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> the term is transformative use

Transformative use is not automatically fair use. It is just a factor to be considered in judging whether a use is fair use. [1]

(I would argue that AI outputs are not transformative uses anyway, since their point is not to add anything original but to provide a cheaper way of generating equivalent content.)

Two other factors that seem highly relevant to the case of training AI models on the entire web are the third and fourth factors described on the US Copyright Office site I linked to. Training AI models on the entire web seems to be at the "least likely to be judged fair use" end of the spectrum for both of those factors: they use the entire content, and the whole point of the unlicensed use is to harm the existing or future market for the original copyrighted work.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/
You won’t like any of them out of the gate, but if you drink it for a month you won’t notice it much at all. It’s how I got 2/3 to 3/4 of the sugar out of my life along with dropping processed foods.
Yeah I think MultiEdit supported wider text resolutions as well. There’s also setedit http://setedit.sourceforge.net/
No so sure these are even mutually exclusive positions. The BYO data needs will far exceed the longest contexts for a long time to come. LLMs might integrate RAG to the point it is hard to talk about one without the other (DSPy is close) but there will still be some kind of private knowledge base graph feeding incontext learning so improvements in either area is positive.
So it's another galactic algorithm?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm
Interestingly enough, Electron was created for an editor.
I use HxD in Wine because I can't find anything that works better. I use and really like Imhex for what it is but it's a different kind of tool imho - more of a plugin canvas for analysis than just a hex editor with some bells and whistles.
I'm not an expert in this area, though the efficiencies of canal systems have interested me greatly in recent years. What's interesting to me is that even today, few canal systems seem to have elevation gains of more than a few metres.

Among the greatest lifts I'm aware of are the Erie Canal (no longer commercially operated, though accessible by pleasure craft), which rises 174m (571 ft) above sea level. Canada's Trent-Severn Waterway origionates on Lake Ontario at 74m (243 ft) elevation. The Panama Canal rises only 26m (85 ft) to Lake Gatun. And the Suez Canal operates without locks.

Which makes the 1,200 m gain of Caminada's proposal all the more audacious. And ... perhaps ... impractical.
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Most literature we have today was written with a reader in mind, not a listener.

I don't even think audiobooks are necessarily bad, it's people consuming them like a hamburger while they multitask so they aren't even really engaging with the text. Let alone not really having the ability to stop, think and relisten very easily. With a text you do it basically automatically if necessary, with an audiobook you've got to fumble around for your device and hope you get back to the right spot and not break your train of thought in the process.
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The numbers in this article don't make sense. They aren't consistent with the hardware (they seem to show the weights being loaded faster than mi300x peak memory bandwidth) and they aren't self consistent (70B models running only 2x slower than 7B models).

I'm not sure what's going on here but something is not right.
Even in your apology you can't stop spamming. WTF.
And then the problem is that the rent increase is limitless (unless limited by your lease).

If your business is doing well, they'll raise it to the maximum, and moving businesses is way harder than moving homes.

No wonder that all the restaurants in the nearby newly built strip mall are large chains. They can pay the rent. But there is no space for the local couple that has a taco place. They can't compete on cost ingredients with say Chipotle.

Sad.
I'm still using a fuji s100fs and I'm so sad that they never produced a new version of it with the same kind of features and form factor.

Now it looks like that you only have the choice between: compact/low cost, expensive professional set or gadget/design expensive crap.
Another nice thing about busybox ash is that it's easy to recall and edit previous commands by editing the .ash_history file.

Normally I would do this in NetBSD sh using the builtin "fc"; dash excludes the fc builtin.
> You can totally study it and learn from a bunch of content on the web and then create a new work having looked at other works before.

But you don't do that by computing relative word frequencies in the content and then running an algorithm to generate further words with the same relative frequencies. When human efforts come too close to that it is called plagiarism. You don't get words from what you read and study, you get ideas, and ideas can't be copyrighted. You just have to express the ideas in your own words.

> what does it mean when a machine does that instead?

The machine is doing exactly the thing that, when human efforts come too close to doing it, is called plagiarism. The machine isn't operating with ideas; it doesn't even have a concept of "ideas". So it is not doing what you are doing--it is not taking ideas and expressing them in its own words. It's literally just shuffling the words.
I thought H100 NVL had 96GB
I think you underestimate the task. Coding bootcamps (e.g. https://flatironschool.com/courses/coding-bootcamp/) go for several months full-time with a tutor.
They helped with the evacuation of journalists, embassy workers and translators from Afghanistan.
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The best feature of Overleaf is that you can `git clone` projects and work on them locally (if you have premium). That way, you yourself can use e.g. Emacs to edit, your collaborators can use Overleaf in a browser if they wish, and it all syncs nicely.
The topics that I submit are mostly related to new technological developments in the defense industry. I try to give leads in new military technology so if engineers and software developers want to contribute or start a career path in the defense industry they have a leg up.

This particular post about Russian war crimes has over 60 comments which I think is significant and the post should not be flagged.

I am a high profile Ukraine War activist and what I post I think matters. Quite a few people in the defense industry and government read the posts that I submit to Hacker News YCombinator. I have a very large following in government and the international defense industries. I am working on a better work flow for news aggregation to bring more relevant up-to-date news to this community here and on X.com.

When it comes to war crimes and stories that relate to human atrocities I think an acception should be made here.
Maybe become friends with people similar to you in the industry you work in and they can let you know when there are open positions and put in a good word for you? Networking doesn’t mean being friends with HR or hiring managers, it just means getting your foot in the door via an acquaintance since someone saying “I know this person” can put you ahead of other random applicants.
The pattern language is sick, it has really helped my learning. I love this program.
Great! Now put serious attention on bioethanol, and you'll be improving air quality with practical and scalable cars in a matter of years.
Isn't this discussion at all stupidly letting them control the goal posts? They have already gone far beyond this thinking that everything someone does on their own personal computer in their own home without the slightest bit of consent is going to be slurped up and recorded in case they want to query it someday.

This is like arguing that this guy who just murdered someone 10 minutes ago, should actually be able to steal the candy from this child since the child put it down on the park bench.
Probably WebKit.

I worked on Safari, and while I had to make changes to WebKit very infrequently, the quality of the code, tooling, and team were excellent.

I haven't seen that level of engineering excellence anywhere I've worked since -- it was consistent and pervasive. No one had to enforce that culture from the top because everyone bought into the vision.
So in your ridiculous world you have to be "similar" to someone to be likeable.

And please provide some evidence of this link between networking and DEI.
Why does google video search still allow scam users to show up as ‘SpaceX’ on YouTube? Doesn’t YouTube have a unique username system??
I've finally gotten around to reading SICM, but I can't get MIT Scheme to install on the current OSX 14.2. Autoconf requires an old version of the OSX SDK. Has someone else already solved that problem?

I was surprised by how many ways Sussman and Wisdom found to modernise the Landau and Lipshitz treatment. There is the obvious change, where the first time they solve some equations of motion, it's done numerically, and the solution is chaotic.

There is also a more subtle change, where they keep sneaking in the concepts of differential geometry. The word "manifold" is reserved for a footnote, but if you know what tangent spaces and sprays are, it's straightforward to translate the "local tuples" and see what they're actually talking about.

I think this is a good idea. If physics undergraduates were exposed to manifolds and tangent spaces in their analytical mechanics course, then saw some exterior calculus in their first electromagnetism course, they might be ready for curvature and geodesics when they study general relativity.
This would indeed be nice to have.
Any keyboard incapable of simultaneously (without switching) support multiple languages is a deal breaker for me... Unfortunately it seems like gboard is the only one that supports this
Better running shoes are like recumbent bicycles getting banned from bicycle races or turbochargers from formula 1. I read Nike had in the 80-90 figured out some thicker bouncy sole that was so good they banned it. Now we have faster shoes only in theory. lol

This was the first hit in google (I'm that lazy) it illustrates nicely how all the rules are designed for a competitive sport on equal footing (pun mine)

http://www.uka.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/World-Athle....

> Athletes may not use any appliance, either inside or outside the shoe, which will have the effect of increasing the thickness of the sole above the permitted maximum, or which can give the wearer any advantage which they would not obtain from the type of shoe described in the previous paragraphs

It is kind of sad for real innovation if everything that works gets banned.
At least as often as old Android API versions being dropped.

More realistically, as often as bugs are identified and patched.
I'm ready for the button presser to say "Oops! I got hacked, sorry it's all gone again."
Isn't kombucha basically the same as soda? High acidity (which is bad for dental health), which is offset with sugar (which coincidentally is also bad for dental health).

(At least, as a water drinker, they both taste equally strong)
I've been mixed on this, it seems great for throwaway projects but a dead end for ones that survive:

* Out-of-the-box fine-tuned model for extraction makes for an easier start, so happy to see this out there

* ... But presumably one of the next steps in a project using it is doing further fine-tuning on their data after some use, but this is a closed model with closed data, so preserving the original fine tuning quality is unclear without that
It is easy to self-host too [1]

[1] https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/blob/main/docker-compos...
Yeah, I mean I’m being negative but I enjoyed the video. I just found Ben’s whole line of questioning to be pandering and not a dialog (“why not MIT?”)

I had a similar experience with BBSs and I remember the romance of using a modem. I actually grew up in Champaign and recall dialing into “prairienet.” I also remember using AOL, but mostly to find and download games.
Obligatory Red Dwarf reference.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0
That’s right. Tim Berbers-Lee mentions that here https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
ELI5? I cannot tell what this is, what I'm supposed to do with it, or why it's good or newsworthy.
> What's the "landlord problem"

The "landlord problem" is more the "speculation problem".

Real estate has become based on "how much it will appreciate"--which is disastrous to society--rather than "the useful value of land and cashflow"--which is beneficial to society.

The land value tax breaks the speculation side of the equation which leaving the usefulness intact.
I mean, by "not that hard", I guess I meant "not that hard for me"; `nix-shell -p texliveFull` or whatever your preferred distro's install command.

While that requires a certain level of geekiness, I am pretty sure I could still walk my parents through installing it on Windows and get them using TeXStudio or something, so it's not insurmountable. LaTeX itself sort of inherently requires a willingness to do thing in the initially-less-easy way.

That said, yeah a web service is of course much more approachable. If my parents wanted to use LaTeX I would probably just point them to Overleaf.
It’s so bizarre my first reaction was that surely it must be so an LLM can make some kind of sense of it, otherwise what on earth are they doing?
You made it look more prominent by linking directly to the tab that details the odds.

On mobile that tab isn't even visible when you load the page, you have to know that it's possible to scroll to the right in the tab bar. Otherwise what you see is the tag line "Imagine Winning $48 Million", details about when drawing happens, and a button that says "claim a prize" with an ecstatic man on a phone.

I will say that the government-sponsored lotteries tend to be less blatantly abusive than casinos, but I'm still very comfortable saying that they do actively work to inflate people's sense of the odds.
There wasn’t much basis to call it crazy at the time.

For starters, HTML, CSS and JavaScript couldn’t do everything it can today.

Next depending on the year, many if not most people didn’t have broadband or fast internet. Speed was even more important than today and keeping things relatively simple made sense. Similar to Craigslist too.

It was early internet, with not as many people on the internet.

Having something clear and to make your own easily (a website) was making a really hard thing very accessible to the most amount of people. In that way it was pretty successful in getting so many people going. There weren’t a lot of places to build your own website, let alone online.

Major user growth started around or shortly after Facebook launched.
Sounds great in principle. In practice, it's the stuff of nightmares. This is because the web version commits every keystroke of your online contributors, making it very difficult for you to actually merge your local commits (they need to stop typing!).
Give a suburban 10-12 yr old kid access to a computer, nearly unlimited access to internet (getting kicked off when parents use landline), and infinite time, and you get that “crazy design aesthetic”.

I remember using the view source tool on various pages that people created and tweaking it as my own. The blinking and marquee tags were littered everywhere with a green and black matrix theme. And a marijuana leaf somewhere because I was feeling edgy af. Just hacking away via brute force until I got it just right.
Isn't performing paid work activities with a keyboard application profiting from using the keyboard?
Especially with the loud noise suppression.
This looks neat. Is there an online demo? I looked but couldn't see one (on mobile).

On docmost.com, pinch to zoom is disabled when viewing screenshots (Firefox Android).
lol very cute to think the “crazy design aesthetic” was intentional. download a copy of windows 2000 and fire up microsoft front page and you’ll quickly know why it was so bad.
A marginal and vacant property tax allocates the scarce resource based on whoever can use it most productively.
DEI is about being inclusive. The very thing you are wanting from this world.

And not sure what exactly you keep implying by using words like similar, tribal organisation, stereotyping etc. But humans form relationships around many things that have nothing to do with gender, race etc. For example sports, hobbies, work etc.
I actually didn't know that! I do have premium through my school so I will definitely try that out.

That said, I actually don't think the integrated Overleaf editor is bad. They have Vim keystroke support, so I can fairly easily use it without much trouble on my end.
Responsiveness was possible for a good part of 2000-2010. Just wasn’t in style. Flash going away maybe helped boost it.
I had an elementary school teacher (decades ago now, and she was old then) bring in her programming material from when she was basically fresh out of college. I don't even think she was using punch cards*, it was weird...but every one of her coworkers was a woman because it was considered rote work for secretary types.

* My memory is really fuzzy on this, but IIRC they had 1-2" holes in sheets that would either be transparent or black. Looking back they may have had some sort optical setup to read raw binary. I've never run into this since then (never really looked for it though either). She may have worked at IBM. I'd be interested if anyone knew what I was talking about.
Pretty much. And with the boomers retiring (and being the largest voting bloc right now), getting any ‘bandaid ripping’ consensus is even more impossible.

So, Japanese ‘lost decade’?
The Google maps busy bar chart won’t tell me if a club is packed with bros with a weird vibe

At the end of the day, I don’t like being filmed but there really is nothing I can do about it. For the past 10 years anywhere you go people are posting selfies and videos with a complete disregard for anyone around them.

Privacy in public is dead and is never coming back
Fair, I didn't intent to zero in on the word "best" there. I think its still important to know why its the best of the options we have today though.

There's a huge blind spot in only applying that Adam Smith quote to private landlords - the government. Functionally they own all land, between property taxes which act much like rent, and more extreme measures like eminent domain, the government has staked a claim to all land and offers us the privilege to live on it as long as we play by their rules.

We have to pay rent in the form of property taxes. We have to pay taxes on any value crested from the land, and often have to get licensed and/or inspected when doing so.

Adam Smith's writings are much better used as an argument against many of today's government structures rather than against private land owners renting it out to other private citizens. And it makes sense, Smith was writing in opposition to the monarchy of his time.

I'm not saying that there aren't plenty of terrible private landlords or that our housing market seems reasonable. But if we stop complaining about private land ownership at the point of the individual we haven't gone far enough. The government shouldn't be claiming ownership over everything and everyone within its borders. Fix that, then we can really worry about what any one land owner does with the smaller pieces of land they own.
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> you cannot claim damages to something that you give away for free

Maybe you can't claim damages based on loss of income, but that's not the only kind of damages.

For example, say I post an article and don't charge anything for reading it, and an LLM, based on its training data which includes my article, generates an article in my writing style. Sure, it hasn't cost me any money, but it might still affect my reputation if people think I wrote the article. Copyright is supposed to cover cases like that as well as cases where income is lost.
Chronological history of early web browsers
I remember angelfire, only because of the banner that was forced on every free site. And I think those sites loaded popups in the background. This was probably back before tracking existed and was just used to pump various dotcom business traffic statistics.

Then came the creation of pop up blockers.
It was a spontaneous folk culture, with countless untrained people inventing their own design language by learning to use "View Source" and "Save Image As..." on each other's pages.

Like MySpace would later for social network profiles and YouTube for videos, Geocities had broken through as the frictionless and free opportunity to host a personal site online, and its explosive growth outpaced any opportunity for "classically trained" designers or programmers to assert their own opinions about color, layout, structure, robustness, etc

Elsewhere in modern-ish history, you can identify comparable explosions in pamphleting, photography, manufactured food products, casette tape, synthesizers, home video, etc where people with no preconceptions are just doing wild stuff to see what's possible.

And frankly, a lot of stuff on npm, etc looks like that right now.
I recently watched John Oliver's video[1] about the "pig butchering" scam. It's a brutal scheme where scammers invest months in building fake relationships, gain a ton of trust, and then rob all of their money.

Even though I'm pretty tech-savvy, I'm not sure I could totally avoid falling for this. These scammers don't ask for money directly; they casually mention how they're making big bucks through crypto trading on some app. Naturally, you get curious about the app, but you're still cautious. Then you see it's got a ton of good reviews on the app store, so your trust increases a little.

You install the app, and it looks legit - like it was made by a solid dev team. It offers some limited-time crypto deals where you can't withdraw for a while. The victim invests a little, watches the crypto value climb, and sees their "money" grow on paper. So they put in more. When they finally try to cash out, they realize they can't. They panic and turn to their "romantic partner" for help. That's when the scammers and the fake app squeeze out the last bit of cash, claiming it's for taxes or fees, and they need to put some money. And the victim loses everything.

It's not unreasonable for the victim to think the relationship is real if they've spent months chatting and calling, sharing really personal stuff. Plus, the app seems totally legit, both from the store reviews and how it looks and works. I really hope these scams will disappear soon.

[1] https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=15RzmtRGMpptF-Dv&t=539
The inventor merely put a new name onto the existing free software terminology. By her own account she did not invent a new category of software but merely renamed it. As a result taking her words out of context is disingenuous because she and everyone else would assume all existing free software definitions still apply unless otherwise noted. Which is defined as:

> But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies.

The freedom to charge for modified versions was always there.
In my experience there is a correlation. All software I tested that had to be certified had the lowest quality by far. Certification only cared for the happy path and lots of very specific error messages. It was extremely important that the correct error codes were returned in the specified cases. Anything unexpected like e.g. an out-of-memory-error was more or less ignored because the specification didn't consider such kind of error. Even if it made the software unusable - all that mattered was the certification.
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