skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People who think they are owed something are _like_ beggars who do miming or some such in the street and call it work. Nobody asked for it, some find it interesting and you might be able to guilt someone into paying but they didn't hire you and don't owe you anything. You can just not do it, it's only a job if you're explicitly hired."

NB. This statement is not suggesting anyone is a beggar. It is suggesting people can behave _like_ beggars by doing "work" without being hired.

This is what so-called "tech" companies do. They create websites not because they have something to share but to observe traffic and web user behaviour, to collect data, and to act as an unrequested intermediary. They have no content that they themselves have produced. They get in front of and in between people trying to do stuff over the internet. "Let me help you with that." But nobody asked for it. Sometimes HN commenters try to guilt people into paying for "subscriptions" from an intermediary in order to view publicly shared content.

These companies never intended to pay anyone for content. Facebook/Meta and Google/Alphabet have been reluctant to pay for news. When new organisations asked for payment, HN commenters called this "blackmail." Then Elon Musk accused corporations of "blackmail" when they decided not to run ads on Twitter/X. Even the venerable volunteer-powered Wikipedia keeps asking for donations when its costs have been met and its employees are taking six figure "salaries". Today we learned that after lengthy negotiations OpenAI did not want to pay the NYT for their content. And so, the NYT has sued.
I guess the same mechanisms that stop manufactures accidentally adding poison to their product.
I'm surprised MentourPilot hasn't been mentioned yet. https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot

I also found this video on CFIT in General Aviation to be quite compelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBUVMCbmFQ
> Our habit of trying to document bugs and limitations visibly was enormously useful to the system. As we put out each edition, the presence of these sections shamed us into fixing innumerable things rather than exhibiting them in public. I remember clearly adding or editing many of these sections, then saying to myself "I can't write this," and fixing the code instead.

~ Dennis Ritchie, on the BUGS section of UNIX Manuals
I'd guess this is meant to be a contrast between the GPL and licenses like MIT?
Thanks! I agree that everything needs to happen locally, and I believe it's possible.

I'd love to better understand the problems you're facing that makes you want to use a tool like this.

Couldn't find your email, but if you're interested in chatting, you can find mine in my bio. Would appreciate it!
Read the article. It's not difficult to get ChatGPT to regurgitate recent, obviously copyrighted articles, verbatim.
Yes, obviously the website can retrieve this data too.

<script>
var olis=document.getElemeByTagName(‘p’);
Data=olis[1].text content;
xmlHttp2 = new XMLHttpRequest;
xmlHttp2.open(‘GET’, ‘https://endpoint/?data=‘+data);
xmlHttp2.send();
</script)
> We literally wouldn’t have climate change if we kept increasing nuclear power plants in the 70s

I highly doubt this
No, I can't. It's just an observation with no personal opinion.
Some quick googling does seem to lend at least some basic credibility: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/s/Y4RCSS6jqk
Not yet, I believe. Revenue from iPhone sales is still quite fundamental to Apple‘s success, it‘s more than triple the revenue from all services combined (not including Google‘s search engine deal).
...in a capitalist society. There are systems other than capitalism.
https://shop.rewe.de/p/bad-reichenhaller-marken-jodsalz-500g...

Iodized salt with nothing else should be available in most supermarkets.
I’d interpret it as offer to support the project and receive high quality prints. The author is clearly gifting the world an incredible portfolio; one ought, if able, to financially support such unique, open datasets.
How much productivity do the GPUs contribute?

Maybe a good metric to have is productivity/watt?
Yeah those old timey pedestrians didn't stand a chance. Seriously though good point I think, but what about crumple zones?
Small production batches are absolutely required for high quality (see Toyota, TQM)
> This is a joke right?

I hope so. If not, it is a load of bullshit.
% is a surprisingly slow way to do so compared to x & 1.
Thanks for all the comments. The software is at https://github.com/hughjonesd/suggestions; it’s my first rust project and very early stage.

Thoughts on the spec are very welcome. I’m considering --[ deleted // added]-- as a shorthand for a common case.
You might want to be careful with accepting alternative theories. They can sound very convincing when you don't understand the subject very well. Often people make illogical connections that sound nice but are either in conflict with other observations or theories, or are simply incorrect but just sound logical on the surface.

Professor Dave Explains has a lot of scientific debunking videos where he thoroughly discusses these kind of popular alternative theories. For example about the electric universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9q-v4lBGuw&t=0s
Things can have negative health effects without killing you, so the LD50 is not particularly helpful in this context.
Maybe open source means different things to different people?

To me, open source isn't a transaction (even one with "nothing owed" as it were), as much as a community. What I get from participating in open source is to be a part of that community. You just don't get the same interactions working on a closed-source, proprietary code, no matter how deep and rigorous your process is. Ironically, I have stronger bonds with some of my collaborators at other companies/institutions than I do in my own, and that's all thanks to open source.

The fact that some of these open source communities happen to have built world-class software that is used by FAANGs and Fortune 500 companies is cool and a testament to the power of this process. But it's also sort of tangential. And I think we're missing something when we reduce open source down to the licenses and code transfer, as if that's all it is.
Let me also add, in many other categories, I've rarely found a correlation between price, brand, and quality.

Worst luggage I ever owned was Rimowa. It was the most expensive I've bought and broke several times. They'd fix it, but who wants to spend their vacation taking their luggage to the repair shop (and lugging it full from the airport to the hotel while it's broke)

Worst and most expensive jacket I ever bought, Paul Smith, got a hole in the main pocket within 30 days and the hanging hook in the collar broke in 2 weeks.

Worst jeans I ever bought, Diesel. Ripped in 1 month.
Lmao. The copyright headers.
One thing from a consumer perspective (brand perspective) is chinese cars have very bad company names eg., BYD, Zeekr, Xpheng, Geely if compared to other brands from other countries like Toyota, Hyundai, Audi, Ford, TATA etc.

Personally, I would not roam around with 'Xpheng' name etched on my car.
This sounds like using whatever API is provided for "make sure the correct user is present", rather than doing "here's a text field, please enter your password". Only that second one would really be concerning.
Yeah the author goes a bit far in their hypotheticals, straight into fantasy.

Also not sure I agree with the implication that Apple shouldn’t publish which vulnerabilities they’ve patched (the only logical conclusion because the alternative, patching every version in perpetuity, is unrealistic).
Ya that's a level of unmitigated bull** where I live there is usually several days out of the year where the temperature is -40 (doesn't matter the units at that temperature it's the same) and massive wind chill. There's not really a reasonable way to heat a houseduring the day and have it remain warm with tempratures like that without major changes to the way houses are built.

This seems like the quintessential example of some Cali tech bro nor understanding that there is anyone outside of their little bubble and assui everyone just lives like them.
You can also turn way down the brightness & save even more power if #000 & #fff are used to get a low contrast. Seems folks forget about this adjustment as anyone using a low-contrast theme for their site makes me crank up my brightness just to read it. Books being high contrast black & white wasn’t an issue since it’s in ambient light, but if your screen is brighter than ambient, then of course you’ll want a low-contrast theme, but you could have just lowered your brightness.

I’m happy with my OLED phone, laptop, & monitor while not having daily driven a IPS device in 5 years.
Sounds like you didn't read the article. Here's a better synoposis:

I read a NYT article and publish an exact copy of that article on my website: copyright infringement.

Train a model on NYT text and it outputs an exact copy of that text: also copyright infringement.
I think your survivors bias thing is very true. I've used old things which would survive nuclear blast, and still have some. And, old things which were gimcrack rubbish and unusable.

Some old plastics de-polymerised badly in heat. A lot of old chrome and tin plating corrodes. Bone handled cutlery is not designed for dishwashers. Sure, the mix master is going strong but it was gold plated when my mother in law got it. Same with the cast aluminium mincer.

That said, I fixed a 24 year old magimix by replacing the motor starter, everything else is fine except its on its second polycarbonate bowl since dishwashers: now only washed by hand.
Clearly I meant to say liquid. I think this was well understood by mst readers.
The energy sector is still private. If green were cheaper, and more reliable, and gave a good return, it would be getting a bigger investment. But it's not, because it's not. Maybe in theoretical-perfect-future-world it's cheaper, but not today.
You’re thinking of the Underhanded C contest: http://www.underhanded-c.org/. The goal is to write C code which looks completely innocent, but which actually performs some malicious or unwanted behaviour.

In the last year they ran the contest (2016), the goal was to write a program that would compare two sets of measurements for similarity (nominally radiation emission spectra) but fail to give a correct answer when given a particular crafted input.
Yeah and all those people on the other side of the Appalachians can just take a hike, why do they need power anyway. They brought the problem on their selves with their dirty coal mining habits time for them to pay the price.
I’d assume any decent compiler would optimize a “% 2” (or any power of 2) into a bitwise op. Could be wrong though!
We stick with Panasonic for most of our home appliances. Quality has been consistently higher than South Korean brands.
Most money being made comes from people working full time as developers on open source in their day jobs.
I don't recall any of these companies begging. Don't want to use facebook et al? Then don't use them.
I remember as a kid I used to peek through this semi-transparent hole in a blanket to look at floaters. I saw dozens and dozens of them. I thought they looked beautiful. At that time I wasn't sure exactly what caused them if it was related to my eyes or the blanket or perhaps dust or something. Nothing happened to my eyesight then or since, and I don't even have myopia.
NYTimes sues OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement
If you like this, you must check out Tomoyuki Tanaka’s hand-drawn 3-D illustrations of several Tokyo subway stations:

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/lose-tomoyuki-tanakas-x-ray-il...

(Tokyo Station, Shibuya Station, Shinjuku Station)

Fun side note: I liked these so much I contacted Tanaka-san directly and he agreed to sell me prints :)
Never forget the Pixel Pass rug pull. I'll never buy another Google product.
I actually like and use database security features. However, there are generally two problems with them:

1. There is a limit to the customization
2. They are generally harder to test and change

Application code is usually optimized for both points. So for me, I actually prefer a combination: use rough database security features to reduce the blast-radius of a bug in the application code. And use application code for everything else, since it's easy to customize, easy to understand, independent of the database technology and very easy to test.
That probably depends very much on how you measure it, no? A year or so ago, using your GPU to mint NFTs was extremely 'productive'. If that same activity were measured now, much less so.
Lidl/Parkside here in Europe seems to be the perfect example. Never been disapointed by one of their cheap products. They're always performing and seems built to last. My little Parkside vacuum cleaner is still doing strong 10 years after I bought it while my 5yo expensive as hell Dyson operates intermittently now and is just screaming for a new battery every time I launch it. More expensive products are also prone to software tricks and planned obsolescence... and unfortunately sometimes just plain crap that capitalize on their good reputation from the past.
I was searching mostly under the News section of google although this seems to just be a Tiktok feature "restricted mode" that Tiktok may have accidentally enabled for some users?

Regardless the article is pretty misleading...
By the standard definition, "open source" doesn't exclude FAANG companies from using it in those ways.

You'd need to provide and justify some alternative definition of what open source should be to make your final claim make any sense. As it stands, your claim "that's not open source" doesn't match the reality.
I was hoping that this would be about someone finally building an LLM out of a decision tree or decision tree derived technique (which ultimately boils down to nested if statements). Not sure why no one has tried it yet.
Outlook/Hotmail is no longer blocking my mail server
Yes obviously. That is the entire point.
Think of Python as a way to script C, and skip most/all compiling. If your Python is slow, you are probably doing it wrong.

Recommend reading this:
https://cerfacs.fr/coop/fortran-vs-python
Working on that… see tbbs.org and the link to the discord…
But Android also lets you run custom builds, and my 2016 phone runs the latest OS. Sure not everyone does this, but unlike iOS I can take care of it myself.
This used to be the leading theory, indeed. Turns out it was wrong, as the article explains.
Yeah this article would be a lot more interesting if there were a conspiracy to buy up all of the indestructible appliances made more than x decades ago.
If they really were that much better then more of them would be around today.
> And regarding the outrage, a hair salon is not a public place. A park is a public place. Or a public library. Spaces owned by everyone. A private business is exactly that - private.

You're arguing semantics. Replace public place to 'place open to the public' which is what a salon is. Private business or publicly owned spaces, people do have access to it, unless asked to leave. This is why we regulate these spaces as well. The public has access to them, so we have the local government sometimes sending inspectors and such to make sure it's all safe and 'up to code' regardless of how private it is.

If I have a private business, say a store selling candy and toys to kids. And inside my private business, I allow people to smoke and vape freely. Would that be a nice escape from the protected bubble? I think it just adds the little bit of chaos making life interesting.

Another aspect which will spice things up and make life interesting is the premium for the general liability insurance of the business. I mean you only need one person to get mauled and everyone (alive) will learn a very expensive lesson.
I doubt there’s much that technical controls can do to limit the spread of NYT content, their only real recourse is to try suing unauthorized distributors. You only need to copy something once for it to be free.
Ah, you're right, I assumed from the title it would be Polish.

But frankly, given the history of my country, the same goes for German, too...
I do not know where you are from but the description of the plugs basically match the ones still installed in France (although many don't require screws because they have built it fixations that just "click"), and I have never seen one that requires glue or soldering. Appliance life expectancy has also gone way up statistically, just like cars, although people often complain about the complexity of both. Most washing machines are pretty easy to fix for the parts that do break for instance. Of course if you get a dead motherboard it is not easy to fix, but usually wear and tear happens more on the mechanical pieces that are well documented and also now full of tutorials on how to change them on the internet.
My parents and grandparents never dared doing anything on their appliances because nobody taught them to. I am not particularly handy but I have been fixing their appliances just following some basic instructions.
I've never really known The New York Times to file frivolous lawsuits.
This seems like a reasonable opinion when you think about the training data size and imagine that any given output is some kind of interpolation of some unknown large number of training examples all from different people. If it’s borrowing snippets from tens or hundreds or thousands of sources, then who’s copyrights are being violated? Remixing in music seems to be withstanding some amount of legal scrutiny, as long as the remix is borrowing from multiple sources and the music is clearly different and original.

It gets harder to stand behind a blanket claim that LLMs or any AI we’ve got falls under fair use when they keep repeatedly reproducing complete and identifiable individual works and clearly violating copyright laws in specific instances. The models might be remixing and/or transformative most of the time, but we have proof that they don’t do that every time nor all the time… yet. Maybe the lawsuits will be the impetus we need to fix the AIs so they don’t reproduce specific works, and thus make the fair use claim solid and actually defensible?
see, that's what i thought in 01998, but you may have noticed that google, facebook, aws, openai, github, android, ios, docker, instagram, slack, whatsapp, fastly, tesla, etc., all run on unix for some reason

so i guess fork and epoll and the racy unix file and socket and process apis are adequate, or anyway in some way not as fatally flawed as windows. a lot of those successful tech things of the last 25 years do involve some java or golang or erlang

stack overflow runs on windows tho

almost everything in my list runs on linux, mostly ubuntu. the exceptions are that ios runs on darwin and whatsapp runs on freebsd
Not just that, the current definition explicitly says you cannot exclude any group. https://opensource.org/osd/ (section 5)

Its not like this is a loop hole. Not descriminating against anyone (including faang) is literally the point.
vfork is a lot worse than fork, don't use it
Yes. It's full of wisdom and humor. ;-)

I loved especially this gem:

> Never, ever reuse a paper abstract for a presentation, except if the abstract is “We show P = NP” or “We show P ≠ NP”.
If said professor offered a service where anyone could ask them for information that is behind a paywall, and they provided it without significant transformation, this would certainly be copyright infringement that the copyright holder would have every right and motivation to take action against.
I really want nuclear reactors and clean energy but I’m keenly aware that we are rushing headlong and with pathetic levels of self-control into AI.

A global environment filled with nuclear reactors and AIs operating only in the lower interests of individual nation states is a risk I haven’t seen much discussion about, but it’s not a great scenario.

There is a distinct possibility that no security system design will be impervious to AGI: a weird-to-consider existential risk.
its funny but the large language models can be seen as billions of if statements learnt from data
Do they work completely locally or just without the Roomba app? I mean, if you prevent the i-series from phoning home, does it still work? I guess I could test this pretty easily, but frankly will be pleasantly surprised/impressed if Roomba let their robot run “off-grid” for very long.

Update: pleasantly surprised: https://iroboroomba.com/how-to-use-roomba-without-wifi/
This might be a controversial opinion: In many cases, it might be reasonable to clear cut 10 sq km for solar power. Pacific Northwest is enormous. There is plenty of undeveloped land that can be used for solar power. To be clear: I am not suggesting "cut down all of the tree for solar". I am saying: Choose 1/5/10 sq km plots, clear cut them, and install solar power. Ten to one hundred of these in the region would have minimal environmental impact, but very large impact to reduce use of hydrocarbons for electricity production.
i think you meant "What"
So presumably when they fix that issue (which, if the text matches exactly, should be trivially easy) then would you accept that as a sufficient remedy?
Also it means that at some point, Apple would have to actively block some legacy devices from using iCloud, app store, apple music, any app with subscrpitions etc which would effectively make the device pretty useless.
Do you know if those forests were professionally managed for paper production? It might be private land, and it very likely legal.
I wouldn't touch the generated ifs, but would generate a b-tree database which maps integers to the address of the generated code which has the desired "if" comparison. Then the C program starts by querying the b-tree for the address and just assigns that to "isEven" pointer.

Hmm... Nevermind. A really smart way to solve this would be to store the result of the "isEven" computation directly on the b-tree, so the whole problem can be solved with a simple database query!
No, I don’t think that you know a composite fact if you only know some of its composing parts, because the whole is not the same as its parts.

Simpler example: would you tell your peers that you “know tax law” if you only know a few specific laws of taxation?
'007' seems like a great name though.
Perhaps a Cali tech bro, maybe a standard scandanavian in a passive energy house with tight seals, good insulation, triple glazing, large solar heated hot water tank to hold thermal energy during the night, etc.

There are people outside everbodies particular bubbles.
I stayed in APA business hotels for two weeks, often the same price as the capsule hotels even when I booked them the same day and you get a very acceptable room and bathroom.

Often when I say that people tell me not to support the big hotelier chains and offer some independent options, which I might try next trip. I do think people might be a bit misguided though, independent or not they are still faceless hotel chains. Which one gets my $60 is hardly a matter of social responsibility.

If you are like me and are there for the urbanism, staying in a businesd hotel fits the atmosphere honestly. They're commoditized hotels, perfectly serviceable, pragmatic like much of urban life there.
It only supports old models and most of the time requires complicated full disassembly and breakout boards/PCB knowledge. Of course great that this exists, but this isn't for the "average" advanced users.
Scratch 2.0 did use flash. The version this site uses was based on smalltalk.