skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tweet linked to the account on mastodon, it didn't simply link to a mastodon instance which happened to host elonjet's account. Presumably direct links to the subreddit would be banned, whereas reddit as a whole would be fine.
Their existing embedding offerings were ridiculously expensive and underpowered compared to free, open source models that you could run locally on your laptop.

E.g. https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v... outperformed their best model, can run locally for free, and uses a smaller vector space. Strictly dominates.

For a full write-up on how bad it was, see https://medium.com/@nils_reimers/openai-gpt-3-text-embedding...

OpenAI is still lagging behind, but not as much, with this new offering.
When I got second dose of covid pfizer, I remember feeling really strange. My heart was beating really irregularly and I felt like I was struggling to breathe. My vision also started to gray out in a really weird way. I thought I was going to die in that pharmacy for a few minutes. When I snapped out of it, I was covered in sweat

To this day, I don't know if it was a panic attack or a heart attack. Regardless, probably never getting another vaccine after this because just seeing a needle is enough to freak me out
Thanks for pointing that out, that happened faster than I could hit reload.
Drew Harwell is a Washington Post technology reporter who has worked there since 2014.

The text of that tweet (almost certainly what got him suspended - not sure whether it was the reporting on mastodon or the sarcasm about "Loving the free speech") was

Twitter just suspended a competitor's account (@joinmastodon
) because it posted a link to its own website's version of @ElonJet
- public, legally acquired data that Twitter decided two days ago was against the rules. Loving the free speech (h/t @mmasnick
)
> Does copyright law protect “in the style of”? I don’t think anyone knows.

I think the is the crux of the issue. I think it would not. IMO the spirit of copyright law protect certain essential elements of a work being reproduced identically or nearly-identically (1), but not a composition that is reminiscent of a general style of some other work, and certainly not some collective body of work. To me the source of the training data should not matter insofar that it does not matter if an artist studies a body of work to create pieces in the style of X. Does it concern copyright law that an artificial rather than biological neural network has been trained on a body of work? Would a copyright judgment ever be made on the basis that an artist studied too much of another person's work, and not simply the similarities between the piece they created and another specific work?

It is against copyright law to release either a computer generated lowfi cover or a human generated violin cover of stairway to heaven. On the other hand you could go and buy an amp, guitar, pedals, etc. to perfectly recreate a classic 'jimmy page sound', and whatever you compose would be fine as long as the song does not borrow specific melodies found in led zeplin songs. See any Greta Van Fleet song. Moreover, that GVF reminds everyone of led zeplin is no coincidence. From wikipedia: "Greta Van Fleet is often compared to Led Zeppelin. Jake said he went through a year of really intensely studying what Jimmy Page did to the point I knew how he thought."

At the end of the day I think there is no basis to claim a copyright over a general "style", and that's a good thing.

(1) https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-ice-ice-...
US sues Arizona over shipping container border wall
Have been using it for weeks and it’s astonishing, Readwise offers one-month trial so just give it a go, you won’t be disappointed with this feature rich app, especially the GPT-3 powered Ghostreader.
This right here is my primary problem with Mastodon. Its ripe for drama like this. The amount of glee I saw in the older users their about defedrating felt really unsettling. "If X company comes we will defedarate them" "If X celebrity comes we will defedarate them".
There’s 2/3 bars and a bunch of different parties thrown on different weekends. No wall to wall people though most people need to get up early.
B2G and Firefox OS did some legitimately cool things - they still have a better blended app+web experience than anything mainstream that I've touched. Android's crappy instant apps are laughable in comparison. There's plenty to learn from that experiment(?).

The rest of it, yeah. Absolutely agreed. Electron not having a Firefox equivalent in particular strikes me as a major, multi-year... not oversight, that's far too polite. Self-ostriching? I'm continually astounded beyond words. The market is massive, and nauseatingly ripe for competitors.
This is crazy. They are going to be left behind. Other companies are going to create a working business model and beat them. There's no reason they can't create a company that deals with beta tools and have it take on the reputation risk.

My suspicion is that they are protecting their search engine and the revenue stream it provides. A similar mistake to companies that have disappeared because they were afraid of creating a product that would hurt their revenue.
Wish they would look at the text rendering issues on non-hidpi displays. The text is really pixelated compared to edge
This guy has the absolute thinnest skin in town, huh?
unreasonable people are unreasonable

it’s clear they want people in charge to suffer, because some other powerful person hurt them in the past

sad. start up founder have a lot of benefits but it comes with pain.

pick your poison
Im very surprised that, among techies, there aren't more people running their own instance as a solo user, so that they can own the entire username including the domain name.

It's what I did for myself (Follow me! @jerome@leclan.ch), following Simon Willison's post: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...
This is apples and oranges. Let's agree for the sake of argument that people do not have the right to turn themselves into burdens on society. Mutilatory spinal cord surgery falls under that category, but gender corrective surgery does not.
Apollo is not _the_ GraphQL company, nor is it synonymous with GraphQL. Nobody is those things.
Exactly. Interviewing a post-LLM programmer without the aid of an LLM is like doing a running test for a bike messenger job.
"so I decided to do something easier and became a computer programmer"

Get a grip me old fruit. You've basically described "growing up". The world is a pretty wild place and you need to find your niche or not (rince/repeat). You are not a failed artist at all. You probed at something "had a dabble" if you like and it didn't work out. Never mind. Move on and try something else but keep your interest in mind.

There are loads of professions that I'd like to have done but as it turns out I'm me and that's who I am. Personally speaking I'm a MD of a little IT firm in the UK that can fiddle up a decent 3-2-1 conc mix and do fairly decent first and second fix wood work. I studied Civ Eng.

"The lack of empathy" - really?

If you fancy your chances as an artist then go for it. At worst you will fulfill your ambition and create some daubs. At best, you will traverse reality and be a wealthy living artist.

Just do it.
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Downvotes attract other downvotes - which doesn't say much for the quality of our, much trumpeted, gregariousness. A downvote is when someone doesn't like your opinion but they can't be bothered to discuss the issue. So a downvote is often a sign of disrespect and can be safely ignored.

Surely not everyone here is American - me for instance. If you don't get the nuance right then they can tell you - that way both parties learn something.

The following phrases are contradictory btw, thus:

"I genuinely want an argument to clarify my thoughts"

"HN isn’t the place for arguing- at least not for me"
They don’t do psych assessments anymore I believe
This isn't true. In fact we do see email providers getting blocked, mainly because of spam or other unwanted emails being sent from a provider.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+gmail+blocking+my+ema...
last time this happened on human, people are so angry. the guy who copy other artwork even got cancelled by company. but actually not in music region, you are right.
He says on HN.
Efficiency by heat pump
oh! i have that, it's one of the coolest things i've found at a secondhand store.
As someone who is also fully vaccinated, I am not sure how you can say it is overall good simply because most people will not react poorly. That is like saying Russian Roulette is a perfectly fine game to play because only one person is going to die, and that's OK.

Shouldn't people decide that for themselves?

Note, I am not saying you are saying it is not that they should decide for themselves, it is more that yours is the same logic used to defend vaccine mandates.
Agreed. This is overblown. but they haven't even begun to apply RLHF (or at least they haven't published anything). I think it's safe to say that combining an LLM with RL, all existing techniques, would result in a much stronger AI competitive coder.
This is more vitriol than necessary. The comment you linked to says the bad syntax choices presented in the article would allow for an easier parser implementation, but doesn't really expand on that or give any numbers. If someone thinks that the better syntax is worth a likely imperceptible increase in parsing time, that's hardly worth this harsh comment.
This is getting more Monty Python-esque every hour. Those responsible for reporting on the banning have been banned.
Now Oliver Darcy, CNN media reporter, has posted a screenshot of Drew Harwell's tweet - will he be suspended too?

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1603549297714290692

text:

It appears Twitter has banned the accounts of Aaron Rupar (@atrupar
) and Washington Post reporter @drewharwell
. Unclear why, but this seems to be the final tweet from Harwell.
I'd like to present a counterexample: SNKRX[1]. It costs 3€ and is under the MIT
license, you can find it on github[2].

It sold >100,000 units[3], and AFAIK no one's massively undercut the author. I
guess he's kind of undercutting himself by making it available on github, but I
bet most people would rather pay 3€ and have nice steam features than download
and compile a game off a site they likely don't know.

And yes, I do realize he's still the copyright holder for SNKRX, but he's not
really enforcing it with a permissive license like MIT.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/915310/SNKRX/

[2]: https://github.com/a327ex/SNKRX

[3]: https://www.a327ex.com/posts/2022/
You're changing the goalposts.

I never said anything about marginalized.
>Nope, the PR was poorly written (maybe the Department is experimenting with chatGPT ?).

ChatGPT probably would have done a much better job with access to the publication. Pretty soon, these lousy science journalists are all going to be out of a job when they can't even get basic facts correct, and the real scientists don't have time to write or review PR articles themselves, so an AI will fill that role instead.
I agree that competing in the data space can really be hard. I have worked with data (file systems, databases, etc.) for 40 years. Some of the products I worked on were successful (PartitionMagic, Drive Image) but others were not as impactful.

Whenever you offer an alternative to a mature technology like database, it can be a real challenge. Your product is expected to do everything that the well-funded and long developed product can do, and more.

Good luck on your venture.
I had the same experience. I will never get a booster. Besides the ten minutes of thinking I was going to die, I ended up getting a severe case of COVID within 60 days of the "vaccine".
> "The first is that textual input and treating the model as a function (command in -> result out) are sufficient for anything. No, this is a fundamentally deficient way to give artistic directions, which is further handicapped by primitive models and weak compute."

This is the first wave of half decent AI.

But more importantly, you are vastly underestimating the millions of small jobs out there that artists use as a stepping stone.

Think of the millions of managers who would happily be presented with a choice of 10 artistic interpretations, and pick one for the sake of getting a quick job done.

No way on earth this isn't going to make a major impact. Empathy absolutely required.
Considering what a terrible year this has been for Tesla stock and their absentee CEO it would be more fitting in 2021.

The brand has enough baggage by now that the second-highest comment chain is about its unsuitability as an ideal, rather than discussing the content itself.
I'd say it's more similar to an artist drawing influence from another artist, and there is a difference in that the machines can do it much more efficiently.

Personally, I'm all for AI training and using human artwork. I think telling it not to prevents progress/innovation, and that innovation is going to happen somewhere.

If it happens somewhere, humans who live in that somewhere will just use those tools to launder the AI-generated artwork, and companies will hire those offshore humans and reap the benefits, all the while, the effect on local artists' wages is even more negative because now they don't have access to the tools to compete in this ar(tificial intelligence)ms race.
Yeah sure that sounds great in principle but at the end of the day someone has to be in charge of tracking down where that new user_uuid label in the prometheus metrics came from and find the team responsible and explain why that is a bad idea.
Yeah... I just wanted some metal and there's no way to get anything gruff or agressive out of this at all :-(
I don't really like it, because I fear it might end up like a Product Hunt kind of thing. We've seen this with Show HN for a period of time.

We do have regular threads on Ask HN for things like this, and I think they do the trick.
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EDB PostgreSQL is still very much alive and Oracle compatibility is a big success among enterprises that have chosen to migrate and need to smooth the process.
Can I post a tweet linking to a news article that links to their mastodon account?
Is that not binding in Zigbee?

Home assistant docs because I can't find a better description: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#binding-and-...
> Everyone wishes CSS nesting could use the same kind of simple syntax that Sass does. That’s impossible, however, because of the way browser parsing engines work.

I may be in a minority, but I think that what-you-write-is-what-your-browser-parses should be ditched as a norm. There should simply be an efficient (binary) format that is treated as an irrelevant implementation detail.

What is even the problem? People use preprocessors, poly-fills, hot-reloading, etc anyway. It isn't 1990s.
It’s not stolen. If I create a work mimicking the style of whomever, I’ve not taken anything from them besides an idea. Ideas are not protected. Ideas are the point. If you don’t want to share your ideas, feel free not to.

Most people do not understand the purpose of copyright. Copyright is a bargain between society and the creator. The creator receives limited protection of the work for a limited time. Why is this the deal?

The purpose of copyright is to advance the progress of science and the useful arts. It is to benefit humanity as a whole.

AI takes nothing more than an idea. It does not take a “creative expression fixed in a tangible media”.
Or md5. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that from some in PHP land.
10 meters? Are you serious? The current WORST case scenarios as modeled by the IPCC would put us on track for about 1 meter of rise by 2100 and <4 meters of rise by 2300 (with confidence interval going as high as 5), 280 years from now. Models aren’t accounting for 10 meters because nobody with credentials is forecasting 10 meters of rise even in worst case scenarios. This model in question here is only concerned with the upcoming 100 years, and we 100% will not be seeing even multi-meter rises by then let alone 10.

> By 2300, seas could stand as much as 5 meters higher under the worst-case scenario.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148494/anticipating...
Wind turbines can kill birds, but not as many as fossil fuels and other impacts
FTX was a company that had sand as a foundation. It never had what it needed to survive. No amount of journalism will change that. Regulation and auditing is the only way Crypto will become a legitimate industry.
NYT Journalist Ryan Mac and CNN Journalist Donie O'Sullivan has also been suspended, who had similar final tweets.

https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/16035517704368455...
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1603552389394583555
I wouldn't give too much weight to some of these almost comically optimistic answers.

As with any society-scale event nobody really knows what's happening in every nook and cranny of this multi-billion inhabitant [0] spaceship and when it has happened it can and will be rationalised to fit just as many views.

Personally I very much get your point. Necessity is the mother of invention, and taking the necessity out of pretty much everything can destroy your motivation, because why expend energy on an already solved problem? That's inefficient (under the assumption that you won't require this understanding for some other reason). I know this happens to me, at least.

Perhaps in the AI-dominated world there'll be a pill for that or something..

[0] Animals won't stress out about this ;)
If there's anybody from Valve reading this, when will the Steam Deck be available in Australia? I'd love to get my hands on one.
In fairness to the article, it does go on to say

> Sanskrit, although not widely spoken, is the sacred language of Hinduism and has been used in India's science, philosophy, poetry and other secular literature over the centuries.
The long COVID myth is being debunked.
Also check the similar work on arxiv:

Multi-instrument Music Synthesis with Spectrogram Diffusion:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05408
Or that there are many factors that affect test scores (and many more alternatives competing for students’ attention). And, looking at average scores and average spending probably makes more subtle relationships more difficult to tease out. But it is hard for me to believe that increased funding is a bad thing for students.
Some protips on Intl APIs (to simplify the examples in the article):

1) They default to the user's locale as set in their Browser settings and you don't ever need to look up navigator.language yourself.

The trick to using an options object to something like Intl.DateTimeFormat where the options object is after the locale name is to pass `undefined` as the locale to opt in to the default behavior. (I wish they had swapped the order in constructors to make this easier/more obvious.)

In the article's case can save a line and:

const dateFormatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(undefined, { timeZone: 'UTC' })

Also, constructing a formatter like this is for better reuse of the formatter with saved options (ie, moving this up and out of the function defined in the articles instead of building a new one every function call).

2) There's one more important way to shrink this article's example down, many built-in JS types including `Date` as all these examples show now include a function directly to format using the appropriate Intl formatter called `toLocaleString`. In this case: Date.prototype.toLocaleString(locale, options) takes all the same options. You can replace the article's formatDate function entirely with toLocaleString:

const parsedQuote = `
<q>${content}</q> <br>
<p>- ${author}</p><br>
<p>Added on ${dateAdded.toLocaleString(undefined, { timeZone: 'UTC' })}</p>`
I would second the idea of custom storage backends, but also warn that Google Drive and Dropbox aren't really under your control either.
Does it need to be a fork, as opposed to just an extension?

I understand why upstream Postgres might not want to put Oracle compatibility in the core, since it would be adding a lot of crud which only a minority of people would benefit from. However, making sure the Postgres core has the extension points necessary to support extensions providing compatibility with Oracle (or DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, etc), is something they might be more willing to entertain.
Ya that's the massive weakness of these studies. They always read more into their data than what's actually there.

You're basically taking a snapshot of lights in a city at night. You can't see any of the people or what they're doing, but you see a lot of lights along the waterfront. You know a shipment of freight just came in, so you make the reasonable assumption they're unloading the freighter.

But they could just as easily be dumping the tea in the harbor. There's no mechanical description of what is happening, just the observation that something appears to be happening.
Clickbait is a sensationalized or misleading title meant to draw extra attention (in the form of clicks).

Both "big upgrade" and "didn't go as planned" are technically true, but overpromise. A big upgrade could be new features, improved UI, something that affects the user experience.

"Updated Lichess language version, had to tweak cache settings" is a title that isn't trying to sell itself.
Elastic/OpenSearch have classically used BM25, but the latter recently added semantic search capabilities using neural embeddings in 2.4. Not sure about the former.

[1] https://opensearch.org/blog/opensearch-2-4-is-available-toda...
Copyright != Trademark. Independently generated images of Mickey Mouse are litigated under Trademark law, not Copyright law.

Disclaimer: I am not an IP lawyer and have roughly no idea what I'm talking about.
> I’ve been using Go for 7’ish years across a large codebase, comprising multiple services interacting with millions of people.

> Every release Go gets better and requires 0 changes to the code. I have never needed to fine-tune the GC. I have never been nervous to update to a new Go version.

I've had the same experience with the JVM, over a longer time period. You hear about this because it's exceptional and interesting, not because it's the norm. "Just a web app" is an incredibly reductive take.

The same problem exists in the Go runtime (it's fundamental to the problem space), and since they don't let you tune it presumably they either guess or hardcode what the value should be; good luck if they get it wrong. Sure, you probably won't hit it with your code - the overwhelming majority of Java users don't hit this kind of problem with their code either.
Their Oracle compatibility is still a thing, at least commercially: https://www.enterprisedb.com/products/edb-postgres-advanced-...
"Notice: due to the recent influx of traffic, new subscriptions are closed." https://masto.host/

"hi! there's been a huge wave of new members and new instances recently, and that's a Lot of work.
i am tired and especially won't be very available in the next months for health reasons, so i won't be accepting new instances for a while." https://fedi.monster/

"Due to overwhelming demand, registrations are currently closed." https://cloudplane.org/
I've done it for personal productivity tracking and I hate it because it throws me out of flow all the time. What I've learned was the days I got nothing done are the days that I tracked time.

I would recommend the Pomodoro system if you do so. The full thing, not just the 25+5 minute, but also the day by day planning.
That was the whole hook for EnterpriseDB. They still sell the product:

https://www.enterprisedb.com/products/edb-enterprise

The difference here is that the EnterpriseDB product is not open source.