skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does open source have to mean that you, the user, are on equal footing with where the copyright holder was before they even started?

Equal footing is the whole idea behind Free Software. Open Source puts accents somewhere else, but in practice it's essentially about the same thing.

> If you wanted to write a project in Rust you would have needed to be there at the beginning, too.

I can take the source code, inspect it and rewrite it line-by-line.

I can't take a closed model, inspect the data it was trained on and retrain it, even if I had enough money and resources to do so.

Whether the copyright holder will ever want to retrain it themselves is irrelevant. They have the information needed to do so if they wanted, I don't.
Ahh, the llm defense.. I genuinely expected a little more. Shame.
Forwarding is only half the requirements here though. Sending responses from a different number will generally lead to confusion, and further messages from the sender will not necessarily be shared. Though maybe if the sender is savvy enough with group texting it might work out okay.
Your comment perhaps says more about your own mental state than of those you’re collectively chiding.
Will making (non-)computer viruses illegal sanitize the world of them?
The CEO has resigned as of a month ago (or forced out rather)

The primary investors seem quite upset with his handling of this. Rumours are that he was hostile to a buyout but in his lawsuit has also invalidated a lot of their own patents.

So it’s a pyrrhic victory at best for him. I assume the new CEO will be expected to look to play better and reduce the damage.
> Even if we would assume that everything you say is true

It's not my blog post, so you don't have to take my word for it. But if you disagree with that post author's findings, perhaps you could indicate what you disagree with. The post extensively links citations/sources.

> does this make it reasonable to claim, today, that we can call something “Open Source” if it isn’t OSI-approved?

OSI isn't the boss of me, and I see no reason to let them dictate the meaning of terminology that they didn't invent and don't hold a trademark for. The two main founders of OSI also haven't been involved with it for quite some time, and besides, one of them regularly makes politically-charged comments that I find repulsive. Why exactly are we putting this random small non-profit on a pedestal?

Personally, I stick to "source available" when referring to non-OSI licenses, but that's strictly to avoid getting shouted at by people who inexplicably treat the OSD like a holy law from the almighty. I think the industry would be a lot healthier if we avoided these extreme views.

> Only weasels try to claim otherwise; i.e. the only people I see doing it are weasels who are trying to defend the indefensible by arguing the definition of words.

It sure sounds like you think anyone who disagrees with your point of view is a weasel, even if they have a well-researched reason for the disagreement!
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for nationalistic battle, as well as several of your other accounts doing the same. That's not allowed here, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.
> I'm just arguing that it makes 0 sense from an economic or societal perspective

Arguments like this might be true, but will always feel incomplete if you don’t explain why the situation now is so different from the 1930s. The Hoover dam enabling the city of Las Vegas, and the new deal employing millions to drag the US out of the depression is usually regarded as a success story. There must have been status quo naysayers at the time too, but they look wrongheaded today.

Environmental arguments about carbon or greenhouse gases add color but also can’t make the case completely. Before you can really argue against anything new on the basis of carbon, you kind of need to show that not doing the thing is actually significantly improving things and also that this is low hanging fruit compared to, say, enforcing existing regulations that companies or countries are ignoring.
Is there some tax data about the amount of Clean Vehicle/CA and Federal EV credits issued for Cybertruck?

The income cap on getting the clean vehicle rebates is $135k ($200k joint filers). And I'm not sure about the federal rebates. Tesla doesn't offer 0% financing, current Cybertruck APR deal is reported to be 5.29% for up to 72 months. So I don't see how someone with the income under the rebate cutoff can afford that $100k car or the financing option. The delta between the number of rebates (Federal EV vs Clean Vehicle/CA) may allow to estimate, how many of these are corporate (pre-income tax + rebate?) purchases.

And these "Cox Automotive estimates", are these reliable numbers that had been confirmed by Tesla earnings, or it is a "best guess by influencers" type of information?
Haha, any recommendations?
550 au in 13 years is a mean of 200 km/s—chemical rockets are nothing compared to that.
Some experts call it apartheid, most Israelis disagree (and Israel officially disagrees). [1]

> If it is, is there a justification for implementing it? Or maybe I’m missing your point.

Well, yes. That's exactly the other side of the issue, and is exactly what a real journalist talking about the Israel/Palestine situation should ideally explore.

This is an HN comment, not exactly the place for the history of the relations between the West Bank and Israel, but the short version is - most of the measures taking place in the WB are a direct result of terror attacks committed by the Palestinians, as a means of securing Israel from future attacks. You can see that relations were much better 40 years ago, it's not like Israel set out to have some kind of apartheid regime over the WB - people from Israel used to go far more freely into the WB, Palestinians used to work far more freely in Israel.

But as more and more attacks happened, Israel implemented various measures to stop terror - including the infamous checkpoints, including various border walls, including limiting work permits for Palestinians.

Looking at a snapshot of the WB now is looking at the end result of worsening relations over many years, with many of the things that seem "cruel" being direct measures to prevent terror attacks; and to prevent things like October 7th happening on a far larger scale, as would happen if it happened from the WB.

Most Israelis believe, probably correctly, that without these security measures, tens of thousands of Israelis would be killed. That would cause almost any country to do whatever it can to secure its "border".

[1] I personally don't care much for battles over semantics; if people agree on what is actually happening in the WB, then whether to call it apartheid or not seems irrelevant to me. There are lots of differences from the situation in South Africa, and lots of similarities.

I think it's worth keeping in mind that Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, and ostensibly the leadership of the Palestinians, which has a limited government role over the WB, is aiming to become a separate state; those circumstances make it seem, to me, that wondering why Palestinians don't have the same rights as Israelis is a category error, like wondering why Mexicans don't have the same rights as Americans.

Then again, it's also worth keeping in mind that whatever the goals of the Palestinians, in some respects Israel does, in fact, have control over the people of the WB, so in practice there are real problems here.
Maybe if Opera, Arc, and Brave people joined forces... Without a combined effort they lack the power of Chrome store and developer docs.

Worst comes to worst they can use the Firefox engine. The MV2 extensions don't need much work to leap over for Firefox
It really looks like you are agreeing but being pedantic about the wording
Why are you rewritting? 80%[1] of queries most users do can be efficiently handled by ORM. I might need to use hand-written query a few times either because this particular query is faster to write by hand or because ORM builds a a bad query. That is it, no need to throw away entire ORM because of that.

When I was in RoR world, pretty much every N+1 query I saw was due to lack of RTFM.

[1]: I made this up
Whoops, fixed an issue with the homepage loading. Hopefully this works for more than just me now!
Nah, they're still there, you merely have to know where to look. Most hackers I know eschew social media appearances.
Is there a Forth made for scripting/embedding in an application?
Previous generations also had it easy. Generally speaking technological advancement isn't blocked by motivation but by other concerns, namely funding.

Personally, I'd rather fix healthcare if we're going to spend political capital. https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4 remains as relevant as ever
Interesting.

I did assess the ES6 coverage of ~97% a month ago.

I just evaluated that while it sounds high, 3% of people is a lot of people to cut off if your JavaScript is essential.

E.g. Firefox sits at ~2.7% browser market share. (Not incidentally the part that doesn't support ES6, but it's a demography the size of my own.)
They actually had the majority of their patents invalidated during the legal process.

The one patent they have remaining (that is what Apple are dealing with) is on a very particular sensor configuration not the concept or technology in general beyond that.
they greatly simplified the search by preferring very crappy matches on large websites over exact matches on small sites. They also love it when people return to the search results. Crappy results are more profitable.

Shutting down technorati wasn't an accident. They made blogging uninteresting on purpose.
At least in the US, political partisanship I think is operationally pretty similar to a cult. It certainly doesn't have to exist like this but right now I think it is which is why I brought up the observation in the first place.
I think an equivalent way to phrase this that feels very different is:
"On both Windows and Linux the default installed users are, practically, root equivalent". I guess on the basis that the user performing the installation should be in control of the system (I mean, they are; they could've just not done the installation. Where are your access controls now, blank system!)

> When was the last time sudo said "no" to somebody for a reason other than a password typo?

Sudo doesn't say no to people, much like UAC doesn't say "no" to people. In both cases, people (admins) are meant to say "no" when they don't expect to be performing an administrative operation. People who are not admins and yet need to do such operations need an administrator to authorise it.

In both cases, if it's not a single-person system, whoever is setting the machine up should be setting up limited accounts for regular use.
Are there debuggers that can single step over the transpiled bits so that it feels like the methods are implemented natively? Otherwise, it becomes a mess.
Howard Marks is one of the most respected investors in US with a stellar record. His newsletter (Buffet reads it) and books are widely read and respected. He doesn't need the marketing as some up and coming financial "influencer".
My work is not killing actual people, so your analogy is flawed.
None of them started out with web security in mind.

Look at the Java bytecode, and you'll see it features such things as a goto with an arbitrary offset: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_bytecode_instru...

They had to build a verifier that attempts to ensure the bytecode isn't doing anything bad. That proved to be fairly difficult, and comes at a considerable cost.
This actually looks quite promising! Thanks!
Then you have to develop new comms that can travel that far with enough bandwith for photos. The lag could be a week or so. Or you do relays which is equally difficult in a different way
I get ~20% faster times with the first style than with f-strings for this specific use, which is when I discovered it.

def test_with_cstr(epoch: float) -> str:
return "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d" % (time.gmtime(epoch)[:6])

def test_with_fstr(dt: datetime) -> str:
return f"{dt.year:04d}-{dt.month:02d}-{dt.day:02d} {dt.hour:02d}:{dt.minute:02d}:{dt.second:02d}"

EDIT: bad example, there’s other function overhead here as well.
Horse – The Organized Browser
<< the equitable decision is to have the lecture now.

Sure assuming lecture titled "Why is Trump worse than Hitler?" is paired with another lecture along the lines of "Why is Kamala worse than Mao?" If you can't even pretend to be even-handed about it, this is just a partisan play.

But, honestly, the thing that really grinds my gears is not that. My issue is that army about the last institution in US the public KINDA trusts ( as compared to congress, senate, banks, corporates, clergy.. you name it ).

Why on earth would you want to fuck with it? Why do you insist on undermining it?
The data is bound by licenses which affect how the resulting model can be used. I release most of my public code under AGPL so that, for most intents and purposes, anybody using it has to also make their code public and benefit society at large.

Now, with LLMs, anybody can launder my code and use it to build proprietary software for his own benefit without giving anything back. That is a violation of the spirit of AGPL and hopefully the law too.
My Teenage Son Does Not Know How to Mail a Letter, and I Blame Technology (2023)
Lots of people like that analogy because it's extremely self-congratulatory. It also makes no fucking sense

Despite the fact that people keep insisting on the buzzword "AI" to describe these large neural networks, they are more succinctly defined as approximate computer programs. The means by which we create them is through a relatively standardized family of statistical modeling algorithms paired with a dataset they are meant to emulate in their output

A computer program that's specified in logic is already a usable representation that can be used to understand every aspect of the functioning code in its entirety, albeit some of it may be hard to understand. You don't need to consult the original programmer at all, let alone read their mind

In contrast, a function that is approximated in the manner described needs the training data to replicate or make sense of it, and in fact is even necessary to assess whether the model is cheating at the benchmarks its creators assess it against. The weights themselves are a functional approximation, not a functional description

For the purposes of the ethos of free and open source software, it is obvious that training data must be included. However, this argument is also deployed in various other places, like intellectual property disputes, and is equally stupid there. Just because we use the term "learning" to describe these systems doesn't mean it makes sense for the law to treat them as people. It is both nonsensical and harmful to say that no human can be held responsible for what an "AI" model does, but that somehow they are "just like people learning from experience" when it benefits tech companies to believe that
China's Fishing Fleet Overwhelms Locals in 'David and Goliath' Battle
Hm, I thought Happy Eyeballs (HE) was mainly concerned with IPv6 issues and falling back to IPV4. I didn't think it was this RFC in which finally some words were said about round-robin specifically, but it looks like it was (from this article).

Is it true then that before HE, most round-robin implementations simply cycled and no one considered latency? That's a very surprising finding.
I'm surprised it has taken this long.

And disappointed that people are still using crowdstrike.

It's not just crowdstrike of course - any piece of "security" software that operates in the same way will introduce similar risks to reliability and security.
USPS is a federal government agency tho

https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-postal-service
Eric S Raymond deserves credit for pioneering the grifter tech exploitation of hacker culture.
How do you think that's going to go with Trump in charge again?
One unified approach for all operations: events handling, API handling, presentation, animation, and more. It is done by providing methods and variable assignment with lifecycles that give them states and the ability to operate autonomously mimicking the behavior of living cells.
If it’s not implemented as a built-in feature of the browser, wouldn’t half the internet break if features were removed that people were counting on?
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22laurenzv.de%22

hardly the most creative code i have written, but though not done yet (last commit 2y ago– if this even gives me the right to keep using that word)... i still enjoy the idea very much. less struggle & more time to wander off for me, and i will finish it. but till today, nobody has seen it anyway, and likely not many will. this rough & badly executed idea, might not die a lonely death.
All space nuclear fission reactors use weapons-grade uranium—they'd be impractical otherwise.
TechTechPotato (Ian Cutress’ YouTube channel) has a nice summary/analysis video of this here: https://youtu.be/j6kX7JWMiV0

As well as a longer form podcast video with George from Chips and Cheese: https://www.youtube.com/live/T20rxYUySPw
> In the test chamber.

Flashbacks to sitting the GRE
Looks like this has nothing to do with session affinity. I was wrong. Apparently, this is a difference between our paid and free plans. Getting the details, and finding out why there's a difference, and will post.
Maybe I am failing to comprehend it. But to me the question reads “is your analytical engine, which you've described as a merely a mechanical calculator, also psychic or otherwise magical, so that it may subvert its own mechanical design in order to produce the answer I want instead of what I asked for?”.
It's a poem by a poet published right "the Great War", so I'm not sure what kind of predictive-standard you're trying to apply here.

More generally, predicting a disaster is sometimes an important step in ensuring it never occurs. Self-negating prophecies can have high utility.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911024
We changed the URL from https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/american-heart-association..., which points to this.

(Submitted title was "AHA Was Paid By P&G To Say Heart Disease Caused By Saturated Fat, Not Seed Oils")
I'm not sure how we can prevent organizations from being 'bribed' like this, but something has to be done. Misinformation like this has no doubt contributed to the obesity epidemic
Many Americans don't realize how easy it is to fall into some sort of "illegal" status in the US.

I have been stranding in the US with expired status at the beginning of the pandemic. I filed change of status but USCIS never approved it before I gave it up and left to a third country to apply for the visa. (So technically the CoS was automatically rejected and the months were retrospectively counted as illegal presence.)

And now, in a few days, my wife will have to suspend her job because the USCIS keep delaying the decision on her H1B CoS, due to some "additional security check".
With interest rates that are higher than the last 10 years of near-zero levels now you can earn more from the credit markets (bonds), because money aren't free like they were recently. Most people have forgotten that and the author points that with bonds you can yield much more than what you could recently get.
That has nothing to do with crude oil. Nor toxins, really. Eutrophication of waterways occurs because of addition of nutrients that encourages growth, not toxins that prevent it.
My hypothesis: he's running on macOS and he's seeing the same behavior from Safari as from curl because they're both using OS-provided name resolution which is doing the lowest-latency selection.

Firefox and Chrome use DNS over HTTPS by default I believe, which may mean they use a different name resolution path.

The above is entirely conjection on my part, but the guess is heavily informed by the surprise of curl's behavior.
The Ninja CREAMi makes soft serve at home.
In every single press release Masimo complains apple hired away staff.

Um, you are in California. There are no non-competes.

You just are confessing every single time you can’t retain talented staff.
> A professor once complaint about lab politics and I asked why [given his position] he didn't get more involved. He said: I must try to solve it inside my domain of knowledge - even if that wont result in the desired outcome. If I get involved it will distract me and I stop being a scientist.

This is such a nice quote, and really straight to the point. I love it.

I think social media and how it is designed as a game bugs me a lot, because the more I try to understand the mechanics behind it, the more I feel like I don't understand anything at all. The human species is a very emotional one, and is ragebaited very easily (myself included), given the right parameters are known from an OSINT perspective.

The internet right now is a social system, which kind of implies that it always needs an emotional context, like where the people debating it are coming from, how they've been primed into their opinion with their own experience, and what the context means in a transferred perspective of another area of expertise. And that is somewhat orthogonal to how science works, where the more experience we gain, the more we understand how less we know, which actually means that more experienced people have less intention to do further research, because it's a net negative reward system.

And I think this is somewhat a huge problem, because the lack of transparency of these emotional contexts makes things on the internet attackable in the sense that they can be rage baited, frowned upon, derailed into non-mattering discussions etc. The most rational statement can be shat into oblivion over minor wordings mistakes, which doesn't make sense from the perspective of rationality - as if every human on the internet claims to be perfect by default unless proven otherwise.

And we all know that a lot of people are constantly in the news for something that they said or did in the past. It's like a witch hunt out there, and I don't understand how we as a society can even tolerate that, let alone embrace it by viewing, sharing or liking it.

Social media also does not reflect gains in experience over time, as everything "has to be in the moment", otherwise it would not work as a system. (I wanna point to Chamsky's ideas about propaganda and George Orwell's 1984 here). The optimum social media post is the one with the most ridiculous claims and the least amount of scientific evidence, while also being total hyperbole in an emotional context that's abused for marketing purposes.

So yeah, overall I think I am just frustated by the state of things, but I also have no clue how we can collectively solve it in a sustainable and communital (?) manner.
Even the betting sites where Trump is extremely (as in, much more than in the poll-based forecast sites) favored to win the electoral college, like Polymarket, have Harris a strong favorite to win the most votes, just as the poll-based forecasts generally do.

E.g, Polymarket, which gives Trump a 65% chance to win the EC compared to 538s 53%, has Harris at 58% to win the popular vote compared to 538s 65%. (And while it is possible for the popular vote winner to have a mere plurality of votes, it is not possible to get a majority of votes and not be the popular vote winner, so, no, the source of evidence you cite does not support the claim that "by the looks of it, the majority of people" will vote are going to vote for Trump, but instead support that the majority will most likely not do so.)
B. Self-inspired ratchet, killer taste, and an infinite muse. You hew to your aesthetic, stay faithful to the craft, and (apparently) execute. What's not to like?
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