skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a while, we have felt like a nation of separations, with too many pulling forces driving hate between the people. But we are now seeing the people slowly come together.
I feel like you shouldn't take jabs at the people you know if you feel you're having profound conversations with a chatbot.
Neocron, cyberpunk MMO pc game from 2002
Water vapor doesn't remain in the air for long. Unlike CO2 and sulfur dioxide, water vapor condenses to liquid water and falls out of the atmosphere.

So a volcano's water vapor effects (warming) can last days, while the sulfur dioxide effects (cooling) will last months or years.
Pretty much every computer virus, worm, etc ever has been due to engineering flaws in software products. All software ever made has bugs in it, including whatever you're using right now.
Oh dear lord .... sub heading states - Storm - Assisting in Writing Wikipedia-like Articles From Scratch with Large Language Models

Good luck with this storm, wiki's the world over.
Just a thought but ... maybe someone should ask an org like the Internet Archive to snap-shot Wikipedia asap and label it Pre-Storm and After-Storm
One example of a situation when the answer "It is the way it is because this is the way it is" is correct.
User Information Sharing and Hospital Website Privacy Policies
Are you aware of any ergonomic solution for iOS, or for people that don't want to risk giving a browser extension full access to their webmail?

Otherwise, it seems like you're fine with breaking email delivery to everybody using that ever having published an OpenPGP key (and verified their email address) to the public keyserver.
Yeah, um... so? Your demand does not create any requirement that we give you what you ask for.

Maybe try creating something new, instead of the 194th Marvel movie. Maybe hire some people who can actually write. Maybe treat the ones you have better.
i keep a list of UUID reading and desirable properties here! https://github.com/swyxio/brain/blob/master/R%20-%20Dev%20No...
Are you a journalist or high profile target? If not, this notification isn't for the average person.
Digital information wants to be free.
Update, it's back! 2024-04-11T18:02Z
Why don't they simply pay the ISPs 100 million dollars each to block the websites? Perhaps they AREN'T losing 1 billion dollars per year to piracy. Or buying off the politicians is cheaper.
Clbuttic is even the (Collins) dictionary-defined nomenclature for this effect:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/clbu...
“We don’t even ship to Alaska because of the lithium batteries in our product, but we’ll still make you scroll past ‘Uganda’ to enter the single country we ship to.”

Not exactly those words, but I’ve seen it.
yep, I am there myself. I seek to settle. as a part of that I also seek to transfer from having worked freelance for many years to take a regular job
Considering the biggest predictor of academic success is wealth, it's difficult to square admissions to top schools as a "meritocracy". The root of the problem here is the vast wealth inequality, and the way schools are funded via property taxes — something with a lot of problems and bias on its own.

One way to address some of this is to properly fund all public schools so academic success isn't largely a tossup of where one's parents could afford to live. Trying to correct for this at the admissions level is a divisive and bandaid solution.
>He also told the audience that pirate-site operators "aren't teenagers playing an elaborate prank. The perpetrators are real-life mobsters, organized crime syndicates—many of whom engage in child pornography, prostitution, drug trafficking, and other societal ills. They operate websites that draw in millions of unsuspecting viewers whose personal data can then fall prey to malware and hackers."

I have a great idea that will greatly reduce the traffic to pirate sites:

Reduce the copyright on movies to 1 year.

Most of the money is made in initial release in theaters anyway.

It well help preserve our cultural heritage.

And it will greatly reduce demand for pirate sites.
i would have preferred AMD Ryzen
"Assange conspired with Manning; obtained from Manning and aided and abetted her in obtaining classified information with reason to believe that the information was to be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of a foreign nation; received and attempted to receive classified information having reason to believe that such materials would be obtained, taken, made, and disposed of by a person contrary to law; and aided and abetted Manning in communicating classified documents to Assange."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-julian-assa...
Yep, that’s why they have head training as part of daily routine.
Movie industry is guilty for existence of DMCA 1201 garbage. They shouldn't be demanding anything.
You're being downvoted because you made a three-word comment that adds nearly nothing to the discussion on a site that hopes to entice meaningful discourse. Trying to play the victim on top of that is just silly.
yes, works now, thanks!
How is "README" easier to tab-autocomplete than "Readme"?
Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians
Russia has gained more land since this was written almost two weeks ago, so I guess he was right?
> One way to enhance the usability of unique identifiers is by making them easily copyable. This can be achieved by removing the hyphens from the UUIDs,

No! That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Removing all separators means rare-but-important manual tasks of transcription or comparison become terrible, since there are no clear chunks.

Instead use a different character which doesn't have the same problem, one that most software considers part of the same "word"... such as the classic underscore.

For most people, double-clicking on this 123_456_789 will select all 9 important numbers. (And maybe a trailing space, but that's a separate problem.)
I never understand when people say they work small hours. I work the full work day every day. There's always something that needs to be done.
>It doesn't take much to be a target.

I wonder how to quantify this. Even folks in those industries listed while there may be reason we could imagine to target them... I would imagine lots of folks in those same industries are NOT targeted.

Of course we'd have to identify "targeted", personally I wouldn't include "your name ended up on a list after someone grepped a bunch of data". I would think of as targeted as a more curated type list / process / and then the call was made to "target" someone.

Otherwise, heck random scanning on the internet would be "targeted".
Kind of wild at the end of the GMA video in the twitter post, they tell passengers to be careful of how you display your boarding pass. It’s not on the passengers to maintain the security of the system.
Hopefully we can build a society where those things aren’t comparable.
I thought it odd that the end-user message mentioned it at all. Compared to last years message it strays into editorial content.
Wow, so cool, very interested. This is exactly what I wanted to see with next gen DAWs.

How long have you been working on this?
A thread from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22492902
Discussed a bit at the time (of the article):

Why Birds Survived, and Dinosaurs Went Extinct, After an Asteroid Hit Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24488527 - Sept 2020 (3 comments)
The GPL is so much more happy!

https://suno.com/song/392f03a9-97a4-4bfa-b11f-7d993615d26e
Problem with using base58 is that it uses 24 letters (excl 'I') so you can end up with 4 letter words that the marketing/PR departments does not like.

Hexadecimal is safe.
What steals hundreds of thousands of jobs and tens of billions are movie executives who make terrible movies and continuously abuse workers by underpaying them all the while enriching themselves with million dollar salaries.
I kinda wish they get what they wish for and pirating movies becomes impossible.
I think modern Hollywood movies are somewhere between poison for your brain and propaganda. The world is going to be a bit better if people stop spending time watching them.

I also think they are cutting the branch they are sitting on. If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest and won't spend money on movies once they have disposable income.

One way or another I support them. It's a win-win if their wish is granted.
I agree, and the linked Wikipedia page starts out with the obvious definitions as well:

In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle. The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side that is opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that of the hypotenuse.

The author's claim that other definitions are the "most common starting points" seems like a straw man.
I just came here to say that this name rocks
This is such a clever project, and a great write up! Thanks for sharing!
Handbrake...
The AI Workforce Is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market
Give you bad search results.
Stuff like https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automa... implies that some folks are betting on Matrix having more traction sooner ;)
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The public health benefits of clean air not well known. Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

COVID killed approximately 6.5M+ over 3 years. Air pollution has more impact on public health.

EVs can help a lot with air pollution:
https://electrek.co/2023/02/10/surprise-electric-cars-are-al...
If you look closely in the first image you can tell that some of those coins are "clipped" then the coin with ridges is not clipped.

The ridges are to mitigate "clipping" which is the process of removing JUUUUUST enough metal from the coin as to not raise suspicion and people trade with them, but not enough to raise suspicion and get ... well killed by the Monarchy.

Learning about the history of money and how it completely shaped the world is pretty fascinating. There is a guy at University of Arizona who has a course on Youtube that covers this subject, HIGHLY recommend.
Who first said:If you want to go fast go alone,if you want to go far go together
One the bug is in curbezmq not zmq.

Two do not expose zmq to untrusted networks.

edit: lol their website doesn't even have a valid cert http://curvezmq.org/
"Imagine if we heard they were going to build a bypass over the Egyptian pyramids or a flyover across one corner of the Gardens of Versailles? We'd think it was extraordinary."

Well, that seems unjustified. There's a big difference between underground and above-ground construction.

I feel like UNESCO and the UK ought to be able to work it out. If the tunnel goes deep enough it's not going to interfere with archeology. Surely there's some depth they can agree on.

The result would be removing a road that's visible from the site. It would improve the experience at Stonehenge.
Very Cool!

Since you mentioned the visualization part, let me comment on my pet pieve:

The rainbow / jet color map should not be used for anything. It distorts your data and is not accessible for people with color vision deficiencies.

If you want to know more, have a look here:
https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/explain/colors/colormaps...
and this talk here:
https://youtu.be/xAoljeRJ3lU
I do find this exciting about RISC-V is that we might have something that is both simple and teachable, and with enough extensions usable. I first learned to program on an obscure Pascal-derivative language, but now you can start with Python, Java, or even C which are both teachable and usable. So it'd be nice if we could teach architecture with something that served as on ramp to marketable skills.
The problem I see is the SO is a substitute for well written documentation, rather than an incubator for quality technical writing.

It depends on open source docs being poor so noobs need experts to educate them. But it does not place a burden on the experts to improve the original docs.

For example, Python peps and standard library docs are often painfully and needlessly laborious, such that it's often easier to just read the code. Similarly, the git manual is written to induce episodes of acute madness.

The SO solution? Read a thousand piecemeal SO answers, get the job done in a slapdash way, get paid. Don't worry about the inaccessibility, waste, and exponentially accruing technical debt of the whole enterprise.

Priests of this cult often avoid reading the docs, and never pick up the responsibility to improve the awful docs.

The SO high priests will gladly regurgitate their knowledge like mother birds, often in writing as bad as upstream docs. Typically defending and normalizing the inaccessible upstream docs.

It's an accessibility nightmare.

You end up with millions of inefficient and insular tidbits whose sum is somehow less than the whole. It's designed to make users dependent, rather than free them.

It feels like there was a time where SO could have become more. But doing so would have lessened use reliance on SO, and required answerers to improve upstream docs. They chose to be self contained and derivative, rather than transformative to upstream projects.

It will be dismantled.

Now SO has so much entropy that it's only good for AI reprocessing into docs for upstream projects.

Thankfully much of SO knowledge is now bundled into LLMs. So getting actually legible docs is usually as easy as pasting the project docs and asking for an organized and straightforward docs.

The challenge I see is closing the loop and ensuring upstream docs improve. The culture of inaccessibility is too entrenched for SO to do this - the org's revenues would have to collapse. But AI can work to the advantage of an accessibility focused upstart. They can liberate, mobilize and reintegrate the captive knowledge of the SO corpus. They can push it back into open source project docs.

And in cases where upstream prefers bad docs? The upstart should fork the project and take responsibility for project accessibility.
Fixed -- thanks! And yes exactly! I had access to basically any piece of equipment I could want (including a cleanroom that can create ICs) but then basically no one would be able to recreate what I would make.
the video commercials on that site make the news item unreadable
base58 is case sensitive which hinders readability. When devs work with uuids they typically remember the first few letters ("this is guid abc", "that one is guid 1ac"). Hard to do that in base58.

The coarsest encoding to have this property is Base32 where it remains easy to memorize first few letters without needing to memorize case.
Yes, never bothered. Caught them myself.
But you still need to be wary of malicious collisions. I have seen security vulnerabilities where the client generates a UUID ID and that was inserted into the database. However by picking an ID that corresponded to objects from other users it was possible to gain some access to those objects.

So any UUID coming from an untrusted source (like a client application) should be checked for uniqueness. However your client apps can be written assuming that their randomly generated UUIDs never have collisions.
Awesome! I’ve been waiting to see if someone would eventually do this. With further refinement this could be a big deal for Ruby. No more “Ruby is too slow”, when you can Crystalize your bottlenecks.

One feature it seems to lack is the ability to crystalize instance methods?
Obviously not only a single standardize test is needed, your projects, extracurriculars, all relevant to a cold quantitative analysis of a candidate’s ability to perform and receive the highly advanced education. Do you need someone’s racial and ethnic background as part of that process? why? for what purpose? diversity of backgrounds is supposedly the value it provides, I understand the argument but don’t agree with it.
> Nah these things are all stupid as hell. Any back and forth between a human and an LLM in terms of problem solving coding tasks is an absolute disaster.

I actually agree in the general case, but for specific applications these tools can be seriously awesome. Case in point - this repo of mine, which I think it's fair to say was 80% written by GPT-4 via Aider.

https://github.com/epiccoleman/scrapio

Now of course this is a very simple project, which is obviously going to have better results. And if you read through the commit history [1], you can see that I had to have a pretty good idea of what had to be done to get useful output from the LLM. There are places where I had to figure out something that the LLM was never going to get on its own, places where I made manual changes because directing the AI to do it would have been more trouble than it was worth, etc.

But to me, the cool thing about this project was that I just wouldn't have bothered to do it if I had to do all the work myself. Realistically I just wanted to download and process a list of like 15 urls, and I don't think the time invested in writing a scraper would have made sense for the level of time I would have saved if I had to figure it all out myself. But because I knew specifically what needed to happen, and was able to provide detailed requirements, I saved a ton of time and labor and wound up with something useful.

I've tried to use these sorts of tools for tasks in bigger and more complicated repos, and I agree that in those cases they really tend to swing and miss more often than not. But if you're smart enough to use it as the tool it is and recognize the limitations, LLM-aided dev can be seriously great.

[1]: https://github.com/epiccoleman/scrapio/commits/master/?befor...
Only for Zaphod and only because he was in a simulation where he was in fact the most important person :)
I recall first haring and reading about soft robot application from veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058hRtaCWC0 I think you must have heard of it?

In the realm of rescuing or assisting people unreachable otherwise, could this bend and flex as much as those highly compliant robots?
By "OpenAI" I mean anything that scrapes open source code to profit off of it especially without giving credit. Any other conversation is a distraction. And while tech bros pontificate Red Hat is dying.
While there are certainly many other forms of slavery than the sort of chattel slavery that we've supposedly collectively moved beyond, I don't think it's a very controversial statement to point out that capital would happily resume buying and selling labor as assets directly if governments didn't stop them.
Why is it hard to see that while he may not be a target for any sort of state sponsored attack, it’s a bellwether of apples stance on security.

I really, really don’t think he meant he was switching to Apple because he’s a CIA spy stationed in Moscow.
How does modernity imply monoculture?

As to diversity (and equity, and inclusion?) of cultures, I'm all for having multiple cultures —the salad, not the oatmeal, model–; the trick seems to be keeping things so that everyone can voluntarily pass between cultures? (compare the EU four freedoms? or the Partition of India for how not to do it?)

As for the overall handwringing about drift and decay, a footnote:

Körner, The Pleasures of Counting (1996)

> † Social Darwinism applies the Darwinian doctrine of the survival of the fittest to human society. Rich social Darwinists take wealth as the best indication of fitness to survive, academic social Darwinists take intellectual achievements as the best indication and so on. They are often haunted by the fear that the unfit do not understand this and may outbreed the fit.
It’s a tech demo that is accessible to non producers, not a real music creation tool.
Hmm. A dongle was used to protect trade-secret software in the days before software patents. Now SaaS is used instead; therefore software patents are still unnecessary?

I used to work for a firm that rented all its premises. My boss explained to me that the company's assets were its software, and nothing else. The patent portfolio is the physical manifestation of those assets - you can borrow against a patent portfolio, but not against a vault full of trade secrets.

You'd think he'd have mentioned staff; but staff can leave, and you can't secure loans and investment against employees.

Anyway, it looks as if that firm at least was using patents not as a way of preventing unfair competition and the stealing of inventions, but as a financial instrument. That's not what they're supposed to be for. And the fact they are used that way makes it horribly difficult to reform the patent system; if patents are like (e.g.) bonds, then reforming the patent system carries the risk of crashing the financial system.
It's not just lab-grown meat. Factory farming, GMOs, etc. are treated as skeptically.
For me the smelliest part of this is the timestamps. The C&D is dated April 3. The InfoWorld article is timestamped 8:49 AM PDT, the same day, and the files called out in both places are the exact same five. There is no way I can see that the article wasn't just a rehash of a draft C&D provided to Matt Asay before it was even delivered to the OpenTofu project, and without either HashiCorp or Asay giving OpenTofu a chance to respond. Even if the C&D were 100% justified (and it's clearly not), that is extremely dirty pool.
Car ownership for productive economic activity is not an externality, because it is direct, expected, and is captured in GDP and household income figures.
AOT-built /Example should be <= 2MB (like most of them regardless of the library), since the library itself can only be consumed by .NET and its assembly would take a couple dozens of KB at most.
If you want to deify Tony Montana, there is one quote that is the John 3:16 of his proselytizing, and the world is yours is not that quote. I guess you can't put it in a restaurant.
All I see everywhere is autogenerated docs with function prototypes I could have just looked at in the code. Nobody is explaining the "why" anymore.
Autonomous LLM agents with human-out-of-loop
I feel like, for better or worse, the US is sort of obsessed with figuring out how to drive costs down as low as possible, at least historically. So much early American industry was based around making mass-production more and more efficient, e.g. early assembly lines for the Ford company being an obvious case.

In a lot of ways, this is obviously good, most people benefit from lower prices, more value being created, etc, but I think it's also made it so that cheap-but-ethically-dubious manufacturing from other countries becomes increasingly appealing, especially since it's abstracted enough from the end-user to where they can comfortably say "out of site out of mind".

I'm no better; I know very well the conditions of some other countries, and think they're very bad. I also think it's bad that America fought a whole war to end slavery, and instead we just launder it through other countries. Still, despite me thinking all of this, I still generally shop for reasonable prices instead of trying to focus on ethical stuff.