skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although, yes, this sounds absurd, it's worth noting that the TV licence pays for the BBC and the BBC has extensive radio (and web) offerings not only television.

Of course, that still doesn't make sense because to the best of my knowledge you don't need a license of any kind to listen to the radio.

Anyway, perhaps blind people want to listen to the TV. There are a lot of programs that could make sense even if you can hear but not see them.
Not a novel, but the short story "Dracula's Guest" I thought was quite good. I was sad it was so short.
> What you’re missing is that everybody on this forum is part of the top one percent

Hardly. People here have a higher-than-one-percent chance of being in the top 1%, but it's a long way from "everyone here".

> On a global scale, if you live in the west, most likely you’re in the top 1%.

Obviously wrong. The global population is 8 billion; the US plus the EU is about 700 million.
I saw another example the other day of how things used to work. If you wrote to the UK government in the 1980s to ask (or complain) about their policy towards apartheid South Africa you received a personal reply addressing your points in the context of the government's policy [1]. Presumably, letters to other departments were handled similarly.

I've corresponded with the civil service a few times recently and the service now is shite.

[1]: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/10/who-are-the-...
It's on Amazon, tons of public domain stuff republished for $0 on Kindle. 1 click to "purchase" (free download).
Oh no man - that's just regular exhaustion.

Burnout's more insidious and pernicious than that - and it takes far more than a few days of rest to get over it.
If folks are looking for interactive API docs, I made this using their OpenAPI spec: https://zudoku.dev/demo?api-url=https://raw.githubuserconten...

Repo: https://github.com/zuplo-samples/xAI-OpenAPI/tree/main
More importantly, they are raising consciousness of fundamental problems that can lead to very damaging consequences by doing cheap pranks with trivial consequences.
> the law is written so you have to pay if you could receive one. If you have a computer and the Internet, you could receive internet streaming.

That's not true, according to https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/tv-licence.

> You do not need a TV Licence to watch:

> • streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus

> • on-demand TV through services like All 4 and Amazon Prime Video

> • videos on websites like YouTube

> • videos or DVDs
It’s cool for tinkering, and I think there are lots of potential use-cases for conductive filaments and printing in electronics, but I don’t think transistors are necessary. Silicon crystal development is really already a sort of “additive manufacturing”, and I’m not sure what purpose would be served by re-inventing a method that would be starting so far behind in terms of scale, precision, and cost in relation to traditional semiconductor production (anyway, I assume this idea is broadly for learning/experimentation/the lols, rather than some earnest aspiration for using metal-bearing printer filaments to produce active components).
The thing here is, this reads like a prissy textbook that no-one can really disagree with but is still not gripping the reality. More HR handbook than blood-red manual.

For example, project management. The book covers this but does the usual wrong headed way of imagining there are executives with clear eyed Vision and lay down directives.

This is of course not how most projects in most companies are started. It’s a mess - reality impinges on the organisation, pain and loss and frustration result in people making fixes and adjustments. Some tactical fixes are put in place, covered by “business as usual”, usually more than one enthusiastic manager thinks their solution will be the best, and a mixture of politics and pragmatism results in a competition to be the one project that will solve the problem and get the blessed budget. By the time there is an official project plan, two implementations exist already, enough lessons learnt that the problem is easily solved, but with sufficient funding all that will be abandoned and have to be rebuilt from scratch - and at a furious pace to meet unrealistic expectations that corners will be cut leading …

That manual needs to be written.
What in god’s name are you talking about?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1157...

Oh. Had to look it up.

(6) to expose misinformation and disinformation of the Chinese Communist Party’s or the Government of the People’s Republic of China’s propaganda, including through programs carried out by the Global Engagement Center; and

(7) to counter efforts by the Chinese Communist Party or the Government of the People’s Republic of China to legitimize or promote authoritarian ideology and governance models.

——-

Feels like the defense sector is determined to make China a perpetual enemy.
I am not a literary critic, but I very much enjoyed Dracula. When I read it, I did not know there were claims he wasn't a good writer, so I had no bias, I simply liked it quite a bit.
Pretty much yeah. It definitely has felt like a one man show.
I don't think so, because IMO VR/AR have fundamental problems with the technology itself.

The elephant in the room is that we're already really good at human-computer interfaces. VR not only isn't an upgrade, it's a downgrade.

The precision of tapping in 3D space is much lower than on a screen or a keyboard. Typing in VR becomes 10x harder. Voice isn't a solution either, because talking is always slower than typing. And for gestures, swiping on a phone is already really fast. Swiping in 3D isn't any faster.

The most precise and fastest is, of course, keyboard and mouse. Touchscreens are a step-down, but one we took for the advantage of super tiny devices you always have on you.

VR is certainly not tiny. And, even if it can be and you can just wear it whenever - what's the benefit? Going from a laptop to a phone is obvious, but a phone is already very small and already always on you. What do you gain then from a VR device? I think probably next to nothing.
What makes you confident a methodology that consistently beats the market exists?
> I’ve done this but then you end up with students who are not used to “thinking”.

Then we need to teach them. You are doing the right thing for being a "hard" teacher, and it doesn't prevent you from also being known as a caring one.

From experience, acknowledging the students' difficulties with it and emphasising that it is because they were not taught how to think (as opposed to some innate inability to do maths) can go a long way.
I interpreted the parent as suggesting "just pay for it out of general tax revenue", which makes a lot of sense to me. No additional administration and enforcement required.
Programming is moreso based on recursive problem solving. (Most) language does have some recursive structures, but these become quite difficult to think about after just a few levels, and really aren't what you'd normally consider to be "good language", e.g.

> The dog's owner's house's roof's angle's similarity to an equilateral triangle is remarkable.
It's true that government has been willing to be lax in terms of border security because they want to exploit illegal immigrants as basically slave labor. Personally I think having a large underclass of easily exploitable poor people who don't have the rights and protections the rest of us enjoy is abhorrent and morally unjustifiable.

It has led to this situation where token gestures are made, largely to appease the Americans living in/near border towns and suffering under the weight of the negative consequences.

I don't know how long they'll be able to pay lip service to the problem though. There will be literal billions of climate refugees coming in the near future and they won't be economic migrants looking for higher wages. They will be genuinely desperate and for them getting past the border of another country will be a matter of survival. With a well secured border and carefully regulated immigration the US should be able to take a lot of those refugees in without being overwhelmed by them. If we're not prepared for it in advance, what we'll be left with will be far from the status quo the shortsighted have been trying so hard to preserve.
"Think differently".
Luckily that’s why we have OSS licenses, if/when they do that there will be a community fork.
The articles functionally stated that you couldn't get an apartment, or pay for a hotel room if you were caught jaywalking or walking around with a scowl on your face.
I wonder if we should take a look at how students, all paying tuition, have vastly unequal outcomes when it comes to job opportunities. Essentially there is a high scarcity of "good jobs" available to all but from the most selective universities.

Essentially when a scarcity increases, there will always be an imperfect heuristic of selection.

I guess this is more of a public policy area but it seems reasonable that anyone working full time should have access to economic security. Essentially cheating on university is the first symptom of lifetime of vastly unequal access to economic security.
Funnily enough there was a reddit post from around the time the manuscript was discovered (but before it was announced) asking a similar question
Do you think AI will propose new ideas or regurgitate our ideas that we don't implement? And even if AI proposes new ideas, will we implement them if we don't even implement our own ideas?
This doesn't fly when you're a company the size of Microsoft with the kind of influence and power they have. You can't just ignore the possibility or effects of engaging in anti-competitive behavior simply because it's convenient for you. That's not how it works.

It's not sensible at all.
To everyone who wants a better alternative to IA, who thinks they have a different solution, who thinks it should be run by a different organization, etc.

Nobody has ever stopped a competitive alternative from existing. Feel free to give it a shot. You have a head start with all the work that they've done and shared.
Great blog post. Congrats on the PR! While it's true that no one cares more about your marathon time than you, it still feels like a tremendous victory when a new one is achieved, and likewise, oppositely when an attempt is failed. There are not many serious consequences when failing except maybe a temporarily bruised ego and trying even harder on the next build.
RIP yawnxyz
As someone who has done fake work knowingly, what do you say to me? That I was actually providing real progress, just that it was difficult to measure, and I am fooling myself? No, it was fake work, and I've seen many peers do the same over the years.
this is making me want to buy a black and white TV (or grab a monitor and set it to always show in black and white) just so I can buy the monochrome TV license for giggles
Updated NotebookLM allows for more control
No, it’s reality. Outside of a pure tech audience, literally no one gives a shit that your company wants you to RTO. I work from home but visit customers in all sorts of industries—manufacturing, finance, healthcare, insurance, retail. All of them are in office now or at a bare minimum hybrid, but with at least 3 days a week in office. So if the standard for most people who work is some portion of their time away from home for their job, then you are treating tech workers like people if you want them to RTO.

It’s divisive to demand WFH for a single class of worker.
>This then comes back to my original point. If they learn the content and rewrite the output, is it really plagiarism?

Who said anything about rewriting? That's not necessary. You can have GPT write your essay and all you do is study it afterwards, maybe ask questions etc. You've saved hours of time and yes that would still be cheating and plagiarism by most.

>This entire article and all the conversations that followed are about using writing styles to spot plagiarism. It’s not a new concept nor a claim I made up.

>So if you don’t agree with this premise then it’s a little late in the thread to be raising that disagreement.

The article is about piping essays into black box neural networks that you can at best hypothesize is looking for similarities between the presented writing and some nebulous "AI" style. It's not comparing styles between your past works and telling you just cheated because of some deviation. That's never going to happen.

>I think you’d need a larger corpus than the average cheater would be bothered to do. But I will admit I could be waaay off in my estimations of this.

An essay or two in the context window is fine. I think you underestimate just what SOTA LLMs are capable of.

You don't even need to bother with any of that if all you want is a consistent style. A style prompt with a few instructions to deviate from GPT's default writing style is sufficient.

My point is that it's not this huge effort to have generated writing that doesn't yo-yo in writing style between essays.
Generally, you cannot just record people without their consent; but this also largely depends on the jurisdiction/situation.

Almost nowhere (or actually nowhere?) are you allowed to set up a surveillance device into a space that is not public and it is not owned by you.
Discussion (36 points, 2 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907028
There are a number of wealthy investors who don't tell other people about their methodology. They're either very lucky, criminals, or have beaten the market.
Yeah, Austria had the british system for a while, but after everyone started streaming (because the content is better and prices are actually cheaper) they changed it so every household needs to pay.

Now I'm forced to pay for old sitcoms, astrology shows, soccer stuff and other useless things I don't watch anyways...
The good news is that there aren't a lot of illegal crossings to worry about at those absolutely inhospitable "passable by neither man nor mule" locations. That means that they can be electronically monitored but otherwise more or less left alone while the focus can be on those areas where people absolutely can and regularly do cross.
My pup would be tormented by the vacuum following it around while I'm not there. She gets freaked out enough by a stationary PTZ camera on my bookshelf.
People have been bamboozled, but maybe not the way you're implying.

Microsoft is only doing open source since it proved to be an extremely useful way of doing things, not because they turned into an altruistic company that started caring more about making the world a better place rather than making money.
Yeah, they don't recognise it - or at least Shazam doesn't.
I think there's a pretty reasonable explanation here, which is that "Do not write below the line" is a genuine instruction, but not for the recipient of the letter.

Post offices may make notes such as "undeliverable" on a piece of mail. The sending company may make changes to their mailers which must be hand-updated on pre-printed cards. In both cases, writing below the line may obscure which ID had its letter rejected by the Post or which IDs have not had updated mailers sent yet.

By the time the recipient of the letter receives it, they may write below the line as much as they like, as the instructions have already been followed by those they were intended for.

I would not expect first line support to be aware of this.
I had a 4-10s shift when I worked for a local college during the summers.

Mon-thurs sucked about 20% more.

Fridays were 1,000% better.

It was a good trade and I miss it.
Actually you can specify the numeric limits of the mantissa and the exponent.
They can be specified as template arguments[0].
So you could do:

Float<uint8_t, // type of the mantissa
uint8_t, // type of the exponent
0, // lowest possible value of the mantissa
4095, // highest possible value of the mantissa
0, // lowest possible value of the exponent
7> // highest possible value of the exponent

The Float then simulates an unsigned 12bit mantissa and a 3bit exponent. Sure it still takes 16 bytes. But you could create a union with bitfields where you shrink that even further.

[0] https://github.com/clemensmanert/fas/blob/58f9effbe6c13ab334...
Microsoft Copilot used by Tasmanian government to validate hotel job claims
Sierra Club also championed the removal of nuclear power, one of the cleanest energy we have and one we have not been able to successfully replace.
Are there any open source frontends compatible with Vaultwarden backend?
VR doesn't solve number 1 because we already solved this. Yes, it's a real problem but then we got screen on use 24/7 - phones.

You can make an argument about the size of the screen but remember! VR is, at least, a few orders of magnitude worse to use than mouse/keyboard. Having a big screen wherever is cool - now use it. Do you want to use a floating touch keyboard or voice commands to use Excel? Probably not, so best to just carry around a laptop.

For number two, we don't actually "know" what makes in person collaboration good (if at all). And we all disagree. But if there's a human aspect to it, then VR falls flat once again. Why not just use Zoom, and then we got a ton of other tools? If we're not gonna bother to be face to face, then okay, let's lean into better technologies that already exist.
Joining in with the nerd-sniping, I propose adding a word like "may" so that the user is already anticipating a verb rather than a compound noun.

"Plankton [may] balloon to six times size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel"
Typical payola rubbish that dominates Ars Technica, Forbes, and too many other once-legit publications.
Tell this to developers of Ariane 5, who used old proven software from Ariane 4.

Many people consider this most expensive bug in history, when on first flight of Ariane 5, it enters speed range, which was hard prohibited in Ariane 4 software and caused software exception and then 1 billion crashed.

Honesty, they could re-check all ranges, but they decided, it would cost like write new software, so to save money, was made decision to just use old software, without additional checks.
what is a use of that vs
f () { cat file; }

Why make the shell open and read the file and pipe in to the cat process when cat would open and read the file itself directly?

I guess the point is not cat but the redirection itself. ie, if the contents of f() were not simply cat, and maybe there was no handy place to put the filename within. Though, I think I still struggle to think up an example even then.
If such methodology doesn't exist then how are quantitative trading firms in business?

Genuinely wondering. Is this because they have so much money to play with that they can move markets in their favour?
Thanks for that perspective. We have tried to have conversations about it. But things improve only for a short while. I've even broached the topic of getting a 3rd co-founder to come in and be the CEO who can keep things running smoothly. That hasn't gone anywhere.

We also don't have a lot left in the bank (though we are trying to fundraise at the moment) and we do outsource some bits. Given how early we are, external help only goes so far - a lot of time it has just been a waste of money since the hourly contractors we work with aren't as invested and don't have the full picture the founders do.
This doesn't affect the fact that it's anticompetitive at all. MS wouldn't use this argument if that made their extension worse, it only works one way.
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It had on the right letters, tho.
Very retro cool though, destroying your eyes in style!
But Cursor had to fork, so as a developer wanting to use them, you need to give up VS Code and install a new code editor, and you can’t just install a plugin. Very few can maintain a fork and get enough people to use their fork. Also what happens if you have two products that needed a fork? You can’t use them both.

I don’t know if it’s legal or not, IANAL, but it feels definitely anti competitive.
You working hard doesn't change the facts. Velocity doesn't excuse anti-competitive behavior. I would've thought the DoJ case against Microsoft would've taught you that you can't just do whatever you want because it's convenient for you, especially when it has an effect on your competitors.

This isn't about feelings. This is about a multi-billion dollar corporation doing whatever it wants, yet again, to the detriment of other players in the market. Empathy doesn't have a place here.

It really is tiring to see people who earn hundreds of thousands a year crying about a lack of empathy. What a joke.
"reducing net hours worked by 20% isn't going to have market success."

The forty hour week also wouldn't "have market success" (i.e. allow many individual firms to move to it unilaterally). But it happened because organized workers compelled a few employers to adopt it through labor stoppages. This in turn created political momentum for the standard forty hour week in the legal form of collective bargaining agreements and/or working hour legislation.
Asi HN: Best database you've ever used?
I am not looking for anything specific and just want to hear about some options. Personally have enjoyed PlanetScale's branching a lot. Feel free to comment what was so good about the database you've used.
I'm sure @judiciarygop will be equally concerned about this instance.
One could argue that the only system under which a citizen can own the means of production is capitalism. If you "own" something you can sell it, trade it, and otherwise use it as you wish. In any realistic version of communism these powers are transferred to a central authority instead.
>If you have a for loop that filters out even numbers and suddenly you want to sum the numbers and find maximum and minimum too - most of the code stays the same.

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
even = [i for i in x if x%2 == 0]

Now I want to sum the numbers and add maximum and minimum too.

s = max(x) + min(x)
res = reduce(lambda acc, y: acc + y, x, 0)

I achieved your desired goal without rewriting code? The thing is with functional programming all state is immutable, so you can always access intermediary state without modification of the program at all.

It's an improvement on imperative and OO. Because I only needed to add additional code to achieve the additional goal and those additions are modular and moveable. With imperative I would be changing the code and changing the nature of the original logic and none of it is modular and all of it is tightly integrated.
I’ve always thought the real answer was to stop the businesses from hiring people. Make an actually useful national ID system that employers can use to identify if someone is allowed to work in the US, and then come down like the hammer of god on anyone found to be employing people under the table.

People come here for economic opportunity. Remove the opportunity for people who enter without permission, and they stop coming. And that sort of solution deals with more than just border crossings.
This is such a broken and dystopian situation. The UK is such a nanny state.
But we'll be better off if we pressure them not to do that.
At least my impression is that none of this is malicious or intentional. And my co-founder graduated from an ivy league school and has a FAANG company on their resume as well.
What would that mean in terms of camera coverage, and border patrol coverage?

Will the border patrol get there in, say, 20 minutes? And we have cameras covering all the land within 20 minutes of the border, so we don't lose them in that time?