skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So great to hear about this solution, thanks! I like the straightforward pricing and the fact that it's an anycast based solution. Because we have a Google Cloud based solution in place already, I'm trying to model the cost for terminating traffic in GCP and egressing to AWS. If that backfires, I definitely will look into https://approximated.app .
WINDOWS STILL CAN'T DO THAT
Either get Gshock GWM5610-1 which is solar and synced for good price, or get Garmin Instict Solar for all bells and whistles and also unlimited power in theory.
If a human reads something, it goes into their brain, and it becomes an influence on future works they produce.

This doesn't mean that 'copywrite' extends into my brain. A company can't copywrite what I'm thinking about. And what if I do try to paraphrase something from memory, from a few sources, and happen to spit out a very similar sentence from memory. Am I breaking the law?

To go further.
Since all knowledge is pretty much fed into a human from hundreds of books, movies, TV, internet, all pumped into a human from birth. Then everything in the brain is a product of something with a copywrite. So anything produced is some amalgamation of copywrites.

Why not use similar argument for AI. It is clear when asking it to do something like "write a screen play for Othello using dialog like Tarantino, but with bit of style like Baz Luhrmann". That what it produces is 'as unique as a human' would be, or just as filled with things that have copywrites.
Copyright law. Which already covers both mechanical duplication, including mechnaical duplication with automatic alterations to evade detection while continuing to reproduce protect elements if the original.
Bobiverse addresses this set of ideas pretty well. Basically, autonomous decisioning is left at low-level items with a liimted, basic AGI overseeing the actions, leaving the expensive and high-level AGI (Bob) to make strategic decisions. As far as AI goes, this approach makes a lot of sense to me.
What I am not sure about is why these aren't part of the same article. Maybe I missed something in my initial reading but here it is...

Norway wealth fund trims overweight tech investments

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/norway-wealth-fund-tr...
At minimum, root volumes for the VMs. Theoretically, you could load immutable machine images from the network and run entirely off of in-memory filesystems if you persist nothing past instance shutdown (similar to how extremely cautious people might run Tails booted off USB on a laptop with no hard drive), but that won't actually save cost since memory is more expensive than disk anyway.
Goron ability is actually good for blowing up rocks. But the ones other than his and Tulin's? I don't know if I ever used them intentionally.
video of software renderer * : https://twitter.com/phoboslab/status/1691916934638649719

* https://github.com/phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite/blob/master/src...
Paraphrasing is not the issue. The issue is that OpenAI copied the Times’ creative works into a GPU to train a model. That copy was likely neither licensed nor fair use.
Can confirm, as a digital hoarder with a medium size PC case with 8 16-20TB drives...No need for turning on the heat in the winter. Summer is a bit of an issue though!
Their GitHub profile page is showing activity in June and July (2023), so they're probably not dead. :)
If this isn't a government or a bank then run like hell because that company is ripe for being disrupted.
Global oil demand hits record high
China Asks Some Funds to Avoid Net Equity Sales as Markets Sink
> This sort of "design blindness" happens whenever system designers prioritize the needs of the IT system, rather than its users. My specialist is therefore forced to deal with a client interface barely pasted over some sort of database. The data is shaped to fit the design of that database, rather than the other way around.

I just finished listening to The Pragmatic Programmer (EXCELLENT as an audiobook), and the authors talk about this pretty explicitly:

> As soon as you have an executable user interface or prototype, you need to answer an all-important question: the users told you what they wanted, but is it what they need?

> Does it meet the functional requirements of the system? This, too, needs to be tested. A bug-free system that answers the wrong ques tion isn't very useful.

So it looks like some programmers need to read this book for homework!
Yes, that is the point I'm addressing, I'm using Shannon's definition of information and making an argument about the _temporal_ aspects of it. If you're looking for a hint, it's in the Lyapunov exponents of the system, which do not come necessarily from compression alone, though compression I feel is a critical part of the process.

Hence, the set vs superset argument.
I agree with your take and I'll support it with different phrasing.

Skepticism and practice resolving it helps you develop a validation framework you can stand on. Is this right or wrong? How right or wrong? How valid or invalid? Over time, you train yourself on that framework.

I'm an actuary by training but currently in a SaaS sales role. The nuance is some roles have lots of opportunities for validation while others are much more qualitative. As an actuary, there's lots of math that you check as either right or wrong, and other math that you validate as accurate (not right or wrong) with some list of assumptions and caveats for error/noise.

I see a lot LESS skepticism in sales peers. People that don't want to buy must not get it, or they're not the right customer, or any number of reasons. A revaluation of the pitch, the approach, the discovery of the problem is much less present. Moreover, what is right/wrong or valid/invalid?

I'm fascinated by how it all works in sales (and in math) but the contrast of my experiences tells me you've never hurting your case by looking for validation, by naturally applying some doubt and trying to make the case for outcome.
> This automatic feature would be perfect if it acted as a "press this button to setup"

You press the receive button on the Casio.

> but the issue is that the messages are sent very sporadically so you either need to wait almost a full day for it to sync

The signal is constant. You probably had bad reception. In case of DCF77 it needs one minute to transmit "date + time + parity". I have seen my G-Shock syncing in under two minutes.
Both of those things can be true.

Obviously this is a jab on my part, but banning someone because they won't meet you is bad form, especially if you claim to be a free speech absolutist.
Anytime a government legalize a drug or even alcohol, you know they are trying to sedate the society from questioning and maybe eventually revolting.
Certainly first that actually worked well. My current desktop was installed in 2007 and still just dist-upgraded to the current.

That of course if packages are done well, but Debian organization process so far have been very good on quality. Different song with 3rd party packages of course...
A lot of shareware back then stopped working after a certain # of calendar days, which it used windows to figure out. So I always had my date set far in the future.
Try watching an American Grand Prix but focus on the shots of the crowd. At least half of all attendees will be watching the GP through their phone screens. It blows my mind.
I really appreciated her POV on China. Usually it's westerners commenting on events in China. Very rare to have someone born and raised in China who comments on issues openly to her extent in English able to articulate American and Chinese POVs on an issue. She's also living an authentic cyperpunk hacker lifestyle. Hope the best for her and her partner.
Photopea is probably your best photoshop alternative that runs in Linux.
Here is the dejavu moment... from 2022, but the article does point out this is not unusual. Perhaps someone with more time than me can plot out the frequency.

China Asking Funds to Limit Stock Sales Before Congress, Sources Say

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/china-is-...
> Am I breaking the law?

The intent of [US] copyright law is to promote new works of art (which can be derivative). So copyright did exactly what it is supposed to do in your analogy. Plus, you're human, which gives you special rights that software doesn't posses.
There was a recent thread that pointed out that the engineering in German cars is precise, but not very robust; BMWs are always in the shop. Presumably they could still be precise, only more slowly.
It has the potential to be Chinese spyware.

Social apps can be useful for work.
I’m Done with All These “Success Stories” Online
In 2023, everyone is a millionaire.

Every single post online shares how this person started a million-dollar business, such as making $10K in a day selling buttons or how a 17-year-old made $50K selling a card game.

Or better yet, how I made $30,000 in a single weekend dropshipping backpacks.

However, what you don't hear are the people with multiple failed businesses struggling daily.

You don't hear about people like me who have started various businesses, from reselling and Instagram theme pages to packing groceries for people (yes, I did this), creating a clothing brand, a dating app, selling water bottles, podcasting, newsletters, eBay flipping, curb painting, and offering SAT prep services.

These failed ventures don't catch headlines, and I assure you, I have so many ideas and cool stories to share, but they'll never see the light of day.

These stories fail to consider survivor's bias and the numerous failed software, grand ideas, TikTok brands, and startups that you'll never see.

The richest ideas are the ones that failed due to one reason or another.

Most of the success stories had luck, opportunities, or advantages that can't be explained in a success story.

I truly believe the greatest ideas that failed are more relatable than the "multi-millionaire who sold a sponge or a comfortable blanket."

Most of us who have failed have nowhere here to share our stories, and neither do most people on the internet.

Imagine the stories, ideas, or interesting components of the guy who tried to start a virtual restaurant, sold funny shirts, had celebrity promotions but never got it off the ground.

Where are they?

The little guy never gets to share their upbringing because all these people get their dopamine from big stories/headlines from exceptional outliers.

I wanted to start a newsletter or Reddit where people share their interesting business stories that failed. I would learn much more from that.

(If this blows up, maybe I will)
I prefer to sort on the memory column. Like this the relevant apps stay on top and don’t switch that often.
> Another big thing that APL made me realise is that the Boolean values True/False and the integers 1/0 are tightly connected

Amen! It's of course also a C language tenet, and a great one. Life is so much simpler and more flexible when true and false are 1 and 0. It drives me crazy when I need to use a language where the logical operators only work on bools and the arithmetic only on ints, or some coercions work and others don't. When I incorporate somebody else's code into mine, first thing I get rid of is anything called "bool", a completely useless type. (as a nice side effect, that frees up the bool keyword for Boolean sets, which are quite useful)

a disappointment with unix is that process retval has this a bit backward, 0 is success, nonzero is failure (probably because errno does want for more bits than a singleton) but it's easily enough remedied with a !

I did love everything else about APL for the brief time I used it long ago (except the difficulty of entering the symbols)
The variation is not smooth in real systems, but just like you’ve noticed: it’s right there in the L1->L2->L3->RAM->Disk hierarchy.

Each one is physically bigger, further away, and higher latency.

We might one day have 1 PB memory systems with 1 TB of on-chip cache… but the larger memory will still need more space and be further away…
Well, you might think that if you know nothing about Debian. I recently was debugging kernel bug and to check whether it still happens in latest mainline I just... installed package directly from Debian repos.
Well.. but it's relatively easy to do that. It's combining the OpenAI API, Whisper, and Eleven Labs (or similar). Not trivial, but you don't need to hire a whole team.
Universal Basic Income Became the Pessimist’s Utopia
People who grew up reading a lot usually have these 10 unique traits
Ok, I guess. I work adjacent to AI in chemistry, and lets just say it’s a very crowded field.

It’s not like everyone is sitting around. There’ probably at least 1000 startups looking into it, along with the large established companies (including tech companies).

So good for him, but I wonder if he has a different view than all the others.

(Also, Alphabet makes more profit in 2 months than the entire NSF budget. Just keeping that in mind)
Well, we got no coverage on Wu getting deplatformed, and a bit of coverage on Uyghur matters. Instead, we should have gotten a bit of coverage on the former, and a lot of coverage on the latter.
Decoding Ambiguity: A Software Engineer's Playbook
Personally, I think the Times has a far better case for presenting mechanical copies (including with mechanical alteration) than it does with model training.

The tool building of model training is more likely to be fair use than the use of the tool to provide mechanical copies of copyirght-protected material that competes directly with the original in the market.
I have no idea where you got me degrading people with ADHD from
My interpretation is since her sexuality was outed by a Western journalist she has had an antagonistic relationship with them. I've replied and responded to some of her Tweets and she definitely has her own identity that doesn't line up with what Western users think. I think they wanted a freedom fighter based in China to criticize the CCP and she was not taking the bait.

What I had not anticipated was her needing the exposure to Western media to keep her safe. I naively assumed it was the opposite. Like if she didn't stand to high or make much noise it would be water under the bridge. Once the politburo realized the Westerners weren't that interested in her they pounced.

Wherever she is I hope she's safe.
Being the people who have to implement all his knee-jerk ideas must be extremely frustrating.
Well, unless the weights are part of the compressed file.
Afaik, this is further exacerbated by the extraordinary pace at which private practices are getting swallowed up by major hospital networks, like HCA (nationally) and large regionals like Baylor Scott and White in DFW. [0].

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/27/physician-practice-conso...
It’s 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z somewhere
Oh - didn’t know that. Interesting.
> Are you suggesting the overweight pay higher taxes?

A soft drinks industry levy, for example?
yeah i did this, just work as a software engineer at an AI start up and you'll inevitably have to get your hands dirty with AI stuff
The question though is if we want to stifle innovation by requiring LLMs get permission from every single relevant party on the internet.

And I usually lean anti-corporate too, but banning people in the US from using data for LLMs might just mean they start being trained somewhere else that doesn't care as much about US law.
This is good. Have you considered working for NASA or a major government defense contractor?
It may work well in certain European countries, but in certain others (i.e. Spain) the police will actually take the side of the criminal that's stolen your house and all your property within it as long as they can claim to have "resided" longer than 24 hours (a pizza delivery receipt is fine). You then have to sue, wait for up to 3 years to get a court order to "evict" the new occupiers, and be ok with losing everything you once owned. This is the result of going soft on criminals. Now there are organized crime syndicates that steal houses wholesale and "resell" the new keys for 1000 euros
Forced migrations always leave a legacy of pain.

How many documents tell you to configure ssh with something in ~/.ssh/config and if the change is made, will now need to be changed to say put your config in one of many paths depending on the version you use?

What if you migrate your config and then roll back to an earlier version?

What if you use your home directory on multiple systems, some which have varying versions of the tool, loading the config from various places (network mounted home directories are a practice in some companies)?

What if you don't upgrade for ten years, and the migration code is gone by then?

What if you operate on a mix of systems of various ages, some which have the new path and some which have the old?

What if the migration code has a security vulnerability?

Personally, I don't see where the benefit is that pays for anywhere near any of this cost. Maybe if you're a desktop app that is within the scope of standards put out by the XDG, you might want to consider accepting this standard of theirs too; and sure, if you're a new application, seems like a might as well?
If that's an accurate representation, then I'd see your point.

There are a few circumstances which might suggest hesitancy, e.g., has your account been compromised and the person requesting deletion isn't the original owner? But barring that, if you're requesting deleting your content, and you're clearly exercised over it, HN should delete your content.

An alternative might be to rename the account to something that's not traceable to you, though how effective that is will depend on what you've included in earlier comments or posts, and whether or not that's archived somewhere. (I don't know what or if you have done this, I do note that your account dates to 2011.)
For us, it feels like our development is a loathed distraction from your quest to implement the platonic ideal of a secure machine, free from any indulgences like networking, external drives, and a fan given the chance to wind-down between the anti-virus stomping on the CPU.

I particularly like joining a new company and being expected to write and memorise several distinct, secure passwords before having the computing and network freedom to use a password manager. Having to tell my new manager I forgot my password is a riot.
What are some ways people to get familiar with machine learning engineering who are also working adults
Carried to us by the Podcaster of Phd comics!
If you go to defcon and still naive enough to share your password with a random popup, maybe you shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Again, this sounds an awful lot like the creationist rhetoric a few decades ago.

> "Try challenging evolutionary biology, even in a valid way, and see how popular it is".

All crackpots think they're under siege and that their ideas are unfairly dismissed. Their ideas are "valid" (because they say so), so why are those ideas being dismissed without due consideration? You hear the same rhetoric from anti-vaxxers, creationists and climate change doubters.

The problem is a lack of perspective. Crackpots of all stripes don't know that they're crackpots. To them, their distorted thought patterns aren't distorted.
How feasible is it to train a toy model / very niche model on high end consumer hardware. Ie 24gb gpu?

From scratch not tuning
If you already have legacy paths, then Emacs doesn't migrate things for you, as far as I understand.

This is fair behaviour IMO, because migrating configs automatically might break user setups.
Part of me thinks the solution to some of these trenchant apps is to make a FUSE pass through filesystem driver that has silent redirects. Don't report .vim or .ssh in directory entry lists. But if someone goes to open the path, silently redirect them to
.config/ssh or whatnot.

I really want to have a home that isn't a clutter filled hell. Same thing with code repos. To me, the source is the first & most important thing. I want foo.ts at the top level. I'd opt to put all the buildconfig stuff in .config.
No, censorship can totally be the answer to getting people to stop saying things you don’t want them to say if you don’t have any commitment to free speech. See how Tucker Max or Milo Yiannopolous are no longer culturally relevant. Censorship works.
The craziest thing about EMR systems like this is that you would _think_ that their adoption would help bolster universal patient records that transfer from doctor to doctor (useful now in the world of services like ZocDoc where booking care is ubiquitous). But that's not the case at all!
Thanks to Government, Maui's Lahaina Fire Became a Deadly Conflagration
Since Emacs 27.1, if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ exists and neither ~/.emacs nor ~/.emacs.d/ exist, then it will set user-emacs-directory to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/emacs/ instead of ~/.emacs.d/.
Speaking of which, I installed Ubuntu today on my new home server, and, after having to remove snap and disable ads in the MOTD, I'm wondering whether a better choice exists.

I just need something that will run Docker and will support my NUC's hardware well. Does anyone have any recommendations?
So you get asked to share a password, and if you choose to do so, you share a password! What will they think of next!
Thos needs a better title. Suggest "Support Data Colada' legal defence fund. Blogger's rigorously investigate academic fraud, sued by fraudster."
They are precise in a different way: Parts are no longer engineered to last forever, or at least a long time, as they used to be (you can still see 90s era mercedes taxis driving around, some even after their second 6-digit-odometer wraparound). Now they are made in such a way to precisely last as long as required for the manufacturer to make the maximum amount of money. Meaning that parts will fail after the warranty period, but then quickly, often and with the maximum amount of damage.
‘Folks in Alaska should take this seriously.’ Anchorage not safe from tsunamis
That's not exactly a hard rule, just stuff maintainers do because it is far easier to still have normal flow of unstable -> testing for the freeze period, and keeping 2 ("actual unstable" + "unstable on the way to the new release") would be a big burden for maintainers.
What makes you think that? The most relevant case is probably MAI Systems, where even a copy of a licensed program into RAM for an unlicensed use (diagnosis and repair by a third party) was deemed a violation.

Congress took the ruling seriously enough to carve out a fair use exception for that use. I don’t think there’s any comparable exception here, especially when the ultimate purpose is to build a commercial product capable of producing works (news reports) in precisely the same market as the original works.
Fanaticism for football/baseball teams is not that unique to the US from my experience. Soccer fans in Latin America / Europe and baseball fans in Japan are comparable.
It's depressing how many Americans and Europeans seem utterly allergic to any kind of nuanced discussion or deeper understanding of China. I think the same applies to the former USSR. I'm not sure why this is.
I live in The Netherlands. Two months ago, I received a fine notice because I drove a bit too fast and had a €80 fine to pay. I paid the fine the same day or week I received it. Today I received a registered mail from somewhere in Germany.

Because I had just been back from Germany again, I was worried I sped up by accident again, even though I don't remember this happening!

Guess what? They actually sent me a registered letter informing me I paid the fine I had received previously. Which I paid for on-line. On their website. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯