skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original claim is false,

> intellectual property [...] used over and over again, primarily by the rich and powerful, to stifle original ideas and hold back cultural innovation.

There's nothing about IP which prevents you from creating your own. There are, in fact, a near infinite number of things you can create. More things than there exist stars in our galaxy.

The problem with ideas is that they have to be good. They have to be refined. They have to hit the cultural zeitgeist, solve a particular problem, or just be useful. That's the hard part that takes the investment of time and money.

In the old world before Gen AI, this was the hard thing that kept companies in power. That world is going away fast, and now creation will be (relatively) easy. More taste makers will be slinging content and we'll wind up in a land of abundance. We won't need Disney to give us their opinion on Star Wars - we can make our own.

The new problem is distributing that content.

> The idea of open sourcing everything and nullifying patents would benefit corporations like Disney and OpenAI vastly more than it would benefit the people. The first thing that would happen is that BigCorp would eat up every interesting or useful piece of art, technology, and culture that has ever been created and monetize the life out of it.

Unless the masses can create and share on equal footing, you're 100% right.

If it turns out, however, that we don't need Google, OpenAI, or big tech to make our own sci-fi epics, share them with a ton of people, and interact with friends and audiences, then the corporations won't be able to profit off of it.

If social networks were replaced with common carriers and protocols.

If Gen AI could run at the edge without proprietary models or expensive compute.

If the data of YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram didn't require hyperscaler infra to store, search, and serve.

Unfortunately, there are too many technical reasons why the giants will win. And network effects will favor the few versus many. Unless those parameters change, we'll be stuck with big tech distribution.

Even if the laws around IP change, the hard tech challenges keep the gatekeepers in power. The power accrues to those who can dominate creation (if creation is unilateral), or even more so, to the distributors of that content.
curious what the Dem equivalent of the tea party means? Does that mean a libertarian streak before populist takeover, or is that meant more in terms of a critical voting block to extract concessions?
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Oh, I think you missed something then:

There is both `$if` and `$switch` compile time statements for this: https://c3-lang.org/generic-programming/compiletime/#if-and-...

At the top level and `@if` attribute is used to achieve the same thing: https://c3-lang.org/language-common/attributes/#if
"Pariah"? Do you really want to ruin the life of a person that ruins your entertainment? Okay, they will do this quietly. Then what?

Bypassing a good anticheat was and still is a good way to obtain a ton of reverse engineering and software security-related knowledge. Many people are doing this for fun and I don't see any problem with this. Cheating is another question, though.
Intellectual humility is just as rare with AI as it is with humans.
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
I do kind of yern for the simpler days when if a website didn't mind bots it allowed it and if they did they blocked your user agent.
That helps but there's still a huge burden on the community who end up having to self moderate. I think one of the biggest issues today is that cheating is not so easy to uncover anymore. It could just be rose tinted glasses or just lack of knowledge among the public about what cheat developers were up to but 20 years ago I don't really remember it being such a prevalent issue. I'd see rage hackers, spin botters, people blatantly using god mode or flying out of bounds or wall hacking but never heard much in the way of the kind of culture that seems to be prevalent now. It feels like there's plenty of extremely subtle cheats out there today and even "microcheats" that don't do much other than tweaking certain values by 10%~ in a way that gives a significant advantage to players with enough skill to leverage their play style around that without it being obvious that they are in fact cheating. And you'd go paranoid trying to catch them out because people are much more clever about how they use them.
I agree with your advice but have to remark that often times stakeholders are not open to talk to techies. I loved those who were but most weren't.
Don't want to steal your topic but I had written a lightweight task runner to learn GoLang [0]. Would be great to have your and others' comments. It works only as a Go library.

[0] https://github.com/oneapplab/lq

P.S: far from being alternative to Hatchet product
Reveal.js Presentations with Hugo
>>Or, take another angle. If the US can no longer import vital goods, what do you think will happen? Will the goods magically stop being vital? Will we sit on our hands for several decades and wait for the problem to resolve?

No - consumers will just eat the cost like they did during COVID.

>> Or does the market respond to a need and rearrange itself to provide as profitably as possible?

rearranging itself will mean leaving the status quo, and passing the cost to consumers. Do you think companies are going to jump to spend millions of dollars and 1 year+ to build factories to work around something that might change in 6 months, or even 4 years ?
> The calculus is pretty complicated. Economies of scale become a factor - is one large global factory more efficient than separate regional facilities?

It's not about efficiency. Companies in the US only build and ship their products from the opposite side of the planet because over there they can abuse the local slave labor and pollute the environment in ways that would never be accepted in the US. Even when they could easily afford to by accepting less profit, they aren't going to move production to the US when it means they can't take advantage of those things.
Yes, this is a very real problem that I've also written about: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c...
SGTM.

Honestly, seriously. Imagine some weird Thanos showed up, snapped his fingers and every single bit of generative AI software/models/papers/etc. were wiped from the Earth forever.

Would that world be measurably worse in any way in terms of meaningful satisfying lives for people? Yes, you might have to hand draw (poorly) your D&D character.

But if you wanted to read a story, or look at an image, you'd have to actually connect with a human who made that thing. That human would in turn have an audience for people to experience the thing they made.

Was that world so bad?
I am saddened to read this. You are letting them get away with it and they'll extract completely the wrong idea out of your noble gesture.
> As a summary of market economics, your breakdown is a grossly misguided caricature on the other hand. While there are exceptions and inefficiencies, most wealth in the market economies isn't created by hoarding anything after having taken it from others, it's instead created by cleverly using limited resources to deliver something to others who want to hand over their money inn exchange for the alternative value you provide, and also finding more capital-efficient ways of doing more of the same on a greater scale.

This seems like a nice empty abstraction to wield to shield yourself from serious and sober moral analysis. Every man owes society a debt through his training, education, knowledge, the public services he enjoys, and the good will of others. Yet, in spite of this, under capitalism many men feel justified to take more from others—on what grounds? In many cases, they also feel justified in outright extorting others, or socializing costs. Yet I'm sure you view all manner of these practices as "cleverly using limited resources"—I can't wait to use that as my excuse when I dump factory waste into the local reservoir.
How do restaurants work, then? You can’t copyright a recipe. Instructions can’t generally be copyrighted, otherwise someone would own the fastest route from A to B and charge every person who used it. The whole idea of intellectual property gets really weird when you try to pinpoint what exactly is being owned.

I do not agree with your conjecture that big corps would win by default. Ask why would people need protection from having their work stolen when the only ones welding weaponized copyright are the corporations. People need the freedom to wield culture without
restriction, not protection from someone having the same idea as them and manifesting it.
A Review of George Selgin's False Dawn
That’s an interesting point. If we created super-intelligence but it wasn’t anthropomorphic, we might just not consider it super-intelligent as a sort of ego defence mechanism.

Much good (and bad) sci-fi was written about this. In it, usually this leads to some massive conflict that forces humans to admit machines as equals or superiors.

If we do develop super-intelligence or consciousness in machines, I wonder how that will all go in reality.
The requisite information just isn’t in the arrangement of photons that touch the camera lens!

Especially since good weight programs rely on fairly minor caloric deltas where e.g. physically invisible amounts of butter can switch you from a deficit to a surplus.
That is literally the pitch line for Devin. I recently spoke to the CTO of a small healthtech startup and he was very pro-Devin for small fixes and PRs, and thought he was getting his money worth. Claude Code is a little clunkier but gives better results, and it wouldn't take much effort to hook it up to a Slack interface.
"A modern Internet website with a scroll bar that isn't broken."

I'll see myself out now.
What if all that research led to some incredible world changing for the better idea/concept/product in an open society that would benefit everyone, in the closed society only those allowed to use the patent benefit
Dingdingding

Since none of those assumptions are specified, you have no idea which of them will inexplicably change during a bugfix. You wanted that in cornflower blue instead, but now none of your settings are persisted in the backend. So you tell it to persist the backend, but now the UI is completely different. So you specify the UI more precisely, and now the backend data format is incompatible.

By the time you specify all the bits you care about, maybe you start to think about a more concise way to specify all these requirements…
The copyright last 70 years after the death of the author, so 170 years would be rare (indeed 190 years would be possible). This was an implementation of a 1993 EU directive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Duration_Directive

That itself was based on the 1886 Berne Convention. "The original goal of the Berne Convention was to protect works for two generations after the death of the author". 50 years, originally. But why? Apparently Victor Hugo (he of Les Miserables) is to blame. But why was he bothered?

Edit: it seems the extension beyond the death of the author was not what Hugo wanted. "any work of art has two authors: the people who confusingly feel something, a creator who translates these feelings, and the people again who consecrate his vision of that feeling. When one of the authors dies, the rights should totally be granted back to the other, the people." So I'm still trying to figure out who came up with it, and why.
Interestingly enough the census (which I believe is the source the WH used) https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/country.xlsx does show trade with Heard & McDonald. Also reflected on the webpage: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/index.html#H

Now what the underlying items are that were traded? Not sure. Guessing you can dig it up in AES https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/aes/index.html but have not been able to figure that out. Let me know if you do.
In practice it's often longer. Drug companies queue up minor tweaks to their formulas and can threaten to sue anyone even close to the new way, even carbon copies of the now expired patent. Few can afford to win a lawsuit.

We need more courts and judges to speed the process, to make justice more accessible, and universal SLAPP protections to weed out frivolous abuse.
PyTiDB: A Modern Python Database Access Layer for TiDB Serverless
How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid–and What I Do Now
The Research Behavior of Individual Investors [pdf]
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-i-realized-ai-was-making-me-...
Photoshop is unapproachable to the 99%.

A faster GPT 4o will kill Photoshop for good.
> In reality I don’t think people’s political opinions change very much and they are just mad that their children individuated.

I think this probably the case as well. If I look back at how my own views shifted, the shift very likely would’ve happened regardless of if I’d attended university, assuming everything else was the same. It wasn’t the university that resulted in the shift as much as it was my getting out of my local bubble out into the world and experiencing it for myself.

Basically any kind of life experience that brings a young person to actually think and more deeply consider the world around them is likely to result in some level of individuation and shift away from inherited views. It’s perfectly natural and healthy.
We're already seeing the effects. Many people don't feel secure enough in their finances, or confident enough in the future they'd be bringing children into to have kids. As far as I can tell things will only get worse long before they even have a chance to get better.
Ok, wow.

MCP is REALLY taking off FAST D:
The article content does not follow from the title.
> Not so implicit, "I will be your retribution".

I don't particularly like the idea of tariffs, but it is what it is.

Having to put up with policies you don't like is simply the social consequence of applying unpopular policies for four years in the other direction.

If the opposing party supports outsourcing, importing of labor, no protections for domestic industry, then they should expect retaliation from people who don't like those policies and who have the means to vote in someone who will push for whatever they view as corrective action.

This is a democracy. If one party pushes unpopular policies (unpopular to the other side), don't be surprised with the opposition pushes back.
Honestly man since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the left in the US threw their whole weight into pushing the Overton window on identity politics/intersectionality to the point that "real" old time leftists and communists (like my father) were treated like some sort of conservatives, lol. They went way past the sustainable point.
My experience in reading computer science papers is almost exactly the opposite of yours: theorems are almost always written in formal symbolic language. Proofs vary more, from brief prose sketching a simple proof to critical components of proofs given symbolically with prose tying it together.

(Uncommonly, some papers - mostly those related to type theory - go so far as to reference hundreds of lines of machine verified symbolic proofs.)
thinkpad soldered ram is a no for me
Senior developer skills haven't changed. Wrangling paragraphs of business slop into real technical requirements, communicating these to various stakeholders, understanding how all the discrete parts of whatever system you're building fit together, being responsible for timelines, getting the rest of the team coordinated/aligned and on-track, etc.

Actually coding is a relatively small part of my job. I could use an LLM for the others parts but my employer does not appreciate being given word salad.
> We won't need Disney to give us their opinion on Star Wars - we can make our own.

Disney would say that you can’t. And in the current copyright regime, it’s not unlikely that they’d convince the court that they’re right.
> “Before starting the series, we stuffed ourselves to the gills with Norse mythology, as well as almost every other type of mythology – we love it all! But you’ve got to remember that these are legendary tales – myths – and no two versions are ever exactly the same. We changed a lot of things – for example, in most of the myths Thor has red hair, Odin has one eye, etc. But we preferred doing our own version.”

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/54400/why-did-earl...

Huh, did not know that. As an Icelandic person I knew about Þór the Norse god much earlier than Thor the marvel character. I never really pictured his hair color, nor knew he had a specific hair color in the mythology. I actually always pictured him with a beard though. What mostly mattered though was his characteristics. His ill temper and drinking habits, and the fact that he was not a nice person, nor a hero, but rather a guy who starts shit that gets everyone else in trouble, he also wins every fight except one (he looses one against Elli [the personification of old age]). The little I’ve seen of him in the Marvel movies, he keeps almost none of these characteristics.

EDIT: My favorite story of him is the depiction of the fall of Ásgarður, where Loki and some Jötun are about to use the gods vanity against them and con them out of stuff they cannot actually pay for a wall around Ásgarður. Þór, being the way he is, cannot be around a Jötun without fighting and killing him. So rather than paying up (which the gods cannot do) Þór is sent to see this Jötun, knowing very well that he will be murdered. This betrayal is marked as the beginning of the end in Völuspá (verse 26).
There are also trademark protections. I heard Ford actually trademarked his likeness to ensure he got a piece of the merchandise action.
This is what was often missed in the previous round of AI discourse that criticized these companies for forcing diversity into their systems after the fact. Every suave spy being Daniel Craig is just the apolitical version of every nurse being a woman or every criminal being Black. Converging everything to the internet's most popular result represents an inaccurate and a dumped down version of the world. You don't have to value diversity as a concept at all to recognize this as a systemic flaw of AI, it is as easy as recognizing that Daniel Craig isn't the only James Bond let alone the only "suave English spy".
But the US$ is kept artificially high because it's used as a reserve currency for things like oil/etc - this is IMHO the main reason why the US is in this position, it wont let its currency float down leaving exporters screwed (but cheap imports for the masses). Just increasing the cost of imports but not making export prices higher (lower in fact because other countries will be raising tariffs against the US)

It's very much a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" fix an artificially high US$ and you can force everyone to trade in it for oil, but as a side effect you screw your exporters
The point is because it generally produces crap code you have to one shot or else iteration becomes hard. Similar to how a junior would try to refactor their mess and just make a bigger mess
Its written for people who know nothing about computers but most people who will read it knows loads.
Indeed. It's less hassle to just visually arrange and eat smaller portions than go through all that cataloguing work.
For sure. I look at the shilling people do for The Next Big Thing (such as AI) and think, “if you put that much time and care into acquiring competence in something useful you wouldn’t need to be chasing internet clout along with all the other too-online people.”
https://archive.is/eOUpt

Related The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking (129 points, 2 months ago, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057907

And again.. (202 points, 8 days ago, 138 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484224
Reads like it was written by AI.
How secure is your WordPress site? Hacked In mins [video]
Yeah, I reached out to Dan a few months back. Unfortunately, didn't have a copy anymore (and they were awesome enough to even check backups, props!). At this point I'd be happy with just the headers, the ones from "0.2001061600-2.3" just a few months later seem different enough.

Not a blocker for what I'm working on, but more of an itch to track down the lost version.
Life is conditioned and unfree get used to it.
The story is very clearly modeled to follow the exponential curve they show.

Like the drew the curve out into the shape they wanted, put some milestones on it, and then went to work imagining what would happen if it continued with a heavy dose of X-risk doomerism to keep it spicy.

It conveniently ignores all of the physical constraints around things like manufacturing GPUs and scaling training networks.
£10, if you don't mind!

I routinely use "Mickey mouse money" as an American once colourfully described it to me. I bit my lip and added 25% to the bill before presenting it. "Sauce for the goose" ...
Probably spending 5 hours swapping diskettes and then finding out disk #48 was bad is like the worst feeling ever
I think if I can expect my mom to know what it is, I shouldn’t have to define it in articles any more.

So TLS and URL get a pass, BSD’s and MCP need to be defined at least once.
Which Apps Have Mobile Trackers on Your Android Phone?
I made, somewhat for my own use, an Android app that queries the apps on your device and sends them to AppGoblin to request their tracking data.

This let's you see which apps have trackers (ok all of them do, lol) and which trackers they each have. The trackers are organized by their parent companies and the type (ad network, business tool etc). This includes development tools, which likely do NOT track your data, and have an "open source" tag to help indicate this.

This is only for around ~40k apps and games so your device likely has apps I haven't successfully decompiled. Please feel free to use the app to request new decompiles, but be prepared this can take a couple days and is not always doable, please feel free to reach out on Discord if there are issues to be troubleshooted.

Finally, I'd love any feedback. While I wont be adding large features, if you have any ideas for better organization of the companies / SDKs or information you think is missing please let me know!
The fact that it scales sub linearly with hardware is well known and in fact foundational to the scaling laws on which modern LLMs are built, ie performance scales remarkably closely to log(compute+data), over many orders of magnitude.
People's political opinions definitely change, especially with age and wealth.
If people don't want things to continue to deteriorate, then the economic disenfranchisement of the American working class must be put to a stop. It's really pretty simple.
oh they hate it so much when this hypocrisy is pointed out. better put the high school kids downloading books on pirate bay in jail but I guess if your name starts with Alt and ends in man then there's an alt set of rules for you.

also remember when GPU usage was so bad for the environment when it was used to mine crypto, but I guess now it's okay to build nuclear power plants specifically for gen-ai.
It doesn't hurt that the model vendors get paid by the token, so there's zero incentive to correct this pattern at the model layer.
You pick one example and ignore thousands of writers who didn't even return costs after publishing a book. Also, as another example, a great Russian 19th century poet and writer Alexander Pushkin left lot of debt after his death. He supported publishing other writers but it turned out to be a commercial failure. Maybe this fact will make you less unhappy about supposedly unclouded lazy writer's career.