skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being bad for artists and the environment is not illegal.

Yet we have copyright laws and environmental protection laws to protect both.

> If you look at a movie poster, your brain does not need to be released in the public domain. Even if you sketch it from memory.

Because I’m not a machine. I’m contrained by physics, whereas these models are not.

Copyright laws were made to protect artists from IP theft. If I make a sculpture, it’s not trivial to copy that and steal from me, so creating copyright laws to protect sculptors would be a hard sell.

But a painting, a book, a song, etc are easy to steal, especially with technology. Copying and selling someone else’s painting is similar to copying and selling someone else’s sculpture, yet the scale of theft is obviously different (mass producing sculptures is much harder than making unlimited copies of an mp3)

These AI models are a new type of theft, and likewise need new types of legal protections for artists.
Your video app is a perfect example of where Rust shines. I'd add embedded development, data-intensive, fault-intolerant systems and game engines are perfect for this language.

But without even going as far as frontend web applications, stuff like backend services, system services, GUI applications, CLI applications, etc., don't actually need all that much memory safety and control over allocations.
One interesting thing about neural net generation of images is that up until recently, pixel art didn't work at all. Attempts at using GANs to learn Pokemon pixel art etc always failed miserably. The release of CLIP turned out to enable pretty good pixel art generation, and it's only gotten better - DALL-E 2 also can just do pixel art.

eg https://github.com/pixray/pixray (see https://twitter.com/KaliYuga_ai/status/1532197896090681344 https://twitter.com/KaliYuga_ai/status/1532129051434958851 https://twitter.com/KaliYuga_ai/status/1531478055344082944 )

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uswf2r/pixel_art_of... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/upf93v/a_raccoon_le... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ulh07q/spaceships_2... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uh8sep/pixel_art_of... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uav52t/tileset_of_f... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/uc4jnv/spritesheet_... https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/ufb564/cherry_bloss... https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1531545772420132865
It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He literally became my demigod during my undergrad days.

And from all that... to this?

From a much admired and respected 'inventor' to a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord.' Just been a crazy ride.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html
can you understand anything they are saying? You should include text you expect to see (partial lyrics) as a quoted string in such a way that is unlikely to have line breaks on the lyrics page.
When I was around 15 I tried to master the controlled coin flip, having been exposed to the idea in one of the Stainless Steel Rat books by Harry Harrison. I reached around 80% success flipping for heads, so long as I used the catch-and-show method. It was easier with heavier and bigger coins, tougher with lighter and smaller ones. Letting the coin drop the the ground and bounce took me back to 50%.

Satisfied that it could be done, I moved on - never used the skill, except as a party trick.
Sure-but what do you do when this percentage of the class cheats - 80% or something here?

Do you fail everyone?

The percentage here is really, really disturbing. I don’t recall seeing what kind of class it was, but cheaters are usually the exception, it’s assumed.

…or maybe the whole world has been cheating a lot more than we all think.
I managed to hitchhike from the bay area to the Canadian border and back to California. I met lots of really cool people. Contrary to popular belief nowadays most people don't want to murder you.
Here's what has worked for me:

Workspaces - I use Ubuntu with Gnome, and I set up three workspaces: one for personal stuff like Hacker News, a middle one for work communications (email, Slack), and a third with the tools I actually use for my job. This way at least I don't have distractions staring me in the face all the time when I'm trying to work. A step better would be to use a separate computer for personal stuff and to keep it suspended or even powered off.

Social media - I removed all social media apps on my phone so now it only bothers me for texts and those annoying ubiquitous spam phone calls which I can easily ignore. I deleted Facebook ages ago and I hardly ever look at Tweeter.

Segmented browsing - I use Firefox for personal stuff and Chromium for work (I'm not a front-end web dev). When I need to concentrate I can run `pkill -f firefox` and get rid of that distraction while knowing that I can get my tabs back later.

Structuring tasks - Break tasks up into chunks that you can finish in an hour or two. Make lists and check boxes. It's important to feel like you're making some kind of progress. A big amorphous blob of project is a barrier to getting started again.

Accountability - I've been working remotely for 11 years now. I had a real crisis of focus and ennui early on, but then I went to my boss and asked for twice-weekly meetings. It really helps me to know that somebody is going to ask about my tasks, plus it's a nice social time.

Exercise - Nobody would mistake me for a fitness enthusiast but I concentrate much better if I do at least basic exercise every day. A walk around the block is great for clearing my head, and I sometimes get ideas while outside.

Housekeeping - Tidy up your workspace. Run apt-get updates. Keep some simple tasks around for when you have low mental energy. The equivalent of dusting or sweeping the floor.

Acceptance - I'm reading HN right now. It's okay, I can't sustain focus forever. Skimming the tech trades can give you a sense of what kinds of things other people are doing and what new tools might be out there. Keep track of interesting things using Pinboard or django-linkpile or something. Over my career I've had lots of times where the solution to a work problem came from something I read in a Slashdot or HN post or comment.

I read something by mid-1600s monk Brother Lawrence a long time ago. A novice monk was having trouble focusing during his prayer times and was told to go seek his advice. Brother Lawrence basically said don't beat yourself up over it (certain monastic orders would self-flagellate to try to purify themselves), but just acknowledge that you've lost focus, ask the Lord for forgiveness and strength, and get back to it. You will lose focus. It happens. Don't beat yourself up, take a short break, and get back to it. Speaking of which...
This seems like a major legal liability for Google. It could be shown that Google and other major email hosting providers act like a cartel by unfairly discriminating against companies who don't use a major email provider.
Why do you think a bug is a "simpler" explanation for this behaviour? Maybe if all links were broken then sure, but if only specific sites that operate against the interests of Twitter stop working doesn't that point to something else going on?
I thought all these object-storage systems were based on a Dynamo-like design, where you don't get the system's durability guarantees unless you've got at least 17 independent copies of everything.
Quite expensive insurance
Maybe letting the coin fall on a hard surface, so that it has a chance to bounce/spin randomly before falling flat (or staying on its side!)
I too am a fan of the squirrel cage fan, and have collected a lot over the years. One excellent location to source them for 'reuse' are photocopiers. Old analog copiers can have as many as 4 fans while newer digital ones seem to have 2-3 depending on size/capacity. Mostly DC too, but I have also come across some big A/C fans.

They almost always are designed for higher voltages (i.e. 20+VDC) so when combined with a common 12VDC power source it's already been stepped down.

(source: used to work for a photocopier company, and when people bought newer units, we would pickup the old units and usually junk them.)
RMS fanboys need to attack big corps even when impractical.
Tesla chargers.
When was this?

There is a big difference between Elon Musk pre and post-March 2018. For reasons that would take weeks to explain.
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BT upload counts were a client side value, they were trivial to fake and the tracker would trust the client. PoW cannot rely on client side trust, it must be universally verifiable.

We have a few ways to do this, partial hash collisions, finding large primes, finding prime constellations, calculating cuckoo cycles…

The primes seem to be valuable, alas nobody cared about primecoin or riecoin.
I think that part is tongue in cheek. Because that's usually the argument repeated ad nauseam whenever anyone criticizes social media speech moderation policies.

But as other comments have already mentioned, you are confusing two different meaning of private/public.
It is indeed quite a pickle we are in. I agree with you on not reaching 1.5 but humanity has always surprised me and the world has reinvented itself over and over again so I have some faith that we will figure out a way forward in this case too.
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Antidotally I can confirm that it is possible toss a coin like that. It helps have a larger coin and to impart it with relatively little rotation.
> People have pointed out that he’s likely going through mental health issues and Im inclined to agree with them.

There could be all kinds of other factors, but I have been a Musk watcher for a decade and I have a theory on the timing.

There was a major shift in Musk’s public behavior, and his state residency, around the time he was about to have to pay a lot of CA state income tax.

Having to write a ten digit check to the government appears to make most people lose some of their rational thinking abilities.

They seem to go into a siege mentality for one thing.

It appears to me that humans are just not evolved to handle his level of wealth/resource disparity.
The scientific and creative methods are both entirely centered around evaluating data or existing creative elements and combining it in novel ways. Science adds the goal of making and testing hypotheses but nothing about Copernicus's conjecture would have been possible without observing existing information. I'm including e.g. "new" astronomical observations in the realm of existing information because even a human is simply observing and measuring it.

I fail to see what the difference is between 99% of existing "creativity," which is essentially arranging existing ideas into novel combinations, and what DALLE2 does.
It also just looks suspect. Mastadon is a competitor to twitter, right? It's obviously good for twitter that no one can post links to the mastadon sign up page, right? Do I still have to assume it's just a bug?

I sure wish the bugs in my code ended up benefiting my company :)
Fleet is still at pre alpha stage.
From what I've heard, Perci Diaconis (one of the authors of the original paper) actually could do this. He was a magician before he became a mathematician, and a lot of his early mathematics work focused on math relating to the magic tricks he used to do
And the difference between "crypto" and "shitcoin" is the same as "religion" and "cult" --- it's mainly just a matter of popularity.
There's a file you can delete every 7 days to re-arm the timer.
What's the point in saying "private company"

Different rules, laws, regulations, etc. apply to private sector vs public sector.

Specifically in this case, OP is implying that a theoretical public sector social network wouldn't be allowed to block linking to mastodon because of the second (EDIT: no, wait, first amendment!) amendment, but that Twitter is well within its rights since they are in the private sector. Whether that's true or not, I dunno.
I'd be careful of over applying the "bias-variance tradeoff." How to define the variance of a model is not a simple task. I wouldn't say it is immediately obvious how bias-variance relates to small data scenarios.

How much data is considered small? What is the complexity of the dataset itself?

Even in Machine Learning it is possible to learn from small datasets without transfer learning. See meta-learning for instance.
That sounds a lot like the idea from Peter Huth’s Mail-Terror-Blocker PRO, a theater drama studied guy that happened to become an _internet expert_ by accident here in Germany back in the 2000s.
Unfortunately, his program failed in the most hilarious ways and quickly became a joke in the usenet groups back in the day.
As long as the filters are adequately supported at the edges it shouldn't be a problem. I know because my house has two 12x24 HVAC filters which are only supported at the edges and are almost certainly subject to much higher rates of airflow.
Also, even if power usage matters, the optimum point may be shifted towards higher power points on desktop because as long as you're waiting for results, the screen is shining, the disks are spinning, etc., so sacrificing CPU performance for CPU power efficiency may actually worsen energy consumption per unit of work done.
Reuters headlines are mostly hit pieces on Tesla.
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Not Just Bikes touches on this in a video of his - how he's not a "cyclist", despite riding his bike a lot, and how the majority of his fellows in the Netherslands aren't cyclists either. He explained that they use two different words for the two groups, "fietser" for the everyday cyclers, and "wielrenner" for those who do it for sport or enthusiasm.
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Thanks for sharing some background on Molekule, I did not know about this.
I'm not sure I agree with this definition - I was a teenager in the 80's when radio dominated the music industry, and they played a lot of stuff that wasn't "pop music".

John Peel's show on Radio 1 in the UK was practically the definition of counter-culture music at the time, yet that was the mainstream music radio station.
What do you actually get by going VSCodium?
> But as other comments have already mentioned, you are confusing two different meaning of private/public.

No, I'm not not confused. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31609113
Referees need to start rolling a d20.
Please refrain from replies without content. Why did the FEC fine the DNC and Clinton for violating rules related to the Steele dossier? My understanding is that the DNC also has a few dollars. Did they forget their bias?
Rust is too painful for hobby projects, IMO. Over the years, I've worked in C, C++, Go, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Scala, JS, Tcl, ... others I've forgotten, most professionally and well as for personal projects.
A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war
> Twitter is a publicly owned corporation

It's a publicly traded company. Not a publicly owned company. The owners of twitter are primarily private citizens/corporations, not public/government.

> But I'm not sure what work the word "private" is supposed to be doing.

Public = government. Private = not government.
Sweet, that'll make it go away for sure.
> except the Go version is forcing you to use Arc everyone

The overhead of atomic reference counts everywhere is higher than the overhead of a good garbage collector. This thinking is biased against Go for no reason.
I don’t think this is a fair shake. I don’t think Shopify is the only competent option in this space, however they have been very innovative:

They were one of the first with broad API integrations and not just a take or leave it storefront.

They have both REST and GraphQL integrations for the HN type crowd

They have an entire framework for heavily customized storefronts, Hydrogen[0]

They have Shop, their Amazon style discovery equivalent for smaller shops.

They have a good app marketplace for integrations

And a lot more.

[0]: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/
Well it's not my job, though even by looking at spam accounts on Twitter I can easily pinpoint common patterns that can be extremely successful at preventing spam at Twitter, MUCH better than blacklisting domains.

It's dead obvious that they do not want it. The reasons why is beyond me.
The government controls some things. Companies control some other things. Gov things are 'public', company things are 'private'. I don't know what you are trying to argue. This is how the west works 101 stuff.
You're right about who is to say. It depends on how much Crypto grows and how important engineering is to a Crypto brokerage, e.g., Vanguard's UI sucks but their rates are great and that's why I have my money there.
I'm starting to wonder more and more whether Musk has forgotten to think about the individuals negatively affected by his actions. I wouldn't be surprised if he really cares about humanity and wants to save the world by going to Mars, but I'm not so sure though whether the end justifies the means.
The PacBell branding suggests this unit hasn't been converted, but most popular payphone model have a COCOT conversion kit available. COCOTs or customer-owned-coin-operated-telephones perform the charging internally and don't require exchange support, so they're a lot simpler to get working. The conversion kits are pretty readily available because a good majority of payphones out in the world today, even operated by the incumbent telco, are actually COCOTs since they've become cheaper and easier to manage over time. Plus a lot of payphones aren't managed by the telco anymore but instead by a separate private company like PTS, which runs all COCOTs with an arrangement where they "dial in" to a management system regularly for configuration and reports.

General rule of thumb is that any payphone that accepts credit cards is actually a COCOT, any payphone not branded by the ILEC is a COCOT, and a lot of the rest are COCOTs too depending on the telco. "Genuine" exchange-controlled payphones (that signal coin drops back to the exchange) have become rare.

I'm pretty surprised he went with the Viking box actually because it costs more than an inexpensive FXS ATA, and a lot more than getting an ATA used. It's simpler to set up, but on the other hand some ATAs have internal logic to connect their two lines that you can enable so they behave as standalone devices. I think this is typical on the older Ciscos.
All of mine are road.

My old 9-speed bike is rock solid, but I ride it rarely (utility purposes, basically).

My 11-speed mechanical bike needed adjustment probably 3-4 times a year (and on one of those occasions it'd be time to swap out the cables). Until I upgraded the shifters would eventually "eat" cables (well, on the right side anyway) and strand me in the lowest cog (Ultegra 6800), which was a huge hassle.

My 11-speed eTap bike asks only that I charge the batteries periodically. In the 2 years I've had eTap on that bike, I've spent MUCH less time futzing with the drivetrain than I did when it was mechanical Red, or than I did when I rode the Ultegra bike full time.
That's so cool! Of course with so many prizes on the line, I spent quite a bit of time (when I was visiting my grandparents in California none the less) over a weekend hacking together all of the ideas I could think of. It was a really great experience overall, and I'm glad you still remember Pixi Dust :)
A similar ruling for laptop charging port would be boon.
Yes, Shimano is quite conservative and they still make 2x setups. The MTB manufacturers rarely use them though, maybe as a cost cutting measure and also because everyone and their neighbour now wants 1x.

On the gravel bike side of things, 1x still doesn't cut it in the low gearing department and one needs to resort to mixing incompatible gravel and MTB mechanical parts. That's where electronic shifting comes to the rescue.

53/39 is insane. I only use subcompacts like 46/30 or 48/32. No use for the ≥ 50T here.
Well, most of the pictures (if not all), while astoundingly good as an idea, have the tell-tale signs of being AI-generated, the kinds of mistakes a human would never make.

For example, looking at the WALL-E one [0], you can clearly see that the hands and feet aren't actually separated properly. There is also plenty of missing "logic" around the armpits. These are the kinds of mistakes a human can't make - especially one that is so adept at drawing the other parts so perfectly.

[0] https://twitter.com/HvnsLstAngel/status/1531512163738669057/...
> write a video game where your enemy player is a neural network that slowly but surely learns how to beat you.

This has already been done: chess
You'll be missing so much out of your life, not sure what to say.
It's not really the fare evasion itself that is the problem (though it does allow people to use transit as a homeless shelter).

Fare evasion is a symptom; the real issue is it being politically unviable to have a police force actively riding buses and light rail.
Here's the complaint: https://www.googlebipasettlement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022...