skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually, OpenAI (and friends) are going to be training their models on almost exclusively AI generated content, which is more often than not slightly incorrect when it comes to Q&A, and the quality of AI responses trained on that content will quickly deteriorate. Right now, most internet content is written by humans. But in 5 years? Not so much. I think this is one of the big problems that the AI space needs to solve quickly. Garbage in, garbage out, as the old saying goes.
Open Source software is an awful example because by-and-large no one gets paid to do make it.

OSS doesn't exist to spite IP, it exists because of IP rights protect creators from others stealing their work.
>do you really think Roomba is going to allow you to directly connect to your vacuum without going through them? Absolutely not, they will _never_ give up that control.

This is such a strange chain of reasoning.

1. With IPv4, IoT management must go through a centralized service due to NATs.

2. With IPv6, IoT management may go through a centralized due to corporate greed.

You see the difference there? This reasoning is unsound because it's more or less "we shouldn't eat because we'd choke on food".

>Ipv4 is a very important protocol because it accidentally protects against casual identification from the Facebooks, Apples, Googles, Amazons, etc

Coincidentally, if the world is stuck on IPv4 then hobbyists/"privacyists" will be the group of people who are hurt the most. Hosting a service is becoming more difficult when CGNAT is imposed on everyone, everywhere.

It shouldn't be difficult to imagine a future (as a matter of fact, it is happening now) when, to host a server, you _must_ rent a VPS or something from the tech companies since it's impossible to do it from home. Does your VPS provider allow you to host Tor services? Run BitTorrrent?
you’re right but I think the phrasing is fair. Princeton in the passage effectively refers to the location, not the university, and there are other places called “Institute for Advanced Studies” so you probably need to disambiguate
What about making it slow? One byte at a time for example while keeping the connection open
the scalability characteristics approached "all the energy in the universe" levels of compute pretty quickly

Something someone was doing in excel scaled up to taking all the energy in the universe? That does not sound right.
Try to take yourself back to the past and imagine the idea of putting a seemingly endless number of electrical poles everywhere to carry telephony and electrical signals anywhere in the country, instantly. Poles that would become completely inoperable if the cable was damaged, lethal to anybody who touched them, fire hazards waiting to happen in case of natural disaster or just deterioration, and so on endlessly.

And now imagine doing this in a world where there was no federal tax, the GDP was pennies (relative to today), and state of the art technology was us being on the verge of discovering that handwashing before surgery was a good idea. Really! [1] And the big goal here was to be able to put up 'electric lanterns.' It sounds so pie in the sky as to be unbelievable. And indeed it probably would never, in a million years, happen today. But it did happen in the past, and for that we owe our predecessors quite the debt!

The point I make with this is that we have just an unimaginably vast level of economic power today, but it's mostly being squandered. We should be trying out grand ideas, endlessly. If we can make them work - awesome, we've radically improved the world and humanity - our descendants will thank us. If they fail, we can call it a jobs program -- certainly a much better one than trying to make stuff to go kill people half way around the globe.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
If they follow robots.txt, OpenAI also has a bot blocking + data gathering problem too: https://x.com/AznWeng/status/1777688628308681000

11% of the top 100K websites already block their crawler, more than all their competitors (Google, FB, Anthropic, Perplexity) combined
Sorry, my statement was not clear. I was talking more about the "hunting" they do in some African countries, and not about the North American system of hunting permissions. And what I meant is indeed "trophy hunting" where there is not much actual hunting involved: Locals will trap or corner an animal, so that the "hunter" will have nothing else to do but shoot.
That would be very difficult. The ghost foundation's constitution specifically states the company cannot be bought or sold.
As others pointed out in the replies

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

MenuShowDelay Value 0

For some reason the default is 400ms
Glowing Plants by Light Bio
That's irrelevant. The act of publishing has a well-established meaning. Publishing an encryption key, only to shame others who have used your key to send you encrypted data is unreasonable. How is that different from publishing a book and shaming your readers for reading it? "Oh I didn't know that by publishing a book, I was encouraging others to read it!" isn't a good response.

Also, any user of a tool should at least check what the primary purposes of that tool are.
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
Scraping publicly available data from websites is no different from web browsing, period. Companies stating otherwise in their T&Cs are a joke. Copyright infringement is a different game.
Architecture Of The FRISC 3 (SC32) CPU (1989)
Isn’t that just because individual human activities aren’t very precise, and for the most part, the position of the sun in the sky is enough for an individual to broadly synchronise themselves with the rest of society.

Unless someone is actually aiming to do a time coordinated task with others, you really need to know the time, or even the day-of-week to do stuff, because most human things in world aren’t actually occurring in small time sensitive windows.
India is booming – but there are worries ahead for basic science
On one hand, it's not surprising given where we are at with tech. But on the other, I still think it's really exciting. It gives us a glimpse into what the future post-smartphone could look like.
The idea that Balatro gave Slay the Spire press would be like saying that the release of Halo 1 really gave Doom a lot of press.

Slay the Spire invented the entire genre.
Questions to ask when I don't want to work
>Am I being too hopeful?

I hope not but I would guess yes. It's insane to me that anyone even bought this thing. Their marketing couldn't even show it in a positive light. It got things wrong, it seemed pretty useless, and the whole presentation that I watched felt like they were being held captive and forced to do things. The thing is connected to T-Mob which, in my mind, is one of the worse networks out there. AND it's $700.

But they sold some. Why would people buy it? Who looked at any of that and thought "YES! Let's throw $700 away for this poorly developed toy?!"
Really nice editing, makes it accessible for non technical people.
The issue often isn't the scraping, it is often how you use the information scraped afterwards. A lot of scraping is done with no reference to any licensing information the sites being read might publish, hence image making AI models having regurgitated chunks of scraped stock images complete with watermarks. Though the scraping itself can count as a DoS if done aggressively enough.
Sisense hit by data compromise, US cybersecurity agency says
Thank you, government, for making our lives better.
The UK and USA patent offices, I understand, have procedures to file evidence showing a patent application is not valid - eg because of the 'invention' already being known.

Your comment seems to relate more to unfairness in [lack of] awards of costs in USA legal proceedings.

If you sue me for something I didn't do then it shouldn't cost me anything; that seems reasonable whether the domain is IPR or any other aspect of life.
Orbit Is Joining Postman
Some people even take a day off sick when they are actually not feeling sick at all!
Short term thinking is inherent to democracy.

This isn't contested in political philosophy circles, just amongst people with a romanticized understanding of a very specific form of representative democracy they happen to live within.

For example, short term interests have preempted long-term interests with regards to climate change. But, even if the government passed a law on climate change, at what point in the future should the law be ignored or changed. Is it one year, ten years, or one hundred years? Further, what about all of the laws from the past you've dismissed as antiquated or arcane? It's intellectually dishonest to argue those laws weren't passed without any long-term thinking just because they don't comport with society now.
> I see the argument that air conditioning is somehow “wrong” or “unsophisticated” on HN all the time (usually from Europeans) and it’s one of the weirdest things. I see no explanation for it other than racism.

I do not see that. In this thread it is making the point that the cities are extremely expensive to run and not sustainable. I see the same point made about desert cities in the US.

European cities may need heating, but they also tend to have far better supplies of water, better government, and a far more diversified economy. White elephant projects are at least challenged and discussed and are rarely (if ever) on this scale. Even something like Britain's much maligned HS2 is far smaller in absolute cost (maybe by an order of magnitude depending on whose estimates of each you believe), and even more so relative to the population size of the economy.
For a novice running a home network or lab there are a seemingly-endless number of on&offline resources and soft&hardware tools with IPv4 capability.
I just want an opt-in IMAP and SMTP endpoint that actually works. I've debated moving to Fastmail so many times.
Patents are only useful if they are actually enforced, through lawsuits and lawyers. The amount of time and money spent on patent lawsuits as opposed to innovation is a form of deadweight cost and must be factored in any argument for or against patents.

What patents give is a seat at the negotiation table. It is not by itself a business model.
Sure, but until we see the inflection point we can't know how much longer the bottom half of the S curve lasts— it might be 2, 5, 10 years, or it might have already passed; either way we'll only know in retrospect.

Those different options make a big difference on how much PV is part of the long term global energy picture.
And it's a feature, their Informed Delivery service will send those scans to you in an email.
It's a next token prediction library, not an LLM. The title says "Build LLMs from scratch" and that's exactly what you can do with it :) Keep in mind an LLM is not "ChatGPT" though ChatGPT uses an LLM.
The UI for Wolfram is SO much prettier than Jupyter notebooks.
https://archive.is/vXEaI
It's great when this stuff is talked about.

The action item is always disappointing: some flavor of "take care of yourself."

If we were trees in a forest fire, then yes. Making ourselves more fireproof is the best we can do.

We're not trees, though, are we?
If your DHCP server supports bulk queries (RFC6926: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6926.html ) then responses to such a query from a dhcp client include a timestamp in the form of an 32-bit integer count of seconds since the epoch.

I don’t know how widely this DHCP RFC is supported though.
Tesla investor may put forward collective bargaining motion at AGM
I'm going to assume that you're American.

You may find insight after reflecting on why a non-American knows this detail about the USPS while you don't.
The context was SAE level 5 (Full Driving Automation)

Level 5 vehicles do not require human attention―the “dynamic driving task” is eliminated. Level 5 cars won’t even have steering wheels or acceleration/braking pedals. They will be free from geofencing, able to go anywhere and do anything that an experienced human driver can do.
> The primary situation where I find this behavior useful is on the web where I find Country drop-down lists. I am trying to find United States.

Pet peeve: when the website obviously has 99% of users who will pick "United States" for country, but they use an alphabetical list of all the countries in the world.
The end state of training on web text has always been an ouroboros - primarily because of adtech incentives to produce low quality content at scale to capture micro pennies.

The irony of the whole thing is brutal.
...thus greenlighting developers to assemble even-bigger-dumpster-full-of-stinking-bloat web sites.
Pretty nice. Thanks
Thanks, I am going to give that a try. There are a lot of bad reviews: eg "I have to uninstall and reinstall the app EVERY TIME I need to use it...and even then it is a 50/50 chance that it will work. When it DOES work it is nice...but I will need to find something more reliable."
They should call it what it is, "vendor lock-in system" on a "shareholder security chip".
Probably for that exact reason—consumers are familiar with the format, and know that something with that particular design is to be trusted—I.e. as a part of some governmental regulation.
Ask HN: What are some good and worthy paid newsletter for tech
Those are African bodies.
It looks like CenturyLink doesn’t have it on their website, can someone confirm this maybe I just can’t find it?
I’m going to file a complaint.
The are plenty of places with really low labor costs that would love cheaper panels
> However, they require constant human monitoring and interventions from those humans every few miles to work properly

It's a little-known fact that AI means "Actually, Indians."

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/03/amazons-ai-powered-just-wa...
There’s currently only one situation where scraping is almost definitely “not legal”:

If the information you’re scraping requires a login, and if in order to get a login you have to agree to a terms of service, and that terms of service forbids you from scraping — then you could have a bad day in civil court if the website you’re scraping decides to sue you.

If the data is publicly accessible without a login then scraping is 99% safe with no legal issues, even if you ignore robots.txt. You might still end up in court if you found a way to correctly guess non-indexed URLs[0] but you’d probably prevail in the end (…probably).

The “purpose” of robots.txt is to let crawlers know what they can do without getting ip-banned by the website operator that they’re scraping. Generally crawlers that ignore robots.txt and also act more like robots than humans, will get an IP ban.

0: https://www.troyhunt.com/enumerationis-enumerating-resources...
It’s clear, legible, standardized, and easily recognizable as a form of compliance information relevant to a consumer (much like nutrition labels)
Here's that with Pint for Quantities and Units with `%pip install -q` for Jupyter notebooks with e.g. Google Colab or vscode.dev+pyodide or JupyterLite or ... in Jupyter notebook Percent format with the %%ipytest cell magic function to upgrade test assertions (and @pytest.fixture s) and run everything starting with test_ with the pytest test runner:

# %%
%pip install -q pint ipytest pytest-cov
import ipytest
ipytest.autoconfig()

# %%
%%ipytest -v # --help
def test_pint_units_for_watt_meters():
import pint
ureg = pint.UnitRegistry()
unit1 = ureg.kilogram*(ureg.meter**2)*(ureg.seconds**-3)
unit2 = unit1 * ureg.meter
assert 1*unit1 == 1*ureg.watt
assert 1*unit2 == 1*ureg.watt*ureg.meters
Because the world of business runs on hubris.
What Bending Spoons is doing to Evernote, and why you should care
L'Œuf électrique (The Electric Egg)
Agreed. Even if by some miracle you do deliver, and are considered a superstar, then what? What do superstars get? Probably just even more crunch work, since you've proven you're willing to do it.
It's a next token prediction library. "Markov chain" basically means finite state machine and is a looser concept. If you want to call the token prediction methodology Markovian you can - sounds cool! The implementation another person linked here ranking words would also qualify any LLM as using Markovian dynamics, but what is the point of calling it something so abstract?

More accurately, it's literally a language model:

{
I: {
want: {
to: {
be: { ... },
know: { ... }
}
},
will: { ... }
},
...
}

Every word of every sentence is modeled and ranked, and there are methods to perform operations on it. If you added a lot more words and phrases to the model, it would be a "large" language model. It also supports non-words though, so it's more accurately a "next token prediction library" that can be used to create language models.
This is a bit overstated.

The resident student visa mentioned in the article is commonly abused as a way to get temporary foreign workers and pay them less/under the table. It's the same way Japan uses the TITP program to have "Interns" from Vietnam and Thailand pick strawberries and gut fish despite having a college education.

There's a reason why the number of students from Vietnam and Indonesia rose massively while Malaysia (which actually has a semiconductor industry working closely with Taiwan) and Japan fell [0].

[0] - https://stats.moe.gov.tw/enchartweb/Default.aspx?rptvalue=en...
> First OS I bought with my own money.

OS/2 2.0 for me.

> There was a "Use Classic look" (or theme, whatever) check-box

Not exactly, but you could select the unthemed theme, effectively turning themes off, then go into the Services management console and disable the Theming service.

But it was extra work, and most people didn't do it.

In a world where people curate collections of classic icons, e.g.

https://alexmeub.com/projects/windows-98-icons/

... and discuss looks and themes, and GNOME >=40 tries to disable theming, I think it's relevant and legitimate to point the finger at the point the rot set in to the extent that Windows itself adopted themes as standard. As well as them not being very good themes.

(Come back NeXTstep, all is forgiven. NeXT was right: greyscale is adequate for classic beauty.)

> I preferred W7

A different thing, I think.

XP is what drove me off Windows. (I should be grateful for that.) But I tried it last year and to my shock I liked it:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/24/dangerous_pleasures_w...

Since Vista, the resource footprint of Windows hasn't changed massively. Win7 is Vista point one. Win8 is Vista point two, which makes 7.1 either Vista point 2.1 or point 3.

10 is a bit bigger but it's really 8.1 cleaned up. Call it NT 6.4 or 6.5.

I haven't dug deep into 11 -- I detest it -- but it's only a .1 really.

> the early variants (but after that essential Service pack, 3 was it?)

No idea what this means.

Win7 never even got to SP2.
But that doesn't make carbon soup magical.

The equivalent of a human brain just "emerging" from inert silicon switches without any real understanding of how or why --- that's PFM (Pure Friggin' Magic). There is no logical reason to believe it is even possible or practical --- yet people still believe.

It's the modern day version of alchemy --- trying to create a fantastical result from a chemical reaction before it was understood that nuclear physics is the mechanism required. And even with this understanding, we have yet to succeed at turning lead into gold in any practical way.
Ask HN: Users with dry-eye syndrome, what's your game-plan going forward?
Have you acquired dry-eye syndrome from working with screens (or even lasik but current work worsening the issue). What are your plans for the remainder of your career/life? Plans to change profession? Staying with change of lifestyle/hoping for a cure to come? Myself, I'm considering change of career to offline (+ investing in dry eye products pharma stocks I guess, given how widespread it is)
What about a list of blocked sites? Many ISPs are in cahoots with governments and corporations to block sites without ever notifying their clients, and I'm sure the US is no exception.
> Attacks on the account are experienced by me as attacks on me

Right. This is the 'Redditization' of the world spoken of earlier, where an increasing number of people are unable to distinguish the difference between software and people, thereby treating them as if they are one and the same. Which, as it relates to the broader topic, is problematic as they are not the same and that introduces all kinds of social issues out in the real world.

Logically, you know that the LLM behind the arbitrary forum account that attacked you is little more than a fancy random number generator, which is no more significant than a squirrel giving you the side-eye, but as you have anthropomorphized it as being human then you start to see it differently and experience it as if it were a person.

But to anthropomorphize it is flawed. Like seeing Google Maps as being the world[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993030
All they get are equivalent to email headers. They don't know what's in the box or envelope unless you've had to declare it with them for some reason.
Yeah Microsoft, I mean openai, compressing it into an ”ai voice” is “open”.
The purpose of headsets in the commercial product category is an attempt to subsidize development of military visors. the worlds largest customer, the federal government, definitely wants this.
I think it's intentional. Nutrition labels are familiar and also effective in providing a lot of data in a small space.
> A CTO should have some power to push back and set priorities. If you're just doing what you're told you're not really a CTO but a team lead with a fancy title.
>
> This a general problem with young people in leadership positions.

Agreed wholeheartedly on both points, though I'd say a general problem with people new to leadership positions rather than make it about age. Society as it exists now (at least as I've experienced it) is very strong on rule following and it's a pretty massive shift to be the person setting the rules.

The CEO should've been empowering, too, and it might well be a symptom of the same malady: imagining the way you want things done, then pushing harder and harder until the world is that way regardless of cost. Human psychic cost is real and will cost you your best people.

Consider instead if the CEO said to the team "We definitely need this done, but I don't want you to burn yourselves out. Please keep at it as your top priority during working hours, all other goals are on pause until we have a release, and keep me up to date at the end of each day with progress until we're there. I don't want anyone working after hours. Don't worry about the client; I'll handle them." When the story unfolds from there the client doesn't even notice, the team feels supported and heard, and the work still gets done. Everyone wins.
We should have labels like this for web hosting service, cable tv providers, cell phone providers, etc... I've been trying to get a web hosting service, but everything has a fine print on price with asterisk. It took me awhile to figure out that dreamhost's rate is $2.59/month, but will renew at $8?/month. On certain vendors, I didn't even know how much I'd end up paying, until nearly at the end of payment step where there's a tiny fine-print somewhere buried with gray font that's barely readable.
Universal standardized design is a feature.

That label is accesible, easily compared across brands, and makes it hard to hide undesirable terms.