skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Temperance related measures post-Volstead - an insidious loophole to appease the Bible Belt whereby liquour is specifically exempted from the federal oversight of interstate commerce.

I believe there's some relation between this and federal highway funding being tied to a minimum drinking age of 21, but I may be misremembering some half-read magazine article.
Yes, sadly it's a cliche but you have to "do your own research" and most people don't have the time or don't want to spend their time that way.

Maybe there are still some monthly periodicals that do in-depth news, since they aren't trying to get an exclusive or be the first to break the story they would not be so motivated to just vomit clickbait continuously. But I don't know who they are.

I've largely just stopped paying attention. It's sad in a way, as I grew up with the lesson that paying attention to the news and current events was important. But it's all garbage now.
"He got his bag"
If ASI is on the horizon & is bound by compute, compute effectively is the new oil.
If the difference between now and 6 years in the future is the same as the difference between now and 6 years ago, a lot of people here will be eating their hats.
How is it destroying society?
I wonder what Van Gogh would think. Perhaps painting gas plumes instead of water lilies.
Maybe the future of creative writing is fine tuning your own unique form of nastiness
For the few interested people, took the time to make a final version in Markdown with lots of links and some improvements/proofreading: https://gist.github.com/q3cpma/a0ceb6a7c6a7317c49704630d69b7...
Seems perfect actually! Attracts people that are interested in the subject matter, not just a proposed reward.
That's a very complicated question! You get root access, and they released the toolchain and kernel source less than a week ago, so I'm not sure what will be possible going forward. I don't recommend getting the keyboard folio based on future guesses as to what the software will support, but it's great for... Just. Typing.
Nothing snarky about pointing out AGI is nowhere near
I wish that wasn't buried on page 733!
I never paid much attention to Elon.
I’m super confused as to why this is worth a blog post, let alone the conspiratorial tone.

This seems to be a case of knowledge without context being a dangerous thing in the wrong hands.
Exactly. Also, if the past few years is any indication, at the very least tech journalists in general tend to love to use what they hate.
Check out Euro Truck Simulator then, I hear it's very good.
Wait until someone uses "AI printing" for medical purposes and it adjusts a dose value.
> I don't understand where the connection of "My projects are MIT" <> "Donation of labor" comes from

When people open source their code they usually think people like them would benefit from it and appreciate it. Like I made this project, I might as well share it. But in many popular projects, you have a sole maintainer struggling to keep a roof over their head, while issues from companies (disguised as individual employees) requesting features and reporting bugs pile up, taking advantage of their labor and keeping them busy till they burn out.

The main issue is the majority of companies often don't contribute back, they just consume, they're a burden leeching off free labor.
LLMs make mediocre engineers into slightly less mediocre engineers, and non-engineers into below mediocre engineers. They do nothing above the median. I've tried dozens of times to use them productively.

Outside of very very short isolated template creation for some kind of basic script or poorly translating code from one language to another, they have wasted more time for me than they saved.

The area they seem to help people, including me, the most in is giving me code for something I don't have any familiarity with that seems plausible. If it's an area I've never worked in before, it could maybe be useful. Hence why the less breadth of knowledge in programming you have, the more useful it is. The problem is that you don't understand the code it produces so you have to entirely be reliant on it, and that doesn't work long term.

LLMs are not and will not be ready to replace programmers within the next few years, I guarantee it. I would bet $10k on it.
I have to disagree. Scale does matter.

If murder was legal we'd have a lot more of it. We still have them despite it being a crime, but nobody would ever suggest making it legal because some people do it anyway.
Most treatments we have for anything largely boil down to pharmaceuticals, not just in psychiatry, so I don't really understand what is different here from other medical fields (I personally think there should be more prevention in general). At least, a lot of mental health research and treatments comes from psychologists who don't work using with prescriptions. It's definitely not a flawless field, but I don't think it's that different than any other when it comes to lobbying and regulations being driven by politics over science.
I'd be very surprised if Microsoft wasn't one of the investors.
I mean if you don't have the time to work on OSS then don't, and there is nothing wrong with that. Also, working on an OSS project and refusing feature requests is OK - let them fork it.

Many OSS projects have a community around them that help each other, talk about things, and are cool places to learn about specific things. Of course many used to, and they do not anymore. Things do change over time and that's OK as well.
Hey!

I have been a good citizen of Hacker News for fourteen years now...

Anyone here would want to throw me an invite to lobste.rs?

:)
what if i told you Forbes 30u30 was paid advertising?
So wholesome :-)
They still stopped the vast majority of casual people.
Sure thing, just installed the extension and tried a few! Kinda like Pinterest + HackerNews I dig
Smart locks typically have more option than just a phone to open them. Keypad, fingerprint, etc.

For ones that support Apple's Homekey, it doesn't even matter if your battery runs out. Apple devices still provide Homekey via NFC even with a dead phone.

I don't think this exists yet for car keys, although I know there's work on UltraWide Band key support.

Also, this seems substanially less fragile than just... losing a pair of keys. It's not evitable that your battery in your lock runs out (again, unless you ignore warnings), but losing your keys is one of those 'hard to prepare for' events.

Migitation for losing your keys could just be keeping a spare key with a neighbor/friend/whatever... but, well, you can do that with an e-lock too (cause they all have regular keys for true backup).
WordPress.org isn't renting anything, it's providing those services for free. 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. Anything provided is a gift and WP.org is under no obligation, moral or contractual, to keep providing those services.

There are many issues with how this was handled but this isn't one of them.
>And until the data is in, it's impossible to know how productive it might be.

If you know how much you spend on clothes, you do have a cap on how much you can save. If that number is not huge, and the results non-obvious, then you really can conclude that it's a waste of time. Moreover, if you have lived a long time and experienced a variety of different clothes already, the data is likely to just confirm what you thought was obvious.

If you are in the business of making clothes, then the situation is different. You may be trying to optimize a design and thus experiments in your own life could be helpful. But even then, a lot of things are pretty obvious.
> Note: all that is in a flux now. Personally I trust Telegram less now as it seems the same exceptions the French has made for themselves can also be used by russia or any other terrorist regime.

What made you believe that Russia hasn't had a firehose into Telegram's backend for the longest time?
Beating all other models in latest benchmarks by a wide margin with a completely new approach, while having the only properly working audio chat with transformer isn’t enough? Not to even mention SORA if actually comes out someday.

I’m not an OpenAI fanboy but come on, credit where it’s due, they have so far been one step ahead of the competition from the start on every front.

I do research in other ML topics but I do follow the qualitative leaps they are pulling off continuously so far.
Parent's post explicitly listed FSL as a possible solution. We also recently adopted it in our startup. (Edit to add: I think his beef with FSL is just that it's not OSS. I like the "fair" term as sort of in-between commercial and FOSS).

Agree that if non-lawyers (or corporate lawyers with no experience in open source licensing) craft something, they might regret it down the road. Better to pick and choose between now plethora of available options.
Eventually they'll be put in robots able to gather real-world data live, and they'll have a practically infinite amount of video/audio/tactile data to learn from.
This seems more like souring on the idea of developing open source software in your free time, which I totally understand.

I personally think open source works the best when it is created by developers working for a company who are writing software that supports, but is not core, to the company’s actual product.

A company decides to allow the developers to open source it so they get free, outside, collaboration and the prestige and publicity of having open source projects.

Ideally, a majority of the contributions will be from developers working on the clock at their main jobs, where they use the open source project.

It is fine if some people contribute on their own time, but the bulk of the work should ideally be paid for by an employer.
Lovely, thank you for sharing!
Like a “1-year later long term report” review of a car or some hardware id like to see where the author is after a year or so of this adventure.

Everyone I detox and stop the content feedback intern from devices I do feel good and then I come back from holidays and get back to my addictions.
You massively overstate the political bias that CNN has. I can find articles that are critical of Biden/harris all day on CNN!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13868889/cnn-attack...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/politics/fact-check-harris-ca...

But please, keep lying about how CNN doesn’t criticize Harris/biden! It fits into the destabilizing narrative that “the media” is “corrupt” or “bought and paid for”.

Also, if you want unbiased media, CSPAN is that. No bias except from how the camera is physically pointed into congress. You won’t watch it because it’s too boring and despite all the hatred your profess to have against biased news, the idea of news not as entertainment is alien to you.
Yeah that's my worry. Still, got 6x old 3TB disks that still work and a few spare NVMEs, so would be fun to try it for teh lulz.
_unless_ intelligence is really mostly an emergent property of something very similar to language, in which case we're most of the way there
Minix 3 (2014)
Did a Digital Obsession 'Just Do It' for John Donahoe?
It'd probably take decades to build that many fabs anyways.
For mainstream folks, perhaps. The second you even go slightly outside of what the media has declared kosher it goes off the rails. Take RFK’s page, for instance, which is just a collection of inflamed opinions soured from “reputable“ news outlets.
Looks like amazing work, congrats!! Excited to see implementations in the wild, definitely would be keen to play around with.
2005-2006 Canadian series Intelligence, at the intersection of organized crime, law enforcement and intelligence is also good, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0845746/.

Elsewhere on the Möbius loop lies the madcap 2009-2024 animated series Archer, with a string of award nominations and blink-and-you-will-miss-it references, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/

The 2014-2017 series Turn dramatized New York farmers and shopkeepers who comprised the first US spy ring, including Benedict Arnold storyline, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543328/
In this case, the people are actually laundering money.

So-called anti-money laundering laws criminalize far more than money laundering, like financial privacy.

In any case, I would argue that the focus should be entirely on the crime that generates the illicit revenue, and not the after-the-fact laundering of the proceeds. When the focus is on the latter, laws are inevitably passed that mandate people to submit to warrantless surveillance of their financial transactions. The populace at large should not be made to sacrifice freedom and privacy in a largely futile attempt to track illicit criminal gains after the fact.

No useful money — i.e. no money that is unencumbered enough to be practical to use, and that provisions people with a modicum of protection against arbitrary state seizure — will give the state the ability to significantly prevent criminals from profiting from the proceeds of their crimes, merely by tracking and policing its flows.
Yes. Consider the tradeoffs carefully. Try the experiments. Do the research. Then make a decision.
Even prestige publications like The New Yorker use freelancers. This is the same thing, it’s just lower brow content.
Open Source is just a way to share a project with the world.

It is not an obligation to maintain the project: Read the license terms.

It is not an invitation for others to contribute, though many projects welcome bug reports, feature requests, and contributions.

Rich Hickey's "Open Source is Not About You" provides some great thoughts about it: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
You mean the standard refrain of "we too are stochastic parrots"? Yes, that argument gets trotted out over and over.

LLM proponents seem unwilling to accept that we comprehend the words we speak/write in a way that LLMs are not capable of doing.
No way. Life 50 years ago was better for MANY. Maybe that would be true for 200. But 50 years ago was the 70s. There were far fewer people, and the world was not starting to suffer from climate change. Tell your statement to any climate refugee, and ask them whether they'd like to live now or back then.

AND, we had fewer computers and life was not so hectic. YES, some things have gotten better, but on average? It's arguable.
Most of the time the entire apps are just a timer app or something simple. Never a complex app with tons of logic in them. And if you're having to write paragraphs of texts to write something complex then might as well just write that in a programming language, I mean isn't that what high-level programming language was built for? (heh).
Also, you're not the only one who's had the thought that someone is vested in someway to overhype this.
Just one more step for Altman in his Bankman-Fried journey.
Heuristics don't have to be perfect to be useful so long as they improve the efficacy of our attentions. Once that breaks down society must follow because thinking about every topic is intractable.
They should have named models for surfing beaches. The VW van used to be Valhalla-mobile for surfers.
It matters because we consider them reliable sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

Wikipedia is the most reliable source of news/perspective on issued but it can get contaminated if entities given the "reliable sources" label republish unreliable or biased dreck.
Not providing KYC is definitely not a crime. It happens all the time. What usually happens is that the bank just terminates the account, after a while.
> What about open source users?

You mean Big Tech and startups? Totally liberated. Yeah. So much that now they are developing AI tools to remove developers from the equation using open source software :)
From data to action: A validation study of childhood education measurement tool
Freelancers have existed since the dawn of journalism.
Ah, I misunderstood your "wonder if it crosses any legal boundaries" as "it seems it doesn't" rather than "it seems it does". I completely agree.
I thought this, but even with efforts into my running technique I wasn't able to get rid of my knee pain until I tried Hokas. I've done all the "normie" stuff a casual would come across on youtube, do you have other tips on what I might be doing wrong or could do to get off the "cushion crutch"?
Who do you think is more likely to look for someone to host WordPress for them? Someone who knows everything and can do it themselves anyway?

> If you have remotely worked with WordPress at any level, you know that WPEngine has nothing to do with the WordPress company Automattic.

Obviously YOU know because YOU have worked with WordPress for over 10 years now.
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-uncensored
Similar to https://web.hypothes.is/
Astronomers spot a possible 'future Earth' – 8B years into its future
Forcing people to change their passwords is officially a bad idea
> taking advantage of their labor and keeping them busy till they burn out.

But how is that the companies fault that people are unable to say no? At one point, individuals need to be strong enough to say "No, I can't help you with that" just like if someone asked you for money on the street and you don't have enough yourself. Is it the beggars fault that you're unable to ration your own money?

> The main issue is the majority of companies often don't contribute back, they just consume, they're a burden leeching off free labor.

The companies aren't "consuming" anything just as much as digital piracy isn't "stealing". The code is there, they can use it if they want. If something doesn't fit their use case, they can change it themselves, or ask someone else. Then it's up to that "someone" to say yes or no.
> Her companions will correct her, especially if they’re men.

Observe the importance of phrasing. If this had been put as "men enjoy sharing knowledge, while women are content to let others wallow in ignorance and error", it would have ruffled a great many more feathers.
Webb's Discovery: Potential Missing Link to First Stars in the Universe
The most confusing part for me is wordpress.com.

I was literally mistaken once and thought that Wordpress was no longer open source.
The problem starts with the old but highly important distinction of calling it "open source" instead of "libre software".

"Open source" puts narrow emphasis on the code itself, downplaying how that code is actually used, and the resulting abilities of its users. In the "open source" paradigm it makes perfect sense that you can study a piece of source code and even modify and run it locally, but then when you want to actually practically use that software, often to interact with other people, you're strongly incentivized to use the centrally controlled (aka proprietary) SaaS instance/copy/fork. This dynamic of stripping user agency and providing a canned product in its place is what allows businesses to view your project and your effort as a raw materials to be mined.

"Libre software" keeps the emphasis on user freedom. Having the ability to modify and run the code is a necessary, but not sufficient part of that. SaaS is an attack on user freedom from shortcomings of the GPL3, just the way Tivoization was an attack on user freedom from (perceived and commonly held) shortcomings of the GPL2. By keeping the emphasis on user freedom, we can easily perceive these types of attacks as taking away user freedom. Whereas by focusing on one mechanism "open source" encourages identifying with operations of the attackers - eg that common fallacious refrain that you can always make your own centrally-controlled clone of a given site.
One of the best artists of stage and cinema. Will miss her.
Creating technology that will make it very much harder to resist technological determinism, which in turn will eventually result in the replacement of human beings, which in turn implies that human well-being will be secondary to technological growth. Perhaps it has already happened.
What would you consider the relative element in this scenario that explains the decision then? Or was your point simply that emotive language automatically discredits a speaker's point?
Corporations have the capability to make 1.000.000x more money with your code than you and they won't give you a penny. You don't seem to care, up to you. But some people are soured by it, that's up to them, no?
Well, Microsoft certainly is running into some challenges at this point: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/microsoft-open-three-...

If nothing else, physics starts to become a limiting factor.
> Then arrest the CEOs of gun companies, because guns can be used to commit crimes!

So, obviously people know this, but it's important to spell out:

There is an explicit protection for keeping and bearing arms in the constitution. No such language exists for "financial privacy", in fact the fourth amendment explicitly says the government can search and investigate citizens' property, just that they have to get a warrant based on probable cause.
I'm mildly skeptical of visual programming because code generally won't be a planar graph and it's rarely useful to visualize a complicated enough graph. You can try to embed the graph in hyperbolic space, but I'm not sure how much you get out of it. For example of visualizing a graph where it's not clear what's going on: https://cambridge-intelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/0...

Coding is a logic/language type activity that uses the language parts of your brain. Visualization can help see that certain relationships are true (e.g. visualizing the graph of a function), but I think the fundamental bottleneck we're dealing with here the inadequacies of the visual regions of the brain to do logic, not a lack of AI tooling.

I'd be happy to have my mind changed though.

EDIT: Although, an AI version of something like Chernoff Faces for visualizing data would be cool.
Is it actually moderation?

Moderation of, say, a comment section has some problems that seem (to me at least, I don’t actually work in this area, so maybe this is a naive take) to make it much harder.

* There’s a desire to preserve continuity of conversation

* People have different expectations of the types of content they find to be outside the domain of reasonableness

* People have different expectations of what the job of moderation is (curating productive discussion or just banning truly odious stuff?)

Like if I say I’m going to only host technical discussions, we will get a spiraling argument about where exactly the line is between tech and political policy around tech.

The easy solution is for users to just mute people that they don’t like, but them you have a conversation where some participants can’t see eachother, they managing back-and-forth a between people with different muted subsets.

And there’s still the issue of managing the general vibe, if it becomes conventional to throw around unpleasant or hyperbolic language, that could ruin the discussion for everyone, even those who’ve blocked the main perpetrators. Or the vibe could become toxic to new users who haven’t curated a blocklist yet.

In this case, there’s no need to preserve the continuity of conversation. And the users have less ability to continuously change the vibe, since it is just a collection of links. And the entry point could be trusting a single user, so the overall vibe is less relevant.
> I’m pretty sure that there are some areas where applying AI might be useful.

How polite, everyone is sure AI might be useful in other fields just not their own.

> people are scared that AI is going to take their jobs

Can't be both true - AI being not really useful, and AI taking our jobs.