skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is this even confusing? Piracy is piracy, it is the act of consuming products outside of the framework that enabled the funding for creation of these products. And the owning was always about owning the rights to consume some product within some framework, no one ever claimed that you own an album in the sense that you can do whatever you like to do with it if you paid 19.99$.

If you want to actually own an album, you do it like Martin Shkreli purchasing the album from Wu-Tang Clan. Pay 4 million dollars and it's all yours.

Useless discussions, honestly. It's like claiming that Walter White did not actually die on Breaking bad.
I agree with your initial statement but I would ask of you to question you points 1 and 2.

1. I am not sure if you are saying that extremists like Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich are not in charge, but their rhetoric and speech has made it clear they do not care for Palestinian deaths, and rather would like to carry out more killings. If you didn't know about the people in charge of your government, I implore you to look into their history.

2. I would ask you to look more critically at the IDF, after all that B'Tselem has shown them to have committed. I would look to what the IDF did during the peaceful 2018 Great March to Return where they shot and killed hundreds of unarmed civilians, including women and children, and severely injured thousands of others. Only one Israeli soldier was slightly wounded in the whole conflict. They have also been killing children indiscriminately in the West Bank, what would justify that? There are dozens to hundreds of other cases where the IDF has been incriminated for unjustified violence but I am not able to collate them for you at the current time. If that is not enough evidence to change your stance on the IDF, that nobody can help to change your mind.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-...
But people use large model for better metrics, this defeats the purpose.
Building up your intelligence capability in a country is much more easily done while they’re an ally than waiting for them to elect an insane, unfriendly government, and doing it then
Profit or stock value is what is measured, sociopathy is what's driving it and lack of accountability enables it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38545522
W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine
I thought it was interesting how close the law maps to CIA [0]:

Confidentiality - disclose (procure - intent to disclose)

Integrity - falsify

Availability - disable

> Article 584 of the Penal Code, which punishes “a Spaniard who, with the purpose of helping a foreign power, association or international organization, procures, falsifies, disables or discloses information classified as reserved or secret, that is likely to harm national security or national defense.”

Not super surprising maybe, information has always been important, but it makes me wonder what the oldest written equivalent of the CIA triad is.

I found some references to Caesar using it [1], but no actual quotes.

Edit: It seems like some of the downvoters think I made up some words that I associate with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) but I'm referring to the CIA acronym in information security [0]. I can understand the confusion in this context, sorry!

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security#Key_con...

1: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/47700
no, I don't there's anything missing, other than the usual apathy toward systems reforms in most societies.

this would probably work pretty well for these "utility-like big gatekeeper corps" which handle a shitton of subpoena requests, of course it doesn't help if a SWAT team is executing a someone-shout-and-knock-with-that-huge-doorfucker-implement on the wrong house.

in many countries there are state-managed online id systems allowing sending documents to legal persons ... which would make it really really trivial. send the warrant to the department executing it and to the department handling these at Verizon. (I wouldn't be surprised to learn that most of the US states already have something like this, but not used like this.)

it can be optional/voluntary for natural persons, it can be mandatory for companies above some size, etc.
Yeah, IT is a funny world where there are rockstars, architects, pirates, and neither of them are what the name suggests. It's like when people were naming the sea things after the already established land-things, so we got the seahorse, sea cucumber, seaweed etc.
neither is facebooks image one
But there is nothing new or intellectual about this.

Expelling diplomats is about as minor and inconsequential event as you can get.
> They are entitled to live safely, not to kill thousands of innocents because it suits them.

Them living safely means winning the war by destroying Hamas’ logistics, assets, and ability to launch attacks. Them destroying Hamas means air strikes that unfortunately will inevitably include civilian collateral damage due to how Hamas operates. In my view, this justifies all actions Israel has taken so far.

Additionally, if successfully done, killing Hamas now means fewer Palestinian deaths in the future.
That is true but even the unreliable malaria vaccines that are out there are more effective and reliable against malaria than sickle blood cells.
Good thing i didn’t claim that all piracy is immoral then!

And I’ve given lots of specifics. It’s just not a complex concept.
There must be IMHO. For these things what you usually have is an arrest as a minimum yet they let them go.

On top of that it was made public.

Spain is turning at this moment, btw, in a dictatorship and I am not exaggerating. I am spanish.

I am figuring out what to do and whether to leave or not. I have my family here so that's what keeps me here. Otherwise I would have left already.
great, now read his counterpart, Rousseau. these are both just stories, and in as much as their conclusions rely upon their assumptions about the "state of nature" they're both flawed: with every decade anthropologists unearth more of human history and find more evidence that neither portrayal comes close to representing the actual ways in which humans interacted at any point before or distant from the English society we and they knew.
It’s called trespass, I believe the legal phrase is “trespass of chattel” but IANALY.
We already have a local container cache for speeding up dockerhub pulls.

Automated container layer caching is coming in ~2 weeks.

This will be present transparently so you'll be able to get the goodness with zero changes to your current actions.
china is actually trying, but it is not easy to get every governmental employee to listen and enforce such a change.

in europe on the other hand the issue is entirely political. a city switches to linux. when the leading party changes it switches back because microsoft promises some benefits like jobs or worse kickbacks, or the new leader is simply ignorant and actually believes that windows is better.
If someone says "I spent a lot of resources making this digital content. please pay before consuming it" and you consume it without paying, then that seems kind of like a social contract violation to me (though I may be using an overly broad definition of social contract).

Of course, per the article it seems the sellers are often turning around and saying "hey I know I sold you this, but now I'm going to change/revoke it remotely" which is also a breach of social contract. So an eye for an eye I guess.
French AI startup Mistral secures €2B valuation
Which implies the causation in the title is backwards.
Is that true? Surely things regress to a stable mean most of the time of a few archetypes, no?
This is likely going to be buried, but: now Bleeper has standing to argue that Apple, as owner of the largest mobile messaging platform in the US, is a monopolist.
It certainly does carry on. Same in France.
> Piracy isn't exactly a zero-sum game, but there is a cost associated with it.

There is zero cost associated with piracy. Zero.

At best, there's an expectation of profit that's not met. To argue that, you need to show how copying a file translates to a potential sale being converted to a no-sale, and there are plenty of evidence that unauthorized distribution of copyrighted work drives demand up.

> Pretending piracy doesn't hurt revenue is a shaky ground to stand on

Go ahead and show exactly where copying a file hurts anyone. You're trying to pass off your personal assertions as axioms, but it's on you to prove that copying a file without the consent of someone hurts anyone.

Go ahead.

> now whatever it hurts the artists revenue is a different question

If anything, artists are the least impacted counterpart as they literally get paid a small fraction of the whole income.

>
Then why is nobody using assembler for modern software projects?
I didn't say the numbers from the Gaza MoH were wrong, I'm not sure where you got that idea (though see footnote). As far as I know, they simply don't report a breakdown of civilian vs militant, which makes it impossible to rely on their numbers for the purpose you talked about.

> Are you saying the IDF has had troops on the ground in Gaza verifying the M&M stats? Or are you simply stating that you believe the IDF?

I do trust the IDF, yes. And obviously it has troops on the ground in Gaza, it's a ground invasion.

Their numbers are largely in line with the MoH reported numbers, except they add that they've killed 1 militant for every 2 civilians.

You might not trust this number, but there is no other number to use as far as I know. Though if you trust the MoH number but not the IDF's number, I'm... not sure why.

>I have stated as a simple matter of verifiable fact that vastly more precision is both possible and achievable today in 2023 than was the case in WWII night time bombing.

> The IDF are hitting the targets that they have chosen to hit.

Yes, I agree with this.

Note 1: While the historical numbers given by the MoH were accurate, this doesn't necessarily mean that in the current war their numbers are sound. The current war is very, very different from previous conflicts in Gaza, making both the fog of war and incentive to lie very different.

Some things that give pause on their numbers is that they have been shown to give vastly inflated numbers already (e.g. the "Hospital bombing", which Hamas claimed was conducted by Israel but wasn't as verified by numerous third parties, was initially given a death toll of 500, though later third parties put it at much closer to 50, iirc).
There's nothing social about intellectual property law. It's been shaped by and to the benefit of corporations who would have us paying royalties to the descendants of the man who "invented" the wheel if they had their way.

It goes entirely against how humans think, strangling creativity and innovation. An artist is harmed far more when they're forced to spend years in court, debating whether their chord progression is too similar to a song written by someone who's been dead for 50 years.
> So destruction now or destruction some time after 2065? I know what I'd pick ...

Well, realistically, no big change is likely to happen to the relationship with the Palestinians in the near future. Maybe in another 20-40 years. So the time gap between the two scenarios may be smaller than you suggest.
Inside OpenAI's crisis over the future of artificial intelligence
I'm not for or against but:

First, I never violated a license agreement I signed by buying a product.

Also, my moral isn't yours, clearly. In my mind, sharing information is moral, withholding it is immoral. I think there is degree to this (clearly a State, or government officials, or state agents withholding non-vital information is extremely immoral, whereas it's less immoral to do so for a company), but clearly, I think of proprietary code, unshared patents and copyright of a song or artistic creation immoral.
> The false presumption you make here is that you are entitled to these works; you are not.

That's not true. If a publisher refuses to publish a book in braille because they see no profit in that, but nevertheless sues everyone who does the conversion to braille and publication on their own, then this directly deprives blind people of their cultural rights.
Yeah, we need a good dictator (...) or we need to create federated horizontal power structures with consensus decision making as an alternative to current systems.
If you have a publicly available photo of yourself (e.g. public social media), it's possible to match that to your genomic sequence. I.e. you already have to be anonymous online to have a chance that a private company cannot reidentify you.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg3296
It's just a rough estimate given that these things are fairly linear, the original 7B mistral was 15 GB and the new one is 86 GB, whereas a fully duplicated 8 * 15 GB would suggest a 120 GB size, so 86/120 = 0.71 for actual size, suggesting 29% memory savings. This of course doesn't really account for any multiple vs single file saving overhead and such, so it's likely to be a bit off.
For quantization, you should always verify directly on your own intended tasks, not trusting the quantization will preserve accuracy on a boarder spectrums of tasks, because surprises are not that infrequent.
A life-time membership costs 12 - 23 times more than the monthly subscription fee depending which package you choose. I'm not sure that paying a huge lump sum for a subscription I don't want is a good alternative to taking a monthly subscription that I don't want.
Bit of a tone deaf response to be honest. Not to mention that you are only responding to a very specific bit of the feedback.
> as universal as the agreement to abide by copyright rules are at the time of the exchange between the licensee and owner

So are you saying that a provider "selling" some content and then removing it from your library is as bad as you pirating it in the first place?
Go on /r/tinder and the like and you see posts like this all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/v7a7s3/your_phone_s...
> Spain is turning at this moment, btw, in a dictatorship

Seems a bit of a hyperbole for "Spain is under a fragile minority government".

By that metric, the UK is a dictatorship in most years.
It's endemic for sure -- I download pirated stuff yes, but as I got older, I really did try to make an effort to use streaming services, movie/media stores, app stores, etc. Everything about it was so awful and ridiculous that it just wasn't worth my time to deal with the frustrations and more importantly the ever increasing costs and advertisement non-sense. Having an entire TV series I was watching suddenly vanish from the provider library in between episodes, shows/music I had used the applications own "download to local device" feature vanished just because I was traveling and suddenly I was not approved to watch/listen to the stuff I had paid for, constant advertisements and pushes for more subscriptions, it was absolutely asinine.

I do continue to download some pirated items but largely I just checked out of modern media mostly because the cost of participation is too much. At least online there are some services that video essayists release on which aren't too bad (Nebula isn't horrible, but still is a bit annoying).

I'm fearful of the day that searching "[some specific functions I want] + FOSS" and looking for repositories that have what I'm hoping for will stop working, since it's been fairly successful for me to find software that doesn't come with all the modern tech world non-sense. Some of the most simple applications like DaisyDisk for macOS or the Redirector plugins for browsers are absolute gems that have made my life objectively better and more convenient, and the teams behind these programs have shown repeatedly they aren't interested in anything else besides just having their programs work. It was very easy decision to donate to these teams/buy the apps because it was the most simple transaction ever, and the programs work as well or better than they did when I first installed them. Same with games from GOG -- I love that I have bought HoMM3 one time, and I think more than a decade later, I can still use the same installer, get the installer again, and enjoy my game wherever I want, and it's a completed game that can be further improved by mods.

Real and workable models for selling tech exist and it works without DRM -- I know for corporations it's not enough money coming in and they "need" to monetize every last drop of blood out of everything, but it's not like these business models are impossible or even bad; just different and a bit calmer than the corporate non-sense we have today. And the alternative models without DRM and data pilfering are definitely something I am willing to buy into, since there looks to be a pretty damn good chance I'll be able to actually use the stuff I'm buying how I want to.
> Besides, it costs nothing to live as a hermit in the woods

if i formally opt out of this "contract" (i.e. renounce my citizenship), then there are no woods i can recede to without being considered an illegal alien.
Also with a lot of the French philosophers, there’s an assumption that you’ve already had a standard Sorbonne education, and now you’re ready for a revisionist interpretation of some fundamental questions in the standard model, but if you’re just coming to it as an American undergrad, you’re missing a lot of the context, so the revision makes no sense.
Interesting analogy with money but I don't think it holds up.

Money requires scarcity, otherwise its utility goes down. En masse, money copying would bring about hyper inflation very quickly. Society loses.

On the other hand, what work of art requires scarcity to be enjoyed? Personal sexy videos don't count here, as that's a privacy matter not a scarcity issue.

I can see that argument working for the fashion industry for example: buying clothes from an exclusive designer has the value of making you look unique. If suddenly that outfit gets copied and everyone is wearing knockoffs, you no longer look unique.

However if someone pays to rent a movie, and someone else pirates it, none of the consumers lost. The copyright owner only loses if a sale would've otherwise happened.

So I think that outcomes matter according to specific scenarios, and showing damage should be essential in court cases. Too many innocents have their lives ruined by inflated piracy claims that truly caused little damage.
O I see what you mean. That makes sense. I'll add that to the backlog. Thanks for the feedback!
Here's a graph showing the negative correlation between "hut-dwelling" and "utilitarianism":

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/05/01/with-high...

The US can be said to be both. E.g. you won't find many "huts" along the northeastern coast, but search and you'll find them elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine where the most "huts" are found.

So it's flat out wrong to claim that some sort of perceived moral bankruptcy with regards to the value of human life has left our society in the stone ages, when all evidence points to the contrary.

Under utilitarian capitalism people are expendable, but in the meantime they are less likely to dwell in huts than morally superior societies.

Note that I've blatantly equated religion with moral here.
This one is already open though. The file is gone.
Give me a wordcount on that readme, you'll see what I mean. If it was 1/3rd the length it'd still be one of the longest readmes ive ever read - and almsot all the ones ive read and written are by humans.
I just enjoy the journey of building the project instead of fixating on the "finish line".
Best Practices for Query Optimization on PostgreSQL
Ah, at last I've found someone else who remembers it!

You're likely correct about the accuracy of the quotation, unfortunately I don't have a photographic memory.

You're absolutely right about it being remarkable that it was there for years and that no one bothered to deface or paint over it (especially since it was right next to a bus stop). Why no one didn't is a question for sociologists and cultural scientists methinks.

Its longevity turned it into a sort of cultural icon, it's why I'm sorry I never took a photo of it when I had the opportunity. Anyway, I hope someone did so for posterity's sake. ;-)
By that logic, the US is an authoritarian country. There’s a meaningful distinction to be made between whether your own citizens have a direct say in their governance or not, regardless of how foreigners in foreign countries may be oppressed.
Artists can make money during live concerts instead. As it has always been. The artist that writes stuff once and reaps benefits forever is a horrible heresy.
Copyright is applied to books. The books you have on your Kindle are subject to exactly the same issues. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989...

For physical books, you have first-sale doctrine rights. For digital books, your license agreement means you usually agree those rights don't apply.

That's why storing and sharing physical books is not a crime - you have actually purchased them.
I'm impressed by the closeness to reality, but curious how they could assess performance consistently?
What if I say "I spent a lot of time on my appearance, if you look at me you should pay". Do I have the right to bill anybody making eye contact?
thank you for your service James
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USA is supporting Morocco and Morocco has had a long problem with Sahara and claims for Ceuta and Melilla, spanish cities. Also they want to take over at some point Canary Islands.

Americans are playing two faces here: Spain is our friend and at the same time they are supporting Morocco.

It is not nice IMHO. Last year after more than four decades of Shara conflict between Morocco and saharauis the soanish government suddenly changed position for this topic with zero explanation. Something government knows most citizens are against. I think americans forced Spain to do it.

On the way we had a conflict with Algeria, which is who provided us with cheap gas. It is a stupid movement forced from outside.

At the same time, Israel normalized relations with Morocco, putting an embassy there. And now they are in Sahara mining...

Is this all by chance? I doubt it. It is all planned. Against our own interests.

Pure geopolitics.
The problem you’re refusing to address, and why I did reply to your earlier post the way I did (after reading it), is that a) you completely ignore the rights of the owner of the work, and b) presume some kind of entitlement to the work in the first place. What gives you the right to stomp on someone else’s rights just because you “want” to watch a movie?

Besides, as I’ve already said, we can come up with exceptions all day, the general case of piracy, the one being discussed, is immoral. If you tie a baby to a railroad and only agree to let the baby go if it hears a Metallica song, yeah piracy would be justified. That doesn’t mean much in this conversation however.
Note that those % numbers don't convert into sales or profits. Those are just the biggest numbers found to defend DRM.

(Similarly how being able to share a BluRay with your family doesn't lose the content industry N sales of discs.)

This issue is a lot more nuanced than reading some skewed stats and declaring that it's a problem.

The core issue is that this is a hugely emotional issue - the content industry (and artists of course) are constantly playing the "oh poor us, everyone is stealing, those criminals!" note to make pirates look bad... while in the same sentence establishing outright abusive DRM practices and trying to extract maximum money of every single shmuck that actually bought their content legally.

DRM has a massive negative effect on legitimate consumers - instead of quoting "90% piracy that", instead think about just how much of that piracy ACTUALLY hurts anyone and how much the attempt to fight it ACTUALLY hurts people who legitimately pay for their content and hardware.