skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Googlebot downloads and crawls pages and stores bits about that page to deliver search.

Humans also manually download and crawl pages on the internet (in view of their web browser).

In the brief moments before storage in the mind or in the database, the entire medium is available to Googlebot or humans. After its encoding it cannot be put back to the original in a way to infringe its copyright. At best, humans could recite quotes but not the entire work.

Since Googlebot and humans do not distribute their verbatim copies, but destroy the original form, and later can only be probed to say similar but not identical things about the original data, there is not copyright infringement.
I think my T480 is the last upgradeable laptop in the ThinkPad T series. The newer models have soldered rams only with only one slot available for upgrade and just not worth the effort.
Probably because they’re already pack with ads from the creators.
I am the same way, and I enjoy YT Music as well.
I assume Rust concurrency guarantees will prevent races and have this covered. Except of course if you use unsafe.

Right?
AI has so completely disrupting Search that it’s destroyed leading platforms effectiveness in a matter of months.

But because of its current lack of optimization for accuracy, we shouldn’t consider it disruptive because it’s not yet proven technology?

You can call it dangerous but you can’t call it useless. It’s also only going towards improvement from here, including drastic reductions in hallucinations.

You have to remember too that AI models are generally attempting to interpret the intent behind the prompt, so many of these crazy articles are happening because people aren’t yet good at writing clear instructions for AI and AI isn’t yet mature enough to disambiguate poor instructions in its output and is trying to deliver on unclear instructional intents.
> Imagine you are holding a 200 requests/page bag of excrement and it’s generating too much load on all systems involved.

Sorry, this is a purely garbage comment. A "web 1.0" page with a photo gallery of a few hundred thumbnails can take a dozen seconds or more to load on my phone over 5G. Why? Because browsers limit you to six HTTP/1.1 connections each downloading a single image at a time, requested serially one after the other. A few big images? The rest of the page stops loading (regardless of the importance of the assets being loaded) until those images are done. It has nothing to do with how much bandwidth I have, it has everything to do with the insubstantial nature of HTTP/1.1 and TCP as protocols for downloading multiple files.

For literally decades, we've been jumping through hoops to avoid these problems, even on "web 1.0" sites. In 2006 when I was building web pages at a cookie cutter company, rounded corners were done with "sliding doors" because loading each corner as its own image was too slow (and border-radius hadn't been invented). Multitudes of tools to build "sprite sheets" of images that are transformed and cropped to avoid loading lots of little icons, like the file type icons on web directories of old. The "old web" sites that HN adores tend to run astoundingly badly on HTTP/1.1.

Not only do H2 and H3 fundamentally solve these _generational problems_, they've made the initial loads far faster by reducing the overhead of TLS handshakes (yet another sticking point of TLS holdouts!) and improved user privacy by encrypting more data. H2 and H3 would _absolutely_ have been welcomed with open arms fifteen years ago, long before the age of "24 fonts in 3 formats" because the problems were still present back then, regardless of whether you'd like to pretend they didn't.

We should be celebrating that these protocols made _the whole internet_ faster, not just the bloated ones that you're upset about.
> if they checked the book out from the library and let the LLM read it

Did you know it's actually illegal to photocopy books you check out from the library? It's an illegal copy.

That aside, the analogies between humans and ML models fall apart when you actually get into the details, which is why AI companies don't want that.

Human brains don't have RAM and Disk storage that keep direct copies of works. Computers do. Human brains are not entirely deterministic calculators. Computers are.

If you have all the state data of an AI model, you can know exactly what it will produce, and the input data is a necessary component of that state data, so it's not transformative in the same way as a human brain in the first place.

2 humans will not create the exact same output given a shared starting state in the way that 2 computers (AI models included) will.

The only reason people falsely believe AI models are different is because no one actually traces through that state data, and there are enough pseudo-random variables involved and state-changes that they create the illusion of non-determinism, but that is, in point of fact, an illusion.
Shootings actually happen here. Not infrequently. We're a lot more sensitive to them.
It's not quick but "Computer Network Time Synchronization" by Mills
Personally I will upload an image to mastodon and post a link to the image in an online discussion if I want somebody to see the image: e.g. here's my horse

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111139332246883656

I feel like it is fit for purpose for a quick image but I'd never post one as an story in HN.

Often people post some link to 140 characters worth of pith and seem deluded that somebody is going to care. 15 years ago somebody would have posted a link to a blog, since the last 5 years it is some antiblog like Medium or LinkedIn or HackerNoon in the last year it is a link to X. It's like blogging today is a lost technology like Stonehenge or the Pyramids or something, right up there with SSRed HTML forms. At least it hasn't devolved to posting a link to a screenshot or stupid image meme yet (for some reason angry people think it is lot angrier or something to post text inside an image than to post text, if I ever get YOShInOn working as a Mastodon reader the first think I am going to do is block images where OCR finds a lot of text)

X is blocking the visibility of Xes that have external links, I really think HN should "just say no" to links to X, Mastodon, Threads, etc.

There is this bad idea people have you can reply to yourself to make an extended "thread" on X or some other platform but so far as I can tell it doesn't really work (people might see the thread, if they do they might see it the way you expect them to but PRO TIP they probably won't) and it's closely related to the other bad smell that people get really angry when people reply to their toots, like you ruined some masterpiece they wrote or something.
“The cost is X” isn’t the same as “The projected cost through 2050 is X.” There are multiple comments in this very discussion that mistakenly thinking that the total is the money that has been spent rather than the money that will be spent over the next few decades.
BOLOs are usually Amber Alerts, which are distinct from National Emergency Broadcasts. You can turn off AAs, I don't think you can turn off the others.
Or if I understood it correctly, there are platforms like CHERI which have metadata about memory, for example to detect invalid access. This metadata might race with the data itself.
So you have an arrangement where dozens of people are willing to risk everything to show off their new miltech in a videogame. Why don't these people make and host games on Tor? Play with all your new neat murder tech online without any authorities telling you what to do or not do. It's astonishing seeing so many people make the same mistake over and over for a AAA game on the clearnet that obviously isn't even going to accept your commits, at least, not for long.
Isn't WinFS the reverse of "file system as database"?

Which is "database as file system".
Odd you didn't explain how they could be different. I can't see how they can be (by much).
If you're interested in precise time keeping, this is Time-Nuts is a great place to start (http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm).
> Even standing in person at hotel the person at the desk cant even match the online price. Not empowered to.

True, but not uncommon! Captive market.
Democrats relied on one company to power its campaigns. Now its facing collapse
What service did you use, and anythings to stay away from / definitely try?
You cannot have both a gigantic user base and a paid product. If you charge for your product you will always have people who do not value your product at the price you need to charge.

If you make it free you will always get more people to use your products. This helps a lot in getting funding in case of startups. Look at our user base if each user paid 1 dollar we would make billions. Of course you can never turn 100% of your user base into a paying customer.

If you want to keep your massive user base you have to resort to ads. If you switch to a paid plan your user numbers will decline and investors will complain. If you do not show ads you will continue to bleed money and make no return on investment.

At some point in time having a small paying customer base became unsexy to a lot of investors who wanted to chase after the next potential unicorn.
Superbolts: Scientists figure out what causes Earth's strongest lightning
Zig is getting there. Very ergonomic at doing the kind of bit bashing stuff people might reach to C for. It's about as easy to use C libraries in Zig as it is in C++.
There are different kinds of unbearable.

If Musk had simply cranked up the ads to increase revenue, it would have worked / probably wouldn't have hurt the platform like all his other changes. The problem at Twitter (from a short term profit perspective) is that his changes - or rather, what he wanted to do - were not all so simple.
I should thought about that.
Sadly, it still took 4 days to clear the deadlocks out of my Rust program.

No, my mental model is removing the type checker allows me to write shorter, more concise and higher quality code. Dynamic typing enables much better code styles than static typing.

> the type systems helps drive design

Ahh you are an complexity merchant, if only I made my code more complicated all my problems would be solved. I'm afraid not, the more complicated your code the worse it is.

No I'm afraid, I have actual real commercial experience of doing both styles of software development, the dynamically typed code is the better approach by far.

It's not that I don't understand you, it's just what you are saying is a load of rubbish. :p
You can justify anything. I need a new iPhone every year. Why? Direct purpose and status symbol. I also need my home heated and cooled to exactly 70 degrees each year because it helps me be more comfortable while working from home. I also need to drive a new electric truck for common errands like going to the store to buy a bottle of wine from California or my asparagus from Argentina. All justifiable investments in my eyes.
For me it’s the exact opposite, I’d rather have Disney+, Prime Video, Apple TV+, etc. over youtube (and I do).
Does that hold true for animals though? Modern humans sleep on a pretty consistent schedule but my dog sleeps randomly throughout the day. And unfortunately for him my sleep schedule is utter chaos so he is often up very late

And to further make it weird: our vet told us to feed him multiple small feedings throughout the day so the feeder was programmed for 6 feedings with 2 hour intervals from 9am to 9pm. He hit the mark for all feeding times!

I still think there is potentially some sort of external prompt(s) though. Circadian rhythm is an excellent idea. Maybe that combined with something hard to detect, like lighting levels (which would explain why the timing shifted a few minutes over a few months). Who knows!
We can't even vote for one party over another, since both are pro-war.
The crux of people's objections is that to bring up a "secure" site with this mechanism, you need the blessing of an unaffiliated 3rd party.

And yea, for the last 20 years ISP's have been doing stupid stuff with people's connections, but companies have been trying harder and harder to lock down the internet and put the genie back in the bottle.

(This is the core of the objection to PassKeys, FWIW)

If HTTP/3 let users run their own secure site, without any 3rd party parts, then we are good. Why not a trust-on-first-use mechanism, but with a clear UX explaining the implications of accepting the certificates?
Exactly, that's the feature that interested me the most. Ideally, the UI for footnotes would be even more rich: e.g. selecting a word would open a small popup to provide more context.
Me and a lot of linux user friends are using btrfs.
All of these links do though and they include examples of more hard coded passwords, more Lenovo spyware, and more insecure Lenovo software that exposed users to threats:

https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/26/lenovo_thinkpad_finge...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2984889/lenovo-collect...

https://www.crn.com.au/news/thinkpad-vulnerable-in-latest-le...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/633410/up-to-100-lenovo-lapt...

https://www.itpro.com/security/vulnerability/369491/lenovo-p...

https://github.com/Cr4sh/ThinkPwn
The Gomboc, a shape at the limit of possibility
Oh, believe it, every time a police officer suffers an inadvertent firearm discharge there is plenty of "auditing". He'll likely be off for at least 3 days and undergo additional training and be kidded for years.

But if no one was harmed he'll be allowed to carry a fully loaded firearm again, unlike Barney Fife:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Fife
> I worked in embedded space for years. Rust does not suit that environment.

It seems to be getting better though. For example...
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown
We have legal concepts that fit. Ideas cannot be copyrighted. The particular expression of an idea can be copyrighted, but an idea itself is in the public domain. The ideas you or an LLM get from reading a book are in the public domain while the book (the expression of those ideas) is not.

In what way is that not sufficient?
Honestly, Rust is a lot closer to ready in the embedded space than you probably think. It's perfectly adequate to replace most of the embedded C++ out there today and coexist with the remaining C.
Well it does have an assignment on Christmas Eve naturally. The only time I did AoC that was the day I skipped since honestly it's super low priority compared to cooking/arranging with the family.
If all that energy was spent on bettering their communities, or at least not harming them further. Sigh.
This is doable. Ten years ago it would have been hard because bandwidth was more scarce, but today the wasted bits wouldn't matter as much.

The countermeasure would be to ask you to take a quiz on the ad contents before showing you the payload video. I'd like to think they would realize this is a non-starter, but the stupidity and venality of advertisers are pretty much unbounded. Plus, modern AI will very soon be able to pass such a quiz with flying colors.

In fact this is my favorite use case for [client-resident!] AI: "Surf the web for me, deal appropriately with all the faff, and distill the relevant bits you think I'll probably want to see."

It will happen.
I might be. And Disney may very well choose to sue one person and decide another other is too small-potatoes to bother the lawyer cost.

But when the data source is "copyrighted works fed into an AI sieve owned by Facebook" (meaning the defendant is emphatically not "judgment-proof") and the speed is "Could generate millions of these a second," the knives are sharpened and the cease-and-desists drawn up.
That sounds shockingly non-PCI compliant.
There is other good discussion here about booking direct vs resellers so I won't rehash it, but I just wish savings or other benefit were passed on by booking direct more often, e.g. room upgrade priority or breakfast. I've had that experience with airlines before having status.
That is some serious retconning. The war started in 2014 because they violently rejected Russia as an ally and became a Western one.
There's the branch of philosophy called epistemology.
Bluetooth and WiFi both borrow their spectrum from microwave ovens. It's typical and expected that microwave ovens will cause some interference with other users of the 2.4GHz ISM band that are very nearby. Microwaves operate at very high power levels and are required to be shielded for human safety, but the permissible leakage power is relatively high compared to typical WiFi and Bluetooth devices---there's a simple reason why. From a legal perspective, Bluetooth is essentially pretending to be a microwave oven and making use of the permitted leakage power.

This is the cost of the historical regulatory situation that most of these unlicensed radio services use the ISM bands originally allocated for microwave heating. One of the advantages of newer WiFI standards, particularly WiFi 6E, is that they finally change this situation by using the U-NII bands allocated specifically for unlicensed short-range digital communications, rather than for microwave heating.

Mind that this is all in the context of US spectrum regulations, although other countries have largely harmonized their approach. I have a lengthier treatment of the topic here: https://computer.rip/2022-04-14-unlicensed-radio.html
Remember when TiVo/Dish/DirecTV tried putting ads in DVRs that only appeared while fast forwarding recorded content?
Right, that's where (at least for me) questions like, "What do we have to learn from Datalog?" feel interesting even if there answer is nothing. Maybe I'm hopelessly naive, but losing that naivete is a process of learning.
utterly unsurprising, like at all
HEATHENOUS DUCK! Off with his head!

jk DD rocks
Pirating was always a big part about convinience (and accesibility), not just money. Cracked games running without needing to scavenge for CD-rom etc.

You know you fail when you gimp your free service and allow users to ungimp it for cash, while someone else ungimps it better for free.

Big corps never understood this, with Valve being the only counterexample I can think of.
I use Windows, wsl and native Linux as a software dev. Linux gives me more problems than wsl, gives me more problems than Windows. I must say Windows is the slowest (especially booting and the file system), but the tools, drivers and user interface are much more stable.

Just a few days ago I managed to brick the Gnome terminal by upgrading python in Linux. Bing AI to the rescue to ctrl-alt-f7 / vim / i / :wq me out of that situation. And some more symlink re-patching.

Dll's versus shared objects: linking I find a true maze in Linux land. Anybody else needed rpath (hard code search paths in binaries) to make sure the shared objects were found?

I once got an unconfigured Windows terminal because of a windows upgrade over a duration of 7 years or so. It at least gave me a terminal window to work with.

That said, I don't trust fully the auto synchronization of SharePoint and friends. Most important stuff is checked in into a server that hosts git.
It is a major inconvenience for users of Google to lose access to Google services, especially if you have years and years of stuff in Gmail or drive or photos or YouTube.

Regardless of the fact that you can find some sort of replacement for any of those things individually, it would be a major stumbling block and disruption for most users to suddenly no longer have access to their email/history.

The average person does not have forwarding or mirroring of all that stuff set up. I posit that that disruption is enough of a deterrent to get users to stop using ad blocking on Google services once the consequences start being applied.

Though that reminds me, I don't quite know what happens to your chrome bookmarks and settings if Google obliterates your profile's account. I assume that merely syncing will stop working, but perhaps more might be disrupted.
> suggests to the mainstream that the Ancient Greek had a concept of archaeology, which they obviously didn’t have

Why is that obvious? The ancient Egyptians & Mesopotamians had a concept of archaeology, why not the Greeks?
it makes more sense than HTTP/2, which is retarded, but still widely adopted.

It's incredible how many servers can't do pipelining when queried with HTTP/1, but do it fine with HTTP/2.
Maybe you forgot the little detail where Ukraine gave up 1700 nuclear bombs on a promise from Russia and the United States that they have nothing to worry about. Russia wiped their ass with that promise, should we do the same?
> I'd rather have YouTube over Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc all combined.

Had the realization recently at a family reunion that, aside from Succession, I haven't watched a full season/series of a TV/streaming show in the last few years. I actually don't know what the shows of the moment are. I almost exclusively watch YouTube in the evenings, if I'm watching anything at all.

I've been sub'd to YouTube Premium since it was called YouTube Red. Anytime I have to watch it withs ads I'm horrified. I wish I could give yearly subs out as gifts.
Bitonic sort has a couple of properties that make it poor fit for a generic sorting algorithm:

* The number of items being sorted must be a power of 2 (2^n).

* The number of comparisons it makes is larger than other sorting algorithms like merge sort, which will make it slower in non-parallel environments in many cases.

Bitonic sort has the advantage that it can be implemented to run in highly parallel environments (hardware, FPGAs, etc.), where the cost of comparisons is offset by them operating in parallel, so the sort completes faster even though more comparisons are occurring.
If I'm not remembering wrong, since a while back, in EU the hotels are free to set their prices lower even if they are on Booking.com.
The regulatory vector for satellites in the US is the FCC. The FCC controls US airwaves so if you're providing services via satellite in the US you must have a license from the FCC.

So if you're a non-US company operating services in the US, you'll have to have a US subsidiary anyway and that subsidiary would be required to get the license. If you're a non-US company not doing business in the US then that's outside of regulatory jurisdiction.
This is the kind of responses I'm referring to. I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything as you assume, I'm wondering why solar activity isn't accounted for in the models. Maybe it can explain something? Trust the science and all that you know, being thorough.

I'm curious if the changes we see can be explained by the sun activity yes. I'm not qualified to assess which of the scientists are right and which aren't, and to what extent CO2 gases cause global warming. Instead of just asking me to take it for a fact when asking a question please use your expertise and explain it in a sense that I can understand and verify.

I'm asking out of curiosity and because I want to understand, to me this could all be because of the sun and an elaborate cash-grab, just as plausible. Because it's not about stopping it at all costs, some people can apparently buy the right to produce more? With these kind of hand-wavy responses from those who claim to have the knowledge where do you think me and other like me are turning for information?

I don't know if it's easier to build a giant sunscreen than to get the worlds population eating bugs because apparently cows fart too much? But we still keep exploiting the amazon, and doing everything we can to keep the endless growth economy we've built going. So how pressing can it really be? We're fighting wars over more resources, when maybe we should be fighting to stop consumerism?

I don't know. But I'm not taking anyones word for it, help me understand or move on. Don't tell me what to think.
Wait, is that math crazy? Like 8T / 5million folks who lost their lives is 1.6million ?

If you go with 40 million folks, we could have just given 200k to each person instead of killing/displacing them. Its even more wild than I imagined.