skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nix language is laughably simple, though, and (unlike Scheme) it happens to be typed.

It's literally just typed JSON with functions and a few built-ins. It's laughably simple and great. The whole "yet another programming language" refrain is so silly when it comes to Nix.
I mean, jq can aggregate... Maybe it should have more interesting aggregations built-in though.
That's something I think the EU got right -- being hard-nosed about true tracking consent requiring a user to receive the same outcome regardless of their choice.

Anything shy is begging companies to dark-engineer patterns around obtaining it.
I hope not but i bet you're right. I'm sure there's lots of people working on llms to generate a "cognitive complexity" score like some of the static code analyzers we have. It will be so ripe with false positives as to be effectively worthless however the score is an easy thing to build a metric, report, and policy on... just like with the analyzers today.
We need to know what he put the money into.

Only knowing one side of their trade doesn't tell us anything. A comment like "It's up 25% of his sale price in the few days after he sold" is nonsense unless we know he didn't invest in something else up 25%!

Even in our own investing we should be comparing A versus B - not looking at A alone. And generally most talk about stocks has this problem.
serverpartdeals has a seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-3-5-recertified-hard-drive that I went with.
US, Argentina to cooperate, combat illegal Chinese fishing
We know the observable universe was part of the big bang and is expanding, maybe even because we're observing it. We have no concept of whether that dense spot was all there was, and there are a whole slew of other caveats, so it could even be orders of magnitude larger.

Our current knowledge is functionally zero in the grand scheme of things.
Ever been frustrated with a piece of software? Or wished for some software to exist to solve a problem? Well just point these nifty tools at it and watch the solutions magically materialize. That will comfort you somewhat after being bummed out over obsoletion. But if you find you can't materialize the desired software quick time then.. I guess at least for now humanity still required
How is "billion" ambiguous?

Does it mean something other than 1,000,000,000?

EDIT: Apparently in some cultures, it means a million million, ie, 1,000,000,000,000, or what most people would call "trillion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
Location data that includes your home in the suburbs is pretty identifiable.
My guess: the people in your group have very high salaries and they want to dump them. I would not be surprised if they hire people to make a new team at some point in the future.

I run HR at a small software company reports and my HR person has a lot of friends in HR at FAANGs. For 10+ years we've been talking about hiring and salaries at Google (and others). It's just crazy to me how high salaries have gotten. I know someone that switched from Google to FB when they made $750k at Google and got $1M at FB.

I said all this to say: I've talked to a bunch of people over the last 6 months that know someone laid off and: 1) they had a very high salary, and 2) the group they were in was hiring.
Seems like a weird comparison to make considering the money they made selling the data is only a small fraction of their overall revenue.
Yeah, I would agree. I think the author was trying to force a narrative too much (they were trying to compare Trisolarians coming to WHAT exactly?).
To the counterpoint as well, I think much of 3-Body it was actual a motivational tale that humanity would set aside its differences and come together in times of crisis.
Because of NAT ALGs, most consumer NAT devices actually allow plaintext protocols to bypass the internet-facing firewalls inside routers.

Unless you program your own ALGs, you basically get to pick between "SIP, FTP, and a bunch of other protocols don't work without port forwards" or "your public firewall is off for almost anyone who can make your computer load an ad".

NAT breaks internet protocols and as a result we got firewall-evading workarounds.
>that still doesn’t matter because of the income from future sales will still make this behaviour worthwhile

Wouldn't future sales also be fined?
I'd fathom to guess that it's not even worth Google's time to replace a ten people team. It's probably just a KPI sent from the top -"Replace a few people to earn your bonus this year". Constructing useless KPI, when you cannot come up with interesting ones.
AI Startups Have Plenty of Cash. They Often Don't yet Have a Business
3. And if they do read something, they don't understand what they read, either because it's poorly written or because they start from different assumptions than the ones the writer had in mind.
And why should I even offer you an advance if I’m not going to make any money off your book. Heck, why should I invest any money in editing your book for that matter.

I’m not sure it’s exceedingly rare for an author to not make some beer money on top of single dollar advances but it’s not a full-time job for many authors. It mostly works to support the day job or as a hobby.

But many authors might as well self-publish today. I mostly have.
I have a lot of trouble taking this obviously bad faith argument seriously. Aside from the fact that we're comparing random fan artists with well resourced tech corporations that trained on hundreds of millions of images, most rightsholders seem to appreciate that fan art is free publicity for them. If nobody is going after fan art, then there's not really a problem. On the other hand, many people and organizations seem pretty happy to file suits against OpenAI.
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202695
Call me out if I'm misremembering this, but I think the vast majority of comments were of the same opinion (then and now) and not "so many people are quick to come to its defense because they love IA so much for the other stuff". I'm sure there was a lot of "I love the IA so much for the other stuff" but then it was also followed by something like "but wtf is this risk they're taking"
Oh no, someone who might have become megarich settles for... upper class and we treat this like it's something worth critiquing?

Optionality stuff like what you're describing is rationale and leads to by far the best expected returns on life satisfaction. Less stupid risk taking, more careful decision making would do a lot to make the world better.
what I've done with my kids, I have many. 5 is a bit young for electronics in my experince, their motor skills are still developing and are just learning to hold tools in their hand / pens pencils.

I've gotten a lot of ads for electronic kits and I usually spend more time reading the directions and figuring it out than doing the actual project. I've done the ELEGOO kit from Amazon and that was a lot of fun. made lights blink, fans blow etc.

-so many kits from LEGO! when you are doing building with the instructions you can modify what you built to do other things. this I think is the best way to go

-start easy with replacing batteries in things. show them it doesn't work without batteries, then put in batteries and it works. show them different types of batteries.

-take apart toys / fix toys. when something breaks, figure out why it breaks. it is usually a wire that needs to be soldered. that is really fun.

-if you have something like power wheels for really little kids, you can get an upgrade kit to increase the power, that is REALLY fun.

-get a rasp-pi kit from cana and build a retro pi. show them what USB ports are and how to plug things into USB. show them the parts of the computer.

-rip apart a cable and show them what is inside.

-show them how to pair a Bluetooth speaker / headphones.

-introduce them to a proper mouse and keyboard and how to use it. gaming is a great way to do this, especially roblox/minecraft.

The best possible thing you can do is anytime something breaks in your house is to help them fix it and be patient with them. be very patient and don't do it for them no matter what. show them how to do it, undo it and let them do it. last week I got some RFID stickers and showed them how to program a message with their iPad. they scan the Ipad and it says their name, or sends Mom/Dad a message. very fun! good luck!
>Whether or not copyright has "worn out its welcome", it continues to be a legal reality in the US.

Unless you're a billion-dollar corporation who needs to feed your LLM.
That is just amazing!

I hope this kind of thing makes it to Bluetooth eventually. Battery free backscatter tags have so many uses.
I mean Microsoft Access is still around
Also invested in Satellogic a nano Satellite firm [1].

[1] https://satellogic.com/news/press-releases/satellogic-announ...
Firewalls don’t fail safe, NAT does.

With a disabled/broken/misconfigured firewall, there is a good chance that everything works sans security. With a disabled/broken/misconfigured NAT, you may as well have unplugged the ethernet cable
leagues ahead of gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
> We constantly complain about slow lawmaking

I don't think I've ever complained about slow lawmaking.

I've complained about a lack of rights and a lack of enshrined rights.
ISPs charging extra for a static IP seem to rotate IPv6 prefixes. It's just a scam to squeeze a little bit of extra money out of their customers.
That assumes that it would be reasonable to expect a beginner to understand the code base of any nontrivial application or system. I don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation, if only because there are countless requirements, assumptions, experiences made, priorities and design decision that have to be known to understand the code.

It’s also a question of economy. You can always try to make a code base easier to understand and to document anything and everything, but it comes at a cost. It doesn’t help if a code base is in principle understandable by a beginner if they have to spend months reading documentation first, and someone had to spend months if not years to write it.
So far nearly all FLOSS projects was built without money from someone, simply the users offer resources, every university offer mirrors, most large companies using some FLOSS project donate resources to the project.

At some point in time this disappear, maybe when most actors decide to ditch their own operation for someone else "the cloud", and as a result there are no spare resources to support FLOSS. Similarly the FLOSS community became thin, quarrelsome, not really supported etc.

This is why many say the FLOSS ecosystem is dead because there aren't anymore FLOSS model contributors. The current state of FLOSS is mostly big corp show embracing the model because they need pre-existing sw developed and licensed this way.

Personally I have nothing against mil-tech sponsorship, I'm deeply against the absence of a FLOSS model. The Ops-less state of things, where no one own it's infra, have iron and so on, is a terrible vulnerability waiting catastrophic detonation and Nix/Guix success and failures are in the same line: most people get convinced that's normal to have a system based on paravirtualisation, they see nothing strange in downloading pre-built docker images for anything, run k8s on a single homeserver and so on.

We are loosing knowledge trying mimicking GAFAM model witch is archaic and anti-users, and it's built especially for that, to lock in people, these days even mentally, since so many see no vulnerabilities in using for instance GitHub not as a mere repo host but for PR/CI and so on, even if we have witnessed bans, massive geo-bans and so on. We have a big slice of people unable to visualize the dangerous IT mess we are in.

Nix community in storm is just a symptom.
This is very interesting. Would love to try it but Dart/Flutter is not yet supported
Will you also do a 70B finetune? Thanks.
An unfortunate consequence of internet piracy is that noncommercial activity has been pushed out of mainstream policy. The library was way more crucial when I couldn't just illegally pirate a book on the internet. In turn I was way more willing to fight for it.
"incredibly high". This means finding an amount that high strains believability. I don't own one but I see X3s every time I commute to work. Obviously I see far more expensive cars too but I wanted to keep it somewhat reasonable.
Shareholders don’t care about that.

“We were fined $20 million for something that makes us $200 million” is a no brainer choice to a shareholder.

And the probability of getting that fine imposed is far less than 1.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1197963517/dupont-chemours-ch...
to clarify, this was a third party company called securus that offered a blanket deal to track practically everyone based on a deal they had with cellular companies to purchase tracking data. Securus normally only works with US prisoners. They were collecting data on everyone and then rebranding that capability/relationship as a service. it no longer exists apparently in a hamfisted attempt to avoid more litigation beyond the FCC judgement.

https://securustechnologies.tech/investigative/investigation...

no technical details yet though about how precise the tracking was...im a bit hazy on where the carrier modem stops and where the firmware/hardware start (thats probably by design...) Is it possible to poll GPS in realtime for coordinates? likely not...is it likely the ASN was polled from towers to provide a range of affinity for a user? definitely.
It's dizzying even on the galactic scale to internalize that discrete, visible stars are "right there" compared to the general murkiness of the Milky Way. A sphere of very near stars right next to us relatively speaking
So all it took to unfuck the Russian economy is for it to be subjected to sanctions and import/export restrictions? Weird, countries rarely tend to prosper under those circumstances.

I thought that the crooks in charge were running it into the ground for the past ~33 years, I didn't realize that this was all it took to get them to start managing the country well.

> if you ask anyone in those small and formerly depressive Russian cities where property prices are currently rising.

Not sure which properties you're talking about, most of the Soviet construction in my home town is - quite literally - falling apart, with no motivation or economic capacity, or money to repair, rebuild, or replace any of it.

Sure, you can inflate property values to whatever amount you want, if you start printing money to finance a war, but that doesn't on its own result in economic prosperity. You actually need to make stuff, and Russian industry has lost the ability to do that decades ago.
Trucks could detect locations to extract game-changing energy from earth
Old now, but I thought this was an effective demonstration:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat...
They gathered images from pinterest.
Even if you can't read, the meaning of the symbol is clear as it's always seen next to a fire extinguisher.

The fire part is also on the emergency exit sign.

I don't know the word for fire in Hungarian, but I will recognise these symbols next time I'm in Budapest.
Except there is no way to prove what profits they made from it. They'll just pay an "accounting firm" to audit and say that the venture was unprofitable.
"last-ditch effort to save itself" is the title, "things aren't looking good for the Internet's archivist" the subtitle. But no mention of what losing the lawsuit actually means for IA: is it actually existential as the title and subtitle are alluding to? That's the only thing I care about if we assume (1) the IA is important and (2) they're gonna lose, both of which I think virtually everyone thinks are realistic statements. Bit disappointed by the article because it's rehashing what we know

Edit: found the answer

> per Wikipedia, as of eight months ago (August 2023), the lawsuit parties already reached & had the court approve a negotiated settlement that caps the potential costs to the IA at a survivable level

^from another comment, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203627>, nearly at the very bottom of the thread (perhaps because it looks like a wall of text at first glance? But the most important info is first). Thanks, gojomo!

I just hope this appeal cannot make it worse than it is. Sounds like it will soon again be a good time to donate to the IA: they survive, plaintiffs see there is nothing more to take, then we fund their regular operations and hope for no more "emergency" ideas
My point is that we need to talk about all three.
Doesn’t US law enforcement purchase commercial data like this to get around having to get a warrant?
if this is the case, it really needs to MATERIALLY benefit you. My friend uses all the rewards apps and really uses credit card points, programmes, etc, and it does benefit them.

Me? I just use cash everywhere and now the guy at harbor freight knows I'm the guy who says 'I dont have a cell phone number'.

Contracts you know, they need to benefit both sides.
Peacock Hikes Subscription Prices Ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics
Sure, when you get caught and are being interrogated for crimes against the state, you go right ahead and provide your new friends access to those accounts. <facepalm>

Edit: Nothing you wrote contradicts anything I said. Your quote proves my statement. They had other sources of income than their cover provided, and the investigators used that to zero in them. <anotherFacepalm>
You are extrapolating from when we saw huge improvements 1-2 years ago. Performance improvements have flatlined. Current AI predictions reminds me of self-driving car hype from the mid 2010s
The market value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it.

Always has been, always will be.
If you like this sort of stuff, Pluto TV is really good.

Their official app is ad-infested, tracker-infested, georestricted garbage. However, the streams directly don't implement any of this. Their geo blocks seem to be Deezer-style client side checks that don't even apply to you if you're using VLC or any other third-party app.
I've found that I can most easily express myself in Perl. I love the feeling that you can never truly exhaust the language. I hated the indentation at gunpoint and overall sterility of Python, and JavaScript is much more disjointed than what anyone imagines Perl to be.

My most recent task using it was writing a backup script that connects to various systems, archives stuff, then copies it to a NAS and then updates a backup log.

Before that I created a demo site for a business idea using Mojolicious (Perl web framework) + DBIx::Class (Perl ORM), and I believe we could have completed the project using them. But due to concerns that we couldn't find or pay Perl programmers when we scale we abandoned it for a rewrite in C#/ASP.NET. A heart vs mind decision, but business needs came first. I'm aware that I'm the only one of my age (early 30s) in my circles who has learnt Perl.

And that previous sentence is why I fear for its future.
These tools make people who know software engineering massively more productive.

Given the choice between an LLM-assisted non-engineer and an LLM-assisted experienced software engineer, I know who I would want to work with - even if the non-engineer was significantly cheaper.
This reminds me of when Blizzard wanted to collect every user's real name and instead their executives' (and, unfortunately, employees') personal data got put online — https://news.softpedia.com/news/Blizzard-Employees-Have-Thei....
Safari would get no hate if you could freely replace it with other, more capable browsers. It's specifically Apple's attitude towards alternatives that highlights how utterly incapable Safari is.
The easiest way to test the theory is to go into the unknown and find out for yourself. You can walk into life situations with a predisposition (which is a useful skill to have) and then see the feedback that you get in return.

By and large, to really have success with this is to learn meditation (not master it by any means), because even basic meditation will naturally provide insight that is outside of the scope of the mental framework you are accustomed to as a mind.

Even in science, there is a lot of focus on what happens to the person on a physical and a mental level, but little on what happens outside of it, which can only be learned by being quiet/still.

I like your reply and it is balanced, and I am not sure that I could reply to it in any other way than I did now. My personal experiences transcend a lot of such discussion, even what I am saying myself, but those are the elements of being human, being bound by something.

I think manipulation of elements (for example) will be considered as a very primitive thing in the grand scheme of evolution!
That's really disappointing and a little bit scary. That seems like a task tailor fit for an LLM, it's been done a million times before, follows an established protocol, and the implementations are all basically the same. Granted a lot of code is like that but a more realistic task may have been something like "create an online ordering system for a cake company that sells different kinds of cakes, has a sale every so often, and uses coupons printed in the local paper". That task is more ambiguous and better reflects what software devs are tasked with day to day IMO.
I hate when I find a cool AI project and I open the github to read the setup instructions and see "insert OpenAI API key." Nothing will make me loose interest faster.
This is a privileged Western attitude towards child rearing. "I turned out fine without hard work, so you will too." I've seen far too many of those kids get a rude awakening when they reach adulthood.
PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed
The Metaverse Is Dead
It's not harder unless you write hard to read code.

> “Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. ...[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.”
- Robert C. Martin in Clean Code

LLMs make exceptionally clean code in my opinion. They don't try to be fancy or "elegant", they just spit out basic statements that sometimes (or most of the time) do what you need.

Then you _read_ what it suggests, with a skilled eye you can pretty much glance and see if it looks good and test it.
Google: Bad apps and bad actors in 2023
One should definitely not worry that Flutter is drag in the water. One should draw a conclusion based on past performance (being the best predictor of future behavior) that Flutter will at some unknowable point in the future be dead in the water.

Managing the risk of that impact to projects is of course each individual engineers business and responsibility.
Does Porkbun have a good API?
It spreads the interesting stuff out too much for me. Halfway through the third season I realized the episodes were starting to run together in my head and if I waited more than a day to start watching again I ended up rewatching half the episode before realizing I'd already seen it.
I wonder, if you averaged the HN comment thread at the time and took that as legal advice (or even better, if they had announced it and then waited with publishing all those books until there were 24h worth of comments and then used that as legal advice whether to go through with it), if they'd be in a better position now
What if the pitch were "we made $10x selling this data and were fined $x" - seems quite compelling if you're amoral about it.
How did you learn your first language? Most people learn to speak before they learn to read and use a dictionary.