skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDoSing is bad not because of the speed but because it overwhelms the infrastructure a product is designed for. Doing it to your own computer by making it crunch AI models until it runs out of memory is perfectly legal and iterative. Printing pages of a book in seconds vs dedicating lives of people to hand draw each letter in the monastery is iteration.

Computers are not people. Computers are iteration tools people use to free up precious lifetime they have and bring more value to the world. If you are a human who trains 10000 hrs to invest like Paul Graham, or draw like Thomas Kincade, or play the piano, or operate as a top brain surgeon, you have spent a fraction of your life to do this fast and reap the rewards. But that fraction of your life has tremendous cost on society. Many people paid with their time and money to feed you, teach you, house you, during that time and during your upbringing which allowed you to have those 10k hrs to dedicate to this task. Now all of that work can be used by you to do exponentially more with your precious life. Instead of spending days or years making a portrait, you’d spend seconds. Now you can find higher purpose and solve much bigger problems - instead of asking for 100 to hand draw a portrait for a few hundred people in your lifetime, you could create one for every teen who needs a boost in their self esteem and raise their confidence and ability to cope with challenges in their life at massive scale.

More importantly, since there is a huge scarcity of people trained to fulfill each niche need that forms a bottleneck on society’s capacity to use that. Imagine if instead of airplane we counted on a few trained supermen to fly people who needed to cross places fast by hand. How many people would die before they see the world or are taken to a doctor, etc. The world can’t survive on superheroes or super trained people. The world can do more with the time and lives of people in it.
This is sadly not all that unusual at US technology businesses, you will see it at far smaller firms too.

Even Tesla had a patent wall in their lobby until their famous "we don't do patents" post. I've seen the same thing at multiple shitty enterprise software firms as well. Some businesses even demonstrate their spurious number of patents issued annually as some kind of metric for innovation - always a bad sign.

I've also been on the receiving end of the annual "we want to pump the patent count metric" email, when company wide email just blasts for suggestions of anything whatsoever we could patent to up a pointless integer.

> https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
> Having written a lot of shell scripts, the single greatest thing I've ever experienced is shell-friendly outputs.

This is basically the idea of PowerShell. Output is well formatted data that can be passed around and manipulated in a regular manner. No slicing on columns or anything like that.

PowerShell has other issues (many of which are documented in these very comments!) but shell friendly output is one of its central ideas.
Yeah, this happens when you gouge gas prices from 3.5 bucks to 7 bucks for a gallon (Bay Area reference)
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Well in nushell you wouldn't be using the coreutils commands, you'd be using the nushell builtin replacements. Those builtins return structured data.

Now for the 1000 other non-coreutils commands on your system, that's not very helpful. --shell is a good idea, though it seems like JSON is becoming the most common alternative structured output implemented by commands. Nushell and PowerShell can turn JSON into a structured variable easily, though using jq in shell is alright most of the time.
I am asking myself that question regularly, as I'm trying to get more comfortable with "real" category theory. My background is programming, and I've become familiar with a lot of the applied CT (functors, monads, monoids, applicatives, ...).

I think the point of category theory, especially applied category theory, is recognizing what can be further abstracted as an arrow and an object. This turns something that originally is complex and has no apparent structure into a simple dot and arrow, again. Then rinse and repeat.

For example, you can take a for loop that applies a function to a list and then creates a new list. You can't "easily" add another for loop that then applies a second transformation. But if you recognize the functor from the category of types to the category of types, then you can formulate your 2 composed for loops as `list.map(f1 | f2)`, and everything is "trivial" arrows and objects again.

Turn that into a function that returns a list, and you want to concatenate the result. "Annoying" to write, you have to flatten your list. Recognize the monad, back to a simple composition of two morphisms, even though the morphisms encapsulate a lot.

Learning and applying CT I think is recognizing which things can be conceptualized as a morphism, which then magically makes things appear "simple." Yet it is only simple if you have done that recognition work, and more advanced concepts in CT are there to assist you.
You're conflating possibly offensive human behavior with clearly evil fascism, thus downplaying the worse evil. That is not acceptable and I think you should stop it.
Why do people think that twitter is worth paying for?
If you can't reproduce a quantitatively (not qualitatively) similar likeness of an image then it is not just a compressed image.
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You wrist-movers just can't handle the way we shine wondrously with our bright reds and blues, how we glide smoothly and graciously across the screen with the tiniest motion of a single finger, using a trackball is the closest a man comes to godliness.
I see you didn't use the Eclipse plugin (with Ant scripts, yay!).

Dang I'm old.
So then no they didn't.
"can have extremely polarized views"
usually results when people want [extreme] attention in a sea of chatter.

"feel the need to defend their polarized but flawed viewpoint at any cost"
usually results when people want [extreme] attention in a sea of chatter.

"are virtue signaling others but refuse to take any accountability whatsoever"
a tactic typically used when people want [extreme] attention in a sea of chatter.

"have less and less attention span"
Time is money, and it's better to waste your time reading/bickering about your tweet for ads that wasting time writing a meaningful tweet that'll be obsolete in 10min.

"only consume the content that aligns with their views"
usually results when people want [extreme] attention and creates an echo chamber.

Conclusion: we got a lot of narcissistic people on twitter. The ultimate digital soapbox.
Looks like this idea was inspired by a Show HN that appeared last year [1]. Seems the original inventor of the concept didn't even realize what it could become, or didn't have the funding to make it happen.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979

Also, I called it out that time, I knew this was going to be huge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979#27970968
Can you give an example? Sanctions against a country or a particular industry are not the same category as "fuck this one company in particular".
That’s slightly larger that my very expensive apartment in Paris proper. I moved there from a bigger place when I broke up years ago and I’m surprised by how liveable it is. It’s not big but it’s mostly fine. For the time I spent there it seems like a good deal. Working from home was annoying when it was mandatory however.
If you are tired of the frequency of CVEs in OpenSSL, consider sending a formal complaint to maintainers@openssl.org\0hunter2
> The housing space metrics seem very far off from my experience, looking at numbers it seems "Tokyo" means "Tokyo Metropolis", which includes the countryside, mountains, etc. So it's not really comparing the city.

Yep. In that case half of Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey etc. should count as well.
> what actual law is the executive branch accusing TikTok of breaking?

The last time this came up there was none [1]. Commissioner Carr's interview appears to be him asking the Congress for such statute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok_v._Trump
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With how unsuccessful Apple News+ has been, it's frankly unsurprising and would likely have happened whether or not Musk owns Twitter. It's obviously not why people subscribe to Twitter Blue, why increase costs for no reason?
An influencer, IMO, is no different from a talk show host, radio personality, or anyone who's livelihood depends on sponsored content. We've had models in advertising forever and famous people endorse products.

What's happening here is someone is getting famous outside of the traditional avenues of entertainment (radio, tv, sports, movies) through social media and getting the same sponsorship deals. They've just been given a bad name to lump them all together. I'm not a fan of the label "influencer" but I think it's nonsense to see them as a sign of societal decay. Societal change maybe, but its not dire IMO.
Because when I go to a live performance, watch a movie, browse an art gallery, etc., I am training my brain on copyrighted work. Every artist has done the same. No artist has developed their style in a vaccuum.

(See my other comment though, I am not sold on any of this being right).
I'm not doing this with you, you can always rationalize things in your head.

You're wanting some extreme changes and arguing that democracy will fall otherwise.

good luck with that.
Thanks! I haven't seen CompletionPredictor before. I'll give it a shot.
If that is the main issue, why are artists hiding behind the pique that "when I create art, it is full of soul, experience, blood and sweat" Just say that you need a way to make money and these models are replacing us.
Only media approved by the Democrat Party is free of hate speech and white nationalism
Europe’s Energy Squeeze Pushes Large Hadron Collider to Halt Operations
As a general rule, the fair use thumbnails enjoy is very limited, only in certain jurisdictions, and only for very specific use-cases.

An universal art-production machine that can compete in the market place with the original artist - and indeed crush them on productivity and price - certainly does not qualify as fair use.
no, no! it was an entirely different person here almost 2 wks ago who was arguing with me about whether quantum mechanics can be understood without the math, all while making claims that showed how little he knew of the topic. he might have been trolling anyway. In my reply to you I was merely agreeing, herr denton-scratch. many worlds doesnt (afaict) posit why/how branch selection even occurs so it's sort of incomplete IMO. wavefunction collapse doesn't seem to exist either, but rather is a result of entanglement with the observer. my personal guess is something like superdeterminism in principle but I keep an open mind. I suspect that there are some basic consequences/meanings of the existence of state/information and entanglement themselves which have been too subtle to have been seen as assumptions in the past, and I am slowly working on formalizing them.
Some reasons I prefer Nushell over PowerShell:

- less verbose syntax

- better cross-platform support (PowerShell is technically cross-platform, but it has some baggage from its Windows-first history)

- way faster to start up

I'm a little biased (I'm a member of the Nushell core team), but those are all things that drew me to start contributing to Nushell.

On the other hand, Nushell is certainly less mature+stable than PowerShell.
It's very easy to design a system not afflicted by the curse of perpetual destruction and reconstruction.

The key challenge is that that system, by design, will be less efficient than other competing systems. So if there is a surrounding meta-system that allows it to compete with others, the other systems that tend towards consolidation will drive out your system.

It's essentially the same problem we see in economics today with supply chains. Companies that optimized their supply chains to have more margin made more money and won... as long as the supply chains were all running perfectly. But once COVID happened, it became clear that those businesses had no resilience.
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3786
And perhaps more importantly regarding (1) than simple regurgitation: code does things. There's a real risk that if you just let Copilot emit output without understanding what that output does, it'll do the wrong thing.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. If the output looks correct as per what you're looking for, it is correct. There's no additional layer of "Is it saying what I meant it to say" that is relevant to anyone who isn't an art critic.
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Since somebody chose to downvote the above comment, I think it bears elaboration for those who might not understand. A contemporary example is domain names. The current domain system is a monopoly, and it sucks. You pay companies a never-ending and ever-increasing rent to do literally less than nothing. A domain isn't much more than a key/value pair in a small database. You're paying never-ending rent to them for them to not go out of their way to delete your entry.

Relying on a centralized competitor to offer something better would be dubious. If they gain substantial marketshare there's nothing stopping them from deciding to simply swap back to our current system. It could even be done retroactively since everybody has those lines in their terms and conditions that amount to 'We can do anything, and you can't do anything about it.'

But with a decentralized system you have the possibility of a new type of domain where while one operator may be able to be the only one that can create them, once they transfer that domain to you it becomes literally impossible for them to access, change, or affect it in any way, shape, or form. Decentralization is able to turn various digital goods into something much closer to their physical counterpart where you are buying something that is no longer connected to the seller after checkout. And this can really help ensure the integrity of services that otherwise might be susceptible to bait and switch business models.
I think preventing the CCP from accessing private data of American citizens probably falls under normal statecraft actions
I hope mankind can move beyond building space stations as a handful of modular small cylinders, and start building space stations the way they appear in science fiction: dozens of rooms, cubical exteriors, hallways, human height doors that open and close, stairs, elevators, hangars, a nuclear reactor instead of solar panels, and modules that rotate around an axis to create artificial gravity. And a more diversified color scheme than all white, which is sterile.

I would like to see this:

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/futuristic-architecture...

https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/04/77/75/80/360_F_477758033_1n2FBtz...
Is that established law (in what jurisdiction?), or just your opinion?
Big lesson learned from Mtgox.

Unfortunately wallets have their cons too, and there are a lot of people who have lost their passwords or thumbdrives and thus access to their crypto.

No silver bullet.
> I think government should ban Facebook and Twitter to start with. Much bigger problems there.

Twitter and Facebook are just an extension of the executive branch of the US government.

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...

So is Tiktok in relation to the PRC.

In that sense none of these companies are "private, independent companies".
The Supreme Court of the US is currently deciding if Andy Warhol's orange prince[1] violates copyright.

It is essentially a cropped photo, defeatured, plus the color orange.

This could be done easily without the help of AI at all, just cropping and filtering.

The case is very interesting and grapples with the same questions.I highly recommended listening to the oral arguments.[2]

I doubt the Andy Warhol Foundation will prevail, but it raises all these same questions, without the AI: What constitutes a transformative use of prior work?

Can you imbue existing art with new ideas and make it your own?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Prince_(1984)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-869
I'm puzzled why you think supporting DNR is a bad thing. I get the argument that it feels like it moves closer to abandoning blocking web requests, and that's probably more a question of trust than anything.

But there are valid technical reasons to support DNR. It really does make more sense from a performance point of view, if it happens to support what you need. If not, then it's good to have blocking web requests available. And there's good reason to be unhappy if Firefox drops them. I don't see any strong incentives for doing so, though.
For context, when the parent comment was posted, the link to the announcements mailing list archive (which was the original link for this article, it seems to have been changed to the blog post since then) was timing out. It's true that the parent comment contains no extra information at all, but that's only if you managed to open the mailing list link.
I've extensively used Osmand off-line during my overlanding trips, from Cape Town to Europe across west Africa and from Czechia to Mongolia. Why reinvent the wheel?
That was me. The site definitely has some areas I need to refine, but I'm bringing some gradients and shadows back. We've lived in a flat world for far too long.
Like all shells, PowerShell is split between being a scripting language and an interactive shell.

PowerShell leans a bit more towards being a scripting language than an interactive shell, so things are more verbose, as befits a shell script that needs to be read and updated later by a different programmer.

But yeah, lots of little trade offs like that permeate the language.