skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you look into the names of the founders, all of them are activists, one of them has a colorful gamergate history, one mentions labour issues in their byline.

their position statement is in the fourth paragraph, it starts with "widespread labor organizing, industry-changing mergers and acquisitions, sweeping layoffs", and then reads "We need a curious, independent press to hold power to account, to cut through the marketing hype, and to elevate the voices of those affected by the gaming industry’s upheaval." they bring up the issue of labor again, "we’ll keep you up to date on the worlds of video games, board games, comics, movies and tv, nerd culture, tech, streaming, and the labor issues that surround them"

would it be safe to assume that their goal is to be a kind of jacobin for gaming? jacobin's digital only pricing model is $30/yr, which $3/mo against aftermath's $7/mo, and i'm comparing them here on selective paywalling model. jacobin doesn't have dedicate gaming section, but they do write about video games from a socialist perspective, in their culture and labor sections.

i would say it's safe to assume that aftermath is going after a niche audience, people who want an indepth coverage of the video game industry from a socialist perspective, is that an attractive enough value proposition? they might also be explicitly trying to build an activist audience to be able to put political pressure on gaming industry. this is another possible reading from "holding power accountable". i'm not sure if that's compatible with their pricing model though.
> When amazon steals from us, that's perfectly fine?

Maybe I missed it, but where in the article did amazon steal from "us"?
That's literally not their logic.

They said:

if you need security don't use md5.

If you don't need security, use something faster than md5.

md5 is neither secure nor fast, why use it at all?
It's this kind of garbage bs that makes it hard for me to get a refund for a legitimate problem I'm having with a product. I want to be all "Yeah! Stick it to em!" but the general population suffers because of this too. Amazon used to be great about refunds, letting you keep cheap things because they weren't worth sending back. Now they want me to send back even the smallest most insignificant things.
Ok deal, but I'm not sure what was to discuss then...

Patterns, the app discussed here, is definitely a business. They are asking for a subscription fee because presumably they want to make a living out of it. Also, it is the only product they have to offer (it doesn't look to be the case of being a free goodie intended to bring customers to other business the author might have).

Thus, my point was that it is not reasonable to compare it to a free offering like "how does the Streaks app from Crunchy Bagel manage to do without subscriptions". They are just whole different categories of products (or maybe to nitpick, the intentions and financials behind them are totally different).
Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence server is under mass exploitation
Well I'm happy to that it fills your particular niche. You seem satisfied.
“found that less than half — 38% — aspired to be a manager at their current company.”

Unless they think they need a 1:2 manager employee ratio with the kids, IDK how this would be a problem.
Generally no, styles are not copyrightable, but as with all things in the world of IP, it's fuzzy. Here's the first thing I found on a web search: https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/you-cant-copyright-style
Not sure they need to do much in terms of marketing at least. When I started using Godot in earnest last year, only a few nerds seemed to know it. In the past few months I haven't come across a single indie developer not aware of it.
I don't think you're being fair to the British here. Their constitution, though not written as a single constitutional document, has at least parts that are written (most notably, the Magna Carta). The whole functions as something significantly more rigid than what a majority in Parliament decides.
It’s a good question and I do not believe a style has ever been found to be copyrightable, only actual works.

Styles would seem to be more in the trade dress / design patent side of IP law. Apple’s famous 22-element iPhone design patent, etc.

But it’s hard to imagine an artist reducing their style to clearly defined elements and applying for protection. “A geometric grid or squares and rectangles with white background and black lines extending entirely across the canvas horizontally and vertically. Some grid rectangles are filled in primary colors. The square intersections of two black grid lines may be filled in primary colors. At least some of the grid lines are spaced irregularly”
Could this be a new lifting gas?
You could have efficient legal systems to take care of companies that defraud their customers. And then use payment methods that do not allow chargebacks (And don't cost more than 0.01$ per transaction.)
I wasn't referring to the CIA and NSA.

A lot of large organizations jumped on mainframes back in the 1960s and 1970s. That included US-friendly governments. Some of whom aren't very nice. Those systems and business relationships tend to survive. IBM is good about keeping it quiet. But occasionally someone notices and there is a scandal. The last major one was in 2019 when people found out that IBM was selling face recognition technology to United Arab Emirates. IBM discontinued that technology in 2020 because of the scandal.
There's rather more to it than that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_K...
Learning about the mind and controlling it better has been a recent passion of mine as well.

Like you, I’ve noticed a direct connection between media consumption and quality of life. Namely, if I get a dopamine release with minimal to no effort, my day is pretty much shot as I have little motivation to do anything I want to do.

This has led me to delete all social media, completely. I wiped all my accounts and walked away. I also leave the TV off during the day, which is still weird for me because I’m that person who works with the TV on in the background. I thought it was harmless, but it turns out, it’s not.

Basically anything that gives me dopamine without trying is gone, which in this world is mostly screens.

The more I experiment, the more I realize how important control of one’s mind and thoughts are. I’m now at a point where I believe that the only barrier between one and their goals is their mind. Giving up, doubting, lack of motivation, perseverance, persistence, confidence - it all comes from the mind.

Control your mind, control your life. It’s a lot more difficult than it sounds though :)
Red Hat has more name recognition (at least for now). Even though the GE fork of Proton is way more technically impressive for one person than a Red Hat job IMO. Creating a fork of a public tool maintained by a large company with a team that actually gets popular is something.

edit: Proton itself is also a massive achievement that often gets overlooked. Somehow emulation on a grand scale with many edge cases and optimizations can run 95% of Windows games, at near native performance and often with multiplayer. If you think of Linux gaming in, say, 2014, this is kind of insane.
I DIY as much as I can within reason. I couldn't begin to count the amount of money I've saved over the years. Plus, when it's something you've worked on, it's even easier to work on in the future because you understand it inside and out.

I don't work things I don't have the knowledge to do safely (some electrical work for example), or things I feel I don't have the knowledge to do correctly and there's risk of really bad resulting issues (I don't touch load-bearing walls for example).
As far as I know, banks are the ones that handle disputes between a legitimate buyer and seller, while the card processor (Visa/MC) only handles fraud disputes. Depending on how much that person spends on their card, the bank might honor their chargeback regardless of the circumstances because they don't want to lose all future business of that one person.
Define net worth; the vast majority of people live paycheck to paycheck, can't cover a $1000 emergency, and don't actually own the assets they utilize.
> including for derivative works

This presumes that an input having influence on an output means that the output qualifies as a derivative work of that input. A work being in some way derived from another work does not mean that it is a "derivative work" for the purposes of copyright law. Many artists want to make this presumption, but IMO it's extremely dubious as a general claim. It is likely that when this all shakes out, specific works will be able to be established to be derivative works of specific other works, but simply being an input will not cause that. (caveat: IANAL, but I do have a law degree and IP experience)
Human Beings Are Not Puppets, and We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are
And that’s what people call experience.

Guaranteed once one gains it what op describes is a walk in the park.
Do you consider The Intercept pro-war? Also, while most editors naturally reach for anglophone sources first, it's not as if sources in other languages are automatically rejected, even if every US media source is bloodthirsty. Unfortunately, it's not as if the project can get its own reporters on the ground, nor does it really want to.
For those wondering about CTCS tones (had to remind myself, since it's been a while):

> Radio transmitters using CTCSS always transmit their own tone code whenever the transmit button is pressed. The tone is transmitted at a low level simultaneously with the voice. This is called CTCSS encoding. CTCSS tones range from 67 to 257 Hz. The tones are usually referred to as sub-audible tones. In an FM two-way radio system, CTCSS encoder levels are usually set for 15% of system deviation. For example, in a 5 kHz deviation system, the CTCSS tone level would normally be set to 750 Hz deviation. Engineered systems may call for different level settings in the 500 Hz to 1 kHz (10–20%) range.

[…]

> A CTCSS decoder is based on a very narrow bandpass filter which passes the desired CTCSS tone. The filter's output is amplified and rectified, creating a DC voltage whenever the desired tone is present. The DC voltage is used to turn on, enable, or unmute the receiver's speaker audio stages. When the tone is present, the receiver is unmuted, when it is not present the receiver is silent.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Tone-Coded_Squelch_...
The OpenAI Keynote
Is this not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiety_value which has already been studied?

"Satiety value is the degree at which food gives a human the sense of food gratification, the exact contrast feeling of hunger ... Foods with the most satiation per calorie are often:high in certain proteinase inhibitors that suppress appetite - eg potatoes"

Potatoes are well known to be the most satiating food by a wide margin.

> you don’t eat enough calories, that part is simple enough.

The articles doesn't seem to agree though? They seem focused on things like how tomatoes might significantly block the weight loss of potatoes.
I think the ad-free content actually is the premium feature most Youtube subscribers are willing to pay for. I know I do.
On the other hand I don't think Youtube cares about users that aren't even considering to pay under any circumstances. There's no point in making the service more attractive to users that will only accept free pricing.
Where I live there is literally not cheap option for housing, no matter how far you commute lol

And commuting has a cost too, driving an hour or two each way is expensive

Expensive housing is driving up the cost of everything because, everyone in literally every job is having their wealth extracted by landlords or into buying homes

So yes, home prices means taxes are going way up because all services are now far more expensive to provide because wages need to go up because the col for workers is going up because the businesses they rely on need to pay higher wages and here we are in a vicious cycle

It really doesn’t matter how it’s solved in the long run, but it needed a to be solved
Isn't that basically the premise behind Ozempic?
There was this event, it happened in 2008 and it stopped the GMAC thing like the full stop stops this comment.
I think this is a more compelling idea than people in the comments are giving it credit for

> The problem is that you can easily come up with 100 different hypotheses for what’s going on. Ok, so you run 100 different studies to test each one. But studies take a long time to run — let’s say 6 months per study. Congratulations, you’ve just locked yourself into 50 years

This is a major problem with science whenever you have less of a theoretical foundation. Compared to physics or chemistry, we know very little about nutrition or sports science. Because of this, the search space is very large. One could argue that given the number of surprising results (and difficulty reproducing those results), medicine and psychology also fall into this category.

> A riff trial takes advantage of the power of parallel search. Some riffs will work better than others (or at least differently), and parallel search helps you find these differences faster, especially if the differences are big.

What if we did more to encourage people to track and report their personal experiments? If even 10% of everyone on a diet (any diet) just tracked what they ate, what exercise they did, and how much weight they lost, and reported it to a centralized database, scientists could then look for patterns in that data and do formal studies based on suspected patterns.

We could do similar things with longevity/happiness. Look at the "Harvard Study of Adult Development" but imagine it was spread out over 10s of thousands of diverse people instead of just 300 upper-class American men? The data quality wouldn't matter much if all you are doing is searching for patterns to do follow-up studies.
Maybe stop buying the cheap-mass produced crap in the first place, that way you wouldn't need to return the crap.

Amazon is an organized theft too, Amazon is no saint with their recent exposed tactics plus their historic controversies.
In what way is training "copying"?

This is just an attempt at a landgrab by idiot copyright maximalists.
That sounds a lot like music copyright, which also has a subjective threshold. It’s kind of a mess but it’s more or less worked for a century. Certainly better than any formula for rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic similarity would.
here is more info: https://boilingsteam.com/protonge/
I think the logic is that getting anyone to get out their credit card and pay anything at all for content is a tough barrier, and the difficulty of crossing it doesn’t scale linearly with the asking price. That and micropayments remain an unsolved problem.
Name one other nation in the history of the world that has given any consideration at all to the people who's land they took. Indians were stealing land from each other for generations before "colonialism" was a thing. It's just part of human history. Time to move on, they're certainly not getting much societal benefit from government gifted land. It's only served to isolate them more and impoverish their communities. Instead of integrating they continue to live in a past that no longer exists. Either they're Americans or they're not.
It's very difficult to have a real purpose. This is more of an escapist abstraction, which is what people realize eventually.
This is a good move, but I think the domain name for Tutanota needs to be simpler still, or at least more English-friendly if they want marketshare in the anglosphere.

I used Tutanota for a bit. Great product,all around better than protonmail from technical and usability standpoint, but I stopped using it.

Why? You don't realize how often you give out your email over the phone or to someone verbally. "Tutanota" is simply way too easy to screw up. Tootanota? Tutanoda? two-ta-what??? Even when there wasn't a struggle passing this along to someone, I'd always be worried that they wrote it down incorrectly.

I know I could get my own domain, but still, the default email should offer a domain that's easy to spell (e.g. proton.me).
Super nice and easy to us!!
I guess society has decided better to ghost than be cancelled. Are you surprised?
Indeed.

But of course the "driving out to a big store" is also subsidized. It's only cheap because of all the roads that have been built, all the subsidies over the decades that have made fuel so cheap, and the ability to freely "socialize the externalities" of burning fossil fuels.

But what I want is the ability to do a trip to a "big box" store further out once or twice a month, but be able to go somewhere close for smaller things day to day. But I definitely understand why the economics of this don't really work in most places. I just lament it.
Is there a quick NV;DW about what made a robot cool?
Gogh: Color Scheme for Gnome, Pantheon, XFCE4 and macOS Terminal
Ocean current system could shut down early as 2025, leading to climate disaster
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening – and new predictions suggest it could totally switch off between 2025 and 2095.
> in both style and content, which are copywritten

The "style" certainly isn't copywritten because you can't copyright a style. Someone creating doodles in her style is absolutely allowed.
In Regulating A.I., We May Be Doing Too Much. and Too Little
Tantura Massacre
> The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why

I do fasting a lot. Doing diet for weight loss is a huge red flag. Human body gains and loses water very easily. Change of 10 lbs (in any direction) is rounding error, after changing a diet.

Major reason to do potato diet are health benefits. It decreases inflammation, and gives your gut chance to heal. It may improve sugar digestion, liver and so on. Basically any junk and toxins you eat normally, go away on potato only diet.

AFTER you become healthy, you may try to lose weight.
JetBrains Fleet with Kotlin Multiplatform Tooling
As a boomer, I could have told them this years ago. Managers at the companies I worked for generally had the same technical responsibilities I, as a senior engineer, had but they also had to manage a group of people including job reviews, hiring, compensation, not to mention the sheer number of pointless meetings they had to attend. At the lowest level, there wasn't even a bump in pay. I refused to do this for years all because there really was no benefit to me and I didn't want the extra work load.
You can do this with any email. What's your point? The reason for the rise of email providers advertising encrypted email is because PGP is a pain for most people to use and never saw widespread adaption among regular users.
The only way to explain the effect of the diet to someone is for them to try it. The effect is not like “I just ate potatoes and they quickly made me feel full.” It’s more like “I am taking a drug that disrupts the GLP-1 cycle in my body and makes me lose interest in eating food at all, even when I haven’t recently eaten many potatoes.” Obviously N=1 and no, I don’t think it’s very healthy to do this for long.
Given how 1876 elections went, that time was probably more politically crazy that today, so a lot of things could happen.
There's no surgery involved and yes it is on them. Actually they retroactively did so when he complained, and as such they agreed that nuking everything was the wrong move.

Also, the “offending part” has been well known from them for several years (they even claim it costed them a lot in support over the years) so it's not like they received a DMCA and had to take everything down in a hurry, they knew exactly what product they wanted to stop because they did stop it because it was too costly. The fact that it violated their TOS is just the legal justification for the closure, not its source.
The equally large population you wanted to give testosterone to wasn't men?
And the synthesis was created with material that the AI company did not license and did not have permission to use for this purpose.

I have ZERO issue with image generators on their own. They're quite cool technology. The only thing I and tons and tons of other people have requested is they not use images without permission to train them, that's literally it. That's my sole, single, solitary objection and yet every AI interested person, advocate, and company rep will do intellectual back-flips to explain why this is unreasonable.

It's not unreasonable to ask permission before you use something. It just isn't.
> Stats give that to around 15%, it is not an outlier.

What stats? Fifteen percent of what - time? women? sexual events? Is this even about climax?

Of all the things that can inhibit climax for women, why should contraception be singled out for elevated concern?
It would fit right in with how TNG portrayed entertainment: passive enjoyment was generally frowned upon, creating something new and being in-person social was what everyone wanted in that era.
I'm very happy with Qubes OS, using it as a daily driver for many years. It does indeed helps to organize your digital life and gives a great sense of security and control over your computer. I tried to list its advantages here: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15

See also: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubesos-4-2-rc3-clean-install-i...
Where’s the whining? I didn’t find it. Please substantiate your claims.
I think you’re proposing two big expansions to copyright: 1) that it covers what an observer can do, and 2) that everything is illegal unless explicitly made legal.

I don’t think I want to live in that world.
This is a nice article. I've used Ecto embedded schemas and nimble options separately but never thought to use them together.

Faced with this kind of issue, I'd use Ash with the `Simple` data layer. You can get all the power of an embedded Ecto schema and nimble options together in a single dsl.

If you need to validate with arbitrary logic you can do that with a 'validation'

If you need to transform the input data before you return the struct you can do it in a change set.

It's all there!
If I build a Rube Goldberg painting machine and somebody else "pulls the trigger" to start the machine, who owns the output? Me or the other person? In the case of today's AI models, I could see arguing that the creator of the AI or the creator of the prompt have some rights to a specific output, but not the AI itself.

The monkey case seems fairly cut-and-dry to me - the monkey didn't steal the camera (as often reported) - the photographer engineered a situation to get the result (he set up the camera, the tripod, and held onto the tripod so the monkey wouldn't steal the whole rig). It's his art. If the monkey actually stole the camera, then it's nobody's art - just a random occurrence.

If an artist orchestrates a group of humans to create art, the art belongs to the artist, not the group (as far as I know - I'd love to hear otherwise).

I guess for me, given today's technology, I don't see an "AI" as any different than a Rube Goldberg machine hurling paint at a wall. A human had to create the AI and a human had to prompt the AI, one or both of them own the art. And in all cases, the art is always based on something the human saw previously. No art exists in a vacuum.

And I agree that a system like music rights might be appropriate. The AI author, the AI prompter, and probably anybody involved in the training data, all have some right to the output. Then the question is what % to each, but that's solvable.
That’s lazy average Joe’s daily caffeine supplement. Coffee nerds have their own brand of absurdity: coffee distribution tools, pressure profiling, temperature profiling, water treatment mineral packs… never mind all the money people spend on high end burr grinders and plumbed-in rotary pump machines!