skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guido stepping down from BDFL may indeed be what allowed the recent speed improvements to progress; but certainly not in the way you're implying. If there is a causal effect here it seems more likely that it's because it has allowed him to concentrate more on the speed improvement work than he otherwise would have with BDFL issues taking up his time.

From what I've seen Guido has been quite actively involved in the speed up work, somewhat in the actual development but even more so in getting it merged (a problem many previous speed up attempts have failed at).
This would be a fairly novel law as it would legislate not just the release of an AI but the training as well? That would imply legislating what linear algebra is legal and illegal to do, no?

And practically speaking, putting aside whether a government should even be able to legislate such things, enforcing such a law would be near impossible without wild privacy violations.
This aged like milk before it was even published...
Like seriously, between the legal and financial issues Twitter is facing from fleeing advertisers and stiffed vendors and renters preparing to sue over unpaid bills and the recent disasters Twitter has had with Elon's approach to running the site, one has to wonder if this was written by an AI.
Um, maybe you should rethink your idea of stupidity? Scientists have long told us that new fossil fuel projects are outright folly, like someone with lung cancer increasing their smoking from one pack of cigarettes a day to two. It makes no rational or economic sense if we want a livable planet.
Given how cheap PV is, I think the limit is "we'd rather not actually try to keep it as moleculer hydrogen, how do we add carbon or nitrogen to it?"
Mostly correct, however it also has a few made up facts.

First of all Nintendo did not create a 30% fee, yes there is a fee, but it certainly wasn't 30%, rather higher.

Second, 3rd party exclusives are as old as game console SDKs exist, regardless of middleware engines.

Third, contrary to FOSS circles, in the game industry most studios are quite found of console exclusives, it gives them exposure in the thousands of games that get released every day, and usually better advance payments schemes to support their development costs, it also creates the market of game studios that are specialized in specific consoles knowing every detail to take the ultimate performance out of them.

All consoles have some exclusive titles from 3rd parties.
> If thouse mouse images are generated, that implies that Disney content is already part of the training data and models.

It doesn't mean that. You could "find" Mickey in the latent space of any model using textual inversion and an hour of GPU time. He's just a few shapes.

(Main example: the most popular artist StableDiffusion 1 users like to imitate is not in the StableDiffusion training images. His name just happens to work in prompts by coincidence.)
Medium CEO @tonystubblebine is here occasionally. In case he comes by the thread, I’d like to ask him if he’s heard of the Streisand effect?
I'll be honest I love radio as a medium but I'm either listening to a BBC station like Six Music which are ad-free to begin with or enthusiast-run stations like Radio Caroline which tend to air adverts which are more subtle and pared-back, I genuinely can't enjoy anything with anything more than the bare minimum of adverts in it having enjoyed advertising-free forms of radio.

It wouldn't be as bad if half the ads didn't have all the obnoxious hyperactive qualities of a toddler with a recorder but 'irritate your audience until the fact your ads are irritating becomes a meme among the general public' seems to be the go-to strategy with a lot of radio advertising in my neck of the woods.
No, they develop from the same embryonic tissue, but clitoris is not a type of penis, and a penis is not a type of clitoris. They have different structure and function.
Helping to usher in the electric revolution does not absolve you from acting like, and being called out for being, a douche.

I'd much rather he wasn't behaving like a douche, but until he stops, I'll continue to refer to him as ... a douche.
flight data is public record, if he’s scared he should use another method of transportation
The Effect of Dogs on Human Sleep in the Home Sleep Environment (2017)
I’m not too sure how it works but someone commented that you can take the model and “resume training” it on the extra dataset you want to add.

Given most of the heavy lifting is already done, this seems like a pretty easy thing for anyone to do.
The wrong and easy reaction to this is to limit these services to not include copyrighted content. The more right and really really difficult solution would be to give the original copyright holders partial rights to the output.

It really feels like the textile factory worker problem all over again. We can't let the big players be the benefactors every time.
Arc is behind a signup page and subsequent Arc account if you want to use it right now.
They make perfect sense in this scenario. A game company is paying for physical hardware, electricity, bandwidth, etc. to run the game server(s). Hardware fails and older OS may not work on new HW. Or the game server software may not work on newer OS, especially if there is custom C++/networking code that was compiled against an older OS version. Maybe they are looking at very long list of security vulnerabilities that are un-patched because shit is old.

Its irrational to think a company is going to keep game servers running forever and that somehow they are "stealing" from you because you purchased something nearly 20 years ago.
For solar panels I agree, there's a hard limit of how much energy per area the sun itself gives, and how much efficiency you can physically get out of that.

For batteries: biological creatures store more energy more densily, yet safely, so there's still headroom.
It's a 24 meters boat, for 20 people, which is really small compared to a billionaire yacht.

In comparison, Bezos' yacht is 127 meters long.
No one is accountable for the actions of others if they where not explicitly directed.
I don’t quote @dang on here often, but that is the idea right?
That's amazing. Out of curiosity, how does one get to work for companies that use Svelte?

I'm based in the UK and the only companies I've heard of using Svelte are Decathlon, Apple and Spotify.
Not having laws that actively enable the stalking is a good start
This seems more about retrocomputing than a history of the lessons of the death of workstations and their vendors. Which is sad, because I think there's a lot to bring to mind.
Although I'd argue that the CDE "collaboration" was mostly vendors giving up hope once they lost to Windows. And hope, as opposed to design skills, is something the OSS sphere has a lot.

Interest in old computing stuff stretches from Altairs to Pentium IV gaming rigs. People in a horribly overpaid industry pay good bucks to satisfy their nostalgia.
do you really trust someone who is pushing MAGA conspiracies and inciting to violence against 'woke' people?
I don't upvote or downvote too much, but I favorite things that I think will be useful for projects/ideas bouncing around my head.

Might start voting more after reading some of these comments.
Sure, artists don't like having competition, but that doesn't mean their competitors should listen to them.
Hosting your website on GH seems much easier. Also free. Also you have a copy of your website that you can self-host whenever GH decides to ban you and point your domain name to new IP.
Those types are common in K12 -- they're used to interacting with folks with less mobility (no car, no job and/or literally disabled) and exploiting that.

It's my understanding my alma mater (is that the right phrasing for your former high school?) still employs at least one, but the two people who told me about her behavior don't seem interested in having her removed from her position and I can't do anything with hearsay.

They often prey on kids victimized by the other set of abusers, the one's who don't abuse kids sexually, but are utter sadists who jump in with the bullies to victimize and other kids who are geeky, queer, or just plain shy they whine cries of false concern that those kids might not just commit suicide.

It was a different time before Columbine -- you had more freedom, but you also would get attacked physically -- nowadays the model seems to be that folks have some kind of cold war until the other side loses their temper, and then the true abuser gets to cry victim.

For context, I actually spotted one of the paraprofessionals from a school I attended in the crowd on Jan 6th -- it's been a perpetual thing for kids of a certain age when Columbine happened that folks are forever fearful of what weird hacker bois like me will do -- but never enough to lift us out of precarity that would allow us to get away from them and their terrible views, because let's be frank: having everyone who's not in the Christian right from my shitty ass township move to Portland or Brooklyn or whatever isn't a sustainable life strategy :-)
Fan art is pretty much illegal or infringement actually it's just not really enforced by most companies. There are some caveats for fair use but generally most fan art could be successfully taken down if a company was motivated enough in my opinion. Nintendo is pretty notorious for this but it has rarely gone to court as most people are too scared to fight takedown requests.
just look at the alternatives, they're horrible. The Google Nest thermostat has revolutionized the thermostat ecosystem in the same way that the iPhone revolutionized the cellphone industry.

I was getting quotes for some heating/cooling projects at home and, while discussing the control panels, I expected that Nest would be an option. I was surprised and found it comical when the salesperson claimed that the Nest control panel was not supported. This is an instant non-starter for me.
I would argue if people are allowed to see your art for free, so should AI models.
but also amazing things built by community

I remember the first time someone built a dedicated server for WC3 custom games (dota) that supported players reconnecting after a dc. it was mindblowing
id software managed to pull it off. They used to open source their games a few years after they were released.

I do get it though, bigger companies tend to optimize very strongly towards reducing liability and maximizing quantifiable profits. Having even 1 employee spend a couple of days or a week combing through things as a quick pass could be time working on something else if you're making resource allocation decisions based on a spreadsheet. Personally I'd make a case that id's openness in everything (how their games can be modded and it being open sourced) had a really big impact on their success both for gaining diehard fans and profits.
Interesting... I thought the tax system was pretty sweet in Estonia. Why don’t you just use an Estonian company and pay yourself mostly in dividends (taxed at 20% IIUC)?
I think it's fair play to call out the fact that "Mr. Work 20 Hour Days" has lots of rest and relaxation in his own life.
So what was the rationale held by the third? By reverse analogy with the present (consider Brexit), were they thinking of voting as brick-throwing?

cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33970366
Thanks for your contributions. I played circuit.js obsessively during high school (as well as some of the other simulators). It was just way more intuitive than spice. I picked up Art of Electronics around that time.

Ten years later, just the other day I was using it to prototype some filter and resonator circuits.
The big issue is precisely this, yeah, living* artists are upset that an ai can take their own names as input and output their artistic styles, that's the big thorn with these ml systems

There is a secondary issue on that there is other people being able to craft high quality images with strong compositions without spending the "effort/training" that artists had to use over years to produce them, so they are bitter about that too, but that's generally a minor cross-section of the publicvoutcry tho they are quite vitriolic

Photobashing, tracing, etc there have always been a layer of purists whom look down on anyone that doesn't "put the effort in" yet get great results in a timely manner, these purists will always exist, just like how it was when digital painting was starting, people were looked down by oil painters for not putting the effort in, even when oil painters themselves used tricks like projectors to the empty blank canvas to get perspective perfect images, but that's just human nature to a degree, trying to put down other people while yourself doing tricks to speed up processes
Such a strange, unhelpful and speculative thing to say
Also you would have some shared values about how you enjoy playing the game from hardcore competitive to just goofing around, instead of throwing everyone into one or two queues and letting them rage at each other for ruining each other's fun.
Heard of Yoel Roth?

Reap what you sow.
> Only 15.8 lightyears

hard a pass from me if the internet reception is not good
I learned that Windows NT/2000 was considerably cheaper, had a much shorter lead time on hardware, ran the same software, could be run by mere mortals thus had a better ROI.
Indeed! Cheers to jart!
I’m sure artists realise that. They also realise the power of these things and I see this more as a fight against survival. They’re up against the wall and they know it, and they’re incredibly well connected and have invested their lives up to now into this so they won’t just lie down without a fight (trying anything).
Yes. This!

I like my collection, but I want it to grow, and over the years my musical tastes have matured and changed as I've discovered and listened to more varieties of more genres.

Something I've explained to my kids is that you need to know what you don't like in order to better refine and describe what you do like - and this means listening to music that doesn't 'spark joy', because it's educational, and I care about my musical knowledge and journey. Listening to music selected by someone else allows that journey to continue and branch off into unexpected places.
I try to upvote those submissions that in my view best adhere to the guidelines:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."[a]

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I doubt there’s a single major tech website which will stop functioning within months even if you layoff the entire tech staff.

If that happened, it would imply that running the website requires constant manual human intervention.

The problems arise as time and debt accrues and when you try and make changes.

And every change Twitter has made has been a mess so far. Twitter Blue being implemented and then unimplemented and then postponed. The whole ElonJet block, unblock, block saga.

Drawing any judgments about Twitter right now is way too early in either direction.

Most tech companies took on too many workers during the pandemic and so most have a lot of fat to cut. The big issue with Twitter’s cuts were their arbitrary nature, as opposed to the size of the cut necessarily.

We will see the impact, if any, over the next couple of years as Twitter has to start introducing new changes.
All of them since it allows me a way to easily interact with my data.

If a service collects my data, but doesn’t have an API, then I just have to wait to find a comparable service that does.
I'm not in AI and my GPU barely runs games from 10 years ago, so I'll pass. To be more precise, though, I think that it _seems_ that their protest won't matter, but the one way in which I see that it may (the second out of three options) leads to an outcome that I would just consider bad in the short term (for society, and for artists that are not established enough to benefit from any emerging redistribution system; we observe cases in Germany every so often where pseudonymous musicians are essentially forced to charge for their own performances and redirect proceeds to rent-seekers and musicians that are not them, because they can't prove ownership of their own work to GEMA's satisfaction).
I disagree, many of them are likely on H1B visas, which are tied to employment and you need to find a job within a specific time range before the visa is revoked.
If you’re thinking about buying an RV, one of the first things you’ll need to consider is insurance. RV insurance can be a little bit different from standard auto insurance, so it’s important to understand the coverage options before you make a purchase.
I think this drastically overestimates what current AI algorithms are actually capable of, there is little to no hint of genuine creativity in them. They are currently severely limited by the amount of high quality training data not the model size. They are really mostly copying whatever they were trained on, but on a scale that it appears indistinguishable from intelligent creation. As humans we don't have to agree that our collective creative output can be harvested and used to train our replacements. The benefits of allowing this will be had by a very small group of corporations and individuals, while everyone else will lose out if this continues as is. This will and can turn into an existential threat to humanity, so it is different from workers destroying mechanical looms during the industrial revolution. Our existence is at stake here.
Most of these situations in the US are handled with common sense to the benefit of the residents. It's only the crazy overstepping situations you hear about because "community continues to exist peacefully" doesn't make the news.
Intl.DateTimeFormat is also really nicely done, because it limits the developer to "skeletons": you say what fields you want / need, and the browser will render what it has with at least those. Meaning the OS / user can override your whims if that's better or more readable. There's also formatRange which can provide localised range notations.

Although later on formatToParts was added which allows the developer to ignore the settings and really only use the bits they wanted anyway.
DDOS can be the definition of a heckler's veto. It's like blasting super loud music so nobody can hear what a person is saying.

Dont like what a site is saying? DDOS so it cant load and people cant read it. For bonus points you are preventing site from getting clicks and thus ad revenue.

There are communities on discord that setup donation links to make sure sites they dont like keep getting hit by DDOS via crowdfunding.
let's not turn this into a chain of saying obvious things that everyone involved already knows about, it's not going to add to the conversation and -hopefully- nor will it give you internet points in this website.
I think it's important to try to get people to not downvote or upvote things irrationally. It's better if upvote highlights higher quality posts, and downvote is reserved for posts that are either in bad faith, or simply low quality (SPAM, memes, that sort of thing.)

In practice, no matter how calm you try to remain, people will get genuinely riled up over surprisingly mundane things, myself included. Voting being one of the stronger signals, people definitely jump to downvote first. It's probably good that HN blocks you from downvoting direct replies.

While the way people vote can be a little annoying (nothing sucks more than being buried after genuinely trying to be reasonable) it does seem like you have to mentally detach from it a bit. There are times on here where I feel compelled to downvote someone I otherwise respect, and it's not like I hold a grudge for almost any negative interaction I've ever had here. Taking it too seriously is probably a disservice.

I agree that the way voting influences discussion is annoying too. For certain topics, it makes less popular opinions less represented even if they're being reasoned about better. This is especially true when it comes to contentious topics here like anything involving iPhone, Meta, Google, etc. where there are very strong opinions that people hold very personally. Generally, HN votes in favor of cynicism, which admittedly works in my favor... But regardless, it's not all bad. Websites without downvoting wind up favoring opinions that people repeat often even if they are truly awful and unpopular. I hate to say it, because I feel like I'm truly being the cliche that I wish I wasn't, but I believe Twitter has done a lot of damage here, as it's easy to see an absolutely awful, very obviously poorly thought out emotional diatribe with 10K upvotes and think "omg! All 8 billion people on earth must actually think this way!" And it sucks, because that social validation probably does help further some really nasty discourse.
The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals. So, clearly in this case it does not apply at all since the person behind @ElonJet is acting in an individual capacity.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/who-does-the-eu-gdpr-apply-to...
To be fair to the GP comment, I've personally never experienced lucid dreaming, so for me the distinction holds - when I'm dreaming, I never know I'm dreaming, and mostly I don't even remember my life awake, I only remember whatever's in the context of the dream.
I think we should start looking at hydrogen before we strictly need it, because it's best to get all of this ready ASAP, and parallel is better than serial for that.
“We” decide on today’s issues, not on all future possibilities. The reason for that decision in the past was to allow many creators to create without being too held back by “private property” signs everywhere. The current situation allows AI to create but demotivates creators. Now it’s time to think what will we do when AI wouldn’t pick a new style and there are not enough creators anymore who can or want to do that, whether it is a near future problem or maybe not a problem at all, and what should we decide again.

Simply hiding in an obsolete technicality is sure a wrong way to handle it.
None of the above. They don't like it being trained on and occasionally regurgitating their work.
Ignoring the obvious issues for a moment, what if the employee needed to talk to his lawyer before signing this?

Less than 24 hours during the weekend does not seem like a reasonable period for a legal document.
These days aren't gone for good though. Look on Steam how many games offer LAN support or dedicated servers for instance (server browsers are a different topic unfortunately)

It's just that gamers in the past have voted too weakly against the managed MP infrastructure in some subgenres and triple A moats... Don't know whether anyone is still protesting this or whether newer generations don't even know what's happened here.
Total strawman. We want everyone to emit less (or pay a steep price for the privilege) including and especially billionaires. It's just that billionaires are a drop in the bucket so them altering their behavior will factually not change much.
Copyright isn't level legal vs illegal, it's infringing vs non-infringing. Fan art very often could be argued to be infringing, but no company has any reason to pursue it in the vast majority of cases, so they just don't.

It's very confusing, especially when you have to consider trademark as related but separate.
>but about sharing his live location without consent.

I'm trying to figure out if all of the people repeating this line are social media bots, or what.

This information is public and it's widely available on many other apps (I was getting ads on Twitter for alternatives last night).

Banning the Twitter account doesn't do much, and through the Streisand Effect will just direct ne'er-do-wells to alternatives.