skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, so basically just renewing before it's due, that makes sense. For some reason it didn't occur to me that rotate could mean that too.

This does still leave the problem of the old certs being valid though. This only makes sense as a security practice if the certs are short-lived, which theirs apparently weren't. If the certs live much longer than the rotation window, this really is just security theatre.

I do think thaumasiotes has a point and GP's company probably misinterpreted the rotation requirements and short lifespans were implied in the requirement.
Google has been doing the same thing. The fact is that these companies simply have too many employees and they aren't able to properly utilize everyone.
> often tries to avoid questions about actual intent because that's too difficult to figure out.

Of course the law tries to avoid it. But that’s sometimes impossible, thus disagreements and trials and judges and whatnot.

It’s not like ambiguity causes everything to crash. It just requires judgement that usually gets settled before it gets to court.
Star Citizen could release and immediately be pirated and never sell a single copy from release onwards and likely still have ended up profitable.

Maybe the business models around creation need to be revisited such that interested parties pay for the creation of a product and not distribution of a product.

Where periodically at each stage of that creation you are getting continued buy in that what you are creating has a market demand that will fund its continued creation.

If you are an indie game developer maybe that means making a demo which gets enough interest to fund you spending the time and resources to make a full game, with no expectations for further revenue post-creation, but with its success meaning your next project is even easier to fund the development of and a comfortable lifestyle rinse and repeating.
I'm currently watching a friend's wife get scammed for large amounts (well into the five figures at this point, maybe pushing six) of money in the self-employed "coaching" (life coach, business coach, that kind of thing) field, and now she's finally—evidently desperate for her "business" (sigh, if only she'd accept business advice from people she actually knows who aren't randos promising her easy money) to finally start making any money—joined them, as part of what appears to be an obfuscated affiliate program for some minor player in that world—you pretend you're selling "how to start making money coaching" content that's part yours and in part belongs to your "partner" and that you're involved, but really it's 99% their content (which they may well themselves have bought...) and you're just selling it and serving as customer support so they don't have to work, for a little cut of the action. At a subdomain on "your site" but it clearly redirects to their CMS with a custom landing page.

It's been a wild ride watching this happen. A whole world I didn't know existed, and lots and lots of people getting scammed out of tons of money (there's a whole Reddit ecosystem discussing this stuff, it's both fascinating and horrifying)
Related:

Coastline Paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24437749 - Sept 2020 (32 comments)

Coastline Paradox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21214958 - Oct 2019 (1 comment)
Plenty of companies still have stuff like game rooms including meta. Band rooms too. It’s mostly Amazon that’s an absolutely awful, terrible, horrendous company.
"which helps solidify existing markets and prevents new competitors from stepping up"

So exactly like any other regulation.
I would say in select markets only.

Apple switched to USB-C because making separate hardware SKUs to comply with the EU would be costly. Even then, they only did so after creating a new standard and accessory ecosystem to replace lightning port revenue (MagSafe).

When it comes to allowing third-party app stores, Apple is only going to do that in regions where law forces them to do so.
nothing is intrinsically a profession. Even in prehistoric times there were basic economies exchanging shells and rocks for necessary goods. And that expanded to artistic ideas once humanity didn't need to spend a full time job surviving.

This seems to be splitting hairs at this point. Yes, everything "turns into a profession". no, not everyone is a professional, regardless of domain.
But you're not going, "this representation doesn't conform to my expectations so it shouldn't exist." It sounds like you're not taking it that far. Am I wrong?

I feel like I understand the situations that make you feel this way, but I'm still left wondering, why? Can you walk me through your emotional reasoning? Which cognitive mechanisms contribute toward the feeling?
Sounds like a losing proposition. Why pour resources into making your competitor's platform better?
I feel like there would be a case to answer if it went to court in the UK, Scrabble words are not an entirely arbitrary selection, nor are they all words in [most] regular dictionaries AFAICT. The list has been curated in order to provide a specific set of rules for a game: there seems to be a creative act of compilation. To say it another way; it's a factual presentation - but the fact (of which words are in the list) was created for the game.

This makes it unlike an almanac, say, where the list is dictated by past events.

It's perhaps similar to the Guinness Book of Records, where the choice of records to present is creative (along with the usual creative aspects of a book, composition of pages, choice of accompanying images, etc.).

One consideration a court might take is that the list cannot be generated without copying from the established Scrabble Dictionary because one otherwise would not know whether to include or exclude any particular word. A list of 'all existing English words of 1-3 letters', say, would be fine though.
> That's why I've always felt like the idea that AI should be blocked from creating these things is generally not the right place to look at copyright. Rather, the issue should be if someone uses AI to create a picture of Mario and then does something commercial with it, you should be able to go after the person engaging in the commercial behavior with the copyrighted image.

With you until here for several reasons:

1. It's not possible for you as an individual consumer to know whether or not the AI result is a violation, given an AI that has been trained on copyrighted works.

2. Before you, the AI consumer, uses the generated result, a company (in this case OpenAI) is already charging for it. I'm currently paying OpenAI. That AI is currently able and willing to sell me copyrighted images as part of my subscription. Frankly that should be illegal, full stop.

I look forward to AI enhanced workflows and I'm experimenting with them today. But it's morally indefensible to enable giant corporate AIs to slurp up copyrighted images/code/writing and then vomit it back out for profit.
I don’t think it’s just about bw compatibility. It’s the probability of it breaking for random reasons if you forget to babysit it for a bit. A lot of times, it’s even the bw compatibility stuff that breaks.

On one of my employers, we build containerized node apps, and the CI process involves building the image from the node source. Suddenly deployments started to fail on some services that were untouched for a while. We found out the Dockerfile was based on a Ubuntu image that fell off the support window and so the update repos were to archived, so the image could not be build without updating the Dockerfile.

This is an example of software that breaks without being touched. This is also why I stick with Go and single binaries (which I can even choose to package as a release so I never need to build again) as well as use the Distroless docker images that will contain no dependencies except my binary.

I’ve used go for a very long time and I have never had an issue with software aging on me. There are just entire classes of problems that have disappeared when I moved to go that when I use other languages like Node or PHP I just feel like these frameworks are reinventing wheels that don’t stand the test of time. Number 2 on Node land is all the indirection patterns in frameworks. Number one is package management. “You installed version X but module Y requires version Z” blah blah blah peer-deps…
It's an interesting question: What does that mean?

Maybe it's better to look at cryptocurrencies as financial securities, shares in an asset controlled by a private company (as has been said many times before). Could General Electric 'disable' the shares of a shareholder? What would that mean? The shareholder can't sell their shares, I suppose, but GE's equity would remain the same (not counting any market movement that would be caused by the sale).

Imagine a monetary system where currency was profit to a private company. What will our once-proud industry think of next? Software to help landlords collude, take housing off the market, and jack up rents? Software that impersonates humans, as well as any form of truth? We are on a roll!
I'm also thinking Novalogic games and Voxlap: http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm
Unless you sell critical products as described in Annex III[1] the requirements to fulfill CRA are quite harmless. It's mostly stuff you should be doing anyway like a risk assessment and documentation. An additionally requirement is to provide a conformity assessment, which you can do yourself for non critical software, and you must report vulnerabilities within 24 hours.

Not too bad really.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:864f472b-...
I wish I saved my first attempts at Christmas tree svg generations... Comparing the unicorn it's like a night and day improvement. A lot better now.
I worked at Amazon too, and this scenario has happened there as well.
…and the core tech choices are now over 10 years old.
"futuristic robot"?
> With enough compositions even the smallest tolerances will add up.

This is true of digital floating point too, chained compositions lose precision.

> A digital computer has finite precision but it has exact finite precision.. so it can represent the exact integer 1.

I’m not sure what you mean here exactly. Most real numbers cannot be represented exactly, and the idea of an exact number in digital integers and/or floating point still comes with a tolerance range. It’s only possible to have an exact number by construction or a-priori knowledge, but not in general and especially not when processing input data. It is possible to have an “exact” analog number, within a tolerance range.

> With an analog computer you cannot do this at all.

That’s incorrect. It’s true a single analog signal has noise and not incredible precision / resolution. That’s not a limitation of analog computing in general, it’s a limitation of choosing to use a single signal. You don’t have to use only a single signal. If you used, say, one analog signal per decimal digit, you can have as much practical precision as you can afford digits/signals. Then it becomes a bit more “digital” but the math doesn’t need to be implemented using gate logic. Digital lines also have analog noise, we just threshold and abstract it away. The line between digital and analog is always there but you can move it.

It is possible with analog circuitry to quantize a signal and/or interpret and have an analog ‘repeater’ that will rectify the signal into the interpreted value, correcting for line noise. This way it’s possible to do some amount of integer math without introducing noise into the result. This isn’t common or particularly practical, but it does help clarify what analog and digital really mean.

Hey you’re right about these being common issues, and about the typical advantages of digital logic, you’re just overstating the limitations and fundamental differences between digital and analog, and making assumptions about where that line is being drawn without considering all possibilities.
> Would I find a Chinese man in traditional Chinese clothes speaking Spanish in Mexico? No. Probably not.

You'll certainly find Chinese men in China learning Spanish using Duolingo ahead of a trip to Mexico. Should they only look at traditional depictions of Spanish speaking people while they learn? Or should they, the user of the app, occasionally see someone who they may personally associate with, speaking the language they are currently trying to learn. The learner could literally be a Chinese man wanting to speak Spanish in Mexico. People of all skin colors and backgrounds regularly learn new languages, and the characters attempt to reflect that.

That's the theory. I'm not sure I get the anger expressed up-thread.
Amazon Redshift 1.0.61395 is out – system table changes review
The new system table diff page (on my Redshift web-site) comes into its own, and I can now produce a decent review of system table changes (and also to go along with that the official change list).

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/slblog/2023-12.html#rs_1.0.61395
I wish they would release an ECC version.

Also, those listed NVMe capacity limits are ridiculous. The era of motherboards that limit disk capacity should have ended 20 years ago or so. I assume there aren’t actually any practical limits.
Back in the 2000’s, we were dreaming of what would come next from Google. Then, in the 2010’s, we started to wonder what would be discontinued. Now, in 2020’s, we dread being locked out of Google accounts. I closed mine during the lockdown. My school cancelled my huge Cryptomator backup on Google. Now, work provides me with one but I can no longer rely on Google for anything crucial.
> There's no way this could backfire, unless the buyer asks how big your ruler is.

Or it goes through a real world court system where judges take very dim views to that level of pedantry...
One place where it would work well is offices. Office buildings have drop ceilings that make it easier to mount devices on the ceiling. Then have one Lifi in each office or pretty dense in open plan offices.

This could solve the problem of getting reliable speeds to devices without Ethernet, that are either hard to wire or don't want to plug in.
I would feel better if some of positions being outsourced required some sort of clearance . I really feel like certain development , like banking products / power grid / cyber security products for instance, should require a clearance to work on.
That's very nice use of the tech though. It also makes me wonder if you could do some kind of 'bring your own screen' to a party where they will all join up to allow you to make an impromptu larger display. That would be a very neat trick.
I wouldn't underestimate the tolerance our system has for paying people to do otherwise unnecessary jobs simply to keep employment high and people distracted.

Our system would indeed implode if many went unemployed. Companies would go down with it though, they need people employed so they can spend money and keep the gears of capitalism turning.

I know I sound very cynical here but I don't even mean it as a bad thing. Its just the way this works, for anyone looking to down vote a cynical sounding take I'd be really interested to hear what I might be misrepresenting.
Adguard DNS, or how to reduce ads without apps/extensions
A bit hyperbolic, no?

If you consider it "the weirdest ever", I'm guessing that I'm probably older than you. I've certainly been using regex long before PCRE became common.

As a vim user I compose 10s if not 100s of regexes a day. It does not use PCRE. Nor does sed, a tool I've been using for decades. Do you also recommend not using these?
I've got to say, I like how people have started paying attention to these laws, actually reading them, and them write measured takes based in reality, and not in the hallucinations by the industry that is usually very much oppposed to any kind of regulation.

Other good takes in recent regulations:

- Unraveling the EU Digital Markets Act https://ia.net/topics/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act

- The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...
If you're familiar with pixels, you might be familiar with "pixel art", even though you every image on a screen has pixels
The cost savings is low but the risk is high? How do you figure? It sounds like both options are easy (one is just even easier) so there's not much risk if we have to switch.
If anyone wants way too much information on doing continuous ventilation fans in your house to improve air quality:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25139125
> Money that the UK would send to the EU would no longer be under their control and unavailable to send to Ukraine

Government budgeting is not a zero-sum game. The UK as an EU member could still have given the exact same amount as they have given outside of it. They could have done that either by cutting spending in other areas, raising taxes or borrowing more. Whether or not they would have is a very hypothetical/speculative counterfactual which nobody can know either way with any great confidence.

> The UK was one of the leaders in within the western EU and had to act in coordination with the rest of the EU

There is no hard requirement to "act in coordination with the rest of the EU". In the area of foreign policy, the EU has no enforcement mechanism. In other policy areas, if a member state disobeys EU rules, the Commission can take them to the European Court of Justice; however, foreign policy has been explicitly excluded from the Court's jurisdiction. So if the UK really wants to do their own thing on foreign policy, there is nothing the EU (or its other members) can do to stop them.
Common Crawl and Unlocking Web Archives for Research (2017)
> suppress working class wages via mass migration and ensure the UK public are educated enough to not need to compete with foreign low-skill labourers

The nature of migration is such that the foreign migrants become the national public (at least part of). Both groups are inside your borders now, so how would you make sure that the "low-skill" people does not aquire skill?

IOW, you want one arbitrary part of the people present within the state borders to be educated, and another arbitrary part to be low-skill, and this regimen should be upheld by what means?

(only asking because I fail to see how this could be done IRL without resorting to apartheid style rule)
Are they sophisticated enough in public communication to try, in passing, to spread the gospel of cryptocurrency: the dollar's market power is 'hegemony'.

(I know the expression is already used, but not by the government and its partners, afaik, and not as an explicit goal.)
The problem is that to provide farmers with livable wage the people would need to pay a lot more for food, so they would need to have money to pay for food.

I hope that with universal basic income we will be able to bring back market forces to food production instead of relying to artificial incentives for the farmers.
The benefit of LiFi would be the exact opposite: in a congested signal space, that it's actually easy to mostly shield an area from it - i.e. you and your neighbor can have LiFi APs screaming out signal and a simple plasterboard wall would almost completely shield the interference.

It strikes me that 400nm UV LEDs would be a good choice for this application: we can't perceive 400nm, it doesn't penetrate cells (FYI: this is why all "LED" sterilizers are snake-oil), and most importantly the UV spectrum is almost entirely blocked by regular glass-windows so the sun wouldn't interfere and the signal would attenuate to nothing at the bounds of a building.
Again, what they gonna do globally? What's their mission? Is it to "as we continue to assist law enforcement and expand dollar hegemony globally."?
Next time you go to measure your waistline, just remember: have you really put on weight, or is it just the coastline paradox?
Depends on where you are.

Vpay and Maestro cards will disappear in Europe and will be replaced by Mastercard Debit and Visa Debit.
This forces merchants to also accept foreign creditcards.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/europe/en/perspectives/en/20...
> This is why you encourage immigration.

Our problem doesn't really seem like a lack of encouragement for immigration. We have plenty of people trying to come here, we either don't want the people attempting to come or don't want immigration at scale at all.

Social programs and entitlements are really all the encouragement needed for immigration, as long as you're legally allowed to immigrate and get a job at all. Is the question really how do we encourage the "right" kind of immigrants for the skills or roles we want to expand?
No. It usually takes the form of extractors in the most humid locations of the house (kitchen, bathroom, laundry) that are connected to a central unit that vents air to the outside. Fresh air comes in through ventilation grills around the house, normally located above windows by means of the resulting pressure. No air conditioning is involved, or recirculating, though more modern (and much more expensive) units have heat recovery systems and air filters that will also bring fresh air back in.
> Read some Camus and meditate on relativity’s reach

Grow up. People dying has impacts on the world. Ignore them, decry the immorality of it all, or bury your head in Camus if you like.. it doesn't magically dispell any of it.
Assuming you're not speaking in jest: I'm actually trying to figure out how to make these things much cheaper so I can give them away easier, but the LEDs put a base cost of about $70 for each display. So I'd need something cheaper and smaller that is not an LCD or I'd have to find a way to drive a small LCD in a similar way so that it simulates the LEDs, but that's going to ruin some of the ease of assembly and the ability to figure out how it all works. Suddenly the display would be 'magic'.

But there are 3.5 x 2.8 mm LEDs that use the same principle (though they are less bright) which would allow for half the pitch, or maybe it could be done with the original ones (but they are pretty expensive at $0.032 each in quantity 10000).

Any ideas on cost reduction would be much appreciated.
This shows Common Crawl’s stance on fair use of their crawled data back in 2017. It’ll be interesting to see if this stands up to scrutiny now that LLMs and their training data are under a legal lens.
I feel like the correct compromise for our conversation would be requiring strict clearance control for products in certain sectors.

The reality is that if you work on a banking product for instance you might find an exploit you can use and keep secret and use to your countries benefit. That’s why these positions need clearance controls.

Even a benign program like a text editor could have a back door installed to spy on the us.

I am curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks.
Training is probably going to turn out to be fair use as the suits settle:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-cop...

It's the usage and not the training that needs to be policed, and the answer there is going to be that Google or OpenAI or whoever is going to make bank by creating a fine tuned model which can detect copyright infringements and providing access to it to companies to double check gen AI outputs for exact or "similar enough" infringements.
> India is assassinating people on US and Canadian soil.

I've clearly missed something here. Where can I learn more about what you're referencing here, or what Google search would point me in the right direction?
It is not an "or". We need to do that (destroy multibillionaires) to have a functional congress that represents people.
> Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses

This is currently false, or at least very up to debate.