skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you just assume everything google does is legal

Not an assumption. This is well established. They've been doing it for twenty years!

> Without regard for factual details that do matter to copyright law? Such as license??

What license? Google doesn't in general have or need an explicit license to crawl websites and neither does OpenAI.
Before that it was a mobile OS that failed to gain traction.
Ah that's interesting, I can see how that would result in a lot more dynamic behavior.
> “why don’t most people I meet have personal websites?"

I think that valuable follow-up question would be "Should they have one?"
It’s more that he did something and now doesn’t have to.

It’s false that there’s a morality to wealth and that those who have gained it have inherently added value in line with the wealth they’ve gained. There’s usually a correlation but even then not always.
research is fair use, also providing something amazing like Wikipedia is arguably educational (again fair use), reselling NYT articles on-demand via an API is by itself neither, so likely not free use
The CEO is paying income tax on that, presumably.
Artificial intelligence promises to transform diagnosis of heart disease
I posted some stats from our website a few weeks ago [0], GA was heavily undercounting FF compared to our server-side stats based on UAs.

One other thing to remember, is to check the falling of desktop usage, because a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533109
It's the truth but not the whole truth
I remember that excerpt from her interview and I'm with her almost 100% and yet, if this is another case of worse is better (we had a thread about that recently on HN) then there was a definite demand for C. I was not yet around as a developer but maybe those compilers were too expensive? Did they require too large and costly machines? Did they run on the computer people had at home? Etc.
Sure, there are plenty. Nobody is buying them.
the actual article: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/fact-checking-...

Note that Linebarger, in his "Psychological Warfare" textbook, points out that for propaganda purposes it is not so much truth and falsity, but the selection of truths and the spin put upon them that matters. (or is he just old-fashioned, having written that mid-20th century?)

(speaking of agreement: fwiw, I learned how to do crowd estimation from a textbook, and have found that reported "police estimates" are generally very close to my own, based on ∑density*area)
A far better question is: what does knowing let you do? Does it tell you how to be a better writer? Not really. Does it tell you want people want to read? Also not really, because you have no way to separate the "people spending time on a paragraph because it's high quality information" from "people spending time on a paragraph because it'll make for a good tweet quote".

If you care about your writing, then your aim is for people to read your whole post, not just parts of it. And you might think you want to know how much time people spent on your page (i.e. what your bump rate is) but even that tells you nothing: what are you going to do with that information? And that's not rhetorical: do you actually work on your writing based on whether people scroll past the fold? Because if you do, I'd love to hear what your workflow around that is.

Unless you're trying to monetize your readership through ad placements, analytics like these are a little lie we like to tell ourselves matter, when really they don't. They're nice to look at, but eye candy isn't a good enough reason to run tracking and behavioral profiling on a blog.
American has laws which force you to join a Union even if you hate them, want nothing to do with them and don't want them to represent you!?

No wonder so many Americans hate Unions.
Well, thank you very much, because I'm really enjoying it. So far I've only tried Netflix and PhrasePump, but both are very helpful.

I'm honestly surprised by how well the Netflix integration works. I have a good friend from China who has more or less perfect English now, and I once asked him how he first become proficient and he said that he really got going by watching every episode of "Friends". I feel like LanguageReactor's Netflix tools are the same idea but on steroids!
> If you introduce a fee to email you're only hurting the people who actively communicate back and forth via email as a primary method. Mailing lists anyone?

So don't require a stamp for email sent from one of your contacts, or from a mailing list you're subscribed to. No reason email from everyone in the world needs to be treated equally.
> We don't have multiple different type of gasoline

We have diesel and gasoline at least.

However the key difference ethere is somewhat different: We have independent supply lines, starting at different oil fields, going through different refineries, into different distribution networks, which ensures that there is some competition (even oligopolic is better than plain monopoly) and supply chain attacks on one vendor don't havoc the complete supply chain.

For a practical example: Countries were able to massively reduce the dependance on Russian gas and oil recently.

If Google however decides to havoc chromium development all dependants have trouble.
One major test used by the Supreme Court is if the work is an economic competitor to the original. Similarly, infringement depends on the use, not object.

An image coming out of mid journey may or may not be used in an infringing way.

I can download movie stills from Google or midjourney without breaking copyright. If I print and sell posters of them, that is different.
FYI ES2015 added tail-call optimization, allowing JS to finally have an elegant isOdd function.
Cutting more trees for a green and “environment friendly” energy? And it’s not like wooden houses are any better than concrete/stones ones, I would love to see what termites will do to one in few years, or even pileated woodpeckers, they do a very deep and big holes in trees.
Linux Foundation spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux
We forget that favoring composition over inheritance is one of the core ideas of OOP. It's supposed to be, at least.

Textbooks have an example like "Dog inherits from Animal" as a way to demonstrate the concept of inheritance, but people took that as an invitation to become Linnaeus and create a hierarchical taxonomy of their domain.

It might be a useful exercise, actually, but it's rarely the best way to design software and you can do OOP (and do it better) with sparing use of inheritance (by replacing it with extensive use of composition).
SaaS backends often don't consider responsive designs for sane reasons. It's a tradeoff. It's hard to make a web app with many controls and widgets responaive without ruining the experience on bigger screens.

Also, 14" notebooks such as the MacBok Pro are notorious in their own right, they have a viewport width of about 1300 CSS "pixels" and about 2560 physical pixels on the horizontal axis (DPR around 2).

Many web devs fail to consider DPR in their media queries. Plainly speaking, a 14" MBP has less "CSS pixels" than a cheap 14" laptop with 1920x1080 physical pixels and a DPR of 1.
If they are prioritizing projects other than Firefox, what are people’s favorite non-Firefox, non-Chrome/Chromium (for obvious reasons) browsers?

Firefox makes a lot of noise about their anti-tracking and pro-privacy features. I liked Suckless surf, but missed the granular JavaScript setting of noscript. And, I have no idea, but Privacy Badger must be doing something I guess?
They seem pretty alive based on Twitter activity and updates on their status page (https://status.plivo.com/).

Not sure about your signup issue, but their support team is probably running a little leaner this week between Christmas and New Year's.
>doesn’t require any government interaction

Dude what? Government around the world are constantly catching corporations for lying on their product lists.

As for controlled substances, on this topic is a completely fine line which I’d probably tend to agree is not treaded properly. There are risk trade offs to allowing open markets on classes of drugs.

With that said, the massive propaganda campaigns corporations get up to completely subvert that risk, and 100% leaves consumers uninformed even with the proper information at their fingertips: as a major example, the opioid crisis, leaded fuels, leaded paints, carcinogenic materials handling. I mean, the list really goes on and on.

The issue with the FDA has time and time and time again been demonstrated to be how toothless it is. Corporations constantly ignore regulation for billions in profits, only to receive a sternly worded letter and MAYBE a 0.01% of profits fine.
If they were the CEO of Mozilla they would because that’s the whole point of talking to them.
> Developing and operating open technology is political advocacy.

That's fine, they should leave it at that and do it the best they can because that is presumably their competency.

But they can't help themselves and insist on engaging various other political endeavors which they just aren't good at but probably sounds good when they brag about it to their friends at dinner parties. Like operating 'online spaces' for African lesbian women in tech or whatever the heck they're calling it, which amounts to them somehow blowing millions of dollars to host a mastadon instance, which isn't needed by anybody because all the marginalized groups they claim to be serving already have online spaces of their own on Facebook, discord, etc.
If Amazon fails to comply with the auditing requirements imposed by law, their entire retail shipping business could be closed by the US federal government. The FDA need only prove that Amazon has a pattern of negligence in their product auditing duties under law, in order to impose severe penalties, up to and including shuttering Amazon FBA. The FDA is not required to perform inventory assessments as a free service for Amazon in order to reach that final outcome. This letter is the first, necessary, step towards doing so.
I've started interviewing SaaS founders (from bootstrapped to VC-backed) about lessons learned building and operating SaaS companies. The is the first one, Ash did a fantastic job, dropping some true gems.
Because a living community of developers able to work on a codebase is far more valuable than the codebase itself.
> All my numbers above are including load factors...

Nope.

>>> Excluding load factors we have 440 GW of wind and solar vs. 8.3 GW

> I never said nuclear projects don't exist

Yes you did.

>>> I've heard rumors that you can do both at the same time.

>> I heard facts that people don't so.

> only that their net added capacity is negligible compared to wind and solar.

Nope, see above. But they are also not negligible.

> ...and did for years now.

And I've told you a number of times now that the historical under-investment in nuclear the last few decades or so is a well-known fact that in no way contradicts the fact that policy has now changed.

Linearly projecting a past trend into the future is ... unwise. Particularly if there has been a major policy shift. Which there has.

Arguing that the policy shift that just happened hasn't happened because it had no effect in the past is even less wise.
> the distribution of domains is far from even

This might be indicative of deliverability issues affecting some domains only.

The fact that some gmail users can see emails doesn't mean 100% of gmail users are delivered your email.
Ask HN: Is Google Scholar restricting ChatGPT4 access?
ChatGPT4 tells me it cannot access Google Scholar directly, but does not provide a specific reason.

How long has this been true? Is it possibly related to OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft? Or is it possible related to Google throttling OpenAI? Or some other reason that I'm missing?

I find Google Scholar to be the best search engine for academic social science papers, so I find this limitation to be significant. I have not been able to find an explanation online.
Schumpeter is great and systematically underrated. Another problem: his insights are often cherry-picked.
Good point. I have also seen Great Endeavor 0.7.1 stay there because the author gave up or graduated or got hired and the repo sits incomplete, lacking love and explanation for dismissal.
No, they are the owners of the system, or at least most of then have a stake.
Was wondering how long until ai rights activists show up, and sure enough, here we are.
This isn't new [1].

There's a real opportunity here. People are increasingly distrustful of, say, Google. I use it because it's still performant, cross-platform and has sync. But , like many, are increasingly leerly abou tGoogle using Chrome's position to, say, attack ad blockers.

The ultimate question is how does and should Mozilla fund itself? Well, if the CEO can't lay out a vision and deliver on that then why are they still there? Why is their compensation still increasing despite not performing?

Instead we get platitudes about "add on services". Previously it was "VPN services" and now it's "AI services"? It's almost like the future revenue plan is always "<current buzzword> services".

[1]: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Chernobyl is an example of what Bruce Sterling calls an "involuntary wildlife preserve". He didn't claim that was a good thing, of course...
The prompts shown literally invite the LLM to complete the copyrighted text by providing unedited selections and asking the machine to finish those. Even if this is problematic in a small number of cases it is not a use case that undermines the business model of the newspaper since it requires the reader to have access to the original text. Nor will it be easy to demonstrate economic harm since this is not how readers consume news and is very far from how users interact with LLMs. Nor are the archival materials used for training remotely reflective of the "time-sensitive" articles that newspapers sell. And archival materials are easily available elsewhere so where is the case for economic harm?

The courts are going to rule that LLM training is a transformative use case that is protected as fair use under copyright law. They may rule that if an LLM-powered service is explicitly designed to enable copyright violation that is illegal, but there is no way any court is going to look at these examples and see it as anything other than the NYT fishing to try and generate a violation by using the LLM in a way that is very different than the service is intended to be used and which -- even if abused -- doesn't hurt the business model under which the text has been produced.

The most likely outcome is that LLM providers will add some sort of filter on output to prevent machines from regurgitating source documents. But this isn't a court case the NYT can win without gutting fair use protections, and that would be a terrible thing.
Is there any LLM out there that you feed a text and it will reply back with a sarcastic response? Would be interesting to try it out.
Study shows Covid leaves brain injury markers in blood
Your parent is more right than you.

Weird Al has made a fantastic living copying music while only changing lyrics. He makes very heavy use of the satire plank of Fair Use.

The “commercial” test is only part of the decision criteria for Fair Use.
I’d argue the Turing test was never a good test.

Administered properly, the human knows 1 of the 2 participants is a machine, so there is always a 50% chance of success or failure.
> His original goal was to make his simple combat stat system clear to users by describing its odds as odds conventionally are described.

Except that odds values don't add on to each other. It sounds like the numbers only worked like odds in a single way, and not in other ways. The system was inherently contradictory, and confusion is not irrational in that situation.

And it's easy to clarify something as odds by making it two opposing percentages out of 100.
Google knows best. You must take the most efficient route.
decade and a half for me and even then I remember telling my tech lead, this feels like the stone ages
Why? That's what will inform your fellow commenters.

We can find people of every opinion; your existence and mine are not news. The 'why' or 'how' is what makes a difference.
Do I _look_ like an LLM? /s
Oh dear god, I just lost a considerable amount of brain cells...

A couple of questions, answer those or just, pardon my French, shut up:

How do you think all those hundreds of nuclear ship reactors will be built yearly?

Have you heard of NOx catalysts?

Are you aware of the possibility to generate hydrogen through electrolysis?

Hoe do you square the fact that litterally nobody in the shipping industries is making the case for nuclrar powered cargo vessels?
Not linkable, just my memory from a podcast interview at the time. IIRC the firing wasn't the only reason to go Chromium-based, but it made the decision a lot easier
I think the narrative provided in the article is actually reasonable. Firefox is practically dead, but even worse with Firefox almost all of Mozilla's income stream is literally just a Google handout.

The article states that revenue from services is up from 50 to 70 million. Still only about 10% of what they make from Firefox, but at least that's independent revenue, going up, directly from consumers.

Can someone please provide a rational argument, not a kneejerk emotional response why focusing on the source of revenue that is Google independent and growing is not the better way to fulfill their stated mission, that is creating a privacy respecting and open web? People are acting like Ahab and the whale when it comes to Firefox, there's no point in dumping more resources into the thing if's going down anyway and makes you subservient to a tech monopolist.
I'm not sure what large tax bill you are referring to assuming you have been correctly filing? Googling it looks like there is a flat fee of $2,350. There is an exit tax if you have a net worth above 2 million, or a high income, and this appears to be a capital gains tax on assets.
How do I put this... Whether NYT is right or wrong, their case should be dismissed.
Is that true, or just a joke?

It's honestly hard to tell.
> It's not that difficult. I host my email server on an AWS machine (so the IP that gests out is clean), and all I had to do is to setup DKIM signature and create the SPF, DMARC and DKIM DNS records for the domains.

I personally did do all of that, and my emails didn't get delivered. I wrote about my experience in detail here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
Chromium based browsers and firefox forks are the two big pillars. The comment i replied to doesnt like firefox, so i would probably suggest ungoogled chromium or brave.

For non chromium based, librewolf is a clear winner for me. Waterfox is also good. Hardened firefox is also okayish but not ideal.
Capitalist is not the right opposite here; democratic or democratic-republic is. You can have a totalitarian capitalist system (in fact that's what I'd argue China roughly is). Totalitarian socialist systems are often called "communism", but of course ask 10 people what those words mean and you'll get 12 answers (and start a big argument). You can have democratic capitalist and democratic socialist systems and lots more in between (and argue all day about which last longer).

No, under a democratic system, citizens are not assets. Whose assets would they be?
For what it's worth, I agree; I don't think Alexandrescu changed my C++ for the better, but it did sort of serve as an object lesson for overly nerding out on PL capabilities.
A lawyer starts a conclusion like this:

"It could be fair use if conditions a, b, and c are met. Condition a means..." ;)
Are you familiar with the idea of Chesterton’s fence?

Why do you think we have such a convoluted immigration scheme?

Can you think of ways to exploit the system you have suggested?
>> web frontends are one example where things change quite often.

There is a world of difference between linux adding USB support and how web front ends have evolved. One of them feels like they are chasing the latest shiny object...
I’ve consistently been talking about how QR codes are not dangerous. The last post was just asking for you to tone down the ad hominem attacks.

I’m happy to discuss QR codes with yourself but I only if you can be civil. Otherwise why would I want to chat further if you’re just going to be rude in all of your comments?
TIL: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...
It’s not about recouping the costs unfortunately. That’s an industry talking point.

For a brief overview of just how messed up the system has become in the US (where quite a few of the drugs come from) check out this Rogan clip. You don’t have to like Rogan; his guest is amazing.

https://youtu.be/nloxR3XpgaE?si=VCdtEB2w3aK3YIth
Thanks for the link. After reading a bit about H1B1 it looks like
1. It is included in the H1B cap, ergo it is de facto capped
2. It is actually capped as a portion of the available H1B.

No clue what parent meant by virtually uncapped.
I highly doubt Flutter can run on Android 2.x.

Natively you can use a different theme depending on which Android version the app is running on. The 2.x one on 2.x, Holo on 4.x, and Material on 5 and newer.
I think it's more nuanced than this. The left believes in immigration based on the amount of hardship / suffering endured by the immigrant. The more the suffering, the more deserving they are of being let in.

The right believes in either no immigration or immigration based on an impossibly high bar with caps preventing immigration from undesirable origins.

My view is that in the long run immigration policy simply does not matter because we will have figured out how to educate, recruit, train, and exploit the high quality remote labor from any country. The most talented folks around the world will find a way to reap the rewards of the American economy either by residing within the US or doing it from afar. The after tax wage spread is margin that can be exploited.
It looks like it exploded when it landed. How inspectable will it be?
If you move overseas, it's pretty hard for the IRS to collect on you.
aka "Google allows 3 fake VPN Chrome extensions to get 1.5M users."
Self-hosting an email is one of those things that if you have the time to do and maintain, sure, else it will be a chore.
I believe the fault lies at the board. They are the ones who approve compensation for the CEO. The problem is it’s unclear to me how competent/independent the members of the board are. I don’t see any face I recognize, but that obviously means nothing. Do people know if there are any good people on the board?

The best option would be for someone to fork Firefox and perhaps get it sponsored by Apache foundation. Then we can write it off.

Firefox is my daily browser across multiple platforms, and I worry for its future.
I clicked "let's mine" without inputting anything and the app shows "-1 words remaining"
It's not ubiquitous. I'm seeing a square "undefined character" glyph in the above example.
This is a real risk and why supplementation is probably not a good idea except for like specific conditions as recommended by your doctor (e.g pregnancy). In an unregulated space like this, it's basically impossible to know what you're getting which can range from ineffective to seriously harmful (heavy metals, toxins, or active pharmaceuticals). Better to get micronutrients from bio-available sources and optimize diet, sleep, and exercise.

It's also relatively expensive compared to the usually marginal benefit. Most likely you should sock away that spend into an index so you can afford the more effective and expensive therapies that our healthcare system doesn't give you access to (because it generally won't pay for prevention).