skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don't see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.

I worry that they're going to end up, as with Lessig, ending up in a case that creates terrible fucking case law that screws up copyright law even more than it already is. Like, if they win, it will be by making it impossible to enforce copyright for anyone who can't show substantial profit, zeroing copyright for anyone who isn't Oracle or Sony. Or they'll do such a shit job of defining what an archive or public interest or lending library looks like that they'll destroy the legal protections that libraries and archivists currently enjoy.
Want to start a market maker and a hedge fund in the US?
A friend and I recently started a game studio that was largely inspired by this paper. This is an amazing foundation and I'm excited to build some more complex strategy games on top of it.

If anyone else is doing similar work applying these concepts to consumer gaming, I'd love to hear about what you're doing (dru[at]chromagolem.com)!
How is setting up a control system not in some sense regulating? I’m genuinely curious.
The problem is that if you publish the lists it leads to more abuses. For example if spammers find out which sites are banned then they just post other ones.
> To be fair, in sqlalchemy you could just do “print(query)” and you’d see your sql.

I wasn't saying that you couldn't see the raw SQL, I'm saying that the ORM syntax does not result in a consistent experience for everyone.
Yes when I said word vectors I meant rich embeddings not one hot representations.

That said, in reviewing the fastext bag of tricks paper on their classification module I’m now second guessing my assumption that they use complex embeddings. Their architecture is otherwise exactly reproducible in vowpalwabbit, and in fact in the paper they claim that it is equivalent to a specific combination of vowpalwabbit flags.

In particular the vowpalwabbit neural network flag is needed. However, vowpalwabbit only uses one hot vectors for their ngram features. The neural network flag just adds a hidden layer.

I had assumed that fasttext uses rich word embeddings in its classifier because it has another module to train them.

If it is actually the same as vowpalwabbit, then I can say that I’ve never had the extra hidden layer really help, though as they note it does make vowpalwabbit quite slow.
I loved Webvan and when they failed, I think the company I was working for was able to snag some of their conference phones and Aeron chairs.

I remember ordering produce for delivery and they allowed different ripeness of bananas so I would order one of each (green, ripe, etc ) just to see if they came and looked differently. This was back in the day of web commerce so fun to play with. Good times. I remember Pac Bell Park had all their seats with Webvan cup holders and scoreboard ads for Webvan too at the time.
Sorry if this is pedantic, but we do actually use it for decompression, though usually no deeper than 20ft.
If you look into the SunRay 3i you get 6W max power usage and 1080p screen. The software is available for Linux and Solaris if you can find it.
Im not getting the same time delay with curl

- `time wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt` -> `0m5.389s`

- `time curl -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt` -> `0m1.158s`
Kotlin is an official language, albeit the "preferred" language. Java is still very much supported and viable (outside of Compose).
"We don't crack software, we crack kitchen counters"

l33t times.
Does it damage the bulb? I thought it just pulsed at a visible rate because it can't turn on consistently. Does rapidly turning off/on diodes reduce the life of a bulb?
Never heard of that one, but yeah, Intel was very hesitant to admit that IA-64, was, indeed, not the future.
yep, it also seems to me that the helmsman of that site is dumb. good thing i left that site many years ago.
It’s about 4.5 seconds for me

https://imgur.com/a/qege0O9
Snooping table sizes are typically around 16k entries. IGMP/ND packets are almost always punted to the CPU, so once the CPU is saturated, switches typically either fall back to broadcast or stop forwarding multicasts.

It's not a good outcome either way.
I have LEDs everywhere.

But the blue light fears some game seem at least worth looking into.

I can’t help but thinking in 50 years people will be replacing phrases like “they used LEAD pipes” and “they sprayed loose asbestos into the attic” with something akin to “they used unfiltered LEDs”
> The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way.

Perhaps its one of those things that are hard to define. [1] But that doesn't mean clear cases don't exist.

> Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here.

No, but it is clearly political censorship if you only apply the unwritten and secret "rules" of the game to a particular political faction. Also, banning entire domain names is definitely heavy-handed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
This. I wouldn't be surprised if people give up after a while of searching and migrating to alternatives to each service that started using or selling data for AI training.
and now everyone is trying to resurrect it, but this time Uber Eats and Amazon
That vaccination timeline is... interesting. But it would be a wild conspiracy to say more.
that is a very interesting way of communicating that point. thank you filing that away :)
I'm guessing it's reactive, and Federalist links tended to be garbage often enough to convince someone they should hit the ban button, whereas the others didn't rise up with trash often enough to matter?
https://archive.is/u95sw
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MBAification is very real and very awful.

I have a working theory that it’s not just tech, or just MBAs, or just the opposite political people, or tactical division, or just (prescription) drugs or just enshitification, or just media… but all of the things at the same time. A big theory of why everything sucks.

For a microcosm… music. Music now objectively sucks, and it’s for all the reasons above at all the same time.

But if you made me pick a single thing… it would be MBAs ruining everything.
Oddly enough the delay is reduced to 1 second by using curl's useragent string (wget --user-agent='curl/8.2.1' https://t.co/4fs609qwWt)
I don't see a single left-wing new source in there.
Did you have any luck mitigating this problem?
Did the bananas arrive any different?
Considering the low volume of downloads and that it is primarily for academic research, I think there’s a strong argument for fair use. I’ve seen so many great recordings completely disappear because some record company decided they might like to re-release something between now and the end of time (they usually don’t).
I struggle with this as well. I stopped working weekends and wake up at 4:30am on weekdays so I can end the day earlish at 4-5pm to spend time with family.
Yes. What I meant is that in the absence of such perfect knowledge (whether dementia causes poor vision or poor vision causes dementia), which is usually the case[1], we can pursue these strategies anyway because the nervous system learns by association and by introducing a perturbation to its inputs, it could adapt toward our goal.

[1] Because the brain and body is a huge complex system and it's hard to untangle cause and consequence: There is usually no single cause and a lot of feedback cycles where the consequence could reinforce its cause.
I'm in the same boat :/.
> For example if spammers find out which sites are banned then they just post other ones.

I don't think that makes sense. The supposed spammers can just try looking up whether their submissions show up or not when not logged in.
I'm fine with government employees being paid handsomely as long as they're qualified and effective. Currently, public employees are typically underpaid; however, a lingering problem in California is that public employees, once hired, have a "right to employment" that makes them considerably more difficult to fire than employees in the private sector. The guarantee of employment often removes any incentive for continued improvements in performance. If it were easy to shape the public employee workforce by selecting for the best, it would be easier to justify having salaries of public employees that are competitive with the private sector, which is how it should be if we want effective government run by competent and ambitious professionals.
Did you run this by the risk, global relations, and legal guys/gals?
I did some regex analysis on my codebase of over 37000 lines. In exactly 566 occurrences of "if err != nil", there were only 154 that just returned the error directly. The other instances are doing some form of wrapping to add more context to the error, or collecting errors from multiple operations, or wrapping the error with a status code, or a bunch of other things.

The problem with every error handling suggestion I've seen is that it only handles the one case

if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

But that's only the case 27% of the time! The other cases are harder, and require more thought anyway. Why optimize for a rare case that's already easy?
I should have referenced the definition of Godwin’s law. It says that all internet arguments ultimately degenerate into referencing Hitler.

My point was not complaining about Godwin’s law, or about slippery slopes. My point was almost the opposite: the tendency to trot out ultimate, extreme ends in every disagreement. Hitler for Godwin, dystopia for others.

It’s not a persuasive argument in either framing. “You’re destroying civilization” is the rhetoric of someone who, like the author of the linked piece, can’t actually articulate why someone’s actions are wrong. Seriously, the piece never gets there. It’s a lot of legitimate, honest hurt tied up with “dystopia” as if that makes the position unassailable.

So apologies for being unclear, hope that’s a more cogent representation of my distaste for this style of argument.
Interesting, I’d say music is a clear counterexample. I’m nostalgic for the 90s as well, but there is so much more great, diverse and wonderful music being made now than ever before. Even finding it isn’t really that hard, either.
I've never drunk it. I don't like high proof alcohol.

Once I worked in a very informal lab and we were always looking for alternatives to buying industrial chemicals. I was working with optics, and Everclear came up as a good alternative to denatured alcohol or isopropyl alcohol. My friend who ran a microscope lab said it was pure enough to clean optics... however, since it was illegal to buy in California, we had a friend pick it up in Arizona and drop it off with us.

We put it in the flammable storage cabinet with a label saying it was 95% alcohol. Once during a lab inspection we tried to explain, but the inspector just said "yes, I went to college"
Agreed. You got a bad batch perhaps.

When CA first required high efficacy lighting in kitchens via Title 24 in 2010, it was a train wreck, there were no good options and it got a bad name. Slowly they were required throughout new construction in tightening requirements every three years. Then technology caught up and the quality, flexibility, color and lumen options have far exceeded incandescent bulbs. Now people are doing things never imagined (as discussed somewhat awkwardly in the article) with LEDs spurred in part by legislation that pushed the technology from behind. Perhaps one of the few times technology didn't create the product and market. Legislation has created the market, and technology responded. Doesn't usually work out that way...

Now however, the new control requirements are ridiculous and add far more cost than will ever be recouped. Most likely since these requirements were planned back when California used 90 percent more electricity for lighting, it seems rather useless especially in the face of our unaffordable housing. Hopefully I am wrong there but it seems we went a bit too far.
That also requires additional effort on the spammers’ part. Increasing cost of attacks is an effective defense strategy.
Or play them at 33 1/3 for better resolution.
He can't, he's an NPC work a fixed dialog.
What are your use cases
And you can…
Your interpretation is correct. No sarcasm in my statements and only a reference to it in my question. This was a genuine question for a point I have yet to make... In which you did not apply your mandate.
So sad, we were born in the same year. Interview was great
DeSantis literally said he was using the power of the government to force Disney to change its creative output: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/desantis-promises-fl...
The New Language of Mathematics (2017)
> The Happy Birthday song got invalidated by an older work of "Good Morning to All" [1].

That's an incorrect rendition of the underlying facts. Happy Birthday was based on the tune of Good Morning to All, and this history was well known even when Warner was on a warpath demanding licensing fees for singing it. The invalidation instead arises from the fact that available evidence indicates that the words to Happy Birthday were not written by the Hill sisters and thus the song was never properly copyrighted.
I've never done it with lightbulb level LEDs, but with circut type leds, I've gotten them dimmer by simply using an oversized resistor.

Modern incandescent dimmers don't change the voltage. They just chop off portions of the AC wave, which produces something like a PWM wave, except the on voltage is not constant.

I wouldn't want to try using this chopped up wave to power anything more complicated than a light bulb, but I don't see how it would damage an LED.
No one's making that comparison? The whole article is only talking about public employees. There's no mention of anything private sector.
"Owyang, the senior deputy sheriff with the highest overtime pay, logged more than 3,300 overtime hours over the year, meaning he worked an average of 63 overtime hours per week. Two other deputies, Barry Bloom and Kristian DeJesus, also worked more than 3,000 overtime hours."

Excuse my French, but how is this not blatant fraud? A deputy sheriff working an average of 103 (40+63) hours a week? To do what, exactly, maybe check that no one gets arrested when a department store is looted?
Where are the auditors who are supposed to check these embarrassing embezzlements of public funds?
I am appalled that my taxes are being used to make these individuals live their best lives.
Reminds me of Shadow Divers. IIRC they were instrumental in coming up with a breathing mix to counteract these effects

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Eve...
This is great. I love how weird some of the characters can be, just like in real life. For example:

Pete is deeply religious and sees the hand of god or of the work of the devil everywhere. He can't have a conversation without bringing up his deep faith. Or warning others about the perils of hell.

Kurt has something to hide. It obsesses him and colors everything he says. He's so afraid someone will figure out that he is obviously evasive. He'll never tell anyone the secret, but he'll ellude to it alot. It tortures him. And his life has become a mess as a result of it.

Stella can never be trusted. she tries to trick people all the time. normally into giving her money, or doing things that will make her money. she's incredibly charming and not afraid to use her charm. she's a sociopath who has no empathy. but hides it well.

---

To take this to the next level, I hope you would be able to prompt your own characters, and perhaps have places you can send these guys on holiday to converse with other people's characters.

Also, I think this would be great as a tool for learning foreign languages. Just because it's interesting, engaging and based on language. Again with prompts that can be programmed, like Gill who constantly talks about his job in marketing, and Bill who likes to refer to himself in the third person, and Betty who constantly uses conditionals in her sentences. Again, just so cool.
Paul's Thoughts on Liberals

https://archive.is/TyJ7m

https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1690952107250302976
imagine the turmoil that would break out in tech if there was such radical salary transparency?
I didn't know Long COVID could cause multiple organ failure and death.
With all respect to Brandon Gilles, I have never heard of "dying from long covid" before and am trying to understand what this means.

There is a huge discrepancy and a lot of detail missing between "developed Long-COVID symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, muscle pain and shortness of breath" and "he suffered from multiple organ failures".

I tried searching but have not found anything (yes I know some death certificates list long-covid as a contributory cause in CDC data, but one can list anything on a death certificate). Does anyone have a source/case report explaining this or detailing a case?

(Please note I am not trying to start a political debate regarding COVID out of a man's obituary, I am genuinely curious if anyone has information about this as I've never heard a causative claim before)
I wonder what your perspective would have been if you were living in the time of AT&T's monopolistic dominance. Would have that dominance have seemed inevitable and unchangeable?

I think it's better to not give into the hindsight bias and imagine an internet worth rebuilding. The giants who wrap their tendrils around our time and attention should be ripped to shreds. They don't deserve their power seeing as they use it to pedal division and addiction.
Judge GPT – The Game. How will you hold up in the future of courtroom justice?
JudgeGPT, the game where ai decides you or your friends fate in courtroom. It also decides well as what you are been accused of. You each have one chance to prove your innocence. Convince the ai judge you are innocent. Efficient and succinct justice with all the bias and inaccuracy of ai. Who is better at convincing the Judge they are innocent?
Even with its addition as they didn't use fresh lime (some even boiled it) for many years. People got both lime and scurvy.

Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by J. Lamb is actually quite interesting.
I hope he means back toward those companies, in which case he's exactly right.

You wouldn't treat a deranged serial killer with respect and courtesy. Why should poorly-behaved amoral corporations be treated as you would treat normal humans?

Corporations should be treated in accordance with their own behavior. The mom-n-pop shop down the street that uses an LLC for legal purposes and treats you like a valued customer? You should treat them with respect and kindness. The evil megacorp that tries to lobby for shitty laws to screw you over? You should screw them over too. (And alternatively, the big corporation that makes good products for decent prices and doesn't seem to be actively trying to blatantly harm society and twist things to their advantage with legal tricks or lobbying? You should treat them respectfully too.)
The chat part lets you start with a base and you build on top of it, you don’t have to fit it all in one sentence.
Sunlight has tons of blue light in it (color temperature of around 5800 K). We are going to be fine.
Maybe the classics don't, but the SL-1200 variants here play 78: https://us.technics.com/collections/turntables
"right to employment" is a concept that applies to many jobs in Germany, often beyond public employees. It is one of the biggest internal debates I had: Give people guaranteed employment (which sounds fair, benevolent), but how to continue to motivate improvement? Often I come to the conclusion that the US "fire & hire" system is better than the "hold & secure" approach of Germany. Primarily because it also makes switching jobs in Germany much harder.
It’s certainly finite when you have ridiculous copyright claims over very trivial elements like chord progressions and short ostinatos. There’s also the element that composers, intentionally or not, borrow elements from earlier works all the time. I’d even argue that “remixing” is really the default state of affairs. I cannot name a single composer who hasn’t borrowed a melody from somewhere else. The only people that actually want complete originality are corporate lawyers.
Ordered maps are usually a hybrid linked list. When iterating you can traverse the linked list data, rather than the buckets.
Fair, he is a media personality. That said, I've read a Jim Cramer book, I've listened to Dave Ramsey. Those guys are charlatans selling mysterious wisdom and, frankly, bullshit. Clark Howard doesn't do any of that.

Dave Ramsey once said anyone should be able to get a 12% return in a mutual fund. What?? Jim Cramer's constantly picking stocks and is about as good as a drunk monkey with a dartboard.

Everything Clark Howard has said that I've looked at doing, I've vetted and researched. Sometimes he gets it wrong, but I believe he is an honest actor and just trying to help people "Save money, Spend less, and avoid getting ripped off."

Honestly, nobody knows, but I put more weight on his take than most.
>ads in the settings of Windows 11. Never ever put ads in any configuration menu of the operating system.

Why not? I think they're great: they make more money for M$. If the users don't like it, too bad. Why should I care about them?

>That clearly says, it's not my computer, its MS's and they try to squeeze every penny out they can get.

That's right. It's not your computer, and you should just accept that and get used to it. You chose this path, by choosing MS as your OS provider.

>So they aren't any different from Google

No, they are different: Google doesn't control my PC's OS. The only PC OS they control is ChromeOS, which only runs on certain (usually low-end) hardware, and isn't normally used for any serious work.
I blame Metallica. Particularly Lars. I don't know if he's more or less responsible than any of the other guys in the band, but in my heart he's the source of the enshittifying evil. The derelict that brought the xenomorph. The meteor that brought the color out of space. The cow with prion disease.
Yes. Just write SQL. SQL is good.

Never use an (active record) ORM. Ever. For any purpose. They are a disastrous idea that should be un-invented.

I have this discussion with a lot of people who claim they cannot imagine working without an ORM and that "surely" using SQL is so much more work blah blah blah. Yet they have never tried! And aren't willing to try!

You should try it.
Well, unless surrogacymumbai.com is where we post right-wing news from, that's hardly a problem, eh?
I would have said they also have procurement departments that did have a clue so one wasn't needed, but now it's more likely procurement has been outsourced to Accenture who do it for highest fee, paying for the convincing PPTs and golf, and lowest Accenture branded service center cost, paying $900/month fully loaded average across the team - the struggling 'knowledge workers' that know neither your company nor its specific needs.