skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovecraft remains an underrated sci-fi pioneer as well as a horror writer. His depictions of the alien are notable for being truly alien. A lot of his "eldritch horrors" weren't necessarily evil so much as so alien that their value systems, motives, and conception of morality are incomprehensible to human beings. This might well be the case if we meet real aliens. We'd be able to converse about objective things like math and physics but beyond that we might find our worldviews to be different to the point of near mutual incomprehensibility.

A lot of later sci-fi actually retreated to more human-like familiar notions of the alien. Very few sci-fi works have explored Lovecraftian aliens -- maybe Arrival (notable for the aliens being benevolent but Lovecraftian), The Expanse (though the alien machines use simulated human minds to talk to us, making them seem familiar), Alien (the Xenomorph), and a few others. Edit: the Blindsight series by Peter Watts is another.

The Alien franchise is a huge missed opportunity for failing to develop the Xenomorph as an alien race. I always thought it'd be neat if they turned out to be intelligent insect-like hive-mind aliens that just don't realize they're doing anything "bad" because they don't understand our concept of individuality. In their environment using some of the drones of another hive to reproduce would be fine, even a kind of social interaction, so when they do it to us think they're saying hello. Their apparent violence is just the ultra-utilitarian behavior of drones. Ripley's comment in Aliens about "I don't know which one is worse" might have been a hook for that. We might have eventually learned that our sociopaths were, in fact, quite a bit more "evil" than the xenomorphs, who are just very unlike us biologically.

I'm aware of some of Lovecraft's personal shitty views, but I think it's unfair to judge people from another time by the standards of this age. His views would not have been unusual for his place and time, and they only really show up at the edges of his works anyway. I read all his works and never really picked up on those subtexts until it was pointed out to me later.
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There are disputes about payment on lots of projects I've worked on. That wasn't your claim. You claimed that liens were filed and perfected on "most" jobs, and that is not my experience.
Are reasoning models -basically- generating their own context? as in, if a user were to feed prompt + those reasoning tokens as a prompt to a non-reasoning model, would the effect be functionally similar?

I am sure this is improperly worded, I apologise.
Trump term 1 was significantly harder on Russia than Biden before the invasion of Ukraine. To suggest that he is pro-Russia is absurd, has always been, will always be.

That being said, the war has to end. Pretending like it could go on indefinitely, as Biden and Europe did, is infantile.
That is not backward compatibility. In the real world people mix C and C++ all the time without a lot of complex rewriting. Most of the time they don't even write a wrapper around the C, or if they do it is a easy/thin wrapper (generally you take a function returning a pointer you have to delete and make it a smart pointer), not a deep rewrite of the C code.

All my efforts to do the above so I can mix C++ and Rust have quickly failed when I realized that my wrappers would not be thing, and thus they would cost large performance penalties.
I’m a huge IP hater and am sure that happens, but to be fair, letting copyright extend past death also increases the amount the author can sell it for in the first place.
>we have an ill-defined concept of "personally identifying information" which gives people ownership to information that others have created via their own means - there should be better ways to ensure a level of privacy (but not absolute privacy) without overly-broad, nonsensical definitions of what is personally protected information

What information about me could a corporation create via its own means that would be legally protected but shouldn't be? PII is generally information that a corporation collects. Unless you mean that my cellphone provider creates the association between my name and phone number and should therefore be able to do with it as they please?
Yay, ye old "i don't like these rules therefore I fuck the rules" argument. Love it!

btw, step 2 is always "OMG that guy doesn't like my rules. Fuck that guy!"
Probably South American somewhere.
Because it was a Manager idea and the person responsible for implementing was a H1B ?
I agree.

I also don't know which way this will go, and indeed this is a big part of Apple's brand.
Would be cool if I could just input salary in USD once and see the total savings in every city, a bit more like a spreadsheet
> And if they specified Asia, Macao would have popped up in my mind

The Xi Admin cracked down on Macau around the 2016-18 period as part of the larger crackdown.

It was during this time that most of the gambling (in reality money laundering) operations moved abroad to Phillipines, Cambodia, Myanmar, etc.
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blaborate is literally just a fancy way of saying 'you're talking nonsense'

it's literally everywhere, dude. helps you ramble on about nothing on Messages, WhatsApp, and even in your browser, lol what a wild time

-- intro written by Blaborate in Memetic mode

This resource is designed to assist individuals in maximizing their productivity when they prefer not to engage in conversation.

-- this one is written in Professional mode
What do you use now? I'm bummed by Supermaven not working well anymore but haven't looked around again yet.
Ok, I’ll go tell the Nazis that their medical experiments using live humans were A-OK!!!
> We both guessed the censor was catching it as a false positive for the slur.

There is a word for this. It is called the Scunthorpe problem. Named after the incident in which the residents of the Town Scunthorpe could not register for an AOL account because AOL had an obscenity filter that did not allow the Town name.

It has been a problem since 1996 and still causes problems.
The U.K. is the sixth largest economy in the world. It’s hardly irrelevant, unless the only relevant countries are the USA and China.
> crazy internet folks from back in the day

You mean Electronic Frontier Foundation? https://www.eff.org/issues/innovation
Estonian here. All baltic states started discussing it about 20 years ago. It was clear that this had to be done, as after re-independnce there has never been times where russia isn't a direct threat. In 2022 when war in Ukraine started, Baltic states also prepared for possibility that Russia will simply disconnect. Without all infrastructure done yet, it wouldwe been chaos for us for several weeks. Happy that we can finally do this move for our national security.
Yikes, re that fedi thread.
The problem is that I would like to visit the UK as a tourist again as a developer of end-to-end encrypted applications. Geo-blocking all traffic from the UK, not selling to UK citizens, and strictly prohibiting the use of my applications for anyone from the UK should suffice to fulfill the UK's totalitarian demands. Anything else sets a horrible precedent.

Are you ready to fulfill China's and North Korea's requirements as a UK company?
"He is here, he is here!" The lunatics rave.

"In the wind! In the walls! In the young bride's grave!"

"In the seams of the scenes on the television screen.

In the silence in the air after a church bell's ring,

Hangs a shudder of a whisper of a presence unseen.

The echo of the terror of The Yellow King!"

He travels in dreams - In poisonous screams

A plague on mankind. A plague on mankind

The fall of man. Death in the Fall

The man in the mirror is no man at all

See Hali's clear scrying face round which acolytes assemble

Tremble when as one they bellow: "Behold, the King in Yellow"
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Even without copyright there are trade secrets, not to mention trademarks and patents. Maybe we could get rid of the latter, but I think we’d need to be pretty heavily into socialist utopia before considering nixing the former two!
My brother doesn't own a car. When he goes on holiday he takes a train to the airport to fly to another city.
Up until the point that he tried to leverage social media to get his way in a kernel maintainer dispute? That's just fundamentally not acceptable.

Linus was right to reprimand him for the suggestion.
the reform needs to happen at the layer where whether a copyright is valid or not is decided upon, not before (at the point of "should copyright exist") and not after (enforcement).

a world without copyright means those with the largest advertising budgets will reap nearly all the rewards from new IP created by small artists. BigCorp Inc. can just sit around and wait for talented musicians to post something interesting on soundcloud, for example, then just have their in-house people copy it and push it out to radio and streaming platforms via their massive ad budgets and favorable relationships for getting new material onto the waves immediately. meanwhile the original artist gets nothing.

the position of advocating against all copyright protections at all only makes sense for people who are already wealthy enough that they don't need proceeds from their art to survive.
It is a relatively small market, and if Apple decides to shut down while flooding the streets of London with posters saying “We are forced by your government to shut down in order to uphold your privacy”, the UK
Government would take a massive blow.

Imagine Russian Oligarchs on android devices! Polonium will roll, I tell you!
Yeah.

"I don't care what the EULA is, I just throw money at the company who has written it."

and later

"OMG they are raping me with their EULA! Halp!"
I do see what you're trying to say. It's just that authoritarian supporters of privacy are a bit of an internal contradiction. Either they're fooled or are being disingenuous.

It's no good having people arguing for "privacy for me but not for thee", which is what it will boil down to. Ultimately authoritarians will use anything which gives them influence and control, with digital privacy violations being one of the easiest to rationalise (no violence, no physical theft).

So I don't see it as worthwhile trying to include such individuals in such a consensus. It's like trying to include foxes in a discussion about how we should best secure hen houses.
In addition, the two cases can be toggled on and off using CSS alone, because `display:inline`, `display:block`, and `display:inline-block` all do different things to the two pieces of whitespace:

* `display:inline` allows the trailing space to be rendered (in red). There is now whitespace between the two elements, therefore all other whitespace up until the next non-whitespace character will be ignored.

* `display:inline-block` will remove the trailing red whitespace. Therefore when the blue whitespace is found, this is rendered.

* `display:block` will render the element as a block. Therefore trailing whitespace in that element and leading whitespace in the next element will both be ignored.

This is surprisingly weird and funky. I thought I had a fairly good handle of how odd whitespace in HTML could be, but I didn't realise how much it was controlled by different CSS display settings.
this seems very inefficient and the opposite of what I assumed. repeated requests take up time on both sides and are not a very good measure of how important something is.
China has forced Apple to outsource iCloud in China to a state run company, so all data is just directly controlled by the government there. It’s an even worse situation.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754
No they never seeded the essence of it ALL :;))
New AI Reasoning Model Rivaling OpenAI Trained on Less Than $50 in Compute
People using Mastodon to promote pile-ons or brigading?

No, never! That's actually one reason I don't use Mastodon, it's extremely common. Isn't this the guy that blocked HackerNews links to the Asahi Linux homepage because the moderators wouldn't do his bidding?
It's not Wikipedia, right? Getting the maximum number of contributors isn't a stated goal? I'm a C programmer with a fair bit of kernel experience, and they don't want me, I'm pretty sure, and I'm completely fine with that.
This is a link to a free 25 minute unrestricted browser demo. The browser is running in an iframe (basically).

We will be rolling out some new things in the next few months, including:

- developer client API to embed a browser in a "<webview-element></webview-element>"-like custom element and do things like run an automation script in it. This should be valid for both self hosted and SaaS versions.

- SaaS API, probably charged by the minute, with potentially some free minutes. We will probably not bench of other providers offerings but go our own way.

- License keys for self-hosted.

Stay tuned and feel free to reach out hey@dosaygo.com if you want to connect.
I agree with your point, but will split hairs on using the word "terrorism". I think that should be reserved for people that commit atrocities for some political aim. I'm fairly sure the company in question (I assume Union Carbide) did not poison the town to advance a political agenda.
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Nothing in Linux is "here to stay", it always has to demonstrate its worth, and what it's worth is depends enirely on the technology and its developers, not Linus.
> I’d say that despite having good memory safety I would say the JVM’s powerful serialization primitives make me pretty leery of it as far as security goes.

That's a sound deduction. The JVM had such a vulnerability because it's full of ambient authority and rights amplification patterns. More such vulnerabilities probably exist, they're just hard to see.
Users would upload their copies of the music and spotify would replay them. This was obvious to early users, even if they were only consumers, because of the pirate-shout-out-overlays that were in a lot of the poorer quality releases.

Another interesting note, in the early days of spotify, the app would saturate your upload bandwidth while using it. Given their close ties to utorrent, I always assumed that's how they were affording the bandwidth as well.

Pretty brilliant way to bootstrap I guess; they didn't have to pay for bandwidth or content until they already had contracts in place
Sima also went way too far with some of her comments this morning:

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b0...

Quoting

> Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, [...]

unironically, immediately after saying @marcan

> and if that then causes you to ragequit, because you can't actually deal with the heat you've been dishing out coming back around the corner: fuck off

...is quite tonedeaf at the very least. Especially given what Marcan said about dealing with this not being his paid job.

Nobody comes off looking good here.
It is a bit misleading, at least for Lithuania, but I believe for Estonia and Latvia too.
First of all Baltic states does not import electricity from Russia/Belarus anyway, for the last 4 years, regardless we are still synchronized with them. So synchronizing would not affect energy price (to be precise it will affect, but it is fraction of euro cent so it is very minor).

Other thing is that electricity is in open market, so you can get individual fixed price per individual provider, or you can go for market price changing by hour, if there is technical capacity (smart meter installed).
You could say what the fascists want is a post-industrial era caricature of Spartan society.
Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math
> I'm still missing how this could be enforced ?

By banning Apple from doing business in the UK.

The US used a similar strategy decades ago to break Swiss Bank Secrecy laws (either Swiss banks had to give up the info or they were going to be kicked out of the US).
Most likely the networks were connected for stability reasons for peak consumption instead of trading.

Also if russia was selling below EU market prices, it meant that there was a corruption somewhere, as it doesn’t make any sense from business perspective to do so.

Russia uses its energy as a weapon to corrupt and finance specific politicians, every country has to keep as far away from them as possible even if they offer energy for free.

Source: we had the same in Ukraine, and every step in decoupling from russia is made with blood.
Yeah it would be fascinating.

I also suspect international social structures could play a big role. In the UK many people have friends & family that emigrated to iMessage counties like the US & Australia. But many have links to WhatsApp countries like India or even Telegram countries in Eastern Europe.
There is some irony in Copilot refusing to work on code that contains the prefix "trans" when the whole LLM tech itself is based on "transformers"...
> Thomas Babington Macaulay

The one who got Hindu Sanskrit books translated in a horrible manner and then claimed: "I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia."

This chap will educate us on copyright?

No thanks!
Does it matter who has access to the data? It’s the principal not the actor
See: second paragraph above.
There's a +n....r license. It mandates that all copies of code include the n-word, so no big corporation can use it in their products.
large economy /= relevance

The uk economy is 80% services, mostly financial services and tourism, only 18% come from manufacturing
2FA for our cards is not via text, but via app. It's your credit card provider that doesn't implement 3D secure properly.
Linus replied:

How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.

You think you know better. But the current process works.

It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.

However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not
want to have anything at all to do with your approach.

Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social
media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell
wasn't the solution to politics.

Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no
than\k you.
Sadly, the most unrealistic thing about A Mind Forever Voyaging is that in the end, once the evil politician's master plan is revealed, he is disgraced and loses his job. Were it representative of real life, it would become a campaign platform.
Australia does a great job of enacting wacky authoritarian policies in the last 5 years; It would make sense to use them as a staging ground. Does any specific legislation come to mind?
Wikipedia has plenty of gatekeeping too. I once had to submit a single edit three times before the moderators safeguarding the article begrudgingly accepted it.
Support EFF if you think that the copyright laws should be changed and also applied equally to all: https://www.eff.org/issues/innovation
It's not enforceable, but EULA is still: "this is the software we made, here are our expectations for the software, this is what you should give us for the right to use the software". And by buying the software you say: "I agree to exchange our expectations about the software."

and later you say

"Hey, you can't force me, fuck you!"
Nothing to do with the article. This desync plan was set 20 years ago. Baltic states have never been in good relations with our occupiers.
> So the real reason why POGOs were thrown out of the country was that the didn't pay off the right people

They did pay the right people. It's just that the "right people" lost the presidency in 2022.
Out of curiosity, why are you using the old name of Kaliningrad? I thought it was different only in Polish language.
From what I read, there are countries in Europe where it's ~0.40€/kWh (like Germany).

Here in France it's ~0.20€/kWh
It's unclear yet whether anything will really change. It is a perfect example though of how the rich are above the law.
There are lots of different ways to do business. UK is unlikely to be able to ban the iphone, and I doubt Apple has much business in the UK. As such they can lay off all workers in the UK "because of legal issues" and the workers feel the pain. They can still sell in the UK through third parties, and go to the EU if you need warranty work
there are dumb people out there but can you sum up (just talking about illegal drugs) an industry that makes $360 billion per year? Brazilian ghettos have army grade weapons like anti-aircraft missiles [0]

psychopathy is a mental disease who impair people to control their impulses/defected judgment; often these are permanent personality traits, which either will let them sit in a prison for the rest of their lives depending on what they did or they will be liberated if they get caught with a high chance of another incidence... search for papers/work from Kent Kiehl if you are interested in this type of stuff

[0] https://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/10/30/3330
I can see why model providers wouldnt want to generate certain text for their own interests.

But lets not pretend its for the benefit of users. If a company could release an unmoderated model without real risk to themselves then they should do so.
It doesn’t quote which price that is, which matters for this discussion, but I routinely pay 5c or less for energy generated in the states.
>Starting to think it's not just a coincidence.

Is your theory that rust makes people dramatic? Or that dramatic people like rust? What other options are there, if not coincidence?
This does not prove that whale songs are natural language, as Zipf's law is also true for random texts: https://www.nslij-genetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ie...

Nor does it prove cultural learning, as various physical phenomema also follow Zipf's law: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6241/2019sp/readings/Ne...
According to Wikipedia, Estonia did sometimes export energy to Russia.

I don't know why this should be surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Estonia
Crunchyroll started off as a straight up piracy site, it now has millions of paying subscribers and was sold to Sony for over a billion a few years ago.
Yes, it is exactly that.
For those confused about the definition of "woke", this is it.
The average people have zero idea about these things. They just use phones, and do not care how they function, what they do in the background.
Yep, and the US had a lot more leverage; out of the US translates into no access to US dollars either directly or via a correspondent bank, which essentially means bankruptcy.
You know how a loud sound or a flash of light can alter your dream ... For example you hear your alarm clock and all of a sudden you are dreaming you are in an ambulance?

My theory is that we are always in a "dream" state. Stimuli that manage to reach our conscious attention will alter this dream.

When a asleep only very strong stimuli will reach us so for the most part our "dream" is in a feedback loop mostly doing its own thing. When awake though we have a much more weaker filter for stimuli . The direction that our "dream" takes is fully controlled by it.
...and boycott the offender's products.
> By banning Apple from doing business in the UK.

To use poker terminology: I think that if the UK made this bet that Apple would call.