skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's to prevent someone from claiming that it is "human authored" when in reality it was AI generated?

As a test, I was able to generate 20 unique music tracks with AI, and submit them to Spotify, Apple Music, Shazam, Tidal + others and they are now "owned" by myself.

This perhaps, will be the bigger problem going forward. Distinguishing between genuine authored content to that of AI generated.
what are you referring to? the Boston bombing?
The house cost $30,000 and the car cost $5,000.
Same said about arrogance and theist. Most religions are based on beeing something special and not a shitload of atoms nobody will remember as time pase by
I think the term "woke" has been hijacked by some people to refer to anything minorities do in a disparaging manner, so I would need more concrete examples of what that means.
reducing inventory from home buyers one investment at a time
FBI COINTELPRO [0] and CIA Operation CHAOS [1] did way more than just sending some harassing mail to MLK [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS

[2] https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/7...
I'm not really sure how meaningful or effective that is as a strategy .. I mean it's just data. Now exfiltrating designs of devices might be a different thing but science is more about the training and becoming an expert. Learning how to do research is the most important part. Most experiments are difficult to replicate anyway.
> The idea that all humans don't self-censor by default in front of all sorts of people

...is not the idea pg's essay is talking about. In fact he calls the advice to self-censor by default (Wooton's advice to Milton) "wise advice". He's obviously aware that people self-censor and he obviously doesn't think that's a bad thing in itself.

> people disagree with him and that makes him uncomfortable.

Where are you getting that from?
This was posted yesterday in one of the comments on HN if you want a better idea of what the FBI does these days: https://casetext.com/analysis/how-to-spot-the-informant-at-y...
> What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They're just as arbitrary...

There is an argument that people should not be held responsible for decades old views, as well as the argument that people should be given an opportunity to learn new social norms instead of being immediately canceled. But to say that these issues are just as arbitrary as fashion is a completely different argument --- and a specious one at that.
And yet the US seemingly does nothing about it. Makes you think whether the US government is turning a blind eye or they believe there the benefits outweigh the costs.
Yes, I noticed that too. Seems like they're tapping older people with connections and resources. I imagine there's going to be more younger gen assets to tap in future, a lot more nationalist PRC diaspora in west now vs older gen who fled PRC/China when it was a shitshow.
Were I to spread lies about horrible things the Jews were doing, Jewish people around me would become angry and, yes, fearful, depending on my ability to make or find platforms, not because they'd be afraid I was telling the truth, but because, historically, those lies have been early warning signs for violence against Jews, including state violence.

Making it more personal: Would you get angry were someone to falsely accuse you of a crime? Would it frighten you? Would those emotions come from a lack of confidence in the truth, or a lack of confidence in your support system and, ultimately, the justice system to separate fact from fiction?
Lots of chatter here about alternatives that all seem to miss the point that the alternatives suffer from the same filesystem performance issues that this release claims to improve. Might not be an issue for you but if you've ever had to work with a volume mount with a ton of small files (like php or node dependencies) then this could be a real life saver.
Let's use a specific(ish) example.

Suppose I've developed an API that has a few function calls:

void foo(int)

int bar(char **)

char *baz(float)

I have then written a bunch of code that defines my specific implementation of 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz'.

That specific implementation--my specific code--is subject to copyright and no one is allowed to copy my code and use it without my express permission. And that includes obvious things like copying the code and obfuscating what you did via renaming of variables and so forth.

But suppose you want to implement your own compatible version of that API so that someone else can use your library instead of mine.

To create your version you decompile the code and you see that the API is composed of those three functions 'foo', 'bar', and baz'. You then read the decompiled versions of those functions and you see what they're logically doing.

You absolutely can then go away and write your own version of this API! As long as you don't literally take copies of my code and just go write 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' in a way that semantically does the same thing, then you're safe!

However, suppose 'bar' is a simple in-place sort, and you and I both implement a standard quicksort to do the job.

Sure, you wrote yours totally independently of me, but I could still go to a judge and claim that, no, you copied my version! Your copy of 'bar' is in fact a copyright violation because you just stole my code!

How would you prove otherwise?

So instead, what we do is get a third party. Their job is to read the decompiled versions of 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz', and then write down a totally independent specification that describes how those functions work, but doesn't contain any of the code.

To be extra safe, we even get a lawyer to read the resulting specification and certify that, indeed, no copyrighted code is present.

Then we hand you the specification, and you use that specification to implement 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz'.

Now, the specification might say 'bar is an in-place sorting function', and so you go ahead and implement your own version of quicksort.

But now, when I claim you copied my code, you can go to the judge and say "Au contraire! I worked strictly from this specification, here, that my lawyer has verified contains no copyrighted code. The only person that actually read the code is that guy over there points dramatically to the audience and he didn't write any of the code."

This provides a much much stronger defense that your implementation cannot possibly contain illegally duplicated, copyrighted code, and that any similarities are entirely incidental.

Yes, this whole thing probably seems like a crazy dog and pony show, but when you're a little upstart company like Compaq going up against the behemoth that is IBM, you can be damn sure you're gonna dot all your i's and cross all your t's, because they will send an army of lawyers your way, and it won't be pleasant.
The fed admitted a few months ago that inflation is not transitory, ie not due to supply chain problems. So this is to help stem inflation, and hopefully fix the insane housing bubble going on right now.
Prices were lower, and they could refinance when rates got lower.
Could it be a ball lightning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
What I mean is that if policies are are supposedly linked to increases in crime, then we should be evaluating them at a policy level, not a partisan level. The surface debate is just a bunch of partisan finger pointing and strawmanning (especially for the point of politicians getting their comments on the news), which covers up the real debate about underlying policy.

I don't know, but I feel like wanting to have articles that report meaningful information and analysis on the policies is not confirmation bias, but a desire to have informed debate about things that actually matter.
ah! indeed that's another possibility, they simply don't get caught (at least this time)
COVID is still very very new.

There was and still are good reasons to be careful.

It would have been just stupid to get COVID out of yolo.

Now doctors have much more experience with it, vaccines exists.
Just be aware it is very close to a philosophical treatise.
Oh no! Boomers will lose 401(k) value! The horror!
If there's one rule of adding paid features, it's "Don't make previously-free features paid". They set the anchor price to "free" and then changed their minds later. Human psychology does not appreciate this and will resist and resent it, because we see it as someone taking away what we have.

The solution is to add additional features and charge for them; they should have charged more for e.g. automatic kubernetes configurations and other more "businessey" features, but now it's too late and there's no value-adds that they haven't already added.

In the end, it's not a complaint about Docker's "value-add" software; they're complaining about an increase in the price without an increase in the value.

I'm not sure what Docker could do from this point on. Maybe I'm missing something, but they seem pretty doomed overall.
The More Density We Build, the More Valuable “Neighborhood Character” Will Be
Maintaining a fork and maintaining a single feature of a project are two different levels of commitment and you can want to do one without doing the other although all too often people want to contribute a feature and then not provide support for it and expect the project maintainer to now maintain the contributed code. But that's a different issue (and why many maintainers sometimes don't accept random PR's even if the code itself is fine).

> You don't need to push to the original repo because open source allows you to make your fork available to others.

This is simply not true - not all open source software is copyleft. You can have restrictive licensing regarding use and/or distribution and still be open source.
We've started trimming the whitespace from the top/bottom of blocks of text so that the bounding box is effectively from the top of the cap to the baseline.

Mark Dalgleish describes the technique in this video (around 9:45) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jnV1u67_yVg

It's made it a lot easier to reason about the layout of text compared to other elements on the page and achieve more consistent use of spacing.
Totaly true . Look at alex jones. He is a full blown crazy person that believes in the supremacy of the christian race… oh yes racism goes also realy well with religion
This is great news! It’s been fun watching their progress as they brought it up.

It was also super good to learn about the absurdly bad sync perf on the SSDs that we may not have otherwise heard about.
> [10] - "komitanto", I don't even know what this word is supposed to mean in Polish.

In English "comitant": https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Comitant
If you think their strategy is to lull someone else into attacking them, I guess?

Occam’s razor is more likely - the west vastly overestimated their capability practically the entirety of the Cold War, and you’re doing it again now.
You've leapt into another argument, ignoring the whole thesis trap you tried to set earlier. Now, it's about "granularity" and "moving out of neighborhoods" and "large exodus from cities" and anything else you can pivot towards.

It's ok to admit that you were never interested in discussing the actual analysis in the report because you refuse to accept it's validity. Instead of going around-and-around, we can just agree on that.

< (as the article groups entire cities together, then maybe the article was not granular enough?)

The article wasn't making a point about a specific city or a specific part of a city, like the commenter (incorrectly) was, so they wouldn't have that burden. I'm not sure why it is so hard to accept what the report is rather than argue about what it isn't.

> Even the article mentions Chicago as having a real and persistent homicide problem and describes the murder rate as alarming.

As I said in my comment. Nobody has ever disputed that, to say otherwise is yet another strawman. I live in Chicago, which is why I tune into opinions on the city built entirely on assumptions (like the one the article mentions and that commenter displayed).
you're still the author
This demonstrates one of my peeves with many progress bars: the indeterminate state is briefly and periodically indistinguishable from the determinate states.
To make sure the qualify of the brain-wash process for the whole country, which is the foundation for those countries' stability, dissidents must be eliminated or harassed enough so they shut-up, wherever they might be.
Basically they are documenting non-copyrightable parts of the interface. If you put these numbers in these registers and call this interrupt the result is foo. You need to write a routine to do that but we're not going to tell you what the IBM code did to produce foo.
IMO rather than talking about ambiguous "inflation", one should be specific about what exactly is being inflated - "monetary inflation", "asset inflation", "price inflation", etc. Monetary inflation occurred when the Fed printed several trillions of dollars back in 2020, asset inflation occurred soon thereafter, and then price inflation took hold throughout 2021 as that new money trickled into consumers' hands.

It doesn't particularly make sense to call the current rising oil price inflation (that would make "inflation" just a synonym for price increases), but the price of energy going up will cause broad price inflation down the line.
> In my understanding, he's worrying that it's everywhere, all the time, in the self-censor sense.

I don't think he's worried about self-censorship in itself. If he's worried about anything in this essay, I would say it's the possibility of losing the option he describes here:

"The trouble with keeping your thoughts secret, though, is that you lose the advantages of discussion. Talking about an idea leads to more ideas. So the optimal plan, if you can manage it, is to have a few trusted friends you can speak openly to. This is not just a way to develop ideas; it's also a good rule of thumb for choosing friends. The people you can say heretical things to without getting jumped on are also the most interesting to know."
It's rough.

On the one hand, retirees bring nothing of real value to the economy. We serve them because of the obligations they built up over their working careers. But, they get the focus of attention because a) they have all the money, b) they have all the time to be engaged in politics, and c) they vote. But they're purely an extractive cost center. A kind of economic parasite that keeps getting bigger and bigger with the magic of compounding interest.

On the other hand, the younger working class generations, who are the real engines of the economy that keep us all fed and served, are legitimately suffering and failing to acquire a significant stake in the economy. Sure, employment is high but pay is low compared to their parents. When shit hits the fan, the young generations are largely gonna shrug, because who fights to defend something they don't have a stake in?

It really seems like a powder keg for revolution.
If both Humble and Webb were pointed at the same spot of the sky at the same time, the images could be merged to get a wider range of the light spectrum.
OpenBSD gains initial 802.11ac 80 MHz channel support
Unfortunately most people with 401(k)s are in SPY as the default, boomers or not
Phrased less sarcastically: "Millions of retirees won't have enough money to survive until they pass away."
You won’t be laughing when you find out it’s your responsibility to bail them out.
My team wrapped an ambitious RN project over the last 6 months and had no such issues. We actually migrated from "vanilla" RN to the latest Expo release as EAS allows you to use native code and do nearly anything you could do with vanilla.

Every codebase is unique, but I would (and have) recommended this stack to multiple teams as it served us really well.

We onboarded 3 React devs - 2 of which had never used RN before and all 3 were pushing out features within a two week sprint.

We also got to scan a QR code from a GitHub PR and allowed other engineers, QA folk, and designers to test PRs before merging on a real physical device - I am not sure if Flutter has something similar, but the tooling around RN is amazing.

Also, LogRocket, Sentry, LaunchDarkly, Auth0 and most of the SaaS tools youre familiar with in React have solid ReactNative support - often times including web if you use RNW.
Ah, that's what you mean by "snoozing".

Thanks for the clarification. It's obviously not tyrannical, just a little quirky.

Still, it seems unnecessary to me and a little patronizing.
I'm skeptical you could hit that sort of range for anywhere near $10K. Forget the electronics, you need an engine powerful enough to lift a few hundred pounds for that distance. Unless you want it detected immediately by early warning radar you need it to fly at a low altitude, like a hundred feet or less. Unless you want it to take forever and be susceptible to infantry with small arms it needs to be traveling fast, in the hundreds of miles an hour. That's simply not possible with an electric system with today's technology, and a rocket engine won't provide the endurance or efficiency you need. That leaves a jet engine or pistol engine. Plus, flying at that speed and altitude means you need an effective autopilot system that uses terrain-following radar. You'll also need some nice guidance packages that allow the shooter to set multiple waypoints, so the missile doesn't have to just fly a direct course. And a 50 lb payload of high explosive just isn't that helpful. There aren't a ton of targets where you only need 50lb of explosives to defeat them, that are also going to stay in the same exact GPS position long enough for your missile to travel a few hundred miles. So you'll want a different terminal guidance method, either some sort of radar sensor or infrared.

I don't think you could get an engine capable of getting you hundreds of miles at that speed and altitude, much less the sensors and guidance system.
You’ve missed the point. There are trade-offs that you are ignoring. There is no hard science that proves either of our opinions are right. I believe diversity is the better path in the face of such uncertainty, I don’t understand why you are against diversity here, and you continue to not directly answer that question.

“ If your code did not use generics, it can continue to not use generics. If you did not interact with any libraries whose need for generics was apparent, you can continue to do that too and the libraries you were using aren't going anywhere.”

This shows a profound lack of understanding of software development at scale.
> They have a history of losing numerous planes in training excercises

There is a reason virtually every fighter jet ever made was made with ejection seats or retrofitted with them later: They're inherently risky aircraft, and almost impossible to bail out of.

If you have some actual statistics that show that USN and USAF pilots crash their jets at a greater rate than other nations, I'd like to see it. The absolute number of crashes tells nothing because some countries (Russia) barely fly their jets at all.
Yikes, do all filters do that? https://github.com/higgins/privatize/blob/0.1.1/index.js#L98

Also, it's 2022 and I still have to remind people not to commit binary assets into git repos, as the repo will grow without bound: https://github.com/higgins/privatize/tree/main/release

That's the very problem that GitHub Releases were designed to address, and has the extra awesome benefit of using (currently) AWS S3 for distribution, which is almost certainly going to be faster and place less load upon github.com than .../raw/main/release/whatever.exe

Also, while the Brew tap indicates your code is ISC, there is no license file in your repo: https://github.com/higgins/homebrew-privatize/blob/main/Form...
I think the vast majority thinks that, but the extremists (for or against) are the ones carrying the megaphones because media craves controversy.
Yeah, you lot wreck my poor little Alpha Micro Eagle 300 (68030) every time it gets posted here. It's like you like these old beasts or something. ;)
I'm a tenth generation American. Pointing out facts is called being a realist. And I'm not impressed with a bunch of armchair generals that think that war with Russia would be easy because their Tik Tok feed told them so.
This got me thinking that MS might actually be telling the truth here. Maybe they only plan to enable it for pirated copies.
Superbug-Infected Chicken Is Being Sold All over the US
Honestly, I don’t understand the entitlement that causes someone to have to write this.

Having experienced the “overwhelmed with requests” thing myself, I now find myself thinking anyone who becomes demanding of open source maintainers is not seeing reality. These folks have day jobs, they don’t work for you.

If you’ve implemented my library in a mission critical part of your system, then feel free to fork & fix or pony up the dough. Otherwise you’ll get the update (if it should be updated at all) when/if I have a minute.

This might be a bit hostile but truly, c’mon people.
This is always the case though, there are always retired people. They have raised rates and damaged market values in past. Its a decision they are comfortable taking.

Plus, at least current US retirees have social security, which may not last another 20+ years in current form (unfortunately for people paying in today).
Does this fall into the category of research "try not to make public"? Or is this category only wishful thinking on my part.
Microwave ovens and their hazards
This isn't hate. This is indifference and conservation of energy.
The quiet part would be "We need to put a few million people out of work to cool things off."
> Because I was so annoyed by the lack of contribution, despite the obvious signals that people were using the software, I (eventually) realized that my true goal was for people to interact with my code, not my program.

That's a neat observation. My theory -- hard to prove -- would be that if you leave the code open for long enough (regardless or not of whether you pay attention to contributions, and how many of them there are), you'll find some keen soul further down the road who finds and repairs some kind of compatibility issue, security/privacy problem, or similar.

> So few users care if a project is open or not that they can safely be ignored as a rounding error.

I can near-guarantee that for users who understand that software can do whatever it wants on their system, within the capabilities of the runtime environment and as instructed, then when those users are provided with the option to be able to see the corresponding code or not, they'll choose to have it available to them. In an enterprise context: it can sway vendor selection.

That's an increasing percentage of users today, I think. Perhaps it was the case a decade or two ago that people thought of software as windowed applications on their desktop; nowadays I reckon that more people have software developers within their extended social networks, and from that exposure they have a little bit more of a sense for how computers and code work.

And in response to one of your parent comments:

> I didn't like that view of myself, so I stopped opening my software.

Totally understandable. Don't forget the fact that you have an opportunity (not a responsibility, by any means) to teach and share code with current and future generations of developers.

They might discover some relevant snippet of yours through code search and find exactly what they need to solve a problem. Perhaps they'll credit you; perhaps they won't (perhaps they won't realize or be in the mindset that it's worthwhile (and/or important) to credit people for their work) - either way you'll have helped someone with their day.
There's one bug report[0] which I found by searching their BigZilla[1], but that was last active 6 years ago...

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246485
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=Page+vi...