jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, as others have noted, apparently they do have some affordance for that. But in general, the argument "why don't they collect data X to see if it's relevant to their goals" could be applied to literally any possible data X. Of course intuition must be used to focus data collection efforts.
"If I feed all 7 books of Harry Potter into an AI, and only that, and then it spits out something - That's clearly a derivative work." does not match the current legal interpretation in the industry.

The general assumption is that machine learning models trained on some data are (usually - details matter) not considered derivative work from that data; so unless you have specific contractual restrictions (e.g. you got the date bacause you have a contract with the data owner saying what you'll do/not do with the models derived from it) then copyright does not prohibit you from using and distributing these models. That's the case even if it's trained on a particular dataset with a single, clear copyright owner.

It probably starts with old precedent on copyrightability of statistics derived from creative work - things like word frequency, most common words, etc are not considered derivative works.

Then we have statistical language models, of the kind that were used in statistical machine translation before the neural approaches overtook everything - and again, the established interpretation there is that statical models trained on a corpus are not considered derivative work from that data, because they essentially are a trivial extension of word sequence frequency counts... but they already are in the category of "feed all 7 books of Harry Potter into an AI, and only that, and then it spits out something", e.g. a simple hidden Markov model or trigram language model from Harry Potter books will easily hallucinate (very lousy quality) Potter-themed text, but the model that can do that is not considered derivative work.

Though this all may vary in different jurisdictions.
Right, "AI" is still developed by someone, it hasn't just poofed into existence fully formed. Now if two AI's from separate individuals collaborated to create a new AI...
And when I switch laptops I get to type 'tmux at' in 14 different windows? No thanks.
The title is wrong. It's “Committee on Homeland Security”, not “Department”.
You’re kind of right, but not quite.

When the bolsheviks took power the first thing they did was seize the means of communication in order to control speech. They became the only authorized voice to speak.

So it’s not freedom of speech but control of speech by a single entity that establishes “narrative” that is the problem.
HP used to make their own custom CPUs for their calculators, with an architecture designed for BCD arithmetic using 56-bit and later 64-bit registers. In 2003 they switched their graphing calculators to ARM9 processors running an emulator of their old CPU architecture so that they didn't need to re-write the whole OS.

SwissMicros did something similar for HP's non-graphing calculators, recreating the keyboard layouts but using modern ARM processors that run emulators of the original HP calculators. Apparently HP's early calculators did not include copyright notices for their OS: https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/microcode_copyright_status/
Google for some owns the full pipeline of websites, from where the website is being served from (Google AMP), scripts where the website does client side stuff (Tag Manager + Analytics), to the browser that reads it (Google Chrome / Chromium) and in some cases even the OS (Chrome OS).

Is not hard to imagine that they are getting rid of Cookies because they now have other ways of getting the data, and getting rid of Cookies would make things harder for competitors that don't own the full pipeline.

Even with that, I'm sure that the engineers working on Chromium/Google Chrome are being told that they are removing Cookies for the greater good and don't have insights into the longer pipeline that we're now seeing the middle off.
"Capitol Hill Protest" because if that was a riot, then what was Portland, Seattle, Kenosha? Fiery, but mostly peaceful?
Yes, I have a question: why the testing payload for the exploit is "urmum" (as in "your mother")?

It sounds borderline misogynistic to me.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675556
Genuinely curious since this is definitely outside of my wheelhouse, what are the reasons why a business might choose to go with one of these startups vs a larger bank, such as Wells Fargo? And at what point does the business outgrow these small startups?
I can not thank you enough for your “The Illustrated Transformer” [1] that I have directed two cohorts of MSc students to – it is a true gem of an article. A few years ago my group made an interface to visualise contextual word representations [2] that looked like a primordial soup ancestor to your most recent article (no screenshots though, sadly). I hope putting these together brings you as much joy as it does to your fans in academia and education like myself reading it. Despite Chris Ohla’s effort with Distill, I still think we lack a good way to give the amount of credit efforts like yours deserve.

[1]: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer

[2]: https://github.com/uclnlp/muppetshow
Brains in isolation, yes.

But intelligence isn't just a "brain in a jar" situation. Intelligence requires interaction with the environment - you'd never be able to tell whether a Boltzmann Brain is intelligent from just observing it, for example.
When this article went up, I realized that I'd allowed WA to access my Contacts, so I went in and revoked that permission. It immediately reformatted my whole conversation list as phone numbers instead of names. I can't rename the conversation, but I can "add to contacts"... which inexplicably shows me my OS contact editor, which they're not allowed to read. So I guess that as punishment for not letting them constantly vacuum up my contact list and send it all to FB, they make it harder to figure out who I'm talking to. Classic FB.
Still, it's a nice way to shift blame to scientists and engineers, away from people who actually use these tools for evil, or commission development of technologies to use in their evil business models.
Well if RackSpace, an industry veteran with 12 years of serving experience and $600m+ annual revenues, feels that a two-year old venture funded startup offers superior monitoring functionality than that says a lot about the company's internal processes and development priorities.

(that's not a disrespect to CloudKick, but an examination of scales of economy)

But whatever. If this is about bolstering RS's own monitoring does that mean CloudKick will no longer be monitoring 3rd party vendors?

I'm guessing CloudKick will still continue to be more than happy to monitor Amazon EC2, Linode, GoGrid, etc out of the box.

And so even if this acquisition is going to help RackSpace's own monitoring, the point still stands that RS now has a massive competitive intelligence operation going on here too. If the data is available inside the company then it even has a duty to shareholders, as a publicly listed company, to make the most out of that data to enhance profits.
Hi, sorry if what I'm saying here is obvious and well-known; I'm coming to the whole Cicada thing late.

When the article listed the names of cities, one jumped out at me: Fayetteville, Arkansas. I used to live in Fayetteville, and it's tiny and insignificant -- totally out of place in a list with cities like Seoul.

But surprisingly, weev lived briefly in Fayetteville. So I search for weev and cicada, and find that he wrote an essay in 2013 called "The Tiger and the Cicada".
>Now everyone knows that you’re more likely to get the information you need by searching for “milk” in Google, rather than hope that Milk.com has the information you’re looking for.

Exactly. This is why non-tech people type "hotmail.com" into google. Links are a horrible UI for most everyone.
While the individuals themselves may be thought of as users, they are employees of 3rd party partners who act as data handlers and/or data processors. As such it is entirely appropriate that the platform is responsible for this compromise (although depending on the terms of the contract, they could seek restitution from the 3rd parties.

If you as a consumer give your booking.com login information to someone and your information is subsequently stolen, Booking.com would not be responsible for your security practices.
That was part of the message, but another part was that it was "not airborne" (and that messages to the contrary are misinformation) and that healthy people wearing masks has "no medical benefit". All while they were walking around in bunny suits and full face masks in china.

https://a.pomf.cat/efwzku.png https://a.pomf.cat/kgzdak.png
Well, I can opt-out of a phonebook, at least here in Germany for decades already. I can't do that on this leak.
I worked at a very large bug bounty program for a short spell a few years back. I’ve been in the infosec world since the 90’s, and the number of ridiculously talented teenagers around the world that were sending in very good reports on sophisticated attacks was pretty mind boggling.

Yes there was a lot of garbage too, but that was to be expected. I came away thinking that i hope these kids remain engaged and invested in society lol.
He didn't advocate for a land tax. He advocated for an investment tax that would prevent developers from building more than 6 units at once. The developer would need some sketchy presale arrangement to obtain funding since he is no longer allowed to own the entire building until construction.
Hey, I made a machine learning rig with four NVIDIA RTX A6000 and an AMD EPYC 2 with 32 cores, including 192 GB in GPU memory and 256GB in RAM.

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Wasn't the GDPR supposed to award fines in the range of millions?
Thanks for your comment. I realized that I missed clarifying the type of "minimal" I want to pursue. I have updated the wiki accordingly.
https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr/wiki/Features#minimalist.
It can lead to kidney stones.
Training. Emergency assistance. Military applications. Don't trap yourself by thinking that the item needs to be the be-all for the Joneses.
I've seen this said a lot, but in my experience whenever a merchant has different prices for cash and credit card, the cash price is always lower. So whatever the merchant is paying to Visa and/or MasterCard, it's more than it costs to handle cash.
The cliff is incentive to stay that first full year. The gradual vesting of the rest of the equity is incentive to stay past it.

If people are leaving immediately after the first cliff, then the proportions might need to be adjusted. Perhaps they don't perceive the remaining stock as valuable and the cliff is just a wakeup call.
I bet this will be possible whenever a PC driver for Kinect becomes available:

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ControllerManip...

About a year ago, I was working on a machine learning problem. I had a lot of training data I wanted to manually classify, so I put together a Mathematica interface for the data that would let me browse the training set and assign classifications from a USB gamepad. It was pretty straightforward... only took an hour or two to implement, and it sure beat classifying with mouse clicks!
I'm the guy who ported this to processing.js, and no, it isn't that simple. I tried just adding that one line and it didn't actually work at the time. It turns out it's slightly more involved, and as I was just trying to make this a quick proof-of-concept hack, I didn't spend the time to rewrite the loading mechanism to make it IE-compatible.

You can read more about the interactions between processing.js and excanvas at http://bocoup.com/processing-js/docs/index.php?page=Using%20... if you're so inclined, but please don't think that it's just because I was too lazy to add a single line of HTML.
There is also a ruby port here: https://github.com/iterationlabs/ruby-readability

The beauty of our approach is that we didn't have to port it and we can adapt much quicker when new versions come out.
Here is Arrington's original response: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/at-my-wits-end-jason-calaca...
I don't really have a problem with that in most cases. This case was a little special because I don't think the professor grasped OOP during my time in college. (Had him for a few of my classes)

Not grasping OOP makes using Java a tad difficult.
I have dual Israeli citizenship and have flown to and from Tel Aviv quite a few times.

* The line interviewers are smart people, and it's seen as a good first job after military service. In other places this might be seen as a dead-end or undesirable job.

* The atmosphere in Ben Gurion is very calm because everyone feels safe (or at least I do).

* The only time I've seen any mild panic was due to my (late) great-aunt. She was a neurosurgeon, but could be alarmingly absent-minded in daily life. She'd taken my sister and I to the airport for our flight back to London, back when we were both in our teens. For some reason, my great aunt had a kind of small suitcase on wheels with her that day, and when my sister and I stood in the queue, she left it next to us and went off to find the bathroom. The line moved forwards and the suitcase didn't. The security guards spotted this fact within about 30 seconds, and started asking whose the bag was. We didn't realise it was my aunt's, and after nobody claimed it they started ushering us all back and making radio calls. When my aunt came back we all got an earful from the security staff.
Luckily Mosh isn't a real replacement. The first what comes in my mind wars "All the crypto rewritten?" and then I read "Uses SSH for Auth" ...
SSH is robust and wide used ... I want no replacement for ssh because it seems like solid crypto.
But mosh seems interesting.
I spotted the Windows logo on what looks like a button too. With the announced specs, I wonder how long it will take on such a device before emptying the battery.
A couple interesting projects along these lines are Barrelfish ( http://www.barrelfish.org/ ) and Helios ( http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=81154 http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/81154/helios.pdf ). Both projects put a lot of focus on being an operating system for a heterogeneous system (with several types or architectures of CPU, a GPU, maybe a NIC that acts as a first-class citizen rather than a slave, etc.), but the architecture they developed to make that work also works well for making the operating system functional on a CMP without cache coherence. As for "pure-functional," that is difficult to achieve in many cases since one of the operating system's main purposes is to help programs have side effects, but I think "shared-nothing" and "distributed-system-like" are good aims for an OS that works on an incoherent CMP.
Also, by 2011, microprocessors will be clocked at more than 10 GHz.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000819011344/http://www5.zdnet....
But a big part of the fun is the delicious, mouth-watering anticipation of discovering the source of those smells - the (disappointing) 'missing ingredient' here...

Addendum: rather harder to hack the aroma of freshly baked bread... ;-)
I'd actually be really surprised if Groupon doesn't go public this year. Considering they just passed on Google's acquisition I don't think they're going to have a better time to go public then in the next year, before their brand gets too diluted with competitors. I think a lot of investors would also be very happy to get in on a hot new tech property like Groupon, as the economy inches back towards a recovery.

And a cloud bubble? Really its pretty damn obvious for the lsat year that cloud based services are damn hot right now, but a bubble? This one is barely just a prediction he's pretty much stating what is currently happening. He can declare victory on this "prediction" on Jan 1.
Apple's products are expensive. Since Android is open, you can have android on a cheap $10 toaster or a high-end $50,000 car. Apple's closed ecosystem provides a nice environment for those people who are in it, but the vast majority of mankind cannot afford Apple products. Many, many more people can afford Android products purely because the variation in price is so huge.

So, while Apple may be happy owning the majority (all?) of the high-end device market, you will start to see Android running on nearly everything out there. I wouldn't make any bets that iOS will be "better" for developers as the future rolls in.
4th Rule. Don't go to Denny's. Much better mom and pop establishments probably just a car ride away.
And can slightly change how one does and says things, which others can notice, -- to some small extent, can become a self fulfilling prophecy.

(And this can work on in a good way too -- if you say to yourself maybe: I like these people, I like most people, what matters is not age, but if the others are curious and want to learn new things)

Now, of course I do believe that ageism is a thing, still, I'd think there're somewhat many good workplaces that aren't much affected by it
Because there's a good chance that the meth'd out junkie you're fighting

Arguing from stereotypes isn't helpful.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewars. They're too repetitive to be on topic here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26733237.
That and to make the visitor scroll past 8 banner ads before getting to the recipe.
I agree that's possible, like a form of payments in installments or debt. Which is very common among a portion of the demographic.

It would be good to see some actual economists weigh in on this.
Great content but please improve the contrast of your website <3
I don't know how much the original author had to do with Python's success in the last 20 years. The success of Python in data science is because of NumPy/Scipy/Pandas. Things like packaging that needed leadership never got any.
>figures with disputed historical relevance

No serious person debates whether Washington was relevant to national history.

We're debating whether good people today can praise the achievements of a person who held Washington's immoral views in the 1700s, without harming others.
The only ad that ever helped me, and that was indeed because of tracking, was for a desktop computer I was buying for a non tech friend: I searched for it and knew where to buy it when an ad popped up from a competing company offering the same thing for a few 100E less. As I would have not found this company by myself (they have adwords but their seo is nonexistent) it helped my friend. This is the first time in 25+ years of having internet I clicked on an ad and bought something.

To not have this privacy invasion, I would have gladly paid a few 100 more though.

And a confusing thing (to me); why did that ad only show up in another site (some news site with an unrelated article) instead of in Google when I searched for those specs? It did not have to be personalized at all: it just could have shown when I literally was searching for it with the search results adwords?
I don't think I can agree. Though I might have once.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding of power, its dynamics, and technology's relationship to it.
> The answer to your question is I don't know. I guess I'm agnostic. He's
too hard to assess objectively, and the resources to do it aren't
available.

Eh? There are a handful of Reichian therapists around, cloudbusters are
pretty cheap to make, I don't think they'll arrest you for building an
orgone accumulator, etc.

I'm not seriously suggesting you go out and mess around with this stuff
but I'm curious about your motivation. Did you just read about it and
never try any of it?

I was looking to cure my depression so I tried things. Now my depression
is cured but I feel like a visitor from the future. I went too far too
fast, raced out ahead of consensus reality, and now I have a kind of
reverse futureshock. I can feel a rant coming on so I'll cool it.
I'm bored and lonely and everyone's problems seem so simple and easy to
solve... Y U NO Golden Age already Humanity!?

Aaaaaaanyway...

> I wonder which Python was into that stuff. Perhaps Cleese?

Yeah. He used to have an old flash site and there was a video there of
him doing a kind of talking-head fireside chat bit, and halfway through
that he starts talking about Gurdjieff. Blew me away. After that, I
guess I was primed to see it, that scene I mean. It's incredible to
think that they wrote that and filmed it and stuck it in there as a
killer joke: the Meaning of Life is in "The Meaning of Life".

It's interesting how they set it up: there's basically a post-hypnotic
suggestion to get distracted and then sudden attack by the Crimson
Assurance acts as an amnesia induction pattern.

I wonder if they told anyone? I mean there had to be a group of people
in on the joke, yeah? I've never heard of anyone else noticing that
scene and making the connection to Gurdjieff, but then I don't get out
much. At all. (I'm kind of a recluse. In fact, this HN account is
pretty much my only connection to the outside world. Great work btw
dang. I can't tell you how grateful I am to you for all you do. I owe
you. If you're ever in Southwestern SF and want to experience some Chi
or other weird shit get in touch.)

I met John Cleese once and roundly failed to serve him popcorn. I was
working at a movie theater in Santa Barbara and he came in with a date to
see "In the Name of the Father". Slow night. Empty lobby. I looked up
and there he was. He's tall. Over six feet. I managed a sentence or
two before I just started stammering. One of the other kids had to step
up and serve him while I leaned against the wall and just gaped like a
fish. He was ver British, didn't notice, might have been waiting to
catch a bus. I thought that was wonderful of him, and his date was
really enjoying it. :) They left via the side door... heh

> If you're interested in Gurdjieff's influence in Britain

Nah, like I said, once my depression was cured I lost interest. Not proud of it but there it is.

Cheers dude, well met!
So how feasible is bioterrorism and what resources does one need?

Lone individual, terrorist org, or military-level difficult?
You aren’t writing up UX requirements. You’re writing system designs.

If you’ve never had to write down and get feedback on a system design that is entirely okay, but as you work on projects of increasing complexity and scope, it becomes more and more important to plan before you write.

The prototypes you’re describing are primarily useful for UX iteration, not system design.
I asked how those behaviors show Google's power. You seem to be commenting about something else.
Just more MBA BS
Choosing Chiropractic over evidence-based science is a bit like saying gambling on slots is a good way to make steady income. There are good slot machines and bad slot machines, just like there are good jobs and bad jobs; find the correct one and you'll be well off!
Here's a case where the Google AI ethics researchers should have unleashed their hounds, not on Yann LeCun and large language models (stochastic parrots? lol). Design evaluation datasets and checklists, do research into "bias washing", call them out on biased models in deployment, etc.
A burger can be healthy.
+1 for use of "newspeak" in a sentence.
Or just work for Megacorp, Inc. You'll get enough pointlessness to last a lifetime in short order -- but there's a good chance it'll pay well for relatively low levels of effort.
What other volunteer organizations would be better if they just did whatever you wanted them to?