skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these services have draconian terms, but nobody reads them. It's kind of funny that an innocent change in one part of the agreement might prompt people to read the whole agreement and realize there are outrageous parts that have been there forever.

One agreement I do read carefully every time is employment contracts, and it always makes me extremely angry, but what am I going to do? My family needs to eat. I sometimes complain about certain terms to co-workers and they almost always comment that their contract didn't have those terms, but I bet it does and they just didn't read it.
Plus gold not only came from outer space, but from outside this solar system. In practice it doesn't make much difference but I find it super cool.
>Unless it's to a private repo you know will never be made public.

Not even then and this is why
For about 4 years now, I've used Dozer [0] to hide and organize menu items. It's been mature and stable the whole time. It had many of the features still on the development roadmap for Ice. You can drag-and-drop icons, hide and reveal with clicks or keyboards, and have two levels of hidability.

[0] https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer
Yeah I've always assumed there must have been some really traumatic experiences in the past for Windows/.NET to become so completely divorced. I mean it'd have made sense to port or rewrite a pile of all the little utilities and subsystems that aren't performance sensitive at least. But I guess the backwards compatibility story w.r.t. .NET generics killed off their interest in allowing .NET to become a part of the Windows API.
God the entitlement of academia is insane. Living life in an environment where every next step is somehow a given breeds such a strange culture of childishness. Almost spent my whole life in it, so glad I got out. People hate on the private sector but at least it feels connected to reality on a much more basic level.
That kind of clause won't stand up in court and they know it.
The revolution was planned in advance... politely!
Arena lets you use 1k out of those 128k available tokens. It's not a good test.
If you care about Linkedin monitoring as well & having posts scored by relevance to reduce some of the noise I am working on octolens.com :)
The industry is rife with it, and this is a haven for experienced professionals as well as newcomers.

One need only look at open source projects to see the massive variance in code quality that is out there.
Politics? Needs to be more like Polititics!
Building an ecommerce website with OSS – Next.js and Directus
On a tangent ...

Somethings I miss:

Ability to add a Folder as a "toolbar" to the taskbar.

Ability to keep the "calendar" window open while working on another window.

Ability to set custom date format say dd-mmm-yyyy in the system tray -- without changing Language/Region/Locale settings across the OS and all apps.

Desktop Widgets!
> IIRC I saw the Car Thing on sale for as cheap as $25?

I'm seeing them on sale for the MSRP ($80) on the low end and $150-200 on the high end.
Where did you get 7 trillion?
Check your credit card terms of service carefully. Cards do have consumer protection, but generally it isn't about this type of situation. If you owe the fee then it is fraud to do a chargeback and you can get into legal trouble (though odds are as the other poster said: they will just send you to collections and it will hit your credit report).

I agree that this type of change to contract terms is not acceptable, but unfortunately you need a lawyer to fight it.
Thanks, I probably shouldn’t be commenting on an LLM article if I don’t even know what a gold answer is! Oh well.
I did refute it, vociferously. If you have evidence for it being an evolutionary advantage, you are welcome to present it. The only scientific argument I've seen presented is that it made us better foragers but I ask you, who is foraging today? It's an utterly absurd position to take that it is a competitive advantage in a scenario no one in the first world will ever encounter.
Bartender did need screen recording permissions for certain features to work under the more locked down security model in macOS 11+. That happened well before Bartender was sold.
Websites for teenagers called this thing "god mode" in the days of early Windows Vista. People were excited to have found an undocumented CLSID and gave it a silly nickname.

This thing popping back up gave me some minor nostalgia. Pretty silly that it's still being presented as news, but I guess a whole generation of new sysadmins weren't even around the first time this popped up.
The deal fell through: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24005996/adobe-figma-acq...
Doctors: Human brains aren't language models, you can't abliterate and prune them!

#aspergers guy: Haha scalpel go brrrr
Survey says:

Sell threads.com to Meta
> So how can AI usefully suggest design-level and conceptual ideas in a way that doesn’t require a user “trigger”? Within the IDE, I’m not sure.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Clippy-letter...
Serious question, why is anyone still using Chrome? It's so user-hostile and basically spyware at this point, it boggles my mind that anyone would intentionally install spyware on their computer.
For those of us who don't use windows regularly enough to remember the tool names, this is wonderful to know about.
Same thing in France (SACEM). The venue pays the fees, and it is dependent on the scale of the event, the entrance fees, etc... The DJ doesn't have to pay anything, he just plays the music the venue has paid for the right to play.

And it is essentially the same thing with Twitch here, as Twitch pays the necessary fees that allow the DJ to perform on their platform.

It may be different in some other countries indeed. I think in Germany, home of the infamous GEMA, DJs have to pay a fee in certain conditions, in addition to what the venue pays.
"I'd normalize if I could" and "People with Type 1 Autism should have more social room" can be held at the same time.

This isn't always the case, but much of the time the trauma is due to an ill fit rather than being inevitable.

An example of inevitability might be the trauma experienced due to unexpected deaths of loved ones. An "ill fit" needs no elaboration. The few people with autism who manage to succeed and thereby improve their environment seem to suffer less frequent trauma, if any unless it is of the inevitable type. And then, for example, would people with autism have such an unusually difficult time with loss if their support network wasn't so tenuous? Maybe, or maybe to some lesser degree.

I think that a reasonable starting point would be the question: if someone with type 1 autism could have everything that they wanted including socially, would they still want to change their nature? I think that responses would be mixed.

For example, take the young autistic woman who just underwent assisted suicide in the Netherlands. Does it seem more likely that her nature was fatally flawed or that her society didn't think to get off of its ass, sing to her in unison, and then make room?
With this announcement I realised that I have over 1gig of Cyberpunk saves. That's about 300 of them...
Why is this unusual? Someone used a drone to take pictures of a military installation, which seems to be forbidden.

The law may be old, but they already include a lot of possible flying things which seems to include drones nowadays:

> Whoever uses or permits the use of an aircraft or any contrivance used, or designed for navigation or flight in the air, for the purpose of making a photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of vital military or naval installations or equipment,

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
Those things you mention are necessary, but without ethics, we can't say no. I want that power.
WGPU is an implementation of WebGPU. This is more accurate than saying it uses WebGPU; WebGPU is not software, you can't use it.

WGPU goes beyond WebGPU in many ways already, and could also support threads.
Yeah I would also add that in case the Sun goes supernova and the entire solar system gets obliterated, Bitcoin would probably crash to zero
Sure, it looks like you are the only one doing it right and everyone is an impostor.

Most narcissist high on the hill comment I’ve ever read on HN.

GTFO.
Good thing it’s been added to README now, I was similarly stumped two days ago and only found out from the issue tracker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580582 The instructions really should be in the app, though.
Equipment, lab space, etc. - are all owned by the university or funding agencies. Most research institute/universities will give tenure track faculty a 'startup package' which includes space and $.

So no, they can't just start doing private work with their equipment/staff. Especially when you consider the low salaries paid to their staff (graduate students) who will regularly work for 60+hr/weeks for $40-$60k/yr depending on university. And those students are there for their education and the name of the university, not for the PI.

So they will need to start from scratch, with no money, equipment, etc.
Hi the website was down. Thank you for sharing your ideas!

When you say "strait line" is it globe based curved path like the flight of a bird? Why was it called a sword?

Edit: found a working link! still extra extra curious!
As someone who's not an expert in linux or computers (I'm just a user, I don't really understand the internals of linux), does this mean or not that more RAM will be used?
Interesting.

Why doesn't MS just let us "pin" this to Quick Access like a folder
Sure, the universe as a whole does not obey conservation of energy. That does not make it particularly useful for a generator.
I wanted to like Gimp, but I bought Pixelmator Pro on my Mac because I just couldn’t…

Hard to describe, it’s just clunky if you know the professional tools well. But plenty of people do use it, so your mileage may vary. I hope the rough edges are polished down over time, but not at the moment for me.
This is worse. Adobe is jeopardising legal status of creatives working on clients' assets. Adobe feels free to take whatever it wants, because it needs other people's content to offer "generative fills" in Photoshop. It's not their content and they have no legal leg to stand on, so they create T&Cs that incriminate their users should the work of one photographer show up in somebody else's photos... like nobody asked for this shit and yet they want their own users to pay the price of the mad chase to not be punished by the Wall St for not doing AI.
The main issue with "Cancel Adobe" is that it's very naïve to assume that a nontrivial percentage of people using it can realistically switch to something else.
YouTube announces new restrictions on gun videos
Not an expert on this but organic grow is slow but the best type, IMHO. You do great work, client hires you again and puts a good word for you with their network. Next thing you know, you're refusing work. It takes a while though.

The initial clients might not be as profitable for you, but if you look from their perspective, they are taking a chance on you so lower prices are justified. Hopefully they contribute to make your network larger and bring more jobs.
Someone needs to get this man a speed square, also a longer riser cable [1].

[1]I don't care much for Linus Tech, but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5xvwPa3r7M
They're pre-generated by Microsoft. There's a list in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID you can use to try and find new ones. They've also been documented online for at least a decade, so you can save yourself the trouble.

Very few of these CLSID folders are actually useful to have somewhere. An interesting, but underused, feature of Windows is that applications can actually register CLSIDs like these and host their own special "explorer" panels.
L-theanine. It's generally regarded as safe.
Well, if you want to call that a "detail", then yes.

A corporation taking possession of everything you create does not feel like a "detail" to me.
You could probably argue that there would be a benefit to a semester or two of basic training/bootcamp for theory-heavy engineering curricula (not just CS) especially for students who are going in essentially cold. Probably CS is a particularly extreme example in that there's no formal expectation that an incoming freshman has done any real programming. Though even in something like mechanical engineering it's not like students have worked on cars or been in a machine shop.
If the quality is too low, it's not viable. This was always true.
> That’s a list of things that gets clicks in the popular press.

Are you saying they're nonissues in practice? I agree that most of those points have shown up in the news, but they're also things that I have personally observed when interacting with LLMs.

Of your (and sibling commenters') cited use cases, I see a number of scenarios where AI is used to perform a quick first pass, and a human then refines that output (transcript generation, scanning invoices, iterating on transformations for syntax trees, etc). That's great that it works for you. My worry here is that you might heuristically observe that it worked perfectly 20 times in a row, then decide to remove that human check even as it admits more errors than is acceptable for your use case.

> Scanning invoices for mistakes

This is one of those cases where I would like to better understand the false negatives. If a human reviews the output, then okay, false positives are easy enough to override. But how bad is a false negative? Is it just unnecessary expenses to the company, or does it expose them to liability?

> Translating (dubbing) video and changing the lips of the speaker to match where they should be for the new audio.

This is useful in itself, but surely you too can see the potential for abuse? (This is literally putting words in someone else's mouth.)
You missed the point. They’ve been an order of magnitude financial out-performer compared to their main comps without it.

Sell your customer data, and you give your suppliers and competitors your insider info and competitive advantage.

I would assume whatever they are building is focused on protecting their customer info, not based on principle but simply on… that’s their treasure trove.
Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)
There is a very good argument to be made that training AI is fair use, as it is both transformative and does not compete with the original work. This has yet to be tested in court.
> Time is a kantian a priori for us

Exactly. That's what I said. I just didn't want to drag Kant explicitly into it for various reasons.

So if you've read Kant, you understand that time is impossible to say whether it's an attribute of the world, or an attribute of us. In particular, claiming to have empirical evidence of one or the other is nonsense - yet it's what this physics paper does, at least in its clickbaity title.

> In general, don't try to beat down advanced physics, QM, etc with appeals to "common sense" logic

Don't be condescending just because you've taken physics courses. Basic category errors is something everyone's entitled to call out, you don't even have to have read Kant to understand it.
What is the maximum bit rate for mixcloud mixes? The audio quality of anything I upload sounds terribly degraded especially when I share it with someone who is not signed in
I started my first algo trading course. And gave up after 15 mins
Perhaps SPA developers should get this memo, because 95% of SPAs should be MPAs.
If elon decides to make humans fly and move objects with their will power. Will you defend it the same way?

Cuz probability of both are closer to each other that to probability of them being achievable.

Getting to mars would require a technological leap. Planes -> rockets kind of leap.

Currently we have yet to be able to get back to the moon.

Creating self sustained colony on earth would require some kind of technological miracle.

And it will not be enough to use few nukes to malt ice caps on mars.
Yes, students should learn the craft, not the tool. The craft here is understanding how to use a version control system, particularly when working on a team. In a practical sense, this usually means learning to use `git`, but it could also be Mercurial or something, and it certainly doesn't need to be a proprietary front-end.
Keeping SQL updates as part of the build does sound intriguing but does it work flexibly, not something for a live DB i hope (so when is it updated?) and assumes local copies for each DB.

What build system has good integration for doing these kinds of updates out of the box or does it require customization?
> Almost everything else he does is to enable that vision

This is just marketing hype.
Graphic and print designers do not just use Photoshop; it’s not the right tool for that job. The bulk of that work happens outside Photoshop in Illustrator or InDesign.

Affinity has matching applications (minus Lightroom and Bridge as I said).

It also handles vectors and text just fine in Photo and has integration functionality to edit between Designer (their Illustrator alternative) and Photo, and even more impressive integration once Publisher is added to the mix. But I've used Photo on its own for tasks like banner ads, header images, and a couple of full-colour flyers (it's not my main area of expertise so I generally do not)

Take a look at an Affinity video demonstrating Publisher (their InDesign competitor). Once you combine the three apps it is surprisingly powerful and a pretty credible alternative to InDesign.

Given that you can buy the entire suite outright for desktop and iPad for the price of about four months of full Creative Cloud, I think it’s at least worth considering, though the asset management side is still obviously lacking somewhat as I said.

ETA: photographer workflows can be considerably more complex than your characterisation! I have a darkroom-soft-focus simulation in live filters in one of my projects, cross-model curves (Lab curves on an RGB image without switching modes) in several, a black and white negative processing stack, HALD CLUT inference macros, and I know people doing colour neg corrections entirely in Affinity Photo (which is a task people often delegate to something like Silverfast)
IANAL...but wow. Does Netflix have a Legal Dept? Or was that deemed an "Unnecessary Expense" during one of their rounds of layoffs?
Exactly, and the "social safety net" gets the same scare. What? You want healthcare? That's socialism, one step closer to communism, which everyone knows is the devil!
> Talk to people

Besides finding out if anyone actually is willing to pay for your solution, I think it also makes the problem bigger for you.

The advice is often to just scratch your own itch but, to be honest, my problems aren't that big to justify the many hours I'd have to put into automating them, for example. I can usually find a workaround or just live with the problem, no biggie. But if more people have the problem, then suddenly the impact is greater which may provide more motivation for certain people.
That's a good point, they probably will.
Stallman is right.
FUTO's the Open Source Definition
For comparison the Statue of Liberty is 93m. Big Ben is 96m.
I could argue that you're doing the exact same thing to promote gold. Money has close to zero intrisic value, it's just a social construct.

Oh, and please don't try to argue about the value of gold coming from its physical properties
The age of consent for heterosexual sex was 16 at the time. As gay sex was illegal, there was no corresponding age of consent for it, but it’s misleading to suggest that 19 was not considered a sufficient age for sexual consent in general.
Wow so Brett was also autistic.
> Ironically, you can thank the very men and women you mock

Unless time travel is involved, I'm not sure that's true.
> Basically, don't believe any of this "We have to own your computer for your own good" nonsense. That's a scam. Every time.

Not really. It's all they can do to stop PC gamers cheating without having control of the hardware.
I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke
I feel like as a long term holder of Nvidia I have enjoyed their business decisions thoroughly enough to say I wouldn't be disappointed if it was memed enough that one day they see this Nvidia logo as some sort of inherited "Eye of Horus" god clan of mathematics and machinery.

Assuming we have an ice age because let's be real that's the best way to make sure everything plastic or nonmetal stays preserved.... Ice age for most things, but we leave the technology buried near an area with high probability of pyroclastic flow.

That, or we get real and we begin leaving time capsules with mathematical proofs and scientific discoveries, maps, etc, on the moon and other planets.
small cabin in the woods is whatever

renting out property you own as a means of income is the upper middle class part.
I worked on Truffle and Ganache (RIP), the first Ethereum development toolchain. We had a default list of accounts and private keys on start up that everyone used, but devs kept using those keys on Mainnet and immediately loading their funds, despite the warning in docs and the CLI ourput. We have had threats from devs who thought we were running scripts to drain the accounts we gave them. So we switched to a randomized mnemonic by default.

So when competitors, like hardhat and foundry, popped up what did they do? Used default shared accounts and keys. We reached out to let them know that users will lose funds, but all they did was add a warning in the CLI output and in docs. Devs still regularly lose funds: https://etherscan.io/address/0xf39fd6e51aad88f6f4ce6ab882727...
Apple removed sub-pixel text rendering support in macOS 3-4 years ago.

They wanted to merge their GPU driver stack across iOS and macOS when they moved to Apple Silicon.

This has come with some benefits, like the lightning fast speed that Macs can enable external monitors.
The First Software Bug
My opinion that is biggest fete of engineering in the last decade. Amazing
Krita has vector support too. In fact you can mix and match vector and raster layers.

It also has plugins that do content filling like this (and they do it offline): https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

But nothing is going to be a 100% replacement, I'm merely offering alternatives.
Yeah, I ran Mojave on one of my Macs for years, until the very last moment to be able to use CS6! It is a shame they didn’t do one more version that had 64 bit support before they went to the crappy subscription model or I could still use it in Rosetta 2!

I can also recommend Pixelmator Pro, it’s been really good for what I use it for!
They don't (on iTerm2), which makes this of fairly limited utility for me, since my next operation would be to copy the filename and act on it.

I mainly use a modified version of iTerm2's imgcat script for browsing images (remotely through SSH and locally) and knowing the filename.

This lsix tool is faster than my imgcat based script, though, so it looks like I have some room for tweaking/improving.
can you elaborate on why that's concerning (or otherwise remarkable)?
Wonder what would be the reason for that? It is clearly highly interesting one and not total disinformation.
With the number of anti patterns in React, are you sure everything’s OK? The thing’s about declarative is that it’s more like writing equations. Imperative have a tighter feedback loop, and ultimately only code organization is a issue. But so many things can go wrong with declarative as it’s one level higher in the abstraction stack.

I’m not saying that React is hard to learn. But I believe buying a good book would have them get there quicker.
Also exercise really doesn't burn as many calories as people think. You usually need to work out as much as a pro athlete or olympian to burn a noticeable amount of calories from exercise. The reality is that a lot of Americans just eat too much.
Instruction Sets Should Be Free: The Case for RISC-V [pdf] (2014)