skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache is stricter because it requires you to list all the modifications you make to the original software. A copy of the license, with copyright and attribution notices, must be included in the source code and any modifications. A specific section on contributions outlines the conditions for accepting external contributions to the project. The MIT license requires a copyright notice, but it does not have explicit requirements for the license or attribution notices.

source: https://www.mend.io/blog/top-10-apache-license-questions-ans...

Apache 2.0 is almost as permissive as MIT, and better suited for some cases. I love the MIT license, as it allows the most freedom for users and creators, across the board. Apache 2.0 is second best, but might better in a formalized organization that wants more structure and formalized documentation requirements.
IaC Is Not Making Your Team Any Faster
Show HN: Empaithy – AI Microjournaling for Mental Wellness and Habit Building
State of Halo: Project Contingency 2024
> It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page.

Time is precious, and I choose not to waste mine on the unnecessarily slow consumption of annoyingly-formatted articles.

I came across this hypothesis recently:

"A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI, it’s just nice to consume high-quality internet content without ads or whacky custom formatting."[0]

[0] https://x.com/maiab/status/1723784023619895489
It's not really explained in TFA, but it has been considered at least:

> Prof Gill Livingston [said] “It is not just that more educated people do more cognitively stimulating jobs – they do – but cognitive stimulation in work through problem solving and new situations has an effect by itself.
>>a temporary dysfunction of the mind

Interesting

Seems the dysfunction could be either intrinsic, as in mis-processing data/information that is present, or extrinsic, as in not having or failing to obtain a suitable set of data/information on the topic.

Does this match your model?
What we can say for sure is that the editor of the article chose very generic science-y photos.

Personally I don't think the activities in photos are staged: taking the samples out of the oven and the mixing of the etching acid are real steps they need to take, just not very interesting scientifically speaking.
Because religious peer pressure isn't a thing.
Are there any efforts to combining a knowledge base like Cyc together with LLMs and the like?

Yes. It's something I've been working on, so there's at least 1 such effort. And I'm reasonably sure there are others. The idea is too obvious for there to not be other people pursuing it.
Halfway down the downward scroll is subverted into a left -> right scroll.

No - just, no.
> You would need a common official language to do that.

Not sure what "that" actually refers to.

The common official language of the European Union is ALL official languages of the member-states. Every major publication of the EU is ALREADY made in all languages of its members.

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Example: Electricity market reform, an ongoing topic. What's the status there?

Here it is: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20240304STO...

Ah, you only speak Greek?

No problem. Here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/el/article/20240304STO...

Ah sorry, Polish? Here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/pl/article/20240304STO...

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> you cannot really build something democratic if a large part of the population has no idea what you are saying

Why? There is a LOCAL government which is in charge of representing the citizens locally and also representing the country in the European union.

If they can't explain to me what they are doing, they are not qualified to represent me.
> For providing burst capacity, its significantly cheaper/faster, and can be billed directly.

Cloud is cheaper for such a workload, yes. But you still wouldn't want to pay the AWS premium for that.

But I guess nobody ever got fired for choosing AWS.
We should also mention why the chances are slim. There are several components to this, with regard to the West's role in the matter: the role of the military-industrial complex, the ramifications for further reparations to other groups, and the ramifications for elections in the US. Point-by-point, very briefly:

1) Israel is an important intelligence ally, military foothold in the region, and both source and buyer of military research and applications. Anything that disrupts this arrangement risks hundreds of billions of dollars and the perceived national security interests of multiple countries.

2) Reparations to Palestinians would not only be extremely expensive, it would also raise questions of potential reparations to other victims of Western imperialism and apartheid, including to Native Americans, Native Austronesians, and much of the African continent and diaspora.

3) Securing the existence of Israel as an ethnostate drives political support from Western Zionists and Evangelical Christians. Even a change to a more stable, secular, multi-ethnic Israel would see not only the revocation of support but also active retaliation that, at best, would get your a chapter in a Profiles in Courage reboot.
Would it had mattered prior to surgery if it was a different type of tumor (and rare at that)? Otherwise, I could see why that isn't a discussion worth having anyway.
This resonates deeply with me on major hangover days... somehow life is just more basic and I find more enjoyment in nothing more than the basics.
Seconded.

As for the article, it's just a shower thought. I don't fault the author for choosing to sketch down little sparks of personal insight on a blog instead of in a private journal, but I don't know why someone submitted something so undeveloped to HN or how it kept some footing on the front page.

It makes me wonder if people might just enjoy seeing clusters of meaty philosophy and systems buzzwords placed near each other in valid sentences.
Post Office urged by external lawyers to 'suppress' key document, inquiry hears
I’d be interested to read a post/article about the privatization of public services
That’s a great point. SomaFM is just a great collection of stations.

The historical record is fairly clear about why the two stations came under the SomaFM banner, and the fact that they’re both based in SF probably didn’t hurt, but after looking into why they went their separate ways, I still don’t know why BAGeL Radio went independent again in 2021 or 2022 beyond a statement from the operator of BAGeL Radio on a Reddit post asking the same thing. I’m glad they both exist, obviously, and apparently the live nature of the BAGeL Radio broadcast was a factor in integrating it to SomaFM’s more passive playlist-based streaming setup, but that’s all I know.
One important thing is to avoid adjusting alignments between two things by offseting against a third one. Typically, offsetting both the icon and text relative to container. And less infernal approach is the align the icon relative to text (eg: use percent (or em!!) vertical align for icon to offset relative to text), and _then_ adjusting centering in container.

Ho, and take car of sub pixel when adjusting, they cumulate, and rounding will bite you !
From the article:

> When Fugaku was running on premises, it was “at 95 percent capacity and constantly full,” said Dr. Matsuoka.
This has a strong Macross Plus vibe. I'm not sure if it's good news, though.
It's a form of tone policing ... "I don't like superlatives so you don't get to use them."
If you look at the founder's backgrounds it makes this seem all the more likely.

Before BloomTech, Austen was a develop for a payday loans company. His cofounder, Ben Nelson, worked as a software instructor, and left BloomTech in 2021. So maybe it's less surprising that the innovation here was in the financing, not the teaching.
Knowing more languages also helps and could be the same effect:

The more interconnections you have, the more you can compensate.

A bike can be reached through different types of bikes, different names of bikes, different experiences with bikes.
PROWL: A Bayesian Extension to the Owl Ontology Language
> That a company is required to provide a service even at a loss.

No. The company is required to provide any services it provides without breaking the law, which includes privacy legislation. If they can't operate without making a loss without breaking the law, then they are not forced to make a loss, they can always just stop service.

> A company should have every right to deny service.

They do, but not on the basis of refusing to consent to a reduction of your privacy rights as defined and protected by the law. If they should be able to break piracy laws in order to be able to provide service, what other laws / human rights / other should they be able to break too? If a delivery company can't turn a profit without being faster by ignoring road safety laws, should we allow them to break those laws in order to keep offering their services?

> Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising.

If stalky advertising did not exist, non-stalky advertising would attract higher prices. The difference in success rate between targetted and untargeted advertising is incredibly small (the difference is orders of magnitude smaller than that pricing differential) in real terms so those doing the advertising would not miss out much. Advertising as a whole, targetted or not, is not nearly as successful as the industry would have us believe. This is why so much effort is made to try make some adverts seem as much as possible like personal recommendations instead of paid promotions, and so much effort goes into other forms of astroturfing (fake reviews, paying to have bad ratings dropped, etc.).

The advertising industry is conning its own customers to an extent as well as us, cleverly abusing statistics to make their services look as worth paying for as possible. This is not unlike parts of the spam industry: those buying access to send to mailing lists are conned into believing a higher rate of return is possible than is actually likely. The advertising/spam industry gets paid, the advertiser pays in money, we “pay” in irritation.
I believe it was in "The Arsenal of Freedom", the episode where an entire planet wipes themselves out with autonomous weapons.
Yeah, but it works the other way too, isn’t it? If you’re happy with Cosmic, does it make it superior to Gnome then? For me, I like the simplicity and polish, and I like it way much more than other DEs.
Leadership Is a Context Sport
I have a long running project with thousands of companies using it on a pretty basic stack:

React on the frontend

Node.js on the backend

Postgres as the database (managed by RDS)

Works pretty well!
>and still believe Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time.

this is pretty much the only unanimous, uncontroversial absolute statement that can be made in the context of online gaming
For better or worse, in a lot of ways, I think the last decade of developers have done a lot to kick the ladder out from underneath them.

One of the reasons I'm a software engineer today is because I could easily examine webpages to see how they work, tinker with the memory of programs, open up hardware to see what's inside (relatively low risk of destroying the device), and so forth. And yeah, back in the day of Halo PC, modding the levels taught me a lot about what goes into the game. Knowing what a "BSP" is can be a pretty useless piece of trivia, but it made me feel smart and capable of understanding more.

It's still possible to get into tech and learn things today, but I have a hard time seeing how this can be accomplished by genuine tinkering. Software is way harder to crack/debug today; certainly not impossible, but the barrier of entry is much higher. Plus there's a ton of moving parts that go into getting software to work securely on not just mobile but modern desktops, adding another layer of hassle. You can still examine what a webpage is doing, but even that has changed significantly; so many websites today are div soup (yes, worse than in the early 2000s) to support JavaScript monstrocities that are also minified and obfuscated. When it comes to games, you can almost forget it in some cases because they're so heavily dependent on content streaming from servers. As far as hardware goes, you've either got to face various security hoops that can brick devices, use a heat gun to unglue the bezels on certain things, and face a lot more risk in permanent damage.

All of these changes were made for a reason, but we've also taken the fun out of everything. Even game modding really wasn't what it used to be in spite of some of the tools available today technically being better than those in the past.
Measuring success by whether the proponents delivers on their promises seems entirely fair.
It is possible that the idiot in the truck just didn't see the oncoming car.

It baffles me often how distracted drivers just pull out somewhere and hit a car that would be impossible to miss if the driver bothered to look at all.
Graviton3
:-D

I have no idea if some of the issues I reported with 9.3 led to those issues being fixed in 10, but I really did appreciate things like my cursor keys working in the shell, right off the boot media. ;-)
From memory, with a standard torrent, when it loads up a new torrent file it verifies hashes on existing data, and if it matches up it leaves it. That's how it worked on my old distribution. Not sure how this would work on BTFS, but if it's lazy-loading data and if it handled existing data in the same way, it shouldn't be an issue. But I think this would suit infrequently changing data anyways.
The fine is not the punishment. The bans are the punishment. They gut the business model, likely shutting down the business entirely in short order.

Making people whole is what civil lawsuits are for. Which, if I understand correctly, will be much easier with this order and findings in place. That will be some serious financial punishment on top of the ban.
Amazingly, Wavesurfer still runs on my macbook. And I still find it better for some things than Audacity. I think I you can download it from Sourceforge.
"Can you point to any "indications of infinite complexity" that couldn't be run on a real computer?"

Have you ever seen an accurate long term weather forecast?
I don't pay for (or otherwise have legitimate access to) the WSJ either, but note that it's explicitly allowed by the site guidelines.
Kroger's Panopticon: Making Criminals of Grocery Shoppers
The end sentence is chef's kiss " It’s our job to disengage it, enter into free-fall, and see what landscape lives below the clouds."
Awesome read.
Can one just draw a line between foreign and domestic? If the US goverment give billions of dollars todday to Lockheed Martian or Boeing to help complete against foreign airplane makers it is going to effect that ability of Americans to start new airplane companies in US to no?
I see. It's a different reading of the first word "from". Thanks for pointing that out.
Soulver 3 for iOS: Unique Approach to Calculations Lands on the iPhone
> Time is precious, and I choose not to waste mine

We’re both commenting on a thread about the value of time against about three seconds of scrolling. It’s safe to say nobody here, myself included, is particularly constrained in terms of time and energy.
Great article. As someone with a geology background working in an Earth and space science department, I've greatly appreciated everything I've learned from the planetary scientists and meteorite researchers. There's just so much that we now understand about how our solar system formed and arrived at its current state. The explosion of exoplanet research on top of that and how those two fields inform each other has also been exciting to follow.
An internal crisis-management paper gave advice on what to say if discovered.

What the internal crisis-management paper did not give advice on is what to say if the "advice on what to say if discovered" was discovered.
I mean, you're extrapolating much more than the evidence warrants. Everyone on all sides of this debate believe environment has some significant role in measured IQ. So the fact that the IQ gap has reduced since African American's material condition has improved does not imply the entire gap is due to environmental influences.

You're also changing the subject. The issue is whether the widely accepted Black-White IQ gap exculpates Bostrom of the charge of racism. The question of the source of the IQ gap is a separate issue. Whether that source turns out to be fully environmental or only partially is a separate concern.
I always take movie reviews with a grain of salt depending on the genre. Horror & Comedy ALWAYS get the harshest critics. Horror especially, but honestly unless the IMDB is above a 7 or Rotten Tomatos gives it like 85-100 I leave it up to my own personal judgement. I love watching just about anything if the story is interesting (and I find just about anything & everything interesting so that doesn't leave much off the table)... I've gotten off topic though lol.

TLDR you can't always trust reviews (or peoples tastes). If the Trailer & synopsis hooks ya why not give it a shot when you can always just stop watching if it doesn't pan out.

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Now as far as an IMDB for open source, I'd say maybe even go so far as doing a Letterboxd type deal? When it comes to opensource projects it always helps to hear what the users are saying about it.
I don't think that you can force a private company to provide you services... wish I am wrong.
The problem is, this comment gets straight to the point. You’ll never get people to sign up for your Substack if you just give it all away in a couple straightforward paragraphs!
Why do you think your diagnosis was so difficult to get to (given that it wasn't something very exotic if I understand it correctly - not an expert of any sort there but just doing a quick search)?
Understanding ROC Curves
Interesting that even in the middle of recovering, she was still such a strong writer. There are a few really excellent turns of phrase and gut punches in a pretty short article.
Did Quinn figure out that his career in the cloud arena was only propped up by his snarkiness?
They weren't deleted, the account was brand new when they were posted so they were probably killed by the spam detector. Questions about stuff like that should just be sent to hn@ycombinator.com, that's in all the site docs.
Your opinion is incorrect and concerning in its confidence. Oct. 7th has been characterized as Israel's 9/11 (with, frankly, fewer deaths). Meanwhile, Israel has perpetrated a 9/11 roughly every 2.5 weeks for the past 6 months in Gaza. The difference in Hamas versus the IDF's allowance of accessibility to basic needs is also stark. In essence, a terrorist attack is not proportional to a siege.
> I don't need an LLM for that, just the right google queries do the trick.

LLMs are clearly superior at presenting the information and have tangible room for improvement, whereas Google has regressed over the last decade and is getting more brittle by the day.

Open technology (LLMs) are going to offer much more robust and reproducible solutions to such questions as "here are my symptoms, what's wrong with me?" than Google.

You can nitpick my statements all you want and I will probably agree with you, but the overarching takeaway should be that LLMs are a much better solution, especially for laypeople who cannot use Google effectively.
Tracking makes it easier for advertisers to measure the impact of their ad spend. So they shift budgets to places that are easier to measure.

Facebook, Google et al have dramatic structural advantages in that case compared to news organizations. One of the ways the news organizations are trying to adapt is by having more direct knowledge about their readers.

And fwiw they knew _more_ about their subscribers in the olden days. They had your physical address and frequently either asked for demographic data or had their sales agents collect it.
I didn’t get that impression since the characters are recurring.
He is describing the difference that exist in dynamical systems (physics, computer systems) between microscopic and macroscopic descriptions.

If you have few interactions among things, you can analyze their interactions through the lenses of cause and effects. That's the microscopic part. Think about a snooker table, if it's normal sized and a normal number of balls, you can imagine more or less what will happen once you hit your ball.

Once you have many things that interact between each other, with each interaction going in different ways, tracing causal links becomes impractical. Things start to get "chaotic", in the sense that small variation can cause long term changes in their trajectories (this can happen in any system with 3 or more degrees of freedom and feedback, because 3rd degree differential equations can have two curves/solutions that coincide on one side and then bifurcate later). Given enough things, it is like playing snooker with an infinite table and infinite balls, and infinite players. Then it start to make sense to track the macroscopic values that are conserved in large parts of the infinite table, e.g. energy levels of the balls (kinetic) and the force and general direction with which each average player hits the balls (acceleration).

Does this help?
I am very bullish for GPT-5. It's going to surpass even the best diagnosticians we have right now. And we will all have access for $20 a month. Crazy and exciting times.
This article has some more details:

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/01/26/riken-deploys-virtual-fug...

It looks like they want to make the transition between Fugaku and AWS and vice versa easier.
> non-deterministic artificial intelligence

Is it really non-deterministic, or is that just a misinterpretation of the opacity in deep learning algorithms? If the word choice isn’t a mistake, I wonder what the non-determinism adds.
Turn yourself into a unique mini-figure
Sometimes, re-reading the source material can elucidate questions I have about comments :-)

In this case, it's really obvious what everyone was talking about with the context of the article fresh in my mind.
I agree with your concern, but I'm quite happy to see what's going on in the retro emulation & decompilation/reverse-engineering scenes[1]. A lot of that is being done and is driven by "the kids". It's an appealing, easy, and low-risk entry point for newer developers who want to dive into low level stuff, and it even has a bit of a "fuck the man" bent to it, which is fantastic. You're right that the environment is different from what we grew up with, it was always going to be. But I think the kids will find their own way.

[1] If you haven't been tuned in, check this out, it's the goddamn Super Mario 64 source code in C, reverse-engineered from the game ROM: https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64/blob/master/src/game/hud.c Similar projects exist for a ton of other classic games. It's jaw dropping what they're doing out there.
And reportedly killed the volume pot on the second and final take:

"Eddie did two takes, and the volume knob froze completely at the end of the second take due to the heat generated from rolling it on and off."

https://www.vhnd.com/diver-down/cathedral/

His signature Peavy Wolfgang guitars later featured low-friction pots that are still available for sale as individual components

https://www.vanhalenstore.com/page/VH/GG/EVHPOT
Once you go from VHS to DVD, everything else is just gravy (assuming the DVD isn't a very bad VHS rip).

1080p, 4K, and 8K are nice to have but they're not groundbreaking the way VHS to DVD was.
Sigh it means in their neural network layer they have a random sampling step. Yay for Gaussians.
Citatiom needed.