skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the word "training". It's too anthropomorphic. Humans absolutely do learn from their inputs, but they are also capable of recognizing those influences and adopting or rejecting them. Current generation AI technology doesn't do that - which is why Stable Diffusion loves to draw, say, incomprehensible mutations of the Getty Images watermark. Machine learning models are trained by rather simplistic fixed code - akin to the expert systems that ML replaced - and that code does not know the difference between the copyrightable and uncopyrightable features of a source image. e.g. the training set had a lot of Getty Images watermarks in it, so the model is updated to draw those watermarks.

In terms of ethics, there IS a difference: AI is cheap. It does not require food, shelter, or much of anything, really. If your fellow man learns how to draw off your work, he does not become an existential threat to your livelihood in the same way an AI model potentially would. This is not an inherent problem with machines that think[1], but the rationales for investing into AI. Generative models probably can't currently replace real human artists or programmers, but that's what your boss is hearing. The capitalist class is chock full of people who would love nothing more than to fire all workers so that they can reap 100% of the benefits of automation. Economists talk of how robots and automation didn't put humans out of a job, it just shifted the jobs around and made humans more productive, but the reality is that the people who owned the factories were hoping it would. And they're perfectly willing to take further swings at the "problem" of there being a working class.

Remember: Breaking looms was the Luddites' tactic, not their goal.

In terms of copyright, a system that is nominally intended to protect artists, but doesn't do a very good job of it: the Internet is not Public Domain[0]. If you - an AI system or a human - train on a copyrighted work and produce something substantially similar to that same copyrighted work, you've infringed.

To put this in other words: if Microsoft thinks it's perfectly OK to train on anything on the Internet, then he'll be OK with my LLaMA finetune on Windows NT source code leaks[2]. If I can get the model to output the source code to Windows that means I own it now, right?

[0] no matter what Eric Bauman thinks

[1] We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!

[2] I would love to see someone do this, get sued, and then claim Microsoft is estopped from asserting copyright infringement because they said training on other people's work is OK. It wouldn't work and Microsoft would ruin their lives but it'd be funny.
> The idea that the guy who had a tennis idea just happened to come by two daughters who were already possesing 85-90% god given talent for the sport he just happened to specifically pick is hard for a human to wrap their mind around I think.

1) You've got it backward. If that hadn't been true, you'd never have heard about them.

You could drop the Williams sisters in practically ANY power sport given their size and build (Venus is REALLY BIG for a woman--she's 6' 1" and could likely play in the WNBA--Serena isn't exactly tiny--she's 5' 9"--that puts them at 3 and 2 standard deviations out, repectively) and they would dominate very quickly.

If the Williams sisters played basketball or soccer, for example, they'd be a hugely dominant force there, instead.

2) Training did a big shift right about the 1990s when people like the Williams sisters were coming up--especially for female training.

Navratilova was really the first female tennis player to adopt more scientific power training and reap the benefits. The players in the next generation (which includes the Williams sisters) that were steeped in that idea and put it into practice did very well in a LOT of different sports. They also easily blew through competitors who didn't do that--and at that point in the 1990s there were still a lot who didn't.
Obvious ones are that an attacker could play a damagingly loud noise, could eavesdrop on your in-person environment if you're wearing the AirPods without using them, as many do, or could masquerade as a caller without actually using a call service or leaving call records.

It also provides a straightforward avenue for further chains of exploit, if some were known to the attacker, since taking over the bluetooth connection represents a pretty wide channel of opportunity.
EV charging is so bleak in US that 46% consider going back to gas-powered cars
That seems like a whole lot of work, compared to just finding another job and walking out .

I'm not trying to change the world, I'm trying to make money so I can save and retire preferably before I turn 50.

If I've learned anything about life is that you need to pick what battles you want to fight.

If option A is argue with numerous people and openly expose multiple layers of incompetence, to the point where my manager and my coworkers are going to hate me .

Compared to, option B , keeping my head down until I can jump ship and then hoping the next place isn't as bad.

I'm picking B.

You gain nothing by going above and beyond your pay grade.
You can still make stew with some pieces of unfinished steak.
GBoard does kinda "keylog" in the telemetry it sends (actually, it's more "wordlog"): https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/gboard_kamil.pdf

It will also do this even if you block the keyboard's internet access as it will use Google Play Services to send the telemetry data.

Previously discussed in this deleted reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ymo3r9/deleted_by_...

At least turning off the "Share usage statistics" option in Gboard settings actually does opt you out...
Yes, reduced muscle tone is absolutely established, now I think I know what you're saying. We're often letting the researchers guide the areas they are most interested in. Lot's of interest in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression. We're interested in looking at insulin response and other metabolic factors.
Don’t trust clickbait authors, especially authors that use book titles like Ego is the Enemy.
A Critical Study of What Code-LLMs (Do Not) Learn
Yeah absolutely. This exploit is akin to V8 allowing websites to supply its own bytecode (not WASM -- talking about the internal bytecode here) to it instead of Javascript.
Stripe Atlas created the company? That sounds like it fulfilled its service. Your issue is with Stripe, the payment provider. Like talldayo already said naming the business 'botnet' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet) is the likely cause.
There is a link right on that very page to download, "eliza8_source.zip"
Additionally, the "cartridge" can be opened by Pico-8 and viewed/edited/copied freely (free educational version of Pico-8 can do this as well https://www.pico-8-edu.com/)
I Regret What's in My Camera Roll
damn you constant factors [shakes fist in the air]
Originally there were no design tools. You literally had a giant textarea and a save button. It wasn't even a rich editor. If you wanted any formatting, you had to learn the HTML. (in a time when there was nothing like Stack Overflow and no blogs or Youtube to learn from; Google wasn't even available early on, and the search engines were of varying quality)

If you were advanced, you'd use one of the external editors from the time (Homesite, Hot Metal, Hotdog, or even Microsoft Front Page) and FTP your files in.
This is a bit of a background point in the novel Learning the World (Ken Macleod).
> the social contract of that content since the ‘90s has been that it is fair use

This social contract was broken when Google and Facebook pushed remarketing and behavioral tracking, and then started pulling content directly onto their own pages to boot. That was over a decade ago, and it's the reason why every news site now bugs you about running out of "complimentary articles" and how you need to maintain 50 different subscriptions to get what used to be paid for by advertising years ago. The only reason why complimentary articles even exist is to avoid Google delisting them entirely and them not getting any search traffic (since Google doesn't link to shit that isn't free).
The author of the term according to their own account merely coined a new term for the existing concepts covered by free software. Those concepts as of 1998 were:

- The freedom to study how the program works and adapt it to your needs.

- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can share with your neighbor.

- The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

https://web.archive.org/web/19980126185518/http://www.gnu.or...

Those are absolutes that apply to everyone. Period. If you can't release improvements because you are a commercial entity then that means the third freedom is restricted. That means it's not free software.

The FSF also covered the ability to charge for distributing copies as long as those freedoms were not lost in the process:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980126190125/http://www.gnu.or...

These are absolutely not kept by a license such as FUTO that restricts these freedoms to certain groups and certain types of activities.
Are there any in-browser WASM implementations of *TeX?
Well, I was 13 and trying to learn html by piecing things together from "view source" and seeing what other people were doing on their page. We didn't have the benefit of stack overflow or what anyone today would consider a reasonable search engine. The dopamine rush was unimaginable at first, but quickly faded as i got pretty bored of static html. Once I found perl and cgi-bin, the dopamine was back, rinse and repeat over and over again for the last 25ish years. Those early years of the web were pretty magical for me and initiated a life long fascination of technology and problem solving.
I was just browsing some geocities "homesteads" and trying to decide what aesthetic you have in mind specifically.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970413002044/http://www8.geoci...

This person has just learned to use tables. The aesthetic is pretty mild, just a lot of glowy horizontal rules dividing text. Photoshop is mentioned. (It had no DRM, so a lot of us had Photoshop, and Kai's Power Tools, and similar software to make 3D text effects and GIFs with transparent backgrounds.)

https://web.archive.org/web/19970413015356/http://www7.geoci...

This person has an embedded MIDI file on every page, and a tiling background. There's a bunch of small banner/button graphics that represent spurious awards and club memberships, often with terrible 3D effects and drop shadow on text.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970413022021/http://www7.geoci...

What we have really is a collision between the gimmicks of new graphics technology (and sound, because "multimedia" was a buzzword), limited bandwidth (hence tiles and small images), naivety, poor taste, and a sort of sticker-sharing scrapbooking sense of community that might have evolved from email groups or actual newsletters sent to friends by mail.
I have fixed the zooming issue. Please try now.

Unfortunately, there is no public demo yet. If you email me (in bio), I can create a demo for you.
Isn't this a dupe of SceneTap from a decade+ ago?
Cause most people used the WYSIWYG editor that was the key “IDE” for publishing and that puts a ton of constraints on the design boundaries
Pikaur -Syyu every couple days, dot files managed with yadm, replace computer every 3 or 4 years to get a fresh start.
How do values get set for a land value tax without effectively still speculating? Is the idea usually that the tax would be based on what the potential value of the land is, for example to incentivize building businesses rather than parking lots?

Investors will always speculate. A land value tax just adds another cost they have to account for, it doesn't prevent them from speculating and doing with thr land whatever they think most benefits them.
they will keep getting "confused" by older-than-expected objects because the premise is wrong to begin with: the universe is not 13 billion years old, the universe is infinite and eternal.
Not humor. Just a random observation I realized when I read the title of the topic.
I’m on iPhone, using English and Dutch with the built in keyboard and it’s pretty seamless. Basically the layout doesn’t change (it’s always qwerty) but it will detect the language I’m typing and spell check for that language. That might only be possible/easy for languages with a (mostly) common alphabet.

Edit: there’s also a button to force the language if I want to override it. It also seems to read the text on screen or remember what apps use what language as it will auto-select the right language most of the time.
If it's not a picture of food cooked by a worker at the company, in the regular kitchen, with the normal ingredients then surely it's fraud (lying to get money)?

Market capitalism needs truth and transparency to have any chance of optimising delivery of goods/services. These should be preeminent goals of Western Capitalism.
The financial industry never considered a serious open source strategy to be aligned with their interests and that has painted the sector in increasingly narrower corners.

Think eg. the comparison with the acumen of the adtech sector, which supports (among countless other things) the most used open source mobile OS, the most used open source web browser, the most sophisticated open source suites for machine learning etc. etc.

In fact a good reason why "adtech" is (absurdly) considered part of "big tech" is that no other business sector has managed to articulate a long-term sustainable digitization story.
> The editor was nothing but a text box, no WYSIWYG.

Macromedia (RIP) Dreamweaver came out in 1997 and I was using it at school by ... 2003? I remember having to try to debug why someone's pages weren't working (it was because the filename contained a # ... and the MacOS9 permissions addon meant you could only edit files, not rename/delete them ...)

(yes, OS X had come out, but nobody used it yet - upgrading your OS is a stupid idea. In fact I explicitly begged my parents to go out and buy Windows 2000 to avoid the crap that was XP for "my" first computer)
I know Jews used some Latins phrases in their languages. But it's too late for look up some sources...
I used to run LaTeX on my 3 machines, switching between them based on compute/portability of the machine, and used a git repo for syncing. So it doesn't give me something novel; but the convenience of overleaf has been amazing. Once you get used to the "write and forget" model, it's hard to go back (but still doable).

It especially shines when you have to collaborate. The convenience of small features also add up, such as being able to leave comments for your collaborators, clicking on the LaTeX document to have the PDF viewer scroll to the corresponding location, and vice-versa (doesn't work exactly the same way, but close), having a fast compile mode that keeps recompiling as you make changes (good for editing, distracting for writing, but ymmv), being able to click on the toc that is generated by overleaf in a side panel.

Maybe other tools do some of these things, but having all of them in place is nice.
e18e – JS Ecosystem Performance Initiative
Every xfinity home router is set up to do this by default.
Are you being facetious or what are you basing on?
While corporations are cheering about the devastating the ability of the EPA to attempt to enforce its writ, "environmental protection", it doesn't make someone a jerk to lament the negative impact therein.
Neocities is still a thing I think
again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709769
I’m always curious what something like this does that git, markdown, and a good text editor can’t. Going with existing open tooling has the added benefit of being completely portable.

I will admit that it would be very cool to see a client that abstracted got and markdown away for non-technical users.

I feel like obsidian with some more git polish could get it done.
If buying isn't owning, copying isn't stealing. This is a really tired argument.
It reminds me of a scam they tried with my mom: and old person that apparently cannot read asks you about a lottery ticket, another “random” person comes and checks the lottery results from their phone, and you have a winning ticket for millions in your hand. Old person says it is hard for them to do cash it and asks for help, the random person pulls you in a corner and says you could offer some money to buy the ticket and cash it.

Well, mom was naive enough to believe it but honest enough to reject it.

It flips the who is scamming and who is the scammer around so that you think you are the one getting an advantage, much like here where you would withdraw some money that clearly is not yours. Much less likely to report.

Also makes the scammers feel less guilty when you also tries to scam another person.
The problem is that the models (closed sourced or open source) only get you part of the way. For example, (to name just a few items) a stock option pricing model is useless without

- holiday calendars

- ex dividend dates

- interest rate curves

- real-time stock prices

- corporate actions database

Are there open source and free sources of the above? For the first two, sort of, for the remainder, no. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a number of other inputs.
Book Review: Dominion: On animals and how we treat and eat them
– Mark Twain
That’s completely fair and I wasn’t trying to diminish the crimes of Russia. I shouldn’t have immediately gone to the secondary discussion about US foreign policy
I think the reason behind it is similar to case where you are allowed to watch movie in theater with eye, but not with camera
due to name issue they called me risky and fraudulent, I know it might be automated but I would like manual review and get my business going and they are not responding to emails
There isn't really a distinction between the two; they are the same sentence with different frames.

However, if you don't let smaller players into the market then they'll be fleeced using some other mechanism (for example, taxed and then handouts given to the wealthy). If access to markets is expensive then small players won't be able to save at all since any method that lets people invest exposes them to risk, and once risk is involved larger players will outmanouver smaller ones.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't but giving people easy access gives people the best shot at achieving prosperity.
Yup. When I was using it, I don't think it was literally every keystroke but it was something pretty granular so that if your contributors were working on the document it was a nightmare to get anything pushed since it kept changing under your feet and causing conflicts. Finish a merge, and another one is waiting.
https://archive.ph/M1d0t

I'm surprised to see this and wonder how much of it is due to non-Tesla cars not yet having easy access to Superchargers. My wife and I have a Model Y and charging hasn't been an issue. New Superchargers open all the time.

All or almost all carmakers are switching to the NACS port/charging standard (the Tesla one, basically), and that should simplify matters substantially.
Why Cloudflare Is a Threat to the Internet Privacy
1. Cloudflare handles approximately 20% of all the traffic on the internet. And it's growing fast. In 2017, it was 10%. [1], [2]

2. It's impossible to use Cloudflare proxy without giving up encryption of data. They are a man-in-the-middle that has access to unencrypted information of all the traffic they proxy. (Yes, even with Full-Strict/Keyless SSL)

3. Of the remaining 80% of internet traffic, 43% comes from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, none of which seems to be using Cloudflare, which makes Cloudflare the ultimate tool to break encryption on distributed servers. Only 37% of the internet traffic is routed outside these major tech companies. [3]

4. In July 2021, a random guy discovered a vulnerability on Cloudflare's cdnjs that allowed a complete takeover of the CDN, which is estimated to be used by 12.7% of websites. The NSA has a whole division dedicated to discovering and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities on systems. Even if Cloudflare is not willingly feeding unencrypted traffic to the NSA, it is a single point of surveillance that, if compromised, breaks the whole encryption of a good portion of the internet. [4], [5]

5. Cloudflare follows a freemium pricing plan. In 2016, Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince said in an interview that only 4% to 5% of the websites they protect are paying customers. The cost of maintaining Cloudflare infrastructure for the remaining 95% of customers that use it for free is unclear, as Cloudflare does not run ads on the sites it protects. [6]

6. In the same interview, he mentions that the initial impetus for Cloudflare came after an acquisition by the Department of Homeland Security of his previous project, Project Honeypot, in 2008, which demonstrates that the government was at least aware of it since the beginning. [6]

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*Bibliography:*

[1] https://twitter.com/AxelrodG/status/1447938954758705155

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-introduces-argo-a-virtual-backbone-for-a-faster-more-reliable-internet/#:~:text=Cloudflare%20handles%20more%20than%2010%20percent%20of%20all%20HTTP/HTTPS%20Internet%20traffic%2C

[3] https://www.sandvine.com/blog/netflix-vs.-google-vs.-amazon-vs.-facebook-vs.-microsoft-vs.-apple-traffic-share-of-internet-brands-global-internet-phenomena-spotlight

[4] https://blog.ryotak.me/post/cdnjs-remote-code-execution-en/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

[6] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016
If Overleaf was closer to Google Docs, it would be an amazing product. I don't get why its team stopped developing, e.g., collaboration features (like mentioning others in comments and coloring changes by their author) and didn't integrate it with reference managers (Overleaf seems to only support BibTex references). It feels they stopped 10% shy of making Overleaf appealing to folks traditionally less comfortable with LaTeX (psychology, medicine, literature, etc.). I'd love to get my non-technical collaborators on Overleaf but they will not use it until Overleaf gets much polish.
A lot of responses so far about the technology but not much about the aesthetic. My observations/recollections:

- Kids making pages were in competition for status and attention (via linkbacks), so there was evolutionary pressure to be extreme

- The technology was new, there was wild experimentation and few rules in place. Look at the user interface for Kai’s Power Tools, or Bryce 3D.

- The California ideology promoted an anything-goes culture of bohemianism, antiauthoritarianism

- Skate/surf culture aesthetics

- 90s irony/slacker culture promoted eclecticism, pastiche

- Barbara Kruger-style font work

- The Memphis Group, Factory Pomo

Later in the 90s there was a push for more restrained design (no black backgrounds, no broken typewriter font, no photoshop page curl, no blink/marquee.)
Or they could not try and get fancy, and their page would work on all screen sizes, and still will today. Some headers and paragraph tags are all a lot of pages needed, and those always work, no matter the screen.
Same here. It is also interesting (and I am sure quite deliberate) that Ed Harris' character who spoke that line was named Christof.
When I think about having a kid I think about how this is how they will end. When you give birth you also give death.