skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Apple, the world's largest tech company, is reluctant to create or join messaging standards.

I'm not sure if you're very familiar with the prevalence of texting (or Apple) in the 21st century but it stands to reason that this is a rather important thing to regulate. It certainly was worth regulating when Ma Bell tried monopolizing communication protocols 50 years ago.

So tell us; what is worth fighting over? I'd be tickled pink to hear what consumer harms you'd prioritize over something as supposedly-diminutive as Apple's actions.
Unfortunately LCM closed during the pandemic and laid off all their staff, with no sign of reopening.
Well since these images are taken in a different part of the EM spectrum than visible light, the colors are false. But the images aren't touched up in the sense that shapes and sizes are altered.
Apparently it's the actual spies favorite.
> NAT and hide all these devices behind a single external IP.

If/when I'm forced to shift my LAN to IPv6, this is the approach I'll take. I don't want any random machines behind my router to be able to open ports to the internet at large. I want a single point of presence that handles that and forwards to whichever machine I want to handle that traffic.

For those who are excited about IPv6, I hear you and your use cases are legit. I just don't share them and want the most restrictive network setup that I can tolerate.
(2019)

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202063
What's the point of a regulatory agency if it isn't supported by law? Also, if the companies believe they can win in court, it's already worth it for them to file a lawsuit since based on these numbers alone. They were fined $10M+, that's absolutely worth a court case.
A U-shaped Legacy (The UK)
> It would be even more "funny" if you'd wrap that `readFile` inside a thunk that gets captured from the environment by the lambda body. Than you'd have a reference to an effect that is supposed to run only inside the lambda but could be executed by external code. Depending on the effect this can have unexpected up to catastrophic outcomes.

Well... yeah? It looks like readFile (a Task) is sufficiently thunk-like to guess that that's the case.

I program in this still regularly. What bad outcomes should I expect?
Press F12 to screw competition
The law is the law. I don't have to respect it to grasp the concept of cause and effect. There wouldn't be much to talk about here if there wasn't a contingent whinging and ringing their hands as if any aspect of this situation was surprising or novel. Broadcast copyrighted material online without the benefits of significant opsec and you will get dragged in court, period. Hell it didn't take the recording industry 12 months to get a lock on Napster. Y'all need to quit playing like there's a victim here.
Should I assume that this latest tilt at a windmill is going to cause IA to get decapitated by a blade, and start preparing for a world without the Wayback Machine and the other legally non-controversial bits of IA?

Is it too late for them to turn back from this craziness and settle out of court for a non-fatal amount?
He's also the one running for president.

https://grapevine.is/news/2024/04/03/comedian-and-former-rey...
This isn't obviously a scam to me. Cloudflare have guarantees around pricing per request, and I'd expect them to honour it. AWS have different prices. I'd expect them to honour them.

The problem is the cloud priorities availability over cost savings. We used to run our own infrastructure, that would just fall over if it got too many requests. This infrastructure never falls over; it just bills more. I don't know the right way to solve this, other than don't stick your S3 bucket on the public internet.
Winning the war isn't enough if you suffer greatly to win it and get little if anything to actually show for your victory. "Profit" is necessary.

In this case, the cost of ignoring Russia's attacks is far less than the cost of winning a war against Russia. If this relationship flips, then we might get war.
Having documentation of non-compliance due to this case, couldn't the copyright holders as a court to bar Visio from further use of the software in their products?
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40191127
It's not just "kind of insane", it's completely bananas. Like what the actual fuck?

We really need some kind of regulation to ban predatory cloud pricing.
I assume random names are the only way forward. Unfortunately a bucket name can’t be longer than 63 characters.
and their bills cost up to 100x what they should (and then other services that run on top of AWS may inflate it 10x again)
> I was unaffected by the gift of an ice cream cone. I was unimpressed by the .. I was unruffled ... I was nonplussed ...

Exactly, if being unimpressed leads to you having nothing to say, then being unimpressed leads you to being nonplussed. If you're nonplussed then that might be due to being unimpressed. Thus being nonplussed can become a way of saying that one is unimpressed -- "nonplused" is a more impressive SAT word than "unimpressed" (which isn't an SAT word), so it's rather useful as a way to express just how unimpressed one really is: so unimpressed as to bring out a ten dollar word for expressing the level of unimpressedness.
> When laws are bad, people should thumb their nose at them

You (and Internet Archive) are about to learn what happens when the courts fail to be persuaded regarding the 'badness' of the law in question.
FCC Fines Largest Wireless Carriers for Sharing Location Data
If you're a junior looking for a job, it's always a tough time. Getting your first gig is insanely brutal (college career fairs help a lot). That said, I wouldn't give up and blame AI for "taking our jerbs". I would say the current macroeconomic conditions with higher interest rates have reduced the amount of developer headcount companies can support. AKA companies are risk averse right now, and juniors are a risk (albeit a relatively low cost).

If I were in your shoes, I would just stop consuming the doom and gloom AI content, and go heads down and learn to build things that others will find useful. Most importantly, you should be having fun. If you do that you'll learn how to learn, have fun, build a portfolio, and generally just be setting yourself up to succeed.
The source data it uses refreshes every 3 hours but it runs more frequently because the timing of the refresh isn't guaranteed. If you configure your app to refresh every 30 minutes - 1 hour that's probably good enough.
Very easily: the book does not get moral at all. It just claims that there is scientific consensus about the damage that leisure screens make. This is quite easy to debunk, if false.
Anyone else get the strangest sinking feeling in the final seconds when it's almost fully zoomed in and you come to the realization that the hundreds of specs in the distance are GALAXIES?
The right way is for unauthorized requests to not cost anything.
> Memory is now available to all ChatGPT Plus users.

> not currently available in Europe or Korea.

Oh well.
That’s a meta analysis (which is always a solid indicator of pseudoscience) of studies that are not really controlled because

A.) you have to actually do the exercise, which means the people who don’t may simply not do so because their mental illness is worse or at least different than the ones who do.

2. If you’ve ever read the attempts to quantify various mental illnesses, they’re extremely unscientific and borderline laughable if you’ve ever known a few people who suffer from them. What we call “depression” affects so many people in so many ways that in the future, it’s likely it will become a category of diseases with many different individual names. One of my exes medicated her depression by working, one by calling off work, for example. One would have (and did) do lots of exercise, one did not, and there’d be no way to quantify either on any simple scale.

3.) It’s obviously neither double nor single blind. You can’t not know if you’re exercising, and the researcher can likely tell which are which to a decent degree just by looking at them.

All a meta analysis of a bunch of non-controlled studies really tells you is the prevailing pre-sentiment among the researchers of a topic. Which, really, isn’t nothing (they’re more likely to guess correctly than a random person) but it’s far from an actual controlled study.

And I still stand by that there’s no way you could realistically say this study indicates causation with any certainty. Though that never stops people in the social sciences I guess.
Also what looks like insane scope creep.

"The full-sized ship would also need to have a range of 7,000 miles, support heavy bombers and be torpedo-proof. It was to be over a mile in length, weigh as much as 2.2 million tons and require as many as 26 electric motors to move and steer across the ocean."

That's a crazy target growing out of "cheap to produce aircraft carrier"
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202695
The two species of mosquitofish used normally aren't native from California but its main problem is that they are boring as a can. There are much more interesting options:

Like the Coastal Threespine Stickleback. Sticklebacks are the choice fish for small wild ponds in Europe, and is a californian native also.

or Fundulus parvipinnis, the Californian killy fish. Stands saltwater to freshwater. Common near the coast and better than Gambusia (avoid the invasive species Lucania goodei that is similar).

Or a single species of a pupfish like the Amargosa river pupfish or the Salt Creek pupfish, small native tolerating an extreme range of temperatures. Some pupfishes are endangered so each new pond counts. I assume that there are legal exchanges of this species breed on captivity among serious aquarists but check your local laws.

Or the California Roach

If you don't mind natives from California, the fathead minnow, or the American Flagfish are two small US extremely hard species. First stands poor oxygen levels and complicated alcaline water. The second is from Florida and a really cool species, much more interesting to watch than a dumb mosquito fish. They will eat mosquitoes and algae also.

All this species are small fishes (growing less than 10cm normally) so will fit in most garden ponds. Just one species in a small or medium-sized pond. Pupfish species shouldn't be mixed to keep the genetic lines pure. Goldfishes disturb the mud and make the water turn green.
One side effect that I don't think I like of these tools is the inevitable push for developers to just use the most popular languages. Javascript and python are the main LLM trained languages, so it just self reenforces that it is best to use those for everything. There is something a bit sad about that. I guess the dream is that they are just intermediatory data anyway, like a chatty bytecode layer.
>executing large-scale changes in entire repositories in 3 years

You can look at SWE-Agent, it solved 12 percent of the GitHub issues of their test dataset. It probably depends on your definition of large-scale.

This will get much better, it is a new problem with lots of unexplored details, and we will likely get GPT-5 this year, which is supposed to be a similar jump in performance as from 3.5 to 4 according to Altman.
Ok I'm actually going to delete my web site and cloudfront distribution over this. It gets no traffic (at the moment).

The bucket is the same name as the domain so I can imagine this could be exploited quietly very easily as PUTs are so expensive.

Literally a $5 VPS could cost someone $1k.
For me, definitely! It helped us raise our first round of funding, without which we may have failed during the pandemic. I also learned a lot and found the online platform useful.
I don't necessarily disagree with the basic principle of copyright. I just am unconvinced it's an attainable long-term goal. It seems to me that copyright in a capitalist society is bound to end up like this.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22373422
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420763
Yes: “Great, you’re our spy now. Keep it secret. Also, please always carry on you this piece of Russian evidence with serial numbers adjacent to all our other moles, because otherwise our own border patrol may reject you on entry with your Czech passport, I decided.”

So they’re telling us that Russia is that bad at spying. But the first commercial supersonic jet was the Tupolev 144, not the Concord.
The discussion here makes for tawdry reading I must say. If the relatively technologically capable are apparently predominantly convinced now that copying a file is the same as stealing a physical good then the Internet Archive is already in bad shape.
I also finished Death's End this morning and have a similar afterglow re: scale (energy, space, time)!
I am trying to learn how to interpret clinical study results. It seems that the confidence intervals and p-values suggest there is high degree of certainty in the results. Still, the odds ratio seems to have marginal improvements over the control, 4-8% depending on what was being measured. If I'm interpreting this study correctly, exercise has a marginal impact on adolescents mental health. I kind of hope I misread that study, and that exercise plays a larger role.

If I read a study that tells me I may see a 4% chance of improvement if I make significant changes to my lifestyle, the chances that I ignore that study are about 96%.

Guess, when viewed on aggregate a 4-8% improvement would be a valuable improvement.
There's a vast difference between "working to solve it" and "forking it"!

The younger generations do not get the concept of "respect"! They need to respect those who've done the most work and not feel entitled that a small contribution to something makes them equal rights owners!
Can't get sunk by an iceberg if you are an iceberg. taps side of head
i just tested this too, really cool. i own a yaris have used an online forum for yaris cars for the past decade and had a vague memory of a user who deleted some of the most helpful guides. i asked about it and sure enough it knew exactly who i meant:

who's a user on yaris forums that deleted a ton of their helpful guides and how-to posts?:

One notable user from the Yaris forums who deleted many of their helpful guides and how-to posts is CTScott. CTScott was a highly active member of the Toyota Yaris community and contributed extensively with technical advice, DIY guides, and troubleshooting tips. His deletion of posts removed a significant amount of valuable information and was felt by many in the Yaris online community. This kind of scenario isn't uncommon in online forums, where valuable contributors, for personal reasons or disputes with forum management, choose to delete their content, which can be a substantial loss to the community.

tell me more about ctscott:

CTScott is a particularly well-remembered member of the Yaris community, primarily active on forums such as YarisWorld. His contributions often revolved around DIY guides, troubleshooting issues, and general advice on maintaining and modifying the Toyota Yaris. Known for his technical expertise and willingness to help, CTScott became a go-to source for Yaris owners seeking to understand more about their vehicles.

### Key Contributions:
1. *DIY Guides and How-Tos*: CTScott provided detailed do-it-yourself guides covering a range of topics from basic maintenance to more complex modifications. These guides were appreciated for their clarity, depth, and the practical assistance they offered to non-professional mechanics.

2. *Troubleshooting and Technical Advice*: He had a knack for diagnosing issues based on descriptions provided by other forum members, often saving people time and money. His advice frequently helped users fix problems on their own.

3. *Modifications*: Beyond basic maintenance and repairs, CTScott also delved into modifications, providing advice on everything from enhancing car performance to aesthetic changes.

4. *Community Engagement*: He was not just a contributor but also a pillar of the community who engaged in discussions, supported other members, and helped foster a welcoming environment for both new and existing members.

### Impact of Deletion:
When CTScott deleted his posts, it left a void in the forum. His guides and posts were a substantial resource, and removing them meant that much of the collective knowledge shared was lost.
Since Corporations are people, revoke their corporate charter for a couple years while they "do time" to pay for their criminal behavior.
Yeah, it was actually neatly resolved here by applying separation of concerns and just doing the totally different things on different pages. People wanting to endorse a candidate are not the same as people wanting to be a candidate.
I don't want to live in a society where authors don't get paid, so the laws are just fine.
Don't fret. What people call AI these days is just a gigantic economically unsound bullshit generator (some underlying ideas might be valuable though) that passed very stupid tests. It is brutally marketed like blockchain & crypto by some sociopaths from Silicon Valley, their mini-mes and middle management hell which needs to double down on bad investments.

The bigger problem I see is the economical situation.
Hah! That's ingenious.

Back in the middle school days, decades ago, I was running proxies on free PHP hosting services to avoid content restriction on school computers.

Learned more from my shenanigans than from the computer lab classes :)
For sure! As a user, I would love to be able to have some sort of debugger like behavior for debugging the LLM's output generation. Maybe some ability for the LLM to keep on running some tests until they pass? That sort of stuff would make me want to try this :)
As in, British shows don't necessarily explain or show everything? I'm a bit lost here.
Still can't handle the question:

I have three doors in front of me. behind one is a great prize. Behind the other two are bad prizes. I know which door contains the prize, and I choose that door. Before I open it the game show host eliminates one of the doors that contain the bad prize. He then asks if I'd like to switch to the other remaining door instead of the one I chose. Should I switch doors?`

Big answer:

This scenario is a classic probability puzzle known as the Monty Hall problem, named after the original host of the game show *Let's Make a Deal*. Here's how it works and what you should do:

1. **Initial Choice**: You choose one of the three doors. At this stage, the probability that you have selected the door with the great prize is \( \frac{1}{3} \), and the probability that the great prize is behind one of the other two doors is \( \frac{2}{3} \).

2. **Host's Action**: The host, who knows what is behind each door, then opens one of the remaining two doors to reveal a bad prize. This step is crucial because the host always reveals a bad prize and always chooses one of the doors you did not pick.

3. **Decision Point**: You now have the option to stick with your original choice or switch to the other unopened door. Here’s why you might consider switching:

- If your original choice (let's say you chose door 1) was correct (which has a probability of \( \frac{1}{3} \)), then the other two doors (2 and 3) both have bad prizes, and switching would cause you to lose.

- However, if your original choice was incorrect (which has a probability of \( \frac{2}{3} \)), meaning the prize is behind one of the other two doors, the host's action of opening another door (say he opens door 3, revealing a bad prize) leaves the door with the prize (door 2) still closed. Switching in this case would lead you to win.

4. **Probability of Winning**:
- If you do not switch, you win if your original choice was the door with the prize (probability \( \frac{1}{3} \)).
- If you do switch, you win if your original choice was not the door with the prize (probability \( \frac{2}{3} \)).

Therefore, **you should switch doors**. Switching doors doubles your chances of winning the great prize, from \( \frac{1}{3} \) (if you stick with your original choice) to \( \frac{2}{3} \) (if you switch). The switch works in your favor because it capitalizes on the probability shift caused by the host's action of revealing a bad prize behind one of the doors you did not initially pick.
The Fall of the Queen of Airbnb
could you solve this with a "requester pays" bucket?

not viable for a public bucket, but seems like it'd do the trick on private buckets.

edit: hahaha, i'm wrong https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Reques...
You don't have to remove support to extinguish a protocol; just sufficiently degrade it to the point that it's unusable.

With that in mind (and how outrageously useless SMS is in 2024), I think you can absolutely accuse Apple's reluctance to standardize as extinguishing. Unless they correct course, iMessage's greatest contribution to text-messaging will be making it a proprietary affair. That would be the lamest way to go down in history, which is why I really hope Apple does the right thing and either a) commits to a better standard than RCS or b) extends iMessage to some more reasonable and open protocol.
More cutting edge computational research here : https://sigbovik.org/
In general breaking digital DRM is trivial. Or only mildly challenging as in the end you can get projector and camera... With text OCR and some automated editing should be good enough. And LLMs might make it even simpler.
>That is very sloppy of Russia. Why even bother doing something so dumb?

Some old-fashioned generals did not account for the digital footprint that may be left and modern data mining capabilities when they designed it. In fact, that digital footprint may have not existed yet when the entire scheme was designed. When you need to tell everyone doing ID check that this person must not be bothered, you give them plates from some VIP series or a passport with a certain number - it was a common practice in Russia. I'm pretty sure that this has changed in last few years after those investigations and they write the laws and design the databases assuming zero trust (public property registries now hide or obfuscate information about some entries for example).
Yes, it controls reproduction, but not all uses are a reproduction. The law also has zero concerns for "spreading costs" and it's why "fair use" and libraries can even exist in the first place.

Further, simply because you give out copies of your work for free, does not mean you suddenly lose copyright protection. Costs and copyright are two entirely separate issues, which is why open source licenses can exist. Your attempt to convolve these two facts leads to an incredibly messy interpretation.

Digital books are not different in any meaningful way. You have the right to sell a digital copy. Once sold, the user who purchased it, has a right to use that copy in any way the see fit. Including lending it to others, selling it second hand, or even reading it out loud as part of an event.

The article makes it perfectly clear, this is not driving costs down, so while you may be happy with that outcome, that's clearly not what's actually occurring. So I'm genuinely surprised you've gone to this much effort to advocate for something that demonstrably fails to produce the outcome you're after.
I have the opposing view. Ivy league has spread anti-Israel propaganda and misinformation for decades while taking Qatari money. It got so deep a lot of Jews within Academia have a very distorted view of history and accept various academic claims (e.g. equating Israel with colonialism) as fact rather than as an academic exercise.

It sounds like your view of these people is that they don't really have agency over their own beliefs, and are simply passively manipulated by dark, outside forces.