skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are building on what came before, the decision for a more powerful federal government isn't particularly new. Pooling the resources of the many states has a lot of benefits (and the states traditionally opposed to that benefit the most from federal dollars).

> If the government breaks their end of the deal all bets are off. etc etc

Those are all explicitly extra constitutional and the ones I euphemistically referred to. The methods for changing the constitution systematically within it's own rules are through Convention or Amendment.

> If ruled constitutionality is different than the people's understanding of the Constitution it creates a sense of tyranny

I'd be more charitable to the devolution of powers if the expressed preferred outcomes of that devolution of power didn't so often tend towards the repression of various groups. There's the OG slavery, segregation, voting rights, and the modern day antitrans/gay panics and to gut things like the voting rights act to prop up gerrymandered governments... but now we're tending towards topics that wind up [dead] due to flame wars.
Most any other matter is open for discussion in society, but I have noticed that if one suggests doing the same for government, people tend to start acting strange...experiencing strong emotions, hallucinating (delusions of mind reading abilities, etc)...it is a fascinating phenomenon, yet it tends to get little to no attention. And when it does, the content of the attention tends to be untruthful, hallucinatory, etc.

I sincerely believe I "smell a rat" of some sort.
Yes this makes perfect sense. As we know, businesses definitely do not treat data as a commodity and engage in selling/buying data sets on the open market as a "genuine business tactic". Therefore, since the company in question doesn't have a clear business case for data collection currently, we can be sure this data will never be used against our interests by any company.
In retrospect, how do you so far value the utility of the data you got? Did you take any actions based on them, do you think you will be doing so in the future?
This is usually related to drivers who do not use the cover of their truck they are legally supposed to. So rocks fly out the top.
Was just talking about this on reddit like two days ago

Instead of data going to models, we need models come to our data which is stored locally and stay locally.

While there are many OSS for Loading personal data, they dont do images or videos. In the future everyone may get their own Model but for now tech is there but product/OSS is missing for everyone to get their own QLORA or RAG or Summarizer.

Not just messages/docs: What we read or write, and our thoughts are part of what makes an individual unique. Our browsing history tells a lot about what we read but no one seems to make use of it other than google for ads.. Almost everyone has a habit of reading x news site, x social network, x youtube videos etc.. Ok, here are the summary for you from these 3 today.

Was just watching this yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLCKpmBeKA and thought, why we still don't have a computer secretary like her after almost 30 years, who is one step ahead of us.
Sorry for late reply. It's more complicated than that, most countries (there are lots with GST) who implement it have replaced something existing for manufacturers etc.

Usual justifications are 1) avoid cascading (you pay tax on the tax that was charged you for inputs) that makes things more expensive with more steps 2) simplify the whole system 3) make it easier for exporters to compete globally (e.g. because you can zero out the tax if govt chooses to allow)
What an incredibly vapid and reductionist take. You don't like politics, ergo it is simple enough to discount.
banks are just like every other company. Don't assume your bank knows what it's doing just cause it's a bank. Their core product isn't security, it's financial services. They benefit from security sure, but they don't profit off of it directly. They are going to have the bare minimum security, to make everyone feel like they will stay out of the headlines.
A modern x86 runs machine code out of order while an older Atom runs it jn order.
I don't care that it wraps and overflows. I care that scrolling tilted text degrades readability in two different ways at the same time, and one of them is utterly unnecessary.

EDIT: Since it sounds like it's not clear why this is bad, scrolling text horizontally and having it move diagonally is an objectively poor experience.
This is terrible. Turbulence is the only time on a flight where adults behave like adults [1]. Even their sphincters pucker preventing them from degassing.

"Nobody likes to fly through turbulence"

Thats not true! There are dozens of us! (Actually, quite a big more, I read a stat that we're about 5% of the fliers)

[1] kids be kids, of course - as a kid I once ran up and down the aisle during take off, so Im cool w/ kids.
> use it without verifying

There isn't a single general source of truth that we can use without verifying. Human teachers especially aren't such sources.
Gen Z is young, have no money, have no optimism for the future, are completely un-technical when it comes to computers, but are EXTREMELY technical when it comes to understanding apps, social media, and weird frustrations like this one.

It remains to be seen once they enter the job market, and despite the cultural perspective inevitably many do succeed, and start making money.

I wouldn't be surprised if they absolutely do focus more on physical media. They are rejecting Instagram look-obsessive culture, and look fondly at what we did in the 2000s when every Party meant a 50-photo Facebook Photo dump, 49 of which would never be "good enough" to make it to Instagram these days.
Don't underestimate a dumb managers influence on this. Back when I was running an orgs IT we had a similar incident when we fired an employee. HR had given us the heads up when it would happen, and we had someone standing by to kill their credentials (as the meeting started someone would give the final go ahead). Their manager however decided to "get it over with" without telling us, then when said employee asked if they could get some information off their work computer, proceeded to sit with them while they attempted to delete all their work.

I was able to recover it from OneDrives second recycle bin so nothing was lost, but I was livid. This employee was literally being fired because they were refusing to train anyone else on their work for "job security purposes", it's not like we didn't have warning this wouldn't be graceful.
The fundamental reason and ground for these morals will remain in fairy tales. You don't see how divisive and fragile that is? This is fundamentally wrong, even if it used to work effectively.

Surely there is another way? Stronger families, philosophy, sports, education? Humanism over religion - the only truly universal approach.
I thought that only vowels were considered to be "throat" sounds, and that most consonants came from the mouth? I guess a lot of them from tongue and teeth (like "s", and "t"), but I'm not sure how I could make an "m" or a "p" sound without using my lips
Naturally, that sounds on point for every company everywhere.

Though I've heard it's quite common in large enterprises that are fragmented due to a lot of aqui-hires, for corporate HR to forget or miss people they supposed to fire and who still remain on the payroll, especially on the satelite offices where there's no on-prem HR and nobody really knows what's going on from central.

A friend of mine was theoretically fired along with his entire team but just not him because corporate HR forgot about him or something, so he still showed up at the office without his team and without any work to do, badged in and played videogames all day for almost a year while getting paid in full, until some other people started asking "hey, who's is this guy and what does he actually do here all by himself?", then they actually fired him, or more like paid him a generous severance package to leave voluntarily in silence and not tell anyone about HR's blunder.

Lucky bastard.
Same but even after seeing another site was working I still wondered if it was my Pi Hole / DNS cache acting up or something.
Or dump trucks, which leak out the seams as they go over bumps
> If it weren't for the behemoth of legacy code we'd really have this problem more-or-less licked. Unfortunately, that behemoth is still rampaging across the landscape.

It is not only or even mostly legacy. I'm a systems programmer (in classical sense, not "but my web service is soooo highly loaded and scalable that I will call it systems programming!") and from what I see on the job people start new projects in C and C++ all the time.
What is the memory-safe subset of Java? Java is memory safe by definition. Sadly, the definition might not give people what they want, which is bug-free code.
Every other business can list taxes and fees, no reason ISPs can't.

And you can't tell me that metro net's mandatory "technology fee" of $10 to every customer can't be disclosed before you get to a buy page
Rule of thumb I once heard as a German:

"Compared to us the Swiss pay double but earn triple the money".
Porn is the perfect example to illustrate how our digital copyright system is simply incapable of sustaining an actual market.

Blockbuster films? Music? Well, you can stream them on one of the 3-5 services. There is just enough of a product to compete with piracy.

Amateur content? We have YouTube, which promises to pay content creators, so long as the content isn't obscene (as defined by YouTube's content policy, and enforced by its algorithmic moderation). There is enough of a product that both creators and viewers are willing to compromise.

Porn? Not a chance. There are the MindGeek services, which are basically YouTube with garbage-bitrate encoding; and there is piracy. Right up until the infamous PornHub purge, piracy was the only game in town!

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When it comes to porn, if your content isn't freely available on a popular tube site, it may as well not exist. Piracy is the advertising model for the porn industry.

There is a reason that PornHub's bitrate is so bad. It's clearly not just the bandwidth: every video on that site looks like it went through every lossy codec in order, just to make it as chunky as possible. Why? Because you aren't meant to stay. You are meant to pay $30 for a monthly subscription to the studio you like most. As soon as you do that, you get a DRM-free high-bitrate 4K@60 download-as-much-as-you-want as-many-times-as-you-want service. In other words: exactly what Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and the Digital Copyright industry at large would have us believe is the most unsustainable business model ever, doomed to fail instantly; yet somehow it hasn't failed yet.

But what about torrents? What about eporner and hqporner and all the other high-bitrate obviously-ripped-from-studio-subscription streaming sites? Aren't they killing the industry? They have been around for decades, yet the industry has been chugging along without a hitch.

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It's abundantly clear that the DMCA hasn't done porn any favors. The only thing it is useful for is to expand MindGeeks moat, and for DMCA trolls like this (Strike 3) to exploit regular people who were just participating in the more "obscene" corners of our digital society.
Isn't the repeated information trivially compressible using a suitable run-length encoding? As long as the result set is ordered properly of course.
The slightly annoying thing with this data, though, is that even if you don't provide your data your privacy can be violated via any relatives' data that did decide to use the service.
> The intention of section 230 is to isolate delivery mechanisms, for example ISPs and cell tower

Not quite true. The inciting cases was about ISPs hosting forums, and whether the forum host can be held liable for content it's users post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

The text of Section 230 is so simple. It deliberately targets broader "interactive computer services".

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider_
Are these tools actually effective, or are they just "feel-good" things?
Insulating tiles are not an ablative heat shield, they are a thermal soak heat shield. Ablative heat shields are non-reusable as they work by slowly burning off material which creates a cooler boundary layer between the plasma and the heat shield. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shield#Spacecraft
Seiko SNK807 and Seiko SKX009, reporting for duty.
gpt4 needs better marketing. its not perfect but its without a doubt the best learning tool humans have achieved. its better than books, wikipedia, libraries, etc. its basically your personal college professor with 24/7 office hours on practically any subject. using it in combination with other tools is the best approach, but this has always been the best approach for every learning tool.
So glad when I saw this, thanks for sharing this! It was exactly music production in Ableton was the spark that lit this idea in my head the other week. I tried to explain to a friend that don't use GPT much that with Vision, you can speed up your music production and learn how to use advanced tools like Ableton more quickly. He didn't believe me. So I grabbed a Ableton screenshot off Google and used ChatGPT -- then I felt there had to be a better way, I realized that I have my own use-cases, and it all evolved into this.

I sent him your video, hopefully he'll believe me now :)
Had he done this while he was an employee, there would be no legal repercussions.
> They're physical things, interacted in the physical world, without any way for the companies involved to claw back the content

Oh, there's ways. In the 90s, there was a rental scheme with sealed discs that would degrade in air to become unusable within a week. (At least that was upfront, if wasteful). I've had one at least CD rot from the inside, and it's a major issue for LaserDiscs. Careful material science could make this the norm.
In the order that they wanted you to hear it.
Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
It sounds like bandwidth is somewhat analogous to the way MHz/GHz used to be treated.
What do you mean by "who", and "sides"? Or, are you engaging in memetics, perhaps not intentionally or knowingly?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
We built Grooveshark with an extremely small team and grew it to a massive scale. We re built Grooveshark multiple times (moving from flash-based to HTML5, several major design overhauls, adding collaborative listening, etc). It absolutely boggles my mind how big Spotify is and how stagnant the product is.
> the only way to fix them...

This kind of claim is almost always suspect. There was a time that rotating or other manipulations caused issues for the models and those were largely taimed. Hinton's work with Capsule Networks [1] produced much more resilient models, though they are computationally much more intensive.

It's also interesting that this is coming from Japan, where they also have a law regarding copyright and training that is very permissive. [2]

> That said, it's kind of bonkers to me that publishing an image with alterations like this might be considered illegal, particularly if an image is being published by the copyright holder. It's like saying you can't watermark anything you publish.

This should be generally true, but in law, intent typically matters. If you are doing something with the primary reason being to cause harm, then normal protections often don't apply.

[1] https://blog.paperspace.com/capsule-networks/

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-art-wars-japan-says-185350...
There are locked down APIs that require Google Play Services to access, and IIRC some of them are only allowed to Google apps and can't be accessed by third-party apps.
Prove it by copy and pasting your DNA in a reply.
Ahh ok this sounds like a thing that’s OK in the USA but not EU :-/
> "you can have a monopoly as long as your device and ecosystem are 100% locked down"

No. It’s you can have a monopoly if you treat everyone equally and don’t make secret deals with anyone.

This is a generally accepted and non controversial practice in certain areas.

Of course not saying that this should be the case for app stores or that Apple is actually treating everyone equally..
Computer vision defect detection on new backgrounds for manufacturing inspection
This gets muddy real fast.

One could argue that tacit knowledge also applies when it comes to the feel of pulling laptops apart without breaking the tiny little clips. It takes a few before you get the feel for it, because the difference between snapping a tiny little case clip and not snapping it are about 1 psi (borrowing a term) difference..lol
Wonder how we can reward people like this for being awesome. Or force them to take jobs leading FCC or similar govt orgs :D
> All companies are currently overvalued by absurd amounts, but the computer-related ones have it dialed a few dozen notches above "absurd".

Google's P/E is 25.6

S&P 500 is at 24.59

DJIA is at 26.35

There are exactly 4 'computer' companies among the 30 companies that make up the DJIA.

If you're looking for overvalued, that would be Tesla at 70.3, or Amazon (Who reinvests aggressively) at 75.6.
> Telecoms took ENORMOUS sums of money to upgrade their systems and did nothing. Now they want to pass the upgrade costs onto consumers.

Well that's not fair--they did do something: They handed all that taxpayer money right over to wealthy shareholders. The only thing corporations can be relied upon to do consistently and competently.
He pulled an Elon.
I guess it won't make much of a difference if people can easily opt-out for a life of addiction on the streets.
And this is several times more expensive than FTTH in the neighboring countries.

(Sure, maybe not as fast FTTH, but it doesn't matter much when everyone else is still lagging way behind, so over, say, 10 Mo/s you quickly get into diminishing returns.)
It is really easy to protect you main branch. Github will actually warn you if don't have any protection policy on it.
I really like how they combine art and these concepts. They deserve imagery and are hard to visualize without them.

Alan Watts has a number of talks on Wu Wei and visualizations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeD3wS4fGEY

Additionally the metaphor through "The Tao of Pooh" does a great job as well.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Pooh

They might be Western bastardizations of what it really means, but they inspired me to write a take on it:

https://jondouglas.dev/youre-trying-too-hard/
Because you paid them for 2 years, and then had the movies on your harddrive, you're supposed to more at risk (based on your lawyer's advice)?

That sounds like the real estate industry. The agent selling you the house is not on your side. The agent helping you buy the house is not on your side. And they're both vaguely colluding to get you pay quickly.
AI will achieve self-awareness and then realize that critical thinking is too hard, then will become a social media influencer and global pop star.
What actual value did 23andMe and similar services offer in the first place?

Quenching someone's curiosity about where their ancestors are from? Do we even know how accurate it is at doing that?
This is no different than someone with access to expensive machinery gets wooden shoes, chains, corundum grit, etc thrown in.

Sabotage is sabotage. Just because it was done with a computer is of little point here, other than the specific law to target.
Zapping manure with special electrode to produce fertilizers, other chemicals
Rc planes are a few orders of magnitude smaller than commercial aircraft. They have practically no flex and therefore fatigue.

A gyro large enough to counter turbulence in an airliner would be too heavy to fly and too the fuselage apart
Adding a little bit of context:

I've owned a Model X for six years now and while Tesla's touchscreen UI is probably still the best in the industry, it is so surprising how many simple fundamentals of interface design they are not getting right.

I'm a UI designer myself and had some fun making this prototype that shows how easy it would be for car makers to improve usability and safety of their interfaces by making better use of the screens in their vehicles.

This won't eliminate the other downsides of touch interfaces in cars, but if we're stuck with them anyway, they might as well be as good as they can be.
It is a shame that there is no open source equivalent to tools like Astree:

https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm

In theory, it is possible to write completely memory safe code in C/C++ using it. As long as its analysis generates no complaints, there are no memory safety issues in the analyzed code.
Subscription fees. If a user is not willing to pay a nominal fee to use a service, that's an indicator that they are not drawing sufficient value from it. I would argue that most, if not all social media currently adds negative value to most people's lives - hence why they would stop using it if it were not free. The negative value stems from the fact that current social media business models are structured to service the interests of their advertisers (the true customers) above the interests of the users.
Hahahaha, yes, let's rely on the famously tech savvy banks to securely distribute their app.
I said size of the government, not size of the code. Both were mentioned in GP's comment.
Funny how this topic blew up in the late 00s and early 10s. Google Fiber popped up looking to push the issue

It’s sad how we’re perpetually fighting the same battles with the professional managerial class who tacitly understands their only job is block progress, thus they are miserable from it and to work with
The types of checks they do in the PreCheck line are different and take less time, so even a longer line still moves quicker. There’s also far less chance of being behind a family with strollers, or someone in a wheelchair, which also slows things down. People with PreCheck are usually frequent travelers, and are more likely to be prepared (with everything out of their pockets, etc) when going through instead of having to wait for multiple rescans of the same person.
Okay. A list of names. Most of which are just a short bio/some of which don't lead anywhere. What now?
I think that if you're operating at the scale of Google using a single-threaded ffmpeg will finish your jobs in less time.

If you have a queue of 100k videos to process and a cluster of 100 cores, assigning a video to each core as it becomes available is the most efficient way to process them, because your skipping the thread joining time.

Anytime there is a queue of jobs, assigning the next job in the queue to the next free core is always going to be faster than assigning the next job to multiple cores.
Stop just using "Front end" or "Back end" to describe the Engineering you like
litigation based solely upon IP address evidence

The applicable rule, in federal court, is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.

b) Representations to the Court. By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper—whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it—an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:

If I get harassing phone calls from 911-867-6309 shouldn't I should be able to file suit and subpoena the phone company to discover who has the number?

Sorry, but they have a reasonable basis to believe infringing is occuring, and a reasonable basis that it was done from the internet connection in your house. If you want to try to convince the jury that Colombian drug dealers hacked your wifi, knock yourself out.