skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never fully understood the motivation to work on OSS. Don't get me wrong there isn't anything that I write on my personal time that I have a problem sharing with others or even making PD. What I don't want to do is to be responsible for software that I am not being compensated for (compensation does not have to be money). I have children, grandchildren, animals, and personal goals that require my time so I just cannot see trading away these things to maintain software. I can see how software could be part of my personal goals in a way similar to building a cherry sideboard but the difference is that no one will request features or bug fixes for my sideboard after it is completed.
> talented people rationalise the donation of their labour

Second comment now stating this or something similar. I don't understand where the connection of "My projects are MIT" <> "Donation of labor" comes from, is it my own labor that is being donated to myself? The public? Something is missing in these arguments y'all are making.
I mean it depends. In Toronto you could do that (and I usually agree with you about say, home security), but then you don't really choose where you get to park your car every time. And in a way I'd be more stressed to know that I could lose my car if I parked it somewhere that I don't know, and that I can't do anything about it once it gets stolen, versus just putting 2 locks.

But again, I totally agree with you about the weirdness of people going full military compounds in residential areas.
If you're in DC, rather than pay to go to the spy Museum with the tourists, etc. go up 95 just south of Baltimore, Washington international Airport and go to the NSA museum. It's free. Enigma galore.

You could also go south of DC about 30 minutes to Warrenton, where the cold war museum is. It's also free and run bY Francis Gary Powers Jr.
All these models train on the same data (sort of) and so all will pretty quickly reach the same asymptote.
Lol seriously there are deterministic commands I can run that give me correct and verified boilerplate to stand up APIs. Why would I trust some probabilistic analysis of all code found online (while dissipating ungodly amounts of energy and water) to do it instead?
People conceive of gambling as a game where the house typically has a slight edge through fees, information, or structural advantage in the game itself. I don't think this "ban if winning" behavior fits with people's model of "fairness" even in the intrinsically unfair world of gambling.

I think a very good first step legislation would be to require disclosure of this behavior. Public appetite would probably be very strong and it wouldn't run afoul of any of the other "people should be free to play games" arguments. You can play the game, but the owner of the game is required to disclose the rules of it.
Unscheduled saturation of b/w this week so i shant be able to get to deeper [QEDITS1|2:]for a while.

Yes. And communism — esp. the secrecy aspect, in relation to YC/SIGINT.. “waste is inevitable but rivalry is optional” {waste->pleasure,rivalry->reward} in same snowclone, so… universalism, too. And organized skepticism (like those paradoxical games where victory is uncorrelated with effort,motivation,or intent; Simplicitas’ dual, sprezzatura misses the point)

Wont be surprised if Nikolai Feodorovich turns out to have been a crypto-raskolnik all along

>Fyodorov opposed the idea of property of books and ideas and never published anything during his lifetime.

Right. Pietists would not be classified as weird in the Rao taxonomy, so radical pietists sounds just like hypernormal. So who indeed are the proweird antimeritocrats? Practical (entheogenic,texting) sufi-taoists? Such that friendly neighborhood incomprehensibility is very much an organization feature?
race as an idea is a societywide royalty of blood, which is why its so widespread in failed democracies with despots."We are all zhar/oligarch/king" and those not from here are the serfs.its the very same idea just bastardized.
I have a friend who professionally plays video poker, and has been doing that for a very long time. He runs Monte Carlo simulations to find his strategies around various kinds of promotions and specials that casinos offer. He has about a 2-5% edge whenever he plays, and maximizes his bet size and machine time to take advantage of this. Casinos don't care about this sort of thing because the strategy he plays is usually batshit insane compared to how you would think video poker ought to be played (eg "throw away cards from a flush to mine for a straight flush" is a frequent rule he uses), and is very complicated. They lose ~$10k a week to the three people like him who can do this, but more than make up for it in the rubes that come in the door from those promotions.

These sorts of inefficiencies, and often even true arbitrage bets, show up in sports betting because the bets you need to make are so complicated. There is a team at Susquehanna that does sports gambling as their form of trading, and they will sometimes play these sorts of arbitrages against bookies. I remember hearing about a perfectly-hedged arbitrage of 8 different bets from one member of that team in a specific gambling forum, but the bets were all so arcane that very few other players were playing each one.
This class sounds interesting. Where can I learn more about these techniques? (I'm curious, not planning on using them!)
I fell in love with them when I visited Tokyo and I was pleasantly surprised to find them in a lot of grocery stores in Paris recently. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to get them in the UK at least not in the big supermarkets.
So even if your company has its own mailserver everyone is locked out of email if some Microsoft services are down, again. Brilliant.
Lessons from Using Google Gemini for Video Analysis
> The default matters.

The default is no clear.

It could be the default is to clear and then I would agree that an isatty check would be necessary. But an isatty check for an explicit option here would be as weird as an isatty check for --color=always for something like ls.

> The bare terminal is too bad for UX

I think it depends on the task and the person. You wouldn't see me doing image editing, 3d modelling, audio mastering, or web browsing in a terminal. But for things which do not suffer for it (a surprising number of tasks) it's strictly better UX than a GUI equivalent.

> emojis

Yes, I dislike these. I especially remember when suddenly my terminal would colour emojis because someone felt it was a good idea to add that to some library as a default. :(

> I think you have been sidetracked then, as the very starting point was about cargo-watch being apparently too large. It's too large partly because of bloated dependencies but also because dependencies are composed instead of being inlined. Your point shifted from no dependencies (or no compositions as an extension) to minimal compositions, at least I feel so. If that's your true point I have no real objection.

Well no, I think you can build a cargo-watch equivalent (with a bit of jank) from disparate utilities running in a shell script and still have fewer total lines.

And sure, the line count is a bit inflated with a lot of things not being compiled into the final binary. But the problem we're discussing here is if it's worth to depend on a bunch of things when all you're using is one or two functions.

As I understand it, whenever doing anything with windows, you pull in hideous quantities of code for wrapping entire swathes of windows. Why can't this be split up more so that if all I want is e.g. file watching that I get just file watching. I know windows has some basic things you inevitably always need, but surely this isn't enough to make up 2M SLOC. I've written C code for windows and yes it's painful but it's not 2M SLOC of boilerplate painful.

Large complex dependency graphs are obviously not a problem for the compiler, it can chug away, remove unnecessary shit, and get you a binary. They're usually not a big problem for binary size (although they can still lead to some inflation). But they are a massive issue for being able to work on the codebase (long compilation times) or review the codebase (huge amounts of complexity, even when code isn't called, you need to rule out that it's not called).

And huge complex dependency graphs where you're doing something relatively trivial (and honestly file watching isn't re-implementing cat but it's not a web browser or an OS) should just be discouraged.

We both agree that you can get this done in under 50k lines. That's much easier to manage from an auditing point of view than 4M lines of code, even if 3.9M lines end up compiled out.
I think the problem is the author's attitude. If suddenly my open source project becomes super popular and I don't have the time to give to it then that's a problem. I choose my own priorities. The open source software does not choose for me.
Maybe some percentage of invitees? I can definitely see the need to disincentivize imprudent inviting, but one mistake is pretty rough. Surely you’ve met somebody in real life who’s revealed themselves as a jerk after initially appearing ok.
There is still an element of truth. If you don't provide KYC for a bank account there is now a crime if it is knowingly allowed. You could go offshore but now you need to report the account. You could form an anonymous LLC but law recently changed an now must report UBO to fincen.

You could store cash/gold in an anonymous safe deposit, but FBI raid and steal this. You cant fly with large cash because again feds steal it. You can't carry it out the country in large without reporting it.

Crypto, same story, KYC at the exits and P2P offramp actors getting treated as 'unlicensed money transmitter' etc which again triggers KYC.

Quickly you realize it's about shutting off all the exits of privacy, not money laundering which only has increased cost consolidating power to more dangerous organizations.
CNN is the most popular news website in the US by a huge margin and they are confident enough in their position that they're going to start testing out a paywall next month.
I was going based on Wikipedia. Sam was 20 when his YC batch started, and also would have already been 20 for the YC interview. But it was close -- a few months, so it wouldn't surprise me if that gets elided in a dramatic retelling.

I'm not sure how it's relevant that you worked in a donut shop? Surely you're aware that isn't the peak of over-achievement at the age of 20? God, watch the Olympics if you want to see a bunch of very determined young people. Or go to an Open Source conference. Or, as it were, YC. Sam was only slightly younger than normal there. Some 20 year olds have accomplished a lot.

You seem to really want to create a villain out of the situation, which is kind of weird. Mentors and investors are usually older, and 20 years isn't rare. That's hardly Silicon Valley specific.

You also repeated the false thing about him getting a stake in Stripe as a teenager again. Again, Stripe came into existence when Sam was 25. There's just no version of that story that works. I don't know about Sam's Stripe investment, but at that point he was already around YC a lot, even though Loopt was still going. He probably just got in with other angel investors. But at that point he was in his mid-20s and running a Sequoia-backed company, so that's not especially weird.

(There's genuine stuff to be critical of in the trajectory of OpenAI, but this seems like a really weird spot to latch onto.)
It was a new plan, too. This is my first device with this carrier.
Excellent on stage in A German Life, even when the writing wasn't up to her acting. And the Lady In The Van!

RIP Maggie Smith
No they don't.

And what is with all the gushing coverage of something that will never be sold? It must be the idea that at some point it will be, and maybe so, but right now it's just a prototype. You'll never see it. I'll never see it. We'll just hear secondhand in blogs, podcasts, and videos.

It's nothing more than a hype cycle.
I didn't know Diana Riggs died :( She really brought the Queen of Thorns to life.
> i wonder if there's a setting somewhere where it's like use it at your peril, this is a for fun project or something.

Yeah, it's called a "license" typically and my favorite one includes "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND" which you can refer people to if they are trying to "force" you to implement some feature/fix.
Yeah I've also been playing with ChatGPT etc. and sometimes they can produce great code, or at least get you up to speed a lot faster. As long as you ask them questions about well known problems they're great, but break down after that. But they're definitely going to play more and more of a role going forward.

What I really want to explore (and where I think there might be some big room for improvement) are around how we represent and visualize both code and data, as well as how we interact with it. Full visual programming has often been tried before and while it works fine for a while it begins to break down once projects become more complicated.

I instead want to explore some alternate text based options where we use the visual aspect as an assistant, whether by grouping or collating blocks that we're working on, changes that needs to be made and so forth.
www.machine-ethics.net if you've interested in the ethics of AI
I'm kind curious, did Canada have the same spike in the "knockout game" that the US did?

If it did, that would point to a US and Canada crime trend correlation. If not, then you can't just say that the one static variable, city/county level policy and the independent variable, immobilizers, are the only factors.

You have different criminal populations, societal values, amounts of government aid, rehabilitation programs, etc that all play into the analysis.
If you haven't already make sure you watch Brideshead revisited.

You have Phoebe Nicholls (who played Lady Rose's mother) and Diana Quick (Polina Molotova in The Death of Stalin and the Queen in the eponymous BBC series) doing some similar social machinations in the background of an absolutely stacked period-drama with a cast including Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier, and John Gielgud.
To clarify, is it still a terrorist regime when it's not actually targeting civilians, but only by coincidence civilians and civilian infrastructure are close to the regime's military targets?
Is there any particular reason you'd want to use an FPGA for this? Unless your problem space is highly dynamic (e.g. prototyping) or you're making products in vanishing low quantities for a price insensitive market (e.g. military) an ASIC is always going to be better.

There doesn't seem to be much flux in the low level architectures used for inferencing at this point, so may as well commit to an ASIC, as is already happening with Apple, Qualcomm, etc building NPUs into their SOCs.
Fair, there are probably two threads to this.

New product that push that bar and can command a decent margin (and good staff salaries) as long as there's a business case/demand and feature-sets that currently command a decent margin will be available for dirt cheap prices (managed by one or two person outfits).

Your comment really got me thinking, it's time to upskill haha. Aside from biotech and robotics do you see any areas particularly ripe for this push?
What about open source users? Haven't they been liberated from exploitation somewhat due to the work of open source developers?
video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6F0PgMcKWM
That argument holds no water because the grifters aren't the source of this idea. I literally don't believe Altman at all; his public words don't inspire me to agree or disagree with them - just ignore them. But I also hold the view that transformative AI could be very close. Because that's what many AI experts are also talking about from a variety of angles.

Additionally, when you're talking with certainty about whether transformative AI is a few years away or not, that's the only way to be wrong. Nobody is or can be certain, we can only have estimations of various confidence levels. So when you say "Seems unreasonable", that's being unreasonable.
>Since day one, I set a static IP and prevented internet access simply by removing the gateway IP (I've recently upgraded my router and blocked internet access entirely). I also use a driver from 2021.

Printers are cursed like that.

I won't be surprised once we have ink cartridges with builtin fw version numbers which make the printer stop working until its firmware is updated to the latest version, which then can only be done by connecting it to the internet.

They already sucked enough to annoy Stallman to the point of making him come up with GNU back then. They only got worse.

Actual printing tech hasn't advanced all that much.

This ridiculous situation exists only because we do not have an Open Hardware (OSH) printer. If we got one (1), everybody would get that one, and the farce would forcibly end. No more bullshit.
If sports betting bothers you, you spend too much time playing or watching sports ;)
Roku themselves have said that they are in the Ad business, not in the tech business, and they were getting around $40 per user a month (also in [0]).

That is a mind blowing stat. Obviously advertisers are willing to pay, but I am curious hope much the granular information is worth.

If someone watches anime/Hallmark/cooking genre content, do you need to know which specific shows?
You’re the only one bringing up politics
This blog is so disingenuous.

> I feel for impacted end users. But that they were impacted at all is WP Engine’s fault and responsibility to fix.

Users are impacted because the update mechanism was pulled out from under them with no advanced warning, that's not WP Engine's fault.
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions although this project was from 10+ years ago so I could be a little rusty.

Over the years I've been trying to find better ways to do this kind of visualization but for other CS topics. Moving to video is the most realistic option but using something like After Effects takes A LOT of time and energy for long-form visualizations. It also doesn't produce a readable output file format that could be shared, diff'd, & tweaked.

I spent some time on a project recently to build out an SVG-based video generation tool that can use a sidecar file for defining animations. It's still a work in progress but hopefully I can get it to a place where making this style of visualizations isn't so time intensive.
Like gambling?
I use phind which does searches to provide additional context
ooh interesting, will investigate that
There is no copyright with AI unless you want to implement the same measures for humans too. I am fine with it as long as we at least get open-weights. This way you kill both copyright and any company that's trying to profit out of AI.
So, what's the big deal? We've seen this same sort of thing happen with literally thousands of news media sites over the last 10 years.

Seems the real intention here is say that since there are affiliate ads and advertorials on the site, the entire site is somehow "fake news".

That's quite a stretch.

A fake news site would say something like Covid is "just the flu". Or maybe, let's say, endorse lies about an election being rigged.

Or focus on new conspiracy theories. Every. Single. Week.

Neither site does anything like that — No reputable news organization would ever do something that irresponsible, right?

That would be fake news.
You find? I usually find it more and more edited to favour left-wing and work views on current and political events.

I just go to severs social media sites so I get at least both biases
I see the same way. My current strategy is what I think I should have done in the dotcom bubble: carefully avoid pigeonholing myself in the hype topics while learning the basics so I can set up well positioned teams after the dust settles.
Not to sound too dismissive, but there is a distinct learning curve when it comes to using models like Claude for code assist. Not just the intuition when the model goes off the rails, but also what to provide it in the context, how and what to ask for etc. Trying it once and dismissing it is maybe not the best experimental setup.

I've been using Zed recently with its LLM integration so assist me in my development and its been absolutely wonderful, but one must control tightly what to present to the model and what to ask for and how.
There seems to be some implicit connection between "work on OSS" and "maintain software" which isn't a required part anywhere.

The only thing required for you to make something FOSS is to make the code public with a FOSS-compatible license. Your responsibility as the author ends there, unless you take it further yourself. You don't owe anyone bugfixes or implementing new features. If they want those, they can implement them yourself.
Yeah the most confusing thing to me is how the hell code that bad ever got so big.

It’s literally my go-to example of why the MVC design pattern is so good for web development. There is basically no view/controller separation - you can change core behavior of the backend in a template.
Just Stop Oil protesters sentenced 2years for throwing soup on Van Gogh painting
Such fortuitous stumblings happen all the time without LLMs (and in regular libraries, for those brave enough to use them). It's just the natural byproduct of doing any kind of research.
> Why is any attempt at financial privacy deemed money laundering?

Is it? I thought laundering money is only illegal if it's covering up illegal activity. Otherwise how is that different from e.g. the shell corporations that mask the sources of their funds.
Right, but Paxos is double hard in comparison. I’ve read both papers multiple times, tried to implement and failed, and I still don’t think I understand Paxos.
I've been using Feedly for a bit now after something changed with the Google aggregator that Android has available as an option on the home screen changed something and became impossible for me to filter out certain sources from (maybe related to the engine changes discussed in this thread and in the article?)

It's solidly...okay. It's very good aggregating everything I want, and for the most part it's able to avoid things that I'd absolutely not be willing to overlook, but it has some quirks in terms of the filters weirdly not working for me on fairly benign topics (no matter how much I try, I can't get it to stop showing me content from various sports like soccer, basketball, and golf despite the only sport I care about being baseball). They seem to really hype their AI features in the app, which is a little weird because I don't care how they aggregate behind the scenes and they shouldn't need AI to be able to filter articles they literally already tag as "golf" when I have "golf" listed in my filters as "never show", but it's not annoying enough that I've bothered trying to find an alternative yet.
Our greatest shitpost yet.
Yeah, but companies need to see the savings on the bottom line, in real dollars, before they are going to be spending $1000/seat for this stuff. A theoretical, or actual, 1-5% of time saved typing is most likely not going to mean you can hire fewer people and actually reduce payroll, so even if the 1-5% were to show up on internal timesheets (it won't!), this internal accounting will not be reflected on the bottom line.
My local paper was sold to Gannett (USA Today) a few years ago. It's a complete shadow of what it used to be (to be fair the decline started long before the sale, as with many local papers). They are down from a full newsroom to a handul of local reporters, I'm not even sure all of them are full-time. Most of their content is just USA today stories or news from other Gannett papers.

There are a couple of bloggers who cover local government, otherwise there's really no in-depth local reporting on anything anymore.