skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they could have made the law:

>if you collect users data

>you must ask first

>add a yes or no button on a banner so they can pick

but instead the eu citizens were let down by the legislators
It’s gradually got so. <https://youtu.be/JIlpjJnc6qY?t=54>

Literally, Larry Wall was adding things to regexes all the way back before the release of Perl 2.
What does 50% precision mean in this case? I know 50% accuracy might mean P(fraud_predicted | fraud) = 50%, but I don't understand what you mean by precision?
The internet is broken and I don't think it's only in the EU. In the last years I found myself just avoiding using websites I'm not familiar with or confident they're not filled with ads and trackers, I've set-up some aggregators and custom readers to find and get the information I'm interested in. If I open a page that has the cookie banner that blocks me from reading the content or forces me to agree I just close it, it wouldn't have been that important anyway.
Could we get a black bar for Dr. Kurtz, please?

The legacy of BASIC on our industry can hardly be understated. The language and its mission at Dartmouth was innovative.

BASIC had immeasurable secondary effects simply by being the first programming language so many new computer users were exposed to (particularly near the dawn of personal computers).

Edit: I got sucked into some nostalgia.

Here's the 1964 edition of the Dartmouth BASIC reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20120716185629/http://www.bitsave...

It's really charming, and I think it gives you a bit of the feel for the time.

(I also particularly like, on page 21, the statement "TYPING IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THINKING".)
"My moral compass is whatever the law says"
also it is a amendment to it.
Also quite a few people (mostly from the north) fighting this idiocy.

In general: Southern+Central EU wants to build a new USA. Northern states meanwhile want to reduce the power of the EU. A common market is really the only thing we want.

UK had enough and quit.
Has Facebook ever not been hidden behind a login? Because even if that doesn't count as "intelligent & creative publishers", it certainly set a much harder trend to get around than the banners.
Anthony Fauci is a big reason for the hate against people like Anthony Fauci.
One thing that makes the established AIs less ideal for my (programming) use-case is that the technologies I use quickly evolve past whatever the published models "learn".

On the other hand, a lot of these frameworks and languages have relatively decent and detailed documentation.

Perhaps this is a naive question, but why can't I as a user just purchase "AI software" that comes with a large pre-trained model to which I can say, on my own machine, "go read this documentation and help me write this app in this next version of Leptos", and it would augment its existing model with this new "knowledge".
I’m glad that you didn’t waste effort saying “I am not a lawyer” here, because it’s very very apparent that you aren’t.
For a contemporary example, what is the message of a painting of a watermelon?

It could be merely that watermelons are beautiful. Or it could be that the artist supports the people of Palestine.

For a less extreme example, think about the paintings of Norman Rockwell. Are they just pretty images? Or do they communicate norms?

Think also about what is censored vs what is not censored.
The food should last quite a while!
Would be a shame, because chess is an excellent metric for testing logical thought and internal modeling. An LLM that can pick up and unique chess game half way through and play it ideally to completion is clearly doing more than "predicting the next token based on the previous one".
> predictable that ultimately people would blame the regulation instead of the companies

It was predictable this would result in disclosure/consent spam.

> No need to prove compliance if GDPR doesn't apply

If you are in the EU, GDPR applies. It may not be relevant. But you’re subject to it and its regulatory arms. (And if you have a competitor in the EU, it’s known practice you can waste time and money with requests and complaints.)

Both laws’ aims are noble. But they require tweaks. Starting with the cookie banners would be smart.
"All" the EU needs to do is to mandate adherence to the Do Not Track setting in browsers, but then vast swathes of businesses based on unwanted and unethical tracking would go bust, so we have this really shitty stalemate.

All websites we build adhere to the Do Not Track setting and don't even show a cookie banner if it's set. The only question is whether we should show a message to say that we're not tracking people because we see they've asked us not to! It's possibly a bit easier for us because we work primarily in the non-profit sector where ethics are perhaps a little higher up the agenda.
Because I use fresh incognito mode for each browsing session, I have to click through those consent popups on every website I visit. Quite frustrating to say the least.
> What's the situation where you don't care about the convo but for the right price you could care, and the other party also thinks that price is reasonable?

Minimally targeted advertising.
This is cool and all I just want to make sure podman and others are maintained and useful. I’m sure they will be it’s just that I use podman every day and depend on it.

I could go back to docker but why?
Yes, but it makes sense to do it via git, considering that git is the solution for revision control.
I don't think telling people that have no idea what machine learning is that you work with 'AI' is giving them any semblance of understanding what you do.
So I am qualified to be SecDef, because I am a veteran? That is ridiculous. Of all the reasonable qualifications, that ranks just about dead last.
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Corporations know the H1B scam and they only look to hire those who they can get under that indentured-servitude type contract.
Ruby on Rails 8
The Onion is irrelevant. In 3 years they will be gone and Alex Jones will pick this up for $5m
Why are we so worried about adults reading incorrect information? Once they eventually find the info was wrong they'll be more sceptical of that source. We know policing speech doesn't work, whoever does the policing introduces their own biases, this was clear as day with the hunter laptop story and how the goverment put pressure on social media companies to supress it.
> On top of its journalistic pursuits, The Onion also owns and operates the majority of the world’s transoceanic shipping lanes, stands on the nation’s leading edge on matters of deforestation and strip mining, and proudly conducts tests on millions of animals daily.

https://theonion.com/about-us/
Link is dead now?
The whole thing is a colossal waste too, it was a law written by people who don't understand tech for special interest groups who don't want to actually make things better.

If you don't want a website doing something on your computer, you start with the browser, not the website.
What are the requirements for this OS ? Will it run on synthesizable RISC-V core with 512K SRAM ?
This is exactly the type of novel work that llms are good at. It's tedious and has annoying internal logic, but that logic is quite flat and there are a million examples to generalise from.

What they fail at is code with high cyclomatic complexity. Back in the llama 2 finetune days I wrote a script that would break down what each node in the control flow graph into its own prompt using literate programming and the results were amazing for the time. Using the same prompts I'd get correct code in every language I tried.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997703
While ReLU is relatively new, AI researchers have been aware of the need for nonlinear activation functions and building multilayer perceptrons with them since the late 1960s, so I had assumed that's what you meant.
The Letterman bit must have been parodying Mummenschanz, an avant-garde Swiss theater group that was pretty popular (as those things go) at the time. They do feel a bit in the same corner of the arts universe as the Residents...
>Sutskever, recently ex. OpenAI, one of the first to believe in scaling, now says it is plateauing.

Blind scaling sure (for whatever reason)* but this is the same Sutskever who believes in ASI within a decade off the back of what we have today.

* Not like anyone is telling us any details. After all, Open AI and Microsoft are still trying to create a 100B data center.

In my opinion, there's a difference between scaling not working and scaling becoming increasingly infeasible. GPT-4 is something like x100 the compute of 3 (Same with 2>3).

All the drips we've had of 5 point to ~x10 of 4. Not small but very modest in comparison.

>FWIW, GPT-2 and GPT-3 were about a year apart (2019 "Language models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners" to 2020 "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners").

Ah sorry I meant 3 and 4.

>Dario Amodei recently said that with current gen models pre-training itself only takes a few months (then followed by post-training, etc). These are not year+ training runs.

You don't have to be training models the entire time. GPT-4 was done training in August 2022 according to Open AI and wouldn't be released for another 8 months. Why? Who knows.
Except it's not that black and white. If you follow the regulation too loosely, you get warnings. If you then ignore the problem, you'd get bigger problems. But no one is gonna put a "10% of global turnover" as a fine immediately.
Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits.

It looks and works so intuitively.
Well the problem with that approach is that LLMs are still both incredibly dumb and small, at least compared to the what, 700T params of a human brain? Can't compare the two directly, especially when one has a massive recall advantage that skews the perception of that. But there is still some inteligence under there that's not just memorization. Not much, but some.

So if you present a novel problem it would need to be extremely simple, not something that you couldn't solve when drunk and half awake. Completely novel, but extremely simple. I think that's testable.
Very impressive resume. Why only 30-40 applications? Are you looking for a relatively niche role? As someone who graduated into the great recession, "normal" to me still feels like 1000 applications is the bare minimum.
> Shame companies cannot live without tracking cookies

Most cookies are entirely benign. Many cookies (or something like a cookie) are required for a website to operate normally. The EU law, while good intentioned, was/is too broad and failed to understand the realities of operating websites. This regulation has caused the entire world to be annoyed with useless cookie banners that 99% of people just reflexively click through - just like all of California's Prop65 warnings are ignored today.

> Don't store PII.

These hard-line statements defy reality. Many websites have legitimate need to store PII.

> You know the best way of not having to care about GDPR?

Don't be in the EU?

Just ignore it. There are no consequences. If you don't have physical presence within the EU - there's little-to-zero the EU can do about it. The EU can think it's laws apply to the world all it wants - but the world disagrees.
The most historically accurate and least able to be gamed, predictit.org, did not overwhelmingly predict Trump.
Reporting spam should be the other way around, it defaults to assuming a normal interaction.

Consider: if you get harassed with a call or text you don't like, you send an SMS with that phone number to some known short code. You then receive $1 from the caller. If the caller cannot be found, the last verifiable link in the chain is responsible for paying the fine.

This would cause carriers to behave overnight, instead of allowing foreign call centers to spoof other people's real private numbers with your area code.
Uhh, what do you think the law is?
> But no one is gonna put a "10% of global turnover" as a fine immediately.

You're dealing with the EU. Stupidly high fines happen weekly.
My personal opinion is that the procrastination the guy is experiencing is due to an underlying mental health challenge
The puzzle of trying to put an object into a std:optional
'Lo'.

It's 'Lo and behold'.
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This is indeed how it should be, and courts have consistently found enforced this.

French law for example specifically says that any implementation must "allow the user to refuse the deposit of cookies as easily as to accept it." [1]

[1] https://www.termsfeed.com/blog/cookie-consent-decline-reject...
I use Hush on iOS.
Related previously:

UK to finish with coal power after 142 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695587

Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443347
Is this like Ruby on Rails but for Heroku-esque cloud environments?
Those resources are well spent.
Ah, that explains it. They can test them on animals. Thanks!
It works by tracking reflective spots on your eyes (glare) i would guess, try some light you can tolerate?
> If you are in the EU, GDPR applies. It may not be relevant. But you’re subject to it and its regulatory arms.

I think you might be missing that I'm talking about this from the companies perspective, not from the perspective of a person inside EU.

If the company doesn't store any "personal data", GDPR has nothing to do with it. It's strictly about "personal data" as defined here: https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/

> (And if you have a competitor in the EU, it’s known practice you can waste time and money with requests and complaints.)

Happen to have any quotes/sources for this? Would be the first time I've come across it myself. I'm genuinely interested in if it's being misused like that.
> You know the best way of not having to care about GDPR? Don't store PII.

I hear this a lot. As an American that hosts casual personal websites, I can't help but worry that I'm in violation of the GDPR.

For example, my router logs connections for debugging. And my NGinx server maintains server logs for debugging.

These contain IP addresses. I'm pretty sure those are considered PII under GDPR. And there are a lot of things I think that follow from that, things I haven't bothered to look into or implement. Like whatever policies, disclaimers, notifications, request handling processes, etc. that need to be in place to gather those logs.

Whether or not I need a registered agent in the EU to host my website seems to be rather fuzzy too. It seems to come down to how "sensitive" the data I store in my logs are?

Its also not clear to me whether my home router is subject to GDPR if it receives and logs a packet that was sent to it by an EU citizen, regardless of whether there was a public internet service hosted on that router or not.

I mostly choose to not think about these things - but that nagging concern that my entire self-hosted digital presence violates European law does linger.
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> His advice was frequently contradicted by Trump, and Trump's supporters alleged that Fauci was trying to politically undermine Trump's run for reelection

- Wikipedia

Seems like a nice fellow
You are getting access to some of the best AI tools for free, by that definition isnt that open?
> but then vast swathes of businesses based on unwanted and unethical tracking would go bust, so we have this really shitty stalemate

They’d be supplanted by foreign competitors. That’s the actual stalemate.
> You're dealing with the EU. Stupidly high fines happen weekly.

Thank you for making it clear you wasn't taking the conversation seriously, I almost thought someone could hold opinions like that in real life, but I'm happy it wasn't so.
I think you mean Lenny[1] not Lemmy. Although I think it would be incredibly funny to have scammers talking to the voice of Lemmy[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy
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Oh nice, thanks. I'll give that a shot.
I'd settle for an "I don't know" instead of confidently made up nonsense.

People who say I don't know I can respect. People who confidently make up nonsense don't get many responsibilities from me.
My perusal of those references indicates placement on press release distribution sites like PR Newswire and ereleases, which lack the credibility of a site like Bloomberg... or am I missing something?

I experimented with press release sites a couple years ago and was not impressed.
Wouldn't most Trump voters agree that "government efficiency department" is an oxymoron?
The EU regulatory regime is just comedic.
I didn't coin the term and I forget who did, but "meta rock" songs are almost universally awful: rock songs about how much rock rocks.
Completely agree! We just 3D printed a base switch that makes it easy to turn your Mini on and off. Here's a link: https://m4button.com/ (if you have a 3D printer, you don't need this).
You can use Consentomatic to have it automatically handled. It's from Aarhus University, open source.

https://consentomatic.au.dk/
As someone who learned most pf what I know about programming in BASIC back in the very early 1980s, this is sad news. We seem to be losing good people all the time these days.

However
It is here: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/what-is-perplexity-pro
> content-based adblocking requires tremendous resources

That's not true. On average any overhead in browsing performance introduced by ad blocking is compensated by the elimination of tracking and ads elements of the pages. It saves bandwidth and are better for UX. We can argue about business models but claiming it requires tremendous resources is not true.

And content-based ad blocking still works in chrome but in much more limited capability compared to superior browser like Firefox.
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How is this different from cursor?
Why do we need this? It’s just full of cheap crap
Its been announced that a social sauna is coming to East Lansing. It is also going to have a cold plunge. Three months ago I hadn't even heard the term social sauna. Frankly I would be more interested in trying the cold plunge :<)
Let those fuckers go out of business.

I'm sorry, but if we are really so worried about businesses failing that we can't restore some amount of sanity, then something is wrong with society.
I get it, but you’re not in violation if you never pass those logs to anyone.

GDPR is intentionally obfuscated and made scary by people who have an interest in others thinking the regulation is onerous and silly (so that it is eventually changed/removed).

The regulation is not very hard to read, I would recommend you do it if you haven’t and boils down to: “don’t pass on (process) information without informed consent, if someone requests that you remove their account you should do so- and also don’t keep records around, and do your best not to let anyone access personal information”, the last one is technically unenforceable, but exists to prevent people leaving open access to data processors and bypassing consent more than anything else. A secondary benefit is that people take access controls a little more seriously by forcing breach disclosures.

Even the cookie banners are not needed unless you’re setting cookies for data collection, especially for third-parties!

There is a distinct irony in that all the online simplifications (“gdpr for dummies”, “the 7 things to comply with for gdpr”) are misleading and harder to read than the actual text of the regulation.

EDIT; I was foolish to post this during the peak time for US people. It feels like the Americans want the GDPR to be perceived as a pain.
https://archive.ph/tsAqZ
> Many cookies (or something like a cookie) are required for a website to operate normally

"Essential Cookies" do not need a consent banner.

Case in point: Hacker News is 100% compliant AFAIK and has no banner.

> Many websites have legitimate need to store PII.

If there is actual legitimate interest or legal requirements, such as collecting an address for delivering a package or performing fraud-prevention, there is also no need for cookie banners.
That's not what tokenized means here. Parent is asking to provide the model with separate characters rather than tokens, i.e. groups of characters.
Switched to edge at work and Safari at home/mobile hasn't been a huge issue. Firefox is my secondary. Although I no longer do much web debugging, the switch from edge to chrome wasn't too painful.
That's EVE Online's approach to fighting ingame "email" spam [0].

Every player can configure an amount of ingame money that is levied from a sender's account to deliver a message to them. It's a currency sink, so it's themed as a "tax" levied by the NPCs and its value is destroyed rather than paid to the recipient of the message.

I thought it used to default to 5 ISK (a pittance, something you can make back by shooting a single NPC pirate ship). I see some references to the default being ~2000 ISK at the time that it was changed to 0, where it is now.

Worked pretty well, imo. Players that need to be publicly contactable (people who organize public events, for instance) can turn it off easily. People who are "space famous" can crank it up to reduce targeted spam. Even at the default setting, it's effective at keeping ingame scammers from blasting the whole player list with messages (at least, the poor ones :). Doesn't apply to people you've already exchanged messages with. I think there's also some allowlisting you can do, etc.

0. https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/EVE_Mail#CONCORD_Spam_Prevent...
Until you're running a file server or the equivalent. There has to be some way for a willing recipient to zero-rate or reverse-charge the responses to their requests. The Internet gets this wrong.
> Most cookies are entirely benign. Many cookies (or something like a cookie) are required for a website to operate normally. The EU law was/is too broad - and has caused the entire world to be annoyed with useless cookie banners.

Give reading the actual implementations a try. You'll quickly notice they actually thought of this. I wouldn't say it's "expertly crafted" by any means, but the banner is for a specific "class" of cookies, not just "abc=123" as you seem to think.
> If I do this again, I’d wait to tell my team about the sale until it’s a done deal, but I’d also make sure the team knows that an acquisition is always a possibility. I’d explain before I even start looking for a buyer that an acquisition might happen, and that the team won’t necessarily know it’s happening. If it did, I’d prioritize a buyer whose vision aligns with the team’s interests, as I did with TinyPilot.

> This strategy is not ideal or fair to everyone, but it feels like the least bad of many flawed options.

That's better than the norm, but I agree it's not entirely satisfying.

For sales larger than the one the author wrote about, I wonder whether the possible problems that the author mentioned could be averted by making the sale a win for the employees.

Ideally, the employees already would have enough vested equity, for the sale to be positively life-changing. But if not, maybe, as the sale is planned, everyone gets issued RSUs that vest immediately if and when a deal closes? Or bonuses? Or maybe the sale terms include retaining everyone for at least a year at double compensation?

(More generally, I believe in cutting in early startup employees on equity in a more significant way than is conventional. And maybe the imminent-sale alignment risks are another instance in which significant pieces of the pie would help and be appropriate.)
Sorry, I should have been more clear: I was thinking of GPL libraries.
"Linkedin is trash but I use it as a signal source" is kinda telling on yourself there bud.
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Definitely chocolate bars. Any kind.