skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this. Copyright law does not prevent people from sharing their information freely. It gives the option for "rent seekers" to do their thing. Enforcing your rights for return is optional for people that don't want to do it. I'm not talking about right-to-repair here, but the idea of copyright in general.

A lot of information is generated by taking some financial risk with the hopes of creating something of value and recouping that investment + some profit. Copyright makes that kind of venture possible. It doesn't prevent altruistic souls from putting in the same effort without any expectation of return. We always had this, by default. Copyright framework allows pursuit, generation and dissemination of huge swaths of valuable information that would otherwise not exist.
It’s very strange how many people here have confidently incorrect ideas about what journalism purports to be or do.
Couldn't that just, never get an answer?

Or maybe just says "i don't know" with full certainty.
> In practice retransmits are rare between my endpoints

You seem to be mistaken about how (most) TCP implementations work. They regularly trigger packet loss and retransmissions as part of their mechanism to determine the optimal transmission rate over an entire path (made up of potentially multiple point-to-point connections with dynamically varying capacity).

That mechanism breaks down horribly when using TCP-over-TCP.
That's a terrible paper. More than half of it is a puff piece on how great it would be if this works. Where's the new work?

The process they're writing about seems to be this one: "A hybrid inorganic–biological artificial photosynthesis system for energy-efficient food production" (2022), in "Nature Food"[1]
(I had no idea there was a "Nature Food" journal.) The actual conclusion there was that they could force algae growth with this approach, but when they tried lettuce, "... plant growth was largely inhibited by acetate at concentrations that would have measurably increased plant biomass, although some growth parameters such as roots showed increased growth ... Lettuce plants grown with electrolyser-produced effluent ... added to reach a final media concentration of 1.0 mM acetate did not show additional growth inhibition in plant weight or leaf number from secondary electrolysis products
Plant tolerance and consumption of acetate as a heterotrophic energy source will need to be increased to fully decouple plants from biological photosynthesis."

So, to make this work, it's necessary to bioengineer new food plants that will grow usefully on acetate-enriched water.
That's a big project. It's a whole new food chain.

Or you can grow algae and make various products of fermentation, and ultraprocess those into something edible.
The Impossible Burger's bloody meat "heme" is a product of fermentation of a genetically engineered organism.
That's just a flavoring. The product is mostly made from peas and soy.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00530-x
Does the WMF have any presence in India? Why don't they just ignore the ruling?
If the Washington Post only reported facts, it would be the most left wing newspaper in the US by a country mile.
For the past 100 years, literally since WWI, all media organizations have been used to constantly launder opinions into the brains of the American people, disguised as 'fact'.
Should still have time to edit it, or you cops email hn@ycombinator.com and ask the mods to fix.
He's said he wants to be a dictator on day one, has told his supporters that they won't have to vote again after this election, has said he will prosecute his political opponents, has said that Harris voters should be afraid of saying they support her, etc, etc.

What more do you need?!
That's nonsense. If they want to remove doubts that the money is all there they should get an audit. Refusing to get an audit is an enormous red flag.
The EV4, by contrast, is sort of a hatchback, so that's a little better.
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What does that mean? That it's good, that it's bad? Should we just keep doing things because that's what we've always done?
usps.com. amtrak.com. mta.info. These were just the first that came to mind.

I think there are specific reasons behind each of these, but the fact is that I am used to interacting with government websites that end in .com, so it wouldn't surprise me if some county's court system also used a .com.
>after he fell down the stairs

I think Biden fell UP stairs more often on camera.

Recent paper came out suggesting that classifying media coverage of major media outlets identified something like a 94% positive take for Kamala and a 98% negative take for Trump. I think the media companies gave up the mask a while ago. James O'keefe had a great undercover journalism piece where one the producer's of MSNBC outright said they are a propaganda arm for the DNC.
On a serious note, this is an example of what historian Timothy Snyder refers to as "obeying in advance", where people predict what a repressive government will want and then obey before they're in power just to be safe. This creates a positive feedback loop that leads to them seizing power.
> You don't go to McD for the ice cream.

Yeah. 'cause they don't have any 'cause the machine's broken.
No, he's fucking terrified of lina khan. He won't endorse trump and poke the bear and he won't endorse harris because he's embittered.

He's a cowardly monopolist.
To play Devil's Advocate to the Devil's Advocate... I would posit that journalistic neutrality isn't possible: and if that's the case I'd rather the journalist or publication wear their biases on their sleeve.

I can read a biased story, with values very different to my own, and still draw conclusions that are still meaningful. Mind you, I would expect omissions and couching that is flawed, but understanding the thinking of those I oppose is valuable and allows me to see their blind spots (or my own for that matter).

But a news organization or journalist being clear about their values and politics also disposes of the harmful notion that they've actually achieved some sort of objective reading or that they're being complete and well rounded. There's a deceptiveness in that pretense which some readers (watchers) may actually take for truth and not think more critically about what they're consuming than that.
Are you pro-capitulation to authoritarian states?
I just don't think you are aware of the scale of the event.

Do you realize that in less than 3 years Russia has caused more than 1.000.000 casualties, Russia has kidnapped more than 25.000 Children, and made 10.000.000 people into refugees some of them filtrated in Russia?

It's like the destruction of +1,500 medical facilities, deliberately, isn't much of a big deal...

Both are horrible events but at completely different scales. We're talking about a country of 40.000.000 people who was at peace, posed no threat to anyone, and never attacked any neighboring country. There are several days of +1.000 casualties - these are human beings, I don't know why you're deliberately dehumanizing Ukrainians and Russians.

Europe hasn't seen anything like this since WW2, even after we witnessed the genocide of Chechens at the hands of Russia, another one.
The person you are replying to understands this and was being sarcastic. Everybody already knew who they wanted to endorse well before this came out.
It reminds me when I was young thinking I couldn't get a date because I didn't have six pack abs.

Then when I got in really good shape I thought it was because I didn't make enough money.

When I started making money I thought it was because I wasn't tall enough.

There is no way having social media or not is mattering that much. It is just in your head.
Hydrogen at 20C and 1 ATM (ambient gas, basically) has a density of 0.083 kg/m³. So, a 1 cubic meter tank (about the size of a large refrigerator) would have .083 kg of hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure. If you could increase the density (via increasing pressure, for example) 60x, that would be ~5 KG in a 1 cubic meter tank. 60 ATM is about 800 PSI, or about the pressure of a CO2 cartridge. From Wikipedia, though, car companies are trying to amp the pressure way up to 10x that, presumably to get the tank size down or increase the total energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage
The Wendy's frosty machine doesn't have the same automatic cleaning cycle and pasteurization feature that the McDonald's ice cream machine has. Thus Wendy's employees need to tear the machine down and clean it by hand, a long and tedious process.

The whole reason McDonald's wanted this machine was to reduce training costs and labour. However, the machine does need to be operated correctly or it simply shuts down.
All: when commenting, please stick to this story, and don't do flamewar or generic electoral battle as that's not what the site is for.

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They're not really saying Bezo or Musk are acting illogically. He's lamenting everyone who has set with their heads buried in the sand and pretended they aren't doing the things they're doing.
Can't you?

1- option top_logprobs allows you not just to get the most likely token, but the top most likely tokens.

You can branch, by just chosing any point in your generated string and feed it back to the LLM, for example:
{
"user":"what is the colour of love?",
"assistant":"the colour of love is"}

It's true that it will add an "assistant" tag, wand old completions was better for this.
Nobody does. It's a tossup, and he's hedging his bets.
It's almost as if coming out in favor of taxing unrealized capital gains right before the election wasn't the stroke of political brilliance that Harris thought it was.

"Hmm, I'm facing a close election. Hey, wait, I know! I'll make enemies of people who buy ink by the trainload and bandwidth by the petabyte-second."

I really wish somebody could have talked her out of that idea, or at least convinced her to wait another couple of months before putting it on the table. It was an incredible faux pas, maybe a history-changing one, whose consequences were trivially foreseeable.
In English, it's a convention to use a space after a comma.
I like this trend of taking neutral positions that seems to be picking up again, although the timing for this doesn't look good.

Just as how universities are starting to adopt neutrality, so should news outlets.
This is a great response. I really appreciate it, thank you. I think this will be my approach going forward. Its so easy to translate what I'm thinking into python. Once I profile it and figure out what needs to be optimized, I'll write it in C. I realize that gaining experience with C can be helpful, and I am improving. I just really don't enjoy coding in C.
Did people really think that billionaires wanted to buy major press outlets for profit expectations?

Controlling the narrative was always the plan. Unless it's private equity. They just strip it bare and put it out of business.
Yes! I tried to play the new Spiderman game, and just the sheer amount of stuff to do was overwhelming. Especially because I like to do all the side missions.

I know I sound like the oldest gamer here, but I miss the ratchet and clank style games. Long enough to be engaging, very replayable, but not a full-time job.
What a sad state of affairs when people who consider themselves educated enough to opine about what newspapers should and should not do clearly has no historical understanding or basic familiarity with newspapers.
Honestly it’s surprising to me that people really think that the news side of a media company operates with complete autonomy from the business side. They might claim it exists but that’s a fallacy.

I worked at a major daily newspaper 30 years ago and I personally know of two cases in my short tenure there where news stories were killed because they didn’t want to piss off important advertisers. I am also aware of a story involving a family member of one of the executives that was let’s say “barely” reported. Other local media organizations interestingly had much more detail than we carried.

News has always been and will always be first—a business.
The problem predates streaming. Labels will take your money either way - 8 million "listens" has never equated to a sale, period.

I hate to say it, but the entire concept of digital music having value was an RIAA invention as a response to Napster. In effect, the feet pics are valueless as well but more profitable since they can be distributed direct-to-customer and are effortless to manufacture.
That just isn't true. It is possible to be unbiased in journalism, and it was a major goal of journalists at various times in history. Obviously not all journalists at all times have striven towards this goal, but some have. Stop making excuses for blatant partisanship, instead hold them to a higher standard.
> Before the Civil War, over half of the country’s residents were farmers, Jolliff said, and they worked with small parcels of land in diversified operations. The modern regenerative agriculture movement encourages that same type of farm diversification.

Yea, and before the civil war, we didn't have gasoline engines. You are never going to see a broad return to rural farming life ever again.
This is regarding endorsements by the outlet as a whole. If someone wants to go out and publicly endorse a candidate on their own name, nobody's stopping them.

What Bezos did is say, no, you cannot and will never again slap the Washington Post's name onto your personal endorsement. I think that's fair, he owns the brand, and I think it's also good for journalism overall because it's not a journalist's job to push opinions.
Energy exec punts datacenter power options out to long term
> Plastic recycling is just another American "we tried nothing and are out of ideas."

not sure where this comes from -- this statement is definitely not accurate. Is recycling of plastics "going well" ? no. Please note that USA is composed of States, and then Counties. In the USA law system, counties have the most jurisdiction over most waste laws. Some State laws override those, including toxics handling; then Federal laws including interstate commerce (transportation) and many more toxics regulations.

Counties do vary dramatically. In fact most counties in the whole USA are different in important respects. There is no single USA this way. Overall, recycling is very dependent on economics. It costs money to recycle, and sometimes you get some of it back on materials markets. The costs to the environment are not accurate with respect to markets.

The comment then proceeds to dictate advice to "each state" and that is never going to happen, by definition, for legal matters under the jurisdiction of states, in simple terms.
The script connects to well known 'dynamodb.' + region_name + '.amazonaws.com' server that expects HTTPS
Not a good idea. Employees and employers should both be free to end the relationship at any time as long as it’s not for discrimination of a protected class. Otherwise you end up with a rigid system where there’s even more loss aversion involved in hiring than there already is.
We apply incremental, streamable "joins" (relational queries) for real-time syncing between application client and server. I think much of the initial research in this space was around data pipelines but the killer app (no pun intended) is actually in app development
Which is why we need to legislate away the billionaire.
This really is an interesting question. You are asking it rhetorically, and it's not like I'm going to argue with the implication, that it "basically doesn't matter", but then one could ask the same about Trump working at McDonald's as a part of his campaign, and pretty much about everything these guys do. Unless it's a major fuckup, it almost doesn't matter, because it doesn't convert anybody but one hypothetical guy who says "you know what, I'll pick a random newspaper right now, and the first guy I'm gonna see, I'll vote for him!"

At some level of approximation it doesn't even matter who the candidate is at all. An established trend in the USA is that the public is divided pretty much 50/50 between 2 colors, and hardly sways no matter what happens. Which makes it all pretty laughable way to make the choice (seeing votes as weights, and God makes a choice using these weights to make a decision) on an important question. If we assume the elections in the USA are "fair", it's pretty much flipping a coin every time. (But then, most people are already settled on the idea that it isn't an important choice, hence the "giant douche and turd sandwich" joke is so relatable.)

So while it largely doesn't matter indeed, at some low enough level any small detail might matter. I don't imagine who is that guy who was going to vote Kamala based on WP endorsement, but, well, maybe there is one. Really, I have no idea.
You are forgetting that the ftc is looking at amazon under biden, one would hope that harris will keep kahn in the post (because she's kicking asses that have been needed to be kicked for 30+ years).

I think he's in a bad place. If he endorses trump he's endorsing a potential fascist dictator. If he endorses harris he's contributing to amazon's anti-trust peril.
I usually listen to an audiobook or a podcast while I play Factorio or another story-light game, so as to offset that feeling.
That would be extremely useful in some domains.
What older journalism are you talking about? Cold War era Cronkite? The era of endless red scares and other very obviously biased behavior?

WaPo has been giving out endorsements since the 70s. The era you’re pining for never existed.
It wouldn’t be interesting or newsworthy to me personally if they had done that.

Given that editorial boards at newspapers like WaPo traditionally do, I find it notable when the billionaire owner steps in to stop them from publishing the endorsement, due to fear of retaliation from one of the candidates.

To me, that’s worth knowing about.
Find me a video of a relevant figure in the EU shouting that Moscow must be nuked. I could point to several videos of relevant politicians and popular TV people in Russia threatening with turning London or Paris into ashes. So nope, not everybody is behaving equal.

Two countries in the list are simply living on another planet. Rushing to see who can violate more international laws in a year. One is Russia, and the other is Israel, currently attacking the blue helmets to add insult to injury. I want to believe that the other play under some rules at least.
Yes. Censoring is an action, the power dynamic at play is not relevant to whether something is or is not censoring. What you’re asking is “is this specific act of censorship somehow immoral or illegal?” And the answer is no, as I expect you already believe.

But it wasn’t censored for no reason, and it’s entirely reasonable to question the motives that led to this specific act of censorship.
I am serious! But yes.
I'm sure you're mostly right, but there are no doubt a few still on the fence, which can only either be people who have not been exposed to the truth about Trump (e.g. people who only watch Trump sane-washed sources like Fox), or republicans who are well aware of the danger he poses, but are having a hard time accepting that the responsible thing to do is vote against him.

For the few that are still on the fence, then more straight shooting reporting, from any source, can only help.

To me this is a total cop out, and very irresponsible, for the Washington Post to not want to "take sides" and express an opinion. I guess they would've let Hitler win election too, rather than want to "take sides" and say anything bad about him. It's like not wanting to express an opinion on whether a grizzly bear or a hamster would be a better pet for a 5 year old, because you're afraid of upsetting the grizzly bear.
I love that Newsblur correctly removed the SCRIPT tag and everything following it. The Company's name is "> in my feed.
Respect!
Making a big song and dance about the entire business of "endorsements" seems to be a very US thing as far as I know. I am of course not familiar with all democracies of the world, but it doesn't seem common anywhere else I've seen.
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Facts still must be interpreted. It could be a fact that a credible source claimed X and a non-credible source claimed the opposite. A newspaper's job is to also provide this context, not merely the "facts" of what was stated.

Similarly, an endorsement could in countless ways not simply be partisan. For example, based on what is most predicted to help the country with X/Y/Z.
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Not at all. I'm saying there is a difference between statistics about word data and working with space-time data and concepts that classify space-time. We do the latter https://graphmetrix.com/trinpod-server
> Is anyone really changing their mind based on some newspaper endorsement? I’m pretty sure everyone knows who they’re gonna vote for at this point.

Clearly Bezos thinks they are[1], otherwise he wouldn't have gone through the trouble of killing it 11 days before an election.

People in this thread are badly conflating the idea of "Newspaper Opinion Journalism is Bad" with "It's OK for an owner to arbitrarily influence newspaper coverage in real time". You can agree with the former and still agree the later is a horrifying precedent.

[1] Or, "Bezos thinks that Trump thinks they are" might be closer to the truth.
Because talking about how Trump is evil is more entertaining than talking about Harris
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It's more about how a presidential candidate has repeatedly made credible threats to go after specific media companies using the power of his office if he wins. That candidate also happens to have a terrifyingly broad idea of what those powers are. That's in the context of a 9-member Supreme Court where 3 are his own appointments and 2 are appointments from a previous president with similarly broad ideas about presidential power.

And no, not everyone knows how they're going to vote, as crazy as that seems, but I agree that newspaper endorsements are a tiny factor, especially in this election.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_in_the_2024_Unite...

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> SaaS didn't exist when the GPL was drafted

If you mean v3, this isn't true. AGPLv3 is written the same time as GPLv3, and references each other to maintain compatibility (a special provision that lets you use code in the other license provided you follow the other license for that component)
Of course all of the billionaires are rooting for Trump, because they want to be in business next year. Harris will understand voting for other parties, but Trump punishes disloyalty.
"They" of course being the Delaware Chancellory Court in this situation... man people are clueless about how things work.
Like VR. Lots of niche uses will emerge. But not much main stream adoption.
Endorsements come opinions editors, a special part of the paper where the paper prints opinions, not news.

I agree that it would be nice if news outlets tried to always be neutral, but a lot of TV news channels in the US would have almost nothing to say if you stopped their opinion reporting.
That seems to just describe activism, not journalism. What makes it journalism to you - the association with a company that punishes a newspaper?