skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like to get the data into their AI, Google had to make copies. They digitized the physical books, and then trained using those copies they made. Also, their system included excerpts from the books which it could retrieve and show users.

Hence, they had to use fair use to justify it.

I think if you could train the AI without having to make a copy first, such as having the AI read the physical books directly, or in the case of your movie example having the AI watch the movie on a TV hooked up to a DVD player playing a copy of the movie on DVD that you bought from a retailer authorized by the copyright owner to sell such DVDs, you might not even need to make a fair use argument.

The definitions section of the US copyright statutes, 17 USC 101 [1], defines "copies" like this:

> “Copies” are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term “copies” includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the work is first fixed.

and "fixed" is defined like this:

> A work is “fixed” in a tangible medium of expression when its embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.

An AI reading or watching the work as one of many many works in order to learn weights for a neural net does not result in a material object from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated. Thus, there is no copy, and hence no copyright issue.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101
If you must ask permission to leave a country, or to live and work in a different country, then you are not as free as you think you are. Citizenship is nothing but serfdom.
You don't need to learn German necessarily, I know quite a lot of people there that don't speak German. I was never in Berlin, but my guess is that it is better for developers (Vienna has no startup culture) but at the cost of quality of life.
I think we can all agree here that this segregation of content feels like a step back, and the grandparent asserting that Disney has great content that warrants paying for is controversial in this light.

It’s besides the point OP wanted to make.
I would agree. $3/month would be more reasonable, and with Wales behind it, probably even somewhat sustainable for the first year. Afterwards they could lock everyone in at that price and up it to say $9 or $10 .. whatever they need to in order to cover costs.
That's true, but in healthcare generating data that matches the statistical properties of real data is also a very tough nut to crack. Essentially you need experienced clinicians who can document a fake patient's care journey through multiple years with thousands of concept codes and narrative text blocks. The level of effort is on the same order of magnitude as writing a novel.

Of course if you don't need a complete longitudinal patient chart then generating realistic data for just one aspect can be a lot simpler.
You missed French press, kitchen utensil holder, and tupperware container. Amazing.
Amazon is a more expensive fast shipping AliExpress. For things like ultrasonic cleaners the best place to go is Ebay and buy a used one from the era when trustworthy products were sold. Filtering on condition: used on EBay gets you a lot of high quality products that were once very expensive and often made in the USA.
Google is promoting internal fighting ? That's the most baseless accusation I can think of and is miles apart from my personal experience.
All that and his code examples are bizarre trash.

Despite the way he tries to crap on Perl (5) by referring to a Perl 6 (now Raku) example, I find a Raku FizzBuzz far easier to read than his mess:

multi sub fb( Int $n where * %% none(3,5) ) { return $n }
multi sub fb( Int $n where * %% all(3,5) ) { return 'fizzbuzz' }
multi sub fb( Int $n where * %% 3 ) { return 'fizz' }
multi sub fb( Int $n where * %% 5 ) { return 'buzz' }

.say for (1..15).map({ fb($_) } );

Or if you want to name your specialized types:

subset Fizzy of Int where * %% 3;
subset Buzzy of Int where * %% 5;
subset FizzBuzzy of Int where * %% (3&5);
subset Otherwyzy of Int where not * %% (3|5);

multi sub sfb( Otherwyzy $n ) { return $n }
multi sub sfb( FizzBuzzy $n ) { return 'fizzbuzz' }
multi sub sfb( Fizzy $n ) { return 'fizz' }
multi sub sfb( Buzzy $n ) { return 'buzz' }

.say for (1..15).map({ sfb($_) } );
Isn’t it pitting some employees against management? I’ve seen the articles discussing dismissals of prominent members of the union fight, but haven’t seen anything about employees fighting each other because of the unionisation.
Middleware to accept signed posts, eh? I smell BLOCKCHAIN!
I wore extended wear lenses for a while (my vision is okay enough that I've been going without any corrective for years). They are very sensitive to how clean they actually stay, and I think it is quite easy to scratch them up.
Anyone know if this version is officially permitted by Amazon's rules? Or for that matter the 'original' version above?
You've completely misunderstood my goals in talking to you. This is a public forum, and I'm making a case for why I think the people who read what I write should believe what I'm arguing. This isn't about you, or me, it's about convincing others that the viewpoint I hold is a valid one.

Your opinion of me, your ability to help/not help me, and all the other interpersonal things you're bringing into this are just your baggage. I thought you wrote a great article that had a few specific passages I felt dang should in particular read, and I called that out publicly. If that's "thread shitting", I think maybe you need to re-evaluate the kind of personal relationship you have with people who read your writing.

I think your edit here is an emotional one, and I'm not really going to address it further beyond pointing out in the very comment you're replying to I take some responsibility for my role in how I'm treated here.
Yes, I understand this and was replying to that interpretation. I think it's not a particularly conducive domain because the incentive is just to fake it (because that's enough for games). A better domain would be one where faking it just won't cut it.
First, I don't agree with your assessment of the article at all. There are multiple concrete assertions regarding manipulations of the search rankings themselves. I also don't agree that it is somehow "more okay" to manipulate autocomplete results than the search results proper.

Second, I think the big chunk of the problem here is lack of transparency. Google has traditionally been very secretive about its algorithms to avoid tipping off spammers. So if you ask them directly they will hem and haw when in fact they ban spammers and also, as the article reports, they moderate inflammatory content and manually boost rankings of specific websites. The question is - what is the exact scope of these activities? Where is the red line that they will not cross? I think the public deserves to know.
It is adding incendiary meaning. You are assuming the intent of someone else not wanting politics in the workplace. You assume it means that they are content with the status quo and would like to maintain that.

The reality is that many people keep politics out of the workplace because they dislike the amount that bringing politics to the workplace can affect the cohesion of their team/department.

You're creating a strawman argument.

You clearly value the change that can be brought by bringing politics into the workplace. That's totally cool, your value system is different than that of some other people. All they're asking is that you take their viewpoint without assigning your assumed reasons to it.
The other problem with those mailers is that they're not recyclable. They're plastic mixed with paper, meaning they're neither.

Like, if you order a huge item from amazon, it will come in 2 feet of normal recyclable cardboard. But if you order books? They send them in those ridiculous mailers.
They aren't therapy for me. It takes me a while to get into the zone if I'm doing anything that I would consider "creative" as far as coding. Incessant meetings break up my day into chunks that aren't useful. I don't mind status meetings but a recent job turned into 3 or 4 meetings a day for half and hour at a time and that destroys my day and creates a lot of stress. I think sending a status to the team once a day is fine. If you want my attention email me and we'll set something up. This public flogging that managers like to pull at meetings really is stress inducing.
The fact that the majority of high school graduates are not educated enough to hold down a full time job to support themselves is proof the public education system is a joke.
I mean, your Apple II wasn't constantly connected to a network full of hostile actors and executing code downloaded over the network without explicit confirmation.
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What are you honestly trying to accomplish in this thread? What is the point of all of your overgeneralizing and contradictory statements? What are you doing this for?
https://mobile.twitter.com/kimcrayton1/status/11694053018183...

This is the person who led the movement to successfully deplatform Charles Max Wood, btw.
It's not quite that simple. A different algorithm and/or some well placed caching can easily outweigh the difference between a fast compiled (i.e. probably more efficient) language and slower interpreted one.

Obviously, a more efficient language with a better algorithm and good caching is best, but often we don't have the resources (whether it be time or money or whatever) to engineer the best solution, so we need to choose where to focus carefully. Sometimes that means faster prototyping in a language that may not be quite as efficient, and then using the extra time to iterate on algorithmic changes that may yield major benefits or put a caching layer in place.
You're trying to compare apples to apples here, when the situation we have is actually apples to oranges ;).

A probe has to launch from the surface of the earth. But counterintuitively the probes start out already in solar orbit, even before they're launched -- because the earth is in solar orbit. More than half the energy required to achieve escape velocity is needed just to get into a roughly circular relatively low orbit around the gravitating body you're trying to escape from, and by virtue of being launched from the earth the probes get that velocity for free. Furthermore, the earth's orbit isn't really "low" with respect to the sun. We're fairly far out there, so the fraction of the energy needed to go from earth orbit to a solar escape trajectory is even less.

Put another way: a probe launched from the earth gets no help leaving earth's gravity well. But once it does it gets a huge automatic gravity assist from the earth itself as it enters solar orbit.
Actually, I would make the case that this is best for customers. Amazon would be better served by optimizing for revenue (so higher prices would rank better), but customers are best served by what other customers like/bought (so number of orders would rank better). Also, products have plenty of opportunity to surface in search results. We have some top ranked items and Amazon constantly rotates products through all parts of the search results. Probably the reason that you're seeing lower cost items ranked lower is that they're not very good products. The listing copy and images are probably bad, so the listing doesn't convert. Or there are lots of returns. Stuff like that.
I use android phone with termux or juicessh and hacker keyboard app. Also pretty much every phone should work with tiny foldable Bluetooth keyboard.

If you want a mobile kit for hotel room without carrying laptop there you can try some HDMI screen mirroring dongle (Google Cast).
(1) 20% is 20,000 people; (2) almost everyone sees the summaries the next days; (3) TGIF is [was] not about politics. I agree that leaks is what seems to have brought TGIF down though.
"Fake it" as in cutting corners and performing sleighs of hand. Instead of moving enemy soldiers strategically, just spawn them close but out of sight, because the player won't know better. This doesn't help if you truly want to devise a military AI and is only useful for games. And that's just one example.

I think the Turing Test is no longer thought of as adequate metric for general AI (if it ever was to begin with).
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Does copyright law actually make it illegal (as opposed to just frowned-upon, and maybe hindered by one's ISP) to receive pirated material? I was under the impression that the illegal part was the distribution of it.
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How do you know which providers charge more because their product and competence is actually better, rather than because they are a low quality facility that just decided to charge more?

I don’t believe it’s as simple as finding a more expensive provider to ensure better outcomes.
Think about all the AI/Machine learning work going on. I really think it's not a losing battle, that if Amazon really cared, they could train and maintain a "product listing integrity" AI fairly easily.

That they don't already have such a thing to dissuade the gaming going on to dissuade the sketchy practices essentially means to me Amazon condones the behavior.
This is a deeply disingenuous interpretation of events, to the extent of being a lie.

Damore, Woods, and that other dude who went on a misogynist Twitter tirade for a full day, were all deliberate assholes in public. There were consequences for that. This is just and correct.
Maybe being one of the best violinists in history wasn't meaningful to him. Or maybe he got tired of the expectations.
Right, I see. Thanks for explaining that. Perhaps we should use a different way to describe it. I do think it helps businesses understand their customers better, but perhaps this isn’t the way to describe it.
> "Diversity" based on identity politics and physical characteristics (race, gender, skin color) is a left-wing position.

It's actually a centrist neoliberal capitalist position; the left-wing positions sees neoliberal identity politics and checklist-diversity catering to it as a tool of the capitalist class to distract from economic justice issues. (There are left-wing identity politics, but they aren't focussed on diversity, they are focussed on addressing the unique economic and social justice issues facing particular identity communities as well as the more general cross-cutting issues facing the working and under class as a whole.)

In the US neoliberal identity politics might seem like a relatively left-wing position only because the two major political parties consist of one that ranges from Right to Far Right and one that ranges from Center-Right neoliberal capitalist to the moderate Left of Democratic socialism, with the dominant faction being (clearly until the current election cycle, and by all indications still though less solidly now) firmly planted in the center-right neoliberal capitalist camp.
Oh... you mean 3 or 4 across two or more monitors? That makes a bit more sense, but I find it an odd way to compare things. Obviously if you have n monitors you can fit at least n windows "side by side".

(Also disagree about most people having 27" monitors, but I don't think that makes much of a difference)
> Again, nobody in this entire page has said anything like that. How did you come up with this statement?

Something about lying with dogs and fleas. I'm happy to listen if you elaborate on what exactly you mean by political. Though I'll caution by stating that in general, I find that most "political" issues can be phrased as consequences of ethical concerns (if there weren't underlying ethical disagreements, there wouldn't be political issues).

Let's take as an example the act of a company contracting with CBP. This is "political", in the sense that it is, to many, clearly an act of protest against the current administration. On the other hand, if one has ethical objections to separating children from their parents, or any number of other things, there can be a moral (and if one is an ACM member, an organizational) imperative to escalate when you have ethical concerns.

In essence, if I believe the family separation policy hurts people, and my company may enable that policy, do I have a moral imperative to escalate my concerns about the hurt we're causing? Or is doing so "political" and therefore inappropriate to mention at work?
One of the things I prefer about HN is people seem to use the downvote button more often as a "this is a poor quality contribution" vote, rather than a "my opinion differs from yours" vote.
Can confirm, Alcon dailies total one and Acuvue TruEye are the acceptable ones for the drier eyes. Personally I found Total 1 slightly more comfortable in general, but it lacks the UV filter or something that makes them notably worse than TruEye in sunny weather.

Also, the drops make huge difference: since a better doctor told me to use only preservative-free ones like hylo-comod, I can wear lenses for 20 hours straight without image quality degradation.
I read that post, "great" is an understatement. Thanks for sharing!
You see weaponization, I see regular old consequences.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2019/07/...

“ Nashville mother Megan Fox didn’t know her hoverboard might explode, but Amazon did.

Now, a federal appellate court says the nation’s largest online retailer may well have to shell out damages for a fire that trapped Fox’s children, forced them to leap from a second-story window and destroyed the family’s $1 million home.”
I was looking for something just like this earlier this year when running a lot of DL jobs. Nice. Will give it a shot!
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"It was amazing to work on this cutting-edge data from spacecraft that were launched before I was born and still doing amazing science"

I'm equally amazed (as a non-scientist) when I reflect that reading about the Voyager missions was one of the first things that opened up the infinite wonders of science to me some thirty years ago, and here we are still getting new data and new riddles to solve from those same probes.
First, define what constitutes "success" in this team. This may depend on a combination of the goals of the team members, the leaders (your leaders), the company, and yourself. You won't figure this out on the first day or the first week as it will take some time to understand the context and rationale for different stakeholders' goals. After you get a good sense, ask yourself if your team is sailing in the direction of these goals. Calibrate accordingly and don't change what isn't broken. Fight the urge to revert to tools/techniques/mindsets from previous teams that you might be more familiar with. If things need to be changed, be VERY sure to have a good reason for it or you will lose the respect of your team early on. Good luck.
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> "does not result in a material object from which the work can be perceived"

This does not hold true in all cases. Note that the ruling lists the end goals as 'fair use' goals and that that seems to have been an important part in the conclusion reached.

The key thing to strive for in creating derivative works that are deserving of copyright protection in their own right is that they contain 'substantial originality', mere machine transformation does not qualify.
Yeah, but somehow it managed to work pretty well as a 50,000 person company. I'm not exactly sure why this number was the tipping point.
This is absolutely bonkers wrong. The US has shifted dramatically rightwards since 2014, and the right has shifted even more dramatically so.
Funny thing is that in the beginning of agile, scrum master was hardly a dedicated position, it was more of a role.
But then, agile at that time was a movement by developers, now it became the turf of project managers.
If by "we are talking shipping labels here" you literally mean "I'm going to be using this to print shipping labels", it's hard to go wrong with a thermal printer:

https://www.amazon.com/Zebra-Receipts-Barcodes-Parallel-Conn...

It checks your boxes:

- It'll do great with infrequent use

- There's no ink involved, so you don't have to worry about that

1000 4×6 labels (i.e. the kind you'd want to use for shipping) would net you less than $40: https://www.amazon.com/OfficeSmartLabels-ZE1400600-Thermal-S...

Direct thermal printers like the GK420d linked above do have a limited lifetime on the thermal head, but with infrequent use you're highly unlikely to hit that limit (it's more a problem for full-time shipping operations printing labels all day every day).

On that note, I would also recommend you not use a laser printer to print shipping labels unless that printer is specifically designed to handle labels. Nothing sucks more than having to clean up after a printer that bent the label sheet too tightly and ended up peeling the labels off into all sorts of crevices.
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I mean, why would it be? We train ourselves on copyrighted material all the time.
Yeah, Tilt has a couple of different ways of providing similar functionality. In one mode, they simply rebuild the container and ship update Kubernetes on each file modification. In another mode, they boot a dev container in the pod and then transparently sync the local FS content to the cluster, which means that "time to live" is the amount of time it takes to compile your app in the cluster. `watch` with the Docker library is a direct analog for the first, but we have no analog for the second.
No my counter is that the Google site posted above which started this has very little in common with "radical left identity politics"
You could treat a link to the post as a proxy for an upvote, and then rank posts based on how many other posts link to them. Of course you wouldn't be able to charge for this service so you'd have to sell ad space on the front page.
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It's not a personal attack, it's my opinion. I've worked with people who think that way, and I'd prefer if they didn't exist in the industry. How would you prefer I shape that comment so it's not crossing some magical line?

I am aware, generally, how things are. My complaining here is not confusion, it's frustration. I know I can change my behavior to elicit a better response, but I'm frustrated that it's relevant. People should have thicker skin, and when people dish it out (as what was going on here), I should be allowed to give it back. Dang's not commenting on anyone else's posts here, though there were many other rule violators.

It's an unfair application of the rules.

Edit: This post is 0 minutes old, how does it have a downvote already? This is the shit I'm talking about...
> Does copyright law actually make it illegal (as opposed to just frowned-upon, and maybe hindered by one's ISP) to receive pirated material?

Receiving, strictly, no. However with digital material, most use involves copying; for legitimate copies that copying is covered by an implied license for the normal use of the work, for copies which are not themselves authorized, there is likewise no implied license for use.

Also, receipt of digital copies itself often involves copying directed by the receiver, which is prohibited, and may even involve a request from the receiver to the originator to make the copy under circumstances which would be viewed as knowing that it was unauthorized, which, may often, as a solicitation of an unlawful act, itself be illegal.