skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 100% on Pulumi no? They had to make the intentional choice to make the AI results be indexable by search engines.
The UK is dragging its heels on this kind of thing. https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/112334233396294602

> I moved to the UK five years ago. My birth certificate and passport list my sex as Nonbinary/X. My application for legal gender recognition was granted two years ago, but then things got weird... I had to take the government to court.

For some reason, the government is refusing to issue the documents they've granted the applications for. Per https://www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/2024-news/nonbinary-us-..., the High Court has ruled that this is discriminatory, but that the government is allowed to discriminate against non-binary people. The case is due before the Court of Appeal at some point in the future.

Up-to-date info can be found at https://enby.org.uk/ (currently a GoFundMe redirect).
The problem is that the planet could be hollow and produce the same gravitational measurements on the surface and outside. It needs to be coupled with a model that introduces constraints for the inverse problem to be defined.
Are we talking about pro-cesses or praw-cesses?
> including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown

So you need to be able to turn it off. It should be easy? Still it seems to be a good thing to make sure you can turn it off.
IIUIR, Roc's syntax is more ergonomic than do-notation.

In Roc, you can put a "!" (bind) pretty much anywhere, whereas in do-notation it must be part of a binding.

current_user <- fetch_user
manager <- fetch_manager current_user

Compared to

manager <- fetch_manager (!fetch_user)

Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Back in the 80s Phreaking was the thing, because computers didn't really exist. OSUNY was one of the phreaking BBSs at the time. There was a big article in esquire about captain crunch, the blind guy, etc that I remember reading.

I think the OSUNY archives are around if you want to dig.
Which makes the ban bill a bill of attainder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
Here's the mailing list post mentioned in the video, with the details on how to reformat the code:

https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/58765259/

Also, there's a simpler way to do the LF -> CRLF conversion, as found by neozeed from Virtually Fun: Just zip the source code, then unzip it again using the `unzip -a` command (the `-a` switch performs the auto-conversion)
> Isn't it just as crazy how much people care about Palestine when much worse atrocities are happening around the world?

What are the much worse atrocities than Gaza that are happening?

> Why do they care so much about just that one instead of the many others?

The US is centrally involved in supporting the slaughter in Gaza.

The Economist polled Americans if what is happening in Gaza is a genocide and the most given answer was yes. The US and Israel stand alone in the UN on Palestinian self-determination (other than US compact member Micronesia, and the 10,000 people of the island of Nauru). US and world popular opinion is against what Israel and the US government is doing.
> targeting "ideas rooted in fascism or bigotry"

Is targeting "ideas rooted in fascism or bigotry" a bad thing?
Isn't that exactly what the free software movement is based upon? You can only use our software if you agree to share your source code modifications with the binary (death to proprietary software, very ideological) and you can only contribute if you agree if that.
This is not very far off from Llama3 training. 400 TFLOPS per GPU [1] and 6.4M GPU hours [2] puts Llama3 70B at 9.2*10^24 (so 10^25) floating point ops.

[1] https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/

[2] https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
> ...are going to be interpreted as a bunch of left-wing people taking over the project

Yeah, it's a bunch of left-wing malcontents trying to take over a project.

Anyways, Nix is very much decentralized as far as open-source projects go.
To carry paper certificates that are redeemable in the base metal, that metal must exist to be redeemed.
North Korea.

Not entirely his fault but they got the bomb on his watch.
Worth adding that pulse dialing is how rotary phones worked. When you released the dial it flicked the hang up button each time a number passed it.
The article I linked here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199727) provides evidence for exactly that.
> The Foundation board has unrepresentative composition relative to the community because, due to our count, all current members are cisgender, white-passing, men, one of whom has done military service, and one other (Eelco) likely relies on undisclosed military-tech work.

So it's a group of disgruntled, power hungry bigots out to slander the entire board because of their race, sexuality and gender? I wouldn't take anything these people say seriously.
i do believe that determination would be reserved for a court of competent jurisdiction, but tight indeed.
https://archive.ph/wOAMY
Read again, specially this line: "China tells ahead of time what the company is allowed or not allowed to do, then grant access if they comply"

Are you implying that US companies should be above foreign local laws?
> But some commonly used words are confusing. Sanction means both to allow and to disallow.

Well, technically, it means to allow or to punish. But you're close enough. It does have these two senses, they are obviously in tension with each other, and both are common.

But, because both senses are common, this isn't a source of confusion. (And the later sense of punishment did not arise from confusion on the part of speakers, as is the case for nonplussed.)
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This looks a LOT like computation expressions in f#, specifically the async one. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

Does Roc have something similar?
> requires you to follow best practices (to be determined)

Trigger happy regulation for a field that hasn't even come into full swing. It's indicative of an over-active immune system; lawmakers with nothing better to do.

Pass laws against improper use and go after the malicious users. Don't ban the technology, the research, or even the applications. (Of which there will be abundant good uses. Many of which we've yet to even see or predict.)

Our culture has become obsessed with regulating and limiting freedom on the very principle that it might be harmful. We should be punishing actual measurable, physical and monetary harms. Not imaginary or hypothetical ones.

If California passes this, AI companies should leave California behind.
The Mysterious Death of MI6 Agent Gareth Williams [video]
Augmented Reality, Urbanism, and the Future
What makes the latter sentence sound highfalutin is that you've been required to contort it away from idiomatic American English sentence structure in order to force in a "whom". The usual way of phrasing the sentence avoids "who" entirely: "If the people I speak with" or "If the people I'm talking to".
Woah, was just about to post.

Crazy good results shown on twitter:

https://x.com/phill__1/status/1784966296947286204?s=46&t=9wY...
How to Run a Startup Accelerator
The root of all these things is companies, banks, and governments offloading the responsibility of security on to the worst possible person - the end user.

"Identify theft" should simply not be a thing at all - it's fraud against the bank and the person's whose "identity" was stolen shouldn't be involved. Combined with simple fraud chargebacks that make the bank accountable if they can't make their (fraudulent) customer accountable would reduce much of it.
Yup. Entirely replaced the "soft" answers online like stack overflow for me. Now its LLM and if that isnt good enough then right to docs. I actually read documentation more often now because its pretty clear when I'm trying to do something common (LLM handle this well) vs uncommon (LLM often do not handle this well).
> Laws should be about the outcome, not about processes that may lead to an outcome.

Some outcomes are pretty terrible, I think there are valid instances where we might also want to prevent precursor technology from being widely disseminated to prevent them.
The free software zealots are a tiny fraction of the open source community.
I think you replied to the wrong reply.
Often we measure what's easy to measure, not what's most important, because important things are often hardest to measure.

"Handle time" (or velocity) is easy to measure, so we measure it. Quality is important, but its hard to measure.

What we choose to measure gets focused on, so handle time (or velocity) ends up taking focus from quality, or customer satisfaction, etc, etc.
Well I'm no prophet, but the case would be:
1) globalization added downward pressure on prices, so deglobalization (or even just partial backing off) will remove that downward pressure
2) people really don't like inflation, even rich people, and expect the central banks to do something about it (raising rates)
It's very reasonable to not want your work used by arms dealers, and it is in fact your purview to "ideologically police" the uses your work is applied to.

"If you don't want to help create war machines you can't contribute" is your solution, not mine.

Historically the conventions of open source has been that use is completely without restriction, but there has always been conflict about that. The domain is new enough that I wouldn't consider it settled yet.
> You really should not be in open source if you believe it is your purview to ideologically police the usage and contribution to your software.

The issue here is one of sponsorship.

Contributors to Nix have a problem with contributing to Nix and then seeing sponsors like Anduril advertised.

If Anduril donated but wasn't listed as a sponsor and didn't have a booth, I bet many wouldn't have an issue.
Anduril could have predicted this had they actually asked/engaged the community and not just Eelco.
I guess we’ll have to wait for a full write up of this, but it does seem like having multiple categories of object storage is pulls off hood tiered storage!

…rebranded with a different name, again.

Again complex, again no obvious way to query storage directly, again unclear performance characteristics, again no obvious reason to see why the networking costs make saving from it largely meaningless.

You have to admit it’s a bit of a hard sell without any comeback after literally just saying that people were just inventing new names for minor variations on tiered storage…
Well, this is a lot.....
"How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers" (2019)
What a weird stance to take! What happens if apps refuse to self-censor or obey Chinese censorship laws? They are banned. So indeed, China does ban US apps. Twitter/X did not just leave China; it is blocked in mainland China and no one can access it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004133
I can imagine easy use cases for this for all types of events. Very cool!
This is a well-articulated response to the SB-1047 bill. I want to underscore the undercurrent of the message — that with the proposed regulations on creators, it will accomplish the opposite of what it is intended to do. The landscape will be less open and diverse, handing the power to a few.

Another point that gets buried is that AI is about the data. Without the transparency of what these models are built from, it leads to potential dangers as well as inappropriate use of materials.

My bet is on the open ecosystem if it doesn’t get legislated away.
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking as Microsoft Brings Games to PS5
well, its not harming society, its harming the lender. we obviously want to have protections against people taking advantage, but ultimately its up to the lender to make sure that the borrower has a realistic plan to pay back the loan, at least within whatever risk parameters they are willing to accept. In the end, its a tradeoff, the US has higher new business formation, especially from less well-off members of society, but more of those businesses fail.
What defines normal interest rates? Without defining that we cannot in turn defined high or low, much less ultra-high or ultra-low (or whatever name you want to give). That means we can't even have a discussion, yet I have yet to see anyone try to define what normal should be.

Of course when defining normal you also have to define what variance is normal, and what to do when things get too far out of normal. (though everyone seems to agree we shouldn't go below zero)
> Weird, I cannot remember ever seeing "cleave" used to mean "uniting two things".

Here's an example I stole from the internet [1] "People in the remote mountain villages still cleave to their old traditions."

I'll leave other examples of cleavage meaning two things coming together to your imagination.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cleave-t...
It's a bit skewed as far as the author's perspective, but so is everything. It's like reading the news. You have to filter past the bias and look at the facts.

The picture that it paints about the actions of the people involved is accurate.
Hmmm...she mentioned broad investments numerous times, and talked also about how entire classes of investments worked (a few providing most of the benefits).
A peer-review paper:

> In this chapter, I have studied the returns to investments in durable assets since the start of the twentieth century. These assets are generally characterized by relatively low capital gains and substantial price fluctuations. The rate of value appreciation has been more pronounced for collectibles, but transaction costs are very high in such markets as well. It should also be pointed out, however, that a rental income yield can add substantially to the returns on housing and land, and likewise owners of collectibles may receive a significant emotional dividend. Because of the lack of such an income or utility stream, gold, silver, and diamonds appear to have been particularly bad long-term investments (at least if not held in the form of jewelry). Finally, durable assets are unlikely to be good inflation hedges, but they may still help diversifying a portfolio because of the imperfect correlations with financial assets.

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2746356
Ah, there's the old "everyone who disagrees with me is arguing in bad faith" argument the internet loves to make. Wondered how far down I'd have to scroll.
There are some licenses that can only be held by corporations and not individuals (look at the state regulated insurance licenses for specific examples). But I agree that for the most part corporations and individuals have similar rights.
> 1999, or any other year is arbitrary, and you probably can pick dates to make any investment strategy look good

I agree, that was partly my point!
> Isn't that exactly what the free software movement is based upon? You can only use our software if you agree to share your source code modifications with the binary (death to proprietary software, very ideological) and you can only contribute if you agree if that.

"Well, you see... just keep all politics out of FOSS except for the important FOSS ones I agree with" ;)
Exactly. I spent like a week or two building bar charts and line charts in various ways to learn the basics, which helps. Some stuff I see, like on Mikes blog is seemingly magic
ctrl v (visual mode) -> highlight lines you want to change -> shift i -> add whatever you want to the line -> escape -> Gets applied to all highlighted lines.

Surprised at how many vim users I run into don't seem to use visual mode that often, stuff like this is fantastic for commenting out multiple lines at once or aligning "=" signs in stuff like terraform.
Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.
Chartjs looks great, but I've never used it so can't recommend personally. I've used https://recharts.org a lot with success.
Bruce Schneier famously said: "Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive."

If we assume that the government can monitor all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time, then the whole e2e debate appears in a new light.

> Bad guys are often enough astonishingly stupid

I am told that Al-Qaeda once (post 9/11) considered using some AES-encrypted messaging system, but rejected it on the grounds that if the infidels had designed it, they could presumably read it. Instead, their own "secure messenger" launched with basically a monoalphabetic cipher based on the Arabic language. The NSA just needed to track down everyone using that particular app (probably one of their easier operations!) and then they could read everything said over that channel as an added bonus.
Laws also should be possible (preferably easy) to implement. Why does DMCA ban circumvention tools? Circumvention is already illegal and it is piracy that should be outlawed, not tools to enable piracy? The reason is piracy tools are considerably easier to regulate than piracy.
The youtube link to a 'zoom' in video to the image:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVprNB5XbI

What is really, really neat to notice isn't just the detail in that final image.... look behind it, and there are whole edge-on spiral galaxies in the distance. Not stars. Galaxies.

The nebula is about 1375 light years away. Those galaxies in the distance.... are billions of light years away. It's hard to comprehend.
I get where you're coming from but chemists happily don the climate science moniker in general without the sense that it is shameful.
Interesting seeing this website with a .ru domain. Haven't been following them, but seems like they're based in Latvia. I don't think they would live comfortably being physically in Russia, but also seems like the state could seize the domain.
> Otherwise you also have to complain about the stifling of open source bioagent research, open source nuclear warheads, open source human cloning protocols

No, actually you don’t.

This is just a slippery slope that suggests that any of these examples are even remotely comparable to AI. There is room for nuance and it’s easy to spot the outlier among bioagent research, nuclear warheads, human cloning, and generative artificial intelligence.
> Anduril, a military contractor that uses NixOS, has repeatedly attempted to become a sponsor of NixCon, which did not go over well with the community

Something similar happened in the Haskell community, where some people called for Anduril job postings to be removed.

Nix is a software project, not a social movement. The goals of Nix are entirely separate from how the software is used.

I really like Coinbase's statement that is is mission focused (https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-fo...). Anything that isn't directly related to its mission is out-of-scope. I wish the same was true about software projects like Nix.

If you care about the way your software is used, then by all means, say it in the license! Of course, such software won't get used much.
This strategy will not work well for Apache Kafka because it is extremely IOPS hungry if you have more than a few partitions, and a replay of a large topic will require lots of IO bandwidth. It would work well e.g. a columnar database where a query targeting old data may only require reading a small fraction of the size of the volume, but Kafka is effectively a row-oriented storage system, so the IO pattern is different.
I mean, if i went into that kind of detail the piece would be about 200,000 words and include a ton of detail that nobody cares about.

I made some judgements about what is interesting and worth knowing and what isn't – and even that came out at ~8k words.

Thanks for the feedback though.
More Room for Language: Investigating the Effect of Retrieval on Language Models
vector deserves more attention, so much better than fluentd
Yes. It is so convenient that if I stumble upon app/website that does not support it I get very annoyed.
An embedded trackball/buttons at the sides of a split keyboard like the Advantage 360 would be great. But my bigger issue with that is that I would like the thumb cluster itself to be on the sides, towards which the thumb curves naturally.
Stallman covered this in a (IMHO) very well thought out article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

His article is specifically about pretend free/open source licenses that restrict what software can be used for. But the conclusion applies to similar behaviors around the entire free/open source ecosystem like conferences: it will just drive participants away and strengthen the position of proprietary solutions instead.
AI is really a giant plagiarism machine and I could not care less about it being tightly regulated.
Not OP but old thinkpads are usually at the top of the list for good cheap Linux machines

They are durable and ubiquitous no-nonsense work machines. I just picked one up for $300 and can do all the dev work I need
It's worse because after the first time much of the community was trying to write it off as a simple mistake or miscommunication.

It became evident after the second time though that this was very on purpose and it was known there would be an issue.
can't edit my comment anymore, but I meant "Z", not zero. I think my phone autocorrected or something.
Sure, but those kinds of books are explicitly intended as part of the path of learning to read, right?
I don't see anything in the article that indicates ideological policing. Did I miss that part?

It seems like these are questions of conflicts of interest and how the organization is being run. Those seem very relevant.
Yes, passive investing will of course outperform active investing because math. But that's not to say that there is any level of return that is guaranteed for stocks. As I said in my earlier comment, any long term analysis limited to US only stocks is a case of survivorship bias.
"NOTE: The use of nonplussed to mean 'unimpressed' is an Americanism that has become increasingly common in recent decades and now appears frequently in published writing. It apparently arose from confusion over the meaning of nonplussed in ambiguous contexts, and it continues to be widely regarded as an error."

Read: only dumb people use it this way.
But the software licensing explicitly allows your work being used by anyone (as long as they adhere to the license). If you don't want your work to be used by entities you disagree with you can not contribute to the project or advocate for use of a different license.
In a way this could be what gives us AGI that runs in your pocket. If there's an upper limit on what can be used, then human ingenuity will be funnelled towards whatever does fit in. Of course, this is only in the USA. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc will still be free to persue the technology.
I saw some mergers and acquisitions analysts saying that TikTok is big enough that it would not be possible for the companies in the US that might feasibly buy it to do the necessary due diligence to make a deal before the deadline imposed by the law.

If that's true then it is arguably effectively an attempted ban.
Can't wait for the HBO series
Ugh, I need this so much. Let me in! lol
As far as I know, the majority of hedge funds do not outperform the market in the long run, so I'm not sure where you get this conclusion from.