skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One goal is to encourage inventors to publish their work, rather than hold them as trade secrets, so that others can learn from them -- and get eventually copy and extend them.

I've read a fair number of patents, both in and outside of software, and my biggest problem with software patents is that most of them are absolute crap: they are generally neither innovative nor insightful.
I wonder if we need an entire generation of middle managers to retire before the workplace catches up to the remote working tools and methods that have been around for a decade now.
The owner very well may use the profits to attempt to keep the workers in a situation where they need to work in sweatshops (thus benefiting the party owning the sweatshop)

That is still objectively better than starving to death and as such is still a net good for the poor family.

Again, the answer to helping these people is to give them better opportunities. It should never even be a consideration for a good person to think about removing the voluntary sweatshop. A good person should think only about providing better opportunities such that the family can choose to not work at the sweatshop.

If you think only about whether the sweatshop should be a decision for the family, then you're effectively saying you know better than the family about how to take care of them by limiting their choices. I trust self-interest of survival to make more meaningful decisions than benevolent parties completely disconnected from the outcomes using only their good intentions to make changes.
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Capturing the Tenacity and Persistence of the Mesquite
WTF is this nonsense? The OS updated deleted files that it had no business deleting. It's my computer. If I want to put files in the Apple approved locations or if I want to put files in / or even if I wanted to put files in C:\, it's none of Apple's damn business. If placing files in / is a security threat, then I'd suggest your not doing security right.
What is improper about them? Works for 100% of my use case, well known, trusted, compatible.
No. It's definitely better to make the people get in the garbage bins before shooting them. Otherwise you have to do the lifting. ;P
Can you expand on this more? I was going to be spinning up git-lfs for a new project (lots of image, video, 3d assets, etc), and am curious how this relates.

Though at the very least, i like that with lfs i can still use Github for source control and remote storage for lfs. Github isn't exactly cheap for large storage, and i imagine with what you're proposing i wouldn't be able to use github and avoid incurring larger storage costs from them?
I legitimately thought "huggingface" was an Alien reference.
> it doesn’t seem more exotic or interesting to me then asking “how does the pseudo inverse of A ‘learn’ to approximate the formula Ax=b?

Asking things like properties of the pseudoinverse against a dataset on some distribution (or even properties of simple regression) is interesting and useful. If we could understand neural networks as well as we understand linear regression, it would be a massive breakthrough, not a boring "it's just minimizing a loss function" statement.

Hell even if you just ask about minimizing things, you get a whole theory of M estimators [0]. This kind of dismissive comment doesn't add anything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-estimator
And the so-called free market fundamentalists rarely follow free market principles.
Why is the burden on me? Are any of them right?
> Interesting that they wish to discourage key pinning. This is pretty commonly used by apps to make them harder to reverse engineer

I don't think you'd typically pin intermediates if that was your goal: you'd pin the site cert you control. It could be as simple as a whitelist of certificate SHAs.
Let's Encrypt, and WebPKI in general is meant for public consumption of certificates.

I think what this means is, if you're needing some stricter limitations on these, use private PKI within your own devices. E.g. for Machine to Machine comms.
People always assume that anyone defending Apple is a fanboy of some kind or other. I'm not. I personally can't stand their products and wish that I didn't have to use a Mac for work.

What I am is skeptical that subjective pulse checks of social media threads are a good way to measure software quality. They're a decent way to measure public sentiment, not actual error rates.
Obviously it’s at the very least unwise to use Google Docs for anything, at any time. This case shows that Google spies on your content and takes action based on their analysis of that content. Depending on Gmail for your email service is also clearly foolhardy.
> Open kitchens look great in pictures and when touring, but are quite annoying when you have children running around, or just want to be able to separate the activity from the noise.

They are great if you want to be in the room with the rest of your family while cooking or if you’re watching something on tv while cooking. I’ve never felt any desire to separate cooking from other activities going on in my house.
I believe it's still used. Whenever I print anything (Sonoma 14.4) I have to allow connections for 'cupsd'.
We'll have to agree to disagree. It's hard for me to see having access to the nightly news (which I do not personally have) is necessary for the proper functioning of civic society--especially given many people have access to this over the air.
> Or if they want to pin a root public key to ensure some other CA doesn't issue a MITM certificate, go for it

Please don't pin roots, as that makes it harder to distrust CAs, reducing the agility of the WebPKI. See the Symantec distrust for a painful example.

Chrome and Firefox will be introducing term limits on roots in the near future, which will hopefully help to discourage this harmful practice.
I’ve been comfortable upgrading on day one for a couple decades, and have never had a problem. The difference in most cases is the areas where Apple doesn’t control – I don’t use a lot of third-party extensions but a lot of apps, even popular ones like Dropbox, used to do pretty invasive things which were prone to breaking. People in industries like audio production where much of the software has DRM systems have decades of scar tissue from that kind of stuff, so I totally understand why they hesitate.
Indeed, hopefully they can be diverted from interest in LLMs towards actual science, like the neuroscience which revealed the existence of said mirror neurons.
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Either way, Tesla cars will become robotaxis at some point.

If a robotaxi does 10 rides for $15 per day, that's $15x10x365=$54,750 per year. If operating the car costs $20k per year, that's $35k profit per year.

It doesn't make sense to sell a car for $30K if it can make $35k in profit per year.
Well, it's a moral question and therefore there is no universal answer, everyone decides it for themselves. And given the fact that when presented with a choice between starving under a bridge or working a back-breaking work for 12 hours per day, most of the people historically have voluntarily chosen to labour, one could argue that indeed it is entirely ethical.
1-5 years is ridiculous.
This is a risky idea to spread in public. A single Destroying Angel [1] can kill, and the onset is 2-3 days IIRC. So for you to say "just wait 20 mins" is way too short of a timeframe.

It also seems plausible to take a test bite, decide not to eat anymore because you feel bad, but you've already done a little damage to your organs

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_ocreata
Even the heroes eventually capitulate to complexity in C++, compromising performance. It is virtually impossible to write a realistically complex zero-copy RPC server in C++ because the lifetime issues are too daunting. You don't get it "for free" in Java but because the language and the JVM have formalized the lifetime problem you can write a zero-copy RPC service very, very cheaply. Even Go can beat C++ in this use case, for the same reasons.

All the other stuff in this thread amounts to toy problems, from a software engineering complexity standpoint. Yes, you can write a fairly good CFD kernel in C, C++, or fortran. There are no lifetime or boundary issues in these use cases. The safety of the language in such cases is of no interest.
Both patents and copyright laws are monopoly rights given by state. They are evil and should be abolished without exception. IP is not property, and empirical evindence shows they do more harm then good for humanity.

There are some avid supporters of this strain of thought. Here is an example: albeit old, this may give some background:

https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property
Shouldn't this help zero in on where the issue is located? If it did not occur in the last released beta but it now exists in the released update, doesn't that significantly reduce the footprint of where to search for changes?
Trino: Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics
> Software just becomes larger and more complex and thus slower on older hardware.

So every major OS update is larger and more complex, so it's to be expected that after ~4 of those my machine lags when doing literally everything? It's not that I'm running tons of background apps, it's a powerful machine lagging on a clean install of a recent macOS version when doing basic operations like opening a webpage.

> My 2021 MacBook Pro 14" is still lightning-fast though, I never wait for anything.

I suppose it's Apple Silicon? Because that would still be in line with Intel-based macs becoming less performant over time
Curl and most libraries don't unwrap SSE for you out of the box, you lose the one-shot request-response leading to nonstandard flow control in integrations, etc.

Sure you can find random libraries to help but they do need to be specifically built for SSE. Plain (long-)polling does not need any of that, which makes it more attractive from an API interoperability standpoint.
The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes [pdf]
The plan for winning is: slowly at first, then suddenly. We'll start with smaller businesses transitioning between CRMs, and grow with them. Number one goal is to never give customers a reason to churn.
I think it's definitely worth considering. I was using Google's cold storage backup for my blu-rays for awhile, which was great until I needed to do a total restore from backup and it ended up costing me almost $800! Be careful with cloud computing if its your wallet on the line.

It was a bit of an upfront investment to buy all the gear, but I can restore from backup as often as I want for free, and my total cost for gear was less than $800 so it was fairly easy to justify.

I would really like to get one an LTO-9 drive, at some point, but they are way too expensive for me to be able to justify right now, even used. The tapes themselves can be had fairly reasonably but the drives (particularly the external ones) cost like $4000+, even used. In fact that's true of basically any LTO standard after 6. Once the thunderbolt drives get down to less than a grand I'll probably pick one up, but I suspect they're expensive because they're not really marketed to "consumers", but instead to entities where "cost is not an object".
>Cost and schedule overruns are a staple of developing new technology and complex systems. It's very difficult to estimate time and budget for those things.

I'd be more sympathetic if SLS had more new technology.

They're using actual engines that previously flew on Shuttles.

And sure - there's a few changes - the SRBs have 5 segments, there's new insulation, etc. But nothing that should have caused the expense and delay that we're seeing.

Heck - the cost overruns and delays with the mobile launch platforms ML-1 and ML-2 are absurd and there's absolutely nothing new there - they're just steel towers with piping.
What do employment lawyers have to say about this? Seems like a pretty obvious discrimination lawsuit.
Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today
I mean it’s part of mainland China now, what is else to expect?
Gresham’s law doesn’t apply to bitcoin because it isn’t legal tender.

If bitcoin were legally valid for all debts public and private… would people still hodl?
I believe they are using "certbot" to mean "Let's Encrypt", in which case their advice is sound -- if you truly have to pin a key, pin your own end-entity cert's key, not the CA's key.
Something Wicked reportedly hit with layoffs
Not remotely true.
The predictions theoreticians make guide what experiments are made. If the predictions are of low quality the experiments are unlikely to give us any valuable data.
Related:

Global ocean heat has been at record levels every single day for the last year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756440
DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest
The Qt Company sheds a lot of FUD on their licensing as an attempt to strongarm customers into paying for Qt. For a lot of companies, Qt's LGPL version would work just fine, but Qt will breathe down your neck trying to get you to switch.

Source: I work in a company that heavily uses Qt
Same goes for means of production property
I read that one and it was excellent.

The author talks also about the times, the era of the moon landings — and he had an interesting aside in the book that stuck with me about Elvis Presley (of all people):

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Always Elvis-sceptic, I once asked the photographer Alfred Wertheimer, one of the last to be allowed real access to the singer, why the girls in the crowd were crying—whether the tears were part of an act. He told me:

“Well, I think it was the fact that we’d been through this rigid Eisenhower era. Everything was cutsie-pie crinoline skirts and ‘How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?’; the girls knew their place and they weren’t women’s libbers yet; everything was very tightly organized. Then along comes a guy like Elvis ... he’d go onstage into a darkened auditorium, where there would be maybe 4,000 people — mostly young ladies, a few boys and then a few police, who were there just to make sure nothing ‘dirty’ was happening. From the very start, Elvis is focused on the girls and they’re in love with his hair and the way he curls his lip. And he talks to them and then he begins to sing and he lets it all hang out. His hair, which was immaculate, starts coming down and the sweat comes down—and do you think he stops to mop his brow or sweep his hair back up? No. He gets down on his knees, then gets back up: he is so revealing, so unconscious of his own body movements that all of a sudden the girls look at each other, after all the years of holding everything in, and they cry.

“They’re not putting it on the way you’d see girls doing in later years: they’re not screaming or jumping up and down, just holding each other and crying.”

---- snip ----
The reason for LaTeX is the output quality, not the input.

Real LaTeX users don't use LaTeX to write documents.

whatever -> pandoc -> LaTeX -> perfect document
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The Art Damien Hirst Stole (2010)
https://archive.ph/AFhsy
I'm not really a sports fan so maybe this will expose my naiveté, but isn't this contextual? If your version is delayed by 2-3 minutes but you're watching at home on your couch, does it matter if you're behind?
An Outlook/Excel add-in is a great idea. Something that lets you peek at CRM data related to a person/company, you mean?

We support syncing Outlook email/contacts into Okapi. Definitely agree that outside of tech, Microsoft's stack is predominant.
I think the problem is that tech companies have overstated the benefits of AI and for obvious reasons they have been understating the risks associated with relying on it.

There are examples in the article dating back to 2015 but for non-tech people today, it might come across as "If an AI can converse, draw pictures of what they ask and identify a bunch of random things, it can surely identify a mere mushroom"
I wouldn't go that far, to be honest. They would be much closer to being correct if they were talking about string theory, or the amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's.
I'm pretty sure that's the one. Thanks!
I'm really happy they are reconsidering the syntax. Thanks for the link
Exciting numbers from RAG 2.0 and Contextual AI!
To clarify so that I’m not responding incompletely, are we seeing all page faults, i.e. process swapped to disk, now raise SIGKILL — or is this behavior reserved only for certain page faults, i.e. out-of-bounds and permission-denied (R^X) accesses?

The former would be a catastrophic defect and probably result in the release being pulled from distribution.

The latter would be a new classification of certain kinds of page faults as “safe” and “unsafe”, and only the safe ones are allowed to comply with POSIX signal handling. Perhaps they’ll propose an update to POSIX now that the zero day response has shipped.
A while ago I went into a rabbit hole looking for something to support my hunch (which I now confirmed by installing old macos) and found some discussions about graphics/OpenGL APIs being deprecated and removed over time. I have a very uneducated guess that new-macos-on-old-hardware runs some translation for all graphics operations/APIs, which causes perceptible lag when doing _anything_, because everything draws on the screen. It does feel as if the OS is constantly struggling with some background tasks
Hi, poster here. GitHub exposes an event stream of all public events: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/events?apiVersion=2...

We send these events directly to Trench (the monitoring tool we built). We then use Trench to extract entities (users, comment simhashes, repos, etc.) and other features via a data model we configure through the app (view on desktop only): https://play.trytrench.com/settings

Everything happens in real time—we are able to label spam within milliseconds of receiving the event. Note that the public GitHub event stream is usually around 5m behind real time.

We built this because there’s been spam on GitHub lately (see https://djanes.xyz/spam-on-github-is-getting-crazy-these-day...) and we wanted to see if we can catch it.

Blog with more details: https://www.trytrench.com/blog/preventing-spam-and-fake-star...
if this hadn’t been performed on a real, live, over the air signal with a real, live, audience providing feedback to the station, we (and my competition, other broadcast brethren) wouldn’t be talking about this now.

fyi - AVC and HEVC decoders are, sadly, far more fickle than they should be, in 2024. we would like to believe they all implement a working HRD buffer model, read and obey stuff we put into the SEI and VUI NAL units, as well as properly support basic functions like slices and layers (such as non-ref P frames for 60P refinement of a 30p sequence), and etc.

heck, based on current feedback and testing, the least common denominator for maximum reference frames in AVC is four, and HEVC is five. sad, but better than mpeg2.
Recommendation for Key Management (2020) [pdf]
"If you look at the lists of the richest people that occasionally get published in the press, nearly all of them did it by starting their own companies."

"Of the 137 people in the global study who achieved billionaire status in the 12-month study period, 53 of them inherited $150.8 billion collectively, more than the $140.7 billion that was earned by the 84 new self-made billionaires in the same time period, the UBS study says.Nov 30, 2023"
Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents
If one really can't tell the difference, who cares?
Abraham Wald and the airplane diagram with red bullet holes
Some pedantry:

1. It’s unlikely there’s power conversion circuitry in the kit. It’s almost certainly a few cells in series.

2. I’d be surprised if it can actually produce 600A at 12V. It’ll be “12V nominal” into an open circuit, which is really more like 14V for a 4-cell Li-ion setup. But even a 600 cold cranking amp lead-acid battery only supplies 7.2V at 600A.
It goes on a bit and I gave up reading after a while but the gist for techies is probably that whatever algorithm/process Google is using to flag non-ad friendly posts isn't smart enough to distinguished someone talking critically about RFK's anti-vaccination stance and an actual anti-vaccination article.

The author seems surprised to be dinged by a shoddy automated system. Is that really such a rare experience? Makes me write him off as a kook trying to make hay of a shitty bit of automation, but he may just genuinely expect Google to have thoroughly reviewed his site before firing off a demonitisation warning.
They are looking to leverage labour into a weaker position. It's not generational, it's institutional.

Some companies acknowledge, support, and empower those who generate the value and fully embrace the servant leadership ideals, most do not.

The biggest impact AI will have is empowering those in leadership positions to further extend their leverage against labour to drive down compensation and working conditions.

I believe that this will create a vacuum for smaller, more agile organisations empowered by the likes of AI and employees who are motivated and appreciated to emerge and dominate.
/r/shroomid even people that are sure hesitate to say you should eat whatever you took a photo of.
I'm well aware of the tricks that can be played, but there's simply no other explanation for the sheer volume of people who have said to me point blank, no hesitation, no beating around the bush, no listing out options to gauge responses, no nothing: "Oh that's easy, you're a XXX". Even totally disregarding confidence filtering, it's a staggering proportion.

There's really nothing not "fair" about it, but folks like you are so perverse to the idea of anything that doesn't fit your perception of the "scientific consensus" that you'll make up hoops in the name of "bias" to throw out every experimental result that doesn't agree with your preconceived notions up until the point all you have left are those experiments that you didn't see fit to invent hoops for because they already matched what you think you know. It's honestly terribly ironic, when you take the time to examine it.

I really do hope you can take the time to try this yourself and see for yourself what your own personal results are, there's no use at all for me to waste my time debating my own personal experience with someone so hell-bent on discrediting it on the basis of "actually I once read a paper that said..." and "well actually I know X Y Z errors with your experimental setup that you've told me next to nothing about and I never was able to even observe..."
Picotron: First Look, Sprites, Tracker, Sound FX, Maps, Code, and More [video]
Of course, before fragmented streaming plenty of people complained about all-or-nothing cable bundles. I certainly pay less than I did when I had cable TV--at the cost of not having live TV.
This would explain why a couple perfectly stable applications that I’ve run for years have suddenly decided to randomly crash repeatedly since updating. It’s been a while since Apple has released a version that has this many easily triggered bugs. :-(