will be even higher, and you could even lose your license if it happens too many times.
Building a dam in Yosemite National Park sounds like it will be unpopular
There is the logical financial argument. Statistics, and countless examples, show people who go down either of these roads end up worse off. For those who want a comfortable life, they should be avoided.

For those who already have an uncomfortable life and see a gambling win as a way out, they are falling victim to the lies, and ignoring that a gambling loss will put them in an even worse spot. And with drugs, is a temporary escape that leaves them worse on financially.

I don’t know there is an “effort” going on to this effect, but it’s what I always heard growing up. “The house always wins,” and stuff to that effect.
Parent comment used the same word to describe fines levied against Apple. It's an analogy, I was just using it in kind.

Nobody is threatening Apple with violence either, merely fines.