skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try paperspace, they have GPUs and you can set billing limits to stop accidental overusage

(no affiliation other than being a happy customer)
There's a Stable Diffusion example where, having been trained on too many Getty Images pictures stamped with their logo, the system generated new images with Getty Images logos.[1] That's a bit embarrassing. There are code generation examples where copyright notices appeared in the output. A plagiarism detection system to insure that the output is sufficiently different from any single training input ought to be possible.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2023/01/17/getty-images-is-suing-ai-im...
You can also avoid talking to people and attending social events as much possible but that's terrible as humans are social.
> While Russia economically recovered in the early 2000s ukraine stagnated, in part due to pervasive corruption.

That economic recovery was largely driven by a commodities boom, and the economic benefits of such are poorly distributed among Russians. That is to say, when you look at the poorer, rural sections of the country, the Ukrainians have done much better post-USSR than Russians have.

> Is this what winning looks like?

Well, in almost a year of war, Russia has managed to only temporarily capture one major city, failed to capture two more major cities (one of which is literally a day's march away from the border, and the other one only thrice as far). It also lost a flagship (to someone who doesn't really have a navy!), and the pride project in Crimea was put out of commission by Ukraine and still hasn't been restored for satisfactory military usage. Let's not forget the sheer number of officers and seasoned soldiers who are now dead.

In wider political ramifications, the non-aligned neighbors near it have suddenly decided that it is in their interest to join an opposing alliance. Russia's proxies in other countries have been undercut, but especially in Ukraine where pro-Russia sentiment has collapsed from about on par with pro-Western sentiment to near nonexistence. The largest customer of its primary export is planning on never buying from them ever again.

In contrast to all of that, yes, Ukraine is winning.
Excess labor was the point. To deny competitors access to that labor.

Once one tech giant shed their own excess labor, the shared delusion popped, triggering a stampede.
[0] is a good example of the standard, expected quality of practice on a site. I've seen better and I've seen a lot worse.

As for what you can tell from excavations, it depends. I excavated a bronze age burial in the UK where you could see the soil impression left by a bag holding remains in excavation, even though the bag itself had long since rotted away. In other cases you may recover the actual organic material, especially if it's been burned. Even in cases where you're not that lucky it still may be possible to tell through phytoliths or other analytical methods.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcT1vGyJzyg
Look forward to seeing these results
"What's the grand strategy behind the idea of forever spending more money than we have? "

It's more the other way around. Government appears to spends more than it gets because people further down the spending chain don't spend everything they get.

In other words to allow people to save what they want, government has to dis-save more than it would prefer.

If we banned financial saving, the problem would go away no matter how much government spent.

The grandkids are fine. The 'bill', such that it is, will be paid automatically when the grandkids spend their inheritance from granddad. That's what a Treasury Bond, a Gilt or a JGB is - a savings asset.

As ever it pays to look at both sides of the balance sheet. For every liability there is an asset. It all has to sum to zero.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried themes with AI/ML generation?
Thematic/decorative uses of AI/ML art seem like they'd be less of a copyright-issue, and maybe as a result, a bit more free-form fun.

Like imagine if instead of a hex code in your HN profile, you could type in a prompt:

"A dungeon theme with light text on a dark slate background. The Y logo should look like lava within a glowing stone. I want some swords placed along the sides for decoration."

"Apple-inspired typography and rainbow-colored hyperlinks, with a few cat faces scattered around."

"A dot matrix printer page with some random ballpoint pen doodles of fractals along the margins."

Could this work? Would it make skeuomorphic design even more popular again, because it wouldn't be as reliant on artists anymore?
I remember having to manually edit the kernel source in order for it to see my hardware. Things are so much better these days.
So, all neural network developers, get ready for the lawyers, because they are coming to get you.

No, you dullard child. Get ready to get sued if you try to make billions of dollars via derivative works of other creators while breaking software licenses.
How General Motors Killed the First Modern Electric Car
Based on what?

I know still so many companies who never had a chance to hire successful the last few years.

Also we are 1 billion people more than in 2008.

Alone the growth should make this already not similar as 2008.
I think there's https://brev.dev and https://banana.dev
The LLM Productivity Puzzle
Passenger car registrations in Europe in 2022 [pdf]
“Add a dog in my arms”

I’ll keep you posted how well this works for dating apps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

DOJ concluded that the Branch Davidian's started the fires.
Ask HN: Why do games (as media) make so much money?
We often hear how the games industry is bigger in terms of $ than film & music put together. But looking around it's still less universal than e.g. TV (±"everyone" watches TV but not everyone plays video games).

How come games make more money as an industry than other media?
The whitepaper protests clearly shows he doesn't enjoy incredible popularity, so are the massive censorship term lists that consist solely of nicknames of Xi. Why would so many of these terms exist if everybody liked him?

Leaked censorship list of 564 terms containing references to Xi Jinping from Xiaohongshu, a popular social media app, circa 2020: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/%E5%B0%8F%E7%BA%A2%E4%B9...

Leaked censorship list of 35467 terms containing references to Xi Jinping from LeTV, a once-popular video streaming service, issued directly from the State Council Information Office, circa 2016: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/%E5%9B%BD%E6%96%B0%E5%8A...

The bottom line is an invasion of Taiwan carries a high risk of ruin for the ruling clique in the CCP. There were multiple times when the ROC was in much more vulnerable positions both militarily and diplomatically (pre-Korean War and post-US-PRC approachment) and invasions didn't happen then. The PRC is much more export-dependent than Russia despite all the nationalist hysteria, and ruining all that with sanctions is going to do far more damage to themselves compared to simply keeping the propaganda machine running with inciteful editorials without organizing an actual military campaign.
It recently generated a response with incorrect English grammar. I asked if it could find the grammatical error in its response. It did, and corrected it.
Show HN: Task Completion Engine
Hi HN,

This is Saravanan. I built a simple tool to assist you to complete a given task. I love to hear your thoughts / feedback on this POC.
Thank you
Do you have any patterns for this? Not OOP Design Patterns necessarily, but your preferred workflow patterns for managing complexity. For example (just examples!):

* Apps (usually) only use
(materialized?) view tables
* Deployments are checked in as
migrations
* Aggressively leverage db features
like caching or other specific
performance features (not just
indexing)
* GraphQL to firewall backend devs from
rapidly changing frontend "widget"
requests
Entirely the opposite.

It's people saving money that causes the 'problem' in the first place. If they didn't save there wouldn't be a deficit.

Deficit = excess saving as a matter of accounting identity.

We have an 'unbalanced' budget precisely to allow people to save what they want.
> fanless cooling solutions which tends to degrade after a few years.

Thermal expansion/contraction between cooler and chip itself "pumps" out the thermal paste which over time degrades cooling performance. If the system is running 24/7 its probably not as noticeable because you don't get the frequent heating/cooling you'd see on a device that gets power cycled often.

Nothing a repaste job wont fix.
Yeah, the literal meaning sounds absolutely disastrous and I'd love/dread to see it.
Looking for the best Chess960 starting position
That's not the main Binance organization. They have various silos (like Bifinity and Binance USA) that are registered and claim to be siloed from the other organization, but even a little bit of research makes it clear that they're not actually separate organizations. Binance US is under investigation for things like KYC/AML avoidance and money laundering...

And as for Bifinity, please read https://www.reuters.com/technology/binances-books-are-black-.... One relevant part:

> Bifinity, whose annual report said it has 147 employees, does not have a website or publicly provide any contact details. The company's chief executive, Saulius Galatiltis, did not respond to requests for comment. At its registered address at a business centre in Lithuania's capital Vilnius, Bifinity is not listed on the tenants' board.

This is not the first time a Binance organization has claimed to be filing from / regulated in a particular country or location, but when anyone actually tries to look into it there's nobody there or the registration was withdrawn.
> Transmission Lines: They are only good for about 300 miles.

Say what now?
Are you trapped in the 1950s or something?

> Most HVDC links use voltages between 100 kV and 800 kV. However, a 1,100 kV link in China was completed in 2019 over a distance of 3,300 km (2,100 mi) with a power capacity of 12 GW [1].

I realise the USofA is stuck with a lot of old infrastructure that they've only recently barely started to upgrade .. but better things are possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
This would be a good idea but people can just make new accounts. It would also be open to abuse so it would need an appeal system and some sort of judiciary.

I don't understand why reputation isn't a solution offered for spam and bad people. Why not make users on the internet build trust.
I thought so too, but then I tried it myself
As far as I know, it's much faster than Pandas (and other competitors) at parsing plain CSVs as well.
Thank you for working to unfuck this industry. I often have to buy building or block level imagery and it is an absolute nightmare.
For reference, looks like this lens can resolve a feature size of 80km. For comparison, it looks like a 6" telescope can resolve 2km according [1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-minimum-power-telescope-ne...
It is my understanding that it makes no legal difference (at least in my country) whether I charge for my work or not when it infringes somebody's copyright. Simply sharing it is sufficient to get into trouble.
Does not work on ipad. Directs to install mobile app, but that only works in iphone emulation mode. “Request desktop website” doesn’t help either.
Not quite. A fixed observer far away from a black hole sees that objects falling into the black hole become more and more faint, and move towards horizon ever so slower. In a classical situation with a good enough detector you can see the images of ALL the objects that fell into the black hole.

But this is merely an optical illusion. Objects that fall into the black hole emit only a fixed amount of energy before they hit the event horizon (and then the singularity). It just takes infinitely long time for that energy to escape.

And in general, there's no way for the observer to tell if the falling ship is falling towards the black hole or merely accelerating under its own power.

So as you fall down the black hole, the objects in front of you will start getting less red-shifted and brighter as you begin matching velocities with them.

But nothing special (for you) happens at the event horizon.

The images of objects that fell before you, will just continue to become brighter and brighter. In fact you'd even be able to communicate with somebody who just fell in in front of you.

But you don't have a lot of time before the singularity. So you won't catch up with _everything_ that fell before you, and the amount of energy that you absorb from their fading echoes will not be infinite. It won't even be that large.

What will get you, is the fact that this finite amount of energy will get concentrated into an infinitely thin and infinitely bright band at the singularity.
Because human brains have been known to intentionally lie and manipulate, and secretly plan horrible deeds.
The Mystery of Richard Posner
Better title: The advancement of AI is being slowed by copyright.

But "eating" is a fun word.
This holds for random blog posts too. Arguably, ChatGPT lies less in some cases because it aggregates multiple sources. (However, it doesn’t counter common misconceptions and blogs typically don’t either.)
This might be the intended link:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/dont-take-their-word-for-it/
I’d say be pragmatic rather than pedantic? And thirdly, “The pirates’ code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”
Disclaimer: I'm only intimately familiar with America's and Japan's baseball scenes.

That comes down to MLB play being on an entirely different plane of existence from Japanese (and I would presume other asian locales') professional league baseball.

Japan has two of their own professional leagues, and a handful of players manage to move over to the MLB in their careers. But only a handful make it, because the minimum skill and performance levels demanded by the MLB are several orders of magnitudes higher than Japan's leagues.

This isn't about racism nor discrimination, the reality is the vast majority of Japanese baseball players simply don't make the cut for MLB.

Players like Nomo, Ichiro, and Ohtani were among the cream of the crop in Japan's baseball leagues when they moved to the MLB. They make it all look mundane, but they quite literally busted several asses to get in the MLB.

Conversely, MLB players who move over to Japan's baseball leagues tend to wipe the floor with Japanese players because the performance floor is so much lower.

This is all to say physique, and also attitude, very definitely matter. That shit ain't easy; mad respects from me as a baseball fan. Baseball is as meritocracy as it gets.

P.S. Kudos to Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers for making the MLB one of the pioneers and forerunners in true equality for mankind.
Python packaging and versioning has been a shitshow for far more than 7 years. The language has existed since the early 1990s and the philosophy about backwards compatibility and packaging hasn't changed.
The mind itself, perhaps. The person in possession of it though usually does have a conscious strategy to play a game once they are proficient, and can happily explain it to you.
Don't forget donating loads of generated cash to everyone around. I was banned for receiving a "gift" like this. Several weeks of gameplay and some difficult achievements down the drain. The email that notified me of the ban said that they are final and appeals will not be considered, which was confirmed by them ignoring any of my attempts to resolve the issue. Turned my opinion of Rockstar very sour indeed, definitely won't be playing anything "online" from them anymore.
I’m not familiar with the C# world but have you tried Xamarin? What are the gaps?
> Google Maps doesn't have a way to report an entire account as a bot; one can only flag a specific comment.

I had been leaving reviews for about a decade on a number of businesses I interacted with.

Some were pretty bad and I had extensive reviews with photos etc. The most egregious was a hotel in Lisbon where all the fire extinguishers were empty (with pictures).

One day I got an email from google maps that one of my reviews had been reported and flagged, and that they removed all my reviews ever and disabled my ability to post reviews.

To this day, I have no way to reverse the decision, or even find out which review was reported and flagged. I can’t leave new reviews anymore, can’t talk to anyone at google about it (of course), and all my reviews have indeed been taken down (verified by going to places I remember reviewing and not seeing my review anymore when not logged in)

On one hand I feel it’s google’s loss for their own idiocy and blind automation, but on the other I feel like it’s just letting the scammy businesses win: just report reviews you don’t like and they’ll get taken away making your scammy business have only 5 star reviews.
What you describe for music is already outrageous -- why do you think that needs to be extended to everything?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...
>Taiwan has never been under control of the Qing dynasty

131 citations and 86 sources say you were wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Qing_rule

Yes most of the eastern parts were unclaimed because the concept of nation sovereignty had yet to reach East Asia, but the era of Qing rule is very much integral to the history of Taiwan because majority ethno-cultural group directly descended from those who lived under Qing rule.

>Mao said they would help Korea and Taiwan seek independence.

Mao also said his home province of Hunan should also seek independence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/652585. Sun Yat-sen wanted to drive out all Manchus in his original revolutionary manifesto yet happily accepted the new multi-ethnic ROC that completely inherited most of the land that were not historically inhabited by ethnic Han. People change their views all the time, especially politicians who have much to gain from having flexible views.

And yes "reunification" is a direct translation of PRC political jargon that carries the (false) connotation of Taiwan being a breakaway province when in reality it was the CCP who broke away from the ROC in a rebellion to create their own country. Revisionist history is bad history no matter which side it comes from.
How many people can actually explain their state of mind and rational or seemingly rational thought process?
Wrote an article about laravel upgrading. Might be worth checking out
Or, if there is a Colab version, I’d happy to pay Google for premium GPU.
If we follow your logic you can say that whatever humans build is also a result of millions of years.
Technically, the online game is a complete joke. I don't know if this still works, but a couple of years ago you could kick everyone from the server by simply pausing the main game process in Process Explorer for a few seconds (8-10 IIRC), and then unpausing it. Very handy when transporting stuff like cars that may be interesting to other players.
64 in what? 64th worldwide is obviously not a middling player; 64th of his local club probably falls shy of that lofty moniker.

Perhaps you meant "middling professional player"? Because I don't think there's enough money to be made to pay for expenses and support you year-round if you do not crack the top-100.
The JavaScript ecosystem seems uniquely poor at this docs inconsistency stuff. It’s almost like someone lowered the bar one day, and then everyone else learned from that low bar and all think that their behaviour makes any sense whatsoever.

I’ve been tinkering with a lot of mainstream JS frameworks and they pretty much all have their version of this problem.

Next has their new App Directory stuff going on with its own beta docs site. It’s been a few weeks since I looked, so I can’t remember the specifics, but the messaging on the new and old docs sites was not good enough for me to immediately grok what was going on. It also made Googling near impossible.

We got our long-awaited next major version of Nuxt not long ago, too. They seemingly decided that they could just change domains, put a little banner up on the old site, and make the problem go away. Again, makes Googling incredibly hard. I found myself having to remember the design and domain of the old and new sites to know if I’d accidentally stumbled on old documentation. I really want to make Nuxt work for me, but this docs experience left a bad taste in my mouth, a very specific “pre-production” taste, which is really unfortunate given Nuxt’s cadence with v3 stability.

React was about as bad as Next. I found myself bouncing between the stable and beta docs consistently. All the messaging around the stability and supported use cases for Suspense is just…way too impenetrable. I’m a seasoned web application developer. I’m confident that the majority of this isn’t a “me” problem.

The only docs experience I’ve had that comes close to addressing the issue appropriately is the Vue documentation. There’s a nice big switch at the top that switches the docs from favouring the old-school vs composition APIs.

Of course, the underlying problem is React and Vue so solidly keeping their foot in both camps. This is just an outcome of that.

I try my absolute hardest to enter the JS ecosystem with the most open of minds, and there are plenty of people working in this space that are certainly much smarter than me. I just get the impression that there are too many people that don’t have experience with other language ecosystems, or that have long since forgotten what they’re like, to the point where they’re blind to these sorts of DX shortcomings. The React Hooks / Composition API hard-left-turn smells JUST enough like Python 2 / 3 et al that I’m pretty confident in my estimate of how it’s all going to go down. History repeats, or whatever.
The flying version of Howl's Moving Castle out of garbage
It will be interesting to look at commit history in a while to see how this week compares to preceding and succeeding ones.
May I repeat your statements in my words, so that we can have understanding in common and communicate efficiently?

1. Elaborated and formalized description about encryption method is required.

2. Processes need to be authenticated before they could access ciphertext / plaintext directory, so that they can't recover the key stream.

3. On encrypting the file names, the threshold of directory tree size for the birthday attack to become innegligible, should also be elaborated.
Yes, the kind of template for what NOT to do. Do you think HP-Compaq merger is a "kind of template" for how to properly execute an acquisition/merger?
From your advantages:

> smaller service... extremely critical...
manage... gently

> reduce redundant efforts

Versus

> dedicated SAML-integration-spring-app

What if the effort were spent automating the disparate systems to stay in sync?

Granted, the data model reflects multiple systems, but each user could use their preferred "set of apps," and changes get reflected by some headless Windows container or browser.
> when you already have bad r code, it’s a massive pain in the ass.

Do you think it’s because R code tends to be written by statisticians and stats-adjacent domain experts who don’t necessarily know how to write clean code while Python code has at least some input from actual programmers? Or is this really down to the language itself?
I defer to your actual experience.

Still, this picture of a Citgo from 1998 shows four exterior cameras at a gas station, at each end of both islands. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-citgo-stat... .

I'm therefore not willing to accept "No cameras 20-30 years ago" as an unconditionally true statement.
Dear Diary, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Except that’s not “the trade off.” As been discussed many a time on HN, companies like Intuit lobby the government to keep it full of friction.