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Tell HN: AI legal contract review is already screwing up
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I had lunch with a lawyer friend today, who told me that their morning was surreal. At their meeting to go over the latest contract draft, the client introduced new AI software they had purchased (who is selling this???) and its list of recommended changes.

Every single recommendation was worse for the client, and after explaining the reasons, the call lasted longer than it normally would have, so the bill to the client was higher. The lawyer asked if AI was really that stupid, or if their contracts were really that amazing, because then they should be charging a lot more for them.
If the speaker was setting out to bullshit you, "significant opportunity cost" could mean a lot of things.

Perhaps they mean a non-financial opportunity cost, like they could modify their API if they didn't have third parties depending on it, and they're missing out on the benefits such modifications might hypothetically provide.

Or perhaps "significant cost" means, say, $100k per year. Significant at a human scale, insignificant at the scale of a multi-billion-dollar company.
The specs themselves usually come from Fedora first, where they are MIT by default (per Contributor Agreement, at least). So RH can do anything they please as long as they acknowledge the authors (which is done trivially by not mucking with %changelog).

Anything they please likely includes terminating your account if they sniff you using it to avoid the fees or enabling others to do so. If you are contemplating, say, using a Red Hat Individual Developer Access (or what they call it) to redistribute the sources, they have a provision in the terms you have to agree to just against such cases.
We already support vector stores! If you go to https://lastmileai.dev/models, you can New > "Tune new model", which under the covers creates embeddings for your data (either file upload or scraped from a website). You get a new "Model Fork" from this, which you can then use in a Workbook.

We're working on more complex scenarios with vector stores, including API integrations.
Dude, it’s an online magazine, styled like any modern online newspaper, that reports on very serious topics:

> Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blogging effort, the Techdirt blog relies on a proven economic framework to analyze and offer insight into news stories about changes in government policy, technology and legal issues that affect companies’ ability to innovate and grow. As the impact of technological innovation on society, civil liberties and consumer rights has grown, Techdirt’s coverage has expanded to include these critical topics.

Why are you jumping to defend low-quality writing and clickbait on HN? Because it says something bad about another bad guy? “Enemy of my enemy” is a pretty fucking low bar
It's really hard to form stable, wealthy countries in general.

Countries that have developed in the last 60 years tend to have strong authoritarian leaders and the favor and interest of Europe and the United States.

Ethopia does have natural resources but it doesn't have a strong central government, partly because the warring factions want control of the resources. Places like UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar had strong dictators before they developed the petroleum industry. African states that have oil tend to be too weak politically to resist outside interests taking the wealth by paying bribes and funding warring factions.
What's bizarre to me is that the app inhibits activity.

Like, I can type 20 comments on my laptop in the time it would take to type one on my phone, and they'll be more well-thought out too
I don't know what this means or what value this framework provides.

Literally any random sequence of events is a story. That doesn't have any bearing on it being true or false.

Example:

- I was hungry

- so I ate a sandwich

- Then I took a shit.

- Then cows started flying.

Completely fabricated and not real. (I had oats today)

Also, "Gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 on Earth." Not a story a but definitely true and explainable to the average person.
Is this an (accidental?) +1 for robo-cars?
It's mostly a linguistic distinction: is your indirection a memory address, or is it relative to a data structure? You gain more than you lose in most instances by switching models away from the machine encoding - ever since CPUs became pipelined, using pointers directly has been less important than contriving the data into a carefully packed and aligned array, because when you optimize to the worst case you mostly care about the large sequential iterations. And once you have the array, the handles naturally follow.

The reason why it wouldn't come up in webdev is because you have a database to do container indirection, indexing, etc., and that is an even more powerful abstraction. The state that could make use of handles is presentational and mostly not long-lived, but could definitely appear on frontends if you're pushing at the boundaries of what could be rendered and need to drop down to a lower level method of reasoning about graphics. Many have noted a crossover between optimizing frontends and optimizing game code.
McDonald’s has a drive thru voice assistant that also did this for the first few months. But now it catches virtually everything.

Similar to what someone else said I’d imagine they gathered the considerable voice samples from a few months of thousands of McDonald’s locations, and trained on that data.
Every flat map projection distorts something, so every projection has to optimize some parameter and trade off other utility. I'm constantly amazed at how hung up people are on apparent size of countries. If size is your thing, use some other projection!

Mercator is and remains popular because it preserves local angles and shapes, which makes it simple use this projection to navigate by rhumb lines (compass headings). Because most maps people are exposed to are designed for navigation, it is the most commonly seen projection. And yes, it distorts size and is largely unusable past about ± 70º latitude. Every map is a compromise.
> Normally you’d focus an enlarger visually, perhaps with a grain focuser—maybe at this point you’d be focusing manually with the grain focuser in the visible region and then making some calculated adjustment for UV

Yes, I have some experience with this (see my other reply in this thread) and it's a real problem but there is an easy fix.

Instead of using a grain-focuser (which would also be dangerous for the eyes anyway, and good quality UV lights don't leak much into the visible) you use plain white paper, cheap paper that is treated with optical brighteners.

These brighteners glow in the UV to make the paper look whiter, which means that under your UV enlarger, they turn the projected UV into a visible image. You can then focus using a regular looking glass to look at the paper. And UV-blocking sunglasses (you can easily test if they actually block UV: the paper will not glow at all if UV-blocking glasses are in the way).

Some lenses are corrected for UV-Vis focus shift, but they are generally extremely expensive.
Nike and Epic Games Collaborate to Bring Airphoria Gaming Experience to For
It reminds me of the old saying.

> Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM

Nobody ever got fired for buying, Oracle or Microsoft or any big incumbent. The same could definitely not be said for choosing any free software.

Ironically RHEL is IBM now.
We lost already when we hired humans to read scripts that made them essentially indistinguishable from machines.
I think the artist (unless they're like Radiohead or Taylor Swift or something) is always going to be at a massive disadvantage in any negotiation with a label (massive corporation).

This is just the nature of capitalism. The more capital you have, the more leverage you have.

The people who actually create the product are always at a disadvantage compared to those who own the means of that production.

You can try pooling resources together to negotiate collectively (unions), but without government intervention to put a thumb on the scale to try to even the playing field for unions vs corporations, even that would usually end poorly for the people who produce the actual product (see: union busting, the Pinkertons, etc.). Historically, they may actually even straight up just kill you for trying.

Capital also equals political power (even moreso since Citizens United), and corporations use that power to do everything they can to prevent that balance from tipping any direction but theirs.
I've yet to see an AI bot that is both realistic and intelligent enough to keep me engaged (GPT4), but also can't be convinced that 1 + 1 = 3 (also GPT4)
Does LinkedIn's Open to Work works or could expose you to your current employer?
AI related question: Why do people think consciousness exists? What is the strongest evidence for consciousness?
Thanks, that's better than I had imagined.
I was specifically talking about people using RHEL when they need latest versions of software. For that use case, RHEL is a poor choice. You absolutely need to create custom packages, because there are no preexisting packages.

To reiterate:

> There are certainly cases where the stability of RHEL makes sense. But too often teams use them when they need latest versions of software, resulting in pointless packaging work.

DNF doesn't solve this specific problem.
> much less animal cruelty

What reason is there to think that the animals the cells are harvested from will be treated with less cruelty? I would have assumed that they would be bound to exist in the same conditions.
I would say neither of those are really implied.

If you're going to IPO you need to show growth. It's the most important thing. Realistically, making a profit isn't such a big deal if you have a solid plan and are growing. If they can't show that they are able to reign in Reddit users, who are by far the biggest problem for monetization of the platform, then they need to show they're able to get growth other ways. That would be growth in profits.
One possibility is that the resulting drier air over a body of water downwind will cause the water to evaporate more quickly, therefore charging the atmosphere with moisture again more quickly, and effectively increasing the total bandwidth of the water cycle.
Students rarely even look at a globe, though. They see many more maps online.
I'm not going to call Rocky or Alma "dirtbags" (does anybody use that phrase these days?) but comparing what Red Hat does to Rocky is misleading.

RHEL Clones: Take finished source code, rebuild, test, release.

RHEL: Work upstream to develop features / submit features upstream before inclusion in RHEL, maintain specific versions of upstream, test hundreds of upstreams together to make sure they can be shipped together as an operating system, develop "glue" software like Anaconda to install + manage the whole thing, take source, build, test, release, accept bugs, start over again for next minor release or major release as needed.

And, of course, this elides all the certification work that makes RHEL an attractive enough project to rebuild in the first place because people want very specifically a RHEL compatible distribution to run an application or applications on top of.

What people get pissed at Red Hat about isn't that they don't get to access the source. They're pissed they don't get the convenience. Largely speaking, the people who get pissed aren't concerned about Free Software, either - they just want easy to run binaries. As I understand it "get binaries for free" is not mandated by the four freedoms. The source code is still out there for people to study, change, use, and redistribute. That seems entirely compatible with the free software ethos - but incompatible with the freeloader ethos.
Sales/BizDev/relations and engineering/product would probably be my guess.

That said 2k people is a LOT, and it's not like the site itself is very high-tech or really pushing things forward. It's a aggregator of content with comments...nothing really advanced.

Yeah, 2k people is overkill.
It's a good way of separating useless crap from good code.

If the main code is in a notebook, ignore it completely.

If the code is in python but no ipynb, it may be useful.

If it's a well structured code base, and there are some ipynb files, check it out and determine if it's good software. Then the ipynb files are like only a few lines, but show decent plots and the package may end up being useful. Python can be good, it's just unfortunately less and less likely due to far too many idiots using it.

At least it's not R though.
Ask HN: A.foo.com vs. Foo.com/A
I feel like the former one has become much more popular recently. Why? AFAIK there is little practical difference, other than CORS being more of a problem with the former as well. Is it just aesthetics?
Same reason clocks shouldn't jump backwards, it breaks so many assumptions you end up with insanity. Do a revert commit so it's the old code in new clothing.
Massachusetts.
That makes sense. My main experience with "study drugs" isn't in the academic system, it's with software engineers. It seems like the main effect isn't that they make you a much better programmer, it's that they make you much more able to keep programming for longer periods of time. Someone who normally gets distracted a lot and only gets a few hours of real work done in a day, maybe they would prefer to be able to spend 12 hours consecutively programming, even if it takes them down to 80% of their intellectual horsepower.
NASA’s Visualization – Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Tagged by Source
I see that you like Isaac Asimov, XML, and shoes with toes.

https://xkcd.com/977/
Had me for the first half, too.
Interesting. And not opposed to this at all, though I can't imagine it would be cost effective. Since most of what we eat (50-65%) is purely for energy.

That said. We get a lot more from animal meat than just protein and fat, and even then it's a wide variety of amino and fatty acids along with fat soluble nutrients. I think that actual animal protein (even if just eggs and fish) will still be necessary for a lot of micro-nutrients and versions of nutrients that are more digestible than what is available from other sources.

In a similar vein, I feel that natural fertilizer offers more to the soil than what chemical fertilizers bring to the table. Soil health has been a real and increasing problem over the past several decades.
Stripe is holding over $200k of mine with no explanation
Posted this before and didn't have anyone comment, hoping someone sees this and can assist.

Stripe is holding over $200,000 in deposits on my account and I have spent hours trying to get a hold of someone higher up to release the funds. If I don't receive a large portion of the funds back by next week, I will not be able to make payroll for the employees and contractors that work for me and they will not be able to feed their families and pay rent. I've tried numerous emails and contacts at Stripe but NO ONE has been responsive or willing to let me speak to someone higher up who has the authority to release the funds. This is criminal as my business will have to shut down unless I receive a large portion of those funds, asap.
Go 1.21 Release Notes (draft)
Taking some of your examples:

Look up "pet sweaters". Resulting brands listed in order: Dxhycc, Fitwarm, ANIAC, Jecikelon, Queenmore.

"Audio streamer": WiiM, Andover, iFi, Arylic, Douk, ACEMAX.

"USB cable": Jelly tang, AINOPE, Ruaeoda, etguuds.

I could go on, but you get the idea.
But taking water in the Rockies will have comparatively little effect on rainfall in the oceans vs immediate surrounding geographies.
And anyone is free to form one. Choosing to work in a noncoop business means you've chosen to forgo that option.
The amount of clicks isn't indicative of difficulty. Like with surgeons and relationships, the skill is in knowing where to put your fingers.
I'm not saying you owe CEOs better, but that you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
I wonder what makes people different in the regard of how attractive their partner has to be.

For me, I prefer to be alone over being with a non-attractive woman. I feel strong disgust when it comes to being physically close to women who are not young, fit, and in the 95% range of attractiveness.

While I'm getting older, I watch with surprise how all of my friends settle with average women. I could never do that.

How comes?
great content! as a C++ developer it's really helpful
Right, but the pitch previously was that you paid for designers, and everyone else can view for free. Now it looks like they're locking all future view-only features behind a paywall.
Except that it has absolutely no protection after you've paid. You have no recourse with iDeal. The money has been sent.

How often do you read on Dutch forums [1] whether they paid with iDeal? Because if you do, your only recourse is to either sue them (which the Dutch rarely do) or open a dispute with the Thuiswinkel Waarborg [2].

For as long as I bought stuff online in The Netherlands I used a credit card. If they didn't offer it I'd find someone else.

[1] https://tweakers.net (tweaking as in tinkering, not the other kind)

[2] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuiswinkel_Waarborg
I just use Fedora. When I used Red Hat briefly, I didn't notice any major differences between the two except one is the "base" of Red Hat. I can get pretty much whatever I need through dnf or flatpak. I get that Red Hat has support, but otherwise for regular consumers like me I am not sure why I would go for a Red Hat clone when Fedora exists.
You think you have simple architecture when you’ve introduced Terraform to what is, based on your statistics, a two server use case. A PlayStation is capable of 25 kRPS and probably its data iops, too. Buy another one and you’re HA.

You’re trapped in the complexity of the method and think you’ve achieved nirvana. This comment reminds me of those demos when Hadoop was the rage, where people would do a $4 million Hadoop ETL on their laptop and shut up a room.
I suppose SUSE makes a lot of sense. Until some time ago SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE were related, but not exactly the same. That changed with Leap 15.3, since which openSUSE is now based on the same packages as SLE.

I've been personally using Tumbleweed on my personal devices and it's been great. I've not had a single issue with stability and almost always gotten extremely recent versions of software.
Thanks to you both! Let's be conservative and go with 2005.
Interesting. Google Maps showed me which exit to use at stations in Japan, recently.
I thought this was going to be from lastmiles (a good low level dev on twitch with excellent content on C dev.)

The I realized they would likely hate the idea of working with python, and do everything in C first. So likely not lastmiles, unfortunately.
Thank you for the context.

It's interesting that NCLB is seen in negative light, it is similar to what I had as a kid. It seems to be one of those things that was fundamentally good-spirited but corrupted. I think it could have been done well. It shouldn't cast doubt on standards in education.

Or maybe it was a failure. It would be interesting to know how education changed when NCLB was introduced and how many people liked it vs how many disliked the change.
Any patterns you'd recommend? (pseudo code)

1)
db.execute("select name, tel from person where id={?}",personId);

2)
const sqlText="select name, tel from person where id={?}";

db.execute(sqlText, personId);

3) as 2), but put sqlText in another file,
Because water isn't priced properly.
I don't know about the ISPs in Europe, but in the US they've repeatedly collected massive amounts of tax dollars by promising to use it for broadband construction and then simply pocketed that money while doing nothing. I'd say any broadband construction they want now has already been paid for by the American people. If anything, they owe us billions already.
McLuhan got it mostly right, but may be interpreted in a way which mischaracterizes wealth. Machines do not create value ex nihilo. Machines allow us to more effectively harvest or transform materials or information, to which we assign value. All wealth currently accessible to us derives from the sun. The vast majority of our present wealth comes from a massive battery trickle-charged over hundreds of millions of years and discharged in the last two centuries.

Implicit in the quotation, but critical to recognize, is that technology is the tip of a vast edifice whose foundation is not us. We and our machines are perched (too precariously for comfort) at the top. We are the sex organs of the machine world because machines can't reproduce without us. But machines are not the sex organs of the human world. Human beings require an ecobiological cocoon. We've also spun an elaborate technological cocoon in recent history, largely by sacrificing the long-term integrity of more fundamental life support.

Everything of value in the human economy is downstream of this. We too often take it for granted and assume the only relevant economic inputs are capital and labor, or we will innovate our way out of materials-, energy- and ecosystem-dependence.
>> Post IBM hardly

Can you put some substance on that statement?
I'm interested to hear why you believe a third-party app developer and multiple groups of moderators have all decided to somehow coordinate a scam against Reddit, and also why you believe Reddit is in the right here? Why is that easier to believe/agree with than the majority opinion expressed on HN?
hmm seeking symmetries, the best kind of fun
It can be higher than that, 6 months is not unheard of.

It's a long time and stock can go down during that period.
Fuck whataboutism. Kick her off too. Impropriety, is impropriety. Replace them all.

Public service is just that – service.
I can’t speak for London, but I live in NYC and Google Maps definitely does this here: (“Exit via…”) and (“Follow signs for…”)
>the importance of society coming to a consensus on this issue.

Is it that important? That's what the culture war is. Focus all your emotional energy on things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things to keep you from having the bandwidth to care about the real systemic problems that nobody is terribly interested in fixing because they benefit from them.
Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.
The game that has been spelled out elsewhere is that the subscription can be terminated for this violation of the subscription terms of service (which is not the same thing as the software license). This termination would prevent you from receiving future versions of binaries or sources.

So, RedHat can satisfy the letter of the law regarding licensing, where source is distributed under GPL to those who received the binaries. With each incremental binary distribution they satisfy the GPL rules and makes source available to the recipient of binaries, but they may cut off a customer as soon as they detect that the customer is actually exercising their full GPL rights. So that customer loses access to future binaries and corresponding sources.

This attitude violates the experience many of us take for granted about free software and the GPL, where we expect a community to be engaging as an equivalence class of members sharing the same rights. But the GPL started with provisions enabling this narrower sense. The source distribution could be offered individually to each recipient of binaries _or_ made generally available to the public independent of any existing exchange of binaries between two parties. So the GPL allowed the recipient to transitively distribute the sources they have received, but does not actually obligate the original distributor to also provide sources to other unrelated parties.
>>Also, "Gravity is 9.8 m/s^2 on Earth." Not a story a but definitely true and explainable to the average person.

This can only be explained with the aid of a story. Gravity being this thing that results in this falling to the ground and so on.