skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into a lot of that 20 years ago, surprised to hear it's still a thing at all given how it's basically common knowledge that most of the Internet and Cloud run on open source software.

I once met an older gentleman who was doing IT work for a defense contractor. He seemed nice enough. We were making small talk and I happened to mention that I had recently installed Linux on my computer at home. He tone changed almost immediately and he started ranting about how Linux was pirated source code, stolen from Microsoft, all of it contains viruses, etc. He was talking about the SCO vs Linux lawsuits but of course got absolutely ALL of the details wrong, like which companies were even involved in the lawsuits. He was so far off the deep end that I didn't even try to correct him, I just nodded and smiled and said I was actually running late to be somewhere else...
Maybe $193k is all that the FTC felt could be attributed to the "deceptive business practices."

It's weird to think that the FTC is right about the investigation, but somehow flubbed the penalty
The analogies shouldn't be needed at work for sure, but they work well for people who aren't industry and don't especially care. Eyes glaze over at anything beyond "database" but people know about moving toilets so they appreciate the analogy when you're at a family reunion or something.
Top Chinese economist disappears after criticising Xi Jinping
I think you're right, but for the wrong reasons. There were two quotes in the comment you replied to:

> "our tech is so powerful that robots will take over"

> "lots of people getting hurt by a short-term profitable product/process which was actually quite flawed."

You response assumes the former, but it's my understanding the Luddite's actual position was the latter.

> Luddites objected primarily to the rising popularity of automated textile equipment, threatening the jobs and livelihoods of skilled workers as this technology allowed them to be replaced by cheaper and less skilled workers.

In this sense, "Luddite" feels quite accurate today.
Forget student debt forgiveness, what about all debt forgiveness, and illegalize charging interest?
I remember when the json stuff started coming out, I thought it was interesting but nothing I would ever want to rely on - boy was I wrong!

It is so nice having json functionality in a relational db - even if you never actually store json in your database, its useful in so many situations.

Being able to generate json in a query from your data is a big deal too.

Looking forward to really learning json_table
The burden of proof is on the people claiming that a powerful new technology won't ultimately improve our lives. They can start by pointing out all the instances in which their ancestors have proven correct after saying the same thing.
WordPress Bans WP Engine Customers
I think the problem is early employees and investors were convinced to invest their time and money into a non profit. They were told that one of the reasons they should donate/work there as opposed to Google was because they were a non profit focused on doing good. Now when it seems like that non profit is successful that all is being thrown out the window in service of a structure that will result in more profit for the people running the non profit
re: ECH

let the cat and mice game between deep packet inspection (DPI) vendors and the rest of the encrypted internet continue. it’ll be amusing to see what they come up with (inaccurate guessing game ai/ml “statistical analysis” is about all they’ve got left, especially against the large umbrella that is cloudflare).

game on, grab your popcorn, it will be fun to watch.
They had no term limits, a well whipped supermajority, and an immense amount of political capital. Nowadays, Presidents are term-limited, majorities are transient and fickle, and political capital is diffuse and quickly spent.
I’m being nitpicky here but if you’re not driving in an instructor’s car and have a second steering wheel and pedals, you can’t take over. You can only touch the steering wheel from the passenger seat and maybe the handbrake. Full control including pedal control is impossible.

As of now, I’d trust a teenager I’ve personally taught over some ML system any time.
I'm sorry, I know this isn't the point... And there's another entirely relevant/important conversation to be had here but...

Do magnets suck? I think magnets pull, but 'suck' to me involves a vacuum.

Also magnets very clearly rock...
Google attempted to write a network stack in Go for their Fuchsia OS, but it had to be ripped out and rewritten for performance reasons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409838
It’s my civic duty to expose my daughter to hostile vagrants and vulgar uncontrolled boys harassing her in front of bewildered and powerless staff?

I can’t imagine why these places are closing!
This is a conspiracy theory in terms of the Apple's intent. Everything written in the article is true and verifiable.

> I just don’t think any of those things is particularly bad

If it's fine with you that Apple sends info about every file you open on you Mac to their servers, read the corresponding discussion. The comments explain well why it's a serious privacy breach.
> Also ARM performance can be so much better than x86

Why would that be the case? Also ARM/Qualcomm haven't been taking desktop seriously at all and there is no indications that that might change anytime soon. ARM doesn't have any reference designs between Neoverse and the low-power/mobile ones.

Even Apple, if we look at raw performance the M2 Ultra in the Studio (for $4000) get destroyed by the $350 14700K. Their GPUs are nothing special either besides the shared memory which is useful for local AI.
Being a parent is the hardest job in the world, but it is also one of the most rewarding. Some folks are simply not cut out for it.

A helpful question to ask oneself before starting a family is: Are you able to love your child more than yourself? If the answer is yes, there is a good chance you will enjoy parenting. If the answer is no, then perhaps you should refrain from having a family and consider getting a pet instead.
That's funny, my impression was the opposite: that you'd almost always want a fixed-width integer to promote to bignum when it transcends the limit. It's a lot more sensible than adding a bunch of integers together and ending up with one which is smaller than any of the ones in the input.
No, it would not have been better for humanity if the Luddites had won. You'd have to be misguided, ignorant, or both to believe something like that.

It is not possible to rehabilitate the Luddites. If you insist on attempting to do so, there are better venues.
Also, this sort of thing couldn't be done in the 80s or 90s, because it was much harder to compile that much data.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/openai-to-become-for-p...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1rcDWH
Don't know about 2024, but my 2023 Honda Civic EX-B (Canadian market) is actually pretty old school. Yes, it has the keyless unlock and even a remote engine start button on the keyfob (can be disabled, thankfully - car is parked inside and we have kids!) But no cellular connectivity, no wifi, and all the touchscreen stuff is "extra icing" - all the controls you need are there in physical form except for some radio and cell phone call functions. Yes, the car may be vulnerable to signal boost kind of attacks (to pretend the keyfob is nearby when it's not) and possibly the "pop off a headlight and get into the CANbus" attack. But no cloud dependency and no way for the cloud to reach in and mess things up. Also, the software it does have seems "debugged" based on a year of using it.
Petrov Day Scenario
> but it would be impractical to make it book-sized

Not really:

History: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11279 (75 pp.)

Survey: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828 (88 pp.)

Conveniently skim-read over the course of the four weekends on one month.
“Fix lint” commits also taint git blame.

You could perhaps add some kind of filter to git blame to automatically skip commits whose message is “fix lint” but at some point the cure is worse than the disease.

I also see people argue that merge commits make git bisect harder than squashing in the first place but there is a third option: rebase and fast forward. If every commit in your branch is clean and stand-alone that’s viable. Linter fix commits break that paradigm.
This should be a bigger story, but rent control is one of the higher classes' compassionate-chic opinions that are all the rage right now.
https://archive.is/0OtyS
Incredible to witness someone not only confidently spouting misinformation, but also including a link to the correct information without reading it.
It’s terribly slow, given that it’s starting an entire Python process, configuring boto3, etc. that’s 2 seconds on my machine, just to run —help. And it’s all to make a single HTTP request (80ms)

Not sure if this is just pseudocode though.
if you keep your site on github, i found keystatic to be a really nice authoring experience:
https://github.com/Thinkmill/keystatic
Why would the average consumer car about intelligence of a foreign state? I, for one, have no fear of China presently but the climate in the USA isn't very pro free speech.
Considering you're not much of an artist or thinker yourself, I'm not sure your questioning has much value.
There are a lot of second order benefits to eating irish children, I think most would consider such a proposal modest.
Which implies that while the whole of ‘Australia and New Zealand’ can be referred to as ‘the antipodes’, Australia or New Zealand alone should be called ‘an antipus’.
But surely if they can punch fish they can click ads?
the real winner gets to poop
That's an interesting perspective. I'm not entirely sure you're right, but I feel you're not wrong! I've going to have to chew on this one.
Ok, I've changed it back. Sorry!
Tell us more about all the great things he’s doing.
I don't even understand what "anthropomorphizing humans" means.

"anthro" means human. "Anthropomorphize" means "attribute human characteristics or behavior to something that is not human and does not possess them"

Are you suggesting we are improperly considering humans to be human? or was that a joke I missed?
> Argentina’s poverty levels hit 57% of population, a 20-year high in January, study finds

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-poverty-levels-uca-stud...

> Winter deepens misery for Argentina's poor following Milei's financial cuts

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/winter-deepens-misery...

Yeah, real "great". As long as you don't care about your fellow humans.
It is not a "totally different topic" IMHO, but a spectrum of loyalty and commitment.

I don't know the magnitude of the expatriate phenomenon for US citizens. But it would seem that, if a country (e.g. Sudan, Cuba, Vietnam) encounters an atmosphere for people to flee and leave and renounce their citizenship, as refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrant workers, then that nation is losing their #1 most valuable resource. Does not your country depend on its citizens for wealth, peace, labor, and a future? By analogy, only by weak analogy, does a company depend upon subscribers for the same sorts of things.

I'm just saying that if the bonds of marriage no longer mean much at all, and we're all tenants renting our homes, rather than lifelong spouses or landowners, then the value of loyalty and commitment is already diminished, so who cares if I cancel my Cable TV?

https://youtu.be/V5DeDLI8_IM?si=S-t6z-zZpDviuoBM
From my experience, the rent control in Sweden is a total disaster.
No you can have AI. Just pay a license for people's content if you want to use it in your orphan crushing machine.

It's what everyone else does. The entitlement has to stop.
Using workers, email worker, kv, d1, service bindings. Proof of concept.
This sounds useful. Here are links that actually load on my phone.

- https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java

- https://forums.swift.org/t/improving-swift-support-and-inter...
> When both are operated by the same company, how can you know they aren't colluding?

You don't. At best the client can check domain names and IP addresses, but that's hardly a guarantee.

To solve that problem, you can combine multiple parties. For example, you can use https://odoh1.surfdomeinen.nl/proxy as a proxy (operated by SURF [1]) to use the Cloudflare servers for lookup.

I think for ODoH to work well, we need a variety of companies hosting forwarding services. That could be ISPs, Google/Microsoft/etc. or some kind of non-profit.

[1]: https://www.surf.nl/en
Truly human level AGI, able - amongst other things - to replace many jobs (where a physical presence is not required/helpful) will obviously be very valuable, but it does not appear that LLMs are on the path to that, certainly not anytime soon (and not without extending the architecture with new capabilities).

However, OpenAI don't even seem to have the goal of achieving this type of truly human level AGI - their own definition of AGI is along the lines of "able to perform most economically valuable tasks in a mostly autonomous fashion".
That's one theory. Another Theory is that the state is simply piling on and further exploiting these people.

A third theory is that the state shouldnt be in the position of playing nanny or parent, influencing behavior. If it is illegal, prevent it from happening. If it is legal, it shouldn't it shouldnt interfere.
* says landlords
You missed the obvious elephant in the room with the word sabotage.
I don’t love js/ts but Astro is so nice. Don’t have to fiddle with react or graphql. Just upgraded to 5 beta and nothing broke. Really well managed project. Oh, and page load speed is insane.
The OG Adult CC processor.
The real reason the rich support rent controls is that these will not undervalue their existing property.
>You can't just say that something is a lawyer any more than you could do the same with doctors or police officers

Do you think WebMD should be renamed? Lawyers seem to be better at defending their turf than doctors or cops.
I make multiple commits in the PR and squash it all on merge.

If the resulting squash is too big / touches too many things, it’s because I didn’t split the MR where I probably should have.

Because to me, the bigger waste of time is fiddling with all of the commits in the MR just to make it so that the MR can be merged without squashing.

If someone needs fine-grained history about how exactly a specific feature or bug fix came to be, they can always go to the MR itself and look at what happened there.
You remember that Facebook customer who got sued for breaking privacy agreements and profiling FB users? That’s the most public one.

Also the Russians sitting around posting on social media meme is still actively in use. I’ve seen it at least a handful of times this month
Why do you give CarPlay credit for those features? No need for CarPlay for any of those. What do you get from CarPlay that you don't get from a connected car without CarPlay?
Great write up, will be curious to see if Astro sticks around. It seems like all the static site gens last a few years then fade away - Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.
SlapbirdAPM a open-source all Perl application-performance-monitor for Perl apps
Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI
Sounds like another spoiled rich kid selfishly exploiting others for gain.
Exactly, the question is this move in the non profits best interests? It's definitely in the best interest of the people running the non profit but I think many of the early donors wouldn't feel like this was what they were signing up for
I am still not over the collapse of Gatsby (for reference i nearly joined the company in 2017, was saved only by my own character flaws).

They rode the highs - being the default docs tool for React, and building a massive ecosystem of integrations you could install out of the box. But too many abstractions, divided goals between cloud and OSS, and the better stewardship/design of Nextjs brought it down.

There were the simple lessons (https://swyx.io/a-world-without-plugins-cig). its easy to say in hindsight that graphql was too much for gatsby. i also believe the company went too hard for number of integrations over quality of them, an issue I had even in my interview. this was a poorer expression of the better insight that seb markbage had; just have a small api surface area bro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anAwXYqLG8)

But the bigger lesson is bitterer. Frontend tooling isnt worth that much. the fact that vercel is pretty much the only successful frontend startup of its generation makes it an exception to the rule (there are plenty of smaller companies that are thriving, like tailwind, but it is not a venture scale startup and thats fine). People dont pay for frontend tooling. they expect it to be free, expect it to do everything, get into internicine squabbles between frameworks when they are all basically doomed compared to just betting on React sponsored by Facebook and now Vercel (and a little bit of Shopify), or going back to fullstack frameworks like Django/Rails/Laravel. all frontend tooling, nextjs included, is just leadgen, loss leaders, while investors/salespeople patiently wait until you "grow up" by... building cloud backend/ci/cd services.

5 years ago i wrote about the "frontend ceiling" for individual developer careers (https://x.com/swyx/status/1682748872047886337) - i fear this is the "frontend ceiling" for companies.

I deeply admire Astro and hope they figure out a way to break the ceiling. Their recent cloud products have been encouraging.
It was well done on my previous car and current car. So it would appear that your claim does not hold.
What do you see as the biggest lifestyle choices they're making having an impact on their health that folks from urban areas aren't making as much?
In the article it says he'll now receive equity
Cars are regulated to high heaven. They don't regulate software quality because the unholy union of big business and government that is the current US auto sector and its regulators have yet to find a way or need to do so that benefits them.
Is that only iOS?
To clarify, I meant a scenario where that very simplest version is already upstream, and your feature-branch contains 5-6 commits which are all different refactoring-steps or making the string literals override-able or abstracted away.

When you need to rebase that onto main/master, there would be 5-6 stops to fix conflicts in a 3-way diff, and I don't think the kind of work in that example is compelling enough to justify that as opposed to having one (squashed) commit that simply states that you improved the method in several ways.

P.S.: Sometimes more commits can make refactoring easier instead, often when it comes to splitting file rename/move operations from changing their content.
> Last year, Libgen also told users that it's primarily funded through Google advertising. In the video, Libgen was warning users that while admins are difficult to unmask, "Google gets informed of every download, and if a user has ever registered with Google, then Google knows exactly who they are, what they've downloaded, and when they downloaded it."

This seems like... a bad plan if your goal is to run a website whose primary purpose is not entirely legal.
Please explain how in your mind are they doing remote climate control, then?
OpenAI founded as non-profit. Sam Altman goes on Joe Rogan Podcast and says he does not really care about money. Sam gets caught driving around Napa in a $4M exotic car. OpenAI turns into for-profit. 3/4 of founding team dips out.

Sketchy.

This whole silicon valley attitude of fake effective altruism, "I do it for the good of humanity, not for the money (but I actually want a lot of money)" fake bullshit is so transparent and off-putting.

@sama, for the record - I am not saying making is a bad thing. Labor and talent markets should be efficient. But when you pretend to be altruistic when you are obviously not, then you come off hypocritical instead of altruistic. Sell out.
This seems like Wordpress suicide. I've only somewhat followed the drama between Matt and WP Engine, but from what I can tell WP Engine technically isn't doing anything wrong. But it's very much a fine line. Going nuclear and blocking WP Engine customers (and Wordpress users) though seems like the worst way to go about handling this dispute and will cause a ton of goodwill to evaporate and trust issues to build up.
On a long enough timeline we all (with the exception of narcissists) see our younger selves as little idiots.
WP Engine and Trademarks
Betting companies are willing to pay far more compared to other industries since they gain the most from this sponsorship as well.

I am not from the US and NFL could probably handle it, but I am from a smaller country with smaller clubs. If betting companies sponsorship was banned many clubs, even in the top league, couldn't play on the pro or even the semi pro level.

They gain the most, but in addition they benefit from the sport being popular so they are willing to help invest in making sure that would be the case.
In my experience Waymo cars handle all sorts of unmapped and unpredictable situations very well. New construction sites, merging lane closures, detours, accidents, road signs that have been defaced or knocked down, malfunctioning signal lights, jaywalkers, bike riders running red lights, delivery trucks blocking lanes, double-parked cars, even missing manhole covers, debris in the roadway, etc.
I think you misunderstood the insinuation.[1] I believe they're suggesting that otherwise legitimate vulnerability concerns are discounted in favor of a laissez faire market policy unless and until the concerns are framed by a xenophobic narrative. IOW, xenophobia trumps capitalism, but not measured security concerns.

[1] But that's why sarcasm is usually frowned upon on HN.
The theory is rent control tends to reduce the desire for building more units. Not unfounded as who would build more and you ability to move with the market is hindered. Thus creating in a weird way more scarcity. If there is one that can drive prices up very nicely, its scarcity.
And yet like us they have two eyes. I wonder if we meet aliens from another star-orbiting planet if their light-sensors will look anything like ours.
Also featuring geneticaly modified super-intelligent octopuses, is "Manifold: Time" by Stephen Baxter.
Yes, there are plenty of thing in my life that I think about more than what Apple knows about the files I open. I can’t change it and it doesn’t help me to get twisted up in knots about it so I don’t worry about it.
They don't (at least, not in peace time), but the US government does. They also buy cars.

Also the concerns of the average consumer aren't a really good barometer for what should be legal. Most consumers gladly sign up for services that violate their privacy, because they don't understand the consequences at the time of purchase. Also people are pretty bad at estimating risks of unknown certainty even when they do know about them. If 'buyer-beware' worked, there would be no need for consumer protection law... but this segment of the law has originated from necessity.
Underneath the UI... (with a label saying: "Beware of the Leopard")
The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity (2021)
2 days ago, 5 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636731
Kristen Bell told Instagram-'get rid of AI' before she became its official voice
Fair points. I hadn't considered that a trial subscription is still a subscriber.
I don't understand the rules for when a piece is allowed to capture another piece.

EDIT: Oh, a piece can merge with any piece that has the same numerical value. This makes the game far more playable.