skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of things that seems easy, but in fact are impossible.

Sure, we could just stop using fossil fuels. But something like 50% of the global population would then be starving.

The cure that so often is prescribed is worse than the disease. And people don't seem to realize.
Humans have legal rights like 1A that form the basis for many carve-outs like Fair Use. GPT-4 does not.
Nothing there. Hug of death?
YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies
There is nothing illegal about reading a book that you haven't paid for.

What's illegal is making and distributing copies of a book.

But the reader isn't in trouble for reading a book they don't own.
> Loopy star trails show the effect of Euclid's Fine Guidance Sensor intermittently losing its guide stars

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/10/Loopy_star...

Now that's some beautiful Glitch Art!
> Have you been completely asleep at the wheel over the past 20 years as ISPs around the world have started injecting ads in people's unencrypted HTTP traffic?

Now finally those that forced HTTPS on everybody have a monopoly on that :-) (joking, but only in part...)
I was listening to "The Regrettable Century" podcast's episode on degrowth recently, and they made a couple of good points here. The first point is that degrowth as reduction-in-consumption only is really going to affect the global rich; everyone else can afford to come up a bit to a new lower average. The second point is that there's more to quality of life than quantity of consumption. Nobody is talking about, e.g., making modern medicine go away. It means more trains and fewer cars, fewer Funko Pops and more live music. It means shorter working hours and no commutes. Fewer treats but more leisure. It's only a permanent reduction in "standards of living" if by that you mean "amount of consumption" rather than "quality of life".
> 'd say it goes mechanical, software, electrical, and then firmware.

I think it’s about the mindset, like how some people enjoy doing numbers while others see it gibberish, personally I find embedded easier to work with, on the other hand, I still can’t fully comprehend React spaghetti.
There is no blocking enforcement, yet. On Apple devices with some major carriers such as AT&T and Verizon, it provides a check mark beside a validated number (mostly, other mobile subscribers). The expansion of interoperability with the rest of US carriers, landline operators, and the international expansion will take years. And before blocking unsigned calls can happen, it will need to be phased-in and validated.
What's a taxi medallion?
AI powered citogenesis!

I'm starting to wish articles had inline citations as a standard.
Signal seems to use Kyber-1024, which does meet the NIST contest's security criteria.

I wrote some more details here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-quantum-resi...
Why don't large tech companies invest in modular nuclear reactors? It's an obvious solution to their energy consumption problems. Solar would work as well but it doesn't have the required energy density for powering their compute centers.
I don't think that would've been a good idea. I guess it's possible, but I'd rather trade known obstacles versus unknown obstacles (that will definitely exist).

I said "torn down and built back up" in an endearing way. Sure it was difficult work at times, but it was super fun and we would spend 2 days at a time fixing it until something popped up 6 months later.

But the amount of stuff I learned from that was (I will wager) exponentially more useful than figuring out how to adapt/run a fairly major FOSS.
"The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back."

Careful wording to give the impression that the drive shaft of the helicopter turbine would be connected to the rear wheels, without actually claiming that it is. So it's a car with a large flame thrower in the back, minor The Boring Company vibes.

Well possible that the author might have had more fun writing than building/driving. (I do love the incredulous tone of "#1 Does this mean I’m the right hands?")
"Follow your passion" is the all-time stupidest advice.

Most people don't have one, but when pressed they'll name something they sorta like.

"Follow a career you don't hate" is more realistic.
The role of keyboard design in advanced shell programs
No, not a monopoly. AirBnB is clearly a competitor in this space despite the various differences in targeted properties, and Google Maps also fills in this space.

You could call them rent-seeking middlemen, but not a monopoly.
Humans are not AI models
I understand how my use of "absolutely" could be misleading. I'll attempt to clarify.

My understanding of the reality:

* Violations of those four rights give copyright holders standing to sue over duplication.

* Fair Use is a defense against that violation.

What I was trying to get at in my first post above is that it is a violation of copyright law as the law is written, and because of this, you expose yourself to lawsuits when you make copies for personal use (assuming anyone could ever find out...I'm not, and never have, argued that copyright law is correct or good). The fact that you can defend yourself using a Fair Use defense is also important and a good point, but still requires hiring a lawyer, going to court, and winning. In my book, this is quite a bit different than saying it's not a violation.

IANAL, though I follow this fairly closely, and I'm not aware of any cases that have established that copying for personal use is Fair Use; I'd be very happy to read through a decision that establishes this!
Availability: Often, booking sites like booking.com have reserved bunches of rooms at hotels that you can only book through their site. So the hotel's own website might show "no rooms available", while on booking.com you can still book. Many hotels even have given up on their own website and only offer rooms through booking.com.

Price: The hotel website often is no cheaper than booking.com (I guess thanks to very one-sided contracts), and sometimes only gives you a better price if you join a "club" and give them permission to spam you, sell your data, etc.

Payments: booking.com is shady, but less shady and far less broken than a random hotel website where some credit cards might not be working, your CC data turns up in some data dump "found" somewhere, or payment is held by the CC company because you are the first person in months to directly pay to that hotel's website.

Language: booking.com offers an interface and descriptions at least in English. Many hotel websites are only in the local language plus maybe some awkward machine translation that leaves lots of important points to guesswork, especially in the payment flow.

Convenience: booking.com at least offers some kind of searchable database of hotels so I can easily compare them. The hotels themselves make this rather impossible.

I do make a point to try to book via a hotels website after having found it on booking.com. However, in more than half of the cases, for the aforementioned reasons, I end up going through booking.com after all. So while lazy users might be a large part of the reason for the existence of booking middlemen, the hotels do have to bear their fair share of blame here.
How successful are you? I assume that the person picking up the phone does not care about the extra booking, nor do they have the authority to offer spot deals.

Maybe I am wrong and this is a common tactic?
Or play softball. Or listen to some live local music.
I'm okay with the idea of no copyrights at all on works that are fully or partially AI derived. Of course, that introduces even more thorny arguments (what legally constitutes "AI"), but the courts can work that out.

It's clear already that companies are going to be want to have their cake and eat it too. When they leverage AI to produce content, they don't want to be forced to pay licensing fees on the inputs to their models. But on the flip side, they absolutely don't want their content being used in models leveraged by other people.

Not allowing copyrights on wholly or partially AI-generated work is probably the lesser evil path to take.
Nothing substantial, I chuckled when I saw the commit history on your linked projects. I do not mean to belittle you (or the purpose/goal of the projects), genuinely enjoyed the distraction and 'results' from it:

Today was the first commit after 11 (9 oct 2012) and 5 years (24 nov 2018), respectively, on the projects. I think your repo might be part of some sort of oldest 'active'- or 'not ported to another repo'-repo

For what I've found in ~10 min (google/gpt), excluding git projects existing before spring 2008 (couldn't get a quick consensus on feb vs april of that year), there's not a lot

(I'll edit this part if sources are requested)
I would generally rather book with a bigger company, especially when travelling abroad where I may not be knowledgeable of local language, customs, or consumer protections. If I buy from Booking UK I get UK consumer protections, even if that hotel does not provide those. In some parts that's worth a fair bit. Calling the hotel only works if you speak the language. I've also only ever seen identical pricing when I've checked hotel websites.

Perhaps perspectives are based on whether you're booking domestically or not. Domestically you get the same protections, same language, not much benefit. In the US most of the market is domestic.
Many Windows Phones in the WP8/8.1 generation supported that, too, and it worked semi-well with just about any headset plugged in not just included ones.
But look at what "to compete" means in the European point of view, look at how they see the practices that you describe as "being competitive": nefarious, unethical practices to fuel growth for the hell of it. If they can't compete on some short-term, enshittification-causing metric, fine by me.
I personally like to think of life as “eddies in the current of entropy”
The geographic distribution of animals that we see on Earth today makes it effectively impossible for all surviving land animals to have been on a single boat near Mesopotamia 6k years ago.

Not to mention a million other reasons why it can’t have been.

The weight of evidence against the idea of a “global multi-month flood several thousand years ago” is so overwhelming that one struggles to imagine a coherent depiction of the world where such a thing could be true.
Real companies have competent adults build and test this type of thing so they don’t stiff their vendors or miss payroll. It’s not an area where you should let techbros move fast and break things.
It's fixed!

Go HN SSL rescue team!
The best way to destroy a passion is to try to make money off of it
Security is necessary, but not sufficient, for privacy.
And how exactly would introducing communism avert climate disaster? How did the environment fare in Soviet. Which country is the largest CO2 emitter in the world? Do you even consider what you're writing before you post it?
Those primitive obsolete models are not the subject of the article. I already have a degree in applied mathematics and computer science and know the basics of machine learning.

My questions to you were rhetorical. I wasn't asking you for academic guidance.
I used to have to time my gaming around when roommates would be eating. Anything in the microwave was an instant dead connection
Google Maps shows hotels and prices now. That's what I've been using lately. I book on the actual hotel website. Always choosing the cancellable booking option in case plans change. Often it's the only option, but not always.
This feels like it's a mish-mash of concepts that are used in different settings (pre-trained word embeddings, unmasked attention, beam search, ...) but that aren't really used in things like ChatGPT. I guess if you're reading this kind of article, the details don't really matter that much, though.
I presume you never filed a chargeback? If you didn't bother to get your money back, they have no incentive to fix problems like this
I'm really confused.

I see articles all over that LLMs for example used books3, which the creator himself has admitted came from torrenting from bibliotik, and which contains at least some books that are not otherwise freely available.

The issue that content creators have with LLMs is not getting proper attribution for their creations and source material that went into training these LLMs, and it seems pretty clear to me that some of the content that was used to train LLMs was not legally obtained and licensed to consume.
Nice! I see there is an option of communities to organize the posts, should there be a way for user to create or submit the name of community that is not present?

Also, I have a crawler which fetches blogs from OpenAI and DeepMind if there is a community for blogs I can plugin the code to post those articles there as well.
Hmm, this doesn't make any sense whatsoever,

> A Booking.com market manager in south-east Asia admitted at a recent industry event that payment delays were caused by the installation of a new payment system. Staff salaries were also affected, she said, explaining it as a risk they had to take.

What do you mean a new payment system? How do you not create a fallback for this situation when you're dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions?

I mean I am willing to give Booking.com the benefit of the doubt here in case that is actually the root cause, but it doesn't compute for me. You don't just throw thousands of people (who drive business for you in the first place) under the bus by not properly preparing for a software rollout.

You still have the old system or whatever it is that you were using, how hard would it have been to detect an issue if they did a A/B or a gradual rollout at first.

As a Booking.com user myself - I am pissed that this is a thing.
Author here, I've spent the last 1.5ish years researching sort implementations. While developing a test suite and understanding prior art, I've accumulated a list of results and properties I thought would be insightful to share. Feel free to ask me questions.
You can thank terribly written intellectual property laws for that exclusivity. It’s not like inverters are some kind of new technology, and yet here we are.
If you booked with a credit card, you might be able to claim the money back via the credit card provider.

It also sounds like the hotel screwed up if they listed themselves as pet-friendly but actually aren't.
U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T
You need to disable sip, our binary is not signed yet, sorry about that.
SUMMARY
Over 940,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence.
An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
Over 432,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting.
38 million — the number of war refugees and displaced persons.
The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion.
The U.S. government is conducting counterterror activities in 85 countries.
At least four times as many active duty personnel and war veterans of post-9/11 conflicts have died of suicide than in combat.
The wars have been accompanied by violations of human rights and civil liberties, in the U.S. and abroad.
There are a large number of similar acts routinely performed by humans which are not considered copyright violations.

- Reading multiple books and writing an essay on the subject.

- Summarizing an article.

- Learning to paint by looking at museum collections and then painting similar pictures.

The problem is not that AI systems are doing something new. It's that they are doing something old, but much more cheaply and in volume.

What might be justified is some minimum distance between input and output. Some LLMs do tend to replicate input text, but that problem seems to have been much reduced.
That's my reading as well.

I have a vague memory of this site or an interview previously saying he got up to 130 mph once, before deciding he'd rather not find out what speed a VW Beetle lifts off the pavement.
Beautiful. Been aiming to learn how to scale MySQL databases so I can run my apps on VMs without having to used managed dbs like Aurora or Azure Managed Database
I'm not sure what the sorting criteria is but Godot belongs on the first page.
Interesting. I haven't used Windows in a long time and haven't used Office since early high school, but I did get the impression there was still some amount of shared patterns and understanding.
Then why did you reply? I didn't ask you.
Circadian cycles are pretty reliable in terms of timekeeping. I end up upstairs every day for lunch at about the same time, and I always find myself in the kitchen grabbing a diet coke at about 130 because I used to grab one after a 1pm meeting for the longest time.
I'm kind of sad that's your takeaway :(
The problem is that hotel rooms only appear fungible: a space that is a rectangular solid, with a bed. Sounds easy.

However, in reality, people want more than a place to lay immobile for roughly eight hours. These are not commodities. Check-in time. Check-out time. Type of bed. Bathroom? Bathroom with tub? Bathroom with waterjet tub? Pets? Dogs? View. Floor. Proximity to whatever. Bedbugs. Television, microwave, refrigerator, coffee pot, hair dryer. Free wifi? Breakfast? "Continental" breakfast?

If "hotel room" were some kind of spec, it might take years to hammer it out. And then hotels may or may not be honest about their rooms, or even understand the spec. Then there's the periodic keeping the listings up to date. "We had to take the TV out last week, it was on the fritz." "This room was upgraded." When was the last bedbug check? Finally, who is the system of record for any given room? And then the discount policies, wowza.

Looks fungible, really isn't. These aren't pork bellies.
easiest to blow your foot off with, yes.
Just another reason that I consider generative AI to be a lot like crypto. A lot of talk about it being the future but really only turns out to be dangerous or useless. I find it incredibly irresponsible that companies are shoving their latest AI tech into all their products when it's still unproven.
Actually, glass 100cm thick would be pretty difficult to see through.
I have tried this but most of the time its the same price, sometimes it is more. Even standing in person at hotel the person at the desk cant even match the online price. Not empowered to.
Luckily, there are ways to reduce syscalls (like Generic Segmentation Offload and other tricks[1]). But I agree that not having things run in the kernel makes it more challenging for high-throughput scenarios.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerating-udp-packet-transmis...
I better check the oscillator inside my cats, because they want dinner at 4pm plus or minus a half hour.
> Sure, in terms of removing Fair Use entirely, but nothing about Fair Use is absolute, and it can absolutely be substantially changed and reinterpreted

Yes, the courts could change how they interpret the first amendment restriction on the copyright power, but absent that, the interpretation binds the power and Congress cannot expand the scope by weakening the statutory articulation of the pre-existing court intepretation of the boundary of that limit.

(Now, trying to do so would be a way to push the courts to reconsider the boundary, but that's about it.)
This very lawsuit is referenced in OpenAI's memo as precedent

> Perhaps the most compelling case on point is Authors Guild v. Google. There, search engine Google digitally scanned “tens of millions of books” without their authors’ permission for inclusion in a searchable digital database.
It’s completely impossible to get users to pay for it, the users that would pay can’t possibly justify our investment in this amazing technology… /sarcasm
PayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit; unfairly stifles competition
You know very well that eating animals has a purpose. The very fact that you are arguing that it is okay to torture monkeys means that you do not actually believe that eating animals is wrong.

But you know what does have no purpose whatsoever, killing monkeys because you can not read the instructions. In fact, any organization incompetent enough to do that regularly will invariably kill people during human trials due to avoidable mistakes, fail to achieve anything, and possibly poison the well for actually useful animal testing of brain implants and more.

Stopping Neuralink's total disregard for basic scientific protocol around the ethical usage of animal test subjects saves lives and increases the rate of medical progress. Every time you protect their unethical animal testing you are delaying the discovery of robust solutions to paralysis, and you are okay with that? I am not.
maybe add an NTP reference clock to biff¹

...or add it to systemd (it will get there eventually anyway)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff_(Unix)#Origin_and_name
> SSH needs accurate time, within minutes I believe

You may be mis-remembering a few details, SSH does not care about the time at all unless you are using _very_ short-lived SSH certificates.
The fact that it feels like it's written by an AI aside (because you know, someone obviously wanted to spend time on a beach instead) - there is an endless cadence to the "entrepreneur, money and life" article of which this is a part.

What always strikes me is that these articles rarely mention a sort of quiet, middle way entrepreneur group - of which I consider myself a member. Like most of the people I know who work for themselves or have a little product or a freelance business, I'm not in the game to "100x" anything, I'm not funded, I'm not interested in million dollar deals, and I could give a monkeys about hockeystick growth.

Instead I - and many / most of the people I know in this group - are just getting along. We've got a pretty good work / life balance. We get to look at the sea and do the occasional deal and sign some nice work up - we all pay for our mortgages and our families. We're doing business, we're doing entrepreneurship - and we're doing it pretty well without having to make these grand declarations about busting our balls until 35 and then retiring or working 4 hour weeks etc etc.

We probably don't ever make any articles like this because it's not the WOO story that everyone wants to read of rabid success or astonishing failure. We're just here, doing what we do and having quite a nice time doing it.
In the context of technical books "source code for" often means "source code for [readers of the book to reference while reading]" rather than "source code for [building the book]"
macOS “DirtyNIB” Vulnerability
Yeah, it seems like so many people in here are shilling for AI companies over actual creators, it is absolutely depressing.

No one is arguing that OpenAI should not be allowed to train on copyrighted works, they are arguing that OpenAI should not be allowed to train on copyrighted works FOR FREE.

OpenAI should, just like anyone else who wants to make use of a work (even in a transformative way, like having a clip from a song or movie playing in the background of their movie), have to make an agreement with the copyright holder that allows use for training. Of course, OpenAI doesn't want this because actually paying all the artists who their business relies on would be too expensive, so they just want to claim that they should be allowed to use the work anyways.
I once had a microwave I called "The WiFi Killer". I work from home, and did then too, and every time one of my kids, or my wife, would use the microwave, I'd get knocked offline. They do work at 2.4Ghz, and this microwave was pretty old. Replaced it and never had another problem.
Has anyone learned to paint by just looking at museum collections? Painting has tons of technical technique that aren’t self evident just from looking at a painting