skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a false dichotomy. You assert that because a company wants to share its source code that it's also soliciting free work. Personally, I’ve never asked for free work. I don’t want free work. I actually don’t even care if anybody contributes at all -- I didn’t make my company Fair Source to get free labor or contributions. I did it to ensure the continuity and longevity of my core product, to give back, and to open up new marketing and distribution channels. I’m sure others share my sentiment.

If somebody does attempt to extort free labor, that’s on them; it’s not the fault of Fair Source, or Open Source for that matter. In that case, they should reap what they sow.

I hope you can see the value in a company sharing their core product with no strings attached. The world doesn't have to be so black and white i.r.t. OSS.
[dupe]

Lots more discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140167
VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
Weather is even more of a problem in places that are colder. Walking and waiting outside is a tough proposition when it is well below freezing, and the sidewalks are covered in slippery ice or multiple feet of snow, and transit is likely to be cancelled or delayed.
Faint of heart was the expression I was looking for I think, haha
They've been saying this for years, I'll believe it when I see it.
Armin from Sentry here.

> I don't understand why I (or any Open Source contributor) would spend time supporting a product like this.

You might if it scratches your itch, you might not if it doesn't. Here is how I hope people engage with licenses like the FSL: when they start a business rather than going all closed source, they evaluate a license like the FSL. I think it's longer term a superior choice because it protects your business but also longer term ensures that what you create becomes a public good if you step away from it.

On the range of Open Source - Fair Source - Shared Source - Closed Source I would argue that Fair Source is a pretty decent compromise. Not for everybody, but I hope for a lot of folks out there.
Copyright maximalists won't win this fight. They can't be allowed to. If they do, the best models by far will be owned exclusively by those willing to ignore the law. A few rogue states (and/or wealthy nonstate actors) will end up with all the power.

My guess is that copyright is pretty much finished as a concept. Of course the collateral damage as it sinks into the tarpit will be spectacular, but how can it play out any other way?
You're still talking about essentially an aristocrat. I think the question remains more whether contemporaneous non-aristocrats, the vast majority of the population at all times, had exposure to this kind of music.
The problem isn't allowing functions to be carried out at a loss, but creating a situation where we reward only companies that underpay as a means to compete. If you believe it is too expensive to create jobs on the low end, then subsidize all of them, so the most efficient of those companies are not penalized.

The problem is adverse incentives that make it more profitable to do things that harm society.
Brazil's wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals
The laws of chemistry that govern batteries and fossil fuels are known very well. We will never get batteries anywhere near as light weight as a liquid fuel. Sure the battery/motor is much more efficient, but not anywhere close to enough to make up for the massive energy/weight advantage liquid fuels.
Dogs have a longer history of selective breeding and so provide evidence of where we can expect cats to end up if selective breeding of cats continues. (Also a little bit of education for people who might not be aware of these issues.)
If you’re managing a ton of servers you are already using ansible or packer or salt or something.
Indeed. You could write the documentation in Word instead, but when the "herbs and spices" come for free...
> heaven being in "the same place" as we are now

> I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

I don't see how this implies heaven being in "the same place" as we are now.

I also don't see how our bodies can be made perfect but only if we don't burn them up first. Seems like a major limitation of God's infinite power if he can take someone that's nothing but bones and make them perfect but someone who is a pile of ash is just too difficult.
My mother said similar things before her death, and I accepted them with love while privately dismissing them. But since then I've softened a little. I still don't believe in those ideas in a literal, empirical sense, but they have emotional value for me anyway.

I guess I'm trying to say that, at least for me, it's been more pleasant to entertain these ideas as comforting fantasy, and I don't think that small personal allowance has eroded my more practical abilities elsewhere. Not struggling so much against this kind of thinking has freed me in a certain way.
Can you provide any examples? The poster rather has been rather conspicuously unable to do so, which is hard to reconcile with the broad policy they’re claiming, especially when there are counter examples of accounts which were not blocked because Twitter gave more leeway to political accounts.

The reason is simple: the things which got those accounts closed weren’t traditional conservative positions, and there were plenty of lefty/hard to classify accounts which were also suspended or banned for similar reasons but nobody is sticking up for their behavior and claiming it represents their larger political group.
It would certainly be interesting to see if Intel can get sued for their "don't ask, don't tell" policy, but practically I view warranties as a joke anyway. What I meant was really stuff like Amazon's 30-day return policy. Those are no questions asked and 30 days is plenty of time to see if overclocking works.
Sweden too, its such bullshit. These laws are basically about the fact that you technically can store pirated music on a device, therefore you are, such a dirty racket.
Under communism you let the government take care of things, but still in the end, it's the people you have to deal with. So even for a funeral, you will have to talk your way in, use your connections or bribe for better something... It is still transactional, just a different type of transaction.
I always felt that life in Israeli Kibutz(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz) is how I wanted the society to work, but it just doesn't scale and even that way of life is going away under the pressure of the society from outside.
Most of my trips in small planes are pretty point to point. The airports I've used have been between 1 and 5 miles from my house and most of my destinations were similarly close (I just checked one destination and it was 200 meters).

Not sure where you're from but airport density in the US is incredibly high thanks to WWII and Cold War leftover infrastructure (and a fairly robust GA culture up through the 80s). People just don't notice their little local airports unless they fly.
~/.ssh/config is perfectly fine for that.
You are right. I should have said every other person (or every person) in HN.
I see two mutually reinforcing avenues that should be pursued.

The first is creation of natural preserve areas. The second is control of invasives by introduction of biocontrol species from their native ranges (yes, there is concern of attack on other species, but there's often no other way than biocontrol to stop an invasive, and it takes time for local controls to evolve.)

Invasive species are having a huge effect on natural ecosystems, to an extent I don't think some people understand.

Beyond that, maximizing yield on farmland is important so more area is available to be set aside for nature.
That's been a joke for years: https://xkcd.com/1361/
Excellent work. The results are pretty satisfying[0].

I wonder if it could be improved by relying on published lyrics instead of just video transcripts. I say that because the LMFAO song Party Rock Anthem[1] had some awkward moments when the karaoke display showed words that aren't actually part of the song, but are part of the video transcript. I suppose any song that has some sort of scripted intermission/narrative will have this type of problem.

[0] https://karatube.ai/v/-NuX79Ud8zI

[1] https://karatube.ai/v/KQ6zr6kCPj8
well, they no longer produce the "display-only" Chromecast in favor of their "Google TV" sticks with Remote etc.

Not that much of a shock here, the market moved on from simple wireless display dongles.

Unfortunately no sign of Google Cast protocol being opened for general purpose use. Would be great to be able to run your own custom Receiver-device without needing a Google certificate...
Being "good" in music is not universal.

There's a certain level of skill required to compose and produce a song, but beyond that the genre/style of the song is more important, and which style is better is very subjective.

The best opera singer in the world will not take much business away from a techno DJ who merely presses a "play vocal sample" button, and both genres have their fans.

In a system where people listen to songs based on recommendations fitting their individual taste (where the recommender doesn't assume popular is good) you can have people listening to individual songs from the long tail of many artists.
Leaving Stripe: Parting Thoughts
> treating the body with the honor due as a member of the Body of Christ

Is cremation not being respectful? Burning something to retire it can IMO be very respectful.
Yeah, I’ve almost entirely stopped reaching for it anymore. At some point it’s so frustrating getting it to output something halfway towards what I need that I’m just better doing it myself.

I’ll probably cancel soon.
Ask HN: Why don't calculators have an "into" button? Or do they?
Multiplication is the same both ways so it doesn't matter, but for division I'm always wanting a button that says (last result) "into" x. Basically division with the two sides swapped.

Instead you have to type x, divide button, then type out the last result. Am I missing something?
I'm not even sure I'd consider that story the way its told as a source but I'll take your word for it.

De Cecco is not an unknown brand fighting against some massive conspiracy. They've been in the US for a long time ... I really don't think it supports your theory. De Cecco has been one of the brands I buy often for, I honestly don't even know how long, seems like forever.
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2024
I'm a firm believer that the best benchmark is playing around with the model for like an hour. On the type of tasks that are relevant to you and your work, of course.
There's usually enough room for 2-3 winners. iOS and Android. Intel and AMD. Firefox and Chrome.

Also, OpenAI has some of the most expensive people in the world, which is why they're burning so much money. Presumably they're so expensive because they're some of the smartest people in the world. Some are likely smarter than Schulman.
Didn't Elon also give a politically motivated reason for moving his HQs out of California? [1]

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
This talks about how enthusiastic his fans were, but still nothing to indicate that his fandom extended beyond the sphere of aristocratic power that was the main audience for classical music at that time.

The historical record tends to be overwhelmingly biased towards the interests of the ruling classes, mostly because they were the ones creating the historical record. But taking that into account while reading this, and remembering that people outside of this class were the vast majority of people, I don't see any reason to think he had a massive body of fans outside of this small powerful group.
I had an old classmate buy a French bulldog as a puppy, and found out two days later it needed major surgery. She posted this to Facebook as a “poor me” post. Infuriating. Bring the dog back and get something healthy instead of encouraging that awful practice.

2/3 dogs I’ve had in my life have been mutts and they’ve been incredibly healthy, smart, and loving.
Downcycled: Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO
Tvision – A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0
Doing RAG over financial data is ok for simple tasks. But if you want the Assistant to answer complex questions with a lot of context, and compare the metrics of multiple companies at once then just RAG over financial data will not be enough.

Our AI Assistant focuses on pulling the right data for each question over a large amount of data, then understanding and synthesizing it to provide nuanced insights.
Chief AI Officer role, in case anyone was wondering. And it’s a restructuring of the data science team.

The original article title is better than this submission title.
Yeah they really like to mention it everywhere, like yeah it's good but imo not as good as some people make it out to be. I have used it recently for libgdx on kotlin and there are things where it struggles, and the code it sometime gives it's not really "good" kotlin but it takes a good programmer to know what is good and what is not
Even if it wasn't for LLMs, it feels like a long time since I did more than convert someone else's Figma (or Adobe XD, or Photoshop document) into code, and glue it to a pre-existing API.

I'm sure real estate lawyers feel much the same about how rote their work is.

People pay for that, and it's valuable, but it does feel like these tasks should've been automated away a decade ago, without LLMs.
I've opened an issue on Killed By Google: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/1544
> But the moment OpenAI wants to charge for Clorox to show up more often, then it needs to be disclosed when it shows up.

Yes, I agree with this. But what about paying a 3rd party to include your drivel in a training set, and that 3rd party pays OpenAI to include the training set in some fine tuning exercise? Does that legally trigger the need for disclosure? You aren't directly creating advertisements, you are increasing the probability that some word appears near some other word.
Any reasonable autonomous control system is going to have sensor fusion to combine different wavelengths of sensor data together. Kalman Filters are a thing, even outside of military applications. You're going to need countermeasures that are anti-CV, anti-radar, and anti-IR measures in one source to confuse a well-made autonomous drone.

Even then, if they just put a bullet into anything that has the approximate optical & heat signature of a human, it'll work fine. Who cares if you blow up a few inflatable mannequins and flares if you also get all the soldiers?
Inscora raises $2M to help cyber insurance brokers sell policies and assess risk
Should diet / exercise be the primary mechanisms to support longevity?

https://gero.usc.edu/2022/04/28/valter-longo-longevity-diet/

edit: also this is quite interesting https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lxyzc
PostgreSQL Sees Up to 4x Query Performance with SIMD-Optimized JSON Escaping
Well, I've enjoyed our conversation, I didn't feel it was particularly hostile. Certainly compared to Linus's old flames it was very civil. It's a pity dang is frustrated.
This was such important and transformational work and I remember at the time being quite dismissive of it.

I knew Orr’s and Suchman’s work (they worked in a physically adjacent area, but completely different group, though we were all under John Seely Brown and because they were nice people). Thankfully I was grown up enough to be polite, but really I was such a techno-determinist that I figured user problems came from ignorance.*

To be fair, I was not the only one: the insights described in this book draft surprised a lot of people, not just how they improved the copiers but how those two even approached the problem (starting with the sociology of the repair workers). It sure surprised Xerox management. But I’ve heard it said many times that this work led to restructuring the paper path in a way that justified (paid for) everything spent on PARC.

I did grow up of course and now do see my work (machines, chemistry, etc) as a small part of a large social system. A successful company has to base its product plans starting this way.

To choose an example of failure to appreciate the social scope (but not pick on it) the crypto folks spend their time on technology, based on a social model they want to exist rather than the one that currently does. I think it’s a big reason why it’s barely impacted the world in, what, 15 years? Xerox was the same, and it helped them sell a lot of copiers, but didn’t make them as ubiquitous as they could have been. Another example: everybody laughs at Google for launching “products” that go nowhere and are quickly forgotten. We all know it’s because of a screwed-up, internally-focused culture. But sometimes a product succeeds without marketing (e.g. gmail, at the time) because it happened to be matched to the actual, external need. It makes this kind of continuous failure even more damning.

* TBH, 40 years later I have not 100% shed this view — e.g. my attitude towards complaints about git. Maybe this means I’m still a jerk.
how does this compare to cassh

https://github.com/nbeguier/cassh
The Debbie Harry image at least, since Warhol displayed it in public without a copyright notice, is in the public domain.
Show HN: Little Riddle – A minimalist word game powered by ChatGPT
My mom loves word games. Inspired by a old school word game called "Road Toad", I built a super simple browser app that provides a 'Little Riddle' to a two-word answer that always rhymes. If you are stuck, you can receive a hint or a letter. I built in 'making and sharing' so my mom can send me and the family riddles she likes. I hope someone on HackerNews enjoys Little Riddle as much as my mom does. I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

For anyone interested in knowing what's happening under the covers, I grabbed a bunch of popular nouns, verbs, and adjectives and then used some rhyming libraries to find words that rhymed with said popular words. I ran those rhyming words through the popular list and yanked out any obscure words. Once I had that list I manually went through that list and removed those rhyming pairs that didn't really pop! like "unusual textual".

After I had a list of good rhyming pairs, I asked ChatGPT 4o to step in and come up with a riddle for each of the rhyming pairs. Here is one of the prompts I used:

"You are a clever game host. You will provide the players with a very brief sentence in json format that serves as a vague clue for two words that rhyme that the user must guess. Players have very good vocabularies. The clue must be a complete sentence but it should be short, tricky, and concise. This is very important: The first part of the sentence must refer to the first word. The second part of the sentence will refer to the second word. You should only supply the clue and not reference the game or instructions. The clue must not contain either of the rhyming words. It should be a difficult clue that can't be easily guesses. Be very creative. The rhyming pair is: [rhyming pair]"

I then used a thesaurus library to provide a list of clues to provide my mom if she got stuck.

That ultimately resulted in thousands of riddles that look something like: { riddle: "big tiger", answer: "fat cat", clues: ['voluptuous lion", "large feline"] }

After I had the data, I coded this up using Vue/Nuxt and Tailwind. It's hosted as a Cloudflare page and can hopefully withstand the huge wave of traffic Mefi Projects is going to send my way.

If anyone has any suggestions for more riddles or features, please let me know.
I would say if your laptop starts doing sudden thermal shutdowns then liquid metal should be your first suspect. However, I do have a slightly older all-amd variant (G513QY) which may behave differently. Comparing my case with the article, they noticed CPU throttling and had dark/black marks on the CPU, whereas I was encountering GPU thermal shutdowns with marks on both GPU and CPU.

Rough timeline for my laptop was:

14 months in, manually under-clocked discrete GPU to prevent thermal shutdowns

20 months in, complete cooling failure on GPU, replaced liquid metal with PTM7950
I think you may have misread the quote you’re replying to. You and the GP post appear to be in agreement. I read it as:

P(ethical_and_principled) < P(ethical_and_principled|stands_to_gain)

Or in plain language people are more likely to do the right thing when they stand to gain, rather than just because it’s the right thing.
Ideas that occurred from reading this:

A. Add x and y strain cells to the trackpad [0] so that it acts like an IBM TrackPoint for broad movement when a still thumb applies lateral force. Trackpad capacitance is used for fine movements.

B. Keycap LEDs powered by inductive current [1]. Bonus points if phosphor cob is shaped like characters and can be embedded in a key molding (heat a challenge).

0. Cirque GlidePoint Circle Trackpads: https://www.mouser.com/c/?marcom=118816186

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q5GVDQC/
Something not often considered is that cross-eyed stereograms allow for both better focus and (if desired by the artist) also stronger depth when someone is viewing the image without hardware assistance.

The two unassisted viewing options for the majority of people are either crossing your eyes or looking through the image to infinity. Intentional exotropia is completely off the table, because almost nobody can do that (because there's no natural point to doing it, unlike crossing which is how you look at things near your face).

And the problems with looking through the image to infinity are that

1) If the image is near you, you're now naturally focusing far away, which means you're not focusing up close on the image plane like you would be if your eyes were crossing, so the image is blurry without an unnatural muscle behavior.

2) If the image is meaningfully far away, the angular difference you can achieve between it and a horizon vanishing point is just too small to achieve overlap between the halves unless the image itself is very small, which you then won't be able to see anyway.
I feel we agree far more than disagree. I'm not sure where you got the impression that I expected the supervisor to be some sort of genius or deep domain expert on bootloaders. I just expected them to be expert in writing theses, which includes those things you mentioned.

> In that sense, I would argue that a good thesis advisor will focus on the scientific process, documentary evidence, clarity of experimental setups and tests/checks/benchmarks performed, not whether the outcome would be "great enough" to pitch as a founder to VCs.

Exactly! And in this case I feel the exact opposite happened; the advisor let the student work overly fancy project with lot of buzzwords ticked and with minimal rigor; from the result I think it's is pretty obvious that way too big part of the whole project was spent on coding, and too little on those things. That's why I blamed the advisor/supervisor in my parent comment, they should have intervened at some point in the process.

Of course I do realize that in practice these thesis supervisors might have gazillion students under them and minimal time allocated per student, so most likely they just weren't very involved at any stage. And academic institutions have pressure to get students to graduate which creates its own set of problems.
The article specifically cites a study from the past year that shows the major current factor in pollinator decline is not RoundUp, but insecticide use.

I don't mean this as an apologia for RoundUp (or Monsanto). There's a need for more attention on, and regulation of, harmful pesticides, though.
Not really a surprise. I'd have been more unhappy a number of years back but mostly use an Apple TV these days. Not quite a 1:1 replacement for everything though.