skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops, I viewed it on mobile and didn't scroll past seeing the Wikipedia link and missed that the image was below
Sadly, it is becoming more like trad-fi. In the past, anyone could receive rebates for market making, but these days, only high-tier traders, trading companies, can benefit from them. The tier hurdle is getting higher. Also, there are now different APIs and limits for individual traders and high-tier trading companies.
How about we make an effort to understand each others' intent instead of pedantically nitpicking each other's wording.
> it would qualify under space or time shifting concepts.

With the monumentally idiotic Aereo[1] decision, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Cos.,_In....
> There are more benefits to US citizenship than "not being deported". Illegal immigrants certainly don't have all the same benefits a citizen (or even legal immigrant) has.

Which ones do you think are material?
US bans Russia's Kaspersky antivirus software
So, when is the IA's incredibly inept board going to stand down, before their stupidity burns down the entire project?
"Such a system exists. You can publish a book and give it away freely.
But few do. This is book communism and fails for the same reasons as regular communism. It is in nobody’s interest to do any hard work. If you don’t reward great effort, virtually nobody provides it."

Why does open source / free software exist then?

"Nobody puts in hard word if it's not rewarded" hasnt the cURL guy been maintaining cURL/libcurl for decades and gets paid nothing?
Right, but it could well be that there is some other greatly superior organization of life toward which there exists no evolutionary path.
As a heads up, this seems to break completely if any of a couple of different Chrome extensions I have are enabled (for example, Simplify - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simplify-copilot-au...).

Also, maybe it's just me, but I feel like the sqlite-based thing is, if anything, kind of a downside. Use it for caching and calculation, sure, but I want the source of truth to be just plain markdown files I can take into other apps in 5 years when whatever I'm using now inevitably dies.
i think everyone who made it to adulthood understands the difference between causation and correlation, yet awful people like yourself feel the need to lecture us on it--if only as a bludgeon--to punish us for putting into words what we have seen with our own lying eyes. import india & the middle east, become more like india & the middle east. one only needs to line the mugshots up on a wall to verify, but that is now forbidden.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/swedish-poli...
Do you have any data to back that up? Wouldn’t something being highly pirated indicate that there’s a lot of interest in a reprint?
Show HN: Hyperdiv – Session support for user session and data persistence
Or measure their mechanic's productivity by number of hours spent on the car
> purposeful restriction of such vast and easily shareable repositories of knowledge

You don’t get more golden eggs by killing the goose who lays them.

Also the IA book UI was terrible.
P. P. O'Brien observes, based on WWII between Japan and the U.S., "that the US is basically taking an enormous gamble. The gamble is that US technology and front-line forces are so superior to the Chinese, that they can intimidate the Chinese from going to war or, if a war broke out, that they could devastate the Chinese military relatively quickly without the war turning into a longer-term war of attrition" [1]. Because if it turns into a 1:1 war of attrition, based on current production, we lose.

Expand scope to our allies, however, and the pivotal is whether Japan "would be willing to fight for Taiwan" and the America "to deploy a significant amount of force to protect Japan" [2]. (Of secondary importance: if Korean shipyards would support the war effort without getting involved in the war per se, Lend-Lease style.)

[1] https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-and-deterrence-in...

[2] https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-and-deterrence-in...
Once you have a large enough fleet of roughly the same shape, it starts to make sense to build some automated cleaning thing. I'm picturing like, a long tube with vacuum ports in it that can just be shoved in by a robot arm to vacuum each seat. Unless there's a wet mess, that'll basically get it 90% of the way there.
Dobbs Code Talk
Curiously libertarian language for supporting a system built on restricting individual freedom.
I’m going to wall the ramp with a depot and a barracks then drop tanks on their ledge, you take your natural and pump hydras. These guys don’t know what’s up.
I didn't say that evolution finds the optimal state, just wanted to highlight how far it was able to go, much farther it seems.. (like evolution of the eye)

But your comment was refreshing, could you briefly expand on the "multicellular" life part? Did you mean that it enabled more non-locally-optimal transitions, or that it required them to appear?
> you can't just make more of it.

Actually you can. It's called building.

Take NYC for example. My guess is that at least half of the housing stock in NYC is "pre-war". The "war" in that expression is World War 2. No washer-driers, no elevators, but a good number of mice and rats.

You could absolutely take these buildings down and build back something better. And that better could have more apartment units.

I live in one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in NYC and in the world. All buildings are new (post 2000). If you replace the rest of the city with such buildings, you can certainly have enough housing for 30 million people.

But the foreign investors don't buy to come and live here. You can just build, sell, and not deal with the crowding.

And that could result in lower construction costs too. Why are new apartments so expensive? Because we don't know how to build anymore. We don't know because we don't build.
Reimagining user experience of links in Markdown
As a layperson, that makes sense to me. It also explains the time dilation effect when near a large mass.
If "touch grass" was a hero's story
I believe in hundreds, maybe thousands of years, after humanity has finally evolved past our current monkey mentality, future historians will look back at this time period in awe: "They had the technology to make the sum of all human knowledge available to everyone... And they blew it! Further, they had the means to feed everyone, clothe everyone, house everyone, but they just walked away in the other direction, purely to maintain existing economic power structures." The future historians are going to wonder how strong our ideology was that we sacrificed all of what we could have at the altar of our scarcity-based religion.

If Star Trek Replicators were invented today, we're so stupid we'd outlaw them.
Open source covers a very tiny set of use cases for software. How many paid products have an open source competitor at all? How many have a credible competitor (GIMP isn’t a credible alternative to PhotoShop for the people who pay for it for example).

It is far from rendering paid software obsolete.

And not nobody. Virtually nobody. Yes open source exists. Out of the hundreds of devs I have worked with, I know one who meaningfully participates. Say 1 in 100 devs does open source. The other 99 not writing code would lead to a massive fall off in software written.
Copyright lasts too damn long.
James Cameron Interviews George Lucas about Star Wars (2018) [video]
No I'd say it's that people are very bad at knowing what they want, and worse at knowing how to get it.

While it might be "moving the goal posts" the issue is that the goal posts were arbitrary to start with. In the context of the metaphor we put them on the field so there could be a game, despite the outcome literally not mattering anywhere else.

This isn't limited to AI: anyone dealing with customers knows that the worst thing you can do is take what the customer says their problem is at face value, replete with the proposed solution. What the customer knows is they have a problem, but it's very unlikely they want the solution they think they do.
No, that's why the project focuses more on cryptocurrency, which offers easier access to data and the market. I'm trying to understand trad-fi markets and implementing L3 market-by-order backtesting using Databento data, but creating a live bot without the market access would be impossible.
It hurts but I agree, they fucked up by doing that.
What happened to Mr Anthony Thrower
That’s not really true in traditional HFT because resting orders no matter how slowly placed will take precedence over orders that are new.

Typically you’d have some combination of order fill for orders that cross the book, successful cancellation (which is where the real race is) and mechanical observation of tick to trade.
Would it reduce the number of tourists? Not likely, they'd just pay more to hotels (and thus have less money to spend on other things - vacation budget is usually limited, but it's distribution between various types of expense is not predetermined). Would it make Barcelona a less popular destination for non-natives? Not likely, unless it objectively becomes worse place for natives too.

NYC, Barcelona and any major city that hasn't gone the way of SF and Portland, have the same problem - a lot of people like to be there, either temporarily or permanently, but the number of accommodations, both temporary and permanent, is not infinitely scalable and runs out pretty fast, especially if the city managers aren't actively working on fixing that problem by increasing the supply - which they often don't.

Increasing the supply is hard and leads to a tangle of its own challenges. Blaming somebody else - especially somebody that doesn't even vote in the local elections - is much easier, and by the time it turns out it doesn't help - which will be some 10 years ago from now - the managers could fail upwards, retire or think about some other scapegoat to blame.
Is Programming by Example Solved by LLMs?
You are confusing the TBD Devastator with the TBF/TBM Avenger. The Avenger was a very capable aircraft, certainly the best carrier-borne torpedo bomber and antisubmarine platform of the war.

The Swordfish did OK in the Atlantic solely because it never faced any meaningful fighter opposition (having been quickly relegated to "safer" roles), and the distances were low enough that its low speed was not a hindrance. It would have been utterly unsurvivable in the Pacific theater against Japanese opposition.

Additionally, short-range ASW aircraft were never really the problem in the Atlantic, the problem was always how to provide long-range cover, which was only solved by the use of land-based B-24s and carrier-borne Avengers.
I’ve been in this industry for over twenty years. I’ve written a fair share of code in other languages. There’s not enough empirical evidence to suggest that one language is better than any other.

My example is only a counter argument that Haskell isn’t suitable because of the reasons you stated. Clearly it can be maintained, work can be split among groups, and delivered with reasonable efficiency… like a lot of software can be in other languages.
Didn't work for that company that rented you an actual physical individual tv antenna which you accessed remotely.
The barf bag is such a specific artifact of human advancement. Consider all that had to be accomplished in order for it to exist: the triumph of aviation, the incomprehensible global infrastructure of commercial flight, and finally, the neat trick of inventing something people can throw up in that isn’t too threatening to keep close by.
The graph code, when all done and said, is identical for all scenarios.
Ask HN: What hands-on exhibits would you put in a Computer Science Center?
Maybe it's time to have a Computer Science Center that is much like Science Centers with hands-on exhibits?
If society wanted to, it could most certainly choose to allow for the copying of any bits you are in possession of, while also forcing you to distribute additional bits in certain circumstances.
They apparently bought several other entertainment companies before Redbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Soup_for_the_Soul#Ente...
Evidently not enough for libraries to abandon books from publishers.

If they had the selection and quality people were seeking, people wouldn’t be arguing to kill copyright but rather just pointing people to free equivalents. The Internet Archive would just distribute those alternatives.

When a free equivalent does exist, that is what happens. Nobody is demanding legislation to force Oracle to lower database licence prices. We just use Postgres.
Where do you procure from?
Is the goose here the publisher? Or the author? If it’s the latter, then would killing the publisher necessarily dictate that the author also must die?
Netlists, footprint diagrams, constraint diagrams etc. are mostly nonsense. I’m working on finetuning Phi3 and I’m hopeful it’ll get better. I’m also working on synthesized datasets and mini-DSLs to make that tuning possible eg https://text-to-footprint.tscircuit.com

My impression is that synthetic datasets and finetuning will basically completely solve the problem, but eventually it’ll be available in general purpose models- so it’s not clear if its worth it to build a dedicated model.

Overall the article’s analysis is great. I’m very optimistic that this will be solved in the next 2 years.
Is 2024 the year of Windows on the Desktop?
China has an extremely narrow window if they want to engage the US in a hot war. Their population demographics have turned negative, GDP growth has slowed considerably and the West has decoupled much quicker than they anticipated. Good luck building a consumer economy with a nation of high savers who are watching the ship sink in real time.

A disillusioned populace will mean tighter government control and even unhappier populace.

They have less than a decade left before they start a much steeper decline or face some internal revolution.
This is the aspect that makes me most excited about Waymo and the like –the prospect of no longer having to tolerate terrible driving because removing someone's license is akin to an economic death sentence. Fully commercialized, self-driving should provide an economic alternative to humans driving themselves. And we should be able to leverage that to stop the worst drivers ever getting behind the wheel again.
Just like Arm, SiFive licenses CPU cores to chip designers, they don't make chips or products using them themselves.

Except expensive eval boards in very low volume, aimed at letting people who are licensing their cores to build a chip get a head start on software development while their own chip is under development -- much like Arm's $10,000 dev boards:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/arm/V2M-JUNO-0317...
What is an amber rod?
I clicked on the little '?' for more info--it wasn't much help.

This is the most animation for the least information. The cities are grouped together and the most detail I got was that it goes below 0' C and above 22' C and doesn't qualify as a 'dry' summer in any month. Is this supposed to compel climate action or change opinions (or is it to showcase animation/scrolljacking skills)?

This other story today[0] has no animation and only colored bars.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753317
First of all I’m not saying we should do this just because it’s what I believe. I’m saying we should all actually spend time considering the value of this proposal and make up our own minds. But I’m not looking for knee-jerk responses, there’s too much at stake. We seriously need to consider the implications of the current system which requires vast stores of information that are freely available to be removed from public access.

Second, the only way authors can have this “freedom” you argue for is through vast sweeping government-mandated restrictions on and punishments for the sharing of information. Authors can only have this freedom by taking away the freedom of would-be librarians like IA, and only with massive government interventions. My proposal eliminates the need for government intervention in markets.

And this isn’t strictly some lefty idea either. I’ve really enjoyed this talk by a libertarian capitalist lawyer at the Mises Institute arguing that intellectual property as a concept hampers capitalism. It’s full of a bunch of great arguments and since you seem to be interested in this subject I’d encourage you to check it out!

https://youtu.be/cWShFz4d2RY
Just to hammer on the point here, the polling is close to wall-to-wall that people prefer him as the next US president - so in that sense he is probably slightly above normal. Are you saying you consider deploying the spying apparatus to monitor domestic political candidates is legitimate? What is the line where you consider it illegitimate?

They bought this system in notionally to fight terrorists. It has in short order turned out that "terrorists" include someone who can be described as a relatively popular (!) Republican candidate. Are you contending that this is legitimate use of the foreign intelligence apparatus?

Most US presidents have dealings with foreign countries. The Biden family are famously involved in Ukraine (& others), Trump was all over the place including Russia. Obama was probably just domestic but the Bush family have a lot of interest in oil which is going to involve foreign contact and the Clintons are closely involved in US foreign policy. There'd be a case for spying on almost every president in the last 30 years!
Agreed. In a sibling comment I just shared this lecture by a libertarian capitalist at the Mises institute arguing that intellectual property restrictions hamper capitalism.

https://youtu.be/cWShFz4d2RY
The sum of all physiological knowledge will end with watering plants with Brawndo because electrolytes.
They can also increase the speed limit:

> Department of Transportation, with the approval of the Department of the California Highway Patrol, may declare a higher maximum speed of 70 miles per hour

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
Many is not a number.
> That's the goal of Zuunote. And I hope it shows here through the way it implements links. But I'm way in over my head.

Markdown is well covered. Have you considered building on Scroll instead?

IMO, having used them now on thousands of pages for years, Scroll does links better using our "aftertext" pattern (https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html):

https://try.scroll.pub/#scroll%0A%20%23%20Scroll%20Links%0A%...
This is a great example of goalposts shifting. Even having a model that can engage in coherent conversation and synthesize new information on the fly is revolutionary compared to just a few years ago. Now the bar has moved up to creativity without human intervention.
This is not to say that prices will continue to decrease indefinitely; in fact, they appear to be reaching a plateau.

https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/fig1battery.pn...

Moreover, it is prudent to avoid relying solely on a single technology. Currently, lithium is the only type of storage that is commercially viable, and hydropower capacity in Europe is nearly maxed out. Additionally, a significant portion of lithium supply is controlled by China, which poses its own set of challenges:

https://carboncredits.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/l...

I am optimistic about the future of storage technologies. If prices continue to fall and production increases, we could potentially use these technologies to better manage daily energy peaks by 2050.

However, achieving affordable and efficient seasonal storage remains a distant and costly goal.

It's also important to acknowledge that while storage technologies exist, they have yet to meet the ambitious targets we are discussing anywhere in the world, the data are promising, but they say nothing about what might happen in the future.
It seems the other way around: x11 got worse and worse, then wayland happened (wayland core).
Cathode Ray Tubes probably wouldn't work very well if they sucked electrons away from the screen instead of launching them towards it.

At a deeper level it does start to matter when you get down to the physical level of transistors because electrons and holes (places in a crystal lattice where an electron could go but isn't there) move differently. P-type transistors generally can't be made as conductive as N-type transistors because, with plenty of handwaving, negative charge due excess electrons move easier than positive charge due to a lack of electrons.
Unfortunately, that seems to include data regarding Tesla's FSD function, which renders it useless for actual comparisons between human driving and responsible implementations of self driving technology.
> Running the tests is really easy. Because there are no tests, to run the tests you just do nothing.

Maybe I should adopt this mentality.
Most musicians don't make a living from their art, they work day jobs. That doesn't mean piracy is the only factor or a strong one, but it's part of the equation.
A. If the car needs cleaning acutely because of a mess, it can go to the centralized location, and top up charge a bit in the process.

B. If the car is reaching the point it needs cleaning without an acute mess, it can go to the centralized location next time it needs a charge.

C. They can also elect to have people at the charging centers at off-hours to clean a subset of cars, to reduce the amount of B you need to do.
And on the flip side, a sufficient abundance of resources and/or lack of predators mean non-optimal species can procreate, and thus find other local optima.
Using the word “accumulator” wouldn’t be enough to differentiate batteries from capacitors, inductors, etc. which are also accumulators.
> Controlled digital lending was tolerated.

The comments here about the lawsuit not being about the Emergency Library completely are technically true, but ignore this sentence. IA poked the bear with it's brazen actions.

> It was never legal.

Before this lawsuit, we weren't sure about this, but by provoking the lawsuit, we've forced the courts to make this decision.
Meanwhile the publishing houses (John Wiley & Sons) are putting out LLM generated garbage: https://zbmath.org/1532.68005
It's a tiresome rhetorical device these days to pretend Communism only has one narrow meaning.
"One solution to this complicated problem is to require simultaneous, complete cooperation from everyone in a way that costs everybody money! This wild solution I came up with isn't workable, therefore there is no possible solution to this problem!"
I used to work somewhere that different bug severity levels were a KPI. One day after opening some prod/blocker/whatever level bug, I got a slack message from some useless agile coach arguing over it. After that, I created one kind of ticket in Jira. Fuck it. And when I talked to another senior engineer on another team it turns out they had the same experience and came to the same conclusion.
Is any word a number?
Are there any write ups of the newly evil Google experience I can read about? When did things shift for you in the 2016 - 2023 timeframe?
Europeans and Americans are now taxing green technology, which they said in the past they want, because it is built in another country...
The mental hoops drivers go through to justify their unsafe behaviour...
Fill the prisons with police, you say? Sounds good to me.
Thinking of it as directional action potentials that are blocked by mass? I agree it does feel intuitively nicer that way honestly.
Yeah, copyright is a government enforced monopoly. Basically the definition of socialist government intervention in the free market. IA can produce copies for much cheaper, but the government doesn’t allow them to compete, because they want publishers to operate a welfare program for writers.
> Hmm. "We rub our Tubes with Buck Skin", he says in the same letter.

My immature brain didn’t get past this sentence.