skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI is a tool the human used to make it. Sometimes clumsily, but sometimes they write poems as text prompts and it's an illustration, or things like that. If an AI is making and selling art by itself, it's probably become sentient and not patronizing it would be speciesism.

Although personally, I think using "AI art" to create impossible photographs is more interesting and doesn't compete with illustrators as much.
They said:

> If you own a home, your address may also be publicly available via county records.

You responded:

> ...is perhaps the hundred and fiftieth time I have read this (or a similar variant) nonsense of false analogy, already debunked explained and reexplained in hundreds of variants

Someone asked for a link to any of those comments:

> Would it hurt to link then?

And you reference the start of this thread, which is the thing being questioned.
Your comments in this thread have been uncritical.

Anyway, I want to get it back on track if you're willing:

> I'm actually interested in hearing the counter argument.
LOL. I am on midjourney discord and this really is how it's being used half of the time, paying users asking for existing characters.
Yes you've nailed it. Totally human to react to a personal incident. Needs to be guarded against.
Paradoxically, the fact that this is a do-everything app makes me much less likely to try it out. If it were just, say, an RSS reader, then I might try exporting OPML from my current feed reader and seeing what happens. But reading is important enough to me that I would be very reluctant to put all my eggs in one basket. Especially a startup, where the best case is that a lot of my most important stuff requires me to pay $100/year forever.
That's kinda missing the level of control. Inherently both ASM and programming produce the same output, "programming" just traded the generality of ASM for verbose and diverse functions. The auto code generators fundamentally don't understand the problems they work on, so any solutions they create will be incidental.
"The world's first artificial womb facility"? Are you fscking serious? I wonder what plans some corporate psychopath would have for something like this?

I am sure the "ecto-pods" incorporate a flush function. At least this baby factory runs on renewable energy, I guess that's a plus.
Play to your strengths!

Studying and passing exams: not your strength

If you volunteered with a charity, soup kitchen, or helped people in need even 2 times a month you would have much more impact in the world than those people earning x3 as much.

Edit to add some more ideas (hopefully you see this): If you can learn to enjoy inexpensive habits, you can bridge the wealth gap. With their salaries they might eat out a lot, be a member of an expensive golf course, have expensive gadgets etc but you can still do a lot of stuff that won't break the bank:

* Learn to cook and eat healthily

* Enjoy reading

* Enjoy games like chess and puzzles like Sudoku

* Walking, hiking, running, cycling, football - staying fit
> This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation

I have no interest in any social network who's primary concern is limiting the spread of information. I don't care if you are scared of "misinformation". You want to restrict the spread of "good" information because you are scared of misinformation? That's the wrong solution to the problem. The correct solution is to spread your "good" information and education people on how to think critically. Censorship isn't the answer to stupidity.
That's a mis-representation of what bodily autonomy stands for in the context of elective surgery. The ethics of medicine are a complex and very well established domain that extremely cautiously moves forward to ensure they get it right. And when they do not the damage is incalculable, for instance gay conversion therapy and other such niceties.

So before you go off on a tangent about what is and is not accepted practice and which things doctors are required to do and which things they abstain from on ethical grounds I will have to bow out because we are at the limits of my knowledge on the subject and that's not for want of reading material. Let me close with: I know where the line lies in simple cases, but if you start dragging in things that I have not spent enough time on/read about/have knowledge about then I simply will not be able to hold that conversation. If you have this knowledge then more power to you, but so far you have not convinced me of it and you come across as an ideologue.
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Is this a real product or a satire website?
Did you read the third paragraph in the article?
I got hired by a place, and my first paycheck bounced.

The owners are now billionaires.

(They sold the company to a Fortune 100 about 18 months later.)
I live in North Texas, the weather alerts are pretty accurate here. With climate change, tornadoes and hurricanes are being pushed out of their natural places and regular seasons, and it's becoming normal for having a storm coming seemingly out of nowhere. We do appreciate here those alert broadcasts.
Honestly none of them should. I think the moral panic around these things is way overstated. They are cool but hardly about to replace anyone's job.
This is how people get caught for fraud in quite a few cases too. They create a one sided contract that outlines their fraud and then they distribute it to people who run straight to lawyers, as they should.
why does society and technology have to constantly adapt to ancillary legal requirements, while the laws themselves rarely adapt (e.g. never expire)?
Google Changing Affiliate Link Policy on Chrome Extension Store
Well, I can find exactly 0 information on how you've implemented this on your very own website.

It's natural to be skeptical of someone who is afraid to share their implementation details but claims best-in-class results, isn't it?
Rust borrows c++’s modern memory model verbatim.

C++ is a language that keeps innovating besides many legit reasons to hate the language. Having more competition is good. I would expect more rust/{your favorite language} concepts to show up in future versions of c++ (once proven to be a good idea in most cases).
I’m fairly certain that even without them all working on the same thing, 2.5x more employees will never be 2.5x faster.
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Something I've been wondering about: has anybody tried to separate out the effects of the pandemic itself from the symptoms of long covid? So many of the symptoms of long covid are incredibly nonspecific. I believe there was a study on long covid patients that found that the only long covid symptom that had a significant correlation with actually having tested positive for covid was loss of smell and taste. There is a lot of evidence that social isolation and sedentary lifestyles are detrimental to our health and we now live in a world where loads of people barely left the house or spoke to anyone other than their immediate family members for the better part of two years. We're seeing widespread effects throughout society in everything from education to crime to the amount of violent incidents on airplanes. It's likely that millions of people who do not have long covid are currently in some form of mental health crisis related to the pandemic. Overdose deaths and suicides are up. I wonder how many people started the pandemic with no major covid risk factor and now have a risk factor such as obesity or diabetes that can be directly linked to the psychosocial effects of the pandemic.

I'm not suggesting that long covid doesn't exist, but I wonder how much of that long tail of effects can actually be causally linked to covid infection (obviously not talking about things like lung damage, though I do wonder if stress and isolation could have affected previously healthy people's immune systems). My personal experience with mental health issues suggests that they can have severe and wide-ranging physical effects that are as bad as any disease.
The DRM built into steam is pretty purposely nerfed. Supposedly it is trivial to bypass, which is why many game companies put 3rd party DRM in as well. If valve dies tomorrow, it will be way easier to revive most of my steam library than anything on origin or EA whatever-its-called-this-week.

They also just have like 20 years of clear results, consumer non-hostility, and goodwill
Of the changes that didn't make the blog post (but is buried in the release notes) is that cargo-publish will now block until the publish process is complete. This affects you if you are releasing a series of crates in a row or released one crate and then immediately tried to use it in another. Before, it would break and you had to retry. Now it will just work.

This was the original behavior but it was implemented server-side. Things were getting backed up, so they made server processing asynchronous which broke people's workflows. Tools like cargo-release compensated for that. With 1.66, we now have client-side blocking until the crate is published.
Idk what you’re talking about… I don’t look at depressed people like some evolutionary whatever whatever lol

If they want therapy I can pay for the therapy, if they want me to call them depresso mcfesso I can do that too idc. There’s no reason to be all high minded about stuff like this, man
>Industrialization is better for society because it produces more customer surplus.

Also my point.

>Even Marx thought the Luddites were wrong.

Sure they are wrong in that they confuse what the problem is. If workers owned the factory they would be happy to automate the work. But their feeling of being left out has some validity because if they weren't the total value would improve.

The real issue is that the revenue brought back through automation doesn't benefit the worker. If it did, the automation would happen sooner because incentives would align better and the total value for society would thus likely improve faster.
> Matter is a communication protocol built on top of...

Matter is a communication protocol built on top of IP, with a special blessing to Ethernet, Wifi, BLE, and Thread.
... why Common Lisp doesn't suck all that much :-)
Shame, I've been wanting to buy a Wendy Carlos digital album for ages. Guess I'll have to keep wishing. sigh
F-35B STOL crash and 0-0 ejection at Fort Worth today
Sorry but where exactly would a background check show you have two jobs?
Just restarted my Readwise subscription.

* What is the amount of storage provided for users?

* How is content managed when offline? If/When I start traveling more, there will be times when I like to read without internet access.
Apollo is synonymous with Graphql at this point.

If you need you consume a Graphql API you most certainly reach out for Apollo on the clientside to query data.
We are building data storage and processing infrastructure at a company that connects DERs. This involves storing large amounts of structured, time-series data. This data is then further processed and used for all kinds use cases, many of which were mentioned in the first half of the post's article. (e.g. energy management systems, load management etc.)
Bestselling books have been getting shorter
So it’s okay to infringe on copyright against a group of people getting paid by a corporation. But not individual artists and you should definitely not break open source copyright rules?
That's what I thought. I'm not sure this is news! I wondered why they choose to write this now...
It's quite fun. Start here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Currently I don't like being helped along the way as I code with things jumping and flashing on the screen as I type, and things like auto-closing of HTML tags mean I correct the editor more than it corrects me, as you need to be precise when coding, not be helped by an AI.

I can see the worry about AI taking over a coder's job, but it's a slippery slope as at some point a human will have to intervene and override decisions, just like humans intervening at self-checkout in supermarkets. Humans will always have to be in the loop at some point.
Valve's refund policy before they made it better was probably the closest to anti-consumer you could call them. In many countries it was straight up illegal and had to get put through court before they would give you the rights you had as an australian citizen for example.
One man's censorship is another man's filtering of noise.

I agree there's no universal filter, but humanity is proof there are "good enough" filters most reasonable people would agree on.

What's missing is the type of wikipedia fanaticism for which effort would be expended.
Ends up worse then that: 8a707ed2cb8e1aa2e54c1b68d78e76b51d05f0a23c8a8b9d2f7f04aca01b3a96

This is the SHA256 of Captain America - The Winter Soldier. Pulled from my Blu-Ray copy of it. It can only be produced (in the current universe) if you have access to the complete data from the Australia Blu-Ray release of that movie.

So to create that number, every single frame and pixel of the original movie was included in some way.

Is the number itself copyright? After all, every byte of its input definitely was - there's no way to produce it without those bytes.
Trump would assume a blockchain is something to beat the illegal immigrants building his hotels with when they threaten to unionize. He would imagine having one all the time, how it would feel in his hand, the heft of the metal links, cold at first then warmed with his rage, slipping in the sweat of his palms with swing after furious swing. The look on their faces when he came in with it and showed them who the man was, who the boss was. He wouldn't even be able to service a prostitute without fantasizing about it wringing her neck, choking her the way his tiny, delicate hands would never be capable of.

Someone would try to explain it to him but the only thing he would hear, in his head, was the melon-thump of brick against temple, over and over like a savage, yearning drum. He would never actually have the courage to do it, of course, and he would tell himself that it was because violence was beneath a man of his dignity and status, the artless work of low men and thugs, but the king in his mind would wield it with the fury of a gladiator ordained by Zeus.
After 40 years, Adobe releases PostScript source v0.10 for posterity
Is there an automatic refactoring that changes type-inferred variable declarations and changes then into typed declarations?

I can see the value when writing code in the early stages of a project to both have flexibility and save keystrokes with type inference to help prototype and explore the problem space. Later on, I can see the benefit of switching to typed variable declarations for readability as time goes on and that part of the code base slips away from my working memory.
Does anybody have any good resources on the nuts and bolts of embeddings (particularly multi-modal embeddings)? I've got some experiments I'd like to run.
Interesting, but I'd need far more medical knowledge than I have to put this into context. Does this mean people with existing heart conditions should avoid these vaccinations? Does it mean those at otherwise very low risk for severe COVID-19 shouldn't bother? I sure dunno.
> I wish browser vendors could work around this limitation and stick to Sass syntax.

FWIW, it is not a limitation, it's a conscious choice. If you want to accept arbitrary selectors in option 3, you'll need unlimited lookahead, which limits the types of parser algorithms you can use, which means that _all CSS_ (not just CSS using nesting, every single web page out there) will be slower to parse, which means the web will become ever so slightly slower. And you cannot ever go back after making that choice. Is it really worth it for the few unusual cases that require workarounds, in an already not-super-common feature?

(Disclaimer: I wrote Chromium's CSS nesting support. It currently implements option 3.)
Ah yes, the starry-eyed "Level One" of the Content Moderation Learning Curve [1] :)

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
To be honest, they said “we take full responsibility” 3 times, so it got a bit old.
Yes, that's what I was referring to with that parenthetical. I understand that to be an aspect of the culture in that city. Really, country, but obviously I specified the city in my comment.

It's kinda interesting because you can have a theft occur from the perspective of a naive visitor but otherwise innocent behavior from the perspective of the "thief".
I'm not sure what scenarios there are where you have a possibility of the attacker creating 1 file but not both. Especially because the attacker doesn't need to fully control both files but could control only a prefix of one of them and still do the attack.

I also think working out all the possibilities is really hard, and using sha256 is really easy.
I was thinking about this playing Cities Skylines today. I feel like I hate "master-planning" things when I start the game, but then my cities end up being chaos and needing lots of demolishing to fix broken stuff.

I might just be bad at Cities Skylines.
But it's not even copyright. Copyright does not protect general styles. It protects specific works, or specific designs (e.g. Mickey Mouse). It doesn't allow someone to claim ownership over a general concept like "a painting of a knight with a castle and a dragon in the background".

Are there any documented cases where copyright law didn't seem to offer sufficient protection against something that really did seem like copyright infringement but done using AI tooling? I started looking for some a few weeks ago because of this debate and still haven't seen anything conclusive.
Which is why there shouldn't be only one dimension of voting/ranking/rating.
A couple of questions.

Do you want to connect with people that you know of people (OG Facebook) that you want to know (OG LinkedIn). Because these are entirely different products.

How do you want to surface content? Based on interest or based on connection proximity?

Do you want to do real-identities or pseudo-anonymous (Reddit/Twitter) although verified Twitter is a much better experience IMHO.

Do you want to enable a creator/influencer portion? Or a pro-plan?

I think in 2022, it's easy to build a community-based product. But hard to find users that are passionate enough to stick around on an empty platform.
This is very interesting! Were these bugs reported to the Python tracker? Also, what are the actual implications of these bugs in real code? What happens when such a bug is genuinely hit? Are there just performance penalties or are there actual miscalculations in the end result?
Probably only after we elect Ross Scott for president.
LaTeX maybe? But yes, I agree that it's awful.
Schematics HAVE TO define which components are in the circuit and how they are connected (unless you really want to write net lists).

Schematics SHOULD help readers to understand what a circuit does.

Especially in, let's say, "prosumer" boards (like boards designed by small companies for hobbyists) I keep seeing schematics that are designed to make it easy for the dev to get them done and NOT to communicate the circuit theory.

It's exactly like writing code without any formatting or comments. As far as I'm concerned connecting components by net name is as bad or worse than a GOTO.

\rant
Wow he/she almost landed it
Also it feels like trying to have it both ways. Increasing your spending to get new features is the model of non-subscription software. And if people don't think it will make enough difference, they won't buy upgrades for years.

When you're paying a significant monthly fee, you're already paying for a supply of features and refinements.
Achieving something while struggling with gender dysphoria (as many trans people do) is overcoming adversity, which is the exact opposite of privilege.

If you've never experienced the sort of depersonalization and disconnection from our embodied selves that many of us trans people have, you have no clue how difficult it can be to do anything at all.
Ask HN: How to make a block diagram in browser with no sign-up?
I need a crossplatform block diagram creator, html+js might be a perfect stack for this stack. But googling gives me only enterprise web sites which require me to sign up and log in before I became able to do anything.

Isn't there easy to install block diagram software which allows me to draw my idea, get a screenshot and nothing more?
I went to Baruch College and graduated during the pandemic. I always describe it as a factory for turning poor immigrants into middle class accountants and actuaries. There is very little community there, as most students are commuters from the bronx, brooklyn, etc. -- my commute was 3 hours a day, many of my peers were similar. It also doesn't have a computer science department.

I was close with one of the professors who ran the MFE program the article is about, Rados Radoicic. He is a great guy and cares a lot for his students and research.

It is a depressing experience though if you have ambitions beyond going from family poverty to $50k/year (a big jump for most there and many of my friends from school).

It was demoralizing for me. Baruch can't compete on prestige so I tried hard to compete on merit -- I put thousands of hours into building, made a popular open source project that ended up doing well on github & blowing up on HN, etc. Meanwhile I know students at MIT, Stanford, Harvard getting access to capital and resources to pursue the ideas that excited them, talking casually about how easy it was to raise, without much beyond the idea and their status. It's quite demoralizing, not just for me but for everyone else I knew at Baruch who wants to build too.

The MFE program is special because they literally fly to China to recruit from its most prestigious institutions, and the bang for their buck is much bigger.
Yeah that's automated (and also, kind of angry at stolon right now). We have a bunch of tooling that makes postgres nice to use on our platform, but users still have to get in and do things in some scenarios.

Most people expect managed databases with actual humans logging into their DBs to fix things that go wrong. It's actually a little difficult to explain that we don't do that! Because they expect it.

The result is sometimes unhappy customers and us leaving a lot of money sitting on the table. People pay a lot of extra money for the managed bit and some will be happier if we charge them at lot more money for it. The people who want to save money will likely be happier knowing it's an option.
> Tiktok just wanted your data for the CCP

Is it?

Now that YouTube copied them with Shorts, shouldn't we be worried about YouTube having an influence over our youth with their secret algorithm too?

Considering Google's origin partly lies within the CIA/NSA which is basically the US government [1]

[1] - https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
Working as a necessity to provide for oneself and family is a key component of good mental health. It's wired into us. We are still the hunter-gatherers we were 10,000 years ago. Excessive idleness always ends badly.
diaspora* is still a thing, and what you describe looks like its concept of "aspect", which was developed before google+ " circles". It is AGPL, you're welcome to contribute or fork it. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
Sorry, I was very ambiguous but I meant only that the public-run infrastructure was working much better than when that was privately run. Britain's railway network is one of the safest in Europe, and it's a very busy network.

I agree the private operators bring nothing. Train tickets are one of the few things that are more expensive in Britain than here in Denmark, and I can't think of anything at all that's better about trains in Britain, other than the more varied scenery.

(Advance ticket tomorrow morning London-Manchester, £40, walk-up peak fare £184. 2½ hours, 260km.

Advance ticket tomorrow morning Copenhagen-Århus... £38, walk-up peak fare £48. 2¾ hours, 310km by land.)