skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
creating an LLM (kernel machine) from art is certainly fair use, as it's transformative. using a kernel machine to output original works or combinations of original works, and publishing that is certainly copyright infringement. building an AI system that does not prevent people from stealing is irresponsible, and is debatably the same as an internet platform. like how websites are required to take down content from DMCA requests, AI systems should be penalized if they don't prevent people from stealing the training data.
You unfortunately get what you pay for.

AWS is more expensive than God, but I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens.
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People outside the US stopped using cheques ~decades ago. At 40+ from New Zealand I've literally never paid anyone with one and have been paid with them only a handful of times.
While this is funny, it does highlight that you should probably have an actual legal opinion if you decide to write your own license. A less tongue-in-cheek example that I've run into is https://dst.lbl.gov/ACSSoftware/colt/license.html. "any usage related to military applications is expressly forbidden", which is still poorly defined enough that it makes lots of corporate lawyers nervous and you end up having to remove those packages even for stuff that isn't really a military application just because it's not clear how military-adjacent something is allowed to be. It's especially ironic since it's being distributed by a Department of Energy national lab. I wonder if DOE national labs ever have military applications...

It's also not clear to me that this does actually make it illegal for the military to just use it directly, even if they cared about following the letter of the law. If copyright is the real power behind the enforcement of open-source licenses, I'm not sure usage is something the license grantor gets to dictate as long as you're not redistributing something.
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That's funny, I read it more as a story about forgiveness and how often we carry around these life burdens (guilt, anger, whatever) solely on an emotionally-charged misunderstanding of what we think to be the truth. It got me thinking about what stories I keep telling myself that I may be clinging to that are potentially incomplete or incorrect.
There must be a lingua franca and English is likely among the best choices, considering its widespread adoption and relatively low barrier of entry (try Japanese or Vietnamese and you will see what I meant).

But it is true that there is cost to non-English speakers. Maybe we can lower the standard a little bit? I don't mean broken Engrish but if the sentences make sense and the grammar is correct, maybe that is good enough?
Yeah cheesey ramen is the best
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I believe Newton was much more important than Einstein in the history of Science. Essentially he laid the starting point for "Modern" Physics/Mathematics and everybody since then has been following on from there.

For me there are only three Scientists who could be called as truly "tectonic inducing" in the history of Modern Science. In order of ranking;

1) Isaac Newton.

2) James Clerk Maxwell.

3) Albert Einstein.
It is sort of interesting how there are practical logistical issues with making bespoke licenses.

I would not want my work to end up being used by weapons manufacturers[0]. I honestly would like to put this into licenses. But there would be endless kvetching at such a license being used, of course. But so much OSS tooling is relying on how we have ended up with a lot of mutual compatible licenses, and having any sort of weirdness ends up excluding you from being bundled in repros.

There is a line that could be crossed here (and has been crossed by more than one very large project!), and I get ... annoyed at 'licenses' like the WTFPL. But when people get frustrated at seeing American companies deploy tooling to help with things like mass censorship in authoritarian regimes, I think about how we might be a couple license changes away from making that job way harder.

[0]: Not making a blanket statement for people working there! I simply do not want to participate.
https://archive.ph/oGrLP
Ok, fine. I re-read it, and it says: "You only get knee and back problems when you're old, which is because..."

Your statement is blatantly false. It says, literally, you only get knee and back problems when you're old. This is wrong, and stupid.

Why are you arguing this?
Yeah I remember the Kane and Lynch Gamespot controversy back in 2007.

There's always going to be conflicts of interest; people should at least be aware of them.
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> 4.5% of the American population is not exactly a “significant number of people”

Yes, it is; its 15 million people in the US, more people than any state outside of the top 4.
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It’s a near perfect snake oil that can be sold heavily.
So what has been designed properly and what hasn't?
How do you define evil? that's a good question.
If the headline is the case,

then I have been in some bad relationships.
Because they commit a crime of... what exactly again?
They never crossed even a civil liability threshold, it's strictly a gossip site with multiple reminders never to contact gossip targets.
I’ve hunted down contact info and emailed a dev who’d left the company to thank them for the clean code they left behind.

I encountered their code while debugging weird behavior in a legacy feature. The code structure was immediately intuitive and comprehensible. Just the right amount of detailed but not superfluous commenting. Beautiful. It made my day so I let them know!
Yeah. Unlike UPI in India, FedNow is not mandatory for anyone. But companies could still offer "discounts" to customers when they use FedNow, as they save on credit card fees.
Neither is Interac in Canada.
Typically no, unless the item was of substantial value (1k+) it’s usually just left with the reviewing party.
Amazing writing. Question, is there any US judicial precedent for what is evil and what is not?
Iceland and Denmark combined have a population of ~6 million. My hometown has almost twice as many people.
Running the Orca model on my Macbook Air with 8GB RAM. It seems to perform worse, deliver more incorrect results, on battery power as opposed to fully powered due to CPU throttling. Anyone else notice this issue?
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> if you don't live in a swing state, even if you are fully on board it makes very little difference if you vote or not.

At the state level, there's no clear empirical correlation between turnout and closeness of elections.
What happens after the position is filled doesn’t matter for this argument. The point is that there is a price that will cause somebody to say “this is a good deal for me” and fill the position. If there’s a better deal somewhere else, they’ll go do that instead.
Implementation-wise, I agree. You run into similar engineering challenges in both cases. From a buyer/persona perspective it is very different as you go up-market.
I was talking with a small startup founder about a project I had licensed under AGPL. He asked, "How do you know if someone uses your project against your licence though?" with a smile. His point wasn't anything new, but I still didn't have a great answer. I just said that it would require the company being honest and purchase a commercial license, and that I have personally worked at companies that evaluate their licenses to make sure they are in compliance.

But his immediate reaction being the thought of abusing the license was irritating. I can't say that I have never thought this way (of using "free" software, licenses be damned) when I was younger & in school. But as the owner of legitimate business, it seems so perverse. It screws small creators and discourages them from sharing their work with everyone.
Maybe you should let that part of you say its piece and move on.
I love Lit! Easy, fast, super lightweight as it's a thin layer over standards-based web components. Using it for all my side projects, as well as stuff at work.

Server-side rendering is still a missing piece. But overall, I'm very happy using it going forward.

And if you need a web component library to pair it with, Shoelace[0] is a fantastic library of prebuilt web components using Lit. I'm loving this stack.

[0]: https://shoelace.style
actually, the way i see it, the fact that people took the effort to contact the developer shows that they really wanted to use that. otherwise they would have just used it silently and the developer might not even find out about it. in some cases that might even have been an opportunity to earn some money.
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The problem is that a lot of these guys, frankly, had quite large egos, and it's not terribly surprising that there would be some butting of heads and factionalism / cliques.

I'm not saying he's wrong - but within 30 seconds of the start of your clip Dyson also criticizes Niels Bohr, Max Born, Schrodinger, and Heisenburg in the same breath as Oppenheimer.

Parsing out exactly how much to take seriously, and how much is just the outcome of rivalry between a bunch of brilliant people with very strong beliefs, strong personalities, strong egos and the "eccentricity" that often comes with brilliance, being forced to live with each other for years - is a bit difficult.

I've seen Gell-Mann's interview too, and I don't find what he said about Feynman very surprising, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if others had similar but different complaints about him.
Tell me about it - I implemented this just yesterday except with a focus on functions rather than objects.
Except it's not instant anymore *shrug_emoji*
It's shocking how long it's taken ARM to care about having their chips be at all supportable.

Paying Collabora to do the excellent things Collabora does, having them do good hard work of building out support, is a smart move.
> Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, signed a controversial bill into law on 14 June that prohibits local municipalities from enacting heat protection standards for construction workers. The bill nullifies ordinances previously passed in Austin and Dallas that mandated 10-minute breaks for workers every four hours.

How often are these guys taking breaks? 10 minutes every four hours seems like not nearly enough break time even in normal conditions. Yet somehow the governor signed a bill saying they're not entitled to even that? What is going on in USA with workers right? Is this normal?
Plenty of creative people smoke, drink, and engage in other vices. I'm not confident that any significant number of cases that people smoke in media is due to funding from big tobacco. When I would light up on stage and drink some beer during house shows, as a musician, I know I wasn't getting any funding for it. Do you have any articles about big tobacco paying authors, screenwriters, game designers, etc to include cigarettes in their content?

What about capnolagnia (smoking fetish) films and photos -- is the smut industry getting paid off by big tobacco?
If Debian's principles are free software then obviously their values are incompatible with this license due to the restrictions it imposes.

It's not a hard choice for Debian to make - they just put it in non-free with thousands of other packages.
But how could something like a carbon ration possibly be implemented? They'd have to retrofit every PoS system in the nation to classify sales and tag payments with that information. This would already be possible using the existing settlement infrastructure, nothing unique to how a CBDC would work.

Plus, if the goal is to limit carbon emissioms, it's more of a liberal market-shaping attitude that mainstream economists have to simply tax carbon heavy activities rather than invent new and unpopular technological measures to force it to happen. Same applies to the fears about limiting meat consumption, etc.
Thank fuck for that. No more having to remind it not to give me stupid suggestions like "reach out to the manufacturer or the online community for advice", or give me brainless warnings about how the thing I'm trying to do isn't "best practice".
I’d heard this one before. And yep, sure enough, it was sourced from a video from 2011. Definitely one of my favourites tho. It was also previously discussed in 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027104 and in 2013 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 and probably at other times, but I’m on my phone and can’t search it up now. Also, I’m pretty sure if you wanted to, you can now use JSLint for evil. (And if you really think about it, if you’re evil, wouldn’t you just break the license terms as part of your evil deeds? Or is this how they catch you, like tax evasion?)
I like fly.io a lot and I want them to succeed. They're doing challenging work...things break.

Have to admit it's disappointing to hear about the lack of communication from them, especially when it's something the CEO specifically called out that they wanted to fix in his big reliability post to the community back in March.

https://community.fly.io/t/reliability-its-not-great/11253#s...
Don't get me started with Fly — especially postgres machines. In my experience, a really nice idea with poor support and unreliable infrastructure.
Evil is the malevolent being from Time Bandits of course. And you definitely shouldn't touch it:

https://youtu.be/QKGbguoildA
Edit/delete window is past, so mea culpa for anyone else in this thread: sibling comment from bandyaboot is right on the limited path to exemption. I was mistaken on how much withholding flexibility there was for employees (aside from increasing it), and how much W-4 allowances could realistically (or, rather, legally) have an impact. https://www.irs.gov/publications/p505
Can confirm DOE labs work on military adjacent things all the time
Well, thanks for giving me an answer to the question I asked, in your own way, I guess.
I would hope most companies would give more breaks than that, but the fact that it's mandated suggests that some don't...
Probably. Most of the US has a legal system based on common law. I think it would really depend on the context though, because I don't know how you can use a linting program "for evil."
ARVR will not work without vision science help. I have worked in AR/VR optical system design for FAANG for 8+ yrs. We are spending a huge amount of money to push the limits of physics. Having people that understand how much we actually need to push is invaluable. I work extensively with people from multiple vision labs. The work is definitely specialized, but it’s also needed
I mean... no?

There is nothing compelling these organisations to use that particular piece of software. When contacted the author could just shrug and say "not my problem" and the organisation would just have to find some other software to use.

The author has no obligation to make things easier for people that don't know if they are doing evil or not, or if they are military or not.
I only just got here but I believe the point is that IBM and their customers (and minions, of course; strangely, not their patsies but maybe they fall under minions) are privileged to use this software for Evil.
For a version of the Fell fonts that is variable with cleaner shapes, see Elstob, https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/

You can play with the sliders and it is easy to get the same spacing effect as what the article talks about.
People are definitely unhappy with human rights type issues in e.g. Iran and Russia, such as treatment of women or LGB people inside the country.
The significant credit card fees might have something to do with it. Perhaps better luck with FedNow.
They can portray it however they want but if they lose in court because they can’t keep kosher then they lose in court. At which point their only recourse is Congress.
No one cares about abstract let’s make everything equally hard fairness And, as you say, Esperanto is still Indo-European and probably Romance so why not just go back to using Latin or French.
> So who is going to use this? I know I’m not, but even those who aren’t as privacy conscious aren’t going to see any real benefit… unless I’m missing something.

Obviously that lucrative market of people who just got mugged outside a Whole Foods and need a snack before they figure out what to do with themselves.
Kevin Mitnick Died.
Impressed or depressed?
Measuring things precisely is way cheaper than it's ever been. You can weigh micrograms without too much effort.[1] You can buy time/frequency standards for $200 or so that time to the national standards.[2] Float glass is a cheap and relatively flat surface plate that you can buy almost anywhere. Lasers, detectors, computing, everything is dirt cheap compared to the past.

If you have something you want to make, or measure, this is likely the easiest time ever to do so.

Don't worry about being at the leading edge, just do something, have fun, and you might be the first to notice some weird little quirk that turns out to be important.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta7nlkI5K5g

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_disciplined_oscillator
There's nothing compelling the author, no, except for in the situation outlined above they're really doing nothing to prevent military use, but they are hampering adoption among companies scrupulous or careful enough to not run afoul of a poorly defined legal term. Seems counter-productive to the apparent motives.
Haven’t heard anything yet. Let’s hope they didn’t forget. :)
For what it’s worth - we had to audit/list all licenses for OSS components & dependencies on at least 3 separate occasions during fundraising diligence processes. I would guess nobody read it too closely but GPL code would definitely have stuck out. I imagine bigger companies have this process pretty well structured.
No, which is why this license is probably much more restrictive than its author intended. Many serious organizations simply won’t use something for which the meaning of the license terms is unclear to this extent. That of course doesn’t mean they “plan on using it for evil” or anything of the sort.
Learning English is priority #1 for any human being right now. If you are able to communicate in english, so many opportunities and sources of information open up to you. It shocks me that some countries aren't making it mandatory, but that's due to nationalism and not wanting too much emigration/brain drain I suppose.

Not being moderately fluent in english is inexcusable in the modrn world, in the same that not being tech savvy, or not able to do math is inexcusable. There are basic skills that one needs to operate in a modern world. English is one of them. I appreciate the sentiment, but it's akin to complaining that "In the star wars universe, scientists who don't speak Galactic Basic Standard are at a huge disadvantage." Yes, they are, and it's their fault for not learning the common language. Same with English in 2023.
The license was from 2002[0], and the IBM update was from 2011[1]. What's the point of this gist which only vaguely mentions Douglas Crockford (through a lawyer quote and a the gist name)?

[0]: https://codedocs.org/what-is/douglas-crockford
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170722132351/https://dev.hasen...
Did they find Larry yet? Or is he still "missing"...?
When a private bank makes a loan, the dollars are not created out of thin air, no. They loan out depositor's cash.
Why is this python's problem? You are choosing to use a c/rust accelerated library. If your project were pure c or rust, you would still have to build everything.
A lot of federated protocols (including partially implemented protocols, thinking @-protocol) are being released right now. There is a paradigm shift occurring in the way software development of web apps is done, and we want people to be aware of all of their choices when exploring this new way of building web applications.

Maybe you want to build a federated application yourself, but want certain features that some of these protocols don't have. Well, now you know a little more about what's possible in this design space. Perhaps you've already settled on a protocol (e.g. have started building on ActivityPub), but want end-to-end encryption. Well, now you're aware that you can in fact add it in to your existing ActivityPub-based app. For example, there's no reason why Mastodon couldn't use Shelter Protocol to encrypt DMs between users. Shelter Protocol is very lightweight, and can be an add-on to existing apps.

Regarding the ZKPP, it is implemented, but like the rest of the code is not yet separated out from that repo. That is one of the next steps we'll be working on, a standalone developer SDK.

We are also welcoming early feedback and contributions from those who would like to participate.
Yes my question was, itself, tongue-in-cheek. I've been told that a customer insisted the packages in question be removed because although they did nothing military-related, they did happen to have a customer that is well-known for being a contractor on military projects and they didn't want to be getting in trouble just because their civilian service was used by a civilian company that did military-adjacent work.

And even if LBL isn't developing nuclear weapons they seem a mite closer to it than that.
What will they be using? A similar SQL database that has a big vendor behind it like Oracle, or something else?
The thing about product marketing is that it is almost always greatly exaggerated at best and borderline (if not outright) lies at worst.
That's fair! I was just using Esperanto as an example; I'm not opposed to going back to Latin.
> but everything has been said already.

It turns out this is true for well over 90% of relevant topics on the planet. Every year in the US, over 4 million people turn 18 years old and over 3 million people of various ages die. If we contract this dynamic to people who enter and leave our industry, it becomes clearer why it is not only helpful to say what has been said already, it is vital.

The above has already been said also.
Have it lint PHP?
I think it was something like

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How do you count tabs towards line length for auto formatting?
Earlier it was Harvard, now Stanford.

Must be the colors.
A friend specializes in these subjects as a professor in law at UW and she feels that it’s highly likely that training using copyright material is in fact a violation of copyright. The argument it’s a VCR or xerox, or that it’s a highly lossy model, likely won’t hold to be sufficient under copyright. The creation of a new commercial product leveraging copyright material in such ways likely doesn’t rise to a criminal copyright violation, the standard for civil copyright violation is much simpler. I hate to do an appeal to authority here, but her explanation was fairly technical and without enough training in the law my mind couldn’t retain those details.

My point is - who on earth is this dude? I read it hoping for something material like my friends analysis based in actual law. I was very disappointed. There really seems to be a lack of quality analysis of the copyright status of AI models in written form.
Similar here. It's like I suddenly have access to an instant MidJourney that I can prompt with any suggestion. Sometimes a late night whisky before bed seems to help the process. Find myself wondering "is this what visually creative people get to do all the time?".
Create an account just for T-mobile. With someone like Fidelity setting up a new account is a few clicks. Ally makes it pretty easy too. Then set it up to fund automatically from another account within a certain limit. Or if your monthly bill is stable, setup a schedule to fund it monthly.