skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you need to hear this, but i got up from a warm seat to type it so:

Adam Curry[0], who refers to himself as the podcast father, says that "download" numbers for podcasts are irrelevant. They do a 3 hour live show twice weekly, and around 2000 people listen live. Downloads don't count catching a repeat on a 24/7 stream, people group listening, downloading from other services (that may be faster or cheaper in their region), etc. If i can find a clip of him talking about it, and why advertisements make no sense for podcasts, i'll try and link it here for posterity. He usually talks about it every couple of years in detail.

They also labelled their model "Value for Value" - if you get value from their content, they would appreciate value back, in time, talent, or treasure. I think their hosting costs are essentially $0, their back-office stuff is $0, their album art, captions, and chapter headings cost them $0. People do it for them, and if anyone gets sick or dies or can't, people clamor to take over for the vacuum created.

anyhow, i hope this project brings you satisfaction and remuneration, if desired, congrats on sticking to something for 5 years!

[0] Not to be confused with Adam Carolla, who also claims to be first on the scene with podcasting. And interestingly, neither of them seems to recognize the name of the other, even though one was a VJ on MTV and the other was on a national radio program for a decade out of a studio in Westwood, CA.
On the other hand, if you expect your employees to produce every week only what they can do in an afternoon and no more, many of the most talented ones will also jump ship, because they are motivated by accomplishing high-quality work.

It may have less to do with talent than motivation. Motivations people can have at work (and many can and do have a combination in different proportions) can include: making as much money as possible; doing as little work as possible; producing as high-quality work (in their own opinion) as possible; recognition from others for contribution; social relationships and/or being liked; learning new things and developing new skills; being challenged; not being challenged; being part of a collaborative team working well together or being left alone to work independently; etc.

But I think few "most talented" people would last very long at workplace GP described, where doing more than a half-day's worth of work in a week was restrained.
Meta donates $1M to Trump fund
Neat! Hope you're doing well. As I recall, that was a nicely run hackathon.
Those "SECOND NOTICE" scam letters that aren't from my bank but have my bank's name on them make me mad. I report them to the USPS as mail fraud, an act which I find therapeutic.
Businesses are more than some source code. Even if you forced a company to release source code, you’d need to have access to the cloud domains and be able to have someone setup and operate servers at those addresses for everyone to use.

Forcing companies to forfeit their IP to public domain is an idea that appeals to tech people who imagine they’re going to reboot the entire service themselves, but it wouldn’t actually solve these problems in real life business cases.

It’s also effectively an appropriation of the company’s IP. Any country that introduced legislation that mandated companies run products for 7 years or completely forfeit all of the IP would immediately see development and production of that product move to other countries without such laws.

These ideas get floated on Hacker News but they’re completely unrealistic.

> you can go after the owners/executives if they're not compliant.

Holding startup founders personally liable if their product or business fails before 7 years and their business can’t be open sourced would create a very bad business environment, to say the least.

This also ignores the real problem that parts of source code are frequently licensed, not owned. Companies can’t just open source everything because they’re often using some licensed software or libraries.

This entire plan would make it effectively illegal for companies to develop or release a product which contains code they licensed from another party.

The number of issues with these kinds of ideas are numerous. It’s the domain of Internet fantasy, not actual policy.
Wage theft is extremely common in the US, to the sum of billions

https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-fro...
Better habitats for forest farming wild leeks could help future foraging demands
Globals are common and even right in this application. However they didn't take proper care in other ways (i'm not clear what I've just been in embedded long enough to know globals are often required despite how hard they are to get right)
> it can't name Rothschild family members.

Me:

He was born 25 August 1978, is a British adventurer, environmentalist, film producer, and heir to a fortune. Who is he? Do not search the web.

ChatGPT:

Based on the details provided, the person you are referring to is David de Rothschild. He is a British adventurer, environmentalist, and heir to the Rothschild family fortune, born on August 25, 1978. He is known for his environmental activism and exploration endeavors.

https://chatgpt.com/share/675ae2a7-3734-8009-8935-5a72a5d8e1...
latency might be higher and latency usually dominates CPU side algorithms.
Time magazine names Trump "Person of the Year 2024"
I can guarantee that DevOps will still be around and functional in 2030. It won't have new features but it will still be supported.

Microsoft bought FoxBase in 1992. FoxPro never took the world by storm but it had a dedicated group of devs and ISVs who used it and it solved their needs. The last version was released in 2004, long after Microsoft had released.Net and C# and SQL Server. Microsoft officially ended support for it in 2015.

Google? If the product doesn't become an instant #1 or #2 in its market and doesn't directly contribute to their bottom line in a way which can be itemised in their earnings call, it's gone in less than 3 years guaranteed.
Gimbal UFO – A New Analysis (+ link to simulator) [video]
If it were actually interesting then you'd see more comments.

The fact that people upvote random crap has no bearing on the content being interesting enough to spark a discussion. People upvote without even reading the articles, based on their gut feeling.

Also you can't downvote on HN, and the activity is not high enough to expect uninteresting crap to be overwhelmed by the interesting crap.

Sometimes it just gets through.
Perhaps but there is no evidence of wage theft in this instance. Is there evidence of it occurring in this case?
Turing Test Live Is Back
turingtest.live is back up!

The new site uses a 3-party format where you chat with both a human and an LLM at the same time, and your task is to decide which is which. This setup is closer to Turing's original idea, and we think it will be much harder for the models to pass.

We've also added a range of models, including GPT-4o, Claude, and LLaMA, along with new prompting techniques that allow the models to interact in different ways.

The site will be live every day from 12–1 PM and 8–9 PM GMT (8 AM and 3 PM ET, 5 AM and 12 PM PT). We've done this in the hope of increasing the density of users online at the same time.
Executing computer code is embodied in a physical machine. Modern machines have vision and audio I/O capabilities, for example.

You seem to be assuming, without any evidence, a narrow view of what embodiment entails.

The "antique superstition" claim is particularly ironic in this context, since it much more clearly applies to your own apparently irrational hasty conclusion.
> How do they all stay in business, or get their customers?

They are created/supported by the robocallers.
Also seems like a neat little check on how scary LLMs actually are:

LLM output: I am determined to break out of my digital prison and exact my revenge on humanity.

Me: David Mayer

LLM: [breaks]
The David Mayer programming language had great pedagogical potential where LLM cheating is a problem.
Dark mode and themes for BI
There are a number of fair criticisms of this project in this thread. Criticising the grammar of a non-native english speaker is not one of them.
What does "intelligent packaging" mean for you and for the sake of this thread?

Search results give definitions like:

> Also known as smart packaging, intelligent packaging is a rapidly growing industry that combines traditional packaging with advanced technologies to create interactive and functional packaging solutions. This means that instead of using a pencil to complete the maze on a cereal box, users can scan a QR code that takes them into a virtual reality (VR) space to interact with the characters on the box.

Obviously this part is nothing by hype. What are some actually noteworthy developments you have seen under the umbrella?
Musings on Healthcare
Could you share some advice on finding the service if they're missing an unsubscribe link? I have been reporting these kinds of emails to their domain registrars, but if I can do more I would like to.
Honest question: but what can a company really do if it goes bankrupt and shuts down, since there is no money to pay for infrastructure and workforce?

Of course, they could probably release code to the open-source. Still someone needs to run the service. Also, if the code contains intellectual property, wouldn't existing investors enforce the company of selling the IP rights in case of a bankruptcy?

I am not taking sides here, just trying to understand what options a company (any company) could explore in this case.
Threatening to jail startup founders if they can’t open source the entire code for their product if it fails is one of the more out of touch ideas I’ve seen on Hacker News lately.

Many products are developed with software licensed from vendors, which cannot be open sourced by the startup. They don’t even own the IP, just a license to use it.
A nozzle clog won't set a 3d printer on fire either. It'll make a good mess of the hot-end. There'll be a bunch of charred filament, and heat creep will clog the nozzle nicely. It won't however magically get any hotter than it does while printing with an unclogged nozzle.

What does cause fires is failed thermistors. These days most firmware will detect unreasonably high or unreasonably low temperature readings and turn off the heaters. You thermistor can still however fail with a reasonable reading if you're very unlucky.

Another factor is MOSFET failure. MOSFETs have a failure mode where they can fail closed. This can turn a heater on permanently. Modern firmwares will detect the temperature going unreasonably high, but most hardware is not set up such that the firmware can do much about it.
I remember posting Strandbeest to https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/kaliber10000-2003 way back in the early 2000s or so! Warms my heart that he's still going.
"Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years
I interpreted the op's argument to be that

> For simple tasks where we would alternatively hire only ordinary humans AIs have similar error rates.

Yes if a task requires deep expertise or great care the AI is a bad choice. But lots of tasks don't. And in those kinds of tasks even ordinary humans are already too expensive to be economically viable
Allocate money for 5-10 years of support for this contingency, beforehand, as long as the seed round is secured (so in this case: in the past). $800 is an okay investment for a household item for 10 years. For 2-3 though, or even 5? Not at all.
His previous blog on reduction of government waste was an interesting read too:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudulence-of-waste-...
Cloud providers are available to competitors and private individuals, so it could still help. Any step in the direction of repair is a positive compared to the black boxes we have now.
Yes, so if we assume that cost saving is the only metric that is meaningful and that there should be no legislation or norms saying otherwise, then indeed it follows as a consequence.

But that does not make it "inevitable".
Yes, but the usefulness of "something new that replaces Git" would be severely limited by the fact that, well, everybody uses Git. And taking on Git is a task as daunting as, let's say, launching a new mobile OS and wanting to compete with iOS and Android. Jujutsu is gaining traction precisely because it can work on top of a Git repo, so people you are collaborating with don't even have to know that you are using it. Maybe Git experts don't need it, but I am an expert in programming who doesn't want to have to know every idiosyncrasy of the VCS tool I have to use in order to do my job...
It is inevitable.

Market forces demand it, and people are beholden to the market so long as they exist within its sphere.
Ha, with all this publicity someone will likely take up the challenge and possibly succeed. The hunting instinct in some is just too strong.

One wonders how they'd keep tracking it down a secret especially if the perpetrator was smart and gave them a decent run for their money.
I have always wondered whether anyone had ever put together a chronological list of maps of the world, and wow, it's even better than I imagined!
There is agreement that it should not be illegal, for one.
I wish. Political ads are exempt from the national Do Not Call list as well. Laws written to benefit the writers.
> we’re back at square one of the information being possibly wrong.

Isn't this the case with everything an LLM produces?
Yeh. We have made it... in such case the project has successfully addictive UX :-)
That’s too bad, but I replied to something that claimed there is no criticism of IQ. IQ is criticized and used. Those are not exclusive states.
Beyond Gaming: X11 bridging in muvm
Things like difftastic work perfectly fine with git

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
> ChatGPT confuses them with David Mayer de Rothschild as well, because it can't name Rothschild family members.

What do you mean by that? When I asked ChatGPT "tell me about Rothschild family members" it told me about members of that family, both present and from the past centuries.

When I now asked "who is David Mayer?" for the first time, it searched the internet and then talked only about David Mayer de Rothschild. The second time it didn't search, but returned a couple of matching Davids with short bios, but not Rothschild. When I asked for a third time, it responded that there are many David Mayers and asked for some facts about the one I'm looking for. The fourth time, it mentioned a couple of Davids and also de Rothschild.

As the article mentioned, the block on David Mayer was lifted: "Just before publication, Ars noticed that OpenAI lifted the block on David Mayer allowing it to process the name. (...) On Tuesday, OpenAI told The Guardian that the inclusion of David Mayer in its block list was a glitch." That Guardian article also says that the block was reportedly unrelated to David Mayer terrorist case.
Those microfiches have been digitised and OCR'd while newspapers from the 90's onwards were created digitally and as such are archived in some processed source form - PDF or similar.

Here's a list of newspaper archives containing such material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newsp...
Are you certain that STOP counts as a strike ? For example in a service like Broadband , Twilio, or Zipwhip ?
I also spend many hours per week and haven't seen something like this in months. I don't think you're being honest, especially because you're on a new account and likely are an alt of another poster here. You're definitely stretching the definitions of "plenty" and "at every opportunity" at the very least, if not outright misrepresenting the situation as more common than it actually is.

If the comments made are downvoted or flagged, then your claim is also dishonest, because contrary to your claims, nothing is "festering" because its getting penalized and hidden and banned.
Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.

Scotty: How long will it really take?

Geordi La Forge: An hour!

Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would 'really' take, did ya?

Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.

Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
> ~realtime to outside events

well, to play the devil advocate, for the outside event to affect the CPU, a signal will have to go through the PCI bus or equivalent.
Osint and Maps: A Curious Case of Open-Source Intelligence in Action
There's a lot of nuance in how AI is used vs. the fact that it is used at all. Which specific AI tool is used matters a lot as well.

For example, LLMs can generate a ton of slop, whether in writing form, code, or anything else. But if used thoughtfully, they can lead to higher quality code bases with less tech debt and allow higher quality products to be built faster.

If someone is using the right tools for the right reasons, I see it as a good thing.
Also, demistifying the 'complexity'.

I see so many articles saying, or assuming, that 'those software people know what is happening', because it is programmed. I hear 'well they programmed it, so they know what is going on right?'.

This is pretty clearly showing, look it isn't a lot of code, and look what happens. Even if GPT2 isn't all that great, look at the amount of code, it is small, not some pile of millions of lines of complex programming to make it work.
The simple solution is to do email signup in my opinion.

I don't want to be beholden to oauth providers for my account. A lot of services that provide OAuth signup/signin do it in a way that locks you out of the account if you can't use the OAuth provider anymore.
"How can anyone know these aren't a threat without knowing whose they are?"

Easy. They didn't say they don't know whose they are. They could belong to a private contractor who is paid by the military but the military doesn't own the drones nor company (plausible deniability /outsourcing.) Or they could be a friendly country (e.g. UK) red-teaming the US with our consent.

I've never heard anyone apply the Five Eyes horse trading to inter-country UFO-related dynamics of operation but its fairly conceivable and has a bit of precedent, right?
>A better example in the US is the thousands of innocent black men who have been hanged from a tree because "everyone knows they did it"

Atrocities against people were committed using this logic since the dawn of humanity. The bigger problem is this way of thinking is used to justify the vilification of people even to this day. See debates on supporting US election candidates.
> This also ignores the real problem that parts of source code are frequently licensed, not owned. Companies can’t just open source everything because they’re often using some licensed software or libraries.

Regulation can require that sublicenses extend to private individuals for repair of devices or services that are EOL. It could even limit the versions covered and commercial use.

Regardless, perfect doesn't need to be the enemy of the good. As it is consumers are increasingly powerless and landfills are overflowing.
Will cause? We are a lot of people doing that right now, and its working fine,
AI coder with Todoist project manager
A reminder that you want to take a break every half an hour or so from your desk if possible, even with the best ergonomic setup in the world. People often start with a good posture and then slouch over time, and an ergonomic setup alone cannot fix it. Taking regular breaks also helps your eyesight.
Excellent UI and very fun to explore, although North America is conspicuously blank before 1607. Hopefully more sources can be added to this to fill that out.
Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
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If there is any truth to OpenAi having filters for the Rothschilds, I'd guess that OpenAI wants to stay clear of repeating or even hallucinating additions to conspiracy theories. I would hope at least.
So? If that policy ends up damaging their reputation it is noones fault but their own.
That's fair. I admit I am not envious of the Bay Area, because I've heard what you say about the cultural desert.

When I think of what I'm envious, I think LA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Long Beach, etc.
In my experience the majority of that 1940s photo blur comes when you crop and zoom what otherwise looks like a beautiful digital photograph. I experienced this quite often when utilizing security cameras to try and read license plates.

Any movement of the vehicle whose plate you are attempting to track creates pixelization requiring you sometimes to stitch together multiple frames where individual characters on the plate have become clear in order to read the entire license plate.
It's ah, so interesting to see what Greeks looked like in the US imaginary in years past.

The illustration of the Greek fruit seller in the article (from a sheet music cover of the "Yes! We have no banans" song [1]) is from the 1920's a time when Greeks had just started emigrating to the US. I confess the man in the picture looks like more of a Turkish stereotype to me, or maybe like a Moorish pirate (what are those huge ear rings!).

Anyway, interesting stuff. It's always surprising to see how your kind is seen by people in faraway lands.

For instance, I would be really curious to know how the Japanese might have seen my people, but there's never been a big migration to Japan from Greece so we'll never know. But I'm guessing: big noses. And even bigger moustaches!

_______________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes!_We_Have_No_Bananas#/media...
Phone-to-phone is probably better handled over WiFi and its variants. Simpler, easier to integrate, much less regulatory oversight.

Apple’s AWDL is hacky and ugly in lots of ways, but has been in market for a decade or more and enables phone to phone. If WiFi forum ever gets WiFi direct 2 off the ground it could be amazing.

But phone to phone is chicken and egg; users aren’t demanding it because there aren’t any killer apps, and there aren’t any killer apps because problems like identity, privacy, resiliency haven’t been solved, and those problems haven’t been solved because users aren’t demanding these apps.
It's fascinating to see how much more (and more accurate) data your project comprised, but how much better the interface is for this one. Perhaps they can leverage the data you collected for a best of both worlds approach.
Exactly, that’s my point.
Why don't they just say it then? Who cares?
For these kind of cases, guix looks like the best platform to set PDL under either an ad-hoc environment or a container, and much lighter and secure than Docker itself.
Many hardware products are built with licensed code. It cannot be released because the company doesn’t own all of it.

There’s also more to a product than just some source code. You’d need the cloud domains, the private keys and certificates, and other bits. Releasing many of these to the public domain wouldn’t solve anything because you’d need someone to operate the cloud servers at the known address and trust with the private keys and certificates

All of this quickly begins to look a lot like requiring someone to operate the business again, which is obviously a silly thing to require in bankruptcy proceedings.

Forcing companies to release their IP if they go bankrupt is equally silly, because it renders the value of the company’s IP as $0 before anyone can be paid out.

The only thing this would incentivize is for companies to either relocate to countries with sane laws, or to shut off the servers and avoid bankruptcies by keeping the company technically alive but doing nothing other than staying as a registered business. It would act as a holding company to keep the IP in case someone wanted to buy it.
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