skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QT5.. It's so well documented, and just a pleasure to work in.
I'm almost never using it though.. I mostly work with the Node API, and some of the larger libraries in the infrastructure, it's fairly okay too.
> This is hard for non-technical people and I want to hear what they have to say.

I agree, so maybe we should work towards making it easier for them.

I was thinking about spending my Christmas break fixing Friendica bugs, but now I'm suddenly thinking about building my own ActivityPub blogging platform (though no doubt one already exists). But of course that's not going to be enough; it needs to be trivial to deploy and host, at little cost. I believe many cloud hosting providers have a free tier. Would be nice if something like this could be easily deployed there. Create a tool that sets the whole thing up, handles the DNS name, the payments, and deploys the site.

In fact, it would be nice if ISPs offered something like that for free with your internet connection, to finally do justice to that 'S' in their name.
There's a theoretical limit of 55% for unconcentrated, 85% for concentrated sunlight. I'm not sure about the exact thermodynamical reasons for those numbers.

But claims of "1000x better" can physically never be true, unlike for batteries (e.g. antimatter, no matter how impractical, has millions times more energy density)
We're talking about stalkers, right? People who have a vested interest in finding such a thing?

How many people knew about @elonjet? You have to seek that out, too.
Both of those can be bad at once you know...

A lithium mine is much more devastating to the environment than an oil well or franking. That doesn't mean either of these are really good options despite what either side wants to pretend.
>A masked stalker, dressed all in black, was following his young child in car thinking it was him.

I mean, maybe?

I don't see a masked stalker doing much of anything in that video. In fact, the masked stalked in the car seems afraid of the person doing the filming (a security guard?). Certainly not showing much aggression. The claim is that this person then got out of the car and jumped on the hood of Elon's car preventing it from moving, but that wasn't caught on video?
XFCE 4.18 Released
I thought cancel culture was a positive thing.
I sometimes hit down vote semi-automatically, but then force myself to really look at what I just voted on, and normally I end up removing the vote. I try to only downvote trash comments, not just things I disagree with. When I see something that could be interpreted as typical nasty internet vitriol (eg blatant racism, sexism, etc) I will downvote it. If it's kinda borderline and I'm not sure if there's ill intent, then I'll look at the commenter's post history. If it's 50% ranting about black people, then they get downvoted, otherwise there's the benefit of the doubt.

I also keep showdead on, so a lot of my upvoted comments are "rescue votes", from when I see a dead comment that I don't think should be dead.

I also make a point of periodically browsing new, and trying to upvote two or three interesting articles that have no votes.
Overpaid? Nah... I got all of mine for about 50usd each
Except the machine is not automatically generating an input

> automatically generating art as output

The user is navigating the latent space to obtain said output, I don't know if that's transformative or not, but it is an important distinction

If the program were wholy automated as in it had a random number/words generator added to it and no navigation of the latent space by users happened, then yeah I would agree, but that's not the case at least so far as ml algos like midjourney or stable diffusion are concerned
And yet Musk is suing the @elonjet guy because someone attacked his car.

See what I mean by the irony?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944?s=20...
Communities that generate and/or profit off of "intellectual property" ought to have a rudimentary understanding of the laws involved. Doubly so if they're protesting what they see as violations of those laws. It honestly does not take a lawyer to understand the distinctions at play here.
Fortnite is the new money maker, UT doesn’t even come close unfortunately
Hunters penis however is something that is apparently of great public interest.
Not your platform, not your content ?

Man I truly do not like Medium, if i land on an article i just close it immediately!
Then where would sensible words come from, for the first time, in hominid history?
Why would China continue this war if it would cause a global depression?
> Search Google images for Mickey Mouse, is the results page a possible liability for Google?

In 2018[0], didn't Getty force Google to change how Google Images presented results, following a lawsuit in 2016[1]?

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/google-eu-antitr...
Apparently HN automatically capitalises Xfce, even though the project itself doesn't...
Would have been an awesome opportunity to actually show off some of the things they're doing with Rust. You know, instead of just puffing their chest about joining the foundation.
Practice dictation, 150 wpm, invent replacements for code strings that you can find/replace later.

After a few dozen hours of practice, it’s amazing what you can do.
That’s a pretty brave thing to say around here, did you get that notion from pg’s writings or is it more of a personal conviction?
Why stop at the national level? Wouldn't it be better to tax globally and clean the streets everywhere?
I read the article and if I think it’s interesting or the comments might be interesting, I upvote.
Why would China continue this war if it risks a global economic crisis that would make the great depression seem like a cheerful time?

Is the whole 'US intervention bad' propaganda line being pushed just smoke?
Those reasons don't make sense to me.

On 1, human artists are copying copyrighted pixel data into their system for training. That system is the brain. It's organic RAM.

On 2, money shouldn't make a difference. Jim Carrey should still be allowed to paint even though he's rich.

If Jim uses Photoshop instead of brushes, he can spit out the style ideas he's copied and transformed in his brain more rapidly - but he should still be allowed to do it.
> Twitter before Musk was not perfect, but it was perfectly usable (even if they got stuff wrong every now and then, and in those cases they usually - but not always - eventually corrected themselves). What is on display right now is capriciousness of an entirely different degree.

So Twitter is now unusable because elonjet has been banned? Social media companies change their policies all the time. You don't have to agree with the decision but holding it up as something so consequential is just silly.

Assuming what he said about his son being accosted is true, how could he not change his mind? Should he really not stop something that threatened his kids life because of a promise he made to internet strangers?
"Elon Musk was already on the record as seeing the safety of children as a limit to free speech."

Can I find this in the Twitter TOS?
They're issuing the permits though.
I think this is a fallacy.

Maybe the big developers wouldn't have incentive to develop billion-dollar cosmetic-powered games anymore, but someone would make it work financially.

You'd still have hugely popular multiplayer games, and maybe they would be somewhat less ambitious in scope and features (i.e. dev cost), but they would still be fun, and have strong communities built around them.

Maybe they sell DLC map packs (which would not have the "community fragmentation" problem from today's centralized matchmaking if private servers exist), or figure out other ways to generate incremental revenue.

Or maybe they don't, and just sell the base game, and are still successful because it's not a 5,000 person team and a nine-figure budget.

Today's games don't exist because of the business model, it's the other way around.
Since you can't be bothered to post the relevant part yourself, I'll do it for you:

"Courts struck down anti-SLAPP laws in Washington and Minnesota, and Washington enacted an updated law

Courts in Washington and Minnesota struck down their states’ anti-SLAPP laws, finding them unconstitutional under their respective state constitutions. As discussed above, however, Washington enacted an updated anti-SLAPP law in 2021 that addressed the concerns of the state supreme court.

In 2016, a Minnesota appellate court similarly found that state’s anti-SLAPP law unconstitutional, finding that the law “deprive[s] the non-moving party of the right to a jury trial by requiring a court to make pretrial factual findings to determine whether the moving party is immune from liability.” Mobile Diagnostic Imaging v. Hooten, 889 N.W.2d 27, 35 (Minn. Ct. App. 2016). The following year, the Minnesota Supreme Court agreed, finding that state’s anti-SLAPP law unconstitutional as applied to claims alleging torts because it requires a district court to make pretrial factual finding in violation of the plaintiff’s right to a trial by jury under the Minnesota constitution. Leiendecker v. Asian Women United of Minn., 895 N.W.2d 623, 637–38 (Minn. 2017). These decisions raise concerns that courts in other states that recognize a plaintiff’s right to a trial by jury may follow suit."

From that, I don't know that it's reasonable to conclude that "they likely can't protect Sweeney at all", but IANAL.
As a side-side note, isn't the insertion in the article of a photo of a bag:

Figure 4: Faraday bag example

somewhat queer?
Has does not have the same functionality as jquery contains.
Have to disagree with point 1, often this is what artists are doing. More strictly in the music part (literally playing others songs), less strictly in the drawing part. But copying, incorporating and developing are some of the core foundations of art.
"The GDPR only applies to businesses"

No.
Distributing implementations of closed protocols is speech. I don't see why such restrictions would be desirable. If you don't want to play games that use closed protocols, you're under no obligation to do so.
You could also have multiple servers. We had a competitive and casual server.
Uzbek language is not represented well with Russian alphabet as neither Latin.
In both cases for cyrillic and latin-based Uzbek alphabets there are some adapted symbols to represent sounds specific for this language. They are not dumb transliteration for Uzbek language.
Diffusion models don't copy the pixels you show them. You cannot generally tell which training images inspired which output images.

(That's as opposed to a large language model, which does memorize text.)

Also, you can train it to imitate an artist's style just by showing it textual descriptions of the style. It doesn't have to see any images.
Yes! Somebody had to say it!

We thrive on novelty, especially people drawn to tech. With the pace of change in the early years of modern tech, making things constantly change appearance was natural and unavoidable, so we've come to expect it, but some things are eventually good enough. Chairs, sinks, toilets, plates-- there may be edge cases of radical divergences from their settled forms, but for the most part, they're stable and consistent.
Companies that use the data published by the FAA are required to not display information about planes that are part of the LADD program (which Elon's Jet is).

This data is not from the FAA, but from ADSBExchange, which crowdsources the data.
I think most people vote on agreement, but in my opinion HN would be a better place if, instead, people voted on the validity of an argument, the effort that went into producing it, the surprise factor of new information or (on the negative side) the extent to which a comment violates the guidelines (lack of kindness, etc.)

I might argue that the more you disagree with a given comment, the more you should be willing to debate it, rather than responding by "not dignifying it with a response". "No response" is a valid strategy when dealing with trolls, but when dealing with opinions, argued in a valid way, one merely disagrees with, I would argue it's self-censorship or a conscious or unconscious effort to use the social media echo chamber in service of one's own opinion and in opposition to the opinion one opposes.
While I welcome this advancement it still seems like a solution to the wrong solution for another problem.
According to TechPowerUp, they’ve solved the heat dissipation problem for this gen in a different way:

> These would use one or two "Zen 4" chiplets with stacked 3D Vertical Cache memory. A large amount of cache memory operating at the same speed as the on-die L3 cache, is made contiguous with it and stacked on top of the region of the CCD (chiplet) that has the L3 cache, while the region with the CPU cores has structural silicon that conveys heat to the surface

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/301721/amd-readies-16-core-12-co...
Then the author of that addon would be liable. Not blender.
I've been finding that the strangest part of discussions around art AI among technical people is the complete lack of identification or empathy: it seems to me that most computer programmers should be just as afraid as artists, in the face of technology like this!!! I am a failed artist (read, I studied painting in school and tried to make a go at being a commercial artist in animation and couldn't make the cut), and so I decided to do something easier and became a computer programmer, working for FAANG and other large companies and making absurd (to me!!) amounts of cash. In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done. Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art for a living- and, if AI is able to do these astonishingly difficult things, why shouldn't it, with some finagling, also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...
yes, but fermentation is part of the manufacturing process. "cultured" refers to the introduction of bacteria to start fermentation.

I apologize for committing the sin of wordplay on hn
You have to wonder just how little hosting a lobby server must cost a company the size of epic. Collating a list of server IPs and names seems fairly trivial.
Not to distract too much from your point, because I agree that the obviously imminent explosion of AI generated work will probably lead to a generation of stylistic stagnation, but...

We already live in a time of artistic stagnation. With how much audio engineers manipulate pop music in Pro Tools, "fake" singers have been a practical reality for 20 years. Look at Marvel movies. Go to any craft fair on a warm day, or any artists' co-op, in a major city and try, try to find one booth that is not exactly like 5 other booths on display.

People have been arguing about what is "real art" for centuries. Rap music wasn't real because it didn't follow traditional, European modes and patterns. Photography wasn't real because it didn't take the skill of a painter. Digital photography wasn't real because it didn't take laboring in a dark room. 3D rendering wasn't real. Digital painting wasn't real. Fractal imagery wasn't real. Hell, anything sold to the mass market instead of one-off to a collector still isn't "real art" to a lot of people.

Marcel Duchamp would like to have a word.

If anything, I think AI tools are one of the only chances we have of seeing anything interesting break out. I mean, 99% of the time it's just going to be used to make some flat-ui, corporate-memphis, milquetoast creative for a cheap-ass startup in a second rate co-working space funded by a podunk city's delusions they could ever compete with Silicon Valley.

But if even just one person uses the tool to stick out their neck and try to question norms, how can that not be art?
> That would imply legislating what linear algebra is legal and illegal to do, no?

No, it would just legislate what images are and which ones are not on the training data to be parsed, artists want a copyright which makes their images unusable for machine learning derivative works.

The trick here is that eventually the algorithms will get good enough that it won't be necessary for said images to even be on the training data in the first place, but we can imagine that artists would be OK with that
I'd like to imagine I have a consistent pattern in my voting, but it's probably affected by my mood as much as anything. If I'm grumpy, I downvote, and might be guilty of upvoting argumentative comments. If I'm in a good mood, I'll upvote things for being encouraging or insightful.

One general rule I tend to stick to is downvoting lazy comments:

* Using your age as evidence you are right

* Invoking "clickbait" because an otherwise interesting article has an interesting headline

* Moaning about downvotes, the OP not having read the article, or about HN having inconsistent hivemind just like Reddit.

* Hackneyed criticisms, especially when they're off-topic - e.g. "why doesn't this site support users without JavaScript?" or "70s programmers did this so much better"

My problem with upvotes is that a confident, well-written, persuasive comment on a topic about which I know nothing could very well be complete BS. Since I don't know the subject matter or the OP, I have no idea whether it's authoritative.
Four Bars
I wouldn’t be angry at the reporters. They don’t come up with this stuff by themselves. LLNL has a staff dedicated to public relations¹. The insertion of misleading phrases and ideas into news articles is a longstanding, deliberate practice.

[1] https://www.llnl.gov/news/media-contacts
Human Metabolism Research Upends Conventional Wisdom about How We Burn Calories
Simply reading mailing lists would help. For example look at how he reacts to pep659.
> The trick here is that eventually the algorithms will get good enough that it won't be necessary for said images to even be on the training data in the first place, but we can imagine that artists would be OK with that

They shouldn't be OK with that and they probably aren't. That's a much worse problem for them!

The reason they're complaining about copyright is most likely coping because this is what they're actually concerned about.
Try it and see if it is blender or you as the addon creator that gets sued.
We get attacked several times a month, we rely on Cloudflare & Corero to mitigate attacks.
Cloudflare handles HTTP/s attacks and Corero handles network level attacks.

Both require tweaking and are far from being 1-click setup tools (despite some marketing attempts that try to make it seem that way), however, if you can manage them, they are very powerful and considerably cheaper than other alternatives.
You have not only the impact of mining but also the problem of reverse logistics for correct disposal and recycling of those toxic batteries that don’t even last long. Batteries contaminate soil and water in a way that’s much harder to control if it start piling up everywhere. And today’s world can’t even solve the disposal of plastic.
A Teensy 3.x/4.x based polyphonic synthesizer, modelled after the Juno-106
A pretty amazing recreation of a Juno 106 - video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBFbo3VF1TQ
The largest competitor in my field is suing another competitor (not me).

My Stripe account has been shut due to to my competitor sending in a copy of the lawsuit (not involving me) to Stripe falsely claiming I’m subject to the lawsuit.

Stripe staff in their IP notice claim department are unable to distinguish between real claims and malicious ones , and don’t seem to care either way.

He has not only taken my Stripe account down but also two other people using this tactic.

Specifically:

1) I have not been sued
2) I have not been named in any claim nor has my site been mentioned
3) I have not seen any evidence or the particulars of the claim against me.
4) nor have a received any letter from any lawyer

It seems it’s very easy to abuse Stripe's
IP notice claim form by simply sending the case # and confusing
Stripe's staff.

Stripe have done nothing so far and refuse to listen.

Avoid Stripe. This is a tactic will be abused in the future
It’s funny how different everyone’s definition of “of 2022” is; I play enough board games that I expected this to be all about 2022 releases, but most of the conversation is about 5-20 year old games!

In 2022 I’ve been focusing on very fast games, to add to my group’s repertoire of mostly mid-to-heavy games. Nidavellir and Jumpdrive both have been fun, here.

My favorite game of the last 5 years is Res Arcana with or without expansions; it’s a fun enough engine builder to appeal to most folks, but has high enough returns to skill to feel like it’s worth investing more plays in.

The most surprising hit for me this year is Star Wars: Rebellion. I’m not generally an Ameritrash fan, and I usually prefer 3-4 player evenings, but if you’ve got 2-3 hours with a single friend and even mildly enjoy the Star Wars atmosphere, it’s an asymmetric game which has felt epic every time I’ve played, win or lose.
Yes it does. It is all in the tweet linked in the article and you know it; as you continue to choose to ignore it [0]. Another quick search shows that they were doing a "call for action" with a burning car for what? More violence? [1]

It appears the Intercept article is doing everything they can to defend content that is inciting or calling for violence and the evidence. So obviously they violated the ToS for inciting violence.

[0] https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1596087310042296320

[1] https://archive.ph/3wvcq
Point taken, but a misstep rather than with intent on my part. I stand by the rest of my comment.
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> This seems more about retrocomputing than a history of the lessons of the death of workstations and their vendors.

Little bit, yes. I highly recommend following the link and reading Holwerda's article which inspired this.

HN discussions on that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33948573

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33953816
capacity is but one of many characteristics of a successfully battery technology. it's important to consider just about every possible factor,

capacity, power density, charge and discharge rate, lifespan / shelf life, safety, voltage range, temperature ranges while charging, discharging, cycle count.

And, also, the performance of these attributes under various temperature profiles.

This list is far from exhaustive, I'm not a battery expert but just something I came up with in a few minutes of thought. So, gtfo with your capacity claim. Every few months a battery break-through article comes out. I've become de-sensitize to this type of news.
The slice Im curious about is what happens, when you let loose your AI art generator and start copy/trademarking everything it creates to basically make sure all kinds of art that could have been created is potentially infringing for you?

The art equivalent of patent trolling or domain squatting basically. Is that possible legally?
I’ve been more and more impressed by the python runtime, which is getting pretty slick.

The packaging story seems less, uh, put together. Is any consensus forming on that?
> Is the results page a possible liability for Google?

Absolutely. Google previously had a direct link to the full-size image, but it has removed this due to potential legal issues. See [0].

> Is that a violation if the bakery didn't advertise it?

According to Disney, it is. See [1].

> Any privately commissioned art?

Not any art, no. Only that which uses IP/material they do not have a license to.

[0]: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/02/12/say-goodbye-to-the-view-im...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_copyright#Copyright_of_ar...