skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The typical standards process is an adaptation to a world where patents exist. It tries to clearly determine what patents are required to build a technology, and will typically lump them up into a patent pool available for a nominal licensing fee. Participants are strongly incentivized to disclose any essential patents they hold and include them in the pool, so as a standards implementer you know that once you pay the fee, nobody will sue you.

The alternative - again, in the same real world where patents exist - is to craft a very fragile standard around the patents that you know of, without the participation of the industry, only to be whacked with a submarine patent as soon as the standard becomes dominant and can't - in the legal opinion of the "inventor" - be implemented without their innovative brainberry. That can still happen within the previous workflow, but at least you involve early on most holders of IP related to that field.

Of course, none of this precludes the notion that a better world is possible, say one where any inventor has to prove substantial investment before patentability (say, medical studies and drug approval), and can only recoup those investments up to a limited multiplier.
Yes, specifically that people shouldn't have it.
>It simply works.

Does it? Because I've seen it used to spread all sorts of bullshit, including against Musk/X.

One case that comes to my mind when Musk wanted to make blocking to work the same as muting, and the false claim of it being against Apple's App Store rules was added as context.
Those advertisers could be interacting directly with Youtube, but these platforms help them skip over the middleman and go right to the creator.
Looks similar to piezo "clickers" that are supposed to help against mosquito bites. But is the working principle based on temporarily damaging nerve endings? If so, is there a potential for a long-term negative effect with active use?
You are highly simplifying things.

France has cheap energy and a lot of electric heating.

Guess for whom a heat pump might be the next best thing?

Yeah French people.
This is very interesting, as it shows what the future of customer support looks like.

I worked for 5 years in an insurance call center. Most people believe call centers are designed to deliberately waste your time so you just hang up and don't bother the company; there is nothing I could say that would dissuade you of this, because I believe it too.

In the future, we're all going to be stuck wrestling with AI chatbots that are nothing more than a stalling tactic; you'll argue with it for an age trying to get a refund or whatever and it'll just spin away without any capability to do anything except exhaust you, and on the off chance you do have it agree to refund you the company will just say "Oh, that was a bug in the bot, no refunds sorry!" and the whole process starts again.

A lot of people think about AI and wonder how good it'll get, but that is the wrong question. How bad will companies accept is the more prescient one.
For those following along, a “very large provider” is a provider with more than 45 million monthly users. The population of Sweden is around 10.5 million, so the answer is a definitive no.
> Internet Explorer 5, for Mac

So it wasn't a Mac as in Apple, perhaps, but a user stuck on IE5 called Mac?
I strongly disagree that we're all being used, let alone in the same way that models are used. For one thing, there's skilled work and unskilled work. There's pride in skill, and dignity in work. Then there are people who actually create things, with money being a secondary objective that happens automatically. Do you think construction workers or carpenters consider their use of their time and bodies more or less useful than models? Are they used in the same way? What is the general purpose of a model other than to obfuscate a sales pitch? Do sculptors or painters think they're just as used, physically, as fast food workers? I hope not.

And then, aside from those who create and those who make things sits the marketing apparatus. The rent seekers and extractors and MBAs. You might consider them the paymaster side, but I just view them as unnecessary parasites. We don't all work for them... and when we do, some of us come to unique arrangements that maintain our creative control and our dignity.
I tend to disagree on this one. It surely helps to enter the market with a top notch production team in the background or investing a lot of time into your videos.

However, I've seen enough people babbling into a 720p web cam already having a 10k subscription base to assume it's possible to start something without spending whole days every week on the channel.
The problem is not the problem. The problem is their filming the problem
It sounds like Jedi powers to me!
Swedish TV is largely outside the purview of the EC; it’s Sweden’s problem to regulate. As a general rule, most EU states are broadly okay with media, including state media, lying. (I’ve no idea of the context of the incident you mention.)
I was car shopping recently and was pleased to see many current year model cars with a decent assortment of physical knobs and buttons. I especially like having media controls on the steering wheel, though most are still missing a 'pause' button (which would work as mute when using the radio).

But still all the major things like volume on/off, climate control settings, etc are all buttons and knobs. There are touch screens but they mostly are just for the media center functions (like adjusting levels, fade, settings, etc) which aren't used much and fine in a touch screen.

This is good because for me the presence of these physical controls is non-negotiable. I use them pretty much every single drive. I'm just not going to buy a car that's a pain in the ass to use every day.
Pluto.jl [1] is an interesting project around creating reproducible notebooks.
MIT's Intro to Computational Thinking uses it for displaying interactive code cells [2].

They're reactive cells too, so if you modify an variable or function, subsequent cells will automatically update. Something that Jupyter lacks currently.

[1] - https://plutojl.org/

[2] - https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall23/
Well there are two countries each with at least four times the amount of inhabitants of the USA and both are non-English. It's not really surprising that the most popular channels would be non-English tbh.
Commissioner Breton sent a stark warning to Musk, that was arrogantly brushed off in typical Musk fashion. Musk is now going to be schooled in very expensive fashion as to how being a billionaire does not make you above the laws, in Europe at least, and this is probably why the proceedings were launched, although in all likelihood the EC does not have all its ducks in a row in terms of organization, staffing and processes to enforce the DSA and DMA just yet.
Hard disagree. The infrastructure act is a clear example of solving big problems.

It’s also neither here nor there - an implication that not solving a really, really small problem says anything about an ability or desire to solve bigger problems is clearly incorrect.
If they are operating in the EU, it doesn't matter if it is an american company or not.
Hi, oh okay sorry, I thought that that wasnt good to do, but I will do that.. Thanks
There is no absolute right of free speech in the EU (and probably most countries); foreign companies operating there are subject to local laws when doing so.
(In my non-EU country that tweet could be interpreted as a hate crime too, quite uncontroversially)
They integrated what they felt was worthwhile, and continue to develop and support those pieces internally to Firefox.
Is there anything we can do to help?
Sure, but is this joke actually illegal?
Relatedly, Old School Essentials is, IIRC, B/X just more streamlined in presentation? They also have a cool-looking setting with Dolmenwood (as I gather, basically "a mix of darkness and whimsy in the style of old-school fairy tales") that just had a kickstarter for a big campaign setting guide earlier this year.
Because X will have gone bankrupt and bust worldwide by then?
Presumably this is more desensitising through an overload rather than damaging?
there are a lot of nice ways to visualize and navigate through tree shaped data, but fewer user friendly options for DAGs. are there interfaces to DAGs in general that you've enjoyed?
Top top as in north or top top as in expensive? Are you factoring in delivery charges? Cause the average American electric price is 0.163 kWh which is pretty close to what I pay.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
I ran the insert statement before the create statement and it appeared to work.
Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
this site has 1 sentence than ad, and it contains like a 100 sentences which equals about 100 ads. wouldn't recommend visiting it.
There are obviously going to be some cases of that. I remember hearing through a friend that their university roommate from France dropped a class at UQAM because they couldn't take their lecturer's accent seriously. You have elitist people elsewhere.

When visiting France I had one experience where I felt like I was a zoo animal, like that. Walking around a public site a woman got very excited like she found the answer to a tricky riddle and yelled "Québec, Québec" at me. She was so sweet though and it was harmless so I didn't take it even the slightest bit poorly.

Most people in France knew better than to make a stink about it. I talked with plenty of people and occaisionally it popped up but more as a passing curiosity, I didn't feel like it wasn't outside of natural curiosity. Things like "pas pire" raised eyebrows "stationner mon char" rather than "parker mon auto" sometimes took people a minute to comprehend.

All to say, there are some rude people everywhere, but my own experience in French with a Québec accent was great.
Oh well, that is sad. Toronto Public Library's online services are still down since at least a month.
I don't think it's the job of EU government to manipulate the algorithms to suit their values. Their job is the opposite of that; to ensure that the algorithms operate with as little manipulation as possible so that every individual has equal voice/reach on these platforms (at least equal on a per-follower basis) with as little manipulation as possible.

As someone who didn't have much prejudice about the current Israel/Palestine situation, I appreciated seeing both sides; it allowed me to come to the conclusion that both sides fall short of my own moral values and therefore I don't need to involve myself in debates about the lesser or two evils.

Maybe other people with different morals than myself felt that one side met their 'good guy' threshold and wants to support them. They're free to voice their support, but I'd like to keep my taxpayer money in my own country where it can support people whose morals more closely align with my own.
I agree. With PostHog, I know that my ad-blocker will blocks the URL rendering the service useless, but I set up a reverse proxy using Cloudflare Workers to prevent ad-blockers from blocking it.
The EU learned from GDPR, that member countries cannot be relied to enforce the law when some like Ireland have deliberately positioned themselves as a tax (and now GDPR) shelter for multinationals. That's why DSA and DMA enforcement is centralized in Brussels.
Sure, but can this joke itself be illegal? What law forbids a joke like this? It's not calling for violence, it's not denying the holocaust (just the opposite), it's just.. well.. a joke.
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Looks like they got hacked and just shut down their web system while they rebuild a secure env/system.
Why do people feel the need to litter?
Even after that transition period, _serious_ enforcement didn’t start for years. Prior to 2021, the largest fine under the GDPR had been 50 million (in 2021-2023 the Irish regulator lurched into actual and fined Facebook a couple billion).

I suspect the “local regulators do enforcement” model won’t feature heavily in future EU law; it doesn’t work very well.
„I‘m doing $thing. Whether or not you pay me to do $thing won’t change how much I do $thing.“

I hope you see how bad that argument is, especially if $thing is a highly addictive drug.
I think these situations are a bit paradoxal. If you don’t know the language, you can’t tell if it’s actually a good solution in that language, and I’ve seen so many bad answers I’d be concerned if I wasn’t familiar with the language.
and most of the world was also a frozen wasteland what is your point
Is Firefox not in the Windows package manager?
If you're critical of X allowing people to recite jokes about the holocaust, how do you feel about Netflix platforming similar jokes about genocides? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJurYs12ay4)

Do you feel some jokes are too offensive to be said? Do you feel the EU/UK are correct in their stance that offensive (aka hateful) jokes should be illegal?
I didn't really enjoy D&D, but I loved Call of Cthulhu. It felt more free-form, i.e. more like an adventure and less like trying to game the mechanics. There is no board with CoC (at least we didn't use one). If the tabletop/board combat of D&D is its major appeal then obviously CoC will be less enjoyable.

As always, getting a good GM and a well-composed group is very important for how your experience will be.
I've tried the clickers but the effect only lasts a short while.

I used the heater every day for about a week, no negative effect that I experienced.
I'd like to treat is as a hobby in the beginning.

I'm sure success will heavily depend on my personality and the topics I choose. I may not ever reach 10 subscribers. But every shot you don't take is a missed shot.
Sure, but the germans did not outlaw jokes, even if they're germans.

It's not calling for violence, it's not denying the holocaust (quite the oposite), so why would it be illegal?
$4.6M a month in revenue is not that much honestly. I'm disappointed. The average Hollywoord blockbuster could pay for that about 2 years. And the views/$ are most likely staggeringly lower.

If I do the napkin math: $600 million dollar revenue for Oppenheimer. A movie ticket costs about $10. That means Oppenheimer was viewed 60 million times. Mr. Beast JUST on his main channel has 1.6 BILLION views. And that only for the meager price of $4.6M. Oppenheimer cost $100M to make and it doesn't even touch Mr. Beast.
There are institutions like Medieombudsmannen and pressens etiksråd that work with enforcing the rules of press ethics in Sweden.

Your allegations against SVT is them spreading misinformation directly, the EU is investigation how Twitter as a platform handles misinformation being spread. It’s a different thing

Please show me where on the doll Jane Josefssons questions made you uncomfortable, lol
I wonder if the revenue stats are accurate. The #1 site on YouTube according to this is https://www.youtube.com/@tseries making near $20m in the last month. However, it is India focused. My understanding is that India has the lowest monetization rates.
If ViewStats is to be believed, that's nothing compared to T-Series—estimated revenue: $19.8 million in the last 28 days.

https://www.viewstats.com/@tseries/channelytics
> bad actors out there deliberately managing communication for strategic effect.

that's the key challenge, and disagreement between FB and Google and X (and also image- or video based "communciators") on what constitutes being a bad actor.

And to me the question is how to strengthen "us, the people" enough to prevent a neo-feudal 1984 style downshift.

How can we learn to navigate this brave new world?
Huh, I don't understand why. :-D Someone please explain. If I tugged the sub, wouldn't the IMU detect that? Why is a current doing the tugging any different.
You are dismissive, but I assure you this kind of thing will keep lawyers and courts busy for some time to come.

This raises all kinds of interesting legal issues that have no obvious resolution:

* can agency be delegated to an LLM?

* can an LLM create a contract on behalf of itself? another? an organization?

* does the answer change if the person(s) or organization(s) want the LLM to be able to form contracts?

* are contracts created by an LLM bound by the statute of frauds?

* what happens with unspecified contract terms given that an LLM has perfect knowledge of the UCC?

* does the parol rule apply to the LLM conversation prior to the formation of a contract?

And on and on. Law students all over the world are busy writing law review articles about these questions.
Which happens to be my point.
I don't think there's enough heat energy involved to cause damage. They claim that the pain overrides your itch senses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309056/
But that doesn't remove the content. It just sticks a label underneath it. And it's only on the most popular tweets.
The site we're on is social media
Liberalism was meant to end this kind of EU censorship. Parliaments were supposed to be the place where diverse and illiberal speech was dissolved into a new liberal language, not through brain dead regulation and technocratism.

If Meta properties are the example of what to expect from the future locked-down internet, prepare for the internet and much more to wither on the vine and die a slow and sad death.
OpenLibrary offers that kind of dataset as a public service, on a non-profit basis. (Note: this has zilch to do with the whole controversy over them lending in-copyright books. The book metadata is an entirely separate thing and quite legal.)
Create a one-tap navigation shortcut for your commute
This is satirical.
If they really want to do this they shall start with state media and with the EU institutions.
> Which is interesting, because Finland seems to be market leader in this stuff

Finland is especially affected by the construction downturn due to inflation and interest rates. The heating choice is usually still a heat pump.

> 3078 building permits were granted for dwellings in July-September 2023, which was 53% less than a year earlier.

https://www.stat.fi/julkaisu/cl84ds3gkv1rw0ew57o9v4r70
Yeah, I guess that there's just not a lot of value for me in "what does this error message mean" because once you've worked with a language or framework for any reasonable amount of time you learn them and they sort of disappear into the background. LLMs do seem good for learning new systems though.
You realize that the European Commission[1,2] is a big part of the executive branch of the EU, yeah? (The other one being the european council). So if there is something as an "EU government", it is the commission.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
Exactly, "the effectiveness of measures taken to combat information manipulation" sure didn't seem to be an issue for decades for the UE commission when thr manipulation was done by a cell at Twitter itself, such as removing trending conversative hashtags or suspending right-wing EU politicians.

Of course now that the platform allows more balanced opinions, any power available will be used to silence (growing) opposition.
My lovely grandmother passed away, she used to DROP TABLES so I could sleep...
LLVM has been for quite some time driven by Apple and Google.

WebKit, another Apple child.

Qt, it has to support environments where exceptions are not allowed, otherwise they would be losing customers, specially since Qt is older than C++98.

gcc, was initially written in C, and for quite long time had a mixed code base with minimal C++.

The companies adopting Rust aren't doing so because of lack of exceptions, they would still adopt Rust if the language had exceptions support (which panic and std::ops::Try kind of are), rather due to the type safety that C and C++ aren't able to provide.

You would be surprised how many games actually do support exceptions.
Does anyone have more information about what the infringements are? It would be very obviously hypocritical for the EU to be publicly alleging "breach of transparency obligations", if they arn't willing to be transparent about the allegations.
Nope, because I don't think X is going anywhere anytime soon, even though its demise is reported as inevitable at least every week.
I have no doubt plenty of us will be moved to tears as we look back at the accelerating deterioration of the internet caused by ChatGPT and similar systems. Forums where it’s no longer worth participating because every answer is generated by an LLM, derivative images with mangled hands, broken software which is easily exploitable… Maybe write a poem about that.
Meta: the URL is not offline, the (web) service associated with it is. The title would be better with "URL" deleted, in my opinion.

I hope they resolve the attack issues, that's of courses incredibly crappy and I feel sorry for them. :(
Much of your point is how an artist chooses to spell their name is wrong and how you'd like to read it as correct.

I get it, it's a bit annoying but nothing worth the effort of squeezing.
Yep, the great thing about community notes is, that it leaves the tweet unchanged and just adds context (or refutal, or whatever). It turns censorship into (hopefully) "argumented refutal".
Just pull out of the EU. It's overtly hostile to freedom of speech. Run Twitter from the US, and let the EU erect their own "Great Firewall" if they want to block it. F500s (or at least the ones still advertising) can pay for ads through their US subsidiaries, and the handful of remaining Twitter employees in Europe can either take a relocation package or severance.
The European free speech legal infrastructure dates from the ECHR in 1950, and was somewhat imposed by the Allies after the war. As well as a lot of people who wanted to avoid having populist incitement to genocide again.
If we are liberal with the meaning of "Microsoft created", there's Age of Empires II.
One can wonder if we have too much or too little G in the AGI there.

Edit: Fixed typo from “GAI”.