skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hasn't been my observation. Instead, I see a society where people regularly help and serve one other, frequently for free. Consider parents, social workers, most academics, food banks, charity in general, most workers in most businesses, et cetera. I wonder: who do you know and work with? A minority of people profit wonderfully off this. Incidentally, they seem to also preach principals that can only lead to the end of their gravy train.

You can counter by insisting that these "altruistic" behaviors are simply less directly but still in the altruist's interest. I would entirely agree.
1. I do believe that Rust type system needs to be reworked, so all the drama around it is needlessly bloated. We have RustBelt, RustHornBelt and myriads ways of converting HIR/THIR/MIR to CoQ, for better or worse, but no MLIR support for rust codegen whatsoever. Rust is temporary, we'll get a simpler and better Lang further down the road.

2. The upstream fight had always followed the Cash Flow. If you have so called "problems" you either act yourself, or let other people do something about it, the way it won't result in more long-term issues. Deliberate Detraction IS a Sign of Corruption and Abuse of Power.

3. An ambiguous Point of Conflict may not be Conflict at all, but just an outcome of the Lack of Proper Communication and Transparency. Detraction is Accountable, social dynamics and social incline with explicit or implicit motives is Accountable as well. The lack of Effective Code of Conduct, and absence of Proper Punitive Action, for everyone, will cause Authoritarianism (or just Genocide of Engineering Thought).

I do feel bad about the state of Linux Kernel development, but we'll have either to move on, and learn from This Mistake, or do something about it.
Time traveling Babylonians are proud to have 60Hz electricity.
I guess I'm of a certain vintage in programming these days. This is a common practice for me.

Often the IDE tooling for certain languages doesn't work for me. It's too bloated or slow. I write my own tools instead. They're fast and tailored to my workflow. Custom debuggers, analyzers, etc.

I often need to perform certain tasks... sometimes they don't warrant any kind of automation. However I'll often write snippets of code in a literate `org-mode` file as I work and write down what I was doing/why, etc. Occasionally these will get tangled into a proper script that becomes the automation.

I grew up in an era when computers only came with a manual and a bare bones operating system. Writing your own tools was part of the experience from that time which stuck with me.
The problem is basically every type is implicitly Optional and basically every operation implicitly unwraps, instead of only the cases where nullability is actually desired.
The "Map of European Transmission System Operators" at the top of this page shows relevant geographical context:

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

Note how Denmark is split between two separate synchronous grids.

There are lots of high-voltage DC connections between the grids in this map.
> This idea gained popularity with the rise of AI. With AI's assistance, creating software that meets individual needs is now easier than ever.

For any decent programmer, writing reusable small applications has always been a thing. Nothing new.
Not only was it inevitable, if we were so inclined and willing to use the regulatory pen, we could've simply written into law that for Taxi's to operate, they must be well maintained and must accept all major forms of payment. And yeah, the Taxi industry would've fought it because every company ever has fought every regulation ever no matter how much it stands to benefit both their customers and they them-fucking-selves but companies having a say in how they are regulated is both how a Taxi company would fight this, and how Uber, AirBnb, OpenAI, Meta, etc. blatantly and flagrantly violate the law and instead of consequences, they get fines, and court hearings. So maybe we just shouldn't be allowing that?

It drives me up the goddamn wall how people will say shit like "the Taxi industry needed to be upended" when like... I mean, maybe? But on balance, given all the negative externalities associated with these companies, are they really a gain? Or are they just a different set of overlords, equally disinterested in providing a good service once they reach the scale where they no longer are required to give a shit?

Just... regulate the fuckers. Are you sick of filthy Taxis that break down? Put a regulation down that says if a cab breaks down during a trip, they owe the customer a free ride and five thousand dollars. You bet your ASS those cabs will be serviced as soon as humanly possible. This isn't rocket science y'all. Make whatever consequence the government is going to dispense immeasurably, clearly worse than whatever the business is trying to weasel out of doing, and boom. Solved.
I think the point, however poorly made, was that the odds are against you but the only way to surmount them is to know that they're against you and not care. It's a matter of disillusionment, because much like the lottery alluded to earlier in the article there's a conflict between the narrative and the statistically likely outcomes.

>Seems like this is just another test the author thinks would-be entrepreneurs need to pass, rather than actual advice.

It can be both. It's a decision point - do you accept the toxicity and the extremely long odds in exchange for the potential upside of going from zero to generational wealth in a single IPO or buyout offer? Can you fail ten times and still sleep indoors and eat food or are you betting the rent on your meditation app being different from all the others?
A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop
It would be good to do this kind of analysis on apps that have more than 10 million users - but in the mean time , has someone done this analysis on TicTok?
It depends on what you mean by guessable. Guessing a few bits of the seed with confidence won't help you crack a csprng. Yes, people shouldn't be using a timestamp in seconds as a seed. But you also don't need to spring for hardware randomness in order to get strong protections.
>I moved from Sweden to Ghana, West Africa. I started working as a teacher in the countryside, but after invoking the spirit of their dead chief, they later annotated me the king of their village.
Insane, thanks for sharing
Devs become like steam locomotive enthusiasts, gathering in abandoned software studios to work on their heritage projects and drink unfashionable lattes.
When individuals are assigned heroic status despite clear evidence of mental illness and crimes, such as “breaking and entering”, it prevents society from having rational discussions about both law enforcement and mental health support. This dynamic repeats across multiple high-profile cases.

People often elevate deeply flawed figures to heroic status when those figures seem to challenge authority or "the system." This happens especially with individuals who present themselves as outsiders fighting the establishment, have a compelling personal struggle narrative, or voice grievances that resonate with public frustrations

Trump fits this pattern - his supporters overlook concerning behaviors and statements because they see him as fighting a system they distrust. Like Manning and Swartz, his mental state and fitness are often ignored in favor of the "hero against the system" narrative.

This dynamic creates a feedback loop where legitimate criticism becomes harder to discuss rationally.
Are the examples all actual outputs of the program? It's entirely possible that my understanding of the grammar is off, but it looks like these examples are wrong:

$ echo 'cat dog' | trre 'c:bat|d:hog'
bat hog

$ echo '' | trre ':a*' # <- do NOT do this
dog

$ echo '' | trre ':(repeat-10-times){10}'
dog
I the core book, he typically sticks to pseudocode. And with the later sections, most of the implementations he does to check ideas are with cweb.

In that vein, I highly recommend reading some of his programs directly. You can find them here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

Expect code that will challenge some ideas on premature optimization. He codes much closer to the numbers than many are used to.
It's pretty funny that as the US implodes, UKGOV, instead of grasping the opportunity to show that they're the new good option for your internet service needs, decides to blow not one but both kneecaps clean off with the doubly whammy of the OSA/Ofcom debacle[0] and now this farce.

(I suppose the silver lining is that Starmer is merely sidling towards Trump as his new best mate rather than the full-throated slobbering that Johnson/Truss/Sunak would have given him.)

[0] I know this is primarily the fault of the last lot but this shower of onions haven't done anything to roll it back and/or clarify WTF is going on.
So compel speech from a person? "Congress shall make no law..." Really the most basic civics education would benefit us all, I think there are some youtube videos about this.
No right to be mean on social media, too.
It sounds as if the scale needs an adjustment. Our poor hero has no where to go from here but down!
In the past the Lib Dems were quite good at standing up for privacy and liberties when Lab and Con were both agreeing on more intrusion, but I'm not sure if that's still the case
I was responding to a comment arguing that LibGen is the largest collection of knowledge in human history, which I think is an overly romantic and totally incorrect take. It may be a very useful collection of knowledge to people in developing countries, but it simply is not larger than the collection of knowledge accessible via any first-world public library. Obviously not everyone has access to that, but again, that’s not what the comment I replied to was about, and not relevant to what I’m saying.
What lends credibility to the cold blooded theory is that the island is located just south of Spain. Climate wise it simply never gets super cold there.

But certainly it's not proven. These goats went extinct at something like 1000 BCE
Typo. Fixed. Thanks. Too many cats in examples.
LLMs are worse than search for figuring out what value a specific asset provides to the LLM. Atleast with search your work or page is not lost and still gets a click/user interaction, and may be give you a chance to monetize the interaction. However, LLMs just don’t have any such option. Gemini adds links but the links they add are completely editorialized by the LLM and need not reflect the original at all. So how does anyone ask for compensation even if they sue?
Imagine doing computing on grapheme clusters.
Seems like a good idea, but I only read on my Mac. My iPad (and iPod) are for other purposes. I don't own an outrageously expensive iPhone.
IServe: An Intent-Based Serving System for LLMs
That's why it's important to choose a sysadmin who has the authority to SSH to servers. Joe SSHes in all the time, it's not an anomaly.

If you think a SOC2 auditor would spot something like this, in a company the size of Apple or Google - you've probably never been through a SOC2 audit :)
No, there's a big difference between (1) "Devil's advocate: X" and (2) "Google said X".

If someone just means (2), that's unexceptional, but the use of the phrase "Devil's advocate" in that case is unnecessary, misleading, and weird.
Like what Pine64 does?
I suspect the UK government would back down way before Apple. People aren’t politically active as those of years pass, but brick their iPhones you’d have a riot.
Who has more to lose though? I mean any government that would do something as stupid as banning Apple because Apple didn’t allow it to spy on its citizens wouldn’t be very popular or last that long..

I mean this would be even more stupid than Partygate and the whole Truss debacle put together.
I agree mostly with their comment.

What I want more than anything is for bands to just sell me a damned CD. I've lost track of how many times an artist I want to support doesn't release their music on CD. I'd even settle for DRM-free flacs, if it costs less than a CD.

High quality sheet music would be cool. Lindsey Stirling is the only artist I can think of that does that though. Rasputina used to at one point.
It's not primarily optimistic. I just think that education of the people can bring the best improvement on the long run, and not adjusting democracy, demonizing rich guys or another "new" system.

While I hope iterative improvement is the way, I think there are people that have it (or feel) so bad (due to various reasons) that they would take a 50% chance to die for the chance to live better.

The charismatic populists are not supported only by people that are well off, without any worry (neither in US, nor in Europe). (ex: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1535295/presidential-ele...)
Jimmy, thanks for the comment-- check out Calling315.com for more on the very early days of how the T and R got started. It was JJ Carty of AT&T (1900) that decided to use Tip and Ring and not a single wire and earth ground from each home.
Thanks, will tell her to encrypt twice. Anyway, there is no critical info there, mainly photos.
I have no clue how a VP could 'chuck' it from one team to another.

Normally teams have ownership on specific topics.

But yes of course, if this is possible and 'chcusk it your way' is the same thing as 'delegating efficient' i do agree.
Black hats love this
If you do any caving you see this regularly. Deep deep in the cave wherever there’s moisture there’s moss. The tiny tiny amount of light that reflects/refracts into the cave is enough to grow. You can’t really see in that level of light but as you shine the torch around moss everywhere. Hundreds of meters in and around multiple corners and that level of light is enough!
I continue to use traditional methods. Why? Because I, the person learning a new language, cannot validate the information the LLM presents to me. For me, the risk of learning bad ways (inefficient, not language appropriate, or insecure) of using the new language outweigh any benefit to using an LLM to learn.

I view it like learning a foreign language from a friend who is also not a native speaker and not a trained instructor. Maybe they'll be great and it will be fine. But I don't have any way of knowing.
You're not alone in that. I also have a very demanding day job along with a few fairly serious community organizations that I help lead. Oh, and also three kids :) I suspect people in situations like this are less represented in the hacker community simply because of time bias. I have to constantly remind myself that some of the (genuinely amazing) things I see people doing are often in a vastly different context than myself. When I don't, I fall prey to the loop again.
You should post that link and add a link here.

Post in other languages are ignored or flagged.
In what large cities do bystanders help out someone getting mugged on a regular basis?
Conscious life in general seems possible to me unless our brain tells us a better story than reality.

A story in which we are the hero, in which we are not mortal, in which we are important, in which people care about us, in which we are intelligent and our perceptions rarely fail us, in which our life has a meaning and also in which the social game we play is determined, or at least influenced, by some just principles. We would despair if we were aware of the full extent of our meaninglessness and powerlessness.

I believe that it is the core reason why we love to believe that God/Nature is good, that the king is legitimate and that the laws are fair.
The question is, if they could and would have paid for each book, would it be ok to train the LLM on them? I'm talking about prior books, I'm sure new books have language forbidding their use to train LLMs at the point of sale.
But legally, how does using a book to train a LLM differ from a teacher learning from a book and teaching its contents to their pupils. Obviously, the LLM can do so at scale, but is there a legal difference?
> MIT

I think Aaron Swartz went to Harvard, not MIT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
If I read your source correctly, there is no real advantage of 60 Hertz or 50 Hertz, and the decision was usually due to circumstantial reasons, like supporting some existing arc-lights or difficulties with induction motors. Induction motors are also the reason why some railways chose to use 16⅔ Hertz, still in use to this day.

In the end, there is no real difference between 50 or 60 Hz, there is no clear advantage to either, especially with modern components. But you do have to choose as the whole network is synchronous.
This frames Google's indexing of the web in a totally, abjectly wrong fashion. It wasn't "other people's data", it was data people published to the public internet, implicitly and explicitly granting permission to download through the act of serving that data without restriction to whoever navigated to a particular URL.

That's how the internet works. If you want private content, you need to put up a gate mechanism of some sort with authentication or other methods of restricting access. Without that, you are literally having your server "serve" the content to whoever asks for it, without restriction or exception, without ToS or meaningful contract or agreements.

You can't have it both ways. "But they didn't know" or other post-hoc claims of innocent people publishing content to the web being misled or confused or abused is infantilizing nonsense.

The web wouldn't have been as amazing and revolutionary and liberating if the fundamental public and open nature of its systems was private and walled off by default.

Your take on YouTube going viral initially over copyrighted content isn't correct, either - it was ease of use and access. It was fairly popular by the time Google bought it, and once it was reachable and advertised by google itself, it exploded, because by that time, everyone had defaulted to using google for search.

Other people corrected your Spotify take.

The reason they pirated is because it is functionally impossible to gain access to the data in any other way. For consumers, there are lots of old shows, music, and other content that aren't accessible, so they turn to piracy. A vast majority of the time, if content is accessible, people will pay and do the technically legal and "right" thing.

Publishers exploit authors and content creators in the name of "platforming" and "marketing" , effectively doing as little as possible to take 90%+ of the value of a product and providing as little as possible to the producer of content or books or music. They get by on technicalities and have captured the legal arena entirely, with any attempt at reform or revolution meeting a messy death at the hands of lawyers and big money publishers.

Screw those people. They lie, cheat, and steal, and somehow have gotten away with fooling the world into thinking they're the good guys.

Copying bits and bytes is not stealing, and the ones trying to shill that narrative are trying to fool as many people as possible into giving them more money without any return of value in kind. I'd download the hell out of a car. Pirate everything.
The study was limited to cities in India. We shouldn't put much weight into this applying globally.
Friday February 7, 2025 at 7pm Pacific time, marks an anniversary.
That precise time will be the 20th anniversary of the launch of Google Maps. And what a journey it has been. Not only for all the hard working folks at Google, but also for the billions of human beings on this planet that have benefited from this ubiquitous geographic platform.
I hope not. The "veil of ignorance" (privacy) is one of the few ways people can protect themselves against being abused by companies.
Are you talking about Meta? They released the model. It's free to use.
"Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws."

Hell no. FOSS communities, as other spaces created by permanently online individuals, definitely have higher-than-average number of mentally unhinged snowflakes.
Kaliningrad will become its own island.
Give Apple a big enough incentive to negotiate with and they may very well cave. If I've learned anything about corporations, it's that money and incentives always speak louder than their purported values.
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime” -Honoré de Balzac
Thank you, sir. The ReadFast is also available on iPad, I hope you would like it.
Surprised this isn’t already available. Does Estonia only publish 5 minute frequency data?
I agree with you that electro-mechanical is very cool. Check out Calling315.com for a complete coverage of vintage (relay based) telephone exchanges. The site has 70 articles on switching systems from 1877 until 1970. All for fun...
> One of the main outcomes of imperialism/colonization is denigrating/destroying/appropriating works of art, literature with the primary goal of subjugation, subversion and thereupon replacement of native culture/traditions/institutions.

Which is irrelevant to the question of whether copyright law within the country of England and within English culture is beneficial or not.

It is the nature of racism that it bypasses rational thought—it does not follow that because someone is racist they therefore don't have anything valuable to say on loosely related topics. Someone can see clearly about copyright when thinking about English authors while treating non-English authors as strictly inferior.

These kinds of contradictions are to be expected when racism is involved, because racism inherently lives in the lizard brain (occasionally justified by post hoc rationalizations). Someone's arguments about an issue touching only their own tribe will tend to be more rational than those that touch on other tribes, and you'll miss out if you assume the rationality is going to be correlated and dismiss all arguments accordingly.
Except he was offered 6 months in a plea bargain, which he declined because he wanted a trial. Whether 6 months was reasonable punishment for "plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers" is another matter, but "you forfeit your life" or "35 years in prison and a $1 million fine " is massively misleading.
Good point, hadn't considered that all RL models have the same challenge. So far I've only tinkered with next token prediction and image classification. Now I'm curious to dig more into RL and see how they scale it. Especially without a human in the loop, seems like a challenge to grade the output; it's all wrong wrong wrong random tokens until the model magically guesses the right answer once a zillion years from now.
I'd say if you control what information 1.411 billion people have access to you have scale on your side.

So it's not scale.
For some misterious reason I can't see Zuckerberg in front of a judge facing 50 years imprisonment. Anyone can?

I truly hope that whoever takes the case goes after Meta with 1000 times the pressure that was put on Swartz, but honestly I don't expect much just as the top comment precisly expressed.

And if we are going to be fair please also let's not forget about the other usual suspects, or anyone thinks they are falling behind?
Strange considering the linked "original" Medium post does link to other sources, and also seems to be written by a human. It's like he fed that article to an AI and asked it to generate a version tuned for virality?
MI6 probably gutted the cybersec division. Probably don’t have many viable sploits in their cache against Apple.

I suppose this is _good_ but more competent and well funded groups out of Israel, Israeli military complex, Cyprus don’t need to “ask” for a back door.
New neuroscience research shows Covid-19 leaves mark on young adult brains
Great point! I will add that to the pages on Annunciators. Thanks for the idea!
I’d think people can get together to put this on a public space strictly for training purposes and have the consortium of some sort get paid per use.

But we live in this stupid society where you have to move mountains to change things an inch.
"liquid courage"