skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Followup: I did do takeout recently and had to redo several times bc one of the zip files keeps "corrupting?". Me thinks they may have a queuing or race condition issues. Where it's obviously unable to maintain continuity in its endeavor.
In the EU, training a model on copyrighted data does not infringe copyright. This is explicit, codified law as of the latest EU Copyright Directive[0]. In the US, AI researchers are more or less hoping that Authors Guild v. Google forms controlling precedent against lawsuits against the AI companies. While this is not done-and-dusted case law, I can see the logic. The model is capable of, and is intended to be capable of, creating novel art.

In neither case is it legal to use outputs of an AI that infringe an already-existing copyrighted work. This means anyone using it to generate production-ready artwork is exposing themselves to potential legal liability if their AI winds up regurgitating training set data. This is what I worry about way more than just "are the model weights infringing copyright".

As for morality:

- Absolutely none of the current generative art systems are trained from scratch on ethically-sourced datasets. The AI companies just assume that because they need ungodly amounts of training set data, that they are morally entitled to get it, because they spend more time staring into the eyes of a basilisk[1] than worrying about the world they already live in.

- Multiple companies getting into generative art have gone above and beyond in giving human artists the middle finger. DeviantArt decided to blow all their good-will from defending against NFT nonsense by making their AI training program opt-out, which is NOT HOW CONSENT WORKS. Mimic[2] and Dreambooth are basically artistic impersonation tools that have specific moral implications beyond the general practice of AI art.

Whether or not this becomes actual law is... well, I'll put it to you this way. Stability AI's Dance Diffusion is actually trained on an ethically-sourced, public-domain dataset. Why? Because they're afraid of being sued by the RIAA. Despite the name, copyright maximalists are less about maximizing the rights of artists and more about building moats around large publishers. And generative art does not threaten[3] those publishers, so it will not be banned.

[0] Yes, the same one that mandated upload filters on video sites.

[1] Roko's Basilisk posits the idea of a superintelligent AI - one that can eat everyone's brains and emulate them perfectly - constructing a perfect hell for people who didn't build it as a way to threaten those people in the past to build it.

Longtermists can burn in computer-generated hell. Time discounts exist for a reason.

[2] https://illustmimic.com/en/

[3] Specifically: even in a world where AI completely outperforms humans on all artistic endeavors, publishers will just buy the AI companies.
What new technology upended the whole social fabric?
Have we not learnt: "to generate hydrogen and CO2."
I find talking to them is a great way for to gain their confidence.

Let them see you and see that you are not threat. Treat them like a dog you want to gain the confidence of an you can't go too far wrong. Don't chase them, just or rush at them, just let them that you belong in the space as well and are not a threat.

Don't feed them. They don't need you to and unless you do it right you can make them very sick.
Unit tests and TDD should be used as tools when necessary. Unfortunately, many team leads and higher-level engineers don't take the time to explain to juniors when to use these tools. Just that the tools are essential. And therefore, for many engineers, they have become a religion, or worse - a cargo cult.

But really, most code does not need to be tested. The parts that are likely to break when others change them should be. Testing can mitigate risks for complex, esoteric, highly dependable, domain-specific, and technical code. In such cases, tests can save a lot of time that would be spent fixing defects later. In contrast, testing as a religion is entirely counter-productive. It's a time sink in an effort whose whole purpose is to save time. And what is worse, poorly written tests make the codebase less maintainable, more complex (to pass wrongly written tests), and degrade code quality (through a false sense of security).

Functional/integration testing can suffer from the same problems. There's nothing more annoying than fixing a defect in a system only to uncover a mess in functional tests that relied on the bug. Of course, some of this is unavoidable. However, cargo cult-style testing is avoidable and entirely self-inflicted harm in many teams.

In short: testing is a tool to save time and increase code quality; such a tool should be used where it saves time and improves code quality, and it should not be used where it just results in the opposite.
Habits for Making Wicked Hard Decisions
Almost all of the barbecues you can buy now at Bunnings or Barbecues Galore (probably the two biggest Australian retailers for barbecues by far), have lids/hoods.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/products/outdoor-living/barbecue

https://www.barbequesgalore.com.au/barbeques/free-standing/
Oh boy, that is so not true. Anything where the boundaries of the lifetimes are easily determined at runtime but unknown at compile time is extremely easy to model safely in C, and a nightmare in Rust. At least if you want the same level of performance and a similar modeling of the data
I think we can distinguish between an actor playing a role and a famous person hired to endorse a product. If this means commercials revert to having all no-name actors because the law tilts towards endorsement, so be it.
That's a contender for best mascot since Fatso the Fatarse Wombat
(I'm a daily Fedora+nixpkgs user, and MacOS for work)

Apple has not provided the requisite plumbing to allow Lima to match the experience that Linux offers. I was the guy who had to write the scripts so that the rest of the folks could get up and running (at the time Lima was the only realistic container solution on aarch64). Pitfall after pitfall. There are still things that I can't do. I'm still telling people to `script.sh runtime recreate` at least weekly.

Don't get me wrong, the [Co]Lima folks have done heroic work. It's MacOS that is dog shit for this kind of stuff. We shouldn't brush that under the rug because doing so gives Apple no incentive to fix their shit.
The nature of causality is one of the most fundamental mysteries of the universe. Does it exclusively boil down to logical inference, and/or to the absence of logical contradiction? What’s its relation to time, exactly?
Yeah this really threw me off too. I kept saying no it didn’t solve the halting problem thinking of the more generalized version, not that particular case. Eventually I got it, but not right away!
I felt similarly, with a wife and a kid even. In a 2500 sqft house, I often got frustrated because I felt like I constantly couldn't find them.

1600 was fine. We're in about 2k now, and definitely wouldn't want to go any bigger.
The models are already locked away behind cloud APIs. Stable Diffusion wasn't supposed to happen; OpenAI thought that nobody else could afford to train a U-Net on CLIP at their scale and give it away for free.

I will point out that the usual copyright maximalists have been pretty silent on the issue of AI art. The biggest opposition to AI is coming from the Free Software community - i.e. the people who want to abolish artists' ownership over their work outright.
I mean sure. But Gisele's ads were specifically calling her an "ESG Advisor" to FTX.

If you're going to tell me you're any kind of "governance" advisor to a company that defrauded people to the tune of billions, I am not going to pretend you are somehow not partially liable.
Some quick questions.

SLAAC seems to introduce insane churn in the IPv6 of end user devices.
SLAAC (vs DHCPv6) seems to struggle in fully configuring an end user device (think DNS servers etc.

As someone who has beat my head on the IPv6 thing for a bit before giving up (I tried to go all IPv6), what is the "proper" way to setup a home IPv6 network with SLAAC and not DHCPv6?

If DHCPv6 for some reason is essentially always required, why not let subsume SLAAC for IP address assignments?
Only if they can do something with the CO2 other than releasing it into the atmosphere. Like trapping it underground or storing it somehow.

It's not a totally crazy idea, carbon capture from the atmosphere is very hard - there's only 400 parts per million. Carbon capture from concentrated sources, like the smokestacks of coal power plants is a real thing. It remains to be seen if it's done responsibly.
This is absurd. You don’t get to open the books of the company you are being paid to endorse. Nor should you be allowed to.

This is an insane suit and is hopefully thrown out right away.

I will say it again, absurd.
I think your example doesn't quite work here. People pay for music now because handing Spotify or whoever ten dollars a month is a easier then torrenting, easier then managing directories of mp3 files and moving them to your phone, and has value adds in the form of discovery.
“Once crypto banks obtain deposits from investors, these firms borrow, lend, and trade with themselves. They do not interact with firms connected to the real economy.”

That's the reality. The only reason prices went up is because the "whales" build up this domino bonanza sucking in real people's money in the process.

Since no sane person would invest in crypto in the short to medium term, I don't see how the industry will recover from that.

Personally, I believe the only way is to "earn" for doing stuff on the internet. Yet, the experience is that earning in a highly volatile currency is not the incentive many people think it is.
They should probably normalize this for the age of the housing - older homes tend to be smaller
You may be right that they wouldnt want the eventual complexity but I don't think it would be impossible to say that if someone in an ad uses their existing name and likeness then it is different than just a random model smiling in the ad. The FTX ad with Brady relied heavily on his actual likeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFZqk8k4QwQ
That definitely is impressive, and thanks for pointing out it still misses key features! I will say though that those anime-styles, for lack of a better term, seem to do very very well when rendered by an AI. Other less simplified or less flat styles it struggles with much much more (not to say this style is lesser in any way, however).

So this seems to be more of a incremental improvement, from a layman's view. I'm sure it's technologically impressive, but it looks like it won't be generating ref sheets. Thank you for testing!
I'm pretty sure banning endorsements would violate the first amendment. It has to be something very serious to justify prior restraint. Making the consequences of a bad endorsement large on the other hand does not have such issues.
In the continuing bifurcation of global computing technology between US and Chinese spheres of influence, is there room for a technology that is not aligned with either?
> you might be interested in checking out Kandria

Along those lines there is a classic side scroller with mouse aiming called Abuse[1] that was written in Lisp. The source code is in the public domain now[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game)

[2] https://github.com/darealshinji/abuse-game
> I have encountered many situations where perfectly reasonable, zero copy, memory management that would be completely normal, fast and safe in C

So you think. It doesn't matter how smart you think you are, statistically speaking you're not smarter than a compiler.
I think it depends. If Tiger Woods promotes a golf club and I find out that it sucks, I'll be annoyed at him.

If Larry David promotes a crypto exchange, my expectation is:

1.) Larry David doesn't know how crypto works, and very likely thinks it's stupid

2.) Larry David doesn't understand the additional layer of what a crypto exchange is

3.) Larry David doesn't have any opinion regarding which crypto exchange to use. He definitely doesn't know internals wrt how much of a reserve the exchange is keeping, and whether the coins with which they're backing other coins are reputable

If I lose money with this exchange, I place 0 blame on Larry David.
It’s a high-tech reinterpretation of Andrew Jackson’s monetary policy.
Hey, you sound like people haven't been very kind to you, and have taught you their cruelty is normal. I just want to say I'm sorry and I hope you find someone who can teach you that people can genuinely care about your wellbeing and do things that they know increase your quality of life, such as avoiding topics that they know make you uncomfortable.

I hope you find someone that teaches you that kindness doesn't have to be conditional.
Powaqqatsi holds a special place in my heart - it's the only film that has ever put me to sleep in a theatre.

The style of this reminds me of Infinite Adam Curtis, a generated series of video clips overlaid with random punchy / pithy comments in (very loosely) his style.

https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/
"Celebrity" is ill defined, but the law definitely recognizes a public figure
unusualwhales could be intentionally misinterpreting the intent of the congressman.
Or, they can be correct.

Another site [1] explains this as a the congressman is questioning whether SEC is practicing selective-outrage, rather than the function of governance.

Finding a really bad apple, and then using to blaming the whole industry of de-centralized finance, is very similar how criminal activities are used to persecute legal firearm ownership in US.

With that said, this republican politician is a lawyer, -- and to my 'layman' mind -- every lawyer politician is bad, unless they prove otherwise.

[1] https://tokenist.com/congressman-says-ftx-not-failure-of-cry...
Rust lifetimes are just the lifetimes of the memory, exactly the same as C. The only difference is you simply need to (sometimes) tell Rust where the memory for a reference comes from explicitly, where as in C you don't (but in C if you get it wrong your program will segfault, unlike Rust, or worse it might not...sometimes).
> The slave-economy of South was doing great

Not really. Their economy was in crisis which is one of the main reasons they tried to secede. Slave labor could not compete with free labor.
Most ICBMs are solid fueled (at least the US ones)
Curl is a good tool to familiarize yourself with, but I've written test with curl and bash it is very cumbersome this is another level of awesomeness for that. If all you are going to do is connect to a server with some json, then curl is ok, I agree that nc/telnet/socat might be a bit extreme.

Hurl is not enough for some of the tests I want to write, i.e. testing sending a 50MB file, or dynamic content.
Gift link'ed : https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-cryptos-collapse-may-have-d...
Annoying that the book blurbs don't mention the author names.
>You can build one yourself

Not necessarily, FIDO supports attestation.
People don't like to hear it, but a high-trust society is enabled by homogeneity.

Look at Japan's demographics, and opposition to foreign religions, languages, etc.
They don't allow "the world" to recreate itself inside them, and the conflict and distrust (Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam) that that brings.
There were very few sales today. Almost all the stuff was at our near retail.
> Maybe it’s better off of mobile
Yes we have, CO2 only matters if it gets released. The article even suggests some solutions.

Please don't make CO2 a boogieman when it doesn't need to be. CO2 produced in a wellbore =/= CO2 in the atmosphere.
By definition, NOTHING is post-Eternal September.

Happy September 10679, everyone.
> you can get the domain name from the archived page...

Posting an archive link breaks the feature which lets you view submissions by site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nytimes.com
Do:

1.take notes. Personal CRM of contact, specifics like kids, key dates and topic

2.say minimum but say something interesting about yourself.

3. Make mtg w C level to get a feel of where they want to go. Then make mtgs w bottom level to hear where they think they are going without disclosuring your findings.

4. Track personality types.

5. Listen mostly talk minimally.

Gosh, so many things I could dump on this topic as I've burned more bridges then created bc I lacked to do the above.

Ultimately, it's the old adage of it's who you know and not what or how much you know.

Oh one last thing: practice alot of humility.
It's purported benefits (exchanging money through boundaries either legally or financially created) outweigh its drawbacks carbon footprint/gpu market manipulation. Those who disagree weigh the benefits higher than the drawbacks and those who agree weight the drawbacks higher than the benefits. Systemically it serves as a transaction/computational system built almost entirely on the inability to manage negative externalizes.
If you've got perl installed you'll might have a "GET" binary present, mine is /usr/bin/GET, which comes with the WWW-module.

Although this is written in portable perl, rather than being compiled, so the static vs. dynamic choice doesn't really mean much it is a simple alternative.

Otherwise I built a simple busybox-inspired collection of tools, written in golang, which includes a simple HTTP client too:

https://github.com/skx/sysbox

Those are just a couple of examples, I'm certain there are multiple other choices out there. But I guess curl is ubiquitous enough that most people just use it directly, and add it when missing!
Yeah, the safety record of liquid fueled weapons isn't very good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...
Ask HN: Google Hiring Committee admist industry turndown and hiring freeze
This is a question aimed at people who have knowledge of the Google Hiring Committee process.

I've recently finished my on-site Google interviews (Dublin based role). The interviews went very well however I've been reading on the news about potential layoffs, etc and I'm wondering if the hiring committee's are going to be more selective now then they previously have been (e.g compared to 6, 12, 24 months ago).

Does anyone know whether this would be the case, or are HC decisions isolated from wider-political and financial changes in the industry/company?

For some context, there is no competition for the role, it was specifically created for me and I'm the only candidate (I'm a current fixed-term researcher).
Please explain how such a law could ever possibly comply with the constitutional vagueness doctrine, and with 1st Amendment protections on freedom of expression.
The US has always abided by such agreements. The Hague requires the US to rescue soldiers held by an international body whose authority over US forces they publicly and perpetually deny the legitimacy of. It's not going back on your word when you keep reiterating you're not involved.
The first is a direct transaction, the other props up the US economy by creating demand for dollars and a taxable point for US companies. Ghana should only trade in gold...adding useless American middlemen to these transactions is idiotic.
Elon doesn't really care about advertisers? It looks like he is trying to create a community entirely made of user subscription fees?
Yeah I didn't misspell my own name, why would you assume so?
This is achievable with cultural education and values being taught from families and schools. It's not that much effort, but it may look unfeasible in the beginning.
The consistent support from a handful of major studios for the Mac platform suggests enough Mac users do play games to make those efforts profitable. I'm pretty sure the user base plays different games, on average, though. Going all the way back to the 80s, every version of Civilization and Simcity were ported, while FPSes have been more hit-and-miss.
Opinion people saying something on TV is not like a newspaper (or news TV show) making a claim.
> but would that substantially improve on the current capabilities of Wikipedia?

Absolutely it would. Just as a quick example, there was an author whose name was red on Wikipedia, which I think means that someone intended to make a page for them at one point.

I created this page and it got blocked by a 17 year old because there wasn't enough citations. This was an author of 20 books, but Wikipedia won't allow his page because there wasn't... newspaper articles written about him??

Why should this information be lost to the world because Wikipedia is run by bored megalomaniacs?

I think that Larry Sanger's vision is to create a federated network of multiple encyclopedia's that can each specialize in their specific area. But Noosphere seems to want to be the P2P version of that. Cut out the middle man, I suppose.
Is Gitea a for-profit project? What's wrong with that?
Investor home purchases drop 30%
He will be arrested, trial date will be set to few years later..case will drag on. He will get an year suspended sentence. He will be out on parole next day.

I will soak my socks in vinegar and eat them on Livestream if I am wrong or if he gets the book thrown at him
>about as accurate as your average office clock

That's underselling it, mains frequency is deliberately controlled to keep average frequency very accurately in long-term periods.
Most of the population isn't really that sane (see lottery ticket sales)
It's main thing these days is its compile-time function executing and ‘design by introspection’.
Strangely no one even mentions how evil Google is in the discussion.
> explain how such a law could ever possibly comply with the constitutional vagueness doctrine, and with 1st Amendment protections on freedom of expression

Fraud is not protected by the First Amendment [1]. This is old law.

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12180