skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask

So good, So many question. So many allusions to things that aren't explained but feel whole, but unknowable. They exist, but not for you.
PipeWire Is Doing an Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams on the Desktop
Or if you don't agree with the price, do not buy it. You are NOT entitled to entertain yourself in any way you want. (unless it's funded by taxes etc, in which case... okay, it's open to discussion.)

Look, let's be honest - what gives you or others the right to steal from others?
I said opinions on a spectrum. Yes, an extreme end of that spectrum is an extreme response.

This is something you have to put up with some amount of if you do work in public, just like if you were a public figure or celebrity. Being a kernel or even package maintainer is like being a politician.

It sucks, but if your response is to cut off that channel of opinion _entirely_, that says more about you than the people you're silencing.

If something violates HN Guidelines, flag it and dang will see it. If there's anything that should be blatantly obvious by now it's that HN's moderation staff does not have the kind of alt-right bias suggested by your quote.
A rewrite isn't strictly necessary. It should be enough if AI can find errors, doesn't even need to be very precise.
Right? If you have an entire genre named after you[1], you're not underrated

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror
He left out part of the quote, which is misappropriated as well. Wikipedia:

> This quotation is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

> However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit, years after Francis Wilhoit's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's Playbook
Profit at all costs is a political agenda.
Italy blocked from using Paragon's Graphite spyware over misuse allegations
Isn't a 'passkey' with no discoverable credentials and no user verification just a regular U2F token?
I do think that context is still important in general, but probably only if you're doing deep research into Macaulay (or the specific target in mind). Treating everything in a vacuum isn't great either. Plenty of philosophical works for example, you really have to read in the time period and in the context of the author's life.

I find an acceptable tradeoff for now is, if I want to do deep research for myself, opening myself up to this sort of mushy subjective stuff is actually really important for making deep, objectively correct observations. Especially if the goal is to steelman, not strawman, the opponent's argument.

Otherwise, this kind of worst-case analysis thinking is fine. It's a logically sound conclusion, it's just kind of unsatisfying because we can't make stronger claims.

How do we decide when to make this tradeoff and for what things? Uhh.... idk. For me though, there has been value in using both kinds of thinking before though.

On a public forum, worst-case analysis is probably fine because the discussion ain't that deep. Also probably 90% of comments are made within the intention of a "gotcha" and not actually for discussion.

Basically, I totally agree with this, it's just that I've seen one too many online forums devolve into thought-terminating cliches using "rationality" as the basis. Here, I think it's totally justified to take this line... I instinctively had the same reaction upon reading GP's post (but then you could argue it's tone policing... and ahh we're off to the good ol' internet debate race spiral)
Yes, these companies are based on massive IP and copyright theft. And they still want to lecture others about their "property rights".
> Requirements are clear, the technology is well known. From the beginning.

Is that really a true statement, even for Starliner? The US Gov't is infamous for changing plans/designs well into the process for many items which is the key reason for cost overruns and blown deadlines. I didn't follow Starliner's development process at all, but I would be shocked if from the beginning the requirements didn't change.
Surprising that UK specifically demanded a worldwide backdoor, not just backdoor for UK citizens. Looks like a good workaround for this US gov to get info on Americans via 5 eyes.

DOGE was recently unable to obtain data on Americans (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musks-doge-deal...), maybe related...
Public data. License violations might cause some consternation but anything on data.gov is public and intended for the public. Deleting these are potentially legal violations requiring their publication.
Blocking Linux/Steam in Apex Legends led to 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters
You could also argue that politics can't be discussed civally in normal conversations because there is a rule not to do it and Noone has the experience. If we all grew up in a environment where people civally discussed politics we might be able to do it. It really wasn't that long ago when mitt Romney defended Obama on stage as a good, honest family man, as impossible to imagine as that is today
At least the CIA doesn't get it… dunno which is worse.
> we’ve started to mistake wealth for wisdom. Want proof? WeWork’s Adam Neumann once tried

Hate to be that guy, but that's not a proof, that's an anecdote, and a convenient one at that.

> Roughly 99% of startups end up going belly-up.

and later

> Roughly 90% of startups fail

I get it, a lot of them fail, but that's a massive difference. The former is a good point, the latter is not so good.

The whole article is sort of like this. Vague claims mixed with "I'm smarter than you for not trying", it's really hard to find a good and strong interpretation of what the author is trying to bring across here.

Hope is sometimes stupid, yeah, but let people try and fail, if they want. That is, after all, how we get the 1% that succeed.
The same way it operates in China? I guess, China is much bigger market, so it’s worth the effort. Not sure how it’ll go in the UK.
The big difference is that Optional has ergonomic features like .map(), .ifPresent(), .orElse(), that reduce the verbosity of repeated if blocks checking if values are present or not.
If the author can't even be bothered to write up a single page of text, why would I bother to read it? He might as well just post the LLM prompt and let me copy that into an LLM of my choosing.
> IME, Trump support on HN probably follows the general population: 50/50 among folks who care to vote, who knows among folks who have far less to lose.

I'm guessing the average HN user is more educated than the average American, BS at least, and certainly more likely to have a post-grad degree than the average American.

If you look at the election results by level of education, it's heavily skewed towards Trump for those with no college (63/35) and towards Harris for those with post-grad education (59/38).
Isn't he running a company (Palette) which makes heavy use of DL?
> the British Intelligence agencies must be bored coming up with new ways to make Apple look good.

We know they collude with US intelligence serviceUS
I had to go to Hyderabad, India for a family emergency. Electricity here is on a progressive scale from 1 rupee/kWh up to 9 rupees. 1 rupee is about 1.25 cents. It’s got to be subsidized, just like how water is free.
OpenAI doesn't really do fundamental research anymore; they simply build on it and scale it up. Nothing different can be expected in this regard from any fork of OpenAI. Granted, a fork could actually be open for a change.
It's extra weird to me that people try to live a very public life but then accuse anyone with the slightest amount of criticism of behaving criminally...
If MS is as agile as Amazon et al. you might want to praise Bob Dylan too or something to CYA.
Underrated? No. Underdiscussed or undertaught, yes. His overt racism makes open discussion difficult. But anyone who reads horror seriously very much appreciates his work.
It depends on who US AID is sending Aids to. If they are sent to Junta , those goes into buying bombs to kill civilians. Miltiary Junta are part of the scam gangs. If it i send to KNU , it is the same , they will goes into pockets. KNU and Junta both of them have shares. Only way if they want to stop those shwe koko is by sending arms to Revolutin forces which never had happened.
And US aids in Myanmar along with several NGO are as corrupted as hell. I once developed an APP for USAids and charge really cheap , but then they ask me to sign an invoice with 20x amount - which is going to charge back to US Tax Payers money.
Although maybe not if he's going to Mira Murati's startup instead: https://fortune.com/2025/02/06/openai-john-schulman-mira-mur...
Future totalitarianism? Is the UK's government restricted in anyway right now? What line have they not crossed yet?
Scala has some nice and cool vibes and features to it.

But that is where good parts end.

From the POV of real world boots-on-theground software challenges and developers it is a poorly designed, overengineered and overrated piece of complexity.

Complexity disconnected from reality of software engineering as a tool to serve business needs.

I can explain why this happens but I don’t want to get downvotes. People hate hearing bitter truth:)
No surprise with this. Again 4C here we come. The young people should be out protesting daily, but they are probably to busy paying off loans that are burying them.

I feel for the youth and wish I could have done more when I was young.
Here's a whole movie on various scams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qJuxxUoZRw
The traditional taxi industry was rife with corruption, bad experiences, and poor service in many jurisdictions before uber/lyft. As terrible of a human being that I think Travis Kalanick is, it was only going to take lawbreaking to overcome such a tainted system.

Medallion systems often prevented any competition, sometimes to absurd effect. The number of licenced taxis often didn't keep pace with population growth, sometimes even staying flat. Many drivers didn't own their own medallians then had to rent from owners, often making little money. In my city (Toronto) cabs were often dirty, broken, refused short distance fares (illegal) and smelled of cigarette smoke that was obviously from the driver.

Examples (paywalls, but you get the idea):

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/26/nyregion/amid-a-heritage-...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/adventure/red-li...
> Is your theory that rust makes people dramatic? Or that dramatic people like rust?

Both, really. As a language that was designed from the ground up to be a replacement for C and C++ (thus implying that it's superior to these established languages), it positions itself as inherently "dramatic" and anti-establishment.

This obviously attracts these political activist types who love to insist that their way of thinking is the way forward, that everyone else was simply doing it wrong before they came along, and that anyone who questions their beliefs is an obvious enemy of progress who should be silenced at all costs. It's a cult, basically.
What's the sentiment towards Mullvad?
Everyone on here is smart enough. Just do not participate and save your money. Do not pay for digital goods. If Netflix raises their prices, it doesn't matter because there is a torrent of all of their shows. If Spotify raises their prices, it doesn't matter because your favorite artist has their entire library in a torrent. If some game company ask you to pay real life prices for a digital costume, find the crack online and play on a private server. If YouTube wants to interrupt your video with an ad in the middle of the sentence, download one of the many options that blocks all ads. Billion dollar companies have shown they do not care about you. The people who complain about losing their salary, should just get replies thanking them for paying.

All the sad poor people who might be hurt were already paid. The caterer on your favorite show is not getting residuals. NBC also isn't going to stop making TV shows because that is all they can do. Content creators also existed on the internet long before that was a job. They just did it because they cared about it not for ad money. If you really want to support the artist directly go to a concert or just mail them a check. If you can't actually identify a person who might be hurt, then do not care.
Same would be the case for YouTube. Google case was different in that AFAIK there wasn't any obvious legal problem with indexing, and, back then, they were actually doing everyone a favor.

Hardly anyone had any issue with Google search until the time when news media screwed themselves over by going all in on ads, overdoing it, then trying to bring back the paywall, only to realize no one is actually browsing their sites but instead relies on Google to find specific articles. All kinds of legal and technical nonsense started happening (and then Google improved the blurbs under search results and added the "answer box", leading publishers big and small to collectively lose their minds...).
In the 90s, Clinton did something similar and wasn't seen as a blitzkrieg on democracy.
I love this idea except for the stock Android part. I don’t want anything Google Services even near it. Google absolute tracking of every Android device for ads and there being no clean way to prevent it is one of the prime reasons I had moved to iPhones.
I think a bifurcation is likely. You can't program these locked-down devices/systems on themselves. At the end of the day, some of us have to be able to write the code that makes these things work. So I think there will always be "unlocked" or "developer" operating systems and hardware. But those systems will be considered "too powerful" or "too dangerous" for mundane tasks, especially entertainment.

Right now, the legacy operating systems like Windows and macOS are trying to straddle the line. I think in the not too distant future you'll have to choose between being able to run a debugger and hack the OS vs. being able to watch shows, play video games, and access your bank account. I'm not exactly sure how the split will happen, it could be through totally different ecosystems, or an irreversible flag in the firmware, or maybe something else entirely, but it seems almost inevitable at this point.
I don't understand why it's even a question that Meta trained their LLM on copyrighted material. They say so in their paper! Quoting from their LLaMMa paper [Touvron et al., 2023]:

> We include two book corpora in our training dataset: the Gutenberg Project, [...], and the Books3 section of ThePile (Gao et al., 2020), a publicly available dataset for training large language models.

Following that reference:

> Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker made available by Shawn Presser (Presser, 2020).

(Presser, 2020) refers to https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282149329784833. (Which funnily refers to this DMCA policy: https://the-eye.eu/dmca.mp4)

Furthermore, they state they trained on GitHub, web pages, and ArXiv, which are all contain copyrighted content.

Surely the question is: is it legal to train and/or use and/or distribute an AI model (or its weights, or its outputs) that is trained using copyrighted material. That it was trained on copyrighted material is certain.

[Touvron et al., 2023] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971

[Gao et al., 2020] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00027
Copy-right is not learn/train-right. That said Meta full its mouth with open source while they release models that are not SOTA nor usable for commercial purposes.
A city is about what you can do. The skyscrapper in a park is less useful because you cannot walk to stores, work, or other things. As such people living there become used to driving everywhere. Even if they want to go to a park they will - out of habit - get in the car, and drive - at this point the local park is no better than any other. All those cars in fact imply a large parking lot and so the park isn't in walking distance of the door so it is reasonable to drive across the parking lot if you do want to visit that park.

In short the park is too large compared to everything else and so it isn't enough of a draw for locals to keep out the rif-raf.

Note that I said drive, not take transit above. Although the density might be there, the sky scrapper in the park ends up acting like a cul-de-sac: all transit has to make long detours to get to each one and so the effective speed of transit is unacceptably slow for any trip thus forcing people to drive just to get a reasonable trip time.
In Spotify’s defense, they used the pirated data only to show a proof of concept to the copyright holders, and that use was sanctioned by the local rights holders organization STIM.

The copyright holders then approved their concept, and subsequently Spotify got the rights to offer their service to customers. Everybody won.
>Jeddah Tower, or Kingdom Tower is a paused skyscraper construction project in Jeddah, a major port city on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. If completed according to plan, the Kingdom Tower would be the tallest building in the world, a title currently held by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kingdom Tower is planned to be approximately 1 km (3,300 ft) high, which is significantly taller than the current Guinness World Record holder, the Burj Khalifa which stands 828 m (2,717 ft) high.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower#:~:text=Jedda...
And inadequate assistance from government.
I guess I sort of understand where this idea comes from, and when I was young I was totally into it, but now being in the corporate world for a decade and having my own small business, I just don't really see it anymore.

Big corps tend to be extremely conscientious of the the law. The law may not be ideal, but they tend to be hyper aware of it and have lawyers to ensure it. Small companies on the other hand are the wild fucking west, and tend to be overflowing with "turn a blind eye to that".

What big corps love is regulation that is expensive for small shops to overcome. They can drop $500k on a product cert no problem, be legally in the clear (and graciously compliant!), while making it near impossible for small guys to compete.
Ongoing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971761
Yes. Gonna be a shitshow. There are zero plans for retraining or repurposing displaced workers -- it's the "every man for themselves" (conservatives generally don't consider women) theory. UBI, which is objectively a very good idea, doesn't stand a chance in the current political climate, and whatever safety net may exist is being shredded even as we speak. It's almost like we're purposely creating an underclass.

We live in interesting times indeed.
Minor spoilers for a game released in 1984....

I played the Hitchhiker's game a couple decades ago and I remember getting stuck at the end because I had dropped something down a grate. Turns out, at least according to this walkthrough I found, that the game is programmed to randomly require an item but if you are missing one it will require whatever item you don't have...
"Maximum number", perhaps not, but Greg KH did at one point want new contributors:
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2ny1lz/im_greg_kroah...

Q: What would make you even more happy with Linux?
GregKH: If you contribute to it.
well, apparently it doesn't.
That just recently got ruled illegal by a Federal Court...

https://www.eff.org/cases/united-states-v-hasbajrami
Yeah I commented before I saw that one toot from @sima. Indeed they both look bad here.
Like any other nation, the right people changes every election. Especially in nations with poor leadership.

I guess Asia is lucky that the gangs haven’t learned that you have to pay everyone in power, and everyone who could come to power. As soon as your gangs and mafias learn that, you’ll be as hosed as we are in the US. And your gangs and mafias will all of a sudden become “corporations”.
No it wouldn't - too far to get to anything else. It would be expensive just because it is still NYC and a high demand area, but it wouldn't be the most expensive because while it is close to one great thing about NYC it is far from all the others.
Insurance of collectables is an expense. The more items go up in value, the higher the insurance premiums.

Because the artifacts are not critical to FSF's core mission, raising and spending donations to insure them might not be the best use of limited resources.
nope nope nope nope, send it back from hell where it came from. It's a goodish idea in theory, but god is it just screaming to be abused.
The price of electricity in Quebec is CAD0.078 per kWh, which is 5.5 cents US.
As well as video games, he's very influenced by sci-fi.

My own theory is that he sees himself as a kind of Hari Seldon figure (can't remember for sure but think I saw him wearing a "Foundation" t-shirt at some event). Or someone like Alan Saul from Neal Asher's "Owner" series.

This delusional belief, along with typical emotional/ego issues, may be what gives him that righteous fervour for "making life interplanetary" or whatever.
So American ;)
The changes required to bring C to a Rust level of safety would make it an entirely different language, even when restricted to the kernel's domain. Also, if you're already doing codebase-specific patches to the language itself, many of the arguments around codebase portability that justify the use of C fall apart.

Aside from that, there are other benefits to Rust than safety: it's better at modelling data and states, as the now-infamous filesystem talk [0] outlined.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/978738/
> When the caller operated the Buzzer, it made a sound (at the called side) quite like the horseradish grater automobile signal... and it aroused just the same feeling of resentment which that does.

I would love to hear it!
"People are a problem" - Douglas Adams
The Baltic countries do not trade electricity with Russia, hence the big cost gap.
And employees signed contracts which allow the government to tell them how to do their jobs or fire them. Just like any other employer. Harvard did not.
4C?
It isn't that there is a shortage of developers willing to write code. No, the kernel has entirely too many developers submitting to relatively few maintainers. So I don't take the psychology point at all. We already have more developers than we can handle.

The problem is elsewhere. We have another thread at the moment about opposition to Rust drivers in the kernel. Writing the boring code is, I think, the easy part. Getting it past the old guard is another fight entirely. And not always fought on technical grounds.

For every unit of energy that is spent writing code, twice that amount will be drained in endless bickering about whether modernity shall be permitted.

And till the barriers disappear, the flow of exhausting discourse will continue crashing against the immovable wall of how it used to be.
I would cut everything above the “Why I Love Destroying Dreams” section.

I used to work with SCORE, an entrepreneur mentorship program with local chapters. This kind of dissuading tough love was part of the advice that would be given. However, it’d be presented more as homework for the entrepreneur: validate your market, have answers to sales objections, plan to shore up capitalization, have deeper conversations with family that will be supporting you.

Some entrepreneurs did probably need a tougher lecture that suggested nothing would help if they didn’t apply enough raw tenacity and diligence, but many succeeded after smaller changes to their thinking. The 99% failure rate is not accurate when the entrepreneur has a reasonable idea and plan.
Speaking of GPT2, I remember that nobody gave a shit what it was trained on, because it sucked then.