skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. The very nature of information is that it yearns to be free. Information cannot be "owned." The point of copyright should be to grant temporary monopolies to encourage creation, not to confer ownership.

Thomas Jefferson put it beautifully:

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
That would require you to now have all users opt-in to cookies on your site where they didn't have to do that before.

... because users absolutely love clicking through those annoying opt-in compliance boxes. So the admin now has the choice of no longer having that data or damaging UX.

The law seems pretty clearly bent on just not letting web admins collect that bedrock baby's-first-metric anymore for European users.
Here's someone else's video footage of it. It's pretty spectacular to view the video instead of just pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkWq1xJqUQ4
I find this kind of difficult to believe, because I have machines with >6 months of uptime and never see any issues. Always just running regular consumer grade hardware.
I think there's probably a big difference between how data is stored in art models versus how LLMs store textual information.
> I think this is interesting too. To me it seems the attitude stems from conflating gratitude with weakness.

More examples I thought of:

* Extreme opposition to mask wearing, perhaps due to conflating nurturing/protecting with weakness.

* Stand your ground laws. Backing down from a fight, even when it is neither strategically or tactically logical perhaps is perceived as weakness.

* Vehement opposition to environmental laws... (again nurturing/protection).

* Fart cars with noisy exhausts and Harleys. Used a s a tool to project aggression, i.e.: the perceived opposite of weakness.

* Victim blaming. Sympathy/empathy conflated with weakness?

I think this is a rich vein which might yield some insights into aspects of human behaviour.

A similar concept has also been discussed in the article "The World's Most Toxic Value System¹.

[1]: https://stevedutch.net/pseudosc/toxicval.htm"

See also:
> target the sleeping or wounded, and people who are fleeing

None of these are illegal in warfare under any of the various conventions or treaties on rules of war. There are actually, very few illegitimate targets in war such as POWs, humanitarian workers, and surrendering soldiers. In addition there has been extensive evidence of perfidy on the Russian side requiring extreme caution when accepting a surrender.

Killing surrendering soldiers is a gray area depending on the nature of the surrender. Have they dropped their weapons, are their friends still shooting at you, have their officers offered surrender, etc... Since the Russians declared no-quarter in Bakhmut they have forfeited that privilege for the most part. If they had immediately retracted the order and condemned the officers who issued the order then I could see a case being made they should still be offered that privilege. However, they have yet to do so and it is far too late.

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/wagner-groups-no-quarter-order-...
That's a silly argument. There are many jobs at which being smart is an advantage. IQ tests correlate fairly well with being smart. Giving an IQ test could then give you a group of people that are more likely to be smart than the initial interviewing population. Assuming the job is not "taking IQ tests" is the assessment unjustified?
They charge the same as MS and google afaik for cloud storage so it's hard to complain.
Not an assumption. Just a response to the title of the article.
No one starts with a perfect government. China still doesn't have a real legal system, and it's definitely taken off.
Ask HN: Phrack.org is offline, any new proxy or other means available?
I liked to read old issues of the phrack magazine. Now It seems the site is offline. Is it just for me, and are there any other means to reach the content?
I’ve commented this before on Cinema threads on HN, but why don’t more cinemas show older releases? There’s 100+ years of film classics, I’m convinced there’s a market for this. I would love to take my kids to see Star Wars A New Hope. Much more than most of crap that came out this year. (There’s crap every year but the good stuff sticks, so there’s survivor bias)
Ah, but as soon as everything is tagged as "essential", nothing is. :/
> I am increasingly skeptical that DEI programs in colleges actually increases Diversity, Equity or Inclusion

I'm starting to think there's more harm than good with DEI programs. It creates two categories of students (and grads) when looking at hiring: people you know are there on merit and people who maybe got a little bit of help from "the quota".

I've heard it (in engineering only meetings) "you know this guy is solid, he went to X and he's Asian so you know he's there for the right reasons". And the thing is, you can't really argue with that logic.

Something I have to wonder is are women and minorities... ok with this? US tax payers have voted against these practices often in the past. But elsewhere like in Canada it's now law that research grants have a racial and gender quota. Government will deny you funding if there are too many white male investigators, no matter how good the research is.
Defaults matter. Unless configured otherwise most logs are permanent and exist just because they might be useful sometime in the future.
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This gave me a nostalgia hit from the early days of the internet, and is one of the reasons why I come to HN.
Thanks, you too.

I’m sorry but yeah, if you want a concrete solution that is on par with what google offers in terms of privacy and security, you can’t go with a random company and everything I said before stands. And in this scenario, fastmail IS a random company no matter how long you’ve used them.
It will work exactly as well as robots.txt and the do not track flag.
The Golden Rule operates at the small scale of an iterated prisoner's dilemma where two parties are directly interacting.

Kant's wording scales up to include the emergent properties of a society which operated according to that rule.

The Golden Rule doesn't cover cases like, "Should I throw this trash in a lake." because there's no concrete person being "done unto". Kant's rule does: Would you want to live in a world where everyone threw trash in the lake? Probably not.
And Google’s disregard of Android devs outside the America/Europe. I have been doing Android development since 2011 and still impossible to get my hands on a Pixel or Chromebook directly from Google. On the other hand, I could get the latest iPhone shipped in a month.
Some science on the subject exists but considered too controversial for the mainstream. IQ, SAT scores, crime all show similar correlations even after socioeconomic factors are taken into account.

One explanation for the gap in SAT scores I've seen is that women and minorities (except asians) perform worse because they expect to perform worse. Plausible to an extent sure but today it seems the science is jumping through all kinds of hoops to prove that genetics have an effect on every part of our body except the brain.

I'm not trying to deny that culture and nurture plays a big role, but we choose dog breeds based on personal traits, so why do we expect ourselves to be any different? It applies to all animals but us, nonsense if you ask me.

Where I live the second generation immigrants are more prone to crime than their parents were. What's the explanation for that?
Floating point numbers don't represent all possible values, just a subset of values representable by a number of bits used. Therefore, in some cases it's reasonable to treat floating point numbers not as "exact point on a number scale", but rather a range between a number and the next possible representable number.

In the case of +0.0 and -0.0, they can be treated as values between zero and the smallest representable number (about 5.4E-079 for 32 bit floats). It isn't a very common use case since dealing with such small numbers isn't a very common thing, but it is definitely a possibility.
Yeah, you can re-run it, but then you have to merge the code. It's often not too bad, but can be tedious and complicated to figure out the first time around.

What I recommend people do is immediately commit the "clean" generated project to a new branch. Then you can apply an upgrade directly onto that branch, so it only has the "pure" diff. Then you can merge that to your main branch.

There's more info here, and a video walkthrough if you're curious: https://docs.saaspegasus.com/upgrading.html#using-branches-r...

I've dreamed of automating it more, but would have to build an entire github integration to manage other people's compiled projects...
i found this a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. i’m on the paid plan. my screen time on twitter and instagram has gone down significantly as a result of the slight inconvenience every time i open them. and doing the breathing exercise before plunging into hellish social media is also surprisingly refreshing.

the app is a little bit buggy, which sometimes makes it impossible to “pause” it. but one could argue that’s a feature not a bug!

overall impressed with Clearspace’s clever approach to this issue.
I think that the problem here is that you do not understand that organising a community takes time and effort.

Creating a slack instance is not building a community.

The "fee" is just a simple way to get commitment from the other side. As you can imagine, this is not a business that will allow me to quit my job.
We went down this path on a project I worked on at Netflix and, in hindsight, I consider it a mistake. The result was a massive number of services with dashboards, metrics, code bases, etc. all stuck in a snapshot of time. Upgrades were manual, tedious, and error prone. As a central team, that work scaled linearly with the number of services that used our generator.

Pulling all of that down into a module that is managed and versioned allows you to upgrade your users. I now consider that almost table stakes for anything I build/manage as a platform team.
Completely agree. The difference is that with new releases the theaters don’t have to do any marketing of their own.
Yeah I didn't mean to advocate for Mojo necessarily. I use Python for projects and like a lot about it, but often feel as if its implementations are kind of fragmented in many respects, and Mojo seems like it could potentially further that trend for me at least, at the current time. Other projects are certainly more open and established.

For me personally what I want to see is a completely open, working, high-performance Python compiler that is fully compatible with official spec 100%, in the sense that you could take any code anywhere and it would work just as well on the official interpreter as on the compiler. Maybe this means creating an official Python 4.0 spec or something that's a superset of 3.0, or something, but right now I'm not sure I see anything quite like that.

I could see Mojo being that eventually but you're right that at the moment it's far from that.
That’s the point. You don’t know exactly what happened. So you have to reason your way to an answer, right or wrong.

I’m sure it elicited ideas in your head based on your own experiences. You could then use those ideas to ask questions and get further information. Or you could simply pick an answer and then delve into all the details and sensations involved, creating a story based on what you know about the world and the feelings you’ve had.

I could have created a more involved “prompt story” one with more details but still somewhat vague. You would probably have either jumped straight to a conclusion about what happened or asked further questions.

Something like “He kicked a ball at my face and hit me in the nose. I laughed. He cried.”

Again, vague. But if you’ve been in such a situation you might have a good guess as to what happened and how it felt to the participants. ChatGPT would have no idea whatsoever as it has no feelings of its own with which to begin a guess.

Consider poetry. How can ChatGPT reason about poetry? Poetry is about creating feeling. The content is often beside the point. Many humans “fail” at understanding poetry, especially children, but there are of course many humans that “get it”, escpecially after building up enough life experience. ChatGPT could never get it.

Likewise for psychedelic or spiritual experiences. One can’t explain such experience to one who has never had it and ChatGPT will never have it.

Same goes for all inner experience.
I am from India, and I just recently completed my Masters from a US university. I have never cheated in my life when it comes to interviews, exams, or assignments; not once. I am worried that calling us “low-trust” because of your experience with a few students might lead others to think that the entire country that is so diverse and large is comprised of just an incompetent set of cheaters. I agree that a lot of students cheat, but that's true of students from other countries(like US, Uk, etc) as well. I know this from my experience as a TA. I love computer science and so do many of my friends.

Edit: I should also add that I realize by low-trust OP meant the academic term for kinship-based society but my worry is that tying low-trust with cheating students from a country that gets its image tarnished because of various other reasons like low-wage labour and tech scams might paint a different picture to those who don’t know about the term or OPs intent
What’s an IP in this context please ?
That's why Colombia is worth checking out. They're much more balanced between capital and labor. Google has a big office in Bogota for a reason.
What I miss the most, and where the most damage to the net has been done so far, is in terms of whois. Without WHOIS it's become near impossible to contact people. Before you'd find an interesting domain, whois, email 'em up. Now that GDPR has made whois illegal, or a high enough legal risk that registrars are chosing to turn it off, there's no way to contact any arbitrary domain. It's made the web a lot more impersonal and corporate.
If you are going to do batch operations, your data structure should be optimized to support them, so you're back to one CAS. The same would apply to the locked scenario, where you probably don't want to copy 1000 elements in the critical section.

About the sufficiently smart optimizations, sure, everything is easy to imagine, but in my experience this never happened, and I'd be curious to hear practical examples if you have any.
> Given climate change, if Helion works then it would be in the interest of the US for it to spread worldwide as quickly as possible. Especially since it uses a mostly-aneutronic reaction.

The US may want cheap energy to spread world wide. That doesn't necessarily mean the US wants fusion tech to spread world wide.
> It can be great if the website somehow ends up in a training dataset (who knows), and it can be super helpful for AI website crawlers, instead of using thousands of tokens to know what your website is about, they can do it with just a few hundred.

How do you differentiate an AI crawler from a normal crawler? Almost all of the LLMs are trained on commoncrawl, which the concept of LLMs didn't even exist when CC started. What about a crawler that creates a search database, but's context is fed into a LLM as context? Or a middleware that fetches data in real time?

Honestly that's a terrible idea. and robots.txt can cover the use cases. But is still pretty ineffective, because it's more just a set of suggestions than rules that must be followed.
Awesome, thanks! I think I'll have to do the equivalent thing in cookiecutter, but this gives me a good path to go down.
Wide adoption of longevity tech is necessary to prevent population collapse. AI also doesn’t seem like it’s going to stay cooped up for long, there’s a solid chance that open source projects beat OpenAI to the punch as well if scaling is no longer productive beyond this point
If by the cheaters you mean the executives and investors who personally capture all of the profit, then I couldn't agree more. The reason that we're suffering from "inflation" and see record high wealth inequality is because the people at the top are hoarding all of the capital and profit leaving little for the vast majority of people.
Kirk cheated in the Kobayashi Maru ;)
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Yeah but the Dems were in majority.
Been great for me as an employee. People are willing to take risks if they know they can fire you if it doesn't work out. That risk has been my carrier, as someone without a traditional background.
I am a SWE (IANAL) with a post-grad degree in GDPR/DPO, and while I had only time for a cursory read, I must say it hits a lot of nails on the head! A breath of fresh air in times of so much GDPR misinformation.

From what I remember, the ePrivacy-GDPR cookie mismatch (consent as the only allowed legal basis for cookies) is due to ePrivacy being older than the GDPR and not intentional.

Article 5 (Principles) is always a good mention - just having a legal basis is not enough, you always need to respect these principles (such as lawfulness, fairness and transparency).

The dig at pseudonomyzation not being enough is great. It's a personal pet peeve of mine. Pseudonomized data is still personal data!

The GDPR does not prescribe how to anonymize data. It just says "as long as someone can identify a person, then it's personal data." For example, you might think that aggregating based on city is enough to anonymize, but my nephew was at one point the sole person living in a village - that would have directly identified him. Likewise, stripping the last octet of IP addresses might not be enough if I personally own a /24. It's all about context.

The biggest thing I personally learned, was that any solution claiming to be "GDPR proof" probably is not compliant.
There’s no room for non-cynicism, i.e. for idealism, when money is involved. And money is definitely involved in this.
They definitely have valuable IP already: whatever slide deck/demo reel/kompromat they used to pull this nonsense off is clearly worth its weight in unobtanium.
In my model I don't segment people by countries. I segment them by classes -- peasants and aristocrats. So actually, I wouldn't worry about Saudian aristocrats because I'm sure they will prosper as long as they plan accordingly.
>"absolutely should not be, respected"

Taking issue with the 'absolute' part: The cultural context does impact what gets respected, though. For example, having an organization that avoids nepotism is generally respected in the U.S. There are other countries/cultures that do not, at least to the same degree. From their perspective, the more respectable act is to help out those in your tribe/family when you are in a position to do so.
This. Low-trust countries generate an outflow of people in the direction of first-world countries. This is an incredible talent-pool of disciplined and motivated idealists and a lot of the technological IP that gives an upper hand to Western economies comes from this process.

Personally, my parents are such people - they left Poland in the 1970’s and excelled in America. One of the best things that our country has done since is that we have climbed into a higher-trust category in the 90’s. This has gradually limited that brain drain mechanic. While things aren’t perfect, there are far fewer such people leaving our economy and it has done wonders.

However, everywhere in the world this is a continuous battle that will always have to be fought and won over and over again. The lying and the cheating always creeps back into every system.
I'll run memtest86 for a full day when I build a system or get new ram. I've never seen an error outside of the situation where a stick has gone bad and it errors like crazy. I don't use ECC other than on my homelab server either.

Tons of people do this and have no issues with bit flips or we'd be hearing about it.
Yes, I was cynical and frustrated from so much of PR fluff pieces that imply one thing only end up being smoke & mirrors. I did however genuinely ask “why not say it like it is?!”

Sorry, I do not subscribe to the idea that everybody should just ignore and move on when they see nonsense.. If nobody cares, then what is the point of our collective existence as a society? As an exaggerated example, if we all stopped caring whether a business claiming to do something can actually do it or not, doesn’t it incentivise every business to just lie and deceive as their way of business? Is that the world we should be looking forward to?
In the USA, it's likely the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Their site says "The Commission as a collegial body formulates policies, develops regulations governing nuclear reactor and nuclear material safety, issues orders to licensees, and adjudicates legal matters."
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/nuclear-fusion-will-not-be-r...
Depending on how early in development it is, it would likely be grid tied at some point because of the huge power needs to drive the power generating reactor before it gets going and the fuel generation reactor which is not energy producing.
> If a one-person outfit happens to be skimming the logs and notices "Oh, neat, that's a lot of IP addresses from Germany," did they just do analytics?

Yes.

However enforcement is intentionally discretionary and selective and hence sensitive / prone to political, protectionist and sentimental whims. Your 1 person outfit in Europe is less likely to suffer in actual court, or the court of public opinion, than a big bad American tech company will.
> However, the conclusion this person reaches - we must conduct these broken interviews in person so the cheaters can't cheat - is the wrong one.

It's not "right" or "wrong" - it's just a decision. There may be other choices and other decisions but to paint this one as flat wrong seems, well, wrong.

> They may not have found the very best person for the job

The vast majority of job searches do not have this as a goal!

Most companies want to hire somebody who's good enough relatively quickly for a price they want to pay.