skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you give away that much money so it has a lasting impact? Lump sum would be risky. You would diversify and do it over time. And he is indeed giving it away. Just quietly.

MacRumors reveals that Cook last week donated 10,715 shares to an undisclosed charity. As of the date of the transaction, August 20, 2020 that would put their value at a little over $5M. The gain in value since then means that the shares were worth almost $5.4M as of yesterday’s close.

Cook revealed in 2015 that he plans to give away all of his wealth during his lifetime.

Cook says that he has already begun donating money quietly, but that he plans to take time to develop a systematic approach to philanthropy rather than simply writing checks.

He regularly donates AAPL shares to undisclosed charities.
These processes exist for a reason, even if nobody knows what it is. Over time companies that did these things survived, maybe nowadays it is vestigial, but the burden of proof is on new successful companies that don't have these practices.
how do you measure success?

i wrote an OCR program in college. we split the data set in half. you train it on one half then test it against the other half.

you can train stable diffusion on half the images, but then what? you use the image descriptions of the other half and measure how similar they are? in essence, attempting to reproduce exact replicas. but i guess even then it wouldn't be copyright if those images weren't used in the model. more like me describing something vividly to you and asking you to paint it and then getting angry at you because its too accurate
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This is a pet peeve of mine, just macOS is infinitely more searchable than all the ways you can spell Mac OS X, macosx, osx, OS X, mac-os-x, I've seen them all at least once. You either always and up with to much results because os and x match to many things, or to little because an exact match on Mac OS X excludes all the other ways people write it.
To address your central question, yes, knowing someone’s pronouns enough as long as the pronoun is a traditional one in the language. That is unless somebody wants to use a genderless neopronoun of some kind, in which case, good luck. But as long as people are happy to go with traditional male or female pronouns, the actual gender identity of the individual is a separate point.
People are annoyed because the competitors have got a lot better and because Strava hasn’t improved over that period, in many ways it’s got more annoying to use.
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It seems to me the communal voice of HN varies widely on copyright issues depending on who is getting sued and who is getting potentially hurt by violations.

People who generally make less money than programmers - writers, artists, musicians - should stop their whining and their unfair uses of copyright to control their creative output.

Programmers who are getting shafted by big corporations using their code to build machine learning models need urgent protection and fairness.

It probably doesn't help that almost every copyright argument here gets made with the understanding of copyright prevalent in the American model - that is to say that copyright exists to promote the progress of science and the useful arts - whereas in many countries copyright is understood as existing because the creator of something has a moral right to control and ownership of whatever they made.

Obviously this lawsuit is in the U.S but I suppose even if it loses here other lawsuits in other countries, with a different understanding of copyright, might succeed.
Some years ago I had an idea to have a method of file sharing with strong plausible deniability from the sharer.

The idea, in stage one, was to split a file into chunks and xor those with other random chunks (equivalent to a one-time pad), those chunks as well as the created random chunks then got shared around the networks, with nobody hosting both parts of a pair.

The next stage is that future files inserted into the network would not create new random chunks but randomly use existing chunks already in the network. The result is a distributed store of chunks each of which is provably capable of generating any other chunk given the right pair. The correlations are then stored in a separate manifest.

It feels like such a system is some kind of entropy coding system. In the limit the manifest becomes the same size as the original data. At the same time though, you can prove that any given chunk contains no information. I love thinking about how the philosophy of information theory interacts with the law.
What you describe feels very true for constructing a green diff containing lots of new code being added to a code base.

Being able to juggle text really comes into its own when you now have to move it around from one module into many, appease the linters, search-for then factor-out a common pattern, or rewrite your idea in place without breaking it. These are all things we do to take code from the “it works” stage to the “it’s correct” stage, namely self documenting modular code that is human as well as machine readable.

Vim makes light work of the back breaking chores involved with code gardening, which indeed bears little resemblance to programming.
This should be more about the externalities of the models. You can sue factories for emitting too much CO2 without making claims about their IP. The internet has been built, from the get go, on the premise of violating the spirit of copyright laws. Google got away with that because they gave away a small percent of their profits to content makers via ads. Other companies were not so lucky to have that privileged access.

The images here are a big part of the model, there is no way around it, that huge blob of numbers doesn't build itself from scratch. But i don't know if these lawsuits have much merit. There is so much money in AI that these companies can forgo scraping, and instead send thousands of people to take photos of pretty much every artwork for themselves.
It’s cute that they anonymized the “data science professor”’s name. This person knowingly participated in this alleged fraud which should put their ethics and their reputation into question.

To top it off, this person was later offered a “deal” to be hired into their alleged fraud business once it was merged.

Too damn cute.
If I were to take the first word from a thousand books and use it to write my own would I be guilty of copyright violations?
> but the TV was absolutely packed with ads via the home screen and pop-up toasts

i also have an oled tv from lg and haven’t seen any ads on the home screen but did get 1-2 pop-ups about a year ago. but that’s about it. it’s a 4 year old model, running a webos version that can’t be updated to the latest one. i also bought it in europe.

does anyone know if what the poster describes happens based on continent/country, or webos version? it seems so strange to have such a great panel, pretty much the best OS, and relatively high prices just to spoil it all with ads worth pennies.
Atom bombs.

Coal mining (if coal hadn't ever been mined, we'd probably have gotten large scale wind- and hydroelectric power much sooner).

Whitney's cotton gin, albeit due to it coming before automated cotton picking.
If it gets that much bigger you (the owner) probably aren't doing the same thing you were doing.
> And like you on both Steam and GOG I have a backlog of hundreds of games.

The last time I found some stats (five years ago), MOST accounts had hundreds of games, most of which were never played (playtime < 2 hours, I think).

Luckily, the developer still got paid. With MagnaPlay, the developers will never get paid unless the game is played.

In other words, this looks like a bad deal for developers, while also looking like a bad deal for gamers![1]

I can't really see any way for this to take off.

[1] For gamers, the DRM is an unnecessary hurdle, and GOG solves that. The lack of titles is also a hurdle (remember, this is only for indie titles).
Would you be ok with the mailman going through your letters and handing you the PIN code for your amex on a post-it note? "Saved you opening it yourself."
If you’re building a web based messaging app notifications are pretty crucial. Safari not having proper webpush was a major pain in these cases.
On Android I'm using the Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard and I feel that they have solved this quite well.

If you use the same layout (for me AZERTY) on the English keyboard and the French one, it will merge them and automatically try to predict the language you're using.
£3 fee isn’t a withdrawal fee, it’s a transaction fee to sell your bitcoin for pounds. The actual withdrawal of pounds to you bank account is free.

Likewise, you could withdraw your bitcoin to your own wallet for free. The fee comes when you change from one type of currency to another.

I think the reason they don’t show return on investment is because Coinbase presents itself as an exchange, not an investment platform. The purpose is to facilitate the exchange of currency from one kind to another. They’re not positioning themselves as trying to help you build up retirement nest egg.
Well yes, but I must quibble...

> Print debugging.... It works on any system

No it does not. It requires a console, and not all systems have a console.
That’s awesome. Zero cost and performance drop, too.

S3 is frankly amazing technology; probably the most robust and well rounded piece of cloud tech that exists.
What’s the point of your comment? This screams spam to me.
Funny thing - the forum works like a language model. It doesn't have one set personality, but it can generate from a distribution of people. The language model can generate from a distribution of prompts, which might be persona descriptions.

> Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06899
IIRC exiftool requires a scripting language, the install for which is more than 8MB.

It is not only the connection speed but also the storage space that is a consideration. I use small form factor computers with limited storage space. I also like things that are feasible on slower connections. Generally, unless I am using a program on a regular basis I will uninstall a program after using it. For example, if I need Perl for some task, such as compiling OpenSSL, I will install it, perform the task, then uninstall. Compared to exiftoo, exiv2 is a smaller, faster download and as suggested by another commenter, it finishes faster than exiftool. I choose exiv2 over exiftool to same time and space. Every user is different and exiv2 works better for this user.

The reason I do not keep large scripting languages like Perl, etc. installed is because I do not use them regularly. The ash shell is what I use the most. I keep Lua installed, since I use that with haproxy every day.
Another alternative is to give it away quietly on a regular basis and not seek recognition. Which is what Cook has been doing.
I also type multiple languages, and I make more typing efforts than average, in which case autocorrect really goes nuts. I turned autocorrect off a long time ago. Slower but at least I have control over what I write.
I'm personally for a massive reduction of copyright time to align it on patents but that's beside the point, even in the current copyright system that argument against machine learning makes no sense.

The proof of that is they even had to lie about how stable diffusion works on this website to make it convincing, that's a clear sign that they are in the wrong.

Even themselves discovered that the truth won't get them very far.

> Obviously this lawsuit is in the U.S but I suppose even if it loses here other lawsuits in other countries, with a different understanding of copyright, might succeed.

The cat is just out of the bag anyways, if machine learning is outlawed in the US, it will flourish somewhere else instead.
INT 19h was my personal favorite, the .COM file can be reduced to 2 bytes that way.
Why not use a blockchain if you want an append-only store?
Every original image is copyrighted. You're suggesting making a digital copy of every image there is to check that AI isn't generating digital copies of every image there is.
the funny part is these tools are inspiring new creativity and mediums. someone made a 3d game using ai generated images. it was a lot of work to combine and put together, it only saved on the drawing. this is opening new doors for artists. but ya, they'll need to adapt.

maybe an even worse analogy, but i stopped using Photoshop when css got good. no need to make images for rounded corners. no need for me to pay adobe. but no one is suing css.
The mild irony of this new research paper being behind a paywall as well.
I thought it was called the welfare state, or social democracy.
Everyone is different, I read rather slow and can ingest the article much quicker with audio (esp. sped up audio) than by reading it.
I tend to use the argument, "if we stopped developing technology because it threatened some people's livelihoods, a 'calculator' would still refer to a person."
> I always think thoughts like this miss that the value prop right now is for "People who want to play games". By not having DRM, you're getting more customers, but you're also expanding your TAM to include "People who want to pirate games."

That's valid if the target market is "people who want to play games". It's not in this case, it's "people who want to play indie games", which is a different target. By removing DRM, it's expanded to include "people who want pirate indie games" which is a ridiculously tiny segment.

> The reason "add DRM later" is problematic is that you hit product market fit with the a lot of the second group, meaning they will be upset when you add it.

So? These are gamers we are talking about. Bugginess, poor quality and everything else that they claim upsets them still doesn't stop them from buying the game!
You must have very good reasons for keeping AutoCorrect on. I’d really like to “hear” them as I’m feeling that I did not get the point and am missing out by turning it off.

And with it off, I can still manually select valid corrections pretty quickly by tapping suggestions.
I understand the argument for it, but I can't make heads or tails of the implementation article discussing constraints. How do constraints help us at all? For context, I wrote a graph-based CSP-solver and I'm still completely lost.

I hit page-down 40 times and wasn't even halfway through. I feel like billing $1000 to skim the proposal.
For those who prefer Pi-Hole, I set up a VPN server on my PfSense so my devices can use the DNS server in my home network when I'm out. The fact that traffic is encrypted is a nice bonus.

I do this on a symmetrical 500Mbit fiber line, YMMV.
My father (quantum mechanics) would sometimes submit awful but working code to Dijkstra without proofs just to piss him off. Dijkstra didn't like the looseness of the physics students when it came to software development, while physics students didn't like the software proofs for things in physics that were experimental and needed a 'quick' (nothing was 'quick' then compared to now of course) set of calculations/simulations and not waste time on writing formal proofs for them.
> not worrying about errors potentially bubbling out of one layer into another

I feel like that’s the entire point of errors and try/catch?
> Is the .format sublanguage notably stronger than the %-one?

Yes, it allows arbitrary attribute traversal as well as broad indexing.

The % sublangage is a lot more restrictive and doesn’t suffer from the arbitrary reading of the C version (if you format an object that wasn’t passed in you get an error not a read off of the stack or a register).

I don’t think format is anywhere near turing complete, but it allows significant information querying and retrieval (https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/12/29/careful-with-str-format/).

Both still allow for resource exhaustion but that’s what it is.
Mostly I agree, but:

> Copyright is a prison built for artists by big business, successfully marketed to artists as being a home.

I think (continuing this analogy) that copyright is indeed a home, but very few artists can afford to buy their own home, so they rent from corporate landlords, and the bigger ones are the worst ones to be tenants of.
Seriously!!!

I didn’t say it cuz I didn’t think it would resonate, but it’s a whole new world we are quickly entering.
A good friend of mine worked for HP Consulting, which at the time was using heavyweight waterfall method. Out of curiosity, I asked her how well they hit their schedules and costs.

"Oh, we hit our schedules and costs 100% of the time", she said.

I was incredulous, so I pressed her on the point.

"Well, compared to the contracted schedules and costs, we run 200% over on average by the time we deliver. But what happens is that customers quickly figure out that what they contracted for isn't anything like what they actually need. And every time a requirement changes, we add time and money. A lot of time and money. More than enough to make up for any actual overruns. So we always hit our schedules and costs exactly, by the time we're done."

In short, "We will deliver $X for $Y amount, in $Z months or less" is a total scam.
Factoring is very common across sectors with long payment durations. It’s amazing for manufacturing businesses for example who may not get paid for 30, 60 or 90 days after shipping product. The great thing (and where it is nothing like payday loans when done correctly) is that the responsibility and risk of collecting payment falls to the factoring company and not you. We happily factored for years just to offload payment chasing for a tricky customer, well worth the 2%.
I think this touches on the core mismatch between the legal perspective and technical perspective.

Yes, on a technical level, those chunks are random data. On the legal side, however, those chunks are illegal copyright infringement because that is their intent, and there is a process that allows the intent to happen.

I can't really say it better than this post does, so I highly recommend reading it: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
> They are frequently seen in Airports..

You mean for advertising, showing timetables, etc?

Those are usually "digital signage" panels. Colors may or may not be OK on those, but there are two things to keep in mind:

1. They are outrageously expensive because they're made to be run blindingly bright 24/7.

2. They are less and less dumb, complete with ridiculously long startup times.

The company I work for uses these. And while a few years ago only the higher-priced ones used to feature "smart" features, the "cheaper" ones now have them, too. Now, in our case, we like those because it allows us to control the screens from a central location, and they don't require setting up a Raspberry Pi or similar to show content on them. But "dumb" they are not anymore.

They're typically running some form of Android or Samsung's Tizen. I don't directly use them, so I don't know the details, but a quick glance at Samsung's website seems to show that consumer models use Tizen, too.
And authors don't have any natural right to prevent people from copying their books.

And yet, we have decided that society is better off when authors can make money off their work.
That's strange, my developers run docker on quite old laptops and they are doing fine. Not mac's though, we running Manjaro Linux and no impact in performance.
But we uses docker engine, not desktop.
I had seen docker desktop runs in Qemu VM on non-linux os. That might be the problem and defeating the purpose of using containers at all.
Not large parts of open source projects. It was one function that was pretty well known and replicated. The author prompted with a part of the code, and the model finished the rest including the original comments.

There are two issues here

- the model needs to be carefully prompted (goaded) into copyright violation, so it is instigated to do it by excessive quoting from the original

- the replicated codes are usually boilerplate, common approaches or "famous" examples from books; in other words they are examples that appear in multiple places in the training set as opposed to just once

Do generic codes, boilerplate and API calls deserve protection? Maybe the famous examples do, but not every replicated code does.
My point is that I would have no heat. I could cook and have some hot water because I could warm it up in a pot.
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Newly-discovered galaxies, could be earliest known galaxies in the universe
> you are overestimating how much most developers world wide are payed. Something like $150k+/yr might be something you can get in silicon valley but o

True.

Also these $150k+/yr devs are the ones that eventually roll out the next opensource docker replacement...
Go to stablediffusionweb.com and enter "a person like biden" into the box. You will see a picture exactly like President Biden. That picture will have been derived from the trained images of Joe Biden. That cannot be in dispute.
Keep in mind the agile manifesto authors were consultants, working as consultants, and the manifesto is largely in the context of software consultancy.

A lot of the points in the manifesto turn out to be slightly redundant. Comprehensive documentation, as entered into a tool, is wasted time when what you need to do is spend time with the customer developing their ideas into good software.
> print debugging

Curiously:

https://project-mage.org/overcoming-the-print-statement
Nope, you can't pick the winning monkeys. Picking the avg. (index) is better; same avg. returns, less variance. But, it's still true that 50% outperform the index, not "very few" as many people like to think.
> We have no equivalent in Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. Genode might get there soon, and GNU Hurd was supposed to get there in the 1980s.

Capabilities: have you seen CHERI for RISC-V IoT, https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/09/06/whats-the-smalles...?

Branding: what were some security category brand examples that you consider to be successful?
Gates has given away about $60 billion so far. His net worth today is about $103 billion. So he's given away over half. How is that a scam? Especially for the charities that benefited and presumably are doing good work for those who need it the most.
Being in the bench is not unusual for Consultancy companies, where there is no necessarily alignment between finishing with a client and starting with the next one. Or even starting directly on a client when you join them.

Quite useful time to spend learning.
The distribution of the bytes matters a bit here. In theory the model could be over trained against one copyrighted work such that it is almost perfectly preserved within the model.
The voices are really amazing, I couldn't really tell that they are synthetic and I was looking for it.

The only issue is that the actual recordings sound like they have been overcompressed, or poorly recorded - is there any way to improve this? Something like superresolution, but for voice?
There is so-long.el which is part of Emacs since 27.1 http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/so-long.git/tree/so-long...
I update via USB. Features do get added that improve the experience but I think that's probably and edge case because I'm using the VRR and HDR heavily as a PC monitor. I haven't had any issues except that I can't turn off bluetooth advertising and, every now and then, a neighbor tries to pair.
You seem to be under the impression that SD can only generate original art. However, it will literally recreate existing paintings for you if you just prompt it with the title. Identical composition and everything.
Why there are needs to use docker GUIs?
Docker compose and lazy docker is all I need for managing over 80 docker containers , both dev and production

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker