skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine owns _the_ best website by far on how to become a student in Czech Republic. 15 years of effort, hundreds of excellent articles, all the content is regularly updated, etc. Google's ranking for "education in Czech Republic" (in Russian)? Not even in the top 100.

The #1 website in Google's ranking belongs to a company that significantly overcharges future students and has outdated/incorrect information on their website.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/fentanyl-police-ov...
All throughout history there have been people who break laws they disagree with and get punished for it

Sometimes those laws wind up changed later, because of their actions

I personally don't agree that this particular thing is worth taking a stand on, but I do applaud Internet Archive for being willing to take a stand for what they believe is important enough. It takes guts
I have mixed feelings about opt in. A single accidental click on a web site and GDPR has failed to protect the user. Dark patterns allow that to be gamed. And it complicates legitimate uses.

I'd like auditable data. I should have an easy way to discover everyone with my data (including things like IP logs), see how it's used (at the level of source), and have it destroyed.
> This is not a lot of money if you are serious about making an application.

Maybe not for you.
Being laid off is terrible and I don't want to minimise the suffering it's causing for those involved.

However Google had 55,000 more employees in 2022 than it did in 2020, an increase of around 33%. It seems possible they actually didn't have enough for all these people to do.

The company could easily afford to have kept these people on. But if, as seems likely, these people are talented individuals with lots of potential,then keeping them in roles where there's no opportunity to be productive would have had downsides too. It still sucks to get made redundant though.
I always thought the physical IA locations like the one in San Francisco should offer a kind of "internet cafe" setup so you can plug into an ethernet port and get gigabit+ downloads without going over the internet at all.
It would take the combined daily revenue of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon approximately 9 hours to generate $196 million in revenue.

To estimate the time it takes for T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon combined to generate $196 million in revenue, we need to calculate their combined daily revenue.

Let's assume the combined daily revenue of the three companies is:

T-Mobile: $45.5 million (as estimated earlier) AT&T: $125.6 million (as estimated earlier) Verizon: $349.3 million (as estimated earlier) Combined daily revenue: 45.5 million + 125.6 million + 349.3 million = 520.4 million

To generate $196 million in revenue, it would take the combined daily revenue of the three companies approximately:

520.4 million (combined daily revenue) ÷ 24 (hours in a day) = 21.6 million/hour. 196 million (fine amount) ÷ 21.6 ≈ 9.07 hours.
>If the institution by the people and for the people has flaws, then we the people should work together to improve it.

ok, then improve it first instead of making it even more powerful, and therefore even harder to improve!
It's fully processed. The Webb sees in infrared (0.6–28.3 μm), and the human eye sees in visible spectrum, which is like 380,000 - 750,000 μm, so not the same ballpark at all. I believe that the nebula cannot be seen with the naked eye at all. It can be photographed though, but it only becomes visible after combining and processing many long exposures.
> only use them to keep your food freezer working

This sounds like you can replicate all the advantages of full battery back-up with a month’s supply of canned food.
Those fines are pocket money for the offenders. Why are there no real consequences?
Basically just have a single market instead of 27 with no actual details on how they are going to accomplish that.
Introducing our next supercomputer, Peyote.
I built my own NAS for a total cost of £1000. 24TB physical drives, 16TB useable (Raid Z2). It runs Ubuntu LTS server edition and I spin up any containers I need in Docker using Portainer. Is it a point and click GUI that is friendly to all? No ... I have to manually create SMB mounts and the like in the terminal, but it's easy enough to keep running.

Hardware wise it's:

- Asrock Rack C246 WSI Mini ITX motherboard
- 32GB ECC RAM (2x 16GB UDIMMS) - benefit of using the C246 chipset
- Intel i3-9100T
- 6 IronWolf 4TB NAS drives
- 2U Short Depth rackmount chassis (so it fits in my network rack)
- 1TB Samsung 850 Evo boot drive

Idles at 23W which is low enough for my tastes, ramps up to 65W under load (I spin the disks down after 10 minutes of inactivity, even doing that I'm only seeing about 10k load/unload cycles a year (drive is rated for 600k).
My understanding is that the original Internet Archive library worked under the 1:1 lending theory. Then, during COVID, they decided to open up what they called the "National Emergency Library", offering unlimited copies of the books, which is why the lawsuit happened.
I'm really really enjoying how it can teach me a new programming language. I'm very familiar with java/python/scala/haskell, less so Go and C++.

None the less, I've been able to ask "how would I write the following 5 lines in {New Language} and then give it an example in {known language}" and be pretty productive, to the point where I am using it less day by day.
I'm impressed. I gave the same prompt to opus, gpt-4, and this model. I'm very impressed with the quality. I feel like it addresses my ask better than the other 2 models.

GPT2-Chatbot: https://pastebin.com/vpYvTf3T

Claude: https://pastebin.com/SzNbAaKP

GPT-4: https://pastebin.com/D60fjEVR

Prompt:
I am a senate aid, my political affliation does not matter. My goal is to once and for all fix the American healthcare system. Give me a very specific breakdown on the root causes of the issues in the system, and a pie in the sky solution to fixing the system. Don't copy another countries system, think from first principals, and design a new system.
Got some context:

Those soldiers were part of the outer siege [more precisely at the beginning of Rua de Serpa Pinto] to the crowd-packed Largo do Carmo where Marcello Caetano (the successor to Salazar) went to seek refuge from the rebellion - inside the GNR (sort of Gendarmerie) barracks there.

Portuguese state broadcaster RTP has a documentary called “Os Olhos da Revolução” about the ‘lost footage’ of the Revolution.

ca. 28m53s:

https://www.rtp.pt/play/p13273/os-olhos-da-revolucao

(the whole thing is worth to watch ;)
Require companies that store that kind of data to carry insurance that can make anyone damaged by the data collection (and leaks of said data) whole. And the 'make whole' amount definitely needs to be individually defined. You shouldn't get away with paying a little fine of a couple thousand USD if your data leak causes me millions in damages; In that case, you owe me those millions back.
I mean there are several stories of these deeply implanted KGB sleeper-type agents in real life. Sure, not serial killers (who knows), but everything else is quite authentic.

Here is a couple from Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/15/married-pair-r...

They had an oblivious daughter and everything.
Reconciling Effective Altruism and E/acc
Thank you. I admit I was reading this thread a bit nonplussed.
Ask HN: How do you manage articles from different sources on your phone?
I read technical articles from Medium, Linkedin, Hacker News, etc. on my phone. If I came across something I might want to read later, I used to manually copy and paste the link into a Notion page.

But this process seems tedious. Does anyone else have the same issue or is it just me?
Other options that are open source include:

drip.
https://dripapp.org/

Bluemoon
https://gitlab.com/ngrob/bluemoon-android
https://www.nilsgrob.ch/work/bluemoon

Periodical
https://arnowelzel.de/en/projects/periodical

Log28
https://github.com/wildeyedskies/log28
It's hard to make headway in copyright law trying to reason like a regular human being.

Copyright is an artificial constraint on something that is otherwise constrained only by cost of raw inputs and machine labor (even back in the days of setting the lead by hand)... And in that sense, not very constrained at all. The whole thing is an artifice that tries to encourage creation of novel work by couching monopoly on ideas in property law.

This leaves you with a quantum beast that mostly runs on "vibes." To your example: no, illegal, because you made a copy, right there, when you format-shifted. Or yes, because you preserved the total number of instances. Or no, because you moved a tangible format that is easy to preserve singularity on to a hard-to-audit, easy-to-copy format, thus greatly increasing the risk of copyright fiolation. Or yes, because you actually recorded the fact of the position of the ink on the paper in your original copy, and you can't copyright facts ("this is a historical record of what my book looked like"). Or...

Copyright is a ball of string and chewing gum held together by a few explicit laws and many, many centuries of precedent. It's very hard to predict what the end result of a lawsuit in novel territory will be, because it really does come down to "Which faction do the judges think should have more power today?"
I’m on board
I don't think I was being disrespectful to anyone. I think Fabrice Bellard has done amazing work. I've been aware of him for years. I can only dream of being as prolific as he is.

My comments about 10x engineers have nothing to do with Fabrice Bellard. My comments are based on observations from what I've seen building systems as a student, individual contributor and technical leader across various organizations.

Between the two of us, I believe many people would agree with you about what a 10x should engineer do, how they should work and how they integrate to team dynamics.

I am impressed by your use of an LLM to gain better insight into who you were talking to.
AWS shouldn't allow bucket identifier reuse if they're going to charge for unauthorized access.
Don't forget that this is marketing.

"You'll be the best cook if you buy the Mega Master Automated Kitchen Appliance (with two knives included)"

That line is marketed at me, who does not know how to cook, they're telling me I'll be almost a chef.

You'll hear Jensen say that coding is now an obsolete skill, because he's marketing the capabilities of his products to shareholders, to the press.

It might well be that in 10 years these LLMs are capable of doing really serious stuff, but if you're studying CS now, this would mean for you that in 10 years you'll be able to use these tools much better than someone who will just play with it. You'll really be able to make them work for you.
This doesn't filter out the series that start off strong with no contingency plan to get picked up, then they get signed to 2+ more seasons, go "ah shoot we blew all our story ideas in season 1" and slow play 3 episodes worth of content for an entire season. So. many. like. this.
With most other apps they wouldn't even have to, police buy it from data brokers.
There were 79 CE games for Dreamcast. I guess it just depends on your definition of rare.
Out of interest, what kind of cost ranges are you seeing users spend on the OpenAI API using Plandex? (if only anecdotally)
Once it writes the code, take that into a new session to fix a bug. Repeat with new sessions. Don’t let it read the buggy code, it will just get worse.
https://segaretro.org/Windows_CE
Explaining the joke:

"Begging the question" is an expression that properly means "assuming the conclusion," i.e. circular reasoning.

However, the comment above deliberately uses the incorrect meaning "raising the question."
ARKK's Problem Was Outperformance
> I used to think AI would replace doctors before nurses, and lawyers before court clerks - now I think it's the other way around.

Nurses don't read numbers from charts. Part of their duties might be grabbing a doc when numbers are bad but a lot of the work of nursing is physical. Administering drugs, running tests, setting up and maintaining equipment for measurements. Suggesting a nurse would be replaced by AI is almost like suggesting a mechanic would be replaced by AI before the engineer would.
Yes it can. When the project is yet another javascript CRUD app, 80% isn't brand new, never existed before code, but almost-boilerplate that does exist on StackOverflow, on a heavily trodden path where the LLM will get you 80% of the way there.
A highly insulating, translucent aerogel glass brick for building envelopes (2022)
Have you ever seen pro-library sentiment from them? Or do they just keep quite while private companies do their hatchet work?
Community is easy - the ones with Dan Harmon involvement are the best. 100% causation.
I'm not sure why they insist on code spaces instead of running this inside vs code?

Setups/working looks pretty similar to aider [1] that I've been using and liking,
Aider is smaller steps than plandex, but plandex went into some kind of loops a couple of times so I stoped using it for now.

[1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
You either had clay in the soil, or need to add a thick layer of clay for that. Then you use machines to compact the clay layer, remove air and made it watertight. Put water, will turn into a brown mess, wait for the clay sinking eventually, done.

If you don't have clay, ducks can provide manure that turns into fine mud with the same properties and pigs can provide the compact work, but will taint the water later with nitrogen. Machines are better.
Verifying Slack Requests with Phoenix
Where do you draw the line at "recorded"... is a 5-second disappearing message still "recorded" ?
What are the parents of these children even thinking? I just can't wrap my mind around the idea that so many parents are OK with this.
Make the C-Suite and Board personally responsible, and make sure the fine is LARGE. $47 million for Verizon is nothing. They profited nearly $80 Billion last year. They spent roughly the same amount for the naming rights to an NBA team's practice facility back in 2020. They paid Beyonce $30 million for a 30 second Super Bowl commercial.

You have to fine the drivers of the corporation's unethical behavior, not the corporation itself, or else there will be no fundamental change or reason for corporations at large to not act with complete disregard for the law.

The shady shit would stop in a heartbeat if some 25-30 people at the top had to collectively come up with a billion+ in cash in a week. No bonds, debt, IOU's from the corporation itself, stocks, mortgages, nothing - straight up cash.
HN Discussion on them [0] (48 points, 6 months ago, 31 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024337
At least in schools that information has little consequence, while at-will work ensures this is just the 5 lines needed for the Cardinal to hang a man with.
> Should open source software developers that knowingly distribute malicious open source software also be exempt from liability? This isn’t an academic question. The recent XZ backdoor..

What's an example of legal liability for state-sponsored cyberattacks? What's the burden of proof for attribution?

> the claim that placing liability on software companies as “final assemblers” will lead to broad investments across the current open source ecosystem

What happens when the customer is the "final assembler" of open-source components into signed binaries, e.g. hyperscalers?
mdBook https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
I have a pet theory that words in a language obey to both an etymological logic and a "poetic" logic. Sometimes the two don't coincide and the accepted meaning of the word drift toward the poetic imagery.
If I find anything online that I want to read later (whether on my phone or not), I save it to Omnivore. That said, I often don't read on my phone opting to read on my tablet instead.
If that happened to me I'd take it as a sign from the heavens and I'd keep pushing forwards.
Remember the NFT-metaverse? that trend lasted a whole 5 months or so in 2022
We reasoned. We begged. We screamed at IA not to do what they did, that this would be the inevitable outcome. This is like someone left a bear trap on my front lawn and because I should have the right to do whatever I want on my property I refuse to listen to the crowd of people telling me not to stick my dick in the bear trap. The controlled digital lending was already completely illegal but the IA was making headway on making it a culturally accepted practice. Then they burned it to the ground. The loss of the IA would be one of if not the greatest Internet-tragedy in history, but the fools in charge of it don't deserve anyone's sympathy.
As internet distractions go, the original was one of the most memorable I ever came across. A friend and I used to leave them running over lunch and see who was winning when we got back.
Thanks for the fun :-)
Why SQLite uses a bytecode compiler instead of AST walker
Do you think the authors and editors actually get the lion's share of the profits from sales of books? Particularly ebooks?
Seems like not enough.
Now that I live in a house it’s sorta a no brainer to just get an ATX case and build my own, but in my apartment days something smaller would’ve been more appealing
Is Your Cancer Test Accurate? The FDA Wants to Make Sure
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart, Python teams before dev conference
Eh, I don't want my kids around it, we shouldn't be ok with it, and I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to live near it. "Rarely dangerous" is a hell of a term if you've walked downtown at night as anyone but a large man (and as one even I am not a fan and moved my office to redmond from 4th ave area even though I live in north cap hill). I asked my visiting sister to avoid coming to my office in the evening when I was downtown after she was harassed by a few individuals who were very openly doing drugs, it's quite embarrassing for a supposedly well off city. We want the city to be safe and welcoming, not what it is today. We're looking as complacent as SF with no plans to cleanup and fix things.

The gig worker min rate has completely cut out their money, you can hear feedback directly from the gig workers and see that it's being reversed because of the backlash: https://www.newsweek.com/20-minimum-wage-law-seattle-deliver... -> "300,000 fewer orders within Seattle". I can't agree with you here at all. These are jobs people have the choice to take or not, the government here is eliminating that choice by basically making the jobs nonexistent. I know I've cut my orders significantly and will walk or drive myself nowadays to pick up food when I do get takeout.

"Those workers don't cease to exist they just work somewhere else for someone who can actually afford to pay" <- citation needed. Setting wage floors almost always get modeled out as shortages where supply of workers will no longer meet demand for jobs, and most people aren't perfectly fungible, nor are there are bunch of jobs that allow people to work for a few hours between other gigs, watching their kids, trying to be entrepreneurial, etc. Let adults decide which jobs they want to work for which pay. If there were alternative jobs that paid more don't you think they'd naturally flow there rather then the government stepping in?
But that's the entire point. If you want to design a heavy vehicle that can stop quickly, there is no physical law preventing you from doing so.

I mean just think about it. If a 3000 lb car can stop in 3 seconds then two 3000 lb cars can also stop in 3 seconds even though together they weigh 6000 lbs. It would be no different for a 6000 lb vehicle with eight tires and eight brake discs, and you can also get the same result using larger tires and brakes instead of more of them.
To save others from looking up DFN / QFN:

DFN -> Dual-flat no-leads package

QFN -> Quad-flat no-leads package

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_no-leads_package
https://archive.ph/fpf0d
Looking at AWS's price page for us-east-1 [1]

* PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests are $0.005 per 1,000 requests

* GET, SELECT, and all other requests are $0.0004 per 1,000 requests

It sounds like these are getting charged at the PUT request pricing. And IIUC, those prices are set because successful write operations seek on multiple HDDs (physically moving the head) to commit the data to multiple machines, or S3 would be unable meet durability goals. Successful read operations are an order of magnitude cheaper because they likely move only one of several heads, sometimes none at all (because they're cacheable).

Authorization failures should never hit an HDD.

Other folks have mentioned that these auth failures are costing AWS something. Sure...but very very little. Far less than the cost of a successful GET, much less a successful PUT. They really shouldn't be charging at all for this, or if they do, it should be like $0.00001 per 1,000 requests (another order of magnitude cheaper than GETs). Not even that really; the actual cost for them to process this request is likely less than they're
(over)charging for the bandwidth alone.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
how far along are they into correlating different datasets and de-anonymizing? say i buy everything in cash: prepaid SIM, a cellphone without my name in the purchase history, not running anything i didn't compile from source (NixOS on a phone): do you figure my data's useless enough so as to not make it into these datasets? or they're accustomed to correlating so many data points that the cash-only route doesn't accomplish much anymore?
I wonder if you could create a pragma in C to do almost the same.

I don't have a good name for it but it would force the compiler to ignore previous definitions. With an 'undo' pragma as well.
To me, a focused experience IS lock-in.
> How come Tesla never decided to future-proof their hardware?

They did. The V4 Supercharger pedestals they started installing last year support up to 1000V. This is also the pedestals they're selling to third parties like Ford and BP.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrSEb8FWwAIUEZE?format=jpg&name=...

This is "future proofing" because they're currently installing them with the older power cabinets that don't provide that voltage. But V4 power cabinets have been spotted/leaked, so that's coming soon too. They can retrofit the existing V4 sites to support 800-1000V charging at any time.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrSFAnMWwAIjQrS?format=jpg&name=...
General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide
I explain it to folks as if one was trying to go further south than the south pole. There's nothing physically impeding you; it's simply that once on the pole, all directions are north.
This case is especially problematic because this person was being hit from many distinct and legitimate accountants.
I often wonder if when building a SaaS in this day and age, should one consider implementing a payment system that charges users for the amount they use instead of a monthly subscription where they only use the product once or twice in a month, feels unfair to the consumer.
How I would redesign Copilot Workspace – Austin Z. Henley
Do you want my interpretation of the law, or what I think it should be?

Let me put it this way: You should very much be able to rent a DVD from across the world and control it by wire, and the only limit we need to prevent abuse is how often that DVD can change hands, since micro-renting could cause legitimate problems.
Yeah, I'm not sold that ortholinear is better. I switch between ortho and traditional often and honestly don't notice much of a difference in ergonomics. Really the biggest comfort thing for me is the split. Being able to open up my chest feels really good.
They regularly check people flying to certain destinations. Catch a flight to Colombia from Miami and you'll find the friendly Border Patrol C̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶s̶ agents in the jetway.
I'm asking about comparison to these "new" tiktok-like shows, not tiktok itself.