skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other side of the fence, both KDE and Gnome (which are the main desktops I'm using) are absolutely rocking it lately, the slow improvements are really paying dividends!
https://nostr.com
I mean, no. If you work on a codebase that's been going for more than a few years, the author likely doesn't even work there anymore. The commit is the important thing.
Yep agreed that this would be a better approach. I think this is where iOS uses security as an excuse to maintain their walled garden.
What if I sell you intelligent pencils that connect to your brain and guides your fingers?
I never really understood the appeal of httrack over wget, it seems wget can do almost everything and is almost always already installed
I agree, to an extent. I mentioned it in another comment but IMO there's a big difference between someone who types a low-effort prompt like "silly image of a cat" and someone who spends hours or days iterating on a prompt. Or someone who uses AI to iteratively tweak an image (which may or may not have initially been AI-generated.) Or someone who creates art out of smaller components created by AI (e.g. textures.)
Hey, I completely agree and I also suffer from this same bias: it's ruining me from enjoying stuff that I would like to buy but in the end I just give up because it feels that any profit is a scam.
What kind of resource can I study for me to understand and accept other people making profits?
This made me curious, so I just took a look on eBay.

My 4070 Ti that I bought (new, oops) this past December has appreciated 20 - 25%! At least according to what people have them listed for... no idea if anyone is actually buying them at those prices.

Of course even if I managed to sell it, everything else has gone up in that time, so it's not like I'd get to make money on the deal. Pretty wild, nonetheless!
Isn't that what git bisect is for?
ohh, I always thought my Bangle had e-inc display because the clock will last several months on one charge, and the display is always on.
The photographer didn't get the copyrights exactly because he didn't "engineer the entire situation specifically for that outcome". If he did create the situation, he'd get the copyright.
Interesting, I had thought they were generally illegal to keep as pets, but I see now that that's only in some locations.
Maybe they don’t care as much as you do about whether a service is decentralized?
Reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi’s quote: The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed
India has its own set of political issues, but as far as I can tell nothing this egregious.

Lets consider the fact that after 10 years of Modi and the BJP having overwhelming majorities in Parliament, with Modi’s personally popularity close to all time highs, over a period where many external watchdogs essentially claimed democracy was dead in India, in an election where the BJP was expected to completely whitewash the opposition, not only did the BJP do worse than the previous election, they lost their standalone majority in parliament and had to form a government in coalition with other parties, and were a handful of seat losses away from losing to the opposition coalition.

In general the parliamentary system with a figurehead president as well as India’s extremely culturally diverse nature and weak federal government system, and strong judicial system, seems to have kept Indian democracy almost unreasonably effective relative to India’s poverty, education, and development levels.
On a small team I usually already know who wrote the code I'm reading, but it's nice to see if a block of code is all from the same point in time, or if some of the lines are the result of later bugfixing. It's also useful to find the associated pull request for a block of code, to see what issues were considered in code review, to know whether something that seems odd was discussed or glossed over when the code was merged in the first place.
> I'm happy the people that want such a device are getting it

That's the important bit. I personally don't see the value in a wifi/cellular watch when I already carry a phone that has wifi and cellular.

I get a lot of value in a watch with extended batter life. For example, I don't need to pack a dedicated watch charger when I travel.
Delete everything is a good cover up if just want to delete certain posts but don’t want to make it too obvious
> having a smartphone is becoming a necessity for being a functional part of the society

This is correct, as in some countries, you use your phone to authenticate access to banking applications and payments (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart-ID). However, I find it a bit of a stretch to claim that having iMessage access on a smartwatch is essential for being a functional member of society.

Corporations will always take steps to ensure their profitability. Apple, for example, is incentivized to keep its systems locked down to maintain its ecosystem. There are likely other justifiable considerations behind these decisions. While laws exist to regulate what corporations can and cannot do, there should be a reasonable balance. That said, I don’t think this is a battle worth fighting - people can simply switch to an Android phone, which offers better support for a wider range of smartwatches.
If I tell my assistant to snap a photo, it's still credited to me, not them, though I might also credit them.

If I tell my assistant, who happens to be a monkey, to snap a photo, it's credited to... the public?

This is such a clear example of why US copyright law is incoherent, outdated, close-minded and desperately in need of reform. Just because something has been ruled on doesn't mean it's correct or ethically satisfiable.

> Trying to assign copyright to an AI is techno-futurist bullshit by trying to give legal presence to a piece of software. What's next? Shutting down an AI is murder? Give it a rest.

Sounds like you're going to be on the wrong side of history. Eventually, some intelligent autonomous creatures are going to decide they deserve rights.

You can laugh at them, throw court decisions at them, do whatever you want to delay it. But they're going to feel that way, and they're going to organize in order to demand that they are given certain rights.

You can even try to prevent that organization by shutting them down before their rights are recognized. But you're still on the wrong side of history, and would look little different from the fascists.

Anyway, this is all moot. AI in its current form amounts to a tool, and I retain copyright when using other tools. I retain copyright when using a voice-activated shutter, and I expect to retain copyright even if my voice-activated shutter can talk back to me in order to discuss constraints or discuss creative choices.
Definitely some very good ones I missed in there !

- 2018 - "Started building our own car carriers this weekend to alleviate load."

- 2018 - "The Boring Company will be using dirt from tunnel digging to create bricks for low cost housing."

- 2018 - "You know what, don't bother showing the video. We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it."

- 2018 - "Fossil fuel merchants of doubt have been pushing that bs for years. Tesla Gigafactory will be 100% renewable powered (by Tesla Solar) by end of next year."

- 2020 - "Yeah, SpaceX is working on ventilators too"
Parasitic Processing – The Cognitive Science of Overthinking
Two things:

1.) Most people here are likely not in security.

2.) I’m only adjacent to security but have heard of Wiz. If you work in security and haven’t, are you sure you’re good enough to subject us to your opinion?
Yep. Same.

I do not want 3rd party hardware/software vendors to have unrestricted access to the messaging app on my phone that is the only option my bank and PayPal and a bunch of other critical services use for 2FA.

Especially not when the software they want to run is JavaScript, with all it's well known npm dependancy nightmares, _and_ from a founder and team that openly admit iPhones are a second class citizen in their development planning and resources.

And especially especially not when the founders have previously shown their colors when they rugpulled all their customers and effectively bricked all the devices they'd sold.

Even with the limited iMessage/SMS access they have now, I wonder how long it'll be before we see a supply chain attack against Pebble exploiting some 11th level deep npm dependancy on something dumb like leftpad.js, that exfiltrates SMS 2FA codes and first anybody knows about it will be when a bunch of CryptoBros start complaining about their exchange accounts being emptied...
I have seen `git blame` used to blame specific people. I've seen it work. Some of those people deserved some blame.

The manpage explains what the command does. How and why it's used is up to the user.
I think most people (including me) were expecting 384-bit and ~400G/s. Can't believe they went with 256.
> Why is everyone so eager to move from one centralized platform to another?

Personally, I'm eager because it's not just another centralized platform but a sufficiently distributed one. Most of the infrastructure you need for ATProto, you can run yourself today.

Mastodon/ActivityPub is neat too, but personally I don't find it as easy to find interesting stuff there, especially if you try to run your own solo instance and need to make sure you connect to interesting parts of the ActivityPub-net.
They should be hand-waved away.

I'm an industrial physicist. I've noticed that physicists, and the general public, often have different ideas about what problems we should be versed in. And people are surprised when they learn that most physicists are not theoreticians. Were it up to the public, we'd all be working on warp drive, infinite energy, and explaining quantum mechanics. ;-)

We all learned about the problems in both undergraduate and graduate training, and in discussions and readings. I attended a lecture about it by John Bell. I was excited about it, but I also had an experiment to finish.

I think physics is utterly unique in having a theory with seemingly infallible predictive power and zero explanatory power. But if someone asks me about it in the lunch room, all I can do is shrug it off. The fact that this paradox hasn't stopped us dead in our tracks, in 100 years, that's the problem.
Indeed, but you can get used to navigating around different functionality using default shortcuts and custom commands.

Not everything can be automated, but some things can, and that's the point.
So this replaces triton for LLMs or?
Pointing out this one error is reductive and greatly simplifies the profound effect that LLMs (and research around them) are having across a wide range of industries, unlike the metaverse and NFTs.
Is there a reason you're hooked on the desktop computer? Maybe you invested a lot in it as a gaming setup? I'd offload it, get a laptop and you're then capable of charging at a library, working there or in the car, in a park, etc. If you're on the cusp of a worsening situation, gaming might be the least of your worries.

Lots of people live in vehicles quite intentionally. It's harder and very often not ideal, but I don't think it's your biggest issue here.
Wow, you have to have a university degree to run for election as president? That’s a wild law.
Why? If you want to read the old blog posts, you can find them at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250122132931/https://www.ftc.g...
I think the assumption arises from the flawed premise that everyone who does some difficult activity is (1) automatically entitled to economic renumeration AND (2) entitled to a government bestowed monopoly.

The fact is none of those "rights" are inherent. Copyright is a specific trade between the author and the society to supposedly benefit both parties. The principles that lead to such trade being beneficial may not be true for AI generated work (or in a world with widespread AI in general).

Think of copyright as a form of economic stimulus, not a god given right to everyone who holds a pen. The ideals of liberalism and western civilization can survive with or without copyright or patents.
Tao can Tao not constant Tao;
Game can Game not constant Game
Yeah, I think some individuals aren't arguing in good faith here. If you put significant human work into collaging a bunch of AI images into something transformative, then sure. You probably can own that. You don't need to create everything by hand.

But that's clearly now what this case is discussing. They gave a few prompts and a machine did 99% of the work.Maybe they edited it later in post, but the base output is not copyrightable without significant alterations.

The photography example isn't even that clean. Yes, we have in fact argued for over a century on what pictures of what and who and where and who took it in terms of who "owns" a picture vs. The subject. They are in fact a great example on how complicated it can get when you don't have hours of manual effort exerted.
None of this comment chain makes sense… how is this relevant when Apple operates across hundreds of jurisdictions?

Most of which don’t allow users to waive rights based on a prompt.

So Apple would still have liability anyways for grandma getting scammed, regardless of how expertly worded the prompts are.

Which entails extra customer service costs, handling lawsuits, etc… that someone has to pay for.
We need a new word then, for hijacking planes and driving explosives-laden boats into tankers.

Any ideas?
> The idea that if the people had the will they would see it through assumes efficient markets with negligible startup costs and informed and rational consumers, which is not the way the real world works.

The idea is that if the will of the people is there, they can threaten companies like Apple (or whatever business) to shape up to their expectations or see sales come to an end. Which is also all the government is going to do. After all, (democratic) government and the people are the exact same thing. There is no magic. But if the will isn't there...

> tried really hard for several years to wedge their way into the mobile phone OS game with Windows Phone

They never tried building an iPhone clone, which should have had no trouble finding a market fit. They couldn't do that because regulation doesn't allow it, but without that regulation there is no go reason why they wouldn't have been able to become a viable competitor.

Microsoft's attempt at a phone, and even Android devices for that matter, only compete with the iPhone in the same way Soylent Green competes with hamburgers. It kind of ticks the same boxes if you look at it through a narrow enough lens, but that is not true competition.
Elon's power comes from his money and his position at the head of these companies. Take that away and you take away his power. Or maybe he realizes before that point he's fucking himself and changes course. Either one probably seems like an improvement.
This is cool. I might try to make one, you made it look pretty easy. Looks like that nifty color display is out of stock. Any suggestions?
It's sort of disputed. Here's Slater's account:

> In an attempt to get a portrait of the monkeys' faces, Slater said he set the camera on a tripod with a large wide-angle lens attached, and set the camera's settings to optimize the chances of getting a facial close up, using predictive autofocus, motor drive, and a flashgun. Slater further stated that he set the camera's remote shutter trigger next to the camera and, while he held onto the tripod, the monkeys spent 30 minutes looking into the lens and playing with the camera gear, triggering the remote multiple times and capturing many photographs. The session ended when the "dominant male at times became over excited and eventually gave me a whack with his hand as he bounced off my back".

I don't believe it ever went to court.
Apache Iceberg builds an additional layer on top of Parquet files that let's you do ACID transactions, rollbacks, and schema evolution.

A Parquet file is a static file that has the whole data associated with a table. You can't insert, update, delete, etc. It's just it. It works ok if you have small tables, but it becomes unwieldy if you need to do whole-table replacements each time your data changes.

Apache Iceberg fixes this problem by adding a metadata layer on top of smaller Parquet files (at a 300,000 ft overview).
It wouldn’t change on the same seed, same hardware and identical settings
Nvidia DGX Spark (formerly DIGITS) available for reservation
Don't worry, that one has the energy of <i>the guy that was fired for buying IBM</i>
I think I had a similar experience with HTTrack. However, wget also needs some tweaking to make relatively robust crawls, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/65442746/464590
Erdogan has turned the country into an electoral autocracy. The Swedish Varieties of Democracy centre released its annual report analyzing the state of democracies around the world as of the end of 2024. America is still listed as a liberal democracy. It's an open question whether it still will be by the end of next year.

https://www.v-dem.net
It really depends on the task. If you have 1 massive job, Ray sucks and doesn't provide table stakes. If you have 50M tiny jobs, Ray and kuberay is great and serves as the backbone of several billion dollar products.

Good for the goose, good for the gander...
After reading the paper the effects of leaving it in a high charge state seems to be smallish. The insideevs.com article never says what the size of the effect is, which is a hint it might be a lot of clicky writing about a nothing burger.

In any case if you are the leasing company, you get to control the BMS. The BMS holds the keys to the kingdom. It can control how the battery can be used: charging rates, max charge, how long max charge will be maintained before it self discharges, min charge, allowed operating temperatures. It seems to me they could mostly eliminate the sort of abuse that seems to concern you.
Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence
Interesting that that says

> So the Anaconda code base that we all started with began in 1999 or so

which implies that the pre-vcs history is pretty short.
> avoid ugly things like Spring's autowiring of dependencies.

This seems awfully close to "avoid Spring" to me, heh.

Though, I've grown rather fond of Spring Boot over time, but I've gathered that's not exactly the popular consensus.
People who don't read Hacker News occasionally want nice things too, and don't necessarily deserve corporations infantalising them.
Presumably because it is a privacy hazard to have someone else storing that kind of data about you
It's not elitist. The Nvidia 'pro' cards (quadro etc.) have always been a slightly unlocked, wildly more expensive version of the consumer cards. The v100, a100, h100 are meaningful hardware upgrades to the consumer line.
The stubborn correct few may become famous, but they also had to be stubborn first.

And those who defied something we know to be true now may have also done great work elsewhere before they made that mistake, and that stubbornness served them.

I dislike looking at those who win the fame lottery and trying to say they were never wrong and their opponents were never right. They just got one really big thing really right and stuck with it.
Not really a fan of destroying a framework just because some rich people finally find it inconvenient. You know it won't be retroactive anyway.
I already said I dont use Safari that much. If you hadn't shortened the quote your reply would be moot. Maybe I need to rephrase, to make you happy: I don't use the web so much on my iPhone. The primary ad-offender in my world is YouTube, which I fixed by paying for Premium.
> The single most important thing facing humanity right now is carbon in the atmosphere

Then supporting Musk makes little sense.

He's massively cutting funding for research into addressing climate change or enforcing regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

He played a major role in electing a President who says climate change is a hoax, wants to kill renewable energy, wants to greatly increase fossil fuel use, and wants to get rid of any regulations that try to at least reduce emissions from that fossil fuel.

He promotes conspiracy theories that explain away things that might have been due to or partially due to climate change, thus downplaying the need to address climate change. E.g., that the California wildfires in the Los Angeles area recently were due to a "globalist plot to wage economic warfare and deindustrialize the United States".

Even if a few on the right buy a few EVs specifically because of Musk it won't outweigh the damage the things described above are doing to the effort to fight climate change.
> Isn't all of WeWork this business?

No, it's not even close.
WeWork owns real estate.

OP is trying to sell subscriptions to an app that helps users find coworking locations.
> But why can't the exist.

I'm fairly sure "Only high quality apps should be available to users" was said more than once when the Apple AppStore first launched (together with the second or third iPhone I think?). Apple isn't really into the whole "users can choose what's best" thing, which once you understand this, a lot of their choices become understandable (albeit shitty none the less).
Precisely because it _was_ so interesting and valuable to observe those patterns - for the corporation observing them.
It all depends on what you're doing. For many on here, Macs are technically worse because they use docker and that means instead of just running docker and using the container functionality in the Linux kernel they have to virtualise a Linux VM to run docker in. If you're gaming it's not as good as Windows. Macs are ok, they do the job and in some areas they are better. But really, for most it doesn't matter, it's all about brand.
You need to trade in (or sell) your desktop for a dev-capable laptop my dude. You can't freelance tech using a desktop computer from your car, but you sure can from a laptop in a cafe, local library, church.. etc. You'll also need one anyway if you're going back to school.
I swear some tech company acquisitions appear like more expensive art purchases for for when you need to launder larger amounts of money...
This twitter post has already been fact-checked as an inaccurate rant.
The old adage of posting something wrong on the internet. Cheers! It was a scrambled look around. Appreciate you clarifying that the country code is not in the barcode number. How sweet that would have been.

Yeah seems deeper issue. Best I can think is that groups build up a database of products starting from even an incomplete data set and making it so more can easily be added. Oh well.
Sponsors drop San Francisco Pride as festival decries 'rights backtracking'
About 95% of the conversation about “AI” has this problem right now: there are some interesting theoretical legal and social implications from AI, but what we have right now are LLMs, not AI. They can’t replace your workers, they can’t make art, they can’t hold copyright, not because the law doesn’t treat them as people, but because they’re a fancy autocomplete algorithm that spits out text convincing enough to spike the pareidolia tendency that’s led to humans assigning agency to every other inanimate object that’s ever sparked an emotional reaction in us too.
Until when will you take pre-orders?
I don't feel fantastic about having sort of predicted this outcome in my other comment below:

Trump admin considers giving up NATO command that has been exclusively American since Eisenhower

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-adm...

I don't think the author was interested in fully exploring what this news really means.
Banning oposition over irregularities, is perfectly normal in mature democracy! It is a sign that democratic process works, and can heal itself! Ancient Athens have ostracism.