skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. When Syria turned into a god awful war zone many in the developed world pushed to receive them (and it was more than 2 million). But not when it comes to the Palestinians, it's almost as if the Palestinians are pawns in some bigger game I don't really understand.
I think you’re overstating its importance. The internet already makes it possible to order almost any book in existence and have it arrive at your doorstep within a week or so, or often on your ebook reader instantly. And your local library probably participates in an interlibrary loan system that lets you request any book held by any library in the country for free.

LibGen gives you access to a much smaller body of works than either of those. It’s a little more convenient. But the big difference is that it doesn’t compensate the author at all.

Just go to a real library.
It seems well-intentioned, but not particularly well informed...

* It mixes concerns of HTML and CSS - e.g. <pre> eating newlines is a result of the HTML parser, but whitespace collapsing is specified in CSS.

* It suggests turning HTML from a markup language into... whatever incompatible thing the author came up with. Arguably it's not much worse than XHTML, but I don't expect better adoption.

* The final suggestion is to add a character reference to CSS - the sole issue being that CSS does not see character references, those are turned by HTML into Unicode codepoints. Also, the set of character references is closed, for good reasons.[0]

* (Nit, but "block formatting context" does not mean what the author thinks it means. Flex items behave like blocks because they become blockified - BFCs solve a separate, similarly hairy issue (floats & margin collapsing.))

[0]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/main/FAQ.md#html-should-...
Donald's novel "Surreal Numbers" was written during one week of a long stay in Norway [0]. So, maybe there he got his admiration for traditional Sami clothing.

[0]: https://youtu.be/jB0aeePskBg
Too much paperwork, too much effort. These are important people, doing much more important stuff than whatever book authors do.

Or so they think, I think.
Judges only interpret the law as laid down by parliament. And, in theory at least, parliament cares about public opinion.
daaaamn!

That's the one :)
Thank you so much for finding it!
their own docs also specify that the robots.txt does not stop indexing or showing up in search, they even bolded it "it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google"

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
thanks for the great work :)
Cain was severely punished.

וְעַתָּ֖ה אָר֣וּר אָ֑תָּה מִן־הָֽאֲדָמָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פָּצְתָ֣ה אֶת־פִּ֔יהָ לָקַ֛חַת אֶת־דְּמֵ֥י אָחִ֖יךָ מִיָּדֶֽךָ׃
Therefore, you shall be more cursed than the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.4.12
Pascal being derived from Algol, it makes a lot of sense.
That, and the standard for rejecting racists shouldn't be set at "hyper racist." Especially since we are seeing supposedly well educated young men in an environment that has normalized anything less than "hyper."
In Win11, the old-style settings dialogs are the good ones, that allow you to change the settings.
It wouldn't satisfy both groups, the people who want the censorship want it censored for everyone
Because the people in charge are morons and the public is full of morons and the morons in charge are scared that the morons of the public will get mad and make a big deal about some inconsequential bullshit like "your llm said a naughty word!!"

And that's why we can't have nice things.
whut?! this is unreal.
> What does "adjacent" mean here? And what happens if the white space is adjacent to text on both sides?

I think it is the simplest sense of adjacent: if the character at the previous or next position in the bytestream is considered text, than the whitespace character is part of the same text node; if it is considered anything else, it's a separate text node. This applies recursively, since whitespace is text itself. If you wanted to specify it very formally, you probably need to include some extra verbiage for escape sequences which represent text characters, but that's the only ambiguity I can think of.

So for example the following HTML:

<div>
ABC Def

Hj&lt;h
<a href="ABC"> <br> </a>cde
</div>

Has the following structure:

DivNode
TextNode (starts with "\n A", ends with "<h\n")
AddressNode
TextNode (3 spaces)
BrNode
TextNode (space)
TextNode ("cde\n")

Any collapsing, un collapsing, ignoring, and so an are handled by manipulating these nodes further. But this is the semantics of the HTML itself.
boeing ,boeing , gone!
> Do you seriously not remember Jan 6th,

I remember Trump telling people at a rally to "march over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.". I remember a minority of the people there rioting and entering the Capitol building. I remember the Biden Department of Justice mistreatment of them and the over prosecutions. And most of all I remember before the than 2024 election, Trump explicitly saying that he would pardon every single one of them on day one.

Having won both the electoral and popular vote, I think it's fair to say the American people are in agreement.

> ... or that he is literally firing everyone in the FBI who investigated the participants - after pardoning them?

Yes and it's good that he's doing it. He ran on a series of explicit promises and one of them was to remove from Washington DC the people on board with the policies of the prior administration. I don't see how anybody that was an active part of the efforts to try to imprison Trump himself or his allies in a direct effort to influence the 2024 election could expect to work for him. That's ridiculous.

I also don't think that society is going to fall apart or that we will somehow not have elections in four years. What I think we'll have is a return to normalcy, a respect for individual rights (including both freedom of speech and the right to bear arms), and a significant paring down of unaccountable bloated government programs.
Sure that is what saved them initially, but following that early 2010’s period of hemorrhaging money and eventual recovery, then they started digging that moat.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/spotify-washington-lo...

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/issues?...
Are you sure you didn't just describe RimWorld?

Someone doing that in real life is truly disturbing
Is there ever a good reason to debate someone who is not arguing in good faith?
I am offended by the foul Musk as much as the next guy but if we are being fair wasn't the story always that the federal government was a disfunctional mess? Does anybody think our leadership over the last 50 years accomplished anything worth preserving? I was taught in civics nobody is really trustworthy to open a new constitutional convention and change things but if we never take any risks wont that be bad too?
> In a very limited sense it is like this for most languages, at least ones where error traces include line:cols numbers or that give magic macros like php's __LINE__.

But generally people take the view that code that throws error traces with different line numbers can still be semantically equivalent, and that changing your code's behaviour depending on __LINE__ is unreasonable. Ultimately which files are considered equivalent will be a social convention, but it should be a social convention that fits the use cases and makes the file format easier to work with.
UK government reportedly demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data
> When asked by The Post whether any government had requested a backdoor, Google spokesman Ed Fernandez did not provide a direct answer but suggested none exist: "Google cannot access Android end-to-end encrypted backup data, even with a legal order," he stated.

No, that does not suggest none exists, it only says they don’t have access to it. They could have chosen or have been ordered to give the keys to the government agency but not keep one themselves. I’m not saying that’s likely, just that it’s important to not take these statements as saying more than they do. They wouldn’t hesitate to use “technically correct” as a defence and you have to take that into account.
Apple still has legal entities in the UK. Pulling out cloud services would be insufficient to prevent the UK authorities from interfering with their activities.
This is so disheartening. I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy narrative, but this says otherwise. As a UK citizen, is there anything I can do to dissuade this?

edit: typo
Unless your toggling switches at the front panel, I don't see this as a meaningful difference.
Great, can we get the full Kim Dotcom treatment for Zuckenberg now?

I'm also ok with abolishing copyright all together if he's too untouchable
> I doubt very much if any terrorist, criminal or child abuser is going to use any google or apple cloud service to back up their files.

Most of the time, people become terrorists, criminals or child abusers because they're stupid, not because they're smart.
It depends on whether other countries make or enforce conflicting laws. The UK order says they can't tell people after implementing the backdoor that Advanced Data Protection no longer provides the claimed level of security, which is a form of dishonesty that probably violates consumer protection laws in many countries.

And Apple argued to the UK Parliament when the relevant law was being enacted that it violates the right to privacy confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights, which other countries will still be bound by even if the UK follows through on its occasional threat to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.

The UK doesn't have the geopolitical clout it once did, especially not after Brexit.
You can also take care of this by ending the comment and writing the function or class keyword for your language, like “def”.
News stories seem to indicate that many criminals use computers just like any given person does.

Even people concerned with security who know a little seem to be terrible at it.

A local protest group in my area was passing around an image with security tips. They were hilariously bad, suggestions based on very confused understandings of risk. These people weren’t criminals necessarily, but they were motivated and concerned and somehow just terrible at basic security.
My ISP will shut off my internet if it catches me torrenting copyrighted material but if you're a massive corporation that steals TBs of data its barely a blip in the news.
thanks to the byzantine copyright system, you can't easily do it. Plus, just speculating, but maybe by paying, it establishes "consideration" for some implied contract? "You implicitly entered a contract with us by purchasing the book, then violated the contract by 'distributing' the material for commercial use" ?
Whether the US still has this protection of free speech remains to be seen
Remember that the universally recognized setting for a grim cyberpunk dystopia is not a theoretical prediction but a memory of an actual city just north of Hong Kong that was demolished 30 years ago
It's a reasonable take on the actual political climate in the US. Trump has a 50% approval rating, the border between approving and disapproving of him is mathematically (approximately) the political center.
Buying the books won't automatically give you permission to use the content commercially
The idea of not charging all the way is to get more total use out of the battery.

These batteries degrade with use. They degrade faster when they have a high charge or a low charge. Suppose each day you used 50% and charged at night. That's a cycle every two days.

If you are doing that by going from 100% to 50% and then charging back to 100% you will get some number of cycles before you need to replace the battery. Let's say it is 1000. You'd need to replace the battery after 2000 days.

If instead you do your 50% per day by going from 80% to 30% and then charging back to 80% you are operating in a charge range that has a lower degradation rate, so now you might get 1500 cycles, or 3000 days.
Todays matle.io had a few positions that were inconsequential to the mate itself and could be a lot of pieces other than the solution that could be reached through normal game so it's pretty much a guessing game.
I think they are morally required to improve the current state.

- Seed the torrent and publicly promote piracy pushing lawmakers.

- Contribute with digitisation and open access like Google did in the past.

- Make the part of their dataset that was pirated publicly accessible.

- Fight stupid copyright laws. I can't believe that copyright lasts more than 20 years. No field moves that slowly, and there should be tighter limits on faster moving fields.
> If censorship is considered evil regarding the written word and communications between humans

It's not. Most people do support censorship. They just don't admit that.
That's easy. The person who used an LLM to generate the text and then published it as their own without even proofreading it is liable for the text they published.
And people keep wondering why Nvidia has no competition from AMD.
I once worked with a business lady who used her dumbphone as an argument in a discussion where we were deciding whether all our users have smartphones. She proudly displayed the dumbphone and said that if she has one, others probably have too.

I learned only much later that her husband was prosecuted for fraud related to government funds. So she had a good reason to have a dumbphone.

It's anecdotal evidence, but still.

You are of very low opinion of people, probably assuming that you are smarter because you are some kind of IT guy.

And you are likely wrong.
Granting access and granting right to redistribute (even just title + snippet) and use your content commercially are two completely different things.
Jack the Ripper killed people and got away with it!!! Happy?
Doesn't the cofounder role kinda lose its power when there are like 10 of them, or I don't know how many OpenAI cofounders there are, every day it feels like a new one emerges.
I don't think the article outright claims Oracle has no JavaScript runtime, only that Oracle JET is no runtime, which is true. And since this is the evidence Oracle presented to keep the trademark, it's fair to point out that this is nonsense. But it's also true that if this goes to court, Oracle could present GraalJS (which is used in OracleDB) as evidence for their case.
I understand that people on the right believe that to be true.

But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true.

It matters what is actually true. The fact that the two sides may have felt the same isn't relevant. The truth is that it wasn't the same.

Another factor: Republicans think it's authoritarianism when the mainstream media doesn't tell them the things they prefer to believe. But here's another clue for them: It's only authoritarianism when the government uses its monopoly on power to force the media to say what they say. It's not authoritarianism when the media says something because they think it's true, or even when they say it because they are trying to please an audience that mostly thinks it's true.
last time I checked, our prisons are full of people dumb enough to get caught.
Is it a big difference if you have ValueNotPresentException from nullable unwrap instead of NullPointerException?

Oh, wait, it exists https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional...
I love this book. I have a a music project thats based on the themes around this particular book, and the metafiction inside the stories in this book. (90's Warp Records influence Braindance/IDM)

https://open.spotify.com/artist/45ZZhnjk2a243ivXUijsIX
Ideally we have a conversation about how we as society have ended up in a situations where we have a two tier justice system.

At a minimum the starting point of discussion here should be that if life ruining $80,000 per item is an acceptable fine for individuals then why is it not the same for corporations. Which would probably get you a number in the trillions at which point we could have a discussion about reforming this entire system.

But yes realistically slap on wrist is what is going to happen here.
He wears it almost every year. You can go back to at least 1997 in this playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOAvKVR_dyC...
This is a meaningless simplification. In this framework "robots.txt" has no role, because your server "can choose" not to respond. Heck, even DDOS is fine, because "protocol"
Wow, this is extremely hard to do and shows an advanced level of mastery. Unlike in code, the computations need to be established not only conceptually but spatially. I did some very crude versions myself for a simple NN on the XOR problem prior to implementing my own NN stack on GPGPU compute shaders for Unity and used the numbers as references to make sure my calculations were correct, but my spreadsheets were no where near as beautiful or correct as these. Well done!
http://archive.today/tKfmh
NYT article on the topic:

>7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/asia/my...

Twitter/X thread: https://x.com/QianIsabelle/status/1736391727387177267
I live here my whole life for over 40 years, anecdotal I know, but I have only encountered one corrupt scenario in my lifetime. Nothing gets done is just too dramatic.
wow you're not kidding! looked this up and revenues are somewhere like 10x-20x of macau compared to vegas. That's pretty nuts, didn't realize there was that big of a gap
Hadn’t heard of that one before.

Sure it was cold blooded? Wikipedia claims it was a mammal.
Reading the Landscape: Decoding the Meaning of Built and Biological Environments
Martin has worked hard on Asahi, but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes. I'd give this to Linus.
> News stories seem to indicate

What's the inverse of survivor bias?
Hamas switched from smartphones, with encrypted messengers to pagers, a communication device with encryption so weak it may as well not be there. Criminals get caught because they used plain phone calls and texts _all the time_. Hell, child abusers are regularly reported to the police because someone saw a suspicious picture on their phone when scrolling through the gallery. Crime and an understanding of cybersecurity don't necessarily overlap.

I agree that cloud services cannot be trusted to do encryption within their clients, but on platforms like iOS it's difficult to do automated backups using independent encryption. It's also quite difficult not to accidentally enable backups to these services because the setup flow for every phone guides you to hitting the "upload everything I do to Apple/Google".

To Apple's credit, while they normally store a copy of the encryption key, making most cloud encryption entirely useless, they do offer setting a custom key at least. GDrive and OneDrive sure don't.
But if you have a large set of problems to which you already know the answer, then using that in reinforcement learning, then wouldn't the expertise transfer later to problems with no known answers, that is a feasable strategy, right?

Another issue is, how much data can you synthesize in such a way, so that you can construct both the problem and solution, so that you know the answer before using it as a sample.

Ie, some problems are easier to make knowing you can construct the problem yourself, but if you were to solve said problems, with no prior knowledge, they would be hard to solve, and could be used as a scoring signal?

Ie, you are the Oracle and whatever model is being trained doesn't know the answer, only if it is right or wrong. But I don't know if the reward function must be binary or on a scale.

Does that make sense or is it wrong?
Don't buy into the rhetoric and call it "consequences". It's always a choice to sue, a choice to prosecute, and this would be true even if these choices were made consistently and impartially (which they certainly aren't).
also, many of musk's actions are illegal. Which means he is now owned by Trump. Play nice or go to jail. For a long time.
> But ... it's Pascal, right? Toy language.

Not really.

It's just out of fashion. But there are really high quality current day implementation, like the one from Embarcadero (i think they acquired Borland a while ago?): https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/features/design
AI biz idea: images to list of detailed losses for insurance claim filings
> I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy na[rra]tive

What lead to to believe that? The Conservatives and Conservative-Continuity governments both agree that our data simply must be in the hands of the police, DEFRA, and your local council.

RIPA will never be repealed and only strengthened.
I also knew this book from Signalis which is now one of my favorite. I even made a copy of this book[0] based on the in-game one.

[0]: https://x.com/phqb1/status/1840023494060585237
I haven’t literally never gotten my copilot integration in visual studio to provide anything usable. I don’t mean this hyperbolically. I literally don’t understand what we are paying for.
This is why we need to abolish the government. If the government doesn't have any power, they can't do preferential treatment to their cronies.

Enough with laws for thee but not for me!
Which city? Are you talking about Kowloon Walled city?
Highly (and sadly) likely. They're obviously not in a hurry.
I purposely deleted all of my Stack Overflow accounts for this reason. Tired of that site.
Even to the extent that parliament does care — and both this lot and their predecessors have ignored a lot of criticism about this specific law — turning public disfavour into a change to the law is often a slow process.

I don't see UK judges getting motivated to rule in favour of a foreign company because they took their ball and went home, not even in cases where the ball happens to be very popular.
From the macrumors thread:

> So much for personal liberties. I'd like to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a holdover from the last government knowing how fast the civil service actually works but given the Tory 3.0 plan they are going with I wouldn't put it passed them.

>We didn't vote for this.

You very much did vote for this, you voted for Labour under Keir Starmer and he did not particularly hide his being tory-lite. If one is surprised by this they must not have paid any attention before voting.
The idea is for AI to interpret photos and videos and create a detailed and accurate list of exactly what was lost, so claimants can collect the full value of their insured losses.

Excerpt: “…Losing one’s home in a fire is devastating, with the first priority being to find somewhere to live. The trauma is then compounded by the onerous requirement of most insurance carriers to submit an exhaustive list of lost belongings — “with line items as specific as the number and brand of toothbrushes in a bathroom,” according to a report about unfair insurance practices.…”
Why porn site? I work on a medical application that among other things has a "Person" class which unsurprisingly has a "sex" field.

If I used copilot, it would prevent the doctors from recording the patient's sex?
The concept "collapsible spaces" is not a part of the HTML format, it is a decision that certain renderers apply, and others may not.
This came up with musl, IIRC, and was problematic: the existence of a named header doesn't guarantee it contains what you think it does
But if they could give a key to the government agency, it wouldn't be end-to-end encrypted, right? Or are you thinking they would have a copy of users' keys that they gave out? (Which I guess is technically possible.)
Was this written by AI? The emoji usage looks exactly like how the latest ChatGPT update uses them. Not to mention the tone, and the infamous em dashes.