skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Folk music is enmeshed in a particular culture. It is knowledge transmitted across generations, but which evolves to meet the challenges of the times and changing sensibilities.

This is a beautiful and unexpected connection. Drawing analogies between software and other forms of cultural expression is a long overdue mental shift. The use of linguistic expressions such "tech" and "engineering" highlights the prevailing desire to think of software as some sort of thing apart, less social, less political (and thus something we can profitably pursue with fewer moral qualms).

The switch from the original mentality of software as a product (literally shipped in a box), to the current business model of "user as a product" and software merely being the bait and hook is so profound that we are not really talking about the same industry anymore.

Not clear where the strange and twisted journey of software would lead. The infinite reproducibility at zero cost is not something current economic systems can handle. The enshittification might continue, further enshittifying society or open source becomes the norm.
Ridding copyright would level the playing field for individuals and companies????!!!! Getting rid of laws that protect the individual only will help the larger empowered businesses.
> If censorship is considered evil regarding the written word and communications between humans

Oh it's certainly not by many people. It's fine with them if you are censoring what they don't like.

It took me a long time to realize the "free speech" advocates of the 60s-80s were long gone from the left.
Side topic: for anyone who wants to do x64 assembly game programming, check out this video for reference:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p60L-TOecik&t=1042s

I think I can start in C and check the -s assembly code too, and gradually be comfortable with writing directly in assembly. After all a lot of the code is just function calls into libraries.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
Let's move them all to the United States. Maybe to the Dearborn area. Give them all easy US citizenships, all to help carry out this wonderful plan of rebuilding.

I mean, the US is the one proposing this, the US should be the new home for 2.1M Palestinians living there.
Agree 100%. I noticed that on the Copilot settings page [1] you can switch to Claude Sonnet model (instead of a model trained by Github I assume?). In my experience this improves things.

[1] https://github.com/settings/copilot
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Good luck getting any responses that have been corroborated outside of Musk's ramblings. So much for 'transparency'.

If someone was truly looking to audit places to save money, it's always been odd to me that USAID was first. Now this story comes out...

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra...
We need better justice system that enforces the laws we have in the books that would help compensate right owners when big companies in emails pirate terabytes of data.
I truly hope Meta has a serious security issue that burns their company to the ground.

That said, I want them to burn for the right reasons.

Downloading data that should be available to the public is not one of them.
I really like this book actually, not sure why but I do keep going back to it too. Also there are strong references to it and the sentiments of it in a video game called Signalis actually.
It can be a bit of a hard read though sometimes too I find.
I wish it were true of Detroit
The easiest way to parallelize this RNG is to just run it in parallel on multiple states.
I'm just saying large corps move incredibly slowly, especially across internal silos. A big effort just to deter a couple of users fiddling with their network settings.
I wasn't aware. Can you please update Wikipedia then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

Maybe also get Google to update their docs: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
> I don't know where the belief that all criminals are tech experts comes from; the popularity of cool-looking "encrypted" phones as opposed to actually encrypted apps like Signal should have long dispelled that myth.

I think it's a case of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/

People here work at the level of things like RowHammer, normal people don't think past the idea that a padlock icon on the screen makes them safe.
> I don't think you need external threats to give life meaning.

I didn't say people did. But overcoming real challenges seems to be a big part of feeling alive, and I wonder if we really all would settle back into going for walks all day or whatever we could do that entertain us without needing others to work to provide the entertainment. Perhaps the WALL-E future, where we sit in chairs? But with AI-generated content?
It kinda looks somewhat like sámi clothing to me
Look at my sister comment to yours about technocracy.
It's to draw attention away from the fact that LLMs are amoral.

You clearly have a moral spine because you're standing up and asking questions about what is right.

LLMs can't do anything like that so they need to be constrained by more direct methods in order to not appear to be evil
> Blue Sky instead of supporting that authoritarian website

BlueSky is just another authoritarian website [0], which was not enshittified yet [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215410

[1] https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yoursel...
I don't think you've read the parent comment correctly?
Note that it's no longer an actual check --- instead one gets a certificate of deposit at The Bank of San Seriffe:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

(I got a physical check for $2.88 for a typo and a point of improvement in _Digital Typography_ --- need to find another so I can get an account....)

If that was not included in your geography lessons see:

https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-semicolonial-island-nation-...
The Chinese investment into strategic spots around the South China Sea & Gulf of Thailand is really interesting to witness.

I was at Sihanoukville (Cambodia) around 5 years ago and was surprised to find what was seemingly a Chinese city. There was a lot of dust, construction, and the city seemed like it was being raised out of the ground really quickly. Massive Chinese casinos and hotels were around and locals reported some casinos didn't even let them in. There were some whispers about shady stuff too.

I suppose if I were to go there today I'd find there are no more dirt roads and that the city is "fully built" given the rate at which these things happen. Would be cool to see.
Lmao. Using A Jesus quote to defend a megacorp’s illegal piracy. Wow
The existing laws are a problem, and are not enforced in a fair and just manner.

Yes, the legal system is for humans, but we can use technology to improve the system for humans, so it's faster, better and more fair, because humans aren't perfect, and now we have technology to be better than the system create a long time ago. You don't think the legal system should run on pens and paper right? Adapting to typewriters, was a benifit to the system?

Well, video on demand, live streaming, and things like LLMs can also make the system better for humans.
For anyone who wants to read it, (the first three stories are quite good). https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-w-chambers/the-king...
Let’s stop applying copium to recent events and making excuses. The American people knew exactly what they were getting and voted for him anyway. He won a majority of the popular vote.

The Senate is 2 Senators per state regardless of the population and isn’t as susceptible to gerrymandering.

That being said, I don’t feel bad for anyone who voted for Trump and is having buyers remorse.

We are already seeing it with Arabs in Minnesota who thought Trump would be better for Arabs in Gaza and are now having regrets seeing how Trump wants to use US troops to “clear out Gaza” and Latin Americans who are appalled that he tried to remove birthright citizenship.

Next up will be all of the “rural American” voters who are going to bare the brunt of inflationary tariffs.
I get this, but what I want to do is prevent unauthorised access altogether. Watermarks help if I want to sue someone after they've gained access to the information.
I really love my state, but lansing is just as bad as anywhere else. Outside of a more rural situtation or Ann Arbor, everywhere here is decayed.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... are the newest ones.

It all kinda changed when interfaces had to be big enough to differentiate between buttons with your finger instead of a mouse.
How is it related to TD1 was it the inspiration for the yellow king and carcosa?
Way too much money going around.
Programming FPGAs Using OCaml
I doubt very much if any terrorist, criminal or child abuser is going to use any google or apple cloud service to back up their files.

Anyone with a fundamental understanding of online privacy and security would encrypt any files prior to uploading them to the cloud rendering any back doors and access to those files useless and toothless.

I dont use any of these services. I have never understood the thinking around uploading your private life to some server in the cloud when they are more secure on an external hard drive at home.
> I expect in the next 5 years Microsoft will introduce mandatory app signing and will lock the platform down so that the Microsoft store is the only place for installing apps.

This is already the case in lower end hardware.

> Linux but is the only bastion of hope but unfortunately that's still (on the desktop) alpha quality and will likely never move past alpha.

I fear that a lot of mayor software is suffering from a similar issue. Targeting a fantasy “user” who is both literate enough to install, maintain and use Linux, but illiterate enough that displaying keyboard shortcuts or showing a menu when right clicking would confuse them.

There’s little effort to stabilise software. The priority is often “I want all apps to use my chosen theme”, and not “I want apps that work out of the box”.

And there’s a huge trend of “X for gnome” or “Y for KDE”. Portable software has a become a niche thing.
Don’t know about the OPs case, but forgiveness was based on meeting the requirements of the program: 60% of the loan to employees and 40% to approved employer expenses (business overhead such as rent and electricity).

I assisted with the submission of PPP forgiveness for 4 restaurants.
And that conversation will look something like this:

"If you want to sell phones in our country, you have to give us access to anyone we say is a criminal using your phones in any country".

"You are asking us to break the law in those other countries."

"Do you want to sell phones in our country, or not? We know you'll blink first."

(Will Apple blink? I don't know. But I am confident that the UK government is filled with people who assume they will).
> White space does not determine the behavior or display of other HTML tags.

As mentioned in the article, the collapsing behavior of leading/trailing white space can affect other elements.

The only difference between the two cases in the following example is that the latter has a space at the end of first element's content. That causes the second element's leading space to not be rendered: https://codepen.io/mkantor/pen/RNbXVJM?editors=1000
>so that we can milk this cow until she starves.

Since the federal government is one absolutely huge, well-fed cow, you can expect Boeing to continue milking this teat for a very long time to come. Let's just hope that fewer people die as a result; We all fly Boeing at one time or another.
Self-coup is a thing, and it's what's happening now!
Probably cloudflare's geoip-based range bans.
See also: customers, and clients. Getting in the way, wanting things, causing chaos. Every business runs much more smoothly without them.
New links between auxin and starch
Estonia to disconnect from the Russian-run electricity network on Saturday
This sounds an awful lot like Pied Piper!
It's not just some scams. It's the darkest thing ever in the whole human history.

After China banned using of death row organs around 2014, the world's largest organ black market has moved to southeast Asia. There are estimated more than 100k victims (mostly Chinese) annually. Some of them may be released, if their families can afford the ransom. The remaining victims are treated like livestock. They are forced into doing scams to lure more people. Their blood is drawn monthly or even weekly for sales. They'll be tortured to death, if they try to run away. And finally, their organs will be harvested and sold, which most likely will also be the end of their lives.

United States once proposed to classify these organizations as terrorist organizations at UN but was denied by China.
Looks great! Could you fill the screen with black? It'd be a great OLED screensaver (I don't get why this isn't something people want more tbh, they look amazing with things like this on them) if the white overflow wasn't there
> HN is one of the few bastions of grounded discussion on the internet

Hacker News has its fair share of irrationality.

I submitted an article about efforts to undermine Wikipedia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962971

But it was flagged and locked to commenting.

Wikipedia is one of the internet's greatest projects. Hacker News apparently doesn't have the stomach to discuss the threats to Wikipedia.
AI Arms Race: US Tech Giants to Shell Out $325B
They'll keeping buying dollars so long as they trust the US. Being erratic and shifty hurts that.
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Fruit of the Poisonous Llama? (2023)
>how they intend to secure this "vault" against the current government

Is there any risk of the government ordering them to take it down? That seems unlikely to me. The US has strong free speech protection, stronger than European free speech protection.

>keeping this data online against the express will of the government is gonna cost (political) capital.

Costing them political capital (aka the government is unhappy) is different from the government ordering them to take it down. Also, when you say "express will", are you saying the government has explicitly publicly stated that they don't like that Harvard is hosting this data?
I think you have a very high opinion of the millions of people around the globe, with varying levels of computer literacy, who are terrorists, criminals, and/or child abusers.
You need to work on your classification algorithm. Classifying anti-Trump mass media articles as "controlled mass media" is just embarrassing.
I don’t understand why this is being upvoted. It’s just a tweet of an unsubstantiated opinion. It’s not even an interesting or smart observation. Nor does it take into account the reality of life and humans.

“Information density” isn’t the goal of podcasts. This is like complaining stand-up comedy takes too long and you’ll just read the subtitles file instead. Or that fish are the worst animals at rock climbing.

Go listen to some good, well produced podcasts like Heavyweight and S-Town. Then understand The Medium is the Message.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/2ohrb7x

https://stownpodcast.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
The older you are, the more useless are IQ tests

Because the whole thing of those tests is to test intelligence, not knowledge. And the older you are, the more knowledge you got.

When I was like 7, I passed an IQ test. I did it again, for fun, at 30yo. I then noticed things that I now know: for instance, XOR (as in the boolean operation).

When I did it at 7yo, I had to understand XOR. When I was 30yo, I had time to learn XOR.

Doing IQ tests for adult is how you have people with 165 IQ everywhere. What a joke.
I think sarcasm is a valuable tool, but my post was downvoted so I guess not!
> For Luis Taveras, chief information officer with Lehigh Valley Health Network, the tests don’t work unless there are real-life consequences.

> The first time employees at the healthcare organization fail a phishing test, they lose external email access for three months. The second time, it gets cut for a year. The third, they’re fired.
Large projects and companies are making dumb decisions all the time.
The 'perfect' egg takes 32 minutes to cook
I guess the solution is to create a shell company for your illegal activities?
I can't find the source, but I remember seeing him wearing this at another talk and him explaining that it was a hand made and stitched shirt inspired by a native group he had had some interaction with. The memory is really fading, may have involved his wife too. I can't find it, but there is an explanation out there somewhere. He wears it a lot at talks he's done since mid-2010s, it seems.

Incidentally I was next to him as he was trying to stand on a window ledge to get sight of the Olympic torch coming into the square in front of Manchester Town Hall in 2012. I spoke to him, and reached out for him for a moment as I thought he was about to fall through the window, but he was all good. He came across as a very curious man, bright with questions and intelligence and younger than his years.

We were both attending an event celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing, and I was surprised to find myself in a room with him, Gary Kasparov, Fred Brooks, Vint Cerf and many other luminaries of computer science. The Olympic torch came into the square outside during a lunch break, and he just couldn't help but take a look - he was the only there who seemed excited about it. He gave a talk at the dinner that night, and I saw him again in Manchester on another date when 4B had just been published, and he vaguely recognised me from the previous event when I asked him to sign it.

I recount this story, because I think his shirt hints at a much more eclectic and curious mind - I definitely have seen evidence of it in other places.
Libgen is a civilizational project that should be endorsed, not prosecuted. I hope one day people will look at it and think how stupid we were today to shun the largest collection of literary works in human history.
That's not the same thing. You can call a shell command from any language. The log4j problem was that you could load arbitrary classes from the internet into the memory of the current process, which is a much more severe problem.
ofc, by one click haha
Agreed, but we are getting thrown in with the people who have an insta account, but say they don't so they don't get fact-checked on their relationship status.
That's the point: I can't know since I can't read what they're asking of me.
ChatGPT comes to 500k new users in OpenAI's largest AI education deal yet
It must be nice to believe everything people say by default... ;)
Kagi has a great browser, proton has mail and calendars (I mean everything has calendars, there isn’t really much lock in there), maps are (location dependent) very fungible.

The OS and documents are trickier as I’ve never used either but I did only say 70%. The thing I would find hardest would be converting sign in with google accounts

If the average person was so inclined, they could probably degoogle themselves 70% in one day, 90% in a month, and 98% in a year with very little cognitive load
> we have to prioritize engineering quality, so that our products can be delivered on time, and work safely and as expected

This would require upper middle management at Boeing deciding to fire themselves, so they can hire better engineering management.
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA): When Every Task Feels Like a Threat
> Any company worth their 2 cents has contingency plans ready for several situations

My guy, most major companies struggle to get a quarterly plan in place for what they're going to do by the start of the following quarter. There may be some department focused on lobbying and political risk that cares about this stuff, but there are no product and engineering teams at any company that have "contingency plans" just laying around to be activated for random shit like this. Nobody has time for that.
Why do I get sued when I share some BitTorrents but $bigcorp can just do it with 1000 scale without problems?

The issue here is not copyright/patents/etc - the issue is that the law is applied selectively — the issue is that Aaron Schwartz is dead for sharing knowledge with the public and Zuccborg is a billionaire building his torment nexus
Last time there were adults in the room. Look at the gallery of clowns, rogues and thieves he's surrounded himself with this time.

This is different. This time there's an explicit removal of the people and structures intended to say "no" to executive overreach.

We ignore this at our own peril, as a nation.
I think it’s the other way around. Those large entities break all the same laws and rules as others and then get to the point where they can influence the creation of a regulatory moat around themselves to prevent competitors from taking the same path as them.
I think comparing it is reasonable and valid. Equaling it would be incorrect. What Meta is (allegedly, likely) doing here is several orders of magnitude worse, in scale and intention. I'd say both ethical and probably juristical.

But just because the scale and intention are different, does not mean we cannot compare both cases. They are not equal, far from it. But they are compareable.
a) If you don't have a robots.txt, you're indexed by default. It's opt-out, not opt-in. If you do nothing, you're being indexed.
The Art of the Self-Review: The Untapped Engineering Superpower
Indeed. Pretty much everyone I know is "texting" with their friends and using whatever is the default app on their phone. Some people will use Whatsapp for specific groups/events, but that default text app is very commonly used.

This reminds me of a conversation with an iPhone-using elderly relative who wanted to text friends in their retirement home:

ER: Why is it that when I send text messages to my friends they sometimes never get them?

Me: When you get messages are the bubbles green?

ER: Yes.

Me: Is there bad phone signal in this area?

ER: Yes.

Me: OK, that means your friends are using Android phones, so your messages are being sent by a method called 'SMS' which isn't very reliable, particularly when phone signal is poor.

ER: I don't really understand that. What I can I do to fix it?

Me: You and your friends could install an app such as Whatsapp or Signal and send your texts with that.

ER: No, I'm not installing an app!

Me: You could persuade your friends to buy iPhones.

ER: They won't do that.

Me: You could wait a few months and Apple will most likely activate a new system called "RCS" on iPhones which might make messages with your friends a bit more reliable.

ER: That's no good, I need to fix it now.

etc. etc.
It’s also possible that you do not have information on our technology which models conceptual awareness of matter and change through space-time which is different than any previous attempts?
He's on to something, but I also find LLM usefulness sharply differs across different languages, tech stacks and problem domains.
Interesting, if we're to trust what NotOpenAI and Facebook say about their IP, the US should pay the UK reparations for IP theft based on textile industry profits starting in the 1850s until today?
I believe so:

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