skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My wife is a librarian. The elephant in the room here is that patrons are shifting toward a preference for digital distribution. However, Fair Use has not caught up. So, libraries end up spending a large portion of their operating budget "leasing" ebooks from publishers at extraordinary markup over the print copies. These leases are only good for so many "check outs" -- often as few as 4-6 -- after which point, the lease must be renewed at a price that can be 2X or 3X the cost of the print book. It's downright predatory.

If you haven't read this, now's the time to: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshit...

> IA may have gone beyond pushing the envelope and well into stepping over the line on this one, but it is an important legal challenge. I don't think IA will or should win, but I do hope that their loss shifts the needle of public opinion a bit toward actual Fair Use.

Very unlikely that would happen and libraries would inevitably pay the ultimate price in the long run in a period where they're under attack and most at risk of extinction from all fronts (politicians, governments, publishers, copyright cartel, list goes on all hate libraries and this would be a huge win for those groups as a sign to cripple them even more).
Thread succinctly summarized as: "Nothing will happen bro, just trust us." Fucking liar. This is a trojan horse and a power grab. The only thing that matters is the text of the bill, not some bullshit explanations by the authors.
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> you seldom create a really big win.

A win for who? Every person I know who built a small company to solve a small problem did quite well and were quite happy. No VCs won there, but that is fine. They didn't become famous. They did become rich and have a lot of personal freedom.

If that is not your definition of success, then sure, look for more. But I think most people would be fine with a small success.
Reportedly, the ADC's of the ESP32 are unreliable.
There's a core problem with LLMs: they learn sentences, not facts.

So an LLM may learn a ton of English-language sentences about cats, and much fewer Spanish sentences about gatos. And it even learns that cat-gato is a correct translation. But it does not ever figure out that cats and gatos are the same thing. And in particular, a true English-language fact about cats is still true if you translate it into Spanish. So the LLM might be a genius if you ask it about cats in English, but in Spanish it might tell you "gatos tienen tres patas" simply because OpenAI didn't include enough Spanish biology books. These machines are just unfathomably dumb.
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and if you want to read about the real world Russian illegals that were caught in the US and traded in the 2010 spy swap, read the FBI pages on Operation Ghost Stories: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-ins...
How do you compare against Vantage, Dashdive, Infracost, Usage, etc.?
Dude once you work in industry you will realize that LLMs aint coming for your job any time soon.
The job, for many software engineers, is primarily soliciting and then translating domain-expert requirements into technical requirements. The coding is just wrapping things up.

LLMs are useless for this.
That would work better and more efficient.

But than there's no "AI" in there. So nobody would like to throw money on it currently.
I'm doubtful of the "...but don't harm anything else" statement. Why do you believe this statement to be true?
Socioeconomic equalisation generates new ideas of balance Essays
The period that "nonplussed" started developing this contrary meaning was the most literate and educated period in human history.
vaguely related: if you are flying around January 19, 2038 you have far more faith in your fellow coders than I ever did
New York is a no fault state. Billing those NF3 claims almost always requires going to arbitration. It’s a terrible arrangement.
The un-solved problem is how to ensure users actually verify the results, since human laziness is a powerful factor.

In the long run, perhaps the most dangerous aspect of LLM tech is how much better it is at faking a layer of metadata which humans automatically interpret as trustworthiness.

"It told me that cavemen hunted dinosaurs, but it said so in a very articulate and kind way, and I don't see why the machine would have a reason to lie about that."
wouldn't affect me whether or not they operated at all, but those legal persons do have rights in this country. i couldn't say for anywhere else (nor would that affect me either).
Only in a very limited sense. Look up what happens when you try add a restriction of "You can't use this software for evil", or "You can't use this software to make nuclear weapons" to OSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Software_lic...
You would should both to the airline staff. "This is my ID I used, and this is my ID which allows me entry so you(the airline) won't have to bring me all the way back to my arrival point." Airline staff will not record this second form of ID: it's only to show the staff for a moment.
> 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.

I guess they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

We constantly complain about slow lawmaking, "Look at how out of touch Congress are! XYZ technology is moving so fast, and they're always 10-20 years behind!" Finally, someone is actually on the ball and up-to-date with a current technology, and now the other complainers complain that they're jumping the gun and regulating too soon. Lawmakers can't win.
Let's suggest you're using pineapple plants. They are nowhere near the best choice if CO2 mitigation is your goal.

One human produces 51.4g CO2 per day (note: this number is from the leading source on Google, which is on the low end of a wide range of reported numbers).

100cm2 of leaf area consumes roughly 1g CO2 per day.

So you'd need roughly 5,000 cm2 of pineapple leaf area, or 0.5 m2, or (roughly) 5 square feet of leaf area. Easily doable.

You'd want to triple that to get the numbers noticeably below ambient. Also doable.

During my travels I've measured large buildings that have lots of indoor plants. They feature the lowest CO2 ppm numbers I've ever recorded, anywhere, around 200ppm.
This just moves the mimicry to the app stores. Admittedly there's some curation but it's far from perfect
Most who write articles like this don't even know the life they want much less a feasible way to get there. All they really know is the life they have is the life they don't want. When you think like that then every decision you ever made is viewed as a mistake because they all led you to where you are.
I'm a fan of AI-empowered coding, but I'm not a fan of a single SaaS vendor dominating the entire software lifecycle. That's an incredibly dangerous proposition.

I'd love to see anyone but Microsoft push ahead, and ideally, lots of players.
As the same as the software developer, the value of them isn't just to have technical knowledge.
Or simply: "become a president"
When dealing with inputs of diverse latencies, another approach is a replayable event stream with app state that's checkpointed or otherwise retractable. My laptop had cameras tracking hands on keyboard, creating fused input. For key events with finger id and position on keycap, keycap touching as modifiers, and keycap touch events without pressing. But while you want ui response to keypress to be very fast, tracking info wouldn't become available until the next video frame finally showed up and was processed. Integrating voice faces similar issues - speech-to-text "launch the missiles!" might shortly later become "lunch is mussels, in butter!", with launch needing retraction. Which required adapting app state and its modification.
He wanted to write 10 x, but then realized a bit shift of 10 places would be a better estimate.
The title is matching the title of the linked article (if you’re referring to the title here on HN, and not the title the author chose to use for their article).

From a pedantic perspective, the title doesn’t imply the positivity/negativity of the correlation, just that there is a relationship to be elaborated upon in the article.
It is either being downwoted/flagged into the oblivion, or manually marked.
seizing the domain would give them nothing.
Insider has a well established brand, they can easily reopen it in any other domain.
Also getting some private information during the registration process might be helpful for the state.
"I looked at Jim and he seemed nonplussed by the situation." Is Jim acting cool and relaxed according to his character, or is he uncharacteristically flustered? The author knows, the reader might not.
Why does that make the earth special?

Is the single one in a million dimensional one-hot vector special? Why?

If only intelligent life can have this conversation then it will always be "but why us?!?!" well, it was random. Just the other random values don't get to ask the question...
> This is an argument that is too complex to be wrap into the ban of a single company.

I disagree. There are several considerations here:

1. Free speech: a ban on a specific company is going to be challenged on First Amendment grounds. ByteDance has a plausible case here. The bar for government restriction on speech is necessarily high.

This raises the question of whether Congress actually wants this to pass or is this performative? That's an unanswered question. But a serious effort to clamp down on Tiktok in particular or supposed foreign control of speech in general would try to avoid 1A challenges.

2. To sell this to voters, putting it in terms of "I can't sell cars in China so we don't allow Chinese cars in the US" is easy to understand and it appeals to the innate sense of "fairness".

3. The reciprocity argument also falls outside of Free Speech issues. It's commerce not free speech, which courts are way more responsive to, even in cases where courts should see a 1S issue (eg various state laws banning anti-BDS movements).

> Reciprocity is a moral assessment, international trade is just way too complicated for that IMHO.

It's not. It's a core part of trade agreements, so much so that China needed a special dispensation in their WTO entry to avoid reciprocity requirements.

> ... the US gov seeking control over a foreign asset is probably not a about following policies or not.

Sure, it is. Meta or Twitter aren't under scrutiny. There's no effort around data privacy or how the algorithm works. Meta has gotten in trouble a few times for policy issues: eg racial discrimination in housing ads and allowing the import of drugs from Canada.

> imagine a court deciding that FTX didn't follow banking policies so another entity buying it within a year is the solution.

I don't have to imagine it. The FDIC takes over banks all the time.
This looks way cooler than the "custom" case I made out of Legos to house my homebrew NAS. I had four USB hard drives plugged into a hub and that hub was plugged into an Nvidia Jetson. I wanted to make it self-contained and knockoff Legos are so cheap that it was an easy experiment to run. Also fun.

This looks a lot more professional and I'm kind of jealous.
Hundreds of people die preventable deaths every year trying to cross that border. Exposure, dehydration, drowning, etc. If you don't know anything about where these people are you can't do anything to help them.

Even if you support open borders, this technology is essential.
Concatenative languages [1] have the property that every token sequence is a valid program.

For languages using single bits as tokens, every bit sequence is a valid program. One such language is Chris Barker's zot [2].

Inspired by zot, I defined a concatenative version of Binary Lambda Calculus that shares the same property [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot#Zot

[3] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/32309/concatena...
Nope. The incidence of vulns in freshly written vanilla PHP is higher than any other web-dev language I've seen. The reputation is deserved, and existed since before it stopped being a trendy language.

Skilled PHP devs know to avoid the footguns, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Fair, to me being able to ctrl-z to a shell, open quickly, be absolutely snappy at all times, etc. is paramount to the Vim experience.

VSCode has nothing on Vim with a good LSP config, granted, it can be overwhelming for beginners, but it's not that hard. It's an investment for sure, OTOH, I'm also a NixOS user :P.
How would that be possible? Communism is much like Star Trek: An imagining of what the world might look like if we ever were to achieve post-scarcity. As far as anyone knows, we don't have the technology.

A "Communist state", meaning a state that is under control of the Communist Party, will claim a goal of working towards achieving post-scarcity, but there has been no such achievement to date.
This. Separate the tasks. Always use one provider as your domain registrar (ex: NameSilo) and another provider for your DNS (ex: Cloudflare).
To be clear, I'm not intending six months to be some sort of limit. I know it seems elitist but my intent is the exact opposite.

Someone willing to be so dedicated that they'll invest both money and time, while not falling back to old habits, will most likely succeed without the 'payment' part.

Anyone should be able to sit down and dedicate themselves to self-improvement or entertainment for free.

It's all very arbitrary. Not all six months are equal. Not all editing is equal. I edit more than any healthy person should, is it good or bad? Who knows.
Yeah to be clear I think Copilot Workspace is a great start. I wonder if the future is multi-modal though. Ignoring how obnoxious it would be to anyone near me, I could foresee narrating my stream of thoughts to the mic while using the keyboard to actually write code. It would still depend on me being able to accurately describe what I want, but it might free me from having to context switch to writing docs to hint the LLM.
Yes, it could, but IA, which - up to now - looked more professional and reliable could, too. And, unexpectedly, that's what's happening now.

Maybe archive.ph will also surprise us, by being more resilient.

Anyway, it's an alternative, for now.
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Not melt, soften slightly
Is 2,000 billion some theoretical limit or something else? Thanks.
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> they check both passports on the outbound travel to Russia, e.g. in Narva, Estonia

Who is "they"?

If "they" is the airline, then physically show them the Russian passport: they don't record this information, they only need to see it to confirm that they won't have to fly you back (for free?) to your departing location.

If border control (again: by flying), simply saying "my flight is to the UK" works.
Not a linguist, but I think this is just a matter of proto-indo-european having complicated morphology and its descendants reverting to the mean.

A related reddit thread (I know, I know, sorry): https://old.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/o12hy0/instanc...

It's worth noting of course that there is more to grammar than morphology.
What are the worst consequences of losing the appeal? Could this put the Internet Archive out of business or seriously impact its ability to operate?
> thorium crystal clock

Take note, science fiction writers.
That's cherry-picking an intentionally silly example. Replacing the NAND is within the realm of possibility for an evil maid, and even more likely prior to a resale.

Now, considering that the lid close sensor DRM leaves the laptop in the state that a hostile entity would want (including your example) - the laptop doesn't automatically lock, what is the security argument there?
serious question: What good is perl in 2024.

Follow up: where do you see it going.

Full disclosure: never implemented anything useful in perl in my personal or professional capacity for the last decade, except for debugging a few scripts here and there.
This is platform-specific, right? Chromium corrects for drift (https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...)
Cute idea, and useful research to answer the question, but the experimental result is essentially nothing.
None of the examples generated anything semantically more complex than `0-0`.

Many scripting languages will tolerate meaningless input.

Instead of these extremely non-character-istic splatters, I think scribbles or random raster bitmaps would be better input.
Most of it doesn't even require AI. The majority of those jobs can be eliminated just by implementing existing interoperability standards between payer and provider organizers, and then writing some simple deterministic rules. I previously worked on projects to do just that. There is a tremendous amount of waste (and associated jobs) that can be eliminated without buying a single GPU.
Try posting on a relatively popular cryptocurrency Telegram group and will be receive a lot of messages and calls within 30'
I was routinely picked last if not at all in sports all throughout my childhood.

As a result, I picked up sports I could do on my own, such as lifting weights, biking, swimming, and running. Individual sports such as golf and tennis followed naturally.

I would have otherwise been a complete shut-in. Although I do have a lack of executive function, I make sure to get exercise as often as I can. Classes at the local gym are a godsend - I don't need to prep, plan ahead, or anything. I just need to show up at the right time and the thinking has been done for me.

I'm thankful I got the opportunity to do all the physical activities I did. Helped that my siblings were all big athletes and most kids in my neighborhood were too.

Kids today don't have that, and I feel for them.
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Support team is one thing. Google's Python team was a small team, most of which were also on the Python steering council or Core Python developers. These people had decades of experience in Python. Their knowledge and community connections is irreplaceable.
but there's no safety net for things that are outside the justice system (e.g., "is this a fair contract?") or things the aren't in the justice system yet (e.g., "am i allowed to cut down my neighbor's tree if it blocks my view?")
The link on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200109 is much better.
This! Absolutely. It's as if people think the brain isn't even an organ in the body and that it's completely disconnected from the rest of the body. After doing a ton of research and listening to many talks on metabolic syndrome and all the diseases caused by our modern diets, I've realized just how impactful diet can be on the body, the brain and the many modern diseases caused by our modern diets and lifestyle.
Curious to see how it goes.
For 20 years I have been working with Vim and recently added the Co-pilot plugin which is awesome.
I can't however see myself using a different editor/IDE than the good'ol vim.
It's not that I haven't tried, but all those IDEs tend to be bloated and consume tons of memory.
And a follow-follow-up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/0...

Unfortunately for Weingarten, the only living two time Pulitzer winner for feature writing leaned into his ignorance about Indian food and managed to get himself invited to retire from the Post.
This is miniature OOP and that puts you in "major catastrophe" territory according to some on this thread.
I disagree. I think of movements taking input and energy. It is an active and conscious effort to change something. Upholding the status quo is akin to doing nothing. It's not active; it's passive. It's not a movement, it's a stationary. The two seem distinct to me.

I tend to agree with you on a moral/culpability level: passive acceptance is doing something but I wouldn't call it a "movement."
I always admire the depth and effort people are willing to get into, especially if the chance of messing up means losing actual money, like tweaking guitars or hardware. I assume you have to gain some experience with soldering irons or woodworking tools elsewhere before taking the proverbial axe to a project like this. I wonder why there isn't much of a market of more hackable small form factor boxes where it's easier to tinker with the hardware or software. I'd love a consumer (price) level NAS where the OS can be ripped out and replaced with some vanilla OS/kernel.

Or maybe I'm just too chicken with modifying actual physical objects.
https://rentry.org/GPT2 <-- I found this site with some comments

Personally I find its math abilities really high (in the ballpark of gpt4-turbo and claude opus). By math I mean like undergrad math (Calc I, intro algebra)
It may indeed kill the project and it's a tragic example of play stupid games win stupid prizes. There have been enough decades of lost lawsuits now that any thinking person ought to know better than to go sticking a fork in the outlet that is distributing copyrighted materials.
[dupe]

More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200081
Generally speaking, I associate fanboyism of any type with the kind of "blind consumerism" I tend to judge people for. To the credit of the M series detractors, outside of Apple's ecosystem, ARM isn't a real competitor yet in the consumer space. If you aren't using macOS (or possibly Asahi), the M series just isn't consequential to you as an end user.

ARM certainly has potential. Microsoft's initially half-assed attempt at providing compatibility, paired with hitching their wagon on Qualcomm isn't helping consumer adoption. In the enterprise we are seeing some progress, as the prior decade's push for platform independence has enabled software to be more easily ported to different architectures. Maybe we'll see the datacenter move to ARM followed by the consumer space?
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I would prefer all green energy, but there is a lot of natural gas in the US. Likely, closing down a coal plant and replacing it with a gas plant will happen in more than a few places.
Well, you did not realize that the relationship-choice-of-person itself was the problem, until that pattern got broken.
I'm talking about the blackbody radiation of the sun's surface, which accounts for almost all of the light. The X-ray flux at earth is 11 orders of magnitude lower than the blackbody-related flux.
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Yes, it's an alternative, not a copy. For example, it doesn't provide "emergency library" style borrowing, and maybe this missing feature is a pro, not a con.