skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, yes? Credit scores are forbidden in many countries because of how opaque they are and because of the data collection aspect.

In a lot of countries, the only external thing the bank is allowed to use when you apply for a loan is whether or not you have existing loans (which is just to prevent you from borrowing money to pay off other borrowed money), the amount of money you make annually and what you currently have saved up.
Rust is rather heavy on its copy/clone imposed semantics making it potentially less suitable for low-latency or large data volume processing workloads. Picking Rust for its performance potential only means that you're going to have a harder time beating other native performance-oriented stream processing engines written in either C or C++, if that is your goal of course.

This logic

> written in rust will have better performance, lower latency, ..., lower memory footprint

is flawed and is cargo-cult programming unless you say what are you objectively comparing it against and how you intend to achieve those goals. Picking the right™ language just for the sake of these goals won't get you too far.
"I have an idea for how to make a note-taking app that’s actually right"

I'm reminded of the bell-curve image that starts and ends with Apple Notes or a simple paper notebook. I always get the feeling that people who think that the technology is limiting their note taking abilities are looking for the wrong solution.
Quite off-topic, but do you know when you'll write the article about CPS, if ever?
Devs under $1 million pay only 15%.. that’s far less than the retail markup of items in your local grocery store.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...

I think many, especially smaller, developers don’t realize the value they get for that commission: distribution, payment processing, billing, tax processing/collection, dispute handling, marketing (i.e. a storefront,) management of versions/updates for users, not to mention security benefits (for users.)

If people don’t like that, nothing is stopping them from choosing not to sell to Apple device owners. If Apple device owners don’t like it, they can switch to a competitor.
Capchan – Solving Captcha with Image Classification
Categories: Ai, Ctf, Neural-nets, Tool

A few years ago, I tried my hand at the, now retired, CAPTCHA Forest CTF, which was part of the nullcon HackIM 2019. I wanted to solve it using computer vision and machine learning. This started me on a path of discovery and incremental improvements that finally resulted in capchan, a generic CAPTCHA to text tool.

This post is broken into four parts:

The first CTF
The second CTF
Neural Network Fundamentals
Creating capchan
I worked on something very similar for inference on video streams. To avoid the limitations of the config files mentioned in a sibling comment, I added a tool to convert a config to plain Rust. Your primary focus has to be the quality of the Rust API, and the config files are syntactic sugar for the beginning or simpler projects.
It is worth noting that the original 10x was a reference to the best engineer being 10x more productive than the worst engineer. Not 10x more productive than the average engineer, no the median engineer.
I believe it to be a bit shortsighted.

The long term result of justifying the mean is always the subordination of the individuals, you migrate from a democratic society to totalitarian state.

I feel it's safe to say that no society prefer dictatorship to democracy.

So you won (maybe), your life is worst, you have no freedom anymore.

Beside you say in some case war is inevitable because there is too much hate. I don't agree, people (individuals) can be so hateful that war is inevitable but populations always aspire to peace.

Even totalitarian state always have to justify the war by pretending they're the one merely defending, being attacked because this desire for peace is so powerful.
I think the third is scroll lock [1].

That one feels quite legacy to me, every time I active it it's by accident and I don't understand why stuff is behaving weirdly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_Lock
I have had many colleagues who produce more code and functionality at a constant rate than me. But I have also had that the experience that some of those colleagues were trying to reproduce a certain customer bug for weeks and not being able to reproduce it and that when I finally decided to also have a look at the code, within half a day found the bug and a two click way to reproduce it. When I told them about this two click way to reproduce it, they at first did not believe me that it was that simple to reproduce it. They had so see it several times with their own eyes before they believed it.

I also have had the experience that some colleagues had worked on optimizing an algorithm for months and months. I too had looked at the algorithm and one day, almost out of the blue, I came up with a short cut that totally avoided said algorithm and implemented the required functionality with some calls to a function in standard library we were already using. Again, I was met with disbelieve when I presented the solution.

I feel that I am the guy who about once per year comes up with an idea that no one else had thought about and that most of the time I am just not very productive and often find myself daydreaming and not being very productive.

I also feel that often I am far ahead of other with respect to ideas and that I fail to convince others about a my '(too) advanced' approach. I several times have been in the situation that I proposed a solution to a problem and that some kind of manager decided to go for a simpler solution and that after months of develop time, it came to be that certain functionality did not work and that it was simply decided that that functionality was not going to be supported anymore.
Copyright significantly powers revenue to corporations than individuals. Take music - this article show it's only 12% to individual musicians.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/music-artists-make-12-...
> Noone should be as big as Zuck, Musk, Altman, Bezos...

There should be a level of market cap where you company has to split, period. Megacorps create oligarchs, ruin competition and cheat antitrust.
You steal from others and make them pay - constant scraping cost money (traffic, server load, scraping protection). Then you should only be allowed to release open source models.
A couple of decades ago a colleague had a great idea for a website called "negative knowledge" where people would dump all of their ideas that had failed, because there's generally more useful information from failure than there is from success given that it's easier to tell why something failed rather than why something succeeded.
I'm very confused, the author talks about having to charge a device instead of replacing batteries and blames it on Lithium-ion batteries, instead of doing the sensible thing and blaming it on devices with non-replaceable batteries.

The form factor of AA and AAA batteries (which the author prefers) exists with all kinds of chemistries, including Lithium-ion nowadays, you can recharge them, but while you are doing that you can also put new batteries in your device and use it immediately.
I think our education system as abysmal. We don't teach people why things work the way they do for the most part. We spend far too much time on getting formal things "just right" like grammar, spelling, the details of arithmetic, etc... and not enough about all the things we've learned through history, and why they are useful.

With education as poorly executed as it is, no wonder we're too ignorant and lack wisdom to run things for the benefit of all.
this basically related to any career advice, no matter if it is tech or not. Too generic an advice
The issue is so much about consumption of copyright material, but acquisition of that material.

Like a real person, AI companies need to adhere to IP and license or purchase the materials that they wish to consume. If AI companies licensed all materials they acquired for training purposes, this would be a non-issue.

OpenAI are looking for a free pass to break copyright law, and through that, also avoid any issues that would arise through reproduction.
I never use numbers and exact equations to think about business, economics and politics. You have the wrong guy. You want more money in a predictable way, go incentivize the employees the correct way. In the meantime, workers are also responsible for the layers of “useless” managements
Have you tried figuring it out? It's not magic or miracle, there are reasons why they're profitable and if it's not obvious you might get surprised and learn something if you try to study it.

One reason is that they are extremely manipulative and strategically exploit people with power over other people's money, notably taxes and what labour generates.
Everything is not partisan it might be political. The Republican vs. Democratic is hurting the US badly you can not continue to make everything ok just because you need the support from whatever extreme views is populist in your party.

Most of the things a party does is not extreme but you guys are going insane over there.
> then any exception of this kind will harm their legitimate interests

Pray tell what legitimate interest of the author is harmed by LLM's training on that work? No one is publishing the authors book.
Power can be diffused.
Wealth accumulation is power concentration. When it's legal to buy politicians then what is corruption? How can you go after corruption when those with power define what is corruption?

Concentrated power is corrupt, there's no power without the will to wield it. If you have more power than 99 percent of humans, they become insects for you.
I haven't been able to vibe code Rust. It must be just a React / JavaScript thing.
Can anyone also use copyrighted source code, e.g. from OpenAI?
Everyone I know on Medicare does not like it and would prefer something else.

I think people like Medicare like they like Comcast. They have it, it performs a service they want, they hate everything about it, and would never leave.
All else aside Zuck was basically a kid when the whole Facebook rocket ship ride took off. Nobody is their best self all day every day. Personally I always thought he came over as kind of an asshole but you have to keep hit pieces like these in the right frame. The shortest accurate answer to what's Zuck like is "I never met him" the rest is just clicks and hot air.
Zyn and the New Nicotine Gold Rush
Ignoring the non-sequitur on jail, I guess you're affirming that it's not stealing?
A bit of a missed opportunity with the war in Ukraine. He could have expressed pro-Ukraine sentiment and the (most likely Russian) scammer could have echoed them back and possibly be caught in a FSB dragnet.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX/
Yeah, shorten the terms of copyright on original works by about 90%, and call it a win for everyone except for rights holders.
I write tonnes of React / JS. Vibe coding seems to be a cult I am not a part of.

I snicker when I hear "AI writes 85% of the code in our codebase".
It has never worked for me.
Forget about the blind - what about those with perfect vision? Looking at that website, I wish I were unable to see it!
I was thinking - maybe the generator (or constructor) can opportunistically lengthen runs so that there are more opportunities for using them for exclusion. You know the bread and butter for sudoku solving - the pair of pencil marks that excludes a number along its row/column. If that's done, maybe the puzzle can be made harder in other respects, like removing clues.

I solved today's puzzle, it's nice. Of course missing the "QoL" features of the popular solvers (I'm not a daily sudoku solver right now though)
It is not just that. He is making the same Twitter claims while showing nothing. He hypes you up about how AI did the app but then just close it with "oh that's not the idea i want it, hehe". Maybe show us what cursor produced?
Yep, I thought about that... Still, there's a few hundreds of workflows to migrate, so I was looking for a systematic approach
The premise is flawed. What makes companies valuable is not having engineers with the ability to write good code.

Also

> Alas. Because, and I cannot stress this enough, I am not an engineer.

And then...

> Though it’s hard to benchmark how far I got in two days, this is my best guess: The app is roughly equivalent to what a designer and a couple professional engineers could build in a month or two.
SimdSketch: A Fast Bucket Sketch
As a Linux user I love WebMIDI, because it means I don't have to open a Windows VM anymore to run firmware updates / utility tools for audio gear manufacturers that embrace it (e.g. Novation).

WebUSB should enable the same for more types of devices, but of course there should be appropriate permission mechanisms.
A lot of our Odin procs take an allocator as a required argument specifically so they force you to choose one at the call site, because yes, often you want it to be explicit.
Pretty much my take any time I see all the convoluted Bicep and YAML we have since there's a bunch of conditional logic and more in our pipelines.
The COST of double-entry accounting with a PoC in Django
Also: "Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)"[1].
Also also, bootstrapping is a superpower.

[1] https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/
I think it's just not worth it for them; look at Android, where sideloading was always available as an option.

Facebook does offer separate APKs on their website (so do, in fact, most major services - Netflix and Spotify also offer APKs from their website), but practically the only reason people end up using them is if they're on a device that doesn't support the Play Store (for whatever reason).

The only serious Play Store competitors on Android are either vendor specific (like Amazon's store) or wouldn't host Facebook apps to begin with and are unambiguously a positive force for users due to their standards (F-Droid, whose policies are designed to protect users from the typical mobile app rugpull of filling it with ads down the line). Anything outside of this tends to be independent hobby projects or corporate business apps.

The inertia of being the default is still really strong (for a slight alternative, much of Google's strength comes from the fact they paid millions to browsers to be the default search engine for them, a practice that's been found to have violated antitrust laws - it's telling that Google really wanted to keep doing this), which is still enough to keep Facebook attached to the Play Store and is probably why they won't try to leave the App Store either.
𖢧ꛅꛈꕷ ꛈꕷ 𖤬𖢧𖦪𖣠ꛕꛈ𖣠ꚶꕷ. ᎽᎾᏬ ᏕᎻᎾᏬᏝᎠ ᏰᎬ ᏕᎻᎾᏖ.
Only about 70% of high severity bugs[1]. Quite a negligible amount.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
And thankfully a lot of people realize that’s utter bullshit and are taking measures to fight off further enshittification. I’m not a nationalist but things like the GDPR and DMA make me proud to be European.
Can Doom run it? Adding with NAND gates in Doom
Also, openai only started making deals (and mostly with news publishers) after the NYT lawsuit.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5258952/new-york-times-...

They didn't even consider doing this before. They still, as far as I know, haven't paid a dime for any book, or art beyond stock photography.

Lawsuit is still ongoing, if openai loses it might spell doom for legal production and usage of LLMs as a whole. There isn't enough open, free data out there to make state of the art AI.
Apple is on record that the 15% cut applies to a vanishingly small amount of App Store purchases. So it's not particularly meaningful.
That's why I am a big proponent of local, open-weights computation. They can't shut down a non-compliant model if you're the one running it yourself.
Do you feel your rudeness comes from your Dutchness or from your personality? You get rude people everywhere :)
I appreciate the work you've put into this, but if someone gets into this they are likely to be looking for a next puzzle immediately. They are unlikely to become a recurring visitor; not with just a single puzzle a day. 5 or 10 might work better.
what are you talking about?
I have to approve the website before it can access my devices via WebUSB.
What's the actual issue / path for keylogging etc. there, care to explain instead of fearmongering?
What I think the parent meant is the interest to sell license to others to train on their data.
> It only restricts reproduction

and distribution.
Being out of your budget isn't the same thing as being hard to get.

As far as drivers are concerned, SCSI tape devices have been in the Just Works(tm) category on just about every UNIX-like platform (including Linux) for the last 40 years.

Everyone's needs are different. Use what works for you.
You do of you access the same database from miltiple processes.
They produce derivative works, which is also an exclusive right of a copyright holder.
Cursor AI for Go large projects
techdiff reference
Just because the USA has some voting going on, doesn’t mean it’s a functioning democracy.
The people of the USA has very limited power, except for the well connected, so it can hardly be described as a democracy.
In the US, only the rich are represented.

The president of Switzerland is rotated between the largest political parties and is only president for one year. The president of Switzerland has extremely limited power due to the decentralised nature of their government. It is not a position comparable to any other country.

In Switzerland it is not possible for one individual to wreak havoc like what is currently being done in the USA.

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/federal-presidency.html#:~...
>Though it’s hard to benchmark how far I got in two days, this is my best guess: The app is roughly equivalent to what a designer and a couple professional engineers could build in a month or two.

Comedy
One way to understand why without writing down the CDF/PDF:

When X is an exponential variable and c is a constant, X + c has the same distribution as X after conditioning on large outcomes. In other words, these two variables have same "tail." This is true exactly for exponential distributions. (Sometimes this is called "memorylessness.")

Similarly, when U has a uniform distribution on [0, 1] and c is a constant, cU has the same distribution as U after conditioning on small outcomes.

But if cU is distributed like U near 0, then -ln(c U) is distributed like -ln(U) near infinity. But -ln(c U) = -ln(c) - ln(U), so the tail of -ln(U) doesn't change when we add a constant, meaning it must have an exponential distribution.
A real person wouldn't have to pay to read random blog, Reddit comments, StackOverflow answers or code on GitHub (many open source licenses do not imply license for training).

They might have to pay for books, or use a library.

Should these cases be treated differently? If so, it might lead to more closed internet with even more paywalls.
You can simply pay to everyone whose works you have used for training, every time a model processes a request.
i'm just guessing here but maybe only chrome is asking that. if the malware is another program, no confirmation is required?
They are creating a credit score for you. They’re asking for the essentially the same data a credit scoring agency would use. The difference is that they manually underwrite everything.

Spain also enforces a much stricter debt to income ratio, which means it’s much harder to get loans for people that already have debt, which means the risk profile is reduced for those that do get approved.

Also Spain’s unemployment is among the highest in the EU — and almost three times higher than the U.S., so the central bank’s lower interest rates reflect less of a concern over inflation and more of a concern towards encouraging growth. The low interest rates in Spain aren’t a reflection of reduced risk but of lower central bank rates. You could get 30 year mortgages in the U.S. just a few years ago approaching 2%.

Comparing mortgage rates across countries is a pointless endeavor because the macroeconomic circumstances are vastly different. For example, one would think that lower interest rates would result in a increase of housing supply in Spain as investors build more housing because the loans would be cheaper — however that isn’t the case because of the post-tax return on investment (and regulatory risk) for real estate is far worse than an equivalent investment in the United States despite higher lending costs. A €10 million housing project in Spain has a lower ROI than the same project would in North Carolina. Interest rates could be zero in Spain and it wouldn’t change the housing market much because of the myriad of other factors that go into the spreadsheet.
Why do you have to beat a native performance-oriented streaming engine written in C or C++?

Currently, most of the mainstream stream processing engines are written in Java. Sorry, I may not add qualifiers to make you misunderstandings.

Software does not have silver bullets, so does programming languages, and each has its own strengths. I also like to use go and Java to develop software.
Well, in humans, eye sight inherits quite aggressively. If one of your (grand)parents wears glasses, then you have a high probability of wearing them too. This could be related to that.
coding using llms, ai vibe coding, whatever you may call it, is the new "have fun staying poor" crypto bro wave. It's not new either. It should work well enough for generic stuff. Nothing new to come of it, though.
Incorrect. Llama 1 trained on books3 dataset.
> It won't 'protect' you. They still track you and have a shadow account for you, and sell the data. FB is a cancer that won't go away until we/you do.

Firstly, this is just not true. Like basically all users who couldn't be mapped to a FB person were given userid=0, which I guess is a shadow account, but it's pretty crap as a method of tracking people. Source: worked at FB for half a decade.
It’s a problem with EU’s regulations if they allow such outcome (i.e. Apple being allowed to artificially cripple third party apps).

Obviously AltStore did the best they could..

> APPL's attitude

Everybody knew from the beginning that they’ll do the minimum they can get away with so blaming Apple is somewhat pointless.
> most LLM users will ~always choose the smartest model

Most LLM users will choose the cheapest model which is good enough.

I think that LLMs' performance is already "good enough" for a lot of applications. We're in the diminishing returns part of the curve.

There are two other concerns:

1. being able to run the model on trusted infrastructure locally (so some jerk won't turn it off on a whim, and the data will remain safe and comply with the local data protection laws and policies)

2. having good tools to create AI applications (like how easy it is to fine-tune it to customer needs)

> how much the addition of copyrighted material affects how smart the resulting model is

Copyrighted material improve the models, not by making it smart, but more factually correct, because it will be trained on reputable, reliable and up-to-date sources.
taking this from vial website

```
export USER_GID=`id -g`; sudo --preserve-env=USER_GID sh -c 'echo "KERNEL==\"hidraw\", SUBSYSTEM==\"hidraw\", ATTRS{serial}==\"vial:f64c2b3c*\", MODE=\"0660\", GROUP=\"$USER_GID\", TAG+=\"uaccess\", TAG+=\"udev-acl\"" > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vial.rules && udevadm control --reload && udevadm trigger'
```

so that means the device can be read and written by the user and group, but not by others.