skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So when I want my services to connect to each-other within AWS why am I still dealing with these complex routing algorithms and obtuse numbering schemes?

> AWS knows exactly which physical hosts my processes are running on and could at a control plane level connect them directly. And I, as someone running a business, could focus on the higher level problem of 'service X is allowed to connect to service Y' rather than figuring out how to send IP packets across subnets/TGWs and where to configure which ports in NACLs and security groups to allow the connection.

You shouldn't be? Doesn't AWS number your machines for you automatically and give you a unique ID you can use with DNS to reach it? And also provide a variety of 'ingress' services to abstract load balancing and security as well? I'm not a consumer of AWS services in my dayjob, but isn't this their entire raison d'etre? Otherwise you may as well just run much cheaper VMs elsewhere.

> Similarly my ISP knows exactly where Amazon and CloudFlare's nearest front doors are so instead of 15 hops and DNS resolutions my laptop could just make a request to Service X on AWS. My ISP could drop the message in AWS' nearest front door and AWS could figure out how to drop the message on the right host however they want to.

Uhm, aside from handwaving away how your ISP is going to give you a direct, no-hops connection to AWS, this is pretty much exactly what your ISP is doing. Hell, in some cases, your ISP has abstracted the underlying backbone hops too using something like MPLS, and this is completely invisible to you as an end user. You or your laptop don't have to think about the network part of things at all. You ask to connect to s3, your laptop looks up the service's IP address (unique ID) in DNS, sends some packets, and your ISP routes them to CloudFlare's nearest front doors.

There are some good arguments to be made for a message-passing focused rather than connection focused protocol model, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about. What you seem to be talking about is doing away with routing altogether, and even in a relatively centralized internet, that just makes zero sense. We will continue to need the aggregation layer, we will continue to have multiple routes to a resource through multiple hops that need to be resolved into a path, and we'll continue to need a way to uniquely identify a service endpoint.
Why would you think so?

They have the combined budget of the next 10 militaries.

Price is NOT a high priority for their procurement team, unlike most shoppers.
Now wait a few (years?) until this technology can generate 3d models, environments, lighting, animation, etc. You won't even need animators, just feed the script in and get rendered scenes with virtual acting, dialogue, score, everything out.

Everyone who's dismissing this because it imitates the style of another artist (as if that was a hard technical limitation rather than a specific prompt) or lacks the je nais se quoi of "real" art is missing the point. No one would ever hire a concept artist capable of doing this when they can hire someone for a fraction of the salary to write prompts that return acceptable results in a fraction of the time.
> in the past 2 years alone the US has printed nearly 80% of USD in existence

Often cited and incorrect metric. The fed changed how the count M2 I believe because they started paying interest on reserves during their response to the COVID crisis. Either way the chart often cited showing an increase in M2 is not telling the whole story, namely that not nearly enough USD has been “printed” to satisfy world hunger and needs. (Think, if dollar was a plenty then why is DXY at the close to the second highest in history. Demand outpaces supply.)

You can Google it. Have fun! While you’re at it also Google Triffin Paradox. Read about trade deficits as they relate to a country who’s currency is a global reserve currency.
The accessibility issue is usually around width of the spaces themselves.

In the US the ADA requires a minimum 12ft (~4m) path and often smaller places in Japan are not quite that wide.
SQL or NoSQL? Why not use both (with PostgreSQL)?
The North Face futurelight stuff I find very good, I haven't tested the rest as much.

I think it's definitely worth it for every day wear if you're in a rainy and or snowy place. I use it in the winter, and it allows me to be warm and not wet. Normally the snow would melt or there would be rain and soak my gear after a while in the snow, or I would get soaked from my own sweat, and it would be pretty miserable. I can even bike in the rain without getting wet. Gore Tex mostly works too but these materials are much more breathable and soft, so it makes it way more practical for everyday wear.
Japanese people are significantly more individualist than Americans. You can have any weird hobby you want and they’ll ignore you. They produce more cultural exports per capita than the US does too.

The stereotypical collectivist society is a better description of Korea. A better way to explain Japan is it’s like England but Asian.
I'm impressed. this is the first critique I've seen that actually engages with the topic in a fair way. As of now, there's been just way too much noise to get to the detail of what exactly is wrong with AI art.

As for me, I just feel that it should be looked at the same way that photography is looked at; that it's a new medium all to itself. You wouldn't enter a photograph in an oil painting competition, so you shouldn't enter AI art into a drawing/sketch art competition either. It would also be useful if there was an acknowledgement that AI was used in some elements of the art, but like as not there will always need to be a human agent that makes corrections in what is created.
I think they use polymer, not polycarbonate.
AWS has at least 3 publicly-discussed 'clouds' (or partitions, as they're called at AWS). There may or may not be other partitions that cannot be discussed publicly.
I get the impression that the crypto crowd believes they've eliminated the human element.
Very similar story in Cameroon. Sole refinery broken since 2019 [0].

Now it’s been imported again…

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/cameroon-refinery-idUSL8N23A...
Two disclaimers: 1. IANAL 2. I can only speak about German law.

I have investigated this a few months ago while researching a radio show segment on AI art. In German law, the relevant statutes appear to be section 23.1 and section 44b of the copyright code. The original text is at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__23.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__44b.html and below is a Google Translate result that I have proof-read.

> Section 23 (Adaptations and rearrangements): "(1) Adaptations or other rearrangements of a work, especially a melody, may only be published or used with the consent of the author. If the newly created work is at a sufficient distance from the work used, it does not constitute an adaptation or rearrangement within the meaning of sentence 1."

This amounts to the same as what TFA says about derivative works in general. If it's too close to the original, it may be infringing copyright. Gauging the boundary between "too close" and "not too close" is the bread and butter of copyright courts.

> Section 44b (Text and data mining): "(1) Text and data mining is the automated analysis of one or more digital or digitized works in order to obtain information, in particular about patterns, trends and correlations.
(2) Duplications of legally accessible works for text and data mining are permitted. The copies are to be deleted when they are no longer required for text and data mining.
(3) Uses according to paragraph 2 sentence 1 are only permitted if the right holder has not reserved them. A reservation of use for works accessible online is only effective if it is in machine-readable form."

Again, IANAL, but in my opinion this covers neural networks. "Obtaining information about patterns, trends and correlations" is as close to a literal description of the purpose and function of artificial neural networks as you're going to get in legalese. Paragraph 2 just means that you have to delete your data-mined stash if you ever deem your model complete (but it should not be too hard to argue that ML training is always an ongoing process and thus the mined data will always be required). Regarding Paragraph 3, if I'm not mistaken, the "machine-readable form" part of paragraph 3 is very very very specifically aimed at robots.txt. That is, if you allow your art to appear in search results (which most artists want), then it's also fair game for data mining.

Once again, IANAL, and this is only German law. But I think it's very easy to make a case here that this existing code of law covers AI training as well, as long as measures are taken to ensure that source images cannot be reproduced with any sort of fidelity (and obviously that's a big "if").
If I recall Nim doesn't even allow tabs. Programming languages should not be overly opinionated in formatting, especially when it requires extra bytes to use spaces.
It is a straightforwardly true description of what she said.

Here's a link. [ https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/03/helen-joyce-transgende... ] It contains direct quotes and video of her statements. Her statements quoted in the first section constitute support for involuntary eugenics; this means she is an eugenics advocate.
I expect it's a matter of scale. Game designers are more powerful than the gods within their virtual worlds. I imagine that having arbitrary control over matter, energy, time and space in the physical world at small scale would qualify you as a small-scale god. At planet, galaxy or universe-scale that sort of omnipotence would qualify you as a rather serious deity - especially since it would presumably enable immortality, omniscience, etc..
If I understand this right, the advantage of using this over something like Webflow is that you can have code exported that you can customize much more rapidly and you are not locked in a vendor?
You’re creating lots and lots of bugs that will come back to haunt to at runtime (midnight on a Friday if the universe has its way).
Here’s the impression I’m getting.

Elon Musk has an idea to save the world. Get 80% of the people in the world to be payment verified, allow full freedom of speech, everyone will be happy.

Interestingly he very quickly seems to be pivoting more and more to, wow, people don’t want what I want, _they_ must be wrong. I’ll build a product for the people who support me, and this seems to be a part of that and not a general competitor. It’s interesting to me how quickly he is giving up and not even trying.
YouTube TV subscribers accuse Disney of hiking prices for streaming pay TV
Me too, and I have been a sysadmin and developer for almaot 30 years and know exactly what to do and even I still haven't gotten around to it. But every ordinary not-even-in-IT person is supposed to navigate all that? It's preposterous.
Moderators are standing by to moderate if twitter is not sufficiently moderated.

Mode: Rated

Id be super curious to know how much of the twitter usage is via the app vs a browser anyways…

Musk needs to do a browser too, laser focus
It's already pretty common to choose federation status based on moderation policies. Many instances will only federate with instances that require content warnings for NSFW content, and some won't federate with instances that allow NSFW content at all. This information is machine-readable (see https://instances.social for an example of how it gets used), and lying about it will get you on lists for defederating pretty quickly.
Memory things, sure. There is the whole concurrency/parallelism thing, though.
This article is so riddled with memes I can’t take it seriously.
The fact there’s multiple companies with lawyers on staff already doing it should suggest you shouldn’t claim it’s illegal based on no evidence.

(It’s legal the same way Google Image Search is.)
They had a personal block list at one point... but removed it.
Furries are tragically underserved by human artists.
From what I've been told, the biggest difference imho is that BSDs include the entire operating system, including userspace. Most Linux distros pull from a pool of packages that are supposed to mostly work with tons of different configurations, whereas BSD can be tailor-made for one rock-solid configuration.

System upgrades are also basically atomic for this reason, since user-installed packages and applications are separated from the system level. The base system itself is versioned as a whole.
Maybe visual art will respond to this like it did after the camera came out. Suddenly artists were free to interpret the world through their own lenses.
Yeah, we'll see how the courts come down on this one. But If we follow exactly the same process as you describe using a human instead of a computer it seems like that would be fine. Artists copy each other all the time.

Also, this looks to me like a situation where generating art is suddenly so cheap and easy it doesn't matter what the courts decide. People can and will ignore the law, because it is trivial to generate new pictures and it is cost ineffective to enforce any restrictions. We're going to see this tech take off. Who knew that art would be the next thing software took out?
People appreciate art for the story. It’s why originals sell for more than prints.
That is not how art works at all though. It's very difficult to distinguish a real van gogh from a fake van gogh. The real will still sell for millions and the fake will not.
>> Central to antitrust cases is the appropriate determination of the “relevant market.” Epic Games structured its lawsuit to argue that Apple does not compete with anyone; it is a monopoly of one. Apple, by contrast, argues that the effective area of competition is the market for all digital video games in which it and Epic Games compete heavily. [...] Ultimately, after evaluating the trial evidence, the Court finds that the relevant market here is digital mobile gaming transactions, not gaming generally and not Apple’s own internal operating systems related to the App Store. [...] Having defined the relevant market as digital mobile gaming transactions, the Court next evaluated Apple’s conduct in that market. Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws. While the Court finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinarily high profit margins, these factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. Success is not illegal. The final trial record did not include evidence of other critical factors, such as barriers to entry and conduct decreasing output or decreasing innovation in the relevant market. The Court does not find that it is impossible; only that Epic Games failed in its burden to demonstrate Apple is an illegal monopolist. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

The App Store is an absolute monopoly in the market of software sales on iOS devices.

That the court defined the relevant market otherwise isn't contradictory.

Antitrust law of 1890 just isn't well-suited for keeping modern globally networked platforms competitive.
> because they drive ad impressions.

Could you explain why?

If Google replaces SEO trash with decent results, the ads they will show on the Search page will remain unchanged. How would the impressions suffer? Or rather, since Google charges per click not per impression for search ads, how would ad clicks suffer?

In fact, I thought low-quality organic search results are purely a negative for Google profits, since users (over a very long run) move their search elsewhere (Tiktok, Reddit, etc.).
> no one wants yen or a currency from a dictatorship

meanwhile in the real world https://www.tbsnews.net/world/china-more-democratic-america-...
> Things that are logically impossible on Turing machines appear to be effectively impossible on real computers, at least in the worst case.

My problem is when Turing machines are used to justify something being true when it is actually false for the vast majority of cases that we actually care about.

Sure, the problem is undecidable if your program requires infinite memory because it's trying to solve some mathematical problem (i.e. something related to infinity).

But for most programs, we would actually prefer knowing whether they will run into a memory limit or whether they cycle forever (or not), which is a decidable problem.

> You are not even trying to solve the problem. You are simply brute-forcing it by running two copies of the program at different speeds and comparing their internal states.

Indeed! But at least now we know that it's possible to solve the problem.

So here's a question which is actually more interesting, now that we know it's possible to solve it: can we solve the same problem without simulating how the program runs step-by-step?

Or in other words, can we reduce the time complexity and/or increase the efficiency of such algorithms?

That's the actual interesting question to me.

I agree with the rest of your comment.
English is the JavaScript of languages. As a result everything will be written in it eventually.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

Edit: also the relationship between pronunciation, spelling and meaning is less architectural and more archeological as English developed in the nexus of at least two divergent language groups and reflects pragmatic choices and new development that lead to the appearance of inconsistency from the outside.
I have a project that involves publishing an image I generate and publish to an audience everyday. It's not high value art, but the process does often involve me thinking of a concept I want to communicate to my audience and working with the AI to produce something that communicates that concept.

When I started doing this, I was uncomfortable thinking of myself as the author of the image in any way. I'm okay with it now. There's some skill I am expressing, even if not much, and I am connecting with an audience.
AWS has three processors: Graviton, Inferentia, and Trainium. They're made in-house.

https://aws.amazon.com/silicon-innovation/
TIL "obverse", ty
> Nothing external will ever pressure USD

Not completely true. The current crisis is driven by foreign buyers not being enthusiastic about buying more US debt. The current inflation crisis is directly related to the large amount of price support for US debt provided by the US Fed in 2020-21.

US govt is essentially holding foreign creditors hostage. If you try to move away from US debt, they will just print more dollars and devalue all your (and everyone else's) assets. So the non-Western world (90% of humans) very strongly wants to dedollarize as smoothly as possible. US debt is extremely toxic, which isn't an obvious fact if you look at the surface only.
The place where I struggle with public speaking is the anticipation and the first couple of minutes. Once I'm in the flow, everything is great, but before that I'm a nervous wreck.
Tell them you're broke.
The last paragraph obviates anything else I would need to say.

Maybe you would have been (or actually were) happier in the old East Germany.
It does sound a bit like fascist nonsense. On the other hand I do have to admit to people often become stronger to when they need to in order to survive. Look at the Ukrainians. Still I'd rather they were living calm and peaceful lives maybe with a better economy instead of having to be brave and strong to survive.
The made in China one is cheaper and better for society for comparative advantage reasons. Trade is good!
8B People: How Evolution Made It Happen
I hope it isn't a real thing! I was being facetious.
thanks, you're right it was pretty bad, I corrected it.
I have a feeling you've never actually been there.

They do have an issue with forced confessions, but you're much more likely to be arrested or worse (shot) in the USA for no reason.

But beyond that, this is an over simplification of something that stems from multiple things, not some singular root reason.

And if you want data, look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in... for why your take is absolutely bonkers.

We have the highest incarceration rate by far, so why aren't we safer than Japan?
https://xkcd.com/932/

Ffs, a tech forum should be better than this
More efficient than active cooling.

Your city has it particularly bad, don't let that convince you that everywhere is like London. I live somewhere much more pragmatic, and passive cooling is used without the religious issues you predict.
It works for me, so I switched and haven't looked back.
Recent and related:

Ask HN: Why the Linux kernel has no unit tests? - Nov 2022
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33742130 (204 comments)
Protonmail has an import from gmail feature that worked well. Not that I practice inbox zero, so the amount of mail I had to transfer was very little. My wife's inbox is a disaster, sometimes I go in there to trim things down, but I have little advice there. Try to practice good email hygiene.
> This is not a cheap tactic to try to "get" someone.

It sure does a good job of looking like it. It's an attempt at emulating friendship in the hopes of coopting social mores about friendship in order to make a sale.
My current contract position is with an airline (not American, but a partner) working on modernizing their check-in. We talk to SABRE a lot, through a middleware layer so we just do json/REST. BUT, the endpoints are just an insane mess. There's at least three different ways to get flight information, all requiring different request parameters (though usually airline, flight #, departure date & origin are enough) and one will return some subset of data, and another a different but somewhat overlapping subset.

It's kind of a joke to me that we're modernizing a small part of the whole system and still using 1960s-era backend systems. Polishing a turd.
Ah good old bobby tables :)
I did. I've used Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine and also KISS Linux.

I think KISS Linux is my favorite in terms of control, but it gives me so much control that I was never able to get it working. Its build system is theoretically awesome, but in practice maintaining my own distribution is less fun than it sounds.

Alpine is my favorite in terms of runtime stability since it essentially reimages itself into a tmpfs every boot and packages are completely atomic. But the fact that everything is statically linked means it's a pain to get anything working, and I haven't yet found anything that fills both niches. (I have not tried Silverblue or NixOS yet)

Arch is my favorite in terms of customization because basically everything has an AUR package these days, including the old traditional window managers (i.e. blackbox) that make for a utilitarian UNIX, my favorite kind. (With Wayland that all goes away, which is why I despise Wayland.)

Ubuntu is far too "stable" for my needs, and I commonly find that the newest release is already years out of date on packages. You basically need Linuxbrew to do any sort of bleeding-edge development on an Ubuntu machine.

I'm open to trying more, of course.
Artists provide different products from image generation models, especially artists making physical objects, so they probably won’t be replaced at all.
> And then, more crucially, they don't say "But of course, this proof is completely wrong if you assume that the program runs on a finite-state machine. And not just that, but it is proven that it is decidable in such circumstances".

Of course they don’t, because it’s extremely obvious that it’s decidable for finite state machines.

However, in practical terms computers are more usefully modeled as Turing machines than as FSMs (yes, even though pedantically speaking they are FSMs).
May I ask if you think price stability is of any benefit for a given currency at all? If not, why not?

My intention is to justify inflation from this end.
like the enormous corpus of source material powering every adult human brain?