skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I learned the hard way this cycle was that I and all the people supporting Kamala were duped into repeating 2016 all over again. The lack of a primary, all the games being played culminating in an 'anointing'. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Anyone putting any trust into Reddit is fooling themselves. Its not only political subs, other subs are also astroturfed, they are just more subtle about it. There are plenty of examples from places everything like /r/buyitforlife(where you discover the lies after you get burned), to bigger subs like /r/technology(which push certain agendas devoid of facts). You'd have to go sub by sub and piece out the blatant lies, or you could walk away from the platform understanding that the design is fundamentally flawed and was designed for an era of the internet that no longer exists.
Something about the phrase "angry spam" makes me chuckle maniacally.
>. How can people not see all the blatant lie from Trump and his bootlickers?

Because the reality is, a good majority people in the USA have a very good life, even the lower class, contrary to what the media may have you believe. So when the majority doesn't show up to vote, its because they think it doesn't matter who is in charge.

These are the people everyone should hold primarily responsible for whatever bad things happen. The MAGA type crowds are always going to exist in one shape or form, and its everyone's responsibility to vote so that the bad side doesn't take power.
I think a lot of them want to be in charge and run their own business / venture with their ideas.
The courts have already ruled that training on data is similar to reading it (sufficiently transformative) to be considered fair use, in the same way that I cannot claim a copyright on your brain because you read this comment.

On the other hand, they torrented books and then open sourced LLM weights. No punishment is too severe for that!

If you still don’t understand, I strongly suggest watching Max Headroom, “Lessons”, which you can get here:

https://archive.org/download/max-headroom-complete
> tech bros are slowly sliding to the right

I see many people confidently and incuriously throw this idea around, meanwhile many of the tech bros are saying “no, I haven’t shifted all that much , the left just went crazy”. [1] I’m not sure which claim is “correct”. Probably breaks one way or another on an individual basis. But it does seem like we should probably give people some credit for introspection versus mind reading.

[1] The following cartoon has been shared by many and distills the idea well: https://x.com/swipewright/status/1462114108535312388?s=46&t=...
Selection (and copying) works on Firefox even with uBlock disabled.

With uBlock, though, I have 20+ blocked items. What's the point of having so many scripts that do absolutely nothing visible on the page?
It's a straw man though, whether or not AI should be allowed to learn from books is irrelevant to the point that Meta stole tens of thousands of books to accomplish this. A fact that they've admitted to and even had they not would be trivially proven.

They're not being charged, that would be a vast improvement over reality.
Reality continues its convergence with The Onion.
so bipartisan that the president and de facto leader of one of the parties campaigned against it? sure he switched sides, but nonetheless
The digital service did great work modernizing digital infrastructure of citizen-facing federal services.

AFAIK, it has *never* been stated publicly that DOGE or Mr. Musk would get control of this most essential service, responsible for sourcing identity verification, etc.

There's no relationship between bureaucracy efficiency efforts and the digital service. Indeed, one would have expected DOGE to be injected into the Office of Personnel Management.

It's disconcerting to see such a mismatch between rationale and deployment, particularly for a new agency with no oversight in Congress.
President signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days
I define "trying to market a beer that's commonly drunk by Republicans using a trans influencer" as woke because it's:

A) ineffective at marketing the beer, because it prioritises a social justice objective instead (making it a political stance)

B) ineffective at changing any Bud drinker's mind on trans people, because it prioritises aggressive performance (making it woke)

The problem is not "oh, trans people exist, that's so woke"; it's doing activism in a way that harms both your company, because your brand is now "the gay beer", and trans people, who have to put up with a public debate about the existence of Dylan Mulvaney as well as a damaging boycott that scares marketing departments and moves the Overton window rightward.
Was the external DOGE organization, as previously described, supposed to have a digital modernization component? It seemed like more of a project to ‘cut expenses’, like an external GAO.

The silly part of me wants to say they picked USDS because it had a D in it, but I’m guessing that wasn’t it.
Maybe I need to use this argument when I go to the movies next time.
Wait... Did you misunderstand this comment? Or are you saying grep caught up with ripgrep now?
I noticed the smaller the model (be it quant or parameters as the cause) the faster it'd run.... but the longer it'd fight itself. For the same Calc II level problem all models were able to eventually get an answer but the distilled Qwen-32B at Q6 quant was fastest to actual answer completion.
Maybe not but even if Meta did buy 1 copy of every book I doubt it would stop anyone from making bad analogies to theft. (Not that the analogy on the other side to a human reading is any better.)
I much prefer it when they are actually serious. Hasn't happened anywhere on a while, at least on national stages
Nothing fancy, just an express.js app with some sprinkle of alpine.js built on top of perplexity. Just something I have been tinkering with on the weekends, not meant to conquer the world :)

I’ve made the repo open source, feel free to look around,

https://github.com/Zeb88/timeoff
In common use, the (and watch this) is left unsaid and implied. I.e. the speaker is really excited to immediately do something that's a terrible idea, without even stopping to explain.

"How the heck are we going to get the alligator out of the pool?"

"Hold my beer..."
The awesome thing about Redis is that it's less a "cache" and more a set of fast network-shared, generic data structures. To have that then also be transactional and durable would be really handy sometimes.
While I was trying to find a partner, at one point I realized that if I wanted to experience life in Asia or Africa, it would be a lot harder to do so if I got married before going there. Since I was still alone at the time I decided to postpone my search and move first.

Now I took my children to Africa precisely so they can see and understand that there are different people who were born, raised, and live under different conditions than the ones they themselves experienced so far.
> huge influx of funding and staffing

That would be antithetical to their new name.
"of course Trump is triggering for many"

As though that's all there is to say. Unbelievable. The sane washing of this man is completely unreal. I'm witnessing a complete unraveling of shared truth. He instigated a riot at the Capitol and all he can say is that he's "triggering." Forget all the hot button issues. Let's just stick to the basics here. He perpetrated the biggest lie in American history (that the 2020 election was stolen), threatened the lives of all members of Congress, and all DHH can say is that he's "triggering?"

I am not going to suck this man's c**k like literally everyone is doing. I f**king refuse. Downvote me. Ban me. Put me on Trump's hit list. I don't care. This bullshit has got to stop.
Erm, we’re discussing NFC/RFID used for access control systems. That has literally zero to do with Apple Pay, beyond using some of the same hardware.

Just because you can perform a secure payment with your iPhone, doesn’t suddenly mean every crappy MiFare classic access control system has suddenly become secure.
Fair use was designed for teachers photocopying pages of Walden for their pupils to read over the weekend. Not industrial-scale laundering of IP to benefit shareholders.
Note: I’m not one of those people that think copyright shouldn’t exist. Authors definitely deserve to get paid for their work.

That said, my personal belief is that if the books weren’t legally freely available all that Meta owes would be how much the book costs. Each individual book would be such a small part of the model that it’s barely distinguishable. I’m sure image models have been trained on some of my professionally taken photographs and I don’t care one bit.

I’d argue that’s the cost of the books was how much it was worth before AI models, and the authors themselves didn’t create the technology. Therefore the added value of the technology has absolutely nothing to do with them. If book publishers/authors decide to have different pricing in the future to take the tech into account that’s their right.
"Glad I'm not X" doesn't matter when the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will hit the whole planet.
If we are going to afford models like this treatment equivalent to sentient beings in this regard, why not others? In your extrapolation these ai walking among us are property of giant tech companies…
>Have you considered that you have some traits that make you eligible to read books and access information freely in the country you live in*? Something about being a conscious human being enjoying human rights, perhaps?

Not a relevant factor when it comes to copyright law. Fair use (the law that's most applicable here) applies regardless if you're a student using incorporating news articles into your work, or google making thumbnails and displaying them on their search results.
I don't read it as an ethical argument, it's an argument about the purpose of copyright. Copyright is intended to restrict reproduction of a work for the purpose of incentivizing the creation of new works. Copyright is not intended to restrict the transmission of knowledge.
Isn't that in fact true? Emotional or not.
> it doesn’t seem defensible for a major company with tons of lawyers, money, and talent to knowingly use stolen work to build something that they then turn around and sell.

I thought they give it away for free?
It feels like it’s time to go but where can you go?
The "and then fed them into an AI" part of "facebook pirated a bunch of books and then fed them into an AI" part is irrelevant. It would be equally illegal if they pirated them and then sat around reading them. Unless you somehow hope that the entirety of copyright will be overturned by this court case (not a chance) then you should strongly hope that facebook loses, because the alternative is literally "rules for thee but not for me" where corps can pirate whatever they want, but nothing changes for ordinary citizens.
> The CSV score would be weird for that.

Did you mean CVSS?
So if the latter is fine, then publishing fanfiction should be a small ask, right?
I've actually used this fact in a related way, for wayfinding.

Old school Open-CV was able to see tracks well from an onboard monocular camera, but calibration and scale was annoying. Track width is accurate enough that I was able to use it to input a bunch of head-end video to map the tracks.

It was mostly just a modified edge detect where the tracks approximately would be. Once finding the tracks, you could automatically calculate the camera's height, lateral location, and angle.
> One might also wonder why policymakers haven't fried these bigger fish that would improve conditions for female prisoners and female athletes, and instead have chosen to introduce gender self-id policy which demonstrably harms women and girls while privileging males.

If you keep repeating this, maybe you'll convince some people who desperately want to believe it.

And I don't really need to wonder why. Because they obviously don't care except when they can invoke "won't somebody think of [the women]" as a convenient excuse to achieve political power.

It's exactly as dishonest and intellectually bankrupt as "advocating for the unborn".
So first there was this ‘corporations are people’ and not we have ‘computers are people’.

So I expect to see that either you are no longer allowed to own computer software

Or a return of slavery.

Also if we find indecent portrayal of minors in a data centre I expect that we treat it as a strict liability crime and the entire data centre or corporation that owns it gets a long prison sentence, just like a human would. However that is suppose to work.
The whole point of starting an insurrection, sending the vote back to the states, and using alternate slate of electors was this was something that is so far outside the reach of normal courts that it would have stalled the process enough to possibly grant him emergency powers, declaring himself as president.

Trump doesn't need go full militant to end democracy. He could literally just cause enough bullshit in the process to where the two choices are either let things continue as he wants them two, or mass civil unrest and economic shutdown, and most people don't have a sense of nationalism to pick the latter. So US dies a death by 1000 cuts.

The only hope is that there are more people like Pence on the Republican side that when duty calls, they do the right thing.
Not sure what dude's trying to say but I certainly learned that he is a fascist.
Yes, and they way they are going about it is wrecking wordpress
Hah, I probably have a similar tool just called "ask" which logs to a JSON log instead of a sqlite db
Last time I checked, the birthrate in Tokyo is actually pretty robust,I think it was 2.3 or something like that. It's the rest of the country where young people are reluctant to start families for a variety of economic and social reasons.

A few of the leftish parties in Japan decentralization policies as part of their platform, and indeed much of the LDP's support comes from rural constituencies so you'd think they'd be in favor of it. But economic incentives for childrearing sometimes find themselves at odds with conservative mores around family roles and employment.
Legally, would it be any worse for Meta to download works that someone illegally copied and repurpose it for a transformative fair use than if Google had taken their scans of snippet-view Google Books borrowed from the library to train their model in fair use?
Hardware and algorithms keep getting 10x better in this space with a regular cadence.

The only way to prevent the things you are worried about is to let anyone train a model, and then compete to make the best product.

The enshittifying monopolies and big copyright holders are the only ones that would benefit from locking down training data or regulating AI compute.
That makes you "way more pissed" than DJT literally trying to steal the 2020 election? The Dems are bad, but let's keep things in perspective.
Valid point. And to some extent a lot of existing licensing models cover this for humans too (are you using this thing for yourself, or are you using this thing on behalf of your company).

There will be a lot to figure out over the coming years.
I'll help. It's like someone copied all of Facebook's code from a pirated source and stood up a competing website that allows users to avoid "paying" for Facebook's services (in the form here of not being served Facebook ads or offering up private information). Maybe in an extreme case the someone might even occasionally call themselves "Facebook" or use its logos.

The problem here is the tech industry sits on throne of riches built by IP law, so it doesn't sit well when suddenly it's "good for thee but not for me." If we're going to cherry pick, how about we walk back to a view that software isn't copyrightable and the copyright term is 34 years?
We surpassed the goals set by the accord already and other countries ignore it because it has no teeth. Nothing was lost.
In the US, yes. I've seen this more than once, but the worst instance was a guy who came into the sauna with all of his gym clothes on, also looking at his phone. You can't make this stuff up.
"Agency has the meaning given to it in section 551 of title 5, United States Code" ... "each Agency Head shall establish within their respective Agencies a DOGE Team of at least four employees" ... "each DOGE Team will typically include one DOGE Team Lead, one engineer, one human resources specialist, and one attorney"

that's at least 500k in salaries even for the lowball public sector, and there are at least 230 federal agencies, which you can be damn sure are gonna interpret this as broadly as possible, i.e. including the subagencies that's 400+ under 5 USC § 551 (see https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies)

nothing like kicking off your "efficiency" drive with a $200m+ expense
Given how it is trained specifically (they didn't encourage it to think, they allowed it to) there was a lot of emergent behavior as it trained.

Sort of like chess engines rediscovering classic (named) chess openings. See section 2.2.3 for the training template (it's a single paragraph I can't reproduce here because I'm on my phone)

Example emergent behavior (section 2.2.4 page 8): the model learns to solve more complex problems by spending more time reasoning. It also naturally develops reflection (what have I tried?) and exploration strategies.

Fundamentally, you should think of this as a nn that learned to solve real problems by reasoning about them in written language.

(My favorite part: it defaulted to reasoning in multiple languages. They constrained it to only reason in a single language and this negatively impacted performance! But the hypothesis is that it improves interpretability)
The Energy Storage Fiasco – How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?
lol, have they been living under a rock? Thats exactly the kind of thing I’d expect a major company to do.
bash> ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-GGUF:Q5_K_M
pulling manifest
...
success
>>> Tell me a "what's the difference between" joke about techbros and another funny comparison of your choosing
<think>
Okay, so I need to come up with a "What's the difference between" joke comparing techbros and another group. Hmm. Let me think.

First, what defines a techbro? They're usually associated with startups, tech gadgets, maybe working in Silicon Valley, into things like crypto, NFTs, and they often have a certain lingo or way of
dressing—like hoodies, jeans, maybe beanies. They might be seen as overly optimistic about their ideas changing the world but sometimes disconnected from practical realities.

Now, I need another group to compare them with. Maybe something else in tech but different enough to create humor. Let's think: developers? No, too similar. Maybe hipsters? Or perhaps venture capitalists?
Wait, what about "developers who actually ship code"? That could work because it plays on the idea that while techbros talk a lot about their ideas, developers are more focused on delivering actual
products.

So the joke structure is usually two lines: one for each group, highlighting a key difference. It needs to be punchy and capture the essence of both groups in a humorous way.

Let me draft it:

"What's the difference between a techbro and a developer who actually ships code?"

"Techbros are still explaining their MVP to you three years later, while developers just sent you a pull request titled 'it works now'."

Wait, does that make sense? Let me break it down. A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is something techbros often talk about but might take forever to actually build or ship. On the other hand, developers who
are focused on shipping code would just send a pull request indicating they've fixed something and it's done now.

I think that captures the difference between all talk and actual action. It's relatable for people in the tech industry who know the dynamics between idea people and implementers.

Is there another angle? Maybe comparing them to something else, like entrepreneurs or investors, but I think the developer angle is solid because it directly contrasts talking about ideas versus executing
them.

So the final answer would be that joke. It highlights the techbro's tendency to over-explain without delivery, while developers focus on getting things done.
</think>

**What's the difference between a techbro and a developer who actually ships code?**

*Techbros are still explaining their MVP to you three years later, while developers just sent you a pull request titled "it works now."*

This joke humorously contrasts the tendency of techbros to focus on ideas and discussions with the action-oriented approach of developers who deliver tangible results.
"The U.S. has historically been one of the largest funders of WHO." [1]. Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

(Looking at the WHO's largest voluntary contributors [2], I could see the UK, Australia and France withdrawing soon, too.)

[1] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fact-sheet/the-u-s-...

[2] https://www.who.int/about/funding
You break it, you bought it. You get zero points for invading a country for no good reason and saying you’re going to bring freedom and democracy while having no realistic plan for actually doing it.
> While Trump has undoubtedly been the catalyst, this is a bigger shift than any one person. After spending so long lost in the wilderness of excessive self-criticism and self-loathing, there's finally a broad coalition of the willing working to get the mojo back.

What a bizarre statement. Trump is the most vitriolic and divisive politician of our time. How is he causing DHH to leave the wilderness of "excessive self-criticism and self-loathing"?

What is this "mojo" he's talking about, that's apparently been missing until now?
thanks. guess I forgot to paste the URL (it was that one)
I just want writers to receive a bigger share of the cake, so publisher megacorps aren't the ones grabbing the lion's share. Writers could make a better living, and copyright could be reformed so corpos can't gate popular culture for more than two generations.
This is right, the “zone” is helpful for asymmetric side-by-sides. Windows does a similar thing.

The problem is that KDE “zone” doesn’t reset even when you close all windows associated with it, which should remove all traces of zoning cause there’s no window class/name affinity anymore. But when you win-left a new unrelated window, it becomes that-sized again. There’s no “reset” except for trying to manually 50%-width it back. My workflow includes taking screenshots (automation) so this is not an option, not to mention triggering perfectionism on “is this 50 or 49.7?”. I can re-size it to be around 50, but not reset (logout helps). I’d just bind a key “like everyone else does” ©, but there’s no way to control it programmatically.

I think I’ve seen a different thread last time, but here’s a similar one: https://discuss.kde.org/t/kwin-the-state-of-tiles/18316/3

Notably, it’s not how it always worked, it just broke with an update last summer (also affecting virtual screens etc) and no one seems to bother that much, as if it was some fringe “feature”.
So is having co-chairs (as opposed to just one)
Unless they don't determine it to be waste. Then it'd be perfectly in-line.
I think their intent and knowledge of whether they needed to pay for the content or not is also important. And there's clear evidence they knew they should pay and decided not to
What, I can't be happy about just one of the many faucets of garbage being briefly turned off?
On one hand yes those are malicious extensions. On the other Google policy states any code not originating from Google server is remote code, even code on my own hard drive. Its my computer and I should have ultimate choice. No amount of headers send by the server should be able to override My User Agent behavior against my will.

Its hard to easily reconcile those two points of view, but solution other than Google has the final say has to be found. If I wanted a nanny I would be using Apple products.