skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly controversial opinion: I think the biggest reason why so many people hold conflicting views on this is because of who the victim is in each case.

The loudest voices complaining they were directly hurt by Copilot's training are open source maintainers. These are exactly the kind of people who we love to root for on here. They're the little guy involved in a labor of love, giving away their work for free (with terms).

On the other hand, the highest-profile victims of Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are Getty Images and company. They're in most respects the opposite of open source maintainers: big companies worth millions of dollars for doing comparatively little work (primarily distributing photos other people took).

Because in the case of images the victim is most prominently faceless corporations, I think our collective bias towards "information wants to be free" shows through more clearly when regarding DALL-E than it does with Copilot.
Oh, you mean like the articles in the newspapers that they regularly publish? What exactly do you think a journalist does, just post on Twitter?
The ability to schedule backups of my data, perhaps emailed or something I can hit periodically myself (API?) would make me hop on and pay now. Until then, I can't justify even investing time to try right now.
Elon offers people a chance to operate at a true 100% on a thing that matters. Next to that, work-life balance pales. And comp? Comp follows company glory. Tesla engineers are rich, man.
Artist using Disney trademarks without their permission has style taken without their permission
I think the fundamental issue with Mastodon is the user experience is non-existent, it's actively painful to use.

Everyone focuses on the 'tech stack', but when it comes to actually using a product no-one cares about that, not even other 'tech' users. People just want something that works so they don't have to.

People can hate on Twitter but it's polished, and it works.
I would imagine in the current climate the properties are operating at a profit, don't you?
I grew up in a pretty rural part of the US and while those use cases were absolutely common for a decent percentage of large truck owners, they only used them for those purposes about 5-10% of the time. The more reasonable folks had a small simple car for their daily driver, and weren't worried about using their big truck as a status symbol.
all it takes is one bad tenant to put you in a scarcity mindset. (or job)
> We would demand nothing less if this were the previous president.

Actually, 'we' have been demanding a lot less from the previous one.

But either way, the conspiracy theory of the day that ElMu retweeted has nothing to do with any laptops.
>In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that moderation is absolutely required for any "public square".

No. You want moderation, because you don't want people saying The Bad Things™, but it's not an absolute property of all discussion.

Otherwise - you're missing the point that GP wants to destroy twitter in it's current form because we don't need a public square. It's not a matter of where we draw the lines for moderation.
It's more than transportation. "Heating oil" is basically diesel and is affected by these prices. Winter is about to hit the Northeast and many people still heat with it. To fill up my tank today would be around $1200 and I will be expecting to refill it every 40-60 days for the next six months.
You are absolutely not alone with this. There appears to be so much power so much potential, but it /feels/ so awkward syntactically.
Conventional journalists don't get paid more based upon the number of views their articles get
Don't confuse rich with super rich. Some people have enough to afford that. The next step down can make the payments so long as things stay good, and look like they are just as rich.

Where the line between rich and middle class is, isn't well defined, but most of us could cross that line, but only those who don't act like will. However the total number of people just over the line is vastly greater than those well over who can afford the expensive toys.
I see a pretty clear analogy to the various industries that felt threatened by home video and audio recording improving to the point of being able to make copies quickly and without significant degradation--particularly when disc ripping at 20x+ became a thing and time wasn't even a barrier.

A person who can clone a style and crank out illustrations at human speed is a very different thing than an automated process that can do it immediately on request, in minutes or seconds. If nothing else, the latter is a huge efficiency gain for being able to self-serve, as it would allow an editor to trial different illustrative approaches without all the back and forth contracting out to a human would require.

Personally, I think what this will do most is convince artists not to put galleries of their work suitable for training online.

The Redditor identified in the article posted a new comic art model based on James Daly III (this is mentioned at the end of an article with a link). The Redditor's comment in that post implies Daly was chosen specifically because they had a gallery of easily consumable training images all in one place.

I have no idea what the minimum effort would be to make the images less useful for training, but I foresee a lot of obnoxious watermarks in our future as people try to do so.
Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via Control-R and via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.
There's always leading by example, as well as incentivizing via aid.

This is not to dismiss the challenge, just that we shouldn't avoid hard problems just because they're hard.
Me creating a self-driving car will take away revenue from drivers. However the rest of society will gain much more than the loss that the drivers suffers. On net humanity is better off.

This is true when the computer replaced secretaries, when cars replaced the horse, when planes replaced the boats, internet replaced fax and phone calls, etc. Overall the quality of life of everyone improved even if a select few suffered each time progress was made, making even fewer rich, but everyone else better off.

You create wealth by providing value to others, value that exceeds the competition you have displaced. That's why wealth creation is a positive sum game.
"Yes. There is a database they query to see if it’s tied to a handset, or just a virtual number."

Or they do an API lookup and query the type in realtime.

Elsewhere in this thread I posted the syntax for performing this lookup using the twilio API ...
An `iolist()` or `iodata()` structure is mainly designed for I/O.

The idea is rather simple but powerful.

Let's say you want to send `"Hello " + name`, where `name` is a string, over the network. Traditionally, in C, you would allocate a buffer that is large enough and copy the "Hello " literal into it and then copy the `name` string before calling `write(fd, buffer, length)`.

If you wanted to avoid allocating the buffer and doing the copy, you would make use of `writev(fd, iovec, count)`, and this is exactly what the `iolist()` structure allows for. The erlang runtime system (erts) makes use of efficient `writev` calls instead of having to allocate temporary buffers just to send data over the network (something Erlang is notoriously good at) when you make use of `iolists`.
I’m trying it now.

I have ALWAYS used Twitter through the 3rd party TweetBot app. That basically is Twitter for me. Unless someone sends me a link to a tweet, I don’t use the web.

The Mastodon app is no comparison. It has hitches while scrolling my (tiny) timeline. I can’t figure out some of the buttons or why they’re highlighted. There are no gestures at all that I’ve found. I don’t expect the level of one of the best Twitter apps of all time, but it feels more like what a web developer would think an app is.

Also, I did join Mastodon.social. And it’s currently dead from load (I assume). So my experience is going great.

Normal people just don’t care about federation. They seem to actively dislike it, and I don’t blame them.

The only federated thing most people will ever use is email, and that’s a relic from the 1980s. And centralizing on gmail/outlook/a few others.

I can’t think of a single thing normal people use.

Most people don’t make their own site anymore, and so many that do are really just on one of the big hosts. They view content from web sites, but that seems different somehow.

I just have a hard time seeing Mastodon succeed. Between federation (yes, I know the benefits), resource issues, and simple UX issues I can’t imagine it taking off.

The UX and apps can be fixed, but by then its one chance may have passed and it may be too late.
Phone numbers get complicated, yeah, but US numbers are pretty trivial (and so are they in several other places, and even for UK it's just more annoying, not really computationally harder).

So at _best_ the security analysis is: "okay, all US phone numbers and a bunch from other places might as well be in cleartext", which is already broken enough that it's basically useless.
That’s cool. I can set the bill name and address of my visa gift cards for online purchases. Sure hope they do this for $8/m.
Indeed, you can get your template up and running by just writing

<$list filter="[product_type[X]]">
<!-- Make the template in HTML -->
<div class="example_value">{{!!a_field_value}}</div>
<div class="description">{{!!text}}</div>
</$list>

and having the `{{!!fields}}` replaced by values from your "database"
My understanding is that the highlighting parser _is_ fixed to intentionally mis-parse to guarantee reasonable runtime complexity, and the lint check is a band-aid on top of it for a common type of adversarial input.

If you do the full parse you can end up with adversarial inputs that result in cubic or exponential run-time complexity (see, for example, Pygments CVEs for comparable examples in this domain).
A different metric: If you lack for nothing you are wealthy. If you yearn for more you are poor...
https://archive.ph/6TkVu
The countries producing majority of the world's emissions are doing so because they are using the cheapest forms of energy production available - not because they are evil doers or something nefarious.

The only way to convince these nations to "go green" is to make green energy cheaper than the alternatives. Tariffing goods from these nations will not have the desired impact - the nation still needs cheap energy production and will not stop just because the US made their goods more expensive for it's own citizens.
They passed laws 2 years ago to penalize this. Goes into effect next year.

This wasn't a surprise. Laws had been previously passed specifically to allow this to continue.
This is a service to ONLY delete your phone number uploaded from someone else's address book. You are just adding another signal to their data about your attitudes and beliefs.

Read the text carefully - https://www.facebook.com/contacts/removal
Bechstein, Bosendorfer, Bluthner, Fazioli, Steinway, Shigeru Kawai, (golden era) Baldwin all fetch top-rate prices for a piano that's in good musical condition.

Steinway typically is easiest to sell because it's a household name, but equally attracts "piano flippers" (like house flippers) who clean them up purely aesthetically and sell them for outrageous prices.
> I would love to hear some examples of wealth generation that do not take away opportunity or money directly or indirectly from other people

Is there more wealth in the world today than 100 years ago?
More than 1000 years ago?

If so, where did it come from?
How much profit does YouTube make?
This can happen on all pianos. Do not forget that having „a Steinway“ or a „Bechstein“ for many people means that the piano is 100 years old (I think of my neighbor‘s 100 year old Steinway with a cracked soundboard, too). In so many years, a lot can happen. And in 100 years, the piano will sure not have been kept in perfect environmental conditions (which is a difficult topic for piano owners).
Sells them on the mission. Things like a colony on Mars and full self driving are pretty compelling goals for some people.
This instantly reminded me of this: https://i.imgur.com/nAoc3cO.jpeg
It's now possible for independant charities to do this:

https://www.methanesat.org/
>half as many ads

I bet they can sell this twice. Once here and once to advertisers that want to advertise to the more exclusive crowd
Yeah. And it's a daily average, so you can have 3 standard drinks every Saturday for example (aiming for the TMREL of 6g). I'm not sure about the maximum per day; there was a heart disease study that defined heavy drinking as 60g in a day,but I haven't seen any studies specifically on drinking patterns at this low intake.
Thank you for explaining that you only used it for one day to add context. It is a different experience that takes a little time to understand. I do not remember how long it took me to get familiar with Twitter as it was long ago, but I am sure it wasn't quick. Mastodon is developed mostly by volunteers rather than a team of well paid UX specialists focused on increasing engagement.
You'd think "suspend service until outstanding invoices are paid in full" would be in the "things which you would/can do about it" category.
I actually get a lot of unique ML information and news from Twitter.
> Just look at the school of film and animation that artists in USSR developed while separated from the rest of the World.

So they were developed in a complete vacuum including traditional things like theater, poetry and story telling?
Edit: First and foremost, I'm sorry you felt attacked. That is never OK. I need to step back from posting anything until I can be a decent human being. I regret not doing that before I posted.

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People claiming you can copyright a canvas that is just a color (when you can't, you can only copyright the art installation/display). People claiming that you can copyright the alphabet (when you can't). It's just frustrating that HN wants to keep having this discussion but with ZERO basis in actual copyright law, and people making factually inaccurate claims as if they understand it. I had the same issue on a criminal law post. Someone posted completely factually inaccurate information regarding title 18 statutes, and HN blocking me from responding in a timely manner while people were reading the post. This just isn't a forum for informed discussion I guess, but peoples gut feelings and what they THINK copyright law is. Opinions are great, and needed, but established law is a real thing and should be part of a discussion that at it's core is about copyright.
Not really, this is about creation. When you turn a tree into a house you create value. The losers in this game either fall to vandals, or create something that isn't valuable.

When you gamble money there are winners and losers. When you create something that creates wealth.
And that's why it's so important for world leaders to not act (or appear to act) impulsively! You might say the same is true for business leaders.
This being HN, writing a piece of software to do something that hasn't been done before. That increases the total number of goods and services in the world.

Variations: synthesising a new chemical, teaching someone a new skill.
All passenger users pay to use uber... so this is an unnecessary punch in the gut to the user experience.

I wonder if there's a breaking point with internet-based advertising, where it becomes so widespread and effective at squeezing people's wallets, that basically no one has money to spend on goods anymore. Who knows.
Nor does it call any SSL-related function.

OpenSSH only links to OpenSSL for the cryptographic primitives. SSH and SSL are different protocols.
Jeff Bezos' $500M yacht is like 0.4% of his net worth. I don't know how many properties he has, but I'd be shocked if it's more than a few percent. The man could buy Rolexes and Audemars Piguets on a whim, and it wouldn't even move the needle.

Compare that yacht to the equivalent purchase of a well-off, working engineer (with, say, a $1M net worth): that's a $4000 purchase. It's a nice computer.

Point being, some people are so wealthy that even relatively "conservative" expenditures look extravagant.
how's that going for them
All the more so for switching to wind and solar (and reducing usage). Nobody is saying cancel energy. Just that switching away from coal is probably a good idea.
I think mass migration of people from Twitter to Mastodon is unlikely, but I do have some hope that specific communities will be able to make the switch. For instance, just yesterday I set up a new instance -- which was incredibly easy thanks to masto.host, literally two clicks and a config change on Namecheap -- that can hopefully become a space for people interested in AI to move to from Twitter (in case you are curious, it's https://sigmoid.social/).

Here's my rationale: Twitter is kind of invaluable if you are an academic working in AI (and in many other fields as far as I can tell), it's a great way to discover new work as well as promote your own (and yeah there is silly drama sometimes, but it's rare). Many academics genuinely love it, including myself. Those same academics generally loathe or at least dislike Musk, and worry about the future of the platform, and don't care that much about non AI stuff on there. So if just the part of Twitter you care about it migrates to a Mastodon instance, such academics would likely consider it. And if you are a person or entity with a decent following on Twitter, it does seem feasible to encourage the community to at least try to move over. Maybe, maybe not, but I figure it's worth a try (I am planning to announce it on Twitter later this week).
> Yeah, there were ads in Newspapers and Magazines too that you paid money.

The publishers of those paid for the content, paid for editing, paid for the physical medium, paid for physical distribution.

Twitter is distributing short pieces of text, some images and video on a medium that is famously cheaper than everything that came before it, while not paying anything to the authors and has no editors.
Exactly. Viewing status acquisition as worthless assumes that people do not want social attachment and that social standing within groups or society doesn't matter. I'd argue they matter more, and wealth is actually just the mean to this end.
I’m using obsidian and Zotero as an academic workflow for my PhD.

There is a huge market for knowledge tools for students and academics, and universities, libraries and high schools often buy these tools in bulk to be a student resource.

I gather all my academic articles in Zotero and can cite them into my papers from Zotero > Obsidian > Pandoc Cite

I think your tool could be a great way to help me gather all the media around my research.

If you could tie into a citation workflow, into pandoc, you’d be on a big winner.

Look into how academics might want to go from your tool > obsidian > pandoc > word to generated cited references from your tool.

https://citeproc-js.readthedocs.io/en/latest/csl-json/markup...
They can build housing that they rent out for below market rate. They can't build housing that costs below market rate to construct.
Ergo, 7 shots once a week and I'm good to go!
Most rich people in the US didn't inherit much money, they had to build it. A few prominent super wealthy did, but for the most part it is create it yourself.
A pint of beer is 20g.

I used to drink socially when I was young, and I usually had more than that.
Yup! Thanks for pointing OPC [0] out. These CPUs were a huge eye-opener - and a huge lesson about the value of using a standardized instruction set.

Building a custom CPU commits you to writing an assembler and listing generator - which is a good hobby-project job for one person who's handy with Python. After stumbling through those foothills, though, I found myself at the base of some very steep, scary GCC/binutils cliffs wondering how I could have gotten so lost, so far from home.

Even if all RISC-V does is offer a bunch of arbitrary answers to arbitrary design questions, I consider it a massive win.

[0]: https://revaldinho.github.io/opc/
I would disagree, in this case, we have a combination of 2 issues:

1. Climate change due to CO2/etc. emissions

2. Fossil fuel (oil/gas/coal) peak

Even if we do not care about climate change, as fossil fuel addicts, any decline of fossil fuel production would be catastrophic for the world wide economy.

So, in this race to avoid fossil fuel, the sooner you are out of it, the more resilient you will be when pumping oil/gas/coal would be too expensive.

Capturing all those methane gas, if not for the climate, but for usage is good for the national security.
> We should ask ourselves if we should be placing Twitter's financial needs over the social and intellectual needs of humanity as a whole.

25% of US Adults produce 97% of tweets on Twitter. 75% of Twitter users don't post a single tweet per month. 42% of Twitter users that produce < 20 tweets / month find civility issues with the platform, and only 27% of them feel politically engaged. Twitter has nothing to do with "humanity as a whole". It's obvious that the group that uses Twitter is niche yet highly engaged. Matters relating to Twitter's "social and intellectual needs" are only relevant to highly engaged Twitter users.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/1-the-views-... for all the stats
This person has clearly not actually used Gaia in any significant capacity and is instead taking cheap shots with the hopes of getting upvotes from others that have not used Gaia. Gaia is far from perfect, but this characterization is so contrived that it can't be taken seriously.
Turds to remember.
Shame they don't post these. They used to make TOTL available
PewDiePie, MrBeast, Kids Diana Show, Like Nastya, Vlad and Niki in top 10.

Great trolling.
> I would say the the US is one of the largest polluters on the planet and leadership in the US would change world wide pollution levels

You might be surprised if you look into this a bit. On a Per Capita basis, the US is barely in the top 10.

Regardless, developing nations are not burning coal and petroleum because they hate the environment... they need cheap energy production - which is currently a failure of the green energy movement (ie. there is nothing cheap about it, it's a luxury at the moment).
Firstly, many poor countries are doing some of that. Look at China. They don't like being covered in smog all the time and the respiratory problems that creates.

Secondly, the cost curves are decreasing for a reason. It's because of investment in these technologies by richer countries. The richer countries pave the way by making the technology so cheap that it's irresistible and a better deal to poor countries. The way you make it cheap is by funding the transition yourself. The cost decreases naturally follow as part of R&D.

Thirdly, rich countries should subsidize the energy transition of poor countries. They've emitted much more than poor countries per capita since the Industrial Revolution, so a de-facto retroactive carbon tax to fund poor countries' transition on an expedited timeline is only fair.