skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an AI-generated image can't be mistaken for an already existing, copyrighted image then I really don't see how it can be copyright infringement.

As a human artist, I can study Picasso's paintings my whole life and paint in the style of Picasso, but as long as I don't copy an existing work of Picasso then how can what I do be copyright infringement?

Copyright doesn't protect style, afaik, though IANAL.

Incidentally, human artists get copied all the time. Walk outside any major museum and you'll see endless Van Gogh imitators peddling their wares on the sidewalk. Somehow people don't get all hot and bothered about it. But when an AI does it suddenly everyone's up in arms over copyright violation.

How many human artists have copied Picasso's style? Probably thousands. How many have tried to paint like Da Vinci? Probably millions. Where is the outrage?
> They’re doing well, but not too well, and scarcely have any incentive to rock the boat... Just think about the amount of time and energy they have to spend on grants to get permission to do their job through sales pitches and papers to promote themselves.

We shouldn't be afraid to reach out to local laboratory research groups who produce interesting papers. Even if they don't have immediate need of your time, money, or expertise, they probably know many groups where you would be gratefully welcome to pitch in and recognized appropriately.
> Pesticide resistance is the most established on the market becauae there happened to be particular success with it decades ago, that’s it.

This might be the case, but still my original bone to pick remains. GMO is not without downside, and people cheering for it without a hint of scepticism reeks ignorance and unwillingness to learn from past mistakes that were made in the name of science.

As you've highlighted, said technique was used for decades, for the detriment of soil health, bees and all kinds of smaller organisms, without it being questioned.

As for your last paragraph, I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that voicing these 'uneducated' opinions about GMO simply pushes the crops to incognito mode, making them less visible for consumers? Better to see your killer face-to-face than being stabbed to the back? Not sure about that.
> Same for the Bacha-bazi custom in Afghanistan

Which apparently isn't all that old. And you know, which the Taliban hates. A lot of the evil things the Taliban did (and do!) were justified in outrage over sexual violence.
All I'll say, is if the license wasn't clear re: lifetime limits, they could be sued.
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why does the author persistently call him Elon 'Mush'?

childish attacks like this discredit the critique, rather than embellish it.
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They now get a considerably more centralized program. Instead of working through 50+ DMVs and whatever equipment the person's branch happened to use to take the photo however long ago it was taken and whatever standard resolution they get the result in, TSA can now use homeland security kinds of money to buy whatever cameras it wants, and collect a stream of photos of people who they have positively identified. And since they also now have a known high-quality image and identification at a specific place and time, they can correlate that with lower-quality images taken elsewhere in the airport to create training datasets to make automated identification from surveillance cameras more robust.

Do they already do this elsewhere, e.g. with Global Entry? Sure.
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I really wish we could buy a new car these days without some insane infotainment system. I don't even want a screen or backup cam. I know DOT requires a backup cam, but they cause more trouble than they're worth and are there largely to compensate for the beefier pylons they also require now (less likely to get crushed if you roll, but more likely to get in an accident from reduced visibility).

I've owned or rented about four cars of different make and different software bases that would occasionally freeze up when you switch out of reverse into forward, but the cam would still be up, preventing you from accessing important car functions (and distracting the driver).

I've had to look up how to reset infotainment systems on youtube because it just wouldn't turn on at all.

There was also a report of an infotainment system which would glitch out if a radio broadcasted certain characters in their station or track info, causing it to stay stuck on that radio station, even across reboots (IIRC this was traced to an ancient js lib, I may be wrong though). How much help do you think the car manufacturer offered? It was likely asymptotic with 0.

But even if infotainment systems didn't suck for all these reasons, I still wouldn't want one. They seriously just suck ass by their very nature. Just give me a vehicle.
I can hand my friend cash at the dinner table. And that's what I do. No central authority needs to be involved in things like this, nor should that be required.
> To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways.

Is that true, though? These AIs seem pretty capable to extract abstractions, like an author's style, and apply it to novel concepts.
For the table situation we solve this by have a generic concept of a "card" that is rendered as a table cell when it's the grandchild of a table (table > tr > td) but otherwise it's just a standalone item, much like a markdown callout.
I've been using ChatGPT all weekend to generate code and what I found was this:

* Its absurdly good at coding and following types. For example if you change a type in Rust to be an Option, it will refactor the code to properly handle Options in the parts it used them. but it isn't perfect.
* It gets it well enough there. It can generate test cases so its easy to test to see if it works.

but in the end after hours and hours of trying to coax the AI, it was unable to do what I wanted, build a b-tree in Python. it built a binary tree just fine, but trying to have it generalize to a b-tree was a problem.

* it introduced many many many subtle errors. Like variables not being initialized or not splitting the children correctly.
* Its implementation worked when all keys inserted were in order, but not when they were out of order.
* it would miss and leave out variables.
* It would frequently have index errors from trying to access lists out of bounds.
* writing the code in Rust was almost impossible. it would constantly have wrong types or move errors.

Overall I couldn't recommend this to anyone without a strong CS background. It introduces far too many subtle bugs in code that are are almost impossible to review because the code it produces is so convincing that you go "hmm maybe it knows what it is talking about" but in the end you have no idea what you should trust.

Even the test cases that it generates can be deceptive. They look convincing but upon closer inspection, sometimes are just not really testing anything.
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Didn't say it's fair. Just understandable. If you use something for more than 25 years and are too greedy to give a couple bucks then that's worse than being unfair IMO.
Sure, but that's not the argument. It's that if you require people to carry a helmet with them to use your for-hire bike system, less people will use it, but they'll still need to get places, so they're more likely to hire a car or drive themselves.

The hypothesis is that requiring helmets may make individual bikers safer in isolation, but if it causes less people to bike and to drive instead, the increase in people driving cars may make it less safe to ride a bike, even adjusted for the fact that they're safer via the helmet.

I'd imagine this is especially true given that the helmet mostly only helps prevent the more dramatic injuries to the head. Getting hit by a car is still likely to seriously injure you in plenty of places the helmet doesn't help with.
> Mandatory helmet laws make the number of injuries associated with biking go down.

You can also reduce the number of cycling injuries by banning bicycles.

[Edit] /s
It’s amusing you picked this as an example because the EFT subreddit is notoriously moderated. This one works because it has overwhelming evidence. The author of this post only has a few screenshots and assurances. I imagine these players would have the same experience as the author otherwise.
> Citation needed. If they are now traveling via automobile

First, there's no need for any citation, helmets do reduce trauma from impact sensibly

See:

"Helmets provide a 63 to 88% reduction in the risk of head, brain and severe brain injury for all ages of bicyclists"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025438/

Secondly: if they are now traveling via automobile, the risk of injuries is less than going by bike without an helmet.

If you believe that by driving cars the risk of brain trauma goes up 63 to 80%, you should provide some evidence,

You're also blindly assuming that no bike means car, in my opinion it would mirror the usage pattern of someone not keen to use a car: public transportation, walking, other means of transportation such as skateboard, scooters etc.
Yeah people here were promoting all sorts of weird covid / vaccine conspiracy theories too.

It's contrarian brain, I guess.
>But literally nothing changed with regards to the license.

Yes, it did. The original agreement[0] was for "a one time, life-time registration which will work with current and future versions of mIRC". The new agreement[1] "entitles you to three years of free updates to new versions of mIRC. If you are a business user, you will need to renew your licenses yearly at a discount".

>A tightwad isn’t necessarily a bad person...

Delivery matters, though. And for what it's worth, I'm not getting the sense that a lot of the people in this thread who are frustrated by this are simply never going to pay. You can simultaneously be annoyed by this change and also understanding of why.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20091230075527/http://www.mirc.c...

[1] https://www.mirc.com/register.html
> 9V powered trains from the 90s

You could use an RCX to control and power the train motors. Fun times from a simpler world, the downside was obviously that you could have only one train running on the grid because the power was supplied back to the rails!
Russia invaded crimea in 2014
If you always charge at a Supercharger you will have a reduced battery life.
Ironically, another article on the HN front page makes this same point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33864276
Isn't FedNow separate from CBDC proposals? Some overlap in purpose but different in function.

https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2022/cbdc-weekly-feds-...
Yeah I think the email and wait part seems like more work for the dev ultimately and counterproductive to the point it looks passive aggressive. But I respect that he has opted to honor the life time licenses regardless rather than the jiggery of making a new version to “fake” honor the original commitment and get more licensing. Im frankly stunned so many people think the latter is more honorable than the former.

For me I just use ircII.
Russia has an interest in sowing energy chaos amongst European countries. When dealing with a personalist dictatorship one has to take into account the state of mind and beliefs of one person and such a thing can be erratic and irrational. One should also take into account rogue elements within the regime. Perhaps oligarchs are vying for power by sabotaging other oligarchs who are also vying for power.
Even cars from the 2000s, as long as there's no displays more advanced than a 1-bit LCD matrix you've probably got nothing to worry about
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but using HTTP/WebSocket instead of UDP

I think websockets run over UDP when hosted on http/3.
Everyone is (rightfully) picking on your GMO example, but I want to address something else:

> Today, it's self-evident to us as consumers when a product is cheap, low-quality, manufactured garbage from China.

Correct.

> In many cases we can choose to spend more and buy a handmade or custom version of the product we want.

Not quite. It's increasingly hard to find a version of a product that's not low-quality garbage - the expensive option is often just the cheap option with extra markup for those who got fooled by marketing, or naively believe companies still care about their brands.

That's the unexpected side effect that, I feel, people still mostly failed to realize: because running a company and manufacturing anything has nontrivial costs, letting the market race to the bottom hollows out the middle. You're left with a bunch of specialty vendors who make quality goods for other businesses or governments, at ridiculous prices, and the low-quality throwaway garbage for everyone else. The "more expensive, reasonable quality" product group disappears - the vendors move either into low-quality crap or too-expensive-for-individuals specialty items (or sometimes both), as the middle can't compete with either end.

I imagine the threat of AI-generated content to be similar: as it completely blows the bottom across creative industry, it will hollow it out. Skilled creators will, when they can, move to the high-end Big Art, where you pay more for the work's provenance than for the enjoyment itself, because they won't be able to afford competing with somewhat worse but much cheaper AI-generated shovel-art.

(Also relevant is that regular people are usually as good at distinguishing between crap and good products as they're at distinguishing between crap and good art.)
Farmers do sometimes drive tractors on roads with lanes.
I agree. I pasted a block of code from a personal project into the prompt, and asked it to add a simple-but-not-trivial frontend feature, in human language (e.g. "This button expands the sidebar and shows some clickable options. It should open a modal instead, and include a search bar which filters the available options").

It gave me working code which did something kind of like what I asked. After some back and forth where I asked for changes, it -almost- got it working. I had to make one manual CSS change.

I don't think 8 year olds can do this - it feels more like an "instant junior developer" to me.
> So if someone missed this 17 days or has not managed to exchange their funds

The first deadline of 17 days was to get rid of the demonetised notes by depositing them with banks.

The logistics of the demonetisation was a total clusterfuck. The banking infrastructure was kept in the dark so they were utterly unprepared to handle the rush. They were provided with zero information and SOPs so they were also totally clueless to handle different situations. To make matters worse the new weren't readily available. So the withdrawals were rationed. 500 and 1000 notes formed the bulk of notes in supply, something like 90% of notes in circulation. And this was at a time when digital payments weren't adopted by the masses. Most of the daily wage earners didn't even have a bank account. India is a large country with lots of remote, hard to access places. People were still clinging on to these old currency notes, as their primary savings, to discover that they were useless 2-3 years later. All of these lead to a cascading failures. Imagine removing 90% of circulating blood from a large animal. That's exactly what happened to Indian economy.

I'm sure there's like a dozen PhDs in there for humanities, economics students in there.

Here's a good (but hard to find) video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qELSFa5NtYc

The speaker has researched on this topic for decades.
My unlawyered opinion on why AI will legally survive in the US
My eight-year-olds have gotten quite good at detecting when I'm pulling their legs. I never deceive them about anything serious, but I want them to learn to think critically about what authority figures tell them. My five-year-old is thoroughly convinced I can read his mind by putting my nose to his ear and smelling his brain; I established credibility when I was confident I knew what he was thinking. It works great for "I'm not tired" when he clearly is, or "my tummy is full" after two bites of food. Also, if he eats his eggs, at bedtime he will be strong enough to win a wrestling match with me.

I also enjoy planting small "easter eggs" for them...e.g. whenever we drive through the Holland Tunnel I hum the Super Mario underground theme, which I have explained simply as "tunnel music". One day they'll get it.
> Conflict-free replicated datasets (CRDTs)

Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, surely?
> Besides that: why should I put my effort at the management of people I do not trust so that they do what they deem appropriate without paying for their mistakes? Am I his slave or something?

Generally you are either directly or indirectly their elector so they are in fact accountable to you. But yeah, that's kind of how democracy works.

I'm personally only supportive of privacy-preserving CBDCs like
the Rohan Grey e-cash proposal.
Indefinite archival of your face every time you cross? It's ripe for abuse for data mining to claim (via AI, expect witness, whatever) at the exact time of crossing your face exhibited behavior which was consistent with criminals, such as nervousness/anxiety. Border patrol officer can't provide an exact recollection of your face from 10 years ago, so (without camera) if you look nervous at the border this one time it's going to be difficult to look backwards and retroactively determine you looked "nervous" or intoxicated or whatever the other times too.

A photograph of your face at the pharmacy or post office taken for your passport is pretty much useless as that sort of evidence as it doesn't show your demeanor at the border.
I think I forgot the extra C

Humans controlling computer-controlled humans

or the molecular H3CH
Interestingly, mandatory helmet laws for car drivers and passengers would get us more QALYs than MHLs for bikes. By our reasoning chain of proximate injury reduction, we must prescribe them.
What do you mean by 'going autistic'?
And we will live in the most boring Brave New World where all danger is eliminated because of this reasoning.

Sports will be gone, only the gym survives as it has the lowest risk factor. No more alcohol and drugs. And there will be condom police checking up on you when you cozy up with anyone except your wife.

Sure, go and try to make it happen. But I will also try to subvert it :)
>> GMOs are terrible

> In what way?

Because they're the exact equivalent of closed source in software.

There would be means to research, produce and use GMOs in good ways, but the way our economics work, they can't be used without either harming natural ones and/or involving NDAs, lawyers and all sort of things that in some contexts make closed source a nightmare for pretty much everyone except those selling it.
I really fear for the day I need to debug some AI-generated legacy code. It's not really the algorithmic part that scares me, but the naming and code architecture.

These AI seem so confident when they output BS that it makes you doubt yourself. Now imagine if some code looks coherent but you find that each line does something slightly different that what the variable names and other method calls suggest. Now you can't trust the names to build a mental image of the code; you have to follow each method call to find out exactly what it does. It would be worst than looking at obfuscated names because you may think you know what is going on.
And they do. Did you read the article? The headline and blog post is misleading unless you read the whole article. At the end they note the developer does honor the license. You just have to read his appeal for support and email him asking to continue. This in no way violates the very loose terms of the original license for lifetime licensing.
This is the perfect usecase for blu-ray drive and M-disks, that allegendy last 100 years. You can make multiple copies, mail them to friends, etc

Alternatively you could get a NAS, they are great.

Life experience has taught me not to trust detachable drives at all
The CDS crisis was mainly due to treating high risk assets, more or less by mistake or maliciously, as if they were less dangerous. Can something of the sort happen with foreign currencies? Who holds unbalanced, volatile portfolios of foreign exchange that could crash and bring them down, and why?
It already has a lot of AI and garbage content. And in some cases it's state sponsored propaganda, companies pitching products, or marketing departments attempting some notion of virality. The point is that there are plenty of people already gaming the system by just flooding the internet with carefully designed noise to bend opinions this way or that way.

"Fall, or dodge in heaven" by Neal Stephenson actually touches on this topic quite a bit and comes to a similar conclusion. Not his most accessible work but I enjoyed it. That book was written just before Trump won 2016 elections and in hind sight making that book really spot on and timely.

In the book, different streams of truth become so hard to separate due to all the spam, automated content, etc. that people start filtering it based on reputation and signatures. The game then becomes curating and filtering the content, which is ultimately not an objective thing but a subjective thing. So the net result is what we are actually starting to see today which is different groups of people locked in their own bubbles and no longer even getting exposed to the other side's point of view or even able to agree on some basic facts. Like who actually won the election. And people are feeding those bubbles with nonsense to influence opinions, get people to vote certain ways, or simply to just create chaos and fear.

In the book the topic is not an election but the seemingly simple question of whether or not a certain town in the us still exists after it was supposedly blown up with a nuclear bomb. In the book, this event leads to people acting as if that happened and ignoring all evidence to the contrary pointing out that in fact this was an elaborate hoax designed to create a massive panic.

That particular dystopian outcome is not necessarily what would happen. But using technology to authenticate where content actually comes from along with some reputation mechanism would go a long way separating the noise from the genuine content. It's simple and easy to do. So, why don't we?
> Mandatory helmet laws make the number of injuries associated with biking go down.

What are the effects on the number of fatalities associated with biking?

It's well known (you didn't cite any studies, so I won't either) that cars pass closer to helmeted cyclists than to unhelmeted cyclists.
> Just one problem: what happens when all of the content on the Internet (or at least the vast majority of it) is generated by AI?

The vast majority of the content of the internet is junk now, how do people deal with that? They have specific known sources that they trust to faithfully relay primary works and/or to provide trustworthy analysis.