skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the Uber style businesses are also based around convenience, and as a consumer my elasticity for convenience is not very elastic(I don't know if this is the same for the general population). Pre-Uber, I can almost count on one hand the number of times I took a taxi somewhere but Uber made it cheap and fairly frictionless, so why not! Now it is still fairly frictionless but more expensive, and is just not worth it as much.
For me, this is the money quote:

> Restoring price stability will take some time and requires using our tools forcefully to bring demand and supply into better balance. Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth. Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions.

The Fed has some tools, most notably the interest rate, that can probably slow down inflation but at the cost of probably slowing down growth. A big question has been the degree to which the Fed will give up growth in order to try to reduce inflation. This speech makes it sound like the Fed is likely to trade off a lot of growth in order to hit inflation targets.

What does that mean for most people? Probably bad things in the short term.

> While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses.

It makes it sound like the Fed is willing to inflict some damage to hit its inflation target. This isn’t a change exactly, but it’s a confirmation about what lots of people have speculated might happen.
People have found inspiration in other works since we've been creating art.

In music if you use a snipet of someone else's recording you have to pay them. It wasn't always clear that would be the case, but thats where they landed. (You end up with Led Zeppelin and Beatles Samples in some early rap).

Even "Sound alike " singers get litigated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

But in visual art its a little different. Borrowing is more common and remixing is kinda allowed. When does it become "transformative?" (I always think of the "Hope" poster lawsuit, where the borrower sued the photographer as a strange one. )
https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/obama-hope-poster-...

But what is the AI doing? I don't think its taking the input given and being inspired... Its kinda just sampling, in a way that makes it seem like its being original. Or is the unique training set/ annotations that are is giving the AI its unique output the art, in which case its more original.

At some point some AI is going to spit something out too close to something else and the courts will probably have to decide.
purist ?

avoider?

teetotaler?

conscientious objector?
Did you cash out of COINBASE yet?

300k to 2.4 billion WOW
defacing billboards is more fun and easier than you expect
My wife found my doppleganger on the internet and the wild thing is that he has the same first name as me.
Are Humans Value Objects or Entities?
I just benchmarked chrome, edge, and Firefox on my Google pixel and surprisingly Firefox opens quickest. It's kind of impressive that Firefox beat the chrome despite not being the native browser on Android.
I think I'd be too distracted by puffy-tailed dogs.
I agree that this analogy is (mildly) insulting to veganism.

This is another example of an ethical choice that I made!

Is the harm here that is caused by being offensive to veganism outweighed by the value of sparking useful conversations about personal approaches to AI ethics?

I think that it is.

It's similar to the ethics of attaching a click-bait headline to a valuable piece of journalism. Is it OK to do that? That depends, both on the specific case and on the opinions of individuals who observe that decision.
In the ninth century, the Buddhist sage Lin Chi told a monk, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."

I've been singlegänging around too long to let some upstart take the chalice. There can be only one.
a) I cannot emphasize this enough, but... So. Does. HN. It's actually a lot worse here, because it's faux intellectualism.
The "hugboxing" here is so much more egregious, because people think they're above it.

b) The link aggregation and the conversations are two distinct features, and only some tiny percentage of good content actually makes its way here, and even when it does, HN is extremely temporal, so if you "miss" it, you're SOL.

But I really, truly, emphatically, want to make something clear: HN users are not in any way immune to any of the things you seem to take issue with over on Reddit. Your problem isn't with HN or Reddit, your problem is with people, as what you've listed is true and inherent in any collection of humans interacting with one another (specific ideology notwithstanding).
> In short, Reddit serves a purpose that Google used to serve.

That's true actually. I usually use google + reddit to find "real people (TM)" testimonials for medical treatments that can't be found otherwise.
Look up the term "public good".
> I feel it is insulting to veganism to try and coin this term. The moral arguments are not similar, and this one is frankly much weaker.

There are many, many, many people out there who believe it's fine to eat meat but not fine to e.g. feign attribution on intellectual work. Asserting that objections to this kind of tech are much weaker than various vegan arguments without explanation is odd.

> A human can mimic something with a single reference. It might not be good, but that can hardly matter for a discussion of ethics. The morality cannot depend on whether or not humans can do something poorly or not.

Asserting this without argument suggests you have a particular unstated idea of how ethical determinations are supposed to be made that you are projecting out onto the discussion. This would be important to lay out.
> Stable Diffusion has been trained on millions of copyrighted images scraped from the web.

How is it different from how human artists train on copyrighted images?

We have no trouble to award them copyright on art which consists of elements, or is heavily inspired by elements of copyrighted works they've seen during their education?

Human imagination can't create anything really novel. Everything you create is just cutting, stitching and deforming what you already seen in semi-random ways until you get something interesting to somebody.

Try imagining how an alien might look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
That's a neat strategy as long as the project is not easily traceable to you. Of course you could create this separate noob persona I suppose
> but that's not at all the case here.

Very sorry but it absolutely is the case here. Your anecdotal data is limited to you, but HN very much operates as a hive mind, it just hides it better.

Considering this place to be "superior" to other places only leads to complacence and further strengthens the echo chamber.
I don't see that insinuation in this thread. Your comments are legitimate from the perspective of a reader that doesn't want long tangents and asides, but your attacks on the book itself are hyperbolic - "Cryptonomicon is in no danger of appearing on any list of favorite Science Fiction books". The book literally is on lists like this.

We're all allowed to like different things, and you shouldn't take that difference as commentary on your intelligence. I think an unemotional reading of this thread lacks condescension or insinuation.

What is your favorite SciFi novel? Maybe highlighting that will help see the difference in style preference. Personally, of the SciFi I've read, after Stephenson I liked Weir and the Altered Carbon series. There's another book that I think of all the time but don't recall the title or author - future dystopia where the USA has split into two countries - conservative middle America red states and liberal coastal states with strongly defended but crossable borders.
Get in line
I have a friend named Ryan. He has a brother named Mike. Mike is married to a woman named Ryan. She has a brother named Mike.
I actually laughed.

Though - one does not have to do that stuff manually I can imagine some json linter could be configured to do such layout, or someone can just write tool to do that. So idea for this indentation is not bad IMHO.
Have you found a tool similar to plantuml that runs completely in the browser? I could deploy the web server but it would be nicer if I didn’t have to maintain a running server for generating the images.
the most elaborate historic reenactment in history.

we learn nothing from these experiments. they are a show because presidents are tired of being trolled about the moon.
I think calling it "AI Luddism" would offend people who are opposed to generative AI a lot more than calling it "AI veganism" offends vegans.
That's not how ad targeting works. Your data is used in aggregate to target ads to your purported demographic, and that designation is usually obtained on-the-fly via your recent page visits. Storing your individual interests isn't worth the money it costs.

That said, this has nothing to do with ads. It's a matter of foreign intelligence.
why not just use private dns from nextdns
> Reserved Instances are a major piece of AWS Billing, accounting for $100B in revenue along side Saving Plans (SPs).

I think I know what you mean, but this reads like Reserved Instances earn AWS $100 billion/year which is almost impossible. I don't even think AWS earns that much annually.
"vegan / not-vegan" is a false and harmful dichotomy

"meat-based" vs "plant-based" is a spectrum we are all on; no reason to make it all-or-nothing
The fleas will be killed when the rats are toasted with the crumpets.
I don't pay any attention to cellular network stuff. I always assumed it was just faster than the previous one. (4G, right?) How is that not useful?
Source on it being unsafe for human flight?
Being a good guy probably ranks the least IMO for leading VC. You need to be extremely shrewd and calculative, have a great bullshit detector, need to have solid intuition based on scant data, good general knowledge, well versed in various industries and areas of study, pragmatic and brutally honest. I am probably missing a few more. Speaking generally, nothing against Garry.
Do you mean the paragraph that was lifted almost verbatim from the first paragraph of this Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority
This is where e.g. much of "free market" rhetoric and e.g. Libertarianism need to take a severe backseat.

Given the reach, it's absolutely time for "government interference." Now, I'm not actually saying that we definitely should shut things down. But we absolutely need to drag Google people into public hearings and such. Google et al have inserted themselves into their lives to an extent that they ought no longer be able to claim "but we're a private company." It's increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to opt out.

Example; I fully intended for my children to not have anything like a Google account until a certain age -- but then the pandemic and remote schooling happened. It is true that with a great deal of pain to teachers et al I could have opted out, but that would have been literally unreasonable, not to mention unsustainable for other people.
> Humans learn to produce good art largely by learning from existing art

I think you’re wrong on this. Humans learn (anything) from teachers. Yes, you can learn much on your own, but the idea of a solo artist learning from books is exceedingly rare.

So in this case, you learn art by doing, critiquing your work and the works of others. You put forth effort.

While I am amazed at the generated images and think they truly are amazing, I can’t help but think they all feel a little cheap. Like someone took a shortcut that was never meant to be found.

I do think there are real ethical issues behind the training data for both image and code generation. Nothing that can’t be solved, but random images scraped from the web are not meant for training. First - it’s not necessarily a fair-use issue. And second, garbage in, garbage out. I don’t want my auto generated images to come with a Getty watermark.

Where I do think there is hope is for the use of these as tools for artists. Where there can still be a human behind the choices and curation, but using the algorithms as a means rather than an end.
> And we want it to be open source.

I don't see how that bit would be a problem. The market size, yes, it's a problem, but it's supposed to be a cloud service, there is no loss on the clients being open source.
already said it. point is - *it's not worth it*. placed a small bait and that's pretty much all you took away from the post. why even bother? it's much easier to live w/o giving a crap that random dude from the interwebz might assume I'm a racist. unless you are an established public figure with bunch of sheep dancing around - exactly this is always the response. snarkiness, down votes, timeouts, public shaming. then I tell them to go fuck themselves and they ban me from their useless community. never ending bitching on stackoverflow about what's a duplicate and what's not. ending with KEKW
Maybe. I got a degree in Chemistry, but I am now a web developer. I programmed for years as a hobby, but the real world made me switch. I looked as the prospects for Chemistry: an entry level job barely above minimum wage often or a decade more of education for barely more. And the prospects for WebDev on the West Coast: you already know if you are on HN.

Also I was treated very poorly as a research assistant in undergrad. Programming and technology is largely very welcoming to newcomers. However, no one wanted to listen to my ideas because I didn't have 15 years of degrees and a title with 3 different abbreviations.

It wasn't that Chemistry was less interesting, it just had much higher barriers for much lower payout. And you only get to live once.
> What are the deficiencies of Haskell in this area, to your mind?

So I knew a wizzy haskell programmer, who repeatedly did the following. They'd deeply understand the mathematics of some problem domain. Use Coq to explore, analyze, and find a solution approach. Design a haskell model to support it. Extend ghc internals to permit that model. And then mentally compile a domain solution down to haskell. Oh, yeah, and the haskell compiler would then emit binary.

Through much of that, the haskell compiler isn't helping. It's serving as an inconveniently inexpressive intermediate representation, the backend target for a wizzy wetware compiler. I so very can't do that - just no way. I'd need a language and compiler which can collaborate with me much more extensively, far earlier in the process. One with which I can describe and discuss the problem domain.

I want to be able to say, drat, looks like I'm stuck yet again implementing another bloody 2D graphics like thing... Ok, give me a bounded discrete affine space over numeric tuples with all the trimmings. And for the implementation type, lets start in with this set of cache-aware tradeoffs. Ok, maybe that will satisfice. Moving on...

I'd like a language which supports a pushout lattice of theories. Given a theory, add a couple of types, operators, or laws, added in any order, and you get to the same theory. Permitting programming which feels like math. Not years of committee discussion to make monads applicative. I don't even need Agda-style "let's prove the world" - I'm mostly ok with Ruby-style "tests are green so it's all good". But I really want to be able to express problem domains, and to work collaboratively with tooling to craft solutions. And that's not (yet?) haskell.
ReScript is amazing. I really don't know much about the split (it's not like I didn't try to understand it, I just can't understand the anger of non-Ocaml developers at the split).

Rescript allows me to write Javascript in a sound type system, while remaining very close to how you would write code in Javascript.

Rescript to me feels like Typescript + a very prescriptive linting system which prevents a lot of problems, and since the linting system wouldn't let you do certain things, might as well get rid of them from the Type checker, this results in a much faster compiler.
Do you feel the same when X person is compared to Hitler or a Nazi? Happens to pretty much every President...
Yeah but that was before he had the type of money to buy the moral high ground
You're moving the goalposts.

Still, https://www.noozhawk.com/article/missile_test_ends_in_explos... is a rocket that blew up early last month, 11 seconds into flight. See https://www.space.com/biggest-launch-failures-2021 for a list of notable failures last year.

Failures, particularly with new rockets, are much more common than you believe.
Zuckerberg avoids Cambridge Analytica deposition as Facebook agrees to settle
I think there is a difference here, and it's one of scale: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32640014
I enjoyed this post. The premise is a good one, as in for fun. A lot of these "I wrote X in Y" go on some spree of questionable assertions but "because I wanted to" is intellectually honest and understandable.

I agree with a lot of the points about Rust too. Every language is a selection of tradeoffs and for me Rust's chosen tradeoffs I think are both important (eg memory safety) and reasonable.

Take something like Cargo. The author says "It just works". This is my experience as well. But more importantly, dependency management and packaging were built into the language and ecosystem from the start. It still boggles my mind that any language that came after Java didn't do this (yes, I'm looking at you, Go).

My heart did sink a little bit at "Using Regex of course!" though.
Fine... add it to the montage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oZ-AQszEI
We check up on people all the time, it's healthy behavior and actually required for society to function on any level. But when we use technology to empower corporations, governments or even single people to mass surveil entire populations all the time, it's widely seen as massively unethical.

Digital technology enables such massive economies of scale, doing away with almost any kind of friction you'd encounter when doing something in the real world, that they are qualitatively different from their analog, offline counterparts. Quantity has a quality of its own, as the saying goes.

I'm undecided on the morals of this, so don't understand it as an argument against doing it per se, but "I'm doing it perhaps a couple of hundred times daily if I really try hard, so it's clearly okay to do it billions of times a second" isn't a good argument for it.
Why? The argument is very similar to the one that Luddites used: that the increased efficiency is harmful to artists
Thanks - looking into that!
Still bothers me that un-serious folk will post about how much spacex is 'wasting' on space travel, yet say nadda when the gov wastes like 4000x more.

Kudos on running the numbers!
It's really hard to take the anti-ESG crusade at face value.

The G in ESG has equal footing with the E. And the G stands for governance. Well-run companies that with fair treatment of shareholders score highly. Corrupt, screw-the-investor companies do not.

Remember that.
Ask HN: Where to Find Asynchronous Work?
Question:

Does anyone have recommendations on successfully earning money asynchronously? Are there alternative to being self-employed that may often be overlooked?

Background/Context:
(not important for the average person)

My wife is going back to work and I want to continue home-schooling our young child. Due to our financial circumstances, I also need to earn money. I can plan short periods of time during the day to meet and collaborate with others but don't want to fall-back on using television as a babysitter more than necessary. I will not be able to baby-sit Slack or be available 30-40 hours/week for spontaneous video calls.

I have been working for various corporations for around a decade. Previously, I was a freelance developer (full-stack) for ~5 years. My current plan is to switch back to freelance development and independent consulting but the transition takes time; finding clients, building a fresh portfolio, etc. Additionally, I have small ideas in my personal backlog that I want to pursue.

We could wait until I've successfully made the transition but she got an offer that I believe will make her happy and would be difficult to beat. I believe I am personally dealing with burn-out and have been struggling for months with my full-time role. We are not in a financial situation to just take 6+ months off to recover and my mental health related to this position is not improving.

Thanks!
Where are you finding all those $100k single family homes? The median CA house is $760,800 [1]. (I know there's houses cheaper than the median, but if you are buying up 130k houses, likely more than the entire available stock, you will have to go quite high up the price listing.) At that price, you're talking 17,087 houses. There are 161,548 homeless people in CA [2]

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-home...

[2] https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
It probably would have been better if AWS had called them "reservations" rather than "reserved instances".

NB they would never call it a lease or rental because those terms have legal repercussions in some jurisdictions.

A reserved instance is simply pre-paying for a specific amount of EC2. AWS is able to discount this because:
1. You're pre-paying
2. You might not use all the resources you're entitled to, if you don't keep a running EC2 instance "filling" the reserved instance slot.
3. You're helping them with capacity planning and capacity management; there's no guesswork involved with your workload.
But the image wasn't "copied". An AI was trained from it, and the common analogy is to how humans learn from what they see.

The question at hand is: Is it ethical for an AI to produce images from images of questionable source. All the current AIs are trained from tons of images from the web, and there's no way to guarantee they weren't polluted with images that they didn't have permission for.

We've decided that it is ethical for humans to do that. But that's at least partly because it's impossible to create art otherwise. You're always exposed to other people's art. An AI doesn't have that problem, and additionally has a much, much better memory... And the actual creation process is different.

I think it's a really interesting ethical dilemma and haven't decided what side I'm on yet.

But like the author, a "vegan" image AI would be very welcome. I think it wouldn't be nearly as useful because a lot of modern concepts would be missing. But it'd still be welcome.
Not accurate - NASA will ask someone else to build the lunar lander under LETS contract. Starship HLS is a complex system which requires half a dozen launches, a simpler lander with lower payload capacity has an higher chance of being realized.
The argument is that the fed doesn't matter if the USA can't defend its supply chains. It's not like the author forgot to take the fed into account. The argument is they only matter under specific circumstances.
How do you feel working full time on a tool, and not using the tool (which presumably is why the tool is valuable)?
It's not just a paycheck, obviously. You could earn more working on something else. Did you just get "hooked" on an originally you project?
> The problem becomes the scale. A human artist can't look at 5bn images and use them to be able to instantly mimic the style of another artist, hundreds of times an hour.

Can you say more about the scale argument? It reads as if you're saying that an entity that has an advantage shouldn't use that advantage.

If you reduce the comparison to human scale, do you still have a problem with the competition? I.e., if one artist has a working memory of 5 inspirational artworks (unlicensed) and another artist has a working memory of 3, is that wrong if they both compete to produce new artwork based on what they know of existing art?

If the answer to that question is no, then I don't see how the scale question is applicable.
* Technology is value-neutral