skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article completely misses the point.

Places like China assemble stuff by hand that would be automated in higher wage countries not because they don't know how, or higher wage countries have developed some new software they haven't. It's because wage costs are low. As soon as it makes economical sense to automate, companies do. It's not specific to geography, or technology, or anything of other than economics of thr world labor market.
> > electric motorcycles are amazingly fun to ride

Every motorcycle is fun to ride, and the acceleration part, Yamaha clocked the 0-60 in 3s bit back in 1999[0] , we are really splitting hairs to somehow elevate the concept of electrification like it's some sort of re-inventing the wheel for the fun of the consumer and not for political goals, I have come to believe that it's a form of brainwashing

That is unless the concept of 'electrification' is used to mask the inability to use a manual gearbox as it pertains to motorcycles.

[0]https://accelerationtimes.com/models/yamaha-yzf-r6-n-a
Funny enough, if you go by what's written in the US constitution, their president can't actually go to war.

But thanks to enough loop holes, they can get into 'special military operations' (to misappropriate a recent term).
Snowden saw what happened to previous whistleblowers like Binney who did stay within the lines, and who achieved little or nothing beyond making themselves pariahs in the intelligence community.

He saw that he had to take a different path, even though it was one that was illegal. And I respect and honor him for being willing to make that choice.
They don't have power to enforce specificiations, so what's the point of a negative specification?
Git works well enough for projects that are essentially similar to the Linux kernel, i.e. it's designed to be used by programmers working primarily on text files. For projects that have non-technical people collaborating with programmers, or frequently changing binary assets, there is plenty of room for improvement over git.
Ah the old switch-a-roo...
> One thing that is however funny is the guilt tripping used by employers who have this straw-man version of a lazy WFH employee, and more so, employers who have a delusion that their workplace is important enough that people need to sacrifice a large portion of their lives just for the opportunity to be there in person.

If only it's all the "employers" fault. I've seen plenty of employees post on social media about how their office is "alive" again and feeling the "vibes" of their team with photos sharing them and their co-workers in-office.

It's the pro-office crowd in general that wants to crush everyone. Some employers are guilt-tripped or forced to support these loud people. They would complain that it's lonely and no 1 is coming to the office with them.
Holy hell that judge needs to be disbarred.
Note that hearing is one of the first things that stop working when a human is under stress [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/Dl-Fl66Jfao?t=1674
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail
Didn't they say they weren't going to allow email address reuse?
Sounds like you’re speculating…

To be honest I skim the article don’t have time to read a whole history book on Ancient Roman law—but I’m definitely interested in Ancient Rome.

But I mean this is hacker news if you want history news go somewhere else.
Well, its not really apples to apples, that is a 5G connection... Of course the speeds are bad and relatively expensive compared to fiber
I don’t mean this as a slight on SQLAlchemy - it does a lot of things very well and provides a ton of levers and knobs - but it’s absolutely the first place I look when I’m looking for performance improvements.

A friend used to say Zookeeper was where the crazy lived in any application that used it - sqlalchemy is where the slow lives in any application that uses it.
I'm also told that the publishing industry depends almost solely on "Word".

If this dependence on "Word" is true, then I bet that if a PDF malfunctions, they just shrug their shoulders and tell themselves "that's just the way it is" ad move on. Because that's what you have to do when "Word" does something goofy, and "Word" is the Standard Word Processor.
Yeah, I am. To be fair, I inherited that assumption from the GP.

Anyway, you are right, mature business that have no further space to grow may not want to keep them at all. Even when they aren't a differential, they are still worth more than they cost on maintenance, but there are plenty of companies that just skip maintenance and it's not obvious at all if they are any worse for it.
> Google also reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years.

This part is unreasonable no? I sometimes don't use a product for a while, like google drive for instance, and the prospect of coming back to it and discovering that all my data has been deleted is a bit on the dreadful side. I don't want to have to keep track of which product Ive been using and how long since I last signed into all the time.
Thank you for this. Yes there are visible round cutouts in the concrete. So basically roll back and forth over them until the light changes?
It is very telling to me that you first chose to ignore the definition I provided, and now you have chosen to ignore how your example was demonstrably self-destructive. You're grasping desperately for straws by focusing on everything not inconvenient for your initial point.

I'll take that as an admission you know you're wrong.

Here's some more advice for ya: Do your homework next time and come prepared. Or maybe, just maybe, don't try to play the pedantic card. It's clearly not your best game.
>Don't depend on "free" for critical functions.

All the cards are stacked against the users though. It's not that easy for a non-tech person to use any sort of email/photo library etc that isn't free from Google/Apple etc.

Even self hosting email is impossible now. You won't be able to send emails because nothing trusts you.

If Google intentionally incentivized everyone to move their entire digital lives into their platform for profit, they should have some sort of responsibility for that. There have absolutely been significant impact to people's lives because they've gotten locked out of their account for reasons that even Google can't explain, and there is no recourse or action they can take.
> the implication this is an evolution (not devolution) of open source.

"implication"

> the experts would simply have said: that's not open source.

Presumably the experts did tell them that it is not an open source license, which is why they chose not to claim that it is.

> Permissive is a well established term in software licensing. No, the BSL is not.

I think BSL easily fits the bill for the word "permissive".

It's just all so much gatekeeping, and it's really tiring.
The representational capacity of two consecutive linear layers is the same as one slightly different linear layer. The capacity when you introduce a relu into the mix is (up to a complexity defined by the number of parameters) any "nice" function -- including things like e^sin(x) -- not just linear functions. With two consecutive linear layers many of the weights and computations are redundant.
Am I missing something? There's no [federal] shield law protecting journalists in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_laws_in_the_United_Stat...

"There is no federal shield law and state shield laws vary in scope."

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1241/shield-law...

"There is no federal shield law"

Not even former or sitting presidents are protected.
> Measuring and reasoning about those issues are hard, but the solutions are often simple. For example, on page 9 he mentions that "[a] simple change paid for 10 years of my salary." I hope to someday make such an impactful optimization!

I did that at Google more than once. They use a tremendous amount of machine resources and have excellent performance tools [1], so it's fertile ground.

There are a lot of other smart people around though so if you find a big opportunity there's probably a reason no one else has jumped on it. Maybe technical, maybe organizational. As an example of the latter, Google doesn't usually reward this kind of thing except when there's a resource crunch. Like, maybe I got a peer bonus (~$100) for one of them. I certainly didn't a 10% commission or a promotion or the ability to keep getting a paycheck without showing up for the next 10 years or whatever. As a general rule, they'd prefer engineers work on growing revenue than on reducing cost. Whether this is the right policy or not is kind of above my pay grade...

[1] e.g. https://research.google/pubs/pub36575/
This code runs Llama2 quantized and unquantized in a roughly minimal way: https://github.com/srush/llama2.rs (though extracting the quantized 70B weights takes a lot of RAM). I'm running the 13B quantized model on ~10-11GB of CPU memory.
Glancing through the examples, Radix reminds me a lot of MUI.

This is not a bad thing, I’m just not sure how “nothing comes close” to Radix. Radix doesn’t seem obviously better? (Maybe it is, I have no experience with it.)
> So you use gmail or hotmail etc, not because they are free, because they arre presumed to outlive everything else, and be safer because of that. And that much is completely true and not a mistake.

I would absolutely not consider a free account on anything to outlive a paid product. Quite the opposite: If I'm not paying for any kind of SLA, written in an agreement, I assume the account in question is temporary, could disappear at any moment, and treat it as such: Never rely on it for anything where you'd be screwed if you suddenly got locked out.

There have been so many, many, many, many of these "I got locked out of my free Xyz account with no appeal possible!!" stories, I'm shocked that people still rely on them. And if you say, well, you shouldn't have put your 401(k) retirement account behind that E-mail address, they call you victim blaming. People, your free account is worth what you pay for it.
For me, the Steve Jackson Games case of the early 1990s [1,2], where police seized computers in a raid later determined to be illegal, was what got me into the whole EFF/FSF/Linux world of computing rights, and from there into Slashdot and HN and other related communities. My guess is that’s pretty common with people of a certain age!

[1] http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
Tiny ‘ice mouse’ survived Arctic cold in the age of dinosaurs
Their website seems to be plastered in claims that it "uses the original speaker's voice"
It's not a problem in practice. Here's an older article from LinkedIn talking about their results.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/network-performance/tcp-ove...
The institution is facing a $40+ million deficit. It isn’t clear if athletic programs will be affected.
Those over-broad warrants are increasingly the norm. Pay attention to the judges you vote in, they set the tone,
This is a bizarre post. It says nothing about what the papers filed actually mean.

The papers are a proposed permanent injunction that both the publishers and IA have (mostly) agreed on, although the IA wants the injunction to only apply to books that are in print and licensed by the publishers as ebooks. The publishers want it to apply to all books.

I don't know why IA decided to post about it in such a cryptic way, unless maybe it was a condition of the ruling, and they're doing the absolute minimum to satisfy that condition.
Generic ibuprofen works as well as branded
IMHO they were very dumb to do the emergency lending nonsense to begin with.

A good example of letting ideology walk you past the cliff. Even if they’re successful against the injunction the damage has been done.

Given how tenuous online lending is already, it was naive to push the boundary further.

I feel a similar ideological gap is slowly growing in the treatment of data surrounding generative AI.
https://time.com/6211350/public-libraries-book-bans/

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/u-s-book-challenges-updat...

Etc
Here's a press release from the ALA on the recent increase in book challenges:

https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/09/ala-releases...

> Between January 1 and August 31, 2022, ALA documented 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources, and 1,651 unique titles were targeted. In 2021, ALA reported 729 attempts to censor library resources, targeting 1,597 books, which represented the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling these lists more than 20 years ago.
> It's still facing appeal, but it's entirely possible the UK refuses to extradite.

Extradition has actually been approved by all relevant UK authorities, after formal reassurance from the US about his treatment. Assange is appealing that decision, arguing then-Home Secretary Priti Patel was an id-- could not seriously accept some meaningless words that they can renege a minute after getting him.

Meanwhile, the Australian government is trying to vaguely save face by making some noise, probably to extract some extra money from Biden to just shut up.
Why buy? Buying houses is a bad idea if you don’t have certainty or value the flexibility of moving.
The water issue can be permanently solved with a desalination plant and a canal to the Sea of Cortez, similar projects have been done all over the Middle East. I think AZ actually has really bright prospects both figuratively and literally.
At a minimum, you could have read the article which had a copy of the warrant. Please, just read.
You don’t have to emigrate to another country. I’ve lived in half a dozen U.S. cities with no car at this point.
I'm not familiar with Pijul, and haven't finished watching this presentation, but IME the problems with modern version control tools is that they still rely on comparing lines of plain text, something we've been doing for decades. Merge conflicts are an issue because our tools are agnostic about the actual content they're tracking.

Instead, the tools should be smarter and work on the level of functions, classes, packages, sentences, paragraphs, or whatever primitive makes sense for the project and file that is being changed. In the case of code bases, they need to be aware of the language and the AST of the program. For binary files, they need to be aware of the file format and its binary structure. This would allow them to show actually meaningful diffs, and minimize the chances of conflicts, and of producing a corrupt file after an automatic merge.

There has been some research in this area, and there are a few semantic diffing tools[1,2,3], but I'm not aware of this being widely used in any VCS.

Nowadays, with all the machine learning advances, the ideal VCS should also use ML to understand the change at a deeper level, and maybe even suggest improvements. If AI can write code for me, it could surely understand what I'm trying to do, and help me so that version control is entirely hands-free, instead of having to fight with it, and be constantly aware of it, as I have to do now.

Or, since it's more than likely that humans won't be writing code or text in the near future, we'll skip the next revolution in VCS tools, and AI will be able to version its own software. /sigh

I just finished watching the presentation, and Pijul seems like an iterative improvement over Git. Nothing jumped out at me like a killer feature that would make me want to give it a try. It might be because the author focuses too much on technical details and fixing Git's shortcomings, instead of taking a step back and rethinking what a modern VCS tool should look like today.

[1]: https://semanticdiff.com/

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage

[3]: https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree
There are also state laws in the USA. This was in Kansas.

https://www.rcfp.org/privilege-compendium/kansas/#:~:text=Th....
Maybe there’ll be an article or two, once it’s released!

Oh wait…
The specific development this post references is a proposed injunction [1] that Internet Archive and the publishers agreed on and sent to the judge. With certain exceptions (such as accessibility and fair use), IA would have to remove from its lending program any books that are commercially available from the publishers. IA wants "commercially available in electronic text format" and the publishers want "commercially available in any format", they've asked the judge to settle that point. IA reserves the right to appeal the judgement.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211300/214/1/hachette...
Yes. I think it's pretty Awful. "Reserves the right" isn't "will" but it becomes clear it could be "at will"
If you read your Google account's emails, you had to log in (POP3 and IMAP both require authentication). If you logged in, that means the account is active. Sounds simple enough to me.
In the case of the Iraq war, the unknown knowns were probably key...
The range is also typically laughably bad also. I just can't justify having to perfectly calculate a trip, or ending up stuck on the side of the road with no quick ability to just gas it back up.
They're not exit nodes to the general Internet though, just to Veilid apps.
I think we're in the fine grained differences between "should" and "must"

I definitely think they should have better account recovery process, if need be for $, prove identity and get your data as takeout if they want to decline service but I would be amazed if any part of the current agreement we make with them could be said to obligate it.

As a defacto monopoly I do tend to think they should be made to have some process. Which jurisdiction?
Linked in the original the article:

> The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law* that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.

* https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000aa
VSCode extension to generate Machine Learning Snippets try it
Not that surprising. Small Town Things. I'm sure there are backwoods places in the USA where the owner of the used car dealership, the mayor, the judge, and police chief are all immediate family. A thing is only illegal if it's enforced.
Infisical doesn't need a CLA because it's permissively licensed. People who contribute their code under the project's license (MIT) have already agreed that anyone (Infisical or anyone else) can take their code fork it into a proprietary project anyway.
> "putting themselves in far more legal jeopardy."

I have to disagree. The US govt and its national security state have done a pretty good job of persecuting Manning, Assange and Snowden alike albeit in differing ways.
Does the federal law apply to local government?
I believe you are correct. The article cites 42 USC 2000aa but that doesn't apply in cases of criminal investigation tied to those articles if my non-lawyer understanding is correct, since it's only necessary that the things seized are tied to a crime (whether they are tied to a real crime or just being awkward for someone in power is of course it's own fight in court).
What is paperclipping? I looked it up and the results were all about a dating trend.
The listed exceptions in short mean that any account which has conducted monetary transactions on Google Play are exempted from inactivity. Sounds simple, fair, and easy to me.

Just buy a book, movie, game, or a subscription of some sort and it won't go inactive ever.
If you donate to Wikipedia, they will suppress donation appeals for 1 week
> but the US has been guilty of both of those things in the past.

Is America doing this right now? I mean in the past. When 9/11 happened we didn’t really have internet and social media like we do today. But if it happened today I’m pretty sure there would be a lot of people against going to Iraq. Especially with what we have learned over the last 20 years.

> The thing is that nobody invades a country desiring to wipe it off the planet.

Putin said Ukraine is not a country. He wants it gone. It’s literally his desire… or do you believe it’s NATOs on the door step conspiracy theory? Lol

> And genocide? Need we discuss the native Americans?

Is America doing this today? Is anyone alive today that looks back on history and thinks “gee wiz that was a great period of time! We should do that again!!!”
I'm not sure how to get this through to you; but let's try.

Imagine that every time you go through airport security, a full body scan is made of your kids and wife and they are sent around to a thousand or so unknown people (most of whom aren't even directly employed by the government) for salacious reasons or to be mocked. Now, there's a law that protects your kids scans from being sent anywhere (like HIPPA for doctors!), but incidentally it's a government institution and thus, according to themselves they do not need to follow the law. - despite that law existing for the only purpose of protecting your kids from the government.

When the information gets out that this is happening (this part happened before Snowden btw), everyone involved, including the head of the organisation, knowingly lies to the "Oversight committee" which is democratically elected, is transparent and wants to protect your kids. The "Oversight Committee" have no choice than to just trust airport security at their word, for "security" reasons. (this was one of the things proven to have happened in the Snowden leaks: IE; General Alexander knowingly lied to the US Senate).

Lying to the "Oversight committe" in this case is also a crime, but such flagrant disregard for the law has become pretty standard.

This is what we're discussing here, not just that there was laws being broken, not that there was surveillance after all: their job is surveillance.

The fact is here: that you, dear citizen have a right to privacy enshrined in the constitution. The reason that protection exists at all is to protect the very democracy that you uphold: freedom of expression.

A rogue government agency that lies to your democratically elected leaders, that breaks laws indiscriminately and does so under a thick blanket of secrecy -- while wielding a very powerful hammer to discredit and chase people to the ends of the earth -- that's what was exposed.

Not "the good guys". If they were "good" they wouldn't be lying to the US Senate. They wouldn't be assassinating the character of the people that expose them- these things would have clear answers and when exposed people would shrug.

Remember: people are using tools like XKeyscore to spy on people they personally know (ex-lovers, spouses etc; https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog... )

You can't defend it by saying "it's national secrecy". Tell me how spying on your ex is in the national interest? Tell me why there can't be oversight?

Disgusting, and so is anyone who defends it.
Federal law applies to every part of the US. That’s why it’s a federal law rather than a local law.

Federal >> state >> local
What if the article is wrong?
Maybe Maeving? They're kinda proud of being barebones.
I added [Screenshot] to the title, but it was auto-removed. Adding here for clarification
That was, what, like one month at the very start? Masks were a fixture in my household by April or May, as I recall.

Again, "beating the experts one time" does not mean that betting against them is a good bet. For every person that fits your description there are a hundred not getting vaccinated because they've "done their research". The literal comment right below mine is some anti-vax nonsense right here on HN, in a community that is overwhelmingly better-educated than the public at large.
Does that law apply to non-federal employees?
I self-host Gitlab, which is pretty familiar to people, but I still mirror repos for which I'm hoping to get contributions to GitHub for the same reason