skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actual humans have to look at each case, and that's expensive and time consuming and O(n*m) on n new works that have to be compared against m existing in-copyright works for infringement.

That scale already exists. The amount of community generated derivative works already dwarfs the capacity of copyright holders to review each piece. The ease of publishing reproductions already makes endorcement a question of priorizing the larger infringers and ignoring those with no reach.

Indeed, prohibitions of training on copyrighted work without a special license seem like they make it harder to develop the sorts of AI can detect derivitave works.

As case law makes clear that people running the prompts and picking the output to keep are liable for infrinent then there will be demand for tools to detect derivitave works and either filter or warn the user.
I've been thinking a lot about this too. I was thinking people should start collecting written histories of their recollections of the internet, so future historians can understand the dynamics which shaped their future-present, like the "Great Digg Migration" and the "Tumblr Exodus", etc.
It’d be nice if the state didn’t get in the way. In certain 95% of the housing in NYC would be illegal to build today. When there’s 1000s of rules required to make housing don’t be surprised when very little gets done
> So people can make their own private CG Mario films, as long as they don't try to sell them?

Yes, why not? This is just computer assisted private fanfic.
That's signaling intention to uphold NATO by that particular congress, not something that would prevent a US government from bringing it down. If a US president were only to make it known that he or she would actively resist giving the required orders to fulfill NATO commitments in a crisis, I think the alliance in its current form would be walking dead from that point forward. There is considerable public doubt already as to whether the US would honor their commitment to wage a nuclear war over NATO matters and that's the keystone of the whole alliance. If Russia were to attack a NATO member and win the gamble, I'd expect a massive shift of power on the continent and a great loss of US soft power in Europe (at the least).
Exactly. Copyright terms are so long that most material with expired copyright is not useful for modern uses of LLMs and looking for modern non-copyrighted materials is too hard to do quickly and its usefulness is unclear. So people who grew up with Internet and are used to making memes with copyrighted material are not exactly averse to do it on a bigger scale.
What else are you going to do with them? Subsidize businesses through tax breaks or pay to upkeep them through taxes are the only answer. It is incredibly expensive to turn office space into residential space. Ideally any new office space or residential would require a plan to convert to one or the other before being approved, but who saw WFH being so widespread 30 years ago?

The worst scenario is that businesses en masse begin breaking their leases and the buildings quickly fall into disrepair. I’m sure there’s people working on a solution to move all the plumbing and infrastructure out of a central core to make better use of these structures. It might be best to keep things as they are until that happens.
Thanks for the suggestions. I did already check that the ethernet drop is not the problem by trying another device on it. Also, checked the USB->Ethernet adapter on another device as well as checking with a local speed test running on my home server.
And it has to be intended to do so.
Why so? From the point of view of the company alleging damage the separation of processes is irrelevant. It all leads to massive copyright infringement.

It is not the NYT making the claim of Fair Use, it is OpenAI.
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Been playing Might and Magic IV & V (Worlds of Xeen) on ScummVM lately, probably the best way to play them.
This is great news, Spain should be able to match the best solar installations in the US at 1.5 cents per kwh, which means that they can generate hydrogen and use hydrogen for electricity at a lower total cost than French nuclear power!

An additional benefit is that burning hydrogen returns water, which Spain regularly has a shortage of.
> The ice crystals that make up snowflakes are symmetrical (or patterned) because they reflect the internal order of the crystal’s water molecules as they arrange themselves in predetermined spaces (known as “crystallization”) to form a six-sided snowflake.

https://www.noaa.gov/stories/how-do-snowflakes-form-science-...
If he primarily donated to one party, the donations advance Sam's political views.

If he equally donated to both parties, the donations advance FTX's interests.

I believe that Sam would advance his own interests then lie to make himself appear neutral.
Grub2 finished with no reported errors (I tried UEFI first and then I reinstalled from the LiveCD Grub2 with BIOS). I was using OpenRC since it's the default for Gentoo. But when I tried to boot from what I installed it onto, grub2 doesn't appear and Gentoo doesn't boot.

Took a day but now I'm on Solus and the package manager is reproducible because I can rollback a generation and rollback a rollback aka move forward a generation.
I’m not 100% sure if AskHN is for asking about job postings.

You might also not get much traction with out including any info about your location. (The country you work from is very important)
Doesn't mean he wants to be there. Sometimes life is not fair.
I find this whole "the division in which you work is no longer profitable, so therefore we're laying off everyone who worked there" mentality that larger companies have is offensively short-sighted. As if the people who are working in those divisions can't adapt to something new that the company wants to grow into. The blog post even mentions that Amazon is lagging in AI, and so the smart move would be to move the people involved into the company's AI efforts.

I find it very hard to believe that profits are so slim at Amazon that they simply cannot afford to migrate existing employees to something new with growth potential. Where I work, an admittedly very small company by comparison, there is an active effort to hire people that want to stick around for the long-haul. Sure there have been several missteps in product divisions, but as long as the employees involved are at least somewhat competent then there will always be a place for them to work on something. The benefit to doing this is that it creates a culture where everybody working there legitimately wants the company to succeed, and they're not thinking about it as merely a step in their own career path.
It's like a health care ponzi scheme, what happens when the imports get old? The solution again is more imports. What about the source countries, did they not need medical professionals?
And in Bergen you can use "lukt" to mean both, "høyt opp i lukten", maybe the Hanseatic influence?

(My kid uses "luft" to mean both, "lufte ekkelt".)
I have two young kids.

Every moment is better spent with them than meditating.

Give yourself permission to make mistakes.

They will turn out fine anyway.

And you will learn a lot over the years.

Maybe learn meditation. Maybe not.

Anyway, if you are serious about learning meditation, find a teacher and go in-person. Commitment matters. Good luck.
During the Small Web days it was possible to get "caught up" because the web was mostly niche. Now that the web encompasses most of society it's not possible to get "caught up" in the same way. You simply can't know about everything.

The Overwhelming Web requires the opposite strategy from FOMO. It requires aggressive pruning, unsubscribing, and careful curation of attention.

The niche underground nerdery has turned into a tidal wave of mainstream bullshit and trying to get "caught up" on that is the trap of the generation.
I have read an argument that this does not solve much, because "as commander-in-chief, Trump could (and likely would) simply refuse to order the military to come to the aid of NATO allies in the event of a Russian attack."

[1] https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/some-thoughts-on-where-the-war...

BTW, the linked article by Noah Smith is pretty interesting, IMHO.
Before getting pitchforks out, I'd like to see what this person considered "damaged". If - and I know this is a big if - but if it's something extremely minor, such that almost anyone would consider it to be in "like new" condition, then frankly that would be a case of Amazon doing the right thing, rather than pulping a perfectly good book and printing a new one. The fact that this person is apparently not providing any photos of said damage makes this hard to judge (and honestly raises my suspicions a bit).

> Of note: if a customer orders a copy from Amazon, and a damaged, returned book is shipped to them instead, no new KDP printing orders kick in. This means I don’t get paid at all, because they only pay me when a book is printed.

Why wouldn't this be true? Why would a return that is then resold result in a double royalty payment? Is that something that happens for traditionally-published books that are returned and resold?

It might have to do with the fact that these particular books were "author's copies" but I don't have enough information about how those work in a print-on-demand context to know whether this actually results in a loss of royalties in this case. Did they pay for them to be printed as a self publisher or were they provided for free as part of a contract with an external publisher? Does Amazon's internal system distinguish between "author" copies" and other orders, or do you just order some copies of your own book via the standard interface? Would the author's replacement copies go through that same system or would they be printed like normal and incur royalties? No idea.
How expensive is it to not build a single-purpose building like an office or housing condo in the first place, but a true multipurpose building that can do both well with manageable retooling costs?
>living in their ancestral towns and villages

I mean its great to make more money than anyone where you are. However I've known a number of Indian people that have moved to the US that say they will never go back to India unless they are forced to even though comparatively make less money here.

Money is only good if it can buy things. If all your village has is mud huts you are still living in a mud hut. Sure you can now pay people to build you a nice house but you will be paying much more due to the lack of infrastructure. When your plumbing breaks it takes 6mo for someone to come fix it. Still you probably have lots of money. But now you have a visibly nice house. In other words a target in a poor area that is likely crime prone. Now you need to hire security. As expenses pile up it becomes just like in the US where people making $500k+ complain about barely being able to afford their life.

I guess I'm just saying I'm still not worried about India salaries being the magic bullet that companies need to kill high tech salaries.
This isn’t slashdot. This is not a server under someone’s desk. This is not a quirky fight for freedom through internet protocols. Y combinator is power, influence, money, and all the abuse that may come with that.
Indeed, Filipinos are a big part of the US military, and someone's worried about Filipino nurses being a security threat? Hahaha.

https://news.mit.edu/2020/philippines-us-military-alliance-0...

But I'm not sure how well the history of the US in the Philippines is taught even in gen-ed college history classes, let alone, say, high school. One of those topics I think most folks learn about either through personal interest, or as part of a history or politics major in college, apart from maybe a passing mention when covering the tail end of 19th century US history, or maybe a low-context entry in coverage of WWII. I guess it's not as bad as mistaking Puerto Ricans for "foreigners", at least.
It's not a question of evidence. General Relativity does not explain how gravity interacts with quantum matter, so it must be updated.

There is a whole set of no-go theorems that constrain how gravity can interface with quantum mechanics. The theory presented in this paper does modify GR to interface with quantum mechanics, albeit in a very strange way.
German auto firms sell more cars in China than in Europe or the US.
European Protectionism would hurt German cars as China would retaliate.
In fact Chinese cars like NIO and BYD would benefit from the move at they would now have a 27 million car market for themselves.
Gentoo did have a GUI installer in the past, what year was it?
Right. If a publisher found a specific Xerox machine was being used to copy and commercially distribute a book, in violation of copyright, they'd ask for an injunction on the person doing that. With OpenAI, the NY Time can see their copyrighted material on both the input (training) side and distributed output (generated) side of a specific LLM implementation. So they cry foul on OpenAIs actions, not LLM in general.

There appears to be an open question about if the LLM can freely ingest copyrighted material and output it verbatim without violating copyright. That seems like an obvious "no" to me, unless we decide that LLM has special treatment.
Likewise. A friend was almost killed a few years back by a counterfeit SSR purchased on Amazon. I would love to see them take some legal responsibility for the lethal garbage they let onto their platform.
Why does it matter that some people shriek? These places have been controlled for decades with supermajorities by people that share your beliefs. I think the results speak for themselves. We need rules for society and if you don’t follow them you should be punished. It’s really that simple.
That statement jumped out at me too, but I'm not sure what to think about it. I also hate to say anything that might seem sympathetic to Amazon, a company I consider somewhat unethical.

These two statements below should be uncontroversial:

1. If Amazon prints a defective book and rejects it in QC then Amazon should get no revenue nor should the author. It should be recycled. Another copy should be printed and shipped and the revenue distributed as normal.

2. If Amazon prints a defective book and it is shipped returned due to defect then amazon should get no revenue nor should the author. It should be recycled. A new book should be printed and sent to the customer (assuming they didn't ask for a refund) and no payment to author / no extra revenue recognition to Amazon.

But then:

3. It's better that Amazon resells products that are returned in perfectly good condition rather than trashing them (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/amazon-returns-what-really-h... https://www.howtogeek.com/what-happens-to-amazon-returns/ and a ton of other easy to find links)

4. Amazon should not resell products returned that are defective.

The problem is: how should it know? They can't take the word of the customer returning the product. Amazon does resell high value returned items like TVs and monitors after checking them. But the cost of looking for the defect in the book is quite high -- I'd be surprised if it gets more than a casual glance/flip through.

I'm not sure what they should be doing in this case, but I do think the comment "This means I don’t get paid at all, because they only pay me when a book is printed" is a side distraction.
> I am a programmer and I use GPT occasionally, and I even pay 20 bucks a month (for now), but even for my job it's not a not a world-shattering improvement.

I am also a programmer, and when I think about the amount of time I actually spend typing out code, even on a great day where all the stars have aligned just right and I can really bang out some code that's like... idk, 30-50% of my time? Usually it's much less, and I'm doing things like reading documentation, reading code, talking to people, etc. So it's hard to imagine Copilot or whatever making me much more effective at my job, as it can really only help with a fraction of it.

I could see someone making the assumption that being able to delegate programming tasks to a robot assistant might make them more productive, but often I find that I don't really understand a problem fully until I'm in the weeds solving it--by which I mean I haven't specified it completely until I've finished the implementation and written the tests. So I don't know to what extent being able to specify and delegate would really help me be more productive.

> having a bunch of little LLM-powered daemons buzzing around the internet is just gonna be freaky.

Yeah, they're not super cheap though so they need to get actual work done otherwise there's no reason to run them. Unlike blockchains, they don't have a pyramid scheme holding them up.
He explains in the post. "Our number one priority is to find another job." I believe it's implied "within the company."

This isn't unique to Amazon. I've been at other companies that will give some period of time after a role is eliminated to find another job within the company -- sometimes it's a bullshit move, a soft layoff, other times it's a legit "we really don't need this role anymore, but we would like to retain you. You're free to look around and interview for other open roles."

Sounds like he's looked around and doesn't want what's available and they're not offering severance. Which sucks. If they don't need that position anymore they should cough up severance and send him on his way rather than dragging it out and hoping he quits or takes a worse job than he had before.
I was addressing the Church of Scientology. I made no comment about other religions.

To put it bluntly: so what? What you point out doesn’t negate my point in any way.
> It also has some form of separation anxiety, seeing its need for ReBAR. I also recall very early in Alchemist's life (pre-release) some driver optimization that had a huge benefit, which was just the wrong memory region being used, as all memory is the same on an iGPU but not a dGPU.

yes, the iGPU is actually a client of the ringbus on intel so some of these bugs seem to have been overlooked (I'd guess the fix probably improved performance on the iGPUs too lol). AMD has always interfaced the iGPU via PCIe[0] which probably helped modularity.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-5700g/3.html

Plus in general AMD just seems to be better at modularity and re-use period. I think that's the biggest headwind for Intel in general. Every. single. product. is completely one-off and custom and has its own set of bugs. Just define an interface and get used to it.

But I think that's a Conway's Law situation of the hardware design resembling the org structure. Intel is a mess inside and so are their products.

[0] Infinity Fabric is de-facto coherent PCIe fabric, the intel equivalent would be putting it over DMI. And AMD explicitly offers IF as a CXL competitor too. I do love that in the modern era everything is PCIe, the many-faced god. And it all just works - plug your OCP 2.0 card or M.2 card into an adapter and away you go, or tunnel pcie over Oculink or MCIO, etc. The greatest tech success story of the last 30 years.
I guess I don't really see the point of your comment in context of this article. The article doesn't mention most of those things you mentioned - it doesn't mention cutthroat culture, or stack ranking, or PIPs. The article is almost entirely about RTO and layoffs, which _is_ a demonstrably large shift in Amazon's culture if you compare, say, the period of 2017-2021 where remote work was encouraged and the company was was rapidly growing, to now.
Oh, yes please!

As much as I would like labor laws to be improved Globally, I doubt governments will allow this.

That said, I am dying to see some country try something similar again. There is something beautiful when voters hold politicians up to their values, and politicans fail to explain the competitive realities to their voters.

Making outsourcing economically unviable is a magnicificent contender.
I used to work on a place that everything was open by default and in comparison with closed by the default was a blissful experience.

I never got the point why with 3 months of work I had access to the AWS account, all repos and passwords.

After some point in time I tried to understand with the IT director and he told me that he prefers to have a tougher hiring process and huge onboarding process and have that instead to ensure security first approach.

He told me that in some previous experiences he lost productivity with closed by default plus he used to have the same security issues.

I am keen to imagine that this is impossible in a big company.
Because you can choose how many of them you want. None, only the Play Store or the whole shebang.
The number of people who think you can't call advanced OS functions from assembly is ... way too high.
Worst job I've ever had was one where I had nothing to do and yet I was forced to go to the office every day.
Why? Current scientific evidence does not support the idea that soy is harmful to males. Instead, it suggests that moderate soy consumption can be a healthy part of a balanced diet.
I've been on the other side of these decisions.

It's not the fault of the individual engineers, but there just aren't enough positions to fill.

Leadership is accountable to shareholders, the board, and other stakeholders to ensure financial viability.

It sucks, but it is what it is.
Then you should try pod! Pod is no muss no fuss and that's no bluff sir. Each willing customer is turned to an atomized carbon neutral plasma slurry and instantaneously buttchugged by a butthurt dirtbag. Money back guaranteed government subsidy available.
Yes… but you aren’t supporting the creators or the devs or servers that run the videos…

Would you pirate all your music if it was easier?
Well it's something we use all the time. It's super convenient because there's no risk of the window suddenly opening wide-open should there be too much wind.

And it's not just windows: there are doors that work like that too.

And at night, during summer time, you can still create an airflow without letting your window fully open: so for thieves it's not as easy to get in as if you had let your window opened.

Honestly I take it for granted: I'm surprised when I stumble on a window that doesn't have that mechanic.
The obvious answer is to it have the standard be "50% + 1".

If the desire is to do nothing or do something, and the vote is roughly equal, then generally you should just do nothing because of the increased cost of doing something. If 66%+ or 75%+ of people want to do something, then go for it.
On the yearly listing, Jeff Dahmer (serial killer) is the top one.
Just being a dumbass is not really flag-worthy. That's what downvotes are for.
And away from vested interests.
It’s already happening… it’s a total mess of weird microservices that make no sense to reason about and the hidden costs on things like free tier etc… not good
Off-topic fact about your first ([1]) plot: more Russians celebrate Christmas on January 7th (Orthodox Church) than on December 25th.
Interestingly, a group reverse-engineered the Mac Toolbox and used it for "native" ports to Unix of, among other things, PhotoShop and Illustrator.

http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.13/13.06/Ju...
Well that's why they use tools like tiktok to try to convince the West that life is terrible and everyone is miserable. They need to speed things along