skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine there is a lot on Windows possibly macOS.

Many c/C++ libraries are not open source - even more .Net ones
The source is internal emails and chat logs from Megaupload that were released as part of the case against them.
Right, but suppose you disappear. The third parties are using code with your modification. Do they have to host anything? They did not modify anything themselves, but there is no upstream any more for the exact code they are using.
You can run a node on an esp32 https://markqvist.github.io/Reticulum/manual/hardware.html
A project like this existed long before deepfakes were possible. And they didn't care about legality (not that other crypto projects do).

BTW, instead of burning a dollar bill, have you tried spending it on buying $1 worth of electricity and wasting it on useless computation? Then you can use the invoice/receipt from your utility company as a proof of burn (PoB) ;)
There are probably tens of thousands of active COBOL developers maintaining systems written no later than I guess the nineties.
This program seems to be rather limited. However, such a thing can also be made with PostScript, which has many more commands, including curves and many others. (PostScript also is a full programming language, so you can also make loops, etc)
Spelling in the title, and pointlessly inflamatory language.
Yes, its pretty straight forward and there are many countries who already do it.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-3-c...
The way you speak about Russia is akin to the way an abuse victim would speak about their abuser - it's everyone's fault but Russia's that they invaded.

Also don't you dare make them lose their temper.

Russia isn't under threat from NATO, as it's a defensive alliance. They seem to understand that as well, as they pulled their air defense systems from the region bordering Finland.

> I think people dont realize that the Russians are a super power.

The soviet union was a super power. If anything people realised that Russia's supposed power is mainly posturing.

And it was high time for that. In the past some western governments attempted a policy of appeasement - all it achieved was emboldening Russia.
Are you saying your programming languages don’t have a defined grammar?
If the experts are playing hardball then transformations of any and everything into PDFs is an effective tactic.
>I don’t totally disagree with you but if our stance towards workers is “figure out how to create value or get left behind” we are in for an ugly future.

I dont think that is a current or near term problem. Unemployment is low and there is a still a huge demand for human labor. I just got a quote of 60k for someone to landscape my residential back yard. I spoke with several trades people from drywall to catering to photography that charge $250-500 per hour.

"Figure out out to create value" has always been true and it is essential not to forget this. I think the idea that people dont need to provide value is far more scary and dangerous for the future.

Yes, we can also be thoughtful about if we can help people transition jobs and skills as a society, but that I dont think there is anything special about the current moment.
Lots of people who want to live in suburbs have in fact visited or even lived in large, dense cities. They're well aware of the tradeoffs.
I guess the interesting usecase would be to combine this with other hardware accelerates and do DMA between devices, e.g., stream network data directly to a RAID without ever touching the main CPU, after some initial setup work.
Seems like a terrible experience, especially the "use of virtual machines" being flagged as suspicious considering what a benign and widespread tool that is.

Are you based in the US or?
Seems like the developer wasn’t the problem.
Sure! Would love to discuss synergies and if we can integrate it. Thanks & all the best!
> As a developer you are kind of wary of the guy who wants to write
his own renderer.

Yeah that has resonance here I'm sure. Unless you're in the business
of developing game engines, but competition made that a very small
space. Oh well, they learned a lot. It'll come in useful eventually.
funny enough, "To Beat the Devil" of his is my pick for the best riff on the trope of country songs about musicians taking on the devil
Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from
Whoops, you're right! I thought there was some kind of sign off in there. My mistake.
My kid's 8 and still doesn't know what polynomials are. This one's gonna be tough.

lol @ the coward who downvoted me without chiming in with a 5yo-digestible treatise on Galois theory
You missed a costly part of grabbing a chunk of land: utilities. Getting them onto your land, so you can live with modern creature comforts, some of them dictated by law, is often prohibitively expensive. You can DIY with the alternative being a well (hit or miss), a septic system, and setting up a solar/battery farm, which isn't cheap either.
So I remember sharing a file to my brother and "uploading" it over very slow DSL at the time (I think I was getting 100kbps a second or something). The file was copyrighted, a TV show, Supernatural, or something like that. Anyway, the upload was instant. Apparently Megaupload would do a quick hash of the file (not sure if it was in browser or probably more likely the first 100k bits or something of the file), and if it was a file that was already on their servers, they would just make a new download link for it, and the "upload" would finish. Links would be taken down by DMCA notices from forums and other file sharing sites (back then you could get good money making affiliate links and such, so people did a lot of their own uploading). But your private links and links you didn't share would remain. The files remained.

The fact that they did the hashing thing and kept the files locally really, incontrovertibly, proved they weren't deleting the files themselves when a notice went out. And that they were aware the hashed file was given a DMCA notice. This one little thing, probably to save bandwidth (and convivence for the end user of course; though outside of Linux ISOs there's little question what kind of files people are sharing), screwed him.

Anyway, #freeRossUlbricht (Yes I know he tried to make a hit out and a lot of people died from drugs he enabled to be sold, but the hit never happened and the drug users were consenting adults.) A life sentence is insane. 20 years? OK. Life? Heck he rejected a plea deal that would've given him 10... bet he regrets that now.
It is because c++ has an absurdely and grotesquely massive and complex syntax (like rust...).
So it's a tale of Boeing?
How did I not know about this 2020 paper before?
I wrote a blogpost about using chatgtp for translating Akkadian text in 2023 but was unaware of this research.

At the time HN was stoked about that post too.

Link: https://www.janromme.com/2023/05/ChaptGPT-transaltion-of-Akk...
No.

Main post is about a C compiler, post I responded is saying

> When your computer was anemic, and could barely do the tasks required for it

which I could only interpret as a machine that can run a single process at a time, so not really about gpus or what.
If you're already using Proton Mail, you can also replace Google Password Manager with Proton Pass.
Apparently also anything training from it so DeviantArt (which reuploaded the model) and Midjourney (which sounds like it did a transference training) are involved.

The reason the lawsuit feels weird is that transformative use is pretty clearly fair use:

> In computer- and Internet-related works, the transformative characteristic of the later work is often that it provides the public with a benefit not previously available to it,

I mean if genAI isn't this I'm not sure what would be. The public gets a benefit of having a computer generate art from spoken speech and that requires quite a substantial transformation of a data corpus of labelled images.

Indeed, there's lots of art at Art Basel that depicts Disney characters in various ways to critique Disney & that's a much more direct copying of a different artists style (& even more direct trademark infringement). It really feels like artists are trying to have it both ways because this threatens their livelihood.
Churn in the software world is out of control, and I have no idea why we accept it.
Thanks for doing this calculation! It would be interesting to know if the average square footage of houses built by the company has changed. If they have increased by 25%, the profit per square foot would be roughly unchanged.
My favorite is the legend of the Devil's Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schöllenen_Gorge where some Swiss hired the devil to build a bridge over a seemingly unbridgeable gorge, and then tricked him out of his payment.

I've referred to the devil as the Patron Unholy of Swiss engineering.
Somebody did a paper on GF(3)...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17764
They are. I suppose. I guess to know which police they are, one might have to see who they get their marching orders from. TVs were seized of course, and while an extraditing authority might request/demand evidence to be seized too, what were they hoping to find in the televisions do you think?

> I get that there’s a lot of corruption, but “nice GameBoy, my kid’ll love it after auction” seems like a stretch even for the US.

Choose to believe or not, matters not to me. But I would point you at the many mainstream news articles of places that make road trips through where the local police shake people down for valuables, and the many corvettes and sports cars painted in black and white that cops drive as squad cars. Are these confiscating those because they make such good vehicles for hauling people away to the holding cell?
From the abstract of the paper the article is based on:

"
Our data indicate that the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid, which had formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The five other impact structures have isotopic signatures that are more consistent with siliceous-type asteroids, which formed closer to the Sun. The ancient spherule layer samples are consistent with impacts of carbonaceous-type asteroids during Earth’s final stages of accretion.
"

The link to the paper itself: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4868
It's a bit of a catch-22.

Making current voice agents reliable is incredibly time-consuming and complex. This challenge has kept many teams from pushing their agents into production. Those who do launch often release a very limited, basic version to minimize risk. We frequently talk to teams in both camps.

As a result, there aren't many 'killer' voice products on the market right now. But as models improve, we'll see more voice-centric companies emerge.

Teams are already calling their agents by hand and keeping track of experiment runs in a spreadsheet. We're just automating the workflow and making it easier to run experiments!
There is a ton of evidence. Ask Snoop Dogg how much money he gets from streaming compared to CD sales. Look at how badly industry revenue has collapsed. It literally never recovered fully since Napster.

https://www.statista.com/chart/17244/us-music-revenue-by-for...

It is an industry that employs real people from artists to studio engineers to musical instrument and equipment companies to the bartenders at the venues. Those people are sharing a smaller pie than they used to before Internet piracy devalued their music.

In your opinion it's tyrannical. Sure, most certainly a non-violent crime against a wealthy corporation isn't on the same level as murder or assault. At the same time, copyright infringement is conceptually not that different from property crime.

You would want the police to arrest someone who broke into your home and stole your movie collection.

You wouldn't want to spend a year writing code for your micro-SaaS product and then have a hacker breach your infrastructure, steal your work and sell it on their own website.

It's really a grand piece of irony for software engineers that depend on enforceable copyright law to put food on their table to call this arrest tyranny. If nobody can go to jail or be fined for copyright infringement then I hate to say it but you are going to need to quit your job writing software and start driving a city bus or something.

Don't forget that Megaupload was specifically designed to enable piracy and discourage other uses of the technology. It wasn't a file storage service that could be used for legitimate personal use because unpopular downloads would be deleted. The company actually paid people via an incentive program to upload popular files that were copyright infringing. This wasn't just "YouTube is bad at playing whack-a-mole with DMCA claims," this was a company that was responsible for something like 4% of all Internet piracy all by itself and actively encouraged it.

It's not like they were a company that didn't have access to lawyers who could warn them not to do what they did. Kim deserves his fate because his own hubris invited it.
The Power of Nostr: Decentralized Social Media and More
Poorer kids tend to be harder to teach. School “quality”
largely measures how easy-to-teach the kids are. School quality plays a huge role in home value.

That and related factors (likelihood to commit crimes of the sort that affect home values, say) are a lot of why communities try to keep affordable housing away. High prices are your buy-in to good schools if you can’t afford good private schools. Once you’ve bought in at a price inflated by school quality, you definitely don’t want to see that slip or there goes all the money you spent (maybe literally all of it—I’ve seen premiums for “good” versus “just ok” districts near one another that are well into the levels of mortgage down payments—20%, 30%)
Brave seemed normal for days/weeks then one day randomly started giving me hourly crypto spam notifications. I had remove it's permission to send notifications.
If there were no copyright capitalists would find a way to invent it, so nah. Infringing copyright is just robber baron stuff from a capitalist perspective. A profiteer, maybe, but not a capitalist.
It was very surprising OpenAI wasn't named as a defendant in this suit due to CLIP.
Ask HN: Pragmatic way to avoid supply chain attacks as a developer
In the usual course of writing software, it's common to install huge dependency chains (npm, pypi), and any vulnerable package could spell doom. There's some nasty stuff out there, like https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/ which uploaded people's SSH keys to the attacker.

It's easy to say just "use containers" or "use VMs" — but are there pragmatic workflows for doing these things that don't suffer from too many performance problems or general pain/inconvenience?

Are containers the way to go, or VMs? Which virtualization software? Is it best to use one isolated environment per project no matter how small, or for convenience's sake have a grab-bag VM that contains many projects all of which are low value?

Theorycrafting is welcome, but am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has made this work well in practice.
I had a chance to do some electronics work on an oceanic tug and at the time it blew my mind that the starter for its main engine was about the size of a semi truck's engine. They'd start that one electrically, let it warm up, then use it to start the big engine, then they'd switch it to being a generator for lights and radio and so on.
I love "The Grand Inquisitor" from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. It's not exactly a deal with the devil, but it does have some interesting parallels.

Full chapter: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8578-h/8578-h.htm
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
US copyright laws *are not* international law.
The dataset is already public. That's the only reason they were able to file this time-wasting lawsuit anyway.
Thank you!

I feel really silly for asking, but could you clarify which spelling mistake you're referring to? (I'm not denying there might be one.) Neither ChatGPT nor I could find one.

Regarding the language I chose, I completely understand your point, and it might be worth exploring other alternatives. However, I currently have 250 active visitors (who joined within the last 30 minutes), and it seems like the formulation might be going over their heads.

Initially, I was planning on releasing it without any text at all, with just one input.
As many have said, definitely physical security. Especially when shopping in stores.

"Do you have rewards?"

"Oh, yes. My number is 555-555-5555", the customer blurts out loud while there's 10 people behind them.

I imagined the person walking out and getting hit with a "Thank you for shopping at Macys. Here's $500 on us!" text message. I think most would definitely fall for this, especially if they just left the store.

People not locking their computers before they leave their desks also drives me crazy.
By the way, what happened to that company that raised a few billion and was going to absolutely revolutionize AR for everyone, and had the most amazing demos ever, and their release was just around the corner?
I have to admit though that I am wondering how to make content for it. I have a Lytro Illium which is mostly a white elephant and an Quoocam Ego stereo camera. Maybe I need to synthesize images for it.
I mean these compilers build all these SW stacks, even this very browser I’m using, where are these correctness issues you are talking about?
In polite society, underlined text is not a thing.

I'm with you wrt slash for italics, but sometimes you also just want to write a slash... how would you do that? Underscores are good because you never really want to display them...
Unix file access rwx permissions are simple but tricky
One interesting observation/parallel about that is if you question an author, they may not respond to the deepness and meaning everyone sees.

My personal opinion on it is a little cynical, but still I find art not a deep or intelligent thing but a thing that highly surpasses language and at the same time is not defined clearly (neither naturally) for everyone, resulting in a feeling that you watch something deep, but the actual (or more like, initial) meaning usually doesn’t match your own ideas about it. It’s akin to listening to someone speaking a beautiful language but being unable to understand or speak it. Not a bad thing on itself, e.g. I listen to kpop specifically for the reason I can’t understand a single word in Korean. They could sing gibberish and I’d still like it and had my ideas what a song is about. Which would be of course different from others, until we all met and chose a proper critic who’d teach us to interpret them.

Iow, from this pov the greatness of art can be defined as packing uncertainty into a familiar image in a way that is easy to continuously interpret. The less abrupt the border is between certain and uncertain, the greater the potential. An author may not even be fully aware of it, simply projecting their inner language which naturally bases on a common one.
There was Magic Leap, they did ship hardware, but it sucked.
Good catch, that's a mistake that's now been corrected, it's definitely 480p. The Github page (https://github.com/a2fpga/a2fpga_core) had it correctly.
"We have to beat the Russians to the Moon".

Designs for this magnificent beast were probably started shortly into the Sputnik scare. At the time, the Soviet space program technical capabilities were overestimated by almost everyone because the Soviets managed to hit a bunch of milestones first by, essentially, being OK with taking on more risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis
The original value-proposal for Chrome was: The more people browse the web in general, the more Google profits. So the mere existence of a good free, fast, and safe browser would inherently benefit Google at large in general. And that rationale is why we get to have Chromium at all.

Obviously things have evolved quite a bit since then, but I think the general pitch that Chrome is primarily a value-multiplier for the org at large, rather than a direct value generator is still broadly the case, and it's really not clear to me that it can exist as anything else without a fundamental reassessment of what it's trying to accomplish.
Being based in a foreign country doesn't mean you aren't committing a crime. Cyber criminals, drug traffickers, money launders, etc are all still on the hook even though they operate in a different country.

Also what he was doing is also a crime in NZ otherwise he wouldn't be extradited.
This could actualy be really good for competition in the mobile app space. It should just also apply to Apple.
So how do browser caches work then?
Who said they should have known it was coming?

Sometimes circumstances change and thats OK.

Why would we want to apply negative feedback? I dont want any company to employ workers they dont want. Heck, sometimes I wish my employer would do layoffs to get rid of some of the dead weight.
Oh sorry, right.

I feel there is an interesting follow-up problem here. The polynomials x^n+a=0 are used to define the "radicals" which is a family of functions F_n such that F_n(a) = real nth root of a = real solution of x^n + a = 0. Using these radicals you can solve all quadratics, cubics and quintics.

Now take another collection of unsolvable polynomials; your example was x^5 - x - 1 = 0 and maybe parameterize that in some way such that these polynomials are unsolvable. This gives us another family of functions G_n. What if we allow the G_n's to be used in our solutions? Can we solve all quintics this way (for example)?
> You missed a costly part of grabbing a chunk of land: utilities.

There is a 15 acre lot down the street. A good spot for another small housing development.

But one issue with it is that it has legacy utility and power poles on the periphery. Anyone wanting to develop that space is obliged to route all of that underground, which easily add several M$ to the project.

Eventually, someone will bite, buy the lot, and develop it.

But it's going to be low on the list because all of that cost will notably bounce up the new home costs. Cheaper places to build elsewhere.
And the f@#ker hijacks the back button. Wtf!
... and the wonderful Enter the Gungeon (praise Kaliber)
Notion-like WYSIWYG editor with export to a beautiful static HTML website
Didn't the soviets give it a try? I'd swear they had a large number of engine design way back when also for fault tolerance.
Ok, they didn't get it working but I'm pretty sure it wasn't due to lack of digital control... Surely they wouldn'tve even attempted it if it was impossible :)

[edit] ah. That was the N1 you referred to. Ok. So you're saying it was possible, but it introduced more failure points.. So is that why it failed...
So you think if we put more billions into the entertainment industry then at some point the minimum wage people will get decent pay?
> There are not enough license bureau images to train a CLIP model, not enough expressly licensed text content to train T5. A CLIP model needs 2 billion images to perform well, not the 600m Adobe claims they have access to. It's right in the paper.

Not an expert on this, but I wonder:

1) how many images you could create/buy/tag with a billion dollar investment, and

2) if you could lower the training requirements with targeted training data creation (e.g. get low-priced/amateur models to come in singly and in groups for an hour each and work through a catalog of poses/costumes designed to result very good generative model for "people").