skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still a contract between the copyright holder and the redistributor, not between the redistributor and anyone in the world.

It's also not a contract between the distributor and the person receiving a copy from them, since contracts can't be automatically assigned to pieces of property, they must happen between people.

I very much doubt the SFC's case will succeed. I fully expect that they will be found not to have any standing to sue as someone who is in no way a party of the GPL. By the way, it's obvious that it wouldn't be tried by a copyright court, as the SFC claims no copyright over the code in question. I expect that the lower court will now confirm that they have no standing under contract law either, and the case will be dismissed.

Note that I fully support the idea of a right to repair. I just don't think it can be achieved in this way, and believe instead it must be enshrined in legislation and state regulations, not crafty uses of copyright law.
What would stop Google from making bard better than GPT over next few months.

Google has got:

1. best data to train LLM

2. Best AI engineers

3. Money to spend on training hardware for LLM

I wouldn't keep Google out of this GPT trend so easily
The US does not realize that we are targets of a major attack using psychological, social, military, and economic attack vectors. The best thing the US could do is ban this app. The latest meeting between Xi and Putin are basically openly mocking us at this point. While the TikTok app is toxic, an American version of tiktok could at least keep the economic benefit at home. I don't think all social media should be banned but there are some which do more harm than good at this point under the guide of "community" "social connnection" and what have you. I have heard in China they have its use closely monitored and regulated.
Before the doubleclick merger, Google was absolutely the ideal place to work as an engineer.

I feel that perhaps after 2007 a lot of Google's reputation was still held up by what the culture was like in the years surrounding their IPO.

But of course, this is ancient tech history. I haven't entertained a Google recruiter in probably a decade now.
That's the cost of being first to market on something like this. You can't both play it safe and lead the pack.
As I am sure you’re aware, already posted response US Copyright’s ruling related to authorship here, so will not be repeating myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247377

Will say that post you linked to also states, “17 U.S.C. 101 (definition of “compilation”). In the case of a compilation including AI-generated material, the computer-generated material will not be protected outside of the compilation.” — the problem is that unlike say for example a compilation of recipes, where the individual recipes are not protected, but the compilation is, there is no clear delineation within a singular work of art such delineation. As such, injecting such delineations is counterproductive and shows no understanding of the nature and spirit of the rule of law. Further, while their opinion appears to be a prompt is somehow a recipe and not a novel expression that merits copyright, clearly photographs of the output of a recipes are commonly photographed and given copyright protection.

Sure others have made far more compelling arguments against the ruling, but to me, the ruling lacks merit as is.
Those whiskers can only be so long, right?
Sad news. I've never bought a digital camera without first checking that website. Invaluable resource. I've been following their youtube channel as well for a few years as well and they just did an episode on this: : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLikDUacsC8

This does make you wonder if this was the only possible outcome for Amazon or whether they are just too indifferent/lazy to make an effort to sell this to somebody else. I bet there would have been interested parties that could have taken over. It's the kind of bean counter move where the effort of finding out the answer to that question was balanced against the potential benefits (millions?) and disregarded for some reason. I don't buy the notion that this was not salvageable. It's an institute and a great brand with a loyal following. That has got to be worth something.

From the sounds of it, not all is lost, the two people behind the youtube channel sound like they will just continue on their own. They grew the channel to 400K+ subscribers. So that's not nothing. I hope Amazon does the right thing with the content of dpreview.
Can anyone speak to company culture/QoL of working at Adobe?
TL;DR starting with a list of the data types before querying the data is putting the cart before the horse IMO.

It seems a bit like DuoLingo. You learn a random assortment of facts, rather than being exposed to what people are actually doing. I learned MySQL by example and this is far from it. I don't recommend learning about the schema or the data types first, unless you're just being shown a CREATE TABLE statement with just the types you need in order to go through a CRUD example (having you start with a table that already exists and do a SELECT query first is also good). Otherwise, like with DuoLingo, you'll likely get bored, unless the reward mechanism grabs you. (DuoLingo is fully gamified. This has a bunch of short steps so you can watch yourself progress through them.)
To the conspiracy minded, sure. How can any discussion be had with these people who don't require evidence in order to make bold claims?
UBO catches things for me that Adguard doesn't, so having both is pretty useful to me.

UBO also blocks harmful elements inside of a page, not just page loads. I've used it to automatically remove the annoying paywalls that are just an element over the text I want to read.
As we've seen in Ukraine, sensitive munitions kill a lot of tank, IFV and artillery crews.
I only tested GPT-3 and it started predicting illegal moves after 8-10 turns or so. When I played unusual moves, it went off rails much sooner and often immediately. If you know of a formal evaluation of GPT-4 chess skills, please post the link. Would love to see it. If it really makes illegal moves only rarely, that would be indeed impressive, but I believe it when I see it :)
I think there’s a setting to enable cloud storage, so as long as you’re logged into Firefox Sync/Chrome it can be synced but has to be triggered manually to sync/merge the filter lists.
I guess it's allowed when an American company does it.
That's their privilege.

In return they give up access to user data, allow deplatforming and shadowbanning whoever they are asked to by people in the government.

"American Free Speech" is ensured.
Boring answer... but Chat GPT? I asked it what was new in Java 8 and it enumerated a number of features. I could proceed to ask it about more details for each, and then continue Java version by version and I think it would be quite exhaustive.

The other day I did something similar for cell biology. As a layman I wanted to learn more about DNA, mRNA, tRNA, translation, transcription, mitosis, miosis, etc. I think I learned it much better by querying Chat GPT than say reading Wikipedia. Something about the interaction, to ask for more details on what was not clear that helped me understand it.
Disclaimer: I’m not your target audience, and I only wanted to leave some minor bits of feedback about your home page. The page does look very neat to me overall, and I like the idea of making it an interactive demo. However, there are some UX/design details that I had trouble to wrap my head around:

- The demo onboarding flow is embedded into a fictional website (acme.com). That sample website only seems “half-functional”, though, and it took me a while to understand how it relates to the enclosing home page: some controls take effect within the embedded acme.com website (e.g. the clicking on the checklist items, which reveal content in the right-hand panel); some controls take effect outside of the embedded sample website, i.e., on the enclosing home page (e.g. clicking on the “See use cases” button, which makes the entire page scroll down); some controls don’t take effect at all (the items of the fake menu on the left hand side, e.g. “Team”, “Settings”, etc. – except for the “Reset demo” button, though). It might well be just me, but for my taste the overall design approach of the demo feels quite “meta”.

- I was able to complete the first checklist item “Welcome to Frigade!” by clicking the “Mark complete” button. But I couldn’t figure out how to complete the second item (“See use cases”) – even though I saw all use cases. Is that right, or did I miss something? The progress indicator in the lower right-hand corner suggests that I’d be able to complete all 6 steps at least, but clicking on it only brings me back to the embedded acme.com sample website, so I’m seemingly stuck in an endless loop. (I managed to escape, so don’t worry, I’m good!)

- I’m German, and I think the ACME running gag isn’t as well known here as in the US. So I was initially wondering what the embedded acme.com web page was about, what it had to do with the “real” https://acme.com/ website, or maybe with the ACME protocol (Automatic Certificate Management Environment, used e.g. by Let’s Encrypt). Maybe something like example.org might be more clear or ubiquitous? (Although also less funny, admittedly.)
Honestly they need to just get ahead of the fakes and hook their site directly to aliexpress. There are honestly some great xiaomi products that are very cheap, but to get them cheaply I need to order on aliexpress which could be fast, or it could be 4 months with a 100 unit minimum order. On amazon you can also find xiaomi products, but they aren't labelled xiaomi and they end up costing 4x as much as what the same product costs on aliexpress, so I pass on them.

If amazon tore down the wall, I could actually be sure I am ordering a true xiaomi product from them and I could probably get it closer to what it costs on aliexpress. Walmart has this same issue actually, somewhat worse because its easier returning things with amazon since they evidently don't care how or why you are returning things.
An interesting application of perturbation theory which I used to work with was a software application called 3DVH, which was used in radiation treatments (for cancer for example). Its inputs were the planned geometrical distribution of the radiation absorbed in the patient, and an array of measured dose points around a simulated patient, done before treatment. The output was a fairly accurate estimate of the actual dose distribution in the patient, taking into account the differences between the planned and measured doses. The reason you might want this is because if the difference between planned dose and reality was cutting it close to say, an organ or a major nerve, you'd really like to know which side of that margin your treatment was going to be on.

As long as the difference between the planned and measured doses was small (like, under 3%) then perturbation theory was valid for this use case, but if it got bigger, then the estimate was increasingly inaccurate. During development, software verification and validation took quite a while because of the complexities of the data sets combined with establishing the limits where perturbation theory was no longer valid. There was a lot of debate on where to set warning messages versus plain old disabling the output as invalid.

Training new users always seemed to bring up perturbation theory, because of this limit. Like, the first thing almost every physicist did was to create a huge dose difference to see how it would handle it. The software would pop up a message saying the difference was too big for perturbation theory to apply and so the output was disabled (this was a choice made for patient safety; better to display no data than bad data). Then the new user would ask why it wasn't working. And I would have to remind them about how perturbation theory worked...

Here's a few papers about it in case anyone is interested:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22225277/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22830756/
Artificial light at night aids caterpillar predators
I got my invite, and had a bit of a play. It seems like it hallucinates more than ChatGPT. There was something wrong with many answers. The prose it generates seems a bit more clunky and repetitive. It doesn't do any coding or programming yet. Occasionally it cites a web link with an answer, which is interesting.
Overwork? Toxic teams? Project managers running teams?

I've been at Google for a very long time, in quite a few orgs, and none of those things ring any bells. (Some probably exist in some pockets, though the last one sounds particularly implausible. It's just not how Google job ladders and the management structure work.)

Now, I have to admit to having not read the article, but the headline does resonate. I've spoken to a lot of current Googlers about this, and their attitude towards the company has definitely changed rather dramatically, almost overnight. People in non-US jurisdictions are feeling this particularly acutely, due to how the layoffs have been playing out for them.
What a lousy bug
That's a fantastical viewpoint that borders on hypocrisy if you look at what the US did over the past 300 years. Forestry is quite sustainable when old growth trees are re-planted with new trees that can be harvested in a few decades. It's not like oil, gas or minerals where once it's gone it is never coming back. Americans seems to be completely fine with exploiting those non-renewable resources until they're gone forever.
If that's what you want then you can always start one.

Edit: it's interesting that this comment is being down voted on a site run by a VC firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs found their own companies. If you don't like working for Google or some other big company then start your own any you'll have complete freedom to set your own policies.
"Before you get all jubilant, note that they have fingerprinting techniques which don't use JS[0]. It was able to identity me."

I didn't detail every protection I've put in place or the post would have been too long. However, I'd suggest that spreading my browsing over at least eight browsers (and I actually use more than two machines and do so at different locations and with different ISPs) effectively reduces my profile across the net.

I also use randomized browser user agents and clean links, occasionally I'll even cut-and-paste links between multiple browsers in a single session. I often do this on HN not to hide from HN but for convenience when multitasking. (Having worked in surveillance professionally, this modus operandi just comes naturally, it's now second nature for me to work this way.)

Working with multiple browsers and multiple machines also solves the problem when on rare occasions I have to use JS. That said, I never watch YouTube with a JS-enabled browser, instead I'll use NewPipe or similar. There are other measures I could list but you get the idea. Oh, and I never use the internet on a smartphone with a SIM enabled, instead the SIM resides in a separate portable router and my 'real' phone is a dumb feature phone, it's only capable of making phone calls.

I really don't care if some stuff leaks but I've satisfied myself it's pretty trivial, as frankly, I've not had one indication over the past 20 or so years that I've been targeted as a result of fingerprinting. It's not necessary to make things completely watertight, I'm not trying to hide from the NSA or GCHQ, etc. (and it'd be unsuccessful and a complete waste of time to bother trying).

Moreover, even if something were to leak, I'm simply not a revenue-making target—that means I never respond to any targeted marketing because I simply never receive any.
Apparently in 2018 they reduced the legal limit from 68 hours/week to 52. Now "business groups" were lobbying to push it back to 69, in order to boost "productivity."

The fact that those execs think that this would increase productivity is baffling. Is it them who are detached from what makes people "productive" or is it me?
> without the interviewer ever knowing

So not really allowed then. This will mostly be used for cheating regarldess of what the authors say should be allowed in interviews.
Ever watched a police interrogation?
Incredible

>> The fetiform mass was a malformed monochorionic diamniotic twin, reported Chunde Li, MD, of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, and co-authors in Neurology.
Hey there, been reading the same page around the same time. The 300D was the last DSLR I bought not because it was bad, but because it was so good. Even 15 years later phones could not compare.
not to nitpick, but there's a ton of stuff in mathematics that is just defined out of convenience or convention, it's not natural law. Rather, a better definition would be that mathematics is a description of reality, rather than law itself.
MS announced and shipped OpenAI / GPT based tech for years now
This is very well done Aaron. I'm curious how long did it take you to create this from start to finish?
> Couldn't you have just logged out?

I preferred the thorough 20s restart approach.
Very similar answer to this - https://www.themarysue.com/tyson-space-exploration/
That "gun digitally safed" concept was tried before and pretty roundly rejected. Even electrically ignited primers were a market failure. Gun people are more paranoid than even InfoSec researchers when it comes to tech in their toys. If you truly believe your guns are for self defense, it makes a little more sense.
JavaFX 20 General-Availability Release
I don’t think people were fools for falling in love with their employer. Naive maybe. But Google was really nice to employees and (intentionally) made it easy to forget you were a number in the capitalist machine. They listened and responded to employees, they made work more comfortable and easy with perks, and they regularly changed to stay up to date on what helped employees.

> ...and hopefully no one is naive enough to think Google is "done"...after next earnings I expect an even bigger round

I haven’t seen it talked about anywhere. I’m an ex-googler from layoffs. My old team was massively impacted and some coworkers were put on “delayed exit” to wind down their projects by fall. I don’t know the extent of it company wide but on my old team, the lay offs and delayed exit were 1:1 roughly.
A practical person doesn’t usually discover or invent something which turns out to be practical in the long run.
The US interest rate decision the world is watching
I would to love to hear first hand from a TikTok creator in this thread because everything I've seen and heard is that their revenue-sharing is a complete joke and afterthought.
They lied. That’s what it’s called. Not left out.
It's not time based, only feature based, if you don't need lots of open tabs you can survive it it's only a bit annoying

Beekeeper Studio similarly has a (community edition) and it's GPLv3 licensed
This is so ffffing sad to read. I've only recently become an active user of the forum, as it's the last island of active Samsung NX mirrorless camera users (some of which run Linux), and it was really great to have a polite and civil discourse with other nerds sharing the hobby.
At Google, developers were the product, not overhead. As such, they were supported lavishly, with meals and massages, at a level not previously seen, at least not in career available to people who weren't fifth-generation Ivy grads. And the pay, total comp is still trumpeted here at HN as among the highest around.

Sure, a lot of people saw those perks as being aimed a particular demographic: young people without attachments who were willing to spend nearly 168 hours each week on site. And a lot of us saw the selection of perks as those most likely to attract that demographic.

But people who joined Google didn't often leave for reasons related to Google, and I'm not sure there's a better way to describe that than "beloved." Low turnover tells the story.
Not only that, oracle’s jdk is actually a distribution of openjdk.
This is pretty exciting.

I was recently browsing some old saved playlists of mine on youtube. Youtube had 'updated' them to be effectively the same recommended playlist it always offers me.

Its sad and scary that what amounts to an archive of a generation of creativity is effectively only being rented by the people who made it so. Relying on youtube as an archive of some of the Internets greatest content is concerning giving Googles unfortunate track record of managing, well, all of its products.

It seems inevitable that someday yt will die. However and whenever that death shapes up, I hope the creatives of the world have an opportunity to use something like this (or other alternatives like floatplane) to back up their content. Yt is an amazing thing, and too valuable to leave in the hands of google.
Selefra: The Open-Source Policy-as-Code Tool for Terraform and Muti-Cloud
Selefra means "select * from infrastructure". It is an open-source infrastructure-as-code software that provides analysis for multi-cloud and SaaS environments, including over 30 services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, Github, Cloudflare, and Slack.
You might find just browsing the JEPs will get you a long way. https://openjdk.org/jeps/0
Russia’s iPhone ban and the digital supply chain
Release Notes

https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/jfx20/doc-files/release-...
Gotcha. I always missed that bit - I had to dig a fair ways into the documentation before I found "surface" temperature mentioned. Thanks for your patience.
I hate limitations as much as the next person, but these tools are viewed as generators by company xyz. You don’t want Disney to sue Adobe because the tool can circumvent IP and abuse it.

“Draw a Disney logo but for adults”

That image now lives on Adobe.com
I just took a 20 minute ride to the airport in a Waymo yesterday. They are operating in two locations in Arizona and expanding to San Francisco.
'Tinge things'?

If an author's personal political and morality views change your enjoyment of books you'd only be able to read things from the last decade.

As far as I remember homosexuality didn't even really come up in Ender's Game, its prequels mor sequels.

I read Songmaster by OSC as a teenager, and that wasn't what I took away from it.

There was a gay relationship that was at times hard to read for me as it went into such detail.

Being straight it helped me see things' from the other side' so to speak.

It wasn't until I was a grown adult and had already read everything OSC had written that I found out he was a conservative Mormon.
Author says:

"You may like the Mac Mini if: You require the OSX environment for your work (I don’t)"

Author should have started the rant with that.
For the endpoint there is no difference (because Remote* are NATed and the endpoint see them pointed at the router, not the original source[0]), but for the router performing the NAT it matters and usually it's Reply*

[0] depends on the NAT type, SNAT always rewrite SourceIP (because the far system wouldn't know where to reply[1]), DNAT usually rewrite DestinationIP (because system wouldn't reply to the received packet addressed to IP which doesn't exist on the system).

[1] Thats why NAT is not a security boundary - it's not trivial but you can trigger a response for some system behind the NAT by writing a local (to that system) IP in SrcIP
I'm not convinced. Why would you read the file in a text editor instead of loading it into ChessBase or a similar program?
Indeed, the current Fox vs Dominion case is highlighting that very point.
Honestly, no idea. Seems a fool's errand.
Did not know that worked for ssh, nice!
FDA Clears California Company’s Lab-Grown Chicken as Safe to Eat
To be fair, I was very excited for this release and am now extremely disappointed. It is genuinely worse than the GPT-Xs.