skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, a construction like 'but' that tries to override another expectation may be suboptimal. I gave the same concept a few tries, with more 'sweeteners'. First batch, for prompt "news photo of the King of Belgium giving a speech to an audience that is entirely cucumbers, award-winning, well-composed, detailed surroundings" – & it's a bit better:

https://labs.openai.com/s/9YF5WxF1GoZVdzpLBAQYp2Zg

https://labs.openai.com/s/wBfHevs9hIZXvzkJ686mFmn3

https://labs.openai.com/s/M0i029fZnYjQXHFobUpw7eun (best of batch imo)

https://labs.openai.com/s/Hf4z0M9M3KBr6IaaKsjEt9Mx

A few more tries didn't manage to create any photorealistic shots with actual cucumbers-in-seats – perhaps due to the absurd contrasts required – but shifting to a 'cartoon' style with the prompt "editorial cartoon of the King of Belgium giving a speech to many cheering cucumbers, professional illustrator" got a lot closer:

https://labs.openai.com/s/4IonSKYkl0okhNvzJmEAH30K (good)

https://labs.openai.com/s/ZeadCzZ9WqeASYXPlOb13wDV (good)

https://labs.openai.com/s/nERf6bALKEBsQQBvPVsAH7o4 (good)

https://labs.openai.com/s/7dsZu3bwtfGZZxxJYtg9lTVf

If I had more time & credits to burn, I suspect working off those could eventually hit something really apt... but it takes some work & tinkering.
Folks that mindfully contribute BSD- and MIT-licensed software do not share the perspective that they are performing unpaid labor for corporations.

I personally regard copyleft as a severe curtailing of options and equate it with being forced to adopt a narrow, ideological worldview. Worse, the GPL perpetuates the fundamental atrocity of intellectual property law, by hacking it, and therefore intrinsically depending on it; in contrast, the BSD and MIT licenses are mostly a liability waiver under an assertion of attribution, ultimately creations more of necessity than ideology.

In the context of abjuring exploitative corporations, I hear an echo of trade unionism, a movement often oblivious to its own reinforcement of capitalism, again by depending upon the thing it purports to confront; few entities are more aligned with the moral sentiments of Adam Smith than a trade union engaged in collective bargaining. And so it is with the copyleft licenses and their implicit support for enforceable intellectual property rights.

The article linked appears to be derogatory, emotive, riddled with false equivalences, and relies on invective as a substitute for rhetoric. Rather than finding it compelling, it think it describes a myopic, narcissistic view of both intellectual advancement and the value of unfettered contribution.
I've been reading some folks saying that "prompt engineering" is a legit future vocation in a world where AI has taken over a lot of creative work

And from my experience getting high-quality output from AIs takes a bit of finesse. Not quite unlike crafting a good Google query

so... yes
It seems so backwards to me to convert diesel into power and use that to drive an electric motor. It seems so inefficient, but I supposed it wouldn't be a thing if it was inefficient.
I dig it. I haven't had time to comb through the code yet. I would appreciate a more clear zero to go explainer process.... but also encouraging people to evaluate on their own is pretty good. Having to look at it from zero is a huge chore though. I've got a pretty busy August, but I do plan to poke through it from the jump. I am pretty good at taking "my first time exploring this thing" notes and formatting them into rough to polished instructions. I don't really think I'd blog about it or anything. Would y'all be interested in those notes? I could make a repo and make it markdown that can be autodoced is usually my process after parsing my notes, screen recording clips, and test/proof evaluations. I'm not promising it'll be world shattering but could be a nice seed. Where would I submit something like that? Tweet? Email? Forum? Mailing list? Tracker? Please don't say Discord.
I'm not even an American, and I've heard all about the Getty Images Address.
> library developers

> This places a huge burden on us to be experts with how typescript works.

Yes, exactly. That's how it is supposed to be. You need to have expertise in the programming language to be able to effectively develop libraries other developers will use.
"This implies that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee believe (on a unanimous, bipartisan basis) that some UFOs have non-human origins," von Rennenkampff continued."
You already know me, just not under this username! I try not to put my name directly out on forums like this, but I run https://approximated.app and those 100k+ domains aren't all in one cluster, though some clusters are growing quickly and might be there in a few months. Customers paying for the clusters are generally SAAS or hosting related so they can bring a lot of user domains when they come on board and tend to grow steadily.
Oil 0.12.4 – User Feedback
At the abstract level the two are not mutually exclusive.
My initial reaction was similar, and I totally agree that there's a lot of essential complexity in this area. At the same time, there might be room for an ergonomic improvement too. It seems like the `?` operator is maybe a little bit too nice - I find that, in practice, the step up in effort between:

let x = some_function()?;

versus

let x = match some_function() {
Ok(value) => value,
Err(Error::ThatOneRetryableError) => {
// Retry
}
err => return err
};

...sometimes is just a little bit too much to bother. Is there a pattern/macro/??? that makes this sort of thing a little nicer?
You see it surface in SCADA/PLCs in the form of Ladder programming and Function Block Diagrams. That said from what I understand industry is trending towards more text based approaches lately.

As an ex-gamedev it was interesting to see the overlap there when getting into a bit more serious automation stuff. Edit/deploy live, visual representation of state(which is where ladder excels) and other things we used to do a lot of in game dev was present, but on physical running hardware connected to other sensors/endpoints.
> They don't harass or even troll.

The site already has a body count, this is ridiculous thing to say.
Absolutely. And it has been done already, JustJS[1] has made it to the top 10 fastest in the TechEmpower benchmarks. It’s Linux only though, and not nearly as complete or easy to use, which makes it unappealing for real world projects.

[1] https://github.com/just-js/just
True about the people you mentioned but there were several others in that same group (upper middle class) who wasted their opportunities and didn't get anywhere. These people you mentioned are an exception and there are lessons to take away from that.
Ok, we've changed to that (first) link from https://www.toptal.com/algorithms/shazam-it-music-processing.... Thanks!

Related:

Patent infringement claim re: “Creating Shazam in Java” blogpost (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9594480 - May 2015 (18 comments)

Source code example of the Shazam algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724442 - May 2013 (16 comments)

Creating Shazam in Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723863 - May 2013 (42 comments)

Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702975 - Sept 2010 (22 comments)

Told to remove blog posts describing patented algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1496683 - July 2010 (147 comments)
KiwiFarms has been convicted of terrorism in New Zealand IIRC, & rightly banned.

Is that good enough for you?
You are aware that DDOSAs are illegal, and that KF doesn't do anything legally even questionable right?

CF is an infrastructure service company and thus are the very LAST people who should be picking and choosing.. not if we want the net to keep working freely.
The Minimum Viable Nothing: ideas to validate products without building them
This is the wrong way to think of it. At some point the mass is irrelevant. If an inelastic lead object the size of a car hits you, the energy transfers is the same as if a lead 747 hits you at the same speed.

Both objects have an overwhelming amount of energy and momentum compared to a nearly stationary 100 kg person. They'll transfer enough energy to bring the person up to their speed, likely mangling them in the process.

Trauma depends on how quickly this energy is transferred to the individual.

More to your point, both a car and a truck have more than enough energy to not be meaningfully slowed down by a pedestrian. The difference is strike location, contact area, and crumple zones to slow the transfer.
that's basically what it does, it finds peaks relative to total power.

you can think of it as like identifying continents by constellations of mountain tops which is robust to whatever chaos might be happening at sea level.
It's not going to fail: the US courts are big company biased, and all the big companies are going to show out in force and money to ensure they get the result they want.

But even extending that: knocking copyright'd images out isn't going to stop these systems. We know they work now, so if you have to be careful about licensing then that's just going to be done.

The idea that any of these platforms will "die" if copyright fair use doesn't automatically apply is magical thinking. Most art is worthless - companies hoovering up huge corpuses with the correct rights assignment for machine learning is going to be the new business.

A company like Disney will drop every piece of output from their staff into a dataset for Disney, then license it under terms to other companies - the tech works, so "invent me a disney character looking like..." would have value internally, just to Disney, for idea generation and refinement - arguably a lot more then to anyone else because they would still retain the artist resources to capitalize on it.

Right now, a bunch of people who told themselves that despite the pay, they weren't going to be replaced by AI are shrieking that it's turned out not to be the case (it was obvious for a few years something like this was coming though). They're reaching for every legal tool that they hope will kill these things, forgetting that it's never worked out like that. Copyright being a problem when it happens to you as an individual, is different to when it happens to MegaCorp Inc. which is constantly being sued, has limited liability, and puts payouts down as a line-item expense.
It's Apple Park.
Regardless of whether or not training an AI on stock images violates the license, there's a very real problem with that watermark being present, which is that it proves their AI is prone to copying large swaths of images from gettyimages unaltered, and that definitely is a license violation.

This makes me think back to the controversy over github copilot; if these AIs are going to be trained on other peoples' IP then somebody needs to be held accountable when they commit plagiarism.

Otherwise, im sure Microsoft won't mind my new "gamemaker AI" that i trained on that new halo game last year, or this "OS AI" that I trained on windows 11.
If they're organizing swatting then that should be covered under conspiracy to commit a crime https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371

Swatting is incredibly dangerous. I fear many see it as a prank but when you get cops with guns charging into what they think is a dangerous situation then people get hurt.

Then you have harassment laws https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/harassment.... There are specific Cyberstalking laws.
Many of them, like Vercel, still use AWS under the hood. AWS has Amplify too. No matter what you use, Bezos wins...
working with americans, i found that they tend to use this kind of passive aggressive language but then in their actions they can be very cruel and sadistic...if they have power over you.

i prefer someone who is direct and straightforward, just tell me to my face what you think as long as you're professional and i respect you, it wont be an issue.
Nah, you could zap the training sets tomorrow and start over with public domain material and it would be fine. In fact I think you could easily get paid to generate more content for it.
That means yes, they are required by law to be larger.

It was also because a fuel economy rule change.
AGPL does nothing to protect commercial projects from AWS. Look at MongoDB: they had been AGPL for a loooong time, but moved to a non-FOSS license specifically because of AWS.

AWS has no problems with giving away the code for any managed-X service they. The magic that they charge for is the managed part - deployment, autoscaling, upgrade management, and other Operations stuff that no FOSS license can compel them to make public.
It's easier to write code than to read and understand someone else's code. And you need to at least read some code to add to it.

It's hard to learn another language than use the language you know. (Both computer programming languages and real languages)

Mass collaboration could be our goal, if we can create software that is inherently understandable and malleable.

The problem is that every line of code has a maintenance and understandability burden.

If you can create a system where development is as easy as casual contribution such as editing a wiki page or writing a comment that would be awesome.
Ask HN: What pain points are there with online fraud in 2022
It's 2022, and cyber fraud is not slowing down. No one is openly talking about the fraud or security issues they are experiencing IRL for obvious reasons. But I'm interested in hearing what others in the community are seeing in their worlds, and pain points in mitigating the various forms of fraud and criminal activity that exists
But you've seen many PD images reshared by stock imagery companies. It raises the question of why false assertions of ownership aren't easily prosecuted, given that they constitute a kind of fraud upon the public.
I see that you since made this public (it was not at the time of my comment, as confirmed by the repo commits being <2 hours old). When you say "some components", what components are missing?

I'm not saying you have to make the entire project open source, but if you are claiming it is an open source project it comes with the territory.
> Just installing an air conditioner or throwing one away is a huge driver of global warming

My anecdotal experience owning several homes that have had systems fail is that HVACR companies are driving the throw-out. I've repaired 3 systems that my local HVAC company wanted to replace.

HVACR is back-breaking labor, and as labor prices rise I don't see these companies wanting to do repairs. It's much easier and profitable for them to replace systems. Energy efficient fully variable systems are north of 15k each. Just the other day I saw an HVAC ad for new systems in terms of monthly payment instead of total install cost.

I'm sure there is value in researching solid refrigerant barocaloric systems. But I think a lot lower hanging fruit is available to address. off the top of my head: aluminium coils (don't rust), shorter line sets (less energy lost) with better insulation, fully variable compressors becoming more cost effective, not putting air handlers in the attic, thicker insulation in houses, a focus on easy repairability, etc. From what I have seen with the newer systems is the companies like Carrier/Trane/Lennox/et al are trying to make the systems as non repairable as possible.
An alleged body count.. by mostly the very same people who try to get them shut down and continually DDOS them. Even the claims themselves are spurious at best. Blamed for deaths of people who weren't even talked about on the site for months and months, over publicly available information. (and in many cases their own posting history on SM)
Just tape a gameboy or switch to a dslr and there’s your kid version
Hahhahhhahahhahahhahha I don't need to: our dodgy infrastructure will make sure of that!
Totally situational. Good question to be thinking about though.
> the notion of magic essentially means the ability to use willpower to modify physical laws

so the harnessing of nuclear power was not due to willpower..?

and of course reality is dual- otherwise what is mathematics made of? or how is anything similar to or separate from anything else, without some out-of-band judgement?
Seems to be manually actuated.

"When the scoop is open the j-walker simply can't get run over; and sometimes that's more than he deserves."

Seems like a product of that weird period of history where streets used to be mainly for people, but they'd been taken over by cars and car companies were out there asserting ownership of the roads and trying to influence public attitudes by, among other things, inventing the crime of jaywalking.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
I think you're conflating object-orientation with algebraic type systems (which java doesn't have).
Somehow we are still claiming that the system is fundamentally random when it is very obvious it is fundamentally deterministic (but not predetermined).
No. It is unfair to everyone to take someone who can’t do the job.
It won't be transformative enough and you'd probably lose the case.

(IANAL)
Well i think the statistics are very strongly in my favour because English pop music is very popular all over the world and there are plenty of countries where the majority of people don't speak English (and still listen to English music).

When I was young we (in all the kids my age) listened to plenty of of English music even though we didn't understand anything. And let's not even talk about the plenty of examples of songs in English where even native speakers don't understand the majority of the lyrics.
Whether, after repeated projects, your team has succeeded more often than average at delivering the project with clients that either will return or help generate more clients, and approximately average (or less) resources as input, that the team are content, cohesive, and fulfilled with their work, and possibly that it was profitable. Ie. that the world you are in after having managed is one you like better than the one that you started in (and before you digress by saying that is subjective, the goal can be subjective but strategies for achieving that goal are objective once a goal is selected) or at least better than counterfactual worlds where you managed differently.

None of these things can be reliably turned into a metric that you can measure day by day without one or several highly fallible layers of abstraction. Any model complex enough to capture all the nuances such that you can blindly follow its output can just be called a manager.
>When we say Android is not 'real Linux', what it comes down to is this: there's a certain peace, a sense of relief— of being respected— that comes with running Linux on your personal desktop or server. It feels really, really different from using an OS whose main function, which has driven its evolution, is just to sell you paid apps and services. That makes it fun, and it lends itself to a certain fluency.

Might just be me, but I don't feel any respect coming from whoever are the devs that made this week's flavor of Linux I might be trying out.

Yeah, Windows 10/11 and iOS, and to a slightly lesser extent MacOS and Android, all aim primarily to sell me their shit. I hate them all for that. I run an OS to run the shit I want on my computer, not the shit they want on their computer.

Linux, though, aims to primarily sell me their ideological shit: FOSS, free as in freedom, GPL, Command Line Interface or bust. Instead of commercial pursuits, it's dogmatic pursuits.

They're all the same sides of the same shit sandwich. I get to choose what's in the sandwich, but it's still a shit sandwich until the heat death of the universe. Fuck that noise.

That all being said, Android is Linux. Because it runs the Linux kernel. End of. QED. Anyone who argues to the contrary is just being spiteful of Android succeeding where the wider Linux community could not.
Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System
The ARM Graviton instances in AWS are at best 5% cheaper per equivalent process when writing to a DB.

In my own workloads. Which are not burst, but first sustained CPU, and then sustained I/O, at about 5MB/s.

So, it is cheaper for Amazon, as they use half the power, but not cheaper for end users.
Personal anecdote, but most of my wife’s friends in India have themselves opted to go with a c-section. Mainly to avoid a tough labor and be able to plan ahead. My wife gave birth naturally here in the US where it is not an option unless medically necessary. In India patients can choose it seems and doctors allow it because it is a higher bill for them as well.
That's fine if you're cycling as a hobby, but if you're cycling as a means of transportation you're going to need to take the roads most of the time. Most of the places you are going to are not going to be next to a forest trail.
> Randy Gardner was "awake" but basically cognitively dysfunctional at the end of his ordeal.

Reading this bit about a 17 yo HS student at a 1965 science fair was something else! Wow.

I tried some different experiments of my own during times when sleep was difficult, and one thing I discovered was that sleep-related subjective experimenting is one of the best uses of that time. Well, for me it was anyway...
In the U.S., it was the left that got rid of the civil service exam.

My guess is, rules that make life harder for teachers, such as ongoing education requirements, also tend to come from some wing of the Democratic Party.

I am just trying to give some examples and not make some grand claim; I think both sides do a lot to make governance ineffective when they don’t want that kind of governance, or are having a bout of manic stupidity.
the entire language is partially implemented yet you are judging it as if it is complete and set in stone.

Rust isn't even memory safe if you want to be THIS pedantic about it. the unsafe keyword exists in Rust, and it is often used.
I’m not a novice and I don’t know what the colors mean either. I’m not dyslexic at all, but I feel the same as you. Code doesn’t look right, and the changes in color helps with readability.

It’s also a crude spell checker. “Hmm, the word didn’t change color so it’s probably not `elseif` … let me try `elif`. Yep, that changed color!” Kind of thing.

The other two major pain points where color coding really makes it obvious what’s going on, is when a string is left unclosed and everything turns into “the wrong” color and matching of parentheses.
The problem is that, much like the alleged body count, they do nothing of the sort. See my post above.

They don't harass or even troll. It's literally one of the core rules of the site. Look (and laugh) but don't touch! If you ever try to organize something on-site, you'll get down-voted, your post deleted and potentially even banned. Attempting to swat isn't just not allowed on the site, but most members call out actual attempts as stupid, dangerous and evil!

Posting publicly available info and then pointing and laughing, is not stalking or harassment.
> That means yes, they are required by law to be larger.

Larger, but not huge as I said. The gigantism of the best selling cars of 2022 isn't because of the law it's because of consumer preference to the detriment of everyone else.