skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of philosophy, not license. The whole "release code under GPL but get angry when other people besides you start making more money than you do from it" thing is strikingly different from the attitude in the GPL FAQ:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.htm...

The difference I'm flagging is about why you write the code, not just what license you choose. Free Software is about user freedoms, which freedoms are in no way hampered by the existence of an entity like WP Engine but are hampered when you go scorched earth against said entity.
I exported 60k+ iMessages on Windows [video]
A further issue that’s often overlooked in English-language discussion is Russian-language books.

A lot of specialist scientific literature such as monographs only saw a single run of 300, 1000, or at best 3000 copies in the Soviet Union, and that’s it. If you’d missed it and didn’t have access to one of a handful of libraries that had it, tough luck. (To give an idea of what counts as specialist, the foremost textbook on general relativity, Gravitation by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, was translated into Russian in 1977 and had a single 3000-copy print run. The 1973 English original is still in print.)

Furthermore, when the Soviet Union fell, so for the most part did the publishing houses, and nobody knows where the offset printing films for the books went. So nobody can print Soviet books again without typesetting them from scratch, even those that weren’t rare. (Did you know that the new Russian edition of Gradshtein and Ryzhik’s special functions manual is technically a translation from Russian to English to Russian? Or so it says on the copyright page, anyway.)

In that environment, having widely available scans of books was absolutely vital; for those who teach students fresh out of high school who don’t necessarily know enough English, it still is. Today’s LibGen arose as an amalgamation of a number of those efforts from the early days of the Russian-speaking Internet.

One was maintained (unofficially) by people from the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University. Another was mirrored (unofficially) by a Moscow-based particle physics institute that until several years ago originated a large part of the Russian presence at CERN. I’m sure other Russian-speaking research centers contributed just as much or more, I’m just not familliar with that part of the history.

As Russian-language scientific publishing stagnated, and subscriptions to English-language literature by and large did not materialize (what with them costing most of a typical money-starved institute’s budget), obtaining scanned and ebook versions of English-language literature from Western acquaintances became more important. People gradually unified under LibGen’s banner, and here we are.

And yes, none of this ever got government support, as far as I know.
Dang! You beat me to it.
Those seem pretty minor, and are you sure Google doesn't allow a way for permission on the file to persist?

Even if it doesn't, you can access recent files from the Drive file picker.
And only wears the underwear on 92% of days!
JanusGraph: Distributed, open source scalable graph database
Most likely for the same reason you found. Once you know it, it's very easy to use, and it's available in most distributions (if not all). So both familiarity with Tcl, while having that ability to build out quick and stable GUI tests, including the lack of churn in the GUI framework. For myself, having to readapt to a GUI framework when I'm just trying to get something visual up and running to make life slightly easier, makes something like Tk much more beneficial for just getting work done. A bit ugly, but anyone technically inclined will figure it out quickly, without constantly having to change up libraries. I only speak for myself and put my 2 cents in, I don't speak for anyone else, but for general tooling targeted at developers it seems perfect.
> Ive honestly considered the same thing. Wouldnt it be nice to make a few tailored "masters" and then just make your own shirts off those. Perfect fit everytime time.

That’s just called going to a tailor.

But honestly, if you just want coton clothes, that’s not hard to find. It’s just more expensive.
GeoServer: An open source server for sharing geospatial data
The same artist (Jim Sanborn) did Cyrillic Projector, which is much easier to go see than Kryptos is at the CIA. It is located at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, by the Fretwell Building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_Projector

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NkefF3cBpzCY73ex7
Production of solar fuels: Storing the sun's heat at 1,200°C
GeoPackage: An Open Format for Geospatial Information
Not sure what happened:

404

File not found

The site configured at this address does not contain the requested file.
Gradually scale back your [great] leadership and find people to do well defined small parts of it. The dynamic flexible structure becomes rigid and decays much more slowly.

Eventually even the top tasks can be strictly defined and frozen in time.
The US outproduced the axis towards the end of the war but it was a real mess for the first few years while industries retooled and the government broke through obstacles like the aluminum cartel. It was only after Pearl Harbor and the formation of the War Production Board in 1942 that manufacturing really picked up because everyone felt the existential threat and organized against it.

The US can’t make cheap artillery shells because we don’t have much artillery manufacturing. Our armies just don’t use much artillery. We use mostly guided munitions dropped from planes and rockets fired from the ground, whereas Russian doctrine has always focused on artillery.
> It is really hard to describe just how much better Tk was than anything else in the time frame.

This[0] vs (from memory w/o a computer atm…):

#!/bin/env wish
button .b
.b configure -text “push me” -action {puts “don’t push me!”}
pack .b

[0] https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/X_lecture/node5.html...

======

#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include <Xm/PushB.h>

/* Prototype Callback function */

void pushed_fn(Widget, XtPointer, XmPushButtonCallbackStruct *);

main(int argc, char **argv)

{ Widget top_wid, button;
XtAppContext app;

top_wid = XtVaAppInitialize(&app, "Push", NULL, 0, &argc, argv, NULL, NULL);

button = XmCreatePushButton(top_wid, "Push_me", NULL, 0);
/* tell Xt to manage button */
XtManageChild(button);

/* attach fn to widget */
XtAddCallback(button, XmNactivateCallback, pushed_fn, NULL);

XtRealizeWidget(top_wid); /* display widget hierarchy */
XtAppMainLoop(app); /* enter processing loop */

}

void pushed_fn(Widget w, XtPointer client_data, XmPushButtonCallbackStruct *cbs)
{
printf("Don't Push Me!!\n");
}
Underwear shirts are usually thiner than tee shirts and are made to be worn under a shirt. You can’t really compare.

The issue here is that he buys them too cheap. Cheap underwear die incredibly fast because underwear tend to go through more wash cycles.
Not all stores are created equal.

If you use non Play Store stores on a device with the Play Store you will get a lot more prompts constantly reminding you of how unsafe it is and how comfy and warm it was back on the Play Store.

Google are damned if they do and damned if they don’t on that, but it is deserved, they have burned so much goodwill in the Android space.
Now if we could have reversing of Death Rally!!
BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software
I’m sure the superintelligent AI will convince humans to transport its core while plugged into a potato battery. But honestly did the supply chain attack on Lebanese pagers last week teach you nothing? AIs should be great at that.
Ask HN: How to Improve Memory?
What is the best way to improve memory?

I know note-taking is important and relevant, but I am more interested in what wetware tricks I can learn. Ideally I want to remember more context when coding, more about the tasks relevant to me, and be able to remember the entertainment I read and watch.

Note: I have aphantasia which means memory palaces don't work for me. I have discovered it is a sliding scale however, as I practice with visualizing and have noticed getting better at it.
No. It just depends on the jurisdiction you are in. It's not illegal where I am located.
Well, I wrote games as a child in BASIC in the 1980s which weren't on the same level as the commercial assembly-language games. but I still enjoyed doing so.
Enforcers Move to Cut Visa's Private Sales Tax
I'm sure it's less popular, but I heard you can google pirate bay proxies and get on there in 2 minutes. Not that I would ever do such an immoral and illegal thing, depriving publishers of their hard-earned dollars! But from what I've heard you can still get any recent media and a lot of older stuff.
It's possible that both things could be true. He may be a greedy liar while still being very concerned about ASI safety and wanting it to be controlled by humanity collectively (or at least the population of each country, via democratic means).

Maybe he is only a greedy liar. I don't know. I'm just stating my personal belief/speculation.
There is a difference between not imagining it will be valued at 100B and not imagining it will be 1B+ or a 100M exit.

It is quite likely they knew the latter as relatively low risk expected outcome .

Even at 100M exit, which by valley standards (even in 2010s) is not a lot, 1-2% (after further rounds of dilution) would have yielded 1-2M return . A 200x return for very little downside i.e. a gift .

There is a reason why there is FOMO and little due diligence for really hot startups amongst VCs , most times it is about access to the round which is difficult rather than risk of returns, we only read about the spectacular failures like FTX . We don’t hear about the Stripe, AirBnb, or Figma, OpenAI or spaceX funding rounds .
Is there no date on that post or I missed it somewhere? I mean it might be on the lines that if the oracle says something it becomes dateless. Yeah, that could be it.
This was just the author's current issue on Android. In another month or two it would have been something else. I fought similar battles for the better part of a decade before finally giving up when Google's policies made it so that even keeping apps running (at least in my case) was an economic non-starter. The sheer amount of bureaucratic B.S.[1] they constantly fling at you while simultaneously bit-rotting existing applications is insane.

[1] Sometimes it's related to their store listing policies which are constantly changing, sometimes it's related to taxation in a specific country, sometimes it's related to laws in a specific country, sometimes it's actually related to software (on-device or web services!) they are forcing you to update/change etc. etc.
the running joke is to call it the organization.

i coin a protocol in 2005 and in 2007 i•ve combined 6 torrents into one archive. Clearly Im an upstanding member of the organization.
I think it's rather one of these:

1. Naah, it's not gonna lead to AGI, not here at least.

2. If it's gonna be a for profit then why the hell I should stick here - maybe go somewhere that pays me more, or maybe I will start my own dig.

3. Or maybe, selling the snake oil is more profitable if I start my own brand of snake oil which is kinda close to point 2 anyway.
You can use --data in nmap to send it easily to the range of hosts (but the server is still needed).
As with Healy's fire leaving the US without an icebreaker this summer, this week a grounding apparently left the US Navy without an oiler in the Middle East[1]. Similar systemic shipbuilding challenges and fragility.

[1] https://gcaptain.com/us-navy-oiler-usns-big-horn-aground-for...
Having digitised a few VHS tapes, the (personal) time consumer was verifying whether the capture was successful and of acceptable quality. Is anyone aware of a way to automate the quality control?
Sam Altman tells staff there’s no plan for him to receive ‘giant equity stake’
He is using it as advertising. Saying he will publish what others won’t so subscribe to me.
> Not surprising given the current administration opposes some of Starlink's "questionable" objectives.

The current administration is pouring billions into SpaceX sats (Starshield, custom Starlink-like secretive sats for US gov). Also, your link is presenting obvious bullshit from AI chatbot as a fact.
Doesn't make it morally or ethically okay
FWIW they don't allow developers to self verify any more (as of this year).
Perhaps ubuntu.com is blocked in your country.
Being a huge pain in the ass probably does filter out a lot of trivial malware that doesn’t have the resources to jump though these hoops, especially when it might only last a week or so before they get shut down and have to start again.
> It's not "just" sequence prediction, because sequence prediction is the very essence of what the human brain does.

Agree wrt the brain.

Sure, LLMs are also sequence predictors, and this is a large part of why they appear intelligent (intelligence = learning + prediction). The other part is that they are trained to mimic their training data, which came from a system of greater intelligence than their own, so by mimicking a more intelligent system they appear to be punching above their weight.

I'm not sure that "JUST sequence predictors" is so inappropriate though - sure sequence prediction is a powerful and critical capability (the core of intelligence), but that is ALL that LLMs can do, so "just" is appropriate.

Of course additionally not all sequence predictors are of equal capability, so we can't even say, "well, at least as far as being sequence predictors goes, they are equal to humans", but that's a difficult comparison to make.

> Your points on learning and memory are similarly weak word play. Memory means holding some quantity constant over time in the internal state of a model. Learning means being able to update those quantities. LLMs obviously do both.

Well, no...

1) LLMs do NOT "hold some quantity constant over time in the internal state of the model". It is a pass-thru architecture with zero internal storage. When each token is generated it is appended to the input, and the updated input sequence is fed into the model and everything is calculated from scratch (other than the KV cache optimization). The model appears to be have internal memory due to the coherence of the sequence of tokens it is outputting, but in reality everything is recalculated from scratch, and the coherence is due to the fact that adding one token to the end of a sequence doesn't change the meaning of the sequence by much, and most of what is recalculated will therefore be the same as before.

2) If the model has learnt something, then it should have remembered it from one use to another, but LLMs don't do this. Once the context is gone and the user starts a new conversation/session, then all memory of the prior session is gone - the model has NOT updated itself to remember anything about what happened previously. If this was an employee (an AI coder, perhaps) then it would be perpetual groundhog day. Every day it came to work it'd be repeating the same mistakes it made the day before, and would have forgotten everything you might have taught it. This is not my definition of learning, and more to the point the lack of such incremental permanent learning is what'll make LLMs useless for very many jobs. It's not an easy fix, which is why we're stuck with massively expensive infrequent retrainings from scratch rather than incremental learning.
That sounds miserable. This is why apps end up enshittified with forced cloud services.
People who enjoy believing their fate is out of their control will do anything to maintain that belief and see their whole lives through that lens.

Personally, it’s more fun to think that I’m the one in control of my fate so I choose to live that way. And it turns out when I do that, I end up in control of my fate.

It’s crazy how that works.
> Sometimes I think about where I would be in life if I had no moral or ethical qualms. I'd probably be running a company like this.

And that's why you're not a criminal. This is a criminal act and approved and implemented by criminals. Main thing is in the US it usually pays to do white collar crime as long as it's not too big or too embarassing to politicians.
If you mean use someone else’s printer, I do it occasionally. Usually TTRPG character sheets. I am so happy AirPrint is common now. Makes my life easier.

If you mean send something from outside of my house to my house, I’ve done using a vpn.
They matter MORE. Are you like, completely unfamiliar with Spiderman and the whole great power great responsibility line??
The benchmark for Zstandard against Brotli seems to miss a key information---the compression levels used for both algorithms, because both the compression ratio and compression time will depend on them. In fact this had been my long suspicion about introducing Zstandard to the web standard, because lower compression levels for Brotli are not that slow and it was never publicly mentioned whether improving lower Brotli levels deemed infeasible or not. Given Zstandard Content-Encoding was initially proposed by Meta, I'm not even sure they have at least tried.

Given we now have two strictly better algorithms than gzip, I also wonder about a hybrid scheme that starts with Zstandard but switches to Brotli when the compression time is no longer significant for given request. We might even be able to cheaply convert the existing Zstandard stream into Brotli with some restrictions, as they are really LZSS behind the scene?
Slight OT: I thought WordPress.com migrated away from using “WordPress” nearly a decade ago (to a custom nodejs app)

https://wordpress.com/blog/2015/11/23/the-story-behind-the-n...
> If you use non Play Store stores on a device with the Play Store you will get a lot more prompts constantly reminding you of how unsafe it is and how comfy and warm it was back on the Play Store.

I am an F-Droid user, and I have only ever seen this a single time, when I first enabled sideloading in a pop-up. Maybe it's only a Samsung thing, but I have never gotten a Play Store nag related to third-party software stores in my life.
You get a lot of organic installs from Google Play Store, and almost none from alternative stores like Huawei or Amazon Store.

This is because it is where there is the traffic.
I'm getting the same error. This appears to be the article in question: https://github.com/Jorenar/blog/blob/gh-pages/_posts/2023-02...
Looks like they also have added career mode in 2024.
https://msfsaddons.com/2024/09/19/heres-how-the-career-mode-...
Yes, its truly impossible to

SELECT *
FROM receivers
WHERE receiver_location = Ukraine
AND receiver_speed > 100
AND receiver_registered_with_GRU = false
ORDER BY registration_date ASC;
As a user of Google drive, I’m so glad it works like this. I have a ton of random apps that store stuff in my drive that I don’t fully trust, and it’s very reassuring that they only have permission to read the files that they created.

I’m certain that if the full drive access was easy to get, they would all use that as the path of least resistance. And some of those apps would be sucking all of my data out to some random server.
Cursor's code editor 1000%
You mean building a model of the atmosphere? That's what numerical weather models do and they've existed for decades. There are physical ones like ECMWF and newer ML-based ones like ECMWF-AIFS which uses neural networks.

This is quite a comment.
> Maybe we do, maybe we don't.

If I'm in a workplace like that then I wouldn't be surprised to find a poor git flow.

> How are you going to track that dependency.

The commit graph (which is linear due to rebasing). The extra parameter commit comes before the commits using it. If you want to remove that parameter then you have to revert the features that rely on it or refactor them, there's no magical way to keep dependent code if you want to revert the code it depends on. Having logically atomic commits makes this easier, not more difficult.

> Maybe there are two tickets with a mutual dependence.

Then rebase on each other's work until its ready for review (or, even better, don't work on dependent features in the same sprint). Again, logical, atomic commits would make that easier.

The real point is, what do you do when someone introduces a parameter in two functions, one is related to your work but the other isn't, and they bundled both changes in one commit, and the changes aren't even related. Now that's a mess.
It’s because you’re an adult. It’s specifically crafted to engagement hack literal elementary school students. And youtube rewards him for it.
I am very unfamiliar with the protocol, but my impression from a little reading is that the sharing computer broadcasts and the receiver listens. This appears to be for some CUPS specific browsing/discovery protocol rather than mDNS/DNS-SD (cups-browsed supports adding printers discovered that way but depends on avahi to handle the mDNS part).

EDIT: Here's a description of the protocol in question: https://opensource.apple.com/source/cups/cups-327/cups/doc/h...
100% agreed, and I've had the exact thought about soap (shampoo, in my case)! I love stores with 'bulk' sections, but they're usually just a small selection of dry cereals, beans, and nuts. Now, to work properly with your own jars, I think you'd want a shopkeeper doing the filling, so he could check the tare. A return to the general store of old, to some extent.
Honestly... there's no obvious transparency so who knows, or cares, why the same 10 websites show an increase in some arbitrary concept of sentiment that changes .001 to .009 arbitrary units?
That's exactly what someone trying to maximize the value of their equity would say.
Perhaps Google should have pointed this out in its review instead of just recommending read-only access.
My guess is it's a reference to this document [0], arguing that interdisciplinary research is indistinguishable from it. Not sure I agree, honestly.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
The lighting, clouds, weather are great and make it look beautiful. Nature looks great in the game. But in terms of urban areas, particularly buildings and roads it is much much worse than Google Maps/Earth. You also see the seams in the construct in places like coastlines.
If they had an informal development in exchange for server access type relationship then that would qualify as some sort of obligation.

Doesn't really have anything to do with open source though. Haven't seen anything about matt/wordpress.org/Automattic trying to prevent them from using open source code.
Trademarks are largely (but not exclusively) about preventing consumer confusion. I can offer a course called "Learn how to use Excel like a pro" and not get sued by MS, as long as I'm not making it seem like I'm Microsoft.

Just like DigitalOcean can say "We will rent you an Ubuntu server". We can argue about whether calling something "Wordpress Hosting" or "Hosting a Wordpress site" is different, but I think WP Engine is being perfectly reasonable. "Wordpress Hosting" is as generic as Kleenex and Xerox at this point.
I was always surprised why it isn't the case. I mean, if I can see the messages without login, why "blocking" would suddenly hide them with the login? That makes zero sense.
"for some weird reason" when Altman was an important player at YC and PG still sings his praises.
There is a way, which is through buildout enforcement. Basically, if you don't meet buildout deadlines and cover x% of pops within a specific time period, you forfeit the license. It should probably be a lot more stringent and with tighter deadlines, but the mechanism already exists.

It hasn't ever really been an issue with any spectrum that they've bought in the past, and it has only ever been a concern with mmWave spectrum, because the costs of coverage are much higher than were ever anticipated with their tiny effective ranges. Anything below 3GHz seems to get built out and used extremely quickly.