skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the bands I follow openly support people pirating their music at shows, because those people are ticket and merch buying fans.

Some bands have been scolded and threatened by their publishers for said public voice, and instead choose silence as they could be sued by their producers/publishers.

Creators I have contacted about DRM almost never reply. Likely for similar contractual reasons. They can only legally respond with scolding or silence.

I did have one artist I contacted reply once. They were Christian and all but said I would go to hell for sharing copies of someone elses work.

I asked how they felt about Jesus replicating and freely sharing someone else's bread and fish. They never replied again.
The CEO who was the founder and until he came back as CEO was on the BOD, the executive, in fact.

"No idea at all!"
Anna's Archive – LLM Training Data from Shadow Libraries
Got a frog in your throat, partner? :)
Hmm, well, I suppose I see my home cleaning lady more than I travel!

Fair enough.
Fwiw the St Louis Fed data doesn't show much widening of the gap:
[https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf]

I'd like to find the definition of the measure, it may or may not be commonsense. For example, the unemployment rate does not track the count of unemployed people.
Unfortunately, in Washington state, benefits adjudication is currently sitting at around 10-14 weeks before you'll see your first check.
Or for that matter, what percentage of housing is new builds? My house is almost 90, and it doesn’t seem notably old, that’s just how old a lot of the housing in my suburb is.
I see it as a way to move compute off a device to a nearby source using low energy.
There are those (rare?) cases of bootstrapping
He's an investor in it. So basically, not much.
[2022-08-09]: Head of so-called Donetsk People's Republic (and former Ponzi scheme CEO) Denis Pushilin declared on live tv (Соловьёв Live) that he expects the arrival of the first brigades of North Korean workers soon. He also said that DPR and North Korea have talks about collaboration when it comes to building [1].

It is probably the most direct admission you can get right now. Why? Because there are UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea prohibiting the procurement of services from North Korean companies, including building services. Also, just a week ago, Russian denied violating the sanctions related to North Korea, stating something along the lines of "Russia being a responsible member of international society" [2].

As far as I know from my personal experience, when Russia makes claims denying involvement in something, it is usually involved in that thing.

There are also statements about North Korean workers being sent to Ukraine on South Korean website about North Korea [3]. Just "we have information about that", but it looks plausible and completes the picture.

[1] https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/15427835

[2] https://ria.ru/20231015/kndr-1902858034.html

[3] https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korea-orders-trading-c...
> can retire at 52 years with really good pension, the equivalent of having 6 million in the bank.

I'd love to see the math on this claim.
Why is this eating up NSF money / taxpayer money?! Megacaps like Google and Facebook are reaping tons of value from arXiv, i.e. (1) easy access to non-industry peer attention through a respected pre-print publisher, (2) major incentive to their employees and key component to performance review cycle, ...

Google itself has out-published most universities in conferences like NeurIPS for the past few years. For Google alone to match the $10m would be a drop in the bucket-- a $10m grant would be an order of magnitude less than the compensation they're paying to their own employees who make heavy use of arXiv.

NSF funds are scarce, precious, and it's immensely hard for lawmakers to divert funding to NSF versus e.g. defense. One thing arXiv needs is high-quality bandwidth and Google / Facebook have tons of that. Taxpayers are already paying tons for Google's several anti-trust trials, no need waste NSF budget for something industry can very very easily solve.
$10M seems way too much - if it's per year. Call me paranoid, but that kind of money invites the ESG crowd.
I was relieved this year to learn that the Canadian government had the wisdom and prescience to ban Clearview AI from operating in British Columbia, Alberta and Québec, to stop collecting and using information on Canadians, and to delete data collected without consent.

[1] https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/20...

edit: Edited to indicate that this ruling does not protect all Canadians, just those in three provinces.
Isn't that to a degree a function of time?

There may be a point when that's not the case, but at present this stuff will run on hardware accessible to a consumer, assuming they're ok waiting a bit.
I think that's why an online card game I play won't let me name my tarot-themed deck "Tarot", it changes it to "*ot". Not sure what it means but I guess their censoring mechanism taught me a new slur?
Housing is incredibly expensive everywhere in the US because every major metro area is short on housing [1]. It really doesn't matter where you go specifically because anywhere that people might want to live, for any reason, suffers from the spillover effect from all the people in high-population states who will never be able to afford homes there.

[1] https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives... - take a look the linked report
Weren’t they trying to get a cash infusion through an acquisition? Seems like they failed and ran out of money.
>The take-away should not be that ketamine “is just a placebo,” Heifets emphasized.

This is the very definition of placebo and why double blind studies are done. The control group and the actual group both improved thinking they got the drug.

> In fact, there may be physiological resonance between the placebo effect — in other words, hope — and how ketamine works.

This is just mumbo jumbo. There's no 'resonance effect' if it works the same in the control group.
That'd be good.
I agree that navigation in a pure SwiftUI app is annoying, but I don't think that was short sided. It's just iterative design.

At the start SwiftUI was something you could add to an existing UI/AppKit project, so individual parts could be rewritten. They've been building on top of that since. Refining the api and slowly letting you write more and more with just SwiftUI
We use OpenAI's GPT4 to understand the position of the element being interacted with relative to the structure of the website overall. Lots of cool things we want to try out with open source models, but for now GPT4 is good enough.
Our ancestors didn’t abuse animals on the scale we do now.
Dozens! A wheen at least :)
The Lonely Crowd (2014)
What cases are there for $a === $b? I guess there's synonyms and rephrasing, but in general it's not a useful relationship in language
Yes it can only learn to solve the problems that it was trained to solve. Not surprising really. Tautological.
Unfortunately there's a really high risk of issues like Simpson's paradox when you average together distinct populations like this, meaning the combined statistic/insight could actually be showing the opposite of the experience you're likely to experience within each region.

No home buyer isn't part of a region. Given that where you buy a home and where you live are very highly correlated, it's hard to tell if this is over or under stating the actual average experience. Your actual experience of housing affordability is regional not global.

In this case my hypothesis is that this number is actually an underestimate of how unaffordable housing is, though for all we know it could be that some significant regions like rural regions are more affordable. There's no way to tell from this number alone.
Oh, let's not pat Fred Smith on the back for his grit and determination here.

FedEx was already shafting their pilots for months before this. Bounced paychecks, pilots paying for jet fuel on personal credit cards, and more.

If I was a pilot there, I'd have said "Fuck you, Fred", even though he won. How sociopathic do you have to be to gamble company money (sorry, isn't that a felony?) while bouncing paychecks?

And yet you'll still have people here applauding your hustler mentality, apparently.
Maybe they are betting on an exception to Right to be forgotten under EU law? One such exception is research or public interest use. Their service can support law enforcement so they might think they have a case. But I dunno if they actually do…
Indeed! I recently tried some basic examples from the likes of SiliconCompiler and related projects and found myself reading up and going down the rabbit hole of open-source hardware tooling [0]

[0] https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-opensource-hardware
Ex-Alameda employee tells the inside story of the FTX collapse
Oof, wildland ff. I've done a bit of that but on the flat ground in FL. I couldn't imagine doing that in the back country with hills and mountains. My old FD has sent strike teams out west, which is another thing I can't imagine - riding in a fire truck from FL to Colorado or California, and back.
Debian. https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en
> that the thing about ketamine/psilocybin/etc that is helping with depression is not some latent property of the molecule, but rather the actual transcendent experience

I thought the same thing when reading the article, but then I started to wonder how the fuck would you double blind that?
Median household income in my city of 40K is $70K. Household. The median home price is over $400K.

It's that high because a toll lane was built to the nearest metropolitan city so the urbanites priced out of living close to their jobs could flood surrounding areas without the city needing to expand housing.

Meanwhile, our young graduates and public servants can't afford a mortgage in the town they work for, and the wealthy families either vote their enclaves to be exclusive receivers of local taxes, or else they carve themselves out to merge with the county of the metro area so they can siphon off their services, instead.

You think $57K is trivial, but wealth inequality is draining local workers dry.
Many psychedelic-era personas expressed this sentiment as well: you don't need psychedelic drugs to reach that state, you could also spend 10 years practicing meditation daily.

This view ignores the major application of these substances. Ketamine-induced self-therapy is accessible instantly and acts as a major reset. When you are experiencing long-term depression and/or anxiety, the advice to "just meditate" or do deep introspection is wildly counter-productive. Depressive state is very frequently accompanied by an unhealthy focus on the internal voice and on over-analyzing own life/motivations/purpose/etc. Having an "introspection session" in this state is a borderline dangerous advice.
I like suckless style Makefiles

https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/file/Makefile.html

https://git.suckless.org/sprop/file/Makefile.html

with file rule variables (my name for them, `OBJ = ${SRC:.c=.o}`).

https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/Makefile

https://github.com/lpsantil/oop0/blob/master/Makefile
Basically - use Rust instead.
That's not silly at all. Like the other guy who posted, connecting back to "life" is pretty important. My family committed to this at a very extreme level in 2020 and we fulfilled it in April 2021. Our lives have been changed for the better in so many ways!
Ozone hole goes large again
Here's a point by point rebuttal:

1. Hollywood unions disprove this
2. Hollywood unions (SAG, DGA) disprove this
3. Unions don't mean you can no longer negotiate. DiCaprio still does
4. One upside: Unions represent members who are no longer able to work
5. Hollywood unions have some pretty specialized folk and it works well for them

As an individual - you only bargaining chip is your ability to do work. If you lose capacity to work - temporarily or otherwise - you lose the ability to negotiate. Unions don't suffer from that weakness.

The things you can negotiate for are capped at the value of your work. You can't forbid your employer from replacing you/your teammates with AI foe instance, but unions can, because the collective value of their output is beyond what the employers may gain from ML models. Not so on the individual level.
Seed and early days perhaps, but when you're taking hundreds of millions in funding, let's not act like CEOs are saying "Oh, I don't need to be paid, it's fine".
That chart clusters under 35 into a single group, which isn't helpful here. The closest actual range, of 35-45 has dropped a bit under 10% percent in that timeframe. Additionally, 35-45 has flipped from being a higher percent over the overall US to lower starting in the late 90s.
They will give Ketamine and benzos together as K can cause anxiety symptoms (or terror with a K-hole).
Session [0] is an up and coming, open source E2EE messenger that doesn't rely on phone numbers (and doesn't require them). It also routes messages through Tor. It's fast and reliable, and I always get notifications on time.

It has some disadvantages though, depending on how you use it. Your ID is a 66 character long hexadecimal hash instead of a classic username. Another disadvantage I've found is the paltry 10 MB attachment limit - trying to share a short video clip I made on my phone required several re-encodes to dip below the limit. Even some still photos will hit that limit, depending on complexity. So not very good for sharing media, but great for texting, in my experience.

[0]: https://getsession.org/
There is plenty of data which shows the sex-based performance gap is so large that, even when impaired by long-term testosterone suppression, male athletes still have a significant performance advantage over female athletes. Please read the review I linked in my previous comment.

I also linked you data which shows that males have won hundreds of medals in women's competitions, and provided you a case study in the form of a very illustrative graph showing the performance of trans-identifying male weightlifter Laurel Hubbard in the World Masters, compared to both female and male cohorts, which places him solidly in the latter despite competing against the former - for which he 'won' a gold medal.

> Perhaps it is easier for you to think of female sports as "a protected category for people who do not have male levels of testosterone".

No, it's a protected category for female athletes, despite some sporting bodies undermining this in recent years. Testosterone suppression does not unbuild a male, nor does it convert his male body to a female body. All you end up with is a somewhat weakened male, yet one who still retains significant advantage from his testosterone-driven male development.

A female athlete who doped with androgens for years wouldn't be allowed to compete in women's sports even if she's ceased doping, for obvious reasons. Yet somehow it's considered acceptable for male athletes who've had the effects of testosterone in utero, post-natally and throughout puberty to do so, as long as they start androgen suppression as adults - or, for some competitions, do nothing more than 'identify as female'. This double standard makes no sense whatsoever, is clearly unfair, and is an insult to women.