skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most interesting bit to me is this.

> Using the Rust trademarks for social and small non-profit events like meetups,
tutorials, and the like is allowed for events that are free to attend. Your materials for the event must not imply that the event is officially endorsed or run by the Rust Project or Rust Foundation unless you have written permission. For commercial events (including sponsored ones), please check in with us.

It sort of reminds me of Nintendo's awkward rules for community-ran tournaments of their games (which, well, pretty much make it impossible to do sustainably.)

I see their point (someone might mistake something called e.g. "New York Rust Conference" for being official) but using trademark to enforce rules on unofficial events is an interesting maneuver that seems to me to be relatively recent.

Go's trademark policy has a similar looking rule:

> The Go word mark may be used referentially in events, community groups, or other gatherings related to the programming language, but it may not be used in a manner that implies official status or endorsement.

At this point, it sounds more permissive: seems like it blanket allows uses to just refer to it if it's clear that it's not official.

> [...] Events and community groups may be subject to the Go programming language’s Code of Conduct, and violations of the Code of Conduct may be deemed incompatible with use of the Go Trademarks.

But then there's this, which seems to imply that your ability to use the Go trademark in reference to Go in a way that doesn't make your event sound official still obligates you to adhere to their Code of Conduct when conducting your event.

So it seems like this is a new part of the metagame.

I've not paid attention to policies like these. Could someone with more experience help me understand the context here? Specifically:

- Is this a new tactic, at least in terms of open source communities? It seems like it to me. In ~2010 it felt like open source was more fork-happy, ad-hoc and less governance-oriented, but now every other project has corporate backing, multiple committees, Code of Conducts, etc. Is the use of trademark and brand rules to exercise some control over the ecosystem new? Did someone pioneer it?

- Also, is there an inspiration for this tactic? e.g. is it inspired by a specific incident or state of affairs? Have these rules actually ever been used to do anything?

I'm guessing the real answer is that they just don't want to explicitly give up the ability to exercise these rules, but I'm not sure and I don't know how to look.

Either way, it's interesting to see committees and foundations going for these sorts of power grabs. It doesn't look like this is the case for all programming languages which have trademarks owned by some entity; C++ has a trademark policy, but it doesn't seem to have any restrictions regarding uses of the name that don't imply direct affiliation.
I have no idea if it will help, but the amount of nitpicking I see when people post things online is much more than the amount of nitpicking I’ve seen in the actual PhD defenses I’ve attended, or the research paper peer reviews I’ve gotten back. Of course, it is always possible that you’ll bump into, like, the one person who has much more experience than most professors in a topic, on the Internet. Alternatively, maybe the professors, being experts, can find the positive contribution in imperfect projects.
Write under a pseudonym?
Yeah ok. Overstated. in reality this will be at most 1/20th if your changes.

Maybe 1/6 if you're debugging.
This is a problem for any project, and yet another reason to prefer static files for as much as your stack as possible and do not follow the latest tech-stack trends too closely. It is called the bleeding edge because it is covered in the blood of dead projects that cannot be maintained.

My advice is to use as few technologies in your stack as possible. Sure, your project might work best with a relational db and a dedicated document store but it might be less ongoing effort to emulate one with the other.

And freeze (or at least document) the versions of any dependencies for release. Your project runs fine with CoolTech.1.4 now but in 5 years when you come to rebuild you will find that the interface to CoolTech.6.44 is completely different.

And even then things might fail. 20+ years ago I made some Java applets that were well received and useful. Technically they still work (I think) but nobody runs Java in the browser so those projects have been unusable for years. We can be smug about our pure HTML5 static sites now but who knows what the browser landscape will be like in 2050.
I love the "size" of these posts. Kinda neat to just read through one in a few mins and maybe run the bench locally.
Model release isn't enough, the feds need to actually back it with legislation and perhaps ensure all the signing happen at a police station, so no accusations of consent can be bandied about. Given the amount of revenue the industry generated for LA and Florida, this should not be controversial. There was the infamous "girl do porn" case last year where even with model release the producers were accused of public distribution when the contract said it was for private release and the models decided to sue for sexual assault based on a contract law breach. The industry needs to be thoroughly regulated with lots of sunshine lists on all players, contract law and civil courts will only lead to tragedy.
> answers will be kept fully private

> Short of the companies fishing out the questions from API logs (which seems quite unlikely)

They all pretty clearly state[1] versions of "We use your queries (removing personal data) to improve the models" so I'm not sure why that's unlikely.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...
From own experience I can say:

Forget about trying to change this from the perspective of thoughts. Cognitively understanding that you should "just" stop worrying about what other people think about your work might not bring you far.

Instead, realize that anxiety is a bodily phenomenon and as such needs to be addressed with the body. That means: Breathing techniques, exercise etc.
That's pretty cool! I believe a research paper called LumberChunker recently evaluated that to be pretty decent as well.

Thanks for responding, I'll try to make it easier to use something like that in Chonkie in the future!
Looking forward to the Crab language, with its excellent package management system, baggage.
What basis do you have to say that? Otherwise, these claims are just bytes with no force behind them. You can see the overwhelming evidence and consensus otherwise, stretching over centuries!

Even more, why do you want it to be true? Why do people want to eliminate their own and others human rights, an incredibly positive basis for society and for your freedom and prosperity, which has resulted in what are by far the most successful societies and people, by many measures, in human history? You're giving away all that for what? To look clever and 'with it'? Smarter than democracy? Very clever.

You should be fighting for it, like your predecessors did. Otherwise, you'll lose it. There are people actively and successfully taking it away, while you are engaging in this philosphical exercise.
Many of them didn't talk about it in the first place, because it was originally reported by a source that refused to let anyone independently verify their claims. The first people to speak up on it were the least educated, and by the time an actually reputable and detailed report was making the rounds everyone either moved on or had already accused the media of "lying".

You really cannot choose a worse example than the Hunter Biden laptop story. That was one of the few examples of liberal media taking the necessary precautions, and even the conservative news outlets were afraid to make claims that could be seen as libel if they weren't independently verified. No serious news sources, conservative or liberal, reported on the original Hunter Biden laptop story.

If you're going to be pissed when 4chan threads don't make national news overnight, I've got a hell of a political bridge to sell you.
Stock photography sites have figured out how to manage model releases. There's no reason that OF can't do it as well. I think that any model appearing in a video that is released on OF should have an "account" that they can manage their releases as well even if that is a separate account that does not include a normal page for publishing content. If a video is uploaded that does not have each model linked, it is not allowed to be published type of thing
In general, vertical movement in the tech sector is near zero these days. Thus do a search on the government published wage ranges for the mean/maximum listed for your region (this is what HR does anyway.)

The mistake people make is forgetting to sum up the liabilities of working at some firms:

1. Commute time/costs from home at rush hour (3 hours a day is equivalent to a 30% to 40% pay cut)

2. Cost of both temporary and permanent housing (urban metropolis are economically hostile if you are paying over 27% of your income on your home)

3. Cost of insurance and healthcare (property crime, environmental disasters, and pollution)

4. Location specific risks like Crime/Violence, or Hazmat (money is meaningless if you are not enjoying life)

5. Never bluff in game theory... just explain the options... than follow through and just leave for the competition.

Tip: If you compete with desperate demographics to be at the bottom, than your quality of life may be far lower than expected.

Sometimes taking a $10k income cut makes more sense, than being a poser in a high tax bracket city. i.e. the amount of cash in your hands after taxes can actually be higher.

It is complicated for sure, but employee retention is usually a function of location, skill uniqueness, and wage rates. Best of luck =3
> One party would agree to be filmed/paid for sex, back out half way through, and then sue for involuntary pornography and consent.

I mean, I understand what you're saying but you're making it sound like "it's not real rape but more like contractual disagreement".

If someone backs out half way through, they absolutely should be allowed. There might be compensation in their contract etc ... But that's implementation details, the base fact is just because you said "Yes I agree to do X for Y money" doesn't mean you can't quit your job after it starts, and your employer cannot force you to keep working until he's satified with the result. That apply to pretty much any job, but especially to something like porn.
Telephone is currently private conversation. Need a warrant to get in (tap).
Great observation. I have observed the same thing in my own life.

The solution: do things that you really believe people need. Then you owe it to them to find out if you actually are “good enough”, and you don’t care what others think because all you care about is whether the people who need it are happy with it.
Taming The Fire – film ft. early Soviet rocket tech
Just released to YouTube from Mosfilm, great cinematography by Sergei Vronsky. If you like primitive space flight technology this film is for you.

Here's the film - https://youtu.be/kvWVaH7Ibq0?feature=shared
Oh, Rust will definitely not fail because of trademark policies like this, anymore than Python succeeded because of trademark policies. In fact I think it's literally the opposite; seeing policies like this being set up is a sign that the project is wildly successful. I suspect Guido van Rossum was not worried about uses of the non-existent Python trademark in the late 80s.

The Rust foundation would have a hard time destroying Rust's momentum even if they wanted to.
1password (I like its UI better than Bitwarden; integrated cloud 2fa and passkey support is awesome, since it can be synced across devices).

Microsoft Todo, a simple cross platform todo list app that is synced to the cloud and easily shared with family. We use it for grocery lists, packing lists, etc. Nice and free.

For hiking, AllTrails and Gaia. For mountain biking, Trailforks and MTB Project. For road biking, RideWithGPS.

For gaming, GeForce Now. This has totally replaced gaming PCs for me (way easier and cheaper).

Small utility apps for Mac: Lunar for brightness adjustments even on desktop monitors, Rectangle for better window management.

Google Photos works really well, been using that for decades. Maps too, especially with offline maps.

For vegetarian food while traveling, HappyCow.

For typing on a phone, Microsoft SwiftKey.
See my other comment about the "girl do porn" cases. The models signed release forms with the expectation their videos go to private buyers but instead they were sold online, so they turned around and sued the producers for sexual assault instead. This sort of thing needs sunshine lists and clear regulations. Plus having to disclose your identity on a public registry would reduce porn participation too, so it's a win-win even for the Republican legislators who are against porn in the first place.

I would go as far as to suggest that full SSN-level KYC ought to be legally required for all actors. From my understanding the adult film/sex industry currently rely purely on physical signatures and maybe driver licenses for their releases. If you need to disclose your SSN to sign up for a penny stock app like Robinhood, then you damn well should be required to do the same for anything sex work related. And if an underaged person try to do that, automatically notify the parents. It's not as if certain segments of the American government are unfamiliar with "don't say trans" tattle-to-the-parents legislation for kids.
Dunning-Krueger effect at its best, I am done arguing.
OG = OpenGraph (like ‘og:image’)
> “change Section 230 to force neutrality and free speech”

How would that revised law look like? Would courts be tasked with determining whether a defendant in a Section 230 lawsuit had been sufficiently neutral?

The standard for libel is extremely high in America compared to many other countries. By the same logic, the standard for losing Section 230 protections should be similarly high. Otherwise courts become unwilling arbiters of what’s acceptable speech.
Are you not allowed to disclose salary first? Sorry to be blunt, but if you are allowed, then this sounds incredibly stupid.
You can’t expect much from a country which consists of a small populated coastal strip and the rest (the interior) being the Amazon.

Or at least that’s the kind of destination where you have to make more plans before travelling than asking the natives what to do once you’ve arrived.
Ollama is kind of ok to get started, but as I understand it they don't give you a choice in the quantisation you'll use. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

One thing I am sure about it is they store large model files renamed as large globally unique identifier, and I still haven't understood that part of the design as anything but some silly obfuscating embrace...
And here again, I'd love to be shown how I'm wrong.
Pi Chess Board
Dabbling in the Cryptographic World–A Story (1999)
Brain Cell Transplantation as a Treatment
also open source: Authentik
Bad idea to lie when there are other equally valid negotiation tactics available.

I had a job early in my career and they asked to see my W2 from my previous employer to validate that my previous job income answer was correct and finish onboarding.

Much better to instead have a second competing job offer in hand. Clearly that’s more competitive than your old job you’re leaving anyway.
Maybe they can add exemption for companies that work for greater good.
I'm not interacting with companies seeking cheap labor in Poland - like Intel. Despite their quite active recruiters, all conversations with whom end up at "company policy doesn't allow me to discuss salary range".

I've set up a small business with EU tax id over a decade ago and I'm issuing invoices to European countries (EU and Schengen) and North America.

It's a trade-off of giving up European employment safety, pension, some quality of life when working in different timezone, benefits and job security, to work for higher salary.

But it only makes sense until some business decides that they would like a contractor from Poland with a Polish salary.
Google is being adopted by more and more automakers.
None of those laws are applicable to internet forums; they are not "public accommodations" in the sense of the Civil Rights Act [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations_in_the_U...
Hmm, can't you check for correctness somehow and retry on failure? Those headless browsers are often run in automated environments.
Yeah, the secret of a good ice cream is the egg and cream custard, and churning while it freezes. Which does make it a bit of a pain, but well worth it.
Does anyone actually believe Twitter’s algorithm is public? When the company’s mercurial owner wants to amplify some voices and silence others, does he make a pull request on the GitHub repo?

If you don’t think that kind of thing happens on Twitter/X, you haven’t been paying attention.

Anyway, Republicans generally favor less regulation and less enforcement, not more. If there’s a new rule that requires companies to publish something, but it’s not actually enforced, then it doesn’t mean anything. Companies can just publish something vaguely plausible out of some old code snapshot (like Twitter does today).
> your employer cannot force you to keep working until he's satified with the result. That apply to pretty much any job, but especially to something like porn

Yes, but there is no equivalent of a clear cut "at will" employment for sex workers, and this needs to change. Legislators refuse to touch this topic with a six foot pole, and that's why it's all in a grey area. Contract law shouldn't come into play here at all, and given the high stakes, it's unfair for producers to be ipso facto accused of sexual assault everytime there's a breach of contract (you can extend this to prostitution too).
Even zooming on desktop (firefox on macos) is broken. I want to zoom in to see the street names and investigate the images, but the site makes it impossible. I can download the images to my desktop, but they are low resolution. What a cool project to be soured by such awful technology that didn't need to exist in the first place.
I'm on safari/macOS, and many of the counting related demonstrations did not vary as much as claimed -- some did, with significant computer use, but I'd bet some mitigations have been implemented already in Safari.

Nevertheless, EXTREMELY cool paper.
It might be your unconscious deciding that it's not worth doing? Posting things online is rather useless and often brings more negatives than positives.
Since the null-related blog post isn't published yet, anyone here knows the reason to implement null rather than write middle-layer in C# for whatever you want to use?
Most of the software is more like landscaping than architecture, but software engineers want to build fancy bridges and gothic temples.
I have a much more condensed "sysadmin" experience, who summarize as:

- I have found some personal use cases, but no LLMs I've found do really work for such cases;

- those who publish LLM-alike software (also valid for SD and alike for images and co) have no interest in FLOSS, they simply push code with no structure, monsters with deps not handled at all and next to zero documentation, seems more OSS-enterprise trend than FLOSS.

Long story short: my personal use case is find hard-to-find notes (org-mode, maaaaany headings, much of the annotated news in various languages), where hard to find notes is "if I recall correctly I've noted ~$something but still fail to find it both looking for headings (let's say titles) and ripgrepping brutally" and to spot trends "I've noted various natural phenomenons in the last some years, how about the trend of noted floods, wildfires, ...?". In all cases I've managed quicker and better with simply org-roam-node-find (i.e. looking at titles) (+ embark eventually) on results or rg(+embark).

That's is. They might be useful like Alphabet NotebookLM for quickly trying to have a clue on a pdf someone sent to me, but so far I found nothing interesting who not demand more time packaging and keep updating the project and it's deps on my desktop than simply skim papers by myself...
Well, those older companies probably have the same attitude. "We already have security questions, it's fine. Don't fix what's not broken."
buying and amplifying his works do not further his views and causes

i'd rephrase that. it does not support the artist to allow him to continue spreading his views and causes, but it still draws attention to him, and potentially lets people learn about it. even this discussion here. i would not have known about lovecrafts or rowlings views if it weren't for reading about it on hackernews some time ago.

however an even more important concern is how much of these views are woven into the stories. as such it is important to at least be aware. i have ignored harry potter until now but my kids are getting interested, and so i am keeping a close eye on what they are watching for that reason.
This definitely wasn't the FAA.

I think it may have been the NOAA(?) - sorry, I don't remember exactly which agency.

The FAA has required environmental studies, but it's not the only one that has. The answer you linked to didn't look into or take into account requirements from other agencies.

For example: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/incidental-take-author...

But that's not the specific interaction I'm thinking of.
> by "we" I meant "humanity".

Humanity is not one subject. It is multitude of objects and subjects. The best analogy is loose coupled network (each active node have ~10..100 connections, and billions passive objects with 1..3 connections).

Because of this, we could talk only about some subjects, who directly interested in use opportunities and have all need for this activity.

Even if use relatively conservative approach and consider only formally declared countries as subjects, we will have about 200 subjects (plus some active and successful humans - for example, in business usually considered 80% value of company is good CEO). If we look slightly deeper, we will see some trans-national subjects, like G7, G20, ITU, and many regional subjects. And you should understand me right, before We (I and You) create some at least voice agreement, we cannot consider any subject "we".

Yes, exists "invisible power of market", and some other similar things, like libido, but they all are unconscious powers, and you cannot expect for them to do conscious decisions and conscious things.
Thanks, Justine! I'm a big fan of your work.

I actually sold the company earlier this year.[0] I never looked into VC money primarily because I like the independence of being the sole owner, though I agree there would have been a lot of advantages.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
Stock photography sites don't generally provide nudes and sex videos.
It took me way too long to realize this but most people don’t think or care about you. I’m not saying this in a bad way, but only worry about those that matter like your family and friends. No one else thinks about you anyway, so don’t preoccupy yourself worrying about what they think.
> > Every few weeks I try to motivate myself to write more online

Bro run! Spending time online is a sign of depression. And even if you are among the few in which this isn't true (which I doubt) talking and writing about stuff way above your head (not in the IQ sense but about stuff you have no control over) will get your there.