skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, that doesn't make much sense. If we're worried about bad things an app can do why don't we make legislation prohibiting apps from doing those bad things? If your model is that bad things are OK if American companies can do them and bad if Chinese companies do them then you still end up getting abused, it's just by Americans in stead of China.

Radical suggestion: stop everyone from doing bad things.
Further down that GitHub issue, it mentions the problem has been fixed:

* https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71871#issuecomment-...

* https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79998

Weirdly though, there's another issue (opened prior) that's ongoing and seems to indicate things aren't fixed after all:

* https://github.com/rustwasm/team/issues/291
Journalists and the public (often looking up to journalists post-Watergate) have made journalism sound wildly more "truthy" and "neutral" than it really is, or ever was.

Unedited broadcasts of congressional proceedings isn't "journalism" --- that's a broadcast. By the same token, most 24hr news on TV, which is just commentary on some live event, is barely or often not journalism at all.

Journalists write and tell stories. Journalism offers an account of real (or supposed) events. It always involves storytelling in some degree, in the sense that an account of events (in order, or in an order which clarifies the chain of events) is constructed and presented. There's an ideal of neutrality, which is generally understood as a certain set of journalistic "practices", but journalism is ultimately storytelling with the general idea of offering an accurate account of a real event. The idea that journalists have special access to the "truth" is largely just a thing journalists say to make their job sound more specialized than it really is because it has become a "prestige" job. The same goes for 'neutrality' as a relatively recent ideal for journalists to strive for. The history of journalism is actually rife with journalists saying they weren't neutral and never tried to be.

Journalism is important, and vital to democracies, but it's important to understand and clarify why they are because journalists can hang themselves on their own petard. They're storytellers with the idea of "holding people, institutions, and the public to account" by offering the public accounts of events that happened, which the public could not immediately witness. For instance, an unedited broadcast of congressional proceedings doesn't require nor is it journalism at all because the public can just watch it. The most a journalist could do is offer context...by situating the proceedings in a chain of historical events.
For some it might. What if one is a practising member of a religion that has their Sabbath on Friday or Saturday? They are put at a competitive disadvantage if they are forced to be closed for 2 days instead of 1.
Which ones, specifically?
The US one does https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html
Exactly, I would prefer it if we decommodified water use with and regulate use base on sustainability needs. It would have prevented all these water companies like Nestle from stealing the water from various regions.
Well, I would assume a lot of the producers, for example people making products would still have sites the agents could pull from to have up to date information. You'd most likely lose a lot of the middlemen that take that data, add something, and then cover the page in ads.

There are also tons of ego websites that aren't going anywhere from what I can tell. Tiktok will still be around unless it gets banned, and something else will pop up behind it if it does.
This is how we all die. Considering how humans treat other animals don’t expect an AI made in our own image to let us just happily carry on surviving.
>That's the excuse the publishers are pushing, but ultimately they disagree with, and have successfully argued in court it seems, against the entire principle.

Which is why it's really dumb that the IA pushed it blatantly violating copyright laws.
My experience has been that many of the Internet Archive books (especially rare/old ones) are not available in pirate libraries.

So this is sad news.
It was a chain (Sherwin Williams), so I assume they could afford an in house dev team.
Something that made me realize what I don't like about NPR is listening to FT's Rachman Review. I hear nuanced views from a variety of experts. NPR feels much more watered-down.
The full ruling does mention it, albeit briefly:

> IA also argues that it made fair use of the Publishers’ copyrights during the National Emergency Library. The analysis above applies even more forcefully to the NEL, during which IA amplified its unauthorized lending of ebook versions of the Works in Suit by lifting the one-to-one owned-to-loaned ratio. IA’s defense of fair use with respect to the NEL therefore also fails.
Try to find an outlet that doesn't say this in a disclaimer when reporting about itself. It's about as real as Chinese walls.
Not everyone cares about working Sunday. Why is it Sunday? Why not Saturday? Right - one set of religious beliefs that aren't universal. Why should the state be mandating this? Isn't it better to use state power to prevent employers from being able to coerce employees into working excessively or being unable to negotiate the days off that are important to them?
pr the darkweb?
Have this in an external, but wouldn’t want keyboard off center.
that's like saying the washing machine should fold my socks after it's done washing them. That would be nice, but when you're running a large organization like IA you should be less concerned with how things should be and more concerned with how things are.
You could still live like that today. But most people chose not to.
I think it'll be interesting to see the afterparty for search, so to speak. Can search compete or complement? Who Are You is a good demo of some possibilities in that area and I like it so far.[1]

Sometimes it's nice to get an answer + web results.

1. https://you.com/search?q=who+are+you&tbm=youchat&cfr=chat
I've no idea what the Spanish inquisition has to do with the clear and obvious tendency towards an oppressive totalitarianism by left-wing movements throughout history.
I think you have to be willfully blind to deny this.
> The fucking owners of capital seem bound and determined to destroy their own system.

Nah. These disruptions are a means to an ends. That is, shifting still more wealth to the top. Follow that graph. Everything else is a means to that ends or a distraction.
Just to clarify, what are the consequences of their actions? It appears to be a clear case of copyright infringement. Therefore, I assume that the legal penalties listed on this website (https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/infringement) can be applied in this case:

- The infringer paying the monetary damages and profits.

- The law offering a range from $200 to $150,000 for each infringed work.

- The infringer paying for all lawyers' fees and court costs.

Is it more likely for the case to be resolved outside the court? I am worried about their future.
I feel it's 100% about control. TikTok was eating their ad lunch. Growth potential for a creator feels much higher TikTok. The writing on the wall for me was when Meta, just two weeks ago, paused their creator payout for the TikTok competitor, reels. I also recall Zuck lobbying hard against TikTok for a while. Unsure if causation is there. But god damn that timing is sweet, eh?
The hard left is not a place, it's a movement that exists to move further to the left, to the point of insanity.

The hard left is offended with the definition of a woman as someone born with female reproductive organs.

As a feminist liberal man I do find it amazing that we fought for women's rights for over 100 years only to make the term "woman" meaningless. I still enjoy some NPR shows, but they've gone way past what I'm comfortable with ideologically.
Tackling Counterfeit Seeds with Unclonable Labels
It's a little amusing to compare the reactions here to Internet Archive breaking the law ("The law is the law…") to Uber/AirBnB breaking the law ("Newcomers challenging the system! Ambitious, bold disruption!").
Yeah, it's sad. Prof. Peter Boghassian has been collecting examples of NPR's descent into poor reporting in his "All Things Reconsidered" podcast:

https://allthingsreconsidered.buzzsprout.com/
that still doesn't really explain Google's position.
We're kinda taught that we choose representatives which reflect our values through the process of election and that those elected officials should they not reflect our values, are at the mercy of the electorate in the next election.

Instead, few elections are competitive and the representation happens through the lobbying process.

In short, the accountability story we're taught isn't true and money talks more than votes. It's this bait and switch that has the unintended consequence of fueling populism and the disbelief that representatives represent us, and that institutions work.

Here's a dumb idea. Create and advocate for a congressional proportional representation interstate compact in the same vein as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact[1]. Then advocate for pooled campaign financing as a function of proportional representation[2].

The nice thing about interstate compacts is that they can eventually capture a majority given election variability over time. They divide and conquer the problem into actionable tasks that effectively aggregate.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

2. purposefully being vague. what would softmax(T>>1) look like, for instance?
how much of the total cost of a tomato actually goes to the farmer? less than 10% wouldn’t surprise me
Hayao Miyazaki on the Art of Running
Plenty of teenagers in the 80s writing games for the various home computers at the time (Apple ][, Atari 400 & 800, Commodore 64).
A true legend and a giant in the foundations of multiple tech industries and devices all using semiconductor technology and the co-creator and center of "Silicon Valley" and the creator of Moore's Law.

RIP.
The $300 charitable deduction was just in 2021, you basically can't get a federal charitable deduction anymore. Might get one at the state level though.
No easy fixes for giant sargassum ‘blob'
1. Love the idea of disconnecting.

2. Given that on your phone might have your credit cards in your digital wallet, bank apps that can access your financials, and email to allow someone to reset password - there’s no way I’d surrender my phone to a stranger.
This has been a major pain point for me as well, especially related to developer documentation. Recently switched to Bing, and it seems to be handling my queries better.
They are not tax deductible for normal people in the last few years because nobody itemizes anymore.
Gates, during his quest for money was a ruthless business man who squashed nearly every business that stood in his way for more money and more dominance for the company he ran.

Musk is very much the same in his destruction of things that stand in the way of him and more money. His attitude isn't the ruthless businessman but rather the unrepentant troll - but his approaches to prevent the funding of things that stand in his way of Tesla ascendant (you get things like https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali... ).

Gates is largely over his quest for money and now more concerned with legacy, but that doesn't erase his history. Musk is still very much enmeshed in his quest for money.

I believe that Sam Altman doesn't want to have that be part of his goals and with the resources that he already has can fairly comfortably work on what he feels is meaningful now rather than waiting 30 years until he retires.
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I'm sad the IA put good work like the wayback machine at risk. I hate Uber/AirBnB, but they at least correctly predicted they'd get away with it.
Dennard scaling died 2 decades ago. Moore's law is dead for less than a dexade. It took 4 years for density to double(from N7 to N3). And with density doubled the cost. It will get only worse from here.
A Foundation Model Primer

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence right now is incredibly exciting. Large, pre-trained foundation models like GPT4, Claude, LLaMA, Stable Diffusion, and similar are disrupting everything from search to protein folding to all categories of design. We suspect these models will become integral parts of the vast majority of products over time, analogous to how relational databases are ubiquitous components of virtually all applications.

However, it can be difficult to keep up with what is happening in this market given how fast it is moving. What are all the emerging use cases? What is the state of research in this space? How are foundation models actually built into applications? What are some of the common challenges faced by teams productizing foundation models?

We recently put together an internal presentation for the investing team at Innovation Endeavors to answer a lot of these questions. While a lot of resources exist online regarding foundation models, we had not seen a comprehensive overview of the space like this, so we wanted to share it externally in case others found it useful.
Right.

The dev had such a big ego that they didn't want to say "I was dumb and left open a bug", so the dev says "I was so dumb that I left open a bug in software I was also too dumb or lazy to write or even read".
It's not better.
> the Office for National Statistic

Yeah, and that's a Japanese institution not British. Its incorrigible like the BBC...

> Suggesting that the values coming from the UK are fake is an extraordinary claim

Its as extraordinary as other claims like Iraqi WMDs or the GDP numbers generated from 'homeowners creating and using rent services'.

The trust of Brits in their institutions is amazing.

> Groceries were rationed because UK supermarkets refused to buy them at spot-prices

Surely not because of Brexit... It has to be something else.
Agreed. The new stuff is extremely far away from their legacy beautiful programming , like Nova.

For those doubting the massive ideological shift beyond opinion, consider that new content being pumped out.

do you see content like the Commanding Heights series coming out?
Now review what is actually coming out.

You be the judge
Google is gonna have to sort out search ads otherwise yeah, when this tech improves and is more widely adopted then they're in serious trouble
Wonder if there’s a pocket of advanced life (e.g. mammals) we haven’t discovered yet
Check out Peter Boghassian's catalog of examples: https://allthingsreconsidered.buzzsprout.com/
Google never did? Google Books does that with public domain books only.

Copyrighted works only show snippets, and publisher-enabled limited previews.
/humor

Ay yi yi! Amnesty International talking about AI is always interesting!
I've been to numerous shows recently with no-phone policies (TOOL, Louis CK, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle). I _love_ the policy, it frees people to enjoy the show, doesn't block views with people holding phones up and doesn't ruin the lighting.

I now intentionally seek out no-phone shows and events (it's common in standup comedy).

The first two enforce the rule with security - if you get caught, you get kicked out and banned from future shows.

The later two shows used the pouch system from Yondr. At Chris Rock the show started 90 minutes late since people came to the show with their tickets on their phones and had to walk back out to unlock them. There were also nowhere near enough staff to lock the phones and provide pouches, nor to unlock phones. It was chaos.

Chappelle doesn't do digital tickets, but on the way out there was almost a crush in the crowd as people lined up to get their pouches unlocked. We ended up forcing open a fire escape and went home with our phones still in pouches, I ended up unlocking the pouches at home (you just gotta beat it open, or use a magnet)

The implementation of these systems aren't perfect - but there is definitely room here for a good implementation.

My thought was that the best solution would be phone lockers in venues that are after ticketing. Simple slots that you slide your phone into and get an RFID tag with a locker number back in return. I'm sure somebody will figure it out.
It's only a 100x capped profit multi billion dollar company. How could they afford to read the code they ship?
I don't buy it.

Among the reasons are:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies#MRDA

* AFAIK, de Icaza was no longer involved by then

Additionally, FWIW, it's not "lots of times".

But the MS threats are a matter of widespread legal record. This is not some kooky opinion of mine. This happened, it's documented, and the responses are too.

For instance, Novell (owners of SUSE then) and Red Hat were specifically named:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Patent-Suit-Filed...

RH responded, denying the claims:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Red-Hat-Calls-Mic...

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Red-Hat-Seeks-Def...

So did Canonical:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/ubuntu-repels-microsoft-paten...

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-ubuntu-linux-rejected-...

Novell meanwhile signed a patent sharing deal:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/microsoft-ma...

Later extended:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-suse-extend-micr...
Actually Moores law is dead. His prediction was not transistors would get smaller. His prediction was initial that for 10 years was that density would double every year. And then later that it would double every 18 month.

And this held longer then even he thought. But it has ended. While things still get denser, its no longer on that same trend.

This interview with Moore explains it:

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

History by Cantrill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9h89Vo_Qo

David Patterson perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFT54hO1X8M

Opposing point of view Jim Keller:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIG9ztQw2Gc

Patterson response to Keller:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0eJA1TP3Y

There are talks by David Patterson, Jim Keller and
I feel it's because nearly everyone today has a dysregulated nervous system. Causing us to react out of emotion, rather than responding thoughtfully.

It's like fighting dogs into the pit. They've been put through so much, they'll fight to the death. They want to keep us this way. Much easier to influence and control.
They could have let Chrome users rank any page they're browsing to get quality feedback. The installed base is massive.
Just as they are also supporting the Catholic Church, Atheist organizations, Mormons, Buddhists, etc and anyone else who fulfills the basic requirements to be tax deductible.

But the reality is only ~13% of US tax payers itemize deductions so in general there isn’t any such support when the average person donates to anything. It’s really just support for the kinds of people who can itemize their taxes rather than supporting charities.
That stuff is so good, best yogurt ever
The consequences may be the loss of the entire Internet Archive, if it can't afford to both pay the fines of deciding to ++++ around and find out with book publishers and running its servers at the same time.
>should lobby for ... law to change. But breaking it before it has changed is risky and foolish, and does more harm than good.

This advice is reasonable in most cases, but applying it as a rule is devastating for society.
Is there a reason you think it is inevitable that we have to experience one of them?
To quote the Big Lebowski..."well that's just your opinion man"
Probably so, but while you are thinking of those details, a country that sends people to gulags and internment camps is collecting data at scale of important people, their families and the people that work around them.

I personally struggle understanding adults installing this app at all, and the fact that it targets mostly oblivious youngsters is pervasive.
I think it is hard to see giants when they are just innovators.

To everyone around them and especially themselves, they were just pushing the ball forward day-by-day; they weren't heroes or insanely prescient, they were just doing the next logical thing to do. It's only after they've climbed the mountain that you can appreciate what they did.

That's probably the hardest thing about innovation. To everyone who wants to innovate, they only see the mountain. They have the grand idea of where they will end up, when the reality of innovation is just pushing the ball forward one step at a time. It's not heroism or being a genius necessarily, it's persistence and being able to think on the fly.

I think "genius" knows where the general destination is but I feel like most aren't doing it for the destination, they are doing it because they feel it is a calling and what they must do.
Nope. It would have to be a sound-proof, EMF shielded cage. Otherwise it transmits just later what it learns while unable to connect upstream.

I've been to places where I had to hand over my phone not long ago, the German consulate in S.F. being one. I don't think it's uncalled for. Generally I rather not carry such a device at all.
I don't have kids and I got it instantly.
Can I just point out that my comment wasn't an outright contradiction either, people just assumed it must have been one (correctly, in this case) since it would have been a rather pointless observation otherwise.
...and then the court threw out the settlement as unfair, and then the court ruled in Google's favor.

But the court noted that
Google was right on the edge of fair use. Google notably prevented the previews from being usable as a replacement for an original purchase by only displaying 1/8 of a page snippets, blacklisting 1 snippet per page, blacklisting every tenth page completely, and blacklisting works where a single snippet could be all you wanted such as dictionaries and recipe books.
I'm glad it's this way. I'm opinionated. I couldn't live in a Rails-like ecosystem. If you want an opinionated framework, there are frameworks built on top of React. Choose the one that fits your opinions best.
Moore's Law has been dead for a while. The most common confusion I see is that people don't understand he was referring to economical scaling. These days we're getting more density and bigger chips but prices are going up a lot too. More for more instead of more for less.
They became hyper focused on race, which I don't have much interest in, so also lost me. Also the reporting seemed more and more biased, I stick with apnews now.
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All the research I've seen says quantization has basically negligible performance impact. My experience working with 65B 4bit has been great
People that are raving about security and privacy are missing that this was a Y Combinator event. Invite-only, from a population that's been selected for from the general populace.

Obviously that's why this worked - you're not handing your phone to a stranger, you're handing it to someone who affiliation is clearly identifiable and who is one degree of separation from you.
There is a less than zero percent chance this Supreme Court decides in favor of the Internet Archive, if they ever even cared to hear the case.
I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).
My mistake, though that line emphasizes that the NEL is barely relevant to the decision.