skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The influence of French cinema may be a factor too I would guess.
This video from Y Combinator, “How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer,” is full of great tips.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfVjd_oV1I
Warning: unpopular opinion that you won't like.

If the audience of HN were writers, singers, and artists, people who know what it's like when the fruits of your work are stolen and you barely make any money (I have friends like that), the sentiment would've been quite different. But software developers can't relate to this and that's why they are so pro-piracy. They get a paycheck every month or bi-weekly and never face a situation when their intellectual work is stolen against their will and offered to their employer for free and the employer now cuts the paycheck in half because why pay if you can get it for free.

I'm not saying the current situation with content consumption is ideal. Big corps have no shame in many ways. But sometimes both sides can be wrong. And this is exactly what I'm seeing here.
I am not sure what you mean by "started", the region was at the intersection of big empires that fought each other and the people there were caught in the middle trying to survive by chosing the least worse of the empires.

I would say the conflicts are started in the capitals of the big empires/powers.
There is zero practical difference between "free and source available" and "open source" for 99.99% of users.

I do wonder sometimes why some people get so particular about drawing this specific distinction because it happens on so many threads. Is the freedom to run a competitor to sentry's saas using the code they wrote that coveted a freedom?

I can see why Bezos wants this, perhaps. And by extension wealthy big tech shareholders eating that profit too.... but who else?

Moreover, "Source available" (a suggested alternative) implies the software is potentially or even likely to be paid which is material difference for those 99.9% of users but is definitely not the case.

I get the sense that there is an underlying political ax being ground by gatekeeping this particular definition. I dont buy that this is about "just calling things by their name" when for non-bezos users the distinction is inconsequential.
As always, there will be a 10 minute outcry from public officials "so choking" and then nothing. Business as usual. No consequence so it can go on.

According to these sources, the number of times in which Spain has refused to share information of interest to Washington is “between one and zero.”

That is interesting how ball sucking is this country when you consider that it is sure that the opposite is not true (us accepting to share everything that they have)
This may explain why I got my first ever "who dis?" iMessage yesterday, from an unknown number, on a device with cellular switched off.
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I'm not sure this would be entirely fair to Whitehead unless he tried to pass off the latter as being justified by the former.
ARC is great for running GitHub Actions on Kubernetes:

https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller

I think Kubernetes is a better platform than EC2 for runners, it's faster and more integrated with your tooling (if you're using Kubernetes).
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Well not really, Cory and his stupid weird permalinks....

Discussion ended up over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38579899
My guess is that the lowest 10th percentile of society is probably the best off currently than they have ever been in the history of human civilization.
Games are always pirated if they are even a little bit popular. I work in the games industry, and games I worked on are always pirated, but the more popular they are, the more copies will be sold legitimately.

People make two choices when they pirate - moral, and economical. If economically they cannot afford the game, they weren't going to pay. If morally they are against paying for a game (like if the game company is associated with suicides, etc), they weren't going to pay. There are some people that will pay if piracy isn't available, but not that many.

Anyways, after the income goes around, and all the exec, upper management, and publisher salaries are paid, the piracy or lack of it probably makes about a $1 difference to my weekly earnings. I put a lot of artistic and creative effort, blood, sweat, and tears into it. If it costs me $1 to make people enjoy it, so be it.

In the AAA games industry, piracy is a thing. People talk about it. And most people have only very mild things to say about it, except for execs. Execs make a disproportionate amount of money off games for what they do, and they do kinda have a lot of time to sit on their hands sometimes, so they can fight these piracy battles, die on these piracy hills.

Anyways, don't speak for us please.
Clockhands: Rename-free instruction set architecture for out-of-order processors
All stock apps account for splits.
The Concept of the Political [pdf]
Quite the opposite: I know they thought this through (thanks to them being quite transparent in their communication[0]), and that their own conclusion was:

> the $10 per month unmetered search plan was not financially sustainable for us.

This was in March; fast forward a few months and surprise, they offer a $10 per month unmetered search plan. With unmetered LLM usage to boot?

I think it is obvious from their own math that the only way flat rate would be profitable is if they go for growth-based approach, burn whosever investment money for a bit and accumulate enough light users that they end up fully subsidizing the power users. I.e., they are hoping that the tragedy of the commons will not apply to them. Good luck to them, I guess.

(That, or they have the infrastructure to enforce some limits on unlimited plans. Unlikely, as it is not mentioned on the pricing page. If true, this would mean some invisible and inflexible limits I would have to be constantly mindful of running against—which is significantly worse compared to pay as you go.)

[0] https://blog.kagi.com/update-kagi-search-pricing
> I'm not convinced that you're actually looking for a peaceful solution. The best you can imagine is a permanent DMZ so that Israel maintains an ethnic majority?

The DMZ is to keep Hamas on one side of the border following any ceasefire, because Hamas aren't going to moderate overnight, and Hamas aren't going away because of their autocratic structure. What's the alternative? This is why I asked you to sketch out your plan. If there is a realistic alternative to what I'm suggesting, I want to hear it. To convince the median Israeli (excluding the religious zealots) that a ceasefire is a good idea, you need to address their #1 (by far) issue, which is security concerns. Without attempting to do this, we are just yelling at clouds.
To be fair, the French are spying on the US just as much (disclaimer: I'm French).
I definitely have a client who would fire us if I said anything remotely against Israel.
And now the user needs a server running somewhere.

We tried this approach once, for this exact reason that we didn’t want an “old thick client”. Our app interacted heavily with the user’s OS and their line of business app, and it was a nightmare dealing with the customer’s IT department, wondering why we needed to run HTTP servers everywhere, causing security alerts.

We switched it to a simple Tkinter app and everyone involved was much happier.
Much easier than waiting for a suitable job opening at Unity, getting a job at Unity, and then just cloning Unity and fixing things yourself.
The Free Software movement is about "free as in speech, not as in beer" and control by the end user. The Open Source Software movement is about value leveraging in the marketplace for the profit of the vendor or distributor.

This list is about stuff you can get without paying for it ("free as in beer").
There are actually people who reason like this. I remember being struck by this attitude when reading Bloomberg's book - effectively morally eqivocating business competition with stealing food out of their children's mouths.
Let's hope you're lucky. :-)
Judge Allows 9k Women to Sue Disney for Pay Disparity
That sense of the word “take” is fairly consistently used of physical things, where you are depriving another of possession (with or without permission).

—⁂—

(Just for fun, The Devil’s Dictionary (not a work to be taken particularly seriously):

> TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

I quite like that way of putting it because it’s the megacorporations that are the pirates when they steal their DRM content back, because they are acquiring it from you so that you can’t have it, by force if they have to but they prefer stealth.)
Great to see more support for Godot! The lead VC and the company pledges bode well for keeping the bulk of the new tech open I think.

Biggest red flag is the lack of anyone with games pedigree. If the goal is to crack the duopoly with a great FOSS engine supported by paid BaaS + enterprise support plans, you’re going to need strong connections, partners, and knowledge of the real product requirements. First sales will be pretty challenging, but if they can get traction and ship great games there’s certainly an opportunity
The point about sampling as it relates to the go survey seems dubious, as the survey is not a random sample, but instead represents those who are most motivated to comment. It seems likely that that population would be more likely to want changes.

Same thing for opting in telemetry.
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Mods, merge in earlier discussion (Cory's stupid permalink scheme),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578872
You should start a prediction market on which companies and individuals should be included in the next draft!

(but seriously, it's pretty on point already. I was primed to post that I looked forward to seeing the Overcoming Bias entry taking this idea seriously, but they got around to namechecking Robin Hanson in the penultimate paragraph)
I probably contributed to the how to ask section at some point.
Yes, but the association of that laptop with yourself as an owner is an abstract idea. Many mammals do not have such ideas of ownership as an exclusive right, though many will defend territory, mates, and offspring.
It’s a joke but it’s also essentially how binary prediction markets work: you have two contracts, each of which resolves to $1 or $0 depending (oppositely) on whether X happens. You then solicit bids on both. When the sum of the offer price of both exceeds $1, you sell one of each, and put the dollar you collect aside to pay out to whichever bet comes true.
The question is always: how much money would those individuals make if their work wouldn't be pirated. It's much more likely that they would just barely survive like they do now instead of raking in the big moneyz. Sometimes it's not piracy that's the problem, but simply that the art/content is unpopular, or a bad business model was chosen.

> when their intellectual work is stolen against their will and offered to their employer for free and the employer now cuts the paycheck in half because why pay if you can get it for free

Your friends should get a lawyer. This is a different case than people "pirating" content because the content is locked exclusively behind yet another service subscription.
it would be at least a little virtuous to seek accurate figures before making decisions
Do you think the NATO invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11 was not a good idea? You are free to your opinion, and there are those idealists who believe such, but it would be counter to widespread consensus. The faults people have with the war on terror were/are (1) the two-decade-long occupation that followed, and (2) the completely unrelated war with Iraq.

But invading Afghanistan to capture/kill the al Qaeda organization, to prevent another 9/11? It is widely understood that the US was in the moral right and on the right side of international norms for its policy actions in 2001-2002.

If one accepts that, then how is what Israel is doing in Gaza any different?
The solution was not to give up but to find a solution inside the international law. Even UNO recognizes the colonization of saharauis.
There's at least one learning tool where you pick a charity you hate and it donates your money if you don't do your weekly lessons.

More to this idea, paying micropayments to remove money from articles would be interesting.

It would flatten bias. Reporters don't want to piss people off, reporting true facts would minimise this.

It'd be interesting to see what style of article would emerge.

(And people can't be bother paying micropayments to support authors but they sure as hell will be bothered to hurt them)
Language doesn't work like that. Most people hearing the phrase "I love life" will correctly understand that death isn't included in the referent.
If all proceeds went to charity, it could work as a snarky way to raise money for some other charity that’s boring but uncontroversial. It reminds me of the publicity stunts that Cards Against Humanity would do.
People also smoke and drink and catch diseases.

They might say there's more to life than trying to live forever.
Do LLM providers with smaller / less capable LLMs still have a USP or will it be like what we witnessed in the search space, where the #1 company has more than 90% market share, #2 has less than 5% market share and everyone else less than 1%?
How will python help him with meetings and emails? This doesn't sound like a technology problem. Not only that, but he's already working crazy hours. And you're suggesting that he spend more time on work?

He's asking for ideas on how to make a career transition with the understanding that his salary will most likely get reduced by 90%.
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Makes modern mutilations milder by comparison.

Saying "No child genital mutilation" draws cheers in some places now, until you add "including circumcision of male babies," when it somehow becomes a "freedom of faith question" where some faiths are incorrect and some aint.

With previous practices in mind, perhaps we could advocate against all child mutilation of any form? If a person's body is developed in way that does not interfere with their function; let them reach the age of majority before helping them carve on themselves?
Then imagine the incentives for campaigners to skip the two-sided prediction market and just spend their money on advertising directly to voters and lobbying politicians.

Or the implications of implementing the only way to make this actually work by taking the pesky voters out of the decision process altogether and just letting the money decide the outcome...
Viminacium
New Report Accuses Sam Altman of Being a Terrible Boss
You are obviating the "Ley d'Honnt" which basically overrepresents minorities. They have disproportionate representation.

A regional party can have like 6-8 times more representation than a national one with the same amount of votes nominally speaking.

It is legal, but makes no sense, more so taking into account that independentist parties are forbidden in Portugal or France and that here they not only are allowed (I can agree with that), on top of that they can oresent themselves to the national parlament and do national politics when their interest is to break the system (I do not agree with that).

The law for overrepresentation was done to not smash minorities. However, what is happening is the exact opposite: minorities are driving the majority of people instead. Which is even worse and a privilege of a few over most.
Phantom: Exploiting Decoder-Detectable Mispredictions
GP is right and I'm not sure how'd that work for France... The US had more than 50% the GDP per capita France has and the US has 5x the population.

That's kinda the whole point: the US is still the world's 1st power (a place France lost after losing the Waterloo battle, basically) and nobody has as much spying power as the US do (China probably come close).

A country with 1/10th the GDP of another country cannot be spying "just as much".

P.S: and let's not forget that France is exactly nowhere when it comes to tech, with the biggest players like Dassault and Thales being irrelevant tiny players compared to the american behemots. In the top 100 companies by market cap in the world the four french ones are... Hermes, Dior, LVMH, etc. I don't think these exactly help spying.

P.P.S: I can see I'm downvoted by french "cocorico" readers ; )
Is this similar to graph colouring?
If companies truly want to solve the piracy problem, they will treat consumers better. That is the only way to hit minimum piracy.

Anecdotally I would observe that few people pirate games, movies, books, etc released by publishers with a record for respecting their consumer based - compared to piracy of media released by publishers that do things like revoking access to media you’ve paid for.
> That night, Mr. Shear visited OpenAI’s offices and convened an employee meeting. The company’s Slack channel lit up with emojis of a middle finger.

What a bunch of children. I feel like most of them pretend to be working for a noble cause, when they actually just want that sweet payday from Thrive and other VCs. Nothing wrong with that, but it is disappointing to see their leader bring up AI safety when they do not really care.
Moving Company Touts Its Young, Chiseled Workers. Feds Say That's Discrimination
Haven't used it myself, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421095
The US does expel diplomats who engage in spying. For example, in 2022 they expelled twelve for spying in ways that threaten US national security.

Even if you try to keep an eye they will of course try make keeping an eye on them difficult. The US feels it can spy-- with people having been found with wigs and whatnot, so to imagine that others can't, even if they are allowed to do things very freely is a little bit strange.
He says "just a spritz" and it is true that just one spritz does help, but in the paper there was quite a bit of water applied - probably more like 3-4 spritz of water.
Seems like the technique only works in highly controlled scenarios (e.g. you have tens of phenotypes and images and want to have a better than random chance of assigning one to the other):

> Nevertheless, re-identification risk in the wild does not appear to be especially high. While we observe a success rate as high as 25%, this is only achieved when the genomic dataset is extremely small, on the order of 10 individuals. In contrast, success rate for top 1 matching drops quickly and is negligible for populations of more than 100 individuals. Moreover, it should be kept in mind that this result assumes that we can predict the phenotypes perfectly.
That was not my point. :)

I know what this is used for. It's still ill-named (you don't sign it, it would be a "de facto" instead), and still debatable a theory (which states that in an ideal, invented state of nature, without such a contract enforced by an authority, violence would be the natural relation between individuals).

There's more (especially since the times of Hobbes) to describe how societies have functioned/could/should function.

Social contract theory is not much more solid than the homo economicus one: it has its points, and its flaws.
I'm pretty sure Deleuze never said anything about difference, multiplicity, variables, or process that has proved useful to a scientist or engineer, but I'd be very interested to be proved wrong.
> If any output is a direct reproduction of a copyrighted input that output is copyright infringement

so by that standard, why isnt photoshop a copyright infringement? You can use it to create a copy just the same.
Shake-up of French science system is biggest in decades
Not familiar with that one, but sad to hear about.

It wasn't until I started growing apple trees that I realized how crazy hard it is to grow some trees. They're susceptible to insects, fungus, drought, flood, animals...etc.
> Add reporting for government agencies

Way ahead of you—we're licensing Praxis Vector™ technology to Palantir. Thiel didn't buy a board seat for nothing.
It is misattributed, he never said that: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Misattribu...
typo fix: "like I can" -> "like I said above"
Idk how to dumb it down enough because your logic is so flawed:

X causes Y doesn't mean Z cannot cause Y too.

You might want to reconsider that your 'basic knowledge of economics" isn't enough to explain everything.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/oecd-confirms-that-in...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/19/1177180972/economists-are-rec...

https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/news/corporate-profits-resp...

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/profit-infla...
This does not come from the Quran, which does not call for killing Jews anywhere, but feel free to show me where it does.

It comes from something called the "Gharqad Tree Hadith". A hadith is the muslim equivalent of a blog post dating more than a thousand years ago. It has no canonical value, it's an opinion piece by an individual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharqad

And no, again you're wrong: it isn't part of the current charter either. You can read the actual content here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter#Contents

I would recommend reading more about this because your knowledge of the subject seems extremely poor and ressembles low value talking points you usually hear on talk shows.

If anything, please share sources to back your genocidal claims.
In that case, outside of the Golan Heights, Israel hasn't expanded its borders since 1948 when it declared independence.
> confidence interval and has weights to manipulate precision and recall

Neither of which are supplied by education, and I am unaware of any humans basing able to deliberately (let alone precisely) alter their own perception on the scale between precision and recall — look at something, it's "obviously" X or not X almost immediately after you know what the category X is, even when you're wrong. Apart from the very first few encounters it doesn't even matter how much of a noob or expert you are in the field of X-recognition, your confidence is the same.

Worse:

> qualified

Given how well ChatGPT does on standardised tests, doing better than many actual humans even despite its many flaws and limitations, it should be clear that the qualifications are not good enough to do what you're expecting them to do.

> and aren't just bullshitting plausible-sounding words.

That's demonstrably how humans work (at least when it can be tested, perhaps people who need split brains are weird): all the indications are we do a thing first and then come up with a justification after.

(And then we have people like Boris Johnson, 2:1 BA from Oxford, with a disconnect between reality and the words leaving his mouth that would be comical except he actually became Prime Minister in real life and not just a TV comedy blending 'Allo 'Allo with The Thick of It).