skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> buying a luxury truck means you're paying a LOT more

It’s often difficult to sell a base-model truck, and you won’t get much for it.

Ours is a 2001 F350 Lariat Super Duty. Even at two decades old, we could sell it in hours for $25k+.
> So with these generative models running rampant, what's to even motivate aspiring artists to develop and hone their craft, if their years of work can be copied so easily?

…because they like to make art?

The idea of making a living as an artist has only been possible for a very small fraction of human history, yet we have always had art.

We are in the process of reverting to the norm. The world will never again be like it was in the post industrialization and pre information era.
Yes, that is how choice and specialization work, we don't live in a feudal or autocratic system where heredity or fiat determine your life path.
Idk, as a mathematician, I still don’t really see the usefulness of category theory “in the real world” (or even in a good amount of math)
Mining landfills is the way. Future generations will not believe how much magic we threw away.
What kind of product would warrant the cost/benefit of using erlang? Where did you use it? Just curious
Ignoring the specific example given, JavaScript Date objects use zero-based months depending on how you construct or interact with them, so I'm assuming the OP was thinking of a zero-based example and just wrote it out using 08 in the string.
Yes, exactly that. `sizeof(int)` OK, `sizeof(i)` OK, `sizeof i` OK, `sizeof int` not OK. One of those weird rules.
> How is that different from a consultant who indiscriminately copies from Stack Overflow?

and how is that different from a student learning how to code off stackoverflow (or anywhere else for that matter), then reproducing some snippets/learnt code structure, in their employment?
It sort of is a trick, yet it isn't: I elucidate what's going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33430120
> you could try elaborating in any of your posts

I already have: the singularity is a moment of time, not a place in space.

> Saying that an event horizon or photon sphere isn’t around the singularity of a black hole doesn’t make sense, either.

Yes, it does, for the reason I've already given: because there is no such thing as a sphere around a moment of time.

> What facts specifically are you trying to articulate about spacetime geometry around a black hole?

The fact that the singularity is not a place in space, it's a moment of time.
The world where it's superior is when I'm making a short film and want to be able to shoot it without a camera rental budget. As a low-budget filmmaker, my options for cameras are

1.) My old Canon 80D. One time purchase, decently compact, short battery. Produces an okay-ish image with moderate effort.

2.) Renting something nicer than my Canon 80D. Bulky, requires lots of know-how to operate, expensive if I break it. Have to use special cords, cards, lenses, mounts, etc. Produces a top-of-the-line image with high effort.

3.) My iPhone 12 Mini. One time purchase, very compact, multi-hour-battery. Works indoors, outdoors, day or night. Plug-n-play, extremely user friendly. Produces a darn-good image with minimal effort.

I fully understand that it's not the best camera out there—but it seriously competes with everything up to fairly expensive professional cameras. I would not hesitate to use my iPhone for professional photography and videography if the client never found out about it (or was okay with it). At the end of the day, the ratio of quality to convenience it provides is simply higher than any other offering.
Edgelords have always existed.
months sometimes start at zero in programming languages. days of the week, as well, often.
With this model you may be able to target ads to people willing to pay. I assume the "half-ads" slots will be more valuable.
If it was GitHub and they were using GitHub auth for circleci, they could have gotten access to injected secrets. Or, if they used GitHub actions, it could have been actions environment variables. It isn't clear that keys were checked into source control.
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Where are you going to get the training data, once copyright law is amended to protect artists from this new kind of intellectual property theft?

Without enormous training data from human victims, your "Artificial Intelligence" doesn't exist.

In the end, your "AI" is just huge interpolator, using matrix multiplications and max() or gelu() to interpolate the work of real intelligence: the human artists.

Once it's illegal, only criminals will use it. No first-world company will break the law to save money on artists. You think anyone who matters will secretly use a neural net trained in violation of copyright? Think again.

I say this as a person who writes GPU BLAS kernels professionally at a company you've heard of. I directly profit from this theft. But I also know it's wrong.
Patents are nonsense and are an impediment to progress. They are a government granted monopoly.
Interesting, I'm also a Gen Z and I prefer to call rather than text, especially if I'm organizing something with a group of friends. I often exchange phone numbers with people if I know I'm going to be seeing them again soon.
It's part of a narrative to blame consumers for causing climate change, meanwhile industry pollutes far more. The pollution reduction per unit effort is much higher if you focus on heavy industry.
>> Anywhere Stephen King writes, he'll have an audience.

Is that really true? Suppose King goes to a new social platform. Sure, I might install that app, but without a critical mass or others on that platform, what are the chances I actually check that app frequently?
Yep,proof of possession - the ID contains a public key, you own the matching private key. You send them the ID with a matching assertion ("This is meant for cheapboozeforstudents.com"), signed by your private key. The website can't in turn generate an assertion for statestudentaid.gov because the whole envelope (ID, assertion, signature) is uniquely tied to them.

It does rely on statestudentaid.gov actually validating said assertion, of course, but that's only like... The second most common screw up with JWTs and related tokens.
Brown v. TGS Management Co., LLC is an interesting court case involving a "noncompete" from California: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2020...
True story. I have worked oil and gas for a while and am familiar with this area. It can easily be a well not properly P&A'd (plugged and abandoned) - quite common down there. It is most likely a Marathon well (HARROUN COM #002), or it could be Eastland Oil (HARROUN A #007). If you want to get a better idea for yourself, you can check the EMNRD - https://ocd-hub-nm-emnrd.hub.arcgis.com/
> general purpose computing

As a huge Erlang fan, I’m not certain I’d say “general purpose computing” is a strength of it though.
While this is true, I think twitter still greatly increases his outreach. It's the only reason most of us are hearing about him. Otherwise, I would definitely not be reading his blog. While I'm sure he would have a dedicated audience, it's not twitter. Not only that, but the more people start personal blogs the less viewers the harder it is to compete for views. For Stephen King, a generational talent, it may not matter-- but there is a calculation to be made for a lot of celebrities. It's kind of like what happened to Netflix; if every celebrity tries to start their own personal blog fans aren't gonna go check all their favorite actors, musicians, writers, developers, socialites, and youtubers blogs'.
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maybe anyone could not edit the original post, but attach comments as to why it is fake news with appropriate sources?
Ha, only recently I read the SCP this is based on (I assume). It's a fun read, especially the journal: https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-3008
Yes and no, Apple's models operate on the raw sensor data as far as I understand, and take advantage of hardware acceleration in the A-series chips' Neural Engine specifically designed for computational photography. Furthermore, Apple's models are proprietary—if you could access them, you could probably run them on your computer and get the same result, but you unfortunately can't access them.
Way too late Tumblr, you blew it and no one cares anymore
The author quotes Popper's paradox of tolerance, but then seems to either draw the wrong conclusion—or else rejects Popper's conclusion without argument or even without acknowledging that they are rejecting it:

> Tolerance runs wild when taken as it’s own rule. Tolerance cannot fight intolerance by becoming intolerant, for then it is no longer a virtue, but the vice it set out to destroy.

Which just reads a bit weird coming right after quoting Popper.

I also have a disagreement with the author's conclusion:

> And in the process, will we step on toes? Naturally! But we’re trying to do good, not just avoid sin.

The author may honestly be trying to do good—nothing they wrote makes me think otherwise. But it's also clear that many out there that we interact with are not trying to do good—and we need to fix a way to interact with others that acknowledges that fact. Just assuming everyone is trying to do good falls apart because not everyone is trying to do good.
I've read a few web serials this last year and change (Unsong, HPMOR, and Worm).

They're interesting from many angles, although I think they distinctly lack in mass appeal. Unsong and HPMOR in particular seem to me like the kind of thing you would either love deeply, if they're in your wheelhouse, or otherwise find positively insufferable. (I loved both).

Worm, on the other hand, while in need of some editing, seems like it would be absolutely killer as an animated series in the vein of Amazon's adaptation of Invincible.

One issue that seems to come up in this space is the authors having issues getting into publishing deals. For instance, the author Worm don't currently distribute ebooks because of nebulous concerns about the effect on future contracts. Unfortunately this seems to leave such works in a state of legal limbo.

Idk what my point is, just rambling at this point. I have very much enjoyed all the stuff I've read in this area so far though.
Ask HN: Anyone using a Quest Pro instead of monitors?
For those with firsthand experience, is the Quest Pro good enough to replace monitors?

Without additional constraints, I imagine the answer is No. But...

For a frequent traveling developer, would the Quest Pro provide a nice alternative to having only the laptop screen?
Huh, I didn't realize that hadn't been Skylab! Looks like it's a somewhat popular myth arising from some stories about Skylab's reentry mentioning the cow incident.
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Man talk about smell, there are like 18 olfactory cultural dimensions on display in this passage, esp. comparing para 2 as a prologue to para 1.

> In my experience, the term code smell usually has a negative connotation when someone mentions it.

> It’s a lot like a noticeable smell emanating from the office refrigerator. Ideally it’s some delicious homemade kimchi someone brought in, but more often than not it’s something like some forgotten fish sticks rotting in the back.
The BBC broke some news about a month ago regarding flaring emissions not even being included in the inspection numbers for oil.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62917498

Its not in the US, but once its in the atmosphere, the whodoneit is long gone.
Seems like they could say so somewhere at surface level.
Mozilla Emails Sagan Ipsum to Hundreds of Thousands of Subscribers
This is why any business that uses SSN as authentication should be liable for any losses that result from fraudulent usage of the SSN, as opposed to the SSN’s owner being liable.
> There's also no stray pointers, because all communication is done through deep copying messages, so there's no pointers referring to the process of another memories process.

Doesn't this bog down from all the context switching and IO latency from message passing? Or does erlang have some special way of doing it
It's tricky when the whole chunk of data is only signed over once by your issuer - you can't go back to the government for a new token every time you want to give out your first name instead of first and last name.

This is where SD-jwt comes in - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fett-oauth-selective-..., which selectively offers pieces from that once-signed chunk of data.
... looks like "magnitude" numbers farther below zero are brighter? Who came up with that?

> The scale used to indicate magnitude originates in the Hellenistic practice of dividing stars visible to the naked eye into six magnitudes. The brightest stars in the night sky were said to be of first magnitude (m = 1), whereas the faintest were of sixth magnitude (m = 6) [...]

> In 1856, Norman Robert Pogson formalized the system by defining a first magnitude star as a star that is 100 times as bright as a sixth-magnitude star, thereby establishing the logarithmic scale still in use today. This implies that a star of magnitude m is about 2.512 times as bright as a star of magnitude m + 1. This figure, the fifth root of 100, became known as Pogson's Ratio.

Hmmph. I'd prefer a system where higher numbers were brighter, and probably with a different logarithmic base. Oh well.
Legislation will be too slow.
The Need for Phishing-Resistant Multi-Factor Authentication
There’s a lot of data without copyright out there
It has more value as a house than as a tree. You could grow the tree from a seed and create value.
Lens Kubernetes
What is pathetic is you think that rebuts anything.
Well. QuickTransit was from Transitive Corporation, which was acquired by and then demolished by IBM, a bunch of the people from there are now at Apple, for one. The ideas are pretty straightforward and many of them show up in JITting emulators and high-level emulation approaches. I haven't seen an analysis of Rosetta 2 but I imagine it is pretty similar.

Transmeta is different - Transmeta Crusoe etc. were a weird VLIW-like ISA plus their ISA-specific code morpher sw.
>Normal people just don’t care about federation. They seem to actively dislike it, and I don’t blame them.

Normal people don't like any kind of freedom of choice really: they want everyone to own the exact same iPhone they have, they actively discourage everyone they know from getting anything other than an iPhone (even going so far as to refuse to communicate with them because their messages show up with a different-color dot), and then they have the audacity to whine and complain when Apple exercises its monopoly power and makes iPhones absurdly expensive and forces software updates on them which make their older iPhones slower. But they absolutely refuse to even consider trying anything besides an iPhone, no matter how much they feel screwed over by Apple.

It's not just Apple and iPhones; I see this mentality all the time with many other things.

We'll probably see the same thing with Twitter. Many people will whine and complain about the price increases, about Musk's new rules or who or what he allows on the platform, etc., but a large group of them will simply never leave Twitter no matter what, unless it finally goes the way of MySpace.

>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.

I haven't looked at Mastodon so I'm just taking your word for it, but federation would only be useful if it were mostly transparent and not a hassle as others have described here, and the other issues will probably prevent anyone from switching, just like desktop Linux basically missed its chances to get really big over the years because of too many small issues that drove people back to Windows/Mac. First-mover advantage is a huge thing and it's really hard to unseat an incumbent.
The 1% rule seems to hold up pretty well across any online community [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

> In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a general rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk.
Elon Musk Is Already Breaking Twitter, but Not in a Way Anyone Predicted
Moving past TCP in the data center, part 1
^ Obviously not Les Stroud
To be honest, the majority opinion on this just demonstrates how narrow minded and uncritical many people here are that the clear and obvious juxtaposition doesn't get their minds churning. It's hard not to notice half of them merely use AI tools and don't really understand how they work, hence why the silly and incorrect phrase of "your mind is a NN!" keeps occurring here.
Significant change is global infrastructure level changes, like no longer needing to commute to work. Changes that individuals really can’t control. Your point is bad because most people and systems will not act until they feel the negative effects, so a few million people carefully composting might allow them to keep behaving irresponsibly for a few days.

Look at the relationship between the size of cars being sold and gas prices. Any slack your individual efforts introduce into the system will get chewed up by someone else.
> Or, maybe I can choose to believe my eyes, and note that the the presence or absence of non-competes isn't a very important factor for driving a tech boom. [1]

Or that other factors of working in WA somewhat mitigate downsides of non competes. Sad that WA lawmakers accepted the bribes from large businesses and capped non compete bans at $100k per year payrates. Could have leveled the playing field with CA a bit more.
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Likely more flexing by the CCP to show people who is in charge. You're not even safe at Disney world. That's the only reason to keep the "zero covid" nonsense going.
Yep. I worked on those myself and participated in the usual pre-DVT destructive testing of our embedded flash devices specifically to count core dumps and config commits that the device could survive..
Twitter is not greatly increasing Stephen King's reach.
This is the future I’m waiting for.
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works
I've hunted through Ease of Access (as it's called in Win10), and trawled through forums, trying to find a superior solution -- but the best I could find, and manage, is shown here:

https://imgur.com/a/WgzR8j3

Obviously with a busier amount of text on fore / rear terminals, and more than just two terminals -- that lack of a clear border becomes a massive confusion.

If you've found a better configuration, please do share.
> does it feel like Elixir has lost momentum over the last couple of years

Elixir is essentially feature complete now. So what you might be feeling is the slower pace of language development due to this.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/06/24/elixir-v1-9-0-releas...
That's not the point. The publicly stated reason for this whole saga was Elon was claiming Twitter was suppressing free speech and wanted to make it free again. This play goes against all that.
I personally believe that both training and generating images through AI is fair use. It's transformative. You're creating completely new ideas. Consider that plus the fact that styles aren't copyrightable.

Also keep in mind that, at least in the US, you can't legislate your way out of fair use since it's a constitutional right. (It's the result of the tension that exists between the copyright clause and the first amendment)
I think you just hit the jackpot
If you’re already making an entire car to drive it one thousand miles a year then you’re better off buying a smaller one instead and hiring yeah.

Or just walking to get groceries.
If you were going to make a 3D model sculpture you would probably want to just 3D print it instead of using a CNC. In any case sculptures aren't as simple as cutting a 3d form out of a hunk of metal; the variety of materials and techniques is arguably much more interesting than the shape at the end. And the physical nature of it by definition resists the infinite generative shit that AI throws on the internet; there isn't space in the world to store tons and tons of nonsense sculptures, and the cost and time of making them is nontrivial as well.
So make the change. If your idea is strong and has gravity then people will follow (clearly the guy who is working hard with no reward is a FOSS developer ;)
You’d need to serve the proper resolution too
Yes, this is really true. People on HN will see less of Stephen King, to the extent that they're not part of his audience (maybe HN is more of an Ari Aster crowd). But that doesn't matter: people aren't spending hundreds of millions of dollars on 2019 movies based on books he wrote in the 1980s because he's driving lots of Twitter engagement.

This whole discussion about King's relevance is super weird. I think it's just Internet poisoning (it happens to all of us). The fact is: Stephen King is probably more culturally relevant than Twitter. That a lot of people on this thread wouldn't even entertain this thought is a cognitive bias that comes from being very online. Most people aren't very online, and even among the very online, Twitter's relevance has been waning for many years.

Most people don't use Twitter at all! But it's actually possible that a significant fraction of the American public --- maybe even most of it! --- has seen or is deeply familiar with a Stephen King film. The #1 film in the IMDB Top 250 is a Stephen King film!
My reason for Gmail was pretty simple: it was free and free from the constraints of a work email account, and reasonably trustworthy.

People aren't annoyed by federation. They just want something reliable, trustworthy, that connects them to content and people, and costs as little as possible.

Twitter gained ascendance for the same reason: it gave everyone a free personal RSS feed.

The formula is simple: make it possible to have your own personal X for free (where X is some widely used but technically challenging or costly tool) and it will take off.