skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, it is definitionally more expensive than a normal db. The entire security model of anything blockchain is “it’s too expensive to get to 50%”, and as such is littered in large losses in the small blockchains where 50% was not too expensive.

You're describing a proof-of-work setup. Tezos is proof-of-stake, which tends to be cheaper than PoW. To put numbers on it, a Tezos TZIP-12 (NFT) transfer lately costs $0.02. Minting costs like $0.10. Ethereum on PoW was like $5 IIRC, idk what it is now. Yes, more expensive than a regular DB in any case, that's what I said before.

> There is nothing that a block chain does that has any value over a database of you are assuming trusted participants.

There are side benefits that have more to do with standardization and transparency. You get a small server/DB that everyone can see and verifiably tell what it's doing, and it's distributed, and it's already running. If you haven't used Ethereum or Tezos, it's worth playing around with. Yes someone could implement that without blockchain, and maybe someone has a proof of concept, but nothing like that has become mainstream like the blockchains have. And the DMV isn't going to do it.

So you're right, they don't need a blockchain for this because the DMV is a centralized point of trust in the end (though they're probably sorta federated on the inside). I don't imagine people will be trading titles like NFTs and the DMV will just honor whatever the contract says. I can still imagine this being an viable path forward for them for the other reasons, or just a big gimmick, depending on what they do.

> Similarly, mistakes are common in the real world, and a typo in the dmv can’t make a car permanently ownerless, so reversing changes has to be supported, so there goes “immutable” (which is always a nonsense goal).

Contract datastores are always mutable in terms of what the last block says. The immutability of blockchains refers to past blocks. If the DMV put titles in a contract, the authorized editors (might just be several DMV offices) would be able to update it, with the edit history publicly visible.
> you aren't working for yourself, you're working for them

So the company owns the poop I excrete into the toilet at 2:00 AM on a Saturday night? The company owns the Crayon drawings I make with my child in the evenings? The company owns the poetry I came up with in a fever dream after some weird drugs? You say "you're working for them" like it implies some indentured servitude, where I'm living in the company town and they get to say how I live my life. I'm doing some scoped job for them in pre-defined hours for a pre-defined purpose, and for everything else in my life, they can get fucked. Honestly, your inhumane attitude is why people hate lawyers.
> If an AI art engine outputs a frame of solid blue, is it infringing the copyright of Yves Klein's solid blue "IKB 79"?

Probably not, though even this may be debatable given the specific prompt and specific similarities (for example, if it generated the exact color and exact aspect ratio for a prompt like "Yves Klein IKB 79", I could see an argument for infringement; if it generated the same thing for a prompt like "filled-in 16:5 rectangle with color #0000FF", it would be arguable that it isn't).

> I think that some artists' styles can be accurately replicated without training on any of their work: because the artists' style is generic enough that it can be exhaustively encoded via the works of others.

The important question in copyright is, theoretically, if you actually copied the specific piece or if you happened to create a similar-looking piece by accident. The difficulty of proving one or the other varies with the specific circumstances. For example, it's rather hard to claim you happened to paint a picture almost identical with Picasso's Guernica. It's rather easy to claim that signing an empty piece of canvas was entirely your idea and you weren't copying Dali's signed empty canvases.

Similarly for AI, the copyright discussion will come down to how much of its output is identifiable pieces of other's artworks, especially when prompted for such. I personally haven't played with it, but if it's possible to get SD or other similar models to produce identical or very similar copies of (pieces of) some artist's works using relatively simple prompts*, it should be a pretty slam-dunk case of copyright infringement.

* by this I mean prompts that don't themselves encode the information, like I showed in my "16:7 rectangle with solid color #0000FF" example.
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"Warrior needs food badly"

"Wizard is about to die"
Japanese children are able to cope with all-hiraganas only because the text they read are so short and simple, accompanied by pictures. No other kind of books are written in all hiraganas, meaning that no person on earth has the required training. Nor do I think it's practical because there are likely to be tons of disambiguation problems with hiragana text.

Also, as I said, what worked for Korea centuries ago won't work for modern day Japan. Hangul was developed in an entirely different era where most people was illiterate, and the means for scaling education was non-existent by today's standards. It therefore made sense to reduce the number of letters in the alphabet. However, in modern age Japan, you'll be hard pressed to find a healthy person who can't read or write. There's no reason nor desire to switch to hiraganas only, and every reason otherwise. Changing a language is probably a terrible idea if there's no documented instance of native speakers actually wanting the change.
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Oh, to be sure, and even if the customer were following the letter of the contract, Oracle would force them to settle by simply making the court case incredibly expensive to fight. You’d be made an example of absolutely.
While I do think more attention needs to be paid towards overmedication, I think plenty of people now are experiencing ADHD-like symptoms, whether from having the disorder itself, or perhaps continuous digital stimulation coupled with UX patterns designed to drive further stimulation will inherently create ADHD-like behavior.
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FB's net income for 2022 was $28.83 billion. They could drop that to $28.82 billion and fund a good size customer support team.
Should have sold when he had the chance. He's on Mastodon, why does he need insta?
Reminds me of 21 Co's Earn Product RE pay for answering message
Apple has no problem building features assuming people have more than one Apple device. Hell, AirPods can't update unless someone has an iPhone.
This is some pretty constructive and compelling feedback for the product, kudos. All of these issues would drive me absolutely insane (the motorcycle comment especially hits home). I hope their support team or devs are watching this thread.
There are hundreds of data brokers selling this type of info. An attacker who has a few minutes and a few dollars to spare will be able to acquire the average person's phone number. The underlying sources vary a lot.

Look up your own name or your friends on a site that is owned by or uses Intelius data, e.g. https://www.addresses.com/ - For many people (not all), their phone numbers come up right away. There are probably 500 different companies or websites doing the same thing.
I'm not a heavy Steam user, but SteamDB is great. Thank you!
But, overall, it has the effect of slowly winnowing out nonsense, misinformation, and other low value stuff. Meanwhile, information that continues to be useful continues to be worth the effort of repeating

Unfortunately, in some (many?) cases the very fact some "information" exists is the "usefulness", independent of the usefulness/accuracy of the information itself. The unsubstantiated "claim" of crime being up can result in more funding for police, even if the claim is false. There are people profiting from the increase in police spending, they don't care if the means to obtain that are true or not.

Over the long term, the least-expended-energy state, accepting the truth, will win out, but people have some incentive/motivation to avoid that in the shorter term.
Are you not free to simply not use find my/activation lock?

I haven’t used Asahi yet but the way I understand it you can install Asahi right away and the hardware is forever yours to control.

And if you are worried about Apple one day remotely adding a lock to your Asahi laptop you can probably block those requests proactively on a network level anyways
Names from days before the "Nomenclature Committee".

There are good reasons why the process went to committee
but "shh" (for zebrafish) was not it.

Also when you think 'researcher'; in some cases it may
help to picture collage students between parties.

[] https://www.genenames.org/
And this assumes that selling displays is a highly profitable enterprise, right? Or what would motivate tech companies to invest in such an architecture, especially one with a “standardized open ecosystem”?
AirTags have to be every airline's worth nightmare. When they were first announced, my first thought was "I'm going to put one in my luggage!". It has suddenly become impossible for them to pretend they don't know where your bags are. They've lost all plausible deniability, making them look that much worse when something crappy like this happens.

While I personally have never had a bad luggage experience, I've heard countless horror stories. Being able to watch my bag move around the airport and eventually board my plane provides a lot of peace of mind.
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To replace like for like, you go to a thrift store and buy a used shirt for $5. Or not. But a used shirt isn't worth the same as a new shirt.
What language features would you like to take away from Rust?
I do think its more likely the tag fell off than the airline is lying as a matter of standard operating procedure. I can't exclude the possibility, but I don't think it's as likely.
Yeah I think he was regarded as competent as far as institute directors go (which of course isn't saying much). But it's not his competence that is at issue here, so much as his moral compass, and his lacking commitment to continuing education.

The most obvious marks on his record, prior to covid, were the ire he drew from gay men during the AZT fiasco (I imagine you've seen this photo, for example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EapU2PGWsAAvxfb?format=jpg&name=...), and his role in supporting rather recklessly thought-out gain-of-function research (from, eg, CambridgeWG and co).

No response that NIAID has ever given provides the appearance that Fauci is personally committed to continuing education sufficient to respond to CambridgeWG's critiques, and frankly, his understanding seems to be closer to the level of amateurs like me (although his purse strings have little in common :-) ).

I think it's fair to say that he has always been a controversial figure, a friend to pharma and defense profiteers, and often a media darling. He has made funding decisions which have led to wonderful discoveries and deserves a great deal of credit for those.

But I don't think he's particularly notable for any groundbreaking epidemiological research or insight. And, although it may still be taboo to say it, he has spent and squandered whatever respect he may have had left with his colleagues. Even those who may have agreed with his bizarre public health policy advocacy seem to agree that he got into a horrific conflict of interest from which he was unable to escape except by resignation.

So it's not necessarily a matter of competence.
It's a text generation procedure that has nothing to do with beliefs or inner thoughts - all the model knows about is what word comes next.

How do you know that? To be clear, I totally agree that ChatGPT is not yet there and I also think that scaling it up will not get us there, but I think the gap might be much smaller than most people think.

The way we think is often divided into two categories, for simple things like 1 + 1 you just know the answer, for complicated things things like 13 * 47 we really have to think and reason in steps. ChatGPT seems to do pretty well in the first category but it is not really capable of doing things in the second category. On the other hand I have seen examples of people talking ChatGPT through a reasoning process to arrive at the correct answer for something that it got initially wrong, for example ROT13 encoding some text.

So what if we stuff two copies of ChatGPT into a black box and instead of just spitting out what ever ChatGPT spits out, we let the two copies first have some inner dialog? I don't think it is perfectly obvious how one would do this or what the result would be, but I think ChatGPT has enough basic knowledge that there is at least a chance that one could get it to reason in a step by step fashion.
In fairness, Wikipedia isn't just about cheap. It also covers a lot more than Brittanica and covers more current events/information (somewhat to a fault as current events are what drives a lot of the bias). I suspect a lot of people would use Wikipedia even if Brittanica were free.

And while Wikipedia has its problems with current events perhaps especially and can be a bit hit or miss, overall it's pretty good these days and--so long as articles are well-sourced--can be a good jumping off point for more serious research.
Honestly, I haven't worked on cost reduction yet. I have a backlog, but I haven't done anything from there.

One idea is to use other models to shorten text by throwing out meaningless words. I estimate this will reduce the length of the text (and thus the GPT cost) by 30%.
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For macOS, there's Thorium Reader. I agree that there's no really good 3rd party reader for iOS that's actively maintained.
Why on earth would anyone 1) go to business school 2) trust anyone who went to business school?
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As an dev working in Elixir, you're right on the money. IMO, the biggest benefit you gain from that granularity is that since processes cost next to nothing to spin up and down, you can (ab)use your fault tolerance mechanism for error handling, leading to the famous "Let it crash" philosophy.

Restarting your docker image every time someone sends a malformed packet to your webserver is going to make for a trivial not even D-DOS attack. Killing the individual process that spins up to handle that particular packet/connection, though, is simply best practice.
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I don't live in the US and don't have a horse, but I love this site. Such a simple site and a focused idea, it's refreshing.
That's basically the platform of every SF mayor. The issue is:

1) You gonna lock up everyone who jaywalks?

2) When someone who's homeless decides that they don't want to be forced into your rehabilitation program, are you gonna throw them in prison or force them into rehab?

3) How?
because the very best machine learning models are distilled from postdoc tears.
Pretty good. Some countries like Slovakia built cycle ways on the levies.

The EU also pours money into bicycle touring: They design and promote the Euro Velo routes (signposts). I believe they run a few campsites.

But there are other reasons why the Danube is the most popular bicycle touring route in the world: It's flat and it passes through many cities of great historical significance.

I also like to stop and chat to other cyclists when I see them and that occurs frequently on the Danube route.
Great idea because the framing takes away a lot of the pressure I feel when talking about my side projects.

Here are two open-source products I'm very proud of:

* https://getstreamline.app A stream-of-consciousness writer for Obsidian

* https://getpudding.app Have more fun with OSINT analysis for crypto token ecosystems
How dare you! Won't you think of the poor investors?

/s
Most YouTube influencer guides recommend at least 10 minute videos, and by god you will watch 10 minutes of someone describing information that could be read on a short table while they add sound effects, animations, jokes, and pogfaces.

When people tell me they don't watch TV, I ask them if the watch YouTube or Twitch, because these kind of services are what TV was before: something with low density of information, better used as distraction while you do something else.

Nevertheless, I'm uncomfortable with playing a video in the background, because that might give the platforms the impression that wasting my time is fine if it improves metrics.

These days, our attention is constantly being pulled in several directions at once, so I praise projects like this one, who try to wrestle control back.
Thanks!

Yeah, for the TDS 420A, a real picture will show the background (grid etc) with lower intensity than the actual signal while the bitmap is just black and white. So you definitely have a point there. A TDS 784D with a color display has a multi-color bitmap and doesn't have that problem.

But for the spectrum analyzer, I definitely prefer the bitmap.
YNAB is too much hassle
Sorry my idea isn't to sit out on the sidelines.

It's the difference between "Look at all these policies that reduce crime." to "Here are some good ideas for policies we should test out in as controlled an environment as possible to see if they reduce crime".
Thanks for this explanation. I finally got the point :)
Build / not build wasn't particularly what I was responding to. I think it's probably a good idea to build. Even if I didn't want to have it as part of my daily commute, there are still plenty of times it'd be useful to have more ways of getting places.
Thank you! Love the site.
Valar: https://valar.dev

It's kinda like a private SaaS platform. I just run it for me and a couple of friends right now and just hosting a ton of little fun side projects on it.

e.g. https://tim-efa.valar.app which brings Munich's public transport schedule to your terminal (try it with curl, looks way better)

It supports all kinds of things like bring-your-own-domain, e.g. I run my portfolio page https://espe.tech on top of it. It is partly open-source (actually only the CLI for now) but I plan to fully open-source it in the future after cleaning up the code a bit and improving testing and stuff :)
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Last week I had a great experience contributing to Open Library and wanted to share it. I hope it inspires others to contribute to FOSS and help create great communities.
My mobile game https://smoldungeon.com doesn't make me any money. Was very fun to make though
This is hilarious! cool idea!
>it can be done for free over the internet.

The cost to manufacture an executable is effectively zero, so its easy to incorrectly assume that means there are no costs.

The cost to integrate an executable is NEVER zero, there are always costs.

Windows is far, FAR less reliable on Wednesday morning because of "Patch Tuesday", this is a substantial and real cost.

The same is true for any system that implements "security patches" and feature "upgrades".
In case anyone is curious, India has a single train route over 2500 miles long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibrugarh%E2%80%93Kanyakumari_...
It runs twice a week and takes over 3 full days.

Meanwhile, the fastest train in India averages under 60 mph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatimaan_Express
It sure does. But if you can replace many of the lenses with computation it's a big win. If you can compensate for some of the inherent aberration in a lens design, or specific manufacturing variation in a lens, its an even bigger win.

In other words, one does not obviate the other.
Ask HN: Is it me or is YouTube Shorts broken?
I just followed a link to an ordinary YouTube video and timed six seconds between the page loading, me clicking on the play button, and the video starting to play. I could have clicked quicker. I could change the channel on an analog TV faster than that, but it takes much longer to take a DVD or Blu Ray out of the box and have it playing so YouTube wins.

I would say it is like this (fast) with a range of devices from Android phone to iPad to Laptop or Desktop computer over a good mobile connection, ADSL, cable, etc.

If I follow a link to YouTube Shorts, however, I see a template screen without any content, presumably the video is going to load in the big black square, but after 30 to 45 seconds I start to get antsy, think maybe it is stuck, try to interact with the UI. It scrolls down in a jerky way like a film strip in a projector to another video which starts to sorta-kinda play but really janky, then I scroll it back up and it takes a few more seconds to collect itself and finally the video plays.

I've had the same experience with the iPad, moderately powerful and very powerful Windows computers over better and worse internet connections.

If other people are experiencing the same thing it is no wonder that Youtube Shorts is not getting traction over TikTok?

Maybe if I had more faith and waited 90 seconds the video might have played but maybe the video isn't even 90 seconds long. I am not seeing a loading indicator or anything that makes it clear the application didn't crash silently or otherwise get stuck.

Does YouTube Shorts work for you?

For extra credit: what does this tell us about the state of the web in 2023? ... the state of Google? How did this get past QA? Where is the deadpool for Google Shorts? Does this have something to do with Progressive Web Applications?
Goes to show nothing is truly unique in this world.

We mostly just got fed up with spending hours on interviews where recruiters showed up late or just ghosted only to realize nothing materialized.
Bad economy, inflation. Mostly during the pandemic sales went up as people stayed at home and now that is over sales are down and layoffs happen.