skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but AI models trained on copyrighted images already exist and can't just be removed from the internet, and their output will often be indistinguishable from that of "clean" models. What I fear is a kind of legal hazard that would make even the possibility that AI had been used anywhere in a work radioactive.

Imagine another hypothetical: I create a derivative work by running img2img on another artist's painting without their permission. Whether the AI model in question contains copyrighted content or not, this is probably infringement.

Now suppose that, instead, I create an original work, without using img2img on someone else's art. But, as part of my process, I use AI inpainting, with a clean AI model, so that the work has telltale signs of AI generation in it.

And then suppose an artist I've never heard of notices that my painting is superficially similar to theirs--not enough to be infringement on its own, even with a subconscious infringement argument. But they sue me, claiming that my image was an img2img AI-generated derivative of theirs, and the AI artifacts in the image are proof.

With enough scaremongering about AI infringement, it might be possible for a plaintiff to win a frivolous lawsuit like this. After all, courts are unlikely to understand the technology well enough to make fine distinctions, and there's no way for me to prove the provenance of my image! If it becomes common knowledge that AI models can easily launder copyrighted images, and assumed that this is the primary reason people use AI, then the existence of any AI artifacts in a work could become grounds for a copyright lawsuit.
> There's a potential performance win if the data you're reading is already in the VFS cache, since that would bypass having to through the FUSE filesystem.

That's a typical case for a lot of databases. Most of the "hot" data is in a small subset of the pages and many of those can live in the in-process page cache.

> The catch is, at that point you're bypassing SQLite transaction engine semantics entirely, giving you a dirty read that's really just a cached result from a previous read.

It's not bypassing the transaction engine semantics. For WAL mode, SQLite can determine when pages are updated by checking the SHM file and then reading updated pages from the WAL file. Pages in the cache don't need to flushed on every access or even between transactions to be valid.

> I'm sure there's a win here somewhere, but I'm struggling to understand where.

The main goal of LiteFS is to make it easy to globally replicate applications. Many apps run in a single region of the US (e.g. us-east-1) and that's fast for Americans but it's a 100ms round trip to Europe and a 250ms round trip to Asia. Sure, you can spin up a multi-region Postgres but it's not that easy and you'll likely deploy as separate database and application servers because Postgres is not very lightweight.

LiteFS aims to have a minimal footprint so it makes it possible to deploy many small instances since SQLite is built to run on low resource hardware.

As far as comparisons with Postgres over UNIX sockets, I agree that the performance of a single instance is probably comparable with a FUSE layer.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind. EdgeDB looks really nice. It would be a rather large project to migrate our PG over to it, but maybe not so bad. I hopped on their Discord to ask if there any tools to aid with migration. They said:

>>> Tools to make migrations from Django (and other ORMs) are possible but we haven't yet started working on them. So you'd have to write the migration script manually.
> EDIT: Maybe this helps - you're taking for granted that the US Treasury auctions an increasingly large amount of Treasuries to cover an increasingly large amount of debt, but The Fed doesn't create that debt, that's a separate phenomenon. If the government balanced its budget for a year, does that create liquidity?

Do you actually understand what liquidity is?

Bonds are just one instrument the fed uses, the bond market isn’t the end all be all of open market operations. As I noted earlier, the fed was previously injecting liquidity by buying bonds and mortgages. What you’re talking about is tangential.

Liquidity is the amount of cash in the system relative the size of the market for assets. All else equal, adding or removing is the same as adding or removing cash.
Do you mean nodes? Validators already get rewards (and miners don’t exist anymore)
It is more complicated than that

* losing the low performer in this context means you lose a head count. If you keep the low performer during hard times, you can hope to get them backfilled when the economic environment gets better
* there are often more work to do than you have resources for: if as an EM, you have to deal with PM who refuse to adapt to capacity, you can simply assign the low perfomers to the projects you don't care about.
* etc.

once you reach a certain size, those issues happen in pretty much any organization in my experience.
And there are very profitable companies with failed founders (diluted, expelled, leverage failures, dot dot dot). And failed companies with successful founders (cashed out at IPO, WeWork’s Adam Neumann is a billionaire, dot dot dot)
Once again, as always, Stallman was right.
GPUs are physical but VMs are not; I expect they just move them to a host with a GPU.
The latter two are better links than the first- since the first appears to be sampling from cancer genomes, which probably don't have precisely the same mutational spectrum as typical genomes, especially after the repair machinery stops working.
Well, if you can create the array without using the image then you're golden; but if you're not using the image then you're not training on the image. If you are using the image, then you're deriving (at least) a representation from the image.

IME, limited as it is, courts don't take kindly to overly clever attempts to differentiate things from what everyone agrees they are; like 'the file isn't the image, so I can copy that', judges aren't stupid.
I could dig up a script if you need.
There actually is a reason (though you might not like it). The internal docs are pretty open about this, I think I can do a decent job capturing the idea:

The idea is they consider themselves to have a very high bar (which I think is largely accurate). They say you “meet most expectations” which means you hit the marks on all but 1 or 2 criteria. It’s not that you’re not good at your job, it’s that that’s not good enough for them.

Of course anyone receiving a MM is having a very shitty day despite that. They could use more direct language but I’m not sure it would have any practical difference.
Ask HN: How do you manage your IT/DevOps role?
Context: I'm senior mostly-solo IC for a mid-sized SaaS that does DevOps and IT-related tasks.

This role is similar to others I've had in the past. It's great because there's lots of flexibility and not much micromanagement.

It's challenging because:

- I often need to learn and evaluate new products (e.g some SaaS we might want to use). On a related note it's often difficult to get good (sometimes any) support for products we're paying for, so I waste time debugging obscure issues or reading through confusing documentation

- I don't really have anyone to delegate to. I could coordinate with managers to negotiate for engineers' time, but this would take almost as long as just doing some of the tasks myself, so I don't do this

- Verification is difficult. Infrastructure doesn't have as good testing facilities as "regular" software does, and even when it does that still takes some setup, which must be balanced against everything else I'm supposed to be doing and the new things that come up.

- I often am asking for review for people not on my (mostly solo) team, which can take time and extra reminders

- I mostly get requests from everywhere, manage my own backlog, and people are busy enough that they really only see what they need to remind me to do (because there's a lot to do), rather than all the little things I get done

This is better than previous similar roles I've had, as the teams are nicer and I don't own everything I touch, but I feel I'm falling behind and will not get recognition unless I "sell" my accomplishments (which of course I don't have time to do anyway).

I don't really feel I can turn work down, and don't really care to, but I'm finding it difficult to get it all done and still work a regular amount of hours.

It's also difficult to ask for help, as in the past when I've asked for training I've been told things like "ohh that's not too hard", which is generally true for most products once you've got the hang of them, but never getting training on anything is a recipe for lots of half-baked solutions, or lots of time off the clock reading and experimenting.

I worry trying to define my role will lead to micromanagement. I worry not doing so will lead to burnout or me missing things. I worry discussing these issues with management or fellow engineers will make me look incompetent or unwilling to do my job. I also worry it's going to get increasingly difficult to advance in this role, as the more I do the more I'll be asked to look into, and with things being difficult to test/verify, the small tasks will continue to pile up as I try to work on the large tasks.

How have you handled this situation in the past, other DevOps/IT folks?

I added in IT because I'm also given administrative tasks as needed (migrating some accounts/debugging issues that aren't strictly software related).
Simply put, Microsoft has existed for 30 years with nothing but disdain for their customers and it has never once hurt them. So why stop now? Microsoft exists because of weak minded people who choose it because it's the front runner and are scared that choosing anything else may make them responsible for a choice they have made(same vein as no one ever got fired for choosing IBM, until that wasn't true anymore).

In this sense I think there is almost a stockholm syndrome element where the worse it is, the more people trapped in it feel that that's what makes it good and enterprisey. If it wasn't the only choice why would any put up with it otherwise?

I'm sure in 2043 they'll finally muster up the engineering resources to get copy/paste working in Teams though, for the last 10 customers on Trillion dollar a year enterprise maintenance contracts.
Newer frameworks like Svelte or SolidJS are a lot less bloated on the client. Though we're still far from successfully minimizing the amount of network roundtrips involved in a SPA update, so there's plenty of room for improvement still.
in this article he specifically states that he did not take into account whether games were broadcast live or not

here's the link I was talking about https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80630&start... at the bottom of the page in the DrCliche post
Maybe relevant.

A while ago I wrote relational (https://ltworf.github.io/relational/) to do relational algebra queries… It can load csv files, has a gui and a cli.
nationalise money loosing companies and privatize the money makers. or tax the citizen and give to the shareholders. what a great ponzi is the european union
Probably won’t get Fox News outside of US or Canada (and even Canada is a stretch: cablecos don’t really force that one upon us in their bundles)
This seems to be the sentiment in the watch geek community - they like old watches - especially ones with sensors of various kinds, but they have to operate independently - the older ones would no longer work if they didn't.
For the license or the learner's permit? Where I'm from (Alabama), the learner's permit is just a multiple choice exam, but the license itself still requires a driving test. Not a hard one, but at least it's there.
This effect should be negligible. The whole point here is that it takes way more energy to take a chunk of ice and turn it into water (at fixed temp -- namely the freezing point) than it does to heat that chunk of ice a few degrees (below the freezing point). And remember that you don't just have to cool the cream to its freezing point, you also have to remove enough energy to overcome its latent heat of fusion. If you were doing this just with the heat capacity of ice from like -20 to -5 C, you would need many times more ice than you could make ice cream. Like tens to hundreds of times. The blog discusses some related facts a bit near the end.
It depends on the state. There are several in which having an open container is not illegal. Passengers can drink in some. And it seems the driver can even drink in Mississippi.
You could use propylene glycol that is Generally Recognized As Safe.
Brb, founding a quantum crystal healing startup.
Ephimerides really throws them. (And thank God for PyEphem, which makes all that otherwise quite fiddly stuff really easy...)
Amazon doing the price fixing again, what are we going to do about it? Give them a fine? Lol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920356
Keeping unproductive employees on in a punch-clock make-work position benefits no-one. If we're going to broadly restructure society to make this kind of thing better, we'd be better off strengthening the social safety net and getting rid of all the stuff that says you have to have a single full-time job or your life will suck. Nationalise healthcare, remove all the weird tax/benefit cliffs that happen when a job goes over/under x hours/week, legalise building more homes in places people want to live...
Would love to see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=980456 get fixed on ChromeOS. Then I could use my e-reader and Calibre via crostini.
The other guy is arguing that you don't have to accept that risk at all if you don't use an OS from a data harvesting company.

I don't care who watches me through my camera, I was just trying to point out that people aren't stupid about the hardware switch. Some just find it ironic that there is a hardware shut off for a camera on a computer operated by Google.
Wish we could qualify title: "Putin Declares Partial Mobilization".

I suppose "partial" is just semantics; looks like all reservists have been called up, a "full" mobilization would just add in a "full, national draft."

Maybe it doesn't matter - this article hasn't got a lot of attention, and since most analysts are saying any mobilization won't have much effect for maybe 12 months, it's mostly posturing and politics at this point.
The story here seems to be that images which should have been protected by their custodian (the doctor's practice) and never online ended up somewhere on the public web, no?
It's illegal for officers and directors to short their own stock. It's not technically illegal for any other employee.

That being said I've never seen a company that allows it in their company policy. Every company I've seen forbids it to eliminate the appearance of unethical behavior.
Yes, tl;Dr got one at work for iOS dev a couple months back and I gotta be honest OS X is a real drag at this point. Brings me no pleasure to say this. Was such a huge fan.

Displays wider color range, CPUs faster, that's pretty much it on the positives side.
>Let's also recognize that Uber is not collecting data on what you watch and what social activities you participate in

sure about that? How about these "social activities"

https://money.cnn.com/2014/11/25/technology/uber-prostitutes...
So I've played around quite a bit with cloud gaming services, and local streaming as well. Essentially, remote gaming requires you to choose two of the following nice features:

1) Low input lag, consistent consistent frame rate
2) Wireless
3) High resolution with no visual artifacts

You can't have all three in the vast majority of cases. So while I think this new Logitech device can possibly do 1) and 3), it will require the user to be in a room with a good connection at all times.
Reader 3.0 released – a Python feed reader library
Be able to run Emacs as fast as I can run Vim?
The official newspaper of Russian state is called "Российская газета" (literally "The newspaper of Russia"), "Pravda" is the newspaper of the Communist party, which is a minor party in Duma. Also, fun fact, "pravda" only means "truth" figuratively, there is no equivalent word in English, but it's a noun derived from adjective "right", which surprisingly has almost all the same meanings in Russian as it does in English (direction, opposite of wrong, a privilege) so it's somewhat similar to "righteousness" but with even wider meaning, containing everything that is right. For example the first Russian code of law is called "Russian Pravda".
I don't think there's any way to take a reasonable position here, because the underlying situation is irrational. In a rational economy, each city would adopt an urban form that could efficiently support its population in a reasonable land footprint, and would change that urban form as the city evolved. This would mean that housing costs would be broadly similar across all cities. This hasn't happened, so housing costs are absurd, which results in absurdity in other areas.
Makes sense. Thank you very much.
I did the same thing at the beginning of the year with Digikey. Shipped a few weeks later.
> Why do you think so much hardware was captured by Ukrainians? Because there just wasn't enough people to drive it all back when they retreated.

Yeah, I read somewhere that their units are so undermanned that they've been sending APCs into action with just the drivers, which apparently is both ineffective and also makes them really vulnerable to the kinds of anti-tank missiles that Ukraine has been getting by the truckload.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927848

(Conversation is unfolding on the above linked thread right now.)
You made the reply I was thinking of.

It seems a bit too on the nose for the literati on HN to have determined the definitive cause of inflation today is in-demand workers requesting fair compensation, as of the last 2 years.

Software engineer salaries have skyrocketed unbelievably over the last 20 years. What crisis is that responsible for?
>the price of a modern GPU alone buys you a whole stand-alone gaming console today.

This has been true for as long as I’ve seen. Mid-range GPUs have historically tended to cost about as much as whole consoles. Pascal, one of the most well-received lines in terms of pricing, sold the GTX 1070 for $400 MSRP, the same price as buying a whole PS4. These new prices being the equivalent of buying two whole machines is what’s truly intense.
Guidance was higher than 4.25%
Do you want people to invest in tools to extract and burn all fossil fuels as quickly as possible or alternatives to fossil fuels? I would prefer the latter which means high taxes on fossil fuels and/or subsidies on its alternatives to push investment.
You’ve added nothing to the quote but vitriol.
China needs Russia. As tensions rise between China and USA regarding hegemony China will need Russian commodities.

This is why Nixon sought to keep China and Russia separate. I don't know what the US State department's strategy is with Ukraine except to become energy supplier to Europe and grind Russia down. But in the process make China stronger?
I make a 6 figure salary in one of the lowest COL cities in the US. I sometimes see people claiming to make significantly more in SV, NYC, and forth.

No way would I make that trade. My _PURCHASING POWER_ is probably vastly stronger than theirs. You say 40% but I could legitimately live off of 20% if I so chose. In fact, one of the problems I have is that I have absolutely no credit. As in, credit reports come back with zip, zilch, nada. And that can be problematic for people that don't trust seeing that.

If I'm being honest, it's a super power that I'm sad to see others are figuring out.
Pay with an NFT!

https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html
Vendors do not risk anything. They offload the shipment to a real buyer who then transports goods without vendor officially knowing anything. This buyer can very well be a company established for this one shipment, so no ends are ever found.

And regarding Kazakhstan and transit problems - it has nothing to do with sanctions. See this article with more or less coherent explanation of an issue [0] (it's in Russian but Google translate should help)

[0]: https://iz.ru/1397573/anastasiia-lvova-elnar-bainazarov/gruz...
Are you Himank or Yevgeniy?

Good luck with your project, FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source. Hopefully some good can come of it yet.
It may be an overkill, but here you go:
https://github.com/TalalAlrawajfeh/mathematics-roadmap
BBC's video archive, unless it is extremely popular, is almost certainly not going to be avaliable after a few years. Shows published on their streaming platform iPlayer are typically only avaliable for a few months.

The BBC archives tend to only be used for creating new or remastering old content rather than for republication in their original form. I agree, it's bizarre.
Try https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/master/csharp/demo...
From [1]

- U.S. Treasury Bills: $28,856,434,491

- Commercial Paper and Certificates of Deposit: $8,402,426,505

- Money Market Funds: $6,810,253,431

- Cash & Bank Deposits: $5,418,232,067

- Reverse Repurchase Agreements: $2,992,015,954

- Non-U.S. Treasury Bills: $397,150,678

- Corporate Bonds, Funds & Precious Metals: $3,486,896,735

- Other Investments: $5,551,836,303

- Secured Loans: $4,494,373,260

- Total: $66,409,619,424

[1] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/2xJyKdUKicdRUWpC9b...
> Russia is now in such a state of despair that Russia, once one of the world's to arms exporter, are resorting to buying gear from Iran, of all places.

IIRC, Iran has a pretty impressive domestic arms industry. The thing they should probably be more embarrassed about is buying arms from North Korea.
Lowe’s Tests Interactive Virtual Models of Two Stores
The criteria for a work being copyrightable literally is the slightest touch of creativity, and I'm quite certain that writing a prompt and selecting a result out of a bunch of random seeds would qualify for that.

Fully automated mass creation would get excluded, as would be any attempts to assert that copyright to a non-human entity, but all the artwork I've seen generated by people should be copyrightable - the main debatable question is whether they're infringing on copyright of the training data.

On a different note, I'd argue that the models themselves (the large model parameters, as opposed to the source code of the system) are not copyrightable works, being the result of a mechanistic transformation, as pure 'sweat of the brow' (i.e. time, effort and cost of training them) does not suffice for copyright protection, no matter how large.
https://archive.ph/ifwJZ
I know I look back a thousand years when I look for reliable ways to operate a modern global financial economy. Their insights are just filled with relevant information on how to run my business, and treat my concubines and slaves.
503 service unavailable?
But... why.
Why would anyone get a chromebook? I still dont get it.
Whats the point of having one?
Real-time ray tracing was the goal in the old days. Are we there yet at adequate quality?
True. The test should only be done on the material released after the model.
not sure what you are saying the stock lasts 4 years any new stock you getting in between will be at market price so you not gonna clear 600k after 4years but only base +new stock..
if amazon stock goes up the next 4years newcomer will get 600k too
WAOW! Windows, Rust, and SystemD! What a beautiful bundle.