skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yo! Long time no see haha <3

Would love to see your workflow sometime, my experimentations have been small tbh but I was quite impressed with Claude.

Funnily, I think (modulo costs) feeding outputs of one model into another once you hit a brick wall is quite powerful, but feels clunky to do at the moment
StarCraft 2 is still competitive 14 years later. I’m not sure I’d personally have an issue with it becoming public domain but the game is still well-stewarded today.

Even Brood War is still satisfactorily supported 26 years after its release. Though I think that’s definitely long enough to consider the option of public domain.
I am a fan of Joe Editor and the jstar "mode". Works well for me in SSH/Terminal sessions and where I need a bit more than nano. Also puts me left field of the vim vs emacs debate. :-)
Oh boy, that's suicide. Instead of cutting their losses, they're doubling down on failure. I can't see this ending well for the rest of their IP.
I sure don't see it. When I look at how fast FOSS advanced between the late 90s and the mid 00s, and compare to after the '08 meltdown, it doesn't look the same at all.
You still have to load and unload the machines. Sort it, organize it. Still lot's of work.

It is just not a trivial problem, to solve.
I don’t know. The whole thing feels pretty insular. Who even pays attention to this kind of content that isn’t in the industry? The general public doesn’t care about this. An actually bad example of corporate PR is spinning oil spills or dangerous side effects with prime time advertisements. This is just good business imo
Is this the same Luhn that brought us the Luhn checksum for checking the validity of credit card numbers?
am i right in that it has no online capabilities? that's a pretty big issue for me
The server got the HN hug of death
“Stealing” a joke is not the same as stealing a TV.
Yeah, it's tiring.
Giving up for today. I think I reached a SMTP email limit and that's causing failures elsewhere related to TCP connections. I'll look into it tomorrow. Thank you for all the feedback!

There were 5000+ successful logins! I think I need a better SMTP email provider and a way to make sure a failure doesn't crash everything else.
Perfect site to practice all those keyboard-only navigation tools like Tridactyl.
This article is more than four years old
No, "all their content" is not available on Paramount Plus, much of it isn't [0], at least the good old stuff:

- for example, they only have two seasons of The Daily Show (S28, S29) https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/the-daily-show/ . Reportedly they don't have the Colbert Show at all(!)

- here's a list of 21 Paramount Plus shows that were disappeared 6/2023:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/21-paramount-plus-shows-just-...

- Quora: Why doesn’t Paramount Plus have all the seasons to all of their shows? https://www.quora.com/Why-doesn-t-Paramount-Plus-have-all-th...

[0]: "25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site" https://latenighter.com/news/paramount-axes-comedy-central-w...
Don’t threaten the furry community with a good time ;3
Tons of questions, this is incredibly cool! Can you discuss:

1.) How you compensate for anode consumption/geometry changes over the lifetime of the anode. For instance, does the center get worn away or do you try to uniformly use each "pixel".

2.) More details on anode "pixel" geometry and minimum feature size.

3.) Can you talk about the development process? Did you have in situ measurement, or post build analysis of the part and anode.

4.) Typical surface finish?
Let’s say I make a painting and put it in the drawer, never to be seen again. Do I lose the copyright then and someone is permitted to come to my home and take it away? That’s just one example of possible implications. My point being, trademark is directly tied to the dynamics of the free market, while copyright only indirectly. And copyright is not forever.
He did an excellent job as jiji
The best we have are M-Discs, a type of durable BD-R disc that are supposed to last up to 1000 years.
Tale as old as ML: people don’t understand it’s an assistance tool, and instead assume it’s always right.

Crazy how we tend to wave away even errors rates of 1% or less. One in a thousand is a lot.
With the new twists every time you ask for it! Stay tuned!
> For example, soldiers could drop hot oil from holes in the ceiling, while archers and crossbowmen could shoot missiles from arrowslits on the sides.

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, despite having been constructed in 1926, incorporates such holes and slits. I don't think opposing counsel has ever had boiling oil dumped upon them, but at least the architects (and tradies?) had a bit of fun putting these in.
At least grammatically "the St. Louis" could make sense if you read it as referring to the namesake of the city. "Who was that guy using explicit contstructors, King Louis XIV?" "No, it was the _Saint_ Louis!"

I assume that no one named Louis has been canonized since C++ was invented though, and even if it was, using "the" might not be enough to disambiguate in some contexts.
But there’s no AI that can do your hobby either. If your hobby is painting… are you painting for those who are now paying Chatgpt for their painting needs? Have you been robbed of your hobby? No. The scenario is as imaginary as Dishwashgpt remains.
> alignment granule

if you have metadata to identify object starts then you can do 1 bit per min object size (which can be bigger than the alignment granule)
Absolutely. Nowadays it feels like the best development tools for Linux is the Win32 tool chain. No need for native ports if proton can be the glue between the systems.
The high thermal conductivity of copper makes it difficult to maintain needed temperatures during SLM. Also, copper is prone to oxidation at high temperatures, further complicating (thermal based) laser melting 3D printing techniques. It’s more typical to print copper alloys than pure copper.
Would have use Netjet.io for all my small projects, saves time for small clients.
Is it the same StarCraft2 as 10 years ago, or regularly updated?
Advertising.

That's the problem. Computing has become a branch of the ad industry.

What we need is a big tax on advertising and marketing. In the US, it doesn't create more demand, because most people are spent out. It just moves demand around. So much of that effort is a net lose that pushes prices up.

(This might be politically possible during an "anti-tech" Trump administration.)
I had that too, no explanation, no response via email support, nothing. I can't give money to them knowing my account can just get banned at anytime while I might have an active subscription going on.
This is very well written. Good on them for following their integrity.

More people in this industry should realize that there are large sections of it that are deeply toxic to humanity, and reconsider whether they want to be a part of that. For all the "disruption" caused by "unicorns", has it really had a net positive effect on our lives? Big Tech companies keep building technology that is designed to extract as much value from their users by any means necessary. Most of the startup world revolves around growing companies based on this premise, in the hopes of one day making it big as well. There are still companies that ignore this rat race and try to do the right thing, but they are hard to come by. Those are the real unicorns, IMO.

I realize the irony of this opinion on a VC forum. But this needs to resonate here more than anywhere else.
We're talking about ads keep up
Wow, are they trying to have worse internet than DPRK?

Funny how both spectrums of fully controlled market and fully free market can be terrible. Apparently what they did was a crime but it shows the spirit, they though at least that they can do it and get away with it.
this reminds me of one of the only interesting use cases for blockchainish stuff. Lets say a movie would have it's unique id and links to creators, publishers, writers, actors etc together with how much they should be settled with.

You buy a movie and the creators get their proportion automatically. You now have the official version of the movie. You take the movie and make a fan cut and sell that, you are added to the chain as a creator, you specify your cut and all the creators continue to get royalties.

It doesn't stop piracy but it makes the royalty system transparent and it gives the creation an independent life. It distributes copyright or ownership I guess. Derivatives can also be worked on and sold easily. You could have any third party "popcorn" app that had this micro payment within it.

(In reality studios put up huge sums of money to finance a movie, this use case couldn't address that side, just the selling and distribution of digital things)
Or we just reduce the length of copyright.

Back when Walt Disney started, copyright was 28 years. That was good enough for him to get started producing a media empire. The Berne Convention requires 50 years-why not just go back to that standard instead of the 95 years today?

95 years for works for hire; 70 years + life of the author if they make it themselves.

There are very few pieces of work that their authors are still getting benefit from, but could be lost to history. Documentaries have to be censored to remove elements now that require licensing of materials.

Walt Disney got his start remaking old works (public domain) into new ones. How many Walt Disney's are we preventing from letting them make better use of Mickey Mouse? We will find that out soon when the trademark Disney has been trying to impose gets challenged.

This has the nice benefit of encouraging companies to make good use of their works as much as possible in the limited time instead of holding out to get a better deal.
Mine too! And I didn’t even get to use it once. I’ve filled in the form, let’s see if they lift the ban.
Do you think you might be posting your own stuff a little too much, ghoshbishakh?

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Overall this is pretty solid advice, with only two things I disagreed with a bit:

> Go is still a new language

Go is between 12 and 17 years old, depending on how you look at it. It's not as old as the big players, but it's far from new.

> Do not think returning an interface is a bad idea

It's almost always a bad idea to return an interface. Return a type that implements said interface(s).
If you want to hide away details, use lowercase to not export them. This section had a solid point, then backtracked a little, and I wish it hadn't.
Apple admits its AirPods had a security problem
Fixed in 17.4+
At this point, Windows's application binary interface is something of a common good, at the same level as roads and utilities. Shouldn't we have a piece of legislation that forces Microsoft to offer that binary interface in the same way as utilities sell power?

I love Linux, and I think that Linux desktop is fairly usable, but a bunch of software I rely on works much better on Windows.
None. Found a monastery to make copies every thousand years or so.
And it’s down.
> Just by buying an electric vehicle I already have more than enough batteries to solve these problems for my household.

Not if you live in Northern Europe. Solar is basically worthless there during winter. I’m not even talking about polar nights, just places like Denmark where the difference in production between January and June is 20x. No batteries (that we know of) would solve that.
You're the kind of person who said that Russia invading Ukraine wasn't a serious argument. Sorry.
It's interesting to read this from a market research perspective. I have a very similar opinion and also consider(ed) myself an early adopter.

This may just mean that early adopters are now signaliing that they are getting bored with software/tech and the rest of the market may soon follow that opinion.
I have fallen in love with the opposite approach: IA Presenter [0] (no affiliation).

It's just markdown and content. The rest is taken from you.

0 - https://ia.net/presenter
This is complete incompetence from their leadership who show no value to their own content. They could have easily auctioned off/sold very old content to someone else but that kind of thinking would be beyond their competency. It's no wonder they go in such huge losses despite of having loyal audience and monopoly over unparalleled content. To this day I cannot get over the fact that there are literally millions documentaries out there made with a lot of love and hard work but only available through DVD or mailing in a check to some dude. Similarly, lot of my favorite music albums are still on cassette tapes and never digitized online by their creators. Fortunately, audience did digitized them nicely and uploaded over to torrents and that's the only way to get them today. Same goes of out of print books and magazines. The producers of this content could have easily digitized it and uploaded over to some marketplace and made at least free coffee money for rest of their lives but surprisingly they just never get around doing it. IMO, it just expresses complete naivety and disregard to importance of their own content. They sure spent days and months of blood and sweat but can't get around to do a last mile of uploading files.

There is a huge startup opportunity here for folks who are willing to chase these content and do the last mile on their behalf.
> Why are you dubious? Where do your objections come from?

That the results the machine learning techniques provide are still nondeterministic.

Meaning that they are, in terms of identifying other local minima that satisfy the constraints, as good as a guess.

If the provided solution also came with a method of systemic modification to derive all other solutions that satisfy the constraints, then I would be satisfied.

Without that you are unable to say with certainty that your local minima is correct even if nature fails to adhere to the lowest energy assumption.

> However, nature isn't magic and can't magically solve global optimisation problems.

I wonder sometimes. Let’s remember, this is an open question after all.

I have a long standing hypothesis that an algorithmic solution to the global optimization problem is what lends action potentials the appearance, or essence?, of what we mean when we speak of “consciousness”.

But I am a more inclined toward the abstract aspects of the mathematics behind the problem, and leave advocacy for the current techniques
to researchers developing practical solutions with them.

I applaud the people who toiled with X-ray crystallography to build the field to the point that a machine learning technique could be developed.
The ending of IT's adaptation is also almost universally agreed to be better (the original ending involves group sex).
I wish another area group formed to reopen the museum and acquire lots. I assume they tried and those who made so much from the computers success had so little interest in keeping that history living.

I don’t blame the sister as many do, I realize it’s his wish actually. And in some ways it’s the way it should be. The people who love the computer should keep the museum around. It’s just a shame so many wealthy tech people don’t have that love.
Can we see a benchy?
Not beliefs, but practices and experiences that appear to reveal truths otherwise inaccessible
They could have saved money by hiring developers who are cheap. Not cheap developers.

My team requested access to a tool in the company, and the finance department said it was too expensive to get an additional license. We fought for 6 months to get that license.

The moment we got access, we saw that everyone was on the high end plan, and not even using it as it was intended. We even saw an account called Sample-test that was costing upwards of $15k a month.

Now we pay $1000 a year.

Paramount+ rushed to get in the game. They even borrowed the plus in their name. Now they need those frugal devs to make it work and help save money.
Russia has been invading it's neighbors for about 200 years before NATO existed. Not a serious argument. Sorry.
> Makes me wonder where this myth of "good Korean internet" even came from if everything ends up so bandwidth constrained. Is it because all the customers and services are in the same city so it appears low latency?

Same here in Japan. The funny thing is that both me here and my parents back in Spain have gigabit fibre, yet my parents' connection is much faster than mine.
I love it.

There have been a few times in my life where I put everything on the line (or so I felt then) for a value I deeply held. Risking friendships, letting go of money, deeply uprooting behaviors… all for abstract (yet impactful) ideas like honesty and kindness.

I in no way regretted those choices, ever, and found that after a few weeks or months my position was strengthened. Integrity has this effect — it closes feedback loops. The result is a deep empowerment.

I praise the author and wish them continued courage.
No, I grew up there (though I was born in Iowa). I was making a comment about how usually Harvard and the like forget about places like Minnesota. So it's amusing in the sense that you have to go back to 1906 to find a time when they don't.
The question is if that stewardship would be ruined by making it free to play the offline, single player version. More generally, would Starcraft2 and similar titles still would have been made if Blizzard knew it only had 10 years to recoup the costs?

The copyright lobby frames that question in a profoundly toxic way: are there any marginal profits that can still be milked for our IP portfolio? Of course there are, you can milk pennies even from "Steamboat Willie" and Chaplin movies, but that doesn't mean we should have perpetual copyright.

What matters is the first few years where 90% of the profits are made, that's what motivates the creator; motivating the creator enough to create and "promoting the useful arts" are the purpose of copyright, there is no "natural" right to one's ideas and creation. It's a social and political compromise for the good of all.
No, because thats theft. Its more like if someone took a picture of it and reproduced it for sale. In that case you would likely lose a copyright claim in practice, even if you may have a valid claim in theory.
Because the content is not being broadcasted.
Some years ago I sent a bug report to the email listed at the end of a man page.

I don't recall what the bug was, I also don't recall why the video I sent showcasing the bug had my national anthem in the background. But it sparked a nice bug report exchange.

That he is doing this for no pay and for the passion of providing software to users all around the world fits.
As a long-time reader of Daring Fireball I learned to be highly skeptical of the things that are promoted there. In the case of Wavelength, I thought and still think it’s a solid app, but as a product it’s ultimately hindered in its growth by the invite-only nature of the group chats it offered.

To be clear, these group chats are actually hidden from the public. You join by entering an invitation code or receiving a link. There is no way to discover group chats by browsing or searching for them.

So I was completely surprised by Daring Fireball recently hinting at [0] Wavelength’s goal of becoming a breakout hit as a social platform.

Say what?

Without a large marketing rocket to pull you into orbit, I’m not sure how you can achieve any kind of success as a social platform with unlisted and private group chats. In the case of WhatsApp the boost came from a gazillion people having the common pain point that sending text sucked and/or was expensive.

It’s also worrying that they only had enough gas in the tank to keep the lights on for little more than a year. A year less than their previous endeavor.

But my questions in the hope of learning from this situation are:

Why not make some groups more visible than others? Example: The Dithering podcast has a group. [1] Why not show that it exists and inform about the ways to get in?

Was there any work done towards tools to help group owners handle high volumes of user influx and chat moderation? Are those the pro features hinted at in the TechCrunch article? [2]

Again, only a year of runway?

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/26/wavelength-is-s...
[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/02/dithering
[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/20/wavelength-is-a-new-app-tr...
Apparently this used to be a common thing, groff has a feature to output bold text for TTY devices by backspacing and re-printing each character twice.
You can get underlined text in a similar way using backpace and underscore.
It doesn't work out of the box on terminal emulators, but less(1) does this rendering for man pages, etc.
It would be interesting if someone analyzed the “California communication style” and its effects on the startup industry. As someone that grew up on the East Coast, I often notice how the communication style on the West Coast is much less confrontational and more “everything is awesome”, which I think leads to the sort of fake enthusiasm the author grew tired of projecting.

Of course, there’s no lack of hype and BS in NYC/DC/Boston, but there seems to be a much more developed culture of criticism and analysis than in California. And so the default attitude on the East Coast is a bit more cynically pragmatic, which is both good for the above reasons, but also less imaginative and more restricted - which is why SV has more “dreamers” that do crazy things.

Hope I’m not firing off too many East Coast vs. West Coast battle shots here :)
It's a fun challenge to miniaturize stuff. Not everything needs to be the most 100% uber efficient choice.
As opposed to a lack of money being a friction that prevents a country from being wealthy?

It is very easy to point out how an economy with perfect information and perfect cooperation has zero demand for money, but reality works very differently.
> Let’s say I make a painting and put it in the drawer, never to be seen again.

Then you own that physical painting.

> Do I lose the copyright then

Yes

> and someone is permitted to come to my home and take it away?

No, but if you gave your friend Bob a copy of the painting, he's allowed to copy that copy as much as he wants once you lose the copyright.

The original copyright system-- you could only get the full term by extending 14 years in. That's maybe a little early. But making you pay a fee to keep the exclusivity and/or show recent use in trade makes sense.
> You create interfaces purely for testing

The interface cost is real, but I'm not yet convinced the other solutions for simulating errors while under test are not even more costly. testcontainers is a complete non-starter. I'm not, for example, going to physically crash my hard drive to get the appropriate errors out of it.

If you are not documenting your failure cases in your tests, you may as well not write any code at all. The failure states are the most important part of your application.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40806633

As said, it was good/impressive 20 years ago, now it's just what everyone else has. And SK software is a joke, like the linked post elaborates.

I don't know if it changed during the last 5 years, but when I was there I wanted to use Google maps for navigation and it looked like shit, so after some digging around I found because apparently there are some SK patents that prevent Google from using a lot of modern tech. So no wonder SK people compare that to naver and think their IT tech is top notch, but if you compare it to the "real Google", it's a joke.

It's the same in China actually, but there you simply can't access the western counterparts at all usually.