skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spirit-of-the-law practice means most honest judges would quickly throw out this sort of technicality-based argument, particularly in the anglosphere.

Sadly, depending on the specific country it happens in, a defendant might still have to pay significant legal fees just to reach a point where the judge can tell trolls to go away. And that's where the business model kicks in: the trolls will offer to go away on their own if defendant pays them $LikelyLegalFees / 2, making it cheaper than the alternative.

It's like the Kevin Bridges bus-stop joke: https://youtu.be/8W_k7ybGBDg
What does this mean? "NGO" covers absolutely every organization that isn't the government. Churches and bowling clubs count as NGOs as well as political organizations and labour unions. The only places without NGOs are totalitarian, because you can't do liberal democratic politics without NGOs.

> You can only have a democracy that is informed. NGO's break this fundamental principle.

Maybe you meant to write "for profit media" or "Fox News" or something there instead?
Up until quite recently in history, the vast majority of countries have been controlled by unelected autocrats, and as you say, some still are. But I don't recall that ever bothered us from associating conflicts with the countries as a whole.
I think it’s an interesting thought. But for the sake of it, can you name/imagine some examples of problems/forms of problems we as human can not solve? Or can not solve efficiently?

If you can find none, is it not the proof that our intelligence is general?
> Moreover, it’s a little awkward to be selling candidates on your cool, fast-moving startup when you know that you’re about to gobbled up by a larger company.

Anecdotally, plenty of companies are still running their hiring pipeline even when someone - including HR - knows that they're about to be acquired, and nearly everyone who doesn't have a signed offer in hand (and sometimes, not even them) is going to be either completely ghosted, or get apologetic letters from a different company's HR department.
In the case of red’s patents, the relevant issue for RAW compression is that the sensor values are compressed before de-bayering. It’s still lossy.
If you own equity hopefully they'd have told you about the acquisition beforehand as a shareholder! But that said it's not unusual to have to do paperwork, for example you can have "offer of first refusal" on the sale of shares which gives you the right to buy the shares being offered for sale, over the person making the current offer, so companies will get people to sign a contract waiving that right as part of the sale process. Sometimes you'll be transferring shares from the old company to shares in the acquiring company and so on. Those latter things you should run past a lawyer anyway!
And that's the breaking point of the whole debate whether Israel's current way of defense is justified. This is literally THE point where most of the general population has split opinions and chooses to condemn or not Israel's actions.

Most people think killing thousands of people to eliminate a terrorist group is a trade-off that should be made which baffles my mind. Where do we live? No human life can be weighted upon anything else.
> privileges given to women

Privileges, you mean rights? The same rights that men already have? Even in the most progressive parts of the world we are still far from equality.

"given", given by whom?
The definition of short phrases is not some intuitive prescriptive "the components mean this", but rather it is what we have collectively agreed on the meaning to be. Open Source and Free Software are widely collectively agreed upon terms of art, so they're not ambiguous.

Just because "gravy boat" has the word boat in it does not mean it is actually a real boat. "Whisky on the rocks" has ice in it, not actual rocks.

Free Software and Open Source Software have widely agreed upon meanings, and just because you think intuitively it would make more sense for "whisky on the rocks" to be served over actual rocks doesn't mean you're better at understanding english words than the rest of us.
> But seen from another perspective, releasing that email was a massive fuckup—because it shows decisively that OpenAI knew for years that they had no intention of being as open as their name or public statements suggested.

It would have been nice to have the top company share the details of their work, but I don't quite get the community outrage over this. There are companies formed around volunteer driven open-source projects that eventually move towards closed development model. This however is not a case like that, they never took volunteer work. I don't think they have any real external obligations outside of their investors.
> The adoption of this contract by a monopoly [Apple] distributor at the moment it is faced with entry from rivals looks like anticompetitive conduct.

Of course it is anticompetitive and it's unfortunate that Apple is taking this stance. It would have helped a lot if consumer and market protection was also working in the US as to apply pressure on both fronts.
Veblen (of Veblen Goods fame) described it in his Theory of Business Enterprise. Its called a Veblen Dichotomy. As soon as the chimp troupe discovers a new tool/tech/process etc, two groups emerge to handle the consequences. Both play different roles. One is more technical focused, the other resembles a ceremonial class (similar to kings court). Veblen felt with advances in tech the need for a institutional/beauracratic/ceremonial class would diminish with time.

But it hasnt happened yet cause accessing funds, managing finances, building networks, attracting talent, customers, handling competition and conflict while keeping ever growing group size (ie factions and differdnt agendas,needs,values) from breaking apart, requires lot of tactics that tech hasnt fully addressed yet.
A lot of these are also signs of impending layoffs!
Blinding oncoming traffic endangers everyone around you. That is not ok.
Because that is the norm, more or less everywhere. Unless you count societies in which men have so much power they can do whatever they want.

And come in, Genghis Khan? And then such a laughable claim? How about Casanova then?
It's like GWT for Python. Is that a fair assessment, you'd say?
What would have happened if you hadn't signed the NDA?
Do you search for broad terms like "sugar" a lot? Honest question, since I rarely, if ever, find doing so useful, even when using Google search alternatives. Generally, I am looking for specific information about the subject. If we use edible sugar as our example, I might be looking for "how is cane sugar processed" or "temperature for sugar hard crack stage." Or, if I really want a general overview of something, it's "sugar wikipedia."
Previously: RED Sues Nikon for patent infringement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532285
That is not a connection I expected in this kind of project. Blimey
At the very least, it knows solved problems and repeat the solution. That's better than pretty much all humans, since humans can't know all known solutions.
There are many (many :)), metrics for NLG and NLP comparison that can be chosen. These are not simply subjective and no way to compare
Really gives you a sense of the internet as a culture.
Your example would still prove to be intent if those facts were provable.

There's a concept known as "willful blindness" (at least in Canada) that covers what I believe you wanted as an example.

Not a lawyer.
Both of those things are not true so.
You're complaining about a Writer writing?
Lol this is all a smokescreen. Let me give you an analogy. There are 3 people in a car, one driver, one navigator, one manager. The manager provides 'oversight' and 'takes responsibility'.

If they crash whose fault will it be? The answer is always the drivers' You cannot be held responsible for things that you have no direct control over.

In software, if the infra goes down, who will need to fix it? Developers. If a feature is particularly tricky and technically challenging, who is responsible for getting out of a rut? The answer is the developers.

Things like fixing a tricky bug in a million line lib I didn't write (IRL example).

Managers can use the carrot and the stick, bring in more resources, communicate the developers pains upwards, but most likely they cannot do anything directly that will bring about success.

To be clear if done properly, this can be helpful, but to say that they are under more stress and responsibility than ICs is just untrue, considering they literally cannot do anything to resolve the origin of said stress (see car analogy).
I loved this part:
"Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [redacted]."

Google? or a person?
Apple calls Epic 'verifiably untrustworthy' and blocks Fortnite and App store
I hadn't seen this before... At least it calls out how dangerous the .well-known directory could be. So that's good. /s

4.4. Hidden Capabilities

Applications using well-known locations should consider that some server administrators might be unaware of their existence (especially on operating systems that hide directories whose names begin with "."). This means that if an attacker has write access to the .well-known directory, they would be able to control its contents, possibly without the administrator realising it.
EU Probes Apple's Decision to Shut Down Epic's Developer Account
No rate is acceptable. The debate is not about abiding to any modern war KPIs but rather the intent to minimize civilian casualties. Israel definitely does NOT do that by actively engaging with their current strategy of retaliation and that's already enough to say that, from a human perspective, Israel needs to stop right now and enable any sort of progression into a longer holding peace in that area.
The Canaan Confederation: A Peace Plan Created Using ChatGPT
For the past 153 days, I've worked tirelessly on constructing a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict based on my contextual knowledge of the conflict. This is what I've been able to come up with. It's amateur and idealistic in many respects, but it's also the best plan I have seen to date.
To add to what reaperman said about no existing contract: I can't just send a random stranger an email saying "you agree to give me 50$". There is no existing legal relationship to make that claim.

IANAL. However I find that with law, you can just imagine how sociopaths would abuse a system. If you don't see that happening, then that's not how the system works.
Some of the ideas were related to avoiding another Treaty of Versailles issues with Ruhr and other border regions, and stopping effective implementation of Morgenthau plan (which had inane idea of effective depopulation by starvation and total destruction of industry in Germany, leaving a small pastoral population) that was ongoing, while avoiding considerable opposition from population to any idea where germany might endanger others again.
> but rather it is what we have collectively agreed on the meaning to be.

Who is “we”?

My point is that I don’t think that your premise of “collective agreement” is true for “open source” or “free software”. I don’t agree with it, and I know a bunch of other people that don’t do either.
The article was packed with interesting legal details. If you don't like it you can just downvote and move on.
Jürgen Schmidhuber is complaining that he already invented being an AI troll years ago and now Gary Marcus is brazenly using his techniques without giving him credit.
This adage has been debunked[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
You mentioned narcissism, and here is an article about narcissism and leadership: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leaders...
I feel like youre arguing a different point here. I agree with the other person that hooking a macOS machine to a non-HiDPI monitor makes for an awkward (Id call downright bad) font experience, due to them having removed subpixel anti aliasing a few versions ago. It was so jarring to me that I took closeup pictures of the pixels, and they were all rendered really badly on a 1440p screen, to a degree that you can't claim that typographers would disagree.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873
Heisenberg makes you think, doesn't he? As the developer of Hitler's bomb, which never was a realistic thing to begin with, he never employed slave labour for example. Nor was any of his stuff used during warfare. And still, he is seen by some as some tragic figure, at worst as man behind Hitler's bomb.

Wernher vin Braun on the other hand got lauded for his contribution to space exploration. His development of the V2 and his use of slave labour in building them was somehow just a minor disgression for the, ultimately under US leadership, greater good.
I'm curious - when you were doing research into the mechanics of hinting options, did you stumble onto any relevant discussion around allowing custom pixel geometries to be defined, to enable hinting on modern OLED / WRBG displays? There's a good thread on the topic here[0], with some people referring to it as 'ClearType 2' on the MS side [1]. On the oss side I know FreeType theoretically supports this[2], but I can't quite figure out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work.

This is great work btw.

[0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595

[2]: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_render...
As a kid I was in a military youth program and learned about leadership and had the opportunity to practice it.

It’s ruined me by setting an unattainable standard for most people and makes me afraid of the future.

Management is not leadership.
> Privileges, you mean rights?

No, I mean privileges, don't argue with a strawman.

> The same rights that men already have?

Women hasn't lacked a single right men had in my country for my entire life, but women has many legal rights/privileges that men hasn't had in my life. That is why I said privileges and not rights. Maybe they need those privileges to make up for cultural privileges men has, but you can see why some men think that maybe they gained too many.
> So the acquirer will offer some golden handcuffs, usually some stock options with delayed vesting to motivate the acquired to stay.

Sometimes. Sometimes they're weirdly incompetent, treat everyone like shit, and then act surprised when half of the company leaves. Sometimes after that they'll offer a promise of a pittance bonus, and act surprised once again when yet another half of the company leaves after the meager bonus comes through.
This sounds like a case of Schrödinger's documentation: it may or may not exist. I think Boeing is still looking for it and doesn't want to admit they don't have it until they're absolutely, positively certain they don't.

Time is running out, and the situation doesn't make them look good, but it seems they're not ready to abandon hope just yet.
> They did do that to Gaza in 2005. That is how we arrived at the current situation.

It can't work if you don't let palestinians space to live.
Start interviewing, for one. Not every acquisition ends with you still having a job, and not every acquisition ends with you wanting the job.
Not really, since if you don’t trust their account of the story in the first place (that they didn’t cheat), why would you trust that part? It adds nothing.
You should immunize yourself to devices like this having any impact for the same reason you should immunize yourself to cheap devices like “I normally hate X but” and “as an X, I think that” in other online comments.
Did you have to brush up on maths to get into AI properly? Theres a short course at a STEM university in AI that an old colleague of mine did. I kept considering it, but it says it requires strong maths skills. I dropped out of maths at 17. I don't think I'm so stupid I couldn't get past a 17yo level of maths, but I do think that I'm severely behind and it would take a lot to make up for that.
Spring Boot 3.3.0-M2's Support for Bitnami Container Images: Developer's Guide
Forgive my skepticism, but I seem to recall pulse jets have almost no throttle ability (hence the dead stick landing) and pretty poor fuel efficiency (v low compression / pressure ratio).

Then there's the sound and IR signature.

So maybe for a garage workshop cruise missile, not so much for mainstream use ...
Can you elaborate? I found nothing on the product website about using off-the-shelf detergent.
I am super interested in UBI studies, but they all end up with underwhelming data, and even worse reporting. Possibly as a result of politics, many are afraid to levy critisism or get into the weeds on the details of these programs, and few release meaningful conclusions. Sure, any mayor would love $5m more spending in their city, but was one guy improving his credit worth 'mixed results' worth the cost? It makes readers skeptical, and I just want data, not confurmation bias in either direction.
Quite the strawman! If you can’t say “that is too complex”, “I don’t know” or give nuanced answers then… you probably aren’t smart. That said I am moving the goalposts.

I would like to see evidence that people getting hard degrees are like this. Plenty of un book smart people think they know it all too, see Reddit comments for plenty of examples.
A corollary to what you put above, i.e your main point still holds:
A quote attributed to Charles Bukowski here: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Translates to a work place here is what happens: often when you offer competent people position of authority or power they don't take it or are extremely reluctant to take it.
It is quite unusual to cheer for Goliath putting a David to the knife. Sure, Apple makes great premium hardware but IMO, their monopolistic actions in the digital space is something to be truly wary of.
Try: "sugar human bone char napoleon"
Everyone just takes the lack of conscription for granted now too.

A possible land invasion and there was a good chance you would get drafted anyway.

WW1 was also not that long ago that your father or uncle fought in.

All these aspects are rather unrelatable now.
As a photographer I know next to nothing about film, let alone cinema. Hence the question, is ARRI gear really as good as people say, and as expensive?
Insider trading, or starting to look for a new job.
Or another explanation could be that you do not want the world to learn about your activities.
The Fafhrd & Mouser story (one of them, anyway) is The Swords of Lankhmar, which is absolutely fantastic.

Michael Moorcock is another writer who often mixed fantasy and SF. His Dancers at the End of Time series is brilliant and hilarious. Or more straight-faced and pulpy, the Hawkwind and Elric stories are great.

And Jack Vance, of course. As well as The Dying Earth, he did a bunch of comedy-oriented stories in the same setting, starring Cugel the Clever and Rhialto the Marvellous.
To the OP, congratulations for stopping procrastination. :-) I like the idea of your project,I'm often in need of a little tool to help quickly calculate some finance related data. In this case, I often launch a LibreOffice sheet but it is rather heavy for what I need. I'll give your tool a try.

If you are looking for having notecalc3 running locally, the github[0] repository has all the installation instructions (not found in the documentation)

[0] https://github.com/bbodi/notecalc3
in my experience academics are the worst at understanding uncertainty. They refuse to believe anything that doesn't pass their beloved t-test, believing the holy threshold of 0.05 is the arbiter of all truth
What's New with Bitnami Application Catalog – Feb 2024 Edition
This can be useful for certain people, but I am surprised the documentation (there is just the Readme) doesn't mention what happens when you already have a docker daemon- esp. what happens to all the networking/firewall tricks docker is using. I see potential for quite a number of operational issues.

Nice to see Zig in action, btw.
What about using Zon for deps, instead of a git submodule? Just curious if the author tried it, I honestly didn't have time to use Zon deps yet
Yet we all want to be reich.
It seems pretty clear what should happen here: Apple should be able to require you to accept their payment system, but not to require you to charge uniform pricing across payment systems, and not be able to charge you anything for sales outside of their payment system.

Now you can continue to use Apple's payment system all you like, but if Apple continues to charge 30% when e.g. Stripe charges ~3%, you're going to pay the difference for the privilege.

And with any luck that would encourage Apple to match Stripe's fees, but either way, now the choice is yours instead of the extra fees being hidden and mandatory.
https://daan.tech/discover-bob-cassette/

Scroll down to FAQ, and expand the first question: Is the use of a Bob cassette mandatory?

LE: It's also mentioned in the rewind project's README.

> Credit where credit's due, Daan Tech didn't completely lock down the machine with Bob cassettes. Once empty, you can leave it there and add detergents manually.

https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder?tab=readm...
Perhaps neat to visualize.
In the case of Linus Torvalds and others like Guido van Rossum, I think is fine to consider them leaders, because they are leading their projects - to a certain extent these projects are not theirs (only) anymore, nonetheless they IMO they can claim or get the leader title.
>In pre-internet times, you’d need to be physically present

Because of that, the very real possibility of getting a punch in the face if you went over the line also helped curb those behaviors somewhat.
You don't need to even have ideas to be "Thought Leader". Just repeat what is popular in field at the moment and you are there...
I think they do have at least some incentive to rank good results highly. Why use a search engine if it's no good at finding relevant stuff?

And if no one is using the search engine, who's gonna see all those ads?

Of course, they do have other incentives too, some of which are directly conflicting with high quality search results, as you point out.

I suppose one could argue that their near-monopoly in the search business has allowed them to be somewhat negligent on the quality of search, but now that there are a few competitors at least somewhat worthy of the name, one can hope high quality results will be a higher priority.

Anyway, I'm holding out hope someone will one day manage to train a LLM to distinguish between quality content and SEO bullshit, and then put that to use in a search engine.

I'm not well versed enough in the current status of LLM's to make a prediction on how hard that will be, but my impression is that we're a fair ways off from any LLM being able to do that well enough to be valuable.

I'd really love to be proven wrong on this one, if you're reading this and have some relevant experience, consider yourself challenged! (feel free to rephrase this last bit in your head to whatever motivates you the most)
> And then such a laughable claim?

What claim is laughable? Gengis Khan dominating the gene pool? That is what the data says.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/bizarre/18861516/how-m...

> In 2003, evolutionary geneticist Chris Tyler-Smith discovered that eight percent of men across 16 different Asian ethnic populations shared the same Y-chromosome pattern.

This pattern was traced back to a shared origin from about 1,000 years ago and to create so many descendants it is thought that this origin, or person, would have had to have a huge number of sons.

Genghis Khan is known in contemporary literature for fathering hundreds of children in this area, so historians and geneticists presume the common origin of the chromosome is the first Mongolian emperor himself.
I was thinking about Aaronson when I added the CHSH game to the comment, because one of his essays (which I unfortunately could not find anymore) made that click for me.