skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you got the argument for "more police", but the direct quote from the GP:

> police don't want to police anymore

Seems to contradict that being an argument.
Let me ask you a question; Why doesn't Singapore deal with this type of crime?

We, as a society, have stopped demanding people to take responsibility for themselves. We don't hold anyone accountable for their actions. We ostracize the basic enforcement of accountability and those that are charged with upholding law. We are soft AF as a society.
DMCA is a narrow protection for operators of public websites like GitHub. I don't see what it has to do with GitHub taking the data submitted to it with dubious sourcing and developing their CoPilot whatever based on it. That has nothing to do with the privileges in DMCA.
Yes, this incremental approach was common in Smalltalk and Lisp Machine environments, then obviously in Common Lisp. IBM Visual Age for Java originally was like a Java veneer over the Smalltalk environment, then they came out with VA Micro Edition which, iirc, still supported incremental work. Around this time, Visual Basic 5.0 and later also were supporting an edit and continue approach and Microsoft started trying to get it into Visual C++ 6.0, although it was limited in what you could change before recompiling. By the time Eclipse came out, they were trying to stay competitive. What happened?

The Web. Web 2.0, really. Now you can't easily do the code as you go approach, it needs to be restarted in the server, the client needs to be updated, etc. Any hacks that make it possible are pretty fragile. People still like live-coding, but they don't expect to do it for the whole project.
It can be a crisis but there's no clear cause and thus, no clear action.

The large amount of possible causes is leading many people to jump onto any possible theory - from processed foods, air quality, plastic containers, vague notions of "toxins", vaccines, etc. And this leads to companies taking advantage by implying their competitor's products are bad (eg: Goop) but with little scientific backing. So it's getting hard to know the difference between scientific evidence and advertising.

California has a law on the books passed all the way in 1986 (Prop 65) which requires labeling of any toxic substance that can cause cancer or birth defects. It seems like everything has a Prop 65 warning on it, it's not quite possible to avoid it.
Believe me, I see it from both sides. We need police who are empowered to do their own jobs.

However...

> All hell breaks loose when you ask, demand or otherwise force people to take responsibility for themselves and/or own their mistakes.

The irony of this statement is that the entire collapse of trust with police in America was refusal for departments or unions to hold individual bad actors responsible. The reactionary response of police unions and the whole "thin blue line/sheepdog" attitude made it clear that also police don't want to take responsibility for mistakes.
It's not an excuse. It would be ignorant to not acknowledge the existence of information warfare, and its very real effects. The irony is that the tools the US built and gave away for the world to use are being used against it, and will likely cause its downfall. Do you think the current sociopolitical climate is unrelated? The Cambridge Analytica leak confirmed that small independent agencies can effectively disrupt democratic processes and topple governments. What do you think state actors can do?

FWIW, I don't have a dog in this fight, and I'm speaking as a neutral observer. I don't like the idea of giving more control to governments either. But it's clear that something has to be done to defend countries from this type of attack. Traditional military might can't defend you from an invisible enemy.
The article mentions that GitHub copilot has been trained to avoid directly copying specific cases it knows, and that although you can get it to spit out copyright code by prefixing the copyrighted code as a starting point, in normal us cases its quite rare.
This website rocks
Is this your website? If so, can you tell us who you are and what exactly are you trying to do? The website is light on information.
[How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"?]

If only someone had told the person that may have caused the death of Aaron Schwarz!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
Not OP, but somebody still has to pay for the transit. And a "free" service is politically much more vulnerable than one that is partly being paid for by the users because it involves taxes and redistribution. It adds pressure for each (annual) budget discussion.
ESET has my recommendations for the same reason. Really good and way more light weight than many other solutions. Though I'd say anything more than Windows Defender for home users really isn't needed.
It's very hard to help people that don't want to be helped.
Not everything everywhere is for us https://youtu.be/UA8DFsJg9Tc
> I would assume that by reducing the cashier jobs (e.g. allowing 1 operator to manage 8 self-serve checkout stations), supermarkets reduce their overall operating costs

Unfortunately, what reduces the operating costs even more is giving the job of managing 8 self-serve checkouts to existing employee, on top of their current workload. With reliability of the checkout machines being as bad as it is, this results in a very frustrating shopping experience.

This is a pattern that we can see happening in everywhere across every sector in the market: the price for the buyer may get lower, but so does the quality. Often enough, it's impossible to retain quality and stay profitable, so the whole product or service class suddenly becomes worse. In the end, the delta between current satisfaction and the minimum satisfaction below which the customer would bounce, is a profit margin being extracted when competitive pressure is high - which, I dare say, sucks for the customer, even if they also get stuff cheaper.
The intent to bypass the paywall is extraordinarily clear here. The name field is obviously not being used for its intended purpose.

I don't know how a court would actually decide, and that would depend on the precise jury as well.

But the point is that it's entirely reasonable to be scared that this could land you in jail. Cases are decided by people who have common sense.
> If, for whatever reason, Boeing's planes are more likely to be shot down - regardless of whether or not they are at fault - they are still more dangerous.

No reasonable person would conclude that.

You either need enough data for it to be statistically significant (Which, given the sample size of one isn't it...)

Or you can work around the lack of statistics, by having a bullet-proof explanation for why Boeings (N=1) get shot down more frequently than Aribuses (N=0). But the bar for that is much higher than 'Well, statistically speaking..."

Statistics are great, because they are a lossy shortcut inform our decisionmaking when we don't actually understand the root causes. But they require statistically significant data to do so. In the absence of it, we have to actually understand the root causes.
> A lot of hills have passing lanes _specifically_ for this issue.

You'll often see heavy truck that's not only slow uphill but also slow downhill, in some cases even more so - because it can't afford to build up speed above what its breaks can handle.

And these passing lanes are _never_ in downhill direction.
Meh I still see that as a big oversimplification. Context matters. Even if the copyright courts often ignore that for wealthy entities. Someone reproducing a song using AI and publishing it as their own copyright infringement, a person specifically querying an AI engine, that sucked up billions of lines of information and generates what you ask it do with a sma probability it will reproduce a small subset of a larger commercial project and sends it to someone in a chatbox is not exactly the same IMO.

This is Github Copilot after all. I use it daily and it autocompletes lines of code or generates functions you can find on stackoverflow. It's not letting giving you the source code to Twitter in full and letting you put it on the internet as a business under another name.
ZeroHedge.com, they say, has predicted 87 of the last 3 crises.
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> I know that idea will make people squeamish, but people panic in dangerous situations and do crazy shit like turn their wheel full lock and lock up the brakes because they actually have zero idea what that results in.

Yeah...people argue over whether to "steer into" or "steer out" of a skid, and what gets me is that sometimes, both people mean the same thing but are calling it something different, and the reality is that it depends on the skid.

Every driver should know the difference between understeer and oversteer. Understeer? Straighten the wheel. If you have ABS, continue holding the brake, otherwise lighten up the brake pressure so the front tires can regain grip and steer the car. Oversteer? Forget arguing about steering into/out of the skid, and instead think about pointing the front tires in the direction you want to go. More importantly, DON'T slam the brakes! Any braking action will take weight off the rear tires and make the oversteer WORSE. Braking during oversteer is how drifters increase drift angle. If you're trying to straighten out, that's not what you want!

But the squeamishness, yeah...I suggested to my wife that these courses should be a requirement, and she thought it'd be too dangerous. I kept saying, in a large flat concrete pad with no walls (or very soft walls), there's no danger. She wasn't convinced. I think she was worried about cars flipping over from sliding, and I said that it's impossible to make anything that isn't a tall SUV roll from just aggressive steering, and even the tall SUVs don't typically roll. When they do, they get really bad safety reviews.
Remember that convolution is multiplication in the frequency domain, so this also handles different responses at different frequencies, not just delays
> What would be the right course of action?

Stop using the wallets of this vendor, and put a blog post on the internet at a place where it will get mirrored and thus be hard to delete, in which you document/disclose the details of the finding.
Does it have to stay on mobile devices? Bit of niche but if its not a resource hog it could be handy for giving NPC's in games more interesting dialogue without having use

Even better if it could be tuned in someway to allow dialogue to influence NPC behavior or actions.
One thing 7-segment displays does better than LCDs and OLEDs is refresh rate. They can have a very high refresh rate, and this can help detect noise or variation in the signal.

I have two lab power supplies, one with a 7-segment display and one with an OLED. The 7-segment one allows me to easily see issues with the circuit due to the refresh rate, such as unwanted oscillations, which can be completely masked by the comparatively slow refresh rate of the OLED.

I won't necessarily see each value, but I'll notice a slight blurring of the least significant digit for example.
I was interested in how the duplicate detection of issues is working.
It uses Cohere API for embeddings (full issue text) [1] and vector-based similarity search [2].

[1] https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61...

[2] https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon/blob/158b54af8d6f7cf4195c61...
I don't know specifically but there has been a bit of a plague of really cool really awesome systems coming out with amazing smaller form factors and capabilities. But never ever having bios updates.

Examples: click in to any given product on https://minisforum.com/support/#/ and there's a <20% chance there's been a bios update ever. CWWK's support page is a cloud-drive page (kind of cool actually!) with filenames in Chinese, but it does seem like oh some of their products are supported/maintained. For example, their recentest AMD nas bios release was early may: https://pan.x86pi.cn/BIOS%E6%9B%B4%E6%96%B0/3.NAS%E5%AD%98%E... but many product seem to have only a single bios. Topdon reportedly offers no support.

That's just not really acceptable these days. AMD is revving their agesa too frequently to let your system forever be tied to a point in time release.

Its probably going to start boutique as hell & be available for almost nothing, but if and when AMD ships OpenSIL to start replacing close agesa, that could uncouple this huge constraint. Enable folks to start maintaining their systems.

Coreboot has been the main focus for a while, because boot infrastructure plus binary initialization payloads (AMD's FSP) is the best we could hope for. For some motherboards we can compile our own & maintain systems. Here's some cheap-ish firewall devices discussion, https://hagensieker.com/2020/11/08/firewalls-and-bioss-and-c... . Framework 13 will be one of the few consumer systems to get CoreBoot. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Coreboot-WIP . But the level of effort is high here, folks carefully puzzling out how to boot motherboards. It's un-ideal, special every time it feels like, albeit the CoreBoot platform gets better and better.

Right now it's just vertically integrated system builders like Oxide going further really having custody of what's running. Back to OpenSIL, the hope is that users really could load whatever platform and boot code they want, could maintain it themselves. If they have a base starting place, if someone goes about upstreaming or supporting the coreboot release.

Ideally we would have some open reference architectures that folks would just plop down. "Here's our motherboard, it's embedded controller runs upstream supported Zephyr cores and peripherals, flash it as usual." This is what Oxide is building for themselves (atop their own embedded OS, Hubris https://hubris.oxide.computer/ ), and what I wish OpenCompute or someone would help jumpstart.

(Responding to the submission, this system looks sick as heck. I wonder how many watts it can do? I'd also maybe be interested in an AirJet mini-PC, since that's extremely compact, radically more efficient than fans, and not silent but very quiet. But it'd need to be scaled up or out beyond what we currently see it used for.)
>But why sue the journalists

They are not being sued as far as I can tell. The lawsuit is against the CEO and her company (Mississippi Today), but the court has ordered the sources to be turned over and that is held by the journalists who face prison if they do not comply with the court.

>So one way to prove it would be to show that whatever sources the journalists had definitely did not indicate the governor was embezzling, but the CEO claimed he did. Therefore, she did it with malice? It's quite complicated to follow.

Knowingly lying can arguably be an act of malice, especially if your job description is about reporting the facts. Thus the demand to see the sources, which given the argument isn't entirely unreasonable but obviously conflicts with keeping sources in confidence.

We'll see what the higher courts say, I guess.
That you are human, or not a scientific paper, or not personification of logic, or an at-bat in a game of baseball doesn’t make your original statement with the two lawyers rational as you stated. I don’t care that if you think that “two strikes and you’re out”, it won’t be rational.

Especially, that probably your two strikes rule can be applied such way to groups of people that everybody would be “out”. For example if they are white, then all white is out, and also everybody in the whole new world, and the north hemisphere, and everybody who lives on continents, etc. But I’m quite sure that it would be possible to form such groups from which you would be the only who is not out.

You can think like that, I don’t care, sometimes I do too, but it still doesn’t make it rational.
Part of the original problem was too many of the wrong kind of people becoming -- or remaining -- police in the first place.

For example, we go through great lengths to ensure that doctors are suited to their job. Why? Because they have the power to kill people with their mistakes or poor judgement.

It's reasonable to apply that same high bar to police, who have much greater latitude in exercising that power, up to and including the power to kill their fellow citizens, than doctors do.

I don't think any young person who likes the idea of being able to walk around with a gun on their hip, being a police officer, anymore than I think any young person who likes cutting people open should become a surgeon.
I've never seen an online community fail to grasp sarcasm as badly as HN. I deliberately make one out of 50 posts ultra-sarcastic (to the point where no normal person could possibly believe I'd hold whatever view I wrote), and they always, always go straight to -4.
> You either need enough data for it to be statistically significant

I guess this wasn't clear, but I thought this was implied. When I said it's "more likely" I meant you can quantify it. You are correct of course.

Also I agree with everything else you're saying in principle. I kinda feel like we just started the conversation with a misunderstanding about shared assumptions and likely agree with each other.
> Roll out your new API, and replace your old API's implementation with a proxy that calls through to the new API.

I don't think you understood the problem you're commenting on.

The problem is not that you have a new fancy API version you expect users to consume. The problem is that you need to shut down the old API without causing customer or business impact.

It makes little to no sense to pile up technical debt and extra maintenance work to keep around a specific configuration in an API Gateway if your goal is to get people to stop using it so that you don't have to maintain N+1 versions of your service. Your vague observation of how much work a API Gateway config takes is meaningless because you have no idea the impact of any change to the API will have on the older version fed through adapters. I mean, even changes in performance can be disastrous. And even under the unlikely case a API Gateway applying a transformation is enough to sunset the old version,how is that an improvement on maintenance? You now have a new abstraction layer that requires testing and maintenance, and a multitude of scenarios you need to validate independently whenever a change is made. And what answer do you have to the question on what to do if a commit works in the new version of the API but introduces a regression on the old version?

The truth of the matter is that there are only a couple of sunsetting strategies that work, which is:

* In internal service calls, negotiate a sunsetting strategy with other internal teams. The deadline will invariably be pushed forward each and every single time.

* In external service calls, you can announce to the world you're sunsetting the API and advertise it on Times Square,and still a hefty share of your customer base won't know and will still be caught by surprise. The only strategy that works is graceful degradation: start returning 404s and 410s periodically and dial it up until clients feel the need to move on. Dial it back when appropriate to get your point across without denying service, but understand that it will be impossible for some clients to change.
AI safety != protection from AGI (lots more to unpack under AI safety umbrella)
Many states require photos, fingerprints, record retention, and other restrictions on scrap metal dealers:

https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/scrap-theft-complianc...
Yes, and then I want them to be heavily regulated.
so funny that this shows up today. I have been looking into connecting seven segment displays to a raspberry pi
Hell, even jokes that have been properly marked get downvoted and flagged here.
Ah yeah you can reach me here: https://x.com/tscepo

And yeah will add the about etc. today!
Very easy to fool. For example, when it asked me "Which city is the capital of Australia?" providing the answer "the capital city of Australia" was judged to be correct. Same when asked about the author of a novel and answering "the author of 'novel'".

I did 7 in a row simply refecting back the question.
Is API as a service still valid in the age of AI?
I'd think that some combination of user-facing documentation (for the outside of the software) and requirements specs (for the inside of the software) oughta do the trick.
And it is honestly incredible. The Invincible is my favourite book of all time, and I remember thinking as a 14 year old whether someone could make a game out of it - and concluding that no, there's not enough "action" to make an interesting video game around the story. Boy, was I wrong - the game not only portrays the setting perfectly, the necessary creative liberties it takes to engage the player are "worth it" and I can only imagine S. Lem would have agreed to them(well, other than one of the endings....but it can't be perfect I guess).

I'd write a lot about what I enjoyed, but nearly all of it would be spoilers. Go, play the game - or better yet, read the book, it has recently received a modern English translation, much better than the previous English-translated-from-German-Translated-from-Polish edition. And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.
The simple version is that code is copyrightable as an expression. And the underlaying algorithm is patentable.

The legal term you're looking for here is the "Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison" test; What remains if you subtract all the non-copyrightable elements from a given piece of code.
it was packed, and that was just the front. If you got wire, you’d head to the back, and that was also packed. Maybe not a huge surprise it burned down. BUT, tons and tons of milspec parts.

Salt Lake Instrument was another place, but I only got to visit once after the guy had mostly retired. Tons and tons and tons of vacuum tubes
Could it be that it tracks CPU / GPU usage etc to finetune what quality video streams to use? It's nonstandard but I can well imagine a native app would do this as well.
bios settings are lost when ac is lost, regardless of cmos battery.
The minimum amount of time in the oncoming lane is 0
You have a much smaller lobbying budget than the AI industry, and you didn't flagrantly rush to copy billions of copyrighted works as quickly as possible and then push a narrative acting like that's the immutable status quo that must continue to be permitted lest the now-massive industry built atop copyright violation be destroyed.

Violate one or two copyrights, get sued or DMCAed out of existence. Violate billions, on the other hand, and you magically become immune to the rules everyone else has to follow.
Can we blame both, but not use the term "woke"? Just "activists" is fine.
That API is available to all extensions. So Zoom could create an extension that uses that API and get their users to install that extension and approve the permission for that API.
> consent
Careful... A lot of people online have selective understanding when it comes to this concept. It's selfishness and self-centredness taken to it's extreme, and not seeing other people as humans, but as tools for their consumption to be used and tossed aside for pleasure or for profit. It's one of the most disgusting things I've layed eyes on.
Don't like 3/4 of Singaporeans live in some form of subsidized public housing? I would definitely support heavily funding the same solution here, if that's what you're advocating.