skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great Smarter Every Day episode where Destin works with a glassblowing shop to create shattered Prince Rupert's drops encased in blocks of resin.

Nobody has done this before, they're working out how to do it as they go along, they make quite a few mistakes along the way. One of the things the video highlights is how, when this happens, the team wouldn't just stop and try the same thing again. They'd keep going, break it all the way, basically just use it as an opportunity to fuck around with their materials.

He waxes poetic about how great this is. They're taking advantage of an unparalleled opportunity to learn more about the behavior of the materials they're working with. Because they're now free to try things they wouldn't want to do if they were still on the path to creating a complete, polished product. It doesn't even really count as taking risks anymore, because you can't really mess up something that's already trash.

And he points out, rightly, that a mindset like that that values learning and experimentation over always succeeding, is one of the best ways to become truly great at what you do.
As @rollcat said, I suspect this means that people can contribute modifications, but that they cannot be distributed outside of the official sources.

So, while you can send a patch to add a feature, you couldn't release that modified version on its own.
On Earth you need to compete against other people doing the same. So you design on the edge of performance to extract the last few percents of efficiency to compete on price against all the other people doing the same thing. Which means the machines are complicated, use rare materials and require a lot of maintenance.

On the Moon you can do the simplest thing that works and if it works at 10% efficiency and breaks after 1 year - so be it, if it's enough time to get resources to make a new one.

Basically space exploration will have a lot more in common with industrial revolution than with overengineered spacematerial NASA stuff.

If we have to make the tractors 10x bigger to have the same power and output, and to use disposable steel cables instead of hydraulics, and to make them disposable after 2 years instead of lubricating them to last 20 years - that's all fine if it means it can work with lunar materials only.
"source code is open" implies "open source", and the License refers to itself as a "copyleft" license, but it's a newly minted license - IANAL does anyone know if this is open source or another Elastic type situation?
> Are creativity and problem solving improved in another language?

More likely the other way around I think? Anecdotally I've noticed that no matter how fluent, the things everyone does in their native language are counting money, swearing when they think they're alone, and a secret third thing.

I lived for many years in another country not as an expat but fully integrated in social, family, and work ways. As fluent as an adult learner can get. When I need to sit down and really think through a difficult problem, come up with a novel solution, I do it in my native language.
That's why I usually check out both default front page and "Most active current discussions" (https://news.ycombinator.com/active).
The world might not owe anyone anything but the world is worse of if people only do whatever is the most profitable for them.
There were no repercussions at all to their competitor (and, the Supreme Court sided with them), so it was logically the right move for a corporation. If the country or its people don’t bring the repercussions now, why wouldn’t these things continue to happen? It’s not a corporations job to regulate itself. If anything we can only blame the short sightedness and pettiness of humanity, which is causing bigger issues to flourish today.
You Can't Dig Upwards
Adding to the sibling comments, this is briefly covered in Eric Raymond's wonderful book, "The Art of Unix Programming" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming
Uh, a lot of people did, and continue to, think AI is going to change the world - including Chat GPT.

Hell, read any of the comments from the last year or two on any HN thread about it. Plenty of people claiming it’s the new god, it changes everything, replaces all knowledge workers, etc.
How is scanning a QR code photography? Photography is "writing with light"; the key property is that of making a lasting record of a transient handful of photons. When scanning a QR code, the imaging is incidental, but more importantly no record of the "light" is made. If scanning a QR code is photography, so is sitting on the porch reading a book...
Wild stuff. You can see the bottom horizontal trusses bending when loaded. EMT is just too thin walled for serious structural applications
I use Google photos on my phone so everything I send is not directly stored locally.

Whatsapp wasn’t like this before, it was when they introduced E2E that old media started to get lost.

If you want a groupchat with accessible history, whatsapp is not the place sadly.
I'll be using this this Sunday for a project for a g0v civic hackathon. You solved a problem we had been discussing today. We were going to use protomaps instead https://protomaps.com/

The pitch for the project is here if anyone in Taiwan is interested in joining: https://hackmd.io/7K4kLkseTYCPI7DWoNv5mA?view

Hackathon info: https://g0v-jothon.kktix.cc/events/g0v-hackath63n
not to be horrible or picking on you, but it is "rogue". i would have thought that most people here would have come across games featuring a "rogue 5hp hit, 8 sneak" character to be able to spell this right, but almost everyone does it wrong. ok - picky, picky me.
A much more robust and free market approach to this would be a great review system and an actually open app store - this vetting process you describe is not at all "better" it incentivizes platforms to 1) kill competition (or any company who refuses to sell out to them during BD negotiations) and 2) encourage/turn a blind eye to the 1000s of currently available scam apps that try to lock people into subscriptions that cannot get cancelled etc.

Examples of both 1) and 2) are plenty, so I guess I just disagree that this vetting process helps anyone but the incumbent gatekeeper-taxers.
Because there are two definitions of fork. One is the button that says fork in Github which is really cloning the repo into your account. Then there is fork meaning "fork the project" which is actively developing and distributing an alternative lineage of the project, likely under a different name. You can use Github's PR workflow, it's fine.

Github is the one with the unfortunate naming here that goes against the already established meaning of fork. It really should be clone.
I hate to admit it, but we're basically in the same boat as him. White collar workers that sit in air conditioned buildings (or at home) that rely on power+internet all the time to be useful. Plus how much tech workers are actually doing groundbreaking scientific work? Probably less than 1%.
AI adoption is outpacing computers and the internet..

https://x.com/emollick/status/1838582600165670955
The risk is that the combined market caps of AI firms exceed 1 Trillion dollars now. This market cap is likely supported by several Billion dollars in Revenue, but margins are debatable outside of NVidia due to capex/opex of inference, training, and data acquisition.

These valuations only make sense if the future free cash flow of these AI firms reach the ~100 Billion dollar mark within the next 3-5 years. It's somewhat unclear what the path here is if one takes the position that

a) 1 billion people are not going to spend 100/year on ChatGPT like subscriptions.

b) White collar productivity is not going to increase by 80%.
We have a real problem with app stores.

The thing is. I like apps needing to display and even better request permissions for resources like the camera, files and clipboard.

But that should be the limit. What I don’t want is somebody, anybody other than my self deciding if an application actually needs those permission.

WE need an alternative to walled garden app stores. It can be fine that a curated store exist that does these things. But they need to live side by side with stores or catalogs that do less and more.

It’s an uphill battle because Apple and Google both know that it will be a loss of revenue for them. What is silly though is they could make the App Store have sub app stores curated by different entities (or not at all) and solve all this and keep revenue. But they won’t.
I'm not sure forking the repo would create a forked version of the 'software' if the fork's sole purpose is to develop a pull request. But I guess it's somewhat ambiguous langauge, and better safe then sorry when it comes to lawyers (which I'm not).
Because at the early stages it’s really important to talk to customers.

This also helps find users for whom this is a huge pain point - metrics costs are so high that they’d love to talk to someone and complain about the problem.
see also see https://winamp.com/player/legacy and https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...
Which useful products ultimately came out of the Web3/Blockchain boom that preceded the AI boom?
I once had a very frustrating battle with a new reviewer who told me my utilitarian app did not offer an "innovative experience" and wasn't "interactive" enough.

So I had to add a completely useless feature where a user could partition their database by marking some items as "favorites" and have a separate "favorite" view.

This was then approved, with the assertion that "it's now the magical kind of experience users expect from the App Store."

I'm pretty invested in an Apple ecosystem for some very specific software, but that was nearly enough to make me ragequit (unfortunately, the specific software is not something I could develop/imitate under Linux without a huge financial investment).
Which is probably not a good reason to upvote.
The Github ToS gives users the right to fork any public repos.
Oh great. Yet another bunch of people trying to claim their not-at-all-Open-Source custom license is actually Open Source.

Hopefully one day they'll actually Open Source it. I mean, they're trying to pretend it is, so why not just do it properly?
Why did you name your startup the same name as the most popular network compression library for video games? This seems short sighted. Even if you don't run afoul of trademark/copyright, you're sharing a lot of SEO and marketing terminology.
Reading the paper, there is no mention of sizes of molecules. Did Rayleigh actually make the connection between film thickness and molecular size at some point? Or is that just modern retconning?
What does it mean to "operate" in a country though? If I operate a service in the US and have no servers in Iran, no employees in Iran, no physical presence in Iran whatsoever, but Iranians are communicating with me over the global public internet, does that mean I have to comply with Iranian law? What about if its France and not Iran? What if these French/Iranian users are not only communicating with me, but also sending me money and/or cryptocurrency in exchange for that communication?
They do questions-based, not query-based search. The trick is knowing the right keywords, which is fairly easy.
Yeah the license self-refers as "copyleft" (an unregulated term afaik), and they have been very careful to avoid usage of the term "open source" rather preferring to say things like "the source is open".

Regulated or not the use of "copyleft" still seems deliberately misleading to me - I don't think the restrictions you've listed are in line with the intent of the copyleft movement.
> AI (as in GenAI) will be no different. I would not call that a bust.

I would call it a bust, because the stocks prices followed the hype. The bust will be the fall from there.
"Whatever the stupid, lazy writers at Disney needed it to be this week." - The Critical Drinker*

* I imagine
So far, the suggested hint is towards cups[0] which is a printing system for unix. I am not sure if it's even installed on all the distros by default

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
Source-available but certainly not open source.

"You are granted the right to view, access, and study the source code of the software. You are granted the right to Modify the software for private use only."

"No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form."

"No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software."
In order for AI systems to learn in a more "human" way, I wonder if semiosis and metaphor will help?

It seems clear to me that the way we humans generate meaning and metaphor are related to our senses and our physicality, and our experience of pain and pleasure, but it's difficult to know how precisely a machine's experience would need to approximate ours in order for it's sense of meaning and metaphor to be intelligible to us.
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I know it is a single example and we should extrapolate much out of it, but in the case of html those who accepted more liberal input (html4/5) won over over those that were more conservative (xhtml).
This is real neat.

I see you ask about timezone in the form, but it would be great to address expectations around timezone in ‘questions you may have’.
Not the person you replied to, but I use Iosevka Fixed which is default except everything is always fixed-width and there are no ligatures.
Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita) Now Available on iOS
I'm a white American. Have studied Native American history fairly extensively and spend a lot time around natives.
The fact that googling Postel was worthless also indicates we're in a post-google search world.
For home use? You're probably right.

teruakohatu asked why a colocation facility would have a mere 10Gbps link when a 5Gbps residential links are so affordable. If you tried to run a colocation facility on a residential link, it would spend most of the time severely throttled.
Can someone explain to me how OpenAI has billions in revenue. Almost no one I know outside of tech uses chatgpt with any regularity.
Look, horrendous nightmare pseudo-food pictures are just the price that has to be paid to appease the markets.

Claiming to use 'ai' was probably worth a few percent on their stock price; what they're using it for hardly matters provided they say the magic word.
> knowing how to deal with wacky input and corner cases are a requirement of learning ANY programming language.

In general, I agree. But if there's a corner case that occasionally breaks naive code but otherwise doesn't do anything, then I'm going to think, "maybe we should just remove that corner case."
Having an addictive propaganda and surveillance device in one's pocket at almost all times.
How do you buy such a GPU or is it still only reserved to the rich so they can get ahead of the game once the pleb gets their unwashed hands on these cards?
AI has busted before and will bust again. It happens so often with AI that there is a standard metaphor for it: AI winter.

The current technology of AI is not going to produce profits to justify the gargantuan levels of investment. Generative AIs excel at creative tasks, which is undoubtedly amazing, but creative industries have already had their margins beaten down by the hordes of humans who want to work in creative industries. You’re not going to create hundreds of $billions of revenue by replacing stock photography and blog post authors.

In objective contexts, generative AIs struggle with reliability, which makes it hard for folks to build them into the critical systems necessary to generate huge revenue. There is a reason Google did not deploy generative AI into search until OpenAI basically forced them to. And now that Google has rolled it out, does anyone think it is driving huge new revenue for them? No.

The reality is that much—maybe even most—of the current levels of investment are predicated on the idea that someone among the current crop of AI companies will create a “general intelligence” which will be intelligent and reliable enough to transform “hard” industries like energy, manufacturing, transportation, health care, etc.

Let’s recognize that investment thesis for what it is, a speculative bet. No one even agrees how to define AGI, let alone understands the concept rigorously enough to calculate how to get there from ChatGPT.
There's strict, and there's kafkaian. It's not as if the reason why a camera app would require the camera is pretty obscure, especially if neither the app nor the permission text changed that much between reviews.
Can't really compare to stuff that requires hardware.

The weakly bearish metric is that chatgpt's user growth is slightly slower than Facebook's was at similar user counts (2009 or so)
>So it’s more expensive to make something ugly. Gotcha ;)

What is the point of this? Does anyone enjoy this? Everyone knows what is being said based on the context?

>The slowness might be explained by the background tasks of restoring previously installed software and data.

No, it never went away. I had been coming from a Pixel, so I wasnt really forgiving about bugs, limited features, or slow animations. It felt like I bought an old phone. That + the otterbox really dispelled the illusion.
> Nobody thinks GPT4-o1 or Sonnet 3.5 is going to change the world.

I do. AI progress could magically hit a brick wall right now and never advance any further, and o1 would still change the world more drastically than you can imagine. But AI progress will also not magically hit a brick wall.

I supposed for that reason o1 specifically will not change the world, because it will be superceded too soon to. But it would if it wasn't.
The fall of Intel: How gen AI helped dethrone a giant
Ordering drugs online.
Yes! This cohort we are actually splitting into 2 times so that everyone can join at a time that's convenient (had some people that needed to join very early before and want to avoid that this time)
Entrapment is the process by which police ask or induce you to commit a crime. For instance, if a police officer gives you 20$ to assault someone, then that is entrapment. However, if the police simply stand on a likely corner and you assault them, or ask them to buy drugs you are boned. Same thing if you steal a bait car that is left running with the door open.

This is kind of like leaving a bait car parked and running with the doors open. Oh look I'm a child online! This is what I look like. They cannot attempt to seduce the pedophile. However, they can let them do what pedophiles do. Then, when the pedophile makes an attempt to meet with the "Child" they can arrest them for attempting since they have demonstrated intent and action to make good on that intent.

In this case, they do the same with Snapchat.
OMG seriously? Is there _anything_ that people will not use as a "sign of Mozilla's distress" ? Is there nothing Mozilla can do right? Is anything it does a sign of failure and doom? FFS people ...
I'm not the OP, but yes, I pay for it.

I pay OpenAI and Anthropic directly for API access that is hooked into a plugin on my IDE. I also use Chatbox, an app that lets me chat with them, using the API directly.

No idea if they are making money on my use of their services, they haven't made that information public.

If the price was higher I would still pay it. Given that they keep offering lower prices on newer models, I am inclined to say that they are making money on the incremental use of the models (which is basically the cost of renting a GPU). No idea if they are making enough to recoup the cost of research.
Maybe I should change mine as well... GithubCustomerServiceIsTrash2
While I believe that the app store reviewer was being dense on purpose, I agree that this is a better prompt.
Anything can be cast if your budget allows for it. Ferrari engines are a good example.
Here's the actual diff:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ksh/shf.c....

And it looks like that covers all parsed parts of the shell script or history file, including heredocs. I get the feeling it's going to break all shar archives with binary files (not that they're particularly common). It will stop NULs being in the script itself, but it won't stop them coming from other sources, e.g.

$ var=$(printf '\0hello')
-bash: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
$ echo $var
hello

It remains to be seen if this will be adopted by anyone else, or if it'll be another reason to use OpenBSD only as a restricted environment and not as a general computing platform.

> "If there is ONE THING the Unix world needs, it is for bash/ksh/sh to stop diverging further"

> OpenBSD ksh: diverges further
Cheers! You're too kind.

I thought I would get reamed for farting in church but it seems to have gone over well.

See ya Space Cowboy
Problem: saving bandwidth for pypi.

Solution: unify all software build stack.

Tomorrow, chat, we will tackle world hunger in an attempt to save people from anorexia.

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So the lizard brain was right after all.
No, they didn't. When an artist draws a picture of Manhattan, they draw steam coming up from the streets and no utility poles. They don't need to know anything about the buried power infrastructure or steam pipes. It would probably be worse if they did; the point is to communicate the conception of the space. It does not matter if steam is coming up on a street where it shouldn't; they drew it to say "this is manhattan", not to depict a component of the infrastructure that exists off-canvas. It does not matter if businessmen are walking around at 3pm when they should be at work if the point is to indicate that business is happening. The kayfabe is more important than the reality.

This is for a computer graphics conference, not an architectural conference. The point is to generate more-plausible interiors instead of copy-pasting the same layout. They are generating the feeling of more realistic spaces. You're the one coming in and saying that they don't know what they're doing, and trying to simplify an art into something you understand.
> Claude Sonnet translates Mandarin to English almost perfectly.

Do you personally know Mandarin well enough to judge the quality of a translation? Because you can't do that from just looking at the output.
If it were just some random app, even something obvious like a camera app, I could be a little forgiving. Maybe the reviewer hadn’t heard of it. Maybe it wasn’t immediately obvious that it was a camera app.

But the app was featured in the Glowtime event just weeks ago. The app has won an Apple Design Award. It has been in the App Store for, what, seven years? Of all the apps to reject, the reviewer sure made a poor choice.
Open Versus Closed: A Cautionary Tale (2006) [pdf]
With over 50,000 euthanasias carried out in Canada to date, has anybody assessed whether they are disproportionately prescribed to certain demographics or not?

If they are equally distributed then it's unlikely to be coercive in nature but if there is coercion then the proportion of usage by demographic is unlikely to match those demographic's respective proportions in the total Canadian population.
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Yep. The test they're running is exactly this scenario.

In one of the articles related to the project, they talk about how they considered handling the fact that the 24/7 news channel they selected for the test significantly changed something about the bottom bar (the logo? the crawl design? both? I can't remember.). IIRC, they considered running a lengthy pre-recorded loop through the screens, but decided against it because that might not be representative of real-world programming decisions or whatever.