skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the issue that the burden is on proving they're safe--and nobody has a reason to shell out the bucks to do so.

I do agree that interference is quite relevant. The general rule of radio is that you play nice, especially when on a licensed frequency (the cell companies have the licenses for those bands, the users do not), and a phone up high over multiple cell towers is most certainly not playing nice.
That's not right. The more a term is in the market, the more difficult it is to get a trademark approved.

The difficulty comes from the obligation to protect a trademark - if you have trademark rights to a term and don't take reasonable steps to protect it, you're at risk of losing your rights.
Hasn't baseball already turned into this with the rise of three true outcomes?
Two options: Pinchflat (recommended) and TubeSync.
I thought the same thing, it wasn't a quote about all AI, it was in direct response to what he saw which was a "person" like limbing on the floor in a creepy way.
And yet you made excuses for it and bought their products. You and millions of other people. So what did you expect them to do? Change course?
Manufacturing what though? Certainly not technology. We know they're not trying to build their own compute clouds to compete with AWS or Microsoft. Or OpenAI. They're not even trying to compete with Nvidia.

The EU's entire productive economy is stuff like cheese, VW cars, and perfumes.
Does the court say that someone driving without a license is an 'illegal driver'? Nope, they say they are 'operating without a license' or 'driving illegally'. And guess what, that isn't because the courts are being dishonest.
In all fairness, Hayao Miyazaki is famously grumpy about everything, especially when related to modern society. I wouldn't have expected anything less.

A common meme is to put him side to side with Junji Ito. Hayao Miyazaki as the grumpy old man whose work is cute and happy, and Junji Ito as the nice and cheerful guy whose work is the thing of nightmares.

Junji Ito's take on AI, is that he worries for his profession, but he thinks he still has something AIs can't replicate, at least for now. As expected, while both of them oppose AI, they do it in a way that couldn't be more different.
> Honestly your paranthesis that "the right is way worse" is already too political for my taste.

They're not wrong, though.
It’s actually quite amusing as LTT used to have viewers bookmark their Amazon affiliate link in place of Amazon.com. Live by the sword…
>nobody would think it's ok if I charge Joe $5, but charge Bob $10 because I don't like him very much

Are you sure? People often cheer on this kind of thing if they also think Bob's an asshole. (And there's no rule against it in most places unless you don't like Bob for fairly specific reasons)
Here is a montage of many of the recent ghibli creations: https://0x0.st/82oM.webm

It's chocked full of memes, historical and political photos, and general pop culture.
I was thinking more in the direction of adversary government/groups getting a few people to "lose" their phones.
I am looking forward to the macOS release. I use it on my Supernote, Inkpalm 5 and my kids Kindle.

Koreader is wonky in places. But, like vi and bash, you get used to the wonkiness and it works well enough for the job and is everywhere.
Right — which is to say, the vast, vast majority of people heard about Ghibli and not Gemini.
If China, Japan and South Korea ever reconciled their significant historical issues and political differences and co-operated at a level similar to Europe it would be world altering if incredibly unlikely.

I don't understand what the US gains by putting them in a room together and giving them a common enemy.
Linux has ZFS too. FreeBSD actually switched over to using the Linux implementation a few years ago.
You missed Gentile off the list, Neo Hegelian and “godfather of fascism”.

Hegel is useful to me as a shortcut to knowing that anything or anyone deriving from his ideas is awful. I seem to recall Bertrand Russell didn’t seem fond either, Hegel’s entry in the History of Philosophy certainly wasn’t a glowing review.
>>> The Scott trust was created by journalists for journalists, at a unique point in time where journalists had money to self-finance

Where is the trust created by coders for coders at a time uniquely profitable for coders?
Debian is fat?? I always thought it was a nice, minimalist server distro.
How much is the licensing for a small company wanting external users to use it to use an app hosted online?
Exactly. New image models are always exciting for two weeks or so. New LLM models are useful until the next,. better model comes out.

Which probably is just a small integer multiple of two weeks, but hey!
You’re saying this business built on scamming businesses is scamming its customers? I’m shocked, shocked.
The vast majority of people are consumers, not AI developers. Of course viral moments will be more consumer-oriented. It's easier to digest and reshare a Ghiblified-caricature than a research paper. But the content of that research paper will lead to the next viral moment years down the line.
I don’t think the window length is the key metric. It’s the ratio of time between peak traffic and normal traffic time
Selling on benchmarks is like selling users a blender by telling them the efficiency % of the motor. No regular person cares.
I nevertheless find pure cellulose as a food additive very unpleasant.
An intern with previous charges was given access to top secret info?

Are they trying to reenact the DOGE intern thing?
> due to their antiquated sales process

I don't think anyone wants a larger slice of the pie, I think they want the share of the pie that they earned that was consumed by (what appears to be) outright fraud on Tesla's part. Tesla's numbers are implausible at best, at least showing some unusual and unexplained behavior. They exhausted the credits with the incredibly dubious sales. Why shouldn't they be investigated?
I think the proliferation of power banks is also relevant. More and more people have come to consider a power bank + cable to be normal travel gear. High energy density (it's not surrounded by equipment meant to be powered from the battery) and people often cheap out figuring the cost of a bad one being low.
I agree about the skis. I think one important difference from the golf clubs is that they've enabled the really talented people to take things to a level previously unimaginable. Big mountain skiing is pretty bananas these days.
I just wrote a post about this kind of stuff and why it's (almost always) nonsense. You will spend more time and effort trying to shoe-horn SQLite into a server database than you will ever get any benefits from.

https://benwilber.github.io/programming/2025/03/31/sqlite-is...
They even started to make some meme cowrie shells in China.
I wonder how Hideo Miyazaki feels about this, the fact that machines are able to recreate his style seems to go against the whimsy he creates in his art. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a possible lawsuit considering how strongly that style is tied to him, and that the model surely used his films as data.

If it was me I would feel horrible that what I gave to the public and dedicated my life to was contorted in this manner.
> Basically, if your stick breaks when defending, you can go ahead and use your body to play and fling the puck to your teammates as appropriate

Isn't that specifically banned?

>> and the play shall not be stopped unless, in the opinion of the on-ice officials, he has directed the puck to a teammate [...] and subsequently possession and control of the puck is obtained by a player of the offending team
Pre-Trump, I had a paid online subscription to Guardian for a time, because it was so well written and informative.

After 2016, however, they seemed to adopt a firm anti-MAGA stance which I found to be biased and off-putting. Their highly critical stance against Israel after the Hamas attacks of October 2023 was the last straw.

Then, they withdrew from the X platform and now they might as well not exist, as far as I'm concerned. I think that was a mistake, given their significant following on X, but I guess they felt they don't need it.
>Yes, it is. It is blatantly unfair to charge different people different prices. You can illustrate this with a thought experiment: nobody would think it's ok if I charge Joe $5, but charge Bob $10 because I don't like him very much.

This isn't as airtight proof of "unfair" as you think it is. Moreover this happens all the time without people being outraged. McDonalds might charge Joe $5, and Bob $10 for the same burger, because McDonalds likes Joe very much for using their app, so they send him offers.

Even if we do grant that charging people different prices is fundamentally "unfair", it leads to all sorts of strange conclusions. For instance if some retailer has some product on discount today only. Is that also "unfair"? I don't see how "buys a fridge on Wednesday rather than Thursday" is a morally justifiable reason to give different prices than say, being able to scout out a coupon or not. Should we ban time limited sales as well?
No, to be fair I use it for everything except root (which I prefer to backup as IaC, not that I wouldn't use ZFS, it's just not default so requires more effort). I use ZFS datasets to back everything except the OS, including DBs which has been the most satisfying aspect of using ZFS (being able to snapshot live DBs together with all other relevant state rather than a as a separate replication process).

While I can't comment on using it for root, I can say for other use, the only annoyance I have is compiling the kernel module on every single update. This is automatically handled by APT, but for very small servers it can be slow... at most ~15 mins. Could be solved with private distribution for a large fleet but I can't be bother with that stuff. Hoping at some point Debian will relax their strict "to the letter of the GPL" attitude at some point like they did with install media drivers. But it's not the worst experience, at least installing is automated.
I feel like you underestimate the degree to which AI developers are influenced in just the same ways as everybody else.

Capturing mindshare matters no matter how you do it. I would bet my life savings that more people will join OpenAI to work on their models as a result of the Ghibli moment than will join Google as a result of this particular (incredibly impressive!) Gemini iteration.

Because we’re humans! And we’re all pretty easily impressed, even those of us who actually build these dang things.
Someone’s attitude shouldn’t prejudice you against their opinion
it's coming: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Invoker_Com...
Loves fascism. Runs to Canada. Checks out.
Speed of replication isn't a part of copyright law, is it?
Carbon Argonite? =)
One of my favorite tools. However, I don’t think that Visidata is a spreadsheet, even though it looks like one and is named after one. It is more spreadsheet adjacent. It is focused on row-based and column-based operations. It doesn’t support arbitrary inter-cell operation(s), like you get in Excel-like spreadsheets. It is great for “Tidy Data’, where each row represents a coherent set of information about an object or observation. This is very much like Awk, or other pipeline tools which are also line/row oriented.

For CLI tools, I’m also a big fan of Miller (https://github.com/johnkerl/miller) to filter/modify CSV and other data sources.
I wish I had suggestions! The daunting nature of the onboarding is what cooled my jets in the first place, and I never got part the ideation phase with this particular project.

The need is there (at least for some of us!) so the sell shouldn't be so hard, but I feel like I'm missing the "a-ha!" differentiator here. It's not enough to pull the good/useful remnants from the sludge socials are today; it would need an extra something to excite people enough to make the effort to engage with yet another online service.
This is a quote from "Ignition!" The particular quoted passage from that book is one of the highlights of the unique ironic tone the author used to describe real and dangerous chemical research.

The book firmly establishes its tone with the first two pictures at the front: a successful rocket engine test and the remaining rubble of the same test stand after a failed test.
I would love to be proven wrong, but if you ignore all the hype pieces and (from what I can tell) a TON of pseudo-scientific shit floating around, while it's possible to make these systems as accurate as possible, they would still be fundamentally unreliable since the systems aren't deterministic. Try asking the usual "is 9.11 greater than 9.9" question, on my last test with 3.7 Sonnet it first said "yes" and then eventually converged to "no". Quite hilarious at times.

Point being, LLMs don't really understand what they're saying; they're just predicting the next word. I'm not trying to downplay that, by the way - it's all very impressive. But it's not intelligent intelligent, and I think we should all be wary of comments like "oh we should just keep throwing more compute and data at it and consciousness/self awareness would eventually emerge". I think that's just fodder to raise/burn VC money (and the planet).
The USDA says to cut off at least an inch and be careful not to cut through mold: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and...
Should I be concerned about my drawing speed lest it qualifies as copyright informant?
Facts you probably didn't know about Windows as Microsoft turns 50
there is more. the number of moves left at the end is a multiplier for your points, so try to get through the level with a minimum number of moves while maximizing points by capturing high value pieces and also find streaks where you capture multiple pieces in a row.

i love looking at a board and try to figure out the best order of moves to get the most points.

not that i am very good at it, but it's fun and addictive.
Common to all "3rd options" seems to be their (read, immediate) implicit/tacit "dual-use" assumption:

Egs:

DARPA: every new findout is an edge for beating the soviets

Patronage: sooner or later, but most likely sooner, you come up with something your funder can brag about or profit from or simply feel good about

(Detour back to second options.

Academia: professors must bring in the tuition bacon at the very least

Industry: academics can immediately reverse engineer your artifacts or even patents, if they happen not to be mere positioning.)

Bell labs: if you squint hard enough, everything is related to infocomm infra

Sorry, had to try to beat that "one day everything will see the sun!" clause

https://archive.today/latest/www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/nyre...
Ubuntu pushes Snap. Flatpak is the open platform that nearly every other distribution uses.
Honestly things like this can also be an argument FOR crazy high death taxes.

Something similar happened in a history podcast I heard about Porche, which is still owned by the original family. At one point, germany told them their tax on ownership gains is 90%. So instead, they decided they would just re-invest into the business R&D to write off the taxes instead. That gave us the invention of Porche's Racing team. source: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/porsche-with-doug-demuro
The early ~2008 Linux-supplied dirt cheap Acer Aspire One A110L netbooks came with small (8GB?) and horrifically slow SSDs.

Back in the days of such things, we'd upgrade the RAM and use Windows XP with the write filter to make them great little machines. There was an SD card slot in the side that would happily store files.

The SSDs were very limited in read-write cycles from what I remember. More noticeable they brutally slow at writing. By shoving all the writes into RAM instead of direct the SSD, everything ran more smoothly.

If you wanted to keep any changes (usually due to OS or software updates) then you ran a batch file that wrote out the changes to the SSD before shutdown. Otherwise you shut the machine down and all your changes were immediately forgotten.

RAM Upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3WVb1dL--o
Enhanced Write Filter: https://www.prime-expert.com/articles/a04/speeding-up-ssd-ba...
Show HN: April Fools No More: PunyNews Goes Large, Quality Leaps Are No Joke
After a month of running PunyNews.com on modest hardware, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a decent GPU. This allowed me to run significantly larger models with generation speeds that are dramatically faster - what used to take minutes now completes in seconds. The quality improvement has been remarkable - images are noticeably more coherent, text integration is smoother, and the overall aesthetic has jumped several levels. What started as a playful experiment has evolved into something that occasionally produces results that genuinely surprise me. Check it out today - the puns might still be puny, but the quality certainly isn't.
That is a good question, is there any harm to play freemium games if the kids aren’t allowed to spend any money?

My view is that freemium games tend to be engineered to hook people into playing for long periods of time. They use strategies similar to how casinos hook gamblers with behavioral conditioning giving intermittent rewards for long play time; basically timed dopamine hits.

So going back to your question regarding not spending money, even though they’re not spending money now they are being conditioned to find such behaviors in games as a norm and one day when they have a source of income themselves those dopamine hits are just a few dollars away.

But my kids are strong willed and they won’t fall for these tricks, you may say. That may be so but the fact that they’re participating in these game platforms is drawing in other children who may not have the same mental fortitude.

I guess my long winded rant is just to say that we shouldn’t be promoting these casino-like games. We should be promoting games that foster creativity and a sense of achievement without pay to win shortcuts and gambling for rewards.
Addressing Burnout
More or less hilarious than "billionnaire that builds companies that utterly depend on government subsidies but the companies are not doing well, goes into government to make the government more efficient and spend less" ?

How do these statements compare? You know, on a hilarity scale from 1 to 10?
Next season everyone has this, and then what? All the historical stats are busted.
Exploring the philosophical values of kimchi and kimjang culture
Generally they will hold onto data for a while without payment. It’s not like a hard drive needs to be replaced every couple of years — can you prepay cloud like domains?
It's not as if this will remove that. The same with the sideloading. Nobody's forcing you to use it.
It's one big component of being corrrupt, yes.

>Is there a theoretical situation where a single party gaining control is simply the will of the voters?

Sure. But not with the current electoral college and its exploits, as well as literal election bribery that is publicly admitted to.
I was a fan of the Guardian back during the Snowden leaks. Ive had to dodge them in recent months for what you described. Since people are doubting you, let's look at the headlines on the front page of a newspaper they is mostly factual despite having some bias. Here we go:

Musk is evil, most scientists warning about Trump, Trump takes over Chips Act, and Trump is a "dictator."

Then, Trump cuts Planned Parenthood, Trump reviews Harvard for antisemitism claims, and Trump pardons "Jan 6 loyalist."

Also, Israel are killers and woke people were right per someone on TV. Then, a few, normal pieces of news if the articles themselves had no slant.

Most of the front page would make those considering source integrity wonder if the paper was funded by a top opponent of Trump or Musk specifically to attack them. I'm not saying there's any data for that. I'm saying that, as a former liberal who used to want high-quality news with a range of views, I'd have thought the Guardian today was as extremely polarized as CNN or Fox.

Then, a popup that billionaires control the media with only two, right-wing ones mentioned. No mention that richest oligarchs funding or controlling education, media, and political campaigns are leftist:

https://youtu.be/fwZPrgcSRaw

Such papers are highly misleading with much drama following the games they play.

It's unfortunate given that the Guardian's ownership model might let it be a politically neutral paper with a range of views. They could be independent with quality, non-extreme writing from many sides. We could see a range of views. If one side, reporting with data representing many perspectives where we know they aren't cherry picking.

I want more news like that. Even the reliable sources that write in endless attacks or pour gas on the fire are draining to read. I'd rather it just be a little work or even pleasant. I dread reading the news these days.
Shame so many creators took the Honey paycheck, even while Honey was taking money out of their pocket by stealing affiliate links. I guess few really vet their sponsors. Not even LTT or MrBeast!
Maaybe, but you'd also have to pass the three-prong test of fair use, and one of the prongs of the test is that your fair use of the material can't eliminate the market for the original material.

I fail to see how taking a distinctive artistic style that was incredibly difficult to produce and shitting out massive amounts of it everywhere as a super low quality commodity would pass the test of fair use.
> For many years, the Guardian was kept solvent through used car sales via Autocar, the most profitable asset in the Scott Trust.

Wasn't that Auto Trader, not Autocar?
Seems like a fad where everyone looks basically the same after the conversion. You are gonna get a reaction for first 5 photos but I’ve grown past it and I just skip looking most of it on social media
The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl (1953) [pdf]
A friend of mine tried to create stock illustrations in Disney style on Etsy, got banned almost immediately for copyright infringement. I guess it depends.
They exist? This is called FOSS and some outfits are even able to offer paid employment.
The cheap junk *should be* banned as a fire hazard.
A lot of offline sync projects just drop data on conflict and pretend it didn't happen. It's the salesman job to divert your questions about it.

I found another blogpost from turso where they say they offer 3 options on conflict: drop it, rebase it (and hope for no conflict?) and "handle it yourself".

Writing an offline sync isn't hard. Dealing with conflicts is a PITA.

https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-offline-writes-for-turso...
What would you want to see for transparency?

We always tried to be as transparent to our users as possible in the product, in the faq, in our customer support, etc.

You can see evidence of that approach at 6:17 in Jonathon's video in the response that he got from customer service about how Honey works (even when he intentionally removes critical context). He reads a support email that says:

"If Honey is activated and is the last program used while shopping on a site, it is likely Honey will receive credit for the purchase, and Gold will be earned by the member. However, if your favorite influencer's affiliate link was the last program associated with your purchase during your shopping on the site then they will receive the credit for the purchase. Keep in..."

Notably he stopped reading before the "and Gold will be earned by the member" because it didn't fit his narrative.

I know it flashed on the screen faster than anyone could read and was zoomed so you couldn't see the whole thing on one screen but would you consider this level of transparency adequate if he read the whole thing?
This has always been among my favorite short stories. It is of course more relevant now than ever before, but I don't think it's well known. It ought to get more attention in my opinion.
"An insult to life itself" [1]

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/hayao-miyazaki-ar...
Yeah I so wish the EU would simply do this.