jruohonen

Even though I haven't read the actual ruling, speculatively, it seems like a dangerous precedent. For instance, search engines and LLM-powered search might now be liable too, including with respect to training data. Science too, maybe.

I suppose he saw also this coming. Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737387

https://man.netbsd.org/blocklistd.8

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830868

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905390

Nice idea! Simple but no one has done it previously, so that counts. (As per some posts, I stand corrected, but still, I believe no one has done it as an implementation.)

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892601

Good discussion, for and against.

Now, finally, maybe I'd join, but, on a second thought, no thanks, still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM62wjLrgmA

There is a different angle to it (in case of non-sensitive data, at least):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608356

DeepL has it as:

"I am no standard-bearer,

no eagle-hearted guide

on your journey to the land of dawn.

I am a willow by the riverbank,

through which the winds blow,

from which the world’s rebellious spirit

plays a simple flute to play a melody"

Pretty good; I couldn't have done it better, I suppose. (Though, "standards-bearer" is weird.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474664

I'd argue: one of his best essays, but as he was possibly among the best essayists all time; probably among the best among the whole Western canon.

While you have to distill the marketing, I still appreciated the positive tone; cf. also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853277

I agree about sources, but it is dated March 2025, so I doubt whether the slop comment is accurate. Besides, the actual tattoos (well, some of them) were "beautiful" (scare quotes intended for cultural reasons).

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707337

So, I mean viz the national languages, dialects, etymology, etc., which I suppose have been forgotten in many places.

Indeed, but according to my testing, Semantic Scholar is actually still the best in the game. But even that is extremely slow. What gives?

And please give me something like:

./query --topic "whatever I am interested at the moment" --OAonly --allPapersAsPDFs --download --maxRelated=10

Or:

./query --topic "whatever I am interested at the moment" --RSSfeed --maxEntriesPerDay=25 --withPersonalization

etc. In other words, most scientists are not particularly interested on navigating obscure and slow web platforms.

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700214

via

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38801848

"These are important questions because scientists are increasingly overwhelmed with the volume of new work posted on preprint servers and published in journals. As a result, traditional quality signals used for triaging papers, such as journal, conference venue, and institution, are becoming less reliable."

The diagnosis is right but the treat is dead wrong. Instead of silly scoring systems, please improve recommender systems for papers. In this space, also opt-in and query-based personalization would be okay.

Personally, the p.d.f. of the normal distribution is among them.

asciinema?

I think it was a fairly good take, including w.r.t. lobbying, if you are into it. I liked especially one of the takeaways:

"As such, we need to ask not only what research can do for policy but also what policy can do for research: What kind of research do we need and what kind of evidence do we want to develop?"

Me too!

Good luck, but I am not sure about the direction.

I mean, for a while, I thought something like Substack (and not Fediverse) could disturb things a little, but I suppose it and many others have already been killed by slop. So, if you do verified identity management, which is good for certain purposes but perhaps not for others, I suppose you should also do decentralized trust management, and with an ability to delete nodes from a personal but federated trust chain. (And feel free to adopt the idea also for science; it would be very much needed.)

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433267

(T. Cowen has had some similar ideas, I think.)

So can you provide something the "lab" made?

I forget things all the time, and many of them I regret afterwards (e.g., because they were some good ideas, papers, blog posts, code, whatever). Three things come to mind: old-fashioned README files within directories you are working on (whatever you are working on); having local git repositories and committing frequently (i.e., also beyond code); and, for some things, old-school pen and a notebook.

"We thus advocate for calm growth in your vulnerability exposure management teams and processes, rather than a panic-driven narrative."

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636061