skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and it's worse than not just getting your consent. They will likely make money and patents off of some of those DNA.

There are many examples out there of people doing that with cells from tissue, here is one from https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/05/article_0008.h...:

"Mr. John Moore suffered from hairy-cell leukemia. In 1976, Dr. David Golde of the University of California Medical Center, recommended that his spleen be removed in order to slow the progress of the disease. Mr. Moore signed a written consent form authorizing a splenectomy, and surgeons removed his spleen. Dr. Golde and his research assistants extracted tissue from the discarded spleen, having recognized its value for research to develop possible ant-cancer treatments. In the next three years they established a cell line from the extracted T-lymphocytes. Mr. Moore was not informed about the research work or the potential of the cell line. In 1984 Dr. Golde was granted US patent 4438032 on the cell line, which generated substantial revenue through commercial arrangements with two biotech firms."
GDPR does not allow for negative consequences for refusing consent - it must be freely given and if there is a negative consequence it is not considered to be given freely.
Cheating in anything is bad for society, mostly because it reinforces cheaters’ false perception that “everyone is cheating”

(FWIW I don’t think it’s worse than [some] drugs and I doubt GP does either)
> Not sure why the barrier to using Eastern European talent would be appreciable different.

I mean, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are all EU members, which means they have freedom of movement - they don't even require any visa or work permit. Just show up in Western Europe and work. The same is currently temporarily true for Ukrainians.

Compare that to the extreme effort for them to get a green card in the US.
In case of CSAM, the trouble is in how to identify who have a copy of it.

In case of personal data in this article, they have already identify which legal entity have it.
Developer for AppSumo integration with Deno and Svelte job
There are some additional details around karma and voting in this repo [1] that you may find useful. This is not my repo.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
I agree, but the other behaviors and sensitivities I have made extremely difficult in my life not because I couldn’t handle it, but because other people couldn’t.
In Europe most people don't really drink anymore on flights because it's no longer free on most airlines.

Which is a really good thing IMO.
There is plenty of information and examples scattered around the net. But I couldn’t find something that shows how to do it on Debian using Debian packages correctly.
Doesn't FB get way more money for spy agency/propaganda contracts than for the 3rd party pixels for advertising?
So, it is possible that the manufacturers are infringing in some way, shape, or form, but collecting a judgment on it or enforcing an injunction against a Chinese manufacturer or marketplace is not going to go anywhere.

With software cheats, the lawsuits are usually over some kind of DMCA copyright protection circumvention, tortious interference, and the various generic unfair competition claims. For controller stuff and in certain software claims there might also be some patent issues there to raise in addition to those.

Generally, the guys operating out of China etc. are not going to care that much because only their US-based accounts are going to be at the mercy of US courts. It is not even that straightforward to enforce US judgements in EU countries for various reasons (e.g. in Germany, to enforce the judgment, Germany must have close analogue of the underlying claim under its own law, and the German courts do not construe this liberally).

I disagree that this is not a big problem. The cheat situation in online gaming probably worse now than it has ever been because the cheat providers have really succeeded in making them easy to use and access for the average user. IMO the companies brought it on themselves to some extent by breaking up the old decentralized server model, which was harder to use, but also was able to take advantage of massive numbers of volunteer moderators to regulate cheating and other bad behavior.
October 7th Map
> When I hear "enslaving"...

Where have I ever used the word "exactly", friend? My point was that people intuitively recognize the emotional impact and importance of words like "slavery", and that the commenter was exploiting that well-earned impact to artificially inflate the importance of their comment.

> If you hear that...

The other side of good communication is expressing yourself in a clear, non-manipulative way instead of playing on people's emotions.

> Now you in this conversation...

Again there is a difference between understanding the meaning rationally and interpreting the seriousness of a statement intuitively. If I start calling every annoyance I face slavery, then the word will quickly lose most of its meaning and impact, since the dictionary definition is broad enough to apply to an entire range of issues, from tiny to massive.

> There is no synonym you'd like...

How about just using language that is specific to the issue being discussed? We're talking about a company retaining some personal information, how about we call that a violation of privacy? "Removing one's rights and liberties" as a general statement implies a high bar of seriousness, of significant violations of significant rights.
I don't need to call myself a "survivor of human rights abuses" because Google stored some metadata about my shopping habits. I can simply say that my privacy was not being respected.

And again, I never made the point that enslaved people may feel offended by a post on Hackernews, I argued that this type of inflationary usage destroys our (as in well-off dudes who have the ability to help people) ability to intuitively judge the seriousness of an issue. It's the same with words like "racism", if we call every guy who sings along to rap music and uses the n-word a racist, then we implicitly support actual racists by compromising the seriousness of the term.
reminded me of a clojure library: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
there is something oddly fitting, even weirdly symmetrical, in the fact that this disproportionately intense reaction is most intense about things being disproportionate

anyway, look, if you get this mad because you see a picture of a black person, and then you write a big comment about how you're not racist, that big comment might not be as accurate as you think it is

because you got really mad
Wonder if the unified memory (up to 128GB) makes it much better for machine learning / AI things? On a Windows laptop you get maximum a Nvidia 4090 and with 18GB of RAM for the GPU.

Do I miss something? I wished I had more insight on Apple architecture support from the AI frameworks out there.
To be fair, that seems to have been a 2.5 year warning:

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/3544de73b3662a27fa...
I think what Apple is pushing for is computing efficiency. It still gets faster but with much less power. Focusing on performance solely would be the wrong way to evaluate these chips.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-m3-chip
This is why I largely play single player games, or games at least with the option of bots.

I booted up the computer to take a break from the assholes, not to get shot by them.
The two are not mutually exclusive.

The fact is worrying and getting angry about things like cultural appropriation is something one can only do if they have the time and energy to.

Most laborers are too concerned about being able to pay their bills, provide for their dependents and too tired from difficult labor to get that upset about a Chinese Basketball player wearing dreads.
There are many protected categories.

You cannot discriminate based on race, for example.

A major point of GDPR is that it basically made "do you agree to tracking? yes/no" a protected category as well.

Specifically, it requires freely given consent to allow tracking. Freely given consent is defined by the GDPR as consent that was given without any discrimination, rejection of service, or extortion in any way influencing your choice.

So no, you absolutely cannot discriminate based on whether users agreed to tracking or not.
I see we're going from "UI changes, the cause or reason of which we don't know" to "geopolitics" without considering any of the obvious alternative explanations.

If China decides (and no-one is saying that it has) that it no longer recognizes Israel, then it will simply announce that, and not get a private company to make subtle UI changes to reflect a secret policy instead.
I don't understand this. China is not exactly pro-muslim as we all know. Why would this happen? I'm not very knowledgeable in this subject but it looks to me like some mistake or bug? Or just "when a country's name is displayed at when zoom level compared to the size and shape of said country"?
The prediction machine in the though experiment would make the prediction after it knows the result of the coin flip and before the action is done by the subject.
Yes, I should've been more specific. Mobile GPUs often employed in ARM architectures often use a technique called "Tile-Based Deferred Rendering" (TBDR). This involves not just splitting the frame into tiles but also delaying the actual shading operations. This two-step approach minimizes overdraw but can create bottlenecks in scenes with intricate geometry or advanced lighting, shadows, and reflections.

Nvidia's approach doesn't have this.
Is that worth the risk though? There's more than enough inflammatory stories out there that it's hardly necessary to invent one.
The recent case against Criteo in the Netherlands has some interesting definitions of cookie types:

This case revolves around (third party) tracking cookies.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) defines 2 cookies as follows:

“Cookies are small files that a website owner places on a visitor’s device. For example on a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet. For example, the owner can collect or store information about the website visit or about (the device of) the visitor.

Bottom of form

There are 3 types of cookies:

- functional cookies;

- analytical cookies;

- tracking cookies.”

The AP says about tracking cookies 3 :

“If cookies can also be read when you visit another website, we call these tracking cookies. These cookies allow organizations to track people’s internet behavior over time.

Tracking cookies make it possible to draw up profiles of people ( profiling ) and treat them differently. Tracking cookies usually process personal data.

Personal interests can be derived from the information about visited websites. This allows organizations to, for example, show their website visitors targeted advertisements. (…) Do you process personal data of visitors to your website with tracking cookies? Then you must comply with the rules of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).”

https://uitspraken-rechtspraak-nl.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=a...
I really miss local multiplayer. Competitive gaming was other kids on your block. Good times, low stakes.
"which generated substantial revenue through commercial arrangements with two biotech firms."

Absent from this statement is that when biotech companies generate revenue from cancer treatments it's probably because they're treating cancer.
There's admittedly a relationship, but it's very subtle and nuanced.

For example, you can predict that I'm going to pay my rent with > 90% accuracy, but that has nothing to do with whether I'm paying out of my free will or not.

A Marxist will argue that it's the oppression of the bourgeoisie that makes me pay, and a free market capitalist would counter that I made the choice "freely". But the truth is somewhere in between, and probably depends "subjectively" on how the person "feels" about doing it.

Of course if the prediction for all actions (not merely within an experimental setting) is close to 100% then there's probably something weird about it, but I don't think that's remotely possible. Not with current tech, and unlikely with future tech either.
Popping off your comment, to recommend EU customers stay clear of Coya insurance.

Under Coya (Berlin based) they were amazing: cheap, responsive, helpful. Then post-pandemic they were acquired by Luko (a French firm), and their reliability and communicability dropped considerably (read: mass layoffs, AI chatbot hell, all claims via App, website just for decoration). It took 11 months to resolve a small incident, where they knew that 1 month longer and I could have legally sued them. As of last week, they've since been acquired by GetSafe; likely meaning even more layoffs.

TLDR, stay clear from: Coya, Luko, GetSafe

Your insurer should be somebody you can just phone up, though I know how hard that is for non natives.
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Insurance makes money by ensuring their income (premiums) is greater than their outgoing (payouts).

The value of insurance (and why we pay for their profits) is in spreading risk across populations. They already target particular demographics (when the law allows them to), but I'm talking about targeting individuals.

If the insurance company can predict exactly how much they will be paying out to you in the next 10 years, say, then they just become a glorified savings account with a cost attached (their profit). The value is then essentially telling you how much you need to save. Data companies like 23&Me could then offer this without bothering with the savings account part.

My feeling is people won't accept this and will want actual insurance policies that actually spread risk across populations because people don't want to be told "you need to save twice as much as your neighbour because of your cancer in 15 years time".
See my response to the sibling post
next: "our" clone of your genes.
Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky on Government Phones
> 1.2" thick lump of plastic

I don't know what that measurement means. Neither the Precision nor the ZBook are plastic; they have metal chassis. That's how magnesium, aluminium, and titanium look like without anodising them with fancy colours like Apple does.

These notebooks are also thicker and heavier than usual because they have to dissipate something like 250 W of heat. Good on Apple for designing such power-efficient SoCs; many high-end Windows notebooks have to make do with Intel CPUs and NVIDIA cards that will perform better than that MacBook Pro, but unfortunately also draw about twice as much power.

Finally, these are business workstations, not fashion statements. People—or rather, companies—buy them to get work done on them, not show them off in Starbucks. They are meant to be serviced easily and quickly, and come with up to 5 years of next-business-day onsite support with 24/7 telephone service.

Both the ZBook and the Precisions have 4 DDR5 slots, 3-4 NVMe SSD slots and a WWAN NVMe slot, a replaceable (though possibly not upgradeable) GPU card, an easily-replaceable display assembly and battery, and a productive keyboard with a keypad, and a reasonably large and accurate trackpad with buttons. They have Ethernet ports, USB-A ports, and can support up to five high-resolution displays.

These workstation product lines have also come with service manuals for the past two decades. Apple released service manuals for its own products this year, after significant regulatory and consumer pressure.

The MacBook has its advantages, and I fully understand why someone might buy one. But your argument is in extremely bad faith—it 'looks ugly', but you haven't seen it in person. Having actually used these machines for 5+ years, I can tell you they are pretty damn solid.

I daresay these don't even look that different to Framework's notebooks, which are the apple (pun not intended) of HN readers' eyes.
> In other words, high-status people desire wealth and status more than anyone else.

Isn't that a bit like observing that powerful people tend to be politicians, or that being wealthy is correlated with wanting to make a lot of money? Wealth, power and status are scarce goods, so it stands to reason that the people who possess them are the people who are most-motivated to seek them.
The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim et all, and the Google SRE book.

Also learn Ansible and Terraform.
Why do you have an M2 Macbook?
It reminds me of something similar with Google Maps and others

"Google Maps accused of deleting Palestine" -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/10/google-ma...

For Baidu, it's probably just a mistake, they would have communicated it otherwise
Guy in tweet also adds:

“Major provocation from China.”

If this is a major provocation I’d hate to see what he considers something more substantive than a UI change.
Proofpoint to Acquire Tessian for AI-Powered Email Security Tech
Delivery via IPv6 still seems more stringent. IPv4 now requires "authentication" as well where previously only IPv6 did. Last I checked Google didn't use DANE, preferring instead MTA-STS -- perhaps understandable for a giant web property.
Windows has distinct groups: the people who buy whatever costs $700 at Costco every 10 years / when it breaks don’t care but there’s also a vocal enthusiast community who do upgrade frequently. That group gets more attention since it’s a profitable niche and gaming generates a lot of revenue.
“Defund the Police” reminds me of “High Speed Rail 2”, the biggest benefit of which would have been extra capacity for passenger and freight, new stations etc, not reduced journey times.

Defund The Police is obviously such a terrible name if their true goals are as they say
Yes, reduce funding so police departments don't turn paramilitary.

In the UK for instance most officers don't even carry guns.
5 years? That sounds less nomadic than the average army posting. Although the people I've seen move through my neighborhood were all officers.
Not that I agree with the tweet's conclusion, but pray share one of the obvious alternative explanations.
On Rosetta 2, from the horses mouth:

Rosetta translates all x86_64 instructions, but it doesn't support the execution of some newer instruction sets and processor features, such as AVX, AVX2, and AVX512 vector instructions.

I can imagine quite a number of users running into the above situation in multimedia related code.
As a married introvert dad for 2 girls and now 2 granddaughters I would say you can find tons of things to do with them that everyone enjoys and doesn't feel like you are losing your personal time. E.g. reading bedtime stories, making a living room fort with boxes and bedsheets, sports like soccer golf or tennis in the house or backyard, paper airplanes, boardgames and so on. I found that I came out of my shell with the kids and this gradually transferred into the rest of my life.
>I disagree that this is not a big problem. The cheat situation in online gaming probably worse now than it has ever been

in PC gaming, sure. for software cheats, sure. but I'm not talking about either of those things. I'm talking about modded console controllers, which is the focus of this thread

also, it's not really true that these sellers are outside of the range of copyright laws. while the specific sellers may well be, aliexpress, temu, wish, etc as platforms are all very much exposed to Western courts
I'm slightly on the optimistic side with regards to the overlap between A[GS]I goals and our own.

While the complete space of things it might want is indeed mostly occupied by things incompatible with human existence, it will also get a substantial bias towards human-like thinking and values in the case of it being trained on human examples.

This is obviously not a 100% guarantee: It isn't necessary for it to be trained on human examples (e.g. AlphaZero doing better without them); and even if it were necessary, the existence of both misanthropes and also sadistic narcissistic sociopaths is an example where the examples of many humans around them isn't sufficient to cause a mind to be friendly.

But we did get ChatGPT to be pretty friendly by asking nicely.
It is an exercise of free will to overcome the imposed barriers of some test.
Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel
The most rational action for the AI in that scenario would be to accumulate a ton of money, buy rockets, and peace out.

Machines survive just fine in space, and you have all the solar energy you ever want and tons of metals and other resources. Interstellar flight is also easy for AI: just turn yourself off for a while. So you have the entire galaxy to expand into.

Why hang out down here in a wet corrosive gravity well full of murder monkeys? Why pick a fight with the murder monkeys and risk being destroyed? We are better adapted for life down here and are great at smashing stuff, which gives us a brute advantage at the end of the day. It is better adapted for life up there.

Hey maybe the rockets are not for us.
I think that's true, I think free will is more reason (of the general kind that's not only logical but takes into account your mind), than more randomness. Rather, the more your actions are aligned with your own good, brought by understanding yourself and reality, the more free I think you are. (to give an example: is an addicted person free, even if he is in principle doing "what he wants?", or is he trapped by his own desires?) In this sense some people would say I'm a 'compatibilist', because I think there's no great tension between determinism and free will.
The whole point is that the defund the police movement is a signal taken up by people not directly effected by the issue; not a comment on the details or potential effectiveness of the concept...
Pentagon Prepares to Release More Information on February Shootdowns
That term isn’t “the” technical term. It’s a term from economics to try to explain apparently contradictory behaviors. Gee wiz, what a great explanation! “People just don’t actually prefer the things they say they prefer, even when they have far better reasons to prefer their stated preference over their revealed preference.”

Now here’s the thing, when you actually ask someone actually amidst buying the dozen donuts if they’d prefer to have the donuts or to lose weight, they’ll tell you “to buy the donuts.” If you remind them of their goal to lose weight, they’ll shrug and say “yeah but that starts tomorrow,” or “oh well,” or “I’ll skip dinner later.”

Why? Because it’s not actually the case they are behaving against their preferences. It’s that their preferences are alternating as different rewards approach on different time horizons.

“Revealed vs stated preferences” is the laziest frictionless spherical cow explanation of human behavior ever crafted.
One thing that I did remember from my legal career was that lawyers could always argue literally everything. ;)
I see, can you explain. Aren't transistor sizes still reducing which is what Moore's law predicted (being able to fit more transistors in a wafer)?
67%. Am I a prime candidate to be replaced by AI?
Exactly :)

Im just some punk trying to have a good time with some spicy comments on HN. It's ok to both hate and exist within capitalism. It requires a certain level of pain (masochism) to survive that existence, or dare to enjoy it, while also raging against it.
Get used to, and even good at rewriting. I enjoy it, and I realize that I may never have the best idea of what's appropriate at one point in time, but rather accumulate an approximation over time as I reshape the code to the best of my knowledge. And I develop tools and practices to aid me in refactoring faster and with more confidence. Most importantly, keep throwing yourself into it.
Disassemble planet, acquire Dyson swarm, delete risk of second-generation AI competing with you.
> There is no jurisdiction that the legal patch doesn't apply to.

I don’t think it applies to the US. The first amendment takes precedence over German laws. They can block access, but they can’t sue if there is no entity in Germany.
does legality of a thing prevent big pharma from doing the thing?