skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a good take. Much of the commentary here has been on the morality or otherwise of copyright infringement, proportional legal response and extraterritorial reach. All topics of interest, certainly, but clouding the real story here.

This is foreign policy, and the US has pursued control of copyright distribution, globally, for a very long time. Being from Australia, I remember the sense of disquiet as our copyright laws were modified as part of trade deals with the US. Many other nations (perhaps most?) have done the same (whether the law changes were pushed via the US directly or through UN related bodies is largely irrelevant). You combine that with the extremely tight coupling of large corporate bodies and the US government, and US foreign policy looks like authoritarianism.

So I agree that what we see with these extreme examples of “Kim dotcom” and “Assange” extraditions are part of a broader foreign policy strategy. Where I disagree with your post is the statement “American interests”. To me, the interests served are the conglomerate of political and corporate powers, which may be at odds with the average US citizen.
It's a marksmanship maxim, extant during Vietnam, gaining ground in any profession or activity where the principle made sense. SEALs definitely embraced it, but I believe it originated in WWII in its modern form. There are all sorts of regional proverbs and teachings and sayings all over the world going back through history capturing the same basic notion, though.

Haste makes waste - British

Festina lente - Latin (Make haste slowly)

Chi va piano, va sano e va lontano - Italian (Slow and steady wins the race)

Slowly but surely - many cultures, probably dates back to hunter gatherers.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is quick, quick is fast" is the variation I was taught by a military relative. He was a Richard Marcinko fanboi, too, but I don't know if that's related. They all circle a notion we internalize with particular meaning that the words don't ever quite capture, perfectly, but we get the point across.
Legal interpretation video: https://youtu.be/u9Jmi9BOBNA
There's a countdown at the bottom of the page too. Which definitely makes me think it's an arg.
I think a link to the repo instead of the change set might be better.
ACM is the one pushing towards open access for everything. IEEE is not as far along with that. It gets really annoying, I'm a member of a couple IEEE societies and find that I have to use my institutional login (GA Tech in my case) to reliably get access to their publications. With ACM, I join a SIG and I pretty much get the entirety of the SIG's digital library (even before the bigger open access push).
I must be missing something obvious, but what do signed URLs have to do with requests going directly to resources in a bucket instead of a CDN of some sort like Cloudflare? Signed URLs are typically used to provide secure access to a resource in a private bucket. But it seems like it's used as a cache of sorts?
This works for motorcycle racing
This is also the secret to swimming anything other than a sprint.
Amusingly I was gated by cloudflare "testing if you are human"

I wish people had a better sense of a thought experiment distinct from a formal, legal test. Because the Turing test is, and always has been a discussion point, not a legalism. It is not an actual "thing" any more than Voight-Kampf.

The competition was silly. It was adjudication to the best chatbot.

We don't have a philosopher in a cave. There is no Chinese book there. Infinite tape for a Turing machine hasn't been available since before we stopped using baudot code.

In the highly unlikely case that AGI comes into being, person hood will become interesting. Arguably. If we succeed in inter species communication and can converse about introspective topics, philosophy, we're going to need tests to personhood before we have AGI. I could handle calling something in that space a Turing test but I suspect we'll give it another name.
This study in aging adults measured amyloid in blood with phase-targeted auditory stimulation, the technology we've been developing at affectablesleep.com - it's not exactly the same as measuring the glymphatic process, but might be related.
Ahh good catch - counting down to midnight on October 1.
It's easy to work around the restrictions. Just use only conda-forge and no default channels.

It's not as had as it sounds.
My Criminal Record Somehow Vanished
I clicked because I thought this was going to be about the game
One thing is that pattern matching can make writing tree manipulation code succinct and easier to read. For example, take this article[0] that describes the difference list algorithm (in Haskell). Basically, it's kind of like a rope, but for lists. It's a tree with lists at the leaves, and when you want to convert it into a list, you rewrite the tree to be right-leaning, and then concatenate all the lists at once. This turns repeated concatenation at the end of lists from taking quadratic time into one that takes linear time (strcpy can be an example of this in C [1]). The code can be written like this:

data Tree a = Leaf a | Branch (Tree a) (Tree a)

fromList :: [a] -> Tree [a]
fromList = Leaf

toList :: Tree [a] -> [a]
toList (Leaf x) = x
toList (Branch (Leaf x) r) = x ++ toList r
toList (Branch (Branch l1 l2) r)
= toList (Branch l1 (Branch l2 r))

append :: Tree [a] -> Tree [a] -> Tree [a]
append = Branch

In a language that doesn't have tree pattern matching, the code wouldn't be this short and easy to understand, and I don't think it could be replicated just by having duck typing. Rust has pattern matching, but because it's primarily focused on lower-level concerns like pointers and memory ownership, pattern matching isn't this nice, because you have to pattern match on the pointer first.

Since a compiler is all about tree manipulation, support for tree pattern matching should be a boon.

[0]: http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/demystifying-dlist/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky#Schlemiel_the_Pai...
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has the last 707 model. Just as an exhibit, and the hoops they had to jump through to install the plane, are remarkable all in themselves.
Yes, we really need users for desktops on all operating systems. Fundamentally limiting a computer to a single user is immeasurably idiotic and I wonder how one comes to that question even.

Somehow it slipped in for phones and that’s a big part of why they suck. E.g. you can’t have work, life, private/second life and tmp/trash accounts on your phone and have to either carry multiple devices or mix lives together.
https://archive.ph/EVqa7
That human would become another artist whereas the model could potentially replace the entire industry. There’s a comparison to the Industrial Revolution to be made but it’s not one which convinces me. Making artistic dream jobs even more impossible to land is so cynical and shallow. It’s like building a supermarket in Yosemite.
Separate ads from them.
I'd go with "Anarcho-capitalist."

Which of course explains their allure and the desire to retroactively improve their origin stories. They stand precisely in the face of what the OP himself retroactively considers.

> "I think it's clear for everybody that one cannot get away with this kind of stuff, once governments get involved."

Which is the mantra of the bullied. As if we aren't the government. When precisely did we all decide that copyright should exist for a term of life PLUS 70 years? The government does not seek our permission when applying these laws to us yet we have to implicitly sacrifice our freedoms in order to blithely comply with it?

And we all know that the problems with these individuals is not that they committed these crimes, it's that they explicitly called into question this very authority in the first place. That the government then uses this as further justification to destroy these individuals lives, permanently destroy their liberty, and broadcast a chilling effect over anyone who would ever attempt to improve these policies is what inspires people to lionize these figures.
Look, I’m certain you’re doing great work, but I gotta know - was the name chosen purposely??
I'm wondering how long it will take for LLMs to be able to generate complete (one of many) sign language(s) on-the-fly and put the various sign language(s) translators out of a job. The crux seems to be that sign language differs significantly from spoken language and includes facial movements and nonverbal emotional tonality.
I've always loved this phrase. A USMC recon guy I was training with uttered it once and it stuck with me.
So your assertion is that if all the open space near me was mowed down to make room for massive apartment complexes, then I would actually experience less noise and traffic.

It's a bold theory but not one I want to try out in practice.
I've been taking glassblowing classes for a few years, and this is easily the biggest lesson there. If I rush something, I will fuck it up. If I let things happen bit by bit while they can go smoothly, everything comes out much easier.

This probably applies everywhere, but it's really stark when you're playing with quickly-solidifying goopy liquid sand
That's exactly what russia lovers want. "Just stop fighting invading forces" is as amoral as it gets.
Agreed. GPUs are a somewhat different paradigm.
They were taking it slow.
It became cool to hate it because Chrome was originally snappier, plus it was made by The Google, which many used to worship.

From what I can tell, there is very little reason to hate Firefox more than Chrome today.
This was my understanding of signed URLs also. I was wondering why they needed to be cached, then afterwards wondering why the generation was so slow when I read the 250ms part.
I don’t have an authoritative source but a mentor of mine who was a navy seal has trotted out those exact words quite frequently over the years.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html - section 14

The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of the GNU General Public License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns.

Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies that a certain numbered version of the GNU General Public License “or any later version” applies to it, you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that numbered version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of the GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.

Note the "or any later version" verbiage in there. If the software is licensed under "GPLv3 or any later version" - no permission is required or assignment of copyright.

And so when you see things like https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Coreutils

Note also the "if you used the GPL without a version number, you can relicense it under any version"

---

The "why they require a CLA" is for enforcement.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html

In order to make sure that all of our copyrights can meet the recordkeeping and other requirements of registration, and in order to be able to enforce the GPL most effectively, FSF requires that each author of code incorporated in FSF projects provide a copyright assignment, and, where appropriate, a disclaimer of any work-for-hire ownership claims by the programmer's employer.
I'd add huygens idea of light propagation, waves propagate toward the nicest path to reach a destination, even if it takes an angle.
Yea, I'd like to see a system where each application runs as its own user, especially third party applications not vetted by the OS vendor, the package manager and so on. Maybe this already exists--I think it would be a good step forward for security and privacy.

You can no longer trust 3rd party applications to stay in their lanes. Running an application with full access to everything that I as a user have access to seems insane in 2024. Ideally, I don't want a third party application to read or write anything outside of its "home directory" without my explicitly giving it permission. That includes files on my filesystem, network shares, hardware devices, everything.
Red Mill Burgers (2020)
It's a good mantra - but I'm unsure about this page. Looks like a seal flavoured link farm?

I've heard the phrase associated with martial arts/self-defense - like drawing a gun and shooting in self defense, or initiating unarmed attack (defense). Rush and tense up in the muscles - and you will literally be slower. And probably miss as well.

I saw a few interesting comments here, like the expanded: "Slow is steady, steady is smooth, smooth is fast"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4FZfzqMtwQZES3eqN/slow-is-sm...

And see that Wiktionary hand waves at the military as the origin.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/slow_is_smooth,_smooth_is_f...
Those might be the most honest salesmen of all time... Yeah it's only $12k, but it is a potato. :grin:
This is amazing, not only did they port from the 2040 to the 2350, but they also ported all the functionality they could support over to the RV32 cores as well. PicoDVI is usable no matter what cores one chooses to use on the RP2350. Well done!
Don't use the Unlicense: it's an inferior license wrapped in an atrocious name
The main advantage of the SIO TMDS encoder, is that it allows you to output TMDS on any GPIO, instead of the eight that the HSTX is restricted to.

And they allow an easy upgrade path for projects that were already bit-banging DVI on the rp2040. Other than those two advantages, I don't think there is any advantage to the SIO TMDS encoder over the HSTX TMDS encoder.

I get the impression that the SIO TMDS encoder was added to the design first, and there wasn't a good reason to remove them after the introduction of HSTX.
Man, -people- are bad at counting tasks like this.
NHS is a pretty terrible example. Since it relies on public funding without a direct monetary profit, it is an easy target for defunding when the government needs to cut expenses. And lo and behold that is exactly what has happened.

I’m not saying privatisation is better (US healthcare is the textbook counter-example), but just wanted to make the point that socialising something has demonstrably not been a good way to drive innovation and improvement in some cases.
Absolutely, yet the underlying similarity between our genomes makes it good enough for most cases, plus the Rodent genome has been sequenced and tested for decades now.

Idk why you are trying to die on this hill. I've provided decently authoritative sources (The Jackson Institute, Cambridge University, and the NIH)

Unless you have a PhD in Systems Biology or Genomics, I'm going to trust them over you.

Edit: an actual OG in the field of genomics just commented - listen/chat with him, not me.
Seeing how just about everything you did today took place over Http/2/3 then yeah, it is pretty significant.
thiss owuld be an excellent candidate for combining with the Monash university's FODMAP app
https://monashfodmap.com/ibs-central/i-have-ibs/get-the-app/

trying to find foods that dont trigger IBS etc is such hard work..
I sometimes pay for news, and when I do, I do it by buying print versions for the reasons (H) and (I) in the article, "The incessent upselling" and "Privacy".

He writes "Dropping a quarter, or even five bucks, on the counter at a newsstand for a copy of the daily paper or a copy of The Economist meant that some sleezy dude snooping through my entire life history wasn’t sea-lioning into every possible situation trying to push me to the next higher cost bracket".

I can still buy the print version of the Economist at the newsstand (OK, Barnes & Noble) and I can still buy a print copy of the WSJ at the grocery store or convenience store.

I paid, hmm, looks like $11.49 plus tax for the last print version of the Economist I bought. Will I consider paying $6 or so an issue for a subscription to the online version? No, I will not.

I paid, I think, $5 plus tax for the last print WSJ weekend edition I bought. Will I consider paying $40 a month for a digital subscription? No, I will not.

Here are my requirements: I can pay in cash per issue with no way for the publisher to tell I bought it or to track my reading in any way.

Don't meet my requirements? Totally fine. But if you don't, I'm not paying for your product. Go complain to someone else.
Likely. Valve has a new game in closed-ish beta right now.
Sometimes urgency does matter; for example, when I ran Tinfoil, we got a lot of good press from being the first ones to release a public vulnerability checker for things like Heartbleed and so on, and it was a common reason we made sales. Getting those out within 12-24h was an intentional part of our model, because our competition would take a week, so it was trivial to make them look bad.

That said, it was extremely important for it to be correct, so we never cut corners. Best way to never make a sale is to tell someone they are patched when they’re not.

But speed can be a major factor sometimes. It just can’t be the only factor.
Also the logo is literally exactly the Black Mesa logo from Half Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_Research_Facility), except inside a badge/chevron shame instead of a circle.

Either this is something Valve is running, or I bet whoever made this will get a copyright take-down soon.
One thing I found was if you give a image of a nutrition label to ChatGPT, it could extract all the nutrition information into a text format like JSON. I was thinking of using that to automate my daily nutrition tracking I do for health reasons.
> The previous day I was experimenting with Google Cloud Run, trying to migrate our Next.js staging environment from Vercel to there to save some money. I assumed I misconfigured that service and turned it off and went about my day.

I am sorry but who sees a $100 sudden charge, assumes misconfiguration and just goes about their day without digging deeper right away?
only in sector C
Nothing, other than you can't debug JavaScript as easily as with Chrome or Node.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Looking at your current user's post history, you've posted gibberish as comments (just random text). You then progressed to posting a personal history multiple times, where you lambasted the users of this forum, essentially calling everyone "mean" and implying foul intent. Attacks like this are against the guidelines, and really, I cannot imagine they'd go over well anywhere.

Most of your posts seem to be non-thoughtful posts (see the guidelines), which contribute little such as this one. We all go off the rails a bit from time to time, we all colour outside the lines occasionally, but it seems like most of your posts are outside of the lines.

If you really want to engage in thoughtful debate, at least on HN, I suggest you read the guidelines again, and at least attempt to post in the spirit much of the time. Again, no one is going to be perfect in this, but from what I see it doesn't seem like you really want to engage thoughtfully.

Good luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking#Bas...
Readers trust journalists less when they debunk rather than confirm claims
Yup, definitely Alan not Alex! Alan has been the person who has brought a lot of attention to the Apple II core in the Mister FPGA platform.
People will still pay you to create things. Posting things in public and hoping to stake a claim on that information is… stupid.

We don’t want society to evolve on shitty workarounds like hiring someone to summarize a work so it can be ingested or hiring a cheap artist to copy a style So it can be ingested
> but it's really stark when you're playing with quickly-solidifying goopy liquid sand

I already wanted to learn glassblowing, but hearing it described this way just sold me on it completely. I’m gonna go find a place. :)
Maybe it's just me, but isn't ~10K r/s pretty much just, well, normal?
ComputerLand radio commercials 1985-1989
Snowden quit working for the NSA and left the country, and Assange does not appear to be operating Wikileaks anymore. I would imagine that they would both agree that there comes a point where it makes sense to factor consequences into your choices and quit what you are doing.
Allow type annotations in .js files in preparation for Type Annotations proposal
"Awaiting More Feedback: This means we'd like to hear from more people who would be helped by this feature"
I presume they want to preauthorize a decent amount just in case, but this tends to really upset debit card holders because it steals money from them for a week.
Ambulance personnel/paramedics very much do this, in Australia at least.

They never run, never rush, and don't get sucked in to the panic and chaos.
GPT slop
The CDLI Collection of Cuneiform Text
I've only heard this in the context of Smash Melee, which has limited-to-no input buffering.

If you try to input your attacks and movements too soon, they won't come out at all. So advice to new players is to err on the side of being slow, since it ensures the move input gets registered.
More like 10 years ago.
I’ve definitely heard this in distance running, though never attributed to the SEALs.

I use a quote from Lydiard on my homepage [1] that’s similar:

“It’s much better to go too slowly than too fast.”

1: https://eaj.io
Here's a very simple rule of thumb: If the judges' opinions happen to divide along party lines, they are by definition partisan. Now go look at the majority vs minority opinions from the last half a decade or so.
You have just described Warning Forever, which was reasonably popular in its niche back in the day.
Why letting each city have the entire say on its planning is very obviously going to end badly for society. it’s not hard to see it’s a prisoners dilemma or tragedy of the commons type fiasco.

I have a hard time believe that people aren’t aware of that. Especially since we tried it for decades and the obvious happened - it has gone horribly.

Of course the average current home owners in Palo Alto doesn’t want it to change. But Palo Alto doesn’t exist on an island or something. Why would the nearby towns have different views? Mountain View doesn’t want to change! San Mateo doesn’t want to change!

Wowza! How about that, now the entire bay won’t change if left to each town.

And you know what, for decades that’s what we did and we can see what happened. All we got for it was a massive housing shortage.

We tried letting towns set their policy. It went horribly, as it obviously would.

It’s like Kant, would the outcome be acceptable if all the similar actors took this action? No? Well why shouldn’t they if this town does it.
The use of the artwork was a TIME magazine cover, which has the same commercial purpose as the original photo owned by Goldsmith.

It's far from clear that case would apply here.
This is a beat up generated by Palantir and iVerify, both the Verge and WIRED swallowed the bait.

"By Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right."

Sorry Gaby, you're out of your depth. Somehow Lily Hay Newman (WIRED), who should know better, was also taken in by this.

Don't install iVerify, it's practically malware.
Eh, I don’t think that’s true. I think you’ve just had bad experiences, and that that can definitely be true in pockets.

For example, I am exceptionally happy that we have standardized on OpenAPI documentation and/or the self-documenting nature of GraphQL (where used) rather than WSDLs and the other ancient nonsense.

I’m also glad we’ve mostly progressed from SAML to OAuth2/OIDC/JWT. Sure, SAML still exists but it’s definitely on its way out, once the enterprises of yesteryear eventually switch.

I don’t know if you’ve ever built a SAML application and/or IdP, but it’s awful.

Sometimes “old” is just worse.
Was Cyberdyne Systems taken?

yes: https://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/