skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Determinism and free will are pretty irrelevant here.

No. It’s the other way around. Free will is the basic for „creating something new“.

> Btw, I don't think determinism in humans/AI has anything to do with deliberation.

With determinism there is no deliberation.
Meta already does that to themselves every year or so, deleting all internal communications.

They've thrown away a huge amount of communication to source code commit reinforcement training data as a result. They do it to avoid emails making it into trials like this.
Reform UK don't believe Covid was a hoax.

Reform UK believe that the purported efficacy of the mRNA vaccines at preventing transmission was massively exaggerated (we now know it was).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Reform UK believe that the detrimental side effects of lockdown policy outweighed the benefits of lockdown policy (again, there's evidence to support this view)

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...

"While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument."

We need more voices that are willing to state these truths in Parliament IMO.
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Libertarians would answer that in a True Libertarian World, gambling would be legal everywhere: so gamblers would have a rich choice between casino's and wouldn't have to resort to shady casino's with bad reputations, as they do now.
A corrected quote from one of your greater presidents - "Fool me once, shame on you..."
>Boeing, for what it's worth, has learned from their mistakes with this project

okay, learning is good

>they will never accept fixed-price contracts again

Yeah, that's not the lesson they should take from this fiasco.

Given how Boeing was reportedly acting regarding the development of a new crew vehicle[1], the hubris shown seems to be systemic, top to bottom. I have no empathy for the Boeing management that got them into this situation, and if their takeaway is "we're just not going to accept contracts like this", and not, "we need to deeply change how we engineer solutions", then coupled with the 737-max tragedies, Boeing can go bankrupt for all I care.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Starliner/comments/1f0g0ow/some_int...
"Far right" suggests extremism.

Could you name an extremist policy that Reform have proposed?
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Since the headline is a bit ambiguous (maybe only bc English is not my first language):

It is Apple has been ordered to open encrypted user accounts but it still has to be seen what they'll do and not Apple ordered their whatever department to open encrypted user accounts.
White space being broken was one of my first gripes with HTML, and that was about 25 years ago. It’s amazing to see a whole post about it finally, but also so obvious that I’m surprised to see one.
I did, because I also followed the Chinese actor kidnapping story from the Thai publications and know about the magical place across the river and it's history. South East Asia is historically fascinating. It's worth reading Burman diaries to put later writings of Orwell into some context.
Before I decided my opinion on this I need to know their ratio.
The article says they got datasets from Anna's Archive. It was most likely the scihub/libgen torrent which is 96.0 TB right now and contains 92,872,581 files. That's about 1 megabyte per file.

https://annas-archive.org/datasets
All three. It's always all three.
offer a l2 load balancer that act as a queue. if the site decides its a dos/bad request it sends either a dowgraded response the load balancer can read or a side channel comms. then the load balancer drop everything from that ip or other identifiable patterns based only on l2 info.

there are many others. just buy a book for industries that value privacy or pay someone.
advertising is a necessity, IMO. The problem is the adversarial way it is done.

How would you exercise your free choice of products, if you don't know about them?

Selling and advertising could be and has been done in a "positive-sum" way, it's just not as effective.

I would point to the _under-regulated_ stock market as the problem, causing short term profit being highly incentivised... but then again that's a slippery slope too and I don't have the macro-economics chops to propose where exactly is the problem and how to fix it :/
> Could make interesting case law.

Yeah, to perpetuate this system where only those who can afford lawyers get to benefit
Somehow I‘m disappointed that George Hotz is not on the list.
> On what sort of machine? What sort of OS?

Just sharing an anecdote: recently, I had to create Linux images for x86 on ARM machine using QEMU. During this process, I discovered that, for example, creation of initrd fails because of memory page size (some code makes assumption about page size and calculates the memory location to access instead of using system interface to discover that location). There's a similar problem when using "locate" utility. Probably a bunch more programs that have been successfully used millions, well, probably trillions times. This manifests itself in QEMU segfaulting when trying to perform these operations.

But, to answer the question: I think, one way to define memory safety is to ensure that the language doesn't have the ability to do I/O to a memory address not obtained through system interface. Not sure if this is too much to ask. Feels like for application development purposes this should be OK, and for system development this obviously will not work (someone has to create the system interface that supplies valid memory addresses).
EU should have just banned all collection. You give an inch and the parasites take a mile.

If given an active choice nobody* would ever go "yes I want you to sell my data to your 1,414 carefully selected partners". Maybe they want personalisation when they sign up for an account, but you ask them that at signup time, not the first time they land on your page.

* where nobody < 1%
"boeing" - the sound made by bits of aircraft hitting the ground.
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I recently realised I didn't really _know_ curl, I only ever used "copy as curl" from my browser's dev tools or searched for the command each time.

So I went through my own search history, and wrote-up https://onlineornot.com/curl-command and this generator so I wouldn't need to look up the flags each time.

I built in TypeScript and it uses nuqs to sync the form's state with the URL. I'm thinking about extending it into a proper browser-based API client just for fun too.
Please understand, putting a can of human beans into LEO using a preexisting flight proven rocket is very hard and there is no possible way America's most experienced aerospace company could have possibility come up with a realistic estimate for what it would cost.

There is a competency crisis at Boeing. Not in America generally, as some have suggested, but Boeing specifically.
In 2004 it took the world 1yr to add a gigawatt of solar power – now it's 1 day
I remember reading the Apple Quicktime EULA [1] (changed from all-caps):

> The Apple software is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control systems, life support machines or other equipment in which the failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.

[1] https://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/quicktime7.pdf
Remembering Aaron Swartz in this moment
El Pais probably figured if Facebook/Meta/Instagram can get away with doing the same (Choose between "Free = Cookies + Tracking" or "Subscribe/Pay = No Cookies + Tracking"), so can they.
Just because the LLMs are trained on text doesn't mean that images we're a part of what they downloaded.

You clean up the data after you acquire it, not before.
100TB is like 6 hard drives...
And... unplug from whatever news prpvider you are plugged into
Across Europe, young people are finding friends by walking our cities
I wonder what app she is talking about
Oh. Very interesting point there.

I have uBlock Origin (mind, with the default settings). I also have the Consent-O-Matic autofill extension that's supposed to reject cookies automatically for me.

Neither of them seems to catch cookie dialogs on some german sites. Not that I want uBlock to hide the cookie dialogs, I want them explicitly rejected by the other extension.

Consent-O-Matic does automatically reject most crap on english and romanian sites so I guess they haven't added support for whatever cookie dialog zeit.de uses (and that's popular on german sites?).

> both accept and reject kinda look the same to me

I bet that's very intentional too, and there are other ways to phrase it in German so the two options don't look similar.
Singapore certainly isn't for me, but I don't think you can call it unpopular by any means.
I wonder if one can sneak in words into code to avoid public code to be used for training AI. Perhaps just a tiny little nazi reference.
That still would have to be Arch. From what I have heard elsewhere, I would suggest Debian for its extreme stability. You won't get the newest stuff, but Debian is really focused on making sure nothing breaks between updates.
>1. Start Using AI Tools—Now

AI tools suck, and the people who use them suck. I'm not changing my mind on this. If you're using AI tools to write, it means you don't know how to articulate your own ideas. Unless you have a very specific deficit, this means you don't full understand your own ideas. The only place I've seen AI tools be useful is when you're well the bell curve in a technical area. If you know a technical topic well, then AI tools not only do worse than you, but often suggest syntax which doesn't actually work. If you lacked expertise in the area, you'd have no idea why the syntax didn't work. In other words, it's a catch 22; the AI tools output is fairly hit or miss, and needs to be vetted. The only way to to vet it is to have a strong grasp on the subject; if I had a strong grasp on the subject, I wouldn't need help with the problem in the first place.
Article states: Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur"
I'm not ruling it out, that's what I meant with they have made noises about opening it and the other stuff about how it is almost inevitable for real transformative AR.

I pretty much do rule out the stuff that would let you control it with custom coded filters filtering even what meta apps can see though
Azure Data Studio is being killed by Microsoft
It /does/ eliminate whole classes of errors. No use after free bugs if you never free memory.

That might have been a worthwhile tradeoff in safety-critical software where failures causes people to die (or not die as the case may be here)
Not that I have any particular sympathy for the guy, but could we keep the tone a bit more civil around here? HN is one of the few bastions of grounded discussion on the internet, and I’d prefer to keep it that way.
Hey Aman, I like the domain. Btw, I own startupbaba.com. You are doing a much better job using the domain - Startup with a colloquial. :-)
FWIW, Apple's current batteries are stated to last 1000 cycles until they reach 80% capacity. [0]

Anecdotally I have 98% capacity at 248 cycles on my 15 pro. I use an 80% charge limit as I don't use that much battery in a day.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/20/iphone-15-battery-lifescyle-s...
> Meta already does that to themselves every year or so, deleting all internal communications.

Aren't they obligated by law to keep all internal communication?
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It's easy for people to draw the wrong conclusion when part of the state of play in all this, is a network of foreign-adversary troll farms blanketing the internet and taking pains to seed public opinion with the assumption that all this is a fait accompli.

Every thing that has been attempted and failed or rolled back, so far, has had people out there stating as fact that it's permanent now and will never fail or roll back.

So, rather than take it as read that suspension of elections and total subversion of the process is guaranteed, instead take it as read that there will be people at work (literally) presenting that idea as if it is the only possible outcome, and getting a certain proportion of real people to agree with them. You'll always persuade somebody, no matter how odd your proposition is.

I personally think there'll be elections, that they'll be interfered with but perhaps not enough to truly alter the outcome, and that the real action isn't to do with establishing a functional dictatorship, but rather to do as much harm as possible while possible, so any political reversal will lead to the victors presiding over a gravely wounded country. I think that's a lot more probable than 'there will never be elections and the dictatorship will be all-powerful'. They don't look or act all-powerful, they just are very effective at putting sand in the gears. I think that sabotage is the real purpose here.
Depending on a local warlord to protect your independent privately owned city-state (in exchange for a healthy cut out of your profits, of course) doesn't sound like something that is likely to work long term.

But at least one well known crypto-libertarian seems to be making some money out of it:

> With Thailand cutting off power and telecommunications, electricity comes from diesel generators, which are expensive to run. And communications go through Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system, which is also very costly.
Beyond illegal downloading and distribution of copyrighted content, the article also describes how Meta staff seemingly lied about it in depositions (including, potentially, Mark Zuckerberg himself).
They already learned that lesson with airforce one. Unsure on the timelines of them, but agreeing with others that it's the wrong lesson to learn. FFP can be done well. They are not doing them well.
> How would you exercise your free choice of products, if you don't know about them?

The problem is that advertising does two things:

1. inform people of the availability of the product/service

2. persuade people to buy said product

Point 2 is the evil part. Note however that we can easily remove 2 but still have 1. For example, show the information when the user wants to see it, as opposed to shoving it in their face (distraction) when they were doing something else. We could bring back yellow pages. Or have dedicated websites where users can search for products and services. It is not rocket science.
Which was arguably more innocent — scientific papers.
Google shipped some fire (Gemini 2.0) [video]
Based on the encyclopedic knowledge LLMs have of written works I assume all parties did the same. But I think there is a broader point to make here. Youtube was initially a ghost town (it started as a dating site) and it only got traction once people started uploading copyrighted TV shows to it. Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation. Spotify's music library was also pirated in the early days. The contracts with the music labels came later. GPL violations by commercial products fits the theme also.

Companies aggressively protect their own intellectual property but have no qualms about violating the IP rights of others. Companies. Individuals have no such privilege. If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life.
Sometimes the PDF of a book is big because the book's packed with important illustrations and charts - like a textbook or journal paper.

Other times a PDF of a book is big because someone scanned it and didn't have trustworthy OCR, so they figured distributing images of text at 1.5 MB per page was better than risking OCR errors.
Thanks for pointing that out! Yes, this guide is mainly for running a DeepSeek-trained distilled model, which I forgot to mention.
Even after JSTOR declined to press charges in that case. Despicable. The US has dug the hole it's going down.
yeah, for sure my friend. the populistic election fear of "the gays" wich led to the election of a guy who bribed pornstars and another not elected but who yourself already recognize as the true ruler, who raised a transgender daugther, they are alrady omnipresent as gods and impacting every aspect of everyone's life where a pronom may appear.

sigh.
Interesting, my first thought was Macao
I don't intend to become one of those Arch-fanatics who victim blames everyone, but I do have to say that this is the one system that actually does not fail on me because of peculiarities between updates. Takes some time, but it is extremely stable if you don't tinker with it too much.

I do also have to say that using i3 makes stuff easier, because it is relatively minimalistic and therefore little changes at all. Perhaps you can try Debian? I have heard very good things about its stability.
Has this been written by AI?

I'm sorry but it's just noise.

> Even if you do all this and still get fired, it's not about your skills. It's just how things work sometimes. But if you've built up AI skills, side projects, and a deep understanding of your industry, you're in a strong position to start something of your own—freelancing, consulting, or even launching a startup.

"just how things work sometimes" - very insightful. Fired? Then you're in a great position to launch a startup!
The administration Musk is a part of has suspended leasing and permitting for wind energy projects: https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-tru...

It has suspended renewable energy approvals on public lands: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5105492-trump-...

And it's quitting the Paris climate agreement so it can "drill, baby, drill": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20px1e05w0o

If you're serious about addressing climate change, you can no longer buy Tesla.
It really makes you think about those crazy internet folks from back in the day who thought copyright law was too strict and that restricting humanity to knowledge in such a way was holding us all back for the benefit of a tiny few.
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One theory is it's a mixup about the Gaza in Mozambique:

> According to the HHS grants database, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Mozambique received more than $83m in funding since 2021 for reproductive health projects in two provinces: Inhambane and Gaza.
That's what I'm wondering too. This is in uvcvideo, processing data from USB-connected cameras.

So, maybe you can exploit it by connecting a camera to the USB port? That would be bad enough. But this code only seems to be called if a video stream is active. So things like unlocking a locked phone seems improbable to be possible.
What’s the chance you’re affiliated? Almost every one of your comments links to it. And curiously similar interest in Rust from the official HN page and yours. No need to be sneaky.
In addition to ads, perhaps Pi-hole should have a database for telemetry as well.
Considering prices for single work, this must be multi-billion dollar compensation.

Take for example 675k paid for 31 songs. So 20k a song. If we estimate book to be say 10MB that would 8 million works. So I think reasonable compensation is something along 163 billion. Not even 10 years of net income. Which I think is entirely fair punishment.
According to a study in 2023 half of vinyl buyers in the US doesn't have a record player. It seems like for a lot of people it's less of a music media and more a combination of supporting their favorite artists and home decor or collecting cards. My guess is that a majority of all vinyl buyers listen to a lot of digital music as well.

https://consequence.net/2023/04/half-vinyl-buyers-record-pla...
I think the most important part is that if you're bad at articulating your ideas, AI tools will keep you in that place. You've basically given up on improving and you choose to be represented by the AI's level in the future.
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Torrents track availability of pieces, you can seed ones with least availability if you want that.
at least better response when they had a remote exploit on the pixel modem os wich allowed full phone takeover and just delayed one update for almost two months and tried to pretend there was nothing to see there.
Putin's meddling all over the place including here.

To the extent that he has a role in this (certainly has publically claimed to!), he will in no way seek to make America a powerful allied country to Russia. There's no reason to assume he intends Trump or even Musk to actually be powerful in their own right.

Especially Musk. Musk must be mad to put himself in the position he's in. The only reason Putin would allow Musk to do what he's doing, is because it's patently obvious that Musk is undermining his own potential political base in every way, with every action. A widely hated man who's gone full Bond villain is no threat to Putin, politically. He's setting himself up to be demonized (Musk is) and doesn't even seem to register it.
I think some form of anti brute force could still be done using something like https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/10/12/introduction-to-veri...
That's horrible!
Magnet anyone?
I also thought about coderpad, I have seen some codingame community challenge results and liked the report.
No large company will ever consider training a public LLM on all their internal communications.
I understand this. However, I do not feel this way. AI tools are a lot of help these days, but that is what - helps. I can do without it well.

To your point, I have seen a few people who cannot do anything without ChatGPT. On the one hand, they will always have some form of “Calculator” that they can use to survive their professional lives, but will they ever have any form of fulfillment/accomplishment? I’m not sure if that is even their concern. Many are happy that “I get my salary at the end of the month. I don’t care about anything else.”

This is akin to people who use a digital Map App wherever they go and never bothered to learn to navigate.

Edit: The AI suggested clarifying the wording and correcting my grammar.