skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit amusing that copyright law supporters always go to the 'think of the authors who need to get paid' when at present, copyright extends to 70 years AFTER the author's death IIRC, or 95 years after date of publication if it was a contract job.

In contrast, patents are only valid for 20 years after patent publication, for good reasons (a limited period encourages technological development and prevents patent squatting).

Right now, we have large corporate publishers squatting on copyright to prevent dissemination of works that should really have been in the public domain decades ago. Cutting copyright periods in half (at least) makes a lot of sense.
I worked at a company that had to deal with EY as a part of a tech certification. Tha auditors barely knew why they were being sent over. Out managers and techs had to explain the process to them and assure them the numbers in the report were correct. The auditors happily accepted that, and then charged around 100k. Top job.
> Capitalism requires an even monetary playing field.

Almost everyone — capitalist, communist, anarchist — believes in an even playing field. Half the disagreement is about what "even" (or "fair") means.

This is also why people throw the exact same criticisms in the opposite direction, at all the attempts at communism over the years: "it's not real communism because $foo, it was really just state-capitalism", which often seems to me to be a criticism of governments taking the "wrong" idea of fairness rather than connecting with the underlying social/economic presumptions backed into The Communist Manifesto.

(Personal opinion: would be nice if someone can take the points that Adam Smith and Karl Marx were observing about human nature, update with John Nash game theory, and make a new economic system that doesn't turn humans into Spherical Socio-Economic Units in a vacuum like Capitalism and Communism both ended up doing: neither money nor community are the be-all and end-all of human motivation).
Stronger that "plausibility deniability" is being no linked to the facts.

Do Kwon had virtually unlimited resources for a good plan. My observation from the field (not knowing Kwon but other fraudsters) is that there is an overconfidence based on power. It falls like a house of cards when official prosecutors are involved. It works when everything is handled privately.
Jeopardy contestant
> Your single threaded RC will still have to write back to memory

I think you mean mem or cache, and there's a good chance it will remain in cache and not be flushed to ram for short lived objects.

> no one thinks that incrementing an integer is the slow part — destroying cache is.

agreed
It'll be LLM's all the way down! always has been. :astronaut:
My friend (ex-coworker) was involved in one about 1.5 years ago for a few months.

It was basically a one man startup and the argument to use Rust was because the guy wanted to use WASM on the frontend, because it was a mind mapping software (as far as I remember, and so information heavy, blablabla).

WASM might make sense or not, dunno. Figma somehow manages to be fast, I don't think they use WASM. (They are fast because of canvas, right?)
I don't know, I hate installing apps on my phone. I also hate texting strangers. I put a lot of care into my written communication, and many people in the world are genuinely bad at comprehension.

If I could type a few vague sentences into a box describing what I want, and then have it reliably converted into an unambiguous summary for me to adjust or approve, that would be amazing:

"I would like a gallon of lactose free milk, a pound of fresh chicken breast, a dozen eggs that are on sale, and a bag of frozen hash browns. I need it by 4:30."

5 seconds later up pops a website with a shopping list with product photos, an estimated delivery time with appropriate fee, and an order button linked to Google Pay.
I'd say (mass market) social media - that's basically when Facebook become nearly universal, and replaced a bunch of competing / regional social media networks, and also the rest of FANG becoming massive and dominant.

It's also when "the internet" and "computers" stopped really being about networking, information processing, getting work done, etc inside some traditional organization, and basically about advertising, marketing, retail.
Related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-PdL47YZ0

James May, of Top Gear fame, walking across a mechano bridge.
I bought a newer K&E probably 10 years ago. I brought it to college and even took it as a calculator backup to a few exams. It’s still on my desk in the office.

But I find it mostly stays on my desk. Operating a slide rule requires intentionality, and most of the time I really only want a quick answer. An RPN calculator is probably a permanent fixture on my desk.

I should get more use of my slide rule, though, just to practice that intentionality: sharpening the estimation skills needed to get the order of magnitude right, and the planning skills of what scales to use, what order, etc. so that the calculation is quick and the result is accurate. These skills are still quite useful in the present day, and few times do they come up as well as when using a slide rule.
"Large trucks are biggest culprits of near-road air pollution"

So black carbon from diesel truck exhaust (and buses) pollute a lot more than a lot of you think. They call it a 'soup' of pollution of both exhaust and tires. But you should continue to be skeptical of AI driven thought-content :)

Sources:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180910111237.h...

https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/national-air-pollution-...

https://www.socaar.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ne...
> Instead, they linked the number of digital copies to the number of physical copies they had, effectively giving them another way to loan out books they had already purchased.

That's what they had been doing, for years. Publishers grumbled, but didn't file lawsuits.

It wasn't until the 'National Emergency Library', when IA decided to unilaterally ignore the 'controlled' part of digital lending, that the suit was filed.
Fantastic work bringing free speech back to Twitter, Elon.
BaFin's role in this is indeed pretty astonishing:

"The German financial watchdog has filed a criminal complaint against two Financial Times journalists and several short sellers, accusing them of potential market manipulation over reports about suspected accounting irregularities at payments processor Wirecard."

https://www.ft.com/content/8e1948be-6060-11e9-b285-3acd5d435...
https://huggingface.co/Pi3141/alpaca-lora-30B-ggml

I believe I’m using alpaca.cpp with a command:

./chat -m <bin filename>
If Russia wanted a pretext to start a war with NATO, they would have invented one already by now.
I simply think that a an explicit backdoor in Intel ME would be quite a risky move, but I do not have access to non-public information, so who knows?
Also, the ME plays a fundamental part in the initialization of the Intel silicon (especially from Skylake/ME11 it appears), so it makes sense that it can not be disabled freely. It is close source because it is the way it works in the silicon world, as having an open firmware exposes information which may be bring advantage to the competition.
I think yes, if only to distinguish this from other AI approaches that aren’t merely rule generators.

A physical machine that automates the laying of bricks is still laying bricks. A similar machine that builds a “brick” wall through some other mechanism (perhaps by directly/dynamically creating a continuous structure) would be meaningfully different.
The lowest of the low? Based on consonant pronunciation? How can you extract a value judgment from how someone speaks?
Librarians deliberately keep book-destruction quiet, because they know the public would be outraged. Most people do not want to write about it because especially once you're "inside", you're the sort of person that holds librarians and librarians in extremely high regard. You have to be inside the system.

Nevertheless, articles do come out every few years.

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/12/141265066/hard-choices-do-lib...

EDIT: I cannot reply because I have posted too much but yes, if you read the link, it mentions they are paid for doing this.
Books can be "discovered" quite a bit later in a way that patents generally are not. That said, cutting copyright length significantly makes sense to me whatever the details.
> Especially tabloids like

What about The Spectator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35459261

The very agents that can be scammed into damaging you are not aware of the state of facts. (They may read those "«tabloids»". It's educational.)
Cameras amplify the damage that bad laws can do.
Protestant Ethic? Not sure.
How do those compare to a Rii?

https://www.amazon.ca/Rii-Wireless-Keyboard-Compatible-Raspb...

Of course it's not a real keyboard and mouse but it works fine.

I do use an universal remote most of the time though (Harmony 700), but I use the Rii when I exit Kodi and I'm back to my HTPC's Linux environment. The Rii is then enough to open a browser and YouTube, for example.
These are not the moves of a company that is confident in itself and its product.

Reminds me of Amazon banning the sale of Chromecast devices because they compete with FireTV.
You are right, though
Maybe LPFM fits your definition? Community FM radio authorized by the FCC. The restriction is that the range is limited, but then again, a tiny community of is not likely to be blasting a kilowatt anyway.

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm
Lmao what exactly are they "A/B testing" with a complete block of a company's name on the platform? Is Twitter rolling out a new censorship dashboard where you can pay to block your enemies?
Getting the ^D
On the popularity and influence of science-fiction (ChatGPT)
C: "4" + 4 = 8
warning: assignment to ‘char’ from ‘char *’ makes integer from pointer without a cast

Go: "4" + 4
invalid operation: "4" + 4 (mismatched types untyped string and untyped int)

Rust: "4" + 4
error[E0369]: cannot add `{integer}` to `&str`

Listen - you can argue semantics all you want but unless you try these things yourself, we're not going to get anywhere. You asked me for examples of non-dynamic languages that don't behave the same as javascript, I provided them. I feel like maybe you took my suggestion to actually try these things out as condescending, it wasn't, I was trying to be constructive.

This is a discussion about what languages allow you to do, compile-time vs run-time is irrelevant, if we get a warning or an error at compile-time vs run-time it makes no difference. The point is that Javascript silently hums along with no warning or error at all when you try to do something that many languages would not allow you to do without at least a warning. You can dig down into a semantic rabbit hole about what "throw" really means but I think you understand what I'm talking about.
"Leaving AT&T. Just dotted the I's, crossed the T's, and every single detail is....perfect."
We accept photography as art, too without calling it stealing.

Perhaps art is as much about selection and presentation as creation.
It's a pretty common way for humans to deal with not being able to do something/something not working.
Elon has made an utterly incomprehensible statement on the matter:

> Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779
Those are not real languages! After all what can you do with OCaml for ex? A compiler for a Rust-like language at best? :)
Oh boy. Yeah Twitter is done if it's come to this.
And then all sea trade has to go around Africa again?
Free speech king back at it
From my experience, you're the exception, not the norm.

Many audits and compliance frameworks have so many loopholes and DIY rulings that basically anything is possible and acceptable as long as whatever you're doing is written beforehand.
Yeah I suggest a T480 for double the cores, but honestly the T470 isn't bad either.
What!? You missed out on the last full decade of FoMO? :D

That said, there is value in learning a strongly typed language. If you like it you might want to introduce concepts in your Go work, if you really like it you will probably want to switch to one, and if not, that's also completely okay, and you'll know what you don't like about it.

For example I like Rust, Scala, TS, but Haskell always makes me cry a bit. Spent many years using Python (py2 to py3 migration was fun), but a few years ago I realized that it's a bad trade off for almost anything I work on, and makes me rage a bit every time I run into super dumb errors, so I avoid that too :)
What else do you do?

Every year, a room in our town hall is crammed to the gills with book/etc. donations and I'm sure some books from the library itself that people cart away for $10/shopping bag. I'm sure a ton of books never sell and presumably get pulped.

At home, I'm in the same boat. I don't get in as many new physical books as I used to because of Kindle, but if something new comes in, something else has to go out.
Sadly that's what humans do and have done since forever and it is an important driving factor in language evolution
There are different types of manufacturing.

The supply chain to manufacture generic plastics (most concentrated around Guangzhou and moving to Northern Vietnam) is different from the supply chain needed to manufacture generic pharmaceuticals (mostly concentrated in Himachal, Hyderabad, and central Maharashtra) is different from the supply chain to manufacture medical robotics (concentrated around Tijuana).

Cost of labor isn't the only variable when these decisions are made. Decisions need to take into account business continuity, availability of expertise, availability of suppliers, etc.

This is why low value manufacturing began moving from Guangdong to the Haiphong Delta in the mid 2000s and 2010s, and is now moving to Laos+Cambodia.

And this is why intermediate parts manufacturing (the kind which china is very competitive in) is returning to Mexico - incomes and costs in China have caught up to Mexico, which was the proto-China before the Peso Crisis and China's entry into the WTO. If I'm paying the same in labor in both China and Mexico, I may as well save money in logistics and taxes by reopening my plants in Mexico.

The story of manufacturing returning to ASEAN and India is the same - the factories that South Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese companies built in the late 90s/early 2000s moved to China by the mid-2000s, but started either returning to Malaysia (electronics, plastics, automotive), Thailand (electronics, plastics, automotive), and India (plastics, pharmaceuticals) or began opening greenfield such as in Vietnam (electronics, plastics).

The return of manufacturing in South+SE Asia was due to trade wars the Chinese govt initiated against Korea (bought THAAD against NK, PRC didn't approve which sparked a mass boycott against Korean products in China), Japan (Senkakou/Diayou Islands standofd which caused a massive boycott against Japanese products in China), and Taiwan (a major Taiwanese origin KPop singer began pushing for Taiwan Sovereignty which sparked a mass boycott against Taiwan in China) in the 2012-2017 time period.

This led South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan to initiate their "Look South" policies to decouple their economics from China. SK and Japan largely succeeded, but Taiwan lagged behind due to internal political acrimony.
Ahh, the tuition was cut off on mobile and did not realize there was horizontal scroll.
The dutch ambassador in China sent to the Chinese government a weeechat message: "not cool :/". That should do it.

In all honesty, I don't think the Dutch (or Canadian or else) governments will really care since these are "ethnic Chinese" citizens. It's not their business. The image of dutch sovereignty has only to stand to the eye of its very "own" citizens and even so.

The only world power that is standing to that is the USA. And that's not because they care about these particular persons but because they are currently engaged in a feud with China.
There‘s no marketing conspiracy behind this. The Balenciaga meme is an homage to a quote from the first scene in the movie „Triangle of Sadness“. This scene contrasts H&M‘s commercial appeal with Balenciaga‘s contempt for the consumer. The meme even paraphrase the dialog from the movie.
Via a class system. US movies imply you have the same thing over there.
This reminds me of Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed Mona Lisa:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/22/marcel-...
> should really have been in the public domain decades ago

A good occasion to note the parallel context of books not being reprinted.

Last time I wanted to buy copies of works of a prominent author to gift them around, and was told "Impossible - out of print": weeks ago.

Texts which are not protected by "pre-emptive" availability (esp. electronic) somehow disappear - Michael S. Hart (Project Gutenberg) was right.
China. Russia. Why? How can their citizens put up with this crap?
The enlightenment, the scientific method, and capitalist societies that fund research and development
Good counter arguments from 2013: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130717-pop-artist-or-c...
I worked on VR in the late 201x. The motion sickness went away with time, and I stopped getting motion sick as a car passenger.
Is it tho? It's not uncommon to mix weed with herbs, it's called a spliff. Ayahuasca is a combination of substances, would you not consider modern ayahuasca consumption as a drug? Mushrooms are often mixed with lemon juice.

Plus what's the point of making the distinction? And you mentioned that people in the past wouldn't snort drugs, and that's false, there's native tribes that would make powder out of seeds and snort them.
TIWiFiModem: Take your TI-83 Plus online [video]
A video by benryves that looks at an ESP8266-based WiFi "modem" for TI graphing calculators and how it can be used to connect a calculator to the Internet.
Opium wars is > 150 years ago, the world has changed a lot since then, lol. We have electricity by now, my opinion takes into account post internet age > 1990.

IMF does conditional loans, so it would ( in theory) improve the country, because something is not going well atm. ( Eg. Greece).

> Greece has repaid ahead of schedule 2.7 billion euros ($2.87 billion) of loans owed to euro zone countries under the first bailout it received during its decade-long debt crisis, a finance ministry official told Reuters on Thursday.15 dec 2022

China loans money and uses their own workers with that money to export their excess infrastructure building capacity. The country itselve doesn't have any benefit for local workers, only China benefits.

All those projects presented with grand prestige by China 5-10 years ago are never mentioned anymore. Nigeria, Pakistan, ...

It's not hard to see why either.
Libraries aren't hurting for donations of classics, they are destroying the ones they already have. I've seen for myself what happens to donations of classics: they go to the book sale and then get pulped or trashed.

https://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-anot...

> Imagine holding a beautiful, dusty, illustrated volume of Shakespeare printed in the 1700s, a calligraphic message from its long-dead owner inscribed on the inside cover, and throwing it straight in the trash. I've been there, more than once. I could have kept it and maybe gotten a few hundred dollars for it on eBay, if my supervisor wasn't watching with specific orders to prevent me from doing that.

And again I want to be clear that obviously we aren't hurting for copies of Shakespeare, even though this example is a little sad. It's more niche works that are being erased from human knowledge altogether.
The current problem is that the insentives are all wrong.

It is the company being audited that gives the auditers the business. Its not in the interests of a dodgy company to appoint a good auditor, and its not actually in the auditors (short term) interest to uncover wrongdoing as it just means they'd lose a client.

My proposal is that you require every company to have insurance to cover the risks, making the insurers fully liable for fraud (and any other business risk that audits protect against).

Companies then don't appoint their own auditors, but the insurers do. Its in the insurers interest to make sure that any audit is effective as they're on the hook for any liability the audit misses.

This way the insentives for the auditors are aligned with the interests of the people relying on the audit (shareholders, customers, suppliers).
And not all “true beliefs” are based on fact. [1]

>At first sight we might imagine that knowledge could be defined as 'true belief'. When what we believe is true, it might be supposed that we had achieved a knowledge of what we believe. But this would not accord with the way in which the word is commonly used. To take a very trivial instance: If a man believes that the late Prime Minister's last name began with a B, he believes what is true, since the late Prime Minister was Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. But if he believes that Mr. Balfour was the late Prime Minister, he will still believe that the late Prime Minister's last name began with a B, yet this belief, though true, would not be thought to constitute knowledge.

[1] THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm#link2...
I'm curious, what is the point your trying to convey?
If the motivation of copyright is to make it worthwhile to write then being discovered later isn’t really a factor
Yes, they might not be 100% ethical in this decision, but the fact is that they are not operating in China. It would potentially be a huge market for them.
5-Year-Old Pulled Down a 3-Year-Old's Pants. The Preschool Workers Are on Trial
> The head of BaFin and their deputy were forced out over it

They tried to get innocent people put in prison. They belong in prison themselves. If all that happened to them was losing their careers, then they haven't been brought to justice.
Studies are just the formalization of what people find helpful, and determining the proximate causes of such outcomes.
Well, I'm not talking about everything, or the high level picture.

But I was checking what were called "IT controls" for their systems and a lot of that stuff was straight forward and yes, it did involve some rubber stamping, but a lot of it made sense: "Do you have a written approval process for adding users to this sensitive system?". "Can you show us how you mitigate not having a written process?".

And it wasn't super rare that besides the fact they didn't have the thing I asked for, but sometimes I couldn't even get them to understand why it would be a good idea.

A lot of companies are the Wild West :-)
Back in the old days, I had some sort of arcane chroot setup for FTP for this website. I used a hard link to resolve everything. Well, like a year into it, I forgot that I used a hard link. I needed to update a few things, so I just rm’d the supposed sym link and nuked the entire site.

Learned a hard lesson about backups that day. I did have some, but of course we still lost some data.
> Elon has made an utterly incomprehensible statement

delirium
Oh shit they wget'd twitter?? from the IP address?!?
Funny you say that. I don’t like searing whites and I also just got officially diagnosed with astigmatism. I wonder if my glasses will make a difference.
- What could we demonize this month?
- Mobility is so trendy, What about car tires?
-Oh, it looks cool to me, lets do it! Let's mandate the people to walk and in a couple of months we can demonize sneakers too!
In December they tried to ban mentioning any non-Twitter usernames:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/18/twitter-wont-let-you-post-...
Remember early on in the Elon days they did the same thing with Mastodon. Real thin-skinned stuff.
Yet Shephard Fairey’s Hope didn’t meet the bar for being transformative.
Wine and Ambien evening.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/872260000491593728