skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: What brings people to write these comments? It's so tiresome. Always the same twaddle. Merkel was not notoriously Russia-appeasing, she was notoriously German industry appeasing. She didn't stop a business consortium of several large European energy companies from building a new pipeline to Russia, but neither did any leader of the other European countries involved, nor would have any other German chancellor at the time.
I have open sourced all work I legally can for the past 20 years, and it has only given me more exposure and made it easier for people to trust me with significant budget to solve their hardest problems.

Also I happily buy lots of books from people like Cory Doctorow and nostarchpress -because- their books are public and I want to support authors that value the freedom of their readers.

Books that are DRM or copyright protected however, I buy used paper copies or pirate because why would I financially support people that do not respect my freedom?
I think the encapsulation probably refers to the 'city in a building' aspect, i.e. residents have most needs satisfied within the building, and rarely need to leave the building itself.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
I don’t think any OEMs are going to support that. The ones that might or sell those niche de-googled phones are not selling in my country and seeing the world tier country is in those small firms are not selling/servicing here (and maybe rightly so). Also, I have tried flashing on my own. It’s not for me. I will however still have faint hopes for an OEM supported de-googled OS other than iOS.
It grants you the right to read & study it though.
This is fine as long as citizens get backdoors into all government accounts. They have nothing to hide after all.
4°C global average temperature increase above preindustrial levels.
I as a individual would be liable to pay ~1000$ of damages if I'd downloaded a movie in Germany or Poland and the publisher would get to me.

I'm going to assume as it's a corporation, then the laws no longer apply.
> I watched Jan 6th live. If that capital guard hadn’t shot the woman, we would have been living in a dictatorship already.

Claiming that all of western democracies hangs on the killing of an unarmed woman is one hell of a hot take.
I like the sentiment but the article itself ought to be edited to be 1/3 the length, certain themes should be broken out. The story of 'cyborg software' should be told in depth, for those of us who live that dream it doesn't need a lot of explanation but for other people it needs to be spelled out.

There are some interesting business patterns such as 'investment than disinvestment' which is common in communications applications. An application like Zoom, for instance, needs a lot of engineering work to deal with old computers, new computers, people with four cameras attached to their computers, who have slow internet connections, etc. A 'just works' experience is essential and the money is there to support it. A decade later it will be in a harvesting phase, the money won't be there to fix funny little bugs, and now it 'just doesn't work'.

There are other problems around recurring subscriptions, for which Creative Cloud is hardly the worst example. See the gaming industry, which has moved away from experiences that are 20-120 hours to wanting to be the one game you play for decades
A bunch of landscaping companies near me got ppp loans all of whom kept working during covid.
A shameless example of how the new admin benefits Elon -- given that Tesla's charging network has been his biggest moat vs other EV companies.

It's Russian-style oligarchs in bed with the government to benefit themselves.

Sure, there has been lobbying (aka corruption) all along. But this takes it to a whole new level.
But as far as we know there is no encryption back door
He can make bad decisions. As he has in this case.
All you have to do is search for it yourself. It’s not just UK citizens that are affected. They’re threatening to have US citizens extradited to the UK to face charges [1] for online speech that’s protected by the first amendment.

[1] https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/uk-author...
Crucial Conversations: The Right Way to Prep for Tough Talks at Work and in Life
Wait. The Tories aren’t in power yet you want to attribute this to “Tory-lite?” It’s the Labour Party that is in charge, so why not put the blame on the actual perpetrators? Is it because you don’t want Labour getting blamed? I am confused. The Labour Party is the one jailing people for speech, so it follows that they would want backdoors into iCloud so they can better investigate ThoughtCrime.

The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson (appointed by the Labour Attorney General), warned against "publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred. So, if you retweet that, then you’re republishing that and then potentially you're committing that offense [incitement to racial hatred]."

He added further, "We do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material, and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth."

This isn’t “Tory-lite,” this is Labour.

Sources: https://freespeechunion.org/labours-war-on-free-speech/

https://x.com/skynews/status/1821178852397477984?s=46
If you have experience in any data frame library (like Pandas), and SQL, you can pick up PySpark pretty easily... With the one caveat that writing good data pipelines in any language gets much harder when you start looking at ways to actually processes big data (~20+TB). Modern SQL engines are so good though.
Critically, by torrenting they also directly distributed the copywritten material itself. That is a standalone infringement separate from any argument about trained LLMs.
The poor people will be suffering even more. No trade in electricity, but also no trade with natural gas.
Super incomplete thought: how does this point of view relate to Euler characteristic? Can I get to Euler characteristic by asking how to solve an equation for some quantities q in terms of some quantities Q?
if you want to support an artist go to the show and BUY MERCH at the table! almost all of their income comes from that. the importance of buying a T-shirt at the show cannot be overstated and sometimes you get to say hi to your idol, too
Who has made accusations of behaving criminally?..
I recently experimented with the Google Gemini for AI-powered data analysis and dashboard integration. In my video, I break down how to generate an API token, set up AI-driven insights, and visualize data effectively.

Would love to hear your thoughts—have any of you tried using Google Gemini for data analytics? What challenges did you face.
Oddly the Hungarians, Bulgarians and Slovaks seem to. Stockholm Syndrome?
Bring back titties in action flicks!
Do the Right Things Quietly
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
“Users” are a commodity, a hot one perhaps, but like any other commodity, can be bought and sold."

that reminds me of an ancient saying - change your mind and you change your world
What on Earth is going on with research funding in the US?
As someone who didn't know much about or ever own a Pebble, can someone sell me on it and explain why it was so popular?
Labour caused it. Why would they repeal what they want?
I'm not paying for Led Zeppelin IV after having probably bought 3 copies in my lifetime. I agree with you.
Merkel's active policy was making Germany dependent on Russian gas to the point where Russia thought that there was no way Germany would ever oppose their annexation of Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merkel-no-regrets-energ...

In fact, when Trump warned Germany of the risk their diplomats at the UN was laughing at him.
doxxing.
harassment.

And to answer your question of "who?", marcan themselves based on marcan being the one to block HN links.

But more generally, the majority of people posting online (especially streamers, content creators, even just twitter posters) these days seem to be very thin-skinned and will claim that any amount of pushback that they get for their words or actions is an organized harassment campaign.
That's a weird take. Given your other comments in this thread, you have ideological blinders on.

People are worried because Musk is doing whatever the hell he wants, dismantling power structures that could oppose him, and installing lackeys that are loyal to him. He won't face consequences for doing anything illegal because he has a puppet in the White House that the Supreme Court says has absolutely authority to pardon him for anything.

This is a naked power grab, and must be treated as such.
Details matter and the Soviet examples must have got some details right that matter. The question for the reader is then what? (one answer already given is Soviets didn't give residents a choice - I have no idea if this is right or not)
As far as I know they haven’t started murdering political opponents yet, so that’s something. But I take your point, the UK is today not a serious country for a variety of reasons.
Great job! Also has 10% CPU usage, like the original back in the days. ;-)

My favorite screensaver was "Diatoms" from 1994 (?) on a SGI Irix machine.
Still fire it up sometimes, just because of the screensaver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmj_ixreUg
At this point, I think it's safe to say it doesn't 'feel' that way. It is that way. Sorry if you were being facetious and I didn't pick up on it.
I've been following the stories relatively closely, since I live here and have an interest in these things.

I'm not aware of any arrests for "disagreeing with the extreme left", which is what I'm specifically asking about. It's important not to distort facts to fit a narrative.

As you probably know, we don't have first amendment protection in the UK.
Website isn't very mobile-friendly. Then again i have no idea how to make a horizontal table mobiley
You cannot acknowledge the existence of a request by the UK. You cannot tell users you implemented the proposed system. And you must do all of this to citizens who have no representation in your system, without the consent of their governments.

It all begs the question, what else have they requested, and of those which requests were accepted secretly?

Truly a pathetic example of a democracy.
Imagine all the unfinished screenplays they will get access to.
And they're going to get away with it simply because if you or I openly did this the DMCA fines would be for a million trillion dollars. Since Meta shareholders can't stomach a million trillion dollars in fines, their lawyers will wave their magic wands and poof! No laws were broken!
Generally? Very positive.

They're a model company for data-minimization. No account names, no passwords, can pay by cash in an envelope, RAM-only infrastructure, thorough and frequent 3rd-party auditing, etc.

They provide back, fund privacy initiatives, have a history of being unable to provide user data when requested by governments, all of their stuff is well documented. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone privacy & security conscious speak poorly about them.
Formal verification of arbitrary programs with arbitrary specifications will remain an unsolved problem (see halting problem). But formal verification of specific programs with specific specifications definitely is a solved problem.
That's an interesting story, thanks for sharing.

However, it is the reason that (what feels like) every single C function has a footnote, along the lines of "*except on FordBAT OS, where mkdir doesn't create a directory, all floats are inf, and negatives are positive -- because it seemed convenient"
Yes, Your phone or laptop though... that we dont have regulations that at least require manufacturers to give users the option to not charge to 100% is beyond me.

Many billions of batteries and thus billions of devices needlessly scrapped.
It is more a money thing. Meta can pay x billion like pocket change. Regular people are run through the ringer to teach the plebs to not get out of line.
I just see a bunch of spinning coins forever and nothing happens with no way to stop it...
> By September 2023, Bashlykov had seemingly dropped the emojis, consulting the legal team directly and emphasizing in an email that "using torrents would entail ‘seeding’ the files—i.e., sharing the content outside, this could be legally not OK."

I'm pretty sure you can theoretically download torrents without seeding, although this is frowned upon. If they really seeded (with full bandwidth?) that's indeed pretty brazen.

It is sort of strange that Meta is being singled out here though, and sort of sad considering they at least release the model weights. What's the signal? Do illegal shit to be competitive, but make sure there is no evidence?
Good author: don’t tell, show.

Very good author: don’t show, _suggest_.
They're not wrong though
The Beta Launch of Docker's AI Agent
Well, apparently nobody even noticed for 5 years, so that's 5 years that nobody had to even think about that code.
Since you seem to like metaphors maybe this helps you understand my point: If they stop fertilizing there won't be any grass to harvest.

To make myself even clearer: They're (and you I guess) assuming other companies will hire and train the juniors for them, but it's short-sighted. If everyone did it how are they going to learn?
Nothing makes me more angry with Trump/Elon/GOP than measures that take us backward in terms of fighting climate change. It's the future of our children and grandchildren, and their children, that we're talking about -- they are going to bear the consequences, and we know the consequences will be severe! It's not about beliefs or political leanings, it's just science. I can handle most of the rest of the DOGE stupidity, but this is the one that makes my blood boil.
Not terrible everywhere.
Not true. Traits that "harm" the individual can increase population level fitness.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29602452/
> I’m surprised that the British public stands for it, but I guess they must not care.

I can educate people but it always comes back to "I've not got anything to hide". What are we suppose to do, go out to the streets and protest? Start a petition, right to a PM who has no idea what encryption is?

Mentioning Linux to my family opens a can of worms. We are naive to think protesting actually changes something, it's old fashion. Those with power just don't care so unless people attack with their wallets nothing will come from.

It's not 1995 so unless you have £ for lobbying surrounded by people in suites there is nothing public of any nation can do against anyone in power.
It’s a Labour government, not a “far right” government.
Can you give any example of this "preferential treatment" that people who aren't UK citizens supposedly receive?
Reminds me of Adrian Tchaikovsky's new book Saturation Point. I don't want to reveal any spoilers, but it is about warm-blooded/cold-blooded and applicability to quicker adaptation.
> If you reject Macaulay on copyright because he was an imperialist

On the contrary I would argue that this is precisely why you SHOULD NOT take his opinion on copyright. One of the main outcomes of imperialism/colonization is denigrating/destroying/appropriating works of art, literature with the primary goal of subjugation, subversion and thereupon replacement of native culture/traditions/institutions. I did not quote the other half of his nauseating take but I'll post it nevertheless:

"[...] And I certainly never met with any Orientalist who ventured to maintain that the Arabic and Sanscrit poetry could be compared to that of the great European nations. But when we pass from works of imagination to works in which facts are recorded, and general principles investigated, the superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say, that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanscrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy, the relative position of the two nations is nearly the same."
Labour are social democrats, not classical liberals…
When I click the coin I see an animation of 7-8 blurry coins spinning. Further clicking seems to have no effect. Is something else supposed to happen?
Autotranlation for tha lazy: https://www-lanacion-com-ar.translate.goog/politica/el-gobie...

I can't find any report in the local papers in English, but perhaps the X/Tweeter post is a good alternative https://x.com/Megaconstellati/status/1887181375419171110
That's milliseconds; nanoseconds are 1e-9 seconds. Still, the file creation time remark of sibling is pertinent.
> Again 4C here we come.

There is a plan for that, take more land up north, e.g. Canada and Greenland.
Or just count the ratings.
90% of the businesses are Chinese owned and the city is a hub for crime and gambling

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/03/31/t...
Interesting.. my first reaction on the title was "wait, won't it hurt musk who is trumps friend now"?
"As far as we know" is the most important part.
I've never been a huge user of either, but my worst Uber ride was much better than my best taxi ride.
You're right to point out how carefully worded these statements are. But I suspect it's rare for companies of Google's status to not have been asked for a backdoor. It's not really an informative question to ask Google.
Like the EV charging stations, this EO will have zero impact on climate change.
There are two different things when it comes to discussing training LLM's on "copyright" protected data, and I almost never see people differentiate.

1.) Training on copyright that is publicly available. You write a poem and publish it online for the world to read. That is your IP, no one else can take it an sell it, but they are free to read and be inspired by it. The legalitly of training on this is in the courts, but so far seems to be going in favor of LLMs.

2.) Training on copyright that is not publicly available. These are pretty much pirated works or works obtained by backdoor to avoid paying for them. Your poem is behind a paywall and you never got paid, yet the poem is known by the LLM. This is just straight illegal, as you legally must pay to view the work. However there might be conditions here too like paying for access to an archive and then training on everything in it.
It's gonna be a long two years
> His opinions on advertising can still be worth hearing.

If so, his opinions on advertising will spread despite his illiberal opinions on the value of women engineers.

For my purposes, ensuring people’s illiberal attacks in places of work attach to them wherever they may work is important until they disavow those actions.
I had a PebbleTime back in the day. It was such an awesome watch. 7ish days of battery with an always on display that had no glare (all because of e-ink). All the foundations of a smart watch, to me at least, like notifications, text response, weather, etc were just done so well.

Keep in mind that an always on smart watch that had good battery was (as far as I know) non-existent at the time. Now, the Apple Watch is fantastic and getting about a day and a half is plenty for me, but it wasn't until just recently that I had anything to fill the space that was left on my wrist after my Pebble left me.

I still have that Pebble Time, and I'll get it from my parent's home next time I visit. I absolutely loved that thing.

Would I switch back to it? Probably not, just because I'm a very happy Apple Watch user now, but if I was still on Android, I wouldn't think twice.

Edit: Thanks to the replies that clarify the difference between e-ink and e-paper. I always forget what the difference is, but I'll have to keep the insight in mind for the future!
Don’t you think maybe this attitude is part of the problem?
No way this was a thing in my Emacs all this time.
The current workaround is to attribute footnotes to your beneficiaries, or quote them in the dedication. Those become derivative works subject to the lifetime of your beneficiary.
Cool idea! This is a really clever way to demo a real-world circuit!
This is very interesting, and the web-site is very nicely done.
Some can pirate on a large scale and see no repercussions.

Some can steal from stores and see no repercussions.

Some can steal from others and see no repercussions.

Some can violently harm others and see no repercussions.

Some can damage property and see no repercussions.

Some can’t. This world is not right.
I don't really see how the final paragraph follows from the preceding text... They seem like they're from two different articles - one calling out toxic work culture and deification of fundamentally flawed and faceted people, the other basically the complete opposite?

"Grinding won't help you... unless you're so stubborn that you disregard the above warnings and grind so hard you break through to success"?

Seems like this is just another test the author thinks would-be entrepreneurs need to pass, rather than actual advice.
soo... maybe an easy way to avoid having copilot trained on my code is just to include a paragraph about trans rights in all my readme files. :)
Hibiki, a real time speech-to-speech translation that runs locally on an iPhone
Again, I'm not making any comment on the deficit. Literally never brought it up. I'm talking about people losing confidence in the dollar.
JEP Draft: Warnings for Identity-Sensitive Classes
I owned a couple, with peak Pebble being the Pebble Round. It was the only smartwatch I owned that understood it was a watch meant to be worn on the wrist, and not a portal into a series of invasive micro notifications. It was helpful, without being obnoxious. It was slim and stylish, the kind of thing you'd wear even without the built in intelligence. It was there, but only when you wanted it.

Also the battery life was measured in days, when Apple couldn't go more than 12 hours.
Trademarks and patents are very different from copyright. Trademarks especially so because they aren't designed to "own" knowledge, just to prevent confusion about who made a product or what it is.

"Intellectual property" is an abomination of a term because it conflates 3 separate mechanisms with differing goals, pretending that they're related in any meaningful sense.

Patents protect a process. Trademarks protect identity. Copyright protects knowledge. Disparate mechanisms for disparate goals.
I don't think the UK government would try to put Apple out of business if they don't comply it's more likely that they would just get heavily fined until they do so.

The most likely outcome, I would guess, is that Apple just stop offering Advanced Data Protection as a service in the UK rather than create some kind of backdoor.

It's a weak proposition from the government because anyone with something to hide will just move it somewhere else with encryption. Honest UK consumers are the one's getting the shitty end of the stick because we're about to loose protection from criminals.

Daft waste of time.
Same....
That technical decision has already been made, by Linus: it is acceptable for the purposes of this experiment, and possibly, for good. So objecting on those grounds is a project management issue.
They are paid, handsomely, by it. Or otherwise brainwashed by it. And pummelled into ignorance by it, as they are told that to understand is stupid or delusional, knowledge ends at STEM, and the world only exists for efficient production of capital products.

The poets write laments about such false ages. Prophecies were written about such ages thousands of years ago.

The cycles are larger than us all.

One stable insight is that the chaos breeds possibility, and thus hope. In the meantime, however…
Ahhh

So now I see why we’re demanding Greenland!

I guess that’s just planning ahead.

/s
Windows has been annoying me with this notification that keeps popping up time to time "Hey want to use Adobe?" in the bottom right corner