skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was growing up, it was a Christmas tradition for my family to take the local train system (SEPTA) from Delaware to Philly to visit the exhibits at the old Gallery mall. It was a rough, dirty, and crowded ride, and it felt like forever as it stopped at every station. My grandparents would take my mother when she was growing up.

Decades later it still left a positive impact on me.
Dell asks global sales team to work five days a week in office
I hear these stories, and I have to wonder, how useful is the app really? Was it actually built to address a need or was it built to learn the coding tool? Is it secure, maintainable, accessible, deployable, and usable? Or is it just a tweaked demo? Plenty of demo apps have all those features, but would never serve as the basis for something real or meet actual customer needs.
Yeah, I read this blog post and thought throughout the whole thing, "Is this person just completely unaware of how the media and branding industries work?" He tries to make it out to be some great "scandal" when literally tons and tons of media brands outsource sections of their website.

Now, to be clear, I'm not exactly excusing CNN for this, but literally for years now I've rolled my eyes at the extremely spammy/low quality/clickbait ads that have appeared on CNN articles online. The fact that they've outsourced part of their "Underscored" site, which isn't exactly journalism to begin with, is not something I care about. And in case you missed it, journalism has had a blood bath over the past 25 years. While I think what CNN is doing in terms of affiliate ads is scammy, can I really blame them? Hardly anyone wants to pay for journalism these days, but journalists still want to eat. At least with these clickbait ads I find them so low quality that they don't confuse me into being "real" articles.
Don't expect it to come with a 5090.
It doesn't help that wordpress.org urls are hardwired into the source. WPE of course has the resources to patch them, but making it customizable was clearly not a priority for Automattic, who collects all the telemetry data -- and notably does not share it with plugin devs.
CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it
How do you now they are completely separate? Or that there is no oversight?

Answer: You don't know. You're just speculating.
Radical copy left like agpl already discourages tons of people, so I just use that
The idea of knowledge as a source of understanding and personal growth is completely oppositional to it's conception as a scarce resource, which to OpenAI and whomever else wants to train LLMs is what it is. OpenAI did not read everything in the library because it wanted to know everything; it read everything at the library so it could teach a machine to create a statistical average written word generator, which it can then sell access to. These are fundamentally different concepts and if you don't see that, then I would say that is because you don't want to see it.

I don't care if employees at OpenAI read books from their local library on python. More power to them. I don't even care if they copy the book for reference at work, still fine. But utilizing language at scale as a scarce resource to train models is not that and is not in any way analogous to it.
My eyes read it as reality. I think it fits too.
I am confident you didn't understand my comment. I didn't say anything about "level of bugs".
> And the most important thing is that humans learn.

Implementation detail that will be solved as the price of AI training decreases. Right now only inference is feasible at scale. Transformers are excellent here since they show great promise at 'one shot' learning meaning they can be 'trained' for the same cost as inference. Hence the sudden boom in AI . We finally have a taste of what could be should we be able to not only inference but also train models at scale.
That would be good for more than just thinking.

Both long periods of sitting at your regular desk or standing at a standing desk are not good for you. For computer work what is best from a health standpoint is to work at a desk with a chain, monitor, keyboard, and mouse that have all been placed and adjusted for good ergonomics, and every 20-30 minutes stand up and move around for a few minutes. See [1].

The moving around doesn't have to be vigorous exercise. Just walking around is good enough, such as one of your trips to the toilet.

I find it interesting that taking a break for a few minutes every 20-30 minutes fits in with the "Pomodoro" system of time management. In that system you split your work day into 25 minute segments where you actively work, separated by short breaks.

I've not seen anything on why they picked 25 minutes for Pomodoro. I wonder if it is just a coincidence that it is close to how often you should take breaks for physical health reasons.

[1] https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html
> The homepage of Wordpress.org SCREAMS open-source. But, is it really though? It is an ecosystem around a centralised (plugin) repository controlled by one person/entity. That's not truly open source.

According to whom? It is open source in the measure that you're allowed to fork and redistribute your modified version. That satisfies the open source definition. If those plugins are open source themselves WPE can set up their own repository and point to it. If it's not, well, they decided to bet on something that could be taken off their hands at any moment.

You may say that this goes against the open source spirit, but that's a different thing. Wordpress is, by any reasonable measure, Open Source.

> WP Engine customising the admin panels, branding and other components to change the experience of Wordpress as they see fit. Isn't that the point of open source?

Sure, but...

> In the same spirit, I can also argue that Automattic doesn't really provide 100% open source Wordpress' experience either - It has many walled features across different price points.

No. The difference is Automattic owns Worpdpress' copyright, WP Engine doesn't. Also, does Automattic claim they provide a 100% open source Wordpress experience?

Let's be clear: I'm not defending WP's actions here (I think what they did is just plain dumb), and I don't have a horse in this race, but here we're conflating what would be ideal (everything is FOSS, Automattic releases everything they do and they compete only on service) with the reality that Automattic is a business and it pursues its own interest. Maybe they're pursuing it in a way that in the end will do them and the ecosystem more harm than good, but what they're doing is just business, and has nothing to do with the definition of open source.
Maybe Altman has no idea about the realities of semiconductor manufacturing, or maybe he does. Sometimes it takes an outsider to shake things up and produce the impossible. Probably some Verizon execs called Steve Jobs a "computer bro" when he walked in with a pre-production iPhone and asked for "half".
I'm bored of IT. Software is boring, AI included. None of this feels like progress. We've automated away white collar work...but we also acknowledge most white collar work is busy work that's considered a bullcr*p job. We need to get back to innovation in manufacturing, materials etc. i.e. the real world.
I don't see how that ends up exploiting me?

The scenario is something like: I wrote a library, put a MIT license on it and made the code public. A corporation found this library, built something with it and earns a billion dollars every month, and somehow this is exploiting me?

I explicitly gave code away, for free, for people to use for whatever they want, so what happens beyond the code I wrote, I couldn't care less about.

To me it sounds like a bunch of people got sour about something they did, but didn't fully understand the scope of. I mean, you gave something away for free without asking for anything back, but then you see companies make money from it so now you want a piece?
It sounds like you're mixing up a bunch of things. To be clear: do you have a single example of a person who was convicted of the crime of money laundering despite it being proven in court that the underlying activity wasn't illegal?
The comments that get the most replies often have something slightly wrong and related to hot button topics for this audience.
Devaluing the new currency by adding lesser metals will also devalue existing currency that is "pure" as you aren't able to trust the value of the currency anymore, so the value of the existing pool of money will drop.

Its at a smaller scale, but it can be seen with counterfeit currency today. Cash-heavy businesses have to absorb whatever amount of counterfeits they accept, so they are really valuing your dollar at $0.99 if they might have to throw it out.
Not all of those sites were innocent of doing it the correct way.
There are SEO agencies that do this as a model. I know because I have been pitched by them.

1. You run a content website with a strong domain rating.
2. They approach you with an offer of creating a subsite (your brand + advisor, marketplace, etc) on your domain
3. They write all the content and completely manage the subsite - you have 0 risk (aside from brand risk)
4. You split the affiliate revenues from the subsite
5. The internet is now full of shitty content shilling diet pills and google can't figure it out
What is a GTAV flying experience?
I jump between ChatGPT, Claude 3.5 and Grok2 on a regular basis, and I'd say its not "worse" in the general sense. I find it much better on anything sentiment-analysis related or for shortcutting customer research, and image generation is really good.
Meanwhile, SBF is settling right into prison gang life:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1av88z5/fir...

No tats visible in the pic, tho.
Somewhat related, the recruiting pitch from Jobs to get Pepsi's Sculley to work at Apple: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?”
Bitcoins are clearly negative sum game (resources used, GPUs burned, CO2 emitted, money changed hands). Wish we could do less of it.
Counterpoint: I write open source software that lots of people use, and I receive approximately 95% thank yous, 4% simple requests for help or features, 1% attacks/hacks/complaints.

The secret (IMHO) is keep it simple, so people know what they're getting and can figure out how to be successful.

70M downloads of my oldest project, Ruby unaccent port:
https://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ruby_unaccent

200K downloads of my newest project, Rust testing macros:
https://github.com/sixarm/assertables-rust-crate

Open source authors inspire me every day to create, improve, and share. The point isn't money; the point is helping each other learn, explore, and grow.
Humans learn from seeing I don't think we are the stage of training models with videos / images dataset. We only reached the plateau with text dataset to train with.
>found guilty of causing criminal damage exceeding £5,000 [...] although the painting was protected by glass and was unharmed

incredible
Largely driven by high fraction of natural gas in British energy mix. British gas production in the north sea has declined, no more imports from Russia and now 60% of imported gas comes from Norway[1], which is more expensive.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/natural-gas-chapter...
I run https://github.com/camgunz/cmp and I think I'm in the middle of (well, maybe closer to nobody but not nobody) the "nobody" vs. "everybody" extremes. The thing I think I had/have going for me was that there was a clear end to the project: build a MessagePack implementation that doesn't allocate. Could it be better? Could I remove the ancient, not working Travis CI badge? Could I roll it into something bigger? Sure, but I haven't been motivated to do any of that, and it seems like everyone's reached some equilibrium of happy. I've also been lucky enough to get great contributions from people, everything from fixing compiler breakage to making floating point support optional. It hasn't been zero work, but it has been gratifying.

I do question the kind of "open source project takes over the world" model, the GCCs, the Apaches, the Linuxes. Those projects are of great importance, so even if you have a small group of contributors the responsibility is still large and weighty. It's even more so if you've suddenly got a huge community to manage. That kind of thing feels a lot less like a hobby and more like either a job or a lifestyle (e.g. you hang out in an IRC/email window all day and manage the community, and you like it), and I'm not sure how sustainable a lifestyle it is. So maybe I agree with OP here.

I wonder if there's something to like, creating some kind of barrier to interact. Like, if I want to file an OpenBSD bug I have to work pretty hard, so some filtering is happening. Filing a bug on GitHub is very easy, so anyone can jump on there and demand whatever they want.
It also works in reverse, when checking someone's story with an untrusted third party (say a suspect's friend).

Ask them about the story with some facts wrong. If they don't correct you, the story is probably false and they are just confirming anything.
You mean the way we passed the current laws that allow such gambling, which you are now complaining about?

By that standard, we're done, the matter has already been concluded in favor of "allow gambling."
That’s not a fair comparison, The New Yorker has always had a different relationship with its writers. A freelancer who writes for The New Yorker is likely a highly respected journalist/author/other luminary. Their staff writers are, I believe, technically contractors as they’re not W2 employees.

Contractor-written slop at these content farms, as described by TFA, have nothing in common with how content works at The New Yorker.
"Welcome to the Something Like A Hyper Plate for 2024".
The org has dif't purposes but the people staffing them often don't.
No like me, I run Linux at home

Not everyone chooses to be liberated but I do
> WordPress.org isn't renting anything

and WP.org isn't being targeted at all by WP Engine.

> The analogy with AWS doesn't work because with WP money doesn't change hands. WP Engine or their users aren't paying for the services provided by WordPress.org and these are services that cost money for continued hosting.

First of all, the analogy is very good imo.

Amazon in this case is WP.com, Windows would be WP.org. They are supposed to be completely separate legal entities. Now on to your "point"

> users aren't paying for the services

Neither are people hosting it on WP.com (Automattic).

Automattic is supposed to be a completely separate legal entity. Is Automattic (again wp.COM, not ORG) paying wp.ORG for this access to the wp.ORG theme/plugin API in a way that can be verified? Is this a requirement for everyone hosting WP now? What are the API rate costs and where do you pay?

> There are many issues with how this was handled but this isn't one of them.

Yes, this is absolutely one of them. Is wp.ORG and wp.COM the same company or not. Because either way, it smells like a 501c3 getting stripped.
Traditionally, no. Terrorism is the deliberate targeting of civilians
So use AGPL
the code is GPL.

services (like the plugin registry, but there are many more) cannot be GPL. they are served by someone and that someone pays for hosting/bandwidth/etc and that someone is free to stop providing that service (to one party or all together).
Why would you region block a webpage like this
If you want to get fired, sure!
If we protect all milk equally, why would we not expect big ag to dominate and drive small dairies out of business? I feel like it is time to stop pretending that 2500 head of dairy cattle is somehow still "the family farm" when it comes to passing legislation.
What I write is pretty niche anyway (compilers, LISP, buddhism, advaita), so I do not think AI will cause much trouble. Google ranking small websites into oblivion, though, I do notice that!
It was forked from b2evolution, which might of forked from something else long ago
I could be biased, but I like the book Run Barefoot Run Healthy. Also Barefoot Ken Bob's book and website.

There isn't much to learn - it's mainly a question of unlearning bad habits picked up through a lifetime of wearing unnatural built-up shoes, plus allowing the feet to slowly strengthen. If an able-bodied person spent a lifetime using crutches, the adaption to walking freely would take some time.

For inspiration, google: barefoot romero caltech saxton
Rule of Capitalism #1: If it is found to be good, but one can't make money off it, it must be made illegal to produce run, then replaced with something that sucks horribly, but can potentially be profitted off of.
> The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die.

This has nearly always been true. "Manufacturing consent" is way older than any digital technology.
When the targets, as a matter of publicly stated policy, engage in war crimes of using human shields to both attack civilians and defend themselves, store war munitions and setup command centers in hospitals, schools, etc., and when the country defends itself against those war crimes adhering to legal proportionality rules, then no.

If it is actual indiscriminate bombing or targeting of civilian targets not used in war crimes, human shields, storing military equipment & munitions, command& control, etc., then yes.
Poor people from low socioeconomic families will always find a way to ruin their lives.

Gambling, smoking, drinking, drugs, risk taking behaviours, crime.

We can either ban everything, or accept that certain groups of people will just abuse literally anything
I feel that folks seem to have moved away from the "enthusiastic hackers" of the 1980s. We used to write software for fun. We enjoyed it, and learned from it. These days, there has to be an "exit plan" for everything.

Having a project that is all mine, and not being limited by managers, is really important. If I want to learn a new technology, I just write a library to support it [0 - 1].

If it takes off, I find some folks that would be interested in running it, and hand it over to them. I don't really mind, however, if my stuff never gets any GH stars. I write software for myself.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/bluetooth/

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_BlueThoth
I dont know why you are down voted. I feel exactly the same about it.
That doesn't mean this is a bad investment for VCs. GPT is being directly integrated in iOS and is a top app on both markets. We've also barely scrapped the surface for potential niche applications that go beyond just a generalist chatbox interface. API use will likely continue to explode as the mountain of startups building off it come online. Voice stuff will probably kill off Alexa/Google Home.

I don't think the bulk of this VC money is predicated on AGI being around the corner.

But the general trend hopping nature of big VC money is real. Still, VCs manage to continue to make a profit despite this, otherwise the industry would have died off or shrunk the 10 other years HN critiqued this behaviour, so on the whole they must be doing something right.
I'm on the other side.

I think Leslie Lamport asserted that Paxos is minimal, and that "all other consensus algorithms are just Paxos with more steps". I'm inclined to believe him.

I've implemented Paxos but I can't get through "Raft for dummies" style blog posts.

Regarding Raft [1]:

> The consensus problem is divided into three sub-problems: Leader election, Replication and Safety.

What is leader election? It's a distributed system coming to consensus on a fact (i.e. who the leader is.) Then once you have the leader, you do additional steps. The entirety of Paxos is a distributed system coming to consensus on a fact.

When I read these posts, i see things like "timeout", "heartbeat", and I think: timeout according to whom? I read "once the leader has been elected", um, hangon, according to whom? Has node 1 finally agreed on the leader, just while node 3 has given up and started another election? I don't doubt that Raft is correct, but the writing about it seems simple by glossing over details.

Paxos, on the other hand, seems timeless. (And the writing about it doesn't trigger my "distributed system fallacies" reaction)

[1] https://www.brianstorti.com/raft/
Sorry no, antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) was the original author, Steve Bennett took over maintenance later - https://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/about/ .
"Anne Frank" Dispute to decide if Geoblocking can avoid copyright problems
They are basically sandwich equivalents. You need the correct rice but they are easy to make. Parents make them daily for their kid's lunches because they are so easy to make.

But also like sandwiches an excellent one is difficult to make.
Ask HN: How do I get into game dev?
How does one go from a career spent in financial software, data science, ML and web dev towards game dev or some other industry that might benefit from software skills?
> Now, if you could switch it around so that I write the code, and the AI reviews it, that would be something.

I'm sort of doing that. I'm working on a personal project in a new language and asking Claude for help debugging and refactoring. Also, when I don't know how to create a feature, I might ask it to do so for me, but I might instead ask it for hints and an overview so I can enjoy working out the code myself.
No, I'm not sure why some believe anything of those things are required to call software FOSS.

FOSS means the code is licensed under a FOSS-compatible license, nothing more, nothing less.

I'm not sure who is trying to change this definition, or why, but that's what it meant from the beginning, and it's also the understanding of the majority of people I'm interacting with.

You might want to do yourself a favor and read through some of the FOSS licenses you come across in the wild, none of them contain anything that you wrote about.

Edit: I made something just for you, this is FOSS with no extra bells and whistles, and the only thing you need: Code + License https://mywebsitenobodyknows.com/
Yes it is. if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, but anyone who finds it can use it, it's an open source tree
It's probably a bit more complicated than that.

I don't think it's really morally wrong to just walk away. No different than if you got hit by a bus.

On the other hand, you maybe did create something that people now depend on and walking away is probably causing a lot of anxious moments, possible security breaches, and downtime.

Not sure of the right answer. You did something for free. But shutting everything down one day can cause harm.
I think there are use cases for open source. E.g., you write some throwaway code, and want feedback - the obvious strategy is to publish it open source. It becomes clear that the app you are working on is not a viable business - maybe the code is useful to someone else, and if you were tracking licenses properly it costs nothing to publish it. Some types of software, like compilers, I simply wouldn't trust if they are not open-source.

But it's also true that it is easy to buy into some strange ideas like "sharing is caring" and end up going past reciprocal altruism and into territory where you are working for free.
I was referring to the whole thread, so it includes the "LLMs are nothing but stochastic parrots" bit too.
His "fortune" is mostly ownership of Binance which is now under the thumb of the US government. If—as widely theorized—Binance's secret ingredient is crime then it's not going to be worth what it once was.