skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A machine is copying the image when learning from it no more than a brain is copying an image by trying to memorize it. In either case you are never going to get the same image out. I am not aware of copyright asserting itself over the perception of anything.

Plus, regardless of poorly-enforced legal 'realities', you cannot control something once it is out in the public space. It may as well be public domain. Artists are learning first-hand that they have no control, as it should be.

I say this as an artist myself, either I release my work publicly and it will do with it what it wishes (paying me would be nice, but really difficult to reasonably expect), or I hoard my art privately and it dies when I die, unseen and unperceived.

The problem is the computer people have been dealing with bots for a while, we have tools and years of best practice to deal with it. Artists don't, this is new to them, and frankly a lot of them like to get wrapped up in emotions and do not give a damn about technical nuances -- as you correctly assert. So they will generally repeat whatever trite line sounds best. (You can see this firsthand on with the copypasted memes on facebook/reddit)

How many of these guys truly understand the issue? Or are they just the next generation of luddites trying to fight off the next printing press or camera?
Same thing as you do with a gas car and you can't get gas for any reason. Call AAA/roadside services?
HBO Max isn’t HBO—it’s HBO plus other Warner bros stuff. Velma was made by the non-HBO side.
The Kobo I have can be mounted as a USB mass storage device, and the books synced that way (with rsync or just copying in the file browser).
> The issue at hand is that artists had their art trained on without their permission

Yes.

> and violating the copyright.

No.
Republicans fund the military because it's a handout to the people who vote for them. Democrats fund the Federal bureaucracy because it's a handout to the people who vote for them. Neither of the actions are about accomplishing things--just attempts to entrench their own power.
Machines are not people, and don't enjoy the same rights as us.

(And I would not call it "learning", at least not in the same meaning of the word as for humans, but that's a more philosophical discussion.)
"How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?"

You don't. They are all likely "compromised" to some extent. The vast majority likely have asymptomatic/latent state-sponsored vulnerabilities, if not on the machine itself, then in the network infrastructure it uses. For the most part, people might not consider them "malicious third parties".
This is exactly a perfect use case for a blockchain. In fact if people are interested we should create a POC.
Kindle devices now support the open epub format which is a improvement at least. Kobo devices come chained to Rakuten so it's not a big enough difference for me to consider switching... for now.
Warner Bros. takes its goods to market on publicly maintained roads, sells its sitcoms and movies to networks that broadcast on public airwaves, and distributes its movies to theaters and homes through fiber-optic cables that run over and under public land. The company is bound up in our shared history, and it has produced a great deal of art that is essential to that history.

This argument suggests that anything you do partially belongs to the author, as well; airwaves aside, all of us are enabled in some way by public investments.
What portion of drivers use one pedal?
If it generates an artists signature when producing something in that artists style, then I’d argue against that idea. And frequently enough, they will generate a recognizable signature.
Probably didn't pass the interview. The implementation was rather simplistic and low quality.

Here's a better enterprise version: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Though the fact that it was written some years ago might be a weakness. Some interviewers might prefere a more modern, distributed solution.
I’m curious as to what elements of policing have been the beneficiaries of increased funding. I’d love to see a budget and staffing breakdown of a police department from the 70s to now. I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s not the investigative side that’s grown hugely. I may well be wrong though, and just showing my bias.
It's the other way round: cities that aren't plagued by homelessness, rampant drug use, and criminality can have good public transit. Middle class people simply won't pay (in taxes or directly) for public transit that acts as a homeless shelter and routinely features crimes against them.
It's the longest trip I have taken in an EV. I'm speaking only about my own experience.
1. Try to build something. Anything. Start with a problem you have and try to build a solution. It doesn't have to be fast, it doesn't have to be beautiful, it needs to solve this 1 problem

2. Read other code. Get good at reading other code. Develop curiosity around understanding how the code works. Every time you hear about something you don't know research it superficially and make a note to try to understand it in depth if it seems important

3. Hang out/Work with people that are good at this. Seriously. Sometimes a person that understands the subject, a practice, one specific area can ELI5 to you in under 10 minutes saving you literally weeks of struggling to understand. Once you figure out who these people are, watch what they are doing (watch the PRs) and actively seek out opportunities to work with them

4. Aim to continuously learn and grow. Be proud of your work but continue to push your limit. If you learn OR teach one thing per day you'll be in the the top 5% in no time (an by no time I mean a few years but it's still nothing compared to doing this all your life and not being good at it).
> and since you can not just replace a single cell well now they have a $20,000 bill often more than the car is worth

If you are referring to the conservative-popular meme that I think you are, that wasn’t even for an BEV, but an old PHEV whose (fairly small) battery was out of production.

> EV manufacturers are trying (often successfully) at blocking these 3rd party repair options and making the cost to repair an EV $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Mechanics are expensive these days, even for ICEs. Yes, repairing an EV is expensive, but so is repairing a newer ICE.

I would love to hear criticisms against EVs that didn’t apply to cars in general.
Interesting that driving style has such an outsized impact. Perhaps aggressive driving and tire composition should be regulated.
Nobody's arguing that near-duplications or trademark violations are not bad. But I think they want a broader power grab - to extend copyright to art styles. In other words to protect not just the expression but also the ideas themselves. They want something like patent + trademark + copyright all in one.
In the words of Robert Morris, 40 years ago:

"The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not
own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it."
They will probably resurface somewhere. While HBOmax was shelving some content for good for tax write offs—this is probably about selling rights to the highest bidder.
Justices turn away Israeli spyware maker in WhatsApp suit
It reduces risk by minimizing disruption if you’re following other work rules. If we locked it in 30s, people wouldn’t be able to work.

Re: the “treat people like a criminal” take. A common approach organizations are taking is employee surveillance. I don’t want to know that your girlfriend has a conviction or that your kid sits next to you with sensitive data in your screen, etc. And I don’t want to force you into an office.

There’s a difference between “security” and risk management. If the discussion was pure security with low/no risk tolerance, you’d be working on a locked down terminal server in an office.
Oh, also, I think I've read the entire Discussions thread on this PEP, and from what I can tell, the PEP is missing champions who are eager to push it forward.

Part of the problem, I'm guessing, is that the PEP kind of sits in a weird space, because it's not up to the PyPA to "approve" it, or whatever -- PEPs are approved by the Python Steering Council.

Per Brett Cannon (Steering Council Member):

> Either consensus has to be reached (which it hasn’t) and/or someone needs to send this to the SC to make a decision (although it is a weird PEP in that it also impacts packaging, so it isn’t even clear who would get final say).

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d...
If you were a big corporation who doesn't want to buy a license but speed up dev time, couldn't you just let your devs use mold for development to have faster recompilation cycles, but link the official binaries with some other, slower linker?
Travelers with Food Allergies Fight for Early Boarding
Copyright requires permission to produce derivative works.

If I take a picture of Mickey Mouse, add 1 to each RGB value, it would still be covered under copyright.

I think the term 'learn' is doing the heavy lifting in your argument here. Specifically, your argument seems to be:

1. We use the term 'learn' as shorthand for 'fitting a machine learning algorithm to data'.

2. We also use the term 'learn' for a human looking at copyrighted material to practice their craft.

3. Humans using copyrighted material to learn doesn't make their works derivative.

4. Therefore, machine learning algorithms that are trained on copyrighted material aren't producing derivative works.

This argument holds an implicit assumption: if we use the same term for a process, it should covered by the same rules/laws. Which I think isn't very sound.
Several state governors pushed laws banning the transfer of terrorists into their prisons to prevent this.
On Searle's “Chinese Room” Argument
I love the color coded approach for this, but to problems for me:

1. I can't tell the difference between the pink and the purple in the formula. The text is fine, but the formula isn't.
2. I have no idea what "signal" means in the "spin your signal" so the single sentence explanation is completely useless to me.

This bums me out a bit because I think there's something really great here.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2606A5830780074B089FAB96904009DA412C1C3D&dn=Complete%20Looney%20Tunes%20Golden%20Collection%20%5BDVDrip%5D
You're getting downvoted to hell, but there's some truth to this. No one wants to ride Hotel 22 as a passenger, and homeless people on Bart is at least a small negative for ridership. Caltrain doesn't have this problem because they do fare enforcement, a ticket only gets you one ride, and its mostly a commuter train. Caltrain even lets people drink on the train and its not a problem, but it's because of the crowd they serve.
Or everyone, in this case.
Logging in the morning, opening a website, a word doc and a spreadsheet in tabs in Konqueror, editing stuff over SSH in Kate. It genuinely felt like KDE was trying something new back then, creating a more object oriented desktop. I don’t know how much of that survives but it was exciting at the time.
All these answers are good, but I can share more concrete numbers…

Meta released their OPT model which they claim is comparable to the GPT-3 model. Guidance for running that model [1] suggests a LOT of memory - at least 350GB of gpu memory which is roughly 4 A1000s, which are pricy.

Running this on AWS with the above suggestion would cost $25/hr - just for one model running. That’s almost $0.50 a minute. If you imagine it takes a few seconds to run the model for one request… easily you’ll hit $0.05 per request once you factor in the rest of the infra (storage, CDN, etc) and the engineering cost, and the research cost, and the fact that they probably have a scale to hundreds of instances for heavy traffic and that may mean less efficient purchased servers.

OpenAI has a sweetheart deal with Azure, but this is roughly the cost structure for serving requests. And this doesn’t include the upfront cost of training.

https://alpa.ai/tutorials/opt_serving.html
Which specific international law is that? I am not aware that the US has ratified any treaty which would outlaw perpetual leases. If Cuba is unhappy with the terms of the agreement then they are welcome to renegotiate.

US real estate and contract law has zero relevance here so I don't know why you would bring that up.
It is too late. Sorry artists but it’s over. These models can be trained cheaply(compared to a model like GPT-3), run on consumer GPUs, and are open source. Even if somehow Stable Diffusion got forced to take it down, it’s already out! Will be available with BitTorrent forever. Stable Diffusion could be stopped by US copyright law, but there will be 100 Chinese and Russian startups, who will develop even better models and not give a fuck.

This is a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle. Adapt or die!
A filesystem is a database. It is not relational and has a different API but the main difference is in different design goals and different set of tradeoffs.
If I understand correctly, if I enter the URL example.com/abcd
it will look for abcd.html and if doesn't find that it will look for abcd_index.html and finally dail quietly.

Did I get that right? Can you elaborate why this is better?
Would you object to countries like Iran holding US citizens indefinitely?
It's is a ruse from the communication dept. They are inciting the revolution all that time.
With every OS racing to the bottom in terms of customisation and the genera dumbing of things down, I am immensely grateful that there are still some desktop environments out there who are willing to offer flexibility.

I’ve tried a few different tiling and dynamic window managers. I even tried writing my own one. But in the end I actually do like the form factor of full desktop environment for when I’m doing graphical based work. And having a DE that doesn’t treat me like a n00b is an increasingly hard solution to find these days.
Your gas gauge is pegged on E. There's no other gas station for miles. There's a significant queue. What do you do?

How about shut up, get in line, and remind yourself next time not to be stupid and run out of gas? Or electricity? Or diesel?
The author says his average mileage is 184Wh/km. I've seen similar numbers in other sources: about 200Wh/km.

I am an avid cyclist. When I output 200W for an hour I can go 20-30km depending on the terrain. Maybe 15 if it's steep uphill all the way. Cyclists are not very aerodynamic. They sit high and have boxy shape. A small vehicle can be much more efficient (the reason recumbents beat standard bikes on a track).

It all seems so wasteful to me. It's true sometimes you need to carry load or more people, or go to very steep uphill, or maybe sometimes you really need to go fast. In vast majority of cases though, especially inside populated areas it's one person and a short trip. You carry your 2 ton metal box with you, use 20-30x more energy than a cyclist would and take so much space traffic jams are inevitable.

True innovation those electric cars. The very definition of missing the forest for a tree.
Are these children who grew up in poverty?
With respect the question is about the machine being compromised, I'm not sure how XSS, phishing, etc. attacks are relevant.
It doesn’t look like the elected politicians have any control over that.
In a moment, mathematicians merge probability and number theory
So much money and energy spent for a lot of junk content
> violating the copyright

that's a personal opinion, not a legal fact. until we don't have court rulings on this matter, all legal statements are opinions. in order to have a civilized debate, we should be careful about separating opinions and facts, and clearly marking the former as such.
Indeed they are just ticking a box for your customers.
They'll have to do better than that to get me back.
Why is there no show set in like heyday Mali or one of the other countless African societies of the past. They surely all have their own lore and stories just as much as medieval Europe has had. I would love to watch eg. the rise of Mansa Musa. Certainly there are many more stories I don’t even know about.
Whew! Thanks guys.

That game & this guy's mods are way over my head, but I really love mods. Great article.
"Cold weather has an influence on the battery capacity too."

I take this to mean that the author acknowledges GAS cars are also affected by cold weather. There's just no escaping thermodynamics. It's also like pointing out GAS cars' MPG is reduced by 20%+ in cold weather. While it's true, it's like pointing out a gotcha edge case for all cars. So the conclusion can also apply the same way to GAS cars. 'Next time you estimate the mileage, take a 20% discount!'

According to energy.gov[1]:

Cold weather and winter driving conditions can significantly reduce fuel economy. Fuel economy tests show that, in city driving, a conventional gasoline car's gas mileage is roughly 15% lower at 20°F than it would be at 77°F. It can drop as much as 24% for short (3- to 4-mile) trips.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/fuel-economy-cold-weather....
what's confusing with this? https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmodules.html

everything before the "Add-ons available under Commercial Licenses, or GNU General Public License v3" separator is available under LGPLv3, and that covers very likely 100% of what is used in KDE
325mi is nearly 5 hours at 70mph. It's objectively a long trip.
That tooling argument is quite weak. PDM is the only tool I was able to find that has support for __pypackages__, the paths it uses seem to be slightly different to the PEP wording, and it uses a $PYTHONPATH/shell hack (`pdm --pep582` adds a folder with `sitecustomize.py` that does the magic). How do you change the $PYTHONPATH used by an IDE (and its magic features)?
I work on mutlirepos and i really dislike gits subtree, subrepo i use https://pypi.org/project/zc.buildout/. Yes i know i can do [1]. But editing on multirepos at the same time i can only do with zc.buildout [2] Still not perfect but it does the job.

[1]

$ cat req.txt
requests
git+ssh://git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/amber.git@0.4.0
git+ssh://git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/rebam.git@0.4.0

[2]

$ cat buildout.cfg
[buildout]
extends = versions.cfg
extensions = mr.developer
auto-checkout = \*
develop = .
show-picked-versions = true
update-versions-file = versions.cfg
sources-dir = git-sources

parts = py

eggs =
amber
rebam
hammer

[sources]
amber = git git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/amber.git@0.4.0
rebma = git git@gitlab.com/foo/bar/rebma.git@0.4.0

[py]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs =
${buildout:eggs}
interpreter = py-backend
dependent-scripts = true
The distinction that the OP is looking for is generative vs. discriminative inference.

Generative inference: We know the process that generates our observed data and can model it to sufficient precision, s.t. we can establish a forward synthesis: Parameters in, synthesised data out. With that we can compare a synthesized dataset from a configuration of parameters with real observed data and, using Bayes (a.k.a. MAP estimation), infer the correct configuration of parameters that most likely generated our observed data, which is the answer we're looking for. Examples: Kalman Filters, Linear Regression.

Discriminative inference: We do not know the process that generates observed data or it's too difficult to model. In that case we ask machines to take a shot at modelling it. To do that we set up parametric data transformation pipelines (e.g. Neural Nets) and feed it lots of correct input/output pairs. Over time the model will learn how to transform the input (observed data) to the output (answer we're looking for) and hopefully generalise well when we feed it new input data that it hasn't seen before.
Examples: NNs for classification.

Of course there are interesting mixtures and hybrids between the two and the lines are blurred in some cases but this is the general distinction.
You can certainly require fees to be paid.

That wouldn't be unusal. Collection agencies are a thing and laws can be adopted to account for AI.

Then it's pay x amount of money to use generative art.

And SAAS services can be required to collect those. Self hosted Setups can come later.
The only reason I subscribed was the “Paw Patrol” series. They removed them, so I unsubscribed. Streaming is weird.
I had never heard of it, but with an imdb rating of 1.7 for 10k votes [1], it makes it to the top 20 worst shows/movies (with over 10k votes) in history.

The worst movie in that category seems to be a biography of Erdogan [2].

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14153790/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5988370/
Wouldn’t you rather want to compare manually operating a bicycle to an electric bicycle? They’ve basically taken over China for more than a decade now, so it’s not like they are uncommon.
I mean, at this point why bother interacting with other people at all? Let's just have a collective of a few hundred chatGpt bots and pretend we're all a society.

I am horrified of how easily we are dismissing things that are super hard because "ai can do it better". Therapy is one of those things were result vary widely and depend on the patient, the therapist and the setting. You ain't gonna get that from a machine - not with the way we are doing AI today.
This is just because it’s still a little dumb. If I hired a human artist to produce something in another other artists style and it copied their signature, what is that considered to be? Artist stupidity imo. Or at least a failure of communication.

Models will get better and stop doing that.
Around age 16 I liked incorporating the words "spiffy" and "nifty" into my lexicon, because I'd been watching older TV shows where those words were used.

I liked using computers, and so "spiffytech" was born, and I've used it virtually everywhere since. Except for a few of places where someone else has used it (which surprises me!).
Not OP; see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
Is there any possibility that KDE and Gnome will ever merge?
Rendering like it's 1996 – Bitmap fonts and DOS
There is a torrent of emotions coming to my mind. Call me a mule but I'm still think those are some of the best entertaining cartoons ever.
Yes... proving that would require an infinite-capacity rounding mechanism, which cannot exist, because when trying to build it, you always run out of universe. Thusly, "impossible" is equivalent to "false", by default.
Ask HN: Looking for a Website (Long Shot)
Hey folks. Stumbled on a website who's layout I loved and somehow did not bookmark, pretty sure it was through HN and hoping someone will figure out what it was.

The website is an "online newspaper", likely American or British but who knows these days. It covered all sorts of news (so, world news).

The layout was clean and "bookish". Think along the lines of the NYT, WP, et al., but not one of those big mainstream newspapers.

What I really liked was the design of the page. Everything was sans-serif and the stories were in a grid-like layout. Throughout the mostly beige'ish background you can find smooth pastel color filled stories. It was neat and pretty with the right mix of colors and "paper-like" feel meets the Internet.

For some reasons I think that the website was called "seffora" or something along those lines. I tried running the above description through ChatGPT but couldn't find what I'm looking for.

I'm hoping someone here can figure it out based on this description.

Thanks.
IOW, the arXiv title might have lost the "nth" because of some formatting thing. The title inside the PDF says "A formula for nth digit of \pi and \pi^n"
If you’re interested in purchasing the shorts that have been released on physical home media (nearly half of episodes have not been) I made this outline of the differences between the various sets and recommended purchasing order: https://frdmtoplay.com/maximizing-bugs-bunny/
Ask HN: Is Pygame dead? pygame.org 500's
* I still think...