skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say EULA, I here mean additional license term for something that are 'agreed' to after the purchase.

I haven't heard of any agreements being permitted to bypass the konsumentköplag. That is, when dealing with consumers you can't get around the requirements to repair broken products etc., but entering into agreements with the consumer to that end.

These new repair things will probably be in implemented within existing consumer protection frameworks, and the whole point of these things is that you can't push complicated legal agreements on people.
Who Invented SEO?
The generalisation of this concept is what I like call the "kilobyte" rule.

A typical web page of text on a screen is about a kilobyte. Sure, you can pack more in with fine print, and obviously additional data is required to represent the styling, but the actual text is about 1 kb.

If you've sent 20 MB, then that is 20,000x more data than what was displayed on the screen.

Worse still, an uncompressed 4K still image is only 23.7 megabytes. At some point you might be better off doing "server side rendering" with a GPU instead of sending more JavaScript!
They were worse than the thing they replaced.
He's being prosecuted for both of those things, but both of those trials are on hold awaiting an appeal.
This reminds me of Andy Matuschak's notes website [0]. I dig this view for much better understanding.

[0]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/
It sounds like there's two separate dimensions to this, price, and positive / negative outcome.

It seems like it's possible for a banks mortgage lending practices to both positively increase access to mortgages while at the same time making houses more expensive. At first I think this is counter intuitive, but I think there's a logic to it. Whether this is a good tradeoff, is separate to whether the loaning itself increases house prices.
Most housing in the US is not part of an HOA. In fact, around half is apartments, and apartment dwellers are subject to rules made by their landlords. In an HOA (or condo association), at least you can vote on the rules or join the board.
They can do it. Positive Authoritarianism in Poland and Hungary
I guess what I’m trying to understand is if they were grounding the AI Overview with the snippets from the google search results then how would the AI overview generate a summary that was that semantically different from the source texts?
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Ask HN: Book Recommendations on Scientific Thinking
What books would you recommend on the Scientific Method, Epistemology and scientific thinking in general?

Books like this that I liked:

- The Selfish Gene

- Rationality: From AI to Zombies

- The Scout Mindset

- Asking the Right Questions (Critical Thinking)

I've read "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" already and could barely finish it. I respect that Feynman is a great scientist but he came across too full of himself in the book.

I'm planning on reading "The Beginning of Infinity" sometime this year and I am collecting more recommendations.

EDIT: Formatting.
Land and therefore the cost of everything that depends on it (i.e. everything) just gets more expensive.
> if you compare pre-Quantum and current Firefox you’ll find one of two is faster, more secure and more reliable

And a lot less relevant.

It's easy to achieve technical excellence: a typical "hello, world" runs fast, is very secure and reliable.
Perplexity managed to do it in a way that feels like it improves on Google search (not that it’s a high bar by now)

Google managed to do the opposite.
But nowhere close to as good as they hypothetically should be given the explosion in productivity.
For some reason this sounded to me slightly like filter-width/domain aware sampling vs point-sampling of inputs when resampling or translating information. When you said 'calculus' it made me think of it this way.. and actually I personally think that one can apply the principles of anti-aliasing (of signals when sampling or translating them) to everyday life.. ie: AA, IRL!

Probably sounds strange but to me, AA IRL is still a simple concept about preserving as much of the original signal in the target domain, even when changing sampling or representations from the source domain. I just think it is also a very interesting and relevant/applicable way to think about various aspects of human life too!

Seems to me like since various information is moving around, it would be good to choose the appropriate AA strategy based on the context's input and output filter domains! (At least as far as one can control this!)

Yes, AA IRL is certainly a bit of a fanciful idea (humans are not shaders/etc) but I think it's still a very interesting way to conceptualize things, and would love for HN to tear it to pieces some time!
The rest of the quote:

> Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.
Switzerland is not in the EU. It is not part of the common market. They can not cut out Baltics, Netherlands, Sweden or any other members of the single market if they want to sell in any of the EU countries. That is the strength of the EU.
What should and what does happen at large companies are completely different things. I worked for a lot of large companies and I can tell you things like this happen every day, usually not out of malice. Corporate behaviour at all scales is not necessarily governed by logic.
For the UK a HOA is conservation area if it were run by the folk on Nextdoor.
No, you don't need a massive dictionary. Remember that the topic of this thread is a circle composed of galaxy "dots".

An elongated circle can be the letter O or perhaps zero. You can similarly compose other letters visually using galaxy dots, and that's presumably what the original poster meant when talking about writing out a Shakespeare. If the universe was infinite, this would be a possibility.
None.. I don’t think you really can.
Her albums with Louis Armstrong are a great entry point. Simply some of the most effervescent and delightful singing ever put to record. The way they play their voices off one another, the way they seamlessly slide into characters and give each song touches of themselves, is the work of real craft.
You are correct that it depends on circumstances. My comment assumes working on a software project for a longer duration and also that the project is non-trivial.

Regarding your 80/20 comment I would say that this is true regarding features. I.e., quality attributes that the external world sees. My comment is about internal quality. So, let us say we have the 80/20 mindset and determine that features A, B, C, D, and, E belong to the 20% that we want to deliver and features F through Z end up on the backlog, perhaps to never be seen again. With insufficient internal quality it happens that the first and second version of feature C actually do not work, but fortunately feature C works the third time. Then feature D breaks feature A, but this can be fixed. After that feature E breaks C again, distressing the customer to no end because this is the third time that they have to report that feature C is not working and they already were a bit irritated that feature A broke.
The problem of the European Union is that it is founded not on the concepts of a federation or union states. And finally merging into one nation.

The European Union is building up on the „
Montanunion (long version: European Coal and Steel Community) and that is the rational why they care mostly about economy and still believe in free-trade[1].

This causes friction between young people which want one entity of state and that cares about the people’s needs. The old just want subventions from the EU and that the economy flows easily.

The focus on free-trade is obsolete nowadays. There is no free-trade anywhere and no fair capitalism (the greed thing which harms our planet). Example:
We had weird moments during COVID where we had to ask „if it is fair“ to rescue an otherwise healthy an needed airline? The question should have been if it is needed and sustainable. Of course it was!
Where doing similar debates over machine equipment, chip factories, train factories…and the EU says „We can’t merge them because that would be unfair“. To whom? China? India? The US? Who cares. Free-trade is an idiotic concept by capitalists. The priority of every state should be the needs of the peoples.

Anyway. This is some improvement for the people in Europe :)

But how to solve the core issue? I complained a lot.

I think we need a core europe with the states which are willing to unite in long term (likely France, Germany, Benelux, Czech, Spain, Portugal, Poland - that is not an exclusion list). The desires of the population, social system and economy should be similar. So if the people in Slovakia or Hungary change their mind…welcome aboard.

[1] Weird for Americans. Since Reagan the economy (and especially the IT) is unregulated and shall dominate everything. China doesn’t care about free-trade at all, they will come with a list of requirements for an enterprise to build a company in China and transfer knowledge. The adapt the knowledge and kill your industry with state money and initially cheap products. Now your depend their industry. Partnership is something different?
> In practice, it may be more profitable to leave a house empty to drive up rent on your other properties

I'm not seeing it, rent is usually far in excess of maintenance costs. Run me through how this works. Say I have an empty house, maintenance costs for tenanting it are $5,000 and I have Dan the Desparate who will rent it for $10k/annum, and for the sake of argument his next best alternative is homelessness.

What external circumstances exist here where I'm going to be better off not letting him use the house? Something like not being able to evict him on demand I can see being a factor, which is specific to the deal. But I don't see how what I do here could affect the rent any other properties I might have. I'm don't see how Dan being homeless can serve my interests here.
What if Unicode updates some capitalization rules in the next version, and after an OS updates some filenames now collide and one of the is inaccessible?
Just delete all of your Facebook data and account.
The jury all agree he committed a crime while attempting to commit another crime. They don't have to agree on what what crime, precisely, he was attempting to commit. Due process doesn't really enter into it because he wasn't accused of successfully accomplishing the other crime, merely of attempting one.

This is, to give an analogy, in the same space as OJ Simpson being found guilty of wrongful death and innocent of murder, for committing the same actions, and the fact that he could be tried for both not being a case of double jeopardy.
>As of today, DEP-14 has been approved

Omg yes.

This week I had a terrible bug with django_q where the workers just stopped. Only to find out it seems this library has been dead for 3 years. So I probably need to move on to THIS.

What's the typical time it takes to go from approved DEP to released?
I read half of it.
Plus it seems to be missing a boat load of trees in the streets.

But it's pretty cool overall!
And I'll keep it in mind as we're in the process of looking for a new home.
So it should be like a chat room (I guess real-time, not a forum), grouped by themes, discoverable. I would add low barrier of entry, in contrast to what mastodon or lemmy are. Do you view it as centralized or decentralized by nodes? Centralization has its own benefits.
The modern equivalent would be resume-driven development.

I've always found it somewhat ironic that CADT was originally used to describe the GNOME 1.x to 2.x switch, when GNOME 2.x was for a long time quite stable (and which was stable over the KDE 3 -> 4 changeover period), and newer versions of GNOME have tended to have less backwards compatibility and more churn.
Try https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all before going down the rabbit hole of AI and advanced indexers. Quick to set up and undo if that's not what you want, but I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised how far can this get you
What you do on FB belongs to Meta and they basically can do whatever they want with your data.
You're the product.
I would say that your first recourse is the ability to read all the financial documents. As a property owner in an HOA you have every right to read the contracts that your HOA has signed, to audit the books, and to otherwise verify that the HOA board is doing their job correctly. Second recourse is to vote in the elections. If you elect petty tyrants, you get petty tyranny. Third is to run for the board yourself to make sure things are being done correctly.

And if all that is too tiresome then yea, sell your property and buy a house that isn’t in an HOA. Most houses aren’t.
Having submitted to biorxiv before many times: oh yeah!!! the ease of submission there is second to none. For-profit publishers' submission process is an overcomplicated pile in comparison.
With a fixed architecture, and a fixed dataset, as mentioned. So, a specific kind of neural network, and a fixed dataset.
The requirement comes because you have to go out of your normal flow to make things not repairable.

Can you tell me one example on how this would make the life harder for startups? The mandate is to produce schematics which the startup obviusly would have and to make parts available. both things that any startup would need to consider as their part of the warranty/repair anayway but now they have to make this availble for third parties and not just themselves.
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Long Range Radio (LORA) vs Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (LoRA)
Google AI fails the taste test
And what if your manager seems to just not like you for whatever reason and won’t tell you why?
Based on the fact that you own that thing and you can do whatever you want with it.

The issue until now has been the availability of documentation (schematics, instructions, etc.). For example, in USA you can purchase Volvo service manual access as individual, but in EU it is not available at all.
Back when CSI at least seemed to be plausible.

I used to really enjoy CSI, I didn't even mind that Miami was quite cheesy, but at some point after they started New York all of them had gotten beyond ridiculous in their depictions of technology and what it was capable of, it was completely fantastical and seemed to lack any kind of basis on reality.

Maybe it was also that I was getting older and having less time, but the CSI series were the first shows that despite watching somewhat religiously, I actually stopped watching in disgust and also feeling a bit angry at how useless the producers and/or screenplay writers had become.
I don’t know what you can do now, but in the future you can degoogle your life to solve issues like these.
HN has obligatory tags for articles from previous years, maybe after (almost) two months this warrants an "old / repeat / April" tag too?

I'm certain this was discussed before.
Youtube detects the ad blocker and blocks watching videos.

Might have changed now though
This was more or less solved with the deanonimisation of users and/or karma systems. When we have skin in the game the comments are more useful. I am not in favor of that all the times, it has tradeoffs, I very much prefer moderation, although it is not an easy job.
Boys (and girls) follow pro-social behavior for boys (and girls). Pro-social behavior is defined by the cultural and social context. That is, the society defines (and can change) what it "means to be a boy", etc.

When and where I grew up, it was pro-social for boys to abuse others, especially other boys, often of lower social class. I'm glad my kids don't have to have that experience.
But end users do not speak to filesystems.

Programs speak to filesystems.
Couldn't agree more! Her collaborations with Joe Pass on guitar are also sublime.
This seems interesting to me in the context of ML research (not that I know anything about that). We have generative AI and this is sort-of the reverse doing compression like turning an interactive movie into an interactive book. I know it's reading the code of the graphics, but that could serve as labelled data for training image to text generation. Image to text isn't new, but if the sequences of images to text could tell a coherent story that could be interesting. Perhaps we need many people playing Doom with running commentary on the evolving story for data.

Or we could do the same for an adventure game which has more story than Doom.
They don’t need to have excuses. They can do whatever they want for no good reason. It’s a waste of time to try to understand their actions. Better just stop using all of their services.
Looks useful for photography. You can see where the light and shadow areas will be and plan out where and when to go.
Dealing with files used to be something everyone interacting with computers had to do. It is something average people can do.

I think too much abstraction is a mistake and adds a lot of unneeded complexity.

People should learn something about technology they use. If you want to drive, you need understand how steering wheels work, if you want to drive a manual car (usual where I live and have lived) then you need to know how to work a gear stick and the effect of changing gear.
This is a terrible state of affairs and Apple should change policies. If things don’t change substantially, my next computer will be a Framework, leaving macOS behind after 25+ years. However, since this is your money maker, you really ought to have a backup machine for cases like these. Even a low-end Mini would do.
Π – Fascination in Digits
I certainly think that the battery should be user serviceable.

But regardless of what kind of laptop you have, if you use it constantly and your time at it is worth a lot, having a backup in your closet makes sense. When you think of what tools cost in many professions, a backup laptop isn’t the wildest idea.
So “eating glue” was the final straw.
At the moment I am wondering if I could build an accelerator for george hotz' tinygrad[1] with cheap FPGAs (i do have an arty a7 35K, this might be too small, i guess?). According to the readme it shall be "easy" to add new accelerator hardware. Sadly my knowledge is still a bit limited around all the python-machinelearning-ecosystem, but if I understand it correctly you "just" need an openCL kernel and need to be able to shove the data back and forth somehow.

Didn't have enough time to dive into it yet and still working on some other project, but this still tickles the back of my head and would be cool even if I could only run mnist on it.

- [1] https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/
Valid. I migrated a Rails codebase from Webpacker to Vite. All the help I needed was hidden in an obscure Discord server. Nothing on GH.
*meta* For some reason this thread cannot be found on the front page. It is a bit surprising given how recent it is and how many points it got.

For reference I discovered it a few minutes ago on the front page. It currently has 75 upvotes and was posted 1 hour ago. Another topic currently on the front page called "the scully effect" is 8 hours old and has 55 votes.
Choice of your AI assistant? Nope, probably not
I think Platform Engineering is meant to die. If services like AWS or GCP were user friendly (from the perspective of product engineers) then we wouldn’t need platform engineers (or at least we would need orders of magnitude fewer platform engineers). The industry is young, though, that’s why I think we have the figure of the platform engineer.

Could you imagine having a Compiler Engineer define APIs and quotas so that you can use a compiler? Of course no. We can use compilers directly because they are mature software.
It was a known but not fixed issue with psycopg IIRC
Technically yes. Humans are biological creatures.
Larger scale software development is best done as a collaborative effort. The essence of that is the "co". Literally working together. How is this best done?

We have the idea that leaders make this happen, but as the top comment says, this post is about "cult of personality". Not "cult of community". It has been a common theme that startups have much higher velocity, and great lament that this velocity is lost as startups grow in size. This has led to the great myth of the mythical person month - that adding people to a software project slows it down.

It is not the addition of people, it is the destruction of community that slows things down. Think of a bee hive. We want more honey, so we get another hive of bees and dump them into the first hive. Is this an effective solution?

The bumbling around on this simple and elegant truth is both tragic and comedic. If software development is most efficient and effective when it is a community effort, then one must look into what makes for effective communities, eh?

We seem to live in a cult of personality time - not just in software (ahem). The solution is simply to build effective communities. This article is an anti-pattern for that. In my opinion.
Neural-net for life-expectancy prediction
Not really. It's more about understanding that having competent people in the system tends to benefit the community at large, and be willing to endure the (many) downsides.

And yeah, it doesn't work for everyone, and some people genuinely interested in doing the good thing can turn sour after a while. But I rarely see people romanticizing the work conditions or the system they are in.

Also having people willing to trade a pay cut for a way to "make good things" leads to people using their agency in surprising ways, sometimes fucked up.

> an organization that has lost its integrity long ago

That's every org. The relevant part isn't org structure or integrity but whether the org has an impact on stuff that actually matters. Not everyone is interested in optimizing the click rate of ads.
Delivery Issues to Privateemail.com?
Just FYI to anyone using the service, I noticed a gap in emails and tried a few accounts. None are receiving email. Worst part is that nobody at privateemail seemed to know about it until I informed them. No idea what the issue is, but I'm not getting bounced, so I wonder if incoming mail is just ... gone. Also looks like there's no alerting on this. Those guys need better site reliability.
lol, just like with humans.
Speaking in pure hypotheticals, the most effective form of governance is benevolent dictatorship.

... But in terms of forms that are practically implementable without perfect knowledge and control of the future, there are huge risks involved with altering the amount a person's vote counts based upon some kind of gamable criteria.
Everything can be all in AI Tools
Aww… that’s kind of cute.
Interest rates get brought up every time this topic is discussed and the math remains the same. Even accounting for the difference in interest rates, people are much worse off today than they were in the 80s.
Is there a freedom to not join a HOA? Freedom to not associate?
Right. The watch has LTE and does its thing independently.

It does have kid features like schooltime. It's not priced cheap for kids - cheapest new is almost $500. (Hence giving our kid a two or three year old, used one. :-)
Next step: Play Zork in Doom in Zork.