skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd classify most of these as AI agents, it's mostly web crawlers. (Though the definition of agent is fuzzy enough that I suppose you could lump them in).

I'm also curious, will adding "Common Crawl" to the user-agent disallow list in your robots.txt actually do anything?

Added context: I run a tracker of vetted AI agents with verticalized use cases https://staf.ai
So, Amazon sold drugs illegally and all they have to do now is send a letter promising that they won't do it again? No fines, no lawsuits?
It is a wild claim. I think it's important to understand that LessWrong -- whatever it eventually became -- comes out of the SF Bay Area "Rationalist" community. Despite claims to generality, it's a narrow way of reasoning about the world with some odd outcomes. Personally, I think the notion of an "information hazard" is a fine story point in a Neal Stephenson story but taking the idea seriously enough to have nightmares about Roko's basilisk and to ban discussion of it[1] is pushing past the bounds of 'rationality' I think. That a chunk of the core LessWrong crowd went into Effective Altruism ends-justify-the-means think or into neo-reactionary circles -- to a less degree -- is also worth noting: despite claims with regard to general well-being both political ideologies are more than happy to cause mass suffering so long as the expected outcomes are good, eventually, maybe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk#Reactions
I don't feel like parent was talking "in the context of this video" as they mentioned AI, so I figured we left that context behind in this comment-tree. Seemingly, I was wrong.
> Most of the decisions people make in the US around careers has more to do with image than it does with financial sense.

I've thought the same thing about this, it's kind of depressing. It's like science and tech are both stigmatized. These are fields that have to compensate well, because if they didn't, very few people would take interest in them

And I don't think the problem is under-funding of stem, it's more cultural

I shouldn't be complaining from a money standpoint, but from a national standpoint it's probably bad for places like the DoD which hire mostly domestic citizens
> by Outlook’s insistence on removing ‘extra’ linebreaks by default

And screw that - any idea why it does so?
In the early 1980s I worked in the incoming stock dept of the worlds largest record store (we were physically separated from the actual store). We had an employee controlled music system, mostly playing mix tapes. One of the goals of many of us was to create a never-ending stream of "constantly being given songs that are as different as possible from the recent ones you've listened to"

We were young and not that well versed in the full range of musical expression (yet). Nevertheless, that didn't stop one of us (me? not sure) hitting it out of the park with a 3 part segue from "King of the Swingers" from The Jungle Book soundtrack to the Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant" to one of the Bach preludes from the WTC. This sort of thing was routine on a daily basis for all of us, and we delighted in the best ones.
If you did that you’d end up with a lot of deaths. These vasodilators are contraindicated for a wide variety of heart/health issues as well as other prescriptions.
I've come across the tech pages of these two ethical consumer guides :

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology

https://guide.ethical.org.au/guide/browse/guide/?cat=600&sub...
skeletal display, feather mount, arrow flights, writing quills, jewelry, fishing flys, cat toys, feather duster...
I’m also curious to see some examples – I used to work at a well known software company in the outdoor recreation / fitness space that made a really big deal about social justice both internally and externally. You would think they’d also be strong on the environment given the market they operated in but the minute you brought up conservation or environmental justice in an all-hands q&a they would immediately shut the line of discussion down hard.

I’m guessing it’s a much more significant hit to the bottom line to take a hard stance on environmental stuff vs DEI/social justice etc, which kind of surprised me but I can’t think of another explanation. It’s not like they were afraid of alienating market segments due to political alignment, since their (good imho!) stance on antiracisim was definitely just as politically charged as taking a strong stance on sustainability would have been…
I imagine you're correct if we're talking about the elite enjoying more legal privileges than us mere commoners. Both counties do have have that in common.
Having done some student lobbying on H1B visas a few years back, I can tell you the fatal flaw in that plan is that it does nothing to secure the southern border. The same thing is true about sending military aid to Ukraine now — how does that stop people from crossing our border?

In the twisty little minds of Congressmen, we can’t do anything good and obvious unless we solve their tangentially related problem first. All of that stuff you said about the system sounds like it matters but honestly those concerns never even appear in their minds.
Fair enough. I was providing alternatives, not prescribing a single solution. You'll notice I said what I use and also provided suggestions that I don't use.

Xournalpp uses layers as well, hiding annotations is also possible there.

Just a different solution to the same problem.

Xournalpp, is free and open source. It is actually a fork of an older software called Xournal. If it stops being developed, C++ compilers aren't going anywhere, I'll compile it myself -- beyond that it's just pedantic to discuss what and what won't be possible in decades.

PDF readers on the other hand, especially proprietary ones have a bad habit of, for lack of a better word, enshitifying (cloud, saas, subscription, etc). I've had PDF a editor corrupt my PDF as well (sample size 1, so not indicative of all PDF editors), my fault for not having backups I suppose, but I've avoided them since.

But whatever works for you, I'm not here to dictate what you can or should use. Just providing ideas as the OP originally asked in the root comment.

Anyhow, the only solution that will survive ultimately is plain text. All others rely on abstractions upon abstraction (C++, compilers, libraries, etc). Plaintext is bits and bytes you can decode by hand if you wanted.
(spoilers)

Timescape and Red Mars are very different in very different in nature and size. Timescape is a self-contained end-of-the-world story, but set in a multiverse, so some of the characters do get out alive. Red Mars is the first part of a lengthy trilogy, which is ultimately optimistic about humanity itself, even though the story contains environment collapse, devastation, and war.

[Edit] To be clear, the overall story of which Red Mars is just the first part is much longer than Timescape.
This is a little too black and white for my taste. Of all the unethical things a company can do, using .io is a minuscule and academic issue considering the popularity of the TLD.
Even better, you can host the sync server yourself: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn :

> Implications: The Ninth Circuit's declaration that selectively banning potential competitors from accessing and using data that is publicly available can be considered unfair competition under California law may have large implication for antitrust law. [citation needed]

> Other countries with laws to prevent monopolistic practices or anti-trust laws may also see similar disputes and prospectively judgements hailing commercial use of publicly accessible information. While there is global precedence by virtue of large companies such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg or Google [or LexisNexis or Westlaw] effectively using web-scraping or crawling to aggregate information from disparate sources across the web, fundamentally the judgement by Ninth Circuit fortifies the lack of enforceability of browse-wrap agreements over conduct of trade using publicly available information.
I don’t think that’s true at all! How would that go over in the next congressional election? How would that go over with the greater than one out of two US households that own a firearm? How would that go over with the rank and file of whatever agency was supposed to enforce this spectacularly illiberal and probably unconstitutional mandate?

Trying to restrict the free movement of citizens here would throw the country into hellish anarchy, why would any “power that be” attempt that? The cost would wildly exceed any benefit.
When I play dreidel you ante every turn… it does not take 860 spins.
Taking up ownership of a large codebase is incredibly challenging. You can't just throw a lot of people at it and hope it works out. It takes time to develop expertise. If the organization orchestrating a fork of Firefox ended up paying many of the existing Firefox developers to work on its fork then it might have a chance
I'd definitely go with throw - it's indicative of a logic bug, and I'd rather notice it during dev (or if not, catch in prod, complete with stack trace and whatnot), than to have it silently corrupting anything that relies on that calculation happening correctly, without me even being aware of it.

Like, if I'm doing x + y, and y just accidentally happens to contain the wrong data because of a mistake in the code, a NaN means the code will proceed as normal, and nobody will notice anything is wrong. If it's not a noticeable bug, it might be a long time until it's spotted by someone. And when they do, who knows how much damage it will have caused.
Perhaps this site may provide some ideas? https://www.visionaustralia.org/technology-products/resource...
I'm very mixed about B-corp (I say this as someone who went through it about 10 years ago).

There isn't really anything about the certification process that's binding, and it's definitely gamed. There are multiple MLMs that are certified B-corps. I would liken it to those semi-paid 40 under 40 lists that pop up every year.
Lesswrong is a strange and fascinating place with some elements that I find disturbing and problematic and others that are quite admirable. It's a place where "semi-crank" people can go and have their ideas taken moderately serious. Like academia, there's a lot of reference to past discussion but if anything they take ideas more seriously than academics - academics will drop ideas that seem like dead-ends or counter-productive but lesswrong won't give up on a thing 'till it's proven wrong. A lot of ideas have been developed, some rigorous and worth knowing, some I find pseudo-intellectual hogwash.

The place indeed has a set of common assumptions that have developed over time and may seem strange to the average person - some of these are quite interesting and others I'd find rather twisted (recently upvoted articles: "AI Girlfriends Won't Matter Much"[1]).

There's too much to summarize but I occurs to me that programmers generally have a certain tendency to instrumentalize human beings and human qualities, treat these as things or as control problems and a lot of lesswrong concerns (rationality, AI and AI-safety, effective altruism, "reproductive strategies", etc) come of this. If anything, Lesswrong is resisted the movement we've seen of libertarians drifting to the "alt-right" and so it's one forums for "this kind of stuff".

Overall: worth looking at and even posting but also it's various ideologies have used by people doing real harm (Sam Bankman-Fried etc). Further, it can produce a situation where it's more reasonable concerns ("AI safety") get distorted by and tarred with it's more ideological concerns.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pGhpav45PY5CGD2Wp/ai-girlfri...
These are reasonable caveats, but I don’t think this disqualifies Safari as not worth writing about if you’re a so-called tech journalist. There are way more Apple-only users than Firefox users.
I think that I'd prefer Firefox allow Bitwarden and other password tools to replace Firefox's password implementation. That way you'd get the UI/UX of integrated password management, but the single-source-authoritative backend too.

(before someone points out that Bitwarden has an extension: I do know that, but I'd like to see more modular features in browsers rather than our-way-is-best)
Not really, it's not the automakers, it's the auto buyers. The American market wants and expects BIG. There's no incentive for anything otherwise, especially when the price of gas is *once again* falling.

This isn't going to be solved until we have "autos on demand", and then pricing will be based on the vehicle size ordered. At that point, there will be no justification for an SUV if there's just a single person needing to get across town or across state.
HPV is a carrier disease for one strain of cancer. Cancer is a type of disease - as said elsewhere, it's like saying "I found a cure for virus".
Nowhere near the scale of Patagonia, but ZenBusiness operates as a PBC.

[1] https://www.zenbusiness.com/pbc/
> they have no idea how to organize their thoughts or write original software

Can you elaborate on this?
It’s not nothing though. For the 8 nuclear plants the combined output will be 7GWe. That can power 50 million+ homes. That’s like a fifth of the population.
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
And all software that interfaces with... Well, anything, contains unsafe code.
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In practice, this code will use a variety of target-specific optimizations or compiler intrinsics blocked behind #ifdefs that need to be periodically updated or added for new targets and toolchains. If it refers to any kind of OS-specific APIs (like RNG) then it will also need to be updated from time to time as those APIs change.

That's not to say that code can't change slowly, just the idea that it never changes is extremely rare in practice.
I'm pretty sure it's just a massive calcium boost. I do this if I'm cooking for myself, but absolutely not if someone else is eating it. Most people do not tolerate crunch in their fluffy eggs lol.
What the West Gets Wrong About China (2021)
You can't do that because I hate you
Cramming up two player split screen on the same keyboard with your bro was part of the deal, and pretty sweet, made it all the more visceral.
>VSCode Remote Development

VSCode does this feature the best. No other IDE comes close. I'm a jetbrains guy and I would've given up on vscode completely if it were not for this feature. This thing is extremely important for embedded systems and development on the edge and only vscode really does it well enough to be useable.

Glad to see Lapce has it to. Going to try it out.
> I can't even imagine how you'd get the parts

I have no idea, but I would assume most parts are custom machined to spec. If that's true, you'd just need to find machine shops capable of making the parts.
liero is amazing even to this day. I love it as much as I love the antics of works 2? with the ninja rope shenanigans
Rock-bottom prices drive shortages of generic drugs used in hospitals
> They now point to one of the Big Email Providers.

I'm interested to know which one. I'm guessing Gmail.
It probably relates to the question of the Chagos Archipelago and it's former inhabitants.
I agree with your sentiment.

That said, I can totally see why it would matter to some people why language something is written in: you may want to study or contribute to an editor and you may prefer to focus on your preferred language
Sourcing, quoting, and linking is covered in the NYTimes content policy under fair use. See: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014891408-Obta...

I think what wouldn't be covered is reproducing substantial portions of an article, especially if it's done without attribution. Tier 2 publications that fully reprint NYT or AP/Reuters articles are usually doing this via a paid News Service or Content License. See: https://nytlicensing.com/content/new-york-times-news-service...
What transcription model is this using? $7 seems quite steep when Whisper is as low as 10c/hour of transcription.

I’m also not impressed with the (lack of) privacy policy:

> Want to Keep It Private? Don't share personal or private voice messages.

(From the website)
Yeah, the problem is when one of these faults comes from a 3rd party library and doesn't include stack trace info.
The screenshots seem to disable zooming on mobile. Please don’t do that.

Unfortunately the usage restrictions of the non-open-source licence make it a no-go for me. Can't use it for anything that could potentially facilitate "any transaction of economic value", which removes most of the utility of such an app.
> the one thing it doesn't do is optimize for the interests of America.

Short-term: Perhaps.

Long-term: A more-stable LATAM (and world) economy is in America's interest.
Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age!

[1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luettelo_suomalaisista_sharewa...
Unfortunately all this would result in is everything being labeled unsafe.

See California and cancer.
Is this encrypted with a KDF from your password?
Amazon is totally jam packed with scams, it's actually pretty shocking.
> instead of investing in it and making it a core pillar of their strategy.

What are they investing in now?

> Mozilla was (is?) flush with cash.

It's not neutral cash, it's Google's cash. The point is to get off the needle of Google's handouts and become independent. Maybe then there'd be less incentive to slowly drive Firefox towards irrelevance.

> what are they without Firefox?

With a small bit of conspiracy theory, that would be "mission accomplished" :-|
> I can believe that there's vim plugins to handle all those, but the energy it would take to find auto-complete and navigation and formatting and debugging and any number of other out-of-the-box IDE functionality is more than I'd like to thing about.

Well, I'll be the bearer of the good news, then!

NeoVim has a native LSP client which unifies all auto-complete/navigation/formatting into a single plugin, only requiring you to install per-language LSP server.

As for debugging, there's also DSP (Debug Server Protocol) which NeoVim doesn't have native support for, but there's a plugin for that.
When Ballmer was CEO, he has to be involved personally in every deal $10M+. No one doubts he excelled at being a great cheerleader but a CEO needs to lead and have an achievable vision that shapes the future.
In a democratic society, humans at least have value if they vote for you in the next election, and dropping rockets on or near them tends to decrease the chances of them doing that. In a dictatorship however...
I found myself lightly horrified throughout Permutation City, and found myself thinking about it spontaneously for months afterwards.
- Truly open source, presumably without the caveats that VS Code has such as a few "features" (extensions) being closed source and the extension marketplace being closed to de-microsofted builds

- Designed from the beginning to support an extension API with a richness comparable to VS Code's (unlike Sublime, Jetbrains etc)

- Presumably aiming to put performance as a higher priority than is usual
One of my random thoughts is that floats could be represented as enums in type system, e.g. in rust-like syntax:

#[repr(f32)]
enum Float32 {
PositiveInfinity,
NegativeInfinity,
Nan(NanPayload32),
Finite(FiniteFloat32),
}

You could also then define NonNanFloat32 etc which could be used for certain operations. Of course on machine level its all the same
Okay, here goes:

- At least one major court case plays out over AI, and that completely changes the future of the technology. I personally suspect it'll be found that using copyrighted materials for LLMs is copyright infringement (in the OpenAI sense), but whatever happens, all hell is breaking out online

- Social media declines in popularity. I suspect this is already happening post pandemic, since places like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc are seeing a huge decline in activity and many people I used to know on these services have dropped them altogether.

- Reddit follows Twitter's lead, changes name and collapses in popularity. Spez seems to be following Musk's playbook.

- No replacement appears for Twitter. Instead, a small percentage of the existing Twitter base is divided across Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads, and much of the rest just stop using any of them.

- The economy gets split between companies that go full remote work forever and those that go back to the office. Many of the former complain how hard it is to find employees now.

- Layoffs continue in tech related industries, as the growth expected during the pandemic doesn't pan out.

- Streaming services collapse in popularity due to their
move towards cable TV style setups (ads, content split across many platforms, etc). Piracy becomes a big thing again.

- Labour wins the UK general election. Considers possibility of reversing Brexit.

- The Nintendo Switch's successor is unveiled, but does worse than its predecessor at launch due to lack of an incentive to move to the new console (and people already having spent a ton on 2023/2024 Switch games)

- Antitrust cases start up against the iOS App Store and Google Play Store in more regions, as the companies are forced to open up those platforms.

- At least one more natural disaster becomes a huge international incident, and the severity gets tied to climate change.

- Renewable energy makes great strides (and becomes a larger contributor to the electrical grid worldwide), but it doesn't help enough to slow down climate change that much.

- The Russia/Ukraine conflict ends in a stalemate and peace agreement, as the Russian economy teeters on the brink of collapse.

- Civil war or conflict breaks out in at least one previously seemingly stable authoritarian country. Maybe Russia post Ukraine conflict?
It is not just modulo, it also test for whether the input is a number or integer. It also has one dependency, is-number. And isOdd(“3”) returns true.

Basically it helps dealing with all the typing problems of Javascript, and also fitting into functional programming paradigms.
Does nobody remember the memos?

https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491&page=1
Well, some stuff you can buy only online.

Anecdote: I tried to market my own dietary supplements in the US for a while. Unfortunately I am poor in marketing but many customers loved it. I bought all the ingredients from a supplier, had it mixed in California and shipped to a company that can package it. For a slight taste I needed a tiny amount of sucralose. Did not want to buy a huge amount. So I ordered it on eBay. I asked the guy to send me a CoA and he did. It said Manufacturere Spectrum and Food grade. Unfortunately I knew that Spectrum was not selling this as food grade. Sure the guy could have made his own tests but how likely is this? I just trashed it and bought it somewhere else. Should have used Stevia anyway.
Field of endeavour is an oss freedom

Armin ronacher, also had some thoughts on this recently, via a license that converts to OSS.
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/12/25/life-and-death-of-open-s...
I'm pretty sure if you asked the average person, especially in the US, which EVs burst into flames, it'll be a US brand that they'll name.
> the solution was chastisement and a public apology

Not all gays are in favor of gay marriage. The solution was to let him have his political opinions, and simply agree to disagree, like adults.
Well, nearly all of Mozilla's revenue (I see numbers around 80-90%) comes from Google. And Google presumably doesn't mind if Firefox users switch to Chrome. I'm not sure if anyone involved actively considers this the goal, but it's possible that this creates some perverse incentives.
And thus!

This is how a good culture of safety looks like. Treat small stuff seriously to prevent the big bad things. Similarly with aviation, and with medicine, etc.