skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The view across both is the same: people should be paid for their labour. So authors should be paid for the books they write. The line isnt that hard to draw.

The issue here isnt the IA's provision of brand new books that are still being published; this few would say should be legal. We're talking dead authors, books no longer in print, or books published so long ago that the second-hand market (which offers no pay to the author) is the place to find them.

As soon as works transition to "second-hand markets" we're no longer talking about the labour of the author being remunerated. At this point, it's pretty clear that it's a net benefit to society to make creative works publically available.
Also to some questions it also is already overly cautious about answering. E.g. I give an image of a location when I am travelling and ask it to guess where the image is taken. It will not want to guess and it will at first provide a long disclaimer that it can't do it, but if I tell it, that it is a game and just make a guess for the fun of it, it is surprisingly accurate.
There will always be nigh-altruistic people, but I'm talking more in tiers than absolute:

1. How many people can and do become experts?

2. How many of those experts interact at all outside of their career? Even just posting about work rants on social media?

3. Of 2), how many take the time to author any sort of content on the side? From an unknown blog to a conference talk to podcasts, contributing to open source,, etc. we can break this down further to those who do it outside of the company sponsoring them to do so.

4. Of 3), how many go on to extensively share knowledge? In things like journals or technical deep dives or books? Things that take months of the writing process to formalize

5. And lastly how many of 4) would happen without any sort of incentive structure? No grants, no compensation, no time off work to do this, etc.

I'm mostly talking about group 5 here, and then dividing it into 6) how many of those would then be okay with people (mostly other companies) immediately implementing those ideas, potentially making millions while they may not even get shallow platitudes of thanks? It feels like exploitation of their knowledge, and depending on the product it may indeed be) have some ethical quandary the creator fundamentally disagrees with. But it's for "the advancement of humanity" so the just need to accept that and let people extract their knowledge.

>? It seems to me that a lot of those experts become experts despite the incentive structures that they are in

It'll vary by industry, yes. I'm sure authors don't write expecting to make the next Dune. But in the context of this audience: I have definitely seen enough discussion here and on other social media that I wouldn't be uncomfortable asserting that a good 70% of tech workers would not be here without high compensation to education ratio (and I apologize for not providing any hard evidence, this is simply a gut feeling from my own statistical samples from years of discourse). Many people are indeed here for the money first and foremost.

>Maybe if we could let people do what they could become an expert in, we would all be better off.

I don't disagree, I'd love a post scarcity society that doesn't need to perform labor to survive. But that's an even loftier goal than abolishing copyright.

I can see other crowds completely disagreeing with the notion of "not all knowledge is equal", however. Definitely a savory group out there that believe that everyone needs to contribute to society somehow and not "leech off our taxes".
X4: Foundations 7.00 Update and X4: Timelines now available
That what you would think.

I started using again an old ~12 year old Asus Android tablet. Impossible to browse the web, as it doesn't support newer TLS versions, newer CA. Impossible to install more recent software on that old Android version. Play store don't even work anymore (probably for the TLS reason). Then I wanted to install a recent Linux, and even after working around all the above and have the Asus bootloader unlock app installed, with mitm proxy to simulate old TLS, I realized that the Asus service to unlock bootloader doesn't exist anymore...

Software rot so much faster than hardware sadly :( (the good news is that old software is also full of vuln, so I was able to install my Linux - postmarketos - anyway without unlocking the bootloader, and to my surprise, everything works perfectly out of the box)
>we doubled our number of tickets and filled in "placeholder" on half of them, and used them as needed then closed everything out at the end of the sprint

Seems like someone has become aware of the power of liquidity and delayed decision making giving one the ability to respond to future information.
I'm definitely mostly without inner voice but I can drop down to it if I want to.

I also have this with reading. normally it seems it skips the internal voice and goes straight from image to thought. but once I start verbalising it, it's hard to stop doing it.
Further down the prime numbers rabbit hole: you can do computation from prime numbers decomposition and fractions:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/fractran.html
It's always interesting to hear the perspectives of a youngster.
Where does money come from in Farm Inc.?
Removing snaps is trivial.
I use windows to run obscure hardware vendor tools that flash chips. Can I expect those to keep working under Proton? Is the serial port / USB pass-through stable?
> As someone who took the condom off in a risky situation recently ...

With consent yeah?
Fanciful rubbish from people who have either never put in the effort to write a book, or are so rich they don't need money from them.
> Can one describe the process using any verbal language in sufficient detail such that another master or a robot could create David?

Maybe I don't understand why you couldn't use verbal language to instruct a CNC machine?
Can you actually compile Swing or JavaFX with GraalVM? I have only ever heard anecdotal evidence of that, even though I have known people from the Graal team itself.

Like, there shouldn’t be anything fundamental that prevents it from working (it just has platform specific native dyn libs which works fine with graal), but never seen an example, so I would appreciate a pointer.
So the control was the previous GILEAD drug (presumably a weekly injection?) for the same condition (HIV+)?
Do you mean the jars, or the JRE itself?
Re: security vs usability

That's precisely why SSO is so important. It's the only way to get people to use 2FA and strong passwords without compromising usability.
DARPA's military-grade 'quantum laser' will use entangled photons to outshine
I just remembered In Our Time has a podcast on this from 2005, seems long time ago, not as long as 1520 though:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9dl
I don't have a full plan, but I know exactly where I'd start:

A scheme where you lend each copy you own to one person at a time and don't use it yourself, with them deleting the loaned copy at the end, and with a reasonably large granularity like "1 day", needs to be legal. And probably disallow publishers from blocking such a scheme.
I agree mostly, but not about updates. Updates are necessary for a system that it connected to the internet. And the more the publisher manages the system, the more likely it is that it's updated timely. If the user has a say, then the updates won't get applied, then the system might become compromised or deprecated, and in either case the user will blame the system, not themselves. So it ends up as a question of brand management.

Otherwise, yeah, Windows nowadays, especially the Windows 11 feels like a cheap bazaar.
> People who lead obese lifestyles can simply decide to lead a more healthy lifestyle.

This is a greatly simplified POV and also incorrect. Lifestyle is influenced by a lot of things that are not merely choices. Stress, depressions, addictions (sugar is highly addictive), trauma, your social environment. Saying that someone can simply choose a healthy lifestyle is like saying someone can simply choose not to be depressed or addicted.
No. As someone who loved to code I am self taught. There are moments I believe my kids can barely read, copy/paste, or follow directions sufficient to work a toaster. Pushing them to write code feels like inventing a cure for world peace. I am just ready for them to get the hell out (they are both adults graduated from high school).
I have tried quite many such apps and keep returning to Tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/). It is not perfect, and the lack of hierarchy can be both a blessing and a curse. It uses flat-files which can impact performance and be more cumbersome than a database. Also, the integration with external files is a bit clumsy.

However, the main strength is customizability. Various data is best presented in various ways, and separating data/content and presentation/template/layout while keeping them tightly integrated is incredibly powerful.

Cudos for thinking long-term with SQLite, avoiding lock-in is crucial for these kinds of apps!
Oh haha, well I guess it was the ONLY "interactive fiction" back then! ^^
I remember as a kid loading up the Encarta95 CD on the family 486, and the anticipation of what I could discover in the seemingly endless world of information that little spinning silver disc held within.

There is no contemporaneous equivalent.
The leap has indeed been huge, but it's still not useful for any anything. The Wright brothers did not start a passenger airline after the first try.
If you are looking for a remote working opportunity to achieve your work life balance or work from anywhere, then RemoteWLB will be your best choice.Just like the name RemoteWLB is composed of, Work-Life Balance is the value I built this platform with, hoping to help more people find remote jobs that suit them.RemoteWLB has just started. Welcome to have a try and give me your valuable advice. There will be many useful features to be released soon.Click to see:https://www.remotewlb.com
WTF living in the US is such a nightmare sometimes. A company can outright defraud you like that and there will be zero consequences.

Here in Germany, if a company fails to pay social security and health insurance (but claims it did on payslip) someone is going to jail. And the law even goes beyond and stipulates that the employee will remain covered, and these kinds of payments are first priority during insolvency.
Mix and match local and online LLMs with Open WebUI
Ask HN: What are your experiences with BetaList?
As our project has been finally accepted on BetaList and now awaits being featured, I’d like to ask what are your experiences with this platform?
Is it still relevant to acquire some users, or is it just for a backlink?
Do you have any recommendations to reach more people on the feature day, or is it mostly left to blind luck?
Yep that was a bummer for me, I was trying to start a little project where I wanted a bundler lib and started using Deno's... but quickly ran into some limitations and found out they've deprecated it and it's not even maintained anymore :( . I started using esbuild instead via its Typescript lib, but then noticed I was spending a lot of time working around the problems with the JS ecosystem (terrible file system watcher in node.js, lots of underpar libraries and as someone not intimate with every domain, it's nearly impossible to know which library may be well written and maintained without spending lots of time investigating, weird APIs, silent errors, I just can't believe some people can cope with all of this instead of just moving to a saner language).... and as esbuild is written in Go, I rewrote my code in Go and now it's much, much nicer to work on, much faster, can be shipped as a single binary etc.

If there was a bundler written in Rust I might have chosen that, as despite not having anything against Go, the momentum seems to be strongly shifting to Rust (and even in the little Go I did, I already feel the pain of its error handling), and Rust definitely gives you better tools to write reliably applications.
I'm clearly not in your exact case, but having idea before the words to express it happen to me too (less the more i grow old tbh, when i was in my early twenties it was almost everytime, nowadays it is a bit more limited to subjects i know deeply). It usually end up with my tongue tied and having to take a deep breath and reformulate everything since the beginning with a better exposition plan.

One thing that help is improv theater and pen and paper role play game, because you don't only have to thin about your idea, but how you are going to deliver it, and this is true in professional settings too. Doing that slow down my thought just enough to be clear. Hopefully this advice works for you too

[edit] You aren't mad
> Can one describe the process using any verbal language in sufficient detail such that another master or a robot could create David? That's an example of thought processes beyond language.

Possibly. Even if this was just emulating the thought process that happened non-verbally, it would still work. I imagine that's a big part of why language seems so critical an invention: because it can be used as emulator of otherwise non-verbal thought processes.

That said, in case of Michelangelo, describing the "algorithm" is not sufficient, because just as important are the external factors. Art reacts to the medium and situation, so there's a lot of randomness into any specific work. It's kind of like with Stable Diffusion - we could get the prompt just right to generate something like a picture someone else generated, but there's only one seed that will result in identical output, and that little number is something we can't easily reverse.
Thanks for the detailed! RAAC didn’t parse as a concrete type on first read of your higher comment, but it’s now tied all together. :)
Redbox is like MoviePass.
MMORPGs are going to have a hard time in an era of instant gratification. The era of grinding for months if not years to reach the elite ranks is a time gone by, gamers these days just will not respond anymore.

MOBAs are perhaps the most obvious reflection of this paradigm shift: Progression is achieved in mere minutes instead of months/years and it only lasts for a sitting session rather than for years to come.

That being said, I certainly miss those years and I for one still fondly remember my RuneScape and Ragnarok Online days. As fun as modern instant gratification MMOs are, the absolute high point of fun just doesn't compare to what I experienced in MMORPGs of ye olde days.

Can you imagine the absolute chaos and fun of almost 340 grizzly players (168 vs. 168) slogging it out in a small map, aka full scale War of Emperium in Ragnarok Online? God damn, I would kill to experience that again; forget 5v5s in MOBAs, that shit is n00bsauce.
If you recall, the original contention was that "You cannot make money off of people who are starving." Clearly you can—in the short term, and enabled by violent coercion, as you've helpfully added.

My argument summed up is that slavery was a "local maximum" that A) generated an enormous amount of wealth early on, and was thus a crucial factor in developing the American economy, even if it was no longer the main driver of wealth by the time of the civil war, and B) made it unattractive for the south to risk seeking a global maximum (investing in industrialization) a strategic misstep for sure.

It's clear which strategy wins long term, I don't think that's a debate. I should have phrased my earlier comment better, sorry.
I doubt it, given increasing extreme heat waves hitting Spain much more than "colder" countries.
I tried getting into OSRS a few weeks ago. I noticed the official Jagex client doesn't run on Linux, so I installed RuneLite. However Jagex recently mandated the transition of email/password logins to a fancy proprietary OAuthy thing that _requires_ their official launcher.

Apparently the kosher way around this is installing RuneLite and the Jagex launcher in Lutris or Wine, but I just gave up.
Suggesting a GNOME distro to someone who's using Windows is a sure way to get them to hate Linux. I personally couldn't stand Ubuntu as a desktop until I tried Kubuntu and KDE which has a much more similar workflow and is actually customizable. I switch between 22.04 and Win10 a lot and on some days I almost forget they're different systems.
I'm not so sure. I imagine that sick people grab the bag, try vomiting, and if that sort of fails put the bag back into the back of the seat.
I mean the jars.
Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model
"We’ve improved the fats in the U.S. food supply a lot in the last 20 years,”"

And yet obesity has ballooned in the same period. What could be the cause?
React Native for Web is not quite React.js as I understand.
Koyeb for Startups: Accelerate with Credits for High-Performance Infrastructure
Yep that can be confusing at times! Although I've found SVG to be pretty predictable with regards to this.
Oh, you have some portraits of people, and pictures for the cities / locations. I think the robot might have been part of the latter?

I guess I should play it again one of these days!
Having lived in two tourism-heavy cities over my life, I don't think most cites are fundamentally opposed to tourism per se. But — and that is a big "But" it is a question of the amount and the kind of tourism. Too much of the wrong tourism in the wrong area of the city can be a negative thing for living quality, for life outside touristic seasons, for the general development of neighborhoods etc.

So it is within a cities interest to have some degree of control ofer the amount and kind of tourism. And controlling the number of accommodations is a pretty good lever.
Here is my explanation why language seems to be, while not necessary, so useful for abstract thought: Thinking thoughts with abstract concepts takes up a lot of working memory. We can't hold many of those in mind at once. But if they are expressed in words they take very little memory. So we can have long winding and abstract thoughts because language compresses the parts of the thought complex we are not currently focusing on, so we can hold more of it in short term memory. In effect it increases our thinking cache.
Maybe one of the reason why it become unpopular is the additional code you have to implement with asynchronous processing in a separate system and tracking in case of errors during processing in the target system.

Its easier and faster to make a Webservice request where you get an instant result you can handle directly in the source System.

Mostly the queue is implemented in the source System where you can monitor and see the processing status in Realtime without delays.
I read much faster when I can focus on reading instead of vocalizing; in this case I am no longer internally vocalizing the text. If I do vocalize what I read it goes a lot slower, but then it helps me to synthesize conplex concepts in a text.
Connection Machine Lisp never made it into production, but this paper had a profound impact on my scientific career. In particular, it was the following comment in the paper that triggered me to develop the Petalisp programming language (https://github.com/marcoheisig/Petalisp):

> Nevertheless, we have implemented (on a single-processor system, the Symbolics 3600) an experimental version of Connection Machine Lisp with lazy xappings and have found it tremendously complicated to implement but useful in practice.

I think there is a moral here: Don't hesitate to experiment with crazy ideas (lazy xappings), and don't be afraid to openly talk about those experiments.

After eight years of development, I can definitely confirm that lazy arrays/xappings are tremendously complicated to implement but useful in practice :)
Well 99% of the use of language is for thought not communication.

Also, People that are considered to be good at language skills (public speaking, writing) are either politicians, writers of fiction or seducers.

These fields have one thing in common they are normally about deception/changing the way people think about something. Not exactly communication.

We know that language is very bad for communication if we try to transmit scientific insights like climate change or health advice.

This explains why scientific fields had to invent their own notation like benzine rings, maths equations & free body diagrams to make communication of ideas more effective instead of the verbose, unexact tool of natural language.
The ST for it's time was a good computer. It didn't gain the popularity that the Amiga and Mac did but it was a decent machine. Also the history of GEM could have its own article.
>Maybe if we could let people do what they could become an expert in, we would all be better off.

Ideally, yes. In reality, far from it. Teaching and nursing are some of the easiest examples of how this structure is fundamentally broken.

>unlike a physical object or consumable material, the utility of this type of knowledge seem to lie in its novelty

Well we don't take the time to measure the long term output of knowledge. That's a fundamental problem that goes against your view. If novelty is the value and we remove that, knowledge is no longer valuable and thus, not rewarded based on its output. Your novel research on the next iteration of AGI is no more valuable than some AI slop that spits out a recipe for a cake. And incorrectly at that.

Does that sound like a structure that can support a non-post scarcity society?
or soy, or whatever is cheap in that region or the time of year etc.

The point is it will be highly processed whatever it was.
Good to see effort to speed up wc, its been taking way too many cycles away from my 1.5GiB electron chat program
Listerine Causes Mouth Cancer?
I think of language more as a lossy serialization format for thoughts.
How does Brouwer work again? Is it some kind of constructionist or finitist approach?
Absolutely. There's a gap between code which expresses/communicates its intentions and code which achieves the same goals while being much more streamlined and suited to the constructs of the language.
> I don't know how much they're paid

But that’s the entire point you’re missing. The pay is not proportional to contribution or technical skill. It’s proportional to market forces and negotiation skill.
Raiffeisen in Austria is/was? one of the stragglers, but I haven't dealt with them in 2 years or so - a company I worked for was stuck with it, but I noped out for Erste Sparkasse ASAP, and they let you do everything in browser. (Since 2011 at least.)
You seem to have so many different things mixed up here that I don’t even know where to begin.

Being popular has nothing to do with it, being a politician has nothing to do with it, what others may or may not have done has nothing to do with it.

There were a whole range of specific actions that occurred that resulted in an investigation as it should.
At least for staple/commodity/bulk crops.

Not necessarily desirable for every type of produce or animal agriculture. Automated chicken factories are also enormous and remarkably light on labour input, but there are other consequences.