skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I see all these pushes for regulation as red herrings that will likely result in cementing the current leaders in place.

The unfortunate truth is that the large corporations were going to do this with or without the legislation - that's a separate largely independently issue.

At the core, scale and control over data ultimately make or break these technologies, and large players (hiring the few talents capable of properly utilizing these technologies) are simply better equipped to leverage the markets.

The difference being, intent and public commons. At least with the legislation, public commons do not become fair game for corporate plundering, just as the public cannot (legally) plunder the "corporate" data.

Without the legislation, the corporate simply own and control all your data, without much explicit work on your part both technically and legally to defend your rights.

> I'm part of the limewire and BitTorrent generation

Myself as well - however this is where intent comes into play. Bringing data into the "public" commons as quickly and often as possible is most useful for the public, not corporations. Obviously, some of those public are in the employ of the corporate, however generally the intent of said generation was to "pirate, then buy". All studies on the matter showed this was true - free advertising and increased sales (for large scale ventures at least). Smaller vendors had trouble recouping costs, it is true, however attempts were made to build in compensation mechanisms for these cases as well.

In both cases, what is common is the intent to most broadly benefit the public, either through legislation (which is intended to serve the public interests) or through broadening the commons (which is intended to serve the public interests). In both cases, the technology employed suffered(suffers) gaping harmful holes that may not be possible to address except by some form of legislation/recompense.

The fact that corporations can and will exploit legal frameworks should not however, be a reason to think of all such efforts as "red herrings".
I have a form of aphantasia, but with that lack of visuals I also have a rich internal sense of touch. Like you, I can create and manipulate 3d objects in my mind; I really feel them down to texture and temperature (and I must say, that cow has textures I didn't want to feel, thanks for nothing) Most of my dreams are like this too -- I know where everything is, but I don't see it.

But my aphantasia isn't complete. Sometimes when I think of a person I get a dim image of their face for about a tenth of a second. And very rarely, I do see things in dreams.
MSR was actually working for themselves (researchers who were career paper-publishers aka professors without teaching responsibilities).

Source: worked at MSR
It also burned down incidentally by Caesar burning a different part of the city and the fire spreading to the library.

Unsure how "beware of mobs!" fits in there.

It's as if the comment is intentionally written to be inflammatory. I suppose that is unfortunate.
Someone buying a tractor on a loan doesn’t take away someone else’s ability to buy a tractor. We have no shortage of tractors. Practically all new tractors today are bought on a loan, by the way.

Imagine what would happen if loans on tractors would not be allowed. Then, someone who needs a tractor would need to rent it, instead of buying it. In that world, pretty much the same people who use tractors now would also use tractors. Tractors use would be similarly allocated as today. The main difference is that instead of a bank earning income by renting you money, it would earn income by renting you tractors. The ultimate outcome would be effectively the same.

Loans is just renting, but instead of renting physical objects, you rent money. If you object to renting money, all your objections should apply to renting physical things. Have you thought of that?
I bet the venn diagram for those two overlap a lot. They are both black-and-white perspectives on very complex nuanced topics.
I guess such a list of all those people would be pretty valuable for criminal organizations.
It's flagged, can you share it?
This Reddit post will give you a good high level overview, and has links if you want to explore further.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/18yizux/i_finally_cav...

Here's a detailed guide on how to use Tags in Calibre to set up Collections on Kobo. This was the primary reason I bought a Kobo this year. I have over 1k books. They were mostly unsorted on Kindle. Amazon wouldn't let me use Calibre to organize them, and I didn't want to organize them on the device with its slow interface. With Calibre, I just got everything tagged and they were instantly organized upon upload to the Kobo.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/qlgha1/how_to_create_...

If you end up getting a Kobo, make sure you set up the Calibre Kobo plugin to auto convert every book to the kepub format. Just makes things smoother on the ereader and the plugin does it intelligently. Only sending the kepub to the device but preserves disk space by keeping the books on your desktop in their original format. The first link I mentioned links out to a guide on that.
Quite a few things fall out of favor and are on bad platforms, no platform at all, or bad quality.

I found a movie I should have access to through Netflix but their new tier system made it unavailable unless I upgraded.

I had a friend barf in my box of cds once. It was a long evening of washing, spraying, and buffing.
Smith, Marx, and Picard?: Star Trek and Our Economic Future
Show HN: NinjaHorder: The Stealth Domain Checker for Paranoid Entrepreneurs
I built a browser-based domain name explorer that uses DNS-over-HTTPS to keep your million-dollar ideas secret. It's like whispering "Is this domain taken?" to the internet without anyone eavesdropping. Feedback is welcome on improving accuracy without sacrificing tinfoil hat compatibility.
> Artists and "creative" people have long held a monopoly on this ability and are now finally paying the price

I've seen a lot of schadenfreude towards artists recently, as if they're somehow gatekeeping art and stopping the rest of us from practicing it.

I really struggle to understand it; the barrier of entry to art is basically just buying a paper and pencil and making time to practice. For most people the practice time could be spent on many things which would have better economic outcomes.

> monopoly

Doesn't this term imply an absence of competition? There seems to be a lot of competition. Anyone can be an artist, and anyone can attempt to make a living doing art. There is no certification, no educational requirements. I'm sure proximity to wealth is helpful but this is true of approximately every career or hobby.

Tangentially, there seem to be positive social benefits to everyone having different skills and depending on other people to get things done. It makes me feel good when people call me up asking for help with something I'm good at. I'm sure it feels the same for the neighborhood handyman when they fix someone's sink, the artist when they make profile pics for their friends, etc. I could be wrong but I don't think it'll be entirely good for people when they can just have an AI or a robot do everything for them.
Signaling of coding unit prediction and prediction unit partition mode for video coding

https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.0/publicatio...

Is this story old? There's a press release from 2023:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-court-fines-netflix-7-...

Maybe a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249527
Well its not a sure rule of thumb that lower speeds are safer. People die falling bad from standing too. But it sure as hell makes it a guarantee you kill someone if you hit them at that speed. Especially some of these newer suvs where the front end is effectively a wall at pedestrian height.
It’s especially hard to defend given that the barriers to entry for creatives today (thanks to cheap editing equipment and Internet distribution) is extremely low.
Yes, if you try hard enough I'm sure you can find ways to screw up.

From a practical point of view it is fine.
This “people should be paid based on the value they create” myth comes up a lot on HN. Compensation is only tied to value creation as a maximum level. The actual compensation level is whatever people are willing to work for while doing good-enough work. If you want to price your work based on value, you need to run your own business.
Is it okay to steal from someone if they never notice?
From the things I've seen, it almost always comes down to IP issues clashing with economic realities. The person holding the rights either can't get it done and/or won't license it to people who can (at economically viable rates), so it languishes. It's especially frustrating since the whole IP system was supposed to encourage innovation.
USC's graduate acting and dramatic writing programs are now tuition-free
Google for “roller shutters”, like these here: https://www.neuffer.de/en/roller-shutters.php
Well as of a couple of years ago they have some of the most overpowered hardware. Its not the intel era anymore. The fact I can run many of these unsupported games on max settings through an emulation layer no less is saying something.
I don't really see how benign communism would be sustainable. In order for communal decision making to be practical, some form of representative hierarchy needs to form. That brings the concept of leaders and that brings concentration of power. With power comes privileges and you're then relying on none of those leaders exploiting their position for personal gain so that it doesn't devolve into a classist society of ruling classes Vs serfs.

In my eyes communism is fatally flawed.

Inequality is inherent in human society at scale. Better to accept that fact and design the society with mechanisms that try to keep it in check.
The posted article is also from 2023:
Dec. 22, 2023
Words are thoughts but thoughts are not necessarily words. I do think words form better thoughts. Without words, thoughts are memories and can shift and change meaning and I won't be aware of it. If I think my thoughts in words then I can review my thoughts more carefully and be sure the meanings are not changing.

If I'm solving some complicated problem, this is a big deal since if my solution to a sub-problem changes that's very bad. Of course also I can then write my thoughts down and refer back to them repeatedly so I can be sure they remain consistent.
In 1983 you could call 1-900-410-4111 and get Pioneer 10 data as analog
Valve updated most of their other ports to 64 bit recently. Save the mac port of course.
Colonialism does not justify genocide
How does one locally enable -ffast-math equivalent?
This kind of shit is why we can't have nice things. Software patents' only use is as cudgels for large companies to beat other large companies with, and they leave a hazy minefield in their wake for software developers to wade through.

Abolish software patents.

https://endsoftwarepatents.org/
Really? Where are you from that they say it that way?
I seem to recall there being a little tunnel you could crawl through under a pathway. My memory is a bit fuzzy as it was about 30 years ago. Anyway, my whole life i have a recurring dream about being in that tunnel and it starting to flood and getting stuck and unable to escape. Did I say dream? I mean nightmare. I should return and face my fears!
Maybe not 63N but a lot of people still live north of 57N. And from my experience proper blackout curtains are pretty rare.
Actually. I find it the opposite. The 30 percent you speak of don’t care and are not in the web yelling eat the rich.

The real problem is the 70% who can’t be happy knowing that others are better off than them.

(It’s actually not 70% most don’t care but anybody who says eat the rich is the problematic person)
> we don't realize we're behaving like the stereotypical coked-up bad guys.

I recently came to realization that the 80s were able to be fueled by cocaine because we lacked the tools to identify a coked out maniac. People must have just seen these people as "engaged, enthusiastic, and passionate".

Now, we have the tools to see the current snake oil salesmen (this is what? our nth cycle? VR, GigEconomy, Blockchain, AR, ...) but people are still defending them. It's difficult to watch again and again.
Mentioned in piece: https://www.planetarytech.earth/posts/the-sun-has-won-part-1...
The deeper question is how much control labor has over its provision of supply (monopoly) and how much control firms have over their demand for labor provisioning (monopsony). Both can be inefficient operators in the Econ 101 view of the world.
yet, 16 degrees Fahrenheit is how we would normally say it.
> It’s definitely possible to have a nicer CLI where such relations are obvious/clear. But I haven’t found anything yet, unfortunately.

As per my previous comment, I suggest you more fully leverage the concepts of bookmarks, and (script) libraries.

You can have some very simple "graphical" aids on top - your console must live in a window somewhere, and you probably want to be able to tile them. You probably want to be able to quickly reach for a couple (common) digital knobs.

However, just like you haven't found a "nicer CLI", finding this "nicer GUI" is difficult and rare experience.
That's interesting! And I'm guessing the lack of daylight in winter has its own effects too.
I also do this! I went from using an eyeshade which was uncomfortable and often slipped off to just grabbing a beanie. The coziness is a nice plus.
Yeah, that's what I think. In both cases the technical decisions were made by people who were not technical experts and were completely ignoring the input of the technical experts because of social pressures. Based on McDonald's retelling, the decision to launch the Challenger was anything but an informed risk decision; none of the managers said "we acknowledge Morton Thiokol's concerns about O-Ring temperatures and are committing to launch anyway, with the following rationale: ..." They just didn't bring up the temperature issue at the flight director level and recommended a launch, backed by no data.

In Chernobyl, they scheduled a safety test to satisfy schedules imposed by central command. The plant engineers either weren't informed or couldn't push back because to go against management meant consequences for your career and family, administered by the Soviet authorities or the KGB.

Both scenarios had engineers who were not empowered to disclose or escalate issues to the highest level because of implied threats against them by non-technical authorities.
In other news, residents of these states are reminded of the fact that Pornhub is perhaps among the most vanilla porn and above board porn sites out there compared with the likes of heavy-r, motherless, efukt, and no doubt far more depraved content a simple click away, and under the radar of these morality crusaders.

Don't assume that just because Pornhub doesn't include scat, drugged, zoophilic, voyeur, nonconsentual, and other more frowned upon content that it isn't still entirely available if you're foolish enough to let your kid on the Internet without monitoring.
And copyright definitely isn’t ownership. You don’t own the work. You have a limited exclusive right to how the work is used, distributed, or monetized.

A right is not ownership.
Yes both people need to embody "our" finances for it to work.

Which means - no your income/my income but our income. And no your spending/my spending but our spending.
> steaming platform

Please tell me you meant to do that? Either way, I'm using it from now on!
Processing coffee yourself takes skill that gangsters who take over a government don't have. The most successful countries after decolonization are meritocracies
I've disabled Personalization from the start, is that why I don't see them perhaps?
Why? I don’t need to equally and freely share the expertise I develop by consuming publicly available information. In fact, I personally profit from it. Should I compensate every YouTube creator, author, journalist, for the money I’ve made in my career that their publicly available work contributed to in terms of my learning/education?
I don't doubt that it's an accurate translation (Griffith retired from the USMC and did a doctorate in chinese military history before[0] attempting it); I'm just curious[1] how various phrases from the translation were phrased in the original.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_B._Griffith#Post-retire...

[1] the only other chinese text I've looked closely at has been bits of the Mawangdui Tao Te Ching, and I'd guess using that as a reference style would be like attempting to write contemporary english based on the King James bible.
> We can't expect to turn back the clock and have everyone writing HTML by hand again, not when we're all accustomed to typing text and uploading media via carefully manicured, intentionally minimal user interfaces.

There are days when I feel like I'm the last person left who hand-codes personal websites for pleasure. Though I refuse to believe this is true!

Then again, I doubt there's a freehand web editor that's ever been built that can cope with the sort of crazy I was building back in the day (and, against all probability, still works!)

⇉ A brief Ákat lexicon - http://rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/wakat/index.php?page=lexicon

⇉ Vreski wards system - https://vreskiwards.rikweb.org.uk/index.html

⇉ Ewlah maps - https://rikweb.org.uk/map/
On a new setup, I disable personalization, and I think this is why I don't see them perhaps?
> AI uses publicly accessible content similarly to how humans do

It absolutely does not. Bunch of companies with pretty low ethical standards are scraping all they can find. People who wrote all this content never consented to this, and many of them explicitly opted-out.
It is not at all a "known fact" that "avoiding too much red meat" is "good for you". There has never been a single large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trial which has shown such causality.

In general there are hardly any "known facts" in biology, least of all in human nutrition. All we have are probabilities. Most human nutrition studies that relate to this issue have been observational and relied on subject-reported data: in other words, junk science.

If there is an actual signal here one way or the other then it certainly has a much smaller impact on overall human health than other factors like energy balance, exercise, sleep quality, chronic stress, etc. There's a lot of other stuff to optimize first before we even think about the relative quantities of plant/fungus versus animal foods in our diets.

https://peterattiamd.com/qps1/
Looking for a List of LLM-Based Agent Startups
Hey everyone,

I'm a software engineer exploring job opportunities in the LLM-based agent field. I'm particularly interested in startups (seed to Series C) working on chatbots, summarizers, RAG models, recommendation engines, and related technologies.

Does anyone have or know of a comprehensive list of such startups? Any recommendations or leads would be highly appreciated!
Another piece generalizing artist to musicians, while this race to bottom has decimated most other independent creative professions beyond music, for much longer. I thought spotify was going to democratize music?! I laughed then, I still laugh. New boss just like the old boss, someone once said...
As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

I don't think you want to go there, broheim. Wait'll you hear my opinion of how "safe" your computer is, and whether it should be allowed on a network.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

A personal computer, along with its operating system, should do what its owner tells it to do.

That was kind of the original idea, anyway.
Do you mean as in "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"?
If that were true, I don't know how you could explain the persistence of town car and limousine services.
What a beginner should know about running
Try arguing with substance instead of hyperbolic (and specious) comparisons.

Preferential attachment is a well-documented economic phenomenon, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
The Internet is for porn.
Twice IIRC

Not that I’m counting or anything
I'm suspicious that perhaps silver nanowires might be a health risk? I believe finely-divided silver can be toxic, at least in some circumstances.

Also, it's a composite with a plastic material, and would probably resist all attempts to recycle it, resulting eventually in microplastics (contaminated with metallic silver).
There is no value in music, books, movies, video games? Or did you just think about paintings?
A job is a job, construction jobs are physically demanding although pay can be competitive for the bar of entry, pilots can be a fun and prestigious career but your trade-off is your sleep schedule and days away from home every week.
I vaguely remember Richard Thaler published this research on risk as the determinant for career earning.
you probably don’t need sql
The Politics of Flag Emojis
Anybody have problems with bookmark organization like me?
What tools do you use to manage bookmarks and saved links? Do you wish there was something better out there?
I was failing badly in my computer architecture courses. Received a 5% score in one of the mid-terms. Switched from the recommended book to Andrew's book and did nothing apart from read it everyday for 2 hours. Received 100% in the final. Such an amazingly approachable book. :-)
> we've known for decades that having smooth and fluid (60fps) UI goes a long way to reducing user stress and frustration

This hasn't stopped appalling bloat becoming the norm on the web, either.
Before you invest in something, determine how that thing creates value. If you can’t determine how it creates value, it is most likely a short-lived scheme. Risk aside, it has also become a principle of mine that I refuse to try to generate income or gains from anything that, at the end of the day, isn’t generating real value for society.
China's super-rich are eyeing the exit
You can turn on 'showdead' on your HN user page. It's more worth it than not in my experience.
https://archive.ph/gHduc
Since then
- Recall recalled
- Copilot+ cut down to a web wrapper
- CoPilot+ PC benchmarks faked
- CustomGPT support dropped from Copilot
- Curb Stomped by Apple actually having a developer platform strategy around AI
I've used it to confirm that a service computes the RSA signature correctly and just advertises the wrong public key. If the signature is always consistent with some public key, but it's not the right one, that's not very interesting. If the signature sometimes matches the advertised public key, but sometimes it does not, that could point towards a miscomputation that allows recovery of the private key.
Author here: Very true!

I didn't go into it in the article itself, but you are correct. HTML has a pretty strict hierarchy of elements to maintain a semantic style. While this is helpful for those using screen readers, or running search crawlers or AI scrapers, it is unfortunate that this decision mostly excludes the ability to build freeform layouts without incurring SEO and potentially WCAG penalties.
Recognizing what is a car in a 3D NeRF/Gaussian Splatting scene can be done. Also research from CVPR: https://www.garfield.studio/
> In many ways the country is spiralling into Gliead-esqe state from Handsmaid Tales

After having more progressive abortion and trans care laws than Europe (where parties like the "Christian Democrats" in Germany rule), how exactly?

The Republicans want to performatively participate in their moral panic by asking for (stupid) age verification; meanwhile, the Democrats control tech and media, AI stonecolds prompts with "Trump" as "dangerous content", they want to ban everything off the Internet they don't like, and would oppress free speech with Canada's new hate speech laws if they could.