skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make sense to me. What would you be trying to prove/show with step 3? How would it be different from the status quo?
It's definitely off. At $3 billion/yr you can sit at the table and negotiate content licensing rights and go legit.
Can I coin some new relevant word(s) for 2025: Billionaire's disease / billionaireitis / ventureitis

Basically same as Nobel disease / nobelitis, but applied to wealthy (often tech) billionaires. Where after a certain amount of success in a quite narrow field, they start to push broad and wide-reaching ideas, which go far, far beyond their expertise.

I'm not going to name names, but there are plenty of such billionaires out there, some getting far too much media time. Some even showing signs of advanced brain rot due to the media they consume.
Again, imagine donating your time just for this nonsense. Who wants to donate their time just to be thanked in ways like this. Also please note that I’m Jewish and I don’t understand at all why we should be offended by calling some programming thing a question.
My impression was just that it was the cleanest way for her to map things on top of the existing kernel structures (which are probably tree-ish). And I highly doubt that there are any actual issues with this aspect of her design; it was just picked out as a contrived example by the blog post.

I suspect if Lina's DRM patches had not come from a Rust dev or invoked "RAII theory", and were only advertised as improvements for clarity and conformance with expected behavior, they probably would have been accepted far sooner. (She says as much in her Mastodon post.)
You might be replying to the wrong person, they never said they are pleased
>whenever you want a term containing 2+ words meant to be taken together, you use a hyphen. Compound words, I believe they are called.

So the shopping festival after thanksgiving should be called "black-friday"?
amidst societal concerns about the negative impact of overconsuming online content.

Yeah sure there's concern but it's only about what the other side is consuming. We're not applying the concern holistically and probably won't be able to because that would mean threatening the companies that host said brain rot and we just can't have the shareholders mad.
Yes. This is the correct synthesis. Copyright is good for one generation and bad beyond that.
I favor "bed rot". These days, why even get out of bed.
You're likely not getting good McIntosh apples in your area. The texture should be similar to a typical apple, but not as crisp as Honeycrisp. A slice of McIntosh should snap if you try to bend it.
There is a lot of value in the development story for me. Over time they've almost entirely stopped talking about progress outside of major milestones which is disappointing but theres only so many years in a row you can say server meshing will be finished in 6 months before people get tired of hearing about it.

The team seems genuine, and donations aren't slowing down, so it seems likely that the game will materialize in some complete form eventually
One megathread and a couple small ones. Others?

1 / 0 = 0 (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167875 - Nov 2024 (8 comments)

What is the best answer to divide by 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210775 - April 2024 (3 comments)

1/0 = 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17736046 - Aug 2018 (570 comments)
The article says they made 250M euro/mo or 3b/yr. If they operated for 4 years, that would be 12B of money lost.

They probably haven't made 250m/mo for 4 years, but they probably have also been operating longer than 4 years.
Or just brainrot.

It'll win at the end. Hitting that spacebar is effort.
Lol. "This is pretty bad. Someone circunvented the ban on emitting public certificates but also disrespected Google's CAA rules. Hope this CA gets banned on Microsoft OSes for good."

Yeah, this is after the certificate was issued, and my guess, used.

Also, has anyone tried to look up CT logs lately? I tried. Can get maybe a single FQDN if you look, but trying to do wildcards or name-alikes, nothing worked. Most of the CT searching websites were straight up broken. Clearly nobody is actually looking at CT logs.

CAs are a joke. There's a dozen different ways to exploit them, they are exploited, and we only find out after the fact, if it's a famous enough domain.

We could fix it but nobody gives a shit. Just apathy and BAU.
Yes: an open compound has two words separated by a space, but still has a unique meaning. Ice cream, common sense, never mind, etc.

FWIW, there are plenty of languages that don't use any spaces at all in their writing (Japanese, Chinese, Thai), and the use of spacing is quite fluid even in English. Is it a cellphone or a cell phone?
I just don't care about jurisdictions or legal frameworks. I just care about technology.

It's also really only a big thing in the US. Here in Europe things are usually settled amicably and the courts frown on people taking up their time with bullshit. They only really get involved if all else fails and only really for businesses. Nobody really cares about software licensing except the top 200 companies.

I'm admittedly a bit biased though. Unfortunately I sometimes have to deal with our internal legal dept. in the US (I'm based in Europe) and I find them such nasty people to deal with. Always really pushy. This made me hate them and their trade.
Which religious groups in Europe proclaim that populations always need to grow? I am not qualified to speak about America, but the claim does not ring true to me as a European.

Even if they are promoting population growth, they must be doing a bad job of it. An article from 2015[1] shows that religious groups are shrinking quickly in Europe, and that their fertility rate is only slightly higher than that of the group of 'unaffiliated' individuals. The population growth in total is also slowing, if not actually on a downward trend[2].

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/04/02/europe/

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/demographics-of-e...
There's two distinct types of 'AI' fatigue I'm experiencing. The first type is having to see AI buttons showing up in prime places in navigation on every website and app. Even if it's useful, I just want to hide it most of the time.

And the second type of AI fatigue isn't even about the AI technology itself, but it seems like at the same time that people adopt AI in their workflows they often seem to raise their tolerance for made up nonsense. That's not really a problem with AI because we ought to maintain quality standards no matter what tools we use, but so many people were willing to forfeit quality for volume and convenience at the same time as using AI.
The FBI's WofMD Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists
Czech billionaire closes in on deal to buy Royal Mail
Haha. It's a lovely word. I was also hoping for skibidi would make the cut.
For proofs, I find it a good idea to memorise (or at least implicitly retain) the reason a result is true. So, yes, an outline, but minus any of the implementation details of the proof. I kind of think every book in the definition-theorem-proof style should really be definition-theorem-reason-proof.

The reason part being essentially a one or two line natural language summary of ‘why the proof works’ — something that is almost always possible and is enlightening and conducive to efficient memorisation, but that for some reason is very rarely written down explicitly.
That seems very unlikely to me.

Governments are usually sneaky with their evil plans. It is simply too hard to get away with something like that to make it a viable. Case in point, the fact you are reading about it on hn.
The article seems to be smashing together two (seemingly) unrelated topics and doesn't offer much in the way of a solution. What alternative design does the author propose? Is it possible to solve the problem with traditional object-oriented design techniques? It's not clear that the issues presented require or substantially benefit from the actor model without seeing a best in-class OO example.
I’m not sure where I stand on this, but is it possible that some people have been convinced that copyright is a moral evil by propaganda? I pause when I hear this line of argument, “I’m a free thinker and I have objective truth. Others are weak minded victims of propaganda.”
Related:

How to Study Mathematics (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26524876 - March 2021 (73 comments)

How to Study Mathematics (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392698 - Feb 2018 (148 comments)

Bonuses:

Ask HN: How to Study Mathematics? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074249 - May 2020 (31 comments)

Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18939913 - Jan 2019 (227 comments)

Ask HN: How to self-learn math? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16562173 - March 2018 (211 comments)

Others?
I think this is underrated as a design flaw for how Linux tends to be used in 2024. At its most benign it's an anachronism and potential source of complexity, as its worst it's a major source of security vulnerabilities and unintended behavior (eg linux multitenancy was designed for two people in the same lab sharing a server, not for running completely untrusted workloads at huge scale, so it doesn't really implement resource fairness or protect against DoS well).

I haven't had a chance to try it out but this is why I think Talos linux (https://www.talos.dev/) is a step in the right direction for Linux as it is used for cloud/servers. Though personally I think multitenancy esp. regarding containerized applications/cgroups is a bigger problem and I don't know if they're addressing that.
You might or might not be right, but even if you are, the extent to which this is depressing depends a lot on your definition (and delineation) of "self".
At my workplace, they do, for all of those reasons.
understanding submodules has not caused me to stop wishing that something in the vein of nix (in the sense of being able to provide a "lockfile" that transcends language-level package managers) becomes sufficiently commonplace that people would feel silly doing anything other than using whatever that turns out to be, or just directly vendoring if all else fails
European patents have an interesting fee structure that increases exponentially (IIRC doubling every ~3 years), with a 20 year limit. I think this (plus mandatory registration if you want to enforce) is a great solution to copyrights, too, even if you let it run unbounded. If the registration fee is $1000, a registration 30 years later is $1000000 and if you want 60 years you have to pay $1000000000 over the life of the copyright.

Any excess revenue could, theoretically, be redistribute as grants for the arts.
Gates is definitely one
I've heard "engineer brain" for a similar phenomenon, and since the main examples now are tech billionaires...
As I understand the issue is not with "undefined behavior", but with the phrase "the ______ question", due to its surface-level similarity to (one possible translation of) that Nazi-era buzzword.

Which is still kind of a dumb reason to get upset. Intellectually mature adults recognize that language is complex, nuanced, and multi-layered, and that a term can be offensive in some contexts, while being innocuous in others. Your logical mind should be able to identify, given the context, when no offense is meant, and thereby ignore false triggers.

The only way a demand to change the title on offensiveness grounds would be justified, is if a reasonable member of the target audience (and especially, in this case, one who is also Jewish) would take offense to it.

Did the committee actually consult a representative sample of Jewish people in the industry before taking offense on their behalf? Or is this just yet more speculative corporate ass-covering? I strongly suspect it's the latter.
> Plato had a lot more influence on the early church than Aristotle did.

Yes, certainly in Augustine of Hippo. But I don't think the metaphysics (or ethics) has made it into modern era as much as Aristotle filtered through Aquinas.
"Why can't I just buy cable channels à la carte?!" - everyone circa early 2000s

We got exactly what we begged for.
Here's the list of games playable on Deck but generally not Linux https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=fixWanted&selectedFilt...
It's not clear from the article whether actors offer significant benefits (or disadvantages) for data modeling versus the traditional OO paradigm. The article reads more like an introduction that describes the problem and teases a solution rather a complete article that offers a solution and evaluation of it.
To me the magic is in generating things that would have had too much right issues or would not have been economically viable.

A series that is a variant of the stories of “The Wire”, but taking place in the Harry Potter universe? Coming right up.

Obscure prog rock band from the 90s put out one album? Now its two.

I can understand people their apprehension, feeling like art is losing something essential without the human touch behind it, but I saw an article a few days ago where people thought generated Shakespeare was better than actual Shakespeare. Until it was revealed which was generated.

If AI can generate me another, better Illmatic, I’m all here for it.
Linux is not, by and large, maintained by "unpaid volunteers". And big corps are, in fact, funding the Rust for Linux effort.

Nothing is being "shoehorned". The project has the explicit backing of Linus and Greg KH. It's taking a long time because it's not being shoehorned.
In my country, people can't pay internationally, so their only option (especially for sports coverage) is pirated IPTV networks which are very popular in here and are sold everywhere.

I don't watch live television myself so I don't know how good and reliable these services are.
thats two words
It fits in with the notion of not doing harm unless necessary, since it's usually easy to determine when someone is or could be harmed/suffering.
These takes are so overly simplistic. People like free/cheap stuff, no shit. I'm not saying that having lots of subscription services isn't annoying, but your argument could easily apply to lots of things that people pay money for that they would rather get for free if they had the chance.
Thing is, my impression is that running a profiler can get quite convoluted. I'm aware for example of different types of profilers / profiling techniques, but not in detail. I also know that I wouldn't pull out a profiler, unless I was experiencing unacceptable performance, which may not happen on my (or the reviewers') end at all.

... which again rings really similar to the memory management story in C (in my head anyways). You can use tooling, and the tooling does help, but certain tooling only helps in certain scenarios, and if you didn't bother to use the tooling for whatever reason, you're hosed, and you won't find out until potentially much later or even too late.

What I'm essentially getting at is that Rust doesn't provide guarantees that'd ensure the correct employment of RAII or arenas (according to both you and the article at least), meaning their pitfalls manifesting exist somewhere on this range from possible to likely, and then depending on who you ask, the answer may be different.

The article author appears to be of the opinion that this probability is closer to likely, while you - if I read it correctly - think it is closer to the other end of the spectrum. But another interpretation of the article is that the author is just remarking that it is a possibility now at all, and that that makes it a bad thing, regardless of likelihood. So ultimately, my point was to try and get engagement on this idea specifically rather than debating the likelihood itself, especially considering I stand no chance at appropriately gauging that likelihood myself.
That sounds like an argument to hold HSBC to account, *and* Tether as well. Or was this meant to be nothing more than a false equivalence?
Almost everything in nature exists on a spectrum (even though the lines are sometimes relatively sharp).

Would it really be so surprising to learn (or be convinced by philosophical arguments, as this might not be accessible to empiricism) that it's the same with sentience?
That supposes there is a larger pool of customers to be had. Putting this in B2B terms: what % of their TAM is already "in"?
Perhaps you could feel more comfortable using a 'right to left' language for handwriting.
China went from a nation where half of the country was eking out a 18th century existence to a modern economy in my lifetime.

They embrace capitalism, with a government leash to align with their strategic plan. The United States does something similar, but we align it specifically to defense and agriculture, and select areas of finance & real estate.

The US strategy was that China would be the donkeys doing the labor, and Americans would be the smart people doing the design. The problem is that China is developing the brains to do the heavy lifting in more and more areas, and we’re seeing civil unrest develop as we focus on productivity (ie more work, less people) for US jobs.
Besides the many CAPEX-vs-OPEX tradeoffs that are completely unavailable due to not being able to buy physical TPU pods, there are inherent Google-y risks e.g. risk of the TPU product and/or support getting killed or fragmented / deprecated (very very common with Google), your data & traffic must also be locked in to Google’s pricing, and you must indefinitely put up with / negotiate with Google Cloud people (in my experience at multiple companies: worst customer support ever).

Google does indeed lock in their own ROI with deciding to not compete with AMD / Graphcore etc, but that also rooflines their total market. If they were to come up with a compelling Android-based Jetson-like edge product, and if demand for said product eclipses total GPU demand (robotics explosion?) then they might have a ramp to compete with NVidia. But the USB TPUs and phone accelerators today are just toys. And toys go to the Google graveyard, because Googlers don’t build gardens they treat everything like toys and throw them away when they get bored.
I think Rails is good for a consultant who wants to pump out a lot of relatively generic apps. You pay a constant upfront cost to learn the Rails magic and the conventions, and once you know that stuff, it makes greenfield development faster.

If you're doing a single big project, Rails is less attractive. The upfront cost is amortized over just one project, and the magic makes it a bit harder to stray from the beaten path when you need that.
No way, I don’t believe it. That’s $3.16b yearly - Netflix makes $33b. With no IP holders to pay out to, that would mean they’re making massive profits - they would have to be a household name, and I don’t know anyone who could name many services of this size.
The writeup mentions multiple writers in a couple places but it doesn't really specify how, or where. The writers could be in different processes or on different machines.
> It is estimated that the amount of financial damages suffered annually from the illegal service is a massive €10 billion ($10.5B).

I suspect that the actual damages would be (much) lower, as some of the people using this service would not or could not have paid for the official source. This is the same fallacy or intentional misrepresentation that the music industry used in the Napster days.

As we know, if the pricing is reasonable for the market, and more importantly the content is actually _available!_ in that market, people will pay to stream it.

A lot of the time, the content is unavailable in many markets; so users will have to choose between illegal or nothing. If the content is available to stream legally, and its price is too high for the region, then people wouldn't have paid for it no matter what. Thus, the revenue was not lost; the market was simply never captured.
I find it odd that all of the mathematicians cited at the end are actually pretty much CS people, working on proof assistants. Kinda renders that section pointless, IMO (though the comment by Isabelle's author was interesting).

IMO, whether something like this makes sense is a separate matter. Personally I always just think of division in terms of multiplicative inverses, so I don't see how defining division by zero helps other than perhaps making implementation easier in a proof assistant. But I've seen people say that there are some cases where having a/0 = 0 works out nicely. I'm curious to know what these cases are, though.
My impression was that all the hosted k8s providers are doing multitenancy with if not full per-customer VMs, at least additional abstractions like gVisor.

Are there some that aren't? Or are you referring here more to untrusted/shared in the sense of platforms like Github Actions just running everyone's different loads on the same pool of kernels?
Enahittificaton is the word of the last decade or so. But didn’t it become a named thing a couple years ago?
It is the VC strategy applied to states
The practice of placing spaces between words is connected to writing, so not some fundamental part of language. There are early Latin texts that don't have word dividers at all, for instance, and some languages used different symbols like dots.
Matlab / Simulink will doubtlessly have a very long tail, but is being overtaken by Python. For one thing, programming is gaining ground in areas that have no established loyalty to Matlab, and those are growing areas. Such as the life sciences. For another, a certain fraction of students want to test the waters and see if they can explore software development as a career option. Python is more relevant to that option than Matlab.

But Simulink does continue to rule its own roost. I think the users see themselves more as engineers than as software developers. And engineers are more inured to using awkward tools.
Damn. They really implemented an MHD generator. That's like the holy grail in hypersonics.
Active flow control is definitely well sought after in hypersonics.
whereas the dollar is a decentralized currency that no one can fully control, tether is a centralized scam propped up by a handful of exchanges
As I mentioned there's nothing novel in this post, especially for a senior. This is more about getting some context out of the way so that I can show some techniques in a future post.
I am a bit late to the trend, but I am planning to do Advent of CUDA this year. It's been a while since I have written a lot of parallel code, and thinking about concurrent algorithms is fun.
I read the article, and then the source press release from the postal police.

My Italian is not good, but I suspect this is a case of the "journalists" writing the article using Google translate, with their brains in neutral. My reading of the relevant sentence is that it is the "illegal streaming industry" that "generates EUR 3B annually" and causes 10B damage to the media rights holders (they say, presumably). This is where the "250M/mo" comes from -- a figure that never appears in the actual press release. They also say they seized 1.6M in crypto and 40K in cash. So...TFA is BS.

https://www.commissariatodips.it/notizie/articolo/comunicato...
Fair enough! I'll document my progress at https://github.com/jmandel/advent-of-claude/tree/main, though I may not keep up.
It is a data point to suggest that Tether has another common property. For instance, it has been observed that oxygen is consumed by all living money launderers. If we could not produce evidence anyone but money launderers breathed, we may be able to assess cutting off oxygen might be a useful tool in surgically cutting out money laundering.

Knowing Tether and HSBC are both used for money laundering add a data point in finding surgical precision.
Yes, many words that started out as two words separated by a hyphen merge to become one as language evolves. Notebook is a good example of this; a more recent example would be email.