skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basic markdown formatting, no. But using bullet points with bold starting words, after a really waffly introduction makes it more likely they just asked an llm to write it.
Absolutely agree. I would much prefer to pay for a pass for a month/day/hour to use a service instead of paying for a subscription.
> We treat corporate speech as an extension of human speech because...

...corporations have thrown tons of money at making it so
Possibly. You can check out retropilot. Of course depending on the car it may be extremely difficult.
> ... what is your best idea then

Justice
They understand perfectly. They're hoping you don't understand.
JPEG XL is a great name from a marketing perspective. The Apple roadmap has several successor compressors with AI elements in the planning sheet - JPEG XL PLUS, JPEG XL MAX. These formats will have small nominal yearly licensing fees to use. Finally, the most advanced format will be JPEG XXXL which they are developing in collaboration with pornhub.
How Does the Language of Headlines Work? The Answer May Surprise You
Lock makers aren't liable for making pickable locks. Punish the bad actors and leave the liability to civil suits.
it felt crazy to pay even $10 for them to store data that probably cost pennies to store

If you are not getting $10 of value it is economically irrational to pay $10 to store data. If you are getting $10 of value or more it is economically rational.

That it costs only pennies to store the data incentivizes the company to stay in business. That’s probably in the interest of the people whose data is stored.

If it is a business decision, the cost of storing the data should be reflected in the prices its customers pay. Ideally
the price is marked up so that profits increase in proportion to the expense. Personal use is another Ferraris-are-not-for-everyone matter. Good luck.
I did a deep learning project on stocks once.

So I dug up old WSJ archives to research possible data sets.

I got one from 1945! It was incredible. Not a word of clickbait. Zero politics. Zero outrage. No fear, no excitement. It was all crop yields, steel tonnages, weather forecasts, trade balances, ads for suits, financial reports. The only news vaguely related to politics was about government budgets, but even that was all numbers and no zing.
Sounds like you just need to be a bit more discerning about what you use.

For example, your projects in that site. You describe it as "pennies to store". For how long should they store it for free? For a year? 5 years? a million years?

Let me put it this way - if your own library of work is not worth $10 to you, then perhaps it's worthless and can be discarded?

Subscriptions are not going away as a business model because where there are ongoing costs, there has to be ongoing revenue. Anything else is not sustainable.

If there are one-time costs then by all means charge one-time amounts. But hosting, storage, bandwidth cost money every month because the hardware and meatware costs of providing that service happen every month.
Oh that started way before COVID.
You built a product first and then are searching for the market for it? That's tough. If you do it in reverse, find the market first and then build a product for them, it's 100x easier. Trust me.
Feedback button.

https://www.qualtrics.com/experience-management/customer/web...

https://www.qualtrics.com/m/assets/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...
"You need to think of [Megan] Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about [Annapurna]." -- Bryan Cantrill, on the sins of the father, heavily editorialized.

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=38m24s
Or perhaps get Samsung Xcover Pro - removable battery and IP68 rating (and audio jack!) https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_xcover6_pro-11600.php
They're a non-profit. They don't have a business model.
#Slop
I don't understand this comment on any level.

Containers will only ever be on a linux kernel or VM? Never natively on ANY other OS? Only Linux containers exist?

Developers were more clueful about containers before Docker made them wildly popular?
I agree with her about blaming developers, not hackers. Though not to the point of liability for all developers, but maybe for a few specialist professionals who take on that responsibility and are paid appropriately for it.

Hackers are essentially a force of nature that will always exist and always be unstoppable by law enforcement because they can be in whatever country doesn't enforce such laws. You wouldn't blame the wind for destroying a bridge - it's up to the engineer to expect the wind and make it secure against that. Viewing them this way makes it clear that the people responsible for hacks are the developers in the same way developers are responsible for non-security bugs. Blame is only useful if you can actually use it to alter people's behavior - which you can't for international hackers, or the wind.

Banging this drum could be effective if it leads to a culture change. We already see criticism of developers of software that has obvious vulnerabilities all the time on HN, so there's already some sense that developers shouldn't be extremely negligent/incompetent around security. You can't guarantee security 100% of course, but you can have a general awareness that it's wrong to make the stupid decisions that developers keep making and are generally known to be bad practice.
counterpoint:
https://natehoffelder.com/blog/the-face-of-wordpress-should-...
The persecution of Elon Musk is entirely political, and he is not "extreme" just for disagreeing with the entire media/corporate/state establishment and supporting basic human rights like freedom of expression as enshrined in the FIRST Amendment of the US Constitution. The persecution has nothing to do with the costs or merits of his products, which vary but are generally the best in class or very competitive. He was the darling of the libs until he dared to point out the insanity of their recent policies.

If you watch the video, you'll see they replaced Starlink with a solution that cost 10x as much. I'm sure whatever minor inconvenience comes to those scientists can be fixed somehow. We have far bigger things to worry about in any case.
Please understand you are not representative of everyone. I'm aware of several teams that were heavily remote far before COVID. They worked fine then, and they work fine now.
Unsure if the math actually checks out on this, but I was told that if you add up the observable mass/energy in our universe with the same average density we see now, you get a black hole with a Swarzchild radius around the size as the observable universe.

One could then quite reasonably argue that our universe is indeed inside or is itself a black hole.
The repo being evaluated? Not an issue for me. In the dev scenario disk is plentiful; in production it can be garbage collected out or avoided by using copy-closure type workflows or nix2container (eg just not running nix evaluations directly in the target environment).
Some of them do ask for it. And it does little or nothing.

I'm a writer and a blogger. Newspapers are dying. If you put ads on your site, people use ad blockers. People find ways around pay walls. Etc.

Sometimes you can't somehow magically control the fact that people won't pay you.
If you're taught it early, then people have a chance. The problem is that credit is predatory. If you're barely scraping by but paying your minimum, I believe most lenders will slowly increase your limit as long as you're current. Or if not them, another lender will give you a line of credit and you can just transfer it or accumulate more.

Now, even banks got into the game with even asking you if you'd like to finance something after you've bought it! If you buy something for 300, they'll show you an option to pay 3 installments of 100 instead with penalties if you fail to pay on time. So what some people do, instead of saving and buying one thing for 300, they buy 3 things for 900 and pay for them monthly. The problem is when you can't pay, now you're screwed.

Credit is scary. Life is also crazy expensive. I can't imagine how the next generation will feel once they come of age and things are soul crushingly expensive. Inflation has no bounds. You know how the yen is like a penny? That wasn't always the case. The yen was a dollar and cents were sen. Inflation got so high so fast, that domination just went away. We're not far from cents going away either, god forbid with 100 becomes the new dollar.
The Empirical World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
China leads world in 57 of 64 critical technologies; up from 3 just 20 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
I wonder if aliens exist, what technology they have for basics like transportation. Do they just load themselves into a cannon and shoot them to the destination? Just completely different ways of doing everything.
> However, it's not fair use to copy material and redistribute it.

You mean permanent copies, right? Then the IA doesn't disagree. They just want to loan out one digital copy while the original is locked up, in an attempt to emulate not making copies as closely as possible in a digital world.

> Furthermore, the creator should be able to determine the format of the release of their work. If someone wants to alter their work, they must do so in a transformative manner and not pass it off as the creator's work.

> Someone who makes a book with formatting specific to say a PDF, could be unfairly reviewed or judged by readers who borrowed distributed copies that are formatted to epub, for example.

I can get behind forced marking in some circumstances, but shifting between digital and physical should fall under first sale doctrine and the author should not have control over it.
> I wasn't being rude to you either.

I quoted the line you used. Show it to your friends and ask them if they think it is rude or not, without saying you wrote it.

> There are ways to get good data and best practices for social phenomena ... it's not easy with science either

Liberal arts majors are particularly bad at it. I doubt they are even aware of what the scientific method is, or how to implement it. We all know that a survey can get wildly varying results depending on exactly how the questions are worded. I also see plenty of liberal arts surveys that use too few samples to get statistical validity, along with clearly wrong interpretations of the statistics. The lack of statistics being a required course for a liberal arts degree is just another glaring problem with liberal arts programs.

As for the DeHaviland Comet crashes, allow me to clarify. The problem with finding the cause was the airplane would disintegrate at high altitude with no warning, and all there was was a rain of debris. Once they gathered up all the pieces, and reconstructed the airplane from the debris, it was immediately obvious that the fault originated in the window corners, and any structural engineer knew why. They then conducted experiments to confirm it.

The problem was not "jet speeds". It was the pressurization/depressurization cycles from flying up to 30,000 feet and then down, resulting in fatigue damage. Square corners are "stress risers" meaning the stress in a square corner is 3x the stress in the rest of the material. The problem did not occur with propeller airliners because they flew at lower altitudes either unpressurized or with little pressurization.

A fix was devised - make the corners round, and a forged doubler was riveted over it. Then this was also tested, and proved sound. And it works because sound methods of design, analysis, and testing was done.

There is simply no comparison with how these things are done in aviation engineering vs liberal arts.

P.S. My degree is in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Aeronautical/Aerospace, and I did design work on the 757, and have a particular interest in crashes and their causes.
This is what happens when you hire solely based on leetcode skill. A shit-tier engineer can master leetcode within months, but a good engineer will probably struggle at Find Nth Smallest Sum problem because he spends more time reading and thinking about code.

Leetcode is a fucking joke to the industry, gone are the days when you actually had good code with devs who spent time thinking about information architecture. In my experience boomer devs are actually the only ones who write idiomatic code. Millennial and Gen-z devs are the worst, they have no understanding beyond basic function calling.
Government agencies have got their hands tied just getting people to use MFA and not click on phishing emails. You're decades ahead of the herd if you're thinking about coding in SECCOMP-BPF.
I've had the same experience with the opt out in the pre-check line.
The UK ran the NHS as a high quality first tier health service for 50 years or more, during times when the UK was still making debt repayments to the US to cover costs from WWII.

Once Thatcherite neoliberalism (specifically: market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.) took hold and wealth transfer from the many to the few became increasingly common the Conservative contributions to the NHS steadily decreased and eroded the service.
This post and the linked PDF are by the mathematician Thomas Hales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Callister_Hales), a professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is known for settling the Kepler Conjecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture) in 2014.
So many, everywhere you look.

Microsoft started out with OS, branched into Office, branched into servers, branched into Azure.

Apple started with desktop, branched into phones, earpods etc.

IBM went from hardware to services.

Just because a company pivots, it doesn't mean they gave to set fire to the old business. It means they move on from it -keeping it alive, while embracing the next step. Apple still sells desktops but that's a tiny part of the business. The still sell laptops but that's a fraction of the appstore business and so on.

Google still does search, but is slso YouTube and Gmail etc. They are investing in AI which may turn out to be a search replacement.

Most businesses are always moving forward, moving to the next thing. It's not "pivoting" or abandoning old things, it's about embracing the new.

We're hard on Kodak because they saw the future and promptly pretended it wasn't going to happen.
The law has no concept of a "temporary copy". How is the Internet Archive supposed to enforce that? Government DRM?
Theres an implied threat when flying. It's that you won't be able to take the flight you purchased because they feel vindictive.
It does not help the situation here that IA went to war with publishers in the US courts with a system that did not in fact enforce that invariant, but rather declared unilaterally that the pandemic justified them taking a single copy of a book and lending it an arbitrary number of times --- something cited in the opinion of the court, IIRC!
I adore Make. I've written one (or more) for every single task or project I've touched in the last 20 years.

No smarts. It's just a collection of snippets with a few variables. "make run", "make test", "make lint", that kind of thing.

"make recent" = lint then run the most recently modified script.

You could do the same thing with Bash or other shells, but then you get stuck into Developer Land. Things are so much more complicated, without giving extra value. Make is just a DSL saying "files like this, are made into files like that, by running this command or two". That's it.

This is incredibly powerful!
This is why copyright strains to match its intention in a digital environment. It's all copies, out here: the number of transformations, duplications and mutations of this sentence to make it from my keyboard to your screen is well-nigh uncountable. So we end up with intuition-bending exceptions and judgements, some attempting to protect the spirit of the law, some enforcing some broad conception of intellectual property or duplication.

You can think about copyright that way, but as well as making the equivalent of lending a book online immoral and illegal, it also throws up all kinds of other strangeness. Why do we exempt caching? Should we pay extra for our backups? Should Zoom be paying for the posters on my wall, or my videoconferencee colleagues? And how many times?

(Those may be a little throwaway example, but I wrote a little bit more about the practical economic connection between copying and copyright back in 2008, here: https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/08/07/copyright-fraud-and-... )
It's not flu. I just assume anything respiratory I get from the office or when travelling is COVID and so far antigenic tests always confirmed it.

I take flu vaccine shots once a year and didn't get flu since years. Same for COVID but they don't work, I still get it at least twice a year with bad symptoms
This is a real problem with discussions about copyright, because this is a great example of something that is a mic drop on a message board that will get you tossed out on your ear in a court of law.
Same things can be said about shell scripts in a bin/ folder.
> I'm sure whatever minor inconvenience comes to those scientists can be fixed somehow.

\1. It's not a "minor inconvenience" at all.

\2. Problem started with Starlink 1.0. The fix was Musk promising better shielding and attention to leaks in Version 2.0 and to turn off Starllink sats over Murchison Radio Quiet Area etc.

\3. Starlink V2.0 has 30x more noise (Musk lied | didn't deliver) and remains noisy over quiet areas (Musk lied | didn't deliver).

> The persecution of Elon Musk is entirely political

It's more due to Musk lying and not delivering.
What promise? You know agreements change all the time right? Google photos, gmail, etc all used to be unlimited until recently. They’re running a business on money not promises from some forum reply.
A third option is to empower security researchers and hope the good guys find the security holes before the bad guys.

Currently, we threaten the good guys, security researchers, with jail way to quickly. If someone presses F12 and finds a bunch of SSNs in the raw HTML of the State's web page the Governor personally threatens to send them to jail[0]. The good security researchers tip-tow around, timidly asking permission to run pentests while the bad guys do whatever they want.

Protect security researchers, change the laws to empower them and give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think a big reason we don't do this is it would be a burden and an embarrassment to wealthy companies. It's literally a matter of national security and we current sacrifice national security for the convenience of companies.

As you say, security is hard, and putting liability for security issues on anyone is probably unreasonable. The problem is companies can have their cake and eat it too. The companies get full control over their software, and they get to pick and choose who tests the security of their systems, while at the same time having no liability. The companies are basically saying "trust me to take care of the security, also, I accept no liability"; that doesn't inspire confidence. If the liability is too much to bear, then the companies should give up control over who can test the security of their systems.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/f12-isnt-hacking-missouri-...
> Everyone I've seen in high levels of debt got that way because they have access to credit.

Isn't that a tautology?
Do you want to make backups unlawful? Or to require Zoom to police licensing for poster on walls? Because the strat IA is using here seems like a great way to get that to happen. Doing literally nothing --- or at least stopping when they lost in the district court and not appealing --- would have been strictly better for the rights of Internet users than what they actually did, which more or less torpedoed CDL everywhere in the country. Bad facts make bad law! They teach this in law school!
He also has an invalid assumption about RAW as well .
Different businesses. GitHub moat is nothing like Dropbox. Most content on GitHub is extremely small. Terabytes there is an outlier.
Yes I'm sure we are going to get vast amounts of AI content rubbish everywhere. And for sure we're going to have increasingly serious problems with bad actors using AI in harmful ways.

Others will use AI in positive and creative ways. I think AI-assisted comments can be positive and helpful under correct human oversight, but they are useless if they are surrounded by AI junk.

The AI slop effect is undoubtedly changing the media landscape. And then there will be the adverse AI-related effects that we haven't even got a name for yet, e.g. AI-powered psychological manipulations that subtly influence people, sometimes in personalized individual ways.

Human society will adapt. Perhaps there will be an increased value placed on genuine communications and analog content for example ...
Somehow every make file I’ve encountered in the wild is a lot more than “that’s it”
The law was written a long time ago and it needs some clarifications and updates.

Lots of temporary copies are already considered fair use. Every time you play a disc you make temporary copies, and nobody complains.

And if playing a CD can just use copyright and no "government DRM", then so can lending an ebook.
Is there any guarantee ("don't take promise from a company") the license won't be changed to something more closed some time afterwards?
I’m glad to hear! :)
Clearly no, and we have two opinions now from federal courts explaining why. Maybe they can appeal it to the Supreme Court and get a 3rd, taking this question off the table categorically for the next 30 years.
These days people just throw their coins in the trash. Literally. I know this because I saw a news story about a company that "mined" trash for coins. Doing at scale made it profitable.
I actually commented exactly the same thing. [1] In full support of JPEG-XL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538352
Curious, could you not calibrate using a force sensor, then include the output as a learning parameter. This seams a naive approach, which likely means it has been tried early on with other low hanging fruit, but I'm curious what the analysis of that approach is. Is there a fundamental reason this wouldn't work?
Search MasterLock on Youtube and you'll see that people blame the lock maker rather than the burglars. That's because the lock maker is notorious for making insecure locks.

Social engineering is also something that can be protected against by developers, at least to some extent. Yubikey type 2FA is more resistant to that than user-input TOTP codes, for example. Nothing's bulletproof but it could certainly be improved in many cases. Wasn't some company that experienced a credential stuffing attack recently sued for not requiring 2FA for its users?

We don't tolerate house builders who says "well there's always some way water might get into the framing, so we don't need to bother installing flashings properly - a bit of caulking will do instead."
I don't see how. The lawsuit was brought by specific book companies whose copyrights were infringed, the outcome of this case does not determine what the definition of a copy or "backup" is outside the context of borrowing books. And in the zoom scenario, it does not shift the legal burden for copyright policing to anyone else (it's always the rights holder)...
I presume you meant others preventing you from doing things "for your safety?" i.e. the nanny state?