skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reads like victim blaming to me.

If Twitter is the town square, Elon Musk is a natural disaster which rips through the town and destroys houses, forcing your friends to move to different towns. My problem isn’t that I made friends in the town; my problem is the natural disaster that ruined my town.

Social ties are important to people, no matter where and how they form. Breaking that up has real consequences. I’m sure you would feel the same way about your own social connections, and you wouldn’t appreciate someone blaming you for those ties being weakened by external forces.
You're ignoring a few things and trusting him too much:

1) Is ignoring that he asked for demotion of this account before the incident after saying he wasn't going to

2) He often lies about details and reasons for his decisions. Like saying the booing was because of a fight on the show we had video for.

3) There is zero correlation presented so far to this account being related to this attack

4) The ban comes too soon after a policy change without recourse, the account could for instance only post location changes with weeks delay, etc.

TBH, Im ok with limiting tracking of location but this guy is one of the richest man in the world and very public, there is public interest in knowing where he flying those jets to (he can still rent/lease, hide in whatever organisation structure he wants).

The policy is also not clear about what do to on exceptions and will not be equally enforced. "Elon is doing a show right now with dave Chappele at the X arena". Is this a violation? What kind of gray areas can be assumed will depend on how he interprets, etc. It doesn't really matter, it's his playground now, but it's hypocritical for him and he deserves to hear shit for it.
One traditional way of learning to make art was to go to the museum and copy the works of masters ... What's the difference in principle if one trains AI on them?
Let me help you.

1) Take off the glass

2) Use a drill, make the connect wider

3) now bundle 9 glass and put in hole

4) now bandwidth is more wide

Fasterness!
The one safeguard I've yet to get around is the required phone number to try this thing.
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I'm not sure "free speech" equals "data is public", and I'm not sure that the flight tracking data at least for private jets should be made public at all.

Or at least I don't see a difference between private cars location being vs private jet location data being released.
The key word that's almost submerged in the article is molten.

Like previous sodium-sulphur batteries this one relies on a molten salt electrolyte, meaning you won't see it in your phone or laptop any time soon!

However, as it's being developed with the idea of grid-scale smoothing/backup, that's much less of a problem. (The square-cube law means that as you increase the volume of your molten salt cell, the surface area grows more slowly -- and thermal losses scale with surface area, so really big cells are cheaper to maintain at operating temperature.)
I see this as an advantage.
I usually upvote what I read, often before reading it because it could pass quite a long time before I can do it.

This was a question about upvoting stories, not comments. However many people described how they vote comments, so here's my take on that.

I never upvote to agree with something and never downvote to show disagreement. Actually I probably never downvoted anything.

I upvote for interesting contributions or to say thanks.
When he won the mayor election in Istanbul the election board ordered a re-run of the election (and then he won again)

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/06/middleeast/turkey-istanbu...
Mad props to the dev(s) working on this, you're doing God's work mate.

I feel bummed by this whole Linux 'we-removed-codecs' situation, as AMD users were the only ones to feel this axing, despite the community hammering how they're the best for Linux compatibility, and ironically, Intel and Nvidia users were not affected by this decision.
Back when you could mod counter strike locally, skin packs etc.. (I'm sure that even before that when you could mod how others saw you.., but that may be rose tinted glasses).. so much fun.

It's obvious why they stopped it eventually (pldecal.wad pretty much became obligatory porn sprays everywhere), but those were the days.

Dusty Dunes in Holland FTW :)
Majority of everything is always mediocre at best. There is no absolute value in those things, they always get pitched against each other. Something mediocre today, could have been a masterpiece some decades ago. A masterpiece from decades ago could be hot garbage today. Those things are a constantly moving target and will always shift. People will just adapt their taste and figure out some new random rules to say why something was yesterday a masterpiece and became today mediocre and so on.
If a human learns to program by reading GPL code, what is the license of future code they write?
A human can grow and learn based on their own experiences separate from their art image input. They'll sometimes get creative and develop their own unique style. Through all analogies, the AI is still a program with input and output. Point 1 doesn't fit for the same reason it doesn't work for any compiler. Until AI can innovate itself and hold its own copyright, it's still a machine transformation.
Tencent is Chinese and has its hq in China.
He is working for microsoft who is funding this with the idea 'make this better'. He is bouncing around the idea of 'gil free' but how do you do that an not make another 2->3 mess? There are a set of interviews on YT right now with him talking about exactly what they are doing.
Would be nice if you had mentioned it was an M1 Mac Mini, I got excited for a moment.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8802877?clickSR=slp:term:app...
But switching "cut off from work systems" to "cut" fundamentally misleads about what's happening.

This hacker news headline is misleading and untrue
Epic Games gives a free game every single week and has done so for the past couple years at least. Many of these are fairly big titles. Around Christmas they have done a free game every day.

They’re very pro indie dev on the unreal side. I don’t mind steam but epic is clearly the better choice for me.
Ask HN: What's the remote work equivalent for “out of office”?
The freedom to conform
"No need to invent a shady conspiracy theory here"?

You are aware we're talking about the CIA here? I'm supposed to believe it's unreasonable to think CIA people would smear a guy they personally and collectively hate?
I upvote anything that can be interpreted as opposition against SPAs. From something as naive as a new Django release, to the HTMX manifest, and even an article literally saying "I hate SPAs".
Interesting, what did you use before/after?
Well there's an entry cost or an exit cost or a risk. If the tradeoff makes sense then spot on but if Medium pulls your stuff you have an untenable risk tradeoff.

This is why I don't write articles. The investment vs return is low based on the exit costs, risks and benefits.
likely because the logistics of handling and utilising an energy source that can materialise the entirety of its stored energy instantly has some safety concerns.

requiring air is not a limitation, it’s a feature.
LUFS limiting :)
But you're right. It will probably affect the music especially sinxe it seems that LUFS is not an instantaneous measure.
You're probably not wrong, I was waiting in line at a Costco in New Jersey one time, and some beefcake and his girlfriend tried cutting in line. There was an altercation almost immediately, verbal at first, then the beefcake shoved someone and ended up getting dragged outside and having the living shit kicked out of him by four bland looking suburban dads while his girlfriend was screaming and trying to use her phone (she had kind of insane fake nails). It was one of weirdest things I've ever witnessed.
> Automated transformation does not remove the original copyright

Automated transformation is not guaranteed to remove the original copyright, and for simple transformations it won't, but it's an open question (no legal precedent, different lawyers interpreting the law differently) whether what these models are doing is so transformative that their output (when used normally, not trying to reproduce a specific input image) passes the fair use criteria.
I'll upvote a story after reading it if it's interesting and I think that it provides value to the community. Or I guess after reading the first post if it's on Show HN or Ask HN.

Meanwhile for comments, I'll upvote them if I feel they're interesting, contribute to the discussion or give perspectives I wouldn't have considered it before.

I pretty much never upvote for agreement/downvote for disagreement, and wish platforms separated 'this content is good/bad' from 'I agree with this content/disagree with it' in the rating system.
> Ah, it's purely political.

I think this is how the human race will die: a bunch of rich assholes grabbing what ever they can at the expense of the rest of humanity as a bunch of people try to stop it, meanwhile the remaining bulk of humanity is on the sidelines saying shit like "Ah, it's purely political"
You should disclose this address, I could be the next tenant, they are likely still there.
One of the more disturbing facets of the gamification of Reddit conversation to me is that the first Redditor ever to achieve 1 million karma is widely (and I think correctly) believed to be Ghislaine Maxwell.
The question is --- are they still winners if the Alexa backend is suddenly shutdown?

These devices just collect audio data and send it to Amazon for processing. Without the backend service, they are useless.
-- in Korea we have huge issue around thought homogeneity - see the failure of it daily - that's why im against it --
Untouched National Parks don't bounce back to pre mine status so that's a Yes to "in principle" but a No to "in practice".

Lithium exploration drilling near Litchfield National Park raises sustainability questions [1]

> University of Queensland professor of conservation science James Watson says that mining associated with renewable energy could cover about 50 million square kilometres of the Earth's surface by 2050.

> His prediction is startling.

> "About 10 per cent will be in national parks and protected areas, another 7 or so per cent will be in areas that have been identified as critical biodiversity areas to sustain species and stop extinction, and a further 15 per cent or so will be in our last remaining wilderness on the planet," he said.

I've spent a few decades in mineral exploration, in geophysics and in mapping global mineral and energy resources.

We have some real issues to sort out going forward with respect to resource extraction and the rights of indigenous people and wilderness.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-13/lithium-found-near-li...
"Twitter staff cut" is fundamentally misleading and untrue. The staff were not cut, they were cut off from work systems when they wouldn't agree to not leak. The staff were not cut.
I agree with this, but I'd like to point out that the Twitter layoffs were likely not legal in the US either!

The difference is that Twitter is likely to be bankrupt by the time any American lawsuits get resolved.
it's providing and onboarding portal for universities
I'd like a version of my city without trash and traffic!
> Sanskrit is only spoken in India by an estimated 25,000 people out of a population of more than one billion, the university said.

This is a somewhat misleading explanation of what Sanskrit is. The Sanskrit language is the ancestor of many northern Indian languages, similarly to how Latin is the ancestor of the Romance languages; Pāṇini wrote his famous grammatical description of Classical Sanskrit around 500 BC, give or take a hundred years or so. Sanskrit is of great significance both historically and religiously, and has been studied continuously since that time. There has also been a recent language revival effort, which is presumably what the reference to ‘25000 speakers’ is talking about.
Correct. Certification https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/certificates/1217p.pdf
There are a few trading firms that require all SWE/Traders/Quants to get the Series 7.

I have a Series 7 and have never handled client money, but I wrote software and had had access to these systems.

Not all fintechs are evil.
Well the authorities in India saw it as a problem [0] and especially in the US that Twitter can be and is getting sued for failing to take down CP content [1] as they already benefitted from it. [2]

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/30/india-twitter-kashm...

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-20/twitter-f...
Sure, but this isn't philosophy. An AI model that contains every image is a copyright derivative of all those images and so is the output generated from it. It's not an abstract concept or a human brain. It's a pile of real binary data generated from real input.
He can run for President. The Presidential elections are apparently before the appeal and finalization of his court case. And he will never be jailed. Absurdly in Turkey you don’t go to jail if the sentence is below 3 years. So there is no actual jail sentence at all. And the politics ban ruling will not happen till after the elections. So he can run in the Presidential elections.
idk ...

* the mass-produced "descendants" of "IBM PC-AT compatible machines" got powerfull enough to replace those workstations which carried a hefty price-tag

* proprietary UNIX-OSes where doomed - thanks to FOSS / linux / *BSD

* again: thanks to linux / *BSD we could do "serious" work with cheap of-the-shelf hardware ...
Haven’t seen my related use case mentioned: I frequently upvote posts as a private favorites list, as favorites is public and can feel kind of revealing.
BEST is highly subjective. Most popular has a number of advantages- more developers, likely cheaper developers, bigger community but for most cases I am in agreement with you
If I remember correctly the coup was rushed by its organisers because the authorities had caught wind of it and were beginning an investigation.

Generally coups take place in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep. This was during rush hour.

Usually coups involve taking over key administrative buildings as quickly as possible. They took over one of the busiest bridges in Istanbul.

The attempted coup also lacked the majority support of the military it requires to be successful.

97% of the Turkish Armed Forces ranking officers weren’t involved in the coup.

66% of the military's top leadership weren't involved in the coup.

They only had 35 jets and 37 helicopters.

During a coup the military should not be fighting itself whilst also attempting to take control. In this case the coups forces were smaller and worse equipped than the governments military.
I think this is some advanced level tech-company-politics-jiujitsu.

The challenge is getting one or two companies to adopt it, then the CTO's of other companies will have to admit they are on "maturity level 1" when rival X is on level 3.

Its a neat idea.

My quibble is this would be a really good FOSS Maturity Model (ie contributions to OSS projects in general)
If I buy (licence) a game from epic that requires servers they maintain to function ... so they have to give me back the money now that they have rendered the game non-functional?
A language model is not a human. You at least have the possiblity that the human learned something. The language model is a parrot with a large memory.

That said Microsoft didn't allow their kernel developers to look at Linux code for a reason.
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A bulldozer destroys the park and other people's ability to enjoy it -- active, destructive.
Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest -- passive, non-destructive

Mind you, this is not talking about the usage rights of images generated from such a model, that's a completely different story and a legal one.
I'm mostly seeing software developers looking at the textual equivalent, GPT-3, and giving a spectrum of responses from "This is fantastic! Take my money so I can use it to help me with my work!" to "Meh, buggy code, worse than dealing with a junior dev."

I think the two biggest differences between art AI and code AI are that (a) code that's only 95% right is just wrong, whereas art can be very wrong before a client even notices [0]; and (b) we've been expecting this for ages already, to the extent that many of us are cynical and jaded about what the newest AI can do.

[0] for example, I was recently in the Cambridge University Press Bookshop, and they sell gift maps of the city. The background of the poster advertising these is pixelated and has JPEG artefacts.

It's highly regarded, and the shop has existed since 1581, and yet they have what I think is an amateur-hour advert on their walls.
TF2 lets you mod pretty much anything and by all accounts its cosmetics are still hugely profitable for Valve.
I do, because I don't see why it wouldn't be. If it's revolutionary and a lot of people need it, or if it change completely the way people work/live/are entertained, it will certainly evolve to be as much accessible as possible. A succesful product is a product used by many.

If it's not, why worry about it ?
I'm saying I'd rather not be near a 100kW-h Na-S battery. Current Li-Po batteries require quite some shielding at tiny a fraction of the energy density if you don't want to burn.
I don't have a horse in this race.

And I can't find the sources. But I recall at least a few articles about Python performance improvements where the conclusion was along the lines of: "Python core devs prefer to keep the Python runtime implementation simple instead of focusing on performance". It's stuff I've read in the past 15 years or so...

And it wouldn't be unheard of, compare Tannenbaum - Minix <-> Linus - Linux.
"images trascend copyright"
https://cdn.vmst.io/media_attachments/files/109/512/541/929/...

you can still copyright characters separatedly. he's feigning ignorance of how copyright work to make a sensationalistic point, which pretty much invalidate and poison what is otherwise an interesting argument at the boundary between derivative work and generative art.
Before the musk acquisition you could not use it without being logging in. I heard that changed slightly but haven’t checked. But that sounds like a walled garden…
Junk bonds are just High Yield bonds at a certain rating. GS doesn't set the Price/Yield or the rating.
> people making the models can get away with "questionable copyright", "legal gray area", etc. kind of talk.

Where are they saying that? Nobody thinks it's a gray area, they think it's explicitly legal and they're probably right too. Claiming it's a copyright violation is actually a rather weak case artists are just saying is obvious.

Microsoft has licensed DALL-E. They're not venturing into legal gray areas.
They also prevent social measures to help reduce mental health issues.
I have changed my tax form 4 months ago on the platform because I moved to a different country, they still have to approve a single thing and of course they did block the monthly payroll.

I've sent them a final email asking for info on the issue, after that I'm removing all my content from the platform.
This sounds like an Eternal September kind of deal.

That is, perhaps something some can enjoy nostalgia for but ultimately not sustainable.
It probably has more to do with paying someone to keep it patched and running happily.
For those who, like me, had trouble parsing HN title, here's the first sentence of the tweet:

> Medium decided to ban me because I built a Chrome Extension to automatically open Medium articles in incognito mode.

And, here's Medium Rules link:

https://policy.medium.com/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4
Before Solaris on Ultra 30. After Windows 2000 Compaq Workstations.

Software demands were EE/EDA stuff like Cadence, Zukon.
Hunter was using clout of then vice-president Biden to do some shady deals.

It was relevant to an election Biden was about to become the President. The hookers and meth was there to entertain the more base urges of audience.
I only upvote headlines if I think the article is valuable to the community.
I see a lot of stuff that I don't think is all that valuable, so I wish there was a downvote button as well for headlines.
Remember, luddites largely weren't against technology.

What they were however was against was companies using that technology to slash their wages in exchange for being forced to do significantly more dangerous jobs.

In less than a decade, textile work went from a safe job with respectable pay for artisans and craftsmen into one of the most dangerous jobs of the industrialised era with often less than a third of the pay and the workers primarily being children.

That's what the luddites were afraid of. And the government response was military/police intervention, breaking of any and all strikes, and harsh punishments such as execution for damaging company property.
I agree with tons of comments or articles that I don't upvote.

An upvote is reserved for a comment that I think nails a perspective that I think is spot-on but uncommon. For an article, it's usually something that I think is interesting but not likely to be super popular (something about language qualified the other day – it's nerdy, but not computers, so I boosted it). The goal is to get more people to see it and discuss it, cause that's why I like this board: Discussion.

For downs, only people who are unnecessarily snarky or completely missing the point with arguments that aren't addressing the issue on which they comment.

I read HN every day. I maybe vote (either way) once or twice a day.
Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music
> The idea that the AI will compete with you by copying your unique style seems like exactly the sort of short-sighted

Could you please elaborate, why its "short-sighted"?

> As an artist, would you be much happier if, rather than the AI copying your style, the AI generated infinitudes of pictures in a style that the overwhelming majority of humans prefers to yours, so that you couldn't hope to ever create anything that people outside of a handful of hipsters and personal friends will value?

You mean that any artist should be just happy that his work is used by other people / rich corporation / AI without consent? Cool, cool.
TFA: theologically-minded people attempting to view Enlightenment principles through their own prisms winds up being the mirror image of atheists' just-so stories concerning theology, grounded in the hypothesised interactions of savannah apes several million years ago?
I fully expect self called artist to know the law that protect their own means of living
dependency resolution even with caching takes way too long for larger projects, which requires a lot of setup and configuration when managing multiple inter-related projects that have many dependencies
That also jumped out at me when I read it. However, later on they state that this reaction works at room temperature:

> Using a simple pyrolysis process and carbon-based electrodes to improve the reactivity of sulphur and the reversibility of reactions between sulphur and sodium, the researchers’ battery has shaken off its formerly sluggish reputation, exhibiting super-high capacity and ultra-long life at room temperature.

This is confusing. Can someone make some sense of this?
You don’t have a perpetual license, so no.
After reading and enjoying and gaining something from what I read, or a comment saying what I was about to write (usually written better than I would have myself)