skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People like to make fun of sovereign citizen types who think the law is magic spells, and if you only say the right words you have to be let off the hook or not pay taxes or whatever.

The thing is though that that notion is absolutly right. The law is like fucking magic.

what else could explain the fact that misspeaking even one word of the incantation will cause the magical shield of +5 "rights against self incrimination" to fizzle (or perhaps missfire and summon a canine companion) when being attacked by pigs?

the joke, if folks dont get the reference to an oldish story, is that you do actually in real life need to be be very specific and clear to cops in order to "invoke" your fifth amendment rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...

Which is incredibly stupid, but is just one example of the many ways in which law is so weird and unintuitive that its super easy for the uneducated to assume there are tons of weird eldrich legal phrases that if only spoken in the right place and time will conjure legal protection. Of course we who know better know that those eldrich legal phrases need to be spoken by a trained wizard (lawyer) with enough mana (money, time) at their disposal.
Can you really say that when Firefox makes most of its money funneling users to Google?
I cured my asthma with magnesium and iodine ssupplements. While I agree with you that there are false claims out there, I have data to show stuff worked for me. YMMV of course.
I love ASCII art so much; my very first experience with computers was a DOS program that printed ASCII art pictures on my family's dot matrix printer. I could not even read yet and I was entranced.
I am glad they went to 800V. The acceleration stat race is getting a bit stupid. But I think 800V is very important, at least for charging. It will not only let you charge fast it will let other people use the charger after you are done.

I hope the industry moves both the fast chargers and the cars to 800V asap. (Naturally, fast chargers should retain 400V backward compatibility). When cars charge faster it is kind of like having more chargers.
This article exaggerates the problem. I’ve been hosting my own email for many years and I have almost zero deliverability obstacles. The advantages of running your own email server are huge.
My favorite part of late 80s early 90s C/C++ dev was the shitty auxiliary monitor used as a dedicated debugger screen. I swear I STILL find situations where I want that back.
I was using Visual J++ in 1998.

We did a bakeoff of Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA upon its beta in 2001. IDEA won hands down and is still the IDE of choice among the developers who work on our codebase.
I think it is more about leaving their comfort zones. One might have to move out of their towns / states to access resources that the US has to offer. Dozens of US states offers so much support to their students studying STEM. You can defer education loan payments. There is so much federal aid. There are dirt cheap colleges if you want to get vocational education and start working quickly. But all of these are not available in one city. They are spread across the nation.

Globalization is a two way street. If you want the best of what the world has to offer, the best of what the world has to offer will arrive at your doorstep. That includes human resources.
Exactly this. I work at a small web scraping company (so I might be a bit bias) and any small business can collect a fair, capable datasets of public data for model training, sentiment analysis or whatever today. If public data is stopped by copyright as this lawsuit implies that would just mean only giant corporations and pirates would be able to afford this.

This would be a huge blow to open-source and research developers and I'd even argue it could help openAI to get a bit of a moat ala regulatory capture.
Tamarin-C: Hardware hacking tooling for the new iPhone generation (USB-C Debug) [video]
I can see how someone can disagree with the NYT position but the idea that it lacks merit is wild!

AI might be the defining issue of copyright law for decades. There are so many open questions, and this seems like just the start.
> how does taking that same 60 milligrams in a larger volume of filler (e.g. water, or spread across more physical pills) change the fact that you've just taken 60 milligrams?

It increases tolerance to mismeasurement and mistake. Same reason many pharmaceuticals require multiple pills for minimum dosing despite a concentrated form existing. A child eating a single pill, or you missing that you popped an extra pill into your hand, causes less damage.
I asked an LLM to summarize the 69 page lawsuit. It does a decent job. Didn't infringe on any copyrights in the process :)

Here is a summary of the key points from the legal complaint filed by The New York Times against Microsoft and OpenAI:

The New York Times filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI alleging that their generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Bing Chat infringe on The Times's intellectual property rights by copying and reproducing Times content without permission to train their AI models.

The Times invests enormous resources into producing high-quality, original journalism and has over 3 million registered copyrighted works. Its business models rely on subscriptions, advertising, licensing fees, and affiliate referrals, all of which require direct traffic to NYTimes.com.

The complaint alleges Microsoft and OpenAI copied millions of Times articles, investigations, reviews, and other content on a massive scale without permission to train their AI models. The models encode and "memorize" copies of Times works which can be retrieved verbatim. Defendants' tools like ChatGPT and Bing then display this protected content publicly.

OpenAI promised to freely share its AI research when founded in 2015 but pivoted to a for-profit model in 2019. Microsoft invested billions into OpenAI and provides all its cloud computing. Their partnership built special systems to scrape and store training data sets with Times content emphasized.

The complaint includes many examples of the AI models reciting verbatim excerpts of Times articles, showing they were trained on this data. It also shows the models fabricating quotes and attributing them to the Times.

Microsoft's integration of the OpenAI models into Bing Chat and other products boosted its revenues and market value tremendously. OpenAI's release of ChatGPT also made it hugely valuable. But their commercial success relies significantly on unlicensed use of Times works.

The Times attempted to negotiate a deal with Microsoft and OpenAI but failed, hence this lawsuit. Generating substitute products that compete with inputs used to train models does not qualify as "fair use" exemptions to copyright. The Times seeks damages and injunctive relief.

In summary, The New York Times alleges Microsoft and OpenAI's AI products infringe Times copyrights on a massive scale to unfairly benefit at The Times's expense. The Times invested heavily in content creation and controls how its work is used commercially. Using Times content without payment or permission to build competitive tools violates its rights under copyright law.
NYT seemed to claim paid subscriptions as well, which I'm not sure that bots can actually crawl.
Direct link to the reports:

https://stateof.mozilla.org/

2022 Audited Financial Statement: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...

2022 Form 990: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990...
Thanks, I would not have suspected drag.

Still, it seems like you're saying "the number would be unrealistic", but I'm not sure people want a realistic number, just a "worst case scenario"...

I understand that standard tests try to measure something "realistic", but they end up giving a value that is not what people are waiting for - which is, again, and I can't stress it enough because it's 100% of the conversation i still have about EVs with every single person I talk to - "insurance that I will be able to visit my mum on a single charge at the other end of the country".

I understand it's a bad question to ask and people don't really need _that_ range, but apparently they need _that_ info :/
IMO containers are easier to use than profiles. The main issue is that history seems to be shared across containers, but being able to mix tabs from multiple containers in the same window is very practical. Though I guess it increases the risk of accidentally opening some website in the wrong container if this is one concern. (though there is a feature to make some website always open in a given container)
https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery is also good for this, different approach than TST
Although they are most associated with ED, those supplements are also performance enhancers. For decades, unscrupulous supplement companies have put illicit or prescription drugs in their products. Many of those drugs (not the supplements) do, in fact, work. The rumor was the gameplan was to start with that until you get enough market hype and then remove them, but I've also heard some of the illicit drugs are cheap enough that they could still continue tainting them and make a profit. So even if they work, people deserve to know what they're putting in their bodies.
I discover what to do / ambition throughout pains made by others.

Learn from pains is the right way for me to find out what's next.
I was also looking to add text-to-SQL GPT integration to my web analytics application, and in my first tests it worked pretty well, my idea is to just use GPT to generate the MySQL query, and then do all the data processing and vizualizations on my end, so no data is seen by ChatGPT.
Not affiliated with Mozilla in any way, but their mission isn't to create a browser. It's to "ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all." (1)

Given that Firefox has kinda lost the browser war it seems obvious that they should be focusing efforts on other things that further that mission besides dumping money into a browser a tiny slice of people want to use.

(1) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/
They clearly are, but this still means a not negligible amount of softwares have those packages in their dependencies.
I’d be surprised if the buyers were expecting any different.

With the amount of mislabelled product out there in circulation (and presumably a general lack of harm), does it still make sense to require a prescription?
(I'm not actually familiar with the issue but I imagine if they're "clever" enough to block CTRL+F, they probably also block CTRL+L which is supposed to change the focus to the URL bar. So in the end you have to resolve to using the mouse after all...)
I watched Nickelodeon in 1980 and there were most definitely no ads. (It also only broadcast from 6am to 2pm, having a static image outside of those hours.) I can't support your insistent viewpoint that cable TV always had ads.
Nothing major. It just feels sleek. I don't require much from these plugins.
If they sell people counterfeit food and health supplements they should be banned from selling those items (at least for a period of time) until they can figure out proper inventory controls.
This is a big reason to avoid Edge: They have entire categories that aren't e2ee, browsing history being one of them. Chrome, IIRC, can have e2ee but the user has to turn it on.

Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox offer complete, e2ee sync solutions.
Here's my list of things I won't buy on Amazon.com:

- Anything which goes in or on my body (foods, medicines, etc.).

- Anything which is easily knocked off (SD cards, memory, SSDs, etc.)

- Bed sheets (oddly enough, you'll often get lies on materials and fabric)

- Thing I need reliably / reliably on-time (I cancelled Prime after several shipping issues)

Since I cancelled Prime, things added to this list include:

- Most digital content (they added ads to music I paid for as soon as I cancelled Prime, and many newer Kindle books are hard to back up into non-DRMed formats)

Most of what I will buy on Amazon are generic gizmos, like kids toys, cables, generic keyboards, battery chargers, basic tools, and basic clothing (kids pyjamas and that sort of thing). However, it's no longer my first source. I'll go Aliexpress, eBay, and Walmart first.

I now have Walmart's equivalent of Prime instead. It's not great, but it's better. There is zero customer service, but shipping times are more accurate than Amazon, generally faster, and they'll actually let you know if something is running late or early (which is huge, if you're planning a project). Walmart's selection is worse than Amazons, but I'm hoping it will catch up. I also am starting to go to local stores again.
I went to an audiologist and they found nothing wrong with my hearing, but yet, I have trouble hearing normal conversational tones. Hearing completely fucking annoying sounds like fluorescent lights? That I can do with abandon, but hearing someone in the same room as me comes out muffled, particularly if there is a noisy background. The audiologist actually had the audacity to tell me that my wife may just be making things up.

So, OTC hearing aides may be a solution for me, but while they are far more inexpensive than prescription aides, they are still expensive ($1000+) and what if they do not work or do not work to solve my problems and only exacerbate the issues I have?

Does anyone have recommendations on which ones to try when I eventually bite the bullet?
same with most my age...thus we're desperate for anything that will make us feel better and not have any side effects that make things worse.

The issue is that a chronic mistreatment of your body (similar to what you describe). The solution is a chronic loving of your body. Best time to start was 20 years ago. Second best time is today. I wish you luck and I can tell you: it doesn't have to be the way you describe, but it WILL take patience and a life-long commitment.

And yeah: forget supplements. Focus on good food.
Tadalafil (Cialis) is available as a generic in the United States. If you think "big pharma" is served by drugs going off-patent, you may want to re-evaluate your perspective.

If you want to get more reasonably unhappy with market exclusivity, look at Celgene's grip on thalidomide/lenalidomide/pomalidomide for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
Adding restricted ingredients to generally available supplements is a known tactic that supplement producers utilize extensively. In the past, this has been a well-known "secret" that bodybuilders basically relied on: buying tainted pre- and post-workout supplements that contain illegal steroids and such.

It's a better regulated industry now, but with the explosion in supplement popularity over the last decade I doubt there is an easy way to test and punish all manufacturers. If you look at the list of supplements included in that warning letter, they have classic nonsensical names that Chinese companies are known for (WeFun, Genergy, etc). None are on www.amazon.com anymore, but hundreds of other supplements show up with absolutely no way of telling whether any of them are clean (e.g. "Endurance 2Nite").
Disagree as it has no warranty you are good enough to keep a job, only that you could pay fees every year.
Dog whistle for what? Calling for deportation? The comment is literally just “we can’t take every immigrant.” What other position is there?
My biggest hope for code GPTs is replacing dependencies.
I have long standing hearing loss, but just don't need one right now. I don't have enough of a social/work life for it to matter. If I bought one it would just sit unused. It wouldn't empower me to be more social because there are many other reasons inhibiting me from that.

For now I do ok in my normal environment, and I wear an earplug in my "good ear" to protect it in loud environments. There are situations where I struggle to hear but I avoid those. So I'm making do.
The model is a tool, like photoshop. You as the author of the prompt produced the image by explicit intent. If you then take it and distribute it, you are violating the copyright with criminal intent that’s demonstrable by the prompt itself. According to some friends that are professors of law, that’s likely the most clear violation. The consumption of copyright material to produce a commercial product without license is likely a civil copyright violation, but it’s unclear that’s true. Browser caches for instance were litigated as copyright violations, and CDNs. Obviously they were not found to violate copyright because while they handle and copy and manipulate copyright material they do so incidentally, without intention, and it functions without the copyright material. A lot of the argument on the AI side, which is likely legitimate legally, is these images are incidentally ingested, the models function fine without the copyright material, and don’t produce the copyright material without explicit intent by the user. The case that are the strongest are where the training data is known to have pirated or large copyright libraries inside them and are used regardless.

Finally by posting publicly samples of your work you implicitly grant limited fair use rights to your work. You do not retain full rights prohibiting reproduction of those samples. That’s why artists usually will not post full portfolios. Obviously there are limits but they’re much more egregious than what you see in models where the imagery is consumed into a lossy model that mathematically aggregates it with every other image it ingests.
"The focus for the future of Mozilla -- according to Mozilla -- is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services."

I sense a great disturbance in the Force...
> co-pay and a quick Zoom call with a doc seems like a better choice to me

Nobody is arguing it isn’t. The point is the forced choice is flawed. There wouldn’t be a market for the adultered stuff if the medicine were OTC.
Yes, we must violently defend the business owners and cororate boards who hire them and sign their checks, while specifically attacking the CEOs themselves.
As a person born in one of the ex soviet countries, i hate the narrative of 'nato expansion'.

NONE of those countries were acquired,forced, or coersed by Nato, they all 'beg, borrowed and stole' in order to get into the Nato.

Because all of them knew acactly what will happen otherwise. Precisely to avoid what was happening to Ukraine (russia defacto controlling it via puppet politicians) and now being actively invaded by russia.

Russia complaining about 'nato expansion', is akin to wife-beater complaining his wife run away and got a restraining order.
I'd argue that one of the current moral messages is a meta-message, and it does follow some specific rules:

- Representation of the "correct" racial and gender groups is of primary importance.

- We need to make up for historical sins by casting the "correct" racial and gender roles appropriately. For example, the man should be the supporting character, and the woman must be the leading action hero.

- Because the show (or movie) itself is an act of representation, supporting the show demonstrates your support for the cause of representation. And therefore if you don't like the show, it's primarily because you do not support this "representation" goal. (and this point is also why plot and writing can take a back seat. "Representation" is the primary goal, writing and plot are often secondary.)
The Haskell community has a lot of these kinds of libraries. It comes with the territory to some extent.
The inspiration for this book, ‘Programmers at Work’, from 1986, is also a gem:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2092681

It contains interviews with 19 prominent programmers from that era - some of who you’ll definitely recognize. I remember particularly enjoying the Tori Iwatani one - he’s the creator of PacMan.

The full list: Charles Simonyi, Butler Lampson, John Warnock, Gary Kildall, Bill Gates, John Page, Wayne Ratliff, Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, Jonathan Sachs, Ray Ozzie, Peter Roizen, Bob Carr, Jef Raskin, Andy Hertzfeld, Scott Kim, Jaron Janier, Michael Hawley
> The level of copying here is the copying into the training set, not the copying through use of the model.

NY Times is suing because of both the model outputs and the existence of the training set. But infringement in the training set doesn't necessarily mean that the model infringes. Why? Because of the substantial similarity requirement. But first, I'll address the training set.

For articles that a person obtains through legal methods (like buying subscriptions) but doesn't then republish, storing copies of those articles is analogous to recording a legally accessed television show (time-shifting), which generally is fair use. Currently, no court has ruled that "analogous to time-shifting" is good enough for the time-shifting precedent to apply, but I think the difference is not significant. The same applies to companies. Companies are not literally people, but there isn't a reason for the time-shifting precedent to not apply to companies.

What about the articles that OpenAI obtained through illegal methods? Then the very act of obtaining those articles would be illegal. The training set contains those copies, so NY Times can sue to make OpenAI delete those copies and pay damages. But it's not trivially obvious that a GPT model is a copy of any works or contains copied expression of the any works in the training set; the weights that make up the model represent millions of works, it's not trivially obvious that the model contains something substantially similar to the expression in a work in the training set. Therefore, it's not trivially obvious that infringement with respect to the training set amounts to infringement with respect to the model made from the training set. If OpenAI obtained NY Times articles through illegal means, then making OpenAI delete the training set would be reasonable, but the model is a separate matter.

As long as the model doesn't contain copied expression and the weights can't be reversed into something substantially similar to expression in the existing works, then what matters is the output of the model.

If a user gives a prompt which contains no reference to an existing NY Times author, work, or a strongly associated characteristic/style, then do OpenAI's models produce outputs substantially similar to expression in the existing works? If not, then OpenAI shouldn't be liable for infringing works, because the infringing works result from the user's prompts. If my premise is false, then my conclusion falls apart. But if my premise is true, then at most I would admit that OpenAI has a limited burden to prevent users from giving those prompts.
Chromium browsers do a similar thing IME, and while I don't mind it, I don't like that the "mobile bookmarks" folder is only really accessible from the bookmark manager proper, not the bookmarks sidebar or the desktop bookmarks bar's UI.
It’s probably contextual but I’d say it’s in poor taste to use them in the first place. Removing them is a net benefit imo.
Amazon tracks the "wrong item was sent" returns to find such items. They outsourced the checking to the customers, but they're eating the cost of processing the returns/shipping. Maybe that is cheaper in the long run?
True

The "hard-stem" places rely on a bit of gaslighting and the "holier than thou" self-image of the "hard-stem" people to pay them less and to overwork them

As much as the IT world has issues, it is night and day compared to the hard-stem world where a lot of times they won't even look at you if you don't have a MSc or PhD. Learn on the job, what is that?
Yes. He was speaking about UV therapies that disinfect the entire body during particularly dangerous infections.

Pretending he told people to inject bleach will certainly reinforce a worldview where Trump is deranged -- but that doesn't make it reality.
1) is it accessible via a browser. Your screenshots and download section indicates 3 os installers.

2) I did find docs, wiki on the website. Was that created by the same tool?
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