skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A solid focus on the needs of users
The article [1] is about the journey of a particular company but the discussion about their motivation on various topics was really interesting.

Liked their approach to fixing problems to provide a better service with a clear user focus:

...limits discovery
...doesn’t help the decision-making process
...lacks integration
...discontinued API access
...lacks a cohesive community
...can’t quickly adapt to community needs
...is not the platform readers deserve

[1] https://hardcover.app/blog/why
If you drew it shittily from memory it would still be copyright infringement. As would retelling it. Discoverability of the infringement and the irrelevance of the violation is the reason you don’t get sued
Do you mind sharing the approximate cost of getting the patent(s)?

It's something I want to do, but it seems expensive. For example, I read that "In 2013 it cost $33,000 to file a software patent." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115703
awesome! i look forward to hearing how you end up doing it
One strategy for better pictures is not to worry so much about what the camera points at (or where the focus should be in the frame); instead focus on the edges of the picture. By shifting your focus from the "focus" to everything else, you end up with pictures that contain a lot more of what you want.
There's a lot of practical reasons why someone wouldn't want one. There are foreign travel and contact reporting requirements and use of weed is forbidden. Some people may be uncomfortable with the level of scrutiny that investigators go through to find dirt on you (talking to neighbors, friends, and family even if you didn't put them down as references). Once your clearance lapses, you have no requirements other than the lifelong NDA you sign regarding the work you did which could hamper future job interviews somewhat if you can't talk about what you actually worked on. If you write a book, you usually need to get permission prior to publishing by submitting drafts to the government, especially if it's relevant to your work.

As for ethics, clearances go hand in hand in working with intelligence agencies, the department of defense, federal law enforcement or a few other departments either as a contractor or government employee. So if you are fundamentally opposed to what these groups do, maybe a job requiring a clearance isn't the best fit for you. There is another clearance called public trust that is very mild that may be required at places like the Treasury or NASA. Basically if you don't want a clearance, avoid working for the government.
Gmail: Fastmail
If you're referring to hosting on a home network, you'll probably be behind CGNAT. Your ISP can give you a dedicated IP but it'll most likely cost something.
I market a physical product, but it's a weekend business. Something like a guitar pedal. No patents or other IP -- too expensive, and the protection is limited anyway. It's an analog circuit based on textbook design elements. No advertising, just word-of-mouth on web forums, and a web page. I build and ship from my basement.

The idea came from the fact that I'm a musician myself and tied into the community of players, who share their experiences and pain points on web forums. And an intimate understanding of electronics, physics, and small scale manufacturing.

All of my other inventions belong to my daytime employer -- about 20 patents so far. Since I'm plugged into a large business, I have access to market intelligence and at the same time a good understanding of the technical side of things. Plus, I can prototype virtually anything, so I'm less dependent on permission or having a formal plan to start making something.
So a consumer drive, on a 22x80mm card that barely has enough physical space for 8TB of NAND (+controller and DRAM) and doesn't come anywhere close to having enough space for the capacitors needed to provide enterprise-level full power loss protection.

The drive still shouldn't fail entirely from a power outage, and should at most suffer data loss, but at the end of the day it's designed to be cheap rather than reliable.
Nate Silver charts the course of risk-taking, from SBF to Sam Altman
Nafaik, but anything that gives you two extra hours of sleep should help. Also, intense exercise should over time help heal it in part. And as far as drug methods go, a 2-3 month course of memantine could be worth exploring for anyone who doesn't have to drive or operate machinery for the first month.
> what if we create machines that are intelligent enough to turn on their creators and seek to destroy them?

I disagree with this - it's about creating machines that are powerful enough to turn on their creators. Battlestar Galactica is more about intelligence/superiority IMO (as well as powerful).
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Allow me to offer my opinion without reading the article:

I can and do pay for news, I just dislike the bait and switch with modals/popovers that much.
Now that I can no longer block domains in my Google search results, I can't remove those paywalled sites from relevancy and it's hard to keep track of everyone who only lets you read the first paragraph and a half before sticking their hand out asking for $10.

ETA: I have now read the article and have no revisions to my statements.
I'm just relieved this wasn't a post about sneakers but if it was I hoped for the best. This is a topic I never really ever thought about to be honest. If I were pressed to answer I'd assume the first was FDR or Truman. The US presidency (and govt) gets really weird and interesting right after WW2, this feels like an artifact to that point. Shame I can't find any interior shots online, I'm curious to see a photograph that matches the first paragraph of the post ...
The problem is that primates are pretty far removed from mice. And our sheer weight difference often makes is a decisive factor.

This is especially true for cancer, brain, and inflammation research. Mice just don't make good models for that.
Yeah, on reflection my initial reading was a little unfair. The focus makes sense given what it is, although it still feels odd to start out with what sounds like it wants to be a critique of a critique of materialism.
The website is just plethora of knowledge and content in 90s design. Just pure bliss and I love it.
A small refinement here, your statements are largely my experience dealing with people linking against gpl3 software because of the vitality and the patent exemptions. Most places run gpl3 stuff just fine. The one organizations won’t touch with a ten foot pole, even to run it, is AGPL.
Aren't some versions of Mickey Mouse out of copyright now...
> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it.

but not really. the situation is similar to auto-voting the incumbent in every goverment election each november.

that is not ok.
If I don't complete my FACTA compliance forms with my Australian bank every 2-3 years to (re)confirm that I am an Australian, living in Australia, using my Australian bank account then my bank will withhold certain amounts to cover my supposed obligations to the IRS.

Sure smells a lot like levying tax on non-citizens living in other countries.
35MPa is ~5000psi for anyone wondering lol.
Your last point is very important. Zoning at a federal level would be required to clear some basic anti segregation. Would it be perfect? No. But the zoning in my town is 100% in the same spirit as redlining. No one would describe themselves as racist or classist. Maybe that's just human nature?
how hard is it to say "an advanced theory about algebra", instead of downvoting?
TIL React Native, a JavaScript Framework, now has its own Frameworks.
Literally the whole point of comparing things are that they are different. If you could only compare things that were exactly identically equal, the concept of comparing wouldn't make sense.
That isn't stilted, nor is it some crazy difficult usage of past English. If someone really can't understand it, then they really are ignorant.
I really wanted this to be about the sneaker.
> The FSF requires nothing of the projects; the FSF leaves the choice of copyright assignment up to the project and its maintainers.

And in the case of their own projects, the projects where the FSF is the project/the maintainers, what is it they do? They require copyright assignment.
Is Snap.as open source too?
Looks like https://github.com/MoritzLaurer/GPT-google-sheets
Black Mesa
When corporate 'profit-is-the-product' becomes the business, I tend to agree.

But mass production is the only feasible way to feed large cites.

Just work on make sure it's being done reasonably.
There is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth.

What I'm aware of are services which do not charge extra for egress but severely limit your egress bandwidth (like 10 Gbit peak, 100 Mbit avg)

And limiting egress bandwidth is better is better done in the service per client than by the hoster for your system
Cloudflare's S3-compatible offering with zero egress fees: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/r2/
Yeah its on hf. You can also try it out in the Nous discord or lamda labs if you don't have the h100s to spare. Fairly certain anyone with enough compute can use it or throw it up on their site.
I doubt jeffbee lives in a backwater place such as mine, but Intel do not handle RMAs in many countries around the world. There's simply no such thing as RMA here for most brands you're familiar with. If my hypothetical 14900k dies and the seller I bought it from refuses to provide a replacement (for example, by claiming that I overclocked it), I'm fucked. It doesn't really matter if Intel themselves issue replacements or not.

(And no, I am not from and of the sanctioned countries or territories. It's the reality of an unimportant market.)
> You could make tons of money with any service platform by bypassing all copyright that way.

Only if copyright holders voluntarily upload their content in a complete crazy manor. Otherwise the argument doesn't work since uh the copyright holder can easily identify which uploads were infringing.

> The only interesting thing here is that Google - all the way up to Sergei Brin - knew they were in the wrong. They knew it was piracy and yet chose to roll with it, because money. And the emails prove it.

Lawsuit is public record, feel free to link to those emails.

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Also from reading the lawsuit, Google removed the content in question.

To quote the case.

> [1] This case concerns the alleged infringement of a closed universe of
videos posted on YouTube at various times between 2005 and 2008. As
this Court explained, “only the current clips-in-suit are at issue in this
litigation.” SPA54. All those clips were removed from YouTube years
ago. SPA45 n.7.
Viacom originally claimed that hundreds of thousands of YouTube
videos infringed its copyrights, but ultimately identified approximately
63,000 clips-in-suit. JAXIII:3135(¶¶6-7). It turned out, however, that
Viacom’s own employees and agents had actually uploaded many of those clips. JAIX:2213-14(¶¶150-152); JAXIII:3135-36(¶¶8-11);
JAXXII:5745-46(¶¶1.63); JAXXIII:5973-75. Even when it realized that
fact (after years of litigation), Viacom and its lawyers still were unable
to identify all the clips-in-suit that Viacom was responsible for posting.
JAXXII:5717-20(¶127), 5544-46(¶11). Many clips-in-suit, moreover, are
identical to or indistinguishable from promotional clips that Viacom
now acknowledges uploading.

The non-court filings are way more accusatory but should really stick the court filings for matters of fact.

> [2] It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom.

> [2] Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.

[1]: pg 15 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4135344/143/viacom-inte...

[2]: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/broadcast-yourself/
Y Social: An LLM-Powered Social Media Digital Twin
If you're going to use a spreadsheet as your UI, I think you should be more careful how you describe the semantics of rows and columns. And make a strong case for why this representation makes sense.

People expect that rows represent observations and columns represent variables. Along those lines, would it not be more accurate to say each row represents an instance of a task and column represents a sub-task or step in that task?

"each row corresponds to an AI agent executing a task" just... doesn't make sense. The rows exist before you press the "execute" button, after all. The agent executing the (generic) task is something that happens on or with the sheet.
It sounds like you had public list access to your bucket, which is always bad. However, you can prevent list access, but keep read access to individual objects public. As long as your object names are unguessable (say, a 16-byte random number), you won’t have the problem you had.

I haven’t used Rails since they integrated storage, but gems like Paperclip used to do this for you by hashing the image parameters with a secret seed to generate the object name.

Using signed URLs is solving a different problem: making people hit your API at least once a day to get a working GCS URL for the image. It’s not clear if that’s an actual problem, as if people want to enumerate your API (as opposed to your bucket), they can do that with the new system too.

That aside, I’m confused about the 250ms thing. You don’t have to hit a Google API to construct a signed URL. It should just be a signature calculation done locally in your server. [0]

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/signing...
Miss your flip phone? people are ditching the smartphone for 'dumb phones'
> Most 3D TV however is in a side-by-side format where half of the horizontal frame is used for one eye and the other half is used for the other eye so you really do lose some horizontal resolution.

This is not how 3d TVs work, it's only one of the common ways of storing the files.

More and more of these threads feel like there's posters in here that are LLM hallucinations...
Google Cloud makes it insanely difficult/non-obvious what services you should use to solve these problems (or how to use them, because they're always difficult to use). They have a maze of unintuitive product names and sub-products and sub-sub-products, finding them in a UX is ridiculous, there's no useful tips/links/walkthroughs in the wizards, and their docs are terrible. It's like being trapped in the goddamn catacombs of Paris. On AWS, using buckets with CDN, ALB & WAF are obvious and easy, but on GCP it's a quagmire.

The other thing is, AWS WAF was released in 2015, and the Google Cloud Armor WAF feature (the what now?) was released in 2020.
thingverse and their printing partners do that. you can buy most designs. But 99.999% of the models there are complete garbage that people print when they force themselves to use the printer they have no use for.

I have some that are fully parametrized (done in openSCAD) so that the buyer have sliders to adjust whatever they want before purchase. But all the time people just "remix" my design (after downloading the non-parametrized STL file) and print themselves, which is fine (designs are all gpl3/c-left)

All that said, i personally think doing artisanal-volume items with plastic is completely wrong. Plastic have no advantage over wood. None. zero. save from being a commodity that won't halt your factory production while you wait for the right wood in large quantities, which do halt factories very often.

If you don't run a factory non-stop, don't use high-volume methods like continuous extrusion, have no need for soft materials like silicon or things full of infinite holes... a 3axis mill and wood is a much better choice for quality. Not even considering the green arguments whatsoever.
NZ elected a business-centric government last year. Since then, all government decisions involving individuals-vs-business have taken a distinct lean towards the business side.
Will be interesting to see what happens then. Will those who are 100% invested in "browser extensions" be able to transition to methods that do not require the cooperation of the financed by advertising browser vendor.

In theory Chrome users should be able to just keep using old versions or edit the source to remove the offending changes and re-compile. In practice, Google's version of "open source" offers little control to end users. The program is far too large and complex.

It seems likely the remedy sought for Google's antitrust violations will affect Chrome in some way, not to mention affecting Google's continued support of Mozilla. It is unclear what the future of web browsers may look like.
Its simple, do you want to book shows, or do you want to be an artist?
Thanks, can you please lemme know which part uses pattern matching? I'd assume mostly in the lexer, but the parser should just be something that consume the tokens and spit out AST. Unless of course it combines the two.
Public doesn’t imply government-operated, and privacy and data-retention laws exist.

The bigger practical problem is that we want it to remain a global service and not become a national one.
You can step inside the first jet-powered Air Force One in the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It’s fully stocked, with meeting rooms and communication equipment and all. My favorite part is the fake temperature control:

> President Johnson was finicky about room temperature and when he was VP and developed a habit of haranguing the flight crew about lowering or raising the cabin temperature. After a while the crew got tired of his shenanigans, so they installed a “fake” temperature control in the Conference Room. This appeasement was successful, and Johnson was so pleased with manipulating the controls himself that he didn’t even notice when the temperature remained the same.

https://blog.museumofflight.org/quirks-of-the-first-jet-powe...
AI in Drug Discovery: How Machine Learning Turns Data into Drugs
The RP2040 discussion -- https://github.com/Wren6991/PicoDVI
I used to agree with this when I was a kid. Then I realized that it’s literally just a part of live in a modernized country.

Both my wife’s and I home were “out in the country” when we were kids. Now they’re surrounded by houses. The same pattern is basically everywhere. If you want the community of 20 years ago, move to a new one that looks like it.

It’s simply part of the constant change of life. Being bitter over it isn’t helpful or anyone.
While this is normally done due to the reasons mentioned, to me that is a significant downside.

Why can't GCS act as a CDN, too?
AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink's mobile plan
That's my worry too. Our server load for our Rails server hasn't gone up even though our throughput has maxed out at 76k requests/second (which I think is a bunch of people from Hacker News going to the Hardcover homepage and downloading 100 images).

I don't like that if Rails goes down our images go down. I'd much prefer to separate these out and show the signed URLs in Next.js and be able to generate them through the API. I think we'll get there, but that's a bigger change than I could reliably make in a day.
How the model is used isn’t relevant if creating it was already infringement. Training on works creates something of value and artists want to be able to prevent that training without compensation. There’s a long history of case law around just how much of someone’s work can be copied before it’s a problem. But here it’s literally the entire work being used so ‘how much’ is just everything.

The points you bring up are also relevant but artists don’t want to look through a billion individual images to see if that specific image happens to infringe on their work.

Edit: Wrote the response to a comment that got deleted before I posted presumably because I edited this one: IMO many commentators are getting this wrong.

“the less likely it is that the appropriation will serve as a substitute for the original work or its plausible derivatives, shrinking the market opportunities for the copyrighted work” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf

The form of these models is very different, but the purpose is to create directly competing works. Each individual output may not directly infringe with a specific work, but the goal of the model very much is.

The comment brought up commentary about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol_Foundation_for_the...
Windows is 60-70% of US PC usage. Mac is 20-25%.

Globally, it's even more lopsided with Windows at about 75% and Mac at about 15%.

Hard to say Windows isn't a monopoly.
I think this is a repetition of the same phenomenon. No one looks upon themselves as the bully or the person who started it. That's always the other person.
Unless your brick and mortar checks serial numbers on returned items to protect itself against exchanging a new part for a refurbished or used one. Which I've seen more than once.
I think you’re onto something. We do regulate cars, for example. Why not phones? Especially since it’s virtually impossible to live without a phone now.
most news is really just entertainment disguised as life-changing information. deep down everyone knows it. so, now it competes with all other forms of entertainment
My 72 year old mother installs her own video cards and has a mouse with 5 buttons. YMMV, I guess.

The 1 button mouse was not superior in any way, and the people that get confused by a mouse with more than 1 button probably should never look at a web page with more than one thing to click. Did your father ever drive a car? Is he aware there's more than one pedal and lever to use? Did he ever find his way to the windshield wipers or did you just drive around with the rain obstructing the view? I'm genuinely curious how such a person could function in this world in the last 80 years.
Have long stood by this belief and still do but modern IT calls it legacy and antiquated. Oh how we've lost The Plot.
Users are still useful for isolation, many daemons on your system are likely running with different UIDs (or could be configured to do so) to increase isolation between them and the rest of the system.

Groups are a bit less useful (IMO), but still good for handing out access to things like device files. If a daemon should have permissions to XYZ /dev file then you add them to the group associated with it.
In high end enterprise storage, the drive do a form of caching (SLC to TLC in background by the drive) and it also does compression and encryption. Look at the Flashcore FCM4 used in IBM Flashsystem. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5725.pdf (no affiliation except that work recently aquire an IBM SAN and I am satisfied by this storage unit, it's not like a Purestorage SAN but it's fast enough)
Congrats, and it seems to work well. It gives similar ratings to the ratings my grocery store has on the product.

What's the rationale behind the ratings it gives to different categories? Some are obvious, like "Sugar is bad", but other things are less clear, like Graham Flour is rated as a "good" ingredient - why is that? I know citation of sources is hard with AI but it's pretty useful here.

Also, I know this is a hard thing to solve (AI or not...) since opinion on an ingredient being good or bad shifts like the wind and with how much money is pushing it. I remember when coffee was good, then it caused cancer, then heart attacks, but now I think it is good again, or at least it only causes cancer to Californians, or something?