skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll gladly take long but coherent documentation over poor or non-existent documentation. This is a strange thing to complain about in my opinion.
Given how much I’ve had to scroll through this thread to get to this comment, it’s evidently not clear at all.
In fact games that get pirated more statistically also earn more revenue overall compared to those that don't. QED, piracy causes sales.
Yes - this is how ai has gone on for years ups and downs.

The trouble these days if I’m honest is either people are laser focused on the latest new toy (llm this year) or too new to the field that they don’t have a grounded understanding in what they are doing (ie they will all be trying to remix new models that have actually already been tried)

All of this while AI is still gate kept by companies with huge amounts of compute.

I will say that each new ai summer has gotten more and more dramatic though.
> The only reason you would expel someone is if it was overly egregious.

Or if the two parties are in a tit-for-tat situation of some sort. There might be some diplomatic sabre-rattling going on, on some other topic.

Also, more often than not you don't expel anyone because 1) it reveals the reach of your intel skills, and 2) it removes the capability to feed misinformation to the other party.
The relevant figures are for the UK as a whole. If you add load then that marginal extra power comes from the UK network. The interconnects with Europe make it more difficult to know the marginal difference in CO2 production.

I live in the South Island of New Zealand which has huge hydropower - power is sent to the North Island via the undersea DC link: https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and... So if I add load then what matters is where the marginal extra power demanded is generated from across the whole network (even if that is in the North Island).
Google's AI note-taking app is now available to users in the US
False. When someone without your permission copies your source code, plans or inventions, which are not physical things, is this not theft? What about the non physical bits and bytes in your Dropbox or bank account? That's just like, an exchange of information, man. Why must the "physical" qualifier be there?
So a bunch of terrorists murder 1400+ Jews and commit unspeakable acts against them, and then run and hide in pre-prepared positions behind the civilians that they have been forcibly governing and abusing since 2006, and they are on record as saying that they prepared all of this on purpose, and somehow the civilian casualties are the fault of Israel? Give me a break.

Britain killed a lot more German civilians than Germany killed British civilians in WWII. Does that make the British the bad guys?
I'm really, really excited about these GUI frameworks. Native desktop experience is so much better than web-view amalgamations. And kudos to PySimpleGUI for the simplified event loop, and multi-backend approach, that is genuinely new.

I do wonder why don't we see more "automatic" GUIs: given some data structures and functions, make a passable interface to interact with them. Use heuristics to pick when a panel should be vertically or horizontally laid out, or placed in a tabbed interface, or a popup, etc. It would unlock a lot of functionality that is too nested for CLI and too "native" for web apps.
I mean digital signatures have really only been a thing for like 20 years, and barely because people only started caring about it more in the past 10.

While the US has been around for nearly 250 years.

And truthfully, despite a highly technical crowd, how many of y’all have actually ever sent or received a digitally signed email? If you’ve tried, you know why no one ever does it.
I assume 14th May of 1948 when British rule over Palestine ended.
Artificial intelligence act: (EU) Council and Parliament strike a deal
This is honestly the thing that annoys me most about Raspberry Pis. They’ve taken what was (and still is) transferable knowledge on how to do things with Linux and made people think it’s some sort of Raspberry Pi magic.

The shear number of “how to run Nginx on a Raspberry Pi 4” tutorials blows my mind. Why not teach people to fish instead and show them how to apply the same process you would for any other Linux distribution? Who knows, maybe that’s a thing I should do.
uhm. Driving slower increases mileage as it lowers gas usage.
Contrived and distinct situation; you agree to the terms when you license the song.
Weird Al recently made a video to point out 300k streams of his songs on Spotify earned him a lousy 12 bucks. It seems there are costs either way.
Speaking of which, here's a great piracy idea:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/

Interpret that how you want ;)
You don't need to keep paying, you can just get a one-month subscription and download your genome once it's sequenced. The subscription is just for the alerting.
Look at me. I am the captain now.
I certainly don't. My Model X actually has crumple zones to absorb impact from any direction. The Cybertruck has a completely rigid frame, meaning any impact is directly transferred to the passengers. The only thing that's walking away from an accident with a Cybertruck is the Cybertruck.
If I buy a book, I can read it as many times as I want, lend it to other people or even burn it in a fireplace if I want to. Why shouldn’t these rights extend to digital media?
They absolutely deserve their own state as soon as they make peace with Israel
I would love to say I shouldn't have an opinion on this. Unfortunately my government is giving our tax dollars to one side so it can bomb the other. If they would prefer I didn't have an opinion, maybe they can stop taking our money to buy bombs.
But I paid to be able to watch the show. Sony made a deliberate action to deprive me of that ability, should I not be made whole?
As a user, definitely not. Web apps are slow, require an internet connection, don't integrate nicely with my OS, and generally inferior to native GUIs in just about every way.
Does LM Studio support it?

By the way, what’s your favorite easy-to-use LLM front end?
... for Big Tech.

It's how companies like Microsoft or Adobe could grow and gain uncontested monopolies. Because, due to piracy, price was no longer a good enough differentiator. And it's why "Linux on the desktop" never happened.

There aren't many studies on this topic and the available ones are bullshit, as they don't take into account second order effects of piracy, one of which being the rise of streaming with DRM, which also concentrates power in the hands of a few Big Tech companies.

Piracy is one of the biggest reasons for why we have monopolies. The phenomenon is now repeated with ad blockers. And the irony of the situation is that people point at monopolies to justify piracy or the use of ad blockers.
We maintain a little action called Action-Debugger that let's you ssh into a running GitHub action workflow to help debug pesky issues. It has a few additional features when you use it with our runners but works very well by itself.

https://docs.warpbuild.com/tools/action-debugger

https://github.com/WarpBuilds/action-debugger
Perhaps, but what’s more likely is they asked for that right during the initial sale, and you just didn’t notice.

Besides the remediation is not to pirate the copy back, that’s vigilantism. You would need to find a way to prove they took something they shouldn’t have.
> Oddly enough I don't blame the manufauctures. Us the consumer are willing to bend over and take this crap, so why shouldn't they shovel it to us?

Weird statement, having in mind that these same manufacturers likely used every dirty trick known to man to reduce competition just so they can eventually sheep-herd people into their closed ecosystems. Which is actually exactly what happened. Now there's no competition and they can feed us 2 features per year. It's not like there are alternative phone OS-es, or alternative smartphones for that matter. (And please don't mention FairPhone or SailfishOS; they are very much not up to the task.)

IMO every adult should take for a fact the assertion that corporations can and do work 24/7 to tilt the table and to rig the game. Doubting this is... a really alien view, one that does not align with our collective knowledge of what the human race is capable of -- and ignores numerous historical proof as well.
...but why?
I agree with the substantive point that these DRM-enabled shenanigans are a bad thing but I think putting things this way is unproductive:

> I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

> > WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Leaving it as ‘WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE. YOU WILL RENT, NOT OWN, ANYTHING YOU PURCHASE FOR IT.’ would be honest.

Ditto ‘enshittification,’ ditto particularly ‘most guillotineable executive,’
ditto ‘deserves to be staked out over and anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup.’ These are not the words of a mature adult making a mature point: they are the words of a performance artist. One’s opponents are human beings too.
Incorrect.

You’re using one of the intransitive definitions but general speaking it’s the transitive forms that apply to digital content, ideas, information, etc.

1. to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully

2. to take away by force or unjust means

3. to take surreptitiously or without permission

You may not want stealing to mean that… but that’s irrelevant to reality.
> enacted by free riders who wish only to benefit from the effort and concession of others?

You mean like doing something once and then expecting to be paid for it in perpetuity?

Expecting to be paid for the efforts of others, decades after their death?

Redefining the legal system in order to prevent others from carrying out the, distribution?

I'm much more concerned about those free riders than a teen with no way to pay for digital goods, someone who couldn't afford it, or someone who'd like to keep the things they pay for.
Correlation vs. causation: is it that games get pirated get more exposure therefore more sales, or games that are already popular get pirated?

I have to admit I haven't looked at these studies in their original form, but I guess sales revenue per install is the best metric to tell
The problem is the weaponification of technology. Governments tried to weaponify cryptography and they failed.

Here it is the EU who is limiting itself and it is not comparable to the Geneva convention since other countries will not adhere. While EU limits themselves others will take advantage of the technology.

Returning to the Geneva convention, we don't know if in less than 100 years you could build a weapon of mass destruction at home like you print a 3D model. The problem is technology is also a Pandora Box that at some point you cannot control with laws.

The Geneva convention has less than 100 years, let's see what happen to the humanity in another 100.
So (for example) Portugal was able to choose a non-austerity strategy to get out of the GFC while Spain was coerced by Germany to follow an austerity strategy? If that is what you mean, could you please provide any kind of evidence for that coercion? What makes Spain special in that regard (e. g. compared to Portugal)?
The Night Before Doom: A Poem from the Past (1993)
> But I find it hard to believe that among those 10 lines of maths each, there aren't any functions one can extract that form some natural abstraction (e.g. "translate vector" or whatever), so that every handle function ends up being maybe 1 or 2 lines instead of 10.

That's besides the point, isn't it? Just because you can in theory extract functions that doesn't mean you should, or that your codebase will be in a better shape if you do. There's the issue of coupling, and there's the issue of introducing dependencies, and there's the issue of whether the apparent duplication holds the same semantics and behavior across the project. I'm talking about things like does it make sense to change the behavior on all 10 code paths if you need to change it in only two or three? Having a surface-level similarity between code blocks doesn't make them the same behavior, does it?
I agree, real and workable models do exist. The problem stems from regulatory capture, unbalanced leverage, and long-term unaccountability of the "higher ups", in my opinion.
Or if they're looking for written content, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a great resource. It has articles on lots of philosophical topics, and they're fairly accessible

https://plato.stanford.edu/
I think I need to set a deadline and cut the scope of work.
Couldn’t disagree more; IP is the only way we could have found to properly compensate creators for the value of their work. To throw out intellectual property is to throw out art itself.
I don't think "made" is really true here. I did not make the choice to be born in this particular country with this particular social contract. And the copyright law for most part get established before I was even born and I had no say in that.

I get the point of social contract, but most people do not form it because it was established before in most cases. Not to mention that this assume you live in a democracy and that social contract is not of sort (it is what it is or we will kill and prison you).

So I don't think it is appropriate to make it appear like this was a choice everyone makes. It is not immoral to violate social contact (slavery was social contract but the moral thing was to oppose it -just example not comparison-)
Executive Summary (generated by AI)

Today, the European Union (EU) Council and Parliament reached a landmark agreement on the first-ever global rules for artificial intelligence (AI). This groundbreaking regulation, known as the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), marks a significant step towards ensuring that AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with fundamental rights and EU values.

The AIA establishes a robust framework for regulating AI across the EU, covering a wide range of AI applications and addressing potential risks associated with this rapidly evolving technology. Key provisions include:

- Principle of Safety: AI systems must not pose a serious risk to safety or fundamental rights, such as discrimination, manipulation, or privacy violations.

- Transparency and Explainability: Developers must provide users with clear information about their AI systems, including how they operate and how they process data.

- Human Oversight: High-risk AI systems, such as those used in autonomous vehicles or criminal justice, must have mechanisms for human intervention to prevent or mitigate harm.

- Due Diligence: Developers of all AI systems must conduct thorough due diligence assessments to identify and mitigate potential risks.

- Market Surveillance: The European Commission will enforce compliance with the AIA and take action against non-compliant AI systems.

- Investment and Innovation: The AIA also includes provisions to support investment and innovation in AI in Europe, aiming to make the EU a global leader in AI development.

The AIA is a significant step forward in ensuring that AI is developed and used responsibly in the EU. It balances the need to harness the benefits of AI with the need to protect fundamental rights and safety. This landmark legislation is expected to have a profound impact on the global AI landscape and pave the way for a future where AI is used for the benefit of humanity.
What sort of reply is this? Does it address the fact they sell a product and you aren't getting what you paid for?
Doesn’t need to have a transaction to be stealing. You just need to take (or appropriate) something that you’re not allowed to.
Yes, that is all true and is also valid for the big businesses that lie, steal and use their weight to exploit society. I am glad we agree!
I branch off company close branch down because it was unprofitable - I don’t have to support device.

Other approach, only huge companies start making devices because medium size companies cannot take the risk of the refunds.

Users are worse off, companies are worse off everything with the outlined rules is worse. Making law is hard.
For "phone" features, there are own standards and all the "phones" support them. They are public and everyone cooperates.

iMessage is like Discord. It is messaging service tied to specific backend, and also devices in this case.

What if I reverse-engineer Discord, make a commercial application which uses their non-public backend (not with webview) and never tell anything for Discord?
Should the "phone" argument hold in this case?

Discord is not the best example, because it 'allows' third-party level clients on some level, but above should not be the case.
Maybe, but that’s not for you to arbitrarily decide on your own.
If you already know a lisp such as scheme, much of it should already be familiar to you. You can program in a lisp-1/scheme like way using square brackets, and a lisp-2/common lisp way using round brackets.
The thing that really makes txr lisp different is the pattern language DSL, and that was what motivated me to learn it because I had a specific use case (processing my personal bank statements).
The manpage is huge due to the large amount of builtin functions and features to make up for the lack of external libraries, but there is a lot of overlap with other lisps.
I learnt by reading the manpage, looking at examples on stackoverflow and rosetta stone, and playing around with it in the REPL. The pattern matching language takes some getting used to, and it helps to have a good understanding of what its doing under the hood, otherwise you can get very frustrated.
Also it uses non-standard regular expressions which lack features such as repetition operators and capture groups, but you can work around this (e.g. by using the pattern language).
I recommend finding some non-time-critical use case to motivate you, and work on it in your spare time. Learn how to use the txr repl & command syntax, and create a directory containing some example text files to quickly test things and get a better understanding of how it works. Also create a file for keeping notes about txr & its quirks which you can easily refer to.
Congratulations, you've realized that copying some data can be immoral while copying other data isn't. Neither of your examples of money or intimate videos has anything to do with copyright, so they're completely irrelevant to what's being discussed.
the only thing I know about him (them, with Guattari), is that they went all-in to post-modern stuff with regards to the individual and society, and a lot of artists are simply find that relatable. (only the non-conformist can survive in this capitalist wasteland of ever increasing economic efficiency, etc.. etc..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus with the subtitle "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" ... and in the second part "A Thousand Plateaus" they discuss a lot of artists

> obtuse

who isn't? but seriously, first-hand reading of philosophy seems like a big no-no, almost all of it is derivative and it's very hard to present it in an efficient way (just the exposition/background/context required for [comprehending] thought experiments is usually a few dense pages, etc.)

or possibly my past encounters were very unfortunate, and it'd be great to hear some suggestions!
> Because in scenario 2, you’re presumably also shooting at unarmed civilians with their hands up who are posing no threat to you. There’s no reason to shoot them if you have the choice not to. In scenario 1, an air strike is coarse-grained enough that you don’t have such a choice to make.

But in scenario 1, one is bombing unarmed civilians residing inside their homes. The only reason they do not literally have their hands up is that they do not even see the strike coming before they and their families are killed; and they pose even less of a threat to the person sending the missile than they would pose to a soldier that is physically located next to them.

> The outcome is not the same, because scenario two involves a high likelihood of more casualties on your side. It is legitimate to care more about your own soldier casualties than about enemy civilian casualties.

My initial reply to the parent was in the context of "deliberate massacres of civilians", pointing out that people seem to find such massacres much more acceptable when done from a distance. The rest of your reply seems to provide motivations for such actions, and your last paragraph even provides justifications (unless I horribly misunderstood it). Regardless of whether one agrees with the motivations and justifications, the reality of the outcome is what it is — a deliberate massacre of civilians. Whether that is done by bullets at gunpoint or by a missile from a long distance makes little, if any, difference to the people being slaughtered by tens of thousands (and ongoing), and makes no difference at all to the death reports.
Given how few people among the general public ever cross paths with copyright law, and how common copyright infringements are in practice (eg posting a photo of a movie poster on Instagram or sharing a meme based on a shot from a TV show), I don't find your appeal to social contract very convincing.

Many copyright provisions survive only because too few people are affected by them in practice. For example, publishing a photo of Eiffel tower at night is illegal in France, because the illumination is a work of art still under copyright protection. This does not mean universal acceptance of these provisions.
And is as tasty as the logo itself :)
If so, it will not affect the progress of AI, because the AI companies will simply buy sufficient data. E.g. OpenAI's valuation alone means it could buy the largest publishers and image banks if they wanted.

What an outcome like that would do, however, would be to massively centralise the ability to train legal models.

At the same time you'd end up with a lot of "washing" of training data (a lot of "works for hire" that'd really be outputs of models trained on copyrighted works), and a lot of development moving to other countries.
I don't understand, why don't you force them to use Whatsapp (or Signal, or whatever) to contact you? Get an app that rejects by default SMSes coming from certain numbers. They want to text you at all? They need to use Whatsapp, otherwise they can go fuck themselves. (It worked for me when a friend wanted to force me to contact him on Telegram rather than Whatsapp- I resisted for weeks but at the end I gave in).

Once you automatically reject SMSes from those contacts, such that you don’t even know they're trying to contact you, the ball is entirely in their park to take action.
Piracy is, in fact, free advertising. And, as we all know, advertising is the soul of commerce.
Deleuze shows up in film and sound design, maybe music a bit. I get
why; process, change, emergence, diversity... all have a deep bearing
on these arts. Personally find it useful for understanding media in a
theoretical way. But what practising artists can really use from
Deleuze, I am unsure.