skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Influencers and hustlebros will pay that, celebrities won't.

If the celebrities leave, Twitter dies.
The powers-that-be decided that file management is a desktop-class feature.
I wonder what gmail's churn rate even is? It is surely staggeringly close to zero.
I hope this means I can use a disposable prepaid card and not give a phone number during signup.

They were using phone numbers for antispam; hopefully $8 will serve the same purpose.

Twitter’s had employees that sold user PII to murderous foreign governments. It is not safe to have PII associated with a sufficiently controversial Twitter account. Maybe they can accept crypto payments for this during signup.
Only hope that China is the world police?
I suspect it's related to the recent news that Elon Musk purchased Twitter (Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twit...). I think some folks may be curious about alternatives to Twitter given the unknown nature of changes to come.
There is some confusion about the definition of "affirmative action". The original definition from Kennedy's Executive Order 10925 requires that government contractors "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin".

What the supreme court is poised to do would in a sense reaffirm the original principle of affirmative action.
You don't think $8-20/month of book sales are generated by King's twitter presence?
Obviously you don't look at close detail on computer, which is very strange for seemingly such a power photo user. Phones these days are good but not yet that good if you don't do some beginner mistakes with camera. Maybe Pixel 7 pro based on samples I saw, but definitely not ie iphone 13 pro max.

What people often mean by similar statements is they like default phone processing compared to 0 in the camera, and there is enough detail due to tons of light and due to landscapes being generally easiest scene to shoot.

As for why they are not comparable, also a very strange question from seemingly experienced photo shooter - compare software development department and budget in Apple vs Nikon, who is a tiny player we all love (have D750 since it came out and carried it everywhere up to 6000m), they use very specialized CPUs which are very good for 1 thing only (basic operations on raw sensor data and potential jpeg transformation), and various ML and stacking transformations aren't simply available there at performance required. The whole construction of camera and processing hardware isn't around snapping 30 pics and combining them together under 1s, pre-taking pictures before actually hitting shutter etc.
My Attorney General and my state fully agree with me in no uncertain terms thanks [0]. Feel free to add all those "we're not responsible at all!" clauses that ski resorts add which are also not enforceable. Thanks for the downvotes.

[0] https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont...
You're seeing it more on HN because there's a huge (IMO growing) overlap between HN commenters and Twitter users. The comments on Big Tech articles look identical to entire slices of Twitter. Some of the talking heads on HN who comment a lot also have moderately large Twitter followings.

Despite being in tech and working adjacent to Big Tech, in my circles only HN and Twitter users are this up in arms about Twitter. They seem to be more concerned about this than even friends of mine who work at Twitter (who are more peeved by the current instability in the company than anything going on with the product.)

It's fun popcorn on HN right now but if this continues it'll get pretty tiring IMO.
If your company is serious about buying that much software your best bet is something like vendr. It'll cost you, but you'll get answers to your pricing questions, and if you're buying, they'll negotiate discounts for you. no need to 'talk to sales'
A person in poverty in a high-income welfare state does not have a great live, but they are still comforted by the fact that they are not in danger of dying of starvation.
In my experience, ringtones are usually going to disturb some other soundtrack I've got on. Movies, music, ham radio, etc. So vibrate & light screen is my usual.

I do like playing with them for things like alarms and specific callers though, and sometimes make new ones using vintage keyboards (r/cheapkeys).
Some blue checks need Twitter (mid-level youtubers, for instance). Some don't (Stephen King, for instance). In either case, Twitter needs the blue checks because they are, to a large degree, the reason non-blue-checks visit and engage with Twitter.

I can see someone like Stephen King being annoyed at having to pay anything when his presence is probably helping Twitter quite a bit to begin with.
I expect it will still be a free-to-play game, with some upsells for whales. Gotta keep follower counts up.
SponsorBlock is key for YouTube
Raffles are boring. The odds are low. Someone always wins. Lotteries like Powerball are more exciting because the jackpot rolls over many many times. Ticket sales spike tremendously when it gets to levels like this.
I have zero doubt that EM will bring Twitter to a better place. I mean, this is the platform where basic image upload was broken for 10+ years. How can that not be the top task in the backlog? I can answer that right away. Tech people focus on tech.

I think cost might be a problem with Blue. I mean, I collect domain names for fun. I don't think Twitter can provide the right tools to guard against false blue account claims.
It’s a quite dystopian technology for sure, but maybe it isn’t all that bad. the artists just (cough) have to pivot from delivering images to delivering style sheets for generative models…
The default factory in case of some devices is a good example of status symbol
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This places all the trust in the institution that mints verifiable credentials. (or the institution + Auth0 if they use Auth0).

This is good for use cases where you want to assert that an organization says something about you (e.g., you have a degree).

It is not good for use cases where you want to assert that you say something (e.g., I voted for Blah, or I authorized this transfer).
Seems a point in space-time, like a point in (longitude, latitude) where at latitude 90, longitude loses meaning.
Yup. I'm gonna keep drumming this up: most markets today are supplier-driven. The "barrier to having a good experience" gets higher, and the experience gets worse, and there's shit all you can do about it, because you're only able to choose out of what's on the market, and the market isn't serving lower barrier / better experience options it did a month, year or decade ago.
Rumble says it won’t change its policies to appease France’s censorship demands
The dystopia is actually good for us
The only reason things matter is because they lead to status. Skipping the matter is an efficient solution to gaining status.
Except famous people now get a verified tag, rendering most of what you said moot. This is a bad idea, it will fail, and Musk will make like he never said it. If you don’t think so, just imagine yourself paying Facebook for a checkmark and see if that feels right.
My Orange County suburb recently mandated putting food waste into a separate can.
Wanted to take a look at the schemas linked, but identity0.io isn't even registered? oO
Please don't break the rules at the top.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422747.
But is the world going to do anything about those spots?
JSLinux [0] can run a whole Alpine Linux distribution with a x window server and a built in browser. We are already past the days of browsers within operating systems within browsers.

[0]: https://bellard.org/jslinux/
The funny thing is that for all the amazing technological improvements discussed, all the pictures in the article actually show that A. having a photographer who knows how to frame things, and sees the right moment to capture an image, and B. having a subject worthwhile photographing, are way more important than having a top tier quality camera.
For starters, there already is a use case for stablecoins like Glo. The current stablecoin market is $150 billion. At historically average treasury yields, $150 billion of Glo would generate enough money to lift approximately 9 million people out of extreme poverty. [1]

Secondly, many people have some long-term cash savings they're doing nothing with, just in case. Holding this in Glo can be an act of altruism. Sure, you can buy t-bills yourself, but by this logic no charity fundraiser would ever make sense (people can donate to causes without the fundraisers, no?). Humans don't spontaneously do all possible things. Marketing and coordination have an effect.

Thirdly, we'll work to make Glo supported as a means of exchange (e.g. by partnering with payment service providers, payroll providers, card issuers etc). Once you can receive your salary and pay your bills and subscriptions in Glo, this is all money you wouldn't have received savings yield on but is now lifting people out of extreme poverty. Same for companies. They can switch to Glo as their main currency and have more social impact at no financial cost,

[1]: https://twitter.com/glo_coin/status/1573300192832499712
An Argument Against Image AIs
An fresh focus on the legal issues of AI datasets.
After subsistence, wealth doesn't provide value except as a way to buy status.
Tell me about it. My spouse's vehicle was down for the past two months, and they've been driving an F350 Super Duty. It was >$175 to fill up.
respectfully, you're raising a whole lot of arguments here that had nothing to do with any point I was raising and doesn't seem to be moving this discussion forward in any significant way. The point of this subthread thread was a user saying the following:

>But if I train my own neural network inside my skull using some artist's style, that's ok?

This post and others uses a lot of flowery language to point out that we train artificial neural networks and real neural networks in different ways. OK, great. I don't think anyone is saying that's not true. What I am saying is that it's irrelevant.

If I am an exceptional imitator of the style of Jackson Pollock and i make a bunch of paintings that are very much in that style but clearly not his work I'm not going to be sued. My work will be labeled, rightfully so, as derivative but I have the right to sell it because it's not the same thing. Is that somehow more acceptable because I can only do it slowly and at a low volume? What if I start an institute whose sole purpose is training others to make Jackson Pollock-like paintings? What if I skip the people and make a machine that makes a similar quality of paintings with a similarly derivative style? Is that somehow immoral / illegal? Why?

There's a whole lot of hand-wavey logic going on in this thread about context and opera and special human magic that only humans can possibly do and that somehow makes it immoral for an AI to do it. I am yet to see a simple, succinct argument of why that is the case.
I don't see how that's relevant. You can tap the RAW button in the iOS camera app to switch between the two choices, both of which looks great. Most DSLRs only have one option because the second one (in-camera JPEG) looks like crap. They can barely do auto focus/wb/iso/shutter/aperture let alone postprocessing.
Such as this CO2 measurement, made from a dedicated instrument for the last ~8 years: https://ocov2.jpl.nasa.gov/science/

It uses broadly the same technique as in OP -- spectroscopy to detect the absorption of sunlight from the presence of that particular chemical species. Because the above instrument was designed for the purpose, it's much more accurate and able to distinguish small variations in CO2, not "just" large plumes.
Start a company and crush them
Sorry but you are full of shit. Centralization is not digitization. Centralization is relying on the use of coercion. It's a /central/ source of truth.

The identity system we've been stuck with since WW1 will finally be replaced with something decentralized and approaching fair thanks to digitization. What we're lacking is the software that gives individuals self sovereignty.
Consider: it’s easier to “be real” with random people that you dont know in real life.

With real life friends, people naturally self censor quite a lot.

But if you do want an IRL friend network, also consider a “friend” system. Because I don’t think fully public posts jives with your idea. If I just want to talk to friends, I don’t want to share with the world.
Calling it "her" style is part of the problem. "The style she uses" would be more appropriate.

ofc that takes longer to say so it will never happen.
Most of that will be crypto spam though...
I dont think twitter is anywhere near Netflix or even youtube premium in terms of what it provides. And I am saying it as someone who do actually uses twitter (unlike half of HN who claims to never use it).
Oil is your last choice for generating electricity. It's used frequently in very poor countries that are always having rolling blackouts but if you can use anything else you will.

China, for instance, is building large numbers of nuclear power plants, coal burning power plants, hydroelectric storage facilities, solar farms, wind farms, etc.

So far as natural gas, which is still the dominant force in US and European energy, China is the sixth largest producer in the world and growing quickly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_in_China
I hadn't tried Gaia before today. Gave it a whirl and looks like a great tool for my backpacking trips. I am a paper map and compass kinda guy but this seems like a convenient addition, especially for trip planning. Mapped out the next boy scout troop hike in just a few minutes, the way routes snap to hiking trails is really nice. Thanks!
Thanks, I went and read about it, it's interesting. It is unclear how it stopped exactly and why it changed, apart from making ballot booths, but it does seem to be making a comeback.

Still, in any case, just to be extra clear, this isn't the issue I'm calling out, the adversarial attack is in-combination with the setting up of loyalists and the overthrow.

That a campaign can be won by crude measures of appeal to emotions and discrediting of your opponents is a bit sad, but it isn't as much a problem if it is just a method for election.

The problem I see is afterwards, are the checks in place to make sure that you cannot instate loyalists, and change the rules themselves to entrench yourself. It's this second part that is the soft-coup.
If they are considering Tokyo Metropolis, they might be including Ogasawara, which is 1000km from downtown Tokyo.
CO2 plus H2O (water vapor is also a highly potent greenhouse gas).
It's funny because the crappy modern technical interview (which every company cargo culted from Google) makes it hard for companies to hire in two ways:

1. Even very competent people don't want to do them, because they're high pressure, incredibly narrow, and highly capricious.

2. Even very competent people don't pass them reliably, because they're often poorly designed and run.

TripleByte really seemed like they had a shot at solving this problem, by interviewing people once really well and then getting companies to trust their credentialing. Unfortunately they didn't manage to pull this off at all, really. Their interview was above average but not great and companies just didn't seem to trust it.

There's still a massive prize awaiting whichever companies do solve this problem. And it will be a huge boon to the tech employee and employer market in general, by increasing "employment liquidity", productivity, job satisfaction, and retention.

In the meantime, more companies could take advantage of this market inefficiency to hire people in alternative ways. For example, some companies do contract-to-hire, which is one way to do a much more thorough evaluation of someone's suitability for a particular role.

One reason companies like Google instituted this kind of faux rigor in their hiring process is because they're so bad at firing bad hires. So another thing companies can to be better is to hire more easily but also fire more easily. Offering severance (say, 3 months + tenure increase) makes this a perfectly ethical policy but somehow this is usually viewed as a totally untenable option at modern tech companies (Netflix seems to be the exception).
What happens if you freelance write without a blue check?
You already said that. Leveling the playfield would be having no distinguishing marks at all.
Wears a yellow costume head-to-toe and assumes a different name. Then announces that he always picks the same lottery numbers. Facepalm.
Mandatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
Even Rapidshare had that
not that i think this is some brilliant revenue strategy but it does not strike me as a good take to automatically assume that the current blue check mark base is a strict superset of who will pay $8/month
people are actually freaking out that they might lose their blue checkmarks
warmer atmosphere == higher capacity to hold water vapor.
They even responded to Kotaku and said it was simply to protect the trademark, and they'd come to an agreement with the game maker. Blame trademark law, not Ikea
One thought is if you could work on marketing / targeted theme for people with memory issues (like from age, or illness). So perhaps explore if you can sell it as a tool to assist those with medical needs for it.
Brave supports addblocking on both android and iOS. Firefox does at least on Android.
What's missing is how capricious monetization ideas get us from 4 to solvency.
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You might want to look at nvprune:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-binary-utilities/index.htm...

However:

> The input file must be either a relocatable host object or static library (not a host executable), and the output file will be the same format

And:

> Note that this means that libcublas_static70.a will not run on any other architecture, so should only be used when you are building for a single architecture

But please don't use this for binaries distributed in the wild, would result in a lot of people not being able to run your program...
Great journey.
Section 230: Mend it, don’t end it (2020)
Worth mentioning that CH4 ultimately turns into CO2.
Yup kinda interesting to see this play out. With the federal trade secrets law tho it no longer matters.
Good points.

I was actually just sitting in a AI Town Hall hosted by the Concept Art Association which had 2 US Copyright Lawyers who work at the USCO present, and their along similar lines, currently.

Basically, like you specified, legal precedent needs to be built up on a case by case basis, and harm can pretty readily be demonstrated, at least anecdotally, especially as copies are made during training of copyrighted work.

Unfortunately, historically, artists do not generally enjoy the same legal representation or resources that unionized industries with deeper pockets enjoy. It's probably one of the reasons Stability.Ai are being so considerate with their musical variant.

It would have been great if artists were asked before any of this. I could see this going in such a different direction if people were merely asked...
Yes? It's actually better for Twitter because they can get pocket most of the money.

Companies aren't voluntarily charging barely enough to cover costs - they're being forced to do it by competition. Normally, they'll charge you as much as they can get away with.

It would be news if Twitter, or anyone else for that matter, decided to voluntarily charge less for the sake of fairness to the users.
Yimby founder “denial of service” attack on SF
They are working on more aggressive tactics to overwhelm sf city officials
Preach yo! the medium is the message.
So you don't know what tolerant means.

A possible alternative position is tolerance for others' words and definitions, and this was the mainstream progressive position up to about 10 years ago.

That is not using your creative definition of the word tolerance, but the common one and the one which was used by progressives when they advocated for that position. So there's an answer for your question I originally answered.
> almost certainly will never win any medals for speed ... The language is slow, awkward, and ugly

I suspect the answer is probably moot.

But I also think that the answer would depend on what the bytes are being used for, how large the chunks are, etc. CPU cache utilisation is influenced by many factors, and can't be deduced from examining the data structure alone.
I guess I am an outlier in this, but I don't think I have a single "famous" person that I follow - maybe some bigger figures in a niche area, but the people that have the blue mark are not the draw for me.

But when I do search for them, it is convenient to see the blue mark to figure out what might be the account I am looking for.
I deactivated the public timeline, don't want folks to be exposed without it knowing
Thanks for the super informative reply. I am hoping as there is more activity on the space station, that more information will be coming out. It would be nice to be able to see something similar to the ESA, NASA and even Roscosmos launch feeds and Q&A sessions.
Not particularly. Parent post is not concerned with or making any claims to special knowledge of the internal details of the modelling in the mind or in the machine, only the output.
"half" means less annoying. It's not complicated for users.
Thanks, but now doesn't do me any good then
The reason it closed was because Twitter execs were too greedy and creators were striking against the platform until there was a path to monetization. TikTok has its own Creator Fund, there's no reason why Vine couldn't have implemented short ads similar to TikTok.
> Well then do what Poettering did and write it.

This is such a superficial and ignorant take I'm having hard time forcing myself to believe it was written in good faith.

Dozens of alternatives already exist. The problem isn't writing, problem is having politicial power Poettering had. (ie. He was employed by Red Hat and had close connections with other Freedesktop developers.)
> Diverse input results in better conversations

But how many different people are necessary to give the diversity of thought on a particular topic? I bet it is not many, certainly fewer than 100, maybe 50, or on some topics even just 20.
I have found https://sso.tax/ to be helpful.