skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same way that you stop them from sharing MP3 files: you don’t. Some people share them, but most don’t bother because there are convenient ways to pay for them, and those ways offer better value than scouring the internet for pirate downloads. So there is still a reason to hunt down pirate sites, as the copyright holder doesn’t want piracy to be too convenient, but locking down files with DRM ultimately just isn’t a great solution.
Thank you for the summary!

I could only read the abstract. Did you see the nature of the induced spinal cord injuries? Were they crush injuries or transection type?
> I like how this explains the ancient miracles

...which ancient miracles are you possibly alluding to here?
Got it, sorry !
Do you understand that degree matters? Or do you think that pissing once in a river is as harmful as dumping a thousand litres of toxic waste in it?

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

I could live hundreds of lifetimes and not consume as much energy as Google has this year alone.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-and-microsoft-now-each-...
Ok thanks. This is what I was curious about. Got it.
iPad refugee challenge: can Apple Magic Keyboard communicate with Google Pixel Tablet, e.g. with RP2040/RP2350 for protocol conversion? Unlike iPadOS, Android will support VMs.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/161tpcg/pixel_...

4-pin connector on the tablet, when looking at the back of the tablet.. (from left to right): ground, data, data, +12v.. two data lines (3v3 logic levels). Couldn't determine the signal type, but it was some kind of differential signalling - could still be USB or maybe UART.. The tablet charges just fine with 12V applied to the connectors!

Upcoming 2025 Apple Intelligence HomePad for smart home security control is expected to compete with Amazon Echo Show, with optional wall attachments and speaker base, later to be followed by $1K+ robotic arm, https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/13/apples-new-homepad-is-exactly...

> they should just literally copy Google's Pixel Tablet strategy. iPads already have the connector pins, just give them a "Home Mode" for when connected to any of these special docks. Otherwise it's a stripped down iPad Mini
> Selling off assets in a non-competitive process is basically a criminal move, especially if you collude with one of the bidders who is also a creditor.

Not sure why the bankruptcy trustee working with the companies largest creditors, so large, that a simple proportionate would result in them claiming pretty much the entire possible payout, can be considered collusion.

The only people who can possibly be harmed are the creditors themselves. If they want to strike a deal that results in more equitable outcome, but with less total cash, that’s their business. Remember Alex Jones is on the hook for close to a billon dollars, and that sum has already been through various appeals and due process already, it’s no longer up for debate. The only question left is how Jones is gonna pay it. Unless someone creditably believes someone is going to hand over close to a billion dollars to purchase InfoWars, it seems silly to reject an offer that the creditors themselves believe is fair and reasonable.
As someone who has struggled with this before, your fastest way is to look for pre-built templates on github or buy one's you like.

Looks like GP is using the pocket template from tailwindui - https://pocket.tailwindui.com/

There are hundreds of people selling pre-built components, landing pages, templates etc. This at least gets you up and running and not stressing over design. As a dev who lacks design sense, this was immensely helpful.

Other option as sibling points out is to use bolt or lovable and give it explicit instructions on what kind of design to use. For example, with lovable, try this prompt "use neo brutalist design."
Yes that is what i'm saying but people still have the "I HATE ELON" blinders on and can't think for themselves.
If you only want certain people to be educated, then we should have private charter schools with tax payer dollars. Given that model, I'm opposed to my tax money funding education because it's for profit MBA nonsense that ruins everything good.

Public education is fundamental infrastructure like roads. We should fund it and have the best in the world. If our schools are lacking, we should correct it. If we leave education to the market, that's pretty brutal gambling with the future. I'd like everyone to have an opportunity.

I also consider jobs and benefits for my neighbors a good thing. It benefit me greatly and it's insane to pull up the ladder on these kids and future generations. You're disgusting.
Small piece of feedback, the main text "Smart Web Scraping API" looks pretty off-center to me. Using latest Chrome on Mac on a 4k screen.
Yeah its fine updating the url, but adding history checkpoints really does suck
TBH I don't know why the FSF had been pushing for this 'not a contract' narrative for so long either.

Maybe bad lawyering. Or some aversion to anything that looks like an EULA or that kind of radical-ideological shit.

PS: I found this link when digging in my archives:

https://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-declares-gpl-is-a-con...

That the GPL is a contract hardly came as any surprise to people familiar with the law. Lawyers and judges view any collection of terms as a contract, and tear-open licenses are the norm these days. But the FSF had its own reasons to say it’s a license, reasons that might be more important to the philosophy of Free Software than the court.
Contracts require consent between two parties who join in the contract, if they are to be enforced. The GPL (and many other licenses that come with products) doesn’t have a signature page, so there is no explicit consent. If there is consent at all, it’s the implied consent that has become standard for “tear-open” licenses. Your acceptance of the license is indicated by some action, in this case integrating the code into your product.
The default under copyright law is all rights reserved, which means “you can’t do anything with this” with some minor exceptions that are called “fair use”. Thus, if you integrate the software into your product, distribute it, or perform some other action that is restricted by copyright, you must have accepted the license because your alternative would be all rights reserved. Thus, the FSF asserts that the GPL is a license because they feel consent isn’t really necessary, they don’t want to argue about consent in court, and they believe that they can do all of the enforcement they need using a complaint of copyright infringement. Also, tear-open licenses were a much more foggy issue in law when the GPL came about. And then there’s the philosophical matter:
A trivial implementation wouldn't dereference dest or src in case the length is 0. That's how a student would write it with a for loop (byte-by-byte copy). A non-trivial implementation might do something with the pointers before entering the copy loop.
> influenced, but not controlled

A useless distinction in practice.
>"apt update && apt upgrade",

Across 10k-100k+ servers, all running services and needing to orchestrate restarting across the whole fleet, while providing 0 downtime or impact to thousands of clients with terabytes of data being processed and analyzed at any given time.

Sure whats so hard about changing a tire? Well try to do it on an 18-wheeler while its driving down the highway without any impact to its speed.

> Are you aware of how effective SELinux and systemd containers are? Just a simple firewall at the OS level?

Part of a layered and in-depth system but one that introduces complexity.

>Maybe even just using Tailscale (or the open source Headscale) to introduce zero trust access capabilities.

Tailscale in an enterprise production environment? Not going to pass any sort of security audit and probably violates a number of certifications customer require at the enterprise level for network access controls, visibility and auditing.

Just managing the git/jenkins/spinnaker/terraform infrastructure in dozens of locations deploying to and maintaining tens of thousands of servers/pods requires a 24x7 team on top of the hundreds of teams and tens of thousands of devs using it.

If you're small enough that doesn't make sense, then you might be small enough one Ops person can handle the load (One is never enough if you're smart but...), but you are dealing with a very small amount of infrastructure and services at this point.
Maybe most people browse these sites from mobile devices,and that's why the photos are taken this way?
The deal wasn't shaky. It was an auction where there were only two potential buyers who actually rocked up. It wasn't secret, it was public. It was issued by a court, including a process where bidders had to submit offers before a deadline. [0]

ThreeSixty Asset Advisors ran the process. As they often do. Tranzon Asset Advisors assisted, as they often do. There were confidentiality agreements and sealed bids... But that's the normal process for selling off assets through a court.

A sealed bid is designed to avoid negotiation, and other processes more easily manipulated by bias, unconscious or otherwise. The bids are unseen between the buyers, and opened at the same time.

There were a "large number" of interested parties before the deadline. However, most pulled out and did not submit a bid before the deadline. Leaving only two.

Some potential bidders, like The Barbed Wire, stated that they pulled out because they simply couldn't afford the expected sale price.

All of this was the exact same procedure for other forfeiture assets.

The Judge did not find any wrong doing by the buyers, but rather lamented that the final sale price was too low. That's it. Not a procedural stuff up. That was followed correctly.

> "I don't like second-guessing trustees," the judge said, but that is exactly what he did.

> "It's clear that [U.S. bankruptcy trustee Christopher Murray] left a lot of money on the table," Lopez said, adding that he thought the process was "doomed" the moment Murray decided to cancel a live auction and call for sealed "best and final" offers instead.

He simply wanted the auction to take longer.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/11/13/alex-jone...
Bash-stack: modern web framework in bash
Not sure how everything works on your project, but CSS vars should allow to make almost any HTML "themable".

I've used that method with twig (php), vue and static html templates.
Tell me: how would the colour cyan be possible for the brain to perceive, if the neurons deduct hue from inverting the sensory input from the cones?
Thank you for deliberately not cooperating with Satan!
Started using this to check Namecheap hosting uptime claims, has worked well for me. Keep up the good work!
Pricing Intelligence: Is ChatGPT Pro too expensive for developers?
This is interesting. Why did you pick KaiOS? If money was the goal, I guess iOS and Android would make more, isn't it?

How does the development process feel like?
A polynomial-time classical algorithm for noisy quantum circuits
How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code to Run Directly on GPUs
Ugh, the U.S. supported the Taliban during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The current Syrian rebels, despite being partly a rebranding of Al-Quaeda, are supported by the U.S., which will recognize the new government under certain conditions:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-says-will-recognize-new-syr...

The regime change in Syria has been one of the primary U.S. foreign policy goals for decades. Of course, the Jihadists may turn on a dime and indeed cooperate with Russia in the future.
It sounds very primal. Sleeping short times in the cave and then catching a cat nap when you can.
Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness
Seriously that channel? The same channel who said it's nato and the west's fault that Russia is invading Ukraine?

Who also did a fluff piece on north Korea?
I haven't tested, but in addition to map sales there's a subscription option, for more features https://pastmaps.com/plus?src=header
Yeah these articles are all written by people who owned hundreds of movies.

I was thinking about this. Normal people bought maybe one or two Disney movies a year? Now Disney Plus cashes in 20 eurodollars per month and they don't have to share it with anyone.
Native modules allow developers to access low-level APIs like hardware interaction, native GUI components, or other system-specific features. Because Electron applications run across different platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux), native modules must be compiled for each target platform. This can introduce challenges in cross-platform development.

To simplify this process, Electron provides tools like electron-rebuild to automate the recompilation of native modules against Electron's custom Node.js environment, ensuring compatibility and stability in the Electron application.

Read more: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/native-modules-electron
I could have been more constructive her in fairness! It's not so much the language as the presentation of the options in that specific question - they're kind of presented as a scale but the middle options deals with a different variable to the outer ones - western vs non-western and traditional vs modern. It might be worth breaking these kinds of questions into Likert scaled for more tightly defined variables.
> Especially when the debt being settled is astronomically large and you are giving up a very small portion of it ($7 million out of $1.5 billion). The other creditors are far better off getting more cash, and those $7 million of claims are worth way less than one cent per dollar.

The whole purpose of the deal was to give everyone, except the largest creditor, more cash. Sure the other deal offered 2x more cash, but the largest creditor is so disproportionately large compared to all the other creditors, they would have basically taken all the cash and left little to nothing for the other creditors. The rejected deal involved the largest creditor voluntarily giving up part of their claim, resulting in a much larger (I.e. something like 10x larger) payout for other creditors, despite the lower dollar value on the entire deal.

So yeah, the other creditors are far better off getting more cash. But to do that InfoWars would need to sell for many multiples more than highest bid seen so far.
The AI revolution is running out of data. What can researchers do?
> Wouldn’t jones stating garbage like the shooting didn’t happen etc. be opinion?

Holy shit the last 8 years really have damaged our understanding of what “facts” are.
To those confused, the acronym is like FAANG; companies involved.

The playbook is so prevalent I'd argue it extends to anything publicly traded.
I'll not be snarky and just say that convention is not new nor is the use of it here innovative.
Yes absolutely. Being found not guilty of a crime or being pardoned has no bearing on the evidence that exists which is presented in a separate civil case against you.

There’s no double jeopardy in a civil case - it’s a matter of if someone has a claim of damages.
> In some alternate reality where atoms materialize in random configurations out of nothing maybe

Quantum mechanics says that this reality. Look into virtual particles.
The way I see it, anti-Communist paranoia was so strong mid-century that a certain kind of self promotion propelled someone into CIA decision making. Agents could dose LSD to random workers, in public. Agents could take LSD on the job. The same government which tolerated that also needed to emphasize the importance of diplomacy to avoid a nuclear first strike. Even though Russian radar specialists avoided war by remaining calm, it’s true that global revolution was a widespread priority and tropical leaders who wanted favors tended not to be calm.

The objectives and contradictions are very different now. The first 14 James Bond movies were trying to avert a madman obsessed with triggering a nuclear first strike. The next 13 were not. The cool Russians who avoided hysteria devoted a generation of resources on real bad decisions made in Afghanistan. The only constant is how you’re treated if you get in the way of profit.
The only reason I am still using an Android is that I can bypass a lot of ads using somewhat questionable loopholes.
>Who denies US involvement in other countries?

You haven't been on HN long enough if you never saw it.
And Apple Maps at launch worked great... in Cupertino.
It's a pretty large punishment.
Budibase 3.0 – Open-source alternative to Retool
Breaking Out of the Malthusian Trap
Many games get their DRM removed from official distribution after a cracked copy is found circulating online. Sounds like that model would make sense for movies too.
also UB according to the spec, but LLVM is free to define it. e.g., clang often converts trivial C++ copy constructors to memcpy, which is UB for self-assignment, but I assume that's fine because the C++ front-end only targets LLVM, and LLVM presumably defines the behaviour to do what you'd expect.
Show HN: RankPic – crowdsource your best photo
I've been building RankPic over the past 3 years & it's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc.

The app flow is fairly simple:

- upload up to 6 photos in a test

- pay other users in credits to get your photos ranked

- get credits by ranking other people's photos

I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people using it to pick out glasses, wedding invites & so on

-- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rankpic-photo-ranking/id160299... (ios)

-- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.rankpic.ra... (android)

It was discussed yesterday on the Ask HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343) that got a good amount of interest, and really blew up my website views (1126 in a day vs my normal 2-6). I realized I had never done a proper show HN so wanted to officially share!
>The same channel who said it's nato and the west's fault that Russia is invading Ukraine?

I don't remember them saying that. I do remember them showing US political and financial involvement in Ukraine.

>Who also did a fluff piece on north Korea?

Someone didn't get the humor and sarcasm I guess.
Google Willow is an exciting step forward in technology! The potential for it to transform how we interact with and integrate AI into our daily lives is incredible. I am curious to learn more about its real-world applications and how it will improve accessibility and efficiency across various domains. Kudos to the team for pushing boundaries and innovating looking forward to seeing whats next!
> mere defamation

I think what Alex Jones did is more than mere defamation.

Repeatedly lying about the reality of a school mass shooting, over years, in such a way that he caused threats to be made against the families of victims?

Incitement to credible threats of violence, and especially continuing to do so even after you're aware that's what your listeners are doing, deserves severe consequences.
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Features include:
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Hi! I am under the impression that you're one of the better-known skeptics of the practicality of QEC. And to my untrained eye, the recent QEC claim is the more interesting one of the two.

(I am inclined to ignore the claims about quantum supremacy, especially when they're based on random circuit sampling which as you pointed out made assertions that were orders of magnitude off because nobody cares about this problem classically, and so there is not much research effort into finding better classical algorithms. And of course, there's a problem with efficient verification, as Aaronson mentions in his recent post.)

I've seen a few comments of yours where you mentioned that this is indeed a nice result (predicated on the assumption that it's true) [0, 1]. I worry a bit that you're moving the goalposts with this blog post, even as I can't fault any of your skepticism.

I work at Google, but not anywhere close to quantum computing, and I don't know any of the authors or anyone who works on this. But I'm in a space where I feel impacts of the push for post-quantum crypto (e.g. bloat in TLS handshakes) and have historically pooh-poohed the "store now, decrypt later" threat model that Google has adopted -- I have assumed that any realistic attacks are at a minimum decades away (if they ever come to fruition), and very little (if any) of the user data we process today will be relevant to a nation-state actor in, say, 30 years.

If I take the Willow announcement at face value (in particular, the QEC claims), should I update my priors? In particular, how much further progress would need to be made for you to abandon your previously-stated skepticism about the general ability of QEC to continue to scale exponentially? I see a mention of one-in-a-thousand error rates on distance-7 codes which seems tantalizingly close to what's claimed by Willow, but I would like to hear your take.

[0] https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/five-perspectives-...

[1] https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/30197/#...
It still doesn’t make sense for dogs. It might make some sense given a higher-level goal (hiding a toy under the bed)[1] but it doesn’t make much sense for selecting the goals (“I should hide this toy because the other dog keeps stealing it”). In building an AI dog it doesn’t work to elevate these higher-level goals into individual tokens because real dogs form goals dynamically according to their environment and the set is infinitely large. (Note that LLM agents also badly struggle with this; generating goals token-by-token means their goals have hallucinations.)

[1] It still doesn’t make much sense to view this as a statistical process; dogs can generalize far better than transformers, as perhaps best seen with seeing-eye dogs. I believe dogs’ powers of causal reasoning exceed what is possible from mere surface statistics: e.g. they innately understand object permanence as puppies, whereas transformers still don’t understand it after viewing thousands of dogs’ lifetimes of experience.