skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit like saying we can't stop music piracy, now that Napster exists.

Napster was a peer-to-peer file sharing application. It originally launched on June 1, 1999, with an emphasis on digital audio file distribution. Audio songs shared on the service were typically encoded in the MP3 format. It was founded by Shawn Fanning, Sean Parker, and Hugo Sáez Contreras. As the software became popular, the company ran into legal difficulties over copyright infringement. It ceased operations in 2001 after losing a wave of lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy in June 2002.

Use of the output of systems like Copilot or Stable Diffusion becomes a violation of copyright. The weight tensors are illegal to possess, just like it's illegal to possess leaked Intel source code.

If you use the art in your product, on your website, etc., you risk legal action.

The companies that train these systems can't distribute them without risking legal action. So they won't do it. It's expensive to train these models.

It will always exist in the black-market underground, but the civilized world makes it illegal.

That's where this is going, I hope. Best case scenario.
You will be shown no ads from the hours of 8pm-8am, a bunch during your busiest times, or some such.

In any case, how are people going to verify on their end they're getting what they paid for? Maybe in 10 years they'll have a class action resulting in everyone getting a dollar back.
When I was in Israel almost every fast-food resturant had a kiosk like that, and they were all super easy to use and responsive. This might partially be an implementation problem.
I don't get the link. Why would Binance be in favour of impersonating others for $8/month?
This is a very bleak future to be honest.
> Older models which are typically used for intermittent cargo service can cost just $20m for a 747.

With the bulk of that being the value of the four engines - an old airframe is pretty much just scrap metal.
Beyond network effect, nope. This is one of the more convenient ways to block in-app ads on mobile. Set your DNS to something like AdGuard's servers, and they'll resolve ad delivering domains to a no-op. And suddenly all major third party ads in apps or the web alike are gone.
The good news is that this should definitely reduce the volume of bot / troll accounts, by making it prohibitively expensive to run. That will mean a reduction of disinformation on aggregate - as what other purpose would there be to run a bot network?

The bad news is that it recreates the lords vs servants dynamic that Musk is claiming to want to get rid of. $8 is not much for everyone reading on HN, but guess what, we are very much the in the globally privileged 1%. He later adds something about purchasing power equivalent, but localised pricing suddenly makes this into a much bigger technical challenge
You'd like to live in a world similar to Blade Runner or Neuromancer? That doesn't seem pleasant at all to me.
I was really hoping for no ads! Huge bummer on that front.
"The United States should not be expected to have a dominating position in media export forever" ?.... who is saying it should? China is trying to dominate the market by limiting others while still being free to export their films to anyone who wants them and forcing foreign films to their "speech"

your saying its fine? that western companies have to bow to the CCP in other to be able to have access to the Chinese market? while we allow them to profit from our free speech/ freedom we have here
the little ad played in the middle of the launch footage made me think it was a military communications payload.
> Paying $8 to get your voice heard by more people biases towards those with means rather than those contributing to the conversation

I'd assume the $8 high-rollers can still retweet and amplify the poors.
I don't think we're going to be able to compete with PowerShell's bajillions of developer-hours invested in deep Windows integration. But we are looking at revamping the Nu language to make it much more pleasant+powerful as a scripting language.

What kinds of features are you looking for in the stdlib?
I'm sure you didn't mean to, but your comment was nationalistic flamebait that predictably set off a nationalistic flamewar. Please don't do that. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."
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Those companies all spend money to create and/or license content. Twitter seems to want users to pay $8/mo and continue to see ads for the privilege of creating the content that brings users to Twitter?
SIM swap attacks happening at every level of the mobile industry would probably invoke cool rebuttals as well.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-sc...

You are not going to be able to pay extra to make rotten to the core pretty.
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I think it's bimodal. Either Twitter is worth like 100$+ per month if you're a journalist/brand, or it's less than 0, and in Stephen King's case he's correct that Twitter should probably be paying him.
> I would gladly pay for a ticket for a week long stay on an aesthetic space station.

How much would you pay? Because the capital cost of building it was hand wavey thrown out as $500B and the operating costs of facility would be exorbitant.

What do you imagine doing?
Ah yes, because the communists were good to the environment right?
Plus it doesn't mean they won't also sell your data to third parties - there's more to your digital presence than just selling you ads.
it is the correct path for application data. Configs go in ~/.config on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support on Mac, and ~\AppData\Roaming on Windows; some other tools doing the wrong thing isn't a reason for nushell to do the wrong thing, and your preference for nushell doing the wrong thing shouldn't mean I have to suffer it. If you want it to be visible in your home dir, you can easily put a symlink there.
It's extremely hard to join large structures airtight, with joints being stronger than the material itself.

Soviet, and Russian spacecraft, and modules were traditionally made with extremely uneconomical method of machining the vessel from a single giant piece of aluminium to not to worry about joints, and their strength under space conditions.
The title is wrong, they have not sued him, they sent a cease and desist letter.

They have also been perfectly reasonable, because they only ask him to change the assets that make it directly identifiable as an Ikea store.

It's a non-story really.

Read the kotaku article, it's way better and show how measured Ikea has been: https://kotaku.com/ikea-furniture-horror-game-store-is-close...
> so it strongly recommends posts that are
low on quality but high on emotion.

Yup.

In the 1930s movie "Meet John Doe", see
how a newspaper can try to increase
circulation by (a) publishing something, a
continuing narrative, emotional (in the
movie, a poor person frustrated with the
economy and politics and writing a FAKE
letter to the newspaper on their decision
to commit suicide), (b) creating
controversy, (c) encouraging arguments to
start, should he or should he not, etc.

The continuing narrative idea was to
encourage the controversy to run for some
months. The idea of such a narrative
was formulated by E. Bernays, as I recall,
also in the 1930s. Later Bernays was an
ad executive in the US.

Sooo, an old, 1930s or before, idea to
create strong emotions, headaches, stomach
aches, upchucks, anger, frustration,
stress, depression, various individual
psychological problems, various political
and societal problems, was for the media
to create long running, continuing
controversy.

Net, whenever start to feel emotions from
what see in the media, guess that 90+% of
the time you have just been fooled,
manipulated, exploited, jerked around by
the media looking for eyeballs for ad
revenue.

Recall the old characterization of media
values, "If it bleeds, it leads."

My old description has been the media just
wants to grab you, by the heart, the gut,
below the belt, always below the
shoulders, never between the ears.

Objective, credible, important
information? Nearly never. Brainless,
groundless, manipulative emotionalism?
Nearly always.

Sooo, I deeply, profoundly, bitterly hate
and despise the MSM (mainstream media) --
they want to deceive me, steal my time and
energy. So, for some years, I've flatly
refused to pay any attention to the MSM.

Solution for the MSM and the old
techniques of journalism? Easy. People
just ignore the MSM. That will cut off
their supply of eyeballs and ad revenue
and they will go out of business.

I posted more at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417798
Are you saying it isn’t?
I have the same feeling. Most people are quick to be anti nationalist shenanigans but then are quicker to defend things like "keep jobs for <insert nationality>" type rhetoric as if the people who are taking those jobs aren't humans of equal worth.

I wish we'd just get done with it but I have the same sadness that it's going to take a few more hundred years at least.
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> If you translate everything to being stated in terms of category theory, it …

… makes it incomprehensible to experts in the field and laymen alike!
So now it's pay to spam?
> National security

what does national security mean to you? to me it means there is a threat to the safety of people living inside the borders of the united states. by that definition, how is china--let alone tiktok--a national security threat?
No, it does not.

An uncaught error where you don't catch and gracefully handle errors in your promises is not the users' fault. It's sloppy workmanship.
"biases towards those with means rather than those contributing to the conversation"

I'm not sure this is a bad thing. If you are a user who actively contributes to the conversation and get's value out of being in that conversation, then it's likely you derive enough value to pay $8. The difference however is that now your contribution is more likely to be seen. You might even engage more now.

If you aren't that user, then maybe you don't derive enough value from conversation because you are mostly a consumption user. So you continue as you do today, consuming and occasionally replying to tweets but hardly ever having your response seen or acknowledged.
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I typically define that as "patriotism". In other words, patriotism is loving your country and wanting to make it better. Nationalism is loving your country and thinking it's better than all the others.
If they’re worried about the data being lost, ban and enforce bans on collecting that information by everybody. I’m more concerned with google having that information than China (China doesn’t give a shit about me, google has a lot of surface area to affect me)
1) Changing human nature is a much more difficult task than fixing some Twitter algorithms.

2) Modern technical means can affect human behavior on a large scale. For example, a certain northern country managed to influence elections in a certain rich country with a very modest investment in social media trolling. Or look at a certain very populous country. Everyone's views on social media are very harmonically aligned.
I have some friends whose young children are addicted to watching videos of other kids opening presents on YouTube.

I've been trying to articulate why I reacted negatively to that concept, and I think you nailed it.
Taxonomies are not only hard, but impossible. Tagging is hardly better. The problem you run into with tagging is that one day you call them `photos` and the next day you call them `pictures` or `pics` or `photography` or `disneyland trip 2019` or nothing at all, and then the day after that you can't find anything. The only solution is constant maintenance. Organization of non-trivial amounts of information is an ongoing problem, not solvable per se. You can hack out a path through the jungle, but the jungle just keeps growing.
> $8 is way more than the profitability of an ad supported user. There's no excuse for "half the ads", it should be none at all.

Adverse selection. The people willing to pay to remove ads are probably your most profitable users to show ads to.
Here in SF, we have cars with bumper stickers that say "Leave space alone".

So it starts, the birth of space environmentalists.
Can ya'll sign a BAA for HIPAA? Saw Soc2 - just

Hosted Vitess sounds amazing - love this - 0 downtime migrations w/ Percona on RDS still suck and waste a lot of time
On the instagram feed every fifth post is a sponsored post
The thing with LinkedIn is that I could see paying for it, because you could make a connection with actual monetary value (The ability to get a job at a higher salary).
I’m the EU it’s established law. In the US it’s basically true but it will be playing out in the courts a little in the future.
Hmm, I have no idea about the art of the deal (yeah that's a phrase from another giant jerkoff, not this one), but it seems pretty weak to just fold and lower down the price in public like this.
Centralization means easier driver for those who centralize and SPOFs. We centralize anytime we want an easy path even if it's fragile, and always resulting consequences are bad after a short "honeymoon" timeframe.

My conclusion then is different: we need common ideas, common tools not centralization. What's wrong with the classic web? Well that information access without search engines was a nightmare, but there is no need of "central" search engines as network hubs. YaCy offer an example FLOSS implementation of a distributed search network whose effectiveness much depend on numbers of indexing peers. In a fully "common web" all who host html pages also participate in the search distributed network and search quality became excellent, than some argue we can also distribute webpages like the ZeroNet idea and a new VERY FAST and VERY EFFECTIVE web is here. Oh, it's utopia just because of big players interests against the most and ignorance of the most, witch is not a technical thing. And that's just an example.

Logistic networks are another example where the centralized free scale network is easier than a hub-less network, but fragile, while a hub-less network is hard to keep, especially if not all nodes cooperate, but far more resilient.

The same happen in politics with historical absolute monarchy vs democracies and pretty anywhere else.

My final reminder: in winter is cold, in summer is hot, sometimes is too dry, sometimes too wet, we human as essentially any living being have tried our best to "mitigate" such natural phenomenon to live better. If certain free-scale networks are a natural thing that does not means we have to accept them without trying to made something better for us.
Even better would be “Qualcomm lies”
I have been a member of a local musicians union for more decades than I care to admit. If someone was offering to replace me with an AI after a career of dedication to the art, I would worry there is a real risk of incidents of devastating loss of income if there is no financial cushion. Even if I had not lost any gigs yet, I would call a couple of the local union board members to discuss it, and I believe this is a concrete situation which the local board would take up for discussion.

I'm sure there are good things to come out of AI in the arts, especially if it becomes a tool for the artist. But offering to put a financially struggling artist out of work with low effort, even temporarily, is a nightmare for the artist. Guilds and unions [0] [1] have talented artists on boards of directors and lawyers on staff who can help them codify some of the issues into their standard contract used by member artists. I have seen bands fired with no notice when they had used a standard union contract. The contract and access to the Union's attorney is the only thing that protected them from loss work and not making rent that month.

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One of the things I admire about Elon (which is saying a lot...) is that for whatever reason, he's ready to bet the farm over and over. Whether he's some genius tactician or an impulsive moron, he just bought Twitter and is poised to drastically alter it.

"flies in the face of everything I understand about complex systems" indeed!

Forgive me for this analogy but it's in the news: Imagine if NATO just said one day, "you know what, !@#$ it. We're done managing this complex system. Let's assume Russia doesn't have or won't use nukes and change our entire doctrine overnight. Get ready to deploy everything."

There's a real possibility Elon buys Twitter for billions and runs it straight into the ground because he does not understand complex systems. Or maybe he gambles and is lucky. Or maybe he really does _get it_ and this is all in some absolutely bizarre way, calculated.
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I left USDS in June 2021, but during my time there, there were no job roles. USDS has "communities of practice" that roughly correspond to the roles you would see at a big tech firm (e.g., software engineers join the Engineering CoP, PMs join the Product CoP, recruiters join the Talent CoP), but the expectation is that USDSers will work on a wide variety of projects that utilize their tech skills.

USDS has a streamlined hiring process that is much quicker than you see elsewhere in government. I submitted a resume, got a call back in a couple of days, did two phone interviews, then got an offer to join the Engineering CoP. The post-offer process was extremely government-y, but by that time, I was excited to join and willing to put up with a lot. After joining, I was given an opportunity to choose a project to work on. I ended up working on ~6 projects across 3 agencies during my two years there.
I can't wait until China invades Taiwan and their is a statistically significant shift of gen-z support for Chinese imperialism, or more likely, support of american isolationism.
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Maybe Elon will introduce red ticks for "celebs", after selling blue ticks to the vain rubes. Hahaha.
> Because democratic society requires us to agree on basic facts in order to function.

“Agreement” is a voluntary act. If people don’t agree on fundamental facts, we need more dialog to reach agreement if possible, and mutual tolerance if not.

“Agreement” cannot be an involuntarily enforced mandate.

If people don’t agree, we cannot force them to agree by silencing dissenting voices. Even if such silencing worked in the short-term, it’s corrosive to society’s ability to discern truth.
No. The proof itself is totally useless, the technological consequences of it are nonexistent.

The interesting part are the tools developed to solve it and a better understanding about the geometrical properties of the euclidean space.

Mathematics is interesting and useful because it gives us tools for investigation abstract problems. The proof of one particular theorem is rarely more interesting then the mathematical foundations behind it.

Behind the Riemann hypothesis you will find a century of deep investigation into the structure of 3D space and its foundations, with incountably many applications. The proof of the theorem was a prestige object, demonstrating that the proover had a very deep grasp on the subject matter. But even in this case, the Ricci Flow is probably a far more interesting object from a technological perspective.
The article attributes the productivity loss to employee dissatisfaction, but I suspect working from an office is for many people just less productive overall.

- Written communication and documentation falls off as people rely on (and forget) face-to-face discussions

- Quality of sleep declines

- Workers leave the office promptly to beat (or spend time in) traffic instead of working an extra hour

- The workplace itself is full of distractions and other time-sinks like hustling to the meeting room, waiting for the restroom, or taking a long team lunch

- The mental load of deferring all minor personal tasks to the end of the workday or the weekend rather than accomplishing them on short breaks during off-peak hours

Put otherwise, of course productivity is declining, as we are now spending more of our possibly-productive time expending energy to move and host our bodies away from home, and it seems the productivity gained by doing so doesn't outstrip the productivity wasted.
> there's still no good business use for them, even after all these years.

aside from fraud detection, autonomous vehicles, language translation, facial recognition, voice preproduction and market insights of course
If we're putting this Dev kit to the same category with non-general computing devices' dev kits, the outlook becomes a much more bleak:

So, Windows is not a general computing OS and the platform running Windows is not a general computing device anymore.

So, we're ending the era of most ubiquitous general computing platform (PC), and the general computing itself, and converting Windows to a firmware for a very closed platform.

Acknowledging and accepting this is a great step forward for walled gardens and a huge step backwards for us.

I for one don't welcome our computer controlling, platform limiting, Linux loving overlords.
This is common. I've also seen edits that target the blurbs shown by search engines (google says "Timothy McVeigh was an American Hero...", article says domestic terroeist).
(and on top of that, every third post isn't sponsored but is still selling something)