skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a publicity stunt, and not something anyone asked for.

The publisher does not have a rational unified will. It is made of up people and its actions are a product of internal politics.

In this case, as is usual, a tiny group of hyper-motivated woke ideologues would have banded together to push for these changes, and deployed the usual array of ideological superweapons that the woke have access to in our culture-space (there are no antibodies to their power plays unlike traditional religions, and pushback against woke ideas in institutional contexts is often legally punishable by various mechanisms related to civil rights law).

This tiny group swung the publisher to its will, because they care with the self-destructive fervor of religious zealots, and everyone else is just trying to get along, so they win despite being a microminority.

It's another step in the long march through the institutions; basically all our academic, corporate, cultural, military, and scientific establishments have fallen under woke control by the same mechanisms.

Ref: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
do you feel the same way about Tor?

If 99% of Tor's volume is helping laundering international drug trade money, distributing CSAM, etc, should it be demonized as well?
Doug @Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things. —https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628948931710451712

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Alice:

“Is Cory talking about these predatory fake restaurants? Or Google itself?”

Beth:

“Yes?”
A new Rivian-made Amazon Prime electric delivery van went down my street today. Whisper quiet except for the required low-speed noise-maker (like all EVs).
You mean, will their competitors whip the LLaMA's ass. ;)
I think it is more about inertia than trying to accomplish vendor lock-in. Software is much more important for embedded applications than it used to be. I regularly see people choose MCUs that are many times more expensive than what they might have chosen -- simply because they can't afford the software development costs on MUCs that have poor SDKs.

The industry is starting to understand this, but it takes time to fix. And the industry still needs to shed a lot of managers that lack a basic understanding of engineering software ecosystems and tooling.

Figuring out what board definition to use is a luxuriously simple problem to have. :-) Try to figure out how to configure a bunch of sensors hooked up to anything running Zephyr. It seems to have been put toghether under the motto "there is no problem so complex that we can't make it even more complex".
Looking at my firmware code, 4 quadrant motor torque control in particular. It is plain C and at the level it is written I really doubt C++ / Rust would add any value. For all the horror safety stories: firmware runs on whole bunch of devices for close to 10 years already without single fault caused by whatever bug there might be.

Obviously not advocating plain C for business middleware servers. Those benefit greatly from C++ type of languages.
Small nit if you've never seen it written down, they're 'dosimeters'.
> When I’m doing a big shop I just get it delivered to my door. Costs from $2-$10AUD.

That... adds up quickly. And delivery services have other problems, such as actually getting the items you want. This may not be a problem for you; it's been a problem for me. Also, I can't help but point out that instead of driving out in your car for your groceries, you're having someone else drive the groceries to you. In a car. (I'm not sure if this has developed into something else, but it started with the topic of cars and their associated infrastructure).

> I’m not claiming there are no things where a car is useful. But having to drive regularly is depressing. My life improved so much when I moved out of the suburbs and in to a walkable area. Sitting in traffic twice a day was sending me insane. While walking makes me feel better.

Well, for me, I love to drive. I spent five years without a vehicle and it was depressing as all hell. This is in the context of country roads though, not city traffic. I hate cities...

I also tend to walk an hour or two most days, so there's that. Maybe we can agree that the issue is more about being forced (or feeling forced) into one path or another?
After watching My Teacher Octopus I boycott any place that offers octopus as food.
I blog to create my own world
The earliest popular instance of this model I’m aware of is Magic: Online, which went live in 2002 and worked entirely on physical analogy. You would buy virtual card packs just as you would physically, and could trade cards between players without restriction. This was seen as an evil ploy by many at the time, who balked at the idea of it not just being a subscription model with unlimited access to cards.
It's not about the specific books, it's about the principle of people other than the author rewriting books, whether fiction or non-fiction, to fit with present-day politics and sensitivities.

Should we edit Shakespeare to remove all that hard-to-read 'olde English'? Maybe edit Romeo and Juliet to give it a happier ending, and get rid of that nasty violence with daggers and poison? (that's much worse than Roald Dahl describing characters as 'fat' or 'female' isn't it?)
The internet as we know it is already there, AI talking to AI. The luddites who want the mid-90s environment back were right.
That'd be my guess, but I don't really know. They just left the "utf8" type as broken 3-byte gibbled UTF-8, and added the "utf8mb4" type and "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" collation for "no, actually, I want UTF-8 for real".
And they said crypto has no use cases /s
My understanding is it is one of those things that is more commonly used than you would think. https://www.michaelwhelan.com/faq/ has a section where he covers using models and images. I was trying to find links to some of the "making of" pages he has, as they sometimes have models showing poses.
Make sweet tea, add SCOBY, wait. It really is that simple.

This is the basic recipe I use: https://www.reddit.com/r/kombucha/wiki/how_to_start#wiki_mas...

For more information, The Big Book of Kombucha will have everything you need and more.

Have fun! :)
This a combination of a technology and a people problem.
As layoffs increase, as the economic conditions worsen, this will get worse.

People all over the world are getting desperate.
Copyright in general is far longer than most people expect. In most of the world it's at least 70 years after the death of the author. Most people will not live to see even their grandparents' generation's work enter the public domain.
I am not sure it’s a bug. [1] also says (emphasis added)

“User agents _may_ prevent the user from causing the element's API value to be set to a value whose length is greater than the element's maximum allowed value length.”

and we have “MAY This word, or the adjective "OPTIONAL", mean that an item is truly optional” [2]

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...

[2] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
Maybe. But it's easier to say "dial 911" when a country has 911. If India doesn't have something like 911, what is google supposed to recommend? Call 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3!
> Google could rent this compute capacity to the masses, allowing for healthier competition.

They could, but no major corporation wants healthier competition. They want no competition whatsoever. So there is no reason at all for Google to do this, and every reason (from their point of view) not to.
Microsoft lost. They avoided being broken up, but it’s absolutely clear they had broken the law. It’s not IE bundling alone that was at issue but Microsoft making it harder to install competitors and limiting access to some API’s to IE. They where legally required to change this and did in fact do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

And the critical thing you don’t seem to understand is resources aren’t the same thing as money. Suppose Intel decided to change their CPU design so only their compiler would have access to the full instruction set, that’s not something money can buy. Anyone can bring lots of money to the table, only the monopoly can leverage the resources associated with that monopoly.

As to spending money, again it’s not about gaining a foothold because anyone can spend money. The issue is if someone is subsidizing a business to maintain their monopoly rather than operate a profitable business. Google didn’t get into fiber because they wanted to operate a profitable business they got into fiber to defend their websites. They didn’t cross the line, but you can see how long term subsidies of different business could be seen as desirable/problematic.
Adding a large language model fine-tuned to translate English commands into a limited set of structured actions for Siri would drastically improve the Siri experience.
Why does any company's product launch fail? Arrogance, intellectual laziness, chasing a trend off a cliff. Same way company owners sometimes check out and hand over the reins to management consultants.

I am not privy to their sales data; perhaps it looks terrible and they panicked. While there has been a big backlash, I don't think adult nostalgia is as profitable as childhood enthusiasm; parents might buy Roald Dahl for their kids, but there are plenty of other authors competing for their attention.
I always give people Nova with the warning that his other works are all wildly different.
The problem could still occur but you would have to be capturing all the queries to your internal LLM systems and then using that data for training. You have complete control of the model so you could just choose not to do that and I would think data leaks of this nature would be less of a concern for an internal environment anyway. You would know that only authorized individuals would have access to the data. I suppose there could still be a very small chance of leaking data to unauthorized employees, but if a rogue employee wants to access data they should not have access to fishing an LLM would probably be the least productive way to do that. Your access logs for the LLM system would clearly display the attempts.

Some commercial services are starting to offer "Enterprise" licenses that prohibit the collection and use for training of your data and that would address the concern as well.
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Is there a value in using numbered footnote references when there's only one and it's the next line and it comprises 33% of the comment's total sentence count?
Call me naive then. While I agree that a fair amount of academic research funding is defense/military related, it’s certainly not all of it. If said research is funded by organizations like DARPA, then yes, absolutely. There are other sources of funding out there though that isn’t defense backed: NSF, NIH funding comes to mind among others, including corporate backed academic research. When i was in academia, I worked on research funded by grants from NSF, Intel and Microsoft to name a few.
They almost certainly spent at least a few million dollars on this research project. Hard to say when the decision was made to open source this (from the outset or after it started showing results), but the decision was conscious and calculated. Nothing this high-profile is going to escape the strategic decision making processes of upper management.
Sorry, just to be clear, the thing you're responding to isn't a troll proposigin a hypothetical, the Oompa-Loompa story got edited several times decades ago, in the decade after release. The edition you read growing up is an edited edition. This actually literally happened already.

It's fine if you retroactively disagree with this and wish you had time traveled back to undo the SJWs of the 1970s before they could start. I am not personally interested in litigating whether or not publishers should edit books. I don't care about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it wasn't a book I read often growing up and I don't care for either movie. I care least of all about what you think of a book. You do you, random stranger on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Fact...
Yea, sorry if I wasn’t clear. I was referring to the expectation that the police must somehow apprehend the person (immediately).
No, the EU has astonishingly childish VAT rules that specify which country is owed VAT at which rate for all sorts of edge cases, like an online purchase made from a train heading across a border. The vendor, the customer, and the train can represent up to four different countries, each of which can argue they are owed VAT.
> Some flatpaks have $HOME wide-open, but Flatpak itself has no mechanism to completely bypass the sandboxing

The first one is the second one.
> ignoring their real incredible power of translation.

I feel like everybody commenting on this thread ought to have to write "it's text completion, not intelligence" on a chalkboard 500 times or so first.
Heck both of those games ARE mods of other games originally... They also both spawned off massive mods and copies themelves. Anyone remember the autochess craze of '18?
I don't use Zephyr on ESP32. I try to use it on the nRF91. And there is a lot more to it if you actually want to build a device that has a few sensors, does a bit of mobile networking AND you need to develop this over time and upgrade the SDK from time to time.
> On Monday, the company, which employs more than 105,000 worldwide, announced plans to cut about 1,400 jobs in Sweden.

While Ericsson did not disclose which geography would be most affected, analysts had predicted that North America would likely be most affected and growing markets such as India the least.

The cost cutting will continue until profits improve.
Do you think it's a texture thing? Or lack of varied experience?

Those two products have tens of thousands of flavor profiles, it's strange to me that you can dismiss them entirely.

I had a red velvet cheesecake craft beer the other day and there was no hint of "beer" in it.

I like everything, and I've never had kombucha, so this thread has me excited to try it... Many times, for the various flavors!
Polywell reactors have been doing D-D fusion since 2005, and measuring very few neutrons produced.
Ask HN: When has knowing advanced math been useful in your job/life?
I've forgotten almost all of my math since college since I've never needed to use it directly. Maybe the process of learning and studying topics like calculus, discrete logic, stats, and number theory helped hone my thinking powers in some way, but the actual techniques from these courses I've never had to use.
Meta/FB Releases LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Models
Lots of things were fine for decades until they weren't.
https://archive.is/0XFsl
Seconded, I have an external 2tb HDD that stores 1 years worth of daily backups from my 256gb (~180gb used at any time) laptop hard drive. My backup script (https://gist.github.com/Jeffrey-P-McAteer/7d4b9052825914b5e0...) takes maybe 30 minutes for a full backup, 5 minutes for most deltas. Files which are the same get hard-linked to the previous days backups, new files are copied over and content-de-duped by btrfs.
Deskilling of Workers and 'Consumers'
I believe 112 is already the single emergency number. It appears to be a relatively recent thing though.
Real left-leaning English newspapers haven't been tried, or something like that...

But yes, to say that somebody is a "Guardian reader" is say they are somewhere in the left to center-left part of the spectrum.
Downtown Chicago Now Has More Residents Than Before the Pandemic
There has been a lot of discussion about forced RTO as a way to save cities, but this shows that there is another solution and that such a shift will likely lead to even more vibrant and resilient cities than office-only zones.

EDIT - I've found a Chicago program that will hold a hearing about even more office-to-residential conversions:

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/lasalle-street/proposa...
There is reportedly a chapter of the Chaos Computer Club which has been jokingly nicknamed 'the church of NixOS'. ;)
Proton, Gloun, "<Proton Mail Bridge> is 1000% faster, far more reliable". A typical usage of language for people in High energy physics. Not surprise that the ProtonMail was founded at CERN [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_AG
Hi, I'm the founder of inlets. I often hear folks getting confused about VPNs like Wireguard and network tunnels. This post is covering some of the options for getting ingress, and what it looks like to expose an Ingress Controller or Istio Gateway publicly.

I cover VPNs, port-forwarding and other options where you just want private access to the cluster with something like Wireguard.

VPNs and network tunnels are both awesome tools - just different use-cases. I know a bunch of inlets users who also use ZeroTier, Wireguard and etc.

Alex
> This is an utopia and the definition of utopia is that this is not a problem.

What?

It's difficult to tell online whether a statement is facetious or not. But I can't see how this makes any sense otherwise.
It's not that hard:

https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
> Overall it feels like there's a drive to remove "inappropriate" materials from society, instead of leaving them accessible as living proof of the mistakes that were made, and to provide backstory, context, and the "appropriate" contemporary view.

I share this view, but I also recognize that as a white dude, what is to me a learning opportunity about the things that folks (who mostly look like me) have done in the past isn't necessarily seen that way by everyone.

Unfortunately, even if you get a whole mess of folks of different backgrounds to have an honest and meaningful conversation about what to do about these many things, you aren't going to please everybody. The easiest solution is to just remove the materials rather than having to continuously justify leaving them available and reinterpret the historical context for them from a contemporary standpoint.
Yep indeed! FreakWAN. Yesterday we tested a the first networks here in Catania and in the nearby Palazzolo. Everything is starting to work :)
I have so much deja vu reading your comment that I'm starting to speculate what the meta equivalent of "glasshole" will be.
You're doing it, too. You're thinking of these AI models in terms of human intelligence.

The models are not operating at a lower or higher level along a scale of human intelligence, so they're not genius-like or child-like. They're not operating on the same scale at all.

They're text prediction models, and many seem to insist on anthropomorphizing them in a way that causes them to forget that every other second or so.
You can season them up pretty well. I like the classic seasoning combo of brow sweat, flux, and hardened cigarette tar.
China urges for the END of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Extra pages for these extra code points wouldn't seem far fetched to me. We already have single code point letters with diacritics like "é", or a huge code page of Hangul, for which each code point is a combination of characters.

As for encoding, 32 bits fixed length should be sufficient, I can't believe that we would need billions of symbols, combinations included, in order to write in most common languages, though I may be wrong.

Also, "limiting" doesn't not necessarily means "single code point only", but more like "only one diacritic, only from this list, and only for these characters", so that combination fits in a certain size limit (ex: a 32 bit word), and that the engine only has to process a limited number of use cases.
You just proposed a government (or industry) regulatory body

as jstx said[0], this isn't exactly "new"

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926497
But that is just it, what are "things of value?" If I have a waterlogged copy of a book, it is worth less, even though the argument would be that the value of the book is the story in it. (I don't even have to get into books that have had their covers removed by sellers and then were not recycled properly. Clear evidence that the book has no intrinsic value.)
> Users are forced to watch at least 5 seconds of ads before watching any content.

Not all users. I pay Google in order to not have to watch those ads, and they aren't served to me.
You should add more example that aren't famous people. In the "Comparisons to Prior Work" image you can see that even pure SD generated recognizable results.
> So long as the original is also available, why not?

You're making the assumption that rightsholders will continue to publish or allow others to publish the old edition. Maybe this time when it becomes a big deal in a news cycle, but the next time it happens, it won't be as big a deal. The tenth time it happens, nobody will know or care:

"Old news. Fascists trying to make a big deal out of something that happens every day. You didn't see them crying when they censored all of the atheist books, so why are they crying now when we're censoring all the Nazis? This is just foreign propaganda trying to exaggerate the differences between us, most normal people are united in their support of The Homeland against Eastern Mind Control." --comment on RedditHN circa 2035.

The thing that alarms me most is that these are people censoring extremely successful masterworks from revered authors. The stuff being written today, by nobody-yets, is being pre-corrected.
Good point. When it comes to text there are a lot of "lengths". Languages should differentiate between each of those lengths, and programmers should pay attention to the difference and actually use the right one for the whatever situation they're programming.
> so now the gov't is forcing your company to have a trial over your review?

No. But if the consequence of an anonymous report causes you to lose your job, and potentially be blacklisted from any other academic jobs in the future, it seems prudent that some process would exist to make sure things are fair. Otherwise it can be abused and weaponized by people in ways most people wouldn't want to see. I don't see anyone arguing the government should do anything here. It appears to be an argument that institutions instituting new policies like the one mentioned in the linked post should have some kind of process to prevent them from being abused.
> Having these handicaps (growing up without parents and short lifespan) is one possible explanation for why they developed their high intelligence.

That argument makes sense, but is exactly the opposite of what we see in nature in every case except the octopus.

Intelligent animals tend to live a long time (apes, elephants, dolphins). One assumes that it's because the advantages to intelligence accrete over long periods.

If you're only going to live a few years, you want to devote all your energy to being strong and fast.

This is one of the things that makes octopuses so baffling.