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This is not simply a legal issue. As an author of books myself I have very little problem with libraries and online lending and I feel there is mutual benefit. I do not feel the same way about the way that IA is hosting commercial titles, which hews very close to ZLibrary, which I do not think is beneficial for all of us in the long term as it disincentivizes the production of books even if it makes things available to more people in the near term. We might disagree about that but my belief is pretty set.

Regarding legality, the media company battle re: DVD-CSS is quite different in quite a number of ways such that it doesn't simply apply here. That said, I'm not making a legal argument -- I am advocating for a system that makes sense to authors (whom we rely on to write the things that we value) and the greater good.
studio pressure

A better way to think of this might be 'voluntary commercial agreements entered by gigantic corporations'. The results are some mildly annoying misfeatures inflicted on consumers (the 'dystopia' in the GP comment) and wide, cheap, on-demand availability of unfathomable quantities of digital content (the 'utopia' we actually live in).
People don't need mere jobs, they need employment capable of sustaining a meaningful life. Hopefully, if this doesn't create other opportunities for people the state can step in.
The cartridge ended up being a huge sore spot too.

Nintendo wanted it because of the instant access time. That’s what gamers were used to and they didn’t want people to have to wait on slow CDs.

Turns out that was the wrong bet. Cartridges just cost too much and if I remember correctly there were supply issues at various points during the N64 era pushing prices up and volumes down.

In comparison CDs were absolutely dirt cheap to manufacture. And people quickly fell in love with all the extra stuff that could fit on a desk compared to a small cartridge. There was simply no way anything like Final Fantasy 7 could have ever been done on the N64. Games with FMV sequences, real recorded music, just large numbers of assets.

Even if everything else about the hardware was the same, Nintendo bet on the wrong horse for the storage medium. It turned out the thing they prioritized (access time) was not nearly as important as the things they opted out of (price, storage space).
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I would and furthermore I think there is a massive bias at play - if the exact same disaster happened in China there would be jokes about bridges made of Chinesium.

There is an expectation that a disaster happening in the west in a result of unforeseeable act of god, but in China it will be a result of corruption or shoddy workmanship.

Whereas in reality maintenance standard in the west have fallen but in the east they improved.

So now this bias protects responsible decision makers from legal consequences - no one went to prison for grenfell disaster, postmaster scandal or the Boeing debacle.
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A bunch of my services (Postgres, webserver, workers) are still down. Some are up however in the same zone which is interesting.
Well, I wrote down everything(Joplin). And now I have an absolute mess of half a zillion notes with no structure whatsoever. Trying to bring some structure in the madness.

Now a while ago, I saw on HN a system of 7 folders, each containing 7 folders,.... It seemed to make sense. The person named it after himself, something like JeffFolder. But I can't seem to find it. Does someone remember the name?
if you can see it you can copy it.
Is the correct reading that only a subset of restaurants are affected here, and that they’re just outsourcing to delivery companies that aren’t required to pay the minimum wage? Sounds stupid.
You can train for it, then how many years into your career you actually experience such a scenario are you likely to act instinctually and recover. The best solution would be to improve autopilot assist as it will never forget how to correct (if possible).
In my opinion, the reason why companies like apple and meta prioritize ar over vr is because they see ar as the next disruptive technology, while vr is niche limited to games and entertainment. They want AR to be integrated into daily life with widespread adoption. Similar to how people who never owned a desktop computer would own an iPhone.
What I got out of this is that you need hybrid search, and that involves reranking. I agree, and do not find the point controversial. Is there some thesis beyond this? I think the author needs to elaborate.

Since we're here, what libraries are y'all using for reranking in hybrid search these days? Anybody doing personalization or contextualization?
There is this other thing that’s very complex- getting budget from the local government to fix something
It definitely appears much worse for girls, but afaict, depression has risen in boys as well, just by not as much. See graphs here: [1]

So if social medial is harmful in general, I don't view prohibiting it a "punishment" for boys; perhaps like less of a benefit? Regarding your second point, I imagine the data would provide some clues. If the kids that are now teens were always more depressed, I'd imagine that we'd see more pre-teen depression ~3-8 years ago. I haven't looked into it closely.

And I grant that social science statistics are often problematic -- I imagine it'll take a while to really know what's going on.

[1] https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-pa...
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There's also CS-Script

https://github.com/oleg-shilo/cs-script
Talk to some really old people, who recall the 1950's. At least in America, there were a huge number of non-church social groups. And families tended to be both far larger, and considerably better connected.

If some churchgoer was saying, today, that the churches have some sort of monopoly on providing such spaces...my interpretation would tend toward "we have a monopoly, while we last, because every other provider is already gone".

(Yes, if you go further back, especially in Europe, the church had somewhat more of a monopoly. Partly that was because governments were rather authoritarian, and didn't want organizations to exist, beyond their tightly-controlled churches.)
It's easy: If there was a good hardware with open specs, FLOSS drivers would be written quickly from the community. Case in point: Pinephone.
Thank you for raising the issue. We are continuously optimizing our model, and we are also constantly gathering various UI and business-related bugs. We will continue to optimize and resolve them in the future.
The cookie law still applies in the UK because it has not been revoked. IIRC, there was a ruling recently that it must be as easy to reject all as it is to accept all. Not every site has been updated/fixed; I still see dark patterns, frequently, but I do feel like it has gotten better.
Aha, now here's a comment that adds to the discussion. This is certainly worth mentioning in my post.

Ah! And here's the two projects discussing merging efforts: https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv/issues/18
In the past when I've been in the USA, I've legit had to put on an American accent when calling for taxis and the like!

I don't even have that strong an accent, and I always try my best to enunciate correctly when talking to others shrug
I believe you are correct, definitely in terms of the spirit of the law and probably in terms of the text. It's just that there haven't been any landmark legal cases yet to settle this point (further complicated by the fact that the EU is more civil law than common law).
If it was ferromagnetic you would likely feel it tugging as you got close to the magnet. Gold, silver, titanium are ok in MRI. However, next time, the second you realize you have metal on your person you should immediately inform the techs rather than try to just hold onto it! Aside from the risk of injury, it can be a real pain to get stuck items off the machine.
Yes, because fair use is a defense in court. This alone is enough to intimidate away most people from even contesting it. The result is that copyright conglomerates and some corporations take advantage of this by using a firehose of copyright claims.

The other factor is that people don't really behave according to copyright rules. People will habitually create copies of images all the time by uploading them to discord, imgur etc. Their intent is not to create copies, but to simply show it to somebody else, but because of some technical reason they can't easily do it without that.

Memes, specifically image macros, are likely suspect whether they fall under fair use. They can sometimes take the entirety of the work.

There are some other reasons like this as well that I can't recall right now.
God, I love this kind of thing. Beautiful!
It looks like zoom product team thinks they are a feature factory
Who exactly is anticipating it? After viewing the non-scripted videos of its use, it is obvious that the thing is very laggy and rather limited. Just wait one version and both iOS and Android will include all the functionality at part of the OS.
I’m looking forward to getting mine. I wholly get the skepticism from tech circles, but I’m an eternal optimist. I hope this thing blows me away like my first iPod Touch did: “so this is what the future is like”.

And if not, it wasn’t super expensive as far as desk fidgets go.
Because product people need to validate their existence by adding features to put on their resume and show "progress", businesses are always trying to "grow"...

Our tech stacks are steaming piles of ass because applications are never "finished". We even do this ourselves, apps that dont get updates are looked down on more often than being seen as "complete"
> Do you think the US would be pushing extradition if they thought a judge would dismiss the case based on that?

Just because they don't think it will happen does not mean that it will not happen. Nonetheless, you are correct -- Ellsberg was not acquitted, so there was no precedent set, and no guarantee that Assange will be acquitted or have his charges dismissed for similar cause.

All I'm saying is that we don't have a precedent, so it is very far from obvious that the result of a trial would be a conviction. Even the case against Ellsberg was stronger, since he had direct access to the information through his work at RAND.
Because someone read and wanted to replicate "The Diamond Age"?
I play guitar/piano, and I concur that they’re not great. I tried “Vagabond (acoustic)” by Wolfmother. I figured it would have an easier time because it’s just a vocal and an acoustic guitar. Some of the notes in the tabs are right, but the melody is too simplistic. All of the embellishments are also missing. It’s interesting how the mile-high view isn’t so bad though. If I sat down to figure out the notes for a track no tabs exist for, this might look like a rough approximation of what I’d start with.
Blasting the horn repeatedly is not a standard signal, but there are standard signals which might apply to a situation like this, for example "vessel not under command", "collision imminent", "vessel reversing", etc.
Deleted that creepy app one minute after installing it, as it started trying to reconnect me with people from decades ago, whom I had no desire whatsoever to reconnect with.
Whoever was driving that last car had better go buy a lottery ticket right away.
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> rock-solid operating system that'll never crash or go dow

`reboot` command has entered the chat
So they work like a stethoscope.

Would they sound better if they used a liquid instead of air for the conduction?
Words. Just estimate how many tokens that'd be and talk in words, paragraphs, etc instead.
Why does this matter when your colleagues are now likely currently in the same strata as you?

I also grew up very poor and while I tried to hide that fact during university, it makes no sense to hide it from my colleagues because we’re all basically in the same position now.
Try hanging up a call on your smartphone and your counterpart hanged up a a fraction of a second before you. Now you call someone (pretty deep down) in your recent call list.

Or click "Connect to Bluetooth headset" in Windows. Congratulations, your headset just connected itself, so you now you disconnected it.

Just brilliant, overall.
I guess it's to reduce the validation workload at their end. They'd rather receive numbers generated and validated by a piece of software, rather than numbers that may or may not make sense.
You shouldn't. If you successfully manage wear leveling all you've done is make sure you have to replace your whole stock at the same time, as well as depriving yourself of regular reminders of what new-ish clothes should look and feel like, leading you to keep wearing worn-out clothes.
>It does not help solve any of the problems facing humanity.

There's an argument that neither do most jobs [1], but that doesn't mean they are unaffected by automation.

[1] Graeber, D. and Lou, L.I.T., 2019. Bullshit Jobs: A Conversation with David Graeber. Made in China Journal, (2).
My process:

1. Buy ~15 copies of everything.

2. Not think about what to wear! Everything is roughly the same.

3. Throw out everything every ~3 years. A couple of months before that, start buying new models of clothes to find the best one.

4. Goto 1.
First off, I did read your message and I responded to a very specific portion of it, which in itself implies that I read your message.

I really don't understand the aggressive response that sounds like you're attacking me personally. Let me remind you of the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Define "rich". Anyone can use AAVE, with any amount of tokens and without asking anyone for permission. If anything, AAVE is more accessible than anything else out there. Especially traditional banking which requires a bank account, something that can be difficult or impossible, to obtain on a global scale.

Finally, one can absolutely use AAVE to take a loan for a house. Supply/lend Bitcoin and borrow USDC, take the USDC out as fiat through an offramp such as coinbase.
That's only one factor. I think the thing that is going to trigger a phase shift when it comes to interacting with LLMs is reducing response latency to conversational ranges by running enough of the models offline. You say something and it starts responding immediately, you interrupt it mid-sentence and it adjusts immediately. That is going to be revolutionary.
> I don't know that there's a way around that other than compensating them for their time and effort and hope they continue their good work.

Any project with a bus factor of 1 is inherently dangerous and risky. On a long enough timescale, the probability that an open source maintainer will quit their project is 1. The only way around that is to make solo-maintained projects taboo.
Not sure it could because it would just constantly give you hard lemonade as the taste is simply superior to beer. Even a "beer drinker" would give a higher flavor score for a hard lemonade over what they "just drink".

Actual beer drinkers "just drink" a specific beverage because it's what marketed to them, say, as a fisherman, or a football watching person.

Even if you put some guard rails up and blocked "lemon containing drinks" from participating in the training data, barely noticeable differences in "hef" would just win. Again beer drinkers drink what has been socially fed to them in their friend circle, on TV ads and who/what they identify with.
The author uses "divergent opinions" to provide balance, showing both skeptics and supporters of LLMs in data analysis. Similarly, the notion of a definitive conclusion highlights that while conclusions may exist, they might lack solid foundations.

Also just for you I copied and pasted my original comment into ChatGPT to make it more brief ;)

as an aside, asking chatGPT 3.5 to make similar stories to "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." had very bad results and completely failed to do a single meaningful example of "common item with uncommon description that tells a story"
Yeah, totally agree. We love to make wrong things righter.
Since they were still moving forward while gunning it in reverse the rudder would still operate normally. They generally have bow thrusters too. I have no idea whether they could have been operational with the broader power/engine failures but if they were available I'm sure they were being used as well.
And the keyboard layout is one of the supported ones.
Similarly, Mastercard and Visa should probably be subject to an antitrust investigation themselves for the same reason. Something as important as payment processing shouldn't be left up to a duopoly of large corporations that seem to be able to block people from their services for dubious reasons.
this code was written before unprivileged network namespaces were much of a thing so the theory that a developer would plant a bugdoor for this is not probable.

you can think of unprivileged namespaces in general as a bunch of attack surface that was previously root to kernel only and hadn't had much scrutiny. these bugs will take decades to eliminate without a rewrite of linux.
Zawinski’s Law in action?
Huh? Meta has never really prioritized AR in any of their devices. It was always in afterthought.
Thanks guys, super helpful feedback! Sorry about that, the Twilio phone login was meant to make it more convenient for the mobile users to keep going with a direct code. I can totally see how that's perceived though, you're 100% correct. Will be changing the auth to username or email instead.

Very helpful feedback, will get this right. Thanks again for the feedback guys.
> There's an argument that neither do most jobs

Agreed, lets not add to that pile of useless jobs
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Was there a harbor pilot on board, or the normal ship pilot?

Were there tug boats helping with the exit?

I have often felt that the harbor protocols were overkill, but this is one of the times they could have helped.
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At least in SE Michigan, some of the lodges of the Loyal Order of the Moose (fraternal organization) are really good.

OTOH...the Moose are a pretty religious organization, in many ways.
Your experience does not invalidate my experience. I have had the same bad behavior across multiple versions of Windows, using multiple different loudspeakers, headsets and headphones, all the while it worked perfectly well in GNU/Linux distributions, where I can set volume like a sane person would, instead of like on Windows, where I need to micro management between 1 and 5 out of 100.

The fact, that this is a well known issue, that basically all my friends know about, having it right now, and in the past using various audio output devices themselves, tells me, that it is not a "me problem", but actually something that in general does not work so well in Windows. They have all accepted, that Windows volume mixer simply does this and that there is nothing that they can do. They are not regular GNU/Linux users like I am, so they are stuck with that.

Consider, that you might be in some kind of bubble, with your fortunate experiences. Consider, that maybe you did not understand the problem I am describing well. Since you are talking about "external amplifiers", makes me doubt, that you understand correctly what I am talking about. Note, that I have already stated, that I do not put volume externally to any maximum, like someone claimed earlier. So either you claim, that I am lying, or you do not understand what I wrote.

Perhaps you should rather ask questions about the issue and try to be helpful, instead of going on assuming and pretending the problem does not exist, when it very much does and you simply seem blissfully unaware of it.

I also find your tone quite in conflict with this site's rules. It is quite rude.
It’s cute that you think that companies can demand things from film studios.

But in the real world that doesn’t happen and Apple needs their support to get this content on the platform in the first place.
Anything that cannot be grasped by an individual, cannot be taught. This means the gains that are emergent, will eventually be lost.
> a simple mechanical acoustic coupler

I get what you're saying, and I think that's plausible. But as far as I'm concerned, an acoustic coupler is/was a type of modem, into which you plugged an ordinary telephone handset. You had to have a telephone that had hemispherical mike and earphone; it didn't work with e.g. a trimphone. Expected performance: 9,600 bits-per-second.
> That means they're not using it since they don't have to deal with spaces as spaces vs as separators

The end-user isn't consciously using it. The software they are using is.

We are talking here about programmer-visible reality, not end-user-visible reality. Those two realities don't have to be the same, as in the "replace spaces with underscores and vice versa" idea.

> So how do you differentiate between a user inserting a space and a user inserting a literal _ in a file name?

Underscores are rarely used by non-technical users. It isn't a standard punctuation mark. Back when people used typewriters, the average person was familiar with using them to underline things, but nowadays, the majority of the population are too young to have ever used one. I doubt many non-technical users would even notice if underscores in file names were (from their perspective) automatically converted to spaces, since they probably wouldn't put one in to begin with.
Getting a PhD would help (at least half a decade of wrestling with uncertainty will cure you of your fear of it), but I think an MEng is less helpful (I talk to a lot of MEng students who are working on some project where they are really over their heads.)

Then there are side projects. A good side project pushes really hard against uncertainty in at least one direction but is conservative in other respects. Being responsible end-to-end for a project forces you to confront things you might otherwise flinch at.
Always hilarious to see Zawinski’s Law in action: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1502...
There's also the issue of life expectancy. In the US, for males? 77 years. Now we're basically saying "For the first third of your life, we're going to dictate a lot of what you can't do".