skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are ebooks not “software”, in the sense that they’re bits that instruct a computer to display particular information, when interpreted by something that understands them? If ePub or the Kindle format were defined in hardware-the same way that certain video or audio codecs are-no one could realistically argue that they’re not software, since after all the CPU literally knows how to process them.

And-also-yes, the copyright scam is pretty much over. The marginal cost of another copy is zero, “for a limited time” means “forever minus a day”, and our culture is being stolen from us via inability to preserve it, use it later if we did acquire it “legitimately” but someone no longer feels like running their “permission to have that” servers later, and by being dynamically retconned such that “bad things” are dynamically edited out and, if you remember that they existed, you’re wrong (and getting gaslit over it).

It was basically a “social contract” that, while not everyone agreed with, they mostly admitted “existed”. Not so much now.
I held out a bit longer, and then skimmed, but started to become offended by the whole ,thing, but couldnt be bothered to be that annoyed by so many different things.
That said I am very much into bieng outside in the company of many animals, working with them, and just bieng in wild environments, but language fails, when it comes to describing how species interact, and in the end, we cant describe our own
mental proceseses in a clear, intellible by all, way. There is yet to be a genius of the mind, where the definition of genius is,:an idea that once explained, everyone else goes "of course"
My main issue is that these sort of philisophical
projects, reek, of money and hidden agenda's, and shade very quickly into, policy decisions, and quasi religious beurocratic powers.
Do some wet work for the Russian mob.
Thanks! That is indeed all thanks to using the hilbert curve fractal which has the property that it maps numbers which are close together onto 2d (or higher dimensional) coordinates which are close together, its a very cool property! Its used in lots of contexts for that reason
I've always found it odd that people are fixating on showing P != NP when they can't even show that P != PSPACE.
I'm working on Build That Idea - https://buildthatidea.com - A platform that allows anyone to create custom GPTs in 60 seconds and monetize them

Here's how it works:

- Define your GPT

- Choose a base LLM (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, etc.)

- Upload knowledge base

- Set pricing and start making money

I’d love to hear what the HN community thinks!
>It is just that it is okay to complain about money but not as okay to complain "I'd honestly rather do my hobbies than have another kid".

I'm a loser and don't want to condemn my kids by virtue of creating them to be losers to. Money of course a part of being a loser. I say that here anonymously. In real life i of course say something general like everybody else about money, time, etc.
There's also a small subreddit for it if anyone is interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ballionaire
Well I don't recall people picking their partners from a line-up being that popular. You might not be "hot" but still do fine in an environment with limited choice.

If we trust those historical charts statistically over 70-80% of all people used to meet their partners though friends, work, school or family before the 2000s (work slowly replacing family since the 50s). Going out with random people you just met and had no other connection with was relatively rare.

https://i.redd.it/uwe4cchpfz5c1.png
Good old Reverse Polish notation, reminds me of Robowar.

https://robowar.fandom.com/wiki/Introduction_to_RoboWar
This is exactly how it works. It's better to not do business with some countries.
> Cycling has intertwined itself with the insufferable green crowd

Is that so? The insufferable green crowd is also pro public transportation, is that a reason to have an issue with trains?
Sure, search every outbound shipping container in case it's got a stolen car in it. Super practical.

And what about the cars which are stolen and then broken up and sold as parts? That's fairly common.

And the ones which are given false plates and resold - perfectly doable if nobody checks the VIN - and never leave the country.

Just because we're an island doesn't make it easy.

But we do need to spend more resources on crime prevention and the apprehension of criminals, we've known that for years but we've also kept electing governments who refuse to do it while also claiming to be "tough on crime" so it's the usual mess.
Many people have inherited great power and wealth and squandered it. That's the default case.

Philip inherited too. He built on his father's very considerable success, just like Alexander built on his father's.

Amyntas III -> Philip II -> Alexander III

They're a dynastic set. There's not a lot of sense in separating and comparing them.

But in terms of lasting impact, it's not even close. Philip II exerted control over Greece for a brief time but didn't change much. Alexander changed the entire world permanently.
Shadow IT, shadow research, and democratizing research
Thanks for the article Dhanraj. I was wondering if you could expand on this part:

> Transforming this data into a usable format, such as that required for routing applications, necessitates expensive data pipelines.

What do you mean by "usable" here? I've worked with OSM data in .osm and .pbf formats for routing applications; there are a few things to look out for (e.g. badly formatted tags), and the ways/nodes graph models has a different structure to many proprietary formats, but generally speaking it's a one-off dev job to get some code up and running which directly imports data in those formats. Are you thinking more about importing the data into a postgres DB or something?
Another kid? What justification is there to have kids in the first place?
If I break a bone. It heals itself. Are my bones intelligent?
> The only exception of a wealthy country having a long term positive fertility rate is Israel.

Which is constantly at war(s). I wonder how long (20+ year) peace might affect Israel fertility rate.
Cost of raising is not only about the money. It's also about your personal time, energy, and commitment. For some people having kids is rewarding, for others it's not.
A declining birth rate is a different problem to a declining population.

The population pyramid becomes inverted with huge numbers of economically inactive retirees dependant on ever fewer numbers of working age people to care for them. Politics becomes hyper conservative as the young liberal voter base shrinks ever smaller. Military strength falls because the number of potential soldiers declines.
I had a need to scan serial numbers from Apple's product boxes out of pictures taken by a clueless person on their phone. All OCR tools failed.

Vision model did the trick so well it's not even funny to discuss anything further.

"This is a picture of Apple product box. Find and return only the serial number of the product as found on a label. Return 'none' if no serial number can be found".
The upshot is for Trusk to take full personal control over all of the state apparatus after smashing everything to pieces.
I also googled to see what that is :D
More waitlist tripe
There's also clip(.exe) on every version of Windows I've bumped into recently.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423
You perceive one voice and give it a position of authority.

What if it isn't?

What if it's many voices and they compete for control?
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I don’t really play any games but the game play demo video looked like something that might entertain my 4 and 1 year olds for a few minutes at least (just watching, I doubt they could really play it), so I bought it. Congrats on your success. Sometimes getting laid off can be a blessing, but only if you handle it constructively like you did.
It's possible people aren't lying and instead that there are multiple issues where finance is just the immediate issue for many people.
SmartTV vibes
What makes you think that the interpreting won't be taken over by AI? It already does a far better job at understanding me across more areas than most people can.
I guess what OP meant is, the court can compel you to do so - and yes, already. Basically the court can compel you to provide any information it needs in the course of legal proceedings, and until you do, fine and/or imprison you indefinitely.

But, you know, there must be legal proceedings, the court must be satisfied that the information is necessary, etc. The guy at the border can't do that, on their own initiative. But of course, they can just not let you in.
Honestly, that's fair, as long as you move to something better. That will probably be a system akin to Community Notes.

The only thing to be aware of is the move from auditable, known third party whose biases are known, towards an 'objective' black-box AI, which was programmed by somebody with biases.

I think it's okay to read an opinion, or a fact-check by someone you do not necessarily agree with, as long as the biases are known. I know that right-leaning fact-checkers might have a different interpretation of facts than left-leaning ones. That seems natural and okay.

But what leanings do ChatGPT, Claude and others have? The answer might differ based on who you ask, which day of the year it is, and who is currently in administration.
Governing in the Age of AI: Building Britain's National Data Library
Exactly, there is a counter example for everyone's favourite theory.

The only credible approach to this is issue can be found in this corner of the discourse: https://www.natalism.org/
Given a long enough timeline you can count on anyone to do the right thing. It's the balance of right to wrong which is more interesting. By this measure I don't think Americans are particularly exceptional.

Also, whether people choose to do the right thing is less interesting if they have no choice.
Which city is that?

bus travel is too slow

I would expect travel to speed up when we move from cars to buses. Look at what cars do most of the time. Waiting at crossings, slowing down for crossings, accelerating after passing a crossing. I have not measured it yet, but I would expect buses that carry 20 passengers each to accelerate that by a factor of 10 or so.

and unreliable

You mean when the bus is stuck in traffic? Don't you have the same problem with a car?

people working 40h+

I would think people who work 40h would be happy if they could do their work in a nice electric bus with a table instead of spending that time handling a steering wheel.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the game was nothing to do with Meta, and done as a solo dev effort? So no NDA applies.

A certain amount of talk about previous projects is routine in interviews. As long as it doesn't get too detailed or makes the previous employer look bad in public nobody will complain.
Free market where Big tech thrives and wants even fewer regulation, does seem to be dirty indeed. Just speaking of the IT field where I do know a thing or two, without regulations, none of these companies would even disclose that they have had a data breach.
Drinking too much soda with sugar?

Now the acidity in artificially sweetened soda makes peoples' teeth bad. My dentist mother is furious about that people believe that it is only the sugar in the soda that is bad for the teeth.
ELI5: how is any of this legal? Let’s say my distro receives Firefox source code under the terms of MPL, builds it and distributes it to me under the same terms. At no point any of us agreed to any additional terms. Does this apply only to Mozilla-built binaries?
They are cooked, there is so much inertia with everything related to demography. That would need an instant culture shift in the the relation Japanese have with work, family, foreigners and just change overall. Japanese culture, without judgement, is very rigid so this just won't happen.
Why is it that the question is always "how can we increase birthrates?"

All modern countries are facing similar problems with falling birth rates. At some point the crows will come home to roost and we'll have to tackle the actual problem - that we have an unsustainable economic system that relies on constant growth. The human population can't grow infinitely, especially while we're still constrained to a single rock in space.
Thailand Deports Uyghurs to China, Activists Say
The article makes a strong case that it is not due to women working; as Japan has some of the lowest female labour market participation in the developed world.
I think what's interesting about it, and not just in Japan, is the effect on society and changes in society. I don't think it's controversial to say older people are more conservative on average (why that is so is a separate discussion), and it's questionable how change can happen if older parts of the population become more and more represented and thus more influential in choosing who will run societies.

So I think a lot of the turmoil and backlash in societies we have today is because of that, the scale has tipped in favor of people who wants things to stay as they are. And especially why younger people are becoming more and more radical because otherwise it's becoming less and less likely change will be possible. It's their way of tipping the scales back the other way.
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It's the difference between 16 bits per pixel and 32 bits per pixel in VRAM.

A screen using 18 bits per pixel (6 bits per color) would need the 'millions of colors' mode unless Apple designed some clever hack.
I don't want to associate (or seen to associate even though I don't) with the green crowd. Guilt by association is a thing. However due to them now infecting what is essentially a hobby, I no longer enjoy it, so I moved on. I still cycle from time to time, but I am no longer and avid cyclist.

I actually prefer working on and driving my 97 LandRover Defender these days and Making Youtube Videos.
A coup is in progress, now.

Courts and judges are next - Elon calling for impeachment of judges.

Silencing and compliance of press happen as well (WaPo, NBC, now FB).

Military top brass replaced by nobodies. Top lawyers fired to prevent slowing down use of military force for oppression.

Congress and Senate both subverted by enough voters being deceived and believing Donald, such that elections no longer genuine; not well-informed.

Once courts/judges done, that's it. There will be laws, but they will not be enforced, and Donald gathers all power into his hands.

Now you need a revolution, to recover.
Agree with all of the above. Electric bikes are a game changer. It takes away most of the strain and effort from cycling, making it as convenient as walking. You still have to deal with weather, traffic, theft and so on, but it is still an excellent option for many transport needs.
> In your car you have an expectation of privacy.

Less than some people assume. I've seen people eat boogers while waiting for a green light.
also higher rate can be a worse gig. So e.g. federal contractors have more flexibility on rate for key personnel. But the reason the sys integrators are not flooded with ex Googlers is because the contracts are dysfunctional. Money is not free, if market sets price high it is generally in exchange for pain. I’ve seen xooglers wash out over it, or get straight up fired for culture mismatch.
If you're a computer science student who is thinking of using this, don't.

Don't use Copilot, Gemini, Cursor or any other code assisting tool for the several first years of your study or career. You will write code slower than others, sure, but what you'll learn and what you build will be a hundred times more useful for you than when you just copy and paste 'stuff' from AI.

Invest in fundamentals, learn best practices, be curious.
It's a tarpit because it's so intuitive and tends to resonate with our personal experience - but it absolutely fails to explain the data.
We Kind of Suck at That Right Now
Does the maintenance time include regular servicing or is it only the time spent out of service in a day, for example charging?

I think electric vehicles are such a clear win for pollution (air and sound pollution) in cities that rolling back to ICEs should be clearly justified.
How can electric buses have more maintenance downtime than diesel?
Car theft is not only a unnecessary cost for the victim, but the whole process it starts demands a significant amount of tax payer money.
Yes, I’m aware of the politics, but I’m not about to force developers to switch editors for a single feature. We’re seeing real competition again, with new entrants like Zed, and that’s a good thing—engineers should be free to use the tools they’re most productive in, whether that’s VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, EMACS, Helix, or Zed.

Tooling that claims to improve developer productivity should be editor-agnostic. If Microsoft can’t fully support that, an alternative standard will emerge—because, ultimately, locking developers in rarely works long-term.

Besides, the VS Code golden age has passed. It’s well on its way down the enshittification ramp.
Well, if a court has to decide that, this is good enough for the balance between privacy and the interests of society. If they don't let me in based on my refusal but I'm free to return where I came from, it is also fine.
An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
This is an argument for anecdote so feel free to ignore me but if you meditate for long enough or take certain substances you can experience that the conscious experience we are having doesn't actually control things in the way we think it does - you don't actually think your thoughts, you just observe them, like we don't control the sounds we hear - and same with everything else we do. The "only thing one can be assured of" is the experience, not the control of the experience.

This is completely contradicted by the fact I could talk about that experience, which does imply some control from the observer to the physical world. Which makes the whole thing paradoxical. The only way I can square it is with my religious beliefs.
One thing that doesn't seem to have been tried out very widely is making it a net economic benefit to have children. This used to sometimes be the case in the days when you could send your eight year old down the mine, etc. etc. But these days everyone in Western countries seems to take it as given that having children will lead to a reduction in disposable income and (especially if you are a woman) a possible career setback. The 'generous' countries you talk about just soften this blow in comparison to somewhere like the US.

If the country needs more kids to secure its long term future, then the government should invest in this and (in effect) pay people to have them. I suspect that this would be an unpopular policy, as for whatever reason, people hate the idea of someone receiving lots of money from the government just because they have kids. They especially hate this idea when the person receiving the money is the person who did the hard work of childbirth. But anyone who thinks that low birth rates are a crisis ought to be open to this kind of solution.

I also, frankly, would prefer it if my colleagues with kids took lots of subsidized time off work, had access to proper childcare, and then were fully present and focused when they actually were at work. (I am aware of the irony of complaining about people being unfocused while posting on HN during working hours :D)
I love bikes but I value my health so I keep my exercise to places where I won't be crushed to death by rogue road users.
That looks like end of road for FF for me.

Have to see what other people (serious people) make of it, but that looks like a deal breaker. That's 100% spying on everything I do, because FF has a copy of it.

"Input information" on the face of it can be taken to mean moving the pointer, clicking, scrolling.
You're supposed to use NativeMemory.Alloc/.Free methods instead.

Obviously nothing prevents you from PInvoking malloc and free directly, or linking to a custom allocator, or even using https://www.nuget.org/packages/TerraFX.Interop.Mimalloc which is a fully managed Mimalloc implementation (which is competitive with the original).

There is also an advanced undocumented API to register a specific segment of memory as nongc-heap where you can allocate otherwise managed objects manually.

But the most important thing to understand that normally in languages with generational GCs the objects are not freed, instead, the surviving objects are copied to an older generation while the rest of the memory is reclaimed and immediately made available for subsequent allocations. As a result, you can't "free" an object since such operation does not exist in the design.

Overall, you're not forced to use objects in low-level code - structs can implement methods, interfaces, used in generics for zero cost abstractions,etc., and if you don't allocate or allocate only a little - the GC will never run.
witholding your password or encryption keys has been illegal since 2000 in the uk under section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 , and by section 53 refusal can lead to 2 to 5 years in prison.
... Not using a thing run by a foreign government official is politicisation? Should they be required to use VK and Weibo, too?
> - Google semi monopoly on map data

I am sure it varies depending on where you are in the world but in my experience OSM plus official government data is as good as, and sometimes better, than Google.

It would be nice to have mine Google Places and Review data but other than that I never feel I am using 2nd rate data when using OSM, in fact I am frequently amazed at the quality and depth of the data.

That said, I do agree with your other points. A greenfield gdal alternative would be nice.
Not at all. It means that the UK police can compel you to turn over your decryption keys if it is deemed necessary and proportionate to prevent or investigate a crime.
Right now, it's just a waitlist, but I'd love feedback on the idea. Would you use something like this? What features would be useful?