skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> without cutting in the existing rights holders properly.

That's the killer, right there.

"existing rights holders" is a big deal, and one that has been ignored by tech bros for a long time.

As a [former] artist, and [former] musician, I can say that the tech industry has been cooking the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs. The opportunity for individual financial and ego success is a huge driver for modern popular art culture (for better and for worse).

If we take that away, guess what happens?

No one wants to do it, anymore.

This may be an issue, with AI-generated creative content. Unless the AI is truly better than human talent (and "better" is in the eye of the beholder), it has the very real prospect of turning the commercial creative industry into gray goo.

[EDITED TO ADD] Watching the karma count on this post, yo-yoing up and down, has been fascinating. This seems to be an issue that people have very strong feelings about.
The USA actually has some of the most advantageous tax policy for low-wage earners (and those with children, even more) in the world. And by low-wage earners I mean anywhere from way below the poverty line to ... barely scraping by at $400k a year for some of them?

You start with the Earned Income Tax Credit - which basically takes your 0% federal rate and refunds even more to compensate and overtake social security tax.

Then you have ACA subsidies that eliminate healthcare costs (or greatly reduce it).

And then there's the Child Tax Credit - up to $2k per child. This one isn't refundable so you end up having some room.

All of this is just on the tax form - this does NOT count any of the other assistance available.

The surest way out of poverty in the USA - assuming someone is actively trying their best and not wasting anything, time, talent, treasure - is to be stably married and have some kids.

(All my comments are around the USA of course, I have no experience of Europe or Ireland in particular - but everyone online always assures me that Europe is a paradise compared to the complete hellscape that America is ;) - so I assume y'all doing pretty well. If not, come on over! We have some statue about it.)
Maybe they meant 3x worse vs 2x worse -- as in, we're in a death spiral one way or another
Your problem isn't Google, your problem is capitalism and the limited attention economy.

If you were in a position where you could just put things online and they may or may not be useful to people, you wouldn't be having this problem. But you're not; you're working for a taskmaster that demands attention or they can't justify their existence.

If Google evaporates tomorrow, there's no guarantee that your product gets customers. Indeed, in the absence of Google, most content on the internet is harder to find, not easier. The knob your overseer wants you to turn happens to be attached to Google, but when Google goes away there's going to be a different knob.
One of the arguments the government used against Kim and Mega was that they implemented tech to identify and remove CSAM therefore they could have (but chose not to) do the same for material that violated copyright.

I'm not going to defend the guy because he has been involved in a number of shady dealings, but this does seem like an extraordinary amount of effort to go after a guy who ran a website that facilitated pirating of music and movies over a decade ago.
SoftBank discussed AI chips tie-up with Intel to rival Nvidia
Seems like a good bet for now.

I just put down a deposit on a 2025 Camry after test driving one. The dealer cannot keep these on the lot - almost every single one is being sold before it even gets there (including mine). And we aren't a particularly big market.
Google owns ~90% of the search market and if you don't play by their rules, you're out of the game. The argument is that there's nothing really superior about their technology today, just market dominance to force everyone to operate in a way that serves their _ad_ interests as opposed to search interests.
Regulations are not just a more/less choice. They can also be better or worse.

This usually comes up when arguing about about FDA, which is uniquely bad at its job. When I try to point that out, people come out of the woodwork and argue as if I'm a nutcase libertarian who wants to abolish all regulations. No, there are countries with drug regulations that are generally tighter, and also the population has had access to UVA-blocking sunscreen for a decade.

The regulations that matter here are terribly written regulations that are more lax if your vehicle is bigger. EU has more regulations, but wouldn't ever make that mistake.
It doesn't mean the following but in British English 'sus' means 'assessed' or 'figured it out', as in, "I've sussed it and it's nothing to worry about". I'm not sure how far back this usage goes but Douglas Adams used it in THHGTTG in Zaphod Beeblebrox's mouth.

Source: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/suss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242400
There already is. The lag you were experiencing was likely from the game server degrading; did you check what the MSPT of the server was when you were playing? (It was listed at the bottom near your ping.)
With no disrespect to the book that's the subject of this thread as I haven't read it, but Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreter [0] is a fantastic book. It covers all phases in compilation, including both an interpreter and a VM.

It's been covered on several threads here over the years [1].

[0]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/
[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=crafting+interpreters
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but if that's your argument against breaking up Google, it's a weak one.
I guess what I am trying to ask is why was UX research "thin on the ground" (lovely expression, never heard it before). Was it a profit loss thing or more like the progress wasn't fast enough
Show HN: If Twitch had actual channels
Yesterday I saw a post that was “If YouTube had actual channels” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023) and I was so impressed with the tech-nostalgia that I thought, what if Twitch had channels. So I made this as a clone.

Thanks for the inspiration, and go check out https://ytch.xyz if not already familiar.
> Google isn't a particularly old company it hasn't had a strangle hold for long and it doesn't look like it's business is unassailable. So why go after it at all. On the other hand, the anti-monopoly moves have been slow and ineffective. When Microsoft finally got hit...

Google was incorporated 26 years ago, in 1998. Microsoft was founded in 1975, 26 years before US v. Microsoft was decided. Google is exactly as old as Microsoft was at the time, and while it's harder to measure my sense is that their stranglehold on search is at least as long and at least as unassailable as Microsoft's was in OSes.

You can't have it be both too early to go after Google and yet too late to have gone after Microsoft.
so am i! fuck you, lupire
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, study finds
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41254989
There would be less external influence in the latter case if the US wasn’t your main form of military and arms supplier.
I really hope that some portions are turned into public institutions (either directly or in the weird way organizations like USPS is) in some way. They've made themselves so deeply ingrained and essential to using the internet as loss leaders in some areas that it's impossible to imagine those services standing on their own and still making sense. That's what's responsible for their monopolization, and natural monopolies should be tightly state regulated. I hope we get case law on how network effects can kinda be natural monopolies when in the right technological context.
All the Chrome forks will also be following this change.
Subtraction of unsigned negative values still works just fine because of two’s compliment.

(uint8)(-3) is 253, for example, and (uint8)5-(uint8)253 = (uint8)8, corresponding to 5 - (-3)
Going to the dentist hurts more than a cavity. Sometimes a period of acute pain is better than a lifetime of moderate pain.
Again, it depends on what you consider rich to be.

Most people consider rich to be about "twice what I earn/have" and it slides.

I think rich is much better looked at from the time perspective - if your time is yours and not unwillingly sold to others; you're rich. If your time is not your own and you have to sell most of it to live, you're not rich.

And yes, I would put anyone who can comfortably retire before social security kicks in (so, early retirement/FIRE) as at least rich-adjacent.
> if a country can't defend itself with diplomacy then it is in a lot of trouble.

You are absolutely correct.

I wish more folks understood this.
> I'm not going to defend the guy because he has been involved in a number of shady dealings, but this does seem like an extraordinary amount of effort to go after a guy who ran a website that facilitated pirating of music and movies over a decade ago.

Yep, especially compared to other people, who did worse (pedophillia-wise), like Polansky, etc.
> Did he get hundreds of millions in cash and dozens of luxury cars by pirating songs on the Internet?

Yes, the belief is that the source of his wealth was from MegaUpload and Mega.
This strikes me as extremely sensible. It's worth considering how hybrids and EVs relate to various driving patterns:

* All short range trips
* Mostly short range trips, occasional long range trip
* Long daily commute

EVs manage that first option fine, but struggle with the latter two, especially cheaper EVs with smaller batteries. Hybrids work just as well as traditional engines for all of these patterns, while consuming less fuel.

Plug-in hybrids are particularly great at that middle option. Most of the time they behave like an EV, but on the occasional long haul they just switch to gas so there's no range anxiety. In that scenario, plug-in hybrids offer the best of both worlds.
Sorry maybe my point isn't clear - Toyota has literally 30 years of experience building automotive EV motors(for their hybrid cars) and their first real EV has half the efficiency of a Tesla. So where is that 30 years of experience that Toyota has?

And just to go back to hybrids - Toyota was such a pioneer in what we call "mild" hybrids nowadays, but they were super late on the PHEV side, for years you could buy PHEVs from different manufacturers before Toyota finally made one.
And, indeed, there's a case to be made that there's net consumer harm to breaking up the synergy.

Maybe we do want to make everything a little worse for the average customer so that more businesses can compete in the marketplace. But I, for one, will miss being able to attach Drive content smoothly to my emails, or being able to use my voice to trigger map navigation on my phone.
While true and a fair point, iOS is Apple’s platform in a way that the web is most certainly not Google’s.
$2750 USD is 2 days of pay? In what world? That's some parts of the world yearly gross.
Pretty sure it was a YouTube recommendation for some of his av explainers when I was watching similar videos from Technology Connections.
No, SSN is not used for voting.

Voting requirements and eligibility are set individually by each state, sometimes even in finer detail, New York City wanted to give immigrants the right to vote in local school board elections for example.

SSN are administered by the federal government and are opt-in(however most people apply for one) so it is not something a state can really use as a voting requirement.

State I currently live in(GA), you need to bring a photo ID for in person voting:
- Drivers License(from any state or federal government)
- State ID card
- Student ID card
- ID badge from any state or federal workplace
- Passport
- Military ID
- Tribal ID
Data was cross check to an online voter registration database.

Prior state (NC), I think the ID requirements were similar(possibly more relaxed) but at that time the data was checked to the voter roll, a book with the name and address of all the people in the precinct. When you went to vote, you signed by your name and then it was crossed off the list.
I would love to see a book that talks about going all the way to generate machine code, i.e., not stopping at generation of assembly.

Alternatively, I would like to learn about not just how to make a compiler, but also simultaneously a debugger, hot-reloading, etc.
The site is in English but it contains a

<html lang="fr">

which makes my browser prompt to suggest translating it from French.
By the time Chrome was released, Google was already a behemoth. I can’t think of another .com that was anywhere near their size. Microsoft was only 2x bigger by market cap. They were hardly a small company that Microsoft could push around and had the advantage of not being dependent on anything MS was doing.
> OP complimented the hybrid and your criticism pertains to an EV.

Also, a blind spot for the long game.
Seeking Cofounder for First Moroccan Social Network (Reddit-Like): Rasderb.com
Hi HN,

I'm building https://rasderb.com, the first 100% Moroccan social network, and I'm looking for a cofounder to help build and grow the community. The product is nearly finished, but I need someone passionate about Moroccan culture to join me in this venture.

Background

Previously launched islamhub.me, a platform for discussing and translating fundamental Islamic texts without restrictions (Inspired by Martin Luther's reformation)
The project gained significant traction but was eventually shut down due to various challenges
Developed a generic codebase for quickly creating localized social networks
Inspired by the need for countries and cultures to organize their data (knowledge*) in the AI age
Aiming to create a platform that preserves and promotes Moroccan culture and discussions

Tech Stack

Backend: Linux, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker,
Frontend: Vue 3, TailwindCSS

What I'm Looking For

A cofounder who is either Moroccan or deeply interested in Moroccan culture
Someone to help with community building and growth strategies
Technical skills are a plus but not required

Future Plans

Open-sourcing the project in the coming months
Potential for collaboration on local social networks for other countries/cultures

If you're interested in joining this project or want to discuss collaborating on a similar network for your country/culture, please email me at absoul[at]rasderb.com
I can provide more information about my previous project, islamhub.me, to those interested (https://jolly-water-022691d03.5.azurestaticapps.net).

Let's work together to ensure diverse cultures have a voice in the AI age!
Wishing you all a good day.
Absoul.
> Not only is tech extremely hateable as a demographic

Oh boy is this incorrect.

Outside the Silicon Valley / well-educated upper middle class / tech worker bubble, tech companies are more trusted than most political parties and government and religious institutions, and this is true across the world as polls show. People who are not into tech have no idea about Google's business deals or App Store anti-steering provisions. They use Google as long as it delivers great results, and switch to searching on Tiktok or asking Chat GPT if it doesn't. HN is probably one of the most anti-tech places on the internet, maybe outside of Mastodon.
The eternal struggle to control the levers of enshittification.
They're not. Textbook definition: "A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market." Google Search has competitors and is not even selling its search product.
MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles
It's also a transition technology, because Japanese battery manufacturers like Idemetsu Kosan, AGC, and TDK need around 5-7 years to begin mass-producing solid state batteries (and have already started constructing factories for them in JP, US, and SK).
It's an interesting hypothesis, but it's entirely possible that separated from Google, Chrome is either not a viable business model (browsers don't make money on their own) or is incentivized to get into bed with some other ad company to make money, to effectively the same result.
I find the three different time representations/sizes curious (eg, what possible use case would need nanosecond precision over a span of billions of years?). More confusing is that there's pretty extreme time granularity, but only ±290 years range with nanosecond precision for time durations?
"What about Y" has no bearing on X. Go ahead and spawn that separate thread.
BMW i3 with range extender is basically that, and I don't think the compromises to make that happen were that bad.
The point is that motorcycles are well-established cultural icons. While road safety folks would likely be delighted to ban them, there would be a huge political backlash. Kei cars are not, there's very few people that even know what they are compared to motorcycles, let alone want to drive them on the road.
> Parser-generators were always academic projects

Were they? GCC abandoned bison in favour of their own parser relatively recently.
I don’t think this is an honest question and I’m not going to engage with it.
Yeah, I didn't actually expect this many people to play. I've ran benches locally of 100 bots playing together, and the game server ran at a decent 5-7 MSPT. I didn't run the benchmark for hours though, so I never got performance degradation. I'll run the bench for a few hours today and inspect why performance degrades.
I think the phrasing in this post could be better, but the basic observation is sound: if the last use of a weak hash function in your codebase is in HMACs, then it’s better to upgrade to a stronger underlying hash function and apply a blanket ban to the weak ones. Similarly, in a greenfield codebase, there’s no reason to pick an HMAC construction based on a weaker hash when collision-resistant ones are universally available.
Yeah, I should've labeled it as a multi-player game instead.
Obsidian has both live preview and source mode. I have a shortcut to switch between the two. I use live preview when making lists and source mode for most other documents.
Ah, the classic tale of modern Robin Hood, living in a mansion with 18 cars and 175M in cash.
That factoid, that the fuel pump on an F-1 was 55,000 horsepower, has stuck in my mind since the time I first read it. It's so mind-boggling. I would love to just experience the moment when the engineers on the program realized that this is what they needed to build and all they had was paper and pen and the will of a nation.
Hahah, yeah. That paragraph is where my opinion of the article turned from "maybe interesting" to "just some guy on the Internet rambling".
Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin
Yes, it's signed...https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html

Each value stored in an SQLite database (or manipulated by the database engine) has one of the following storage classes:
# some omitted...
INTEGER. The value is a signed integer, stored in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8 bytes depending on the magnitude of the value.
Every single doc knows about steroids + tendons. Did you ask why steroids were offered ?
I think you meant "berth" rather than "birth".

> If you could point at one bad thing Google did...

Agree. But then there are the more nebulous ones — like Google's ad/search entanglement.
ocaml makes writing a compiler enormously more accessible, and learning to read ocaml, while it can be somewhat intimidating at first, is much easier than learning to write a compiler

(imagine a medieval accountant trying to learn to do long division in roman numerals. he'll be much better off learning the western arabic numerals fibonacci is so excited about)
Network effects are just so strong. Once a particular option has ingrained itself for a particular use-case they can make it extremely difficult for any alternative to become viable even if it's technologically superior. Just look at Windows vs Linux.
There's a small YouTube creator who has uploaded videos with the narration hard panned. I told him about it in the comments, he went "hmm that's weird", then uploaded more videos with the same issue.

I don't watch that channel any more.
and other markets where network effects tend to create monopolies tend to be very highly regulated or state owned: telecoms and financial markets, for example.
Yeah, I'm happy I can edit via markdown and fallback on it if the site is down, for example, but I see no benefit to intentionally making it less readable when reading/presenting.
Am I the only child of the 80s that hates this? A bunch of stuff I'm not interested in, and then I switched off. The moment TiVo was available we had it in our house and it was great. I still like the occasional shared experience of big sporting events or Eurovision or something on broadcast TV, but outside that it's just the equivalent of doomscrolling. If you look at your plethora of streaming options today and can't find anything to watch, just do something else. The wonder of the modern age is the sheer volume of stuff you can ignore entirely and never care about.
That seems to be in support of the parent's point.

So breaking up Google would have resulted in worse outcomes for consumers 10 years ago, but it would be even worse today? Then it wouldn't have made sense to break them up 10 years ago and it would make even less sense today.

I'm not claiming there aren't any good reasons to break up Google (I don't know), but this line of argumentation doesn't work as far as I can see.
Grover thinks the purpose of Markdown is that the author knows what HTML tags will be generated. That was his purpose, but it’s long outgrown that!
Probably easier to get people to change the name from README.md to RENDERME.md.
Pdf.js: A Lightweight, Native PDF Reader Built in JavaScript
Websites these days are often pretty hostile to crawling aside from the Googlebot. Other crawlers are asked not to by the robots.txt, fully blocked, or put through captchas.

https://knuckleheads.club/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/how-google-dom...
When you are the only grocery store for 500mi yes you functionally have a “monopoly over your shelves.”
Google pays $20 billion a year to be default search on Apple. Alphabet's net income was $74 billion in 2023. Why would they reduce profit by 20% to get Apple users to use the search engine that they would use anyway?
It doesn't. But if B is less of a monopoly than A, and the regulators are going to break up B, but not break up A, that does lead to questions. Why start with B? Why not start with A, and then do B?
In the past I have just searched for my own name. And when I found a match, I would go to that site and request to be removed. It is a lot of work, but thus far it has been successful.

And I say this, because I was on a TV show years ago, so my real name is all over the internet from an entertainment point of view. But, if you search my real name, there are little to none pointing back to "public record" websites and the such.
There are some features in-game which I don't want abused by bots (creating sandboxes for instance). There's also a 1v1 system which needs a Google account to associate your rankings with. Other than those two sections, you are able to play FFAs and join other people's sandboxes without a Google account.
Japan has different standards and driving environment around kei cars (I'm going to use K-car going forward).

- Their top speed limit even on highways is 100kmh / 60mph

- K-cars have yellow license plates and yellow license plates are not allowed on highways

I have a memory of seeing one of the infamous white K-trucks on an interstate in Nashville and was gobsmacked. These cars are not rated for highway / interstates in Japan, let alone the U.S.

I'm not sure if the U.S. has a similar visible markings for farm vehicles to allow K-cars city road travel and deny interstate travel. If not, I agree they should be banned until some sort of classification is made and driver culture / knowledge is propagated.
Musk's new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images