skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Should we move to modified versions of FOSS licenses that forbid AI training?

Found this: https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

Legally sound or not, these should at least prevent your code from being included in Copilot's training data, hopefully without affecting any other use case. I'm going to use one of these next time I start a new project.
Bash's $PS0 (2016)
I have no idea what complaints you could possibly have about Boq. It makes you more productive, haven't you heard?
Confirming the theoretical foundation of steady-state microbunching
More likely the retail stores just close because when the authorities no longer enforce the law it becomes impossible to operate a business.
Show HN: AI for Research Statistics
Note that wouldn’t be F/OSS — maybe OSS but the F wouldn’t be there.
A cool underrated habit tracking app
> Is applying physics to your everyday life ever taught as a skill? Or an experimentalist mindset?

I was a physics prof for a while. The answer is Yes and No. Good teachers and good programs try to do this.

The No emerges from the fact that education is a social process between humans. "mindset" is how you think. You can't force someone to change the way they think unless they want to. You can tell them how to think, you can provide conditions in the class or lab to encourage this, but at the end of the day, for adults at least there are limits to how much you can push them [1].

Some/most but not all students will agree to change their mindset, but usually only if they like or respect the teacher or subject enough. If a student is taking 5 courses in a semester, they likely won't have the mental bandwidth to change how they think as pushed by each of those 5 courses/teachers.

As a prof, you have to respect these human limitations. You can't just design a course where you expect it is the only thing the students are doing, and that they already love/respect you enough.

PhD students, on the other hand, are rightfully pushed quite hard by their supervisor to think correctly. The social dynamics are quite different there.

[1] School children, especially young ones, for better or worse, are pushed much more by their school teachers because their minds are more malleable.
The book "glucose revolution" talks about glucose spikes. They cause the problems - not only do they do damage, but the crash afterwards leads to low energy, poor concentration and cravings (that start the cycle again)

The book talks about plenty of hacks to prevent spiking/crashing - mainly by either speeding up the intake of glucose (walking after eating) or slowing down the spiking (combine with fiber, protein, fat).

I also wonder about ice cream made with invert sugar, or fiber.
Me too and/or a fanless x86_64 offering, which should be easy to accomplish with Intel N. It'd also be cheaper.

The RISC-V offering might fill in part of this niche: https://frame.work/gb/en/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainb...
Argh don't say that, someone might question funding CS theory grant proposals.
The Seal Failure in the SRB That Doomed Challenger (2021)
MS probably hates that the source for XP/2K3 leaked because it means more people will put in effort to fix and extend/backport, even if it's not truly legal, when MS would rather coerce them into the latest most invasive and user-hostile version. Also because projects like NTVDMx64 show how some of their decisions have been political instead of technical as they like to claim.

Far less people care about Bing or Cortana.
I would like to ask an obvious question to the legally inclined here. How is this any different than remixing a song (lyrics/audio)? It's not "identical", and doesn't output "verbatim" lyrics or audio. What is the distinction between <LLM> and <Singer/Remixer who outputs remixed lyrics/audio>. By a quick Google search it seems remixes violate copyright.
Infeasible for AI workloads because of their enormous power consumption. It’s far cheaper to run additional electrical capacity in rural areas, so that’s where new data centers will have to be.
I know. It is crazy to me as well. Google went from “Do No Evil” to “Do Profit From Evil” and everyone seems okay with the transition.
Because there are other states in the world without those limits.

Good example is the highway A24 in Brandenburg Germany.
The accident numbers were too high so the local government was forced by law to impose a speed limit.

The accident numbers dropped.
So what did the local government?
They repealed the speed limit because after all, the limit is only necessary for high accident rates.

Guess what happened next?
More accidents.
there is actual science behind this, check a glaze calculator like insight https://insight-live.com/ and component info like https://digitalfire.com
Anyone know of resources like this for Java?
I actually bought a PineTime referenced in the article, but it ended up going in a box and I never ended up tinkering
Are you thinking of this?

https://www.materialwelding.com/what-is-sensitization-in-aus...
Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv (2023)
The language has nothing to do with it.

You can use “WASM threads” from Rust or Go. Or JavaScript for that matter. Under the hood it’s all workers and shared array buffer, nothing to do with the language. Last time I checked you can’t even use std::thread for instance in Rust, since the compiler doesn’t understand workers (because workers aren’t actually part of WASM).

None of which will help you when updating the DOM anyway, since that happens in its own thread. It’s up to the browser how they run their rendering engine and I doubt they’re ever likely to allow direct control over that.
Sure, let's take 80% of market share and track users for our own benefits. Standards.
After I transferred everything I only had dead sites no longer around like FTX in the app. I feel like it needs to be left around as a kind of Time Machine…
There's no real alternative: you either stare at people's shoes, or the ceiling, or you stare at your phone. The trains are crowded so it's basically impossible (during those times of the day) to look anywhere else, and staring at people is rude. Looking out the window isn't practical either: the seats are facing inwards, and there's people on the other side blocking the opposite window.
First Open-Source General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Debuted at WAIC 2024 [video]
Why the future of the spreadsheet is open source
I don't think the analogy holds. River based directions can be mapped to NESW. It does't hold that the concept of "hey I ran out of stuff" would not exist in their minds. It is impossible that they didn't understand this concept.
> Broken was re-released as one CD in October 1992, having the bonus songs heard on tracks 98 and 99 respectively, without any visual notice except for the credits, and tracks 7–97 each containing one second of silence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_(Nine_Inch_Nails_EP)#Pa...

Amarok (1990) by Mike Oldfield is a single hourlong track with 53 index marks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_(Mike_Oldfield_album)#T...
I read as suggesting that the underlying bias is contained in the text corpus that GPT-4 was trained on, which in turn suggests it was put there by the humans who authored the original corpus.

That seems an entirely plausible mechanism to me.
> friendly neighborhood cops

There's a reason that you think the cops are friendly and other people don't. But the reason is not distorted media consumption. It's because the cops actually treat different people very differently.

Many people who are routinely harassed and abused by police would be similarly surprised to learn that you find them to be so friendly. What seems to you to be an elaborate psyop conspiracy to demonize the police is actually just ordinary people in different social circumstances from you showing what reality looks like in their position.
Create Digital Music is an amazing resource for music tech (production) news: https://cdm.link/
To be sure there are different ways people argue against CSAM filtering.

One is that it has false positive and negatives, others, like you mentioned involve privacy. Some people even feel like it's an invasion of privacy and then justify their argument by saying that it has false positives and negatives.
Yes, that is clear. But personally I wouldn't want to write FOSS code anyway until Copilot learns to properly attribute FOSS code. Switching to a more permissive license later on shouldn't be an issue.
That’s some woefully disappointing and incorrect metrics (read and write latency are both sub-second, storage medium would be “ Memory + Replicated SSDs”) you’ve got for Clickhouse there, but I understand what you’re going for and why you categorized it where you did.
There is a proposal to add threading to WASM itself

https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t...

But that’s not going to help when accessing the DOM.
I think of Dilbert's "Tell me why you need a new server"

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/55/b5/cd55b56cd40e1fa16e0b...
New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception
It's abusing the standard, which can break compliant implementations.

Especially bad since most Audio CD players are opaque hardware without update-able firmware.
Saasufy supports rollover deployment. It's serverless, meaning you don't need to write any server-side code. You just define the collections, schema, views/filters, access controls then deploy. It's radically different from anything that's out there.

It makes it impossible to introduce back end bugs or security flaws (assuming that access control rules are defined correctly; which is a lot easier to verify via a simple UI than reading thousands of lines of back end code).

Look at this app I built with it on the side: https://www.insnare.net/

It's only ~1300 lines of custom code in total. Most of it is HTML. Throughout the entire process from start to finish, I never encountered a single back end bug. Deployment essentially never fails; the UI doesn't let you do anything invalid and it helps avoid inefficient queries. Yet look at the complexity of what kinds of queries and filters I can run against the data and all the different views. It has almost 1 million records... Indexes are not even fully optimized. Look at the data that's behind access control/associated with specific accounts (e.g. the Longlists).

Go ahead and try to bypass access controls... The WebSocket API is documented here: https://github.com/Saasufy/saasufy-components/wiki/WebSocket...

It would normally have taken months and tens of thousands of lines of code (front end and back end) to build that.

The value is there in terms of security, development efficiency, maintainability etc... The hard part is getting people to see it.
> Market forces naturally determined this outcome though.

Market forces alone didn't work. It's an externality, a cost paid by others not involved in the transaction. Market forces don't handle that.
A 1970s Milton Bradley Big Trak and a Radio Shack TRS-80, both popular products in their day, will, if brought near to each other, both crash.
Without fairly strict regulation of unwanted RF emissions, there would be many incompatible devices. There were before the FCC started requiring more testing in the 1970s. A world with a huge number of consumer devices emitting RF noise would have prevented low-power cellular phone and WiFi deployment.

It's not that hard. This is an "unintentional emitter" (it's not trying to send a radio signal). The rules for that are not too bad. Testing costs about $3000 to $5000.

You want to have some ability to pre-test. You might find something. Attaching a wire to something can give it an antenna and make it emit much more RF, so you do need to test. It's not too hard.[1] Actual FCC certification is $3000 to $5000, assuming you pre-tested and fixed any problems before getting a certification run.

From the project's FAQ:

"Given that this will initially be a niche product, the price will be quite high.
I was once taught to ask myself the following question: Who is your rich customer?
The type of person whom I have in mind has a high discretionary budget for personal
electronics and willingness to pay a premium for novel ideas."

[1] https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/low-cost-emi-pre-...
The thing google cares about most (after money) is your data. Youtube is just one of many places ads are shown and ads themselves are just one way to turn your data into money. Youtube ads in particular make money in part by being so obnoxious that people will pay youtube to stop the ads from getting in their way.

I have a strict policy against paying people to remove the problems they themselves created for me (AKA racketeering) so I was never going to be a youtube premium customer, but there are plenty of other opportunities to make money from my data, including through ads, even without those ads I won't tolerate on youtube. I'm not Google's preferred user, but that doesn't mean they can't still make money at my expense.
Well yes, USians can tolerate many things as long as they are out of sight. Our object persistence is severely underdeveloped.
>Are you still advocating designing a whole new airframe instead?

That would be the ideal solution for that hazard. But I can’t say if it’s the best risk profile overall. I would settle for a properly implemented engineered mitigation of MCAS.

>* It’s an inherently simple solution*

The fact that the engineers who built the thing mischaracterized it would seemingly be evidence to the contrary. I have experienced this flawed thinking often, where software is treated as a quick simple solution without considering the effects on the overall system.

>Appeal to authority is not a fallacy when one has some authority

It actually is. As Carl Sagan said, “mistrust arguments from authority.” But regardless, we seem to have different ideas on what makes someone an “authority”. You may be an aerospace authority when you’re in a room of CRUD software developers, but this forum has a much wider net than that. “Technical authority” is an actual assigned title at NASA, and you probably wouldn’t get it with 3 years of experience from decades prior.

“Turning off a switch” is the easy solution when you’re dealing with the benefit of hindsight. The pilots were operating in a completely different different environment. That’s why administrative mitigations are not a favored approach. Boeing simulator results demonstrate that it was a confusing scenario to identify the correct root cause in a time-critical situation.

As to the tone of the post, I’ve witnessed you in many aero circumstances state your credentials as a “I know what what I’m talking about so that’s the end of it” puffery tone. It in itself comes across as condescending and, worse, adds little to the conversation. I generally try to be respectful on these forums until someone shows they aren’t reciprocating. Normally I just roll my eyes and move on. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don’t even realize the condescending tone some of your posts take. I debated even responding but thought it might make you realize how off-putting you’re style can be. In your case, it comes across as very arrogant rather than curious which is contrary to the HN guidelines. If it offended you, I apologize.
This is interesting and also an inadvertent ad for Tesla. When my wife bought a Model Y in 2021, she ordered it online and the price was the price.

Turns out we probably should've gotten something else at that particular juncture due to life circumstances, but the process itself was painless.
I would argue that clough42 does fit a niche where all the videos are on a topic, in his case it's doing very ambitious projects/modifications that the average home-shop person wouldn't attempt. Another example would be nighthawkinlight, who does a wide range of projects but with a strong home-shop/diy science bent. If either of these channels started posting stuff like cooking or video essays, I would potentially unsubscribe. Those are both things that I also subscribe to, but having the different things all on one channel makes it too unpredictable what kind of content I'll be clicking on.

For a blog, many of the same rules apply. A blog relies on more external links into the content than a YouTube channel, but you still want a consistent theme. If I click a blog from here or another site, if the content is good I'm likely to read other articles and either bookmark/rss/subscribe via email. If the articles are a mishmash of topics, then I'm less likely to want to engage further since I don't know what I'll be getting. And you want that dedicated core group for a blog to be successful, since those people are the ones who will start posting links to your stuff on other sites.

An example from HN that comes to mind is brr.fyi, I know I'm not the only person who subscribed to his email notifications, since everytime I've gotten an email I've also seen the article posted to HN, so other people have been following and have been faster at posting the new article as a HN story than me.
Public domain seeming odd is a major problem.
Road concrete gets crushed and used as road base.

Not the exact, perfect reuse of Asphalt but it does end up used as fill.
It's an extreme stretch to say that the model weights are a derivative work of the training data given the legal definition of "derivative work".
Tldr: $1,000 worth of engineering time to save $10 on inflight WiFi
There is no software crisis. I have worked on software for 30+ years and it is as easy/hard to write and maintain software today as it was 30+ years ago.

And we are creating software today that would absolutely blow the minds of software developers working 30+ years ago. Mostly because we have amazing abstractions that makes it possible to stand on the shoulders of giants.

All that is happening is that as we get better at writing software, we and our users demand more of it. So we will always be at the breading edge of not being able to deliver. But we still do. Every day.
Has this been shown to be actually-problematic in the three decades since Willy Nelson's album contained a song in the pregap of track 1?
Your Uncle is pretty unique!
> completely wiped out by the decision to hand a blue checkmark to whoever would pay a couple of dollars

I personally thought this was clever at the time, but maybe I’m missing something.

By charging for the checkmark, it seemed like they took a short cut to “identity verification” that uses what we accept for our financial infrastructure as a baseline.

If you show up with a credit card bearing a name, either you are bamboozling the financial system or you are who you claim to be.
Why not?

Singapore is firmly embedded in global markets, follows western models of rule of law and market economics, western culture, etc. The whole point of Singapore's model is to be a deliberate outpost of the west in South East Asia.

(And if you want to talk about geography: Australia is further east and south than Singapore, but is typically counted as part of 'the west', too.)
Saw a number of votes here for keeping them separate. Having struggled with the question for a long time, I'll voice my vote for unifying them.

I've been a SWE for 25+ years and an artist for longer, showing art online as early as 1993 (anybody remember Gopher?), and blogging semi-regularly since the early 2000s. Originally I kept a strict separation between the two out of fear that people interested in one topic wouldn't take me seriously if I had any trace of another.

A few years ago I finally decided that being "taken seriously" was perhaps not that important and I just threw everything together in the same pot, under a single domain and implementation. I do tag each post with one or more topics, and I have an RSS feed for each topic, so people with more specialized interests can subscribe just to the topics they care about. I also eliminated all analytics and comment features as distractions not relevant to my main goals, namely: capturing, refining, and sharing my thoughts about whatever topics I care about.

As a result, I've found I've enjoyed writing and looking back at my previous work more. I realized that my blog was for me, and the maybe five other people in the world who like it the way I do.

As for "building a personal brand" and "developing an audience," others would know much more about that -- I believe, without much evidence to support it, that it will lead to more happiness if you focus on finding your true voice and writing with integrity about things you care about, rather than thinking about ways to get more eyeballs on your pages. YMMV.

I hope you'll consider sharing your URL when you're ready. (http://johnj.com is mine.)
> The judge disagreed, however, on the grounds that the code suggested by Copilot was not identical enough to the developers' own copyright-protected work, and thus section 1202(b) did not apply.

How did they reach this conclusion? How can you prove that it never copies a code snippet verbatim, versus just showing that it does for one specific code snippet? The latter is a lot easier to show, but I don't know what is it exactly that the prosecution claimed. I guess the size of the copy also matters in copyright violations?
The EU which represents majority of NATO countries (with the US and Canada excluded) did. The efforts to get Ukraine to join the EU and then the CIA toppling of Viktor Yanukovych over his refusal.
Then we get the Cremeia response from Russia and this starts the ball rolling.
Similarly, bought one to include with the wedding invitation which we sent to the Pope and got a very nice note back.

Additionally, my best man sent my father-in-law the traditional congratulatory telegram, which they "delivered" by calling him on the phone and reciting it, then mailing the physical telegram.

(apparently I'm old, at least that's what my son who was born in January 2000 keeps saying)
Keep in mind that lots of people in education at one point did not believe that letters corresponded to sounds.

As much as we all hate to admit it, the field of education has not been shown capable of policing itself.