skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this case is about GPU copying, since that's not what's alleged in the complaint. Mostly, they are alleging that Silverman's book was in a training set that contained an unauthorized copy.

I wrote this post in a way that was meant to be brief, clear, and honestly a little snarky. If I was writing a brief, I'd have gone through a more detailed analysis, but I think fails for a number of reasons, including fair use for the copying, transformative use for the AI system, and frankly a lack of damages because the LLM isn't distributing copies of her work (which is one reason they are trying to establish Silverman as a lead plaintiff in a class action suit). I glossed over a lot of this discussion to keep the post brief. But of course, this post is not legal advice, it's just a quick (and hopefully fun!) blog. I am much more knowledgeable about patent law than copyright law, by the way, and acknowledge any flaws in my post.

Most importantly, I wanted to highlight what I view as a real difference between what copyright holders want from copyright and the policy goals of copyright. What I believe they want is a patent, but what they have is a copyright. They are intended to achieve very different policy goals and as such have different structures.
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Why does the lightning hit the rocket instead of an antenna that's a lower height than the rocket?

Where does energy want to flow, to a higher concentration of energy or a lower concentration?
> then the popup is illegal

That's what they say, but even government websites do the same thing.

Anyway, my point wasn't so much about the pop up itself but rather that if you make it easy to reject, then everyone will reject. So what's the point of allowing it? It's like having a cashier asking everyone "would you like to get kicked in the balls?" with the hope that someone misunderstands, and then they get to kick them in the balls.
Hi, this is Piotr - the app's creator. Thanks so much for the suggestion. I will discuss that idea with more beta testers.
It seems almost worse - the author of rusqlite replies and says, essentially, that you just cannot do what he wants to do at all, and the "fix" is to either constantly re-prepare statements, or rely on some sort of library built-in cache!

The first will lower performance perhaps by a lot, but performance is probably why you're writing Rust in the first place. The second is a nasty hack that will require you to remember this cache exists and keep its size carefully tuned.

As all he wants to do is stash prepared statements in TLS, a pretty normal task, it seems like a valid complaint that this is so hard and rustql doesn't seem to allow it.

One aspect of Rust I wonder about it is that when reading it I see way more cloning than you'd intuitively expect. Seems like people hit the borrow checker, can't see a way out and just copy the memory to escape. Presumably that will lead to diffuse performance losses all over the app of the sort that can't easily be spotted in a profiler, sort of like pointer chasing in languages without value types.

I wonder if C++ will actually end up having an edge in performance due to this. I know there are very heavily tuned benchmarks that show Rust being the fastest but I mean for "real" code of the sort this person is needing to write (done under time pressure).
Lets make them cheap. What is the minimum shaft size to get construction equipment to the bottom?
A wrapper that can ask you questions and that you can ask questions. A LLM makes a pretty neat wrapper or you ask me.
NASA hears back from Voyager 2
Its still alive!

Even though NASA would likely have restablished connection with Voyager 2 sometime in October during the next pre-scheduled alignment window there would be an element of uncertainty about its health. However they have detected signs that the spacecraft is still functioning.

What an amazing project and a testament to the foresight to plan for such eventualities.
> If Ruby on Rails is going to continue to grow in terms of adoption, it needs to get serious about enabling beautiful frontend experiences.

Color me shocked to find yet another frontend developer completely misses the appeal of Rails as the monolith flys over their head.
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That's what I meant. It states energy density as 40 kJ/L. Lithium batteries have energy density up to 2.5 MJ/L. Fossil fuels and hydrogen way more.
araq/Andreas Rumpf, the project lead, has also published a book: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/06/29/mastering-nim.html
I want to like Asianometry, I find his video topics interesting, but my god the dryness puts me to sleep like no other. I understand this is a draw for many to watch his videos so I understand it's just not for me but I wonder if anyone else feels this way.
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> Perhaps you mean it communicates the wrong idea to the layperson?

No, I mean it communicates the wrong idea to everyone.

Among laypeople it encourages magical thinking about these statistical models.

Amongst the educated, the metaphor only serves to cloud what's really going on, while creating the impression that these models in some way meaningfully mimick the brain, something we know so little about that it's the height of hubris to come to that conclusion.
The only thing Elon seems to be interested now is embarrassing himself even further
> However, my concern is that so many of these political campaigns are billionaire / security state funded efforts to rally the public behind a "blame china" message so that way they can continue military aggression in the east designed to prop up American hegemony.

Surprisingly that does not seem to be the case. I believe the security state is more interested in avoiding any gain of function restrictions bans from the Obama era coming back. Given all major economies close collaborations with the lab, as well as our own biodefense efforts lots of effort has been to suppress this, not to protect China but for their own interests.
ok this is very exciting to hear
The cities are already perpetually under construction/maintenance and still, there's decade-old potholes in some places. Electrified cement: how much more maintenance effort will that take? Are the economic and environmental benefits worth it? It could be

Also, if it's a smart city and big tech is involved, think of the scale of the planned obsolescence issues
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These opinions are useless if the reasons are not stated. For example, you prefer iMessage over WhatsApp. Ok. Why? The UI? The exclusivity of the platform? Or is it just a whim?
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts
I think there's probably an underexplored sweet spot where IDEs gain the ability to hint at what type of optimizations the compiler will be able to do, and you could even specify which ones you want to select visually. Which in term is left as a textual annotation that's "statically checked", i.e. if the compiler cannot perform the expected optimization anymore it will reject the annotation with an error or warning whichever degree of freedom you decided to give the compiler.

Could get a bit unwieldy but it might not have to. You could also combine this with generative ML to suggest refactors that lead to potentially more easily optimizable code. It doesn't have to be perfect just assist enough for you to gradually build intuition. ML could also provide estimated guesses on how an optimization might speed up a given logical unit of code.

What you get is writing readable code but still a clear idea of how it will behave / impact the compiler. It does of course go counter the idea of abstraction. But if we do advocate for people to learn how the compiler will optimize or not we might as well invest in tooling to support that.
Cookie banners are absolutely the fault of the EU.

Users have always been in control of whether they accept cookies. There have been settings in your browser since (at least) Netscape 3.0. It's only because of dumb EU laws that cookie control has been pushed up into "user space" with these idiotic banners that no one reads.
"Glowing" was used as a description of government agents before Terry's "popularity"; the most common modern version is tongue-in-cheek "jokes" using the term while "outing" someone, usually someone who is asking odd, or personal questions, especially in a security or privacy community.
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You will get a much more objective comparison if you use the openai api and set the temperature parameter to zero. You may need to use the azure version of gpt-4. At least for me only gpt-3.5 is available on the “real” openAI vs gpt-4 is definitely available for me on azure.
The part of about line-based diff tools caught my attention at first, too.
In the section "Hints for Preparing Documents" in Unix for Beginners[1], Brian W. Kernighan writes, "Make lines short,
and break lines at natural places, such as after commas
and semicolons, rather than randomly." At the time he was writing that, around 1978, the unix editor was ed, a line-based editor.

As Derek Sivers notes in his post,
there are many other reasons for semantic linefeeds[2],
and over time I've found those reasons more important.

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2 https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/
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THAT part is true.
I loved Nim when I used it first.

But I left it because of recursive imports. I had to basically put all my types into one file and use them from various others. For a relatively medium sized project (~10LOC), its a but of a hassle. Refactoring is an issue.

That being said, the language is fantastic. Can anybody with experience suggest me what HTTP library/framework do they prefer for servers?
I never take Uber leaving the airport in Vegas, the taxi stand is just so much more convenient. Most other cities, where there are trains I take the train. I'd rather the predictability of schedule and not having to worry about traffic.
As with any truly promising technology, out of the box performance should not be mistaken for long term potential.

I think this is very much like the CCD sensor, that Kodak couldn't envision using because it was "so expensive, slow and low resolution."
I was visiting my family a few weeks ago in my childhood town, and the topic of our small local river came up. It's about three minutes away, and both the streams that feed it and the larger river it feeds into were fairly big parts of my childhood, including fishing, crayfishing, exploring, and generally playing on the banks. It turns out that there's a fishing advisory in effect this year, advising folks not to eat any fish caught in that river.

The reason is PFAS pollution, where the levels in the water table now indicate the potential for bioaccumulation above the recommended level for human toxicity. The people living in that area are now denied access to clean water and not having to worry about eating toxic fish, and I'm sure the otters and herons in the area haven't gotten the notice. Millions of state tax dollars have now been allocated to try to just estimate the contamination level in drinking water wells throughout the state as well.

Frankly, the producers and users of these chemicals have proven to be, at the minimum, so grossly negligent and potentially actually malicious, that they can not be considered to be acting in good faith, and "reasonable compromises" should be looked at with extreme suspicion. I feel the responsible organizations fined for both remediation and damages, the individuals responsible made criminally liable for the harm they've caused, and once that example has been made, we can talk about compromises once the "free market" has factored in the actual cost of using these chemicals when they can't just dump risk onto the public.

[1] https://ctmirror.org/2021/08/29/how-widespread-are-pfas-chem...
3+ testing tools for websites - Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright.

Selenium is a little old and verbose - the biggest issue, imo, is having to handle waiting for elements. Also managing webdrivers suck. Cypress is great for E2E tests but falls apart on edge cases, for example it can't handle multiple domains. Just requiring npm and not needing webdrivers is really nice for CI. Playwright is sort of a combination of both - fixes a lot of issues in Selenium but has the ease of use of Cypress. It is much less documented than Selenium though.

If I was starting a new project I'd use Playwright.
The lightning hits the enamel wire attached to the rocket and flows from positively charged earth to the negatively charged cloud. One can find videos of people doing this on youtube but I do not have any links handy.

I am more curious what this does to the concrete as it is not uncommon for lightning rods to be grounded to a grounding rod that is in the building's concrete foundation. I think this should be tested prior to mass adoption.
It seems almost too good to be true. Well done!

Could someone share some bad experiences when adopting Nim so I can weight that in? I'm seriously considering it.
i have only been asked once when setting it up. Also, im running on a mac, so i unlock with Touch Id... i think you can do Windows Hello unlock on machines that have that feature turned on too...
Popper's criterion in a vacuum could seem to be exclusionary, but his philosophy of science involves his underrated idea of evolutionary epistemology. That all theories, seemingly pseudoscientific and the rest, compete to explain something, testable or not. Explanation is the most fundamental aspect, the rival statements compete to solve some problem in terms of how and why.

Read Popper's Ch. 1. Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction https://roamresearch.com/#/app/infinitedays/page/tGbhrzsPK
I would be very curious to look at your 6-bit instruction set. 64 instructions spread across how many general-purpose registers? Maybe 4 at the most plus you may need specialized instructions for process control and housekeeping tasks.
Not just low... _zero_. That's where things get weird.
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> Did you edit it in a word processor after?

No, straight to PDF, I suspect that's how most people use LaTeX [0]. It's kind of hard to explain if you've never used it. But basically you setup rules for how things should render (separately) from the content. You shouldn't need to edit it in a word processor afterwards (ideally anyway).

> Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so simple that they're unusable, that I enjoy a lot. I can see Vim being the better choice for a thesis, especially considering the history tree.

Yeah, that's fair. I've used vim so much that I find nano unusable. It's not about the history tree (just a minor feature that happened to come in handy), it's the jumping between sections efficiently and reorganizing sections quickly.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
If it's real, how fast could we see concrete applications using this material? 5-year time frame? 10-year time frame? More?
There is unsafe{} if you want to do something not normally allowed. But, well, it's unsafe. I was surprised to learn of a memory management vulnerability in a Rust serialization library the other day (for capn'proto). It was using unsafe. You'd think that serialization is the sort of library where Rust's guarantees are most valuable.
It certainly doesn't hurt that this thing levitates.

No need to squint into a microscope, parse a screen full of numbers, or try to make sense of false-color renderings. Either you have video proof of a levitating object, or you don't. The demonstration is as intuitive as it gets, despite the fact that the theory is crazy difficult to wrap one's head around.
I dunno. Simonyi invented what became known as Hungarian notation.
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in a lot of cases, unplugging the onstar/rearviewmirror device, elicit a ton of email and SMS texts about not connecting.

that seems like a good place to start if you want to harden vs data exfiltration/ command infiltration.
It's slower, but once you are out of the toy project stage and you are trying to sync 2 databases - where relations get changed and logic gets updated, it is really hard to keep multiple DBs synced.

Factor it dev vs. production DB setups, on boarding new developers and growing pains of a startup and having one DB as source of truth with a small performance penalty (and a large cost savings) - it's a no-brainer.
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Which is why the top thread is now replication videos?

I didn’t say strong evidence, I said evidence.I was, in fact, quite clear that it is not strong evidence. you seem to have added that so that you could be more dismissive.
Don't be to excited, lest you're branded a bro.
To be fair, you can do the same even with Word if you stick to using styles. And if you don't like seeing the formatted output, you can switch to outline view.
Power conversion losses account for about 60% of the energy that goes into electricity generation in the US [1]. Superconducting generators and transformers could take that figure down to a fraction of that.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/flow-graphs/electricity...
It's a trade-off between availability and correctness. Do you want anything buggy to crash and stay down until the the problem corrected or a supervisor attempt to run the same buggy code again hoping the bug isn't encountered again? There is no one-size-fits-all answer, but just restarting without reporting and counting the error rate is never a good decision.
There's no good substitute for PTFE cookware. The modern "non stick" alternatives are stickier even when new and degrade quickly. There's no good substitute for PTFE in rain clothes either. PTFE itself is harmless, but the precursor chemicals are dangerous. I'd happily pay a lot more to cover the costs of their safe containment and disposal. Despite people calling them "forever chemicals", PFAS can be destroyed by processes such as supercritical water oxidation.
I may be wrong, but it seems..

US labs dont find replication work exciting enough.
If the effect is genuine, good, if not, life goes on.

Chinese labs are looking to build credibility, so they will benefit by publicly resolving this.
How does a superconductor help with that? Lithium ion is already 95-99% efficient, same with motors. It would help with the charging cable, but that's not increasing the battery capacity. Off the top of my head the main advantage here seems to be MRIs, maybe also maglev trains, maybe generators? It really depends on the form factor of this superconductor compared to copper wire.
Dark Waters is a relevant movie about a town in Pennsylvania that suffered from poisoning by the Dupont corporation.
To eliminate the temptation of editing while writing I recommend Enso: https://enso.sonnet.io/ as it forces you to separate writing from editing. And regarding anecdotes let me quote an advice form mashup artist Aggro "mix drunk, master sober". It catches the spirit of division between creation and correction perfectly.
I'm generally pretty pro-chemical in moderation. I haven't fried a decent egg on cast iron yet, and I enjoy breathable waterproof fabrics.

I understand the concern, but I guess I don't understand the risk yet. My understanding from chemistry class was that PF- compounds are so useful because of how inert they are. Their indestructibility is what makes them mostly harmless - if you eat a pile of (room-temperature) Teflon, it just goes right through your body.
It's interesting, because in reviewing TempleOS, and his way of explaining what he had done, and how he spoke about it, I always got the vibe that the religious references were him "doing his duty" (what he was compelled to) while just being a hacker.

Not that the whole OS was an offering to God.

Did I miss that?
No. There are a million little implementations which try to do that, but one problem is the lack of generics. Any stack, linked list, hashmap, etc. implementation that tries to be sufficiently generic will need to either:

* Store all of its data as a void*, which is bad practice

* Implement the data structure for all primitive types, which wouldn't exactly help you if you wanted to start using them on custom structs

So you can find plenty of libraries implementing common data structures and algorithms, but they'll all require some kind of integration with your code

C++ has a much more robust container library (STL - Standard Template Library), with things like std::map, std::vector, std::string, std::stack, std::queue, and a variety of algorithms and functions in the <algorithm> header. Before C++ added all these neat features, there was boost, which implemented its own version of these things.
These irons are expected to control large currents to maintain an operator specified temperature. These aren't simple elements that just "get hot" off mains power.
The companies who actually use these cookies don't want that, because everyone would just turn everything off forever. It would probably just kill off tons of analytics companies overnight.

(I wouldn't lament the loss of invasive analytics, but the job losses would be saddening)