skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha IKR I keep hearing that advice and like has it EVER worked for ANYONE? If someone doesn't believe things can get better, then you can't make a depressed horse drink or however it goes. The thing that needs to be learned CANNOT be communicated.

I discovered it for myself after like 6 months of therapy. Give it a shot if you can. Trust me, being smug about it to people online is so worth it.
Most of the time when people talk about free speech it's just about themselves.
It seems like the biggest counterargument to this would be the one made in https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-07-22/no-more-blue-fr... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41033579), i.e. it should be possible to provide a safe API (like eBPF) to provide the access that third-party security apps need, without risking crashes.
A well known anecdote reported by Shannon:

"My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'"

See the answers to this MathOverflow SE question (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/403036/john-von-neumanns-...) for references on the discussion whether Shannon's entropy is the same as the one from thermodynamics.
> but it requires the addition of some new creative aspect

That is one thing I can't get. Why is everyone not seeing the elephant in the room? The user and the user prompt - they add new intention and purpose to the material being referenced. Not only that, but a LLM response is usually shorter than a full length article or book. On top of that, LLMs retrieve from multiple sources when they use search, and respond from even more sources when they generate answers in closed-book mode. They are clearly doing synthesis.

LLMs are not even good tools for infringement. You have to work really hard to put the LLM into an infringing mood, and it requires snippets from the target content, and only works like 1% of the time. If you have snippets, you probably have the whole thing already. Copying is so much easier and faster. LLMs would just reproduce approximatively a desired content. What a LLM gets from a source text in closed-book mode is on the same level with a image thumbnail from a full resolution image.

What LLMs do well is to recombine ideas in new ways, as demanded by the prompt. Should that be infringing? If the answer is yes, then humans should also be barred from recombining ideas. After all, any human could secretly be using LLMs. But that would just tank creativity for fear of litigation. Isn't it strange how copyright promotes creativity by restricting it?

Even the name "copyright" refers to copying, as it was initially envisioned. Now authors want to expand it to idea ownership. I think it's a power grab.
Could you elaborate on why you’d consider new parent benefits to be a middle age and older perk? I would assume most new parents are in their 20s and 30s, making it most beneficial for new grads and folks not yet “grey haired”, so to speak. Anecdotally, I’m just past forty, and new parent benefits are no longer directly relevant to me.
> Anyway, I'm rooting for "no regulation" for now.

Not me. I want appropriate regulation. Without any regulation, these companies will just continue their abusive practices without restraint.

Will regulation encourage a concentration in a couple of large companies? Maybe. It depends on the nature of the regulation. Even if it does, though, I'd take that over the current status quo.
How more dangerous? The ideal method would be reprocess 95%, vitrify 5% and store underground, repeat
The same way as always. If the news is important enough, you will get it by word of mouth.

I was once told (30-40 years ago), "Don't bother listening/watching the news on radio/TV. It only wastes your precious time." And the next sentence was "If the news is important enough, you will hear about it almost immediately, one way or another."

I don't ever bother with the news, but I heard about Trump's shooting literally within minutes of it happening.
One step closer to being able to make Belters.
The PS2 Ultra Slim is a fun one: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/ps2-ultra-slim...

And it still has the original controller/memory card ports!
It makes Windows hard to operate in a “servers are cattle, not pets” environment, though my experience is limited so I’m open to corrections.

That then makes Windows less appealing to the infra-as-code crowd, which is growing to be “almost everyone” these days.

It’s not just having an image with those things, it’s the entire surrounding ecosystem. Eg my experience with exe or msi installers is that using them without a GUI ranges from “difficult to find the right CLI switches” to “just not gonna happen”.

Also, I think a lot of that com crap is used by Powershell, so gutting it also means giving up CLI access to stuff.
I'm Autistic too. Although I don't want to know the answer to this question, I love the fact that another Autistic person asked it and how they asked it. Thank you @tazu! You're awesome!!
Israel is the culprit .
In that case, let's look at the millions more of people who died under Trump.
Trump was unable to stop the war in Afghanistan, and triggered the invasion of Ukraine (by weakening NATO)
It's worse than a that! Nobody wants/needs to "see everything." They typically want to see 5-10 different shows or movies, but that content always seems to be spread across all of the services, so you have to buy each services just to access That One Show that's exclusively on that service. The overall product (streaming) is distinctly worse than Cable. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd almost believe that the companies work together on their content lists to make sure that the show a given person wants to watch is always on the service they aren't paying for yet.
Ask HN: What martial arts do you recommend?
I've recently been interested in martial arts, not as a means for self defense and/or competing, but rather as a path for developing discipline and physical ability.

Do you have any recommendation from your experience/knowledge?
Please don’t do it, this will surely limit out potential!
That's why I've mentioned 'cheaper than now'
All definitions of entropy stem from one central, universal definition: Entropy is the amount of energy unable to be used for useful work. Or better put grammatically: entropy describes the effect that not all energy consumed can be used for work.
Or maybe that already happened decades ago with the Internet and search engines.
But even w/o these levels we get inflation? How could we compare it to the recent inflation which has been labelled as "greed-flation" and "shrink-flation" ?
It’s too dark. I can’t watch it on my crappy TV
I would hope so, they just wrapped up filming yesterday.

It's a reddit link but some details in the comments and the original source did seem a bit tabloidy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/s/SP85IxZmiy
Making video games fun does not require anywhere near as much hardware as we typically use in modern systems. I look forward to an eventual return to fun video games.
I disliked the ending of Silo so much it ruined the rest of the series for me.
Just speaking practically, the biggest reason to support SAML is that customers use it.

Tons of companies still use old school Active Directory for SAML -- and aren't even quite ready to migrate to Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory).
In theory semantic diff is useful, but based on my code review experience, it hardly matters. For a language like Python or JavaScript, a developer fluent in these languages don't really pay much attention to these things anyway, just like you don't normally pay much attention to commas and periods in a sentence unless it causes confusion. Personally I wouldn't pay $5/month out of the pocket for this functionality.
is it a problem at all? why bother trying to switch people over to windows when you can just make money off hosting their linux servers?
Growing up I was in a negative leverage situation, even though I was smart and hardworking I was bled financially and I had to spend effort to layer contingency after contingency before I could even drive.

This gave my life negative torque, the moment I got a little leverage, I stacked up roommates and basically lived like a digital ascetic for 12 years.

I ended up in the top 1% of earnings for my starting co-hort not because of my fairly average intelligent but because of my nearly 100% openness, insane resilience and way above average mental health game, and a decade of luck.

I spent all that time and energy getting out of poverty and by the time I bought a house and stabilized I was worn out.

The really shitty part is that all along the way I had chances and risks that I couldn't take, companies I couldn't start, etc. because while any one of those chances was a play money/time opportunity for others it would have been a bet the farm, burn the ships, might have to squat with a bunch of homeless dudes (again) risk for me.

Anything that gives a person the breathing room to stop the frantic hunter gatherer subsistence doom spiral and build skills is amazing.

Let's let other countries play the economically wasteful poverty game,
let's let people in other countries die deaths of despair during their prime production years but if we want to be an advanced technology powerhouse we can't keep wasting the potential of all these poor but intelligent kids.
> Entropy includes the unforseen, and out of scope.

Mmh, no it doesn't. You need to define your state space, otherwise it's an undefined quantity.
What? I sure propose to change the system, not to game it. I hate gaming systems, one should always be upfront and tell the truth. I clearly state, and if not before I do now, states and electoral districts should not be able to influence the outcome of presidential elections.
By injecting the real names. Hence fraud.
Don't wave the false flag of "WFH" for this one. When I am home I can easily walk to the coffee pot, wander around, pace, etc. I can also take 10 mins to walk the dog or put away laundry etc. This quick break is harder at work for me. In either environment, I am on Teams calls regardless.
> Hiding the elements/div would prevent the user from clicking that button.

If you're going to start adding logic to hide other elements conditionaly it's prone to become spaguetti. And how would that scale code-wise?

Might as well dim the screen and show a loading spinner to convey to the user that they should wait, a fraction of a second on average.

Remember this is in the context of a LOB app. Not facbook.

Just show a loading spinner from an axios callback and be done with it. It's so fast anyway.
Pretty much any defense contractor fits this description. Lots of older people in that sector. And they hire a lot of IT people.
^This is the way
I agree with everything you said except the shareholder value part.

people dont want to spend their lives doing work, but they do want to spend their lives consuming. If you eliminate the shareholders and shares, it still take the same amount of work to produce what we consume, so this wont help reduce work.

In the 1930s, Keynes imagined that humans would live lives of leisure as productivity doubled every 20 years. However, the human hunger for material comforts is bottomless.

The only offramp from work is reducing consumption or 2) freezing consumption (assuming productivity increases)
This is ridiculous though. Nothing is stopping Microsoft from offering “safe” access to both themselves and third parties.

Also, let’s not forget why these restrictions are applied in the first place - they kick in when the corp grows to become a gatekeeper, integrating multiple product categories and the expense of users and 3rd party vendors.
Do we as a society know where money comes from now? Could the current distribution of money be denying ourselves greater value? Is the current system sustainable?
According to the photograph as well, so my error. On the other hand, according to the photograph, there's a thin steel wall on the end of the car carrying the cask. And then there's thin steel walls on the locomotive and caboose.
They always liked to dogfeed their own stuff even when it makes no sense whatsoever
Yep. My MacBook and Debian servers act pretty similar from a cli perspective. If it’s in apt it’s nearly always in brew
There's a good case to be made that the information-theoretic definition of entropy is the most fundamental one, and the version that shows up in physics is just that concept as applied to physics.
Nintendo has been doing this ... forever? The switch is ancient tech, and was outdated the moment it was released.
I don't like Deel, but you do.
A Starbucks speakeasy sounds awesome actually.
Reducing Churn with Stripe and ChatGPT
Larger Selves
> the very natural goal of having a partner is indeed unreachable

It is not. Plenty of gay men in the world. About one in ten, last time I checked the statistics. But I'll admit it's real tough for most of us out there, not because we are few, but due to all the other reasons. You don't need no goals given by society; make some of your own.
Very nice, Netflix has a reputation of making great OSS products. I wonder where does this stand with Conductor.
Kind of a dup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590

Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows
Well you say, if we're arguing whether it's intelligent or not, it probably isn't.

Ok i guess the argument then...So what are these obvious signs of Intelligence the machines in question are not displaying?

From the few you gave as example,

"can't use language" - Obviously not a problem

"can't use tools" - Digital tools, Some physical tools is certainly possible today

"can't tie own shoelaces" - Don't know any animal that can do this and animals pass your bar of intelligence.

Sure we're having endless arguments about the Intelligence of Sota LLMs today but almost none of it has anything to do with observable, testable capabilities.

In other words, the problem of these debates isn't that people are disagreeing seeing both the bird and plane have willful sustained airtime (aka flying). It's that they've seen both and decided for entirely arbitrary reasons to label one, "real flying" and the other, "fake flying".

And if you then ask the reasonable question, "Which properties separate the so called 'real flight' from 'fake flight' and how do we test for it?", then nobody seems to have any clue.
I didn't pursue graduate work because I didn't think the payback was there for the years of study. I haven't regretted it.
> people still can't get used to .local/.share/.config

I'm one of those people... I don't want yet more hidden stuff in my home dir; I want less. My dream is to have zero hidden directories in my home. What I want is something really clean like this:

$ ls -a ~
. .. config fun local pro tmp

This is almost possible, thanks to XDG_ environment variables. But unfortunately many programs still use hardcoded names for the local userdirs.

If you want to get closer to that goal, the xdg-ninja [0] package can help you. Also, do something like "touch ~/.local ; chmod 000 ~/.local" to force programs that use hardcoded names to fail spectacularly (instead of recreating the hidden dir).

[0] https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja
New streaming platform allows users to create their own content
you can use azure files nfs, that should be posix compliant, but it comes without auth or encryption ... :)
This only supports my point of considering SAML as being "ancient" - but I just don't know if it's true.

It's just a feeling seeing it mostly in banks and other old-school enterprises (AD plays a huge role here as you mentioned)
To quote John Mulaney: "Because we're Delta Airlines, and life is a fucking nightmare."
Hey this happened to me last week (before all of this) in JFK for the same reason. People even came to the gate while we were on the plane and said the pilot just landed 3 gates away, but he never came to our plane lol.

They even ran out of hotel vouchers and were making people go 90 minutes away at 1 AM when the flight was scheduled (and took of at) 6.
I can make cheap, small-scale facsimiles, fangzhipin, to demonstrate some quality of the original. I can make exact replicas, pixel-perfect fuzhipin, to learn how the originals and their creators work. Or I can create shanzhai, unsolicited redesigns, commenting and riffing on the work of others. All these copies have an important role to play in the process of design.

Whether you believe that it’s worthwhile or worthless to copy, whether you think that copies are a valuable part of the design community or a scourge, you are using software, hardware, websites and apps that all owe their existence to copying.

As long as there is design, there will be copying.
How does that work exactly? They have rights to get a 3rd party to maintain the product if the original vendor goes out of business?
So will this serve as a stand-in replacement for something like Airflow?
Every 10 years, like clockwork, a bunch of dimwit managers think they're the first to realize they can outsource software development to India and save so much money. You're apparently next in line to discover that this gets you nothing but a pile of unmaintainable code that will destroy your business's viability.
not sure why this is downvoted? It's basically the exact same comment as the top comment
> The Falcon software was not able to wreak similar havoc on Macs because Apple does not give software makers kernel access. In macOS Catalina, which came out in 2020, Apple deprecated kernel extensions and transitioned to system extensions that run in a user space instead of at a kernel level. The change made Macs more stable and more secure, adding protection against unstable software updates like the one CrowdStrike pushed out. It is not possible for Macs to have a similar failure because of the change that Apple made.

What about Linux though?

Feels like this is just MS redirecting blame and using it as an opportunity to push the narrative that walled garden = good.
I think the biggest thing that I haven't seen in another comment is that companies aren't being explicitly ageist, they just want cheaper labor and younger/less experienced people are willing to work for less money. I'm sure plenty of companies would be more than happy if you said "I have decades of experience but I'll take the salary of a junior position".

Without something similar to a union or a change in laws to better incentivize pay raises, I don't see a great way out of this :/

I'd say my company is "grey-hair-friendly", but they're still hiring for way more junior roles than senior roles. I'm not sure if there are companies that explicitly don't hire junior engineers, but then you'd at least be competing against other people looking for the same salary range. Working with a recruiter might also be a good idea if they can help find companies that would be a good match
> elevated him into stratosphere with vacuous, and honestly very ridiculous, praises

Yes as I mentioned in the post, I read articles from PG from that time which said things like he is 'Michael jordan of listening' or that he knew within 3 mins that sam is next bill gates. I don't know what to say if you don't find that utterly ridiculous or vacuous. And these are not cherry-picked quotes these are actually the better ones.

"he is just good" is circular and stupid explanation . accepting that doesn't indicate an "open mind" it indicates naivety (or another agenda) .

I am not ok with believing PG has some kind of meritocracy radar than can detect next bill gates in 3 mins of meeting someone. Call me closed minded.
Your assessment may be swayed when you discover that the current de-facto bipartisan state of US politics is a logical and near-inevitable outcome of a first-past-the-post voting modality.
You think russia or china would benefit more from this then having a stealthy rootkit on basically every important computer in the world?

I think russia or china are probably the least likely purpotrators possible. Their incentives strongly disalign with this.
Baez seems to use the definition you call erroneous: "It’s easy to wax poetic about entropy, but what is it? I claim it’s the amount of
information we don’t know about a situation, which in principle we could learn."
> What non-monetary risks of distribution does copyright hedge against?

Copyright allows the copyright holder to decide what uses their work can be put to. The non-monetary risks are that the work will be used for a purpose the creator strongly objects to.

> This would seem to be the case regardless of the state of copyright protection since people gonna do what people gonna do.

Not true. Copyright provides for the possibility of legal repercussions when "people gonna do what people gonna do". Even for ordinary people.
Be generous, please.

We generally call people honest if their words reflect their intentions. If their actions lead to a different outcome than intended, that's generally something we call "being wrong", not "lying". Sometimes we call it "being stupid", e.g. when someone fires the abuse team and advertisers dislike the result.

Btw. I think there's no official explanation because the team that could have written one has been fired. Firing everyone means that instructions like "leave it ambiguous" are meaningless, because there's no one around to carry the instructions out.
Right to be recognized by the identity you give to the world. Respectfully, we disagree.
we used to take a 10m walk to a SB just to gtfo the office, to have a walk after the hour+ commute, to people watch, and to BS with the coworkers. it just also happened to be a great source of hot sugar that went well with the baileys. addiction to having a mental break from the stresses, yes, but in no way addicted to the caffine (nor sugar)