skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Christina Warren here) From what I can glean, it looks like they took a dump of the site from Archive.org and got a lot of the blog slugs, kept the headlines (or made very superficial changes), assigned a random writer name to those stories and then told AI to rewrite the prose. Except it was super sloppy and some posts would just end abruptly. My assumption is that they might have only had partial feeds or a certain number of characters that they were grabbing per post. 404 Media has some examples (https://www.404media.co/a-beloved-tech-blog-tuaw-is-now-publ...) in their article about this. Regardless, the scheme seems to be to try to get some sort of domain authority, fill a site with archives and then hope that they can profit somehow using stuffed affiliate links and putting ads all over the site. I don’t think many of these tactics even work anymore, given Google's changes around this sort of thing, but I just assume that this was the angle and that the entity that bought the site (who did something similar to iLounge back in 2019), got it very cheap and was able to put this WordPress-based monstrosity together pretty quickly.

The good news for all of us who worked at TUAW is that the bad publicity coupled with the terse email I sent the site owner earlier today (where I had to pull the “don’t make me get my lawyer involved” card, even tho the legalities of this are tricky and enforcement would be extremely difficult), meant that they changed the bylines at least. I'm not happy that old urls to stories I wrote will now once again work, but take people to AI-generated slop instead, but honestly, I’ll take it. Yahoo might still own the content (but it also might belong to the writers, I’d have to check my contract from 2007, assuming I still have it), in which case, they would have much better resources for going after these people, but speaking only for myself, my concern was making sure my name wasn’t attached to things I didn’t write — especially new content — even putting the money it would cost aside, I simply don't have enough time to try to stop any copyright infringement.

I’m immensely grateful to Engadget, 404 Media, Six Colors, AppleInsider, and others who publicized this. When John Gruber texted me this morning with the link to a website that died a decade ago, my initial reaction was a swift “wtf” and I’m chuffed that we got this result as quickly as we did.
All GitHub needs to do to make most happy is offer an opt-out toggle.

It still doesn't.
What are "third party plugins" in this context?
This is not what I meant. By placing a copyright filter and claiming it never happened (please read the line I was replying to) before the system can be audited, they're indeed taking away the drunk driver's keys, which is a good thing, but also removing the offending car before Police arrives.
Find a remote job. There's much less coworker drama in remote work, but there can be slightly more managerial drama.
One compact disc extension I remember well is CD+G. It was pretty wild plugging an Information Society CD into a CDTV and watching the (admittedly crappy) graphics while you listened to music and samples of Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley...
>Sadly there still are EVERY POLITICIAN who prefer to keep their people susceptible.
Lack of USB->HDMI also bummer on pixel devices.

Google Pixel 8 supports DP-Alt, including USB-C to HDMI adapters:

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/2865484?hl=en
ST's HAL is not necessarily useful as something to incorporate in your products, but its source files provide a lot of details that cannot be found in other documentation.

Writing your own simpler and more efficient code is much more easily done by editing the libraries and examples provided by ST, than from scratch.
To put it in another way: ARM is late, as RISC-V is already available.

There's no point in switching from a proprietary ISA (x86) to another proprietary ISA (ARM).
flared yourself. just use another DNS.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38373137

root cause: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+archive
Yep, you can now go camping with your gear being under 10 lbs. Your tent and sleeping bag together can be under 3lbs.
What makes those different from the examples in the article?
> Software is eating the world, that's the industry I'm thinking of

Sure. Yet we aren’t seeing a wave of remote-only upstarts pressing their cost and recruiting advantage. (We are seeing massive agglomeration effects in the Bay Area.)

Remember that “software is eating the world” is a quip by a then-financier, no longer coder [1].

[1] https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
>A noticeable effect to me of all this transit is that the car traffic on the roads usually is pretty minimal.

I don't think that's a direct effect. Within most of Tokyo, using a car just isn't a viable option for many trips for most people. Lots of people don't own a car to begin with (a parking space at your home is usually very expensive, in addition to the costs of the car itself). And if you try to use it to go somewhere, where are you going to park it? Some big stores and malls of course have parking garages, but most other places don't, or there's paid parking that's expensive. And if you're going to work on a typical day, there's probably no place to park there: companies don't provide parking for employees, they give you a pass for the transit system to get to work.

I think, overall, the reason car traffic is pretty minimal in Tokyo is because using a car just isn't very convenient most of the time, so people don't.
IAM policies can be so complex, that become close to unusable.

Use multiple AWS accounts, and keep your policies simple. One account for DB, one for the backend servers, etc. Each environment (prod, staging, dev) also gets its own set of accounts.

This way, a misconfigured policy won't give admin access to everything.
It's roughly similar to what happened after the fall of the Soviet Union. Power lines were routinely stolen for scrap.

When there is massive inequality (or rampant drug abuse) and inadequate law enforcement, people on the fringes cannibalize essential infrastructure and sacred spaces. Meanwhile, the very rich take advantage of the situation to gain more power and benefits.
Or just let people work from home if they can? Society seems to be dead set on certain ceremonies that aren’t technically needed.
You seem to be more knowledgeable, do you think the Maxim Gun kept the empire or expanded it? If so, into which countries do you think the Maxim Gun helped to expand?
A new operating system done right gets engineers salivating and a lot of very senior staff have personal attachment to Fuchsia.

Personally I think it's a lost cause; every few years they change direction in hopes of finding a concrete use case that doesn't displace some existing Google project. The Nest was Fuchsia's greatest achievement and even that was held together with strings and glue behind the scenes.
For anyone else who wants to add a row to a database, but can't be bothered to post a comment, you can upvote this comment; each (voter, comment, vote) tuple is likely a row, or at least some amount of data. You're welcome.
That capability probably exists now if you are willing to accept cloud-based models and only moderately-sized contexts. With Claude 3.5 Pro, for example, one can put one’s reference data into a Project and query the model with that data in the context. In my testing, at least, it works quite well. The Projects can be shared among multiple users, too. The context size is only about one-tenth that of Gemini 1.5 Pro, though, and even the latter is probably much too small for most organizational purposes.

Of course, many organizations and regulators would not allow cloud-based models for sensitive data. A possible solution in that case might be multiple instances of an open-weight model hosted locally within the same secure environments as the sensitive data that the individual employees have access to. I don’t know how expensive that would be, whether current open-weight models are powerful enough, or whether context windows for open-weight models can be made big enough to be useful. But at least it suggests a potential path to a solution that doesn’t require training an LLM from scratch for each employee.
I find that writing which speaks of Google as a single "it" misses the mark. I say this because the Googlers who write here show many disparate views and pressures to deliverable.

That doesn't matter if you're talking about a boolean outcome or the actions of the company as a whole. There could be 50%+1 person on one side of the internal debate and 50%-1 person on the other, and everyone outside of the company would still say "Google" to refer to the collective outcomes and actions of everyone there. The subtleties of what happens behind closed doors doesn't matter.

Individually Googlers are a disparate bunch. Collectively, they are "Google".
Probably not great for the environment though, with plastic microfibers washing into our oceans and DWR coatings being toxic and leaching into waterways.

Compared to, say, what they climbed Everest with originally, yeah, our gear today is lighter, cheaper, more effective, but also more environmentally impactful and much less degradable.

It's all just byproducts of the oil industry. We're a lot more comfortable now, but it didn't come free.
Yep. Blame Apple for autocorrection.
There are scant few b&m places to explore or source things physically. There's no Radio Shack, Tandy, or HeathKit in the b&m form factor.

Maybe electronics needs a dedicated museum? Somewhere that has ISA 16-bit prototype boards and zillions of examples of ICs, vacuum tubes, connectors, passives, datasheets, and accouterment as a historical "seed vault".
The idea that you can reduce the complexity of global fishing, farming and marine ecosystems to a zero sum system is flawed. Whales cycle nutrients when they eat phytoplankton and aren’t comparable to human activity, you’re just trying to divert the argument to something unrelated.
This project has been a complete cluster f since the beginning. I was excited when it was announced, though it seemed to get more and more relegated to nothingness since.

Now it's going to run in a VM in an already 'slow' os? For what possible reason?
I applaud your dedication. 2015 is almost ten years ago, this ain’t work for ever and at some all used vehicles that are in a dependable condition will be 2015 or newer. What then, if telemetry can’t be disabled by the user?
Were the soviets that far ahead? Because the T3 trams from the 60s were already made of composites.
Ask HN: Why Are We Ignoring the Urgent Need for End-to-End Encrypted Emails?
We're all obsessed with making sure our chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal have end-to-end encryption (E2E), but we completely ignore emails. Emails can reveal a person's entire life story, far more than any chat app ever could.

Right now, if you want your emails to be E2E encrypted, you have to jump through hoops with third-party tools. It's clear that email giants like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are raking in profits and don't want to disrupt their spyware operations by adding E2E. It's infuriating! I demand to see E2E encryption as a standard for emails within my lifetime.
Let's not forget FinTech and Lawfare evolving in parallel here either.

Stock Exchanges evolved from Dutch and London Coffee Houses and the Maxim Gun is also famous in cementing the "No Compete" clause into law ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordenfelt_v_Maxim_Nordenfelt_...
Mitigation:

> Our recommended short-term mitigation for implementers and vendors is to mandate that clients and servers always send and require Message-Authenticator attributes for all requests and responses. For Access-Accept or Access-Reject responses, the Message-Authenticator should be included as the first attribute. Patches implementing this mitigation have been implemented by all RADIUS implementations that we are aware of. This guidance is being put into an upcoming RADIUS RFC.

Paper:

> "Radius/UDP Considered Harmful"
Sharon Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc Stevens, and Adam Suhl

> https://www.blastradius.fail/pdf/radius.pdf
I believe Fuschia and usage of Dart for projects like Flutter grew out this back-and-forth legal rigamarole between Google and Oracle over Java.

Plus, I believe at the time there was some core Chrome developers Google wanted to retain and keep busy with developing Flutter.

These are all cool projects, and there are hardly any companies developing actual operating systems nowadays. It would be sad to see it go, but on the otherhand, I haven't seen folks outside of Google use this OS despite its strengths, and perhaps that's the real problem
I mean, I’m also not suggesting they try re-running a cotton economy.

> so I doesn't depend on slaves?"

One, don’t fake quote others. Two, nobody argued this. American wealth depends on agriculture and energy (and having taken that from our Indians); that doesn’t mean betting on corn and fracking is a good economic plan, or that Argentina is a surefire bet for sharing those same strengths.

Regardless of how it was acquired, Britain sits of a massive pool of capital. That capital gives it opportunities others cannot access. The argument from its previous prowess is not one for returning to colonialism, but for the existence of the social and economic infrastructure for commanding production past what you’d expect from its population in the way America, China, Japan and Germany do. (Economies Nos. 1 through 4. And yes, we see the same common histories in the set.)
That whole thing still blows my mind.
If there are rate limits, or if the search space is vast, this is notably more limited (even if arguably still enumeration)
They are, you just remap them in emacs and Mac as well

There is no point in suffering for decades just because some bad defaults exist elsewhere
Not an expert on AWS, but as this seems something that you may need to share and that cannot be easily changed, considering it a secret is just snake oil.
if the car is going slower than the limit but you have a very limited window of time to pass it, the only way is to temporarily go above the speed limit.
Really interested in this! Do you know of some good reading in this area?
You have got to be one of those most patient, diplomatic people I've ever met in my life. And I've met a lot of patient diplomatic people!

I can only offer you this in exchange:

https://youtu.be/43NA22EXrIY?si=uUautD1MXuWgtAyM
I have also printed a blank document before to get blank paper, instead of dealing with accessing the paper tray, which may not have been feasible given the circumstances.
singapore air has free unlimited wifi. only need a krisflyer account. speed is also decent.
Another article by a non-practitioner of Lisp trying to harm Lisp people.

Because we are few in number, it's hard to defend against, and harmful.

It is not easy to write your own libraries in Lisp. You're not going to write your own cryptography, web serving, database access, regular expressions and whatnot, and if so, not to the level of quality of available libraries.

People developing applications in Lisp use libraries.
Recipes are not copyrightable for that exact reason.
It’s called ACR, Samsung is very proud of it and sells it to whoever will buy it. They can tell what you’re watching even if it’s from a divx file on your SD card.
Still wouldn't, why would you use your weakest finger in the bad sideways motion for such a frequent operation???
Yeah you could do it. I'm sure I will at some point be replacing the guts in some devices with STM32s or RP2040 as you said. Or beef it up with ESP32 :)

but if the display itself is damaged, that's tough, pretty much just reuse the case at that point I bet.
Is that why the name changed to simply Hands. Makes sense but I hadn't realized the company was sold. I haven't noticed it affect the stores in any way yet.
iirc the law varies by state but generally is allowed unless you use heavy machinery (as a general guideline)
Some different scenarios:

(1) You leave your employer, don’t take any code with you, start your own company, reimplement your ex-employer’s product from scratch, but you do it in a very different way (different language, different design choices, different tech stack, different architecture)

(2) You leave your employer, take their code with you, start your own company, make some superficial changes to their code to obscure your theft but the copying is obvious to anyone who scratches the surface

(3) You leave your employer, take their code with you, start your own company, start very heavily manually refactoring their code, within a few months it looks completely different, very difficult to distinguish from (1) unless you have evidence of the process of its creation

(4) You leave your employer, take their code with you, start your own company, download some “infringement obfuscation AI agent” from the Internet and give it your employer’s codebase, within a few hours it has transformed it into something difficult to distinguish from (1) if you didn’t know the history

(1) is unlikely to be held to be infringing. (2) is rather obviously going to be held to be infringing. But what about (3)? IANAL, but I suspect if you admitted that is how you did it, a judge would be unlikely to be very sympathetic. Your best hope would be to insist you actually did (1) instead. And then the outcome of the case might come down to whether the judge/jury believes your claim you actually did (1), or the plaintiff/prosecution’s claim you did (3).

And (4) is basically just (3) with AI to make it a lot faster and quicker. Such an agent likely doesn’t exist yet, but it could happen.

Timing is obviously a factor. If you leave your employer and launch a clone of their app the next week, everyone is going to think either you stole their code, or you were moonlighting on writing it (in which case they may legally own it anyway). If it takes you 12 months, it becomes more believable you wrote it from scratch. But if someone uses AI to launder code theft, maybe they can build the “clone” in a few days or weeks, and then spend a few months relaxing and recharging before going public with it
Copyright is not optimized for making sure artists and authors get enough to eat. It's optimized for people with a lot of money to make even more money by exploiting artists and authors.

I doubt there's a simple answer (I certainly don't have one), but the current system is not exactly a creators' utopia.
> the Maxim Gun is also famous in cementing the "No Compete" clause into law

Nordenfelt cemented severavility; non-competes were already commonplace. (In that case, the blue pencil was used to restrict the scope of the non-compete. But that’s not why it’s important.)
Sorta, kinda? It's a bit of a different game.

Floppies (most of them, anyway) have fixed track widths, and these tracks are arranged cylindrically, and these cylinders align with the steps of the stepper motor that is used to actuate the head assembly.

It's relatively easy, with the right ratio betwixt step advancement and track width, to get the head moving properly on a new implementation of a floppy controller. Want to read track 1? Step to the head N times to reach track 1 from wherever it started, and read it. Next, want to read track 33? Step the head N times to track 33, and read that.

But tracking the spiral groove of a CD is a very different problem to solve. Steps tend to lose their meaning. Instead of electromagnetic steps, it involves 3 different laser beams: Two to continuously keep the head centered where it needs to be on the ever-changing groove using a servo feedback loop, and a third to read the data from the pits and lands from the middle of that groove.

Is it do-able? Sure! People with far less advanced tech than we on HN might have laying around did it 40+ years ago.

It's just a very different nut to crack than reading a floppy is, even if the mechanical and optical bits are recycled.

(And that's just head positioning. The pits and lands still needs to be read, and those reflect back from the disc as optical phase shifts, not as changes in magnetic polarity and/or amplitude.)
The Maxim saw its heyday in "Africa' (region) which was being carved up by European powers who were marking out countries for European maps and stomping across the borders of pre existing kingdoms.

The "Scramble for Africa" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa

hit peak pitch following 1870 or so and saw 90% of Africa "claimed" by 1914, the Great War and the rise of the Vickers Machine Gun (which evolved from the Maxim).
This is the case for every company, not just Google. I've been the one internally trying to stop us from making a bad decision which ended up being made anyway. I can't distance myself from that. For everybody outside, there's only the company. My dissent as an individual doesn't exist out there.
>> 3) Author is modifying the product behavior with their software. So yes author. You are still liable. Technically, your customers are first in the line of fire. But the likely sequence of steps is: Friendly Spectrum Representative will visit them first, have a chat, ask them to stop using the device, then leave them a lone and then come for YOU.

Few questions related to this.
- Does this meant that recertification is required every time we load a different version of the software ?
- How does this work for Computers and mobile phones ? The hardware is certified but you are loading different software daily.
It is not “don’t try there is no point”.

It is: don’t use Napoleon, Mozart, Jobs, Musk someone who climbed Mt Everest in your silly article about motivation because it will backfire.

Someone being internally motivated by Napoleon or Jobs or someone who climbed Mt Everest is OK that is their own personal motivation.
I don't think anyone has started working on it. We would want a design doc first.

Note that the solution probably involve a local daemon process for caching reads and optimistically accepting writes and then sending them to the server in the background. That's what we do for latency at Google. But that's just an optimization and can come after the server is done.

If you're interested in working on it, it would help if you joined our Discord server.
Wouldn't that lead to cross account policies, which appear to be even more quirky?
I mean the patent is public information. If you want to have a go at selling it, buy it or license it from me and have at it. Otherwise, invent your own idea or wait for mine to expire.
If there is some Lisp package that has frequent updates that are not picked up via Quicklisp, and you want to keep up with those, then just put the tree of that thing in your project, and refer to its .asd file from yours.
Linksys is owned by a foreign company (Foxconn).
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Also Samoa.
Why aren't more regular cars made of carbon fiber? Especially with EVs needing to be as efficient as possible.

The BMW i3 had a carbon fiber frame and was still reasonably priced back in 2013, yet no other normal cars seem to have went this way.
Yep. Also RIP Radio Shack, JDR Microdevices, Weird Stuff, NCA Peripherals, Fry's Electronics (and Fry's drugstore / groceries), and Egghead Software. Even the retail hypermart CompUSA died, leaving only their nemesis,
Best Buy.

Micro Center and Central Computer (CCS) endure. The latter stocked those phonebook-thick computer advertisement magazines and Linux on CDs.

I'm reduced to crapshooting Aliexpress and eBay with occasional purchases from Mouser and Digikey via findchips and octopart.

The electronics supply chain just doesn't exist as made in America anymore in volume. Meanwhile, the best place for hardware is usually Shenzhen. Offshoring engineering and manufacturing, declines in EE and skilled workers are the limiting factors. Perhaps there ought to be a 300% tariff placed on goods designed or made not in the US with <75% domestic labor or <75% domestic parts.