skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is "my uncle who works at Nintendo said Sony sucks" level information to anyone but you.

I do agree on one part regardless of any of that though... I'm at the point of waiting for the one who actually sells me said device instead of the one that says they'll soon be able to.
How did that happen? I’ve never been clear on how we got here. Just some vague stuff about how others tried and failed.
> The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads.

I disagree. The value I get from the Internet is almost entirely from non-ad-driven sources. The ad-driven stuff is very low value to me.
I don’t see ruined value in fables telling though, usually the meaning and mind perspectives provides a benefit to the reader. Same with portray and most images shown in museum.
I've really had a pet peeve about footnotes on mobile and this does the crime. If you click a footnote and it jumps very far away and doesn't have a return navigation, I have left your page usually after the second time I see a footnote and didn't note my exact scroll. A small thing but pretty please don't make me have to hunt for where I was...
It is just the press release. There’s a submission to ACS that looks completely valid.
How to generate OpenGraph images with Astro and Satori
It's sad how the tech world has chosen to go. They started out pretending to be a source for good/improvement. Now we have things like Ellison thinking it's acceptable to publicly talk about having AI monitoring everyone all the time 'so that people will be on their best behavior'. Literal Minority Report is now a totally acceptable public policy push position among the tech elites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqQtgRdjZU
My understanding is that the freezing is normally about stopping water intrusion long enough to drill and place concrete
I haven't used that once since I found out that it exists.

I just don't see the point. It doesn't work in the browser and it shadows global.setTimeout which is confusing. Meanwhile the idiom works everywhere.
If I take 1000 books and count the distributions of the lengths of the words, and the covariance between the lengths of one word and the next word for each book, and how much this covariance matrix tends to vary across the different books, and other things like this, and publish these summaries, it seems fairly clear to me that this should count as fair use.

(Such a model/statistical-summary, along with a dictionary, could be used to generate nonsensical texts which have similar patterns in terms of just word lengths.)

Should the resulting work be protected by copyright? I’m not entirely sure…

I guess one thing is, the specific numbers I obtain by doing this are not a consequence of any creative decision making on my part, which I think in some jurisdictions (I don’t remember which) plays a role in whether a work is copyrightable (I will use “copyrightable” as an abbreviation for “protected by copyright”. I don’t mean to imply a requirement that someone specifically registers for copyright.). (Iirc this makes it so phone books are copyrightable in some jurisdictions but not others?)

The particular choice of statistical analysis does seem like it may involve creative decision making, but that would just be about like, what analysis I describe, and how the numbers I publish are to be interpreted, not what the numbers are? (Analogous to the source code of an ML model, not the parameters.)

Here is another question: suppose there is a method of producing a data artifact which would be genuinely (and economically) useful, and which does not rely on taking in any copyrighted input, but requires a large (expensive) amount of compute to produce, and which also uses a lot of randomness so that the result would be different each time it was done (but suppose also that there isn’t much point doing it multiple times at the same scale, as having two of this kind of data artifact wouldn’t be much more valuable than having one).

Should such data artifacts be protected by copyright or something like it?

Well, if copyright requires creative human decision making, then they wouldn’t be.

It seems like it would make sense to want it to be economically incentivized to create such data artifacts of higher sizes (to a point of course. Only as much as is justified by the value that is produced by them being available.) .

If such data artifacts can always be distributed without restriction, then ones that are publicly available would be public goods, and I guess only ones that are trade secrets would be private goods? It seems to me like having some mechanism to incentivize their creation and being-eventually-freely-distributed would be beneficial?

But maybe copyright isn’t the best way to do that? Idk.
Yea, I watch YouTube all the time on planes. Usually 480p maybe 720p. Sometimes I find I need to use a VPN to prevent streaming sites from being throttled badly.
Yeah I thought the same.

Even though I use an adblocker, I got a huge table showing three Amazon products that took more space screen than any of the text block of the actual article.

I can't even imagine how the site looks like without an adblocker...
They could serve non-targeted text ads. Those are very cheap to deliver and seem to work fine.
$20T Transatlantic Tunnel Would Be 'High Risk' Build
It seems like “the subject clicked a link in an email” is equated to “being phished”, but I’m not certain that is a good definition.
Yeah, unfortunately until IPv6 adoption increases this will be a problem. Even the currently utilized IPv6 space is probably small enough that sufficiently motivated corporations/nation states would probably be able to crack it given the resources available, assuming it's important enough for them to care about.
uBlock counter got up to 26 before I was done skimming the article.
https://www.newsweek.com/tunnel-link-new-york-london-20-tril...
iOS Safari has a setting that can use another app to do privacy controls and you can set Firefox Focus to be that app. It’s very nice. I got tired of how slow pages were loading on my phone, and got fed up one day and turned it on.

That and ads that resize and push down the content you’re about to click on to make you misclick were the final straws.
There is no IRB for monkeys.

The animal equivalent to an IRB is usually an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), but the laws they are subject to vary with jurisdiction, and their use is optional if your grant provider (i.e. NIH) or academic publisher do not require them.
In France, for very small business with only you in it (and revenue cap), you can create a micro entreprise (aka micro entrepreneur / auto entrepreneur) and it's free.
> Apple's computational photography is absolutely not like some Chinese brands' AI replacement of the moon with an astro-photo. It's just signal processing and clever use of statistics to extract the maximum amount of signal from the noise.

Unless you can back it up by showing me the actual code that's running on those devices, I won't believe you. Keeping an eye on the Halide (an alternative photo app) blog over the years convinced me otherwise.
From the article: "Some broadcast engineering tasks are a bit too daunting for me to consider. Climbing the massive towers that power radio and TV stations is one of them!"

I work for a team in a government agency that does engineering support for RF based navigational aids. Because we're short staffed (Congress underfunds us), everyone fulfills more jobs than their official title. (There's an elastic clause in government worker job descriptions, "and other duties as assigned.")

Anyway. I live in fear of the day I'm called upon to climb a tower because they need me to do that. My regular job is software development! Obviously I'm not going to do it, but I'm unsure what my rights are / what will happen if and when I refuse. Unfortunately my position isn't union protected because my older peers didn't sign on when the (non-computer science) engineers did.
> Wouldn't it be more sensible to borrow the C notation -> ?

No, because even in C, the operator `->`, like for instance, `pt->foo` it's just a shortcut for `(*pt).foo`; therefore in Go the aforementioned example `(*pt).foo` it's equivalent to `pt.foo`.

For more info, read https://tip.golang.org/ref/spec#Method_values where it talks about `selectors`.
Speak for yourself. Some of us were on the internet before the ads.
The alternative is worse: more passive forms of targeting are so good that advertisers don't need to record your every moment in order to make a large number of people genuinely believe that they are.

It's relatively comforting to think they'd be so brazen as to care about your every word, as opposed to the fact that they own so much information about you that they can predict your actions and thoughts better than you can.
ISPs are likely happy about it, since it means users will have to spend more.

Ads can also be easily hosted on CDNs, so their cost for ISPs can be decreased significantly compared to other more dynamic content.
In the context of Node.js, where op said, yes it is easier. But it's a new thing and most people don't realize timers in Node are awaitable yet, so the other way is less about "works everywhere" and more "this is just what I know"
If the most of the websites you visit aren’t ad supported, then this article likely doesn’t apply to you. It does apply to most people however.
> There's no ribbon subscription plan?

Keep it quiet! Don't give them any funny ideas :D
I blame Microsoft. As a consumer OS its default stance should be no, the user does not intend to grant god permissions to this embedded or external script when they clicked it. Instead the user should have been challenged with a dialog, do you want to install this App and then execute?
I had tried to get some version of Linux running on my 386SX / 25MHz / 8MB RAM but only succeeded in getting BasicLinux[1] running bootstrapped from a DOS boot first. Somehow I had never found ELKS! But I was just able to trivially make a floppy and boot the system[2]. Amazing. Looking forward to playing with this.

[1] https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

[2] https://mastodon.social/@incanus/113777573079528868
Developers initially revolted against Microsoft UWP and Mac App Store.
Given how eager Microsoft is to steal other people's code, perhaps the leaked Windows source code would be an option. Or perhaps Microsoft will let you train on their internal issue tracker.
Yeah, some servers close connections when there’s no data transfer. When the backend holds the connection while polling the database until a timeout occurs or the database returns data, it needs to send something back to the client to keep the connection alive. I wonder what could be sent in this case and whether it would require special client-side logic.
The higher the density, the more curved is the spacetime at that area, and the slower is the passage of time. You don't have to go to extremes like black holes vs absolute vacuum. A sufficient difference should be visible between regions closer to centers of galaxies, or just clusters of nearby galaxies, and really large "voids" between them, which contain some matter, and even some stars, but are vastly more empty. This is what the article explores.

(This connects in a funny way to Vernor Vinge's SF idea of slower and faster areas of space. The "high" / "fast" space is mostly empty, so the time passes there faster than in the "unthinking depths" around galactic cores, and hugely more progress is done by civilizations in the "fast" space, as observed from the "slow" space.)
Sure, and someone else can say otherwise. Comparing anecdotes doesn't provide a global view, IMO, and can lead to incorrect conclusions.

Maybe better to look at data instead, e.g. Netflix ad-supported plans vs ad-free plans, or YouTube Premium vs YT ad-supported, etc.
That sets a terrible precedent. You do not want ISPs picking and choosing what content to deliver, or forcing content providers to pay extra to deliver content to their customers.
Home Assistant Voice PE: The Open-Source Game Changer We've Been Waiting For?
My mom is celiac, so I am familiar with what products contain gluten.

I think there needs to be an "check the label" response for some searches.

A few products I tested that I know can have gluten, but don't always:

soy sauce: There exists gluten free soy sauce. some restraunts carry it. the app said soy sauce contains gluten.

"oat" and "oats": The first time I hit it, it responded with "contains gluten, b/c there is a chemical similar to gluten that can trigger celiac disease". Then I clicked 'Search' multiple times and it gaves responses ranging from: "Gluten-free, but oats can be contaminated with gluten in processing." to "Oats are naturally gluten-free, but they are often processed in facilities that also process wheat."

"tomato soup": This returned gluten free, but you have to ask if flour was used as a thickener in basically all soups (example recipe: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/classic-tomato-soup.ht...)

having it change answers each request makes me trust this less. I'd at least add a cache to keep the responses consistent.
You can alias it if you're worried about shadowing.

import { setTimeout as loiter } from "node:timers/promises";
await loiter(500);
Websockets can operate outside the request/response model used in this long polling example, and allow you to stream data continuously. They're also a lot more efficient in terms of framing and connections if there are a lot of individual pieces of data to push as you don't need to spin a up a connection + request for each bit.
Isn’t this against net neutrality?
Firefox has an option to turn autoplay (sound and video) off for those ads that get past ublock origin.
Vendor validation alone can take months, and that's before you start the technical process of migrating.

This is a company who is in front of your business, do you trust them?

I expect a lot of businesses will take the opportunity to send the contract out for tender.
Sure, and that competes with a universal idiom.

To me it's kinda like adding a shallowClone(old) helper instead of writing const obj = { ...old }.

But no point in arguing about it forever.
Well depends on the organizations. Some of the organizations aren't actually pulling away from China, as they're just getting outcompeted in terms of price/quality by local companies. To my understanding, government is trying to convince people that "Chinese products can also be luxury", and some people are switching.
> If you can get the job done with an LLM without understanding the code it wrote, then that's awesome.

I don’t think anyone would find fault with this argument. People who are wary of LLMs, including myself, are in fact wary of lazyness. Getting the (current?) job done is only a small part of building a system. The fact is you have to maintain it or extract the embodied knowledge later, and that’s where no thought have not been given.

In the Tidy First? book by Kent Beck, he explains that the value of software is both in its current behavior and the future possibilities that the structure provides. If there’s no future to worry about, LLMs may be a valuable tool.
I'm not sure that video backs up your assertions. The presenter states at the end of the video that "we have to keep recycling".

I was hoping for something academic rather than a YouTube video.
Thanks for sharing this!

I only "followed" so far the properties given at Wolfram Community:

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3347182
Which is the point I was making in the first place.
In the US subpoena are extremely overpowered, unfortunately. Often the respondent has little to no legal standing to resist the subpoena and they're issued without meaningful supervision of a competent court.

Most providers won't even tell you when your data has been subject to a subpoena.
The list of notable owner is long.

"Josip Broz Tito, who owned four 1965 LWB 6-door Pullmans, one of which was armoured, and two LWB Pullman landaulets, acquired in 1971 and 1978 respectively (both of these were of the very-rare type where the folding parade roof extends to cover 2/3rds of the vehicle top, only 9 were made with such a roof arrangement and 6 doors, and Tito was the only statesman in the world at the time who had two such cars)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_600
The Horror of Zombie Insects
Honey loses 3M users after scam allegations
Few things are more soul crushing than having a VP of CTO mandate a bunch of metrics for page size and load time and then to have someone load up all your hard work with trackers, analytics and ads. Like what was the point of us doing all this now the page loads in five seconds so you can be nosey?
Well what isn’t in this world?

Would Einstein would have been possible without Newton?
"This Deployment has been disabled."

This is why people shouldn't use Vercel. The last thing you want is a message like this when people come to your site.
You say "the same people" but we are all individuals and we don't all share the same views on one topic just because we share it on another. So simply put, I don't agree with this.
We should also be careful to analyze Starfleet separately from the Federation in general. The quasi-military part isn't going to necessarily be the same as the whole.

Kind of like how in real-world US military is a socialist system, encased inside a larger economy and political landscape which is much less so.
Safari has been garbage in recent years on the iPhone.

Pages are often unresponsive or don't fully load. Zooming breaks so many sites. I'm always closing Safari and re-loading pages.

Are the web developers ignoring Safari? They can't be.
In which case you obviously care about quality. That's all I'm saying: people do care about quality.
you never used google search? if not you should check it out - it is not bad - https://www.google.com
Many people in the programming language, functional programming, and academic community in general are trans or queer themselves so it only makes sense. Especially since the hate towards trans people became more public since around 2019.
Asking for fully bug free software is nice but unrealistic. Browsers are ostensibly somewhat sandboxed too but there are always new zero-days 'cause browsers are essentially OSes with many moving parts.

However, it reasonable to expect a single hole to be fixed. The "email hole" has been discussed for decades but here we are.
The way I see it people got stuck in a mindset of universal background time that is pretty much what earth clocks run at. With any serious relativity effects only being locally compartmentalized next to extreme cosmic phenomena.

Adding dark matter to this mindset makes it even worse because it homogenizes everything even further towards a Universal Standard Timeframe when 80% of all mass is finely dispersed as a background fog.

Put the Real back in Relativity.

It's by far a more satisfying solution than magic mystery matter.

My pet theory is that black holes are also vastly misunderstood because they're always seen from the Universal Standard Timeframe, if we probe a black hole and their local space from strongly relativistic timeframe they'll start to make more sense, but I'll leave that to the daydreams of the reader.
Thanks, very much appreciate the thoughts and pointers!
My enterprise sized day job is an Akamai customer. Nothing in China directly so we won't be directly impacted.

As a hypothetical, if we got told that we had to switch providers to stay in a region, we'd need to rebuild pipelines, EdgeWorkers, edge caching rules, origin routing configurations and probably more I'm not aware of. Plus testing all of those changes in a non-breaking way across the entire enterprise. Along with all the normal business delivery priorities.

It'd probably take a solid year for us to fully execute it.
i’ve been doing the same for a few years now. wireguard’s “on demand” feature is perfect for this. the odd time i’ll have to shut it off to get through a captive wifi portal, but otherwise it (along with browser ad blockers) has made mobile browsing significantly less terrible
it's sort of amazing. And no income tax!
You probably mean "iphones" Android firefox does have an option to turn off autoplay (video and sound)

It can't be set as default because most people are used to spam ads. Heck, most people seek them on tictok
i do listen to music.

i listen to it on apple music.

i pay money to apple for this.

some of that money that i pay to apple goes to the rights holders of that music for the copying and performance of their work through my speakers.

that’s a pretty big difference to how most LLMs are trained right there! i actually pay original creators some money.

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i am a human being. you cannot reduce me down to some easy information theory.

an LLM is a tool. an algorithm. with the same random seed etc etc it will get the same results. it is not human.

you put me in the same room as yesterday i’ll behave completely differently.

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i have listened to way more than terabytes of music in my life. doesn’t mean i have the ability to regurgitate any of it verbatim though. i’m crap at that stuff.

LLMs seem to be really good at it though.
> LLMs are not massive archives of data.

Neither am I, yet, I am still capable of reproducing copyrighted works to a level that most would describe as illegal.

> And before you knee-jerk "it's a compression algo!"

It's literally a fundamental part of the technology so I can't see how you call it a "knee jerk." It's lossy compression, the same way a JPEG might be, and simply recompressing your picture to a lower resolution does not at all obviate your copyright.

> I invite you to archive all your data with an LLMs "compression algo".

As long as we agree it is _my data_ and not yours.
derivative works still tend to be copyright violations.
> But around here I would not be afraid to go myself for a simple case

That's naive. You wouldn't be afraid to suffer 100k in costs up front just to deal with a completely meritless case? ... and if the litigant is aggressive and dishonest enough to survive summary dismissal then in the UK you can easily be immediately on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in their legal costs for your failed attempt to get it summarily dismissed. (As the UK will award costs hearing by hearing)

The courts are an adversarial system where you're at risk of ruin, you have to put forward your best fight even if the case is stupid. If you phone it in, get less than completely competent representation, put in a lackluster defense you're in grave risk of losing.

Our civil courts has replaced the duel as a method of resolving disputes, but in many senses it is still a duel. Less bloody, somewhat more biased towards justice, sure. But when you're standing there pistols at dawn and your opponent draws, standing there complaining that they suck and their duel is dumb will only get you shot. You have to draw and you only get one chance.

The severity of the case is the severity of the credible worst case outcome. And totally losing even an absurd case is, sadly, almost always a credible outcome. Sure, you're more likely to win a stupid and meritless case (presuming you don't flub the defense by not taking it seriously)-- but the consequences should you lose aren't diminished by the case being dumb.
Then you aren’t visiting ads-loaded sites and they aren’t using your data. Seems fine.
GR calculations are very hard, and it's easy to think the effects aren't relevant outside of extreme conditions. this reminds me of the (sadly not very well supported) paper about gravitomagnetism explaining the rotation curves without dark matter.
I get about 10 emails per week from my "CEO" to pay an invoice. I've even gotten a few text messages. Oddly, the emails never have an attachment. Is this because Google (Workspace account) is removing it?

I've always wondered if it is 10 different orgs doing the campaigns, or the same one. If the same one, why send 10?
Before I bought a printer for home, I'd go print things at my local library. Pretty convenient, and it was free for 10 b/w pages a week! But getting my own used Brother printer was a real step up.
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