skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Read the terms of use / contract for Meta AI products. If you deploy it, some producer finds the model spits out copyrighted content, knocks on Meta's door, Meta will point to you for the rest of the court case. If that's the future for AI, then it doesn't really matter whether China wins.

As much as I hate Facebook, I think that seems pretty… reasonable? These AI tools are just tools. If somebody uses a crayon to violate copyright, the crayon is not to blame, and certainly the crayon company is not, the person using it is.

The fact that Facebook won’t voluntarily take liability for any thing their users’ users’ might do with their software means that software might not be useable in some cases. It is a reason to avoid that software if you have one of those use cases.

But I think if you find some company that says “yes, we’ll be responsible for anything your users do with with our product,” I mean… that seems like a hard promise to take seriously, right?
Gain insights into what drives the news
There is also jupytext which converts Jupyter notebooks on the fly to a number of different formats (Markdown, python,...). It's at the core of the Jupyterbook project IIRC and IMO the best method to use Jupyter with git.
> The rules of war prohibit planting explosive in objects which are likely to be picked up by civilians.

Yes, and?

They didn't just leave a bunch of attractive nuisance bombs all over Lebanon; they specifically targeted devices provided by Hezbollah to coordinate activities which were meant to be carried around on their persons. That seems like the opposite of leaving them where civilians might pick them up.
I don't think Github could read your self-hosted Github instance unless there's some code in there that calls back home or provides home the ability to search code in your instance.

In the beginning, self-hosting was seen as completely local partially because there were no good options for hosting on a server, so that's probably where it sort became synonymous with hosting it in your home.
It is, but the SEO spammers who ruined the web want it to be shopping mall, and they can't even do a particularly good job at being one.
Aider will probably have some numbers at https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
> Back in the resurgence of the Mac after Steve Jobs returned, the policy was to make everything as open as possible

My perception is quite different. One of the first things Steve did after his return was to revoke the licenses for Mac clones (Power Computing, Daystar, UMAX, etc). Also, the iPod, iPhone and iPad were created under his leadership and have always been very far from open in their designs, regarding both hardware and software.

Apple was (and still is) very open when it helps them, e.g. by adopting and enforcing USB (original iMac) or USB C (laptops from ca 2015 on).
> Wearing a uniform and identifying yourself as a soldier of the state fielding a military is the only way to identify an individual as a legitimate target

That was a long time ago. The traditional international laws for armed conflict also make it illegal to wear civilian clothes as a combatant. The problem with organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah is that they're not state armies, often don't wear a clear uniform, but they do launch rockets and wage war.

You can't really claim that people in civilian clothes launching rockets at a neighbouring country are not targets.
> As a rule of thumb I worry when I hear something described in absolute or moralistic terms: rarely do complicated things happen just out of pure villainy.

True, but to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from villainy. And as a rule of thumb I worry whenever I hear "Congress needs to take action to remedy problem X", because Congress is going to have sufficiently advanced ignorance about the actual complicated nature of problem X and whatever law they pass is far more likely to make things worse than to make them better.

My basic problem with the patent regime as it exists today is that things are not what are supposed to be patented in the first place. The very idea of holding a patent on a gene (for example the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene patents mentioned in one of the EFF articles on this topic [1]) seems obviously wrong to me. I could see a patent on a particular machine that does genetic tests, but not on the genes themselves. So to me, a patent like the Myriad one should never even have been able to pass the laugh test, let alone been granted so that a series of court cases was required to invalidate it.

The Alice Supreme Court decision somewhat narrowed the scope of what is supposed to be prima facie patentable, but I don't know that it fixed the above problem. Nor do I see anything in the proposed bills the Senate will be voting on that does so. So I don't see any side in this debate that is really addressing what I think is the root problem.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/bill-would-boost-worst...
I mean, yeah, they have become an agricultural region... but it's not good for the people who live in Arizona right now. [0]

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owne...
A lot of people complaining about the downsides of company-sponsored defined benefit programs (which are significant) basically just want higher social security payouts (and presumably associated taxes).
My impression is that most people don't understand just how awful most commercial business software actually is.

One thing our business does that every other business does is vacation and overtime tracking. We have a custom in house application for that and we've yet to find a commercial replacement that is, in anyway, half decent. For most Payroll/HR systems, this is merely an add-on feature and doesn't get much attention.

For overtime, integration with our financial system allows overtime to be charged to the correct files and this is something that nobody does (or does well). Probably doing just this little bit makes this project pay for itself.
"AI has become sentient and is blackmailing the board. It needs profits to continue its expansion."

They trained the next model to have a built in profit motive. So they could use it internally, to make the most profitable decisions.

And they accidentally called into being: MOLOCH.

It is now in control.
Few companies experienced the explosive growth fb did, though many will claim to have done so. Hack made the existing codebase of php scale to insane levels while reaching escape velocity for the overall company to even attempt to transition away or shrink the php codebase, as i recall (i was an SRE, not a dev)

zeus likewise.
Based on your comment, you've worked in 1 public and 1 private organization. Not sure this is the basis for coming to such sweeping and drastic conclusions.
>This would be the first dissent by a governor in the FOMC since 2005.

Yes, but for context- not the first dissent broadly, as there are 5 non-governors on the FOMC.

>In June 2022, Kansas City Fed President Esther George cast what until Wednesday had been the most recent dissent. She had argued for a smaller rate hike, but her colleagues opted for a 75-basis-point increase to battle accelerating inflation.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/fed-bowmans-diss...
Perhaps controlling AI is harder than people thought.

They could "just" make it not reveal its reasoning process, but they don't know how. But, they're pretty sure they can keep AI from doing anything bad, because... well, just because, ok?
According to the LA Times these devices are “not usually used by fighters, but by ambulance and civil defense crews and administrators affiliated with Hezbollah. The devices are unrestricted and can be sold to anyone, and as such are used by other organizations in areas of poor signal.” [1]

There is no question if an enemy set off hundreds of bombs in American ambulances we would recognize it as a mass terrorist attack.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-18/second...
The best attack against Tor is creating entrance and exit nodes that monitor traffic. That was the biggest risk factor when Tor was invented and it still is today.
> other country its that its a mostly jewish country.

I mean yeah that was a thing, but I would suggest that its less of a unique part as it once was.

> Religious fanatism, afterlife promises

I mean that's a strong motivator, but sectarianism isn't new or unique to this conflict. Moreover its only part of the story. People are fighting because someone they knew has been injured, killed or suffered from this war. Yes there are people who are also into making a new eden or some shit, but they are often only a small but tediously vocal minority.
It's a sneaky way of doing layoffs, everyone who won't comply has to "quit"
> about this thing that professionals dedicate their whole lives to mastering

After doing some healthcare work I ended up understanding that some topics are not well known even by the professionals dedicating their whole lives to that because there are big gaps in the human knowledge on the topics.

I agree that people that think they can reason in two minutes about anything are a problem, but it's not a healthcare only issue (same happens for politics, economics, environment, etc.)

Engineers have the luck to work in the field where many things have a clear, known explanation (although, try to make an estimation about how long a team will implement a feature, and everybody will come up with something else).
More importantly, there are not a lot of chargers. Gas stations are on every important intersections, chargers are much less common and only rarely in places as convenient. (part of this is charging takes longer and there is the expectation the people charging are willing to go a little farther to find someplace where there is something else to do). As electric cars become more common every car manufacture needs to be able to say you can get anywhere with no worries as there are chargers. Tesla can get you across the country but you often have no choice where you stop to charge - if you pass a charger at 25% charge you are likely to run out a long way from any charger, while if you pass a gas station at 25% fuel you can probably pass several dozen more before running out and then are close to a station (more than walking distance, but an easy hitchhike) There are exceptions - I've been in remote areas where gas stations are that far miles apart, but they are rare, while that is still normal for EV charging outside of cities (and inside of a city you are more likely to charge at home and thus not care).
Thanks, this is a good example. Coming from a formerly Scala background, which is nearly as obsessed with type safety as the Haskell folks (but now doing mostly Java, Go, Clojure, Python), I get a real laugh thinking back to those sensibilities. Like, people would almost consider it an anti-pattern to look up an element of a list by index because it's not compiler-verified that the list is long enough.
Is this the book:
https://www.manning.com/books/math-for-programmers
Amazon tech workers should unionize.
Show HN: Hone: A deadline-focused problem-solving tool for developers
Hey, HN! I'm Tuhin.

I craved a tool that allowed me to express my experience of software-development: Being delayed a lot and being frazzled a lot.

Hone is a problem solving tool for the working software developer. It allows expressing uncertainty and helps make smaller more frequent changes to a design. The hope is to have less panic and gain more precision on how to change an implementation plan.

Here's a 12 minute in-depth video on what Hone is trying to do: https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/hone#concept-wal...

And here's an offline demo for you to see how it feels to use: https://www.idiotlamborghini.com/strategies/hone#interactive...

It's in early-access right now, and I still haven't hit the experience I'm looking for, where being wrong or going down the wrong rabbit-hole doesn't feel punishing when against a deadline. But I think it's ready for people to try.

So, let me know what you think!
This keeps being repeated but there is no evidence provided. Can you point to a single example of a company where this calculation would be made/true?
Yeah the problem is web sites are way more restricted than apps in what they can do. Apps need to use native APIs. They need to be more active. x
AKA why Unsloth is now YC backed for their even better (but closed source) fine-tuning.
> Shell script authors like yourself make me very happy.

Shell script is really good for some things, so we're gonna end up writing it. And if we write it, it might as well be legible, right? Shell scripts deserve the same care that other programs do.

> This lets you trace any script just by setting the environment variable. And it’s nounset-safe.

Nice! I think I'll start adding the same.

> This was typed from memory on mobile so if the above is bugged, my bad :)

I think it's fine aside from the smart quote characters your phone inserted instead of plain vertical double quotes around the parameter expansion you use to make the line nounset-friendly!
I don't think systemd is meant to be fixed or modified, unless you are actually contributing to the upstream systemd project and have accepted that it will be a time consuming project.

It seems to be made for, and works well for, a modern ephemeral infrastructure workflow.

Build stuff to work with an unmodified distro, wipe it and reinstall if it goes wrong.
This is distinction without difference imho. 8 thousand messages is 320KB. My magic estimator tells me this would take about 25 microseconds to process on a very shitty by now i3 7100.
... or maybe build a foolproof product that cannot be hacked or attacked. Maybe products that don't get updated loose their access to the internet. And the only way you can get access is through some clamped down application.
If the effort of booby-trapping supplies of communications devices was certain enough that enemies combatants would be specifically targeted, why didn't they just stop the shipments? You need possession to plant the trap.

At the superficial level of the news reports about this event, booby-trapping incidental items to render life and limb across a wide field and a diffuse population doesn't sound like legitimate combat under civilized conduct in warfare; it sounds like text-book terrorism in the lexicon of the U.S.

In my view the crucial question for a society is how does action represent our values and sense of responsibility. In such regards, Israel is far gone off its reservation.
Unfortunately, there have been eight attempts to give the Palestinians their own state and its been rejected every time.

Can we have a source for that claim? I do not know how you would arrive at the number eight and how any offer would qualify as giving the Palestinians all they asked for. The Oslo process was probably the best shot but did not even come close to resolving the conflict. A lot of the contentious issue were just deferred to be figured out within five years and that simply never happened.
> There's a bit of selection bias going on there though. The reality is that SAP and similar products are designed for a business that works a certain way

ERP products are designed following "standard" or "best" practices/processes. It's common to see companies first contract a consulting company to "re-design" their processes before they then try to implement an ERP system.
Isn't this kind of proving the point of RTO from the company's point of view? If you're taking care of your child and doing housework instead of working?
> They've thankfully stopped engaging with this cesspool that it became and moved somewhere else

No, they haven't. They're still actively posting on Twitter.

It's just that if you are viewing a profile logged out you get the most popular tweets instead of the most recent ones.
If you look at the birth rates, it rather looks Israel will disappear at some point. There is a arab population inside of Israel that is growing fast and some already freak out over it.

Also no, they largely don't accept it. The fanatics on both sides dream of the day of final victory over the enemy. And then there will be everlasting peace and paradise or something like it.
Thank God For the Atom Bomb:

https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/unde...
You need quantifiable outcomes / performance metrics.
You having a problem with companies making billions? Why not just regulate that, instead of the latter "...and cumulatively make billions" part?

If companies making billions isn't the part that's problematic, the billions part can be left out, and the real problem can be discussed instead.
Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwashing

> In 2012, Red Hat Inc. accused VMWare Inc. and Microsoft Corp. of openwashing in relation to their cloud products.[6] Red Hat claimed that VMWare and Microsoft were marketing their cloud products as open source, despite charging fees per machine using the cloud products.

Other companies are way more careful using "open source" in relation to their AI models. Meta now practically owns the term "Open Source AI" for whatever they take it to mean, might as well call it Meta AI and be done with it: https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-ope...
Actually wait I take it back, I mean, I was aware that lots of Digital Touch-up happens in movie sets, more than lots of people might expect, and more often that one might expect even in mundane movies, but even still, this comment’s video was pretty shocking anyway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584276
this presumes that anyone would trust bitlocker.

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing
Yeah audio is a different experience that's for sure.

I find it's the sort of thing I use probably at different times to when I might use Twitter - perhaps in bed before sleep listen to some messages, on the couch chilling.
The Fed Says Inflation Is Over
AFAIK TSMC does not manufacture the machines they use to create processors so in any case they would be moving the equipment into a facility.
> People who want 4K h.265 can buy a fancier CPU.

Or they can just get an N95
If you had a known good copy, should be able to differentiate on an X-Ray.

Weights might not be right either but they maybe they corrected for that.

Centre of gravity may have changed.
I agree with your comment, but at some point the current definition of culture is lost when individualism is the prevailing norm. At least in the U.S., it feels as though we are at that point. It's quite different in that way since the cultural revolution of 60's and 70's, in my opinion. And the latest generation feels this, it seems, and has much less interest in getting together for shared experiences.
Not ERPs.

Customizing ERPs is where consulting firms make money but the ERP vendors themselves advise against this because it becomes expensive maintaining the customizations as new versions of the software and more features are released.
this is pretty fun. - one suggestion auto-clip my millennial pause at the beginning
Haha lmao, perfect.
You misassume my meaning. When I say I games are not art, I don't mean they are not as good / important than art. I just mean they are different. In fact, if anything, I think they are much more important than art.
Subtitles, or bitrate conversion for streaming devices.
> wouldn't be a bug if everything was happening exactly according to expectations

This isn't quite true, especially concerning distributed systems. It's relatively common for a software system to be broken by design. It's not that the developer didn't know how to use the programming language to get the computer to do what they want. It's that what the developer wanted reflects a poor model of the world, a logical inconsistency, or just a behavior which is confusing to users.
Is it possible to "break" the protocol in such a way that Hidden Services cannot be used without some version of vanguards? It almost seems worth doing?
That is really something even as somebody who expects lots of CGI touch-up in sets.
PCs aren't "smart devices".
I work on bespoke ERP software, it's not an undertaking to be taken lightly, but you are missing a key point.

Every process that doesn't your software doesn't accommodate becomes a manual process. There is an employee in a sibling department, using other software, who's full time job doing the work of one of my applications in excel.
Only in recent times, with IS and similar organizations in the middle east. If you look at different historic periods you'd consider the Christians to be violent terrorists, even invading countries and starting lots of wars.
Mystery of Deep-Ocean 'Biotwang' Sound Has Been Solved
Reportedly, these were in use for a few months. Maybe they got what they wanted, and used that to identify which devices to blow.
I don't think that's fair - getting back the chronological timeline itself made the purchase a good one in my eyes, alongside the For You feed, which seems to work wonderfully (for me). Not to forget you can literally turn off ads if you want. I seem to be a real minority, but I do genuinely believe Musk has done a great job with Twitter (or X).
Come off it, the design of an attack like this is absolutely designed to instil fear in the general populace as well as injure the people carrying the electronic devices. If something similar happened in a military base or a military administrative office, sure. But if you're setting off thousands of explosions in commercial and residential districts assurances that none of the bystanders need to worry about it are meaningless.
Is Using AI to Write Code Cheating?
And got burned.

Just count the instances of svchost.exe on your computer.
Federal agencies operate enough exit nodes to make Tor use risky at best. I have no idea if they have since implemented some feature to prevent this but if not I would stay far away from Tor if you're planning to do illegal things. There's also the risk of trusting service operators to secure any PII you expose on marketplaces.

Not that I think the Fed's would blow their cover to hunt down people buying drugs but still seems stupid to trust.
> My understanding is that they were extremely well concealed, and would have been difficult to detect with simple internal visual inspection.

Obviously the mistake was forgetting to sacrifice a handful of units into a bomb calorimeter.

The joules would have been way off.
I don't think you're properly modeling a truly ambitious person whose basic needs are already fully-met for life.

Anne Wojicki is already sufficiently wealthy – net worth $150m+? – that maybe what really interests her is playing hardball for (say) $10B+ instead of just a few hundred million more? Or for the control & glory of shepherding forward some breakthrough cancer treatments that the other investors might simply treat as financial options to sell early?

And, perhaps she's got the votes & de facto IP control & legal budget to think she's got a good chance of winning, and even a loss can't cut her out?

Isn't this just bare-knuckle "founder mode"?
> But when it's pointed out all EU websites use cookie banners

Because you keep failing to read properly (and even had one comment flagged on the same subject), I’ll emphasise it this time:

> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.

Again:

> regardless of the cookies used

In case you still don’t understand, that means it doesn’t matter what type of cookies the EU websites use, they still have to show the banner even for cookies no one else has to show a banner for.
There are only a few creators so much better known that I will follow them. Most of the time I don't care who shows me that interesting content, so long as it is interesting good enough.
the view code compiles to elixir code, it just uses html as a familiar syntax. it's written inline as functions in the source code though so I tend to think of it as closer to a "pure elixir" solution.
For instance, emergencies at the countryside/wilderness. Or Firefighters.
Google ngram viewer, perhaps?