skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US news you see are trying to squeeze out the investors for more money, but if you read carefully, no achievements have been made out of the 10 years (!).
In France, where they installed their research facility, the track is abandoned and the authorities might want their money back :

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/transports/le-projet-hyperlo...

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2022/09/29/toulouse-hyperloop-a-fra...

It's funny tho, because outside of local french news, no media is talking about how scammy the project begins to appear
There is a strange psychology at play here.

Your first assumption is that your inventions are important enough to be of use to “bad people”.

The other is your assumption that you have the objective ability to determine good from bad uses of a benign invention.

I’m increasingly looking for the psychological reasons why these ML models and their outputs cause such an emotional reaction in certain individuals.

For example, the language of opponents of Copilot speaks in absolutes. And when presented with the history of copyright when applied to software the opponents seem to not register that copyright (logically) does not extend to the non-expressive parts of a work.

“In computer programs, concerns for efficiency may limit the possible ways to achieve a particular function, making a particular expression necessary to achieving the idea. In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

This allows for verbatim copies if they are utilitarian in nature!

As for why we should allow verbatim copies of utilitarian features... First, let's preface this with the substantial similarity of the structure, sequence and organization as established in Whelan v. Jaslow which amongst other things says that you cannot merely change the variable names if the expressive structure of the code remains the same. Now let's imagine 10,000 software developers who all implement Dijkstra's algorithm in C and then run it through clang-format. Aside from variable names, isn't it safe to assume that many of the implementations are going to be exactly the same?

Now, this doesn’t mean that GitHub is not in violation of other copyright claims, such as clearly expressive parts like comments and more!
Sibedge specialists have released updated tools for simplified installation of PostgreSQL 15 with the PLV8 procedural language already built into them.

To give support and up-to-date tools to the Postgres community, we have built a Docker image for PLV8 extension v3.x on the 15th version. It features PostgreSQL + PLV8 Docker images for the popular Debian Linux distribution. We provide Bookworm based image with PostgreSQL 15 and PLV8 version 3.1.4 while our image for PostgreSQL 14 is based on Bullseye Debian and includes PLV8 version 3.0.0 Our Debian 12 + Postgres 15 + PLV8 3.1.4 Docker image is also available for AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. The updated version now runs on Apple M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M2 processors and also supports the latest Intel and AMD processors.

Follow the link to download docker images:
PostgreSQL 15 + Alpine + PLV8 3.1.4 https://hub.docker.com/r/sibedge/postgres-plv8-bigint
PostgreSQL 15 + Debian 12 + PLV8 3.1.4 https://hub.docker.com/r/sibedge/postgres-plv8
PostgreSQL 15 + Debian 12 (image without PLV8) https://hub.docker.com/r/sibedge/postgres
Makes me wonder if there is a microcode back door to these hardware hashers such as one which steers the output after the microprocessor is fed carefully crafted input to cause it to run in a vulnerable state.
I don’t think this is true at all. Especially the parts about the cultural revolution made me wonder how this was ever published in China at all.

It was kind of refreshing to have someone else be the villain for once.
It’s very probably fair use under current copyright laws. The things is that the game is changing very rapidly. Right now it’s suffering from criticism in terms of how it affects the society and allows people to generate unwanted images, and merely copyright laws may not be sufficient to protect them. And it has already caught the regulator’s attention so even the law could be rewritten around these models.
There's a neighborhood in Helsinki that's built like that called East Pasila. Most people hate it. Its constantly rated as one of the least desirable districts in the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasila#East
After reading the entire thread I am still in the dark about what exactly the author wants to see changed.

The narrative that frameworks = bad and vanilla js = good falls apart quickly IMHO in medium to large sized projects since the complexity has to be abstracted in some way in order to reach a realistic timeframe for completion.
Booking.com replaced AirBnB for our travel needs in basically all cases. Only exception when booking.com doesn't show any available results, in which case AirBnB is a potential backup, not that this was actually necessary in the last 2 years or so before Covid, during covid and ever since.
I once designed an app with a lovely iconic interface.

The customers hated it.

The next release had a lot more text.

For one thing, icons tend not to translate well. We're best off using ISO icons[0], but designers hate them, and always insist on reinventing the wheel.

[0] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home
Ah, yes. Everyone’s favorite whipping boy: the front end developers. I don’t think the last decade was a mistake. React (and Preact and similar) are my favorite ways to build out UIs. I prefer it to every other thing I’ve tried— and I’ve tried just about every other thing, including building native UIs for a decade.

It’s not perfect. I think we’ll find a better approach eventually, which is why I’m fine with the churn. The churn is part of the search for something better.

I hate the poor UX often produced by React— fat, slow, clunky pages with loading spinners and jank. So, I sympathize with the author. I hope something like Quik gets it’s footing.

But until there’s a better way to build UIs from this subjective developer’s perspective, I’m sticking with React.
True. In the Ukraine we also see what it leads to when the US draws such a red line, then does nothing when it happens. (Chemical weapons in Syria.)

So if you make ultimatums, be sure you can back them.
This seems to refer to some new consensus that everyone now agrees to, but I am not sure what they are referencing. Does anyone know?
I think there's a lot of recruiters / hiring managers who just hire in bulk, who aren't - or don't need to - be very critical about who they hire; it's about reaching hiring goals (in terms of quantity.

Don't ever set hiring goals. Hire individuals, not numbers. Your company probably doesn't need to hire a hundred people in a month.
Widespread surveillance creates enormous centralization of power. Politicians always want more power.
GNU/Linux as a bootloader to Emacs can give a competent, patient and experienced computer user an usable enough desktop to get a real damn desktop system to work with, and that sorry state is not due to nature of such system but lack of real development toward a generic target.

Just see mails in Emacs, in a classic desktop word mails would be base64-encoded/makeself-alike archives files to be dropped in the recipient mail server, a FAR simpler thing than IMAP. All the end users have to do is choose an available domain name, with a main address and any alias they like. In the present world nothing stop a dev write a simple Email package in Emacs wrapping fetchmail/maildrop/notmuch to offer a simple config and automatically do the rest, only it's not there because we are too few to use Emacs like that and so there is no interest in such development.

Similarly office guys have FAR MORE interests in present directly and simply in org-mode instead of wasting time in PowerPoint/Impress/*, but they simply do not know org-mode even exists. The few org-mode users have not much reasons in a tremendous education effort who should start from schools instead of wasting public resources to feed some GAFAM surveillance business to teach equally complicated, but limited and limiting tools, to children. Consider that: a modern tablet i NOT at ALL more friendly than Emacs, it's easier only because being far more widespread people already know that with knowledge absorbed a bit at a time as we absorb our mother language in our childhood and when we start learning it formally we already know it more than enough.

Let's say you want to know your spending habit: how a modern tablet on-sale can really be powerful? How on contrary can serve such and so many other purposes well in Emacs/org-mode? In a fictional world how powerful is just grab their transaction from ofx FEEDS (not manual exports) in a local fully-integrated application instead of wasting time on countless of spying crapplications and slow services for doing very limited things with them? It's better for you a computing centered on you or one who use you for someone else profits just living some breadcrumbs to keep yourself engaged? It's better a fully integrated computing or a service-centered one?
The GOP didn't so much make abortion a wedge issue as much as evangelicals captured a big chunk of the party's lame duck platform during the various positional realignments of the 60s-80s. The GOP, by almost sheer luck, managed to stumble in to an apathetic voter block, and came out with one of the strongest, most long lived cores of voters out there.

The real strategic leadership of that block mostly died off in the 2000's though, leaving evangelicals headless and politically adrift. These days most seem to have reverted back to being somewhat apathetic in the positive direction, and aside from abortion, are voting completely based on the products out outrage culture.
You have. You're just not willing to pay for it. You also have the option to walk away.

"This is a main case for what government regulations are for." - No. There is no cost to be internalized here.
Republicans lately do not operate in good faith. At least the federally elected ones.
Thanks this makes a lot of sense.
Going to try some things out and will let you know about the results.
You may want to read the rest of the replies. In particular that is already mentioned and answered here on why that is not OK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280929
when whatsapp had NOT turned on E2EE, or facebook messenger still hasn't done that, how many were convicted for CSAM and now because of e2ee people like these are "hidden"?

aren't these same "e2ee is protecting child predators" the same argument as "bitcoin is used to buy drugs on dark web"?

did child predators not exist before e2ee that suddenly they have emerged and they need to be stopped ?

suppose tomorrow ALL e2ee is stopped and everyone is chatting in cleartext. what will happen? will suddenly all child predators be unmasked and the world be free of them in an instant?

i am not no where supporting those predators. they are subhuman creatures that need to be slaughtered with a rusty sword but why are 99.999% of human population not going to reap the benefits of e2ee when the "risks" outweigh the beneifts?

why do these people believe all those people will not move to lesser known platforms away from the public eye and continue? what will happen in the end?
Thanks for your help, this does make a lot of sense.
Going to try to fix some stuff and then will reply to everyone who offered their advice.
At least democrats do not want to take away women's and gay rights.
Copilot themselves probably swiped it all already, since SO answers are licensed under CC-BY-SA, which to Github is equal to ‘just take it all and ignore the author’. With the possible small difference that the uploader doesn't agree to the Github ToS.
I guess it's functionality vs aesthetics. You could probably craft beautiful piano sounds out of a cheap plastic keyboard, but it has to look good on stage too.
Oh, ok, in UE are tied to enterprises not individuals in them, so the reputation and protection is a bit loose. Some enterprises do exists for decades, some simply keep opening and closing an year after another with different names and logos...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 7 Review
being forced is not legal consent, no. And being forced without being asked is even worse.
'toxic positivity'

that's a new one
I think fidelity is the wrong term, as the pared down website is more fidel, um, faithful to the content than the one with all the widgets.

What it comes down to is the distinction between apps and pages. I want a news site to be a simple page. Maybe it has a search function and some interactive visualisations if it is fancy. It should not be able to access my camera, location, run web workers, execute third party JS to profile me, and so on. Reader mode should be built in.

The best thing for the usability of the web would be IMO if the next HTML standard would be split. An ultra slim HTML6 doc mode (maybe where it is realistic that a small team could write a new browser engine from scratch), and a fully featured HTML6 app mode. I mean AMP was something like doc mode, but for the benefit of Google (restricting which ad platforms you could use) and not for the benefit of users.
IMO it's more like claiming that video games lead to video game fans and addicts. Which is true.
> Foundation also fails because human society is chaotic so his psychohistory would never work.

Ant's are also chaotic as individuals, but if you get enough of them you can model them easily. We can already semi-predict global human behaviour; population graphs, economic charts, actions of specific demographics. When enough humans walk down a street, you can model their flow with fluid dynamics.

Psychohistory wasn't a study of the intricacies of the human condition, it was an iterative model that follows general trends. It just happened to be sophisticated enough to predict thousands of years into the future and to allow for outliers.
"no children, or adults, are sexually abused when an NSFW image is generated"

True, but that might not matter to the general public, legislators, or judges.

I just read a new article on the BBC related to this: "Deepfaked: 'They put my face on a porn video'"[1]

The person in question was not physically abused. Only a fake porn video with her face on it was released. But she was still emotionally distraught over it, and said: "You start thinking about your family," she says, holding back tears. "How would they feel if they saw this content?"

This is a real concern to a lot of people, and I doubt they'll be swayed by people pointing out that they weren't physically abused.

So, yeah, there'll likely be a massive backlash against some AI-generated content and the software that generates it, and laws will likely be made against it in some countries.

But in other countries and on the dark web it'll still exist. There's ultimately no way of stopping it, and eventually people will come to terms with its existence and widespread availability, no matter what the law of some countries says.

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62821117
> We're best off using ISO icons

Hm, first time seeing this and not getting any good results. Here are the results for "save" https://i.imgur.com/UC4H3jE.png.

Are you sure any of these are meant for a technical context?
Show HN: Phraisely.com, look up words by their description
My writing process is a constant back and forth between jotting down a few words and a [insert] placeholder, as in the "I'll-complete-that-sentence-later-once-I-remember-the-correct-word" note.

So, I built phraisely.
It is a reverse thesaurus: you input a detailed description, and the app returns its best guesses.

Compared to the existing solutions for this task, phraisely attempts to better understand the full context in your query, making it more accurate when looking up words using long descriptions.

For example, if I search for "being home at night watching Netflix on the couch", results can contain "relaxing" and "unwinding" but also "binge-watching" since I mentioned Netflix. Bonus points when I get some slang in the results (e.g. couch-potatoing).

The aim is to have an assistant that writes with you. But it doesn't do it for you. Overall, I believe that writing is a frustrating process. Frustration stimulates creativity. And creativity is precious.

It is the first functioning version of the app.
I'm regularly reviewing the output's quality and am working on tailoring it better to user needs. Also, my long term plan would be introducing languages other than English in the results. Although, the app can already understand some input text from other common languages, like Spanish.
Yeah I have come to realize that you are on your own and be ready for any emergency. Airbnb will not help in a timely manner. Worse, they will make you re-explain the situation while you are in stress of urgency.

Same goes for booking.com these days- no support response until after the problem.
> an area largely occupied by ethnic Russians

Largely occupied by Russian speaking people, some of whom identity as Ukrainian (more now than before after Russia invaded and destroyed/raped/pillaged through their homes), some as Russian.

In the same way that there were Greek speaking Orthodox believing people who identified as Turks during the Greco-Turkish war and the subsequent population exchanges.

> Russia presently enjoys economic relations with China, India, Iran, etc. and a very high oil commodity price.

Just the other day there was an article here about the crap China sends Russia. India and China have both publicly criticised, delicately, the invasion. Iran is some reading partner!

The Russian economy is crumbling and they've faced a massive brain drain. They've been forced to conscription which had had terrible results (thousands running away, protests, cadavers). It's all downhill from here.
Makes me think that there's a market for a 3rd party website for reviews for AirBnB hosts (and probably guests).

But a new host might not get any guests if they don't have a review on this site, and if the guests avoid them, then no one will review them. An idea would be for a host to pay a refundable deposit, and the website could indicate them as so, "We have no reviews for this host, but they have guaranteed with $money that their listing is legitimate/accurate.". After the first review comes, they can get the deposit refunded. But aha, this doesn't protect against fake reviews by friends and accomplices of a dodgy host...
They're already hiring an attendant to ensure it doesn't run when someone is in it.
That's a hot take. In my experience Ansible is trivial to maintain and, due to the lack of better templating like Salt, ensures most playbooks look relatively similar as it's meant to be a simple, straight forward task runner. Onboarding folks into Ansible is a breeze as everything matches the standard (roles, tasks, group_vars, etc). It's dumb, reliable, and does exactly what it says on the tin.

My biggest complaint with Ansible is the execution aspect. The fact that mitogen hasn't become the standard strategy plugin and instead Ansible still opens an SSH connection per task is nuts.
> The system provides two commands, Leap-forward and Leap-backward, invoked through dedicated keys (meant to be pressed with the thumbs), that move the cursor to the next and prior position that contains the search string. Leaping is performed as a quasimode operation: press the Leap key and, while holding it, type the text that you want to search; finally release the Leap key. This process is intended to habituate the user and turn cursor positioning into a reflex.

> Leaping to document landmarks such as next or previous word, line, page, section, and document amounts to leaping to Space, New line, Page, and Document characters, which are inserted using the Spacebar, Enter, Page and Document keys respectively.
I agree. This shows the moral sub-optimal position NATO and Western democracies are in after decades worth of invasions and occupations all over the world.
I use VLC on iOS to transfer files from Android and PC. VLC offers a handy network share which basically starts an HTTP server. The devices on the same network can then access that URL and from there onwards it is just drag and drop of folders and files.
As someone who has not read the HTTP/1.1 spec, what are some pitfalls that could actually become security issues?
> Honestly, I stopped reading after this, seems like whining from someone without skills to deal with adulthood.

In the case where the terms of the living arrangement are “you can stay here 30 days for free, but you’ll need to take care of any issues you come upon yourself.”, this would be an appropriate response.

In this case, as mentioned in the article, they are “you can stay here for 30 days for $3,000”. Totally different story.
As always in such cases this is 100% bull**. Either something is not working out for them and they have to delay in which case they could've just said so, or this is some sort of pretense to show how "responsibility minded" they are.

The reality is that bad actors have the resources to train their own stable diffusion on a dataset of whatever they want to deep fake and such delays do not slow them down one bit.

What it does slow down is normal people using those models.

From the smallest thing like mobilenetv3 through whisper, stable diffusion, CodeGen, and bloom those are huge productivity equalisers between the huge corpos and the little guy.

Also the same thing can be said about frameworks like huggingface's. Just recently I was looking for a way to classify image type (photo or not photo[clip art, cartoon, drawing]) in an android app. Of course first hits on Google stear towards Microsoft Azure's paid API service. I was unhappy with having to use an over-the-Internet-API (with potentially sensitive end user's private pictures) so in one day of work I managed to download a pretrained MobileNetV3. A couple of 10k+ image datasets and I wrote <50 lines of python to tweak the last layer and fine tune the network. On rtx 2070 training took 10 minutes. Resulting accuracy on real data? 90%+. The model loads and infers in few hundreds of ms on modern phones(instantiating and loading takes longer than the inference BTW).This is priceless and 100% secure for end users. For thilose interested in the details I use ncnn and vulkan for gpu(mobile!) inference.

Every commercial model maker's wet dream is to expose the model through an API, lock it behind a firewall and have people pay for access. This is not just hugely inefficient. It is insecure by design.

Take copilot by example. I'm perfectly happy for all my hobby-grade code to be streamed to Microsoft, but no chance in hell I'll use it on any of my commercial projects. However faux pilot run locally is on my list of things to try.

The first AI revolution was creation of those super powerful models, the second is the ability to run them on the edge devices.