skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming up next in Windows and Chrome, unrecordable unscreenshotable pages, to avoid all AI tools. Banking apps on Androidare already unscreenshotable now. Given how LLMs just bypass all html obfuscation, that's going to be the next step to protect these (ad) businesses.
The wires weren’t unidirectional but the amplifiers were. Amplifiers capable of full duplex have only come out in the last few years. https://www.telecompetitor.com/comcast-gains-a-key-element-n....
You wrote '7600S (not great but workable)' - do you mind elaborating what have been the issues with it?
Yes. It's such a weird quirk, where the japanese denomination is for having a "dependent(配偶者) of Japanese national" while the english wording is just "spouse".

I think they're just stuck with the old japanese name and won't bother renaming it to something closer to reality.
(Off topic, but heads up I'm getting NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID at https://simonwillison.net/ and https://www.simonwillison.net is redirecting to 123-reg.co.uk )
Global variable right in the example on the front page?
No this is a fundamental concept in postgres. If you do EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a query, you get the query plan, which is influenced by the query, indexes, table structure, etc. But the QP may decide to do a silly thing like a sequential scan where a better path exists, and adding an index to avoid the scan would be cost prohibitive. So if you could just override the QP and say "Use this index and do this type of sort and then this type of scan, damn the consequences!" it would give the query writer full control. I don't understand why you can't just force the system to follow a path - you as the developer pay for it regardless.
People sleep in hotels, at friends, and whatnot. It's really not that big of an issue with basic due diligence, just like any second-hand goods.
What I have always found strange about Siri is how radically different the experience appears to be for each person. I know plenty of people where it works great but then you have tons that say it is shit. I have never seen a good explanation as it seems like Alexa and google assistant is fairly consistent person to person as compared to Siri.
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The source is pretty straightforward - it's calling `scrot -s -o` to a temp file, and then `tessaract` with no further preprocessing.

https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher/blob/master/src/ser...
You’re what I hope to be in 10 years! Glad to hear it’s working out for you
No, people who own houses in sunny locations save money by legislation that forces the utility to buy power from them at retail prices (“net metering”), and without having to pay for batteries for energy storage. That’s not a DIY solution. Power is sold to the grid at peak sun and bought back later after the sun goes down. In effect, they are using the grid to store power for them, and the utility is losing a lot of money on the transaction. Supplying power after the sun goes down or the wind stops blowing is the expensive part.

You don’t believe LCoE, which doesn’t factor in storage costs, is a proper apples-to-apples comparison of renewable energy costs to the consumer. Let’s take the all-in, then, which includes storage/dispatchable sources of energy: have a look at https://www.whatnextnow.com/home/solar/sunmetrix-grid-parity....

Take the $3 per kW solar cost. Now add $6 per kW for two installed Powerwalls to store that energy without relying the grid to bank it with net metering. That’s now $9 per kW, and almost no state is competitive, even with subsidies.

The competitive states are those with a lot of sun (and subsidies) but even that number is illusory, because those panels put out so much power one needs to buy even more super-expensive Powerwalls to store all of it to use later.
I already do live as if I will live forever. Only death can change that.
No, the CPU one isn't the same. It's a cumulative limit (resulting in termination when exceeded). The parent is asking for rate limits (resulting in throttling when exceeded).
So you tell user devices to run any code of your choosing, and no one but you is allowed to look at that code. Presumably you do not use reproducible builds, because almost no one does, so the choice of which code runs on user devices likely comes down to a single system administrator or release engineer.

A court order or someone holding a rubber hose could instruct that release engineer to ship tweaked code to any number of devices that sets "42" as the random seed for private keys, allowing anyone with that knowledge to decrypt all messages in transit covertly.

It would be in the best interest of your shareholders to lie if this was ever to happen.

Without the code being open source, everyone should assume this is the case.

Messengers are a massive target, and a target of that size on one person is certain to be exploited.

One of core areas of my research is supply chain attacks, and you have no hope of providing strong defense against them without open source reproducible builds.
My client Luke is suing for defamation
I thought this was brilliant and made a little POC here as I couldn't find the code anywhere: https://github.com/realrasengan/wg-jit

This doesn't implement the completion (replay or reverse initiate) which I think both are also novel approaches to this.

So exciting!
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/301/

From the main opinion (as opposed to Brennan's concurrence; the court was unanimous):

> We conclude that the Act, as construed and applied, is unconstitutional because it requires an official act (viz., returning the reply card) as a limitation on the unfettered exercise of the addressee's First Amendment rights. As stated by Mr. Justice Holmes in Milwaukee Pub. Co. v. Burleson, 255 U. S. 407, 255 U. S. 437 (dissenting):

> We do not have here, any more than we had in Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc., 327 U. S. 146, any question concerning the extent to which Congress may classify the mail and fix the charges for its carriage. Nor do we reach the question whether the standard here applied could pass constitutional muster. Nor do we deal with the right of Customs to inspect material from abroad for contraband. We rest on the narrow ground that the addressee, in order to receive his mail, must request in writing that it be delivered. This amounts, in our judgment, to an unconstitutional abridgment of the addressee's First Amendment rights. The addressee carries an affirmative obligation which we do not think the Government may impose on him. This requirement is almost certain to have a deterrent effect, especially as respects those who have sensitive positions.

You might be confused because Brennan says what you say the court said in his concurrence, but that nothing in his concurrence is dicta. The controlling opinion lays out the dicta, and it says what I wrote, as you can see from the quotes.
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It’s baffling to me that this question is still being asked.
Wouldn’t they need several months (at least) to do integrations and testing?
For reference, Wikipedia says SpaceX has spent $3B on the Starship program through May 2023. Another 2B estimated in 2023 at that point, so somewhere less than 10B total, easily.

It went to space today, and these jokers can’t lay railroad track like we did in the 1800s.
They probably sound as similar to each other as German does to Danish.
If we really stuck to the definition, "marriage" as a legal status would make no sense and should have no impact on how the gov. is treating you (fundamentally, why should the gov. care about who your heart belongs to?)

So discussions are bound to be about the perks that have nothing to do with marriage per se, but are bundled with the marriage status, and are harder or impossible to get outside of it. Opening marriage to more people is a more reasonable proposition than rewriting every single marriage perk to be more open to everyone.
pg_hint_plan —— Give PostgreSQL ability to manually force some decisions in execution plans. https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan
Have you checked with EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE?
Is what they waht you to think. Fear of missing out is powerful marketing.
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This really sounds like what I would call bureaucracy. Not project management, but nesting dolls of grift that create double-binds and negative externalities - all of this under complex, often criss-crossing laws that can only be interpreted to varying degrees of definition by lawyers who charge $1500 per hour.

It's why upstarts (like America was in the 20th and 19th centuries) are so competitive. They have the frontier, emptiness, a blank slate.

"It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
I think this “vision” they see or the “sound” we hear in our heads is literally the deeper mechanisms of those parts of the brain being either more or less strongly connected to our overall perception system. We can’t override the direct sensor feedback, but we can cause enough self-induced “backpropgation” to affect the overall result we experience. In this case I also think it’s totally reasonable for some to not even have a “inner monologue” as there are stranger perception based mutations such as the one where you can’t recognize faces. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/#:~:text=Prosop....
Theft, or borrowing, to get started is a tried and true modern business model, isn't it? First you "borrow", then become quite useful, then everyone forgets about the first bit.

It appears to have made some people billionaires. Examples:

Spotify was started by an employee uploading their MP3 collection.

The FB scraped the Harvard student directory.
I wonder if for non-trivial use cases we should just go back to imperative programming.
This seems very obvious in retrospect but I literally didn't think of that.
Why is computer engineering consistently a bit higher than computer science? I’m confused every time I see this, and it’s consistently been like this for over a decade. If anything the parts of CE that aren’t in CS pay much worse than pure software roles, and CS seems better for pure software (or at least for the interviews).
> The loophole Thiel used no longer exists.

What changed? I didn't see anything in the article that says you can't buy startup (or other non-public) stock in an IRA, and if you do and it goes well, your IRA can become very valuable. If I work for a startup again, I'm definitely going to see if I can get early stock into a (Roth) IRA, because it'd be real handy if the stock does well, since you can trade in a IRA without tax consequences. Seems complex to set up though.
The prevailing sentiment on average across HN is regulate where competition is stifled (monopolistic practices by Apple, Google) or it is a public good (utility threads on PG&E come to mind, homegrown broadband, public transportation) or the law is being broken (copyright, fair use, open source violations).

Using a wide brush to paint all of HN and similarly all of gov't regulation is what leads to cognitive dissonance where there is nuance.
You're still operating a vehicle and can hurt people/damage property.

To note, at no point you're barred from riding a bike or penalized in a critical way, so why not ?
That's indeed where we differ. If I were alive when the radio were invented or the television, I wouldn't think the technical change changed my ideals, and I don't think that now
Privacy legislation is antipartisan[0]: the US government relies on buying dox from adtech creeps to do all the spying they otherwise couldn't legally do, so nobody in power wants that loophole closed.

[0] Bipartisanly supported by the electorate and bipartisanly opposed by the elected representatives of said electorate
Gary Marcus is all excited about this but rightly or wrongly openAI have always claimed[1] that training is fair use. In other words, they believe that if something is "publicly available" it is also "publicly available for training". There's nothing special (as far as I can see) about what they did or didn't do for SORA in this respect.

Mira Murati knows that this is a controversial viewpoint which is why she's dodging the question. To stretch that out into a whole substack is just the sort of thing Gary Marcus does.

Everyone knows that openAI (and other big AI training company) train on scraped data and copyright works. They claim fair use. Whether or not what they do/have done is fair use is the pivotal question in a whole raft of lawsuits. There's nothing new here as far as I can tell.

[1] eg in the NYT case https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/02/29/is-generati...
How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater
Zero provenance of where each aid dollar goes. Does it reach the frontline, who's pocket does it go into? And why can't we track this information (at a high level)?
Not really, the Brits underestimated the Germans and Central Europe in general was sacrificed on the altar of presumingly keeping the war out of the West.
Written Chinese is usually mandarin.

Chinese is a phonetic language. If you want to write in Shanghainese (as in the language as part of the wu family) your choice of characters for even common word would be different than if you write in Mandarin Chinese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese
Google still only has ~180k employees, and obviously not all of them use figma, and obviously not all of their figma users are performing actions simultaneously. I'd be surprised if it broke 10k QPS (would an org like Google even have 10k peak active user sessions? Seems doubtful). Human generated traffic tends to just not reach that large of scales unless you're trying to fit the entire planet on one instance.

RDS can be absurdly limited with IOPS, granted, but a modern laptop for example ought to be up to the task. Realistically you could probably be fine even on RDS but you might need to pay through the nose for extra IOPS.
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Not sure why you’re downvoted. Google certainly did this kind of thing. In the early days there was resistance to web crawling - it’s why robots.txt exists - but Google did it anyway. Then they scanned physical books. It was dubious at the time, and I don’t see how it’s different in intent - to monetise it - from what openAI is doing today.
His Grandfather did die, just three days before the day he claimed, according to Leonard French (Lawful Masses)'s stream on the topic
How long have you been on medication? I think I should start medication again (diagnosed 7 years ago in early adulthood) but am scared of the side effects of long term medication use.
This. The parts and information in question are already hard to get and aren’t being sold to authorized repair providers.
I didn't read all the comments so perhaps this is already answered? I'm curious why this is the largest when you've got massive land areas in the Midwest where very few people live.

As an Oregonian I'm both proud and surprised. Nice work to all involved.
Is there any difference between a human watching 1000 videos on a topic and producing content based on that information, and a machine learning model? If it only creates original work, what does it matter?
We have a Bassett sectional going on almost 10 years too. Family friend'd mom worked for/with Bassett and got us a B2B price somehow - only caveat was I had to pick it up myself at the distribution warehouse in LA.

It's a fun memory renting a box truck, driving to the industrial heart of LA while listening to Will Wheaton narrate "Masters of Doom" to pick it up.
Snipping tool build in OCR works for multiple languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese etc.) without the need to install any language OCR packs though
MySQL offers this via use/force index (…). Similar problem where the QP will inexplicably decide one day to make a query really slow and you gotta override it.
The adeno-associated virus was an inert viral vector carrying a targeted antagonist that prevented the transmitter switching. The blocking agent was an anti-depressant.
I confess that I don't really have a firm prediction on the future of programming.

On the one hand, the layoffs are a side effect of a hiring bubble during covid. What goes up must come down.

On the other hand, AI will have an impact, but programming is (a lot) more than writing code. AI makes writing code easier, but frankly that was already the easy part.

Will our industry change? Sure. Its been changing for 60 years. Have we reached peak programmer? That's a tougher question, but I'm inclined to say "no".
I am not sure that "good soldier" is a correct translation.

Czech "dobrého vojáka" is more "of brave (in `dashing` conotation) soldier".

So Hašek's humor starts right from the title.
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication with Zig
Not just a computer... equipment could be anything needed in the course of developing -- or testing -- the software. I'm thinking of something like a warehouse management tool and you interfaced with a barcode reader or something like that.
They were awarded $5M in the end. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.htm...
Oh right that was being built just as I left sf shortly before COVID (unrelated).
There's a pretty big difference but the aspirant neuroscientists and legal scholars on hackernews would have you believe it's the same thing.
I find a similar pattern at work for myself. Although I think I've finally accepted that I lose interest in whatever I'm hyper focused on right around the time additional progress can no longer be made merely by what I would describe as the advanced dabbling, DIY pattern recognition and puzzle solving reward cycles delivered by straight ADHD style hyperfocus, but instead only happens by applied and sustained structured learning techniques as well.

A mathematical example would be right around the point where one finds that the delightfully focused exploration/experimentation afforded by ADHD which carried you to self-discovery of, say, why SIN relates to COS through their derivatives, or through the Pythagorean theorem, doesn't actually get you very far in calculus unless you intend to re-invent, at great personal cost and to no practical advantage, a lot of very well-known wheels.

Instead you need that hard-won scaffolding of rote memorization, the almost muscle-memory capacity for sight-recognition of a couple dozen identities and theorems and familiar problem forms, to get much further.

Spontaneous yawning when you're wide awake and actively interested in what you're reading or learning is for me a telltale sign that I have reached the point where I'll I have to tack a frustrating zigzag course _against_ the ADHD winds instead of sailing with them.
Harvard concluded that a dishonesty expert committed misconduct
Exactly.

The only question left unanswered is how useful OpenAI will be. If it becomes as useful as Google (many claim they already did), then the reality (read: legislation) will bend for them.
I guess the point is that if the emergency module is powered the speaker by nature would also have to be powered. A fail safe of sorts.
Avoid particleboard like a plague if you can afford it, appparently most of IKEA products now made of these since they are widely being used in dirt cheap furniture construction. They melt like ice once in contact with water. Recently, just had to chopped off all four legs of a bookshelf then replaced them with metal legs. The bookshelf legs somehow got damaged in contact with accumulated air-cond water droplets.
Reminds me of hitting 99 seconds on the microwave because it’s easier to enter than 1 minute 30.
There is no such mechanism of "they use the grid to store electricity for them to use after the sun goes down". Solar offsets the other already producing nat gas, nuclear, coal, etc.

The time batteries are used are in the edge case where it's more cost effective to have storage rather than build a whole new plant.
Google actually serves up copywritten work directly as part of their results, often to a degree that intercepts traffic that would have made it back to the original source. LLMs at least form a derivative based on a much wider variety of sources rather than just one. Yet nobody bats an eye at Google over this
Fun fact Strike 3 holding files the 2nd most lawsuits annually in our federal court system (~3000), the US government is #1
It's not really clear from OP that it's about rate. Cumulative limit would still fulfill requirement of stopping while(true) from exhausting resources.

But if you need rate there's this: JOB_OBJECT_ CPU_RATE_CONTROL_MIN_MAX_RATE https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winnt/ns...
I agree he is a broken clock that just keeps saying the AI industry is terrible

But it is also true that they are terrible far more than twice a day
The cars on the map are the locations of people who are hunting for balloons after they have fallen back to earth. SondeHub's "chase mode" allows you to announce your position so that others will know you're in the area and will possibly soon collect a nearby balloon.
My gut says, for this sort of thing: why delete it? Let them have it, there’s no upside to deleting it. Who cares, right?

But hypothetically, it probably has no license or anything like that. Not even the “no promises of merchantability” stuff you sometimes see. Hypothetically could there be a risk to the coder? If my buggy “forklift stacking high” software says “stack that stuff up to the roof,” and gets hurt listening to it, am I on the hook? (In that case of course he never should have let anybody use it in the first place, but leaving the job provides a moment of reflection).

Realistically it doesn’t seem like the sort of thing anybody would pursue. But it is interesting to wonder about…
This is getting downvoted, but if we broaden the “theft” bit to mean the use of any unpriced externality, this rings true.

After all, while companies didn’t have to pay to pollute the environment, humanity has to eventually suffer; and in the same way the current crop of generative has people’s their work assimilated into models that results in profits for AI companies while the author of the content is denied their fraction of the economic value generated from this process, as well as any recognition and other second order effects they may have benefited from.
I mean I agree but the recipe sounds great