skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you. While reading your comment, I had the thought "'atrocities coming from all of the actors'? Are you saying they're equally bad?" Of course, that's not what you said and there are far better responses if one is concerned about debating the relative moral standings of Israel and Hamas. It was more of a kneejerk reaction, and I quickly dismissed that from rational consideration, but the fact that I thought it nonetheless (and, in a different world, just replied with that) is a bit unsettling. Especially when we can't be certain what's a truth or lie when it comes to coverage of this conflict, it's far too easy to lose sight of the nuance.
they're openly biased, but by far the best mainstream news Outlet in the region
Is this FUD? [edit: it's not, see the replies - I kept my original comment below because that's what people answered to, but I no longer agree with it]

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The linked announcement says

> Going forward, any contribution to LXD will be made under AGPLv3 by default. The author of a change remains the copyright holder of their code (no copyright assignment).

Emphasis mine. No copyright assignment.

So, Canonical now contributes in AGPLv3. The project is now AGPLv3 as well, with some parts in Apache 2. Contributors may contribute in Apache 2 if they wish but probably won't bother. They still own their code.

The author is pissed off because he can't build custom versions without redistributing the modifications and can't sell services to companies afraid of the AGPL anymore.
I don't disagree with the general premise of this post, but:

> Two different types of engineer your company has to hire for

That's going to be the case anyway. React and front-end work in general has gotten pretty damned specialized; if you want your front-end to look good, to work well, to be responsive, and to not be a garbled mess, you're going to need people who specialize in front-end work.

> A third API language to serve as an interface between frontend and backend (GraphQL, REST, SOAP, pick your poison)

You're going to need this regardless. And pretending that https://trpc.io/ (whatever it is) is somehow different from GraphQL, REST, etc in terms of having to learn a technology is a joke that doesn't land.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2023 Edition
Related:

Birth of BASIC (2014) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830201 - July 2020 (36 comments)
I remember seeing the Hasbro Interactive logo when starting up MechWarrior 3. It seems they were a victim of the dotcom crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MechWarrior_3
Back in the day, I did quite a bit of programming, professionally, on 6800-family CPUs, mainly 6850 and kin. It was an absolute pleasure to work with. The 6502, by comparison, felt like an absolute nightmare.
Keep Your Loader Data Fresh in Remix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_...

https://news.yahoo.com/hamas-member-says-repeat-attacks-0656...
One thing you'll see from a lot of these LLM examples and demos are intentionally subjective queries, so they can't be judged on pass/fail criteria.

For example, you'll see things like "where should I visit in Japan?" or "how should I plan a bachelor party?", because they are a huge variety of answers that are all "correct", regardless of how much you disagree with them. There is also a huge number of examples from them to draw from, especially compared to something as specific as your browsing history.
1. All the time, though not quite as much as outside Israel. I think outsiders don't feel quite as determined as Israelis do - we believe that it's achievable because we feel we are fighting for our lives, to an extent - which makes a lot of things that are hard-but-not-impossible to achieve suddenly achievable.

2. Yes, there is a bit of talk about "the day after" and how to keep the peace. No one really knows or has good answers here. (I have my answers for what should happen short-term and long-term, but luckily I have no part in this government!)
While there is the bigger picture to consider, my solution to get access to Swedish content for my then-partner while we were in the US was to use a VPN. Mullvad worked for local content, but if you still have friends/family back home, a tailscale exit node might work better, especially for Disney+.
It’s a proof of concept! But hopefully you can see how you could build an app that has content that is both cloud & local, private & shared - and that has users that are both anonymous & authenticated, online & offline.
> According to Babbitt, CarPlay and Android Auto aren't perfect programs. They have stability issues that manifest themselves as bad connections, poor rendering, slow responses, and dropped connections.

I can guarantee you that whatever GM comes up with to replace Android/Apple, it will have these problems and worse. My slightly older car's "push to dial someone on your contact list" functionality is laughably bad.
Same year I faxed them a resume touting my 8-bit assembly experience. Dodged a bullet there, although I'm sure I could have picked up another architecture pretty quickly.
Seems to be the same thing.

"The concept comes from an ancient Jewish ritual described in the Bible, specifically in Leviticus 16. During the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), two goats were chosen: one to be sacrificed and the other to be sent into the wilderness, symbolically carrying away the sins of the community. This second goat was called the "Azazel" or the "scapegoat".

Over time, the term "scapegoat" evolved to have a more general meaning in English. It came to refer to a person or group that is unjustly blamed for the problems or misfortunes of others, reflecting the original ritual in which the goat was symbolically burdened with the sins of others before being sent away.
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If you want a story about Sony and lawsuits for hacking devices, here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
I only see the word 'AI', it's mentioned exactly 27 times. The word 'LLM' is used nowhere in this article.
I saw an interview a while ago of an Israeli father who lost his kid in one of the previous wars, and who now works a Palestinian father, who also lost his kid, in order to find a peaceful solution. He confirmed your point by saying, I paraphrase, "we are doomed to live share this land together, or the graveyard under it".

I really, really hope it will be tze "cheely" solution, the alternatives are, unfortunately, very much imaginable and incredibly painful and ugly.
(a) A fixed 60 days pay is less than the 2 months per year with the company that has been the case in the last few tech layoffs I've observed in companies I've worked at

(b) Even for the <1 year employed, 60 days of factory pay (or instruction manual writer pay, or box artist pay, etc.) is less than 2 months of tech worker pay.
AS-204 was absolutely production hardware. The later hardware was different because three people died. They died in rehearsal for an actual mission.

> Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
I didn't realize that a search engine needs to be able to predict 100% of the phrases a user might search for in order to be competent
> but there is no right whatsoever to blockade Gaza's access by sea

This by the way is an important fact to bring up when the claim that "Israel left Gaza many years ago and the problem didn't improve". In actuality, they withdrew their occupying army but still kept up a blockade, including a literal cap to the number of calories allowed to enter the country, which I can only interpret as a population control measure. That's of course in addition to all the other stuff they kept doing, but that's probably a discussion for another day.

I'd note that the GP was careful to specifically mention Israel having withdrawn its military from Gaza which is true, so I'm not disputing the veracity of their claim on that specifically.
I really wish the reading by Wheaton wasn't so childishly animated. Had to stop listening.
Same thing happened with Project Hail Mary & Ben Franklin bio by Isaacson audiobooks.
Oh, I trust them alright-

+ "We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba" - Agricultural Minister of Israel.

+ “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly...We will eliminate everything - they will regret it" - Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister.

+ "dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip an option" - Heritage Minister.

+ "Nakba? Expel them all,” Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker for Israel’s parliament.

+ "There will be no electricity and no water (in Gaza), there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell." Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian.

+ "only solution left is "voluntary" evacuation of Gazans to countries around the world" - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

+ "If it [Hezbollah] makes mistakes of this kind, the ones who will pay the price are first of all the citizens of Lebanon. What we are doing in Gaza we know how to do in Beirut," - Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister.

+ "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember" - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (that verse goes on to command King Saul in the first Book of Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a rival nation to ancient Israel)
One of my filter bubbles presents me with something similar to what the parent is seeing, for another datapoint.

There are extremely different narratives which one can be presented with.

In one, the pro-palestine marches have been commandeered by russia/iran and/or neonazis, to the extent of chanting 30's era slogans and marking people's homes based on their Jewishness. The on the ground atrocities and brutal tactics of Hamas are hilighted against the humanness of Israeli victims.

In another, Israel, aided by the US, is committing the systematic genocide of a severely underdefended population and there's an unspoken understanding of how Hamas could have arisen in such conditions. There's a sense that everything Hamas is doing is ineffectual and anyway reactive. The on the ground atrocities pale in comparison to the Israeli-sourced on the ground atrocities due to the imbalance of power and an implied overarching guilt / causality.
"As a result, Canonical cannot release LXD under the AGPLv3 license and likely never will be able to.
LXD is now under a weird mix of Apache2 and AGPLv3 with no clear metadata indicating what file or what part of each file is under one license or the other."

IANAL but that's not true? You can take Apache2 and relicense it under AGPL? You can take "less copyleft" license and make it "more copyleft".

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2

It's entirely kosher in my opinion, and the entire thing agpl, with no "weird mix" or whatever
'No, because i don't want to deal with the ethics around that'
If there was any serious concern over the 8bn voices, I'd assume we would first have been offered some say in whether we even wanted this research done in the first place. Getting to the point of developing an AGI and only then asking what we collectively want to do with it seems pointless.
> Enshittification has reached new heights, as Sony just decided to yoink over a thousand seasons—that's right, seasons, not episodes—of Discovery shows from the PlayStation Store.

> But they're not just removing them from the store.

> They're removing them from people's libraries.

That's called fraud. Why in the world are we not prosecuting it?
XnGine (the engine behind Daggerfall, Terminator: Future Shock, SkyNET, etc - i think the last game to use it was Redguard) was full 3D however Daggerfall relied a lot on sprites for NPCs and such (most likely because it had a ton of NPCs in towns) but the maps were fully 3D and there were 3D objects in them (the screenshots in this tool[0] that show daggerfall maps make it clear). Terminator used sprites for small objects (weapons, pick up items, etc) but enemies were 3D models as was the world. In Redguard almost everything was 3D.

[0] https://www.dfworkshop.net/introducing-daggerfall-scout/
Oh, they could? Let's hope they do! It seems that they're afraid to stake out the goal of these launches because if they keep it vague they can always claim a V. If they say their goal is to test refueling tech and it explodes before reaching orbit that's a failure. They were also supposed to test the heat shields last launch and they didn't make it that far. I have zero faith they'll deliver without bankrupting themselves. Musk has said they've spent about $2bn a year on Starship over two years.
It’s still Stone Age, sorry. Their business is squeezing the most out of old cable infrastructure not building next generation infrastructure to support our increasingly critical digital future.

Comcast is rolling Docsys 4.0 out to support, “300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1-gig all the way up to 2-gig” service. Their words, not mine.

Fiber easily supports 10-gig, or 100-gig with easy upgrades. And here’s the point: that single strand of fiber can support, without replacement and in a single strand, around 44 Tbps. That's not something cable companies like Comcast want you to know. Even if they squeeze 10 or 20 gig out of this aging cable lines, it’s holding society back.

People don’t need it. But a T-1 (1.544 mbps) line was the recommended size for 45 people in 1999. Now not 25 years later that’s laughable.
Don't know the cost but the rate of development is so fast they don't want to keep the old ones anyway. It's not like they would keep it and use it for anything except scrap metal. The technology is so out of date compared to the models waiting to go. Blowing it up or ditching it in the sea is basically an easy way to get it off the pad to make room for the next one.
You mean the only news outlet who hasn't lied once since the start of the conflict? Unlike CNN, BBC and others who just believed IDF lies like the beheaded babies thing?
Also, regarding food and water .. it's not hard to find pictures and reports of thriving markets, cafés, clubs. Materially, I'm pretty sure Gazans are better off than Egyptians.

Of course that doesn't much diminish their grievances which is based on lost land and and lack of freedom of movement.
On some things that is not a bad position: The old SDI had a lot of spending but really not much to show for it while at the same time forcing the USSR into a reaction based on what today might be called "hype".
https://web.archive.org/web/20231212133518/https://www.washi...
I'm not your lawyer, but if the text is public domain, you can do whatever you want with it. You should be able to walk into a book store, take a photo of every page of Sherlock Holmes, post it on Facebook, and be good legally. You can legally download scans of Jane Austen novels published by Penguin last year.

A publisher would only have a copyrightable claim in their original creative works. So the cover art, the foreword, etc. This would also include e-books, as the specific code for that would be copyrightable illegal to download. Only the words themselves would be free, so you would need someone to create a gratis file therefrom for you.
I like BTC in and of itself. But where there ever any well-funded startups built around Bitcoin?

To me, BTC is the “product” (actually, “the currency”) in and of itself and I don’t care much about what most businesses might or might not do in relation to it. Mainly that other people continue to share my view of BTC itself.
Believe it or not - it was actually meant to be an exclusive for Mac before Microsoft acquired it. Here’s Steve Jobs kicking off the demo in 1999: https://youtu.be/6eZ2yvWl9nQ?feature=shared
> How specific is your solution to Postgres? Could it be ported to another db engine?

Our polling approach is relatively database-agnostic. We just need to handle each DB's quirks with our transformers (e.g. dealing with MySQL's lack of BOOL field types).

Streaming is currently Postgres-specific. We're planning on rolling out support for MySQL next, after we've finished our Hubspot integration. Do you have a specific DB in mind?

> (And, how are conflicts resolved? In a huge system with millions of records coming from everywhere it can fast become nightmarish?)

The primary source wins any merge conflicts that happen within a sync period. With polling, it's pretty straightforward: at every poll, we see how each side has changed, and for any record pairings for which there were edits on both sides, we prefer the primary source.

With streaming, we employ a hybrid method, where we only poll when events occur in either Salesforce or Postgres. If at that poll, the same record has been edited on both sides since the previous poll, we still prioritize the primary source (Salesforce). You can read the step-by-step flow here: https://docs.usebracket.com/streaming#the-streaming-sync-met...
Thanks to HN for not banning this topic.
Sunlight to Survival: Pioneering Solar Technology Transforms Air into Water
As with many things, there are but the quality of implementation and enforcement varies wildly. We have some laws here but under a mayor who gets a lot of donations from the commercial real estate industry enforcement is … unmotivated.
As someone who enjoyed board games for a little while, while playing with a group of friends on and off, I will say I was taken aback by just how separate these two categories are:

* hasbro board games
* enjoyable board games

In fact, I would say that hasbro, and especially monopoly, are responsible for a huge chunk of people thinking all board games are terrible. When I was younger, I never understood why they didn't use their large corporate resources to either purchase or create some better games.. But nowadays I realise they are more like a toy and branding company - it's just not how they work.
Based on the video (on the "videos" tab), the test setup seems to have ~120ms of latency.

- The Youtube video is 30 fps (right click, select "Stats for nerds")

- I measured ~4 frames of latency between the source device and the mirrored image as shown on the iPad screen

This isn't a scientific measurement; there may be other factors contributing to this delay, but this assessment is based solely on how it was presented in the video.

tl;dr: Probably not good for anything that requires tight timings, such as the fighting and rhythm games used in the demonstrations. The individual in the video mentions "almost zero latency", but I think anything beyond a casual gamer would notice a delay of >100ms.
Comparing:

https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/full-version/...

https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/full-version/

two things jump out at me, as a layman:

insertion into the middle of Limitation of Liability "WITHIN THE LIMITS ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT 23ANDME SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES"

Lots of changes to the Dispute Resolution, and new content re: Mass Arbitration.
However, the previous ToS still had binding arbitration clauses, and stuff about class actions.
The link you posted yourself doesn't paint a rosy picture, despite the clickbait title.
I think it's worth going back and reading Vinge's "The Coming Technological Singularity" (https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html) and then follow it up reading The Peace War, but most importantly its unappreciated detective novel sequel, Marooned In Realtime, which explores some of the interesting implications about people who live right before the singularity. I think this book is even better than Fire Upon the Deep.

When I read the Coming Technological Singularity back in the mid-90s it resonated with me and for a while I was a singularitarian- basically, dedicated to learning enough technology, and doing enough projects that I could help contribute to that singularity. Nowadays I think that's not the best way to spend my time, but it was interesting to meet Larry Page and see that he had concluded something familiar (for those not aware, Larry founded Google to provide a consistent revenue stream to carry out ML research to enable the singularity, and would be quite happy if robots replaced humans).

[ edit: I reread "The Coming Technogical Singularity". There's an entire section at the bottom that pretty much covers the past 5 years of generative models as a form of intelligence augmentation, he was very prescient. ]
Why is the toy market struggling? Is children's amusement all digital now? Are there fewer children?

I don't know why, but when toy companies and retailers fail (FAO Schwartz, Kaybee, Toys 'R Us) I always feel sad.
> The WARN act (US federal law) requires that any company with over 100 employees gives 60 days notice. If they don't provide 60 days notice, they are required to give 60 days pay.

Pay and compensation for the value of employee-provided benefits to which they would have been entitled had they been employed, if the layoff meets the size, etc., requirement for WARN Act coverage.
I like your tutorials so much! I think you're a gift to the ML community. How did you guys secure $10m VC while putting this on the webpage? I'm not criticizing or anything—just want to know how one can pitch an uncertain idea and yet receive generous funding.

> We don’t really know what we’re doing
If you’ve read this far, then I’ll tell you the honest truth: we don’t actually know what we’re doing. Artificial intelligence is a vast and complex topic, and I’m very skeptical of anyone that claims they’ve got it all figured out. Indeed, Faraday felt the same way about electricity—he wasn’t even sure it was going to be of any import:

> “I am busy just now again on Electro-Magnetism and think I have got hold of a good thing but can’t say; it may be a weed instead of a fish that after all my labour I may at last pull up.” Faraday 1931 letter to R. Phillips

> But it’s OK to be uncertain. Eric and I believe that the best way to develop valuable stuff built on top of modern AI models is to try lots of things, see what works out, and then gradually improve bit by bit from there.

> As Faraday said, “A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.” Answer.AI is an R&D lab for people who aren’t certain they’re right, but they’ll work damn hard to get it right eventually.

> This isn’t really a new kind of R&D lab. Edison did it before, nearly 150 years ago. So I guess the best we can do is to say it’s a new old kind of R&D lab. And if we do as well as GE, then I guess that’ll be pretty good.
That does seem to how the FTC is operating, if this NY Mag article is to be believed: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/lina-khans-rough-yea...

Who could have predicted that turning a large, complicated, wide-ranging bureaucracy over to a 32 year old with little operating experience wouldn't yield the great results?
Who operates crates.io ?
https://ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/agreement for the details.

In short, you don't lose your own copyright but you grant them a license to do whatever they want including re-license as they wish without having to ever consult you, allowing for your code to be used within their closed source projects under any license they wish.
No, because there's a huge difference between deliberately targeting civilians vs collateral damage.

Genocide, which is the intent and actions to destroy an entire people, is never justified, because it presupposes you'll target and kill many civilians to achieve it.