skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a bad sketch of inflation in countries where central bankers follow orders from the head of state, and the head of state needs to win elections. Such as Argentina, or Turkey.
It more sounds like your fault for becoming overly-reliant on services that are only possible by putting your trust in one company. I'm also one of the people who does the whole "home NAS" thing, and I have no problem syncing my passwords, notes, dotfiles and whatnot.

This is the hook that Tim Cook has been setting up for years. They wanted you to take a bite out of their services without thinking about how their concentration of power effects you. Now that people are realizing that iCloud/Apple Pay/App Store are all just ploys to add an Apple Tax to other segments of the economy, they're relying on the people addicted to their services to justify it's use. When people talk about the degrading Apple ecosystem, this is what we're referring to.

I jumped off that racket years ago. Buy a few WD Reds and set up RAID, then you can self-provision your own cloud resources.
It is interesting to me that CSAM is used as justification for such heavy-handed consequences and widespread surveillance. People use the internet to do all kinds of awful things, plenty of them crimes, plenty of those crimes being violent or personal property crimes. Murder, robbery, burglary, etc.

Obviously CSAM is vile and not something your average citizen condones. But so are those other crimes. I suppose children "pull on the heartstrings" more than your average victim, but children are also the victims of those other crimes. Why haven't we started surveilling personal messages to detect criminal planning in advance? Because more people understand the nasty implications of the government reading your messages, but few understand the implications of machine learning "detecting" CSAM in your Google Drive or Photos?
I like this! I was wondering if this also sends the articles from HN, not just the comments. It'd be game changing to wake up and read the news on my Remarkable.
Nobody can stop the march of progress. Being “vegan” with AI is just setting yourself up for failure in the (probably near) future.

If you’re a professional artist today, you need to lean into this and adapt somehow. Current AI is pretty limited, but that’s not going to last.

I wish I had an answer for the “how to adapt” question, but I don’t. All I know is that this isn’t the first time people have tried to futilely resist a technological revolution.

I do think though that copyright law needs to be updated to deal with this AI stuff. Copyright was created to protect creative works, since that is a very important thing to protect both for the economy and culture. I just hope that the people and companies creating these AI are on the right side of that fight.

I doubt it though.
That's a good consideration, and any such document must display ample humility. Today, we could fill several volumes with "This is what we know we got wrong, this is how we might have avoided it."

Alternatively, hook the reader with the power of the nuclear weaponry, and write with an unironic lack of self awareness. Trust the reader to read between the lines. What could possibly go wrong?
An airline or UPS can absolutely say “we don’t like the contents of what you are shipping so we refuse to transport it”. UPS will not ship marijuana, even for medical purposes, even in Canada where it is entirely legal. It won’t ship watches over $500 or ammunition.

I disagree with turning platforms into common carriers. As I wrote, I think this misses the issue: a protocol should be a common carrier, but a specific provider has no obligation to host things it doesn’t want to or do not make sense for certain territories.
> So if you are locked in for 30 years with a mortgage purchased the last few years, you did well.

Unless prices go down and you end up losing a bunch of money (or worse, underwater).

That's the problem, rates and housing prices don't exist in isolation. People don't generally care about the actual sticker price of the house, they care about what the monthly payment is going to be, so lower interest rates imply willingness to bid higher... and the opposite is also true, higher interest rates mean people can't afford to bid as high and sale prices go down.

Essentially, people are locked in at higher principal/lower interest, but now the housing market is moving towards lower principal/higher interest, and that means that a huge amount of housing "net worth" (whether current or future) just evaporated for a lot of people. Your $300k house is now a $250k house again and you just lost all that money you spent years paying down (inflation ain't the only way for value to evaporate).

If interest rates double, then so does the interest portion of the mortgage for new homebuyers. It's not quite double, since some of the mortgage goes to principal, but it'll be almost double. And with the interest rate so low... it doesn't make much in "real terms" to make a big relative increase. I refi'd at... 2.75%? So if the fed raises interest rates from 0% to 2%, that nearly doubles my interest rate. Obviously I am not buying today but other people are, and that still determines the value of my asset.

I suppose it's the old "don't buy the house as an investment, buy it to lock in a rent that you can afford" but it's definitely been worrying me. Thankfully the last few years have put me far enough ahead that I'm not in any danger even with a big dip.

And I suppose the counterargument is that institutional buyers are still making big cash offers, so maybe there won't be that much of a dip. But without the hike, values would have gone higher, it's still a loss of expected value. And the institutional investors aspect of the market is really not a great thing either right now.
So basically, they want to be called vegans, because that's a historically virtuous label, but not Luddites, because that's a historically maligned one? Even though they are literally not vegans, and literally are much closer to Luddites?
I feel like "flexitarian" is a largely deceased remnant of the mid-aughts but I like it. It expresses that one is not dogmatic about the practice, but is mostly conforming.

"Aspiring vegan", to my ear, kinda sounds like one thinks about it, but performs zero action towards it, which is a bit of a disservice to those who do indeed consciously do not eat meat for the majority of their meals.
Honestly, I do agree with the GP.

> Do you have numbers that show that's what people do when interest rates are low? I don't have numbers - but my suspicion is that they mostly just speculate on asset prices.

I don't know either. I agree with their analysis that we've had an exuberance of speculation on rising assets during a time of unprecendented low interest rates. It just also seems unlikely that rising interest rates will facilitate additional investment towards critical shortages. Maybe this is a problem for Congress more than the fed, I don't know. Would love to hear others opinions.
> No government will reduce the printing of money. It is just too convenient. It is like taxing more and more without getting much complaints.

Well the Fed just reduced the effective rate it was printing money quite substantially by switching to Quantitative Tightening and increasing rates.

You could even argue that with QT, not only is the Fed no longer printing money, but they are taking money that was printed back out of circulation and effectively destroying it.
A couple years ago a company called Wellness Fitness Nutrition was putting videos on YouTube advertising steroids (illegal in the USA to buy/sell). They sold them on their website! It ran for at least a year until they were 'caught' and the owner was put into prison.
we used a variety of tools: diamond saws, polishing wheels, hacksaws, and a lot of sandpaper.

many of the samples had to be mounted using clamps or dop wax.
It seems like the simplest solution here would be to not ban accounts automatically for CSAM detections, but to have a process to do so based on police recommendation.

Clearly Google already has a process to escalate detection to the police so banning the account based on what happens there doesn’t seem like a big leap.
Is someone giving away land for free? Because in places where people want to live, the land costs more than the house.
This is what happens when your operating system is developed by an ad company.
> How is it different from how human artists train on copyrighted images?

The part where the company training the models makes $$$ on copyrighted work can definitely be a debate point.
Let's Implement Zlib.decompress()
Confidence and Validity
How are you supposed to provide a consistent appearance for A/B testing changes without being able to store which group a user is assigned to?
How are you supposed to count unique users that visit your site?
How are you supposed to figure out why most users bounce?
These are legitimate questions a publisher may want to know to improve their site, but are not allowed under GDPR without a specific notice and opt-out.

There are many cases where what publications consider "essential" for their business do not match what the EU has decided is "essential".

Heck, when GDPR was first proposed most publishers assumed advertising would be allowed under "essential" business uses since they can't provide content if they don't get paid. Clarification on this only came a couple of months before GDPR enforcement started, causing a bit of a scramble for publishers and advertisers.
Sure but the output from the AI does not give credit. So I don't know what the inspiration is or where it came from or how to find more of the same kind.
You are right. There are two sources of inflation:

1. Inflation caused by increasing demand (often due to more money coming into the hands of people/companies/institutions)

2. Inflation caused by reduced supply (often due to logistics, productivity drops and reduced trade)

With covid, we had both. At this point, we have far too much money in the hands of speculators and too few producers of goods and services in the world.

The Fed can use interest rates to reduce demand. But they will also reduce supply because many producer businesses will go bust.

I know this is heavy handed but the real policy help at this point is to ensure that there is more money to be made in real production and less in speculation. All the real estate agents, flippers and day traders need to be sent to factories to produce actual things.
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No, you just need a sane test architecture. I've worked on monoliths, and none of them required docker compose for unit tests.

Now, you may need some extra infrastructure for integration tests, depending on how you architect them, but that's also not a requirement. You could also use mock services, test containers, ... - essentially there's enough ways to make this sane.

It's annoying that people take badly written monoliths as an excuse to proceed to write badly written microservices.
>Just because the image is publicly available doesn't mean it should have been copied.

It wasn't copied - it was viewed, which is perfectly legal.

The AI does not have a copy of any of the the images it learned from. It merely learned styles and concepts of many images with associated text for those styles and concepts.
We want it to be open source because open source is the only source of services you can run at home or on premises at a small business for a reasonable cost.

It's really a supply side issue pretending to be a demand one. Self hosted services of all kinds are woefully underdeveloped.

Tech giants aren't going to encourage you to own your data and hardware by spending effort on supporting it, because that undermines key reasons for building cloud services: surveillance and control.
To a certain extent I agree, but another argument would be that at the end of the day, computers are deterministic (even on the incredibly large scale of these image generators, given parameters x, it will produce y).

We're still not sure whether humans are deterministic or not. So you can't really equate the human process of art creation to a computers. Humans may still be pulling from some external inspiration that will never be within the reach of computers (I like to think that's the case).
> ... there are now almost as many people majoring in computer science as in all of the humanities put together

Software really is eating the world.
> I knew what it was going to be before even looking

Assuming that it's just the server part that's AGPL, that's not very restrictive for something that's purely a development tool.

That's VERY different from a library you need to include in your finished application being AGPL or even server software that you might expose to end users being AGPL.
Yeah you know Python's software distribution problems are bad when someone makes an entire parallel packaging universe.
Stanford's Science of Blockchain Conference
Cool to see Vantage mentioned here! I work for them, mainly on the ec2instances.info site.

https://docs.vantage.sh/autopilot/ has many details on how our RI management program works. We recently added Autopilot Controls which lets you specify categories of instances (like c5) or regions that you want managed.

One note on buybacks: they are usually capped. I believe most providers cap their "guarantee" around $20K.
They're not going away, point. If they get you acclimated to paying subscription fees they will then try to get you acclimated to paying subscription fees AND seeing ads. Have you watched a UFC pay-per-view event recently?

We should regulate or straight up outlaw it just like any other unchecked negative externality. I don't care if it makes you money. I don't care if poisoning the waterways makes you money either.
Run pihole on AWS and set it as your DNS globally on android. You will never see ads again, even on apps.
Yes, they often contain gems like:

Exchange services might remain in a disabled state after you install this security update. This condition does not indicate that the update is not installed correctly.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/description-of-the...
I’ve been following your YT videos and glad you’re back at YC. You’re a total inspiration.
Well you can do the same with a monolith too right, just pull some random code out of the codebase and compile it without anything else, plus the tests for it. It gives the same guarantees as the microservices unit tests.
Read a paper: Teaching intro CS courses when AI code models are widely available
$125 to squirt cutting oil in style in your garage, heh. Almost makes me glad I'm not into machining!
I know a married couple who each have identical twin siblings. The identical siblings also married each other. The children of each couple, who are cousins, definitely look more like siblings than cousins.
Copper based telephony systems. So much knowledge in peoples heads, not just technical how-to but system and network knowledge. These things were built by people with quirks understood by people and are mission critical still.

They will be replaced by IP and fibre, but not yet.
Most parents are fine with "gender nonconformity". They're not fine with their children being told that they need drugs and surgeries. Read the stories about trans kids. People are reacting to stereotypes like how the child dresses or which toys they play with and they're saying which sex the child should be molded to resemble. Accepting parents let any sex play with any toy without scheduling an intervention.

> develop sex characteristics that don't belong to them

They do belong to them. They're the only working sex organs that child can ever have. Anything else is a non-functional at best.

> extra time to make a decision

This in untrue. puberty blockers can only work safely to delay puberty until the regular time so that it dovetails with other processes. When you delay proper pubertal changes you can never restart the process which cripples a child for life mentally and physically.

> you are doing to these children much worse than

I'm telling the truth. Wild hormonal interventions and genital mutilation surgeries are not healthcare, even if they're performed by people in lab coats.
the van allen probes give us higher quality and longer term data about radiation.

we are pretty aware of regolith constitution.

having a moon base (which isnt in artemis 3) is not research
I don't disagree. Still, the situation remains and I bet Apple could charge another "tax" to remedy it. And to be clear, I'm suggesting a product offering not a regulatory solution.
This isn't the first industry where laborious craft has been rendered a commodity by technology. There will still be room for artistic genius and patronage models in many places, but the people who want the plastic knockoffs will get a reasonable product too.
Democracy and politics is special interests. That's literally all it ever is, all it ever could be.
Yeah, between the lines it says 'wages are too high, so we need a recession to put the worker back in line'.
Portland made house for unhoused and it was astonishingly $400K/person.

I would guess it'd be around that in CA.
Congrats Garry! Huge fan of your work and demeanor.
I'm saying that one artist walking around an art gallery and being inspired by the art they see there (or even visiting hundreds of galleries over a lifetime) is operating at such a minuscule scale compared to an AI that trains itself on 5bn images that the similarities between the two do not necessary mean that if one is OK then the other is OK as well.
Just copy the code and claim the AI did it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347
Realistically, I'd say it's been full swing for more like the last 15 years. ...But I think it's just not a viable long term strategy.

During boom times, and when new technologies arise with significant disruption potential, it's not a bad strategy. But... I think it's naive to assume that model will work linearly forever. The economy ebbs and flows, and periods of innovation seems to as well.
I don’t think pointing out useless and intrusive advertising is the same as saying there should be no advertising at all. We can even agree that ALL current advertising is awful and should be abolished, but agree some form of promoting your product should be available.
I read most all the comments, laughing out loud how this is a 180, having the luxury of having also been reading HN for 8+ years.

All the naysayers, are vindicated! Many critics said this model was predatory, and anti-competitive, bad for the economy, etc. And were dismissed.
The only time I can think of that the fed continually contracted the money supply was during the great depression. Would be interesting to look at a monetary supply chart since the fed was founded (I think ~1913 or 1915?)
> As the charging time for EV batteries has gone down dramatically ( currently fast charging to 80% capacity in 20-30 minutes), there is no need to have such big batteries anymore. They could be reduced in half for many use cases.

Good luck selling a car with a 50 mile range. You won't sell many.

> In addition, the motors are often way too powerful and can be made smaller.

Ok this is the comment that made me realize you literally have no idea what you are talking about. The motors are used to capture energy while breaking, if you can't capture energy because you are maxing out the smaller motors you lose that energy. That's why the motors are the size they are, the high performance is just a benefit of that requirement.

> And then if there would be further issues with cost, the size of the car could easily be reduced.

This is irrelevant.

> The subsidies do not change the cost of the car for the buyer. With subsidies, it just allows the car manufacturers to charge a higher price.

Again this is false, that is not how pricing of goods works. You have to price your widget to sell on the market, not just to hit some hypothetical price you think it is worth. The subsidies don't let them raise prices because they are competing with other cars, not just with their own hypothetical price.
> The root of inflation is the printing of money

This is mostly true most of the time, but this is not the only story. There is also a supply side to the equation: if supply can expand it can suck up a lot of money that is being printed without causing inflation.

I highly recommend Lyn Alden's overviews and analysis. Here is her recent one on inflation (a subsection that points to broad money vs inflation -- the trend you indicate as well as some exceptions). https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#supply

Another one she wrote a couple of years ago on the global reserve currency situation is IMO relevant as well. https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Looks interesting. How is the type just `array` in that example though? Doesn't it have to be an array of something?
iirc, they tweeted about using around 3800 in parallel
I'm literally in the process of porting my blog to Zola right now (from Octopress).

One issue I hit is that taxonomies aren't available at the section-level (nor are they section-specific, in case you want to treat sections as sub-sites), this makes it seemingly impossible to have a section taxonomy view.

I might try to patch it, but it's tricky as it's like merging the taxonomy code with the page and section rendering.
Average net profit is very low ($10K) but it's because majority of farmers are old small family, They also receive pension, may work on another part time job, eat their own veges, and do barter exchange. Average net profit for full-timer (under 65yo) is also lower ($30K) but to be fair local jobs salary is also tend to low,

Here, problem is that there are few newcomer to be a farmer. It's unpopular to live rural area. People in rural area are generally considered to treat newcomers unkindly. Local people grown by farmer also don't want to choose farming as a first career (but may choose after retiring, or help father's farming). Farming lands have been tend to be divided for small lands (partially thanks to WW2 lose), and generally Japan lands aren't so flat, so productivity isn't great thus income isn't great.
That's sort of what https://flowchart.fun is. Although, it doesn't have as many graph types as PlantUML. Mermaid also has https://mermaid.live/ running in the browser.
#1 is incomplete. There's obviously a supply side component. You think the price of lumber quadrupled because of excess money? Some countries printed a lot more money than others during COVID, but the correlation between the money printing and inflation is very low.

#2 is wrong. The fed can print money using QE and low interest rate loans. They can destroy money via reversing the easing and high interest rates. They've done this. Congress can destroy money through taxes. The Inflation Reduction Act does this.
> But like the author, a "vegan" image AI would be very welcome.

Say artist A is afraid of AI and doesn't want his paintings be used in training. The model will never generate anything like A unless A is copying someone else.

In time the amount of AI generated images is going to grow, it will flood the web and social networks, maybe evolve in new forms, and A will have no impact, no influence, won't be quoted. Deleted from the AI mind means deleted from the social awareness.
FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data That Tracks People at Sensitive Locations
The great thing about Adguard for Safari is that you don't need to trust them. They load a blacklist that the OS can read and then blocks accordingly. Compared to extensions on Chrome which can see everything you do.
This is ridiculous. It's not just AIs models that built their abstract conceptions on copyrighted material, but humans too. When a human artist paints a futuristic dome, they are also subconsciously accessing millions of copyright images they've seen throughout their lives and using them "without consent". To be consistent the author would need to avert their eyes and never look at copyrighted imagery.

Also the comparison to veganism and animal suffering is off putting.
An iconoclast. An image smasher.