skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're both right and wrong. You're right that avoiding responsibility for the outcome of one's own work is wrong, and is how you end up helping to make the world around you a horrible place. At the exact same time, the previous poster is also right - you stick your head up because what your employer is doing is wrong (maybe not "personally enabling concentration camp right now" levels of wrong, but on the path to it all the same) and you will end up seeing your career and the lives of those who depend on your destroyed (as you lose the ability to keep body and soul together) without making a damned bit of difference to the final outcome.

In America, we've built our culture around collective abdication of responsibility for anything and everything, on almost any axis imaginable. The only way anyone with wealth and power ever faces justice is if they injure those with even more wealth and power.

It's easy to say, "if enough people just stood up for what was right, things would change", but how do you get from here to there without asking countless people to sacrifice their families on the altar of "maybe it will get better if you do, but don't count on it". At least in America, I think it will take widespread pain among the public before risking change becomes worth it.

It's awful to think about, but I think that's the heart of it: we (Americans) have built is a system where it is so easy to go from having everything (by historical standards) to having nothing (by current standards) that hardly anyone is willing to risk rocking the boat, even as it sinks and we all drown.
Any semi-famous author would do, no? Famous authors everyone's heard of are probably rich enough that they have other investments via money they earned from their copyrights, but arguably that's still a living derived from their owning of copyright. So let's start with hearing why,
say, Stephen King, Charlie Stross, and J. K. Rowling aren't actual people who's living (sizable as it may be) doesn't depend on their copyright on the books they wrote, before we look for any lesser known authors. Taylor Swift makes a living off her music, which is dependent on copyright. Or have I missed something somewhere?
Anti-Communism was intense and powerful as soon the October Revolution occurred. The USSR was invaded by seventeen nations including the US shortly afterwards and further suffered a trade blockade.

If the US was being nice to Stalin during WWII, it was because they needed Russia to defeat Hitler (Oh, and previously, they'd been nice to Hitler hoping he'd take out Stalin but ole Adolf had an inconvenient "I am a tricky military genius" complex and things didn't work out right).

Also, anti-communist campaigns somewhat abated in run-up to WWII because Stalin managed to turn the world's communist parties into extensions of Russian policy so they could be used to quash radical movements (in the US, the CP was far preferred over the anarchist IWW etc, In Vietnam CP supported the French going into WWII, etc).

And maybe a random US official was fooled by Stalinist theater but I'm pretty sure the situation of the US government was looking the other way in the same that any state looks the other way when a friendly state does something embarrassing.
If you're half-serious about this sort of opsec, you already have bluetooth disabled. Ideally your hardware wouldn't have support for it at all. Same for wifi.
I believe it's also as the onion or potatoe is the entire plant and when you eat it, it's gone. Verses eating a strawberry or Apple does not destroy the plant.
I hate how hard it seems to be for to follow a thread of replies on here, but it feels like you're just replying to my comment without having read what it was a response to.

And I know I'm in the weeds by replying more.

But damn it, my reply was to "Look how easily they just fabricated 100% of a game's assets" which is a statement that really implies a lot more than generating 12 images! Chess is a game with 12 static images. You can call these dynamic, that's fine, but the context matters.
While I'm not an Emacs user I like the philosophy of it. And I like text editors.

That said, I use orgmode on android (orgzly) and used it on sublime text (orgextended), that's a nice feature.
I know one guy who uses emacs and when I heard of lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem) I told him. (Lem is also in CL)

He was quite enthusiastic of it, but 2 or 3 things were missing at the time, the first of all you guessed it, it's org-mode, second was magit but he could use lem without it and finally it was a plugin manager (but we agreed it is a lot of work).

I don't know what are your plans but I hope I could give you some ideas.
My only issue with this approach is that some people need a lot of time to start monetizing something they invent. Say I write something cool and it takes me 20 years to find someone to buy it. This punishes anyone that can't move quickly.

I like the current model of works becoming public domain after X years, but would prefer we shorten those timelines a bit given the speed of software.
How is that true? I use my macbook mic occasionally with the lid closed, and an external monitor.
Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games
My music theory teacher has built from scratch, without much coding knowledge, an Electron app with games. Example of games are: guess the 2-3 notes randomly played by the piano, find the intervals etc. Those are multiple choice games mostly.

He is now on a journey to build games that interact with notes on scores, like colorize all the Cs, click on the notes that are wrong vs what you hear etc.

He is building everything from scratch, with the scores, the notes, and I'm wondering if there are some tools or libraries out there that provide much flexibility to build stuff for music theory.
there are a lot of contexts where i'd be pretty bummed to find out most of the content was written by a computer, or feel like i lost something tangible or meaningful because of that change

in the case of linkedin, i lose nothing. before AI the posts all seemed like they were written by weird robots anyway. it actually reassures me that a human didn't write some of the stuff i read, because i pray that no self-aware human would have written that thing into the internet.
...according to this company's AI detector, so not validated or validatable by anyone else.
Honestly, I've thought about signing up for Bluesky on a similar basis, that a lot of the people I want to follow for my hobbies are there.

I'm not sure what you mean about the rape threats. Is there a documented increase in such things on Xitter?
Mars colonization is still a distant goal. With so much of the world unexplored, it's hard to imagine humans living on Mars in our lifetimes. But it makes sense to use robots to pave the way. Japan is already using robots to help with the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Who knows, maybe one day we'll see androids on Mars.
There's so many other things that are like this too where there is no precise universal definition of the difference but many people think their own personal definition is the correct one:

high-level vs. low-level language, functional vs. imperative programming, unit vs. integration test, list vs. array etc.
I do play some of those
The extraordinary burden of proof is on the people making extraordinary claims, in this case that your thoughts come from an invisible, all powerful entity who we have never had any evidence actually exists, and wrote a book, instead of humans having written that book, as we have every other book that has ever existed. The burden of proof does not lay on those who say their thoughts come from biochemical and electrical signals in the brain, as all available evidence supports that assertion.
Plus, all neighbors of Switzerland are NATO members, so they can neither attack each other, nor Switzerland. Moreover, Switzerland is recognized as a NATO "partner".

This allows them to handle internal matters with more concentration.

Heh, they even had the luxury to "close" their air force on weekends until very recently.
Even where it works, speakers are much worse microphones that dedicated microphones, and so the amount of data that can be gathered is low. Why bother when you probably have a microphone on the same PC that can capture far more sound?
But someone IS suggesting that people lose copyright protections over some of their works, and eventually all of them when they don't have 10 thousand dollars to pay to keep their rights per work after just 20 years.
Why is LinkedIn trying to drive their userbase away from engaging on the site?
So musicians should not be compensated when their old songs play on the radio? You made your money in 1974 now move along while my company exploits your work for free.
That's a fair point, although my feeling after working quite a bit with Jinja recently is the opposite (primarily for lack of static analysis and IDE support).

You're right, for example the documentation should be improved quite a bit. Keep in mind that this project is pretty new, I simply had no time to add more docs or further improve the existing one.

Ps.: with the Snippet utility and markdown support, you can actually write quite a bit of your HTML in a html files rather than Python. You could even use Jinja templates as the backend for some of your components. This part will see more work as I have spare time to work more on the project.
Well I mostly meant how do you supply the server resources and how do you crawl so much of the net so quickly. :)

I thought about it many times but never did it on that scale, plus was never paid to do so and really didn't want my static IP banned. So if you ever write on that and publish it on HN you'd find a very enthusiastic audience in me.
100% of Upwork proposals are too, removing any differentiation, and means I’ll probably never use the platform again to find people
Delta debugging is not new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_debugging

My implementation of delta debugging, "delta" is 19+ years old: https://github.com/dsw/delta

I released it as Open Source because Microsoft Research sent someone to my office to ask me to, back when Microsoft was calling Open Source a "cancer".

The LLVM introduction by Latner refers to the "standard delta debugging tool", so it is rather well-known: https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html 'unlike the standard "delta" command line tool.'
Yes, I think all devices packed with sensors that live in our homes should be transparent in what they do, that is their code should be available for everyone to see. And yes, it is extremist take, given where we ended up today.
I mean that certainly sounds unequivocally true.

But "collapse" is not what I'm saying. If you were to remove mosquitos in a localized region and observe the effects on the region's ecology, you could witness the problems, reintroduce the bugs, and revitalize the region (probably it'd recover anyway).

Mosquitos are fairly localized. Their range upperbound is 7 miles. Some just fly 300 feet and breed around your house. There are plenty of ecological phenomena that are managed in "a few miles" ranges, like fish populations, forests, etc.

I haven't heard a compelling reason in any of these threads to believe that it's actually dangerous to remove them from a few sq mile area.

There's no reason to be absolutist about problems we can manage, just based on unobserved worst case solutions with no risk profile attached.
Hyping vaporware is not software development.
Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe
Completely forgot that localhost is a special case for secure contexts... Yeah that would either just not work at all or require some tomfoolery with dynamic subdomains which I would not be comfortable with. TOTP would be the go-to then, I think. I agree about separate vlan though, I have a dedicated port without internet that can only talk to web ui for this reason.
Can You Say...Hero?
Fred Rogers has been doing the same small good thing for a very long time...
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27134/can-you-say-...

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again (originally titled 'Shipping out')
David Foster Wallace goes on a luxury cruise.
There's a PDF version online, but the reading experience doesn't compare to reading it in a book. My copy is tatty by now, still keep going back.
> The databases used in TeaTime are GitHub repositories tagged with the teatime-database topic, which are published on GitHub Pages.

Couldn't this be a security issue, for a bad actors to use this tag?
> where a mainline kernel will work

For some definition of a "mainline kernel." My preferred Linux distro is Debian, I still can't run a Pi 5 on Debian over a year following release. (I don't know if this is for lack of Pi engineers not pushing stuff upstream or Debian/kernel devs not being receptive to PRs, but I suppose the answer is somewhere in between.)

I do run Debian on Pi 4B/CM4 and others. At present I'm working on getting 1-wire with a DS18B20 working on a Pi Zero W and it has not been easy, but that might be me.

I was truly excited to see the CM4 released because it provided a PCIe slot and which can support a proper storage interface on a Pi. I don't see a compelling feature on the CM5 so I'm not going to jump on one just yet. I'll probably get one at some point.

I do agree that the Raspberry Pi community provides reasonable support. I have, however, found the Reddit community occasionally toxic and have had questions on the official Pi forum removed w/out explanation. (I asked why the Imager did not offer the most recent OS releases in the menu, requiring that I manually download them.)
In this vein, apps on your phone likely have unrestrained access to the photosensor, and researchers have figured out how to take low-resolution photos with it: https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-smart-devices-ambient-light-...
I know that name because in Blender there is a Voronoi texture named that way.
What Gladiator II Gets Right and Wrong About Real Fights in the Colosseum
What would have been the correct number of days notice?
I had a play with Dart a while back. It felt like Python with types designed in from the outset. Would quite like to use it more seriously.

It's in that funny position though where it is in danger of becoming synonymous with Flutter. Like Ruby and Rails.
There is a third little dot near the camera you can see with a flashlight and that's an ambient light sensor.
> or at least a return to in-person interviewing for more companies.

This has been broken for a while now, and companies still haven't reset to deal with it. The incentives to the contrary are too large.
How true is that? I see people talking about Sanskrit being 3 to 5 thousand years old. Or was it not a written at that time?
Don't know if they're based on the 3d scans mentioned in the article but you can find printable STL files for skull whistles on all the major 3d model sites. They're not the easiest whistles to use but once you get the hang of it, the scream really is eerie, though not very loud.

The debate over their use reminds me a bit of the Buck Rogers tv show where sometimes Buck was amused by the misperceptions of a contemporary historian on the use of certain 20th century artifacts, including the belief that a hanging Tiffany lamp was some kind of electric salad bowl.
Only apple does this properly.
Miclocks are a thing, or any chopped 3.5mm 3 prong plug should do the trick

https://mic-lock.com/products/copy-of-mic-lock-3-5mm-metalli...

This still doesn't stop a program from switching the input from external back to the internal mics though afaik
A condenser microphone is just a capacitor. Your computer is full of them.

They are very low level input and generally need a pre-amp just to get the signal outside the microphone. However conceptually at least they are there and so maybe someone can get it to work.
Games will be great again because an excess of AI-generated garbage that nobody wants to play will make the middling games of today seem immaculate by comparison.

The problem isn't big studios making games, either. The problem is when moonshot products (eg. Cyberpunk 2077, Star Citizen, Duke Nukem Forever, et. al) invest heavily in marketing an experience people don't want. Conversely, a lot of the best and most-hyped releases of the past decade have been niche games with insular communities, like Half Life: Alyx, MGSV, MSFS2020 and Elden Ring. The natural appeal of a well-designed game far outweighs the lifting marketing can do making a buggy and miserable experience seem fun.

Yahtzee Croshaw commented on this a few months ago eulogizing Concord for Second Wind. The AAA moonshot game doesn't work because it's exceptionally hard to skate where the puck is going before you even see the puck move. A game like Concord (or Cyberpunk 2077, for that matter) spends so long in development hell, basically making a best guess at what the market will want out of it when it eventually releases. Then we get tonally muddled Overwatch ripoffs and cutscene-laden FPS "RPG" titles with rote randomization mechanics ripped out of Borderlands' rotting corpse. Bad games get made because they copied Elon's strategy of promising things that don't exist.
Qwen coder 32b instruct is the state of the art for local LLM coding and will run with a smallish context with that on a 64GB laptop with partial GPU offload. Probably around .8 tok/sec.

With a quantization of it you can run larger contexts and go a bit faster. 1.4 tok/sec at 8b quant with offload to a 6GB laptop GPU.

Speculative decoding has been being added to lots of the runtimes recently and can give a 20-30% boost with a 1 billion weight model running the speculative token stream.
That’s amazing!!
> The surprising part here is lack of DDoS protection on your end or leaving a bucket public and exposed.

It doesn't take anything near DDoS. If you dare to put up a website that serves images from S3, and one guy on one normal connection decides to cause you problems, they can pull down a hundred terabytes in a month.

Is serving images from S3 a crazy use case? Even if you have signed and expiring URLs it's hard to avoid someone visiting your site every half hour and then using the URL over and over.

> AWS is just charging you for how much it served, it doesn't make sense to hold them to a fault here.

Even if it's not their fault, it's still an "inherent vulnerability of S3 pricing". But since they charge so much per byte with bad controls over it, I think it does make sense to hold them to a good chunk of fault.
I ran into some issues with what might be compiler bugs in cc65, a C compiler for the 6502 processor (c64, NES, Apple 1).

I might see if I can get this set up. Apparently VICE supports "printing" to a file on the host OS, so I could run my test on the emulator.
Being able to play old video games for free is not the point though, it's just a nice side effect of an intellectual property regime with a reasonable duration, say something less than 150 years.
There's a reason that zuck has tape over his webcam and a 3.5mm dummy plugged into his combo headphone/mic jack
There are no residuals for game devs. It's work for hire, so holding on to this idea that they will get paid money for every sale (even after it's no longer sold - but maybe somehow once these assholes "resurrect" a game they never bothered to bring back after 30 years, will somehow benefit the actual people who made it is a joke). This has nothing to do "their livelihood and retirement"It's about protecting corporate profits in the very slim case they may discover that bringing something back (ha sure) will benefit the corporation that OWNS the rights.

IP isn't the same across the board it's not like game devs are singers who have ASCAP/BMI etc protections. Game devs are code jockeys who get shit on by the corporations with NO rights to the actual work THEY produced. Why do you act like this is the same as music with perpetual rights to the actual creators? It rarely if ever is.

You can go ahead and "blame" the workers you claim to support for failing to "put that in their employment contract, it is a "free market" for labor, after all" or you can work on changing the system to at least let the past be free and open and history have a chance of being important or just let it all be locked in a vault, in disuse in the "hope" that maybe someday a corporation will "release" it again as a game. Or you can let people who ARE passionate about it work on it and let the public have the right to it.

As the parent comments point out, the LITERAL REASON OF COPYRIGHT IN THE US CONSTITUTION is to benefit the public. It has nothing to do with giant corps getting rich as fuck off other people's labor. Contract law gets in the way and lets these pricks steal the work and wealth, deny people the rights and only THEY get the benefit, this is the precise opposite of the public benefit intended.

Culture happens on faster and faster cycles than ever before, yet instead of admitting the speed of it, these behemoths who own IP, demand continual extensions (well until the most recent time when Disney finally relented and let Steamboat Willy enter the Public Domain recently).

Instead of promoting "innovation" (as phrased in the US Constitution), it promotes lethargy slouch and continued re-use of the same things. It's the exact opposite of the intent. And no, this bullshit about "livelihoods and retirement" mean jackshit in game dev. You shit your game out, you got paid for that work, and that's it. All the excess profits go to the corp, not the actual devs. IP in this case is not about humans owning/making, and it's corporations through and through, and unless you held onto the same corporation for 40 years, as the creator, it's not going to be you getting the supposed benefit of this.
In your analogy with this context, the publishing company can’t print the book for ten years after being approached by the author.
This clearly benefits wealthy owners of IP (disney, movie studios, game publishers, etc) over small-time artists (self-published authors, small bands, etc) since the period of time that IP protection remains an economic choice is strongly tied to the value of the IP.

E.g., if you write a book and realize $5,000 in sales per year, then 10 * 2^x=5000 where x is 8.97, so you only enjoy 8 years of revenues ($40,000) and you've paid Σ(1->8) 10 * 2^x = $5,100 for the privilege, for a net $34,900 or 6.98x the yearly royalty value.

If Dreamworks sees $500M a year in Minions merchandising, then 10 * 2^x=500,000,000 where x = 25.56 and so Dreamworks realizes 25 years of revenues ($12,500,000,000) and pays Σ(1->25) 10 * 2^x = $671,088,620 for the privilege, for a net $11,828,911,380 or 23.66x the yearly royalty value.

This is backward, in my opinion.
This seems to be the study:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.150...
Even ignoring the AI detection, their simple graph of average word count over time is incredibly suspicious. I can't think of any explanation for that other than rampant AI usage.
European Police Pull Plug on 'Largest' Illegal Streaming Service
(This was merged from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259040 where that phrase was in the title)
LinkedIn is by far the most useless repository of written drivel in the history of humanity. It's pretty much baked in - all social media is performative, but for LinkedIn it's performative on a site specifically designed to connect people who want to sell their labor for money for people willing to pay.

The only good thing to come out of the the LinkedIn feed was r/LinkedInLunatics.
In the past I've used microsnitch on macos which tells you when the mic or camera are activated, but macos seems to have support for this baked into the os now. In zoom calls the menu bar shows what is active. If this can be sidestepped and avoided in software, and the camera can be activated without any indicator, I do not know. If direct access can be done, and you don't need to go through some apple api to hit the camera, maybe.

edit: looks easily bypassed https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/RecordingIndicatorUtili...