skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this sentiment. While these sort of licenses and business relationships might make sense for high-margin industries that have specific needs, as somebody who has been doing consultancy for the last x years, I tend to advise most companies against the use of software with vendor or data lock-in, and I'm always sad and weary when this happens to interesting long-term projects where such business decisions get made which erode the trust in a healthy future [for smaller companies and more general purposes].

I'm not criticising a company's business decisions here, it might make sense for CockroachDB's business and profit goals; but such decisions also impact the decisions of dependent users, and I've been too long in this to recommend products and services with increasingly restrictive licensing or technical features that create unhealthy dependencies.

Since the AWSification of software licenses, I'm seeing more and more projects where a company is trying to get out of product/service X or license Y because they're unhappy or pivoting and the license or tech just doesn't fit the purpose any more, at high cost, occasionally even taking down the company.

I guess it's not trivial to balance abusive practices from big players that don't contribute much back with necessary freedom for smaller customers to experiment and freely move between technical solutions.
Different in an exact string match but code that is copied and pasted from ChatGPT has a lot of similarities in the way that it is (over) commented. I've seen a lot of Python where the student who "authored" it cannot tell me how a method works or why it was implemented despite having the comments prefixed to every line in the file.
I saw a breakdown of IRA created jobs and a third were battery related, which surprised me.

Good to see the battery revolution being taken seriously.
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Perhaps you could explain the previous drops. I don't think they exist, other than as disinformation and propaganda.

Migration of all forms is at a record high in the UK [0], yet violent crime is at an all-time low. How is violent crime correlated to migration, as so many people claim on Twitter, WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages?

"What about the money we spend on them?", some ask. Well, contrary to popular belief, asylum seekers don't get mainstream benefits [1] and legal migrants aren't entitled to public funds until they have been granted indefinite leave to remain [2]. NHS costs need to be paid for either through the IHS scheme, or directly at 150% of cost [3]

"Oh, employed are they? Taking jobs off locals, are they?", the pub bore starts to snort. Well, no. Nobody really wants to spend 12 hours a day running a corner shop, or working in a field picking sprouts on minimum wage, which is why there are record levels of job vacancies in the UK right now. [4]

I'll ask again then, where are the previous drops? Migration does not cause increases in crime by any measure, the only costs incurred are caused by delays in processing, they're not "taking anybody's else's job" and overall migration leads to higher tax incomes, and they pay their way for services through taxes on jobs no local wants.

So please, spell it out for me. I'm really curious about those previous drops. I suspect that you may have been lied to.

[0] https://izajodm.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2193-9039-...

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...

[2] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...

[3] https://www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application/how-mu...

[4] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...
That's just implicitly admitting defeat. We can't compete so will make it about guns.
How do tech companies manage knowledge transfer? In 100% of the companies I've worked at, the answer is somewhere between "poorly" and "disastrously".

You can't do a brain dump of an employee and have it be effective. The key to doing knowledge transfers is to make them unnecessary by making it a built-in ongoing process that people don't even notice.
AI-powered 'undressing' websites are getting sued
This is cool! I do wonder why they didn’t work with the National Museum of the Air Force on this that has a hangar full of them (including Roosevelt’s) and could have helped with the costs.
Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA
My town used to have a quality local paper but now Facebook is pretty much the only source for news.
The devil never lies.
Paper UI beats digital in a lot of ways. I haven’t replaced my several-hundred book library with ebooks not because I love all these heavy, bulky objects, but because the UI of an ebook is a lot worse for anything but entirely linear cotton-candy fiction reading. It’s got (enormous) advantages on weight, searchability (… though, a good index is better IMO) and not needing separate large-print editions for some readers, but basically everything else about the UI is worse.

I’d be thrilled if ebook devices could somehow close that gap.
> But did you know there are many new core designs every year, and that very few of them are from ARM?

Really? It took years for Qualcomm to become competitive with ARM’s cores again. Besides them and Apple what else is there? (Ampere I guess, but they are still insignificant and in an entirely different segment)
I know people with tens of thousands of dollars of Marvel paraphernalia. They spend thousands a year on tickets, events, comics. These people are not well off, it's money they otherwise would do well to have in retirement savings. Humans are not always rational.
Currently October 14, 2025: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
I was also not very impressed, but I still think they are positioned to have a great product if they can get past the accuracy issues.
Remember when Georgia invaded Russia?

We don't actually. Care to elaborate?
This is the single worst HN comment thread I've seen in 5 years.
> Just how exactly are you supposed to have a working critical thinking mind when you don't have any data in your brain to lay the foundation for it

Should the news be this foundation though? I think you'd be better off reading a few non-fiction books or magazines every year, perhaps informed on your choices by top headlines. Reading the news for detailed analysis on highly partisan topics is likely to make you less informed, not more.
It's the contrast!, all the code blocks do not meet the WCAG standards for accessible text, especially the second one, which as the hardest one for me to read.
I'm sorry, I hadn't finished my coffee yet.

I'm gonna go embarrasingly delete this thread tail between my legs...
I worked with the cockroachdb founders at a previous company.

They’re clowns.
The output of plagiarism tools should only serve as a hint to look at a pair of solutions more closely. All judgement should be derived entirely from similarities between solutions and not some artificial similarity score computed by some program.
I've found that I'm using this feature much more than I thought I would in arc. Before, I'd figure that it's the same as opening two windows side by side. It's not, having it as a built in feature opens up a lot of things. Opening an article on HN and the comments on HN side by side, for example. I NEVER did that before, now it's second nature.
Not just customization—I think PlantUML looks a lot better than Mermaid out of the box.
Many people do need that initial "this shit is real" check. If you don't tap, I will pop your arm. This isn't karate.

The mythos of jiu-jitsu is so much bigger than the reality. I say that with all the love and respect of someone who trains!

Size matters. Despite what the brochure says.

Each belt is worth about 10-20 pounds of weight. At brown belt, sure, maybe she can beat up a completely untrained 180-pound guy, but with 3 months of training the math changes.

I'm not saying "It isn't real" in an absolute "it never happens" sort of way. I'm saying that it's not true for 90% of the real-world use cases out there. People should train to be aware of their limits and to be fit and capable. But anyone thinking a 140-pound woman is going to terrorize some 200+ pound weight lifter is delusional and hasn't trained before.
* (2021)

IIRC one of the best episodes of the Corecursive podcast I've heard so far.
... if you only do it once.
> I don’t come up with an answer by thinking, “What’s the first word of my response going to be? The second word?…”

Actually, I'm not so sure that isn't exactly what we do. That's why it's called a "train of thought". You have a vague idea and you start talking and lo and behold out comes a pretty coherent encapsulation of your idea that is informed and bounded by the token relationships of your language.

Try answering a question with the order of your sentence reversed and you'll find it damn difficult. That answer of yours is not completely well formed just waiting for your mouth to get it all out. You're coming up with the answer one token at a time.
This really depends on your local news source though. Mine is just listings of various petty crimes that happened this week.
You could trim this to Basics, Programming, and a modified version of Theory that’s a little less abstract and call it “Open Source Software Engineering”. To me that would be more efficient if the goal is to bootstrap a career path.
This isn't a technological problem, and there aren't technological solutions. This is a human problem. In my opinion, the way you do that is by not allowing people to specialize too much. Everyone should be rotating through duties so that everyone spends enough time dealing with each aspect of the product(s) that the "knowledge transfer" happens constantly and naturally as part of normal day-to-day operations.
Why would i pay for gossip?
I've heard a little about this one. It's not that interesting, IMO. Some people think tuning even temperament down such that middle A becomes 432Hz (rather than 440Hz) is better for your health as well as the tone. I can get a little "woo" from time to time, but this one left me cold.
That's _not_ what the enterprise license costs for reasonably large deployments.
Are you sure drugs can be regulated the way alcohol can? They are both more addictive and behavior changing than alcohol. I don't have a solution as I also dislike the current "war" on drugs. But I suspect regulating safe fentanyl use will be way, way harder than regulating safe scotch use.
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Ah yes, good old "Did you even read the essay before handing it in? Next time, please do."
It's mentioned in part 1 of this post, that the PSP is what actually boots the processor (among other things, it sets up the memory controller), so it's used in the real world every time you turn on your AMD-based computer.
> Now, I'll run through my model, which I have applied to dating. I call the three dimensions: friendship, sex, and romance. You can have varying compatibility on all three dimensions, but in a sense it basically works out to Magnus's version above.

You kind of reinvented Robert Sternberg's "triangular model of love". He called the dimensions intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy means deep familiarity with the other person. You know them so well you are completely comfortable with each other. Passion means pleasure -- emotional and sexual -- from being with them. And commitment, well, that's where the virtue bit comes in. Your shit's so entangled with your partner's that separating from them would be harmfully disruptive to both you and them... so you stick together, because you care about them and it's good for your soul too. Sternberg believed that a successful relationship had all three in abundance.
1st: I sign ASL not ISL like the OP is talking about.

In the ASL world, most news translations into ASL are delayed or sped up from the person talking and/or the captions if they happen to also be available.

You are going to have sync problems.

Secondly, it's not just moving the hands, body movements, facial expressions, etc all count in ASL , I'm betting they count in ISL as well.

Thirdly the quality of interpretation can be really bad. Horrendous. it's not so common these days, but it was fairly common that speakers would hire an interpreter and mistakenly hire someone willing to just move their arms randomly. I had it happen once at a doctors office. The "interpreter" was just lost in space. The doctor and I started writing things down and the interpreter seemed a little embarrassed at least.

Sometimes they hire sign language students, you can imagine hiring a first year french student to interpret for you, it's no different really. Sometimes they mean well, sometimes they are just there for the paycheck.

I bet it's a lot worse with ISL, because it's still very new, most students are not taught in ISL, there are only about 300 registered interpreters for millions of deaf people in India. https://islrtc.nic.in/history-0

We are still very much struggling with vocal to English transcriptions using AI. Despite loads of work from lots of companies and researchers. They are getting better, and in ideal scenarios are actually quite useful. Unfortunately the world is far from ideal.

The other day on a meeting with 2 people using the same phone. The AI transcription was highly confused and it went very, very wrong.

I'm not trying to discourage you, and it's great to see people trying. I wish you lots of success, just know it's not an easy thing and I imagine lots of lifetimes of work will be needed to generate useful signed language to written language services that are on-par with the best of the voice to text systems we have today.
No, I didn’t misread it, you can’t use a phone number you can switch around every few minutes as identity for finance. It’s not trusted, it’s easy to see it’s VOIP. You’ll always get sent to IDV or other subsequent verification, but if you have a mobile phone with a reputable cell provider, the provider can verify who you are and if you’re holding the phone applying, if you're in your normal area, if your location history up to that point makes sense, if you just went through a SIM switch etc. this can be your trusted identity. Or, it is your trusted identity, as long as you clicked the yes button
The bit on test coverage is particularly good: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#testin... :

Let’s not dwell on the details, but I had this idea, I’m going to write tests to bring SQLite up to the quality of 100% MCDC, and that took a year of 60 hour weeks. That was hard, hard work. I was putting in 12 hour days every single day. I was just getting so tired of this because with this sort of thing, it’s the old joke of, you get 95% of the functionality with the first 95% of your budget, and the last 5% on the second 95% of your budget. It’s kind of the same thing. It’s pretty easy to get up to 90 or 95% test coverage. Getting that last 5% is really, really hard and it took about a year for me to get there, but once we got to that point, we stopped getting bug reports from Android.
You can open several browser windows and tile them next to each others too. Funny how people seem to forget they can use windows and their desktop capabilities instead of tabs.
Unfortunately, this is not really what happens in my experience. The output of plagiarism tools is taken as fact (especially at high school levels). Without extraordinary evidence of the tool being incorrect, students have no recourse, even if they could sit and explain the thought process behind every word/line of code/whatever.
Such as by doing...?
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I mean "I don't like X because Y", if you just say categorically "I don't like anything they've done" it just makes you sound like your opinion is really an internal bias against the company, if you support it with evidence and examples, it makes your opinion sound considered.
If I make you aware of a problem that exists solely because of something you've done and you do nothing to stop it - is it your fault?
> So Qualcomm's Arm-based laptops that last 2-3 times longer than the equivalent x86 laptops

Do they though? Anything to back this up?

They seem to last 10-20% than Meteor Lake chips with somewhat better CPU performance and worse GPU.
My interpretation was that yours was the "130-pound woman can hurt 180-pound new class guy who 'just sees red'" story.

My point was that it's largely mythos. Not that it _never_ happens, but by and large weight matters even in untrained vs trained individuals.
Yeah. A truly balanced game is boring. There’s no drama or tension.

You need the power fantasy of being strongest characters and the underdog tale of winning against the strongest characters as a less meta one.
Why is it there? Hanlon's razor, incompetence.

What if a border guard has access to your _unlocked phone_ and can re-anable an app?

It would be easier for the border guard to instead "adb install government-spyware-app.apk" than to enable some weird third-party app that they don't even control the management servers to.

If your threat model includes an adversary having access to your unlocked device, the least of your problems are apps like this.
Is what you're drowning in news, though? Or is it something else, masquerading as news?
The key to the article, and to all of Western music, is about a set of weird mathematical coincidences involving the twelfth root of two. In particular, that twelfth-root-of-two to the fourth power is almost exactly 4/3, and twelfth-root-of-two to the fifth power is is almost exactly 3/2. And, of course, twelfth-root-of-two to the 12th power is exactly 1.

For some reason, not entirely well understood, when you play frequencies that are nice multiples together, they make pleasant patterns ("consonance"). They interfere and reinforce at regular intervals, and it sounds nice. When you don't get nice ratios, they make irregular interference patterns, and that sounds unpleasant ("dissonance").

So... take a scale (one frequency to twice-that-frequency), divide it into 12 equal parts (geometrically), and you get of those nice patterns. Each successive note is the frequency of the previous note times the-twelfth-root-of-two. That's the "twelve tone equal temperament". It makes it easy to write pretty music just by following some mathematical rules.

There's a Wikipedia article on the-twelfth-root-of-two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_root_of_two

EXCEPT... that those coincidences aren't perfect. They're very close, but tiny differences matter. Some intervals that should work, don't. Different scales take on different feelings, even though in theory they're just the same thing nudged up a few hertz.

Anyway... that set of coincidences is the basis of all of the music you're familiar with. Other musical cultures also take advantage of it. But there's no fundamental reason why those particular coincidences should be the only interesting music, and so people look around (often, to yet more world musical cultures) for alternatives.
(2021)

2021-07-03 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718701 97 comments

2023-01-28 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34559075 92 comments

also

2021-07-02 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27712563 5 comments
I design and build GPS-synched moon phase clocks (“LunaKron”) & other electronic novelties, and sell them on Etsy.

I’ve consulted with ChatGPT when I need help choosing materials and with some techniques.
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Open source works great for for-profit companies. Take a look at RedHat.
From what I've heard, you aren't getting anywhere near the same quality in Bangalore for 1/10th the price these days. Maybe 1/3rd and that gap is shrinking.

At that price you might as well hire in Western Europe and have better timezone overlaps.
They have nothing to suggest because they have no clue how actual users that aren't like themselves use Apple products. You have ably demonstrated this fact.
That’s right, Ice…man. I am dangerous.

Cruise has always been a bit off the wall personally. I’m not sure how he stacks up against some of the other awful people in Hollywood, however.

He’s done a bit better at keeping his personal image cleaner over recent years.

My understanding is that his contentious positions are mostly rooted in his faith, which is another rabbit hole.
> may have been used

That statement is carrying a lot of non-evidence with it.

Say my fetish is chocolate. If I ask an image generating AI to give me a photo of an adult made of chocolate and covered in sprinkles, that doesn't necessarily mean it was trained on that specific thing.
One thing you have to notice is the centrality of the nature of a thing, which is to say its telos, or end. Fulfillment is, after all, defined by our nature; it is a matter of proceeding from potential to actuality, as determined by our nature. What is good advances a person according to one's nature (in our case, human nature), what is bad acts against it. Telos, or finality, also gives morality its proper and objective ground: what is morally right or wrong follows, ultimately, from one's nature. Since we are humans, we are therefore persons, which is to say animals who can understand their actions and choose between apprehended alternatives, and therefore moral agents. We must therefore choose to act in accord with our nature as free and rational agents, which is to say according to right reason. Our rationality allows us to tackle the question of what it means to be human and to therefore determine what is good.

A tragedy of the crudeness of materialism is that it obliterates telos, and in doing so, destroys the only possible objective ground for morality and the good. Married to philosophical liberalism, morality becomes a mystery cult rooted in desire that evades explanation. Yyou cannot square the existence of desires--which can be good or bad, in accord with reason, or deviant or depraved--with a purely materialist universe; even Descartes had to tack on the disembodied ghost of the Cartesian mind to account for all sorts of phenomena. So you end up with an irrational gnosticism as a result.

But the fact of the matter is that even the most mundane varieties of efficient causality presuppose telos, as telos is not the same as conscious intent (which is a particular variety), but fundamentally, the ordering of a cause toward an effect. The only reason efficient causality is intelligible at all is because the relation between cause is ordered toward an effect by virtue of the nature of the thing, and not arbitrarily related. Striking a match predictably results in fire, not nothing, nor the appearance of the Titanic or whatever.

We are seeing an increased, if modest interest in broadly Aristotelian thought (which some refer to as "Neo-Aristotelian"), however. As the materialist dinosaurs pass from this earth, fresh blood is willing to reexamine the nihilistic, dehumanizing, materialist dogmas of the last two or three centuries. It was never the case that materialism overthrew the prior intellectual tradition by discrediting it. Rather, it began with the perilous decision to "start from scratch". Putting aside the dubiousness of the notion, what we can expect from starting from scratch is a repetition of the same errors. There are eerie similarities between modern ideas and the pre-Socratic philosophers, for example, of which Aristotle was very much aware and to which he was responding.
…and I am sure I can also buy a boneless chicken breast from the other grocery store across the street from my preferred store, but I don’t like their retail layout so i don’t shop there.

Just because that other store exists and sells a similar product doesn’t mean I have to shop there, even if other people prefer that store.
Halide embraces photo purists with new anti-AI processing mode