skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better link would be to the Europa portal itself (not paywalled) [0].

I know some folks are quite allergic to the word “regulation” and I think in this case, we should call them “safeguards”.

You can innovate all you want, just don’t hurt people in the process.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231206IP...
Living forever == not having children (for obvious reasons I mentioned below).

Life without children (and grandchildren) wouldn't be worth living.
It became clear very quickly this October that the whole issue of the conflict got a very different (more censorious) treatment here on HN than around the world.

That was such a depressing and infuriating experience for me that it turned watching the censorship play out into my main interest in HN for a few weeks, and eventually turned me off of the site altogether.

I understand some of the tensions at play for moderators here and the kind of online space they want to facilitate, and the work that controversial topics put on small moderation teams. But it still ultimately damaged my relationship with this site and broke my habit of frequently using it. I can't be the only one.

It's no wonder that when the moderation team finally decided that a post closely relating to this conflict deserves to remain on the front page, it shot up into the thousands of comments. I appreciate this post's presence here, and I hope the discussion stays manageable.

I wonder how many people will be doxxed for their comments here on this very post, just like Carey in the OP.
The confusion is that there is only one texting app on iPhone. Chat apps are done "over the top" and can be whatever you want. You or I can make one. There is only one texting app on iOS and most users in the US only use their phone's texting app. This is why Apple's iMessage is genius, insidious, and diabolical- because they took SMS which had universal adoption in the US and had it invisibly and transparently extended into a component of their walled garden. They didn't need to convince everyone to move from SMS to their own messaging app, because if you used SMS on an iPhone, iMessage just happened.
Some I play at 2.0x to make them sound normal

There's no way they talk at that pace in real life
This isn’t a thing that makes sense to regulate at an individual level, like how BP tried to pass off the fact that they are destroying the environment on regular people for not using reusable bags or whatever. Left as is car manufacturers would be happy to put up a “Pedestrian fatality footprint” for cars and it would have 0 impact on sales. If we want those changes in how society works they need to be mandated by economics or political policy. You should not be able to insure a car that poses over a certain hazard to pedestrians for road usage.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one. Seriously, what did they think was going to happen?
They said

> we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it

This contradicts itself each sentence and sounds as if it was written by chatgpt itself in lazy mode.
Personally, I didn’t enjoy it much, but it reminded me a lot of this book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausgård_novel....
Israel won’t allow the right of return for Palestinians from the world. Be real here.
Uhm, judging by the stalker’s rhetoric, I don’t think they were worried about going to jail.
Sometimes, to achieve some perspective, I also zoom out and declare normal over the estimated +-120,000,000,000 people who have ever lived.
Utility companies in the US are, for the most part, government sponsored monopolies. Nothing "free" about this market. The same goes for internet providers.
Multiple times, my cat has managed hit a key combination on my desktop that swaps WASD and the arrow keys, which I never knew existed before the first time she did it. I think it's something like Fn+w, but every time it's happened I always forget exactly what it is, and it takes a bit of effort to search for it because I need to actually use the arrow keys to type those letters, which are a pretty important part of the query...
You forget that Google was worried about other XMPP services stealing user data. If I remember right, some services (maybe it was FB) was not sending out all data to Google in the federation system (I forget if it was names or friends lists or something). So it would allow other services to ingest data Google was sharing, but the sharing wasn't reciprocal.
There are Illumos distributions such as OpenIndiana that fill the void left by OpenSolaris.
> I think using data that you don't have the copyrights to train AI is theft.

There are public domain works you can use and copyright doesn't protect ideas. It protects expression of ideas, so getting "just the ideas" without the expression is ok.
On Android there is no such thing as a default messaging app. There is such a thing as a default SMS app, but my point is that messaging and texting represent two different things (texting is a subset of messaging) which has an extremely material impact on the dynamics of what is happening in the US, and why iMessage, RCS, and interoperability is a very big deal to users who use a texting app.
No Arab country wants to facilitate the ethnic cleansing of their own ethnicity.
I don't play games on mobile, so I'm a bit surprised Netflix is in this business at all. I didn't know they were doing mobile games.
This isn’t even close to true. Sure, for legal documents. But any cursory check of this document would’ve led right back to the judge in the court who supposedly signed it and a quick “hey did you actually sign this” would have rendered a very specific and correct answer.

Otherwise, the government uses all sorts of modern authentication mechanisms when dealing with sensitive materials.
If Jews who moved to the area Arabs occupied are colonizers, what are Arabs who move to Europe?
You obviously have not seen the videos of incinerated children in Gaza.
won't someone have to go around making sure that all the competition is above board, and that cartels aren't being formed by big players to maximize their collective profits? A person who might regulate such things.
They want to muddle the distinction between ideas and expression. You can't copyright ideas. Everyone is entitled to copy ideas.
Ai will get better not worse.

You will not be able not to pay for code ai due to the advantage other companies have with it.

For now I guess no job loss but also less new head counts
You wouldn't look at a car.
Beeper mini includes a hosted service to receive APNS notifications (meant for Apple software)

So I would summarize it as the corporate entity connecting to an Apple API and using it in undocumented ways that they reverse engineered, intercepting messages meant only for Apple software, doing so without prior permission, for purpose to selling access to services which would normally be covered by an Apple EULA.

It is not quite like a smaller word processor wanting to be able to import Word documents - without tying into Apple's service, Beeper Mini has zero value.
Care to comment anymore on this? I'm curious what the sentiment is within hashicorp
There may be lucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/
Weird take. Default apps for certain file types and links (email, video, etc) are a precedent across multiple operatings systems.

> No one wants

Quite the assumption. I had Google Hangouts set as my default SMS app for a time.. this seems quite similar to your Discord example?

It hurts nobody to have the _choice_. If you don't want to change the default that's totally OK.
> I can leave my phone away in my pocket all day and still message anyone I please. I would hate it any other way. Why don't people in the US want that?

I have that already via Google Messages, and iMessage already has that as well.

In the case of Google Messages, it's just a web app, you don't need to install it. You visit messages.google.com and scan a QR code from your phone and the devices are linked.
1. No. It doesn't matter where the agent is from. It matters who the "foreign principal" is.

2. Five China news agencies and Russia Today are registered as foreign agents. There are also over 200 foreign PACs, but they're mostly businesses. The Overseas Friends of the BJP (the ruling party in India) is registered as a foreign agent. That's probably the closest match.
Depends on the time you intend to work on it. The 12 startups in 12 months forces to ship something every month which makes it very effective to focus.
Is this real? Come on guys the
drama unfolded “a few days ago”
where Sam future was turning
invisible. Now everything is out of
A sudden set in stone? Wake up.
It’s a drama show … part 2 to be
continued
> [3] In America we still use "gypsy", which is terribly offensive in Europe

Is it? In Spain we still call them "gitanos", heck, they even call themselves that: https://www.gitanos.org/
I taught a course "in a previous life" and while I wasn't anything close to as strict as you say here, I can tell you the flip side: students would copy, modify superficially (some, less superficially) and then claim "it's my work, we just talked, that's why the similarities!" (with some even having the nerve to say, "it's not copied, look, plagiarism detection software says similarity is less than x%!)
Perhaps I was wrong but I really wanted the students who took the course to put in the work themselves. Just choose a different course/course set, you _knew_ this one was going to be hard!

So yeah, the guideline was that we'll be eventual judges of what was "too similar" and if you're concerned, just don't discuss implementation details with anyone. I realize it prevents honest colaboration, and that's bad too... but sometimes it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation.
Sounds like a job for LLMs - extract ingredients and steps, then verbalize it back in a completely different style.
And Arab counties won't take them either because they cause trouble. Egypt in particular absolutely refuses to take refugees from Gaza.
I did, it’s somewhere way below
RT-2: new model translates vision and language into action
So we have an admission that folks were putting other people's names on the lists?
It's more of the same historical shit, wealth concentrated into a few individual with their cast around them, living in their bubble. History is full of stories like this and it never ends well.
Trillion dollars companies are not an achievement, it's a symptom.
Possible outcome: they win the argument on annexing Judaea and Samaria, which is the first step of their plan, but then they fail to achieve the subsequent steps (denying Palestinians citizenship, mass deportation of Palestinians, etc) – which could produce an end result which is a long way from what they actually want – e.g. Israeli annexation could make all West Bank Palestinians eligible for Israeli citizenship, and then what if large numbers of them decide they want it, and end up getting it? Suddenly the "binational one-state solution" seems a lot closer to reality, as Arabs become an increasing percentage of Israeli citizens – even though what the hardliners actually wanted to achieve by annexation was the "mononational one-state solution" (Israel gets all the land while the Palestinians all leave and give up their Palestinian identity)
You really think there's gonna be an AI winter? Is that based on the assumption that LLM's will plateau? Do you believe AGI is never coming, at least in the next 10-20 years?

I think your view represents something I see a lot on this site. A bearish cynicism at AI progess, an assumption that it's all just a hype cycle, comparing it to crypto and NFT's and a confident assurance of the momentum of the status quo which will return when the "hype" dissipates.

What specific capabilities of LLM's and AI models would convince you that this is a sea change beyond the normal hype and boom bust cycles of the tech world?
I was using this before beeper and switched to beeper since I could also use WhatsApp on my iPad. Worked just fine on an old otherwise unused MacBook Air I keep in my garage. I only used airmessage for iMessage on windows
Many Israelis seem to live in an alternate world with alternate histories and alternate facts. Read Ilan Pappé to break out of that bubble.
Or to go even further, the write-protect tabs on cassette tapes.
There's also things like PSAs that can be good ads. I think it's important we remember that it's not always about consumerism.

Haha there's only a few places I get ads and I lock as much down as I can. There's a certain sense of joy when you get ads so misaligned from you that you know they are reaching.

Oh it's a constant battle to filter. But what worries me is actually that people honestly do not get it. These are clearly little metric hacking and I'm afraid we're just traveling deeper and deeper into Goodhart's Hell.
I want them to just tell me what's happening instead of trying to tell me what to think about it by using words like "quixotic" in the opening paragraph.
Have a look at IEC CIM (Common Information Model)

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Information_Model_(electricity)
- https://zepben.bitbucket.io/cim/cim100/
- https://ontology.tno.nl/IEC_CIM/
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If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, no matter how wrong others are or you feel they are, we'd appreciate it. We don't have much choice but to ban accounts that keep breaking them.
LLM Robotics
Not a fucking clue man. These people hate each other and they both have reason to. Maybe you need a solution administered by a third party like the UN but no solution is going to leave everyone happy, and the UN itself is pretty flawed. There's plenty of insane people on both sides including Hamas.
It's plausible that broad concern about recycled plastics would be valid.

This study[1] found that the recycled plastics analyzed were fairly toxic. I recall another that found the same for recycled synthetic clothing, but I was unable to find a reference.

1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231110112511.h...
Soviet Union built a lot of those “designed by numbers” cities. They had certain distances to stores, planned density of kindergartens and hospitals, so on. Complete failure. Society changes a lot in those 10-15 years while you plan and build those cities. That’s even if you ignore the fact that SU stopped existing while some places where not finished (I grew up in a district with ridiculous population - but no subway to connect to the rest of the city and not enough roads for cars)
Anyone have the text that was agreed upon?

Edit: I know the text is not final as it needs more work, but I was hoping for a leaked draft text of amendments that clinched 'the agreement'.
You no longer have to install wine or manually configure games beyond what you would on Windows.

You simply install Steam, and Proton (kind of a fork of Wine) will be installed to provide compatibility for Windows games for you, in a transparent manner.

Proton has greatly increased the compatibility and performance of Windows games on Linux. In some cases, it's faster on Wine than on Windows (in part because some Windows APIs are stubbed on Wine).

Proton DB has the list of Steam games and user reports for how well they are supported under Proton.
How is it better than the model from the team that made the dataset? https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mistral-7B-SlimOrca
LibreOffice is a package of various applications usable under a common environment (including spreadsheet software, Calc).

One can then run various scripts to use/pull/push data to/from spreadsheet to other libreoffice applications (database, wordprocessor, forms, etc.)[0][1]

Specific theory not withstanding, learing how to use the various libreoffice applications together, sort of informal way of learning spreadsheet architecture.

list of libreoffice classes from internet search engine request:

https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documen...

https://openclassrooms.com/en/courses/5873051-master-the-bas...

https://www.udemy.com/course/step-by-step-spreadsheets-for-a...

https://www.coursera.org/projects/excel-for-beginners-introd...

https://www.yaclass.in/p/science-state-board/class-8/libreof...

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[0] : https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/shared/guide/scr...

[1] : https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documen...

[2] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgO40-CjYNY

[3] : https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/templates-and-extension...
IMHO profiled RCS is notably worse than SMS for privacy, because the vast majority of RCS servers are hosted by Google.

SMS can be read but it is still at least somewhat decentralized. It isn't being funneled to a single party whose business model is profiling users.
My kids and I figured out that an overdiluted mixture can be a lot of fun too.

Take a clear pie pan or dish. Add a quarter to half an inch of water, then a couple drops of food coloring, and slowly mix in cornstarch and observe how it behaves.

We found a ratio that was runnier than oobleck, but if you let it settle, the watery color and the cornstarch would separate a little into layers. You could then stir it and create all sorts of cool slowly moving swirls that eventually fade away.

We found you could even use 2-3 colors. The colors mix a little, but you still get different layers that create multicolored swirls when disturbed.

A piece of white paper under the glass dish makes it easier to see.
> and not once has the thought of pedestrian safety ever crossed my mind.

Neither should it, just like you shouldn't have to worry that the car is going to catch fire because of a minor fender bender. The thing that keeps you and pedestrians safe should be a sane bunch of regulations that car manufacturers abide by to meet safety requirements.
> Nitpick, but I can text from my Mac laptop using the messages app. I haven't looked into exactly how exactly it works but I think it's somehow proxying/mirroring the messages through my iPhone. It's very smooth and "just works" though.

Yes, SMS from iMessage on your non-iPhone (Mac, iPad) proxy through your iPhone. iMessages do not require your phone to be on, since Apple can deliver it directly without using SMS.

However, without a phone you cannot send an SMS message, and most people use phone numbers as contacts in iMessage, which requires an SMS based registration done transparently by your phone.

But all of this is just the technicals of how it works, to the end users it is just texting. The only reason non-technical users are even aware of, or care about, the distinction is because of how iMessage breaks group texting as soon as there's a non-iMessage user involved.
What is left of the big Hashicorp products? Has Consul been forked seriously by anyone?
You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing this—no matter how wrong others are or you feel they are—we would appreciate it.
I think it is kind of absurd for private companies to build public infrastructure. Capitalism isn’t going to create more “housing supply”, it’s going to find ways to maximise profit and revenue. That’s diametrically opposed to the social or common good of a utopian city.

If they really wanted to build the perfect city, they should work with local and state governments which supposedly represents the people, not the rich.
While I somewhat agree with that take on copyright, I think you have to pick a lane to keep that position coherent:

Either you insist that copyright must be respected at every level, and the creators of material used for training deserve appropriate compensation, or

You throw out copyright completely in this context, but that means the resulting models cannot be treated as proprietary either unless they were produced using absolutely no unlicensed training data.

I think there is an argument for both. Want to create a proprietary model for commercial use? Pay up. Creating an open source, copyleft project exclusively for personal use and artistic expression? Exemption.

The current status quo is perfectly described by powerful corpos extracting rent. Billions for themselves and pennies for the average artist.
Unlike car drivers who want to feel like second-class citizens...? What?
They don't require really expensive and power-hungry components to run, i.e. a mid-range GPU can run a (4-or-5-bit quantized) 7B model at +50 tokens/second, so it's completely feasible to run on a small budget. They are easier to fine-tune, because they are smaller, and you can even just do CPU inference if you really want. There are good OSS implementations like llama.cpp and exllama. And there is a lot of belief that 7B models are not yet tapped out in terms of efficacy, so they will keep improving.
From Star Wars to Hitchhiker's – how to make the best drinks in sci-fi
> reproduce that in an uncountable number of combinations that are meaningful to humans

Then it is creative. It is doing meaningful work on top of the basic facts it learned. The facts and the style can't be copyrighted.
> ...truly terrible [battery pack] design (Nissan Leaf)...

Source please.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36922924 :

> pytype (Google) [1], PyAnnotate (Dropbox) [2], and MonkeyType (Instagram) [3] all do dynamic / runtime PEP-484 type annotation type inference [4] to generate type annotations.

Hypothesis generates tests from type annotations; and icontract and pycontracts do runtime type checking.
Nobody deserves to die of radiation poisoning. There is no neighborhood on Earth in which all families living there deserve to be vaporized.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 its OP states "A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush."
I'm honestly impressed by how many people aren't getting this. The distinction is so clear too. Maybe needs to be presented in a different way?

For anyone not getting why this is cheating, try this. Pretend you are the teacher. You saw students pull this stunt and say that it was a live demo. Would you feel like you were deceived if later you found out it was not in fact how they presented it? (I'm honestly unsure how you can answer this in the negative)

Or how about you watch an ad of someone taking to a box and the box responding, then you buy the box and it's a pile of rubber bands and paper clips. Would you want your money back?
iMessage seemingly was found exempt because too few Europeans use iMessage for business.

Although to be fair, I have a hard time imagining a world where this ever happens. So large companies have to proactively share information on all their users with all the other large companies, and vice versa? Or do I become skygazer@iMessage and everyone on instagram has to know that? This just seems like an absurd thing to mandate.
Talk about preparing graduates for the real world!
Is offering phone services to the public being a danger to society?
And then there was "Twenty dirty tricks to train software engineers" which I found even more suitable as preparation for working in the industry.
It’s a bit overkill for that. Although if you know how to run and set it up it does work just fine for that.
Accurately measuring the energy consumption of hardware
What do you think about the german Nitrokeys? Especially the features and compatibility of the Nitrokey 3?

Anyone has one of those?

https://www.nitrokey.com/products/nitrokeys
Why does this feel like the professor trying to either fix the problem or give detention.
Initially photography itself was considered un-copyrightable "because it just reproduces a natural image". But later they came around and considered topic selection, composition, and other elements to be creative.