skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s say that their work was left out of the training data or if it was allowed to remain that the tool never reproduced training data… is Stable Diffusion any more or any less useful?

This doesn't really have much to do with copyright.

> Is literally anyone using Stable Diffusion with the intent to reproduce one of the plaintiff's copyright protected works?

Intent isn't really a factor in terms of damages for copyright infringement. But I assume we'll figure out the extend of the damages if/when damages are awarded, since that's when they measure it out. Granted, I expect the liable parties to settle far before it gets to that; the payout seems cheap (~100k - 1m) relative to the risk (penalties for copyright infringement are per unit, and it's easy to hit millions of units on the internet).
Thanks for sharing this! From the IAB, I'm not surprised unfortunately
Normalize emails is "best practice" for all the dirty "unique identifiers" players, see ID5 for example https://support.id5.io/portal/en/kb/articles/passing-partner...
Nifty, makes one wonder if logarithmic or sigmoid functions for ML could be done using this method. Especially as we approach the node size limit, perhaps dealing with fuzzy analog will become more valuable.
Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows
Tyler Cowen: ‘Economists can’t predict the effects of new technologies.’
I know a couple that just got the bivalent boosters. Their teenage son got the first two shots, and subsequently developed a face tick/twitch. But their doctor told them it was nothing to worry about, just dry eye. These are people that I had spoken to in the past about the pointlessness of these vaccines in kids...but, oh well. I hope their son doesn't have any long term issues.
I lived in a townhouse in Santa Clara in the mid 1990s that had heat pump heating (combined with ac).
In C you can use “%g” printf format string (which indicates a value of type double), and then not pass a double to it, but e.g. an int. Easy mistake to make, when changing pre-existing code.

On x86 what will happen is the code will compile, but the function is going to read its argument from a floating point register instead of an integer register as it should. This:

1. Is a bug, since a completely unrelated garbage value is going to be printed.

2. Leaks the value of a register, which may be a security issue.

There are still other common issues which can easily turn into vulnerabilities, leaking private process memory, when people pass untrusted strings as format strings with the intention of printing them raw.

So you want a safe print to prevent trivial bugs in general, and security vulnerabilities in particular.
These titles are actually forced by websites like Hacker News, as a dry and fully-descriptive title doesn't get clicked--nor should it, as it has no reason to make the reader care--and yet Hacker News has this unfortunate rule where it usually attempts to disallow what it calls "editorializing" and so the way users coming from other sites often try to submit things--using pull quotes to direct the reader to specific informative bits that make them more likely to read the article--get their title reverted (even often awkwardly after the post has received a ton of upvotes and the discussion has surrounded the submitted "title", which I feel should be a signal that--at least in some examples--the title wasn't harmful, and was merely "I wanted to link to one paragraph and not a full article", which otherwise requires "blogspam" where you write an article that summarizes the other article and calls out the paragraph, which is also disallowed for good reason, and so this website also awkwardly encourages casual plagiarism).

The result is that, rather than articles getting contextually-dependent links that are customized for the community and the time (and which lead to particular discussions), you as the author have to try to come up with a single title that somehow manages to simultaneously be a reasonable title but also serves as its own pull quote (which also effectively prevents long content or manuals from getting linked at all)... it is utter madness, and that the moderators here don't seem to understand this dynamic (even in a "we realize this is bad but we are stuck with it for various reasons--which may include some that are trade offs--but are interested in looking into alternative options" way... dang, as one example, seriously seems to only defend this behavior as good, citing some form of author control despite failing to show that this isn't a problem for authors) is the main reason I wish Hacker News didn't have a from-network monopoly on this community :(.
Holding my breath that my firebreathing gas stove is actually okay with The Man.
Why? It’s not like turbo is not a real performance enhancement. With enough thermal headroom, there’s no reason why turbo can’t be sustained, as heat is the limiting factor.

Good CPU reviews include long render and compile benchmarks that would suffer if the turbo performance couldn’t be sustained. If a CPU can sustain high performance, then it doesn’t matter if it’s using a turbo mode.
This comment sums up my pain on so many levels. I have never really seen it captured so succinctly.
Resistive heaters lile a lightbulb are much less efficient than a heat pump. You'd still be better off with the led.
I hate crypto because it had all the hallmarks of the fantasy futurism we read about in so many countless spellbound novels of sci-fi and wonder, but turned out to be an exhausting dichotomy of ponzi-scheme money laundering or regulatory shuck-and-jive bureaucratic hell.

Its all-singing, all-dancing soulless cavalcade begat such horrorshows as the crypto.com sports arena, the FTX arena, and the desperate attempt by local government to disjoin itself from the nightmare of toxic branding or brace white-knuckled for a slow motion collapse to sweep their hastily cashed branding rights cheque into the dustbin of decisions that make the entire state look worse for existing.

It also spawned things like the absolutely enigmatic "bitcoin ATM" found at only the seediest smoke shops and derelict drug stores. does it vend Bitcoin? is that giant coin with a B on it festooned in bright advertisement on the side a bitcoin? Why does it look like the lovechild of an 80s ATM and an airport check-in kiosk? The only thing this machine reliably did was ensure the freezer next to it was harder to open if you wanted to get a choco-taco.

Dont get me started on the near dystopian comedy of KYC and so many hours spent snapping photos of yourself with a hand-written paper sign for Kraken to verify, or fiat conversions that for some reason cant involve your bank unless you will it to some third party swedish fintech nobody has heard of but will probably never remember once their founders yacht is found smouldering off the caymans.

And the bros...so many crypto bros. Is crypto an investment? sure. is it good smart financial sense? of course! can it deworm the dog and start my old Ford? buddy, its crypto and these nonsense peddling talking heads are about to waste your entire lunch reminding you that no matter how volatile the coin, no matter how hair-brained the leadership, and no matter how laughable the mascot, we'll all be rich by the end of the year and you have $wondercoin to thank for it. just dont ask them how blockchain actually works...it works and it aughta be used for everything
Neat.

"The spike protein in this vaccine is produced in insect cells; the Matrix M-adjuvant contains saponin extracts from the bark of the Soapbark tree that is native to Chile."
This also implies that if the encryption key is that easy to dispose of, then it's also easy to somehow lose or screw it turning your valuable client data into a random stream of bytes, doesn't it?
APIs I want to use being unavailable, forcing local installs as the only installation option.
> like backseat driving

It’s not backseat driving to criticise the driver who just crashed their vehicle into the wall.

> most of the anti-Mozilla stuff I see now seems like the former.

Sadly I did have to interact with Mozilla in the past decade. I wish I didn’t honestly. It goes a long way to explain why they have no momentum anymore as far as I’m concerned.
am pretty sure Chinese silicon sand aren't used for silicon chips... they had to import those as well
I got 4th right before an intl trip and wanted to take advantage of the initial high protection from infection. I have yet to get the virus to my knowledge so I'll probably keep boosting.
Possibly, but a system like this would also be time-boxed (turned on for the day of the super bowl or just a few hours).
Paired with types, it has helped me when (and how) to split code and data, and how keeping clear boundaries between them and using pure functions when possible makes everything better: less cognitive overhead, easier tests, better data structures.
The idea that some tech bro is reading these responses that may as well be written by a medium blogger or therapy influencer on instagram, only appear to make sense at the very surface, and then compare those to talking to an actual human, is just hysterical to me. Makes you wonder what kind of friends this person had in their life! The Barnum effect may be a contributing factor. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect)

However, if that's what it takes to help him journal and reflect on his thoughts and emotions more power to him.
Framing it in the most gee-whiz dismissive way possible doesn't make it less bad! What do you get from doing that?
Boost had a type-safe printf function dating back to October 10th, 2002:

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_31_0/libs/format/
Life can be full of 'magical moments' if we just look for them. Often we don't even have to seek them out, just don't ignore them when they come calling...
Speaking on behalf of the basic python main community, we just do whatever `requests` does.
You could enable it on the bucket level for many years now. This would apply to all new objects in the bucket. So if you enabled it at bucket creation time, it was effectively "by default."
You're not wrong, but I think you're describing a separate issue too, which I also agree with. It's not politics, it's growing too big, too fast, and inventing jobs that were never needed before to meet some expectation of growth.

And, after all the layoffs this past year, it turns out that all the hyper-growth hires post-funding are just pawns to bolster a VC's investment.

Office politics in their pure form are rough, borderline toxic, like having someone threaten your promotion or your pay rise if you don't meet their sudden change of expectations.
Turbo is such an inherent feature of new CPUs that turning them off would make the benchmark completely unrepresentative for real world usage. For example - a 16 core CPU might run a single core at extremely high clock rates during single threaded workloads. What would be the point of turning it off?

Complex devices need complex benchmarking, unfortunately. You won't get a simple, single number that shows how powerful a cpu is.
Oh no! A city looking out for its residents in a forward thinking manner!

Get annexed and pay city taxes. Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
How do they affect the air quality indoors? Don't modern (less than fifty years old) gas boilers have balanced flues so that they take in air from the outside and exhaust the combustion products outside too?

Surely properly installed gas boilers always did that even without balanced flues too.
> What you mean is that you would prefer if Stable Diffusion was not considered fair-use by our legal system.

I think you misunderstand me. Despite my feelings about Stable Diffusion and laws around copyright, I believe the law will find in favour of the artists, assuming they have the funds/will to see it through. The law unfortunately doesn't really care how I feel about it.

Granted, they're up against some fairly large corporations that have both time and money to stall for a while, so I don't know how far their lawsuit will go.
I think their sincerity can be handled with inducements. But there's nothing wrong with a multi-pronged approach. Eager to see the outcomes your approach generates.
Can someone ELI5 the implications of this please?
Netscape was killed by AOL culture in the same way Firefox died of Mozilla culture. Who could have guessed? The same management team led to the same end result.
AWS isn't monolithic internally and we use permissions boundaries between systems like S3 and KMS (in fact they are mediated by IAM). There's some more detail in my talk from re:Invent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbNWxVQP4w .

For a case like this, the upshot of it is that with permissions on the KMS key, S3 is effectively locked out and can't fetch it. KMS is a hermetic system with no operator access with HSMs at its root, so that provides a pretty meaningful difference. It also means that controls can be handled by different customer teams, and that a single change on a shared CMK can render an unbounded number of S3 objects inaccessible quickly.
I've known a case way back where deliberate tech debt of a sort was built up by not switching to a more modern compiler for a prototype. The idea was to then do a hopefully-quick rewrite on a more modern setup to obtain the minimal viable product (not a term at that time.)

But Microsoft (who I think probably got wind of this product) announced a very similar product (that never appeared as such, and did not appear at all for at least a decade. The problem was harder than it looked.) Our financial backers immediately and fully pulled out, verbal contracts notwithstanding. With no more cash, the company was dead. A few years later others created just part of this product, and raked in very nice profits for a long time.

If the same prototype had been built on the more modern compiler, that would have been the minimum viable product.

The more modern compiler was one able to use more memory as the 286 cpu allowed.
The hardest part of being a junior developer
There is no reason, why you cannot have both.
I'm sure you're certain about quite a few things -- you just probably don't spend time thinking about them, hence them not "registering" as things you're certain about.
Ads usually have music in the background, those get included in the fingerprinting too. Besides that, the fingerprint consists of a number of time slices.

The actors personal Alexa will probably only fail if they try to use it with exactly the same millisecond-scale timing, exactly the same intonation, and with exactly the same background noise.
The biggest lol for me is when there's something that can't immediately be dismissed as an active duty aircraft, a lot of people INSIST it must be aliens. Any mention of weather balloon, lantern, drone, chromatic aberration from camera, etc is downvoted for trying to "hide the truth". Most on the UFO forums don't want answers they want validation.
At FP2, you are probably better off with {-1, 0, 1, NaN} (sign+mantissa) rather than sign/exponent. You basically bit pack.

FP3 gives you sign, 1x "exponent", 1x mantissa, so still kinda bit packing.

I could see FP4 with sign, 1x exponent, 2x mantissa. Exponent would really just be a 4x multiplier, giving +/-0,1,2,3,4,8,12

Or invert all those, so you are expressing common fractions on 0..1
I doubt people are going to respond that didn't receive it, after being publicly attacked and shamed for 2 years. Now everyone wants to just act like that mass psychosis never happened.
I can't help noticing this article gathers enough interest to raise in the HN ranks, but attracts no discussion (0 posts when I write this).

After decades of the same old arguments, is there anything new to be said other than things that boil down to 'I prefer metric/imperial because that's what I grew up with so its more natural' ?
Tell HN: Twitter Is NSFW by Default?
I signed up for Twitter after the Musk takeover. I use it in a separate, new Firefox container, and I'm only following a few tech influencers on a tech topic I care about.

About 50% of my Twitter feed is:

- soccer fights

- videos of people beating the crap out of each other in the street

- straight-up pornography

Is this expected? How do I turn it off so I can see more of the content I signed up for and less street fighting and porn?
Whatever your views on BTC, this is a strangely arbitrarily unfair application of only the negative side of speculative volatility.

He could just as legitimately state that due to his early investment at $100/BTC, it effectively would take only $7.50 to pay out $1500 - a cost saving of 99.5% - the positive side of the relevant speculative volatility.

Instead he chooses to complain of losing a trifling 1.3% of the $1500's value, due to what would be a latency involved in choosing to buy new BTC to make the transfer, instead of using what he already has.
Pretty much anything that isn't UNIX?

Unfortunately, the IT industry seems to have at some point decided that UNIX and C are somehow fundamental to computing, and the only way forward is to build more and more layers of abstraction on top of it.

The most depressing thing is that even "indie" OSes buy into this garbage (Serenity, Redox, ...). Yes, you get tons of (crappy) portable software that now runs on your platform for free, but at the cost of being stuck with a lowest-common-denominator API.
Careers like medicine, science, and nonprofits reject the overwhelming majority of job seekers and brutalize their workers precisely because they are extremely oversupplied with labor.

We should be doing possible to divert talent away from these fields until there is a tenured professorship for every PhD candidate, medical residents get 8-hour workdays, unpaid internships disappear, etc.
This article has interesting points; I learned a few CSS features. Yet the premise seem rather bland: of course CSS is "conditional"! No need for fancy media queries and whatnot, a basic selector is already a "condition". Styling different elements in different ways is the whole point of CSS.
I find their “destroy art with soup” tactic to be incredibly tacky and if anything it’s turning people off their message.

I prefer the current discourse in USA which is leaning towards Electrify Everything! Energy independence! Made in USA! and conscious efforts to improve the electric tech to match the performance of the analog versions. USA has its own critics of reducing emissions so what did we try to win them over? Electric f150. The first generation seems good so 10 years from now, imagine how much more compelling it’d be.
I think you are looking for (one specific implementation of) Cold district heating.

It can be implemented as a single line of force water flow with 20-25 Celsius. It is viable as both a heat source and a heat sink at the same time.

This thing can be connected to both your coolers and heaters, and thus transfere heat from one to another. Maybe you could even get you desktop computer into the loop.

Usually it implemented on a lager scale, but i don't see why this would work scaled down.
My gut tells me that would have already happened if it could.
I too am astonished over some people's vitriol on the subject. I saw someone post over the weekend that said that they'll refuse to use #nobot since it's opt-out, and they'll instead just file GPDR requests against the companies that try to follow them. They demand opt-in.

It was certainly a fiery post, but this is how the web has worked since forever. Whether it's robots.txt or #nobots, opting out is required. After all, you're putting the content out there. In the end, this should be addressed by modern clients: "Do you want your posts to be searchable and your following list to be used for recommendations? Yes, No" and add #nobots if they decline.
We have to be very careful with our language. Extreme weather “is likely to be, based on current models,” more common.

We do not know, and overselling our certainty becomes ammunition for the “we can’t know anything” crowd.
I'm working on something similar right now. best bet for something as open ended as therapy would be to use embeddings to compare your most recent post to past posts, and then use text snippets or a summary of similar posts as part of the prompt.

granted you won't really be able to do this with ChatGPT, as you'd need to add another layer on top to do the similarity comparison and archiving of previous posts. but making an app to do this with the gpt api should be fairly straightforward.
FOSS had always beeen political. How the heck is giving you the freedom to modify and tinker the source code of the software you are using, no string sattached, not a political act?
I think it's fair to say that then "the ones who just want to have things for free as in beer" came. But FOSS has always been pretty utopian.
The article is light on technical details, pointing to a heat pump vendor site for "proof" that they're great.

I live in a heavily populated area with high standard of living, and yet we have had power outages lasting up to a week in the years we've lived here. Almost all in the winter, but also some due to hurricanes. We have have solar, which is great in the summer heat, but not as wonderful in the winter. We have air source heat pump, but also oil furnace backup.

We normally run the heat pump when its above 35F, as the efficiency of the heat pumps drops like a rock below 40F and its just not worth running below 35F. The heat pump is not an ancient POS. It works great 99% of the time, but 1% of 365 is 3.65 days per year. Banking on "most of the time" to be alright all of the time is foolish.

We have diesel generator in case of power outage, which allows us to run the oil furnace using the same fuel as the furnace. This strategy has allowed us to ride through many 1% case scenarios without drama.
You can't just become a console developer though... You need to have proven releases on desktop or mobile before any console maker will even let you touch their devkit...
The average person may not read the terms of service update emails but there are plenty of lawyers/journalists/tech bloggers that do. A company like Amazon can't simply sneak in a "Alexa will now listen to and use everything you say around it for advertising" clause without anyone noticing.
Should add it was newer but not current, maybe they've got sleep figured out by now.

But it was really surprising to me with the Surface Pro 3 because for years you'd been hearing "Microsoft can't make sleep work as well as Apple because they're stuck dealing with hardware and drivers from 3rd parties" and it turns out 3 generations into their own hardware venture it still sucked just as much. Connected Standby was probably a large step back even.
Welcome to security certifications
Author here. Agree, I cover these in the article. Crypto-shredding might be the AWS' motivation to enable the feature as a 0-click default. But for the customers, they don't get much beyond the compliance checkbox, and that too is questionable as more and more auditors become aware of cloud security controls.
You're not always printing to a terminal,

char buf[10];
const char* foo = "wrong?";
int res = snprintf(buf, 20, "What could possibly go %d", foo);

Will compile and do... something...
Nice, succinct 1-2 page article going into interesting technical details. As someone who's hardly touched graphics, GPUs have always been magic to me, especially integrated ones, so it's nice to read digestible explanations about them.
Are you talking about generating TOTP codes? Bitwarden can do that, but it requires the subscription to generate the codes. You can store the key for free though

https://bitwarden.com/help/authenticator-keys/
> the real cost of the rockets is an uninhabitable Earth

I've seen more than one person here express this opinion - what about rocket launches makes you think they will render the Earth uninhabitable? They certainly aren't very clean, but the emissions they produce are dwarfed by commercial aviation and ICEs. Why all the rocket hatred?