skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Artist's works are being stolen

It has been fascinating to watch “copyright infringement is not theft” morph into “actually yes it’s stealing” over the last few years.

It used to be incredibly rare to find copyright maximalists on HackerNews, but with GitHub Co-pilot and StableDiffusion it seems to have created a new generation of them.
Well, now I'm disappointed. I was going to point to this TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_copyrighting_all_the_...) but it appears to have been removed as the video no longer loads for me. However, this (https://www.ted.com/talks/damien_riehl_why_all_melodies_shou...) appears to be an abridged version of the same talk.

The disappointing bit: I say it's an abridged version because I distinctly remember him talking about how he actually claimed copyright for all 8-note melodies under a permissive license, which I can't find in the one that actually loads. He "brute forced" every 8-note melody with a program, saved them to a disk and claimed copyright under (I believe) the MIT license. (I can see legal issues with doing that, of course, so it's not hard to imagine possibly why the video was replaced with a different one.)
'if it builds it ships' in action, love to see it

edit: Since I got sniped pretty hard for not divulging further, allow me to 'kill the joke' by explaining. This will read more harsh than I intended

Shipping it isn't the problem. In fact, that's the expectation. Just... don't ship it to a place that matters first.

I feel baited by an otherwise cavalier operator, footguns be footguns.

as planned -- I'm not convinced there was a plan
People were literally fired from their jobs, removed from 30+ year military careers, over the science, only for the science to keep changing.

If science can't make up its mind and this is "how science works," anyone who thinks anything should be mandated based on science should be shot. You can't tell people something, have it directly and deeply affect their personal lives, then tell them something substantially different 2 years later, without people grabbing pitchforks. Your theoretical definition of science is irrelevant and makes popular perception of "science" a whimsical joke.
The Law of Stretched Cognitive Systems
> Do you really think boredom is the greatest problem facing humanity?

It's up there.

Lack of meaningful work is already leading to a lot of societal dysfunction. Our innate programming is to survive, solve problems, reproduce, and teach our offspring to do the same. Removing meaningful work as a source of significance and meaning for people is going to be a massive problem to solve.

Look at the rise in "depths of despair" in rich countries. Generally these people have food to eat and a roof over their head and clothes on their back, and probably even access to a lot of digital entertainment. But lacking meaningful work or defined social role they fall into depression, substance abuse, etc.
She may have hidden internal state. Or she may be pure. How many tries before we are going to make an assumption?
https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.lang.lisp&mid=PDE... is the post in question although they must either have excluded themselves from search engines or something because the domain does show up in generic SERP but not https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ausenetarchives.com+common+l... or https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ausenetarchives.com+co...
What makes you say it's illegal?

In the EU, UK, Japan and Singapore, it is explicitly legal to train AI on copyrighted work. I saw another comment say that AI companies train in those countries.
I'm curious about the B&W film you use, is that some form of positive B&W film, that can be projected?

Edit: Just looked more at the camera, it looks like it takes a 35mm canister of film, interesting.

So I guess normal B&W film?
If a condition of the severance is that you sign a document saying you are quitting instead of being fired, then you cannot collect unemployment.

This is false. If a company makes you sign a statement that you are quitting instead of being fired as a condition of getting severance, they are committing unemployment insurance fraud and are subject to civil and criminal sanction in most states.

(The point of trying to make employees do this is to avoid claims against the company's unemployment insurance account in the state. How UI works differs from state to state, but in all instances claims against UI increases the company's ongoing UI expense.)
Kind of interesting how electronic music then got taken up by the [ware]house scene which made the form into a kind of social public sharing experience yet was also strongly influenced by gay and trans communities.
Show HN: Natural language Twitter search using Codex
We built a structured search engine for Twitter called Bird SQL, available at https://www.perplexity.ai/sql. Our search interface uses OpenAI Codex to translate natural language to SQL. Our backend then verifies the SQL, executes it, and displays the results on the web app. This makes large structured datasets like a scrape of Twitter easy for anyone to explore.

As background, while working on text-to-SQL as a general problem, we came to believe one of its most powerful applications is as a search tool because:

- SQL is hard to write by hand and prone to errors

- It allows you to iterate quickly if you’re exploring a new dataset

- A lot of contextual information that you’d normally have to internalize (e.g. your data’s schema) can be automatically generated and offloaded to the language model

Using large language models (LLMs) like Codex to write the SQL for you means you don’t have to worry about the nitty gritty language details, but still benefit from the power of a language like SQL. Also, after seeing the results of the query, you can inspect (and if necessary, change) the SQL. The lack of this sort of explainability of the query result is one of the more notorious challenges of returning the output of an LLM directly to the user. Additionally, using LLMs in this way makes these kinds of queries over structured data accessible to people who know little or no SQL.

While Bird SQL shares significant infrastructure with our more general LLM-powered search engine over unstructured data (Ask Perplexity - https://perplexity.ai[1]), the two approaches and their respective challenges are quite different. For example, the type of models are different (GPT3.5 vs Codex), obviously the model prompts have different structure, and how to verify model output when its text vs when it's code is different. We are currently exploring ways to combine the two approaches, such as using the results of retrieving information from a structured source (as in Bird SQL) as one of the inputs for the LLM to interpret or summarize (as in Ask Perplexity).

We would love to hear your questions, suggestions, and feedback!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897884
No automatic differentiation, no multiphysics, no symbolic reduction, no modern solvers, no GPU support for simulation, no parts library.

Other than the UI, this looks closer to 2003 than 2022.
On https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/solidaffiliate.c... I see if marked as "Spam" and "Security Threats".

You can go here: https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/feedback/solidaffiliate... and give feedback on the categorization.
Rust has a dynamic any type, `std::any::Any`.
Far too often people are added to existing teams, as if they didn't believe Brooks' observations about communication.

Less often, but much better, are people being hired and put onto new teams, focused on new projects and products. Developers can scale horizontally, but not vertically.
You just need a spot market for electricity and then you can program the water heater to follow the spot price (or rather avoid heating when it's expensive).

This is available already in a few heat pump water heaters in Finland.
The secret JFK assassination files are finally here
> Particularly with the mRNA vaccines there isn't much in the vaccine that isn't in the virus already.

I don’t find this compelling at all. At the very least, the mRNA vaccines have the lipid nanoparticles themselves, and LNPs are quite clearly biologically active.

And the mRNA gets delivered to cells that would not be infected by the actual virus. One might imagine that such cells would be targeted to at some some extent by CD8+ T cells that learn to recognize spike protein. As far as I can tell, there is nothing published examining what actually happens, but you certainly don’t end up with massive death of muscle cells when vaccinated. See, for example, the comments here:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mrna-vaccines-what...
profits (benefits of overall automation) will be reaped by capitalists (employers, capital owners), not the general public.

plus, before we automate anything civilian, we will have to automate everything military, cause they get the first dabs at any emerging tech.

more likely we will see global war between stealthy autonomous robots much earlier, before we automate much on the civilian side
You have to let you chAIld learn for itself.
That's the thing isn't it.

If "person walks in front of car" event is rare, then the automatic car stop saving a life or minimising injury is nice. Saved a person from a bad day for a minor inconvenience for the car people.

If a NY city worth of people do it without regard, then cars will be gridlocked.

My guess is:

- Assuming self driving cars that that stop for pedestrians are common

- then laws against deliberately walking in front will exist

- to judge the dispute of "deliberate" there will be more cameras, because why wouldn't there be...
Bullshit. Best so far is Hywind, which is 3x the cost per MWh of shallow offshore.
To paraphrase Don Draper, that's what the insane CEO and founder stock grant is for!
That is your opinion, but consider another topic: elective disablement. Some people are very insistent on having their spinal cord surgically severed or getting their arms and legs chopped off or being permanently blinded, or similar.

If you naively consider the topic only from a bodily autonomy perspective, then the answer is deceptively simple: get the blades out and start slicing. But this ignores the wider medical ethics concerns over whether it's the right thing to do for the patient, if the surgeon is causing harm by doing so, if gratifying the patient's short-term desires genuinely helps them in the long-term over their entire life, if it's reasonable to expect a surgeon to perform such a procedure and how they may feel in the aftermath, if there are any other interventions that would be more effective. And societal questions over whether it's ethical to deliberately add new members to a population who already find it difficult to find the support they need, how this will affect others who may now be situational obliged to assist with this person's new disability, and so on.

It makes no sense to focus solely on the individual and ignore the wider context, when there are so many other factors to consider.
Congrats! This is truly a game-changer.

Personally, I have two suggestions for a future release:

1). Invert-color PDF dark mode harms readability.

Simply invert the color will make serif fonts less readable. I use PDF.js with the following canvas renderer snippet to create a more pleasant reading experience.

```css

#viewerContainer > #viewer > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas {
filter: sepia(23%);
filter: saturate(45%);
filter: hue-rotate(181deg);
filter: brightness(90%);
filter: contrast(93%);
filter: invert(81%);
}

#viewerContainer > #viewer > .spread > .page > .canvasWrapper > canvas {
filter: sepia(23%);
filter: saturate(45%);
filter: hue-rotate(181deg);
filter: brightness(90%);
filter: contrast(93%);
filter: invert(81%);
}

```

Try this with this PDF.js extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-reader/ieepebp... by pasting it to the option page.

2). Custom Font support.

As a power user, I'd like to render the article with my personally preferable font (locally installed in most cases.) Why not simply give users the option to set css:font-family? It's really easy to implement.

Anyway, the current product is pleasing enough! I'm already spiritually a paid-user.
This idea may not fulfill every use case.
If that is really the case then it is game over for Twitter.
I took just the opposite lesson from this: the JVM offers enough turing knobs that in the rare, extreme cases where the defaults don't work for you (I suspect few single-server workloads in the world have the combination of complexity and request rate that Lichess does), there are still ways to do something about it. If he'd been using, say, Go, he'd probably have had to give up and roll back, or patch the runtime code.
In what sense is TCP/IP master-planned? TCP has tons of options, and one of its key components, the congestion control algorithm, is unspecified and left up to client choice. Both of these facts have led to significant improvements, but even greater improvements were obtained by dumping TCP altogether, in large part because TCP ossified due to middleware behaving as if TCP were master-planned when it isn't. TCP, at least, is an anti-example to your point!
It has been pondered on and raised terror under the name "intelligence explosion"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Inte...
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/snow-cove...

"It snowed yesterday in London!" is as good a rebuttal as that waterbrained senator who came to congress bringing a snowball arguing climate change isn't real.

To your quote:

> within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"

This is absolutely true where I live, which is slightly south of the UK. I'll also note your quote has no cited date beyond "a few years".

So, not a great example.
Is this missing a sarcasm tag?
The artists didn't exactly win Metallica vs. Napster either.

The end result was a compromise that still funneled some degree of money into the labels, with the artists getting an equally raw deal as before proportionally speaking--but now with a micro share of your $10/mo to Spotify or wherever instead of their share of $10+ for a single album.

I'm not saying the prior business model was sustainable (at least ethically) but at the end of the day, "if you can't beat them, join them" is still one hell of a compromise to make.
This is becoming quite common in Finland (thanks to insanely high spot prices of electricity). Shelly is usually used to do the automation. Note that the water is not heated "hotter than necessary" but rather water is heated up to the max amount when the price is cheap.

Traditionally water heaters were only on at night.
That sort of thing is relatively trivial to tease out of the stats, because in addition to excess deaths we have per-disease statistics as well.

See the chart about 2/3 down on https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid-19-continues..., titled "Average daily deaths in the United States, by cause (2020 - Present)". We don't see a massive spike in other causes of death (including cancer, which is a flat line at ~1,600/day throughout), and no one's likely to misidentify a cancer or heart attack death on a death certificate.

There are certainly cases like your dad's, where delayed screenings and treatment had individual impacts, but none of the stats available to us show this explaining a meaningful amount of the 1.3M excess deaths observed.
NIST seems perfectly comfortable with having only one cryptographic primitive for a given category as long as there's high confidence in it. The reason we have two hash algorithms is that back when the SHA-3 competition was created, there was some uncertainty about the long-term security of SHA-2. That uncertainty has since subsided, I would say. But if SHA-2 does end up being considered insecure, as long as there's no reason to suspect that the same will happen to SHA-3, there's no reason to create a SHA-4 yet.
This is like saying that continuously surveilling people when they are outside of their private property and live-reporting it to the internet is not a huge ethical issue. For you are always at risk of being seen when in public and the rest is merely exercising freedom of speech.

Something being currently legal and possible doesn’t mean being morally right.

Technology enables things and sometimes the change is qualitatively different.
As the article explains, STM works great until you need to do something other than twiddling bits in your own process memory (basically any kind of I/O or IPC). Which, on one hand, happens to exclude most practical apps. And on the other hand, real-world tasks that require concurrent processing of in-memory data generally don't require much if any processing of shared data.

So you're paying that very hefty performance price for something that you can't use most of the time.
You can add a bit of insulation inside the concrete to make the house require less cooling than (any?) wooden house.
Cautiously optimistic for this one because of the subject matter, though I've been disappointed in previous posthumous release and collaborations from Crichton.

Couldn't read the WSJ article (paywall), but here's a Guardian rehash of it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/15/james-patterso....
Bunny AI
OP never said it was an abstract - they are from chem/bio (like me), where papers are submitted primarily to journals, not conferences. They mentioned abstracts in response to your comment about writing to the "steering committee of the conference"
What potential customers are there for climate intelligence systems?
We already have one and it's perfect. Whenever you go into a new environment, especially for jobs, there are a bunch of HN'isms you can drop to recognize each other. Nobody asks each others handles, because they respect each others privacy, and you just know that the people you are dealing with have some of the same topics front of mind. I've never asked anyone their handle, and nobody has ever asked me mine, and that basic respect is what characterizes it to me. HN is forum where people have the incentive to write as their best selves, and the effect of that is the largest archive of human honesty in the history of the species.

Being meta about it presumes it's an object of criticism with an end instead of just an ongoing experience that exists for no other reason than because it's enjoyable.
I wonder how node.js would have performed at that scale.
Yes, I'm asking within the demographic of say 20-50 how are you coming to the conclusion that the risk is not worth it?
The sad fact is that we have enough software developers in America to fully meet all of every American companies technical needs; The problem is that these companies don't want to meet the market demands of that labor pool by paying what that market is asking to keep that sustainable, so they want to import people who they can abuse to temporarily lower labor prices for them.

And the number of Americans I know who work in tech who are looking for work right now as H1B's post on LinkedIn and publicly make deals to keep Americans out of jobs proves this. Its all being done in public.

The thing is, the original H1B ideal is temporary; and so is they cant meet market demands sustainably that way, not if they are growing, and they should be growing or they are dying, and so such companies end up being dependent on offshore imports of H1B people and end up dying when they cant replace them or grow new roles without them, because they started to depend on them and then could not be sustainable outside of that bubble on the real market.

The dependency they have is on subsidized cheap labor from other countries that don't asked to be treated like humans, not a lack of skilled tech workers. They have more tech workers than they need, many with more skills and more years of experience at higher end tech roles, many who are looking for work right now in the holidays, and they are just not hiring them because they want to save a few pennies and hire a developer that they have legal ownership of as an indebted visa-slave.

And if your hiring software developers, I know many who are looking for work, who are American citizens, who would gladly take the job that an h1b is currently sitting in.
The responding comment to your original post was a bit harsh. You are also being a little too hard on yourself. I can only imagine how hard you've worked on your game. You deserve a break, but don't throw your computer into the river. Go get recharged and rid yourself of the negative energy. Then ask yourself the hard question of why you originally wanted to create a game in the first place.
Main thing I want is lock files. I want to know exactly when full dependency closure changes and to see diffs when it does (and be able to reproduce why closure changed). Otherwise you get weird issues with packages updating when not expected. I was surprised linked James Bennett post didn’t mention that at all.

I’ve liked poetry in general, just takes a really long time and sometimes its solver gets stuck on a bad package.
It's an interesting question, one I hadn't thought of before. But in common language, it sometimes makes sense to credit the institution, others just the individuals. I think may be more based around how much the institution collectively presents itself as the author and speaks on behalf of the project versus the individuals involved. Here is my own general intuition for a few contrasting cases:

Random forests: Ko and Breiman's, not really Bell Labs and UC-Berkeley

Transistors: Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley, not really Bell Labs (thank the Nobel Prize for that)

UNIX: Primarily Bell Labs, but also Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie (this is a hard one)

GPT-n: OpenAI, not really any individual, and I can't seem to even recall any named individual from memory
My favorite part is how they are planning on selling the same images to multiple people.

I honestly didn’t think NFTs could get worse, but they found a way.
I wish they would finally release their S3 support for storage. (https://jlelse.blog/links/2022/12/bunny-ai)
Make liquid O2 or Methane 5% cheaper and/or 15% cleaner and you can sell it to SpaceX all day long.
This has happened to developers multiple times. Frankly it’s happened so many times that it’s become mundane. These programs are tools, and after a while you realize having a new tool in the bag doesn’t displace people. What it does is make the old job easy and new job has a higher bar for excellence. Everyone who has been writing software longer than a few years can name several things that used to take them a long time and a lot of specialization, and now take any amateur 5 minutes. It might seem scary, but it’s really not. It just means that talented artists will be able to use these tools to create even more even cooler art, because they don’t need to waste their time on the common and mechanical portions.
I do not know anything about grant panels outside my field of biology. But I am certain that the overwhelming majority of grant money is spent on scientific questions that have virtually no obvious political dimension. I’m sure there are grant applications that have a substantial political component, but I would be surprised if they accounted for even 5% of research funds. Social and political science receives a very small fraction of research funds, and while one might argue that allocations of health research budgets are politically shaped, viruses and oncogenes have no politics.
Why is he right to question Nordhaus? Nordhaus literally won a Nobel prize for studying the economics of climate change.
> Blake3 is super promising as cryptographic hash function family due to its software performance

I am shocked how fast it is. Just tried it on several files. It is blazing fast.

brew install b3sum on mac.
Thank you!

1) Haha yeah, the inverted colors was kind of a quick hack to make some folks happy. That css looks great -- will definitely explore something like that with our designer :)

2) Not a bad idea at all...
Example of these isms?
He'd have to do this all over the world, good luck with that.