skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there's been a resurgence in "clean" media over the last few years, with companies like Angel Studios leading the movement. They seem to have a surprisingly large number of independent backers (i.e., non-corporate funding) that speaks to an undercurrent in our society that pushes back against modern Hollywood films.

I've also noticed that non-religious independent studios (outside of Hollywood mainstream) seem to also play by slightly different rules. I briefly watched a few episodes of Beast Games last week and was genuinely surprised at how often the editors didn't cut the usage of Jesus or Christ in prayers.
His definition of "people" implicitly excludes the slave classes/races.
Are you talking about Bhopal in 1984? If so it would be an understatement to refer to half a million people as a “town”, and an overstatement to imply it was terrorism. Willful negligence, yes, but terrorism, no.
To me the implication isn't subtle; the maintainer NACKs, the response from someone on the contributing team is "maybe we should involve @Linus or @Greg" and from that point on, you see Greg KH get involved to note what the proper procedure is and to ensure that it'll be followed. Hellwig is completely sidelined from that point onwards, minus some grumbling noise on his side.

Hellwig is a jerk, yes (probably crosses a few lines), but there's a procedure that sidelines him and his mention for this patch was a mere courtesy (since r4l maintains the wrappers and they're not even kept in his folder).

Marcan's insertion in the thread is extremely overblown and as someone in the thread notes, comes across more like a several hours late cavalry to appeal to his social feed. I have a slightly "nicer" interpretation of it than that (in that I don't think Marcan is that kind of person) since it reads like it's probably just the sort of rage best reserved for a private message to a friend, but he's making it everyone else's problem by threatening social media brigading (which is plain and simple: harassment and unlike Hellwig's rudeness, extremely easy to identify as something to push back on).
That seems a little dramatic. They never forced anyone to take an uber right? If taxis were so amazing in other countries why would anyone be interested in switching to uber?
Show HN: Upsonic: An AI agent framework with client-server architecture
Three months ago, we started developing an open source agent framework. We previously tried existing frameworks in our enterprise product but faced challenges in certain areas.

Problems we experienced:

* We risked our stateless architecture when we wanted to add an agented feature to our existing system. Current frameworks lack server-client architecture, requiring significant effort to maintain statelessness when adding an agent framework to your application.

* Scaling problem - needed to write Docker configurations as existing frameworks lack official Docker support. Each agent in my application required a separate container (e.g., Twitter page analysis, website scraping, automatic documentation writing, etc.), necessitating individual agent deployment and health checks monitoring.

* Needed LLM calls for simple tasks - both fast and cost-effective solutions. With increased model capabilities, the framework should offer this option. I could handle LLM calls myself, but structured outputs required extra work within task structure.

Due to these problems, we decided to build a dockerized agent framework with server-client architecture. Though server-client architecture slowed development, we observe many benefits for users. We're developing a task-centric approach as we expect agents to complete simple tasks and assist with work.

As tool support is crucial for completing tasks, we built a structure officially supporting MCP servers. Client-server architecture proved beneficial for MCP server stability.

Finally, we prioritized simplicity in the framework, developing a structure where outputs are more easily coded with object responses. We'd be very happy if you could check our repo. I'd love to hear any questions you may have.,
Note to future self: use trunk-based development
Meanwhile, in places with sensible rules about taxis and private hire, the only thing that Uber did was make it easier for people to break the rules. And rack up an enormous tax bill that they somehow believed they'd be able to get out of paying.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/uber-loses-appeal-a...
Where is my iCloud data stored? If I visit China, is a copy stored there? If my phone is from China, but i live in the USA, where is my iCloud data? Is it replicated globally? I once asked in an Apple store, but no-one knew the answer
Elan is a division of US Bank, so while the branding on your card might have changed, its being run by the same company.
> It’s been publicly used in a bunch of prosecutions at this point

Can you give an example then? It would be major hacker news news if supposedly E2EE iCloud data were used in a prosecution.
Dijkstra is clearly approaching the subject from an engineer/scientist more practical pov. His focus is on the application of the technology to solve problems, from that pov whether AI fits the definition of "human thinking" is indeed uninteresting.
Thanks for this. Appreciate counterbalancing anecdotes of egg farming without butchering.
My guess is Google, Microsoft, Signal, Apple, Cloudfare, etc etc etc have all been asked if they could make backdoors. I expect they have all been asked. It's not the same as asking if they have made a backdoor.

So I think a journalist asking an organization like Google if they've been asked isn't really informative, because they almost certainly have been.

I'm not sure how it's relevant other than to say an answer from Google's response might seem oblique, but they're also being asked obliquely and that colors how you might interpret their response.
Because Central Park is literally surrounded by skyscrapers that don’t have parks in neighborhoods with below average park coverage other than Central Park. It’s the exception that proves the rule.

It’s also not that safe and requires its own police precinct.
Copyright infringement isn't stealing. I will die on this hill!

also, I don't think that implication is required, but lets pretend the implication is the only reasonable conclusion one could draw. Maybe it does make it acceptable?

If the vast majority of copyright enforcement isn't to protect creators of valuable work, but only serves to enrich those who take advantage of those creators. Then isn't it not just reasonable or acceptable, but ethically required for someone to do everything they can to dismantle the systems they're abusing against the interests of those who are actually improving the world with their creations?
>It only barely beats out the Toyota Corolla

"Only" does a lot here.

The Corolla is the #1 product of a century-old conglomerate. Tesla started mass-producing cars less than 17 years ago.
the savvy researcher knows when to publish an exciting but limited result, enabling themselves to deliver a juicy follow-up
Castro Podcasts – Transcript Tag Support
Seeding and downloading are in the same protocol. You can't do one without the other
As someone who lead this space at multiple FAANGs, just use Bazel or Buck2 and have whatever CI call it. CI should be one line(-ish) calling a local tool. "Fat" CI is an anti-pattern. The problem is not the CI tools you mention are bad and the only thing available, the problem is that newer tools and methods solving these issues are not known or adopted.

And if those don't work for you, build custom on something like Temporal.
Cyberpunk has always been, "What if what happens to those people happened to us?" "Us" being the relatively affluent and stable first world, "those people" being the put-upon urban poor and working class (which I usually summarize as "black Americans" for American readers - to shake them out of their myopia regarding the social and racial politics of the genre - but, as you point out, should include people in Asia and elsewhere).

Its power has never been in its predictive ability, because so much of what defines cyberpunk is already happening. Instead, the consideration of, "That horrible thing can happen to me, too," opens the intellectual doorway (or third eye) to questions of self, cognizance, experience. The computers are just a light show, or a lens.
It's not "almost" like that. The legal system IS that.
Interesting to see this coming out of Apple
This is starting to get pretty circular. The AI was trained on copyrighted data, so we can make a hypothesis that it would not exist - or would exist in a diminished state - without the copyright infringement. Now, the AI is being used to flood AI bookstores with cheaply produced books, many of which are bad, but are still competing against human authors.
I can just buy a Rivian? I know nothing of RJ Scaringe's political views, and it feels excellent.
Warmbloodedness and homeostasis are slightly different things. There are mammals that can radically drop their body temperatures (hibernation) as there are a few fish that can raise them (great white sharks).
Damn, that is cool
i think of it like having rust's rules, but you only get one (implicit) lifetime variable

(that's probably wrong in some subtle ways)
Feynman is no random celebrity. In addition to be a renowned physicist, his famous "Feynman Lectures" and his thoughts on pedagogy are similarly legendary.
Sports boost academic performance in teens, research shows
Solving Postgres' Search Limitations
Well, but: Humans learn to do things well that don't have clear-cut reward functions. Picasso didn't become Picasso because of simple incentives.

So, I question the hypothesis.
from the console

> Failed to get quantum result from server

cloudflare connection timed out
Regular parks are generally a lot smaller, so it’s easier to keep them busy and above the desolate threshold.

The thing about the tower in the park ethos was that every building should be surrounded by park and the neighborhood should be more park than city. That’s way too low of a density to keep parks safe.
You're quoting a different user
In this case, Richard Feynman is just writing about his personal experiences of a well-known phenomenon. https://profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lockh... ("Lockhart's Lament") would perhaps be a better reference, but nearly anyone who's been through the education system would be able to tell you this.
Collude seems like a pretty good word for an alliance formed for the purpose of subverting the law.
>Montessori's main contribution is applying scientific methods for education. She is first and foremost and empiricist that led over 50 years of field study on education. The Montessori method is just an outcome of that study.

I don’t see how this can be true considering the inability to create falsifiable hypotheses and myriad confounding variables. See the replication crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

https://xkcd.com/435/
It is possible that digitization and improvement of taxi services was inevitable anyway
It was not a proper critique (as you noted) of .NET. I dislike anything JVM, too, including Clojure, while I do like Common Lisp.

If you give me an example use case, I would be able to tell you what I would use, however.
You did! And maybe it is inevitable? I don't know.

It'd be interesting to see different theories evolve, for sure. Maybe something in separation logic will make it's way into mainstream type theory and into compilers at some point.

What's cool is how much we're starting to see folks push the boundaries these days. :)
In outdoor tourism spots, the obvious place to commit crime is not the trail but the parking lot.

Near me, sometimes people report smash and grabs through car windows at trailheads.
The article says:

>The thing is, it’s highly unlikely that hydrogen will ever become a mainstream alternative to battery power – at least when it comes to on-road transportation

This points to https://electrek.co/2024/04/13/man-to-build-200-hydrogen-tru..., which quote MAN's CEO saying

>it's impossible for hydrogen to effectively compete with battery electric trucks.

A positive piece indeed.
The mere mention of “AI” means it's all unreliable rumor hallucination. Pretending like the excretions of an “AI” are anywhere near credible is an instant disqualifier.
Just to add, the german speaking version of the Cookie Monster is called Crumb Monster (Krümelmonster).
Code Beyond Fair
I like the site.

Unfortunately for this American, having a different set of standards for mathematical notation tripped a "don't these people know the difference between Hz and kHz?" impulse in my brain.

To illustrate: When an American sees "50,000 Hz" we process it as you would process "50 000 Hz". This misunderstanding could be corrected by using two or four significant figures after the decimal. That's too much to ask though, probably requiring a large number of hours to accommodate someone not even from there.

Your site is fine, it's our brains that are more appropriately adjusted. A little disclaimer link or something would help a number of us understand. A large number of otherwise intelligent and educated Americans don't realize this difference in notation and this would be a great opportunity to educate them.
Be careful with what you mean when you say "essentially text replacement" and "same as a literal space".

In HTML, ampersand entities can only be used outside of tags or inside attribute values, for example: <tag key="&value;">&abc;</tag>. Ampersand entities cannot be used as a substitute for tags; for example, &lt;tag&gt; is literal renderable text and not a tag.

This distinction is important because of odd languages like Java, where \uXXXX processing happens before tokenization. So this is a legal program: class Foo \u007B }. (U+7B is left brace.) One consequence is that to put a literal quotation mark inside a string, you can't use \u0022, but you must use \".
Definitely! If your revenue comes from selling something to site visitors, you want to be scraped. If you're selling ads, (as far as we know) your options are to either offer an API or make individual licensing agreements. There's no standardized, go-to place to do this.
> The BGF Militia of Saw Chit Thu

They used to be militants against the Central Government right? Didn't they split off from the KNU originally?

> They are moving operartion more inside of Myanmar

As in deeper within periphery regions or actually within the "core" like Yangon/Bago/Irrawaddy/Magwe?

On that note, has a similar rise in transnational organized crime started in those regions as well?

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I really hope the situation gets better in Myanmar. From the outside, it looked like there was some hope barely decade ago that stuff might get better
Are you sure?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/nframe.html

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/015967575/toc.htm

And copying this from UNIX 03, the most widespread certification,

"A single configuration of the system shall meet all of the conformance requirements defined in the following mandatory Product Standards:

Internationalized System Calls and Libraries Extended V3

Commands and Utilities V4

C Language V2

Internationalized Terminal Interfaces

The product must be registered as conformant to the Product Standards prior to, or concurrent with, the UNIX 03 Product Standard registration."
The only bad thing about this is that small time players who do it are treated poorly (Aaron Swartz). IP de-facto not existing for AI companies is a feature, not a bug.

The fact that most of the world embraced hardcore copyright troll ludditism when the means of their (badly paying creative) jobs economic production was democratized implies that most people do not believe in any "egalitarianism" and especially not the left-wing form many profess to believe in. Certainly not "information wants to be free" or any of the other idealist shit that I or Aaron Swartz believed in. What meta did was software communism - full stop. They literally released their models to the public! I support all of this 10000%. The only issue is that they're not open enough (fully open source the dataset)

So, unironically, good! Thank you, please pirate more! Please destroy the US IP system while you're at it. Copyright abolitionism is good and thank you Zuckerberg!
Cryptomator does this and it's on the App Store. And it's open source! https://github.com/cryptomator/ios
> Devil's advocate

Why do people use this phrase? Do you believe what you said in your comment? If so, why not accept attribution to yourself? If not, then perhaps you should make a counterargument to balance out the "Devil".
If we had simply followed the Unix philosophy to its full potential, we would have a lot more “personal” software that people could create for whatever niche purpose they need.
Not Being Immutable
> Vanguard's website revamp in the past three years was disappointing because in the past, I can visit just one (landing) page and get almost all of the info I need about my holdings + actions I could take on them and my accounts.

Bookmark https://holdings.web.vanguard.com/
Iceberg A-23A could hit South Georgia Island, home to penguins, seabirds
lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h513h-rXdQs
Reboot: Project 2025, Peter Thiel and right-wing San Francisco (2024)
Didn't George Carlin say that everyone who drove faster than one was a maniac and everyone slower was a moron?
Guy seems & speaks like a charlatan.
I am European and I dislike the use of comma, too, and I use dot everywhere. I see it as "50 000" as well, as a non-American. :P
> Anyone advocating against Tesla is letting their emotions hurt the fight against global warming

The capitalist class is driving climate change. If hurting one of the capitalist's brands by criticizing its CEO is the difference between success and failure in the fight against global warming, then the fight is already lost.

BTW, we're not going to consume our way out of global warming. We should be getting away from a two cars in every driveway culture if we're going to get serious about addressing the climate emergency.
The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to cook
How to do well in a technical interview
He now uses MMIX, a modified version of MIX with RISC characteristics.
Why does this argument remind me so much of those of slavery apologist arguments?

copyright as written serves the interests of publishers who don't create valuable works more than the creators of the work...
Crashes the iPad Safari tab
2024 average electricity price in Estonia was 0.08727 €/kWh. There was no trading with Russia during this time. This is open data. I have no idea where you get the 0.26USD figure.

Source: https://data.nordpoolgroup.com/auction/day-ahead/prices?deli...
PAYG plans do.
If you want to delay, you don't even need something that complicated, just run your favorite PBKDF function as a part of your app.. Or maybe not even add, add a plain "sleep()" call before trying to decode input data.

It's just the counter that is impossible.
Working in software professionally, the internal struggle I seem to have is separating "personal software" from "resume fodder." The line of thinking is generally: "Why create this one-off thing for myself when I can publicize it, get some contributors, and add it to my list of successful OSS projects." It's a terrible loop, to be honest.
> What's interesting is that in many cities now, Uber and Lyft are in fact more expensive than taxis.

Sure, agreed.

> And the experience is equally mediocre.

Absolutely not. I regret using a taxi nearly every time I opt for the cheaper option. It's only the "better" choice if you happen to be standing right in front of one. This experience is nearly universal no matter where I travel.

I think people really forget how utterly terrible Taxis were pre-Uber. I have no idea about competing apps these days, maybe they are similar to Uber, but the typical Taxi experience is nearly as awful as it's always been at least in the US.

Uber/Lyft certainly has gotten worse - but at least I can fairly reliably get a car when I need it with reasonable reliability. The rest of the "soft" product or pricing I really care far, far, less about than that simple fact.
That's an interesting way to read the specification, seems contrary to the intent and differs from how historic unix systems have implemented it. The author of the man page also disagrees with you on it being allowed by the standard ("If the standardized behavior is required srand_deterministic() can be substituted for srand()...").

Fucking things up for people who understand how PRNGs work just to fix things for people who don't seems backwards; things like this is why configure scripts take over a minute to run. I might be okay with the non-determinism in rand() if srand isn't ever called, but intentionally ignoring the stated intent of the program just pisses me off.
I think they would need to have some explicit contract every time they want to sell the book then, though. I don’t think I am bound by some random terms someone writes into a book I’m buying. Those probably are only binding if a reasonable person would notice them before sale.
You delievered this comment as if he had just quoted kim kardashian.
> They were disposed to adopt 50 cycles, but American arc light carbons then available commercially did not give good results at that frequency and this was an important feature which led them to go higher

"The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/628099

Better question is why did Germans pick 50 Hz, I'm not aware of any comparable benefits of having lower frequency
Markdoc (https://markdoc.dev/) really had me excited, but I'm not sure it aspires to be all that I hoped it would.
Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes
Especially when the number format on the dial doesn't match the number format on
the chart.
> My cofounder and I think the rise of AI has put the free web at risk

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, “When your paycheck depends on you thinking something, it will be very hard to get you to not think it.”
Taxis and hotels suck compared to Airbnb and uber even at the same price, so I find it hard to be upset.
Hence why I became obsessed with just about the only Philosopher who engaged with this idea seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own
Both things can be true:

* an AI model is not a backup of the contents of all of the books in the sense that it would preserve their contents or similar such it might e.g. be useful for future generations

* Meta has (allegedly) been unfairly benefiting / profiting off of the copyrighted work of others by illegally reproducing copies of their work. Not just in the AI model sense[1], but actually (allegedly) downloading them directly from pirate repositories in a way that isn't straightforwardly fair use and even uploading some amount of this pirate data in return.

I feel like the parent commenter may have been making the typical argument for preservation of copyrighted materials, and I'm amenable to it... when it's regular people or non-profits doing that work, in a way that doesn't allow them to benefit unfairly or profit off of the hard work of others (or would be connected to such a process in some way).

Plaintiffs allege that Meta didn't just do all this, but also talked about how wrong it was and how to mitigate the seeding so they might upload as little as possible. So no matter how you slice it they allegedly 1) knew they were doing something at least a little bit wrong and 2) took steps to prevent the process that might otherwise have preserved the copied materials for the public interest.

And I feel like you probably knew all this, but maybe I'm missing something.

1: the typical argument wherein the model wouldn't exist without the ingested data, a lot of it is still in there, it is of course a derivative work and the question is really how derivative is it and what part of the work can they claim is their own contribution