skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I as an artist, want to share something I made with the world, but don't want others to take something I care about and claim it as something that they created, so they using their popularity can sell my work. My only option is to not share it with anyone?

Don’t share it publicly with no viewing restrictions, yes. If you want to limit who can view it, then limit who can view it.

It’s like driving around with a banner on your car and then complaining because a certain subset of the population looked at it.

There are many ways to restrict access to content. The simplest is to create a login and TOS that restricts usage. Just do that and it won’t be used for any training.

But putting it on a server with anonymous http access means that the whole world (including robots) can see it.

It’s not victim blaming, it’s just reason. If you don’t want people to see something, don’t show it to them.
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But the increase in tech jobs doesn't benefit existing workers. Compare https://elaineou.com/2017/08/26/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing... :

> According to this Joint Venture Silicon Valley report, 74% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born immigrants. A decade ago, 36% of Silicon Valley tech workers were born abroad. In 2000, only 29% were.

> Tech industry employment has increased from about 300,000 jobs in 2007 to 400,000 in 2016, so even though we created 100,000 engineering positions in the last decade, we’ve also displaced 88,000 domestic engineers.[1]

> American tech workers are getting pushed out, and they aren’t coming back

If the downward pressure on salary in American software jobs is so extreme that salaries frequently go all the way to zero, while there is a countervailing upward pressure on salary among Indian no-job-yets, why do we say it's "categorically false" that there is a downward pressure on American software salaries?

[1] Note that this is what you expect from a pricing shift, not an increase in the value created by the work. The quantity of software labor purchased has gone up and sellers are being forced out. If the driver of increased quantity-of-jobs were increased value created, you would see sellers entering the market, not leaving.
> The private sector has never done anything like what NASA has accomplished

Nonsense. NASA spent 50 years using disposable lift vehicles. Only the government could bring itself to create single-use articles that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. SpaceX has fixed this by building the Falcon 9, which is not only reusable, it has the highest success rate of any orbital rocket in human history. They're not only "doing something like what NASA has accomplished", they are objectively doing it better and far, far cheaper.

> and NASA is far and away the most successful explorers and engineers in human history. I have no reason to believe anyone else could do it.

No belief necessary. SpaceX has already done it.

> Has Space-X left Earth orbit?

Yes.

> Look at NASA's budget (or any other source) and you'll find they do far, far more.

My point wasn't that they didn't do a bunch of stuff, but rather that they didn't do enough to justify their $0.25 Trillion per-decade budget.

> The all caps, btw, are against HN guidelines.

Ah, I see that in the guidelines. I'll avoid them in the future, thanks!
And you think that it would be impossible to train a model to avoid outputs that are substantially similar to training data?
Blowing up 2023 with TNT, in Minecraft
There's also the todo package for latex that has worked really well. Doesn't help much for markdown though I suppose. You can specify colors for different types of notes and can render said comments inline or in the margins.
I think you're onto something here. Spotify already saves various metadata about the musical qualities of songs like how "upbeat" it is or how much it "slaps". I'm imagining some kind of K-farthest-neighbors algorithm could make it so that you're constantly being given songs that are as different as possible from the recent ones you've listened to. I dunno, I'm not very well versed in algorithms yet, maybe that would be way too slow.
"minority market saturation"

let's stop repeating this nonsense. You wouldn't say LVMH has minority market saturation in the clothing industry, because it doesn't compete in the global clothing industry. It competes in the global luxury goods market, where it has a dominant market majority control. Similarly, Apple has, and for a long time has had, a near monopoly on the luxury electronics market.
I took a glance at Can I Use what the difference between the last public release of Firefox and Chrome is [1] and they don't really have that big of a difference in the eyes of normal use-cases? Some of these aren't implemented purely because of privacy reasons, the proposals aren't finished yet or complexity [2].

Why would Firefox need to change to Chromium engine? The only websites I notice that don't work with Firefox is because of user-agent targetting or just putting 5-second time-outs in Youtube code on non-chrome webbrowsers [3].

Can you give some examples of websites not working on Firefox?

[1] https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+120%2Cfirefox+121&compar...

[2] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

[3] https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-seemingly-intentionally-...
I've noticed this too! It's especially bad after using discover weekly and liking a song or two, the shuffle then gets stuck on similar songs. It seems disabling "automix" in the settings returns the shuffle to be more like a traditional random shuffle.
>Labor regulation is much more strict. It's legally hard and expensive to lay off workers in Germany, for example.

Is a few months notice [0] too much to ask? You can fire anyone you want, you're just going to wait a little bit or pay their remaining salary if you want them gone immediately. There is nothing legally hard about it. The hardest part is probably that you have to physically mail the
layoff notice, but nothing prevents you from just directly giving it to them straight into their hands to be perfectly compliant with the law. Also, most of these laws only apply to companies with employee counts in the double digits. Not to small startups hiring their third employee.

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__622.html
Which is nothing? There's a clearly non-zero rate of dangerous contamination in food products, in a market as large as the US, that nobody is able to fully prevent.
Not just Amazon, every time these "ED supplements" are tested, most of them turn out to have actual pharmaceuticals in them.

Here's a similar article from 5 years ago: https://www.wired.com/story/dietary-supplements-can-contain-...
Because its good money?
Interestingly, I had completely forgotten that these were legal to sell OTC these days. I don't think I've ever seen them in shops where I would have expected them to be.
I am under the impression that an unstated design objective of gemini was preventing eternal september by trading it off for staying an eternal echo chamber tobe inhabited only by people smart enough to write their own client and server software.
Blendtec or Vitamix are what you want. They have modes, but the motors are very very good and they stand by their products (8 and 10-year warranties, respectively)
Why should Firefox move to an engine that is completely controlled by Google? Firefox's independence is exactly why uBlock Origin will continue to work just as well as it always has, and Chromium-based browser will flounder with MV3.
I have issues, but rarely. (but I'm tech savvy... wouldn't want to tell my mom to try a different browser...)

My sense of what sites don't work properly (not necessarily 100% of the time, joy) are some big corporate, non-tech company websites, like Kaiser Permanente's and ADP's sites. My sense of recollection says these cases are frequently experienced as the combination of, "Ugh, gotta log into that stupid bloated benefits/work related site, oh and it's not working... time to try Chrome."
I don't know how valid the "brakes shedding energy at same rate per unit distance" is, but other sources confirm how massively braking distance increases with speed.

For example, from here:

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/driver-care/239402/driver-c...

At 50 mph braking distance is 125 ft.

At 60 mph it's 245 ft

At 80 mph it's 439 ft

Now, when you consider the emergency circumstances where you might be flooring the brakes, this is not good ...

e.g.

A deer or child runs out in front of you, so close that emergency braking is called for .. how far away are they going to be from you ?

Or, say the car in front of you on highway slams on their brakes, and they were travelling at 50mph, with you approaching at 60mph. Unless you are at least 120 ft behind them (vs the typical highway following distance of a few car lengths), you are going to be in a bad head-on collision.
I was once tasked with creating a DVD game that was meant to randomly pick questions from its available pool. Learned lots of things about how unrandom random can be. On the lower end of DVD players, there was a stored list of values between 0 and maxInt that was randomized when created. Each call of the random function would just move the pointer to the next item in the list. This meant that it would essentially play the questions in the same order every time. I can't remember the specifics if the list was reset when loading a disc or when the player was turned on.

Turns out, the company wanting the game got scarred of some patent that invoked the word random, so we had to reprogram the thing essentially do the same as that player. We had multiple sequences of randomized questions, and the game pick one of the sequences to play back in order when started.
It's "shakeout" time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5B
This might be it:

https://cohost.org/whitequark/post/3963011-the-yowasp-toolch...

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yowasp.t...

https://yowasp.org/

https://vscode.dev/github/YoWASP/toolchain-demo
I have attempted this sort of thing with GPT 3.5 many times and never been successful, although I've still never been taken off of the GPT4 waiting list that I signed up for months ago and I'm not going to subscribe without trying it first. I [and presumably many thousands of others] have tried things like this with many LLMs and image generating models, but to my knowledge we've come up rather short. I've never managed to recreate anything verbatim and have struggled to get anything resembling a copyright infringement out of stable diffusion with the sole exception of a meme image of Willy Wonka.

That said, the meme image of Willy Wonka comes out of stable diffusion 1.5 almost perfectly with surprising frequency. Then again, this is probably because it appeared hundreds or thousands of times in the training set in all sorts of contexts because it's such a popular meme. There is a tension between its status as an integral part of language and its nature as a copyrighted screen grab.
Tree style tabs works as well as it did before, except that it's more difficult to get rid of the top tabs.
Ah, looks like I'm different!!

Sync????

Thanks for the explanation:

"As a refresher, Chrome Sync is capable of syncing, and settings across devices signed into with the same Google account. That's the idea, at least."

I'm a heavy user of Firefox, 1+ hours a day. Never used "sync". Heard about it, but never knew what it was.

Now, nope: Don't want it!

For more:

"bookmarks, passwords, browsing history, tabs, payment info, personal info"

I don't know what a "bookmark" is. For the rest, I don't want Firefox involved with remembering any of those. Generally I want Firefox to do less, and less, and less, a lot less.

For all those issues, I have perfectly good, simple, old solutions.

I just want my Web browser doing little more than the minimum a Web browser needs to do and do not want it cooking my lunch or generally doing me favors. And I deeply resent Firefox, ..., my car trying to anticipate what I "want".

E.g., when I need to pound in a nail and swing my hammer, I don't want the hammer stopping, reminding me that a hammer could hurt one of my fingers, and requiring that I push a special button for the hammer to go ahead and hit the nail.

Generally, when I give an order, I want the intended purpose accomplished and do not want warnings, advice, popups, refusals, requirements to repeat my order, etc. Why? I'm trying to get my work done, ASAP, and the special help makes the work take 2-3 times longer.

Back talk: Tools that refuse my command and give me back talk seem to believe that they know more about my work than I do, and that is not just hurting my work but also patronizing and insulting. Tool developer: Don't do that; else, as soon as I have an alternative I will take it.

Yup, looks like I'm different. Maybe lots of people actually like popups, e.g., ones that try to do me favors but cover up what I need to see.
Oh the US has been amazing to me! I love the US! It gave me degrees (funded by American donors), it gave me work experience, it provided me with capital markets to raise $$ and build companies. I love it all.

However, since the US doesn't really want me to be physically IN the US, I will simply continue loving the US from afar. I will maintain equity in US companies, I will take US capital and I will sell to US customers, and continue making US great! I just will do it without paying US taxes because I'm not located in the US. I love Australia too but that's for my health and retirement plan.
> a US citizen from the Midwest not getting it

No offense, but maybe your resume didn't reflect that you had the skills required.

The companies I worked at and now portfolio companies of mine pay Bay Area market rate to both citizens and non-citizens.

We hire noncitizens because we didn't find the right talent we need.
Many, many sites are slow when on the front page of HN. Anecdotally it loads in under 10s for me.
The "panel lottery" is still a thing, especially from the major brands like HP, Lenovo, and Dell. They don't say what you are going to get, they change panel suppliers without changing the model number, and in general they don't give a damn about how the thing looks. I guess it's why people buy Apple.
So it stores the words, and it stores the links between those words...

but somehow storing the words and their links is not storing the actual text? What is text but words and their links?

If I had a database of a billion words, and I had a list of pointers to words in a particular order, and following that list of pointers reproduces a copyright text exactly, isn't the list of pointers + the database of words just an obfuscated recreation of that copyrighted work?
I have tried firefox, Vivaldi. But in terms of speed, when different sites load chrome fares better than them.

I'm back to using chrome.

I like customisation feature of Vivaldi but it lags in terms of speed. I still use Vivaldi on case basis (to read some sites' articles which have by default ads enabled)
Felix: Statically typed, performant scripting language with native C++ embedding
They went from product building to rent seeking.
Important to note that community involvement is not core to FOSS. Many FOSS projects do not accept outside contributions.
This is why companies are starting to replace more middle manager roles with ICs
Don't use your personal account on your work browser. Or, actually, on anything in your work. (And the other way around too.)

Nobody implements proper context switching and privacy from yourself. The only kind of privacy anybody even acknowledges the existence is from 3rd parties.
I have tried to use VSCode more, but, the original emacs keyboard movement is burned into muscle memory. VSCode has a keyboard mapping for emacs, but, its does not feel right. At the end of the day, who cares? Its just a tool, whatever works.
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US PhD from top 50 institution in your field with a full-time job with salary over 100k/year.

Simple and objective.
> ... when there are plenty of US citizens in STEM who are underemployed.

Where, exactly?

Unemployment rate among STEM graduates is half of that of the general population [0]. Salaries are also substantially higher [1], and keep getting higher [2].

[0] https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/report/stem-unemployment...).

[1] https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/report/stem-median-wage-....

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433814-000-most-ste...
It depends on how much is reproducible and what the use is.

If only small patches of the original image can be reproduced then it becomes much more murky.
Great post! I've been thinking about that a lot recently and my take on it [0] is that the metric could be the iteration time. Teams that move fast can do fast iterations during development. If that's possible, a lot of tasks, also maintenance ones become much simpler.

Another point that's relevant in this discussion is that the tech debt does not appear out of nowhere and developers do not develop whatever they like. Rather, they're implementing ideas of product managers, designers and other stakeholders. If the team finds itself in a hole shortly after tidying things up it can also be because of the ignorance on the product or design side with the requests that demand unreasonable effort to implement very insignificant changes.

All in all, it looks like both terms should be used in combination, because they describe different types of inefficiencies

[0]: https://dpetrov.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-feedback-l...
Well android patching after 3 years is pretty new thing compared to Apple policy. Apple was and is keeping security updates for very long time with major updates on top of that for iOS.
Not knowing someone does not mean they will not be hacked or already has not been by downloading some app from the store.
One of the headline features for me is the Firefox recommended extensions program, where the extension code (and updated code) is manually vetted for malware and privacy violations.

> Recommended extensions are expected to:

Function extremely well. All Recommended extensions should not only perform as they promise, but do so at an exceptional level. For instance, there may be many ad blockers out there, but not all ad blockers are equally effective.
Be safe and secure. Recommended extensions undergo full code review by staff security experts to provide a strong additional security check.
Provide a delightful experience. Recommended extensions should embody great design and user experience standards.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-recomme...
Computers are deterministic. Giving the same inputs training would produce the same model. The comparison with brain is incorrect. You could add noise on input data during the training - it would more of less reproduce the real learning. Still, it could produce less useable models as a result.

The court could ask to show the training dataset.
> If you don't want your image looked at, don't put it online.

Looking at things doesn't produce nearly identical copies, so you may be glossing over some important bits.
Getting Ridiculous [pdf]
Shameless plug to claim Rust superiority!1

No, Go playground can not do that :(
Actually there has been an attempt of a state mandated E-Mail service in Germany called De-Mail.

The idea was to put guarantees like identity, delivery receipts and stuff into an email system, so it can be used for legally binding communication.

However it failed for various reasons (privacy concerns as it purposely had no e2e, usability restrictions, cost, ...)
(Unrelated to the OP - but I've been so frustrated by this for so long that it's worth the [flagged])

A product like this is exactly what I've been looking for with pretty great pricing.

The one thing that this (and most providers) are missing is making email easy to test. I'm about to launch a product where email is critical, and there's no way to send an example email (with a non-test email address) to your service and see that you receive it, without it being sent to the To address.

Better yet, the few providers that do support it charge as if it were a real email, when none of the delivery costs exist on their end (there are infrastructure costs, sure, but there is none of the reputation risk nor need for clean IPs, the reason people use transactional services like these in the first place).
Much of this is incorrect

> the archive link has the exact same content as the link submitted

No, articles are updated as new information comes in, retractions are made, etc. Especially breaking news (the type that would reach the top of HN). The archived versions are outdated.

> others randomly got a login request

It's not random, you get a number of free articles before the paywall appears ("soft" paywall).

The paywall is removed entirely for some topics/stories, especially matters of public health (common during the pandemic).

> the only reason the archive site has the content is that it didn't get the login screen

No, it's because they don't block archive crawlers, and prefer people bypassing the paywall and reading news at NYT. Hopefully users find the content valuable, and some of them subscribe as a result.

(opinions are my own)
I completely agree that it’s the near-far-near focusing while outdoors. I read this on HN years ago right after getting my first indication that one eye was just barely no longer 20/20. I was always proud of my perfect vision and was quite worried. Since then I have tried to do several of those near-far-near transitions outdoors every morning and my vision is back to perfect in both eyes and has stayed there.
Not all KitchenAid stand mixers are made the same: https://old.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/a6510b/wife_loves_...

TL;DR: The Pro Line is what you want. These have higher-wattage motors and are made with all-stainless steel. This is important if you mix heavy things like doughs or meats frequently, as these materials tend to stress and shear plastic more easily.
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This assertion doesn't match my experiences. I can't recall the last time a site gave a clear complaint about "we don't support firefox". I remember doing useragent modification 10-15 years ago, but more recently, when I tried to do it (I forget why), it seemed like changing the useragent has gotten less convenient, too (installing an addon feels worse than whatever I used to do). I also have the impression from podcasts maybe, that useragent filtering just isn't the near-source-of-truth it used to be.
What's amusing to me is the juxtaposition of this old tech in the engines vs. the sophisticated avionics and surface controls in these aircraft. The Cirrus aircraft I fly have advanced garmin avionics, including terrain maps, airspace maps, ADS-B integrations, GPS navigation, autopilot, etc. Yet there I sit, fiddling with mixture, ensuring alternate/backup inputs are available in case something goes awry, and dealing with dumb non-linear responses in the throttle because the engine is using tech that's literally decades old and hasn't changed (much) in the last 50 years. There's an upside to this, I guess: I have a number of levers (literally) to pull if something is out of whack, and it creates a kind of weird redundancy/safeguard system to manage various failures. On the other hand, because all these things have to work together, it's entirely possible for weird failure modes to occur that cascade/build on each other unrecoverably.

I can't wait to get my hands on the new jet powered plane coming to the club I fly with.
IMO. It's mostly due to not being default browser for major platforms.
Exactly! The companies often prefer the people on H1B visas because the workers have to be much more subservient or risk being deported and they have leverage to pay them at the lower end of the salary range for the position/level.