skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But because of the at-will agreement they can still dismiss you without cause or warning regardless of the understanding you have. One day someone forgets to take their medicine, ends up being angry at you for a mistake or perceived lack of performance and you just gave them the perfect explanation.

But I have a feeling that you would have a hard time swinging those agreements in the first place. Why would your employee compromise, unless you are irreplaceable?
Kudos to google for implementing in an actual model we can use vs Imagen or Parti
Asked to give practical advice to starting writers, he said, “Read.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/books/early-cormac-mccart...
> 1% pure gold.

Nonsense
> This is a financial system, not a battle of rhetoric.

No, this is a blog post about a well-understood failure mode in traditional finance. If cryptocurrency advocates want to lay claim to the "financial system" label, they should be prepared to explain how their schemes are efficient mechanisms for value transaction, not sandboxes for making sure the rules of financial crime haven't changed.
Love this, thanks for sharing. This is fundamentally how our iOS application is modeled. We were highly inspired by Bernhardt’s talk and the Elm Architecture.

It has lead to a very modular and maintainable app that has been very easy to test without ridiculous mocking you usually see when needing to interact with object-oriented / imperative frameworks like Cocoa Touch.
The OP was a professor of mine, and his library represents the product of thousands of hours of research. Probably every line in there is extremely valuable.
Wowwww. This is exactly what I was thinking, but I couldn’t put it into such a terse simple example. +1
No cross site scripting. No CORS.
Copyright is for original whole works. Utility functions don’t fall under that I don’t think.

I suppose whoever wants to pay the fees would “own” these things ?

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ61.pdf
My uncle, who is a successful entrepreneur, was interviewed for a podcast and dropped similar wisdom 35:36 - 38:40

[C-CRETS] Black Trailblazer in American Business: A Conversation with Carlton Guthrie
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/146606084
NetRexx uses it too

https://www.netrexx.org/Tutorial/nr_9.html
I think that if someone only wishes to post a link, then good on them. You can use nitter if that works for you. I agree it would be nice if people took the time to write a more thoughtful post, but I also think that trying to convince the internet to improve its behaviour is antisensible..

Perhaps instead of trying to ask others to do something, you could have added a link to nitter, and a 240 character summary (although in this case the relevant thread is wayyy longer than that and contains relevant images, so good luck!)

As always: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Disclaimer: I sometimes find guidelines aggravating.
This title is not remotely true. In order for chaos theory to explain quantum uncertainty there would have to be hidden information that leads to the uncertainty which would be explained by chaos theory if we knew the hidden information.

The Nobel Prize in Physics was just given to three people who contributed to proving that hidden variables are pretty much ruled out. As uncomfortable as it is for some people, reality is inherently probabilistic on the smallest scales.

So no, this title is just wrong.
I currently work for two employers, both of whom are aware that I do other work. Crucially, I'm not telling either one that I'm doing 40 hours (one is half-time, the other is somewhat less).

Paying someone for "full-time" involves some amount of spare capacity, that you're paying for in order to have them available in case of emergency. But more fundamentally, you and your employer/customer should both be honest about what is being paid for/delivered.
The model is flawed and fails to account for the activation of the XCOM project: humanity's first, and last line of defense against the alien threat.

In all seriousness though, if the universe is indeed populous then there's probably been innumerable alien XCOM projects.

I also can't help but think that we usually fail to appreciate the technology gaps involved. Human beings in a span of a few hundred years managed to go from the advent of electricity and industrial society, to artificial intelligence—all in what amounts to not even a blink of a cosmic eye. Yet recursively improving intelligence is conceivable to us.

2001: A Space Odyssey did a wonderful job illustrating such gaps. I think there's a good chance most civilizations (ours included) would not be equipped to even comprehend how to detect or fight an advanced civilization, let alone understand their very nature.
How small is DALL-E/SD, compared to say, training dataset images shrank to 120x120, JPEG compressed at q=0.3, compressed as .tar.bz2?
If you pay X to get Y amount of work done and are happy about it why would you care that the person is also doing Z amount of work somewhere else? Z could be an other job, or a hobby or anything else, but it is none of your concern.
>Don't you agree it is easier to set up a business through blockchain, and get paid for running some service?

No.

> I am building a side-project that runs on Google Cloud. I think most tricky part for me, will be setting up the payment system without breaking any tax laws...Should I just put a Paypal pay button?

It’s a pretty easy option, yes (hence your phrasing of “just put a button”) There’s also Stripe or Square etc which are similarly simple.

> I could easily get paid through a smart-contract, verify transaction and run the given CloudRun job all without any 3rd-party involvement, or any worries about tax/business account setup

How do you handle taxes when cashing out or using crypto to buy things? Can you pay for food/rent/insurance with crypto?
If you have a transactional job, nothing. I think the irony is that bigger employers work hard to make jobs more transactional (removing any autonomy from employees) but simultaneously push for employees to give themselves completely over to the employer.

If you worked at a factory or a grocery store, came and did your eight hours, and worked another job, nobody would care. So why does it differ as a developer? Especially if you're in a position where they treat you as a "resource". If you're an executive or cofounder or something, it's a different story
Sure, but bias is going to be a factor with any system of evaluation. It happens with human moderators, it happens with automated systems, it happens in corporate performance reviews and it happens among 12 of a defendant’s peers convened for a criminal trial. The existence of bias doesn’t pertain to whether or not a given system is scalable.
Doesn't mean you have to do it every day. CFS ARC is a 270MW reactor. In a month it will consume 13.5kg tritium. Current world tritium supply is 20kg, though we could produce more from fission reactors if we really wanted to. 13.5kg out of 2000 tons is 7 parts per million, but with a breeding ratio over one, more than that would be produced. Tritium inventory to start up the ARC reactor is 100 grams.
In a system like this they will play both sides. They do, in fact. Set up accounts that produce content that violates TOS and accounts that report it. The reporting accounts will have their rep increased for correctly reporting tos violations.

Then they use the high rep accounts to brigade and fake report.
Or sell them.

They are patient, so even if you make reputation go up slowly, they will just build a pipeline of account harvesting.
I mean the point is for this feature to help you, you have to A. be an admin running an install elevated and B. be installing something from a less than reputable source. In this scenario, the ways to compromise your system are already numerous.

Yeah it's bad Microsoft built a feature to try to help you in this scenario and it wasn't working, but it's also just one of many many ways to screw you at this point.
Throwing my favorite set of icons out there: font awesome
How is this situation made any worse by these AI systems?

If a small time artist has their work stolen, they probably won't be able to fight it very well. They might be able to get a few taken down, but the sheer number will make it impossible to keep up.

Disney, on the other hand, will have armies of lawyers going after any copyright violation.

It seems the same whether AI is involved or not.
You raise a good point. As a sceptic of this space, I would counter the UX issue you mention - which is a huge hurdle for any larger scale adoption of blockchain - will realistically only be solved by billion-dollar enterprise involvement, which will inevitably mean centralization, which in turn means we might as well drop the blockchain part.
Can Rule of Law Survive in America?
Really fascinating - thanks for this!
this just isn't true

for b2b it really boils down to the following:

data

distribution/marketing

discovery

closing

data is challenging for most companies

distribution is somewhat challenging and very challenging if your offer sucks

discovery is easy - it's a formula

closing is extremely hard and costly to get someone who can do it by definition
Standardised testing is the only metric that doesn’t benefit the rich much more than the poor
How many divisions has the Pope? etc etc
I have dealt with fraudulent Youtube copyright claims, it's a long and annoying process. First, you have to file a dispute, which typically the claimant will automatically reject, and then you have to escalate to a DMCA counternotice, which will take the video offline for a few days to give the claimant a chance to respond. In my experience, the claimant will drop the complaint at this point, but you're theoretically opening yourself up to legal action by sending the counternotice.
(knowing almost nothing about indian culture) The boundary between what's legal and what's culturally accepted can be pretty broad. Just two days ago a coworker was describing his friend getting arrested for flipping off a cop, and when I pointed out that precedent going back hundreds of years clearly shows the cop abusing their authority to violate the constitution with almost no exceptions (proportionally), they still responded that their friend deserved it and should have known that flipping off a cop wouldn't have any positive outcomes. Culturally, a substantive chunk of the country is totally fine with clamping down on offensiveness, especially if it's directed at people risking their lives to make the country better, despite that not being a part of our legal framework in the slightest.

Similarly, I wouldn't be shocked if "by any means necessary" is also illegal in India but is culturally accepted.

On some level it's no different from the stop-sign culture in California. Almost nobody stops, ever, including the police force, and it results in dozens of deaths annually just in my community. The act is blatantly illegal for good reason, but it still happens out in the open, and it's "not illegal" in the sense that if a person blows a stop sign and the police witness it or are sent a video of the act then there's approximately a 0% chance of any negative repercussions for the perpetrator.
But it's not reproducing their samples. It's just adding their watermark to newly generated pictures you can't find in the training set.
> The data can comfortably be downloaded with img2dataset (240TB in 384, 80TB in 224)

https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/

Not exactly what you asked, but hopefully useful? The model weights are about 4 GiB I believe.
I should have pointed out that those were two separate questions.

Public code is a weird name to use for that use case.
Food ordering through google results is also down (500)
Also, I encourage you to search linkedin for "Davis Bell" for an insane rant form a CEO about thinking he owns his employees spare time

https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-viral-linkedin-post-engi...

(Edit, I think he found my post :) )
Borneo skeleton may show 31,000 year old amputation
I’m not going to put effort into describing where and why you’re wrong, I don’t think talking to you is worth the effort. You’ll never change your beliefs.
Not a joke. Don't know deeply about all parliamentary cultures around the world but here[1] is an example of a small party that finally got 1 MP elected (2019) only to expel this MP from the party within months of the election due to disagreement over policy voting.

It is my understanding that in most (all?) democracies MP's legitimacy arise from the electorate, not the party. The party may strip the membership from an MP but can't strip them from the elected office.

This may be more likely to happen in proportional representation[2] parliaments than in majoritarian systems of representation, specially for up and coming and small parties. Denmark follows [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIVRE

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
Ok, post your code for us to scrutinize
Outwitting the Devil [pdf]
Same on Chesapeake Bay just now, "Cannot reach server."

Since Street View is so popular, maybe Google discontinued it.[1] Is GMail still working? Probably won't last.

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
Life with Bell’s Palsy (2017)
My maternal grandfather made a fortune selling sugar out of the trunk of his car during probibition. An illustration of if the product is that good or in demand, anyone can sell it!
Bitcoin went on to create an entirely new industry employing tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, fund thousands of research projects and startups, create financial independence for thousands of people, allow thousands of people to transmit money in situations where it would have been difficult or impossible otherwise, and probably other things. It's a massive cultural phenomenon with global reach and real consequences.

The adoption looks different because it's not an apples to apples comparison. The appropriate comparison would be between "blockchain/crypto" and "cloud." In that comparison, the Dropbox equivalent likely hasn't been released yet. And even still, the technologies are different enough that I'd expect different timelines. The inherent difficulty of implementing cryptographic systems to the highest standards, and the regulatory hurdle implied by the fact that any token is arguably a security, matter.

Also, for what it's worth, you can send money to anyone in the world instantly now.

My personal opinion is that interesting things will start to happen after we realize there's an architectural sleight of hand in the "web3" vision and it doesn't really make sense. Projects that recognize this are already gaining traction.
What a great design that radio has.
I don't think we built enough to really know that. Lets see how China goes for costs first and then reassess.
when does syncthing overwrite changes. that should not happen and would be a major bug
That is for people using Copilot. I’d like a setting that tells GitHub to not scan my code at all. And I am curious about that sneaking into the terms in between me signing up and paying and them taking code for free.

I have also never heard of “public code” being used in that way.
A fellow traveler. I did the same thing!
if the idea of getting rejected is a major problem for you, you need to hire someone else to do this for you
Makes more sense than AI driving cars.
That's like saying why not tell your employer about your religious principles or sex life. It is not your employers business. Working for multiple employers shouldn't be either.
If a human drew that, it would not be copyright violation.
that is very rare to find

based on the framing you gave, sure

if you're willing to break the law, selling isn't the hard part...
Fellow "wrote my own generator" person here (I built the codegen system Stripe uses to generate their API client libraries). Sounds like you've got a pretty neat system too, hadn't thought of some of these approaches.

We had a similar story – after looking at the OpenAPI Generator and other options, we ended up making our own in JS from the ground up, more or less (it used the internals of prettier to generate pretty code, especially example snippets for docs, across languages).

I'm now starting a company (https://stainlessapi.com, mentioned by OP elsewhere on this thread) to solve this problem more generally. If you ever get tired of maintaining this system (which may not happen, it does sound fun/interesting) or want broader language support, and are open to a commercial solution, drop me a line: alex at stainlessapi.com

(open invite of course – and also always happy to just chat codegen things, it's a neat little niche)
I can't help but think this would be good training data for mapping text to long-form video. Even if it's too hard right now, don't underestimate our collective progress.
So a step forward in putting them on GitHub... a step back for them all being PDFs so you can't really do anything GitHub-like with them, lol.
Cancer vaccine could be available before 2030
In many ways Mutagen and VSCode's remote extensions are the same idea, with trade-offs in terms of flexibility vs. integration.

Shared systems with multiple non-admin users was one of the original motivating use cases for tighter default permissions.

I don't think there's any scenario where one can perform truly secure development work on an untrusted system. You could certainly store encrypted code in an untrusted location, but there's not much you could do with it on that system (without a hypothetical compiler or tool that maybe supported some sort of homomorphic-encryption compilation operations?). Even decryption on-the-fly for processing by regular tools wouldn't be secure on an untrusted system. And running any code there would be equally insecure.

I'd imagine that for any seriously sensitive work, one would only want to work in highly controlled, trusted, and firewalled environments. If there's a scenario I'm missing though, definitely let me know.
Yup. Gawker was victim of a targeted assassination. Sure, their editor gave a truly disastrous deposition which probably directly caused them to lose that particular case more than any other single factor, but if it hadn’t been that case, it would have been the next fact pattern where a well funded opposition would have even a slim chance at nailing them to the wall.

There’s plenty Gawker did that I didn’t like or didn’t care for, but as a proponent of free speech, I see nothing positive about them losing that shit.
No one needs to explain anything. I transact in it and it works, therefore it is an efficient mechanism for value transaction. If you don't want to participate then fine, but as the person you replied to said, evidently enough people do.
It doesn't have to work every time, or even the majority of the time. If it works 1 time out of 10, they'll keep doing it.
Copyright Rules are not meant to favor a few.

If that's the case then it makes a great case to break the DMCA and steal all the content out there.

That sounds terrible in theory but it's one way to put some of these big money systems in check.

What about all the leaked source code in early 2022. It would make perfect sense for the hackers to remove the copyright and put it in Github for karma. That way, the IP of all now belongs to all. I'm quite sure a few won't agree with this method, but that's exactly how bad it is when removing licenses from software for code predictions.

Finally, Git was meant to allow people to host anywhere, so if the worry is about IP theft, one should stop hosting on Github and move it some place else, if they want it fully private.
Yup, an end-of-scroll feedback has always been there and it worked fine.
Yes drunk driving is a terrible problem but beta testing software on the open road is not the only option available. It's nothing but irresponsible.

Here's one of many: use sensors and AI in the car to detect a drunk person behind the wheel. This is HN so I'm sure readers could spend 10 seconds and think of numerous ways this could be accomplished and many otherideas about what could be done when a drunk driver is detected.

I also think the NHTSA should have prevented companies like Tesla from behind allowed to put every single control behind a touchscreen. It's extremely dangerous to have to look away for 2 seconds when you're driving. Imagine if (when?) every car in the world adopted this and all drivers are having to look at a screen to turn on windshield wipers.
More applicants at the same number of acceptances makes the school literally more exclusive. They think that a smaller reported % makes them look better.
Wow... I did not expect to see the comments filled with a bunch of Canadian hate.
Finding a compiler from your new language to your work language is a great way to practice this.

I became interested in F# and found a F# to JS compiler.

I can write F# code and call it from JS and do it in any toy code or side project I have.

This lets me lift up any JS or TS to F# to any degree I want across any project.

That's an awesome environment to build in as I can experiment and learn more about the language just by rewriting code that is already figured out.
Saw this factoid:

The result? Hybrid-powered cars were involved in about 3,475 fires per every 100,000 sold. Gasoline-powered cars, about 1,530. Electric vehicles (EVs) saw just 25 fires per 100,000 sold.

I wonder how that will change as the fleet ages: I would like to see a comparison from the same car demographic (pricepoint, end-user, vehicle age cohort, mileage).

It is unobvious why hybrids should be so fire prone: perhaps because they are often high mileage taxi vehicles? (Is risk kilometre based, or technology dependency?)
It is also allowed to be used under LGPL terms: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/mast...

But that doesn't make it any better.
Random question, does the UK still have active AM stations?
Escape-on-input is a bad idea (2012)
I see zereo issue with what Facebook is doing. They are indeed "treating users equally." To not have special measures in place protecting accounts that are orders of magnitude more likely to receive false reports would be unequal treatment, and would result in celebrities' accounts being very frequently taken down.

"Unequal treatment" would mean: these users are not subject to our policies. That's not the case here. XCheck just turns off the "we receive 100 reports, an algo shuts that account down" phenomenon. Humans review those cases manually, and the account can still be suspended or banned. How in the world could that be contentious?
Yes, but the icon should look like the person is "walking" instead of "running". Even though it is a beautiful icon, the effect is misleading.

If you just reduce the inclination of the body and arms, you get that effect.
It's FDA approved for T2 diabetics, and is being prescribed off-label for weight control; FDA approval for the latter is in progress.
I like zstd as a format, but it's too new for archival use -- it's only been available for five years or so. gzip is easily the winner; while it isn't the best compressor available, it's been around for the last 30 years, and is likely to still be in use another 30 years from now.
Awhile back, Mark Z. Danielewski did some treatments of screenplays for House Of Leaves. You should look for them. They’re incomplete but man I’d love to see them crack into a full show.
This is something we hope to build relatively soon at Stainless, inspired by Stripe's in-house Ruby API DSL. I think what you're asking for is the right approach.
The design fix is to add regulations requiring vehicles to safely handle salt water immersion. Let the manufacturer choose implementation.
Study Finds Unexpected Protective Properties of Pain
That's interesting. Always wondered how those are sourced.