skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The picture that it paints about the actions of the people involved is accurate.

No.

It just criticizes one group for pushing for a specific ideology and then starts pushing for it's own subjective ideology while championing itself as the "rational" and "neutral" position.
Just need to allow Xbox consoles to dual boot into Windows 11 and that will solve all demand problems.
They did, though according to the yearly trends on https://app.electricitymaps.com/ the carbon intensity is back down to 2020 levels — and very similar to America.

Britain and Spain are impressive for the recent reductions in carbon emissions, and France for their long-term nuclear power use.
Universe is fractal, Please stop iterating, it will cause a buffer overflow
It's honestly not that obvious. I never knew there's a difference between the 5-digit and 9-digit versions of my zip code. Most checkout flows do not even allow me to input more than 5 digits in the first place. But upon receiving my mail, the 5-digit code is always corrected to the 9-digit one.

I had never considered that if there were multiple 9-digit expansions of a 5-digit zip code, the correction might turn out wrong unless the full 9-digit code is specified.
Wow. The NIRCam image is probably going to be the most exciting new photo, but I can't get over how well MIRI reveals the internal structure of the nebula.

NIRCam: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Horsehead_...

MIRI: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Horsehead_...

Comparison: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/04/Slider_Too...
There is a very narrow set of restrictions that is generally agreed upon for it to be free software still, and that restriction is generally to the effect of "you can't remove other peoples rights".

That seems extremely different than targeting particular company for idealogical reasons and trying to remove their rights.
Elections and data breaches.
No, its exactly the opposite actually. You're thinking of copyleft. The Free Software movement was a direct response to corporations attempting to restrict what users could do on their own computer via dumb terms of service agreements. It guarantees 4 fundamental freedoms:

>The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

>The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

>The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
Binius: Highly efficient proofs over binary fields
Seems like this is becoming the terminal phase of the FOSS lifecycle for many projects.

I wonder what makes some long-lived communities immune to this behavior...OpenBSD comes to mind.
This is a joke right? No new major social media networks since Snap? Eh what about TikTok?
And everything is an abstract layer of CSV over SFTP /soff
Responsibility Without Authority: Dysfunctional Delegation
There is quite a lot to love about make! I still haven't seen an alternative that is substantially better, and most are worse in one way or another.

My opinion may be a bit skewed by the fact that I write code that gets built on a variety of different platforms, though, and make is essentially universal. It lets me have a consistent build process regardless of platform.

It's also very useful for automation that isn't related to building code.
"While Andreessen may be all over the place ideologically, when you burrow down to his core beliefs they seem pretty simple. He’s a big fan of power. That is power for certain people—i.e., people like him. Rich people, in other words."

Tax these fuckers so they shut up
> Laws should be about the outcome, not about processes that may lead to an outcome

They have to be about both because outcomes aren’t predictable, and whether something is an intermediate or ultimate outcome isn’t always clear. We have a law requiring indicator use on lane change, not just hitting someone while lane changing, for example.
It's not at all like saying that.
The concept of bridges is thousands of years old at this point with well established best practices, and a dense knowledge base on what can go wrong and how much damage can occur if built incorrectly. We aren't at the stage of "bridge innovation" where we don't even know what a bridge collapse looks like.
We know very well the cost, threat to lives, even timeline that a poorly built bridge can cause.

I'm not against legislation regulating AI, but it needs to be targeted toward clear problems e.g.: stealing copyrighted material, profiling crime, face recognition, self driving vehicles, automated "targeting" however you want to interpret that.

I want to point out above are some awful uses of AI that are leveraged mostly by closed, proprietary entities
Cloudflare's Verified Good Bots
One of the best TV shows of all time, I second your recommendation. Rare show that gets better with each season.
Going for 0.1 lb weight lost per week [1].

I started too high the first week, and now--a month in--getting a bit closer to a lose threshold.

Probably will adjust as things go. Not a lot to go on from a comment, but it seems doable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200900
Hey! Initially the project is not going to be open, since i included some payment integration and credentials and more stuff, but at the end i removed, so that's why i pushed in to a new repo to prevent to leak this information
Unless you intend to tell us what you did that got you removed, most of us are going to assume it was your fault. On top of that, you contributed your time to a product you don't own; if it was an Open Source project, at least you could continue contributing on your own terms with a fork.
I recently cancelled my gamepass subscription as well. They keep raising prices and I wasn't playing any of the games offered. It's honestly a lot cheaper in the long run to just buy games on sale than pay a subscription.
Ask HN: Way to extract relevant parts from a PDF based on a question?
Dear HN,

I am trying to do some semantic search in a given corpus of PDF documents based on a question as input. My goal is to find the relevant parts from the PDF that best answers the input question. I am interested in finding out concepts, frameworks, and methodologies that will help me with this task. If you have any pointers, I would greatly appreciate it!
Bioengineering artificial organs.

Space travel to Mars and space colonization/mining.

Brain-computer interfaces.
Gas took over coal not only because it is cheaper due to fracking, but because it is a less damaging fossil fuel. There is no scenario in my mind where coal displaces natural gas, except in the event of an unavoidable supply issue with NG such as supply chain disaster.
I'll just leave this here.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/german-windfar...
This is one of those “so cool yet so silly” brainstorms that I’m grateful someone was audacious enough to entertain. I’m both relieved and saddened that it never came to fruition.

There’s a word, chindogu, to describe things that are less than useless. In some sense this project engendered more problems than it solved. Like so many other attractive brainstorms.
Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0
Sounds like Volkswagen's emissions testing - as long as it plays dumb when talking to a senator, it should be fine.
9 years in Singapore, and I’ve never gotten Myna feces on my pants (nor anywhere else on my person)
You still need legal protection. You have no IP protection without it.

Good luck!
Tiktok can still be a website or even a side-loaded app. The reason for this article is that the law's authors bothered to prevent the most obvious legal workarounds (shell companies / subsidiaries). That they didn't bother with other constraints implies they're OK with it.

Of course this doesn't work for the modern crack dealer, but they can sell the business to just about anyone, in any other country. Not much of a ban really, if free speech was really an issue.
A bit ago (7 months) I asked a related question, that may have ideas for fields or technologies to be excited about working on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473795 (Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished?, 189 comments)

Memristors, alcohol batteries, laptop frame heatpipes, flywheel energy, smart textiles, and several others were mentioned.
“That represents one million, two million, three million jobs.”

Isn't this a flavor of the "broken window" fallacy?

There is more productive work these people can do than the adversarial "deny-fight-ok approve" system we have today.
What is the situation regarding LLM access to the major repositories of case law and legislation at places like Westlaw/LexisNexis? Those are really basic information sources for lawyers around the world and access is tightly controlled (and expsensive!), but its enormously common for lawyers and law students to need subscriptions to those services.

I'm just curious because I can't imagine either Westlaw or LexisNexis giving being controller of access to this information up without a fight, and a legal LLM that isn't trained on these sources would be... questionable - they are key sources.

The legislation text can probably be obtained through other channels for free, but the case law records those companies have are just as critical especially in Common Law legal systems - just having the text of the legislation isn't enough for most Common Law systems to gain an understanding of the law.

EDIT: Looks like westlaw are trying their own solution, which is what I would have guessed: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw-edge
Someone who creates very dangerous items needs to take responsibility for them. Or their production needs to be very heavily regulated. That is just a reality. We don't let companies sell grenades on street corners.

The running away from responsibility is one of the things I like least about big tech.
I think Nix is much simpler and more suited for software packaging than Scheme.
But was he able to actually achieve anything? Turns out the POTUS doesn't have the power to revitalize an industry bound for extinction due to much more powerful economical forces. Decarbonization is a big wheel already turning and cannot be stopped, never mind its direction reversed. All he could do was get himself elected, and honestly that's probably all he wanted.
Man, that would absolutely make the console a steal.
Electric vehicles are a net reduction in energy use — you could burn the oil to make electricity and still come out ahead.
> look behind it, and there are whole edge-on spiral galaxies in the distance. Not stars. Galaxies.

just to add to the awe of that, pretty much every "dot" in one of these images is going to be another galaxy. individual stars from within the Milky Way will have diffraction spikes and very obvious as a single item.
The letter is an unhinged diatribe written by anonymous authors and should be disregarded on that basis.
Ask HN: Is there an acceptable way of sharing partially AI generated content?
Is there a way to share, specifically written, content, that includes AI generated content, publicly in an acceptable way?

More context: I sometimes write blog posts that includes content that is, frankly, better for an AI to write (summaries).
I don't want to contribute to the AI content apocalypse, and I definitely aim to fact check, edit, and check content for bias. However, is there more I can do? Perhaps ways of demarcating and clearly indicating it's AI generated?
If a doctor takes too long they shouldn't be reprimanded, the claim should be automatically approved since it's muddy enough to not be a clear and obvious denial.

Health insurance companies can set the maximum time of review to whatever they want, and if the doctor doesn't decide by then, it gets approved. Doctors should also not be evaluated on % approved vs disapproved, since that provides a perverse incentive.
Yeah, I read about that over the weekend and decided not to buy it. I got AoE IV instead.

The excuses by the company are foolish, too. It's PvE, period. Get out of my system.
> Out of curiosity, where are you?

Not the parent, but in Seattle-Tacoma area, I have waited 10 weeks for an ENT, and 12 weeks for PT availability following a car accident (in which case I ended up doing my own PT and bought bands and tools to do so until then).
The Americans is pretty banal and follows the basic script you would expect. It's good background noise if you want 80s nostalgia though.
The issue isn't whether Anduril can use the the software. They can.

This stemmed from whether they can publically attach their name to NixCon, which is fundamentally a social event.
Never understood why can you bid below the reserve price, or more like why the reserve price is hidden because the whole point that they (the seller) have a price in mind they are not willing to go below.
What's the issue people have with Anduril? Is it just that they make defense equipment?

My (possibly wrong) interpretation is that people feel we shouldn't make weapons. That we should just stop fighting entirely. This is clearly an extremist position, I don't think many people in the west think that we should (for example), completely blockade Ukraine from even buying weapons.

Even if you believe we should stop manufacturing weapons, don't you think this isn't likely to be a popular opinion? That it's unreasonable to expect people to share it?
You just used "the world already sucks" to wave away their point just like you criticized in the comment they were responding to. :(
> can get legislation put forward

This typically works the other way. You find politicians who support you, due to personal views or electoral idiosyncrasies, and then give them money to boost them.
> . If they were truly serious about inclusion, it would be completely fine, but this is just authoritarian assholes hiding behind the veneer of "fighting against fascism"

People arguing from the direction you seem to be usually are big about not assuming intent... why assume intent here?

How can you prove they don't both believe they are fighting about fascism and care about that fight?
I'm not on the app so I wonder if TikTok users found out about the legislation via TikTok.
Yeah, I don't really disagree; I'm still trying to get out of debt from the six months I was unemployed last year (which also ate a bit into my savings, but I live kind of boring so it wasn't super bad). Hopefully that should be coming to a close pretty soon (even sooner if Gemini actually reimburses the money that they ponzi'd out of me like they claim they will). I've been trying to invest in a combo of relatively-low-risk ETFs (VOO and VTI primarily) and US Treasury Bills, to give myself a combo of potentially-higher-than-inflation-reward but also zero-risk-and-still-higher-than-bank-interest money.

Once my wife starts working, we figured that we'd put nearly 100% of her paycheck into some forms of savings to accelerate the process a bit further, since my salary has traditionally been enough to cover the bills. I'd like to have enough money to retire comfortably by my mid-to-late 40's. I think that's realistic.

2023 was one of the worst years of my life, maybe the worst. It was really horrible being laid off twice and having to spend so much time on LinkedIn and doing Zoom whiteboard interviews and waking up to dozens of rejections every morning, not to mention that being laid off twice in a year makes your resume look insanely bad (each stint being about 3 months). As a result, I think I've become more frustrated than I probably should, and grown a strong resentment towards companies, with a nearly-complete lack of optimism that they'll ever do anything even remotely actually-technical.

My current gig seems a lot better but I've learned my lesson about getting my hopes up. We'll see if it lasts more than three months.
Previously I would use 25j/25k to go up and down 25 lines (for e.g.) but I've recently started using a pair of bindings to jump up/down 10 lines at a time. This seems to be striking a nice balance between my natural instinct to simply go up/down toward the desired line and doing it without a bunch of unnecessary keystrokes; I get ~60 lines on screen so I'm usually only a couple of keystrokes away from the line I want. I was finding that a number of lines requiring my right hand to type (e.g. 7-10 on my split KB) meant my right hand was moving up and then back down to the home row for the jk keystroke, which was slow and felt bad. With the 10 line jumps, most of the time, I only need <6 more lines to reach the line I want which my left hand will press leaving my right hand to jk. Seems a silly thing to worry about but doing it often grated on me.

Re. your remarks about d5w: give the t/T and f/F operators a look, if you haven't already. I use these far more than numbered motions when it comes to line based motion. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/146824/what-is-the-...
Engine – build a backend application (Node/libSQL) by describing it
You either die a hero or live to become a villain.
There are lots of cool AI app builders out there, but the backend often seems to be neglected.

I thought it would be cool to focus on a conversational backend builder. There's a frontend tool to try too, but it's very alpha for now.

Stack:

- Fastify Node.js app on Fly.io
- libSQL database on Turso
- managed OAuth
- Vite + React app on Fly.io

Hope you enjoy giving it a try. Reach out if you hit any limits.

I'd be happy to have a discussion here.
Oh yeah, if the G7 agree on climate change, that's definitely happening. Just don't look at the Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord or the Paris Agreement.
The software licencing is also completely irrelevant here, nobody said that Anduril can't use Nix. The issue was that the community largely did not want them as sponsors. There is a very big difference to allowing someone (or some company) to use your software and wanting to participate in a conference where the same company is a sponsor.
It was the metric of the time. I was 13.
"This could inadvertently criminalize the activities of well-intentioned developers working on beneficial AI projects."

It wouldn't be inadvertent. It's a control tactic.

"Placing liability on the creators of general purpose tools like these mean that, in practice, such tools can not be created at all, except by big businesses with well funded legal teams."
...
"These requirements could disproportionately impact open-source developers who often lack the resources of larger corporations to navigate complex regulatory processes."
...
"The proposed regulations create significant barriers to entry for small businesses and startups looking to innovate in the AI space."

That's the idea. The government likes a small number of big businesses that they can control.
Gorgeous and upsetting that I'll never be able to visit it.

13 billion years before me, potentially trillions of years after me. Seems like such a waste of the spark of awareness that I can't take that awareness and experience the galaxy in all its glory.
Dang. 41 in Afghanistan itself!!
It's not hard to argue "the nix community is not 100% white male".
Hey now, I like bullet points myself, as I'm easily distracted otherwise.
i don't know about that, the last 1 or to some extent the last 2 seasons were a bit lazy
Note that what OP said he found was a JAR, not code. If you found an executable built in any language, I would expect it to still be able to run 13 years later.
I liked this article a lot and got excited because the issue resonated with me, and I wanted to see what the solution was. Then the article ended! Haha. Well apparently this is an unsolved problem in society.

It would be interesting to run a company like it’s the free market, where you give out money based off how effective the individual parts of it are. But that’s basically done already, the issue is that work done by humans is not quantifiable and comparable at scale.

Hopefully LLMs when given the reasoning upgrade can perfectly measure all of our contributions and then we can get rid of the central planning group (since they’re so costly) and replace it with some AI
wonder no more [1]

In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/nyregion/lawyer-chatgpt-s...
Corporations are well known for selling things at a loss.
> In short, Dolstra is acting as "the effective Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL)" of the project, even though the NixOS Foundation's charter doesn't grant anyone that authority.

This is silly - authority in a software community doesn’t come from a nonprofit charter. Being founder is also no guarantee of authority, but it is more relevant because it’s rooted in actions and outcomes.

The more I observe from the sidelines of open source the less attention I pay to these sorts of disputes. In the end they are all adjudicated by delivering useful software and updates quickly to end users. Whoever does that better “wins.”

Sometimes this is the founder of the project and sometimes not. In general I think it’s a mistake to think anyone cares all the much about anything beyond the license, capabilities of the software, and how quickly the community/maintainers fix bugs. They may say they do but people who are taking software for free are in no position to dictate much and at the end of the day they know and accept it (especially something like who sponsors a conference, who is the keynote speaker (Rails incident) etc)
Good point.

Definitely an interesting emergent bandwagon phenomenon, i find myself thinking. Years ago i didn’t notice such bandwagon attention seeking sorts of derisive nonsense nearly as much if basically ever.

Like you said, it’s sort of just a reality nowadays.
Aux.computer: An Alternative to the Nix Ecosystem
Machine Learning improved the Chrome address bar on Windows, Mac and
One thing law explicitly says is full shutdown capability. So it should be tested whether it can autonomously hack computers on the internet and propagate itself. In fact Anthropic tested this. See https://metr.org/ for more.
Short answer is that MSK has (almost) all the same problems as OSS Kafka. Kinesis streams is a different beast that would require its own blog post.

RE:numbers: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstream-benchmarks-and-tc...
I'm guessing these are related. If every team is potentially responsible for breakages in every product, there's no such thing as a "just chugging along" product and there will be a constant demand to delete products that are not popular within Google.
If I bought a license in 2004, then run XP for ten years on the same machine, why should I pay for updates when I don’t need the update? If the license said three years, then I’d know I’d be out of support for the last seven years

Everybody knew that updates weren’t free and they’d buy licenses when it was time to move on. But it’s hard to justify moving on when the software is still running fine even on Windows 10.
This is a strawman argument. LLMs, like books, are not inherently dangerous. Grenades are, and lack any legitimate purpose beyond indiscriminate killing.

LLMs are functions of their training data, nothing more. This is evidenced by how we see very different model architectures produce essentially the same result. All of that training data is out there, on the internet, in books; none of that “dangerous” knowledge is banned or regulated, nor should it be.
> My understanding is that Eelco's company, Determinate Systems, _may_ have contracts with customers connected to the military-industrial complex, but I dislike the implication as it renders Eelco as a bad-faith actor.

As chair of the foundation, Eelco should do what he can to avoid even the appearance of malfeasance, including declaring or denying conflicts of interest.