skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Problem of Piracy
I saw a post on Hacker News that made one of the better arguments against piracy. I want to be upright and give up piracy if convinced but I’m unsure of the soundness of this argument. It went something like this:

1) It is immoral to willfully break an implicit agreement
2) Piracy willfully breaks an implicit agreement
3) Therefore, piracy is immoral

The first premise (it is immoral to break an implicit agreement) is doubtful. Consider the following info about Rosa Parks.

She enters into implicit agreement with Montgomery Buses: You agree to give up your front seat if you ride the Montgomery Buses. She enters the bus with the intent of sitting in the front seats even if they fill up (aka enter with the intent of breaking agreement). She clings to front seat after the section fills up. We celebrate her moral achievement.

And consider the similarity of the situation with me and piracy.

I enter into implicit agreement with Bard Press: I agree not to make copies of books published by Bard Press that I have access to. I enter a shadow website with the intent of making a copy of a book published by Bard Press (aka enter with the intent of breaking agreement). I make a copy of the book. What should be the reaction?

I think if one is freed, they both are freed, on the basis of this argument:

1) One has a moral responsibility to break unjust agreements
2) The agreement with Montgomery Buses/Bard Press is unjust
3) Therefore, one has a moral responsibility to break the agreement with Montgomery Buses/Bard Press

This seems right. Suspect the true issue of piracy lies with premise two: “the agreement with Bard Press is unjust”. This is an expression I might hear from the shores of The Pirate Bay and among the leaders of the Copyright Abolitionists. Pirates denounce today’s agreements unjust while the law prescribes them just. This to me is the crux.
Hi there, I agree that fact-checking is not something that current generative AI models can directly solve. Therefore, we decompose this complex into five simpler steps, which current techniques can better solve. Please refer to https://github.com/Libr-AI/OpenFactVerification?tab=readme-o... for more details.

However, errors can always occur. We try to help users in an interpretable and transparent way by showing all retrieved evidence and the rationale behind each assessment. We hope this could at least help people when dealing with such problems.
Support for some platforms with C# is also a bit lacking. Getting C# stuff up and running on FreeBSD can be a challenge for example.
I assumed even “3d printed” guns required a metal barrel. Can polymer withstand even a single round being fired? Are we talking 22LR only or something?

Breach only makes a lot of sense. That would indeed be hard to detect, and would likely solve the above.
One FF more or less admitted, maybe two. In the later case we have the missile launch on tape. No Ukies anywhere close. Belarus a hilariously wasted opportunity. Taganrog on tape flying away the next day.

So in short, 1–2 destroyed, 0/4 destroyed by Ukraine. Also, even Budallo said six A-50U remaining.

Also, they are not “irreplacable”. A-50U production got restarted, there’s a number of airframes to upgrade/refurbish, plus there’s the A-100 project.
Wish Xbox All Access were available in more countries
Also don't forget Howard Hughes
We're about 10 years off from recreating that episode of Futurama where they drop massive ice cubes into the ocean to cool it down.
If losses reach the point where it's irrational to invest in insurance businesses versus other competing business propositions, insurers exit the market, and the boo-hoo is on you. You can moralize your way out of cuts in profits, but you can't moralize your way out of sustained losses.
That's definitely my belief with it too, and it wasn't a blog but I remember a history teacher in high school pointed me at a couple similar papers when I expressed discomfort that we'd use such horrific research.
Well it is true, the XZ hack was a major social-engineering feat. Regardless, we should not be underestimating the power of these technologies. If an LLM can respond to a request to generate code, what makes you think the attacker couldn't simply add things like "Insert a buffer overflow in the code..." or what have you. And especially as this technology progresses, the capabilities will no doubt dramatically increase. Having said that, I do hope you are right!
Try using Monzo or Sterling.

Both will nail you to the ground.
Ahah! I see it now, thanks.
Surprisingly, it seems to me that you are wrong. People will absolutely lose their minds whenever they hear about an unmanned aircraft, but never talk about manned aircraft. There have been tons of news articles about "police drones" an other kinds of scaremongering, that never seem to note that the cops using an airplane to follow you in the dark has been a thing for decades. The only new thing is the pilot does not necessarily need to sit in the aircraft.
I read this as postscript and was so very confused by the headline :D
Linkception
You should submit your comment to the agency. I'm sure they'll slap their foreheads, throw their own study out the window, and will get right on it.
Because there's a difference between selling a rough car you detail inside and out and sell for a good deal, versus selling a lemon.

Deep down I know the product isn't that well liked, and a lot of the renewals are based on my salesmanship. I know I have a chance at fixing the bugs, because I wrote everything, while someone else would be screwed IMO. It just wouldn't be fair to sell it to someone because I know they'd be making a mistake.
That scenario is exactly what PiVPN is avoiding by refusing to nominate a new maintainer and telling interested parties to fork--so what is your actual and concrete objection?

Fork the project. Earn your own trust.
You need suitable hardware (ideally a 3090, 4090 or an Apple M device with a decent amount of mem).

Then set up software - ollama for easy mode (but less control) or text-generation-webui for more control.

After that you can just try models. The subreddit /r/localllama has whatever is flavour of the week. The Mixtral model at like Q3 quantization is probably a good starting point
Unfortunately it would seem that way. I don't want to point fingers, because ultimately the entire industry is going through it right now and it's really a tough time for everyone. That being said, it's a good way to frame the discussion around how successful these big-budget games can be, and whether it's even worth the risk. Digital Foundry had a great discussion on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvTQF00qtNY
I subscribe to the idea that these are miracles that don't have to be following scientific reasons. If you would explain it using science so what is the point of saying this is a miracle from Allah to the prophet. It would be basing your argument about people of Mecca (or the people at this time) with the phenomenon. This is not related to only Isra but all prophets miracles.

PS: I am talking from a religious point of view, I am not not interested in a discussion about religion, god and potential clash with science.
Will the Gates Foundation's preprint-centric policy help open access?
It is through reinsurance mechanisms and the way you build the portfolio.

If you can’t use predictive attributes, many not allowed in California, you’re not going to get reinsurance interest because you can’t really balance the risk across different risk types for drivers.

So the end result is the customer pays more, despite their driving record being clean, because that’s the only way to manage through the risk.
I laughed out loud in my office reading the dilbert strip line. Thanks for the giggle, that’s a new one for me lol
Full height barriers would require extensive rework of many aspects of the subway system -- it's not just a matter of bolting walls to the floor. There are only a handful of people who are killed when they are pushed or fall onto the tracks at a station each year. A few billion dollars could save a lot more lives deployed elsewhere in NYC.
Loriini.nvim: a color picker plugin for Neovim
Loriini is a cli color picker written in Rust - and this plugin lets you use it from within neovim.
One of the many nearly useless things I built:

https://github.com/rbanffy/nsaname
That's not the issue in Florida. The issue in Florida is that "although Florida only accounts for 9 percent of the country’s home insurance claims, it is home to 79 percent of the country’s home insurance lawsuits".

That's from https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/flor..., which explains how the roofing scams work in that state. The legislature is working on it.
Technically possible now, I suppose. If you're Google and have the analytics, you could make a standard site layout and munge every site into that format based on usage data. Neat idea.
> No analysis is making the insurer say "Oh, that roof is in much better condition despite its age."

That’s exactly what they do. There are people getting paid millions of dollars to create software that does this.

Do you know how much money an insurance company can print if they can undercut the competition by selling a bunch of policies to people who won’t file a claim?

People pick insurance based on price, and if someone is selling you a cheaper policy because they know your roof is better, you’re going to buy it from them.

They win because you’ll pay a premium without filing a claim, and you win because you can have a cheaper policy. That’s how it works in the real world.
Quakes came out in, what, 1996? And was written by some of the foremost practitioners of computer graphics?

We were a couple of physics grad students working on a side project in late 1993. My background was a semester course based on Foley & van Dam. Hardware gave us a 5-10 year lead over what we could have done with consumer tech.

There wasn't really a "rest of CG". Only the highest-end SGI machines at the time had hardware texture mapping - most did it in software (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Graphics).

We aren't talking 2D organo-chem hexagons, but 3D spheres and cylinders. Back around 1995 I posted some benchmarks to Usenet about the different approaches I tried (including NURBS), but I can no longer find a copy of it.

The straight-forward way is to render the spheres as a bunch of triangles, so, what, 50 polygons per sphere? Times 100,000 spheres = 5 million polygons. That was large for the time, but doable. Plus, during movement we used a lower level of detail.

What was Quake's polygon count?

Oh, and we're displaying animated molecules, including interacting with a live physics simulation, so no pre-computed BSP either.

Rastering spheres quickly on a PC was also possible then, which was RasMol's forte, but it was flat compared to having a couple hardware-based point lights plus ambient lighting.

Interestingly, AutoCAD (RIP Walker) tried to get into molecular modeling, but it didn't work out. https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/chapter2_82.html
I fully expect some sort of enshittification of openai at some point.
sensationalism.
My first thought was "all this goes out the window once you scale from pets to livestock," but my second thought was that, of course, we can automate these things, too.

eg human-readable-id[0] and some others I in a markdown page.[1]

0. https://www.npmjs.com/package/human-readable-ids

1. https://github.com/grantcarthew/awesome-unique-id
> so what is your actual and concrete objection?

This:

> I wish people would put their projects in something like https://www.codeshelter.co so anyone who's interested can maintain them, instead of just killing them
"Too agreeable" isn't an intrinsic trait of AI though, just the models you've been using. I'd love a less agreeable model :)
I am curious to see benchmark results for the same use cases but with 10ms and 100ms latency added between the client and server. It looks like the bench currently just stays within the same machine.

I do not often operate below application layer, but as I understand it both the HTTP and SSH layers would add back-and-forths from client to server that UDP does not perform. Would UDP over HTTP over SSH have a slowdown steeply (but linearly?) correlated with the ping to the server? And (>linear) increased effects on packet loss? Crowbar seems to only do HTTP, so saves some considerable amount of backs-and-forths... but doesn't have the benefit from websockets...
It's much cheaper to do it from the get-go. Retrofitting these active stations and replacing all the existing rolling stock is much more expensive.
We already had a considerable subset of the required APIs exposed in Web 2.0 times. I don't see it coming back any time soon, despite the integration work it enabled being lots of fun and also genuinely useful.
Car insurance isn't mandatory; proof of financial responsibility is. In California, you can get a compliant insurance policy, deposit $35k with the DMV, setup a compliant $35k bond, or a self-insurance certificate which requires a larger deposit and is really for commercial motor vehicle carriers. I don't think it's unreasonable to require means to pay for damages when operating a motor vehicle; it doesn't take much to cause damages well in excess of California's deposit amount; washington state requires $60k.

For home insurance, usually it's a mortgage requirement, which is not by law. In condominiums, the community may require it of individual owners, and then it's not really law either.
Maybe it’s some sort of in joke for the company. At least, that’s how I took it— alongside it being an obvious reference to a speedometer. My intuition was that maybe the company’s name was “gauge”, or better yet the CEO’s name was gauge. I really hope it was the latter. Makes me think of Hooli from Silicon Valley for some reason lol
I only mean AWOL in that they aren't available/online/in-office. So just cashing paychecks without actually doing anything.
Those two are my favorites as well.
The article focuses on Uber, but the most interesting line was the one that says they're using Microsoft facial-recognition tech.
Exactly. And insurance is still a good deal even if the expected value for that one member pool is negative. In fact, insurance as a market doesn’t work unless the average customer loses out. This is not a bad thing!
Correct, I myself am fully remote.
Risk pooling is fundamental to insurance, but not all pools are the same.

The observation is that if you aren't able to discriminate at all or subdivide the pools, the only response is to up the average rate to cover the aggregate risk as best you can estimate it. This gets tricky if your ability to change rates is constrained, also.

These things are always in fundamental tension, and also in tension with privacy. It's not an easy problem.
You should not leave your bootloader unlocked if you care about the security of your device and data.

Unfortunately, locking (and unlocking) it wipes user data, so it should be relocked right after installation of GrapheneOS.
My insurance company sent an inspector to check the house. As a result he adjusted some details of the policy that reduced the rate slightly.
I stand very corrected. The Liberator mentioned in GPs post only has a single metal component, a nail used as firing pin.

Apparently the 380 cartridge doesn’t explode upon firing
Many industries are regulated and have to provide good faith justifications for price increases. The burden of proof is on them, not the service recipient.
I don't think "unresolved variable" is listed as an actual error in plain JS in WebStorm? At least by default.

In any case, like any inspection, you can adjust its severity to whatever you find appropriate, including "don't show it at all".

File > Settings > Editor > Inspections > Javascript and Typescript > General > Unresolved reference.

Or directly from the "Show Context Actions" action (Alt+enter or whatever you have it set to, the same combination that shows refactoring actions), you can navigate the inspection like a submenu and select "Edit inspection profile setting".

https://i.imgur.com/3XCwxI1.png
I suppose this makes more sense, though I feel like if they'd put in even a partial effort they could've dragged it out much longer than they did. Boom, FAANG wages at boring mid-west companies.
Everything after Roddenberry is fanfiction.
His data is on https://www.gothicwx.org
Oh good point, I read it as a rule stipulating that employees are required to communicate.
Yup, exactly.

Even worse for the consumer is that insurance rules say you have to “offer” insurance in the state to get your license.

Well, you don’t want to drop your license but really don’t want to have a bunch of policies. What do you do?

You make it impossibly difficult to get insurance. I’m not going to name names but a lot of insurance companies in California are doing this.

No online applications, have to call in, have to fax in or mail paperwork required and so on…
For the car, you only need liability, and you can generally post a bond instead.
I think it's a reference to Nintendo periodically redoing their retro game technology/store and making you re-buy the same classic games library from scratch each time. Whereas you still own your rights to Xbox digital titles no matter how many console generations prior.
That sounds like a great manager. Not really the same situation as what I saw.
> The widths are fixed depending on the line

> there isn't usually more than three car variants using any given line

I'm not sure about the first point, do you have a source? As for the second point, sure — because there are currently 3 different door layouts on the A system and 3 on the B system. But those layouts are all freely mixed across lines right now. Even if they were not, interlining means trains of different lengths will be stopping at the same platform, which means incompatibility.

I suggest skimming the MTA report linked in the article, it goes into quite a lot of detail on this, including diagrams.
OP says it needs to be a function in sql and backslash commands are psql commands not queries. Probably would not suite their case.
Side note here on how ludicrous it is that you can substitute a $35,000 bond for a real insurance policy, given the likelihood that any driver is going to cause losses far in excess of $35,000.
It really is mostly empirical, especially since any real system has limits on the amount of proportional, derivative, or integral control authority you can apply. Still, every controls student is taught Zeigler Nichols, and are simultaneously told by their professors that nobody uses it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegler%E2%80%93Nichols_meth...
I liked the Hello World program = 17 bytes. 13B is just the text to print.
With KernelSU, this is no longer the case. It's Magisk that causes most problems.
It is...kind of. But we're talking about severely limiting the ability of insurers to distinguish high risk parties from low risk parties and price accordingly. When the insured parties have limited agency over the risk they present — as with, e.g., health insurance for congenital diseases — this kind of regulation can make sense. But when insured parties can control the risk, such regulation usually makes insurance markets much less efficient. Essentially, it takes away the incentive for insured parties to avoid risky behaviors, creating moral hazard. This is a well-understood mechanism for market failures.
Have you considered adding a prompt asking it to be less agreeable?
Then maybe they should have worked with customers proactively to prune trees and set up fire exclusion zones or fire resistant exteriors instead of sitting on their laurels raking it in.
I have never valued insurance more than the moment at which I owned my house outright. If you're so financially secure that the loss of an asset that large is manageable, I sort of don't much care about what you think about insurance rates?
Great thought experiment. Here's my ideas.

Obligatory drug users. Physically, we can't survive long without antibiotics. Mentally, fewer and fewer of us choose to subsist within society while sober.

Obligatory device users. We'll lose the ability to organise spatially as working environs shrink, physical objects rush toward disposable generics, warehouse operations become unseen automatons, and rituals as familiar as packing objects in to a vehicle become lost threads of unrelatable culture-history in a world of carry-on only rent-an-Uber.

Obligatory supermarketeers. On the whole, we've lost the ability to grow or forage for food, to correctly recognise seasons for planting and harvesting, or to slaughter and butcher an animal.

Obligatory ready-meal purchasers. Many people have lost the ability to cook.

Obligatory fast-fashionista. Nobody makes or repairs clothes anymore, instead reaching for convenience purchase.

One could go on...
> In the Nordics, we have a couple of sites dedicated to fact checking news stories, done by real people.

We have it everywhere. The problem is however well-known: Human bias, political engagement from the fact checkers, etc.. AI (without any kind of lock, political bias built-in etc) could be the real deal, but because it may be not political correct, it will never happen.
I am happy to buy them (or fish in general) frozen. I will prefer fresh if I buy from a fishmonger, but with supermarket fish and seafood its not worth it.
Again, you’re changing the deal as much as I am. Asking some people to pay in more than they will get out is just means testing on the front end, and it means tests the young to pay the old.
Why are insurance rates regulated by the government?

I understand that the state has a strong interest in ensuring that insurance companies are adequately capitalized, but I don’t understand the state interest in directly regulating premium prices. (Or is that not what you are referring to?)
Yes, they are similar. Actually, our initial paper was presented around five months ago (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09000). Unfortunately, our paper isn't cited by the DeepMind paper, which you may see this discussion as an example: https://x.com/gregd_nlp/status/1773453723655696431

Compared with our initial version, we have mainly focused on its efficiency, with a 10X faster checking process without decreasing accuracy.
You're not legally obligated to pay for homeowners insurance.
In order for it to work you have to actually do it. How much in donations or patches has Google put into GIMP?
<But nobody suggests reorganizing the economy to eat grass.

actually there are some trying that ;-) The Plant Protein Factory

https://universitetslararen.se/2023/02/17/har-gors-framtiden...
Collusion is nearly impossible in commodity insurance (i.e. policies you can buy on a website), it’s just way too easy to detect and whistleblowers know they can make a fortune by reporting it.

It’s mostly your own governments fault if you can’t find a cheap policy, there are millions of people who will probably never have to file an insurance claim in their life making up for government decisions to insure people who wouldn’t normally be able to be insured because of poor decision making skills.
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Nah, they stir up trouble by not talking about that.
Xiaomi phones are also pretty good for Custom ROMs.
GrapheneOS is not rooted, so you won't have those issues.

GrapheneOS also gives you a Network permission per-app; if you uncheck it, the app has no connectivity, period.

Highly recommended.
repair cost goes up, up, up on average -> insurance goes up, up, up.

That may only be part of it, but it's definitely part of it.
The bullet point about technical competence kinda left us hanging - if this is what you don't do, what do you actually do?
Do you want a list of them?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/02/android-devic...

Again, android is a security shithole because of what you want to happen to iOS.