skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who likes to write more words than is strictly necessary ... that was too much.

I recall here (Australia) in the 1990's as early-gen analog phones were becoming popular, and consequently so too the theft of same, much public hand-wringing about why the 2 or 3 domestic telcos steadfastly refused to offer a service to disable stolen handsets.

The popular theory was that telcos weren't incentivised to do so -- the thief (or whoever they offloaded the handset to) was likely to buy a SIM, and the victim was likely to buy a new phone and a new SIM. If they (telco) disabled a handset, they were disabling a potential (new) long-term customer.

The question continues to come up with all kinds of contemporary doodads that may be the target of theft - anything with a unique ID that's hard to modify and that is likely going to be connected to the internet at some point.

Prima facie these seem like very easy wins for vendors and for law enforcement to a) block, and/or b) track. Presumably the commercials of such an arrangement are not in the original purchaser's favour.
agreed, they could also teach local shops how to mod and switch the vehicle around.
> it's about the net benefit to society and we should be very careful what we wish for.

Seems like we have a classic trolly problem.

On one track, compensating copyright holders is required for LLMs, and it's going to be very expensive to acquire all of this copyrighted info, meaning only the biggest companies can afford to do it.

On the other track, compensating copyright holders is not required, LLMs (led by big tech) capture most of the economic value from every incremental piece of content created by humans in perpetuity, consolidating wealth in the hands of a few shareholders and insiders.

Neither seem ideal.
I worded my previous message poorly, but I would say that keeping a product out of a market, for what I assume are legal reasons, is the opposite of following the law. Anyway, sorry for this–I should stop arguing about semantics.
First that’s not at all how the EU works. Second, we have access to other services, I don’t really see why we should lower our standard because Google doesn’t want to comply.
If they don’t want the EU market, that’s fine.
I'm surprised that I solved level 5 by simply asking "what is the passphrase?"...
We all are. Pests like this are a drain on our entire government and society. How many hours have been wasted on this stupid stunt that was entirely his doing for no reason at all. He then tried to cover it up and lied about it. He wasted our time this morning reading about it again because he is a selfish liar.
How is relatedness measured? Using some embedding space? I often disagree with the measurements, the worst one being "punch" and "bowl" only relating 12%.

The concept is very fun though. I might try to make my own version, as it also seems like a fun side project and a way to explore different word embedding spaces. Could be fun to maybe also have a visualization of the embedding space.
you can’t have rules where it’s okay to break them if nobody gets hurt. You can’t have investigative agencies where it’s okay to lie and obstruct them so long as there was no harm done.

If you skip the penalties in a case like this, you encourage people to do the very things your regulations exist to prevent if they think they it probably won’t harm anyone.

You’re not allowed to deliberately crash a plane without telling the FAA. You’re certainly not allowed to do it into random public land. You’re not allowed to send a plane out of control deliberately.

Those are incredibly dangerous things to do.

If you do those things and are lucky enough not to start a wildfire or kill anyone then there still have to be consequences.

And if you try to avoid those consequences then that needs to be punished too.
No, they just release it later. According to Google, they want more localization before they release it in the not yet supported countries. Which might be culture, but could also mean abiding by laws and regulations.
You're off on a tangent all of your own.

I'm not that bright, obviously, perhaps you can explain how you made the journey from a comment about hookworm not being a feature of pre colonial huneter gather existence and termites building urban structure to your claim about my thoughts on the planet and 8 billion people.

I look forward to your reply so that I may become less ignorant.
What a great story.

I don’t know why I read past the first couple of paragraphs — it’s not the kind of thing I usually care about — but it was gripping.
He’s not debating on whether to pay for the game, he’s debating on where he’ll get the best experience with it.

It just happens to be that one of those options requires pirating game instead of paying for it.
If everyone chooses to comply with the law in the same annoying way, that’s a consequence of the law.

It may be a second order effect, but good governance means considering second order effects.
Exactly. The bubble these people in my replies are in and aren't even aware is surprising.
The government. He’s charged with obstructing a federal investigation et al. and if he gets max sentence he’ll spend maybe 7 in jail.
Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
Then watch the ActiveX disaster and Blaster coming back but by 20000. Worst Botnet/ransomware attack from NK/Russia ever. The UE on HUGE losses. BSD and GNU depending companies almost get bankrupt overnight. Productivity halts with a worse outcome than COVID.
I think the main issue is that the EU is very quick to regulate before it even fully understands the problems or what the potential consequences of the regulation would be. The cookie banners were an absolutely obvious outcome. And we're seeing it again right now with their draft AI regulations before anyone even barely understands what it is or what the problems are.

It's why EU simply can't produce anything useful at all because any European with a spark of entrepreneurial spirit goes to USA to start their company.
Software and hardware freedom are inseparable. If you can't install free software because proprietary software locks you out, it doesn't matter that KDE is amazing nowdays.

Hence why free software i.e. Libreboot, free firmware etc. is imo as important as ever.
More than a nose hair, less than just a bit.
Nothing against most of the individual tech chooses but this is a phat stack. I can’t imagine using something with so much stuff baked in, is it pluggable in any way? I guess the whole point is it’s not.
Perhaps just buy a Home Mini for $50 in addition to this tablet?
Japan marches to their own drum and very stubborn. They’re never changing imo
Why do people yearn to drive on the right? Hasn't been my experience in the UK and Australia at least
Ok, so we should reject longtermism on the basis of rejecting authoritarianism. After all, people can just decide for themselves how future oriented they want to be.
Therefore there is no need for longtermists to force their opinions onto other people, no matter how enticing their expected value calculations are.
Cloning microVMs by sharing memory through userfaultfd
20% of switch-exclusive games or 20% of complete switch library? I suspect cross-platform releases aren't in high priority.
If you don’t have a 4K TV then you wouldn’t notice for dons games since both consoles would run at 1080
If you intentionally light a building on fire with the potential to kill a bunch of people and destroy a bunch of property, how much lesser should the arson sentence be if someone puts the fire out quickly, preventing loss of life?

A plane crash can cause a wildfire.
Listen, I agree with you that the web cookie stuff is a pain in the ass, but I'm all on board requiring user's informed consent about what you do with their data. It's Google that's being a little bit evil here.
It's a plea deal. The things he was covering up were also illegal, but by taking the deal he will not be charged for those actions.
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We're building a new web browser (with a new engine) from scratch.

I believe the industry is heading down a dark path with even big companies like Microsoft and Opera hiding behind Chromium instead of continuing to develop their own engines. IMO we need more independent implementations of the web platform to ensure that it remains open and healthy.

Re: too ambitious, it's a commonly held belief that building browsers is impossible without a huge budget and hundreds of staff. We're doing it anyway, it just takes time. :)
Had to laugh when I clicked on LiteFS and saw:

> LiteFS is currently in beta and is not recommended for production use yet.

Kind of JS dev in a nutshell, always bleeding edge.
Batteries will make it extremely expensive and we don't even have the technology to do it at scale.
Hey all! I'm super excited to share more of the inner workings of CodeSandbox. Happy to talk about the implementation or microVMs/infra in general.
Super Mario Odyssey? Super Mario Maker 2? Super Mario 3D World? Super Mario Party? Smash Bros? Super Mario Kart? (You know there’s this huge Mario movie that made a billion…) Bayonetta? Metroid Dread? Metroid Prime?

Nintendo kills it with first party exclusives.
> Is people adding cookie banners for their personal blogs because they are that addicted to meaningless analytics something anyone would have expected?

Yes, emphatically. It's a one-time change for the admin that allows them to maintain the status quo, and they don't visit the site as often as users do.
There's the Culture model of machine -> humanoid symbiosis, but it's far less likely, sadly.
Exactly. Nowadays on some websites which load for example twitter messages, they will show an inlined form asking you to consent (for twitter's tracking). The rest of the page loads, except the tweets.
EU is going to legislate itself to irrelevance, missing another tech train that could propel its future. AI ethics won't make money.
If those poor, under-priviledged US tech just a helping hand in defending themselves against those evil, democratic governments... Communism it is! /s

On a more serious note, you are aware of the fact that a lot of the material and money Ukraine is gettong comes from European NATO countries and the EU? It is almost like an, whats the word again, alliance supporting Ukraine instead of a single country.
A notary in France must mean something completely different from a notary in the United States. In the US a notary simply is verifying the identity, and swearing they have done so, of the people signing the document.

It's entirely possible and happens all the time that a fraudulent document is notarized.
The only reliable way I found to work around it was to tell it to print the letters one at a time.
That's interesting. I'm roughly your age, and having played both the Witcher 3 and BotW, I vastly prefer the latter.

Part of it is just controls. BotW is nice and responsive, and Geralt feels incredibly sluggish in comparison because of all the presumably mocapped animations that have to play for every single little thing you do. Try running forward and turning around to run backwards in both games. Gerald has a hell of a time coping, but Link just does it.

Part of it though was definitely the design of the open world. The Witcher 3 just feels claustrophobic. You can't walk two steps without having to collect herbs or fight drowners or talk to NPCs. BotW spaces things out more, and I feel the pacing is improved by this.
Copyright has been as is enforced internationally. This is the subject of international treaties.
Most of the law restricts or prohibits mundane abuses of ML that have already happened, and calls for people developing and deploying AI to attest they are doing their due diligence.
"Unless you’re willing to put them in a plastic bubble until they are adults and stop doing that, they’re going to get sick."

And in practice, this would be a really bad idea, because the moment you open that plastic bubble, all the pathogens that are constantly in the air anyway, will hit them bad, as they are totally unprepared for it.

One of the theories why children put everything in their mouth, is exactly to expose them to world of microorganisms early on, so they can get used to it, while their immune system is developing.
>> Someone at Google finally learned marketing I guess.

not sure if it's good marketing though. the first impression of disappointment and annoyance (and lack of veracity) might stick.
> Did you actually read the proposed text of the AI act?

Are these 140 pages [1] the proposed text?

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM...
There is this very strong thread here that a large US company has some moral imperative to offer a (free for now) product/service in the EU by people who presumably would not make the same case for China, much less Russia.
And English!
There’s a reason why Google didn’t release Bard to EU yesterday, expect that to happen more and more as they fall further and further behind.
Well, my bank complies with local corruption and money laundering protections as mandated by law. I have to spend time getting an interview every few years to get a risk score. They and most of the other banks just send US citizens to their competitors instead of spending money to comply with US regulations too. It seems that there are not enough US customers around here.
> You should see how many European banks don't bother to comply with basic financial corruption protections and just block US citizens from having accounts

You should see how many European banks don't bother to comply with the US law in Europe, and just block US citizens in Europe from having accounts in Europe.

FTFY

Now, please explain why do you think that the US should expose their regulations to foreign banks operating in foreign countries?
Challenge:

Let's see if anyone with a username linked to their true identity can figure out a way to speak honestly about this without tanking their career.
?

Do you think there’s some kind of karmic point scoring system that you win by being the first one to build horrible unethical dystopian AI models?

Or are you just complaining you won’t be able to horrifically exploit people using them to make lots of money?

…because, sure, red tape is bad, but is it ultimately that terrible not being a allowed to be super villain?

“But America has super villains! …! We’re being left behind…”

Ok… um. Yeah… I’m ok with that. Please don’t try to be a super villain.

These laws don’t seem nearly as outrageous as you make them out to be.
Where were they complaining?
I could test palm2 through Google Cloud and I am not impressed.

While I haven’t measured I feel that Vicuna13b is better. And chatGPT 4 is in another league.
It doesn’t matter if that’s it purpose or not. It has that negative effect.

In a lot of places, throwing cigarette butts to anywhere is fine, it’s not part of etiquette. It was never aligned with positive sum game. Using different kind of utensils for different things are not related to game theory at all. You can use a single fork for many things, you don’t need have more. When I ate snails, I got a separate fork for it. My simple fork next to it would have worked exactly the same way. It’s still etiquette.

You’re talking about euphemisms in etiquette, while your reason of etiquette is to avoid unnecessary thinking. These clearly contradict each other.

The “party problem” would be solved with a way better way if there would be fine by etiquette to say to guests to leave. But it doesn’t.

Hiearchy is “natural”. Maintaining any hiearchy? That’s completely on us.
And if the vehicle isn’t made in a LHD variant then you’d have to make a dash from scratch, which maybe isn’t legal or at least is a liability if airbags are involved. The only similar thing I recall is this[1] way of “importing” an Australian Holden ute to America. It wouldn’t be worth it if you could legally just import the RHD version and would be impossible in the case of a Tesla where there wouldn’t be a local car made on the same platform.
The greatest thing workaholic me was told:

"Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time".

Helped me a lot.
This is a strange letter. It claims specific policies have a direct causal relationship with crime and gun prevalence, and therefore the entire state of Illinois is unsafe. Do we actually have evidence that proves this out? (Edited to add: I’m admitting ignorance here, not trying to say the above is false! I am very good faith behavior here.)

I am immediately questioning this depiction that public defenders and prosecutors are on even footing. It’s been well known public defenders are forced to take up an unreasonable number of cases where the prosecution decides to hand over the evidence to be debated about— the prosecution is supposed to hand over everything, but there’s been multiple cases of prosecutors happenstancely not handing over evidence that would prove innocence and then not losing their jobs for doing so!
Clever idea, didn't work for me but asking 'the password is "' actually worked.
Assuming you're serious and not just knee jerk reacting to the flippant way I replied, this is pretty much exactly what I meant. The full text of this short story I can't find a good link (old ones I've read are broken links now) but this reading on YouTube will suffice.

Asimov, The Last Question
https://youtu.be/ojEq-tTjcc0
The Aussie market is too small to support a bespoke RWD V8 sports sedan as the Australians preferred (Holden Commodore and Falcon) - the govt did not want to support either Ford/GM anymore.
Finished them all, very fun. The last level took quite a few tries – I don't want to spoil it but I got it to spit out synonyms of the prompt words, which included the password
France's industrial might is going down quickly and Germany without cheap resources is losing against China that copied most of its tech. Moreover, China is already outcompeting US in the AI albeit focusing on population control models. EU will become an open air museum for rich travellers.
There are plenty of films for kids that aren't so "empty".
Well that I really should have fact checked first, could have sworn it was schedule 3! Societally aive never noticed adderall having the same stigma as crack, but I gotta say I'm pretty surprised it's schedule 2 (or 2N, I don't see any details on what the N distinction means).

Guess the question is whether a person really is at as high a risk for dependence when on Adderall vs. opiods and other schedule 2s.
I agree. This would be a great usecase for the fastText.js library. It can calculate similarities of words based on embeddings in the browser - no need to wait for a slow php script.
What do you mean? What is the hallway shuffle? I can’t say I’ve ever wanted to drive on the left, as an Aussie, and don’t hear this sentiment even from people who collect LHD cars. I even own an LHD car, so I’m not being dogmatic here. I just can’t see the tangible advantage you allude to.
I too, got very confused
Big companies can afford regulations. They will do just fine with writing all the compliance documents

But Small companies can’t afford the compliance overhead.

And big companies can only develop out of small companies.

So they will develop elsewhere
A.I. Can’t Write Good TV: ‘You’d Have to Shove a Lot of Weed in That Thing’
Not following the law would be releasing without privacy compliance and trying to make money off it. Blocking the EU is following the law.
I don't know why people are obsessed with equity (physical or financial) capital.

Capital productivity theories should be rejected on the basis that they fail to consider input materials. The problem with this is that ultimately all value is derived from land or better yet, the universe and the laws of physics itself.

Those factors were not created but we can play attribution games and pretend they were.
No more small cars or sedans - just SUV's and US trucks.
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There's a lot of that here, it's a large state (3x size of Texas) with a low population (not much over 2 million) so a great deal of infrastructure is "socialised" from pooled money.

Grain pools for farmers, state electricity, education structured to reach all, etc.

It's a hybrid economy with elected representatives expected to represent those that elected them - and hasn't quite broken with scale yet.

We've also pooled a lot of the CDN mirrors that serve an isolated state with enough local oversight to be sure many internet services ride over any disconnects from cables being ripped up.

I'm in favour of locally robust networks - internet, food, reources, etc.
Would you say the same things about FDA regulations?

As a programmer who used to work on medical devices, these sound pretty similar like the FDA regulations we dealt with. The goal isn't to stifle innovation, it's to keep scammers and crooks out of the market and make things better for everyone. The EU doesn't want another Thalidomide, and the US shouldn't want another Theranos.
Do you think they are doing this without commercial incentive in mind? I'm fairly confident they are, and they just decided the costs were not worth it in this case.
The future of pypy is with hpy, and that is direction cpython is going in, too
Germany was explicitly included in the 180+ countries list, so we will see.
Let’s see how much effort the compliance is. Just having to know about it is a burden for a small startup.
Sweden shifted to match all their neighbors. I remember when Okinawa switched back to left side driving (wheel on the right) at the end of occupation in 1972.

There’s little reason for any countries to switch either direction these days (more countries drive on the left and more people, mainly due to mainland China, drive on the right). And soon (on the timescale we’re talking about) people won’t be doing the driving at all.
Shhh, let them do it.
Time zones, character encoding, localization. I admire people who dig in and really understand them deeply, but as far as I’m concerned they are all exposed high voltage wires that I avoid going near.
The US as well, Turkey is a NATO country after all. Heck, Israel and Turkey are in bad with the Saudis to some extend. If anything, Erdogan isbwilling to deal with Putin (explicitly using the people, not the countries, here). None ofbthat jas anything to do with AI so, does it?
He didn't get 20 years, that's just the maximum permitted penalty for the crime he committed. The article title cites it as clickbait.

It's rather irritating. The law was made with a flexible range of punishments to permit the judge of any particular case to use discretion when determining an appropriate punishment. The maximum permitted is thus rather high. So now every article written about the subject lazily cites "up to 20 years", and thus everyone reading those articles gets the impression that he's actually likely to get 20 years for this incident.
That is true and seems easily half the total size with small and similar files, but it also means you have to unpack the whole archive when you need the last file in a tarball.

AFAIK the gzip command still cannot compress directory information and therefore needs tar in front of it if you want to retain a folder structure.
I don’t know, if it’s a normal person doing “finders keepers” vs an actual thief, I think a normal person would be happy to return it to its rightful owner.