skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Vietnam's head of state and head of party can serve just as many terms as Xi Jinping has so far.

They can, but to date, they don't: the Politburo holds the power and the head of state rotates regularly. Aside from Ho Chi Minh (who's long dead), there is no cult of personality in Vietnam, you won't find a single poster of the current leader anywhere.

That said, China also tried very hard to prevent another Mao by building in all sorts of safeguards, only for Xi to come along and stomp all over them.
Haha, you're not alone--I do the exact same thing! I feel like too much water could affect the burrs somehow? I don't know. So I am with you! A few drops jostled around and it's good to go!
I'm definitely for more guided resources on making Linux apps from idea -> release, which I wish TFA was more of.

I think there's a common misconception that if the developers of ten similar apps would just pool their resources, then one great app would result. Fragmentation certainly can be a problem but I feel like this is some kind of corollary to the mythical man-month.
> Can they keep a straight face when trying to justify this clause of their terms?

Probably.

> Isn't training on content without permission kind of their whole business model?

Right, their business model rests on the argument that copyright law doesn't require permission from copyright holders. They aren't relying on copyright law, but contract law (which only binds direct users, but applies to material not covered by copyright and applies in circumstances where even if material was covered by copyright use would be allowed as, e.g, fair use.)

Is it an attempt to pull up the ladder? Obviously. But both the safety mission of the charity and the commercial competitive interests of the for profit provide rationales for this, so there is no reason to think that just because it hobbles others in trying to catch up that it would be difficult for them to do it with a straight face.
a 3-in-1 wireless charging pad for $30 from amazon to put on my bedside table.

now I wake up with my phone at 100% every time!
> The axiom is that the EU is such an important market that it can dictate terms to the world.

So the EU exists strictly in an effort to bully the rest of the world into their continental ideas? I thought the purpose was to provide representation and protection to their own citizens.

> So yep, it seems Europe isn't going to be the future of machine intelligence, to the astonishment of noone.

They mistook State Authority as an end unto itself. Everything else is going to be secondary to that.
With the way these AI models work, that data isn’t stored in a database though.

It’s hard for people to understand this concept, but the fact that a model repeated some data verbatim is a happy coincidence (!) solely based on patterns of data that it seen before.

I think people have also have a hard time with how these models are trained. They are vacuuming up all sorts of data and learning from them by creating vectors that determine how follow-up data should be generated.

Sure, the original creators of this content aren’t being compensated or even recognized for it. I don’t have a good idea on how that should be handled.

For normal humans though, looking at art or reading a book, and later repeating some passage or drawing something from your own memory is not a crime. (Unless you’re sharing the DeCSS source code I guess…)

Slightly changing the topic here, but I do wonder what were to happen if someone wrote a program called “Monkeys on Typewriters” that just iterated through various combinations of characters (or bits or pixels) and was able to recreate things verbatim.

Is that random happenstance copyright infringement?
The question itself belies the fact that your career hasn't been that long.

The overwhelming majority of people who have been in a career for decades are NOT doing it because they can't wait to get up and do it each day. They're doing it FOR THE MONEY!

Ask yourself these simple questions. Do you like:

1) Eating?

2) Living inside?

3) Using transportation?

4) Engaging in activities for entertainment?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then you're going to need money.

Unless you're the beneficiary of a large trust, then you're going to have to work a job for that money.

It's important to pick a career that you have an interest in, but if you expect to get up 30 years from now and have the same enthusiasm you had on day 1, you're almost certainly over-optimistic.

So, look at the practical ramifications of moving away from S/W engineering:

Does your new endeavor provide you with a viable livelihood?

Is it interesting enough that you can keep doing it AFTER you've lost your initial enthusiasm for it?

Of course, you probably won't follow this advice. Because reality is not something that is understood by most people at your age. There's really no way around this. Just keep going for 30 years, then you'll know what I'm talking about...
"they don't eat people under the any constraints" isn't comprehensible. Do you mean the cannibals never eat people and so any solution is valid?

edit: What is the solution you want? I tried plugging your exact words into the model posted and got nonsense (a repeat of the question and then the word "Mathematics"). If I add the prefix "Solve this puzzle: " I get three obviously stupid solution, including starting off with some people already across or just putting all six people in the boat and ignoring the capacity.

https://pastebin.com/raw/JLu0eGkx
nobody is claiming that their LLM is not trained on copyrighted materials. OpenAI and Grok will both freely admit to that. the copyright debate is only over whether training on copyright materials is fair use or not.
> I've also been pondering a backwards-compatible fork of PNG - but rather than a fork, mine would be a subset. Specifically, it would be an as-simple-as-possible uncompressed* bitmap format, suitable for use in low-complexity embedded systems etc. (e.g. bootloaders, wink wink).

Look at the NetPBM formats (PPM, PGM, PGM). They are about as simple as they can possibly get (a tiny, ASCII, header, followed by binary bitmap data), and are also uncompressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm
A relative had mail stolen from an outgoing mailbox. She filed a complaint and was contacted months later when they caught the guy. They found her checks (to charity) in his house. She was shocked to hear back so much later. Apparently they were on the case the whole time, since it was affecting a lot of people.
A subscription to Waking Up: wakingup.com
And this is why I prefaced it's absolutely great for the first line.

My issue is will the chatbot know that the thing I asked it cannot answer or is it going to keep spewing whatever it deems appropriate.

Is it better than most humans, maybe, maybe not.

I rarely contact customer support, asin once or twice in my life. The one time I got caught in autogenerated nonsense instead of getting to an actual human I started making plans to remove that company from my life.

I'm yet to be convinced there is a way for an LLM to read what I complained about and being able to determine that request is above it's knowledge and needs to be escalated
I've found my use of Amazon declining over time. Temu has basically replaced lots of consistent small-value buys that I'd go to Amazon for: cables, plastic things, simple tools, kitchen stuff, etc.

High ticket items I usually shop around a lot to get the best deal and that's rarely on Amazon.

And I've found myself buying more and more from independent shops.

Anyone else notice similar trends in their habits?
>If one of the wisest minds fell prey to the trap of more what chance do we mere mortals have? None, obviously. If the question is: How much money do you need to be happy? The answer is always going to be: More. I’ve come around to the idea that this answer is fine as long as you recognize it’s the human condition. It’s just how we’re wired.

And yet there are lots of people make it big, stop caring about getting more, and enjoy life, even withdrawing from the hustle. They're not married to their businesses, for some it was just a vehicle to get comfortambly rich, nor are they always seeking more wealth, Succession-style.

It's also more of a cultural thing, more common in Europe for example than in the US, where your whole identify is tied to your business, and hustle is considered a term of endearment.

Also, I'd like to note that no cultures of yore (and not many current ones, outside the US) would call Charlie Munger "wise". "A great business, investor, and financier", yes.
Cuplrits are mostly glibc devs with their manic abuse of version names (and very recently, a GENIUS who added a new ELF relocation type): this is a pain for game developers to provide binaries which span a reasonable set of distros in time. Basic game devs install one of the latest mainstream and massive distros, build there, and throw the binaries on steam... but that recent distro had a glibc 2.36 and now their binaries have version names requiring at least a glibc 2.36 (often, rarely not). They have to force the right version names with... the binutils gas symver directive (see binutils manual) until all their version names are compatible with a glibc reasonably "old" (I would go for a reasonable 5 years... 7/8 years?):

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Glibc%20Timeline

Of course normal game devs have not the slightest idea of those issues, and even so, they won't do it because it is a pain, that for 1% of their market. Not to mention they better statically link libgcc (and libstdc++ if they use c++) to avoid the ABI issues of those abominations (the word is fair) which have been plagging game binaries for TEN F.... YEARS ! (getting better has more and more game binaries default to -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++, if c++, gcc/clang options).

There is light at the end of the tunnel though as godot engine is providing build containers which are very careful of all that (unity seems clean there too, dunno for UT5.x though).

But you have engines really not ready, for instance electron based games: you don't have the right version of the GTK+ toolkit installed on your enlightenment/Qt/raw X11/wayland/etc distro? Nah, won't run. And packaging properly a full google blink engine for binary distribution targetting a wide spectum of elf/linux distros? Yeah... good luck with that.

elf/linux is hostile to anything binary only, that due to manic ABI breakage all over the board, all the time (accute in the SDK and core libs).

If it is already that hard for game binaries, good luck with apps. I can hear already their devs saying: "we don't care, just use and install microsoft suze gnu/linux, every else is unsupported"... I think you get the picture where all that is going.
I have relevant industry experience, and I would advise anyone to never, ever use Priority or Express Mail for a high-value item, under any circumstances. Even with third-party insurance.

Theft is much more likely than with UPS/FedEx overnight services, and it's nearly impossible to arrange the delivery so that the parcel is on camera for its entire journey, something easily accomplished with some other carriers. And if the package lost, prosecution is almost an impossibility, as is therefore recovery.

In the event of a loss, Postal Inspectors are typically useless for pursuing package theft committed by USPS employees, even with very high value because they live in perpetual fear of the APWU (their explanation, not mine). They also hilariously attempt to pass the investigative buck to local authorities, who rightly note that it was a Federal crime committed by a Federal employee on Federal property.

The Postal Inspectors recently had a high-visibility thread on another site that very much overstated their value, and ever since that thread went up that's been the narrative. It's wholly unjustified.

Registered Mail is the only USPS service worth considering for such items, and it's actually incredibly good, and tightly controlled. It's arguably the most secure service of the major carriers, and probably where that recommendation comes from. As bad as the USPS is at delivering everything else securely, they're excellent at getting Registered Mail items where they belong. Insurance up to $50K can be purchased (and sometimes over that amount).

For someone with no experience doing a one-off, high-value shipment, that is what I would strongly recommend. The insurance also comes without the endless hidden caveats one finds with UPS that requires a complex decision tree to validate, or the BTW-it's-not-actually-insurance aspect of FedEx's declarations (for which they'll happily charge).

Third-party insurance services are worth their (very reasonable) cost, but can be difficult for the average person to secure. Services like Brink's enter the picture when you start talking about moving items above that level.

But Priority/Express is the absolute wild west in terms of secure package delivery. Temporary employees working with no oversight, with a union that will reflexively and aggressively defend people even when it's fully aware it's defending criminals (sound familiar?), and unmotivated inspectors. It's a recipe for high rates of package loss, which is exactly what it has.
Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (2012)
> profit off the contributions of others

But Hashicorp's business hasn't turned a profit to date. And they rarely merge external pull requests.

If the company maintained the previous ZIRP-era permissive license status quo and then eventually went bankrupt, wouldn't that be a worse outcome for everyone?
> My next machine is going to be a lever machine for sure!

Nice - I've been a Cremina operator for the last few years, thoroughly enjoy it.

> Spring levers give you a ton of control with more precision [...]

At the expense of feedback. And to be fair and clear, most of my experience is with a direct lever, and I like it, but I'd happily have a spring lever too if I had the space.

To move things away from strictly hard-tech and measurement though, all this is also so experiential that I'm happy to keep things low-tech and manual, to degrees. My morning coffee routine is fantastically quiet for example: this doesn't (directly) affect the quality of the coffee, but I sure appreciate the experience. And the experience of being in charge of the pressure at the puck - a different way of being involved where I'm interacting with the differences in grind settings, or one bean/roast vs another...

Good luck in your lever-machine quest!
Would you link to it? Mine always die within a couple months
> The US/west also minted their own during the cold war.

And before and after, its not like the Cold War was in any way unique in seeing the US make propaganda.
find /path -user <username/UID>

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html
Canon selfy CP1500 (photo printer). For the colors, the lamination and the software. It's significantly better than competitors' (I use it to match colors when oil painting and Im picky like an engineer). My guess is that competitors have the same HW tech ("4pass thermic sublimation") but not the software and/or color sensors thing.
You still own the information. You can retain a lot of all your restaurant visits and order history and sell that if you want to.
> In the future, the payments will flow realtime.
Aside from not having to wait four weeks before the first payment, what would be the advantage of that?
Aster (https://www.ibik.ru/)

Surprisingly functional multiseat for windows. Lifetime license 50-100 for 2 seats depending on region. Partner's computer went kaput, and used this + steamlink to turn monitor into another computer. I see people online using this to play two seperate games on different "seats". Was planning to get seperate media centre PC, but this worked so well I ended up using money to upgrade PC components. Yeah, it's Russian software, but there's reddit posts dating back a few years. I can see how software/hardware vendors don't like multiseat since less sales, but I see a lot of sense in pooling budget for one extra powerful system instead of buying multiple compute devices. I wish Windows had native functionality.

Edit: Upon search, I am surprised Aster has been mentioned only one other time, 6 years ago in all of HN. Only 4 pages worth of multiseat comment dating back 13 years.
> Never buy anything of any meaningful value (if anything at all) from Amazon ever again

Honestly, a single chargeback will cause Amazon to cancel your account and block you from the platform forever. It's the cost of getting your money back :(
A 15 lb weighted blanket is the best sleep I’ve ever gotten
Fair enough. I prefer Americano via the aero press so conical is better for me. I think espresso is better when made with flat grinders. Tomato tomahto... Trying both, I prefer conical.
Are you sure you're replying to the right comment? Nothing I said promotes pirating some categories only.

The line of reasoning is that copyright falls outside current social contracts. So the general rule of piracy is that it is illegal but amoral. Morality of copyright violations should be determined by other criteria.
https://shokz.com/products/opencomm2

I am on conf calls and video chats for several hours per day. These are a product I would pay for until I die.
Technically the original BERT was mostly trained on Wikipedia (with some potentially-copyrighted books in BookCorpora)
Interesting analysis of an outstanding movie, but one fact check regarding the shinden aircraft.

> A key element in his strategy is the prototype of an advanced fighter plane, the Shinden, which never flew, Japan having surrendered before it was ready for action. Unlike Otoshima Island, the Shinden actually existed, though no photos or traces of it remain.

There is a photo of one of the prototypes taken after the war right on the Wikipedia page, so I’m not sure why the author has this impression. That article also says the prototypes flew twice on test flights.

Edit: and right, I actually saw it at the Udvar-Hazy Center near DC. The Smithsonian has the entire thing in pieces.
>Article seems to completely disregard the high cost of living of many high income earners

There's no high cost of living in their case, except a self-imposed one. More like "high cost of luxury living", because they can have all necessities, plus all kinds of middle class luxuries, with a much lower cost.

High cost of living is something you self-impose when you're loaded, and only a pragmatic barrier when you're poor: then "high cost" means "difficult to afford healthcare, rent, or even food".

They don't have to live in the expensive areas of the SF Bay Area or NYC, they don't have to have a McMansion (or more than one), and in many cases, they could even stop working entirely ($5 million in the bank is more than enough retirement money for money at 30, whether it's a family or 2, 4, or 6).
Depends on the kind of sleeper you are. Personally I can't sleep even in the summer without some amount of weight from fabric on me, which I know doesn't make much sense but it is what it is.

My roommate tosses alot when sleeping and a really heavy blanket keeps her still, which she says helps her get a deeper sleep
In the mid-late 90s, 40-bit encryption was common due to US export control restrictions, and even then, that was thought to be insecure against a nation state attacker.

In 1998, the EFF built a custom DES Cracker[0] for around $250k that could crack a 56-bit DES message in around 1 week. As was the custom at the time, they published the source code, schematics, and VHDL source in a printed book to evade (and, I guess, mock) export restrictions.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
Hands down my choice is the Pinecil soldering iron:
https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...

It's less than $50, it runs FOSS (IronOS) so you own it, and it can be powered by USB or by via a barrel jack so it's ding dang handy.
Oh, yeah, it's totally possible - just do a HN search and you'll find people who are doing it (e.g. Andrew Kelley, the Zig designer - and he's making a programming language, which nobody will pay for in this day and age!).

However, like being a social media "influencer" (e.g. Twitch streamer), it requires a lot of both hard work and luck, has a limited amount of "capacity", and isn't a viable source of income for most people.
CO2 poisoning is very common. It leads to fatigue, headaches/migranes and concentration issues. Most people don't recognize it and try to cope with caffeine & pain killers.

I noticed that sitting in a tightly closed office surrounded by monitors , CO2 was being trapped around me . I started testing with blood oxygen monitor and could reliably predict low blood O2 based on the above symptoms.

tl;dr keep your door and/or windows open and use a fan to circulate air into your desk area. It's very easy to reach high CO2 concentrations in a small room when you are surrounded closely with monitors (flat surfaces)
I'd be interested in hearing from folks that live in more humid climes--is this as much of an issue there, versus, say, Arizona? Or is the static buildup consistent regardless of ambient moisture?
Bifocals from Zenni. $39, stylish, get to brand them myself, and the lenses are better than my local boutique optician ever did at 40 times the price
"new C++23 #embed directive".

Isn't it "C23 #embed directive" ?
> The GDPR use "process it", which is generic enough to cover AI.

Nope, it's not. Because, again, sending user data to a magic black box may be illegal. While processing it in other ways could be legal.
Not sure how this is relevant. There is a point where $100+$15 is too much and simply people can't afford more than that.
So this is about pricing people out of coming in. It doesn't matter WHY they need to be there. If you have no money? GTFO.

Then if you say this has nothing to do with the poverty, then in that case, how is it going to reduce the congestion?
Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1
Cancelled my Prime this month. I will never use Amazon again.

3rd package in a month that has gone missing. Posted in apartment letter box in mail room. Each time it is missing. No sign of any amazon packages. Neighbours reporting the same with their stuff.

On top of the shit show that has been the support situation during Re:Invent I'd rather use any other retailer or cloud provider.

Amazon are a fucking shit show race to the bottom and we should stop giving them money and let them burn.
What social media isn't? Seriously? X's Community Notes have been a great improvement in that dimension.
Aw, shucks, thanks.

But I am quite aware that I have a ton more to learn, and places like this, are a good place to do that.

I should get around to doing some more writing, though. I've been very involved in a project, for the last couple of years, and haven't taken the time to write.

Now that the project is approaching release, I may be able to free up some time.