skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is training the model infringement or is distributing the model infringement?

What if you trained the model and only distributed generated images?

Is a human making art "in the style of" also infringement?
I was thinking of this scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOW1Wjb_oEI

Though I have to admit the reason I think of him when it comes to doing accents is his American accent that's supposed to be NorCal but sounds like it's everywhere else at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gp9K-rMdxg
I mean, seriously. I'm American, and the US primary school system is clearly designed half as day care, and half as a factory for teaching US citizens how to think like US citizens are "supposed" to think.

We also forget that, in the mid and late 1900s (or, like many of us, just weren't born yet), many (though not all) of the same kinds of censorship were present in American TV, and to some extent movies as well.

I do find the Chinese version to be more insidious (and more dangerous, given current surveillance and content-blocking technology), and much of it probably is, but I do think some of it is just unconscious nationalism and "othering" on my part, as much as I try to stamp out that kind of thinking in myself.
Twitter character limit makes tweets terse by default, which helps devolve any polarising topic into a frothy flailing ball of flamewar... it's one of the reasons people keep coming back for more IMHO, finding a tribe and an enemy tribe then the adrenaline rush of the tweet battles...
>Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong too take in more immigrants than the US.

Is this still true for Hong Kong after the recent Chinese crackdown? The stuff I've read says HK lost a significant number of people who fled after that.
imo, it's the opposite. compared to the original thread rippers, this chip has way more pcie (gen 5 vs gen3) and although it has less ram bandwidth, 64mb of l3 cache mean you don't need it as much. this costs as much as the original threadrippers did because they are the replacement for that class of chips.
Also appreciate how you approached this. I think it’s very important for individuals in multi-ethnic societies (or any society) to understand the history of how they got there, and it’s relation to society at the time and up to the present.

In the case of Irish indentured servants, I’m sure the difference between them and enslaved peoples from Africa were only academic from their perspective. And there is so much that I don’t understand in terms of the circumstances of them leaving Ireland. However with respect to the institutions that have developed since, equating the two requires a narrow analysis of the scale (numbers and time) and permanence (legal and cultural) of both. Hence the importance of understanding the facts of your own background in order to have healthy exchanges with people of different backgrounds (especially when historical, violent oppression is involved).

Edit: I should add and also excepting that others may have deeper understanding and taking a posture of learning instead of “winning” from the exchange.
China doesn't have a blue water Navy, and there are the ring of islands around it that can limit its access to the rest of the world. They are very dependent on energy imports, and seem to be mismanaging their food supply in a way that is going to result in tragedy if they are ever subject to trade sanctions.

Like Russia, they have a credible nuclear threat, but no other means of projecting power around the world.
> Write your problem to the most senior developer in an email/slack but don't press send.

Or conversely, write it to the most junior person. Sometimes having to explain context also helps.
Europe did not introduced energy sanctions, both gas and pipeline-transferred oil were exempt from sanctions.

But even before the war, there were gas shortages. Part of gas was delivered based on long-term contracts, part based on spot contracts, and while Russia delivered enough gas to satisfy long-term contracts, it offered less gas to the market so spot price risen.

After the war, there were some interruptions or limitations of gas delivery from the Russian side (blamed on not having enough spare parts to maintain gas pipelines).
If it's a scam, it's a really old one. It's been called AI since the state-of-the-art was a few "if" statements chained together.
Ask HN: Do you find Discord completely disorienting?
Whenever I end up on discord, I'm completely lost, and I know all the functions, but still lost. If I had to describe it in a word, it'd be ANXIETY. 10 teams, 30 channels, 50 unread messages in each channel, 500 members, 5k gifs...

I have no idea who is talking, what is being talked about, are you and how are you suppose to follow anything, how to find information that took place 1 min ago and let alone few weeks ago, how each message somehow takes so much vertical space.

The UI contrast doesn't help, as there is none. Everything just looks like vomit of UI elements on page, that's what came to be the interface of discord.

But people seem to be using it? who is using it? and how are they managing to 'get' it?

It feels like artistic rendition of millions of people chats combined into one, but meant to be appreciated from distance not to be interacted with.
Wow, this was an interesting Google images journey, thanks.

Also, is it just my own personal bias, or would I be right to say that imagery with such close bonding between males (2 particular example links below) would not have been used in the west due to concern of being interpreted as gay?

http://www.daokedao.ru/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/navek...

https://cs14.pikabu.ru/post_img/2022/03/11/4/164697462011834...
I do see a difference between (my understanding of) indentured servitude and slavery.

If I [or my family] chose it (in exchange for passage, food, and/or opportunities), that feels materially different from my freedom being stolen me without anyone in my family having a choice in the matter and for any of my children to also be non-free.

Apologies if my understanding (from basic US schooling) mismatching the reality of things, of course.
It’s extremely difficult, the biggest issue is that any vision based depth system is so damn noisy.
I wonder if there's some patent issue preventing them from using LiDAR and by extension preventing Musk from admitting its superiority.
To add to this, There is no guarantee that the company that makes you hustle doesn't simply lay you off in the bad times anyway. I'd much rather earn an extra 20% for 5 years and have 1 extra year's cash in the bank, then work in a "stable" environment that may or may not think I'm worth having around in 5 years.
And that's the base higher ambitions build on, as a fallback layer. The "fine arts" certainly won't be the same without the lower levels of the pyramid. With the abundance of stable diffusion offerings, I'd expect that wave of "style transfer" ML that was all the rage a few years ago to become more important. Perhaps the act of shepherding recognisable ML identity providers won't be quite as bad a substitute of those low level graphics jobs as we think.
> providing security for the business, the employees & the owner

The problem is that everything you've described only provides stability for the owner, and no one else. There's zero reason for an employee to believe money in your bank account somehow provides for their security -- even if you are honest and ethical and magically choose to do it, no one else ever does -- there is no way a reasonable person can believe the owner is just going to keep them on through hard times, just out of the goodness of their heart.
> a > b !(b >= a)

> a < b !(a >= b)

> a == b let x = a >= b; let y = b >= a; x && y

> a != b let x = !(a >= b); let y = !(b >= a); x || y

enthusiasm begins to waver

> All Fields Are Private

And you lost me. Unsurprisingly, nothing about testing.
Some good ideas, but this is a bad language.
I disagree with Max Chafkin, I've watched probably every single Thiel interview (there is a Spotify podcast of collection of his interviews) and I do not share whoever this Max Chafkin guy is.

If you want a proper critique of Thiel, proper as in properly sourced/researched, not opinions of what someone has made up in their mind: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...
I’m pointing out how censorship really works. It’s just as active here as anywhere else, just different topics
Movies have gotten surprisingly sexless (MCU has even less sex than you'd expect from a superhero movie) so some kinds of TV shows have been pumping it up to compensate.

Of course, they're not really TV shows anymore when they're unregulated streaming programs.
I don't think a lot of people expect small businesses to make up for a largely unequal and unfair economic system. That should be the an atribution of government and society as a whole.
This is the same hollowing-out that came for all other industries. The high end people trusted with non-obvious problems continue to be worth a ton (worth even more if they are good users of the new tool), while juniors who do rote practice become nearly worthless. It came for lawyers, doctors, engineers, and even writers. Now commercial artists and designers are in trouble.
sorry if too out of topic, but this looks great and i was just in need of something like it for c++ instead. does anyone know of similar libs?
"Roy Brouwer, the executive director of the Water Institute and a professor of economics at University of Waterloo, said that the report was a call to action. He added that he does not work with the economic model that GHD used in their methodology and was unfamiliar with it."

The best possible interpretation of this is that Professor Brouwer was asked for an opinion as a person on the street who had the good sense to include a disclaimer: "not my area of expertise as an economics professor".
Yes, I agree. 'Could' led to too many characters for the submission URL, so I did the best I could w/ it.

Apologies for any confusion or misstatement.
Peep Show was not edited due to laws, it was a private streaming service that made that decision. At the same time a rival streaming service was showing the unedited version.

I think there is an important conversation to be had about censorship by large corporations but equating them to widespread, governmental censorship is not helpful.
>US isn't by no means bad when it comes to standard of living, but it definitely isn't "higher than anywhere else in the world".

It depends on how you measure "standard of living", as it's actually pretty subjective.

In short, if you're a billionaire, you'll probably get the highest standard of living in America, living in a massive private compound somewhere. You'll have access to whatever food you want, the best medical care, etc. And if you're not a billionaire, you don't matter in America; only the opinions of billionaires matter there.
Yeah, I changed the background to black and then they showed up (could not see them before that).
This is a pretty bad comparison. Not only are doctors trained for years through a mentorship process, go on to teach others, and are tested against standards; every surgery they perform for the rest of their lives is subject to review which might result in an independent board of other doctors recommending changes to the process.

This is one of the things we're missing in software development (although retros are supposed to solve it), and the author points this out. Often, we get stuck in a bad framework or organizational structure that leaves us so we're forced to get use complex CS ideas to solve the problem when a better approach would allow for simpler solutions.

> Team A are those who work with metal utensils, team B work with wooden utensils, C use electrical appliances and D are in charge of all food heating. Trying to make sense of how one creates a crème brûlée with a worker grouping like that requires a lot of intelligence.
This makes these machines a lot more viable in the business and engineering world as well where CPU performance is desired but graphics is not. I've seen in the past AMD Zen machines paired with say a GT710 simply because it was the cheapest GPU option available that would allow for basic apps and drive two screens.
> If you have watched the show and failed see why it is racist, then we need to give some anti-racist education.

I will both agree and disagree. The show frequently oversteps what can be thought of as parody, so calling it racist is a fair assessment.

On the other hand, we also have to be careful. Think of the video clip in the article, the one with Sheldon's mom. The article makes it sound like it was censored since it was disrespectful to the Chinese people. While I can understand how that interpretation can be made, it is far more likely a commentary on racists tendrils that infest parts of America. Of course, Chinese viewers may not realize that so their interpretation would likely be different.

As for affirming the stereotype of Indian males lacking confidence with women, I didn't know that such a stereotype existed. If it does, I can see how it could (perhaps should) be labelled as racist. The "joke" runs too deeply throughout the show and it rarely appeared to be handled critically.

I believe the ultimate bar for judgment should be: does the joke reinforce stereotypes or does the joke force the viewer to reexamine their beliefs. Humour shouldn't be used as a carte blanche justification for racism. On the other hand, a lack of a sense of humour shouldn't be used as an excuse to label everything as racism.
Any people in power will find justifications for asserting control over others.

Personally I would prefer someone coming out and being (mostly) honest about why they're trying to control others, not the religious "we're saving your soul!" nonsense.
The population pyramids and demographic arguments seem to be rock solid. I've watched a ton of his appearances on YouTube going back almost a decade, and he doesn't vary his story, except to accommodate facts as they became known, it's very consistent.

I'm worried about people in the rest of the world... even here in the least climate effected part of the US, I know the next decade or two are going to be rough, especially if our leadership fails to improve.

I'm fairly certain he's right on almost everything. I haven't found any huge nits to pick.
It's not China, it's its government...you'll see everybody loves China when it finally becomes a democracy...until then critics and supporters will mix both for their own interests.
> Doesn’t Europe also have coal, nuclear and renewables; and import of oil from Middle Eastern countries?

The European electricity market is regulated in such a way that all energy is priced at the production price of the most expensive plant running. If I understood correctly, this is done so that no plant
will operate at a loss (and risk closing, which could lead to energy shortages).

In particular, this means prices of energy follow those of gaz, even though there are cheaper alternatives
Look at it from a frequency perspective instead of genetic.

When you overlay two waveforms that are related x:1, the zero points of the waveforms align. The wave resets at the same instant. If instead the waveforms are related not exactly, then you get a change in where the reset point is that drifts and causes the wave to exhibit beating (changes in volume).

If you have a 2:1 (octave) relationship between 2 waveforms, then you won't hear the beating as the beat frequency exactly overlaps the frequency of the lower frequency.

If you have say two notes that are not quite in the octave ratio, then you hear beating at the difference in frequency. E.g. say 440Hz and 888Hz (instead of 880Hz), you have beating occurring at 448Hz, which you'll hear as an 8Hz (448Hz-440Hz) wobble in the sound volume of the combined wave.
That's a fantastic point that I think many people miss. And others are well aware of it, but try to deflect attention from the authoritarian bits by focusing on the other bits.
Yeah, but Intel has the advantage of providing vGPU support for their integrated graphics. I don't think there is anything really stopping AMD but wanting money.
Publishing military secrets is legal (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....). Journalists don't have a duty to keep classified information secret, only the people who've agreed to keep it secret do.
A Chat with Ray Dalio
Oh hey, they've added a couple more chars since the last time I encountered the term! Now we just need to rearrange the letters to make pronounceable, how about QBIG2SALT+?
Yeah, this stood out as odd to me also– "these are who you highlight?"
China's government seems to be more concerned about containing criticism of the current Chinese government than Communist ideology. It's not like the Maoist period. The Economist has a good story about that this week.[1] Some militant Communists are now in opposition to the Xi regime.[2] The current regime is more authoritarian than Communist. Which is what usually happens when you get a Supreme Leader for Life.

[1] https://www.economist.com/china/2022/08/25/chinas-communist-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-...
I love this very much. Yes, so many creators never even show their work - I'm guilty and a multiple offender here - but the error is a far cry from the 'marketing' or 'product manager' position that's usually portrayed.

> VHS over betamax, Windows 95 over OS/2, Apple 2/mac over amiga. Our history is littered with marketing over product.

While these are tantalizing examples on the surface - if you dig deeper, you'll see they are all failures to give a damn about the end user. I'll just take the first at first level:

Betamax didn't allow for competition in the production of the tape player, thus being hundreds of dollars more for marginal improvement in picture quality. They ignored the end user over partnerships - aka they didn't build something great.

I'll step in your shoes and say one could argue that Apple proves that marketing matters, but that too, misses the big picture - Apple's iPod specs may have been less technically proficient, and though there was marketing - the very first time you felt aluminum and the glossy plastic in your hand - it was a completely different world of experience, in spite of its technical standing - that product was just great, period.
One of things AI still cannot do is create things out of whole cloth. They still are trained on pre-existing data and create new things based on what they are trained on. One example of this is Japanese Anime and Manga styles which have changed since the 80s till now. You can tell which era an artwork is from by looking at the style. Like a lot of art, the medium goes through phases which arise by individual artists making small changes which influence other artists, and so on. The actual "creation" then of style really isn't a single creative event, but it is a social process which develops over time from the culmination of additions from different artists, more or less unintentionally. Once in a while, one artist or another may be so influential that they inspire many from one artwork, but usual the development is more gradual.

At least as it has been done so far, AI cannot reproduce what is essentially the result of a social process, which is the true source of creativity. The NNs so far can just reproduce what it is already trained on which is already the result of existing works in the current style since that's all it has to train on, and I don't know how to a NN can reproduce a "social process" without merely recreating a community of artists.
>> less focused on violence

> Crazy Taxi

You must have been a much better Crazy Taxi driver than my friends and I...
I just signed up for a year to try it out. A few things: 1) The way you get the kindle email address is slick, but some people might get squicked out from a privacy standpoint because you are scraping information from a logged in Amazon account. Perhaps present an obvious option for the user to input the kindle email address. 2) There is no share functionality with the iOS app - I understand that there is an extension in safari itself, but I should be able to pass the app via the share button - this is how all these kind of services do this (P2K, Share to Kindle, Evernote, Joplin, Dropbox, Day One - etc.) You are the first service to use a safari extension to share webpages that I have come across. The upside of using the share functionality, is that any browser can access your service - not just safari users. 3) Cleaning up documents on the Kindle is a PIA. Consider bundling - or giving the option to bundle them into a "book". Maybe two options - add to my periodic (weekly/daily) "book" and another option to send an article immediately. 4) Most people are not going to spend 50 bucks for an annual subscription to try something out for a bit - consider offering monthly subscriptions. Hope this helps!
I'm uninterested in doing it these days
One downside is that the TDP is almost doubled (170/~230 W vs 105/140 W for default/PPT) which may be a dealbreaker - certainly for my SFF system where I'm not sure I can cope with another 100W. These are limited by the socket really (AM4/AM5), but still it's nice to have that many threads in such a low power budget. I'm more curious to see what the 32-thread competition turns out to be in the same TDP bracket.
Honestly, I’m worried that shocking pornographic depictions of every women who’s ever posted her face online is coming. AI’s first big splash in our society is going to be a traumatic sexual assault of all women.
Yes but at least that episode of Peep Show was clearly marked and advertised as censored, right? They didn't try to pass it off as unaltered, right?
This is an excellent point and easy for designers themselves to overlook. They may see DALLE as a tool that some are claiming does their entire job, and it can't quite yet. But it's really a question of how close it can match the actual result of employing an illustrator.
Why 'Invisible' Is a Modern Anime Classic
> This happens in the West too.

Not like this. The censorship occurring in China is state-mandated and absolute, which is completely different from a network or content provider voluntarily choosing to remove objectionable content.

> I'm almost certain there would be things seen as normal or inoffensive in China that would be seen as offensive and censored here.

Again, you're conflating different things. What's being described in the article isn't a network simply choosing to remove content that might be objectionable. It's the state telling the distributors that they cannot show certain things period because the state does not like them.

In the United States a content distributor can distribute such content if they choose to, as long as it's not on a regulated platform (e.g. public television has specific regulations about what can't be shown). In China, the content cannot be distributed at all without first being edited and approved by state censors. It's a completely different situation.

From the article:

> According to the state-owned media outlet Xinhua, streaming platforms received a private notification from regulators to remind them of one key rule:

> “imported American and British TV shows must be ‘reviewed and approved by officials before streaming to the public.’”
Supposedly a high level TSMC executive moved to SMIC in 2017 and became co-CEO. So did 200 TSMC engineers.

There was a lawsuit a few years ago that TSMC won but it before all this.

https://youtu.be/dQGnwKBxAKk

https://youtu.be/WEwrBgsKmhc
It is most likely hand animated dry transfer lettering. Populate a frame with text and use a moving sheet of paper to progressively reveal the letters. The color could be added in post processing. The more sophisticated "XOR" effect could be done with analog video processing.
Read the first sentence