skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tbh I don't under why someone would think passing Google's interview process immediately makes someone a great hire. Care to explain?
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Licenses can strip you of your fair use rights. In fact, it's common practice to take away fair use even for really weak licenses (e.g. D&D's OGL 1.1, a license to do nothing). Creative Commons has to have an explicit clause stating that any fair use is allowed regardless of the other clauses of the license just to not be interpreted as a restriction of fair use.

Whether we should be stripping people of their free speech rights[0] to stop a parasitic enclosure of the commons that might sidestep existing copyright law, which is being cheered on by the proprietary world, is another question. Copyright law as it currently stands does not and cannot protect artists against AI that is going to salami slice tiny bits of statistical data from their work and mix it with hundreds of other slices to form a new image. That sort of harm is difficult to prosecute even if I personally think it's Not Fair Use. So adding a NoAI clause to Creative Commons would mainly serve to add a bunch of new incompatible licenses, and argumentation over whether or not this is Free Culture.

The correct way to stop generative AI is with collective action, not individual action, because the harm is to the whole class of artists, not a single artist. There is no "collective copyright" that would allow regulation or prohibition of generative AI.

[0] Under US law, fair use is the projection of the 1st Amendment into copyright law.
It's a claim one way or the other, isn't it?

These sounds are thought to be language

These sounds are not thought to be language

The default position ought to be "we're not sure if it's language or not", but then why are people so surprised when they find out it is?
That should mean you know better than to accuse one of your colleagues of ethics violations on the basis of a cursory perusal of Wikipedia.

Would you do something like that using your real name?
So the incumbent "nobility" dont have to fear challenges to the status quo from the business arena. Circle back a minute fraction of such taxes to the common folks to keep consensus
Just lands on an advert.
Canada doesn't invest in infrastructure until it's too late. And by then, it's too late.
> History has shown that to not be true.

[citation needed]
Are you sure it was shown? I didn’t see one on Sid.
APM Marketplace: In a boom town gone bust, a recreation center becomes a burden
Ask HN: How is anyone managing to type at length on a new iPhone?
Used to have an iPhone SE until a couple of months ago, stil had an older OS version on it (I think 12 something) , at which point I bought an iPhone 14 with the latest OS.

Unfortunately I’ve since found out that trying to write longer messages on it is just atrocious. I somehow manage to mistakenly hit an Enter key out of nowhere (I swear I can’t explain how), for one reason or another even when my keyboard is set to Romanian (my native language) I receive auto-completions in English, and vice/versa, trying to pinpoint something in the middle of a text I’
M writing with my thumb somehow selects an entire word, no matter how hard I try to “hit” in the empty spaces between words, which then only gives me the option of either correcting that word or deleting it (I want to do neither of that), and some other “deaths by a thousand cuts” thingies that make writing on this quite expensive device a stupid challenge (we used to have all of this solved long ago).

Very frustrating.
Really? Does that mean the term 'alien language' is meaningless?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_language
You have to start somewhere. Zeitgeist will change as the electorate turns over. 1.8M US voters 55+ die every year, 4M voters turn 18. Who has been more lucky financially? Rhetorical question of course.

This is less politics and more first principles really. If we can arrive at the thesis that super wealthy people are more lucky than skilled [1] [2] [3] [4], we should build systems around the idea that there should be limits around the shared delusion of what wealth is. This is a bit like copyright, where the incentives were well intentioned, but the system and outcome has come off the rails.

Failing that, a central bank can inflate away wealth, depending on the desired outcome, circumstances, etc. Wealthy equality printer go brrrr.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/03/all-billion...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/04/scott-...

[3] https://ustrustaem.fs.ml.com/content/dam/ust/articles/pdf/20...

[4] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rol...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/institute-for-economic-equity/the... (obligatory St Louis Fed Wealth Inequality citation)
Noone wants to admit that we brutly hunted down and genocided the nearest thing to an alien culture on our planet for some fucking lamp oil.

Just like no one wants to admit that we cause untold suffering to billions of cows and pigs every year in our factory farm matrix.

That's why we don't talk about animal intelligence and language the way that we should.
emery is corundum (sapphire, aluminum oxide, α-alumina) and carborundum is silicon carbide (a compound of silicon and carbon)
It's the same as no license.
Got it. But he did get a patent for the invention.
There are definitely examples of individuals, institutions and such not living up to expectations. That said, a "black pill" conclusion that the precise opposite is universally true is even sillier.

Going back to the context... I think scientists, linguists, musicologists and others have in fact been very curious about cetacean "language" over the decades. There is a hesitation to make "big claims," but that's appropriate... imo.
It might be great, just not performant.

CSP often locks you into a single consumer style of pattern, which is highly problematic and scales poorly for anything that isn't statically partitionable. Once you go to MPMC, you start sharing data which immediately forces you to have proper ARC with the high synchronization cost it entails (even without using atomics, RC forces cacheline eviction between cores meaning it acts as a brutal bottleneck on many-core systems per Amadhal's law).
That's why you don't change upstream code without reason.
To be fair, it isn’t only the rich they make richer. Think pension plans and other regular folk who rely on returns in their portfolio to retire.
Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf]
I have children myself. If I want them to dance I can also just turn on the TV or their tablet. This is just a minor upgrade over that.
Sounds more like the system didn't know the accuracy was reduced

Which is a bug, because either they had fewer satellites to lock onto, or they had conflicting data from them. GPS accuracy issues are solved in trillions of devices around the world.

This is the same company that has evil vendor lock ins, they're just a malign entity.
What increasing abilities of LLMs to decode unknown languages are you referencing?

(I possibly missed a paper)
pannenkoek being back to posting new videos is the best part of all of this.
you could do it with a cutter that was itself a rotating grinding wheel

i'm pretty sure the grooves are not actually spirals though
This other DIY youtube dude is making a camera sensor from scratch.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324370

Perhaps watch that video instead if you're disappointed about tfa.
I don’t see how that’s practical when places like Monaco exist and are happy to welcome people who really don’t like paying taxes. It would have to be a worldwide effort.
I totally believe that this is true on average. But there are a few weeks in the January/February when we're sitting under a high pressure system with clear skies, no wind, and -30C temperatures. Power generation needs to be able to handle annual extremes, not just averages.
Why would I need to spend two decades? You already did it. Congratulations on probably one of the biggest exposés of this decade. Ignore the haters with their "delusions of grandeur" insults. You will soon have global fame. So, when are you publishing your bombastic exposé? Or do you plan to sell it for it's minimum $1 billion value? Either way, great job!
My problem with Java is that it is excessively object-oriented. I understand they've toned that aspect of it way down, but when I worked in Java between 2003-2009 it was gospel and it was preachy. But wow did I grow to hate it over time. I entirely quit programming for a couple of years, in fact. Then I discovered Python and I couldn't believe how easy it made everything, so I came back.
Passive shareholders bought the shares at IPO. IPOs are the reason why we have these large public companies. Passive shareholders deserve the profits.
Text only alternative -

https://txtify.it/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/science...
US taxpayers must pay tax on global income. If we want to explore a wealth tax, securities ownership and transactions take place within the US jurisdiction. Your brokerage or the clearinghouse can send another form to the IRS for public equity, Carta or whomever manages the cap table can do so for private equity.

Unless you're only going to hold investment assets in Monaco while trying to relinquish US citizenship and not pay an exit tax? I suppose if you pull up stakes, don't pay US income tax, and don't step foot financially in the jurisdiction, you might be able to avoid this depending on your window of time between that decision and death.
Tokamak -SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly
While you can forge the DKIM signature there is a good chance there is also SPF configured. SPF tells which servers are allowed to send mail for the domain. So your email would likely still end up in the spam folder.
if i built this and an employer asked me why my project wasn't competitive with leading open source video editing software, i would probably cut the interview short. the vast majority of developers build stuff like this to learn and challenge themselves (which op basically says in the description), only a small fraction are attempting to build a viable product. i'd expect the interviewer to understand this dynamic and not grill me on the target audience for my toy project
Not sure where you saw an opening to insert religion into the discussion, but there are those out there who aren't happy to sit back in ignorant bliss and pretend some spiritual entity will just swoop in to clean up the mess we've made.

I for one am happy there are more people interested in finding solutions to problems than there are lazy thinkers who will resign themselves to believing problems just fix themselves without input.
I think many older people are more skeptical of the companies declaring their “clean” silly chain.
In an informal conversation, the equivalent of a forum like HN but with my real name? Sure, I would have no problem saying out loud and unanonymously

> "it wasn't on Wikipedia" is hardly an excuse when it comes to ethics

which is what I actually wrote, in a post where I'm not even talking about the particular situation. I expressed dismay about a failure to properly attribute ideas, and then I explained that I don't care about what was written in 2014 on Wikipedia, experts should know better anyway. If you've decided to read an accusation in what I wrote, that is absolutely on you. The most negative thing I wrote about the author was:

> You'd expect an emeritus professor to have enough time on their hands to check their sources...

And, again, I would have absolutely no problem saying that in public with my real name. I've said much "worse".
> A fast CPU

The HP50g which I guess qualifies as part of the HP48 series did replace the Saturn with a Samsung ARM920T based SOC which was relatively screaming.

I have both the 48GX and the 50g and did end up gravitating to the 50g even though it doesn’t quite have the same level of build quality, it isn’t a piece of shit either. I also smashed the LCD on it, again much harder to do with the 48 though the contrast in the latter was pretty bad.
They were close but unfortunately went too far at being opinionated in solve the issues of using C at the time of Java's inception. Changing this now is Valhalla project which has unknown release date.

Luckily, C# learned from this mistake and made a decision to follow C much closely, having integers as proper primitives and supporting structs since day 1, and only improved since then in this area (JVM needs insane pointer compression and shadow tricks to pack integers to claw back performance, and in .NET "it just works" instead).

I wonder if Cassandra was written in .NET, it wouldn't have such a poor performance (though this can also be showcased by Garnet which beats competition written in C++ and C).
Also check out your local parking garage, where on a typical day you'll find over 9000mph of single-car speed!
Nice render, shame that's all this will ever be.
Im expecting someone here will argue that would remove the incentive to work hard.
Self-signed certificate for local development (OpenSSL, JavaScript)
That’s amazing. These kinds of simple tests/tools offer far reaching rehabilitation and neurological assessment capabilities.
Adam Curtis? Commoditized?? You clearly haven't seen this short clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

encapsulating his work.
It's paper reviewing season for me and I think I got one of these submitted. Took a while reading it to realize that it wasn't just a stupid human writing it, there was literally no substance there to find. I can't share details because the confidentiality statement I signed as part of reviewing was pretty strict. However, going forward we are going to have to start deanonymizing and blacklisting the 'authors,' otherwise the ratio of time spent 'writing' vs reviewer time wasted will be crippling.
Thanks!. Figured it was something like that, but Google and Wikipedia were no help.

It's an interesting name for a telescope. What does "Bank" mean in this context? The Wikipedia article links to another telescope, the "Green Bank", but that one just appears to be named after the town it's in, which doesn't seem to be the case for Jodrell Bank.

Edit: Nevermind, the Wikipedia page does have the answer. "It is named from a nearby rise in the ground, Jodrell Bank, which was named after William Jauderell, an archer whose descendants lived at the mansion that is now Terra Nova School.
Don't you actually need manual translations to feed into the model first for that? AFAIK LLMs are not sci-fi-esque magic universal translators.
In the linked article here, for one.
If were going down the calling silly route, I'd rather categorize handwaving of Rusts additional complexities by their community as silly.

If "everything has a cost" anyway we might as well code is assembly for optimal performance. But no, because nuances and differences of cognitive load during development can be significant. And so does compilation speed.

It's arguably much easier to code with a GC and language adoption reflects that.
Let's also introduce taxation of unrealized capital gains of >$1M to 90% and 100% for gains of >$1B for everyone, which we will start with Bernie with the former. /s
I'm not sure you're still in the conversation after all this time, but if you are:

Back in the 1950s and 60s, there was the "software crisis", which was that we could not produce all the software that we felt we needed. Now we have governments, not "stepping in" exactly, but at least making recommendations. We wrote all this software, but it was imperfect in ways that cause real problems. But producing B2 software took too long and cost too much - we'd have much less software if we did it that way. (You could argue that the world would be better off; I'm assuming that it would not be.)

So I have a question (an honest question, not a "gotcha"): In your view, where should the balance be? You think C is too insecure. Fine; I won't say there's no evidence for that view. How far should we go? Java? (No buffer overflows.) Formal correctness? B2? A1?

Software that is more correct and secure is good. More software (or at least more efficiency in creating software) is also good. Where do you put the balance?
If Ukraine was accepted into NATO in 2008 neither this war nor the war in 2014 would have happened. Russia won't invade Finland nor Sweden despite them joining NATO. In fact Russia moved all units from Finnish border to Ukraine as Finland joined NATO :)

If you force Ukraine to give up some territories to Russia and stop the war now - you're only making sure Russia invades in a few years again after establishing new bases, refilling stocks and drafting people from new territories to army. This is what happened with Crimea and the part of Donbas they occupied in 2014.

You're not saving any lives, you're just making the next war easier for Putin.

As for nuclear weapons - ask yourself why hasn't USA nuked Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
The blog name is hilarious, it translates loosely into "not like other boys". It's a reference to the infamous meme/subreddit "Not like other girls".
> I don’t see how that’s practical

It's not and its probably not intended to be; its staking an extreme position to spur and frame discussion.
Why Unregulated Capitalism Always Leads to Enshittification
Could you post a link to one or two of the sumissions where these analyses have been presented please?
what categories of concepts would they express to each other? maybe an identifier and some conditions like depth, water temperature or pressure, maybe some magnetic or gravitational field direction and locations, tides, topography, mating, food, distress, and then probably some concept of boats and types of boats.
> I'd doubt too that von Neumann was burning to steal credit for the stored-program concept

Well, he obviously has left out the main inventors of the design as authors and didn't even mention them in the credits (nor the references), and neither he nor Goldstine had the permission to distribute/publish details of the design. Not exactly the behavior I would expect from a reputable scientist. That's like translating an Einstein paper to some other language/formalism and then just putting the name of the translator on the authors list (leaving out the actual author). There have already been students expelled from universities for minor offenses.
Why did this get flagged, exactly? WSJ is "reputable". There's no comment with an archive link to bypass the paywall (yet) but paywalled articles don't automatically get flagged AFAIK. The comments here don't give any hints thus far. I can only conclude it got flagged because it's so blatantly crushing the techno-optimist dreams of the median person here?

Edit: Touched a few nerves it seems. Go touch grass kiddos.
Almost everything people use are exe's from the internet.
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Sorry but I think we have very different perspectives here.

I assume you mean that LLMs can generate new insights in the sense of producing plausible results from new data or in the sense of producing plausible but previously unknown results from old data.

Both these things are definitely possible, but they are not necessarily (and in fact often not) good science.

Insights in science are not rare. There are trillions of plausible insights, and all can be backed by data. The real problem is the reverse: Finding a meaningful and useful finding in a sea of billion other ones.

LLMs learn from past data, and that means they will have more support for "boring", i.e. conventional hypotheses, which have precedent in training material. So I assume that while they can come up with novel hypotheses and results, these results will probably tend to conform to a (statistically defined) paradigm of past findings.

When they produce novel hypotheses or findings, it is unlikely that they will create genuinely meaningful AND true insights. Because if you randomly generate new ideas, almost all of them are wrong (see the papers I linked).

So in essence, LLMs should have a hard time doing real science, because real science is the complex task of finding unlikely, true, and interesting things.
Used to be they were just hunted to near extinction, for their oil. It has since been replaced with a more whale-friendly alternative.

"There are no solutions
…only tradeoffs."

—Thomas Sowell
Happiness is greatly impacted by the burden of large debts that hold you down. If you are not making enough to cover your expenses you will likely not be happy, even if your job is amazing.

The ROI explores that to some extent. You are right though, as long as you are happy that is what matter in life. Setting yourself up for long term happiness sometimes means forgoing some up front happiness though.
Unpoly: Progressive Enhancement for HTML
Still crazy after all these years...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4784821

Perhaps update the title with (2012)?
Discussed at length recently here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206124
I did this, kind of. I was interviewing for a financial company that went to some effort to hide their location for operational security, met them at a local cafe where we talked about physical security, and then casually mentioned that I was staying at an airbnb across the road from their office and we could walk back together. It took a couple of calls to find someone who happily told me their registered address. They were creeped out but hired me anyway.
> more generous welfare state

That's the bull case. The bear case is "money is distributed to government contractors through overpaying for things"
Where did you learn this definition? It's the first time I hear something like this. I very much doubt that it's a generally accepted definition.
Ah. Well I'm glad chat bots aren't summoning a giant earth-smashing asteroid.

Although it sounds like they are doing something with similar effects.
> the market is oversaturated by apps that are nothing more than a skin over ChatGPT

OpenAI et al expressly don't care about small applications, but will do deals e.g., with Apple. So aside from humanity-wide applications, AI commercialization depends entirely on all these skins.

It's often a harder problem to get people used to new technology than to build it, particularly since it's hard to keep a customer you trained without some lock-in that is off-putting to new customers.

Most may fail; but a few fortunes will be made from skinning AI, and customers will be better for it.
See e.g. here: https://ai.meta.com/research/no-language-left-behind/
The fact that something hasn't been done is not necessarily evidence that it won't work. A few years ago you could have asked why everybody was still using disposable rockets, if reusables would be so great.

And coal is not exactly fertile ground for innovation, given that we'd like to stop burning coal entirely.

Matching the price of coal, with clean dispatchable power, is not such a bad outcome. There's a bit of wiggle room for extra complexity since coal pays 2 cents/kWh for fuel, and has to handle large amounts of incoming fuel and outgoing ash.

For a reliable zero-carbon grid of only wind/solar/battery, we need about 2X overproduction and 4 days of battery storage[1]. Maybe that still ends up the cheapest option, but it's not so obvious that a backup plan isn't worth considering.

[1] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/grid-storage-b...