skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Fair use” is, technically, not actually permitted by copyright law. ISTR that “fair use” is only a defense you can use when you are being sued for copyright violation.

Suppose we create a new AI image generator, and use as training input every image ever made of a Disney character (official images by Disney, that is, no fan art), including every frame of every Disney movie. Could we just use the output images of that AI however we wanted to? (Not withstanding trademarks.)
Quite a few societies don’t collapse but simply go into a long decline and then get taken over by other societies.

Do we even have multiple societies anymore? IMHO this is becoming debatable, and ceding heterogeneity could be viewed as a dangerous gamble.
Would you agree that all of the most important aspects of a bachelors in CS are easily accessible to a motivated non-student?
I have been using this method for about 10-15 years. I have just a big ideas.txt file where I write something everyday. I don't usually think too much if the ideas even make sense, they're mostly unfiltered thoughts.
This just sounds like you’re punishing candidates because you have an inferiority complex.

Many master’s holders started out thinking they might have been interested in research and decided industry was a better fit after seeing how the sausage is made. You’re “rule of thumb” punishes undergrads who were inspired to push the boundaries of knowledge in the field.
Thanks for sharing! I want to know about TCP, UDP and all those fancy terms in backend development like reverse proxies, load balancers.
> Like... Can i buy bread and milk with this thing any time soon?

No.

Ethereum still cannot be used as a form of payment.
This adds nothing to an interesting discussion. Can you leave this Facebook nonsense there please?
Amazon is AWS's biggest customer, but I've never been told to compress things with zstd while working at AWS. And services still compress files as gzip before storing data in S3.

Maybe data in S3 is compressed? I don't know the internals of S3.
I don't understand what you mean. Stakers get ETH "for free" and therefore they crash the price? But the demand for ETH will still be there just like it was for mining.

I don't really understand how Ethereum works very well. They are trying to tweak the ETH generation to make the merge work (see the ultra sound money memes). Just because stakers don't have to work hard doesn't mean ETH will crash.

The whole thing does kind of seem hand wavey and magicky (compared to proof of work, I mean) but I've had a hard time finding resources that explain how it works simply.
Considering how it were the Greeks that prevented Calculus from being discovered for 2000+ years, I would rather err on the side of Descartes and Leibnitz and still ask questions like these.

I think you mistake my using the term "computer" for the machine that everybody is using nowadays--but that is just an instance of the Class of computers. The ultimate goal of formal systems is making better Class of computers that should solve real-world problems more efficiently (any other formal systems digression into logic and linguistics always boomerangs back to machines).

Consider how Bayesian probability was looked down upon for decades before computers became powerful enough to reveal how the academic world was wrong about dismissing it--big names from the Frequentist school, just like EDK is in CS....

Even if you still disagree--which you will--there is no denying the fact that not using technology when you ARE an expert in the said technologies is rather odd, and perhaps a bit silly. Have you seen astronomers shunning mathematics? Math is a tool that simplifies a great deal of issues not ordinarily possible with a "naked" mind. So does the computer (as an instance of the computer Class); that someone did not even want to use a typewriter let alone a computer is bewildering to me.
Is it ethical/correct for an art student to study the techniques and copyrighted works of other artists in learning to create their own art? Was the 2nd impressionist painter ethical/correct?
Doctors have very complicated jobs.

They need to deal with patients expectations and understanding of their own diseases
> Says who? Is that in the cirriculum?

Yes?

I mean, i guess different places have different curriculum, but this was certainly in my school's curriculum and it seems like the sort of basic knowledge that definitely should be.
Do you see the same issue I see? I don’t understand why they aren’t concerned about it.
Thanks a lot for your answer!
I agree on the thing that doing something would actually give me knowledge for that. But still if you can share some resources then I would be very grateful to you.
Every now and then life rewards you with something unexpected and perfect. This is one of those times.
Can you please share some resources which could help me in that!
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What does adding unicode support mean? Is it about making all the string indexing match codepoints instead of bytes? Or is it more than that?
Do all the animals that exhibit menopause also have sex recreationally ? Orcas do, but I do not know about the others mentioned.
Can someone put this on a blockchain and attach price/revenue to owning blocks?
Patent Expert Reacts to Apple Car Patents
Lol I thought 3d charts full of shaders or used of particles and this? Whyyy
If you own a large amount of a currency, you want to ensure that the currency in question is trusted, or otherwise that currency would end up losing its value. It is your greed that is guiding you, not your benevolence.
As I said I dont want to cover the whole networking just I need to learn those things that are required for backend development.
Have you thought that maybe the hard fact is that the map was made because it's useful and not because of racism?
And still cannot be used as a form of payment that is better than the current system.
Globe print resolution is usually bad. Anyone got a link for a modern, extremely detailed globe?
Pretty cool. But, that happens all the time in materials science. 'We've found X that can perform better than Y, but we have no idea on how to actually make it work in the real world'. i.e.: superconductors
The average person doesn’t encounter mathematical problems -- full stop. They have no reference point between one algorithm and the next.

Heck, I understand well how POW works, and even I think of it as solving a "complex mathematical problem"... the inherently difficult problem of prime factorization.

Anyways, potayto potahto.
Yukika, a Kpop artist, recorded something similar: All Flights Are Delayed

https://youtu.be/aHjPBWJKJyM
It's not about whether they think any particular white people are good or bad, it's about establishing themselves as the authority on who is good and who is bad.

(Thanks to The Last Psychiatrist's 'The Dove Sketches Beauty Scam' rant for forever altering the way I see these things: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html)
Blindly accepting something is no more intellectually curious than blindly rejecting it.
How about working one one of those that already exist?
A common criticism without an obvious rebuke is that by design, the rich get richer.

IMO it's preferable to 'the ones with lucrative energy contracts get richer' but obviously not desirable.
Why don't we see more powerful tools for thoughts?

>> Put another way, many tools for thought are public goods. They often cost a lot to develop initially, but it’s easy for others to duplicate and improve on them, free riding on the initial investment. While such duplication and improvement is good for our society as a whole, it’s bad for the companies that make that initial investment. And so such tools for thought suffer the fate of many public goods: our society collectively underinvests in them, relative to the benefits they provide.
Your woodworker analogy needs a bit of work 8)

In construction - in the UK - there are first and second fix "chippies". First fix do the big stuff and second fix do everything after the plaster is dry(ish).

There are also cabinet makers and furniture makers, turners and several more wood related trades. Here, woodworker is a synonym for carpenter and carpenter is rarely used as a job title. Generally a specialisation is used.

I happen to own an IT firm and I prefer to see engineering qualifications on CVs (resumes). I'm a rather shabby Civ. Eng myself! I graduated just before the shit hit the fan in the UK in 1991 - recession, >10% unemployment (in Devon and Cornwall) etc. Can't recall what inflation was up to at the time but I think it was worse than now.

... So I ended up in IT
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Cloud Object Storage Challenges?
What challenges are you facing with Cloud object storage?

a) Cost - picking right storage class, duplicate content etc.

b) Performance - picking the right location, caching etc

c) Governance - access control, observability etc.

d) Something else
Great post, I was checking out Postmark but they seem to be acquired by MailChimp-like company that I've never heard of – "Active Campaign": https://postmarkapp.com/blog/postmark-and-dmarc-digests-acqu...

While their blog post is saying they're not changing anything, it is concerning.

I'll check out Mailgun.
sometimes i just outsourced stuff to people who were not technically capable enough. even good-ish devs can have trouble with the javascript event loop / promises / etc.

outside of that, i think quality can tumble when a solo dev starts to lose interest -- i.e. burnout.
How about replacing the administrators with AI instead, that seems like a far better solution to me

You can even replace the administrators in all the health care middlemen companies too! More opportunity for cutting the fat if you go for administration
Yeah but you can dynamically recalculate that projection as you want. That's like saying that a physical globe is still a kind of projection because you can only look at it from one side with your eyes.
Hey thanks a lot for sharing it. But what I need is to know about TCP, UDP, HTTP, TLS/SSL, HTTP 1.1, Reverse Proxy, Forward Proxy, etc...
So if you have some resources for that also please share it. I would be grateful to you.
The base rate for exchanges getting hacked is definitely over 0.01%
> Is the abbreviation some sort of satire?

I don't see anything even vaguely resembling satire in it.

> I hate to start the discussion with something other than the content,

If you really hage doing it, it's easy enough to avoid.

> who okays this sort of random, unprofessional, confusing naming scheme.

There is nothing random (seems rather intentional), unorofessional, of confusing about the naming scheme. It has a simple descriptive name, and shorter acronym derived from the name. The acronym is an initialism, one of the more common kinds, but isn't an initialism using every word of the full name, instead leaving out the second word of a two-word noun phrase leaving the phrase represented by the first letter of the first word. Not all that unusual.
What about behaviors and expectations? At the end of the day you’re verifying behaviors and expectations of software. I mean when designing a solution you need to think these things through. TDD compliments this just the same
> a few million tons of old car carcasses for iron

* powdered car carcasses, so the iron stays in the photic zone.
I'm pretty sure they just climb the gradient to find the local emitter.
Paywalled.

Magazine not available at chain bookstore or local library.
Here you are asking the most important question.

Exchanges hold the most ETH. They are a central collusion point which could cause undue influence on the network.

At least it seems they do not own a lot of the existing Eth.

https://etherscan.io/accounts
Here is how I explain it to people:

Imagine a page of a book, for each letter a-z, assign a number to it (a=1, b=2, .. , z=26). Compute the sum of all of the letters on the page but reset back to zero when 100 is reached (i.e. 97 + 5 = 2). The resulting number is a kind of signature for the page. Changing a letter would result in a different sum.

At this point, people usually understand the utility and irreversible nature of it but quickly realize that many pages could have the resulting signature. It is a fairly easy leap of faith for most people to accept that there could be much more sophisticated algorithms that 1) use a bigger number for the signature and 2) take position into account and 3) result in very different signatures with tiny changes in input. This is usually sufficient for anyone to understand what is meant by a hash.

Finally explain that the hash must have a certain pattern to it (like end in a zero for example). If the hash of our "page" does not have this pattern, add another small gibberish word to the end and try it again. Keep trying until a hash with the expected pattern is found (and there is your Bitcoin).

The suggestion that a mathematical problem is being solved (while not completely inaccurate) sounds a bit more elegant in my opinion than what is really going on. It is really more like guessing (not that it really matters).
Awesome. Some cube going through a Conway universe shooting up Blocks and Blinkers is the hero we need.
What about bitcoin makes it unchangeable other than the culture of the people who run it? Culture can be subject to change.
There is an Ethereum protocol standard (similar to RFCs in the internet context) that defines a standard for NFT royalties https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2981

FYI I am an author of this standard. It is widely supported across the ecosystem https://royaltyregistry.xyz/

My company doesn’t care where our NFTs travel or trade on. We get our royalty regardless.
The rewards are decreasing as well. Issuance is reduced by 90% from currently ~13k ETH/Day to 1600 ETH /Day.
> the implication here is that if GPT-3 can solve your coding question, you are hiring people good at memorizing solutions and not skillfull engineers.

How is that any different than what it is now? Moreover, this type of rote learning is what has been rewarded most in most academic examination processes; SAT prep tests are doing exactly that: cramming students in order learn the exam process and deductive reasoning via multiple choice by taking many test exams.

Honestly, the only tech job I have ever received was extended to me because I was headhunted while working on my startup so my POV vastly differs from most with how on-boarding should go, and every time I see this white-boarding non-sense is the norm in the interview process it make me wonder what exactly it's trying to achieve if not just gate-keep and subject people to the same hazing process the hiring managers and project leads went through when they joined: people just say they'll just grind on leetcode rather than build something useful as this is the main barrier of entry and it dissapoints me so much that it's just been normalized over the years.
As Apartment Rents Soar in Orlando, Rent Control Goes to a Vote
If "technocrat" means expertise driven, I'll take that, please. Better than taking the input of people like you.

Why are all your comments about Europe though? You sound like you've been radicalized. Get off YouTube and stop watching Alex Jones, I'm saying this for you own mental health.
A RL agent with a large Transformer seems to me like a design that would build an AGI.
Let's shorten that to: buy reputable monitors, from brand names you recognize. You wouldn't buy a no-name car.
Sign of the times, I think. How long until AI offers complete solutions to basic business websites? How long until it does even more?
I made this! Thanks for posting it, I'll gladly answer any questions.

The samples are available here on GitHub: https://github.com/matteason/scotrail-announcements-june-202...

...and here on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/172W6sXnvlr7UcNLi...

We crowdsourced transcriptions for all the clips and Simon Willison built an interactive dashboard to explore them: https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/

The announcements are read by voice-over artist Alison McKay: https://www.alisonmckay.com/
Putting it on the registrar's servers to begin with would be safest, because they already know you have control of that domain (so nobody else could usurp NS control out from under you). I can understand the convenience of being able to set a different default, but it seems like a huge footgun to leave open, especially if it happens automatically (which, I don't remember ever setting a default on purpose)
You can’t borrow enough money and immediately take over the network. Those funds need to be staked first in validators with 32 ETH each and you need to control enough validators to control consensus. It’s more difficult than PoW in a way since you can’t just start validating, there is an entry/exit queue.
Fascinating, I never thought of them as general purpose processors (though they obviously could do it). Any idea why they were chosen?
> A defining feature of blockchain computation models is that the same calculation must be run many, many times to verify it. Given that each individual one must run on the hardware that blockchain is competing with direct usage of, there's no plausible story for blockchain to close the gap.

This is not true - zero knowledge proofs allow you to verify work much more cheaply than the original computation, and they're used heavily in upcoming ethereum L2s.
Reflects the reality that, “according to the FBI, African-Americans accounted for 55.9% of all homicide offenders in 2019”.
Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't tenure something that's given to a professor, who, essentially, is a person that teaches? I should think that loving one's profession can only go so far when the profession doesn't love you back.
The point of fees isn't primarily to reward the miners. That's what the block reward is for. Under PoS validators will still get a block reward, although a lower one (90% less).

The fees are to mitigate spam attacks. You can only fit that many transactions in a block. Fees are bids to be included in a block. The higher the fee, the earlier your transaction gets included. Fees on Ethereum are high, because a lot of people want to use it.
Totally agree. We don't say it enough, but this has real-world impact. :-)
I think you meant to say it is not a feature, it is a bug.
“Black lives matter” was invented by leftists as a propaganda tool. “All lives matter” has deeper meaning because it does not imply that some lives are more valuable than others.
In my master program in CS there was a guy unfamiliar with the concept of "find the minimum number in an array". Turns out he just had paid someone to do all of his assignment in the bachelor.
I'm not saying that it does, just that like you definitely hear more about Blender than about Maya on Hacker News, you will hear more about an open source model than a commercial one.
It's also the case that `char` in Rust is a 32-bit primitive. Though, `String` being UTF-8 is convenient until you need to do Unicode operations on actual chars...

It is surely better than dealing with UTF-16 "surrogate pairs"[2] in most pre-UTF-8 tech where a `char` is 16-bits but can't fit all Unicode codepoints without another 16-bit `char`.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.char.html#representa...

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54922477/809572
Did the Teacup Hinder Chinese Scientific Progress?
If you're paying for something you're not consuming, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Someone has to squander the trillions printed by central banks.
> And for info repositories I prefer a curated wiki page to discussion threads for both search and comprehension.

This point is so important.

Some folks seem to think that chat threads can serve properly in this role but in my experience both Slack and MS Teams are nearly useless in the role of "info repository."
Yup, in fact there are some fig genus that depend solely on some specific wasps for pollination
Used to have a USB 3 device that would jam an RF keyboard if it was between the keyboard and the adapter...
Libraries have always existed, yes.
HN is not the place to report this
I like your thinking but devil's advocate...

How much of what we do on current-era machines is IO-bound? Not a great deal. And when it is, it's usually a network and not a local hardware limitation.

How much would UX improve? Not a great deal, most usage is CRUD/web/vid.

Would new applications become available? Sure. But what are they?

Is the value proposition vs. total addressable market compelling?

If you can convincingly answer the above you can definitely go get funding and do it.
One question:

How is Ethereum going to comply with looming regulations in the cryptocurrency industry with proof-of-stake when regulators and enforcement agencies such as the OFAC could instruct validators to not mine or process transactions that have come from Ethereum mixers like Tornado.cash or sanctioned addresses and stay as a permissionless network at the same time?

If they do comply and enough validators start censoring these transactions, then it no longer is a permissionless network and just censors transactions like any other permissioned network does. If not enough validators censor or comply with these regulations, the funds in those validators will be slashed and may cause a cascade of lost funds and will also allow the processing of transactions from sanctioned addresses. i.e non-compliance and angering the regulators.

The energy problem is most definitely solved. But from a regulatory point of view, it appears that the Merge will introduce another can of worms and will make Ethereum eventually a more permissioned network with proof-of-stake.
Maybe it would have done better if the prompt had been "Four men - George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon - striding across a zebra crossing situated on Abbey Road, outside EMI studios in London."
Is there any reason you cant use SES for marketing emails? Or comparable services like Postmark?
That's how it works in italy. The bad side is that to be an engineer you have to pay a yearly fee as well :D
It's not really marketing strictly speaking. Our customers (~2000 contacts) want us to send them email when we release an update or a new product. They willingly volunteered to sign up. So, this is a little different than MyPillowCompany sending out spammy marketing drip campaigns day in day out. I could technically send "transaction" emails in a python script via AWS SES but it would be nice to have something that can also report bounces, deliverability stats, etc. I am expecting almost no bounces unless customer has abandoned their email. Our mailing list was validated by sending a confirm link to their email during sign up. That said, I am far from understanding how email marketing works and any advice is much appreciated.