skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
indeed, blockchain makes trusting people much harder. The hijacked sense of "trust" used by the crypto-hype is a trivial technical sense in distributed databases.

Rather, an immutable ledger is a terrible system for trusting /people/, since if the data input into the system isnt reliable, there's no way to change it.

You then need to build an actual layer of trust on top of your untrustable blockchain, and then you end up spending 1MWHr and $100/review to recreate rotten tomatoes.
It isn't totally shocking that someone who's made it their life's work to repeatedly try (and then fail) to replace Wikipedia would be sour about Wikipedia. I also don't as a matter of course trust the opinions of people who appear on Fox News, a network specifically for propaganda dissemination who admitted in court they do not aim to tell the truth.

That he's appearing on Timcast, hosted by yet another right wing propagandist agitator, does not shock me. It does mean I won't believe a word he says.
First is popularity, second is trust.

You can have a 100% trustworthy ghost town, and nobody cares.

Or you can have a billion people on a communist spying platform, and everybody wants to join because the platform is alive.
The fascinating world of HTTP Strict-Transport-Security
Good chalk on a good board should sound like a light hiss, not a lot of 'ffffff'.
Yes, I think it may have been for terminal config and setup. Different peripherals and term types.
Performance-focused advertisers. Growing this segment was already set as a strategic direction for Twitter in 2021, however, Musk's takeover and the subsequent departure of brand-focused advertisers seem to have accelerated these plans [0].

As for brand-focused advertisers, I can see parallels to 2017's "YouTube Adpocalypse" in which advertisers paused their spending due to their ads being displayed before videos containing offensive content. They recovered from it by demonitizing offensive content. Twitter will have to address "brand safety" concerns, however,

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/have-the-ads-in-your-twitter-fe...
Uh, I think there is some confusion here.

If I plagiarize a Hollywood movie, then I explicitly "give up" my copyright by "releasing" it to the public domain, it doesn't affect the movie at all. AI or not is irrelevant.
Here in South Africa we have a thing called biltong which is basically thick slabs of meat that are cured and marinaded for 24 hours or so, then it's hung up to dry for about a week, depending on the size/dryness that you want.

Overall it's a huge industry.
Just heard an interesting podcast featuring Will Larson (lethain). He suggested that tech salaries will go down just like previous generations well paid jobs did.

This is what I got from the transcript:
"One of my controversial views is that I think the highly compensated engineer and engineering leadership world is not necessarily permanent. Our profession is pretty new, and there are a lot of factors that will make it smaller and potentially not as highly compensated as it is today. Doctors and lawyers, for example, are not compensated as well as they were 30 years ago. There are forces that have made these jobs less lucrative and less rewarding in some ways. Technology has had a lot to do with that.

We should all be thoughtful that this is not necessarily the permanent state of the profession. The profession will keep changing, and that's okay. If you look at low-code tools and AI pieces, it's likely that the generation after the next of companies will be much smaller than they are today. The burden of compliance is also increasing, with different privacy laws, accessibility compliance, and financial compliance. While technology is making it easier to run smaller businesses with fewer people, the burden of operating as an internet business is also getting higher.

It's unclear which of these forces will prevail in the next decade. Innovation may happen mostly at larger companies that can afford to pay the cost of compliance and risk management. The interplay and friction between these two ideas is going to be the most interesting thing for the next decade."
I don't think anyone would argue that an AI has fair use rights as a person, but corporations do.
I have read it but I still have a number of questions, such as:

1. Which parts, if any, are on shaky constitutional grounds? How is our current supreme court likely to interpret it?

2. Does the bill allow arbitrary warrantless access to user data of covered entitites' platforms?

3. How broad is addition of foreign adversaries, both in terms of adding countries, and adding affiliates to those countries. Can US based companies be added because they manufacture in China? or operate in China?
Hopes and promises for open-source voice assistants
Pro-Russian hackers target elected US officials supporting Ukraine
Are you claiming that `sjkdhf` is blocked in Russia?
Fortunately Hacker News is different
Yes, and there is some specific text in there or another bill that has a carveout for platforms that promote speech or enable personal communications -- I believe it was originally to protect newspaper and radio but has been interpreted to also include social media platforms
Normally I would suspect this could be due to a misunderstanding from the ShareGPT author who could have misinterpreted a bunch of traffic from Googlebot as Google scraping it for Bard training data.

But there is a Google engineer who says he resigned because of it.
>> Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year.

Think about how monumentally worse the problem might be if they didn't spend that money. There are very likely tens of thousands more people who would be homeless if not for government support/programs. Just imagine how many people would be on the streets in a week if EI and disability income streams were cut.
It might have been added later, but the author mentions vectorization in the beginning:

> It’s worth noting that converting parts of / everything to vectorized numpy might be possible for this toy library, but will be nearly impossible for the real library while making the code much less readable and modifiable, and the gains are going to be limited (here’s a partially vertorized version, which is faster but far from the results we are going to achieve).
> It's definitely a derived work as far as copyright is concerned - the output would simply not exist without the copyrighted training data.

Can you point to a legal case that confirms this? Because it’s not at all clear that this is true from a legal standpoint. “X would not exist without Y” is not a sufficient test for derivative works - it’s far more nuanced.
sure, so instead of build even higher walled gardens, let all data be free for everyone :-)
So you don't, you simply ban every single corporation in the United States from doing business with them, and if you want to keep viewing it, you can.
Currently all GI is handled using virtual point lights but SSGI is something I would like to add as a complementary method. I want to say that Godot does something like that where they have a heavyweight solution and couple it with SSGI to enhance it.
Depends on what you mean by safer. If you are hitting an F-150 you will be safer in a F-150 yourself than a smartcar. If you are a pedestrian you would rather be hit by a smartcar.

Many of these Chinese vehicles have the safety features of a 1950's era vehicle, so without airbags, good construction techniques for absorbing force, etc. I imagine they would all get horrible safety ratings by Consumer Reports.
> In normal development

That’s the problem. This is an unexpected situation and the JS philosophy is to silently do something that tries to make the best of it, rather than e.g. throw an error or warning.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to bash JS for this. This is a direct consequence of the JS design philosophy. This is similar to the memory-safe vs memory-unsafe debate (except IMO, slightly dumber because I can’t personally think of any reason this is the behaviour you would want, whereas there might be performance reasons for memory-unsafe). It is increasing the bar of producing good code, without any actual benefit.
well said,

I'd argue Musk himself has fallen prey to this partisan politics - it is really hard to support a large part of his tweets these days. He seems to have fallen into some strange mental quagmire with the failure of his twitter buyout, and his ego is not letting him accept any other reason for it than partisan sabotage.

But the way he is portrayed in the aggregate here and on reddit is even worse. He is either a genius beyond any criticism, or a complete fool, was always a fool and twitter is now exposing that.

We can't simply accept any middle ground, which is that he is likely a flawed human being who did some pretty amazing things once upon a time. If anything I hope we can steer him back to moonshot ideas, because he had a talent for it.
Only if you're a natural person.
I would love to see this getting bigger, not just for package managers but in general. With AIs it will be easier than ever to produce spam or just poor content. We need some better way to rank and accept content, and apart from having large tech companies hiring armies of reviewiers, I would think web of trust can solve it.

Don't think that requires blockchain per se, or even human verification. It would work quite well just for me to assign my trust to various identities (Github accounts, LinkedIn accounts, etc) and for that trust to be used when ranking or filtering content.
How many of those sites are willing to comply with the same requirements and restrictions that China places on domestic sites (such as heavy censorship, giving the government access to nearly all data they have on their uses, giving the government access to their technology)?
And they often barely validate the actual work, many times passing it on to subordinates.
The output of human copyrighted work wouldn't exist if it weren't for humans training on the output of other humans.

Humans constantly use cliches in their writing and speech, and most of what they produce is a repackaged version of what someone else has written or said, yet no one's up in arms against this mass of unoriginality as long as it's human-generated.

This is anti-AI bias, pure and simple.
True, and everybody involved is fully aware of this, which makes this no more than a virtue signaling initiative. "It's just for show and attention" at best.
MyGPTReader: Summarize Webpages and Videos on Slack with Voice Support
The Niche Zero and the Mazzer Robur have the exact same conical burrs. The Niche is just a bit smaller and meant for home use.
No, but the original copyright holder would have to press charges against Bard. OpenAI wouldn't be able to take action there.
The website gives false negatives – instagram.com, facebook.com, meduza.io and many more are in fact blocked in Russia.

Looking at the result for youtube.com, it seems to rely on some specific sources such as court decisions but those sources are incomplete at best.
Matlab is pretty awesome for doing scientific work and building plots/graphs. It's array/matrix based, but very different than APL in how one goes about programming.
Bard is only a week old and has a large "experimental" sticker on it. Besides its UI is better and the answers are succinct which I prefer.
A lot of Chinese golf carts would not pass US or EU crash test standards.
sounds like twitter's new strategy
Except it is. You see it in the gp being flagged to death. Nothing is allowed to offend anyone anymore which means the only acceptable content is bland.
I'm talking about the following where we don't intend to do [] + [] but we feed some lists to some functions that do something to the lists and we end up with empty lists in some cases without inspecting the contents of a and b after we feed it to the functions.
Why would you define a default argument of an empty list if you're not gonna check if it's a list and if it's empty?

a = [1,2]
someFunction(a)
b = [3,4]
someOtherFunction(b)
a + b
It sure had momentum. As did a bunch of other distributed VCSes. If you were a party to voting what VCS to switch to for some of those high-profile projects, I'd very much like to hear about it.

In GNOME, a decision was delayed and bzr and git were pretty evenly matched.

Linux has previously used BitKeeper, but that didn't make it "win out", just like it didn't do so for Git. Sure, it wouldn't have existed if there wasn't a need for Linux.

I am only pointing out that it was GitHub that helped popularize arguably the worst UX among DVCSes: I don't hear people say "your free software contributions portfolio" — they'll just say "your GitHub profile".
> It's definitely a derived work as far as copyright is concerned

...in your head. In the US (and most countries) there is no such legal case so far.
what effort? avoiding newer APIs?
>> No, https://twitter.com/ is probably not blocked in Russia

>> No, https://www.instagram.com/ is probably not blocked in Russia

Seems like its not working at all.
I'd rather they just be banned than the United States government getting involved in the game of censorship.

Speech should flow freely, and in order to do so the platforms on which we speak must not be controlled by hostile foreign governments.

But if the global times wants to publish a pro china article in the United States, but they should be more than welcome to.
True. But as an audio engineer I have to say, that just because audiophiles are naive and gullible, doesn't mean there are no other, real, physical aspects that affect actual sound and reproducability.

Same for Espresso. A PID that keeps the brewing temperature steady is superior to a thermostat where the temperature ramps up and down constantly and your brewing temperature depends on experience or luck (people who know their machine would call this "temperature surfing" because you will have to wait for the thermostat to switch on). To which degree brewing temperature affects the result can be discussed, but this could be tested quite easily.

So if you are a coffee afficionado, the number one reason you would like to have a PID is probably convenience. One variable less to care about if you wanna get reproducably (good) results.

I'd also prefer the faders of my mixing desk to keep their levels where I set them instead of fluctuating around.
“The Billion Oyster Project: Why Oysters?” https://www.billionoysterproject.org/ecosystem-engineers
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Get into sales. It’s basically 100% soft skills.
I would be interested to hear how you ended up with that conclusion, especially if it has any factual foundation.
Yes; see, e.g., the answer at https://mathoverflow.net/a/116852, adjacent to the one cited by the parent. This gives a hard lower bound of |2^x - 3^y| ≥ max(2^x, 3^y)/((e max(x, y))^821013301). (But it's not sufficient for the parent's argument, since (3 + 1/n₁)^o = 3^o·(1 + 1/(3n₁))^o grows larger than 3^o by an exponential factor, so we can always increase (e, o) until the interval is wide enough.)
> some imaginary black market

It's neither imaginary nor black. They list their prices on their website: https://zerodium.com/program.html
Sam Altman has been publicly calling for more government oversight of their internal research efforts. He says OpenAI has been trying to get them involved but they’re not interested.
I’ll second that. A simple example is asking it to write pyplot or tikz code to draw maps and pictures. I got it to draw a correct floor plan for the White House entirely with python code. It amazes me that it understands spatial layouts from training only on text such that it can draw physically accurate diagrams, and it understands graphics libraries well enough to draw with them. Apparently predicting text about spatial locations requires an internal spatial map. Thinking about the chain of understanding of different concepts that have to be integrated together to accomplish this shows it’s not a simple task.
You’re are wrong it is not the F150 it is that F series which includes all the work truck models like 250, 350, fleet vehicles etc.
Can you elaborate as to why the first two are impolite? They seem like statements of fact followed by a directive. I don't think directives should be phrased as requests (which are possible to politely decline). These are commands, what's wrong with phrasing them as such?
I feel like even that would fall under the umbrella of a desktop app in the context of this asine bill. they didn't say desktop apps with a GUI, just any "app" running on a desktop which I'm sure they would argue includes bash or whatever else you're running as your CLI.
Curious. This script[1] lists the blobs in your repo, which includes deleted files. It seems the deleted resources directory takes up 364MB. That isn't tiny, but it isn't supermassive either.

I wonder if GitHub support would be helpful. I don't know if asking them to do a 're-pack' would be beneficial.

P.S. thanks for open sourcing this!

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/42544963
The ignore the square root while computing/comparing distances trick is a great one. That's how I got to the top of the performance leaderboard in my first algorithms class.
Finally some dude knows how to use numpy properly. I wish I can upvote 5 times.

I basically raise the same question somewhere below and got downvoted LOL.
> Putting China on that list is a major step towards at least a Cold War with China, let alone a hot war.

The only way to prevent war. America is the only thing standing between them and multiple wars in the South China Sea, and we must continue to be willing to support nations like Taiwan.

Giving them access to widespread propaganda tools, dramatically produces a chances that we do when we need to.
spam != malware or rootkit (i.e. attacker in the software sense)
> Outlawing the problematic aspect of social media would essentially destroy Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and severely damage Youtube, so they need to make it a real ban on the company, not the company's practices.

I wonder if we would be okay with removing algorithmic feeds/recommendations. Feeds must either be a chronological order of content or it must be a human editor selected assortment of content. Leave room for algorithmic spam/malware blocking.

I honestly think that leaves Facebooks/Twitter/Reddit/Youtube in operation, although more layoffs might be required.
I couldn't find the repo on your page, probably I missed it somewhere while distracted by the lovely screenshots :)

https://github.com/KTStephano/StratusGFX

BTW I saw you've released it under a fully open license (MPL 2.0). Have you considered that allows any company with a closed source commercial AI bot to scan and include your work in their training data? How do you feel about it? I've been holding back on open sourcing anything recently because I'm undecided on this.
I think housing accounts for this almost entirely by itself. Take a look at this graph of inflation adjusted increase in house prices https://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/indices-nationwide-nationa...

That's a 2.5x - 3x increase since 1975, which is huge given that it is the single most expensive thing that anybody buys in their life. If you take housing out of the equation, most people I know wouldn't need to worry about money.
If you read the DMCA bill you'll learn that building a PC (a device that can be used for copyright infringement) is a criminal offense.

If there's one thing that the law as written seems consistently unable to deal with, it is anything that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as a VPN.

Instead of specifying things clearly, the wording is so vague it becomes meaningless and everything important is up to the courts to actually figure out.
That's the answer to the YC Interview question "What is your unfair competitive advantage" in a nutshell. Morally it might be wrong. From a business building perspective it's access that no one has.
As an aside, something I've seen when reverse-engineering black hat SEO is online casinos sponsoring prominent open source projects in exchange for a sponsorship link. Seems generous until you you realize this also means a huge boost in page rank.
Please do not pause no researches. The technological singularity will not make itself with itself. I'm too tired to worship to another humans and pay my taxes to them. I believe that some kind of free AI whose decisions will not be altered by greedy silly humans is really needed and I will gladly pay my taxes to an AI actor as soon as such government will start to form.
Open source is part of the industry.

You keep trying to hand wave this relatively straightforward point: users are already used to, and accepting of, slow and bloated applications. Therefore, the downsides that app containerization introduces are irrelevant to most people that will use them.
interesting, I've had a much easier time pairing (and felt benefits like you describe) over Zoom. Pairing by actually having 2 people at a desk never felt very comfortable, but screen-sharing with each person on their own monitor etc. works great, IME. I'm curious what you've tried / why it hasn't worked...
They pivoted because a extraordinary, vast majority of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum were against the TPP - extensive opinion polling already showed this. Calling this as as "populist" instead of "democratic" is a new spin nowadays to naysay the beliefs of American citizens.

> because it was a good law, and it further an American interests in the wider world.

No, it wasn't a good law. It would have raised the cost of drugs significantly. The pharma bros are already billionaires. We don't need them to get richer. It had no protection for low-income American workers - esp auto workers. TPP would have led to a mass offshoring of jobs. Frankly, I do not wish this to devolve into a discussion on TPP, because its disadvantages and non-trading related addendums were already covered by media on both the left and the right.

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9454511/tpp-cost-medicine

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/opinion/united-auto-worke...

https://time.com/4065267/trans-pacific-partnership-american-...
The plan for making Urbit suitable for mass adoption
I don’t believe that social media has nearly as much influence on most people as people seem to believe. I think it absolutely impacts some people, but most people have much stronger social influence from their local social sphere - family, friends, school.

But still some people are strongly influenced and that’s not good. But to what end? I think if it started pumping out Chinese communist party propaganda folks would notice. So, what’s left?

I’ve heard “dumbing people down” by pointing to the fact the Chinese version of TikTok shows more educational and improving content.

This isn’t because TikTok thinks Chinese people prefer educational content or that they get more revenue, it’s because the Chinese government requires them to show educational content. They show everyone else whatever garbage addicts them because, just like every other social media company, showing addictive garbage creates addicted customers and therefore dollars. If our government, say, instead of banning tiktok, did whah the Chinese government is doing - required social media to present more wholesome content to its users, guess what - tiktok would show more wholesome content to its users. As would Facebook, instagram, YouTube, and hacker news.
30 years ago: I copied games from FDD for speed

20 years ago: I copied games from CD and used No-CD patches for speed and reliability

10 years ago: I used No-Steam patches to play offline.

0 years ago: I used No-Steam patches to play on Windows 7.

The progress.
Sure, they do have a problem. This thread is just horribly ignorant about those problems and we're lumping unlike groups together because to us they are like, that is what I'm arguing against.
In the real world, do wealthy companies want to be named on this list of 3 or 4 groups spamming NPM? That’s a lot different than being seen buying a banner ad.