skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where you're coming from, but can't fully agree with you.

First, Stack Overflow contributions are licensed under Creative Commons. So monetizing them is explicitly allowed.

Second, information is not "stolen" nor "goods". Copyright law is completely separate from physical property laws, so even if you could make a case about fair use of training data, copyright-ability of model weights and AI generated content (which I agree are still legal gray areas) and therefore whether or not the "Share-Alike" CC clause is enforceable in this context, it would be an entirely different argument from whether the whole industry is somehow entirely morally bankrupt.

Third, given that this is unpaid work made voluntarily by users of the platforms (Reddit, SO), why is it any more acceptable for these platforms to lock it up and monetize it than for AI companies?

I think it's completely reasonable to charge for API access, particularly above a certain volume, but not because these companies have a right to protect some sort of "intellectual capital investment", but rather because the server costs of processing the requests are not negligible.

If anything, this situation really separates the wheat from the chaff in terms of what pools of open web content are truly "open". If the platforms hosting them expect to retain control of their "investment" can they really be said to be open?

I understand the irony, given that OpenAI's own name is somewhat at odds with its practices (of merely providing open access versus truly releasing everything as open source) but I think the reasonable solution to that conundrum is something like Wikimedia Foundation, Internet Archive or maybe CERN for AI, not giving up on free, open content just because it might feed a giant private brain.
> Windows 2000 wasn't a consumer version of Windows

But it worked damn well as one.
Thanks, your reply is informative. I’m probably biased by my living bubble and reading “access to therapist is far from given” helps to keep in mind to not generalize my context.
> https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm

#4 fastest growing is "Motion picture projectionists" and is expected to grow by 40% by 2031. Which looks to mean that it will grow from 1,620 to 2,268 jobs.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes393021.htm
By inferring connections in data pasted into its context window. Except its context can be as much as 50 pages at a time and semantic search means you can paste relevant context related to any query buried in mountains of data into context automatically.

Pages and pages of text that can't be read by any one person can be parsed in seconds by a machine with enough knowledge and understanding to make something meaningful of it.

The same idea is already being applied for law - https://twitter.com/ai__pub/status/1644735555752853504
As a non U.S citizen, sounds like a state with a million residents is represented as much as a state with 10 million residents. Not sure that's fair, be it I get you don't want to be underrepresented based on where you live either.
> the ink would degrade, usually towards the center of the disk, which would result in a movie sometimes freezing in the last 15-minutes or so.

CDs are usually read from the middle, going outward. Unlike records. If I had to guess it was probably the outside that started flaking
Why would they be obligated to when users opt-in to giving up rights? The ToS that appears when creating an account dictates Reddit's ownership of every comment posted.
Netflix warns of revenue slowdown as it delays crackdown on account sharing
I honestly don't see the win there. If AI means that every problem has the right expertise even if the humans aren't there, that means the humans are dispensable. Which means they will be dispensed with. Why would any business employ people when they have a cheaper option?

I can't see a field that this doesn't hold true with. What will happen when there's no work available at all for most people? How will they pay bills, eat, and so forth?

If the enthusiasts are correct about the direction AI is going, I honestly can't see any way this ends up good for anybody but a small group of people.

(To the downvoters: please, tell me how I'm wrong. I really do want to be wrong here!)
It's me waiting until the night before the exam to open the book for the first time, all over again.
Just an FYI, here is a relevant chunk from Hacker News' terms of use[1]:

> User Content Transmitted Through the Site: With respect to the content or other materials you upload through the Site or share with other users or recipients (collectively, “User Content”), you represent and warrant that you own all right, title and interest in and to such User Content, including, without limitation, all copyrights and rights of publicity contained therein. By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

Another relevant bit:

> Except as expressly authorized by Y Combinator, you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Site or the Site Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally upload to the Site. In connection with your use of the Site you will not engage in or use any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou
Platonic C# – Managing Referential Transparency Through Unique Types
Install the consent-o-matic extension. It fills out the forms automatically. It doesn’t catch everything, but is mostly pretty good…

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/md...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

The thing that really grinds my gears is the phrase “We care about your privacy”. Bullshit! If you cared you wouldn’t even need to ask for consent!
https://archive.is/SblzP
Really, you've never seen a warehouse complex get added to, or a building retrofitted with new loading docks or refrigerators? Hospitals are notorious for growing like a friggin' plant. They just keep adding wings.
There's a single premium "streaming" service that I know of, but it is not cheap:

https://www.kaleidescape.com/

It's not technically streaming because any movie that you rent first has to be fully downloaded to local storage on one of their devices. And you're talking $6K for an entry-level device, just for the privilege of being able to rent/buy movies from their store:

https://www.soundandvision.com/content/kaleidescape-compact-...

However, rentals/purchases are equivalent quality (if not bit-for-bit identical) to Blu-ray media.

The company was started by one of the founders of NetApp back in 2001, so it was way ahead of its time. I guess it's survived by sticking to the niche high-end audio-visual market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidescape
At a guess, not the target audience combined with a failure to recognize it as a technical document. The latter is completely understandable. NIST uses words that can be found in daily business use, but they take on technical meanings.
Or more importantly, China?
I imagine if you willingly self identify yourself as elite, you're anything but. These folks sound (and look) absolutely insufferable.
And to several networks:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-vir... "CNN settles lawsuit with Nick Sandmann stemming from viral video controversy"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/washington... "Washington Post Settles Lawsuit With Student in Viral Protest Video"

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29289191 "NY Times settles lawsuit with McCain lobbyist"
The problem is that due to the concentration of population within a handful of cities, and therefore counties, you only need to win in just a couple of counties per state to take most states. This has been the Democrat strategy for a long time now, focusing on issues that matter to urban voters.

Hypothetically, (again, I’m not saying this is actually what happened in 2020), compromised voting machines could easily sway a national election by being installed in a relatively small number of counties.

See the below voting map by county for the 2020 election…

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-electio...
“Unconscious” in ancient Greek would be better translated as ἀνεξήγητος (unspeakable, ineffable). They are related, sure, but not the same. In fact, “Logos” quite opposes the Unconscious in Jungian Psychology. [1]

[1] https://aras.org/concordance/content/logos?back=concordance&...
Yes. It has already been spyware for some time.
Isn’t passthepopcorn pretty much impossible to get into?
"So unlike say artists there is really no issue of them being outcompeted by a derivative of their own material."

Well, except for the tiny detail that the entire point of visiting or posting on Reddit becomes rather pointless.
I agree that HN is still pretty liberal but I also agree with GP that the swing to the right in the past few years has been very real.
Earlier article: Houses in Japan are going for as little as $500 [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266233
>The stuff I liked mostly didn't gain mainstream success at all, what really became mainstream was "shows like Dragon Ball Z."

I mean, it's stuff like DBZ and One Piece that has mainstream success in Japan, too. The weird stuff is/was relatively niche there too compared to the big names, it's just the total slice of the pie relative to the overall Japanese population was bigger.

But lots of the weird stuff that is questionable by mainstream Western standards has also gotten significantly larger here, too. I've been watching anime since the early 90s, and feel like I'm more or less used to it's weirdness, but Monogatari for example still has stuff that makes me uncomfortable - but it was quite popular in the west, far bigger than similarly strange stuff was when DBZ was airing.
>If concerned about privacy/security during international travel, a good option is to get a burner phone. A cheap android phone is peanuts.

Or just a Nandroid[0][1] backup and flashing the stock rom before you go, then restoring upon return.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/240582/how-to-back-up-and-restore-...

[1] I don't know if this is possible with Apple phones, as I don't use them. Perhaps someone could elucidate on the viability of this option for iOS devices?
Society is not breaking down.
My computer was so old that I was able to log in on a local user account. After I upgraded, I couldnt believe that I had to stay online to use my computer. I messed with some settings and moved on. Then I right clicked and almost had a stroke.
Exactly. v4.2.34 is a new product compared to v4.2.33.

Not defending this, but in the eyes of the law there's no distinction between new products and features and bug fixes.
There's a major difference between a two button UI with a clear "I refuse cookies" screen, and a screen where you first need to click "Learn More", then manually toggle 5 toggles about what you don't want to allow, then click the greyed out "View our partners" button, then block all of those. The second one is definitely extremely user hostile.
And within the Settings app.
Tucker and others like Hannity are not considered journalists, and I even remember Hannity being careful to make this point- they are opinion show hosts. This was also made clear in a lawsuit a few years ago. Like the opinion section in a newspaper, they are not held to journalistic standards by their organization.

But they can be sued for libel and slander, as in this lawsuit.
That could well be. But maybe it's not so obviously a good thing as it may sound to startup ears. Matching income and expenses is a pretty good way to keep your financial head about you.
> I die a little every time I take my 2000 lb car over the hill to get a 2 lb burrito.

so.... dont? :)
Indeed. To say nothing of gating acquisitions to breathing, head motion, eye cicadas, glymphatic flow, etc.

The highest resolution MR images I have (yet) obtained were ~20 µm^3 voxels on ex vivo (human) tissue samples fixed in agar with Gd3+ as a dopant, scanned at 12 T on a preclinical scanner. The coupled vibration of the gradient set causing blurring in the image domain at the extremities of the FOV was the limiting factor. I recall I did a partial Fourier acquisition – as ultimately we were limited by both T2* and vibration – and ended up trying to do POCS on a 4096^3 dataset and just needing tons and tons of ram to do it over something useful, like a weekend. Happy memories.
Seems like it will just continue the pattern of things decentralizing and then re-centralizing later. The only constant is the change.
It's pretty bad, especially with the trend for darker movies and every light has a blocky grey halo. Definitely hurts the immersion.
How can you talk about post-apocalyptic wastelands in anime without mentioning Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) or Barefoot Gen?!? The basis, man, the basis...
It is not. The GDPR requires websites to obtain explicit consent to misuse your data. The default state is an absence of consent, so such an addon doesn't change anything.
You're almost there. The five stages of cookie despair: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief in case the reference is too niche)
Dominion Voting System's annual turnover/revenue is approx $25M per year and they have 142 employees. So this is like 30 years of revenue for them.

One of Dominions ex-directors also has ongoing lawsuits against various Trump people -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems

https://cstrial.com/insights/c-s-earns-victory-for-former-do...
they don't have to (although Twitter for example hinted at such an arrangement) because all those people came voluntarily and signed a tos, and reddit didn't just steal that data from them.
Actually. For foreign expenses, the amortization period is 15 years instead of 5, so the cash flow problem is even worse. :-(.
They produce a human-readable, auditable paper record. The machine cannot change votes as they're cast.
Netflix Password Sharing Crackdown to Expand to U.S. in Q2 2023 – MacRumors
I'll try to be clear here:

Microsoft is selling your eyeballs to advertisers: You are the product not the customer.

Vendors are buying windows from Microsoft and installing it onto a computer and selling that computer to you. You are buying a computer not windows. If you need support you talk to the vendor, not microsoft. The vendor is the customer to Microsoft, not you.

And regarding cars -- car companies make lots of crappy cars and sell them to dealerships who have to buy them regardless of if they want them or not. The dealerships are the customers of the car companies. You are a customer of the dealership. 99% of the time if you've got a problem with the car, the manufacturer is going to be of limited use to you.
The most cost efficient way to do carbon capture is on the smoke stacks of coal power plants. Better than that is not burning the stuff in the first place. Both are way more efficient than these boondoggles trying to pull co2 out of the air where it exists at 400 ppm 0.04%. If we’re not doing the first two, why bother with the last?

There’s no logic in this.

I agree with you we’ll need to remove co2 eventually. But before we worry about that let’s focus editing on stopping making it worse. The payoff there is much higher!
The way I heard it, Netflix started with the intent of being a streaming company but found it more difficult than expected so they pivoted to mailing DVDs, but continued to work on the streaming in the background until the market forces made it viable to pivot back (licensing, residential internet speeds, etc).
Thank you. I'll take a look.

BTW, your username made me chuckle. Inspired by Boaty McBoatface, I assume?
The paper is suspect at best. Your own link enumerates the problems. Also, there are many reasons why exit polls don't match votes. And they have to do with votes being anonymous and exit polls not being anonymous.

Did you read your own link?
Why even bother asking the question on here? Everyone in this forum likely has at least one offline test machine in addition to virtual machines, Windows sandboxes, and other resources. Furthermore, the entire code is visible.
As far as I know the law only applies to tracking cookies, I’m not sure if the browser can distinguish those from normal ones so it has be done via the law. Asking for consent for any kind of cookie whatsoever would be a bit much
>The vast majority of things the government touches turn to shit

Overtime I've really begun to see this as propoganda that Reagan invented based on little to no empirical data. I'm not convinced that the government is anymore dysfunctional than any large corporation. The belief that the everything the government touches turns to shit does far more harm than good; and furthermore gets in the federal government's way of actually solving problems. The federal government may have a problem with incentives (like any corporation), but it's hard for me to believe they are inept. It ends up being a self fulfilling prophecy - the government tries to do something, a hundred road blocks are put up for fear of ineptitude, then when the government is slow due to said roadblocks, they are called inept. When those roadblocks are removed - for example in the vaccine distribution of 2020, it's clear that the government is capable of good outcomes. Millions of highly controlled and sensitive vaccines were deployed across the country in only a couple months under an administration that nearly became hostile to its deployment.
I can kind of understand making it the default sort, but not getting rid of the others. Most users don’t know they can sort the list of things in a folder. They just want to see the thing they just created, or the thing they were last working on. So sort by either creation date, modification date, or date added is what will be most helpful to most of them and result in the least open tickets for Microsoft. But to remove the other options, that’s just bad.
Tracking probably won't go away if you remove client side cookies - it will just move server side (think a new server-side google analytics) and to more aggressive client fingerprinting.

Is that the best outcome?
I am confident that somebody will very quickly produce tools for disabling these ads. In fact, thanks in advance!
Arthur Andersen was dissolved for less (Enron accounting scandal).

Edit: good call out andrew! That’s what I get for commenting at the bar.
My guess is they'll treat it like repairs and improvements on physical equipment. Fix a broken calculation, that's opex. Add an API for better Google integration, that's capex.
Netflix didn't have this service outside the US, and (at least in the last decade, there were some services like LoveFilm a long time ago) nobody has launched a competitor - the rising cost of postage and shrinking physical production means there's no opportunity here.
The profit motive can't exist without policy (for example, the policy of not letting thugs take everything you have)
I don't think LLM companies need permission to scrape Reddit. It's ironic because Reddit is basically saying "you can't profit off user content for free, that's what we're doing!"
> How will they pay bills?

If the problem that we're facing is a surplus of labor, then what do we need money for?
Lol, that's what a reviewer running on Llama13b would say!
Yes, hadn't known where it came from until this discussion.

Another prominent use in Irish was the old pre-1984 P&T / P⁊Ꞇ (Posts and Telegraphs) logo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Posts_and_Telegra...

Image of sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Post_%26_Telegraphs...

Another old P⁊T anti-vandalism sign: https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/506162445597268179/
"My understanding is that Detroit was house music"

There definitely was a lot of overlap: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/08/chicago-house-...
Seems cool but i wish they had an auto-formatter.

After years of coding, I have found that taking away the opinionated-ness and doing a format-on-save (ideally, that's supported by the language like Golang) is by far the most productive.

I'm sad that python is still prevalent everywhere, given how terrible the language and its tooling is, but it seems it's not going away with the A.I wave, so companies like this will become more valuable.
Great, now I just want a preference for

[X] NO, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter
Let's not take things out of context guys. His response there is what he would say to the public if he were in charge of making decisions on self-driving trucks. Start at 4:45 for the entire segment. He starts his response by saying, "If I were president, would I say to the DOT..."
Not the client is the responsible for others agression of course but they are for supplying those doing violents on them with their money. Of course thay are! Those doing shady business to the damage of the customer while the customer aware of this but still pay those doing violence is more than responsible: being accomplice. Don't come to me with the 'nothing can be done' kind of lazy nonsense please! That is just an excuse to remain lazy.
I keep saying that if someone understood consent like tech companies, you would keep an eye on your drink whenever they’re around.
Realistically though the first year is:

0 Revenue
- 1,000,000 Salary expense
-----------
- 1,000,000 Profit

So doesnt really make much difference
Netflix ends DVD rentals in end of era
Noooooo

Netflix's DVD selection was a trillion times better than their streaming selection, which is absolute and utter garbage.

Netflix DVDs, you will be missed!
Query ChatGPT on a custom knowledge base. Open source and locally run
I don’t know whether you meant it this way, but your comment comes across as “let me Google that for you”. Either way, I also wanted a source, and thank you for posting the link here so I also don’t have to go looking for it.
> For a lot of people facts don't matter, only culture war.

The thing is that that state of affairs has been deliberately cultivated. And this entire case is a penetrating glimpse into how it's done.

There's a range of possible solutions, but they all center on what kind of speech we incentivize. Right now, we've pretty much gone all in on incentivizing speech that gets attention. Traditional media businesses produce news or entertainment in order to sell attention to advertisers for money. Social media just puts a twist on it by outsourcing content creation to individual users in exchange for internet points like upvotes or retweets.

Things aren't going to get better until we change that. Facts and reasoned arguments are boring. Culture war is entertaining and engaging. So culture war makes the most money, and that's what we're going to get.
Only Hacker News could make piracy sound so eloquent and - dare I say - romantic.
You are likely keeping all your cookies which is a huge privacy problem. If sites remember who you are between sessions then of course they can track you. With addons like Cookie AutoDelete this doesnt happen.

If security conscious it would be recommended to also use disposable VMs for browser sessions like with Qubes OS. Otherwise, with persistence like you describe, it's crazy to me that one bad click could so easily compromise you forever
Frankly I think that for innovation it is mandatory to break the vertical integration media conglomerates or create some form of mandatory licensing for content.
Unlikely in the UK.