skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those quotes are not about trust, they are about the rhetorical technique of appeal to authority.

The actual payload though is the mistrust of authority exactly because we are all so susceptible to the logical fallacy of appeal to authority masquerading bullshit as truth.

There is no problem to solve here. ChatGPT should never be an authority on anything.
By the time we're tired of the existing styles I suspect we'll have AGI and the entire question will be moot.
Japan doesn't have fair use, so the only thing ensuring that copyright owners don't go after fanartists is that fanart is generally either beneficial to them or is not worth going after. However that would change if the artist were attempting to directly interfere with their revenue, which is why they won't do things like producing imitations of merch.

Copying an artist's style isn't in and of itself looked down upon, any artist will tell you that doing so is an important part of figuring out what aspects of it one likes for their own style. The problem with AI copying it is that the way the vast majority of users are using it isn't in artistic expression. The majority of them are simply spamming images out in an attempt to gain a popularity "high" from social media, without regard for any of the features of typical creative pursuits (an enjoyment of the process, an appreciation for other's effort, a desire to express something through their creativity, having some unique intentional and unintentional identifying features).

Honestly maybe the West messed up having such broad fair use protections since it seems people really have no respect for any creative effort, judging by all the AI art spam and all the shortsighted people acting smug about it despite the questions around it being pretty important to have a serious conversation about, especially for pro-AI folk.

The AI art issue has several difficult problems that we are seemingly too immature to deal with, it makes it clear how screwed we'd be as a society if anything approaching true AGI happened to be stumbled upon anytime soon.
Keep in mind that both the SSP1 and SSP5 lines are optimistic predictions*, if everything goes according to its respective plan.

If we choose the fossil-fuel development aiming for SSP5, but we get SSP3 or SSP4 instead, then we will mess up the environment for little benefit. Perhaps we should aim for SSP1 because even if we fail then at least the environment will be in a good condition to be able to try again.

*In particular, SSP5 requires "a very high carbon price, and lots of carbon capture and storage". If we don't get that, we don't get the high GDP either.
I wonder if the founding fathers had an opinion on temporary safety vs liberty. Shame there’s not a quote about that.
It's more complicated, even if humans are involved. From https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#Copyright_Issues

> Who can't contribute to Wine?

> Some people cannot contribute to Wine because of potential copyright violation. This would be anyone who has seen Microsoft Windows source code (stolen, under an NDA, disassembled, or otherwise). There are some exceptions for the source code of add-on components (ATL, MFC, msvcrt); see the next question.

I've seen a few MIT/BSD projects that ask people not to contribute if they have seen the equivalent GPL project. It's a problem because Copilot has seen "all" GPL projects.
Streisand effect, anybody?
Among the goals seems to be a bit of well-poisoning. Artists have done this previously by creating art saying, say, "This site sells STOLEN artwork, do NOT by from them", and encouraging followers to reply with "I want this on a t-shirt", which had previously been used by rip-off sites to pirate artwork. See:

<https://waxy.org/2019/12/how-artists-on-twitter-tricked-spam...>

If art streams are tree-spiked with copyrighted or trademarked works, then AI generators might be a bit more gun-shy about training with abandon on such threads.

It's a form of monkeywrenching.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage#As_environmental_acti...>
Trademark infringement, not copyright.
Wouldn't it also break most Python code that uses threading? Currently, everything is implicitly synchronized thanks to the GIL, so in Java terms it's as if every variable is declared "volatile".

If the GIL is removed and variables are no longer volatile (i.e, changes are no longer made visible immediately to other threads) that seems like it would break a lot of code. On the other hand, keeping every variable volatile seems like it would be terrible for performance.

Maybe I'm missing some critical difference between Python and the JVM here?
I think there's an answer to this, which is to separate the inventory service from the game servers. Keep the same inventory service online, reuse it for all of your games. Any official servers and any vanilla servers will validate that you own the cosmetics you use, modded servers can override this but you can't use your cosmetics everywhere unless they're actually registered to you. (Or possibly the clients validate it too in which case even a modded server couldn't override it for every player.)

And (as with several other things being discussed in the comments) of course Valve has already done this, and offers it as a service: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/inventory
I thought the Windows=PC "othering" was more of an Apple initiative, like in the "Get a Mac" campaigns
Ask HN: A Book or Course to Learn Code Quality/Structure?
I have been programming for ~15+ years on probably over 100+ different projects.

I do however work for myself, and one downside to that is I don't work on (or even SEE) other people's code hardly ever. I feel like if I worked at a big company and stared at good code all day long I would have learned a lot by now.

I've read about things like "Single responsibility principle" or "Open-Closed Principle" which... while reading about it seems nice, it's always way more tricky in real life to apply (at least for me).

Looking at very simple "make_payment(user, 1000)" examples where the payment is consolidated into one line of code never helps me... in my experience, and the thing which I feel is hardest for my brain to wrap my head around, is when some parts of code is used in multiple areas, but there is no "clean break." Like say a "quick add to cart" function on a website... it might need to do all the following:

validate the cart, use toast modal dependencies with a custom message, track all items that were added to the cart, send different params to the backend, etc etc

This may be 80% similar to the "add to cart" so there could be a series of functions that seem easily 'shared', but then of course some other edge case will come up where I need to not track something now, so now do I make another function with duplication? Do I just keep adding arguments to a large already very confusing function?

Things like this I generally fumble my way through until it "feels right," as in I have a good intuition by now what will be a headache, and what wont. But I have no method to my madness, I just try to separate things as best I can but UNDOUBTEDLY there will be 89253 different "special cases" that make it very difficult to do it cleanly without either duplication, excessive arguments, excessively long functions, etc.

I do use OOP languages, and javascript primarily.

I want to just read a book or watch a course with GOOD examples. I absolutely dont feel my code is "bad", and I have managed some complex projects, but its not exceptionally good and that's where I want it to be.
Killed by Twitter – A graveyard for discontinued products from Twitter
Well how would you know that if the rules of grammar are not fully resolved?
There's actually 3 now from google afaik

- gc

- gccgo

- gollvm [0]

[0] https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
I hope Apple, Mapbox and others get involved here. It will be an important counterweight to Google’s dominance in Maps, especially with them increasing prices on customers about a year ago

https://www.techighness.com/post/google-maps-price-hike-its-...
...also Esri, OpenStreetMap Foundation, Mapbox.
It is sometimes a lie machine because it lacks grounding in verification. Humans get more grounding than language models but even we are not 100% there - remember the antivax hysteria. The most grounded field is science, but even in scientific papers most things don't replicate. Verification is hard on all levels and requires extensive work. In particle physics all scientists clump together around the CERN accelerator as it is the only source of verification they have (almost, I exaggerate a bit).

It's going to be important to develop AI methods to test and verify, I think unverified model outputs are worthless verbiage. Verification can be based on references, code execution, physical simulations, lab experiments and even language based simulations.

In a few years the situation is going to flip, AI is going to become more reliable than humans. Being tested on millions of cases, it will be more trustworthy than us, no human can be tested to that extent. It's going to be interesting to see how we react to super-valid AI. Our guiding role is going to shrink more and more, we will be the children.
I would argue that HN is a collective not a social network.
I learned that decommissioned sun pizzaboxes with huge displays could be had for free, and that they ran linux.
HOAs are just a hyper-granular form of local democratic government. They’re extremely American in value and execution.
Excerpt from 'We Learn Nothing' by Tim Kreider
That's absolutely right.

Naive people and children fall victim of hero worship.

Adults and people who can think for themselves are beyond that and understand that it's humanity as a whole which progresses forward, humans just make a fuss and all sort of drama to be the person who gets the merit and gets to sign off the progress do jour.

Musk got to sign off the peculiar niche of EVs and rockets which are niches nobody else wanted because they are dependant upon political support.
Ah damn, I left a comment about Streisand effect then seen yours!
Is this a ironic?

I'm hearing about many retro gamers that love these
FWIW, they have much bigger carrot near their non-business end for years now, and if it is not persuasive enough - I don't know what is.
You're being social right now, on Hacker News.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
I will say, the kind of art intended for corporate needs (much of which in the last decade in particular has been a deluge of bland vector art with weird blob people) is not the same as the art that many artists make in their own time, or would regard as good.

The through line for a lot of mediocre stuff is the intention of the artist/creator to appeal to as broad a demographic/audience as possible so as to dissolve away anything that makes the art interesting, challenging, and good.
You asked me 'Does "Cambridge Analytica" ring a bell?', but apparently it barely rang anything for yourself.

I see you haven't researched the topic in question and have stated you are not going "to waste time". This actually succinctly summarizes most of the knee-jerk reactions.
Your DB / api layer should never touch the same models.
Security Vulnerabilities May Affect Lego Fans WordWide
Salt Labs - The research division of Salt Security have recently disclosed security issues in a popular site owned by the Lego Group, which could potentially put Lego Fans at risk of cyber attacks.
It is a structural property of committees. They dilute blame.

Not OP, I do not mean that there is an evil confabulation for this to happen, but if you have a hiring committee, this is happening. Even if it would reduce the amount of bad candidates (which is not a given at all), both effects can happen simultaneously.
You mean an API backend in any language and Sveltekit for client side JS based UI in Sveltekit?
It should be an improvement for people to get a career in something they enjoy, instead of what pays the most money.
I'm both a digital artist and programmer. I never thought it would happen before, but I accept that this technology can easily replace some aspects of my professional value. But i don't let it take away from my experience and capacity to be creative, so I still think I have an advantage when leveraging these tools- and I've started to use them every day.

Rendering was only ever a small part of the visual arts process anyway. And you can still manually add pixel perfect details to these images by hand that you wouldn't know how to create an AI prompt for. And further, you can mash together AI outputs in beautifully unique and highly controlled ways to produce original compositions that still take work to reproduce.

To me, these AI's are just a tool for increased speed, like copy and paste.
> there's absolutely nothing in my files that could even marginally be classified as child pornography

You're going to run into your Cardinal Richelieu one day, person who signed up to HN two hours ago in order to defend the honour of the CIA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999491
you could probably require it to be included on sale, though.
> Intellectual property concepts in their current form started to appear as soon as prints, so about the 15th century.

Copyright is not the same as intellectual property.

Copyright is not an intellectual property concept.

They're very different things, though often conflated.
If you can make the metadata survive cropping, format shifts, and screenshots.

Can probably do all that well-enough (probably doesn't need to be perfect) by leaning on FAANG, with or without legislation.

But: opt-in by default, or opt-out by default?
A fascinating angle I heard recently is that when the new tech of photography swept the world, it made tons of painters unemployed.

And that was the main reason for "modern art". A camera can do a portrait or landscape instantly and more precise than a painter, but it can't compete on abstract or imagined pictures.

Will something analogous happen when AIs takes over other industries? I have no clue, but it will, as always, be interesting to see what happens.
It got even more complicated when noting that GDP per capita is not equal everywhere. And there potentially are global maximum for local area (local as in not world wide, but a country or a region) to just ignore climate change risk altogether, since the current economic situation, either staying as is or trying to grow while avoiding climate change, is just too bad already.

I'm in Vietnam, and while the government fully acknowledges climate change, with projection and plan to lose xx% of our most populous city (currently 10+ million population) to sea rise, but fully go ahead with coal power generation for industry... so yeah. There is definitely some dysfunctional planning at play, but probably a lot of calculated risk too. I'm expecting China to have the same calculus.

I don't know if the experts do plan and account for those situations, but you definitely aren't gonna get a good layman discussion on a Western centric forum like this one. I'm barely comfortable to write this comment as is :-)
It's for PR, so that they can publicly release statistics showing good results on paper. An average consumer will learn the good-looking statistics and spread the word about Tesla safety, as it already happens, without taking the above report into account, since it's buried underneath tens of comments and I imagine Tesla will also fight it in some ways. Then, the average consumer will believe that FSD is indeed safer than a human driver, and buy the system. If crash happens, Tesla doesn't provide legal liability. I imagine most cases will be closed and, overall, Tesla will be at a profit, so why not do it?
I will never upvote something without at least skimming it. Mostly I finish articles then return to HN to upvote them, but occasionally I upvote after leaving the article partway (e.g. because I already know about the subject, or because the first part contained enough information that I'm satisfied, or because I don't understand the subject well but it looks very interesting.)
I did. Did you? There were links to pictures of Hunter in Elons posts.
I would like to point to a small counter example for this: the whole western Europe.
I have my lightbulb server rigged to toggle my lights whenever I flip a switch.
Much of the history of programming has been programmers making other jobs obsolete, and indeed there is a saying that a good programmer makes themselves obsolete.
But you could find a group you enjoyed playing with and learn from them. I spent hundreds of hours in a UT2k4 server in Team Arena Mode warmup just practicing air rockets, shock combos, and flick lightning gun headshots. RIP UT2k4
You do realize it is still about missing mass, don't you? What it is indeed up to debate. The whole distance measuring can be tuned as well, but suggesting "we don't measure it through parallax therefore we can't even put error bars to the distance and velocity of stars" is totally unjustified.

Again, think of your area of expertise and apply Bayesian thinking to an amateur coming from outside and claiming things like you're doing here.
So either they are hypocrites, or art can be made by AI. Probably both.
My bad, the mastodon thread is actually fresh, I got it mixed up with the article linked in the 3rd reply to it, which is a 2019 story:

https://waxy.org/2019/12/how-artists-on-twitter-tricked-spam...
Its too bad SGI couldn't figure out how to make it. They made some beautiful hardware.
>we'll keep going until everything is just regurgitated nonsense.

I feel like this about the mostly-human-created fashion. In my not so long lifetime I've seen everything from the 90s making a comeback. Ultimately I guess in terms of clothing that is practical with the materials that are available, we've already cycled through every style there is, such that the cycle time is now <30years.
The IPCC projections Ara based on a faulty assumption.

On this talk "the appealing neoclassical economics of climate change by Steve Keen". [0]

The talk goes into detail how the IPCC projections were made and all the wrong assumptions done on it.

[0] https://youtu.be/5LvyxH3O7kE
The FAQ suggests they'll use a permissive licence (CDLA Permissive) by default, and the ODbL (as used by OSM) when contributing to existing ODbL-licensed data.
They don’t mention the actual specific energy of the completed cells in Wh/kg. Also, “four times of WHAT?” They need to compare like-to-like, which would mean comparing to an equivalent Li-S cells.

Li-S cells usually have much higher specific energy than regular lithium ion. I doubt these cells are better, considering sodium is heavier than lithium.

The highest lithium ion cells you can get now are Amperium cells at 390Wh/kg, plus the metal anode Licerion cells at over 400Wh/kg. That’s not counting lithium sulfur which can get to 650Wh/kg (but are still stuck in the lab).
I've asked a lawyer which site to consult. This was a few years ago.
Biden, the longtime Senator, doesn't want to abolish the filibuster. He's never said he wanted to abolish the filibuster. He only suggested carving out a few small exceptions to the filibuster, such as for abortion.

I'll go back to your earlier comment: "Rome wasn't built in a day." The current situation is the result of actions over many decades. The Democratic party is an incumbent protection service. Before the election they sneer "Vote blue no matter who!" (because they know their candidates are crappy, otherwise they wouldn't need to say it) then immediately after the election turn around and cry "But we can't do anything because Machin and Sinema!" They always have an excuse. Remember how the Democratic leadership dragged anti-abortion Henry Cuellar across the finish line against his pro-choice primary opponent? Democrats hate primary challenges. The reason that Republicans have much more ideological conformance than Democrats is that Republicans are much less afraid to primary their incumbents. Many Republican incumbents fear a primary challenge from the right more than they fear a "moderate" Democratic opponent.
Where I live the city mandates that I can't cut down trees over a certain diameter no matter how many of my neighbors I ask. Even if I planted the tree!

You can, of course, in actuality, but you'll face a fine for doing so. Though if none of the neighbors report it you might get off scot-free.
Actively doing harm is not a tangible impact I desire in a charity.
The Origins of Arabic Explained [video]
I either make the MIDI files myself or find them online.

My workflows for making them:

- either painstakingly transcribe a piece note-for note using midieditor

or

- find a youtube video of a good rendition

- download as MP3

- convert to midi using https://piano-scribe.glitch.me/

(I wrote my own software for this step but Piano Scribe is about 8% better
even if it is slower so I use that now)

- fix up the output using midieditor

(still takes a lot of time, but it's quicker than starting from nothing)

This even works well when you have no score.

Best of luck! If you have a problematic file drop me an email.
Maybe they found a way to mix it into an eutectic mixture? The article doesnt say much on the specific chemistry of the liquid salt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutectic_system
Surely someone here knows better than me, but it seems Google's dominance in this space is not due to pure mapping data (although that also seems to be the best in the world) - it's due to the massive amounts of data the join in with the mapping data to provide real-time road closure and traffic information as well as what the "best route" is.

Apple Maps has taken me some really strange routes (I live in a rural area) while Google consistently picks the route you'd expect.

I've been hoping for a Google alternative because their monopoly on mapping that leads to further data collection is terrifying, but I'm bearish on the idea of pure mapping data being it.
You are thinking of EnoughMuskSpam
Should have said 'not Windows'
> Who wouldn't like to wander, fly and swim around Pandora, the world of Avatar

This is a good example of the fundamental limits of headset VR. Jumping into a lake will never feel real. Not by touch, obviously as you can’t get wet. Not by physical movement because you almost certainly can’t move downwards irl. Not by the weight of water around you or the buoyancy you expect to feel. Not by the rotation you would expect to have in water. Probably not by the stroke propeller movement or the correlation of your breath. And of course probably overly smooth movement to avoid motion sickness.

The difference between controlling a flying camera through water and believing you’re swimming is pretty big.
Infringement carries both civil (noncriminal) and criminal proscriptions and liabilities under much law, e.g., under US law, 17 USC Chapter 5:

<https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/chapter-5>
I (incorrectly it seems) assumed that “molten” was just part of the manufacturing process. This take makes more sense.