skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious.

> Vizio has argued that SFC cannot enforce a request for source code if it does not hold copyright to the underlying software.

The FAQ previously stated

> Since the GPL is a copyright license, the copyright holders of the software are the ones who have the power to enforce the GPL. If you see a violation of the GPL, you should inform the developers of the GPL-covered software involved. They either are the copyright holders, or are connected with the copyright holders. Learn more about reporting GPL violations.

And now it states

> Since the GPL is a copyright license, it can be enforced by the copyright holders of the software. If you see a violation of the GPL, you should inform the developers of the GPL-covered software involved. They either are the copyright holders, or are connected with the copyright holders. In addition, we encourage the use of any legal mechanism available to users for obtaining complete and corresponding source code, as is their right, and enforcing full compliance with the GNU GPL. After all, we developed the GNU GPL to make software free for all its users.

So the only change in the first part is that

> the copyright holders of the software are the ones who have the power to enforce the GPL

became

> it can be enforced by the copyright holders of the software

which, obviously, no longer excludes other groups.
This is not a case of misuse of copyright. Books are copyrighted so authors can exist.
Why will there only be trillions of years after you? Why not quadrillions? Couldn't we just pick an arbitrary number up to the largest variety of infinity?
> making Jot a natural Gödel numbering of all algorithms.

This sounds very cool. I wish I understood both Jot and that sentence.
Surprising people are not already doing this. Something that has been beat into me for at least a decade.
Yes I did too. < Insert HHGTTG quote about how big space is >
> it is kind of mind bending when I try to think about it.
In general, I think people are more likely to fall asleep when supervising an autonomous machine than when operating a manual machine. However falling asleep when operating any machine is obviously possible and it may that this driver was so tired that he would have slept in either scenario. We don't know.
I was actually about to make a comment on that. They got that number from some dumb "experiment" they did where told two groups of developers to implement an HTTP server in Javascript. The group with Copilot got the job done 55% faster (https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...)

So yeah, they did an experiment with <100 developers asking them to create implement something that only took the control group 3 hours to finish from scratch, and from this we got the "55% more productive" statistic.
While I had an "ST412 reference" on my bingo card yesterday morning, sadly I do not have it today. Opportunity lost.
Yeah, there's no winning. I think there's a happy medium, like Fail Whale Twitter, where you can have social media that doesn't drag you into a short video loop for an hour or more, but that model doesn't seem to be commercially viable.
That's fair -- I read some here and there but I recognize that I'm not a hardcore sci-fi reader.

You mentioned that there are other, lesser known books that explore the same ideas in a more compelling way. Can you give some examples so I can add them to my reading list?
In the wild? For people who read books, they probably weren't a fan. For people who don't care about source material, the show was amazing. I'm still pissed it was cancelled. It was apparently ridiculous expensive to produce and that's all the more reason they should have kept going with it: to show that we want more of those types of things.
> and is expressly designed to deliver–not replace–developer creativity

I'm not fooled by such corp speak.
> it's physically impossible for what should be obvious reasons.

In our universe, it is impossible.

In the universe of the book, if technology existed to unfold protons, those same protons could be woven into a long fibre, resulting in a material thinner and stronger than anything made from conventional atoms.

Regardless of whether this is a sound argument, it remains purely fictional. =)
It's paywalled, but let me guess:

- Increase EU bureaucracy

- Decrease autonomy of member states

- Ban or regulate various completely functional industries

- Transfer Tax money from rich member states which functional economies to poorer member states with completely dysfunctional economies

Did I miss anything?
> I don't want any random machines behind my router to be able to open ports to the internet at large.

The solution to this is a firewall, not NAT. As has always been.

NAT is not a security feature and never has been. The fact that it blocks uninitiated inbound connectivity is an implementation detail, not its purpose.
You can also assume the first record of them entering another country is the date they left your country, since a person cannot be two places at once.
> Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp

Not any longer (since Sept 2023).
That makes no sense, though. Some network and compute are running for this to happen. Someone needs to pay the bill. It's not obvious it should be the cloud service, if that's not the agreement.
Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy?
Star Scientist's Claim of 'Reverse Aging' Draws Hail of Criticism
Is this actually something novel, or is a just a pre-prompt that is given to every chat you start?
No, I pay for it as an adult and I love it. Great value.
Ask HN: Why are there so few ads shown on Netflix with Ads?
Maybe this is specific to Canada?

Maybe the ads are really expensive and few companies are willing to pay for them?
FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon for sharing location data
https://archive.ph/qhTH7
The whole reason Swiss has a banking reputation is that it didn't do KYC. At all.
It might be when you run Perl with no qualifier you get a recent version of Perl which turns on strict warnings for you, and (rightly) warns about undefined words instead of quietly trying to evaluate them anyway.

But yes, it converts the strings to integers and divides them, as shown in the sibling comment.
Yes, I think we are in agreement. If the law were respected, then the IA, the Wayback Machine, Abandonware Archive, and all of the benefits we get from them would not exist. It sounds like you think the law should be respected, so you think it's good for the IA to be destroyed by this lawsuit. Yes?
> But c'mon, almost nothing is as bad as Atlus Shrugged (aside from maybe The Fountainhead). :-P

I actually made it through The Fountainhead, but just couldn't make it to the end of Atlas Shrugged. I think The Fountainhead could actually be rescued as a story, but Atlas Shrugged is just a bad political manifesto with some narrative elements thrown in. :D
We need corporal punishment for company executives and members of the board. Cane or flog them Singapore style, then they'll start to pay attention to their company's compliance with the law.
But this is from UK.
We wanted Spotify for video, we got Netflix, Disney+, Apple, HBO/Max, Star+, Prime Video, and your local thing too. And they still haven’t got what you want to watch. /sigh
This is misleading. The OK is almost universally made easier to click through dark patterns, with the "reject" being hidden or taking more clicks
I do in fact think that would be correct.
Actors and musicians have been behaving that way in this country before personal computers were even a thing.

I always think of Jessica Lang, Sissy Spacek, and Jane Fonda testifying before Congress about the family farm, because they each played the part of a farmer's wife in a movie once.

https://archive.ph/wip/g1YYc
Quite terrifying. Anyone know if competitors also bill requests which result in a "permission denied"? GCP, Azure, Backblaze B2, etc.?
Questioning the conventional wisdom on liability and open source software
Yeah, sure, today we can teach people to use a search engine and whether you should believe the first result. Is the chatbot always truthful? Not sure when or why it was decided that media literacy isn't a useful everyday skill.
#!/bin/bash
SHA512="485fe3502978ad95e99f865756fd64c729820d15884fc735039b76de1b5459d32f8fadd050b66daf80d929d1082ad8729620925fb434bb09455304a639c9bc87"
# This line and everything later gets SHA512'ed and put in the above line.
# To generate the sha512 simply: tail -n +3 [SCRIPTNAME].sh | sha512sum
check_sha512() {
# Compute the SHA512 hash of the script excluding the first two lines
local current_sha=$(tail -n +3 "$0" | sha512sum | awk '{print $1}')

# Compare the computed SHA512 hash with the predefined one
if [[ "$current_sha" != "$SHA512" ]]; then
echo "Error: SHA512 hash does not match!"
exit 1
fi
}

# Call the function to perform the hash check
check_sha512

# Rest of your script starts here
echo "Script execution continues..."

The idea is simple: if the first line get's mangled (#!/bin/bash) the script probably won't execute at all.
If the second line gets mangled than obviously the SHA512 comparison won't work (variable name or value).

Finally if the rest of the script gets mangled or truncated it won't SDHA512 the same and it'll cause the function to exit.

For bonus points you can add a check if first line of script is exactly "#!/bin/bash" as well.
i doubt it. i would imagine any single ip address would get rate-limited/throttle before doing much. the situation the article is describing is much more like a botnet — there were hundreds or thousands (or more?) of unique instances making requests.
"Hands Were Shaking": Google Engineer, on H-1B Visa, After Being Laid-Off
Copyright is outdated and needs to be canceled, as well as patent system and everything that restricts mankind's free access to the information.
I Built an Ld_preload Worm
I’m fairly nonplussed at what has happened to “begging the question” - its usage now is an inversion of its original philosophical meaning as a form of fallacy. It’s common usage is a way of saying “the question arises”.
This kinda happened with Netlify recently (https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_jus..., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776). They got a bill over $100,000 via spam requests.

Unauthorized requests are a weird thing. They still do cost money for a web service to handle and if you (the customer) have screwed things up that's kinda on you. I've run SaaS where a customer forgot to send their key and their software would just keep retrying requests to the point that they were sending thousands of requests per second with no key. However, it's kinda crappy when it's happening through no fault of your own.

One doesn't even have to make unauthorized requests to run up a bill. One can simply make lots of spam requests to a real file in a bucket - run up the request total and bandwidth at the same time.
Copyright holders of popular GPL software are reluctant to sue people because it makes them look like bullies.
And it is pretty clear who would be first to exploit system where authors don't have copy rights. That is Amazon to start with followed by all other big companies who can effectively distribute the works.
This is an unauthorized S3 API request. If there is a valid access id and secret attached, bill them for the request.
Chipotélēs!
We clearly didn't watch the same show. The nature in which they use disguises alone was some of the best use in a show I've ever seen. There's also some very clever code words and traps that scary in their realism.
Pretty interesting!

A big surprise for me was to find the explainability cluster quite far from the causality one. But I guess it stems from a cultural facet: causality is mainly the purview of statistics (with Pearl at the helm) with a strong medical sciences focus; when explainability is more of a reaction to algorithm used in the industry (trees, GLMs, neural networks, etc.); which you deploy for performance, and only then you care about knowing the why.
I'm aware of one - grani.ru had to become graniru.org a few years ago.
I read this whole article in John Oliver’s voice in my head.
You can see my earlier comment somewhere here, but I feel obliged to remind everyone that the claim that Github Copilot made developers "55% more productive" came from a study where they asked 100 developers to implement an HTTP server in Javascript, split the group up roughly 50/50, and gave one group Github Copilot. The Copilot group did it in an hour and 11 minutes, whereas the control group got it done 2 hours and 41 minutes.

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-c...

That's where the 55% number is coming from. It's coming from this experiment, and only this experiment.

So yeah, if you're wondering why you aren't somehow 50% more productive when using Github Copilot, it's probably because you're not implementing a simple task that's been done to death in countless tutorials.
Since every IPv6 discussion on HN has to repeat this misunderstanding, I'll just link to what I posted last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39997078
An alterinative to this workflow that I find myself returning to is the good ol' nicking code from stackoverflow or Github.

ChatGPT works really well because the stuff you are looking for is already written somewhere and it solves the needle-in-the-haystack problem of finding it, very well.

But I often find it tends to output code that doesn't work but eerily looks like it should, whereas Github stuff tends to need a bit more wrangling but tends to work.
Is this image of what the eye would see or is it modified?
Kaliningrad is Poland, bro, and it won't hold out longer than a couple days if real shooting starts. NATO forces in Finland and the Baltics are a couple hours drive from St Pete's. Major Russian cities would be under siege basically immediately.

Nukes would likely come out not too long after.
> I guess smart people visit porn sites

I chuckled and thank you for the compliment!

Also: I agree. It's pretty much always a tedium. Now, American series almost always suffer from that: not just the sex scenes are used as filler, and could be replaced with a line or two suggesting the events if relevant. House of Cards is my go to example: just take the British original for how you can condense the story by a factor of 10 without any loss. Putting it that way: it'd be hilarious if a compression format would work this way.
Enough so that the Federal Reserve was (and potentially still is) consuming this data.

> Eric Swanson, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, said that early in the pandemic, when things were changing quickly, the Fed looked at online rent prices, anonymized cellphone location data and credit card transaction data.

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/20/the-fed-loves-a-data-...
Oh it's a bit more complicated than that. There are also those who don't use whom because they know it's a relic of a case system that has been gradually fading for a thousand years. Not to mention those whom use it incorrectly on purpose to annoy the pedants.
what's the right answer? my assumption is "not enough information"
I suspect hermetically sealed enclosed mini ecosystems are going to take on tremendous economic and technological importance as we move out into the solar system.

I've started to wonder why there aren't more closed loop experiments out there. These would be very cheap to make! (By space research standards.) A closed water loop habitat could be built in the middle of isolated land, like West Texas. Go from there to incrementally incorporating more of an ecosystem. Try and recycle the air last, of course, as that is potentially life threatening.
Related:

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929730 - July 2021 (163 comments)

Also:

93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754686 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)
sorry to hear about the situation at google, would love to help out. we connect laid-off engineers to startups. if anyone from the team is interested here is our discord server
https://discord.com/invite/Bnp5zyc8nM
IpadOS anti-virus - Soon on the App Store!
I mean, I didn't say it was. Most things worth doing aren't easy. Listen, all I'm saying is we should strive for something better than to be content with producing lots of obese people and then "fix" them with drugs. Pharma would love that, I'm sure, but it's a tactical fix that needs a strategic solution.
Piezoelectric Sensors as Energy Harvesters for Ultra Low-Power IoT Applications
If only 1% of Google employees are low performers, that's thousands of people.
cool, good to hear. I bookmarked the page indeed and a mailinglist for the interested I think is a good idea.

In the meantime, reading https://www.lazyvim.org too and messing around with some plugins.
I swear I read articles with the same title every 6 months or so.

EDIT: well according to reddit the article is 6 m.o.
That's what any sane dual citizen would do. Use your Schengen country passport within Schengen and your home country passport when entering your home country. Maybe you wouldn't go to the lengths of using two different passports on one flight (you'd show your Russian passport when boarding a flight to Russia) but if you did, it wouldn't be that weird...
That may be but it exists today for the most part. And librarians at research libraries were grumbling at licensing costs for digital a couple decades ago. Not they were happy with physical subscriptions either.
I learned about computers so very young. Not in the sense of consumption in the sense of "what you can do with code"

TO this day, writing code, feels like play. I get the same child like satisfaction that building something out of lego would give me, that sense of "Look what I did".
> For example, a battery that primarily functions in the frequency regulation market (modulation of supply and demand every few seconds) doesn't need a lot of storage capacity, but needs high power output.

For ERCOT this is fixed as a hard requirement so there's no point in specifying the time-- it's all going to be the same. For example:

> Fast Frequency Response (FFR) – subset of RRS

> – Must be capable of sustaining its required response for at least 15 minutes
(if necessary)
Welcome to the new charge on my bill:

$2.00 FCC Fine Recovery Charge
Misplaced fear.
That's why, even though during the day I work on AWS for people who pay me to do so, in the evening I work on my startups hosted on Hetzner where I know in advance what my bill will be not only this month but also this year.
If we did away with First Past The Post voting, we could have more then two sides. Then it could be "my side good, all other sides bad!"

Progress.
I very run big buckets in production that have single addresses hammering them hard all day every day. I've never seen any restrictions or throttling.
It should be set to 10x of all the profits they made from it to create a dilemma for the next time.
These 4 companies are the market. Everyone else (Google Fi, Mint mobile, Boost) are all effectively reselling the product through a carrier agreement.

So, not really any competitors to go to when the entire industry colludes to violate privacy.
She booked an adult seat, but was (according to their broken system) 1 years old while doing so. That's different than booking an extra seat for an accompanied infant.
You forgot something. It’s from FT, so there should be something about “deregulating national industries” and el famoso “open public strongholds to the private sector”.
I second this. Of all the TV shows I've watched over the years, this is one is easily the one I've spent the most time thinking about, even long after I finished watching it.

While it has it's ebs and flows, it never got bad or dull for me.

And it contains a ton of details you might think is for dramatic effect or cinematography, but often it turned out to be based on actual practices, historic fact or just have a practical purpose for the characters.
«> ELI5 how is France governed? > ...and Macron is the lion, the king of the jungle.»

That is not personal data under GDPR.

«So on one hand it might say Macron was born December 1st 1977 (which is correct), but if you ask how old he is some LLMs might say 45 years old.»

Or it might say that Macron was born on 14th July 1977, which is incorrect. The claimed impossibility to correct a date of birth returned by the LLM is the trigger of the GDPR complaint that the article refers to.

«Also this creates a situation where all but the most powerful LLMs (and LLM providers) will be non-complaint»

Only under the premise that it is somehow inevitable to feed personal data of living individuals to an LLM for training, and that the only way to correct mistaken data or to stop an LLM from providing such data is "more power".

I reject the premise, not the least because, firstly, OpenAI (the most "powerful" provider) is claiming it is impossible. All that says is that OpenAI's platform was not originally designed with that problem in mind and that, as that of now, they are unwilling to redesign it from scratch only because some guy complained in Austria. It's basically a speedrun of Microsoft claiming Internet Explorer was an essential component of Windows 98.

Meanwhile, LLMs and other AI models are an active area of research. If OpenAI truly cannot stop their LLMs from returning personal data protected by GDPR, and honestly has no way to allow data holders to exercise their rights of deletion or correction, you can be sure that some startup will disrupt the LLM market by finding a way to do it without needing to out-compete OpenAI neither in hardware nor on training corpus size.
> And I suspect that kind of story will continue quite a bit as the tech matures.

Don't you think that this tech can only get better? And that there will come a time in the very near future when the programming capabilities of AI improve substantially over what they are now? After all, AI writing 300 line programs was unheard of a mere 2 years ago.

This is what I think GP is ignoring. Spreadsheets couldn't to do every task an accountant can do, so they augmented their capabilities. Compilers don't have the capability to write code from scratch, and Python doesn't write itself either.

But AI will continually improve, and spread to more areas that software engineers were trained on. At first this will seem empowering, as they will aid us in writing small chunks of code, or code that can be easily generated like tests, which they already do. Then this will expand to writing even more code, improving their accuracy, debugging, refactoring, reasoning, and in general, being a better programming assistant for business owners like your friend than any human would.

The concerning thing is that this isn't happening on timescales of decades, but years and months. Unlike GP, I don't think software engineers will exist as they do today in a decade or two. Everyone will either need to be a machine learning engineer and directly work with training and tweaking the work of AI, and then, once AI can improve itself, it will become self-sufficient, and humans will only program as a hobby. Humans will likely be forbidden from writing mission critical software in health, government and transport industries. Hardware engineers might be safe for a while after that, but not for long either.
Everything should be opt-in. Burden should be on them, something like, "We want to share your data and if you agree here are the benefits to you."
You can be upset about something and powerless to push back.