skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they know this, and it is part of their business model. By their calculation, it is easier to have a few false-positives and make a few people angry than build a good system.

You have to have a lot of persistence and a lot of money (or a hungry lawyer who will work for the reward only) to fight like this, in many cases.

Now there might be some small court which has a low filing fee where you can make a case which requires them to respond, and that effort on their part may be deemed not worth the cost of just paying you to go away. So perhaps there's still something you could do practically.
Yea, that's an interesting lead. I only just learned about Endeavor today but may give it a try. In theory, I really like the idea of the pure "build it yourself" of Arch, but when the docs aren't good enough to get a professional developer through doing it correctly in under 10 hours, I'm not sure what to do. Kernel/Driver stuff isn't my forte, but if your target user has to be, that's rough.

That mostly aligns to what I'd hear about Manjaro before. I'd successfully installed it before, but when part of the point of Arch is how good the AUR/Pacman is, hearing that it seems to mess up both of those is a big turnoff.
The cost of a trial is significant for the state. They generally do not charge people unless they have substantial, if not overwhelming evidence. The sentencing guidelines are known to both sides. So a deal that skips a trial in exchange for 75% of the expected sentence is a win-win for both sides.
This makes sense for companies as they tend to want to avoid bad hires more than they want to hire the 'best' person. As another person pointed out though it really sucks for people who happen not to have contacts, and often makes it harder for minorities.
>Why some people think it mysteriously stops being a good system during times of emergencies is beyond me.

It's pretty simple: this 'self-regulation' is most harmful to the people who are most vulnerable during emergencies. The rich always have a lot more options to deal with scarcity.
It looks at the emitted energy from the screen.

The ebook emits directly, a foot from your face.

The paper book is reflected energy, at a rather higher reflectance and a rather lower energy.

It's amazing how dim a light you can read a paper book in vs an e-ink ereader.
So basically unimaginative townies
This seems like really non-constructive advice. Are they even tips? Like "your voice is you not how you write" - what does that even mean from an ontological prespective?
Some of the best insights on writing have come for me from a book on reading, Mortimer Adler's classic (and HN perennial) How to Read a Book.

When you realise that written communication is a conversation, across not only space but time, that the author and reader are both participants, and that each benefits by consideration of the other, in preparing to receive or be received, and to assemble similar structures of understanding (the author the original, the reader a copy), and to both be questioned and challenged, and to question and challenge the narrative, the thought that the acts of reading and writing have much to learn from one another makes a great deal of sense.

Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book>

Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/details/howtoreadbook0000adle_y9v4>

LibGen: <https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=adler+how+to+read+a+book&lg...>

Numerous HN submissions: <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how%20to%20read%20a%20book>

Notably 140 comments from 7 years ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209446>

Another recent insight is that whilst we have language centres in our brains, there is no reading centre. That is, reading is an entirely learned activity, and though based on evolved capabilities, there's not innate evolved structure supporting it (yet) within neurological anatomy. This from Maryanne Wolf on the Ezra Klein podcast last November:

<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...>

(Previously mentioned: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33761202>)
Perhaps we've finally seen curvature in the universe? E.g. k != 0 as explained by Susskind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpFRJ4g3S0M#t=36m30s
One of the most unexpected and wonderful things about my Ambient Weather station is that within its settings app, you can configure an additional URL for it to send periodic pings to. In my case, I whipped up ambient2mqtt[0] as a way to capture the output of the weather station locally and do what I want with it - in this case, post the data to MQTT and InfluxDB.

A few years after that I also purchased a Purple Air PM2.5 monitor. I was pleasantly surprised that this device exposes a local REST interface for polling the data. Naturally, I wrote purpleair2mqtt[1] to pull the data from that and post to MQTT and InfluxDB.

Together these two applications and pieces of hardware give me a great view of the weather conditions. And like the author of the article, I found that other weather information tended to be off significantly. Doubly true as I live next to a lake in a rural-ish part of New England which is about 500ft higher than the city and airport where our weather data comes from. Over the last couple of years I've been pleased to see that my data has become the defacto source for weather data in my town (I publish it to numerous sources) and that the PM2.5 information gets brought into lots of reports, including the EPA's AirNow system - which is great, because it doesn't look like there's another PM2.5 monitor within 20 miles of me.

[0]: https://github.com/pridkett/ambient2mqtt
[1]: https://github.com/pridkett/purpleair2mqtt
I'm sure you're right, but your link returns the following for me:

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> The decision about where to take a picture, what settings to use, and how to take it is the creativity that grants the image copyright.

Indeed that is the case! And all the factors that you are talking about, could apply just as much to AI art. I am glad that you reject this idea, that "Lul, its writing a prompt, dude, therefore AI Art can't be copyrighted!"

> but if that was the entire creative input

> it's the human creativity that matters.

Sure, if we want to say that someone spending 10 seconds, writing a 3 word prompt isn't much human input, fine.

But, for anyone who has spent more than an hour, messing around with AI art, you will quickly learn that there is so much more to AI art than the degenerate case.

> The person making a conscious decision about where to stand, what settings to use, and when to press the button is viewed by the law as a creative act that requires creative skill and execution.

All of which can be applied to AI art. It can be so much more complicated, than the stupid argument that I see over an over again, which is "Lul, the computer did it. No human input".

To give a personal example, one thing that I did, was that I created a dreambooth, fine tuned model, for creating magic items, for the game Dungeons and Dragons.

https://huggingface.co/stale2000/sd-dnditem

It took me about 100 hours, over the course of 2 weeks, to get this art generator, exactly right. And the process involved, not just typing a few words like "Give me magic fire sword please".

Instead, it involved the process of collecting, modifying, captioning, and combining exactly the correct training set of images, into my training set, recreating and retraining my model over a dozen times, until I could get it to do even close to what I wanted.

Even one bad image or one bad setting, that I put in my training set, could screw up the whole model, or make the swords look weird, or mess up the painting style, or any numerous actual creative differences.

> If the argument is that prompt generation is more than that, and that it takes more skill, then fine

That is what it is, for anyone who has done anything in AI art. But people's brains for some reason, stop working when they are faced with the fact that there is so much more that you can do with this stuff, and the stupid strawman case of "lul, I just typed a couple words into a prompt! No human input!".
Split Diopter Films List
"Attempt to list every film that employs split diopters to create the illusion of deep focus."
Well, compared to the typical 8 bit game jump to the high end "16 bit games", such as the powerhouses from SNES JRPGs and specially with the NeoGeo, now I'd consider Crysis the graphical peak of the 32 bit gaming, being the properly raytraced games the big technological jump from the 64 bit architecture. But I think we aren't totally ready yet.

Raytracing should be done on a dedicated PCIE device, as 3D rendering was done back in the day, which was a companion to a 2D SVGA.
POSIX provides a decent cross OS API, and while some of it is less than stellar this article seems pathologically opposed to posix on principle rather than due to actual valid reasons.

That said modern OSs do provide additional APIs that are higher level, but in general they are all just opaque object wrappers around the same core principles, just less tethered to the limitations of 80s era C.
It helps, certainly. At least with my experience (post author), it doesn't actually fix the problem.

There are a variety of e-ink HDMI displays out there, though. They're simply "very, very expensive."
I think the resource disparity is exactly the problem. The US/Mexico income disparity ends up distorting the Mexican economy. Mexico's comparative advantage, in an international trade sense, is its long, difficult-to-monitor border with the US, through which drugs & humans can be trafficked.
Her essay is from 2019, and I quoted it mainly to say that I am not making an original point, this has been a known problem with LLMs for a while (and I presume it will continue to be).
The key point:
"
Reviewing Team Jorge’s different accounts shows that the majority of their posts and tweets are benign – concealing their lies within seemingly organic online activity.
"
> Layoffs affect morale

This is temporary in my experience. Especially in an organization that emerges from layoffs with better financial footing in an growing industry.

Morale doesn’t bounce back when the survivors feel that the industry or company is dying. I doubt Meta and social media is going away anytime soon.
Yes, I was wrong on all accounts. And even though locals will readily confirm and admit to these cultural issues and are equally frustrated by it, it's best to pretend they don't exist.

Because I said it. And obviously my only possible agenda can be rationalize a sense of superiority, it can't possibly because I care.
Exactly. Using your customers as guinea pig data collectors for an undeveloped system seems to be the go-to. There have been noted fatalities due to this.
Just don't say they're AI generated
I'm on the fence with telling my realtor to hold off for a few months. I have been looking to do a bit of an upgrade.

I thought I was in a hurry, but the economics are absolutely ridiculous right now. Some sellers are still clearly on drugs - 300+ days on market with zero price reductions in sight.

Not sure if related, but I noticed a lot of the (empty) investor-owned homes in my area are falling behind in basic lawn care and other maintenance. One side of my street is going to be reclaimed by nature in a year or so if someone doesn't start living in these things properly.
It assumes that children would be "held back" by not being able to access content they are mature enough for until they reach an arbitrary age determined by someone other than the child or the child's parents. Nowhere did I suggest that children should have "unlimited access to screens". In fact I explicitly mentioned that it should be parents who ensure that their children are exposed to things safely.

I have no doubt that the children growing up with access to the internet (including youtube and twitter) had greater opportunity to be better educated, more exposed to art and culture, and to be better prepared for their life as an adult in the world than the children who grew up without the internet. Those things were made much easier by having access to the internet. I say that as someone who grew up without internet access for many years. I know not having access to the internet we have today as a young child placed limitations on what I could have reasonably attained. That doesn't mean we should set every child lose on the internet without any thought to what they're seeing.

Also, the internet is very much like books, but I'd remind you that libraries and even bookstores offer many other forms of media as well.
With communism you work to build socialism, a better society. Under capitalism you work so your CEO can get another 20 million dollars bonus.
> As a father to four little girls, though, it makes me feel really defeated.

As a father of two girls who also runs a social network, this article is bullshit. They’re only considering social media that fundamentally looks and feels like Facebook. That’s like saying all outdoor activities are extremely dangerous, when only looking at wingsuit base jumpers.
This is layman speculation, but… The human brain is notoriously efficient; neural networks are modeled on the brain so they’re probably doing something like what the brain does; the brain uses electrical signals and these optical transformers use light signals;
Maxwell’s work unifies electricity and light. It all seems to add up - the general process is “take advantage of an energy field to cheaply perform calculations on a mass scale”, brains build a biological/chemical structure to use the electrical field, optical transformers will build a silicon structure to use the light field.
As a user, I'd rather my receiving email provider (eg. Gmail, iCloud, Outlook) be less restrictive in their filters if it means individuals can host their own mail servers and we can have a more egalitarian internet.

Extremely filtered emails is practically the same as a social network determining what I can see at this point.
The concept of technology being unable to handle some input as an "allergy" for some reason makes me giggle.
Substantial discussion yesterday: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34890024>
I enjoyed both 1.2 and 1.3, not sure what it tastes like now but heard the shelf life has dropped due to the changes.
Maybe things have changed since then; the big elite schools like Harvard have grants which cover basically everything you can’t afford. (At the time I was looking in 2015, my total cost would have been around $4k/semester.) According to them, 20% of students don’t pay anything at all
> built-in nav system is useful for those times need directions and don't have a cell signal.

You know you can also download Offline maps. One of Google Maps best features.
I'm sorry, I love long-form heavily researched write-ups about topics not usually given attention, but you really did the thing that helping to kill mass adoption of critical thinking: you took a complicated topic and sensationalized it with an attention grabbing 'the sky is falling' headline, while burying the nuance in a essay that maybe 1% of the 'clickers' will read.

Stop doing that, please.

Add a 'tl;dr' on top with the 'here is the breakdown -- you should worry about X for these reasons and these are the complications and here are the mitigations and here is the ongoing progress'. Do this in a few sentences that are easy to read and have no jargon or conext-less data. Then follow with the essay.

As is, I applaud the effort, but you have taken on the habits of a degenerating system.
Came hear searching to PouchDB example apps and here we go! Thank you.

There's a bug in the .zip version. Your index.html contains the wrong path in the script tag for tincymce.js.
This already exists: Coq, Idris, Agda, LEAN etc.
Still those three, plus Lexus, Infiniti, Acura, Range Rover etc.
I have a personal dislike of special purpose hardware. I didn't really realize how much I disliked the idea, until I woke up to GPUs and off-CPU processing and the complexity of dealing with this "thing" bolted onto the side of a beautiful ISA, to do "other things" -which of course is entirely normal, it's always been so, Bell and Howell discussed a wheel of life about the smarts to run a printer in mainframe days, winding up with the printer moving to its own dedicated CPU and being networked and then you repeat the wheel over the network controller.

I first met this with a floating-point systems co-processor on a Dec-10. It was highly problem specific, only a single DECUS tape FORTRAN compiler talked to it (IIRC) and you had this giant freezer sized box (it was lime green, unlike the blue DEC-10 livery) sat next to the CPU doing... mostly nothing. It was basically idle almost all the time. Occupying floorspace, consuming power, making the DEC-10 more complex to operate.

Same-same with 3DES processing cards, on-card ethernet TCP, you-name-it -these things absolutely do improve the world, but at a cost of complexity.

So the idea of designing optical interference/coherence/diffraction "engines" to bolt onto the side of a beautiful ISA, and winding up with something morally like a GPU which has to do complex TCAM like memory, wierd protocols on the bus, all to get what? some context specific speed up of .. text processing?

If this winds up down in the VLSI level on-chip, as an alternate compute element inside the ALU/ISA space, with its own bus path, and simply integrates more tightly into the ISA I'd be fine.

Perhaps thats where it's going.
I had this same experience when I moved from metropolitan Texas to a high altitude location in the mountains of Colorado. I would take my dog for a walk at 2am and just get stuck staring upward.

The first couple of nights, I was amazed at what I could see, but then I was a bit annoyed about this one strip of clouds that was blocking part of my view across the entire sky. The next night I realized it wasn't a cloud :). "My God, it's full of stars."

Portugal is relatively close to NL, and it has some spectacular sky viewing which isn't too remote from villages or places to stay.
insight crimecrime is a good source.

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/mexico-cartel-us-gang...
unfortunately the hyper capitalist us system will always end up in a small quantity of X having a majority quantity of Y, just due to compound interest.
I was able to scrape some clients and ending up making thousands using a normal first world rate. It is difficult to win bids because people are on there because of price. I left because they started charging for you bidding.

Bid quick, often and always go hourly so you do get paid. Clients expect the world for nothing (typical project is google for $125) so learning how to deliver within the requirements is an artform..always go hourly so you get paid something when these projects don't live up to unreasonable expectations. Be prepared for someone to scam you, try to go off platform, etc. Stay on the site.
This is the same as saying that the generative art (which has been a thing for decades) provides infinite variation. This is only technically true: the "infinite" variations of the procedurally generated art are all constrained by the original creator's intent, which is exactly what gives such art value.

The generative art is not set in fixed pixels, but instead is represented in a fuzzy form (equations, algorithms etc) that slightly varies each time you look at it. The value of it is also constrained by the author's intent and work. Only humans can be subject to copyright, so it at least makes common (if not legal) sense.

ML models are the same as the generative art that previously existed - they only add the captured essence of the prior data to the mix of human artistic intent and hard algorithms.
How about the fake candles?

I went through a period where as soon as I got home and out of the shower I’d go dark. I had a battery powered lamp that I used exclusively. I’d wear an eye mask with something to listen to playing. It definitely helped. I can definitely feel blue light waking me up much more easily than red. (Worked swing shift until midnight at that point.)
Personhood shouldn't be the only requirement to count towards HOV lane usage. For example, there's no disagreement in https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/end-of-the-roa... that there's enough people in the car, but that behavior is absolutely abusing the HOV lane.
https://archive.ph/Nmxc2
Besides not being able to see stars in the night sky, what other loss is there? Artificial light seems a worthy tradeoff for being able to function for 8 additional hours a day.
If you can create millions of threads with some hardware, then you can create billions of coroutines on that hardware. It's just a fact that you can create 2-3 orders of magnitude more coroutines than you can kernel threads on any given hardware.
There's this - https://quay.io/organization/mailcowarm64

Haven't tried it
On a recent renovation of our home, my wife and I decided to upgrade all of our lighting to LEDs with adjustable color temperatures. In the morning, and during the day, our house is illuminated with 5000k, but in the evening when we're preparing dinner the color temp is lowered down to 3500k and then down further to 2700k after dinner. It's much easier on our eyes and it feels like it's made a difference, but after reading through this it seems we likely still have some of the blue light coming through at night. Could you recommend a (inexpensive) spectrometer for testing our lights?
Except arbitration appears to knee cap class actions. And tilts the scales in favor of companies footing the bill.

Perhaps we need medium claims court that can be independent, instead of a private system bought and paid for by the wealthier party.
I do not know with what hardware GPT-5 will be trained, but GPT-6 will be trained on something with similar levels of efficiency as an OPU (and probably distributable via consumer-accessible hardware)
The one contradiction I have to point out here is that server motherboards dont need big southbridges: the cores themselves have gobs of PCIe. 1 and 2P AMD Epyc server cores have 128 lanes of PCIe.

I wish modern chips did a better job of breaking down where power went. It'd be so interesting to know how much power is going to usb controllers, how much is going to PCIe. I'd also hope that they could do things like shut down parts of the chip, if there's no USB or PCIe devices plugged in. But these chips seem to have a pretty high starting place of power consumption. Although maybe it's in part because the first example were flagship motherboards with a whole bunch of extra things peppered across the board - fancy NIC chips, supplementary thunderbolt controllers, sound cards, wifi - so maybe there was just an unusual lot of extra stuff going on. But it has been shocking seeing idle power raise so much on the modern platforms. It feels like there's a lot of room for improvement in power-down.
Maybe he saw the light and error of his ways?
Short thread, though still better threaded IMO: <https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1627465913237635074?...>
Among all the ways to represent infrastructure, code, config, SQL etc I always wonder why visualization or no-code isnt preferred. To me infra is complex enough yet has lots of interdepencies that are very well represented visually like a system design diagram. Unlike code, there isn't much conditional logic. There's a lot of edges cases and state manipulation which can also be represented visually. I'm hoping your SQL approach also paves some way as SQL is nothing but tabular visualization in that sense.
>Additionally, inspired by the fiction of Jules Verne, Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion.

Science fiction is important!

I think that a more contemporary example would be Ian Banks conception of the Minds - a set of a AGIs that are more or less benevolent; contrast with the dystopian ones: Skynet from Terminator, the OSes in Her, or the machine in Ex Machina.

Scifi authors are the dreamers and we need them to keep doing what they do to inspire people.