skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. I finally have a name for what my own job really is.

I should probably look into this Palantir operation.
> they are just plain wrong and should be disregarded.

Are you saying Palantir's previous 10-Ks and 10-Qs have material misstatements of fact?
> Actually, under the GPL, this fact is immaterial. If the Winamp player contained any GPL code at all, modified or not, then it is a derivative work of that GPL code and anyone receiving a copy of Winamp is entitled to demand the full corresponding source be provided under a GPL license.

That's just not true, surely? Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem?

How many apps out there are using GPL code? Android, for example.

Making a derivative in the sense of adding functionality to it, I get, but using it as-is as a component or library surely doesn't - and cannot - fall foul of the license else the entire technosphere is liable.
I think it's partly developers fault for hosting their applications on Github and sending end users a link to Github instead of a link to an exe.

At least sourceforge has a download button in the front page.

They turned Github into a social media.
Well I did say that the field 'mattered' to me :)

I would say that space flight is cool as a potential experience -- I hope that it's safe and cheap enough one day that I can go -- and I also think that life is good [0], so if we can spread life to more planets, that's good.

[0] https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/this-is-the-dream-timehtml
They do block side loading of audiobooks. You can only play audiobooks from Audible on Amazon Kindles.
We didn’t set this up as a competition; today’s products are always sorted randomly. We’re also developing a new system where you won’t be able to choose which products to view, we’ll randomly select them for you, and you won’t have access to see all launch products at once.
> You must be insane if you don't use virtual credit card numbers today.

Virtual numbers protect against people stealing your number. They don't really do much against subscriptions.

If you sign up for a service and stop paying, it gets sent to collections, and then impacts your credit score because of unpaid debt. Whether you used a virtual number or not is irrelevant.

So it's not "insane" not to use virtual credit card numbers. To the contrary, it's just not usually worth the hassle. The few times my number got stolen and fraudulently used over the past two decades, I called and the transactions got reversed immediately. And those all happened after I used my card physically anyways, not online, so virtual numbers wouldn't have helped anyways.
Isn't 3b the kind of size you'd expect to be able to run on the edge? What is the point of using 3b via API when you can use larger and more capable models?
Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Please also share target audience to correlate better.
Serious question out of curiosity. Has anyone solved the lifting gas volatility problem (is the lighter the gas the more volatile)? That's the main deal breaker with all zeppelin proposals.
> it’s very cohesive and stable by comparison to Windows

That's an incredibly low bar. Windows 95 is cohesive and stable as compared to Windows.

> It’s beautifully designed compared to KDE

It's beautiful. Designed? I don't know about that. In my experience, it takes significantly less clicks, swipes, or keypresses to perform action in KDE as opposed to pretty much everything.

I consider that good desktop design, because these are tools. Less work = better tool.

> It’s most similar to gnome

Yeah, and Gnome is awful IMO. Some things just can't be done without installing extensions. The workflow is very "my way or the highway". Seemingly simple actions require submenus of submenus. The UI design isn't dense enough, so a bunch of info is just missing.

> refuse to learn the macOS/gnome paradigm

The difference here is I can easily replicate what macOS and gnome have going in KDE. Because KDE is flexible, and those aren't. Why would I though, when I can instead abuse KDE for efficiency gains in workflows? I'd much rather do that.
For all you backend engineers: It’s basically Grafana with a bunch of support engineers in the backend cleaning up the data source (like a splunk index) that feeds it.

Palantir does UI and visualization well but needs an inordinate amount of field support engineers to groom the dirty disparate data that governments do a poor job cleaning (either due to incompetence, field conditions, or both).

The amount of manual labor doesn’t justify its market price, but because governments rarely change their vendors, there is significant lock in that probably supports some amount of their market cap.
It makes you wonder if there's been work designing software that is resilient to bugs. Maybe you can test this by writing a given function in a variety of different ways, simulate some type of bug (fat fingering is probably easiest), and compare outputs. Some of these functions might not work at all. Some might spit out the wrong result. But then there will probably be a few that are written in such a way to get very close to the true result, and maybe that variance is acceptable for your purposes. Given how we currently write code (in english in a way a human can read it) maybe its not so realistic. But if we get to the point with our generative code where you can generate good quality machine code without having it transmuted to human readable code for human verification, then this is how we would be operating: looking at distributions of results from a billion putative functions.
>Could be just me but I think a lot of older generations share this experience.

I am only 32 and wouldn't consider myself old.

I used to get very uncomfortable, maybe even angry, when people at the cashier in the supermarket just did not get off their headphones and just leave a simple hello to the person at the counter. Nowadays I am just mildly irritated sometimes, but I still think it's stupid. Especially if the cashier is a really nice and polite person. Leaving on your headphones and not saying a word, sometimes not even giving them a look, feels like a f- you in their face. Just be nice to other people and it even works if you are a very socially awkward person like me. The world can be nice and even give you a smile every once in a while.

This obviously got worse since corona. Germany used to be a cash-heavy country, but now since "everyone" is just paying by card, they just pull it out, wave around with it to signal that they want to pay with it, so that they don't even have to say one single word. So weird.
Nothing actually prevents those corporations from using AGPLv3. The are only afraid that they can't create a walled garden with it. So users are protected from that, as designed.
There are both wired and wireless noise canceling earbuds that work well. Never had an interest in the bulky over the ear ones. I pack pretty light even for 2-3 week trips.
Quick and Easy Capacity Planning with Pandas
I never got a reply for a regular application, despite the "transparent" handbook stating so.
Declesion patterns are kinda random in general.
My plan is to use a separate control plane for the discovery/announcements of changes, and torrents just for the data transfer. The specifics are still being actively discussed, and it's a few releases away anyway.
Yet another case of companies getting away with stuff that would have landed you or I in jail on day one.

Sure must be nice to get away with anything you like just because it's legally a company and not a person doing it, with all kinds of shady lawyers exploiting legalese loopholes. All of them will escape with full pockets and without punishment, and the moral of the story is: don't be poor, be a company and have lots of lawyers - the world is your oyster.
'Bike shedding', in the context of the current Irish bike shed controversy - heh
There was an article in some source (sorry, I forget which) that interviewed a person somewhere in the Southeast US that has been paid to remove a dozen or two of them. It had some photos of the inside of the machine. You should look for it!
The benefit is not in seeding speed directly from IA, but the potential for distributed access and seeding of the item. Think of it as a filename of a zip file in a flat distributed filesystem, with the ability to cherrypick files that make up the item out via traditional bittorrent mechanisms. Anyone can consume each item via torrent, continue to seed, and then also access the underlying data. IA acts as the storage system of last resort (and the metadata index).
To be honest I didn't see the license issues until this thread, because I had already checked out of the discussion by the time that was brought up.

And it would have been fine to say "hey, I think there may be a problem here, let's work together to see if we can solve it" wrt. to either their custom license or the GPL. That is not what happened. The sad thing is there would be many knowledgable patient people who would be willing to work with the WinAmp people on resolving all of this free-of-charge, but who is going to notice them in a sea of assholes?

I'll also argue it's not "serious", at least in the sense of "needs to be fixed ASAP". It's been like this for how long? 20 years? 25 years? It's just that no one noticed before. And it's basically a "dead" legacy project. Don't really need to rush to correct mistakes of the past here IMHO.
Another trick I've noticed is to use the unsubscribe link as a redirect to a (surprise?) non-functioning webpage. "Sorry, please contact the account administrator to unsubscribe."
Vitalism
I thought that was the lulu lemon logo at first glance.
I think the official specs say it can display 4k screen over DP connector. Not sure if jailbreaks allow more resolutions
I still might prefer 5" model. Compared to current 7th Gen paperwhite, it is not that much smaller. A bit more would make it even more sensible in size.
IDK how much E2EE from discord will help, not only because the DMCA requests are targeted at text links not covered by AV E2EE, but also because in my experience it's less about streams detecting content, and more often content detecting being streamed. Amazon is particularly cagey about this. Playback is copy protected via widevine etc, and gets spooked even by legitimate use cases such as trying to AirPlay a browser window on my laptop to an apple TV across the room. The browser seems to be able to detect and pass on information about whether the screen is being mirrored, cast, etc. I would expect that whatever system utils discord's screen capture service hooks into would snitch to the browser, with little possible recourse by discord (short of doing something dropbox-like where they roll their own screen scrapers but try to pass it off as a normal system util [0]).

Honorable mention to HDCP cabling, wherein two copy-protection-compliant (lol) devices might purposefully refuse playback when a cable manufacturer has failed to pay an annual ransom to Intel [1].

[0] https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-di...

[1] https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/HDMI/what-is-hdcp-the-comp...

Funny enough, that link about dropbox fuckery was entirely unsurfaced when I tried to search "dropbox imitate system dialog" on google, which said there were 10 pages of results on page 1, but then quit halfway down page 2. Russian search service Yandex returned the HN discussion as the first result for the same query. What a world when the best way to find uncensored content in America is to ask the freakin Russians.
I imagine back in the LBJ and Nixon days IBM would've been doing similar classified work.
> In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

> (defalias 'plus #'+)

> (defalias 'quotient #'/)

> (defalias 'times #'*)*

> (defalias 'difference #'-)*

Looks like we also need a defmacro for def that is used much further in the article:

> > (def rac (lambda (lyst) (car (reverse lyst))))

I mean the above example fails in Emacs:

ELISP> (def rac (lambda (lyst) (car (reverse lyst))))
*** Eval error *** Symbol’s function definition is void: def

If we want the above example to work, we need to define def like this:

ELISP> (defmacro def (name lambda-def) `(defalias ',name ,lambda-def))
def

Now the previous example, as presented in the article, works fine:

ELISP> (def rac (lambda (lyst) (car (reverse lyst))))
rac
ELISP> (rac '(your brains))
brains
iOS C# is more or less fine, there is quite a bit of work done in .NET to make this better still. .NET 9 gains native Swift Library Evolution ABI support even - you can literally declare DllImports against public Swift APIs by simply annotating them with [typeof(CallConvSwift)], it's not as convenient as it sounds but it's only a matter of time when the tools like https://github.com/royalapplications/beyondnet adopt this. It's going to get much better once MonoAOT is replaced with NativeAOT for all major publish modes for iOS.
> need to pay meta if you exceed 700 million monthly users

Seems like a good problem to have
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I'm dubious. If you pick the right threshold, you will surely find that the frequency of days above that threshold is massively increased. But that doesn't imply that the temperature is up 20F.

I certainly remember plenty of days in the mid-to-high-nineties in Silicon Valley 20 years ago.
This Twitter situation is one example. Many agencies/governments in the US use it as their primary or sole source of realtime public communications, even when they have email, texts, websites, etc. at their disposal. I would like that to be regulated (i.e. agencies required to post on public channels that don't require a proprietary login/account).

I don't think that sort of regulation should extend to private entities, however, who should be able to communicate with their stakeholders however they please, even if I find it annoying.
I found this FBI whistleblower interview video [1] when I was researching CIA involvement with Xinjiang because I saw a video describing the US strategy about utilizing the Uyghur discontent for US geopolitical gains but could not decide whether this US strategy video was authentic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaitXSdjFP8
And what masked emails are for. I use this with fastmail and my own domain, it’s amazing.
sounds like you have something to say but can't be bothered to say it
A Once-in-a-Century Discovery That Shaped Particle Physics
In addition, when I got bit by this last year trying to cancel, they waived the fee and gave me a year's worth of premium for free.
Are we just going to ignore the negative externalities of AI? From my perspective, the main product of AI is bots spamming social media with misinformation - largely with a goal of swaying elections.

I'm not saying that AI is inherently evil and has no potential, but just ignoring the cost is misleading. It's like saying oil is wonderful and pretending global warming isn't a thing.

The tech may be "hard" but that doesn't mean it's a net positive for society, which to me is what really matters. Of course this is all subjective and nobody can predict the future, but I just find this blind optimism to be self-destructive.
I agree, the lagginess of kindles drove me to distraction and I was actually reading less because of it.

I bought a colour Kobo. Super responsive by comparison. The colour isn't wonderful, I like that it's there.

Also, physical buttons! Such things are only available on the most expensive Kindle, I didn't realize how much I'd missed them.
How about you give me one day where low point is close to 0% as you claimed.
Imagine the first person wearing bell bottom jeans. Some folks just DGAF, and next thing you know ...
1. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41854076
2. Yes, you got it! That's very much something we are building towards, and you hit it on the nail in describing how that will work and the utility it will provide to people across many industries from game dev to backend services.
That's not what happened. He said quote "which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against".

This is something that has been proposed that Tim fought against but mentioned in the thread to provide context of the types of kneejerk reactions the spec authors have had to push back against.
The best part about requiring them to use the word “unsubscribe” is I can do this email rule: If an email says “unsubscribe” in it, move it to “says-unsubscribe” folder.

I look at that email once a week for the false positives. Huge QoL increase.
It is definitely a lot worse among my acquaintances these days. I am in my late 50´s. Many people people I know of my generation are addicted to conspiracy theories and spend a lot of their lives thinking about them, following influencers etc. This was not the case for these people in the past.

The one thing a lot of them have in common is a high degree of isolation, presumably leading to a lot of time on the internet.
The last time I remember flying with a tablet, it was so suspicious that airport security hauled me into a private room and interrogated me about it. They questioned why I didn't take it out of my bag for the scanner (since it was a 'laptop'). They asked what it was. They made me turn it on and use it. They were extremely rude and kept me holed up for a long time while investigating it.

So I don't fly with a tablet any more haha! Although, I get that time has passed and I would no longer be accosted so much, I assume. Must be pretty common now. My story takes place in ~2011 with the Motorola Xoom tablet. I guess they had never seen a tablet before.

I was also working hard on a plane one time, writing code to access barometer data on mobile devices to build a distributed weather sensor network that could be activated in software. The flight attendant came by and told me, "okay, time to put your toys away sweetie" referring to my tablet and phone. Oooooooooh my god.
I really appreciate your post. I am still on this journey, and have been for almost a decade. It will not break my will. Digestive enzymes are one of the next things that I will be trying -- I noticed that small amounts of pineapple with my evening meal seem to quell some GI distress.

Anyways, I'm at work now, so hopefully my reply will serve as a nice bookmark to come back to this thread.

I'm tired of my doctors and specialists dismissing all of my attempts at curing myself. They are truly only interested in minimizing symptoms, and NONE of them believe there is a root cause to CURE.
The use of car and cdr are such a surprisingly concrete implementation detail in the birth of a language that was designed to be mathematical. The most basic and famous operators of "List Processor" were created to operate not on lists but on conses, an element in a particular machine representation that Lisp uses to build data structures! Not only are conses not always interpreted as lists, but a very very important list, the base case for recursive functions on lists, is not represented by a cons.

Sixty years later, most Lisp programs are still full of operations on conses. A more accurate name for the language would be "Cons Processor!" It's a reminder that Lisp was born in an era when a language and its implementation had to fit hand in glove. I think that makes the achievement of grounding a computer language in mathematical logic all the more remarkable.
I think it's a space that's largely overengineered when classic solutions tend to work very well and are FOSS. On the log side, rsyslog, systemd-journal-remote, etc are being overlooked in favor of the behemoths like Splunk, and I think the real opportunity is in reducing the SIEM stack complexity by returning to simple tools that do their job well (unix philosophy).

The problem is then VC's and their companies are trying to monetize in their style, which almost always means using massive funds to dominate a market space and then hold on to that. Serving the customer need has almost become secondary to growth for these types.

What I see in this article is more stuff about the next Splunk, but what I want is an analysis of why people even need splunk (often they don't), and how that means the real opportunity is in returning to basics.
hahah yes, also it looks like PI number's sign
> One recent idea I've had is that many online subscription services should automatically pause if you stop using it

Amazon got me on this multiple times for prime, now I always pay for delivery directly, because in the long run it's cheaper.

The most recent incarnation of their cancel subscription page had such intentionally shitty UX that I thought I had cancelled, but there were more pages to click through. So I ended up paying 2 months for zero usage. I'm fed up with the never ending changing landscape of tricks. Fuck subscriptions.
I saw a guy on youtube complaining about it. He seemed to talk about FLOSS a lot and focus on the strict definition of "open source."

I checked his github profile and he barely published anything.

So here we have a company that made all of the code of a complete application source available being dunked by a guy who barely published any source code at all.

Really put things in perspective for me.
Do people really not understand how bad this could be from a legal perspective. Licenses are a contract and they broke several contracts.

>They ended up looking bad and exposing themselves to legal trouble, but I'm not sure this was awful

For a company, I can't think of anything less awful than purposefully choosing to expose oneself to legal trouble. I'd say that qualifies as "comically awful".

>they might even have known exactly what they were doing.

In what way? Are they going bankrupt (so nothing to sue for) and just want to send out readable source on the way out, without enough care to strip out copyright and list dependencies? That's certainly a hail Mary, but I think that move does more damage to the community than goodwill.
It's a keyed generator, they just lost that small bag that seeded it
It is incredibly frustrating to have only one option for insurance provider, and then discover that a solid majority of the health care providers in your area don't take that insurance because they have such a bad reputation.

Then you get into the wonderful world of getting receipts for every procedure and manually submitting them, only for them to be rejected so you have to call and tell them to provide the service they promised you. The insurance isn't even cheap! My monthly deduction would be close to the same price as an Obamacare plan, and that doesn't include the employer contribution. Healthcare is such a racket.
I've been saying for years that we'll know the world is serious about energy when we see big pushes into nuclear power. We're here now. This is the point at which all the dumb "but what about a gorillion turbines and solar panels" start to die off (except for where they're legitimately a great solution) and talk about the only viable power source moving forward will start to grow. This is super exciting to me.
The submission shows there are 6 models outperforming `llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct`, 5 OpenAI models (4, 4-turbo, 4o, o1-mini and o1-preview) and then `claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620` which also ranks highest.
These people always make me laugh.

They look at the crusades, trans Atlantic slave trade, genocide of the indigenous people of the Americas and go "hmm, why are all these brown people so violent"
I wish Kindle Scribe ran Android so I could sideload apps to it.
A 21-Year-Old Violinist Emerges from a Field Crowded with Prodigies
Is this not the same as a gap year?

I’m Irish but unfortunately never bothered with TY. I live in the UK now so I’ve a limited understanding of TY and the ‘Gap year’.
So basically you're glad someone broke their contract so you could hoard more code on your local end?