skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard to be apolitical, but most news are constantly repeating propaganda. Financial journals are great informing people. Right now business insider has an article on Wallstreet embracing opensource. The problem is that their pitch is always: How can we squeeze more from the working class and into our pockets?

I am looking for more authentic/humane writing style. There is a lot of info to keep informed, so the way in which things are expressed is important to me. Even outside the news it's hard to find good writing.

I think sites like ground.news just make things worst. The issue is not if something is left or right. It should be whether it is correct and in which setting. They are exploiting peoples' biases to make money.
Is there a self hosted version that does this properly?
GM, Pepsi, Disney, others scrub DEI references from investor reports
it almost sounds robotic, if I didn't expect that even AI would prefer generally accepted terms even just to try sound more authentic.
We all like hating big corporations, especially Meta, and people seem to use this as an opportunity to advocate for punishing them. I think it's wiser to advocate for changing our IP laws.
Integrations is part of the data moat I mentioned.
This is the best display of this data that I've seen so far, thanks for sharing OP. Truly wild seeing so many names of people I know raked in cash this way. Makes me start to understand where their seemingly endless money came from sometimes.
At face value I agree with everything USAID stands for, but it sounds like you have some examples in mind you want to provide.
I don't know if it's illegal, but it's commonplace in Spanish media now.
> when half the country can't access their files anymore and Apple points to this decision as the reason.

Governments are extremely powerful. They may issue a gag order (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order) that makes it illegal for Apple to do that.
- ... and how do you know?

- I have generated a very likely series of letters and then added a little randomization to not sound like robot.
You don't need buttflare's mistery juice to rate-limit or block bad users.
Why would anyone choose .NET for anything non-Windows (or non-Microsoft)? Besides familiarity of course but that means jack shit.
I don't disagree, but I would still argue that it would not work as well. The only way I'd see this working would be with heavy government intervention, and I think the british figure of speech for that is "fat chance".
Throwing any codepoint sequence at two separate compliant HTML5 parsers will result in the same DOM, and to my knowledge, all major browsers use compliant parsers.
No firm plans for USB-A. A USB-C to USB-A converter works, but maybe not so elegant.
My dialogue on zeit.de had:

"Allen zustimmen"
"Ausgewahlten zustimmen"

Yep I could look it up. But using the same verb looks like an intentional dark pattern to me. And I wasn't interested enough in the article to jump through the hoops.

(Our conversation did make me look it up and neither is 'reject all', they're 'accept all' and 'accept selection').
Isn't it tragic that both Android and WUFFS are built by the same company? Sounds almost like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing (or willingly ignores).
On a slightly related note, does anyone feel copilot is not as powerful as it used to be? It's kind of hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but it feels like it often either does nothing, or generates the bare minimum.

I think one concrete thing is writing a comment about a function, then expecting that function below the comment, but instead you get more comments.
Not only that, but in photoshop and word dialogs for features released in 1995 had different design conventions from dialogs from feature released in 1999. Not UI controls and stuff like that (everything was still using win32), but the design language itself. Like how to display things to user or how to align buttons and stuff like that.

If anything this kind of layout patterns are better today than they were back then. What the OP is complaining about was ALWAYS a problem for any long-lived software. But given how much _older_ some software is today it is no wonder it is way more noticeable.

Win95 had a bunch of Win3.1 settings dialogs just like Win11 still has a bunch of Windows98 setting dialogs (the network adapter TCP/IP configuration one comes to mind).

I mean just look at this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/l85hsx/windows_3...
Why not ? Do you think that AI doesn't enjoy porn ? /s
Musk, the crypto libertarian who works for the US government?
Great point, noted! Thanks!
First punish them. Then change the laws.
Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that featured false information
I censor myself all the time when speaking, depending on the context and who I’m speaking to. I do it because it’s typically in my best interest to do so, and because I believe that it is respectful in that moment. The things I say represent me. I don’t find it too surprising that a company might want to censor their own AI product as it represents them and their reputation.
Even before the LLM-craze Google was showing their Answers box or whatever it was called at the top of the results that told you the answer (sometimes) so that you didn’t have to visit any website.
Buggy software getting re-used in another hardware configuration (with no physical safety interlocks) was one of the root causes of the Therac-25 disaster.
> 100TB is like 6 hard drives...

Discounted Seagates ? /s
Local Community Detection in NetworkX
Damn leechers!
A few companies are cropping up to do EV battery repairs so it may be affordable to a consumer.

E.g. https://cedarelectric.co.uk/electric-and-hybrid-battery-repa...

My thoughts are that even after 80% usage the battery still has a second life for use in home power storage. Even after that most of the battery parts can be recycled. I think that battery trade-in schemes will start to become affordable once these reuse and recycling routes are scaled up.
Global Dialogues – global AI opinion survey
One reason would be support for far more file formats. Currently 2077 conversions are supported in How to Convert (many more to come), while 412 are supported in FileConverter. How to Convert also runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, while FileConverter is only on Windows.

It looks like a great project, but I can imagine it is hard for the maintainer to have time to add these features without any financial compensation. I'm not in a good financial place to make How to Convert open source yet, so am hoping users paying the current $7.5 will help support it's development.

It's a one time fee that gives you the project forever.
>It remains unclear why Schulman chose to leave Anthropic so soon after joining [...]

Money! Duh.
> Boeing, for what it's worth, has learned from their mistakes with this project

Ha ha, no.

What Boeing should have learned, after the past 5 years of repeated failures, and 346 deaths -may they rest in peace-, is that their engineering quality is lacking.

The only logical conclusion that can be made from all these failures is crystal clear: we have to prioritize engineering quality, so that our products can be delivered on time, and work safely and as expected. With this, we can create value that can be redistributed to our shareholders.

What you suggest they learned is: let's refuse fixed-price contracts, so that we can milk this cow until she starves.

And unfortunately, knowing Boeing, that's exactly the lesson they will have taken away from this program, which is why we can expect them to continue failing miserably in the future. Probably at the cost of human lives.
Best way to "punish" Meta is to slash the Gordian knot and abolish copyright. Level the playing field, incrementally, for everyone else who isn't a trillion-dollar corporation.

The alternative is a futile legalistic attack against a monopoly entity too powerful to be meaningfully punished. That won't accomplish anything useful. It would, rather, help cement this status quo, where copyright infringement is selectively legal or illegal, for different entities at the same time; and companies like Meta thrive arbitraging that difference. You can't defeat Meta—but you can help dig them a moat.
For Google's case the order was reversed.

Google used to send customers to your site. Now they try to show you the information on their site so that the customer doesn't need to go to your site.
I think most of the public is probably in favor of stronger IP laws now that big corps are threatening to make them jobless with IP-disrespecting AIs
the english empire once tried to mantain a monopoly over steam loom machines

the americans cheated their way to competition,

heck, even before that, the english empire got jumpstarted by stealing gold from the spanish (who were themselves exploiting it away from aztec and other mexican natives)

I'm saying it's business as usual, but also, culture doesn't work like tangible physical widgets so we must stop letting a few steal this boon of digital copying by means of silly ideas like DRM, copyright, patents. all means to cause scarcity
Is there any other possible outcome than a fine? That too one which will not really affect Meta's overall earnings
Close the comment, write 'function' and wait a little.
Weird shenanigans are happening in libgen at the moment; better go through Anna's Archive to look for the items you want, it will link you to the corresponding mirrors more reliably.

At least this has been the recent experience of a friend who used libgen and anna's archive to download legal, public domain works!
Philippines is corrupt to the core as well, from courts to police to civilians. So the real reason why POGOs were thrown out of the country was that the didn't pay off the right people. Nothing gets done in Philippines without bribes.
Apple Ignorance
Could you share the url to this page? I tried searching for it but could not find it.
I find it assuming that the might of the American government -- in trying to take a bunch of data offline -- is being resisted by a digital "militia" of hobbyist archivers and non profits.

Theres something that about this that just rings second amendment. Personally I think the concept of civilians having weapons to be a check on a nation state is absurd, but in this case it feels pretty empowering.
I believe that is part of this lawsuit pretty much
Aesthetic Warfare (and the Power of Aesthetic Authorship)
" If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life."

This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.
There's evidence of them seeding back as little as possible. I'm not sure how that's "creating a backup".
Several specific ones:

- Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (joining the hallowed company of Russia and Belarus!)

- leaving the World Health Organisation

- get rid of net-zero climate targets, replacing them with fast-tracked approval for more North Sea oil & gas licenses and fracking

- public enquiry on “Vaccine Harms”
Looks like the entire legal system is being retooled at the moment.
Gag orders affect information, not whether they continue to provide a service or not.
"What can I do, under US law, to minimize what they store about me and my behavior, or at least keep tabs on them?"
"...Nothing"
"Nonsense, and the article addresses this. 'Block Meta’s Trackers'

The parent said nothing could be done. I say that's nonsense and listed a thing that could be done. You respond it's not nonsense and then list the same thing I mentioned.

I am very confused by your thought process.
It's an out-of-bounds write, caused by injecting UVC_VS_UNDEFINED frames into the video file, as they weren't size-handled correctly.

Which means, unfortunately, that playing a video file with that particular driver is all that would be needed.

The constructed video file would need a second exploit to jump out of the virtual memory of the driver and into the kernel, but that has happened before [1]. It's a high risk. Or it could just be used to crash every device that sees the video in a DoS attack.

However, the devices that use those drivers tend not to be end-user devices (webcams, smart TVs, TV tuners, recorders, etc.) They would be used as an entrypoint, before moving laterally into a network. So, standard IoT type breach.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

[1] https://github.com/0xdevil/CVE-2021-42008
But who threatened? If you fail to see the difference between legal actions from private entities and threats by a government that shows it doesn't feel bounded by laws (see illegal actions from the memecoin department) then you should probably refrain from giving your opinion…
>Jonathan Head

>South East Asia correspondent

>Reporting from Shwe Kokko, Myanmar

Before the article even started.
Hollywood became popular for filmmaking because they were literally the opposite side of the country from Thomas Edison and his patents...
> Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation

Wrong.

a) Robots.txt which defines what content you wish to make available to third parties predates every search engine including Google. Web site owners chose to make it available to Google and search engines have respected their wishes despite it not being in their best interest.

b) The difference here is that OpenAI, Meta etc have not even tried to honour the wishes of copyright holders. They just considered everything as theirs.

c) Google grew big because it had no ads, fast interface and PageRank was significantly better. It wasn't because it had the most comprehensive index.
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
That really is an excellent (and rather long) piece.

I've often wondered how much of the original HHGTTG radio series was really John Lloyd his producer, who often had no choice but to take what Douglas had produced and bash it into shape to make a workable script.

I often wonder what could have been produced if Douglas had just had a little more focus, and whether that might have just taken the edge off his work.
This should be legal. Copyright law does more harm than good.

The only ethical problem here is that only Meta sized companies can afford to pay the "damages" for such blatant law violations at worst, or the fees of their lawyers at best.
What a weird take that is.
DIU studying applications of SpaceX Starship in-space refueling – SpaceNews
Such a fascinating book. I remember first reading it because of True Detective season 1. I was pretty into Lovecraft at the time. The first short story is still great
Getting upset that USAID spent the government equivalent of pocket change on programs that nominally helped other countries and practically bound them to US soft power is (1) cutting off your nose to spite your face and (2) not equivalent to deleting data that money was already spent on.
Very same experience. Plus, the guardrails have just become ridicioulus.
I would hardly argue that the Shinagawa corporate park, if you mean where the Intercontinental is and where Nikon used to be, works well. There's basically no human activity at ground level except people walking to and from the train.
Not to interrupt your righteous indignity, but this bug is ancient. The relevant bug appears to be unchanged since this file was merged in June 2008. Writing it in Rust or whatever wasn't really an option.

This attitude sort of irks me. It's not enough in a modern world of outrageous complexity to pronounce what should have been done. Someone needs to be actually doing it. I mean, let's be specific here: where exactly is the memory-safe USB UVC driver you think Android should be shipping? And if it doesn't exist, why doesn't it exist yet? That seems, IMHO, to be a more serious roadblock than the bug itself.
Can you point to a specific tower you're thinking of?
You can do the same thing in Rust as Log4J.

I haven't tested this code, and definitely don't do this.

This code is intended to lets attackers run any shell command by sending JSON with a "debug_command" field - similar to Log4J, it's a "feature" being misused rather than a memory bug that Rust would catch.

```rust
use serde_json::Value;
use std::process::Command;

fn process_log_entry(log: &str) {
// UNSAFE: Allows command injection
if let Ok(json) = serde_json::from_str::<Value>(log) {
if let Some(cmd) = json.get("debug_command") {
Command::new("sh")
.arg("-c")
.arg(cmd.as_str().unwrap_or(""))
.output()
.unwrap();
}
}
}
```
Title has been editorialized, the correct title is:

Copilot stops working on gender related subjects
I couldn't do anything because of "moral considerations" my peers don't share. That's literally the Nuremberg Defense. Maybe pointing this out doesn't "work" but it is true. Do what you will with that, I'm not here to "work" on you or anything like that. You're a free person, as am I
To your first point, the op said without compensation, not without permission.
Well that depends, the camera app is generally accessible on locked phones, so the question is, can the camera app make use of USB-connected cameras, and if so is there any restriction on accessing such cameras in locked mode (like there is a restriction on accessing past photos).
Making LLMs Ruthless – AI Alignment Is More Fragile Than You Think
UK judges are not elected, and don't do things on the basis of what the public thinks.

This headline comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_of_the_People_(headlin...
He has a prescription for Ketamine and is probably an occasional other stuff. Of course you don't quite know. The best source is probably the wsj article https://archive.ph/zcAdE . Says "LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties".

My sisters first boyfriend went permanently nuts from mostly that list. I think it was a toxic mushroom that flipped him.
point c is wrong...they had ads since the original yahoo contract....
> Web site owners chose to make it available to Google.

Strong disagree. Since robots.txt is optional and the default is "crawl me as you please", website owners don't "choose to make it available", they just don't choose to make it non-available.
The weight-loss drugs being tested in 2025: will they beat Ozempic?
Wrong. Google ignores robots.txt entirely
No we just need to enforce the existing laws.

And the legal system is for humans not computers.
I wonder what happened to the related OpenAI training GPT3 on the books3 dataset story[1] from ~2 years ago?

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/battle-over-books3/
I suspect that when he's done working for it, there won't be a (functioning) government anymore, so yes.
Despite the terminology in the article, this isn't an "Android" bug and wasn't "written" by Google. In fact the relevant code predates Android entirely.
I had similar issues when trying to ask Copilot about master/slave replication, just error, no explanation
Probably not that useful to prevent the use of AI, just prompt for any shipments. In a real app the contents of the packages shouldn't be hard-coded anyway. Might prevent the really stupid who can't figure that out though.
People criming in the past is not an excuse for companies committing crimes today. You’re excusing lawlessness.

Cain killed Abel and got away with it!! I can kill someone today too!!!
My favorite IEMs are hifiman, great sound stage
> Was there an AI tool recently in the news which creates a podcast episode based on a topic to learn? This is just a brilliant idea.

It’s an awful idea. To the surprise of no one, it makes up false information and presents it as fact.
All these companies are 0.5 months away from "singularity" and "super intelligence" yet no one sticks with them for more than a couple of months. Something doesn't add up
I think if Google attempted to download the entirety of JSTOR with the express intent of making the full dataset freely available, then Google would also face legal consequences.

It's true, and relevant, that Google would feel those consequences much less sharply than Swartz did.
Pretty confident most of us haven't pirated 82tb of media in order to train an AI but maybe I'm naive?
Ten Tiny Canvases [video]
It's in the USB UVC video class driver, so no. You need to plug a malicious piece of hardware into the device, presumably.
Money speaks !
Money buys !
We need better laws that would create a better way to do this legally whilst compensating rights holders.
Yes! Islands are fascinating because the creatures that get trapped on them take or represent weird routes of evolution.

It's no wonder that Darwin started thinking "what's happening here" after visiting a bunch of islands.

My favorite island creature is the cold blooded dwarf goat Myotragus balearicus. Likely a victim of human expansion.
The legal system is built to favor large corps and capital owners.
See Katharina Pistor books for instance.
"Supposedly, Meta tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to "avoid" the "risk" of anyone "tracing back the seeder/downloader" from Facebook servers, an internal message from Meta researcher Frank Zhang said, while describing the work as in "stealth mode." Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur," a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition..."

They will be getting a lot of Frommer Legal letters...
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
Yeah indeed.

The SE is also relatively expensive in Europe. And in Spain Apple seems to have completely removed all trace of the SE from their website. Strange enough. Didn't check other EU sites.
What Elon Musk Wants
Meta is not “innocent”, and comparing this instance with Swartz is a huge offense to his legacy.
Big corporations all like hating their consumers abd legal laws. You love committing crimes it seems.
I’m somewhat “rude” in my code comments and was tripped up by this last month… took me a while to figure out while on that specific file autocomplete would stop working
https://bsky.app/profile/giorgio.azzinna.ro/post/3lecq3v5gts...

Not to mention, there’s apparently some research saying code with swear words has higher quality, so if AI causes some decline there, we now know why it is https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/110mj6p/open_s...
Greenland and Panama Canal stuff sounds like a push for Technocracy. Look at the North American Technate!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_Techn...

And seems to align with Musk's dreams.
https://archive.ph/OULqX
This is not correct. The UVC code isn't involved in the playback path. It's the USB class driver for video capture devices. You have to plug a malicious webcam into the phone.
Amazon expects to spend $100B on capital expenditures in 2025
"venture firm Space Capital predicts both Boeing and Airbus will divest their space divisions in 2025":

https://spacenews.com/space-venture-firm-predicts-industry-s...
Yahoo contract was 2 years after it launched.

I remember using Google the day it went public and it had no ads which made it unique compared to Altavista.
Las Vegas is an insignificant mote of dust compared to Macau when it comes to Casinos and gambling.
Larping the larpers.
Phishing Tests, the Bane of Work Life, Are Getting Meaner
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/phishing-tests-the-ba...
Seems the trend with most LLM tech is once the users are there the model is quantized or downgraded down to the bare minimum level of usefulness either silently or through new versions that are just not better in real use.