skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is interesting/novel to you, you might be surprised to learn there’s a W3C standard for annotating the web which never really caught on.

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/

It deserves more attention, particularly from browser vendors and social media platforms, but the incentives have never been in place.

One commercial application built on the standard is hypothes.is, but I’ve lost track of their efforts years ago.
Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt [video]
Byggsteg – PoC simple fast deployable CI/CD system written in Guile Scheme
People have indeed been warning about this for years, particularly in spaces like Steam where you don't even have a physical item to pretend you own. For a long time the response has mostly been "yeah right why would they revoke the licenses?".

This just happens to have been kicked off by one of the first high profile cases of exactly that happening with games (that I know of). It also happened a lot this year and last with movies and TV shows that were allegedly "bought" on platforms like PlayStation and Crunchyroll but were actually licensed by the rights holders.
The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life?
Cthulhu does not appreciate being associated with this.
> Most engineers aren't interested in that work

What if you worked for a nasa contractor and you got paid quite a bit more than working for nasa?
This, I think, is the crux of it. OpenAI is burning money at a furious rate. Perhaps this is due to a classic tech industry hypergrowth strategy, but the challenge with hypergrowth strategies is that they tend to involve skipping over the step where you figure out if the market will tolerate pricing your product appropriately instead of selling it at a loss.

At least for the use cases I've been directly exposed to, I don't think that is the case. They need to keep being priced about where they are right now. It wouldn't take very much of a rate hike for their end users to largely decide that not using the product makes more financial sense.
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They're not reviews in the first place. That. Is. The. Point.

I mean, feel free to describe how his reviews are even remotely objective and not driven by some other factor that benefits Marques... I'll wait.
800 papers is still a red flag, even if throughout those years he had 30 postdocs at any given time (which is only true for large labs).
They still need to read the science and agree with it.
Whoops, forgot "(2022)" in the title.

Found this via the excellent infographic posted on Reddit today: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualization/comments/1fqk8p9/how_...

I found this incredibly thought provoking.
Maybe a "conditional allowance" (noting that the conditions may be vague, and likely vary among products/companies) would be more in line with what's happening?

Doesn't really roll off the tongue though.
Centralization bad because Tor kicked out an abuser, so therefore subverted by the NSA, makes a lot of sense.
While this solves app installation, does this prevent users from killing the app, or even easier, just restarting the device?
perhaps this could be covered in a FOIA request
It's not just XML formatting; it's bizarro stuff like XML canonicalization and comments, and it's in a signature format. It really might be the worst mainstream cryptosystem in the entire industry.
Just looking at capitals of many countries, lots of monuments (statues, etc.) are dedicated to conquerors that were basically celebrated for successfully killing, subjugating and stealling from the others.

There are still people that have success without anything criminal.
I looked up the salary for qualified machinists in both countries, not the average.
A pretty cool one, at that!
Suppose you need to make a decision on a topic that's contingent on P being true, which someone has already tested. How would you go about making the decision without testing P yourself (because that would mean that you would have to do the same for every decision in your life)?
No, I really believe that making vices illegal causes more harm than the vices they’re trying to prevent, and that we see it over and over every time we do it. I think nobody would disagree with me that that’s what happened with alcohol. I’ve been saying that’s the case with drugs for decades and public opinion is turning that way too.

It’s true with gambling too. You just likely haven’t seen the harm that happens because of it being illegal. Ever had a gun pointed at you over a game of poker? I have. Doesn’t happen online or in a casino. Ever met people who’ve been violently hurt because they couldn’t pay their gambling debts? I have. Draftkings or your bank aren’t out breaking knees.

Making it illegal does not make it go away. If you had been born into a world where alcohol was illegal for a long time, and then it were legal, you’d probably have the same opinion of that, but you know (because you were lucky to be born with the benefit of decades of hindsight) the world is less good that way. This is not different.

The harms of gambling can be mitigated much more effectively in ways other than prohibition. Regulation is always better than outright bans. Look at what we’ve done with cigarettes.

Making online betting legal was the right thing to do, it being illegal at all was the mistake, we just need to work on harm mitigation.

I just don’t even understand people who think vices should be illegal. I mean I do, their thought process is just overly simplistic and they don’t know what they don’t know, but there’s just so much evidence it is the worst possible solution and yet so many people can’t think past “it’s bad so it should be illegal”. Even intelligent people.
I work with several organizations that force password changes. I add month/year of change to the "base" password every 2 to 3 months. It's a total waste of time.
War is never moral
That's not my impression from LeCun's or Carmack's (5-hours!) interviews. I would posit that, naturally, it depends on who is being interviewed, and that Lex also tries to keep the topics and their approach as accessible as possible.
I gather that you've fired every CISO you've ever had.
I can see Matt’s point of view. Data transfer fees are expensive, especially at WordPress scale. Automattic probably covers a lot of that cost that wordpress.org is incurring and wants WP Engine to pay their fair share.

WP Engine also seems to do some other “not in good faith” things such as change the woocommmerce Stripe attribution from wordpress.org to their own Stripe account.

While the legal dispute is on trademark, I think it’s really on WP Engine profiting on wordpress.org without giving back. It’s not illegal, but blacklisting WP Engine isn’t illegal either.

Automattic is essentially subsidizing a private equity backed company. I’d be upset and frustrated too if I was in Matt’s position.

If you support WP Engine, you’re supporting Silver Lake Private Equity.
Goddamn, that's embarrassing.
> Western industrial culture was based on substance - getting real shit done.

And what did that get us? Radium poisoning and microplastics in every organ of virtually all animals living within thousands of miles of humans. Our reach has always exceeded our grasp.
Could you elaborate? I'm interested.
"Remember the dispute is between WP Engine and Automattic, not the WordPress foundation (the .org)."

While you can disagree with Matt's approach, it actually feels like this dispute is more between WP Engine and the WordPress project than it is between WP Engine and Automattic. WP Engine not contributing to the project hurts Automattic a little, but the largest, most profitable companies in the WordPress ecosystem not contributing to the project are an existential threat to the sustainability of the Open Source project.

Companies will always optimize for profits, and contributing to an Open-Source project is only profitable when you are in it for the long run. And we all know that PE firms (which play an important role in our economy) are not in the game for long-term gains. Silver Lake is doing what they are meant to do — maximize profits in the short-term so that they can turn around and sell WP Engine for as much as possible.

Matt is using the leverage he has to ensure Silver Lake is forced to do something that is good for the WordPress project but will never happen because it cuts into WP Engine's P&L.
The thing is we have no way to know if ChatGPT is telling the truth.
https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

https://dubroy.com/blog/handling-user-input-with-structured-...

The first one is particularly good. Both of those have links to more topics.
What's amazing to me is that journals don't require researchers to submit their raw data. At least, as far as I know.

The only option for someone who wants to double check research is to completely replicate a study, which is quite a bit more expensive than double checking the researcher's work.
This sounds very similar to Fedora Silverblue- immutable OS (rpm-ostree) with rich container support. It uses Debian instead of Fedora of course. Are there other differences though?
But what virtues were rewarded when you were a kid?

My parents and grandparents would say I should be charitable, helpful, and share, but what actually made them happy? Beating other kids.
Academic scientists aren't lobbyists, and politicians aren't giving us money. The funding institutions set research goals. Those funding institutions (staffed by people who actually understand science) don't conduct the research--they choose the winning research plans to fund to achieve their stated goals (1 in 12 applicants, last time I tried). These bureaucrats write budget justifications for Congress--just as the military, Social Security Administration, VA, etc, do. And frankly, compared to those entities, our $40-something billion of the $6 trillion budget is pathetic.

https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2021-cha...

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
"Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37189216
I thought there are some regions in the North Pole that are constantly illuminated. Presumably the temperature is significantly more stable in those regions.
iggldiggl makes some good points about APIs not being flexible enough, but I also have to ask why go through the complexities of extra APIs? If I'm installing an editor and using it to open my files, I already trust it implicitly with all of my data. That means I also trust it to be reasonably free of RCEs that could modify or exfiltrate my data.

I could see your point if this was some fly-by-night web app accessing Google documents. But this is a native app I'm running on my phone or computer. I may have legitimate reasons to access those photos, to embed them into a document.
I think it’s abundantly clear at this point that Mullenweg does not recognize an operational distinction between his roles as CEO of Automattic, founder of the WordPress foundation, and operator of WordPress.org.
Not sure if Matt ever reads HN, but in case he does I’d like him to know that I will never use or recommend Wordpress again as a result of all of this garbage. I hope the internet at large can move to something else and WP can eventually be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Automattic auto-rejects applications to sign up to their Jetpack WordPress plugin's non-commercial free tier if your blog has so much as a single contact link[1]. This behavior feels greedy in my opinion, and may reflect on other behaviors expressed by Automattic.

1. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-commercial-license-a...
Eurisco [1], if I remember correctly, was once used to perform placement-and-route task and was pretty good at it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko

What's more, Eurisco was then used in designing Traveler TCS' game fleet of battle spaceships. And Eurisco used symmetry-based placement learned from VLSI design in the design of the spaceships' fleet.

Can AlphaChip's heuistics be used anywhere else?
I expect that if I compile your 3d renderer, and feed it the same scene file you did - I get the same image?
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It's amusing that people think that a two-year lag in licensing is enough to thwart the so-called freeloaders.

It could take way more time than that just for you to get noticed and have any users at all.

If your popularity starts 8 years from now, and your license converts to BSD-like or whatever 2 years from now, that's as good as just licensing it that way today.

I think how you want to work this is that the license goes free N years after the estimated date when you hit a base of M users.
I would add c) often entail incalculable risk for any who aren't already corrupt enough to be climbing into bed with other evil powers or blackmailing, extorting, or exploiting their way into a safe haven and a golden parachute.

Who willingly remains vulnerable before the Sword of Damocles?
Maybe there's a joke here that I'm not aware of, but my question was mostly why they think dairy is necessary. I do believe that potatoes isn't enough, but you don't need dairy products.
One think to check about higher quality stuff in the past is how much it cost vs the average wage.

You might be comparing a $100 bike from Walmart with something that cost the equivalent of $600
> To access these pages, viewers typed the three-digit page number required into their TV remote control and waited a few seconds for information to appear on the screen.

You can tell from "a few seconds" that the author of this article never actually used Ceefax.
An alternative version of this puzzle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a26557/riddle-...
If I’d been in a position to, I would have. Except for Sam Quigley who was the fucking best.
>TLDR: Amazon pays roughly 70% of retail price for books priced up to $9.99, and 35% for books $10 and over. Amazon is the only retailer that does this. Other retailers, I make somewhere around 65%-70% no matter the retail price. Everything follows from that math, but if you want the details read on.

Wow that's nuts.
Drowning in Slop. It's clogging the internet with AI garbage
This is an interesting point of view, thinking about it I agree that instilling the "hacker ethic" into kids is very valuable. But how does one do that?

For myself, I fell into video game hacking (and related hijinks) because I loved a particular game, and happened to hang out with some smart people on some forums online, and that set the course of my life to a large degree. But it seems like accidentally having these experiences is harder and harder these days.

How do we set our kids up, or set the world up for our kids, to have these experiences organically?
They are inconveniencing people who work in and visit museums, people who use motorways, car dealers and so on.

They're hoping to force change in government policies. This is obviously not happened yet, though they claim a success in halting the issue of new oil and gas exploration licenses in UK territorial waters.

I think their explicit demands are extremely obvious, right there in the name of the organization 'Just Stop Oil.' A visit to their website (cryptically named https://juststopoil.org) lays out 3 simple demands:

Demand 1: No New Oil and Gas Licences – WON!
Demand 2: Just Stop Oil by 2030.
We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty.

Amazingly, they have a whole page on the website which discusses these in greater detail.

In all honesty, I find it hard to believe you are as mystified as your post suggests.
Safari, please. =)

Also, it'd be great if this was an open standard so that anyone could write an extension for any browser.
Er, no.

It's not shipping today for anything smaller than 8 foot TVs, and doesn't have a path.

It's been 5 years away for at least a decade.

OP is referencing Apple Watch cancellation because that was Apple throwing in the towel in microLED after a decade of investment, making it likely no one expects it to be solved soon.

[1] Facebook is using a MicroLED projector and expressly says the display is an unknown unknown, because they can't ship this one if they wanted to. The failure rates are too high (see manufacturing process in [2]).

[2] has been happening for at least 8 years. It'd be awesome for VR, but that's the least likely near term option because right now it boils down to "manually place 8,294,400 pixels and if any have errors, do it again." Its shipping at eye-watering prices in Samsung TVs > 100" (read: have "huge" pixel sizes so they can be manually placed)
US Trademark Office Cancels Marvel, DC's 'Super Hero' Marks
So you're basically saying that Google should have used existing tools to layout their chip designs, instead of their ML solution, and that these existing tools would have produced even better chips than the ones they are actually manufacturing?
I wonder if Steam and GOG will become different.

Also kindle.

"Additionally, it's OK to advertise a digital good if access isn't ever revoked, such as when users purchase a permanent download that can be accessed offline, regardless of a seller's rights to license the content."

I've played steam games offline, only to have something expire at some point, preventing the games from launching.

No such issue with GOG.

This might even differentiate individual games.

For kindle, some books (tor?) have a paragraph "this bookis distributed without digital rights management"

Could a download of this book differentiate buy vs license?
That's a good one. In my experience, corruption is almost always disguised as neglect and incompetence. Corrupt people meticulously cover their tracks by coming up with excuses to show neglect; some of them only accept bribes that they can explain away as neglect where they have plausible deniability. It doesn't take much brainpower to do well, just malicious intent and knowing the upper limits.

IMO, Hanlon's razor "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" is a narrative which was created to condition the masses into accepting being conned repeatedly.

On the topic, I subscribe to Grey's law "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" so I see idiots as malicious. In the very best case, idiots in positions of power are malicious for accepting the position and thus preventing someone more competent from getting it. It really doesn't matter what their intent is. Deep down, stupid people know that they're stupid but they let their emotions get in the way, same emotions which prevent them from getting smarter.
Sam is great.
None of that is documented, if it's even supported at all. Beyond using network trickery to reverse-engineer API calls, I don't see how it can be expected that it should already be in place.

Does Matt really want to risk creating alternative repositories and losing the central role wp.org is providing (yes, free of charge)? What about plugin authors who want to ensure their stuff is available on all WordPress hosts, what will they have to do to push to all stores? WPEngine acquired some pretty popular plugins (acf, deliciousbrains), it'd be a shame to see them exclusively available outside of the wordpress.org ecosystem as a retaliation.
There must have been some TVs with a page cache? (Not that I ever saw one, admittedly).
They optimize using a fast heuristic based on wirelength, congestion, and density, but they evaluate with full P&R. It is definitely interesting that they get good timing without explicitly including it in their reward function!
Oof. I’m not sure describing rampant + tacitly-allowed sexual harassment is something I’d describe as “chaotic” and “some cultural issues”. At least they’re talking about it explicitly I guess? And he’s gotta sell his book, I get that… just gives an uncomfortable “boys will be boys, that’s how innovation is” vibe, personally speaking.

Cool article on the more boring points! Nothing particularly surprising to someone’s who’s been following the news over the years, but he’s well spoken. I do kinda love how being purchased for $69B is phrased as something to “get over” in the intro! Counterintuitive but no doubt true.
Or just not an ideal design and the welded ring at the end is where it comes to a head because that's where the part connects to the next one.

All aluminum stuff is gonna suffer fatigue problems eventually.
That doesn't hold with games, and that's exactly what this law is addressing. Many (if not most by now, I haven't bought many games recently) physical games are now just an unplayable kernel and you have to download the actual game. If you sell the physical good you are selling a piece of plastic. Quite a few don't even contain a cart or disc in the box, it's just a download code.

Now, yes, you can say "but first sale still holds, you aren't prohibited from selling the object you bought", but most rational people are going to call that nonsense.
But the free as a free speech is the free that matters in software.

So it must be that if free riders are bad, they must be some kind of free speech type free riders. Because ordinary free software advocates, such as oh your Richard Stallman and whoever, do not refer to nonpaying, free beer users as free riders. Nonpaying software users do not make the software less available to others, and it is helpful to the development of that software to have those kind of users compared to none at all.

I can easily conceptualize free speech free riders with an example with an example: users who dare to find security bugs, and tell others, without letting the copyright holder know first and letting that copyright holder gatekeep the release of information.
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition of the Unix Operating System (1977)
I think the real value would be in ease of use. I imagine the top N chip creators represent a fair bit of the marginal value in pushing the state of the art forward. E.g., for hobbyists or small shops, there's likely not much value in tiny marginal improvements, but for the big ones it's worth the investment.
I'm assuming OP already uses Slack for other things. Otherwise something like push notifications via Pushover would be low code, high visibility solution.
Matt's behavior is the reason I stopped making plugins for WordPress years ago and went into law.

Not surprised to see more of the same from him, and this farce that WordPress is granting WP Engine a "reprieve" when it's really the case that WordPress is doing this to avoid a lawsuit that would result in the loss of its nonprofit status.

WordPress is run primarily for the benefit of Matt. The IRS regards that as "private inurement" and it has bad consequences for both the organizations at the individual(s) receiving those benefits.
I investigated both and implemented OIDC. It was difficult, but compared to the SAML and XML complexity, I'd say it was much easier.
my point is that people who want to harm others will do so regardless. You can’t solve a social problem with technology, or even by taking away technology. The underlying problems remain.

I do sympathize that it is making it EASIER for them to do more harm. That’s a bit concerning to me.
I think what I find interesting in the application of statistics, and how a population characteristic can be different from individual circumstance. Real world risk isnt categorical, it variable.

On average, drunk driving obviously poses more risk than regular driving. However, drunk driving isnt always risky, and does not necessarily or uniformly put others at risk at the factual case by case level.

Edit: I think this makes it an interesting intersection between probability, heuristics, and criminal justice. It highlights the difference between a categorical model of the world, and reality, i.e. Probability is an abstraction and property of the model, not the object, in a deterministic universe.
No examples on the homepage = dead to me.
With Proof-of-Work, "rich get richer" is a side effect.

With Proof-of-Stake, "rich get richer" is essentially coded into law.