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Your thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354014 can probably be extended from that particular one to all terminal emulators that have "We use the GPU!" on the marketing features list, because they are all influenced by alacritty and Goyal's Kitty.

If you want to banjanx the algorithm, instead, watch a few Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIouDxRfTb8) or Shimane Prefectural Izumo Commercial High School Band videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLzr3cuFtk).

There appears to be an enormous algorithmic weight to those. Just a few such videos completely swamped my recommendations with Japanese marching bands a couple of years ago. Simply finding those two to copy their URLs into this post has immediately put two further band videos into my recommendations.

The question is whether a disembodied pair of hands, that could be those of a body double, is enough to satisfy stronglikedan.

The good news is that Big Clive, 3Blue1Brown, and even Jago Hazzard have all appeared on camera, albeit not always on their own channels. (-:

It's all too easy to be unsympathetic. But the unsympathetic should remember the soliciting of donations to the non-existent charity for supposedly aiding children; and then bear in mind that there are going to be AI-wielding con-artists in other fields, closer to home, with other hooks for grabbing the marks, too.

Ironically, the religious have rules about doing unto others: be sympathetic to the people conned into giving their money away, in the hopes that they'll be sympathetic to you when you're conned in your turn.

Unfortunately, that rules out the likes of Minute Physics, ScienceClic English, and the famous for being camera-averse Lockpicking Lawyer. (-:

In addition to the video types that mpicker0 and lysace mentioned, here's yet another:

Fake, and dishonest, Christian Country Music.

I learned of this through Fil Henley, who just pointed out Ella Scott (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wtyIljNns) which is an AI account with AI-generated songs and thumbnails being produced at an unfeasibly high rate for an actual human. There are astroturfing channels under other names that purport, with more AI fakery, to show themselves alongside Ella Scott. There's an Ella Scott psychology channel tapping into the self-help market. There's an Ella Scott Soulnotes channel. There are not-declared-AI linked accounts on other platforms. Until this all got high exposure, there was an active PayPal donation setup for a non-existent Ella Scott charity.

This isn't even the first firehose account of AI-generated CCM that M. Henley has covered. There has been the improbably double-barrelled James Hilton-Cowboy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HORuCSsDLI) for example.

And there is an audience of Christians being taken in by these thinking that they are real performers.

Well one is a random directive from 2022 about radio equipment marketing; and the other, hyperlinked by outadoc in the first place, was the very text of the European Union Public Licence version 1.2 as PDF and text/plain formats in 23 languages, with the EUPL version 1.1 as PDF in 22 languages at the bottom of the page.

If you wanted an apt one, instead of a random radio equipment marketing directive, that was specifically EUR-Lex, there's https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2017/863/oj which is the E.U. Commission decision promulgating version 1.2 of the EUPL.

As noted elsethread, neither one, nor the E.U. Parliament nor E.U. Court of Justice, does things exactly the way that Javier Casares does them.

Also note that outadoc wasn't actually asking how to read the text, in the first place. outadoc was pointing out that Javier Casares's unofficial copy here does not anywhere hyperlink (in order to provide a source) to the official europa.eu. WWW site, which outadoc then pointed to. Nor does it hyperlink to the aforelinked E.U. Journal entry.

Indeed, the problem isn't necessarily even the site being taken over. There was an example of what happens to comments over a period of 9 years without anyone dealing with spam on Hacker News just the other day.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370971

One interesting reason is that there are no official non-English versions of the GPL at all, the FSF (as it says itself) not having the means to ensure robust legal text in multiple languages, whereas the EUPL has official versions in 23 of the E.U.'s languages, the E.U. very much having the means to produce legal documents in tens of languages.

I do not wish to diminish Javier Casares's effort here: but it is nonetheless the case that a system administrator's WWW site about the EUPL is not the primary controlling factor when it comes to adoption of the EUPL, any more than https://www.pastafarismo.es wholly determines the popularity of Pastafarianism. (-:

Nor does Y-bar's example from EUR-Lex, where the language list is below the catalogue information. It being right at the top in a banner of hyperlinks with 2-letter codes is not actually a part of the pattern. The E.U. Parliament and E.U. Court of Justice use drop-down menus with the full language names, for example.

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/parliamen...

* https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/cs/parliamen...

The headlined page, as was pointed out, is just some system administrator's own WWW site, moreover.

You could have chosen a more apt page for an official E.U. example.

Like https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eu... as given above. (-:

E.U. regulations cover all sorts of licences, from driving licences

* https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?&uri=CELEX:3...

through the Dessenheim, Sierentz, Dannemarie, Staffelfelden, and Seebach licences

* https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

to navigability licences.

* https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

Not everyone just assumes that a licence that has passed through a E.U. Commission approvals process is a software copyright licence.

That said, this is a personal WWW site of someone named Javier Casares, apparently a system administrator. Any E.U. citizen can rent a eu. subdomain. The E.U.'s own domain is europa.eu. and the E.U. Commission's own blurb gets straight to the point in its first sentence:

* https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive...

Months and years from now, pop science outlets are going to use this to explain why most binary black holes collide on Wednesday nights. I can almost see the YouTube video titles now. (-:

People commenting on the legal definition in the new California Act (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418428) have not followed the footnote in the annotated version of the original Bill that leads to here.

For starters: The technical meaning of "infer" being used is explained on page 9 of the memo. The meaning of "input" is on page 8 and clearly does not cover lawn mower knobs.

California did not create this definition. This is a definition that the OECD created in 2019 and has refined since.

Recital 12 of the (also footnoted) E.U. Artificial Intelligence Act (2024), which uses this same definition, explains how the definition is structured to rely upon characteristics that distinguish it from lawnmower knobs and "simpler traditional software systems" like me writing a computer program.

* https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:...

It's not solely the C standard that comes with a rationale. (-:

The graph is rather annoying. There are no units for the numbers, the idea that it extends to infinitely fast is false on its face, and the logarithm of infinity is not three.

That would have been better off as a decision tree with the mbps values as actually in the prose.

Has the list of known problems been saying for 19 years that "to date there has been no full listing of all known problems"?

If so, we might need a list of known problems in the known problems list. (-:

Or maybe it is time to acknowledge that "to date" in 2006 was a fair while ago now.

Like the ClockworkPi uConsole or DevTerm?

It's even more complex than that. Legally, on paper and in court, Musk was not the DOGE Administrator (the officer that the Executive Order actually named) in the first place. There was a whole "Who is the head of DOGE?" question raised back in February 2025.

* https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ziKJQC32qk

* https://lawfaremedia.org/article/who-is-running-the-u.s.-dog...

* https://lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--witaod

Wikipedia writers, for one, currently accept that Amy Gleason was and is actually in charge.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Gleason

The actual report text identifies the uploaded database as "NUMIDENT".

A quick shufti turned up https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=5057 which states that "NUMIDENT" includes things like "mother's maiden name". Other sources imply that the signatures from SSN application forms (form SS-5) are stored here.

Normal methods of access to this database seem to include "NOVU" (https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/numident-online-verificatio...).

That 65% figure in the press release has an interesting origin. It seemed oddly specific to me, so I had a look.

In the actual report main text, it says that the risk is between 35% and 65%, but does not explain the calculation, if any, that results in those numbers.

It's not until one reaches Appendix A that one finds that this really means that it has been assigned a value of 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, meaning "medium risk", and the value 3 is arbitrarily assigned that percentage range, originating with the U.S.A. FDA's Office of Information Security, where "low risk" (2) is similarly 10% to 35% and "very low risk" (1) is less than 10%.

Which was submitted directly and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377439

Earliest post:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021

Other duplicates:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375782

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372608

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372319

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370260

And yes, the plus sign was omitted in all of them. (-:

Earliest discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021 .

Manufacturer's WWW page discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021 .

Manufacturer's WWW page discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021 .

Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370021 .

One does not need a WWW-based editor to make that kind of font, if you're going to give it a go. A text editor and Viznut's perl scripts yields BDF files quite straightforwardly.

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-topaz.t...

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-spectru...

It's much odder than what you are thinking.

* https://lithub.com/how-did-reactionary-french-novelist-miche...

Although for many years people have just been putting Pis inside actual home computer cases. In the BBC case, as a (software programmable) Second Processor connected over the Tube.

* https://youtube.com/watch?v=mP7fiaync5E