skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U.S. government already funds a lot of research including some on conditions (or non-medical problems) that don’t affect the majority so that doesn’t seem to be an actual barrier. Polls tend to show Americans support existing funding [0].

Obviously there is a limit to how much spending the public will support, but I don’t think it’s a complete nonstarter.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/07/03/americans...
Something like free software is needed here. Something that copyright holders can apply and that affects models that are trained on it. GPL v4 perhaps?
As a point of order: Not all Cinnabon locations make their own dough. The one I worked at the summer of 2001 made their own dough and frosting that summer, but switched to premade rolls partially that holiday season, and fully to premade rolls and frosting by the 2002 holiday season.

Also: you had to be eighteen or older to operate the mixer. It was something like a 60 quart machine, and all the recipes were pre-programmed for time and power with pauses to change from the paddle to the whip if needed.
Fair use. The models learn patterns, not exact copies.
See also "Rubber-hose cryptanalysis"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
The benefit of Arduino is that your boss can say "we just need something that switches this water pump on whenever it's above 20C but not if the battery is low or for more than an hour per day", and you can have the whole project coded, soldered and working in an hour.

The advantage of the platform is speed of development, not engineering good practice or mass manufacturing.
>The problem is that house prices in this country are so damn high,

Tell me a developed western country where that's not the same.
You can watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
Somehow a 233 page manuscript is not what I think of when I think of "essay".
I'm against bailouts.

And criminal prosecutions of decision makers isn't as much skin in the game as it is making it risky to be responsible. It is just asking for lower-quality people to move in to high ranking posts and for confusing corporate structures to emerge.

It is better to impose large financial penalties on the company then let the markets sort out the details. I don't even mind the CEO suffering large penalties, but he and Boeing need to negotiate that before the event and put it in his contract, not after the fact.
Roku's New TOS Makes It Nearly Impossible to Sue the Company
Why are you putting such emphasis on having an actual guest room? My parents (in law) don't have an actual guest room. When we stay there, various arrangements are made for everyone to have a bed available during the stay, but they're in various other rooms.
no magic box, but your comment made me think of this father brown short story: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201021h.html#story4
Ask HN: Hosting a CLI Tool via SSH?
Hi HN! I recently built a cli tool that uses AI to find job matches for software engineers (https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs)

Someone on HN suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=azophy_2) I should host the application via SSH, so that anyone could just do: ssh commandjobs.com

I thought that was super cool, but after doing some googling, I can't find any good resources on how to host command line applications via ssh

Would really appreciate any links or information you could provide on how to do it

Thank you
I had to re-read OP's post multiple times just to understand that he was trying to serve static HTML pages alongside a Rust application at /api. It's not very clear, he only mentions the Rust server for the first time at the last section of the article. And yeah, he could have still used nginx.
> Regulation is ... a blunt, and dangerous, weapon.

It is hardly blunt. It's enormously detailed in many areas, created by experts. We can find negative outcomes for any enterprise as m massive as regulatoin; in itself it doesn't mean much.

There are concerns and issues to consider, but this mass, very blunt :) critique and rejection of it prevents us from addressing them.

Certainly we are better off with the FAA regulating Boeing and the airlines than not regulating them!
I don’t need one; why should I have one?
> But there's no specific law," ... don't cut it.

That does cut it. It is crazy to criminally prosecute someone if they haven't broken any law.
Only java edition, there is a plugin called Geyser https://geysermc.org/ that adds protocol compatibility between the two, allowing bedrock clients to connect.
Text-only, no Javascript, works where archive.is is blocked:
x=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/yimby-hous...
wget -U "" -qO/dev/stdout $x \
|grep -o "ArticleParagraph_root.</p>" \
|sed 's/\"true\">/IbmjHESeqtB/;
s/.IbmjHESeqtB/<meta charset=utf-8 \/>/' > 1.htm

firefox ./1.htm
links -force-html 1.htm
w3m 1.htm
How can you claim your knowledge of the field is actually deep, if you’ve never even done anything with it? Knowledge without application is nothing, imo.

True “depth” comes from the know-how acquired in digging through all the minutia nobody else though to document, on your way to producing a new creation nobody else thought to build.
Oh, I think it was too lenient. Ir to be honest, it's less about leniency and more about redressing the injurt to the victims of the "harassment". I don't think it's fair to expect the girls to continue going to school with those boys as if nothing happened after 2 weeks, and the offense is such that I think you can make the argument that expulsion or some other major punishment isn't "way too harsh". So all in all, in the interests of the victims and as a means of setting out a clear message that those kinds of things won't be tolerated, I believe it would have been best to expel the students in question, even though it's most likely a case of teenage boys not properly thinking through the impact and consequences of their actions.
i feel like the fact that the page mentions brendan gregg is a pretty strong reference to dtrace already. actually it doesn't just mention him, it's completely written by him
Immediately recognise the author in the HN url as the genius behind KataGo: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

His posts on https://www.reddit.com/r/cbaduk/ are consistently excellent.
I’m currently with a FTSE100 financial institution and inside IR35 contractors make way more than perms at the same level of experience.

That may be true but it's partly because financial services companies are infamous for not paying their PAYE developers very well and having very bad working conditions. Most people who can get £750+ assignment rates via an umbrella company in the financial sector weren't going to be making sub-£100k on salary in an open market either.
I've used Vrapper with Eclipse for years, and I've used Dbeaver for years - yet it has never entered my mind before that I could use Vrapper with Dbeaver! Thanks!
I generally dislike such lists because nobody goes through them and analyzes which ones work and which things just seem like they improve security without doing anything at all.
That’s so wild to me. I have a modest 6.6kw solar system in Australia and average 4kwh a day bought from the grid. No battery, no gas, live in a hot climate and run the A/C about 8 months a year.
I think that Graham's essays have a special significance to HN, and that the community here has a tendency to project things Graham says further along a direction of HN-think than Graham intends in his writing, so that you can imagine threads about how the only contenders for "Best" essays, like, prove P!=NP or something.

I'm mostly motivated to comment by that phenomenon, not by the plain text of Graham's essay.
The issue is whether or not you'd need to. I say no. Nothing was taken or copied. If you don't want your work seen, don't put it on the internet. They might have had a chance when Google started crawling the Internet, but that ship has sailed. Imo, crawling and making an index is more "stealy" than adjusting parameters.
Thanks for your informative comment. What HN is for!
Though, with respect to Strunk & White, Pullum's timeless takedown:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/50-years-of-stupid-grammar...
I wrote hundreds of essays based on content from my hobby of performing offensive standup comedy. I put this all in a filterable website www.urrong.com and self-published it in an illustrated book, Correct Me If You're Wrong (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FRR76YK), the full PDF is here, free: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ujpr5klpwtmxve/book%20-%20DRAFT.p.... I'm a YC alum. Over.
Yes but not in the community version:

https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver/wiki/Schema-compare
Ai is real and will happen in our lifetimes
It's been decades since some of the examples I pulled.
Devil’s advocate: why would I choose this over Syncthing?
This article presents a weird description of “estranged” that seems to be hinting at a more of an active choice by a child to ignore a parent, which to me screams “over political differences.” I can’t tell if it’s attempting to include parents that have abandoned children or not.
fwiw, I’m about to turn 40 and haven’t spoken to my father in over 25 years after a falling out… when I was 12. Either of us could easily contacted the other, but neither have ever tried (I don’t honestly know how I’d respond if he tried) - should I be counted in this data?
No, it's just complaining about the title being a harmless pun on the term "Fashion Police." Some people hate humor and ambiguity.

Sumptuary laws were a tool of the upper classes to preserve their distinction from the lower classes.
DNS Exfiltration/Tunnel Keylogger Server and Client
How would you have "excess gain" ?
The rest of the world should use this precedent to ban Instagram, Twitter and Facebook - they are no less harmful. Possibly YouTube and US based search engines, too. All of these services are not only prone to algorithmic manipulation, they actually are being manipulated to advance the preferred narratives, and suppress the "undesirable" ones. What is preferred and what is undesirable is decided in the US, sometimes with the "help" of US government (see e.g. the Twitter Files and other similar leaks).
Notifications which are often ignored. In a large project, emails from Github frequently aren’t even going to be opened by anyone.

In fact, you have no idea and are confidently speculating about something which you have no way of knowing. But don’t let that stop you I guess.
This sounds like how I would write when I was on adderall. I mean, what the hell is this statement?

"I love questions that seem naughty in some way — for example, by seeming counterintuitive or overambitious or heterodox. Ideally all three. This essay is an example. Writing about the best essay implies there is such a thing, which pseudo-intellectuals will dismiss as reductive, though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another."

That's not what "follows necessarily" means Mr. Graham. Are these pseudo-intellectual spectres literally just you strawmanning your own counterfactual? I can't imagine you actually listening to anyone you would call a pseudo-intellectual.
Intel switched to a mesh model: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/mesh_interconnect_archite...
Who are you defending right now, and do you think your whataboutism here is supporting that cause?
I think people that know, know he was involved (in the userland aspect) of DTrace, but I get a sense for some reason there’s no love lost between Brendan and “DTrace”.
The grocery stores generally aren't the ones increasing prices.
And likely don't need to master a new type of plumbing every other year.
Upon first look this doesn't appear to serve the same purpose as syncthing. It sends files individually instead of keeping a folder synced.
It has always seemed quite obvious to me that dealing in machine code is a flawed approach for distributing software. At the most basic level, it entails giving someone else near unfettered access to the hardware of your computer and simply hoping that they do nothing malicious or malformed. Yet the software world as a whole seems continually shocked at the idea of using anything else. Perhaps someday we will learn this lesson in its entirety and begin to share code rather than blobs.
This is really more like AirDrop, where Syncthing is more like DropBox.

Not to say they have no overlap, I use both. LocalSend is nice to quickly send that one picture from my Android to my MacBook
Building your data step by step, everything is under control
Honestly, I collect articles so that I can find them quickly (I hope) when I need to reference them in a post or conversation. The current "short attention span" internet is a collection of mostly unconnected, disorganized snacks.

A well-written book, for example, has

• Context: The chapters refer to/build on each other.

• Consistency: everything points in the same general direction.

• Completeness: The bits are assembled into a whole without gaps.
LOW skill people worry about immigration. When I create a job position it goes out to EVERY qualified person from the world, and that is how should it be. There are no such things as "Canadian" jobs or "American Jobs". IF you can't accept it GTFO of Tech. I hire people from IIT, Tsinghua, Oxford, Cambridge, Caltech, Stanford. You want GOVERNMENT to protect you from your incompetence?
Exactly, I'm sure good projects exist, but that involves active goodwill from the company. The incentives are loaded in the favor of exploitation rather than public good.
Even early access fails for QA. I was randomly selected for a private beta of a game, played it, sent feedback, about 20+ bugs none of which were fully game breaking but I'd say some were pretty severe... Every bug was present on release. Every. Bug.

Corporate thinking being what it is, I don't hold out hope they will ever learn you can't lean and bean-count a creative industry, it isn't a widget factory.

Upside is when they lean so much their financials get shakey because gamers are staying away you can pick up their entire catalog for 75%+ off, even better if you pick a game with a solid mod community that patches and adds functionality.
This isn’t really competing with syncthing it doesn’t look like. This is more of a cross-platform AirDrop. Syncthing is more for, well, syncing.
Karpathy’s micrograd [1] is literally 154 lines. Guess programming ended 4 years ago.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd
I can see the argument that if you train on a currently sold copyrighted work you have to buy a normal copy, you can't just download a torrent and still call it fair use (if you accept the concept of copyright at all...). So if someone could prove that Nvidia or whoever didn't own a copy (note who has the burden of proof) they could be liable for whatever an illegal downloading infringement is worth. Otherwise I agree that training on anything public is fair use.
Well China set the precedent, they did ban Google etc in China. India banned TikTok too. Will have to see how all of this will pan out.
Define "not exact". A Xerox copier produces not exact copies in my definition.
It can be misused as a filesystem. S3 wants objects? Here are some 512 or 4096 byte objects called clusters…
Yet it costs like $2-3M to buy a 500m2 office space? (AU)
That looks low to me but at least the openly advertised rates do seem to have taken a hit since COVID and the recent IR35 mess. Both caused a rapid and industry-wide shock that seems to have overcome the upward pressure on rates (at least for the good people) that would exist in a normal competitive market.
> But, the analogy of JavaScript inside the kernel is great and I'm left wondering: what was the way to do it previously? Userland network tool? This standardizes on a interface to the kernel, not a language, right?

Guess/sketch: It's a language in most senses. Previously the kernel had APIs for packet filtering rules for iptables etc., but the set of rules you could use was somewhat "static" - rules would have parameters, so you could do things like if the source IP is in this range then rewrite it as this and direct it to this interface, but it was kind of like one of those visual flowchart languages where you can drag and drop the available boxes in a given order, but if there isn't a box to do what you want then you're stuck. Whereas with eBPF it really is scriptable - rather than a specific rule type you can just submit the script you want it to run - and nowadays it's become kind of a general kernel scripting language rather than just for networking.

I'd draw a parallel with how 3D graphics programming has shifted from "you can do these kinds of transformations, submit a list of what you want to run in what order" to "this is our shader programming language, just write whatever you want to do as a program in this language".
Getting the news out ASAP is probably a Reuters priority...but it'd be nice to see even a tiny bit of context. They mention the AI dataset in question being taken down last October, after reports of copyright infringement. So was there any sign of "Joe Juryman would say that was copying" behavior by the AI, or did Nvidia meaningfully profit from the alleged offenses, or is there any interesting precedent in the District where the suit was filed?
Some CLI alternatives if you don't need the GUI:

Croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc

Magic-Wormhole: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

I used to use MW but switched to croc as the single binary was easier to deploy.
I mean they did post on the open issue that they were working on it and got no reply.
That's one of the better "username checks out" that I've seen.

That is certainly an author who knew what was what with gravity fields.
But none of that has to do with the reason it’s being banned, at least according to the article
So it requires lan network? Can it work over bluetooth? Like Briar https://briarproject.org
Or imagine finding a Mickey Mouse figurine and wondering why the ancients depicted a human child with the head of a rat. There is no end of symbolic interpretations one could place on what is just a bit of whimsy.
Balkanized social media networks.
Yea, China should ban US social media in retaliation...
I can't figure that, given the job that TikTok'ers did to DT, and the great tongue lashing he gave China. I'm not a party to whatever went down.
Not to mention that "best" is subjective, so there is no single ordering, but "How to write Paul Graham's favourite essay" wouldn't get as many clicks on HN (ironic for a site with anti-clickbait rules).
I believe this kind of graph exploration is what we need to progress reasoning in AI. Plain LLMS will fail. The link has tons of good references, including the Zobrist hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist_hashing for game tables. We need to find a good hashing for language based state description so that graph exploration doesn't explode computationally. Another good read for Tree Search is Thinking Fast and Slow: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08439 and Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04642 comparing the MCTS approach to other current RL strategies.
Powerful debugger like the one in .NET is really something that I'd want to have in all languages

Editing code at fly and moving program's current executing code ahead or behind is really handy, even for development purpose!
Conversations about NZ cultural specifics always turn to bull paki on HN. There is not enough people who understand the philosophical and historical underpinnings
of why NZ should be a partnership and why Māori worldview should be respected. And there are just too many unreflective people who see white culture as the default.
How to control the www. Control the program people use to access it.

But what if people use many different programs to access the www.

What if anyone can write a www client, including a browser.
Eroom's law ( drug discovery is becoming slower and more expensive over time)
Every few months there's a new tool for this and none of them gets widespread use.
This is starting to get old, isn't it?

TikTok is not any more harmful than US-based social media. What the US should do is demonstrate some leadership by enacting privacy laws that work the same for everyone. What happened to the "free market"? Funny also how this and every other article refers to "authoritarian China" -- as if a government telling you what platforms you're going to use moving forward isn't. Sigh.
You can just use desktop/laptop CPU accelerated sha256, iterate the round function for as long as you want. No hardware exists that can beat it on latency by any significant margin.

Start with some random 256-bit string as the seed. Iterate on it for t time using sha256 CPU instructions - by either repeatedly hashing the seed or increasing the number of rounds to an arbitrary value (and do something about the round constants, such as removing them).

After t time you stop and use the result to encrypt a message.

You then publish the encrypted message and seed + number of rounds you ended up using.

It will take t time before anyone can decrypt it. They will have to redo what you did, having multiple machines will not help in this task.
Yeah, lots of bs in this text. The comparison of Synapse Analytics to BigQuery is totally flawed. Not only the cost presented in the chart is taken out of someone's back, the scale of those solutions do not match. Try doing multiple petabyte scale analysis on Synapse and then compare cost and performance to BigQuery. Maybe Databricks could match BQ in this use case.
Not really, most software in your car for example is written in the visual programming language Simulink, which IMO is leagues ahead of the concept of Flyde in layout and composability.

Simulink has been around and in heavy use for at least 2 decades but I think the $20k/yr price point is why we don’t see many other applications of it (even though people HAVE written games and web apps and such with it)
A bit introduction about this would be nice.
At least 3, in at least 3 seperate datacenters.

According to https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ - it'd take at least a 1 megaton warhead to take out two of the ap-southeast-2 datacenters, and over 10MT to take out 3.

I suspect you'd need a lot less than that though, the 1MT warhead would probably take out enough outside-the-datacenter infrastructure to take the entire AZ offline. I don't care too much though, if someone's dropped a warhead that close to home I have other things to worry about than whether all the cat pictures and audit logs survive.
Both parents previously had a guest room but at some point decided to eliminate them in favor of storage for their things, their hobbies, etc.

Then wonder why we are hesitant to spend the money on boarding dogs, driving 5+ hours and renting a hotel. Asking us to commit to $500+ dollars for weekend casual visits is unrealistic and absurd for wealthy retirees.

To be clear they not only have no guest room they have no where for guests to stay.
The people who think syntax should be worn like themes do not realize how deeply syntax interacts with a language. It isn't a skin.

Your homework, should you choose to do it, because of course I can't make you and don't really care :), is to write a "Haskell theme" for Python. The theme must retain *args and **kwargs capabilities, as well as all other Python capabilities, though those two things will be one of the first major issues you hit. On the flip side, write a Python theme for Haskell. (This one based on my own stabs at it doesn't have such problems with the capabilities of the language, but it sure does take all of Haskell's elegance and wrap it in the grace of an elephant with a sprained leg.)

Also, bear in mind my claim is not that it can't be done. My claim is more like, nobody would want to use the resulting language with the resulting "skin". Languages are not all the same. Even dynamic versus static imperative languages don't really "skin" very well; compare idiomatic Ruby ActiveRecord-based code with Rust code. The differences are not just skin-deep.