skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is another contortion. Holding an entity accountable for the results of deploying an algorithm is not the same as holding them liable for content posted by other people on their platform. The algorithm in this case governs how and to who that content is shown, but they are still two separate things. A court could definitely find that for example there's no liability for posting certain content in general, but there is for posting it like that.

Court isn't a context-free zone, they absolutely may consider what an entity did know or should have known about the future consequences of their actions. As in the different categories of negligence, which this is similar to.

Are you a lawyer why are you using their jargon so heavily? The lawyers will do that part, in the courts. Here, in this context, it's just another rhetorical flourish to distract attention away from your actual position. No one cares what a tort is just say your piece in normal words and stop trying to obscure it behind the facade of technical jargon.
I don’t work in flutter but I wouldn’t be surprised, having worked in react-native, if there isn’t a massive amount of native deps under the hood that have to be rebuilt often that are slowing things down more than your typical entirely native app. I’d look into fastlane and automating your uploads outside xcode it is not too bad to write a script to do this for you.
And probably working with the feds

https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/sam-bankman-frieds-ex-caroline...
I think it shows that what most people actually want are banks and brokers, and they don't know or care about how things work on the backend, or understand what banking regulations do for them when they use a real bank. The robinhood crowd and early NFT enthusiasts are in some ways two sides of the same coin.
Not exactly: we (well, not me, others among you all) can argue about where the line lies between a general accusation of conducting stochastic terrorism and a specific accusation (will no one rid me of this turbulent priest) concerning specific targets and locations.

It may not be a bright line, it may rest on judgement, but I doubt anyone will convincingly argue that there is no such line.
I've played around a bit with Stable Diffusion and as far as I can tell, it's just a new tool, like a much better paintbrush.

It still needs a human to tell it what to paint, and the best outputs generally require hours of refinement and then possibly touch-up in photoshop. It's not generating art on its own.

Artists still have a job in deciding what to make and using their taste to make it look good, that hasn't changed. Maybe the fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination are not as necessary as they were, but that's it.
So, at least the user-ban tool at Twitter is still functional...
See… that would be interesting and useful. But it’s not what’s on the table here.
I do appreciate that the way in which a piece of code "works" and the way in which an piece of art "works" is in some ways totally different- but, I also think that in many cases, notably automated systems that create reports or dashboards, they aren't so far apart. In the end, the result just has to seem right. Even in computer programming, amateur hour level correctness isn't so uncommon, I would say.

I would personally be astonished if any of the distributed systems I've worked on in my career were even close to 95% correct, haha.
Well indeed, you could even alter your skins so all players would appear bright pink too. This was before resource checking so such cheating was impossible to detect.

In retrospect it's hard to see how the game wasn't more plagued by cheats than it already was, but again it comes back to learning which servers were good servers and had active moderators who could ban people who were obviously cheating, and the less obvious probably just got away with it but were by definition less disruptive.

Of course, that also led to third party tools like PunkBuster in the end whose function then was later centralised with VAC.
It's take a special type of arrogance to just deny the reason why front end development has been moving heavily toward code (javascript) instead of mark up.
This same group of people recently has made a lot of noise about freaking form methods and that sort of thing, sorry we knew about them 20 years ago, didn't scale.
> I don't get why the AI companies would be effected in any way.

It doesn't necessarily matter if they're affected. My thought when seeing this is that they want some legal precedent to be set which determines that this is not fair use.
I can't fault the theory and can only share an anecdote. It was illegal for school children to smoke when I was in school, 80s into early 90s. So much so that kids caught smoking were expelled from school. Kids still smoked. Perhaps it was a different time and perhaps this time it is being done right.
> But isn’t the current inflation because they printed money out of thin air for nearly two years to push markets well beyond all times highs?

Essentially yes (although some amount of that is out of feds scope - see federal stimulus and PPP, decided by the legislative branch).

At the beginning of the pandemic inflation was low (the fear was deflation) and unemployment was at extreme highs.

> It seems like a lot of rubber banding.

You aren’t wrong but the pandemic was a black swan event and society’s response to the pandemic was unprecedented (basically shutting down economic activity, some economic sectors like office real estate fundamentally altered to this day).

I don’t think there was an easy way out and, all things considered, my opinion is the federal reserve (and lawmakers) did a pretty good job of keeping our economy from imploding.

Let’s put it another way: the federal reserve is a control system, and that control system was pushed to the boundaries. Any good control system is going to get some rubber banding to recover from this scenario.

The risk of runaway unemployment/deflation was too great in 2020, the risk of runaway inflation is too great now.
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I just use pip-tools and vanilla pip. Neither poetry, nor the rightfully maligned pipenv did anything to resolve this. Plain pip is extremely fast and has all the features I need and pip-tools' dependency resolver is fast enough that I have had no problems
This should have (2019) in the title
There is new new physics here, and I suspect this gentleman's criticisms are unfounded.

I'll have to take the abstract's[0] word for it since I'm not institutionalized, though.

The author of the rebuke claims that they simply used entanglement as with the quantum teleportation task, which isn't the case, apparently a more robust task has been used to demonstrate their premise.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3

Edit: and since when has physics ever been about "proof"? that's not anything, regression is an extremely powerful tool in physics because physics is about predictive reach, not some unjudgeable standard of "correctness". this is coherent in perturbation, and correspondence principles, but apparently easy to miss if you haven't read that far. see also the interoperability principle, to understand at least one framework interpretation of holographic phenomena.
Tangentially, this is something I think about from time to time: in tech, you can be mediocre and live a very comfortable life. In art (and many other areas), you often have to be extraordinary just to make ends meet.

So I don’t think art is “harder”. It’s just harder for the average practitioner/professional to find “success” (however you like to define it).
> Why the hell would they depend on US money

Indirectly, because they depend on petroleum/oil/gas. Sure your glorious government has to import energy or other fuel derived products. Not to mention imports don't magically teleport to your location, they also depend on oil to get shipped.

> No problem - they can just legalize it

That's just papering over the issue. Akin to saying we solved drunk driving by setting alcohol in blood to 50%.
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I think they mean EU countries. EU laws are mostly laws from specific countries that bubbles up to the union. Regulations along these lines has existed in Europe for over a century.
No, but his estate was sued by Lynn Goldsmith over his use of a photo of Prince - and lost.

Warhol himself said that art "is anything you can get away with." He was clearly very much aware of the dubious legality of some of his work.
This: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/... ?

That's helpful, thanks!
Alexa supports multiple profiles and voice print detection for profile owners. It's actually quit annoying TBH. I set it up a long time ago but it never really had any issues until recently. My wife's account is the one linked to the HA instance and it always voice prints me to my profile which isn't set up for HA control I guess. I'm not sure if they changed something about how HA stuff works on the backend or what, but I'll resolve it at some point.
A station in a different orbital plane would me more difficult to reach than the ocean's surface, so long as an adequate heat shield is provided.
> This.

You're not on Reddit, pal.
The model still needs to infer from the sentence the entity to look it up. It is also the case that this is a relatively simple example as 'Obama' refers to a single class of entities and there is not a lot of ambiguity around resolution of class, only resolution of specific entity.

Take this sentence:

> When was KitKat released?

I could refer to the sweet, or the Android OS. Vastly different classes, and the model here needs to "decide" to ask for more information to disambiguate the class, and if the class is the sweet, then it needs to disambiguate the taste particular flavour possibly, and even ask the geographic location.
In my experience 40G gear can often be had for cheaper than 10G. I have a pair of Mellanox 40G Infiniband cards that cost me about $20 each on ebay and could be turned in to Ethernet cards with a few commands.
I don't disagree, except I don't get what you mean with "because we are discussing systems, not feelings."

I think artists feeling like shit in this situation is totally understandable. I'm just a dilettante painter and amateur hentai sketcher, but some of the real artists I know are practically in the middle of an existential crisis. Feeling empathy for them is not the same as thinking that we should make futile efforts to halt the progress of this technology.
Nanite gives you high fidelity and Lumen gives you physically accurate lighting, but those things can't replace good art direction.
> Cf. blatantly wrong statements divorced from reality from major figures on social media, etc.

I'm just a random guy on a random forum :-))))
> I do, because I don't see why it wouldn't be.

Because of how capitalism works and people always try to corner markets, extract value from other people, etc. etc.?

> If it's not, why worry about it ?

Because we can choose different professions that are less susceptible to automation? Or we can study DL to implement our own AI.
>Gil free python would break a lot of oss packages written with the C API that are only thread safe because if the GIL.

So make it a runtime option.

It's getting tiresome that python performance is suffering because some can't be bothered to write thread-safe software. In 2022.
Does the 1150 take into account all the oceans full of NaCl? It sounds a little low.
> A bulldozer destroys the park and other people's ability to enjoy it

hear hear...

> Passively training a model on an artwork does not change the art in the slightest

copyright holders, I mean individual authors, people who actually produced the content being used, disagree.

They say AI is like a bulldozer destroying the park to them.

Which technically is true, it's a machine that someone (some interested party maybe?) is trying to disguise as a human, doing human stuff.

But it's not.

> passive, non-destructive

Passive, non-destructive, in this context means

- passive: people send the images to you, you don't go looking for them

- non-destructive: people authorized you, otherwise it's destructive of their rights.
> the difficulty in programming as a career is interaction with other humans

It would be great if there was an AI that could be a liaison between developers and stakeholders, translating the languages of each side for mutual understanding.
Well, I think it is a grey area.

The argument I heard most often goes along the lines of: "people also learn from a lot of examples and other artists, and that is not copyrighted".

It is an interesting argument, but AI is not people and the argument could easily be the opposite (not taking sides here). They might think it is legal, but it is far from clear, IMHO.

IANAL, but it will be interesting to see if this is enforceable and by whom.
> Steam might not be perfect, but compared to any other option I can think of it's not only better, but far, far better.

What about GOG? Their client is optional, you can download full installers for offline archiving, no DRM.

First option that comes to mind that is clearly superior.
> modestly large transactions.

This is for transactions over 10k. That's not "moderately large". The only time most people make transactions that size is for buying a house, car or life insurance. Those are not transactions that normal people do in cash, and all of them already require significant paperwork anyway.

> All of this aside from the flawed reasoning that the state has an innate right to completely strip away financial privacy for the sake of taxes or KYC. It should not have such a right. Tax collection and financial auditing are contextual and imperfect necessities in the context of imperfect government and society, they should not be treated as divine rights of power, to ever be increased without recourse against them.

Is that a fancy way of saying tax evasion should be legal? Any transaction of that size represents a significant piece of income for someone.

I strongly support the right to privacy, but I'm not naive about the need to fight money laundering or collect taxes.
I would point out that many (most?) people are in programming to make money, rather than get things done per se.

If an AI were to make it impossible to make a living doing programming, would that be an improvement for most readers of this site?
I have two white papers on transporting shape types to difference equations on images; and am working on a third related to models of Zn.

https://www.zmgsabstract.com/whitepapers/shapes-as-digital-i...

https://www.zmgsabstract.com/whitepapers/shapes-have-operati...

This is pretty new; but the main interest is actually the inverse mapping — can you recover a type theory that is the “internal language” of the diagram modeling the difference equations that (eg) represents a DNN?

That would be the “effective semantics” of the DNN, expressed as typed statements.

- - -

I’m following the work of (eg) Michael Shulman on attaching types to categories; and my own experience as an SDE on the logic, types, difference equation side. (There’s some papers on programs as Euclidean VMs I used as well, but I don’t have them handy.)

The weakest link is category to difference equations; but that exists to some degree already due to physics — and I’m muddling my way through implementing that to gain deeper insight myself.
Wouldn’t the cold side accumulate solid water until the sunlit side is totally dry?
> alternative to Steam. Steam sucks... @lakomen

Steam is the best content delivery platform for games. Developers have spoken with their content and users have spoken with their accounts.

It's not as good as it could be, sure... But, what is?

Even EA brought back titles they'd removed from Steam, as it hurt their bottom line.

Players prefer Steam over all other CDNs. The numbers assure us of this.
Kratos will at least build some. I have no idea whether Boom plans to then take over production themselves (I can not imagine that actually happening).

>I mean, the manufacturer usually cares in the sense that the manufacturing and operating costs inform the purchase.

Sure, but Boom never promised what exactly their partners will be doing. Unless they are pushing some serious requirements on Kratos, beyond "the renewable fuel should also work", Kratos doesn't need to really care.
Perhaps we should learn some of the lessons from that time. A large group of people's lives became markedly worse while a small group profited from their labors.
> No, it would not. Odds are there is something on your hard disk right now that could be classified as child porn, if the accuser was motivated enough.

Speak for yourself, there's absolutely nothing in my files that could even marginally be classified as child pornography. I would think this is the same for most people.

With this guy, investigators found hundreds of thousands of photos and videos of child sexual abuse on his disks. And then he tried to defend himself by claiming it's a victimless crime.

I know people like a good conspiracy theory, especially if it involves the government, but this isn't it.
Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.

> If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.

Also :-)))

We're not talking poor here. We're talking "makes more money in 1 month than the richest lawyer you know" rich.
Are you flying in on your own private jet and are you among the richest most well-known people in the world?
On the other hand, copyleft licenses are being used to protect creators. Without copyright protection, what is stopping companies from blatantly violating even more open-source licenses?
Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. I'm sure others do too.

How could we build a communal product for the public? Theoretically, this approach would result in a better product. Practically, it seems nearly impossible.

What are your thoughts?

Edit:

Let me give an example that I have been thinking about since 2009.

It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.

This model closely mirrors real social interactions and allows for both private and intimate communication. It also offers a profitable advertising opportunity. A social circle reflects its members’ interests and context.
Yes, and probably the copyrighted art of lots of other artists as well. That's the entire point.
StableDiffusion is 4GB which is approximately two bytes per training image. That's not very derivative, it's actual generalization.

"Mickey" does work as a prompt, but if they took that word out of the text encoder he'd still be there in the latent space, and it's not hard to find a way to construct him out of a few circles and a pair of red shorts.
That's appalling. We've gone from running internal on local networks to forcing a potential security issue to allow for multiplayer.

My personal favorite is Microsoft discouraging local Minecraft servers with the rational that anyone could type anything on them! Who knows what you and the people you explicitly allow on your server might type!

But your switch example is worse, I think.
> The questions about the copyright of models like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. exist solely because it infringes on the rights of thousands of random artists all around the world

How does it infringe? Are your memories of a movie copyright infringement?

https://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E
Is learning how to navigate the DMV system in any US state less "heavy"? I think Medium and others contribute to the problem by perpetuating the myth that ordinary folks can't do it/ it's just too hard. How we break through that is something to think about.
How are you going to turn that fusion based heat into electricity?

Coal and nuclear are uncompetitive simply from the cost of the steam side. Today you can just about give a steam plant free energy and it still makes a loss.

Solar or wind does not have this limitation. CCGT gas plants gets around it by having a turbine giving raw mechanical power and then utilizing the same awful steam side to get the last percentage points of efficiency at a much smaller required scale.

Unless you can step around the steam turbine I am not so positive on fusions future outside of incredibly small niches.
Solar is by far the cheapest form of energy by a significant margin. It is already at the point where it makes sense to put it everywhere, and have concentrated large scale generation.

For solar to win, we need to solve energy storage, or perhaps the energy distribution problem. There is no amount of solar which will give you power 24 hours in a day in a single location.

Energy storage is the best short term solution. If we can capture peak solar generation and move that energy to the peak demand period, we can have a serious discussion about moving away from coal for baseload generation. It won’t be needed during the day, and the demand periods covered by storage.

However, for solar to really win, we need to think bigger with our energy distribution networks. Think of a global scale distribution network, like an internet for electricity.

If you can send an IP packet from your computer across the world, why not energy?

With a sufficiently large interconnected global scale network of renewable generators, energy storage becomes less important. We don’t need gas pipelines, we need longitudinal and latitudinal HV distribution networks.
Google got smoked by ChatGPT
Would an SVG image count as text? How about an SVG automatically transformed into human-readable language?
Did you actually read the files? They don't have any naked Hunter Biden pics (thank God).

It's mostly about Twitter fabrication of Hunter Biden was hacked (discovered during laptop dissembly) and the connections between federal government and Twitter's staff.
That's what I meant when I said Perlers hate Rakuans. It's an intersting example of "The People's Front of Judea" vs. "The Judean People's Front".

I hope you gain inner peace one day again.
Is it legal to change flight codes? That's the number on the plane, right?
Actually people desire to belong to a mission, join a quest, and to engage with comrades to reclaim glory that seems lost. This factors into their political views and actions.

We can see this in the political arena today.
Once that stops being exciting we could tell AI to create new worlds combining others such as mixing the Smurfs and Pocahontas worlds... I wonder what it could come up with /s
> code that's only 95% right is just wrong

It's still worth it on the whole but I have already gotten caught up on subtly wrong Copilot code a few times.
On the contrary, this is going to make URLs hard to use and would drive it to irrelevance in some countries if IDN usage becomes more common. Take CJK languages for instance. There are just so many characters that you are required to use predictive typing for every piece of text. This means that it's impossible to type CJK URLs with deterministic keypresses as you're constantly choosing suggestions which gets reordered all the time.

As for the homograph problem mentioned in the article, that's not an anglo-centric fluff. It's an actual major problem that affects speakers of all languages. It hinders the ability of people to reliably type or recognize domain names. That's going to cost some people their life savings.

Overall, IDNs would cause more harm than good by making URLs unreliable. It would just serve to empower search engines.