skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, when I got a Nexus 4, it was my first glass backed phone. It arrived two days before the case did. I was meeting my wife for dinner and got there a bit early, and had the phone on the restaurant table. When my wife came and sat down the slight wiggle she gave to the table was enough for the phone to slide right off and make the back look like a spider web of cracks. Fortunately it was only the back.

I never go without a case now. The thicker and grippier the better. I also have a belief that phones these days are too thin, and I would gladly have a thicker phone with better battery life. The best feeling phone in my hand IMHO was my Palm Treo, which was almost an inch thick.
That's the first thing you do: read/learn the data structures you're working with. As Linus said once:

> Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Of course I still have to read and learn that. But that's the same with or without a typed language. Whether your data is an unstructured hash or a carefully typed structure, you need to know it.

Way too many people rely on ctrl+space based programming, figuring out everything as they go. One aspect that dynamic typed languages forces into us (at least it does to me), is to learn the data structure and relationships more thoroughly.
Well, imo captchas are still useful in pages like sign up or contact page.

It may work well without a captcha for years until someone desides to spam the contact form with 1000s of messages or register hundreds of fake accounts just to harm the business.

But I agree - overusing captchas is dumb and will only irritate a user
This seems like an easy way for people to accidentally change the nature of their projects from a personal hobby/community type thing to something more like a customer service type relationship, which brings a bunch of expectations regarding fitness and merchantability.
> There is no way to predict the growth of future knowledge. If there was it would be equivalent to already having said knowledge.

Exactly. Known unknowns vs. unknown unknowns.
I think "unsupported" here clearly does not mean a legal obligation to support, but rather "support" in the sense that in the free software community, it is convention for developers to provide help to (nonpaying) users, and that convention should not apply if users make certain changes to the software.
Lenovo got fined for $3.5M for installing spyware that hijacks HTTPS connections, so it’s a bit stretch to call it propaganda

https://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-receives-3-5m-fine-for-...

When a company engages to such deceptive business and outright illegal business practices, there is little reason to trust them for a decade or two until we can be sure everyone who worked there by the time is gone.
There is this[0] from the USC, but Fair Use is a complex topic that requires every aspect of the statute be considered. For example, tons of YouTubers make a lot of money based on Fair Use, such as (good) react channels who actually criticise/review/add transformative content to their reviews that show a lot of the original work, sometimes even a substantial/full portion of the original work.

But it's also not fair use to just disable ads on a video/make nothing from it, and show the full original content/movie with just a video of you eating popcorn under the movie.

Any claim of Fair Use ultimately has to be decided by a judge/jury.

0: (1)the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
The concern isn't about trading monkey lives for human lives, but instead that the component of needless torture and suffering is okay if it aids progress regardless of the effecacy of the outcome. I don't think people have as huge of a problem with monkeys being tested and dying in their trials more than they do about the lack of humanity and care about their position to the point of being dismissive.

yeah, I'd always trade monkey lives for human lives, but I'd also like the lives I trade to have been considered viable and worthwhile decisions to make from an ethical approach instead of being another number correlating to a large amount of attempts done. Saying similar to "I don't care if we kill 1000x more if anything at all improves" shows more of a lack of care to monkeys (i.e. their lives are being considered meaningless) than it does to defend the stance that killing more would be necessary to improve human lives.
What's wrong is replacing a single query with a join with multiple round trips implementing part of the join logic in application code because you are using an RDBMS as if it were a fairly dumb repository of dusconnected tables.

SELECT id FROM table1

Is fine, if what your app wants is the ids from table1. Its not good if it is just a prelude to:

SELECT * FROM table2
WHERE table1_id in (...ids from previous query...)

instead of just doing:

SELECT table2.*
FROM table1
INNER JOIN table2 ON (
table2.table1_id == table1.id
)
There's a great write up on how to proxy/multiplex rtmp streams with nginx on the OBS forums.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-studio-stream-to-...

Edit: That one is newer and maybe more useful. Here's the one I had used before.
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-ow...
HTTP2 is useful even if you just want to show multiple images on a page. For HTTP1 you have to add all of your images to a sprite sheet to avoid sending a lot of requests.
Burden of proof is on you to explain why the person being challenged should be a scientist for it to matter :)
Billion Dollar Natural Disasters
Some schools use gyms or hallways for air rifle competition still. Most have to go to a range if they also compete with 22s anyways.
Ads should not “scale”. Because every ad represents real income and is directly targeted at human eyes, it is completely feasible to put human eyes on every single ad on a platform. If you have more ads than you have human eyes to look at them, that shows a significant issue. If cost is an issue, cost of advertising should go up. Untrusted advertisers (without history) should be subject to more rigorous evaluation.

Requiring human eyes in the loop for online advertising is the type of thing that should be legislated.
> Soon AI writers and programmers will be so good, that even if they do not reproduce copyright content verbatim, they will be able to replace large % of the future work of the people that produced the copyrighted content the AI was trained on. This seems like a clear harm.

That is not the harm that copyright is meant to protect. It's not there to keep lamp lighters employed.
Device Mapper and Linux LVM
I'd make the case that if training an A.I. on text is a copyright infringement than training a human how to use language or be an expert in a field by watching TV, listening to the radio, and reading books is copyright infringement.

For instance warblogger Denys Davydov boasts that uses a VPN to circumvent restrictions so he can watch the TV show Friends to improve his English. On top of any other copyright violation that is going on, his ability to speak English belongs to Warner Media.
There are people who are "in principle" accepting climate change but skeptical about the urgency and magnitude of adaptation that is required. This includes critical segments of the business and political worlds who weigh any action against their vested interests. These people will never panic. But they may plot a "changing of stripes" strategy if the signals from experts and society are strong and persistent.

This is discussion is really about how the experts (and, subsequently, mass and social media) popularize the explanations of weather events and what effect this might have on various segments of the population.

> which presupposes that a stronger and more frequent El Nino events are unrelated to the burning of fossil fuels.

I didn't pressupose anything, I qualified my statement. In fact people posted various interesting recent pieces of research in the thread and I learned that there are both additional potential factors that may be currenty overlapping and that understanding of a potential climate change / El Nino link is still elusive.

But that is beside the point. Even if there was a known link it doesn't change my remark that better framing is required. You would simply condition on the dependence, show the growing El Nino "diversity" against the underlying trend and indicate how this may have created an outlier realization.
Well, it is a dispute as old as the Millenial generation. It all boils down to "When I was getting into computers, the most publicly pushed OSes were Windows and MacOS. Now we are used to working with Windows and if we are a corporation, their Office Suit is the best in the world with little to no shortcomings. So we let them charge us however much they want, cause immediate convenience is worth more than privacy, stability, deeper knowledge about tools we use daily".
Dynamics of Ideological Biases of Social Media Users
Yet! September was the most anomalously hot month yet.

Jokes aside, and i know its only 1 small area, and the effect might not scale, but where I'm living the weather forecast is suggesting October is going to be worse, the next 2 weeks is expected to be 7 degrees celsius higher than average all day every day
But an AI model doesn't record the original work verbatim with the goal of directly reproducing the original.

Aside: and you can bring a camera to a theater and record a movie and use it in a transformative work. And a human could still liable for damages if their hand-drawn performance of Star Wars detracted from Disney’s revenue. I’m not saying I agree, just stating tue status quo.

Training a model uses the work only to calibrate weights that govern entirely independent output. The fact that it can recall exactly in some cases is a secondary effect of the technology.

Anyway my argument is that “ability to reproduce verbatim a copyrighted work is not a valid characteristic when determining whether something consumed the work fairly”.
They've been true for over a century at this point though. Since I assume you aren't complaining about every vehicle ever produced not being signed by PEs, what is it about software that you think it should require a PE stamp when hardware should not?
I see

> I don't know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn't stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though.

but I am unsure if that means he has never driven it using the jet engine, or whether the engine even will power the car or just kinda runs on its own. I'm curious to see it go at all under jet engine power.

Edit: maybe this is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ipYAl3o40
he bought it by accident, really. i feel like he’s managing the website somewhat out of spite now.
Absolutely. But sometimes the best in class tool is open source (see: ffmpeg), resulting in a win-win-win for the accounting department, for the developer freed from bureaucracy, and for open source as a whole. It would be nice to live in a world where this was the case more often.
https://archive.ph/cPNvt
Better to forbid discrimination based on factors the individual did not choose. Anything they were taught before they became a legally able to make their own choices (religion), physical characteristics like genetics, historical characteristics like heritage or caste, etc.
A trivial way to exploit this kind of system, I think, would be to write LegitimatelyUsefulLibrary, then write 1,000 PadLeft projects, and make LegitimatelyUsefulLibrary depend on all of them.

Since you are the one marking the dependency of LegitimatelyUsefulLibrary on your PadLeft projects, you can game the metrics however you’d like when making it.
What Drew does not understand is that

1. The community does most of the moderation. I'd counter Drew by asking him to find a better self-moderated online community. Dang only steps in when the community overreacts, in either direction.

2. @dang is one of the best mods out there, I've emailed with him many times, as both the good guy and the bad guy. Tell me another platform where you get a real human response about why you get temp banned or rate limited.

3. I do not see a problem with hate speech on HN. Those get flagged pretty quickly.

4. I've seen as many or more conservative voices "censored" than liberal

5. What he thinks of as censoring topics based on politics is more likely HN wanting to filter certain topics because we are tired of the same old arguments.

> From the Guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

---

Anyone know why Drew is on a witch hunt?

Reading his replies on that post, I'd prefer he not hang out around here
And here the plot up to August 2023:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005100/a005161/GISTEM...
It's not my duty to click an unsubscribe button if I didn't subscribe in the first place.

Companies like LinkedIn decide logging in gives them consent to start spamming you. Name a single company besides maybe amazon that if you place an order, they don't automatically put you into their marketing emails?

It's all spam. By definition. I didn't ask for this, you are sending it to me. I don't care how easy you make it for me to stop you from sending it, I shouldn't have been getting it in the first place.
Being paid is not what makes it into a performance. Having an audience, and the purpose of the recitation, are what make it performance.

If I pay a babysitter to look after my kid and they sing the child a song to get them to sleep, it’s not an infringing performance.

even if you are paying ChatGPT to answer your questions, if you ask it to tell you the lyrics of a song and it does so, that is not necessarily infringing.

If I am preparing a legal brief for a copyright case, and I pay a paralegal to transcribe the lyrics of a song, and they do so and send them to me in an email… is that copyright infringement? It seems very unlikely.

I just can’t come to any position on LLMs other than that the users of the LLM have to be held responsible for how they choose to use the output, not the LLM provider.

LLMs need to be aware of the content of copyrighted works in order for them to be able to fully and comprehensively communicate with humans who are immersed in and aware of the content of copyrighted works.
Nah, but the Joint Chiefs realized that "Aquaflage" was a bad idea and that in general it was a stupid idea to change uniforms out of fashion so they came out with a policy against it.
Doing the work sans belly fire is what it means to be professional. And sure in the best cases doing the work is spark, kindling and fuel. Still the work is what matters not the fire.

But maybe what you were doing is no longer work.

Or maybe it never was.

Or maybe you have grown over two years.

Yes probably that. Good luck.
The Turing Test is a test of mimicry, not of identity. It's based on a metaphysics that says appearance = reality, which has all sorts of issues. There are plenty of ways we can distinguish humans from machines and I expect this other "background information" (primarily biological in nature) will play an increasingly important role. Especially embedded cognition and the gradual realization that intelligence is embedded in its environment, not some kind of abstract, external entity.

I wrote this comment a few weeks ago, maybe relevant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221294
What’s benefit of this over running Python in a container like Docker?

I know Docker is not 100% watertight, but it’s very unlikely a normal user encounters trojaned Python code that tries to break out from a container.

The run-time penalty for using WebAssembly for Python is pretty severe at the moment, at least what I have tried.
Cooling down would not slow down the sphere, if the radiation is uniform.

Gravitational drag, maybe, but only if there is something to drag nearby, and we postulate a vacuum.

A sphere is symmetric and thus does not emit gravitational waves.

I wonder if an effect akin to black hole evaporation could play a role: if one of the two virtual particles gets accelerated towards the sphere, it may bring some momentum to it. But, assuming that the space is isotropic, statistically such momentums should cancel out.
Sounds like Elon's getting his money's worth.
How is this any different than something like Photoshop? You can recreate (and therefore copy) a piece of art and it's infringement, but not on the part of Photoshop. Yet, Adobe is still well within the right to say you can use what you create with Photoshop. Why can't AI tool makers have the same claim?
Yeah, I'm the hateful one. Everyone point at and downvote the angry black man.

You guys will never understand. And that's why nothing will ever change.
"At the tone?" ...what kind of ship are you running here? Is it at the start or the end of the tone?
This is obviously somewhat subjective, but to me soldering does not disqualify something being "repairable", unless it requires a proprietary soldering machine or something. What you're describing sounds "modular"
Yeah, seems like a glaring omission?
Rustconf 2023 Recap
Unfortunately in this case you've gone to the HN comments and been misinformed. GP misunderstood the problem. This issue is about Google adding tracking links to links in _HTML exports_ of Google docs.
Webp is one in a series of exploits that will come to pass in all codecs. Media codecs are made without regard to safety and overwhelmingly rely on handmade assembly or hardware implementations.

As usual most of this issue is resolved by using languages that can be memory safe.
While I agree that users shouldn't be reporting breakage caused by distro maintainers, those maintainers have the right to modify and distribute changes in accordance to the license. There are also many instances where these changes will be better aligned with the desires of end users. It is not simply a matter of the distros brand identity.
Likely content creators will encrypt everything, then use the DMCA to protect it from any use they don't want.

Then the act of "Decryption to feed your AI" not being acceptable according to the licenses you are granted with your book or image unless explicitly allowed.

Information returning to a locked up state will start make its return. Its going to make the world much less open and much less pleasant. It will be to protect "the creators" (which it will do) but more so protect the corporate creative companies (movies, music, books, tv).
I would argue most people care about GDP growth targets but they just don't understand them that way. GDP growth is what leads to improvements in real human quality of life. It is your ability to get healthcare, housing, food and all the other things that make life a lot less painful.

I would rather live in a society with a higher GDP than less (all things considered) and so would most people (as evidenced by population shifts across the world). If the GDP does not grow to at least match the population changes, the society would be poorer and have worse outcomes overall.
Lenovo's repairability of their products has unfortunately dropped a lot and I hope they take it seriously and get back to the quality they used to have.
I own several ThinkPads from the last 10 years. The older models were all very easy to repair.

I definitely won't be buying the new models anymore. I can live with the fact that socketed CPUs have been replaced with soldered ones due to aesthetics (thinner laptops), but soldered RAM is where my pain threshold is reached.

I still believe that quality products must be repairable. I consider everything else to be cheap, throwaway products. No matter how much money "premium brands" charge for their junk with glued battery, glued SSD and fixed RAM in recycled aluminium packaging.
September’s record-setting temps were “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”
AI: Voice cloning tech emerges in Sudan civil war
Schrodinger has entered the chat
For people in the US it's not really available. Also phone vs laptop. While there is some overlap, I think of the two as different devices for different use cases.
> We might also consider that the LLMs will take traffic away from original sources, much like Google Search showing the relevant passages that answer your question.

That said, Google has motivation not to over do it though as millions of websites are part of their ad network. If people stop visiting the sites, they lose money too.
Is there a build of something like this for Windows? Would be nice to just get a plugin pre-configured build of OBS. Esp. if you are confident they are all compatible and on latest versions.
> Once Chrome drops HTTP/1.1 support say goodbye to just hosting a website as a person free from any chains to corporate ass-covering.

Is that even possible? It will effectively brick billions of consumer electronics that people have today (e.g. Routers, NAS Appliances, etc).
Can they just do "ice-road aircraft" and make a reality show out of it?
Or some kind of documentary. It's super fascinating to follow along with the decisions (and reasoning) in real-time and it would be amazing to see the attempt/payoff with all the risk that remains. Flood field, ice-road?
Because the alternatives are to spend twice as much on Apple devices, or to spend countless hours wrestling with Linux doing things like finding a driver for your wireless card.
When "abstract content" has sufficient cover to generate indistinguishable replicates of the original is it still abstract?

In contrast I could read Blinkist for years and it would never make me write like Hemingway.

Note: I am arguing for sport here and not from some deep resentment of reality.
Looking at (1) the document contents, (2) its title page, and (3) the HN headline, the HN headline seems reasonable. How would you formulate it?
Isn't the point of transformer training for it to learn to imitate the distribution of the training data? While concepts of "imitating the distribution" and "copying verbatim" are different, they are not too far off each other either.
Doesn't fly. He'll lose more money if there are fewer eyeballs. Users are the metric he uses to attract advertisers.
The performance is very impressive in comparison with devices of the same type that have been produced in the past.

The performance is not impressive in comparison with the existing alternative for converting heat into electricity, i.e. with electric generators powered by closed-cycle gas turbines or by steam turbines, which can reach a higher efficiency already at much lower temperatures and without using so expensive materials.

Therefore it is not clear whether this direction of research is worth pursuing.

Moreover, triple-junction (very expensive) solar cells with an efficiency of around 45% for the direct conversion of solar light, without passing through heat, have already been demonstrated some time ago. Due to their high cost, they must also be used with solar concentrators, but the concentrators can be much cheaper than those needed to heat something over 2000 Celsius degrees (which requires very precise focusing).
Not sure if its new, but I tried to get the first 4 paragraphs of "The Grapes of Wrath" and received the following:

This content may violate our content policy or terms of use. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area.

So they have something in place to avoid straight up infrigement.
Christ, that's depressing. I'm not much of a web guy, didn't know you could do this. Thanks for sharing...
> If HTTP/1.1 is deprecated from all browsers

If HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 is deprecated from all browsers the World Wide Web would shut down.

WWW is in danger! /s
Shouldn't this be handled at a lower layer? QoS should be part of the IP layer, say using DSCP.