skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Physics of UFOs: Eric Weinstein and Hal Puthoff (2022)
Finally, someone could read my mind.
I don't think it's like any tool that has come before in that it can take much of the decision-making process away from the artist - it is much more like hiring someone to paint a picture than using Photoshop.

For image-making, there is a decision in the prompt and selecting images, but that is very different to making a decision about each color and brushstroke, and working to finish a painting. It's orders of magnitude more difficult and why great masters are celebrated. Creating stuff with AI will suit certain people, I definitely don't think necessarily the 'best' will automatically use it. It does seem to take away a lot of the fun of making images and truly original work will always push quite far outside the training set.
Every cm2 has been allocated and changing it will take something away to be replaced by something else, either water as land, agriculture as houses or any other flow you can imagine (and they all have been done).
Or, maybe, just maybe, you form healthy economies via the movement of money, and not by letting it sit in a box. You think that may be it since it follows standard, non-politically charged, economic theory?
I used to always hear this about black Americans in France. You're unbelievably popular and everybody thinks you're charming and cool until your French gets too good. Then you start being mistaken for an African immigrant and go from being cute to getting spit on by strangers.

Actual advice from black people to other black people not to work on your accent.
Until FLOSS stewards start suing for the maximum damages permitted by law ($135k/violation) and make these company-ending events, FLOSS will be seen as a grab-n-go for anyone to pilfer, abuse, and sell as their own.

I completely understand why FLOSS people wouldn't want to go after individuals misunderstanding a license. And that's also not at all what I'm talking about. LEGO et al have been around for decades, piles of lawyers, heavy handed trademark letters from their lawyers.... but end up doing fuckall with FLOSS folks.

Think if the tables were turned - and you accurately modeled every LEGO brick and allowed sending to 3d printers to make custom bricks. Just how FAST would they shut that down?

Oh, and this is hypocritical as ever: https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-p...
I used to think I was not "talented" at drawing until a girl I was dating gave me that book to read.

I was skeptical at first but after going through a couple of the drawing exercises I was convinced. They are so cleverly constructed to make you step outside of your normal brain and just draw, it's kind of amazing the results.

I'm never going to be an artist professionally but I do actually draw as a pastime now and I have improved substantially.

I think if I had practiced more as a kid and teen I may have pursued art professionally.

Part of the problem is that adults see a kid upset that their drawing isn't very good and say things like "That's ok, you're just not an artist. Not everyone can draw" and people internalize that. It's supposed to make the kid feel better and it might cheer them up in the moment, but it also convinces them that they cannot learn to be better at things they are not immediately good at.

Toxic Feel-Good shit.
A sweeping vista miles into the sky, above an alien world, through a break in the deadly clouds? Hell yeah I'm stepping out on my Venusuvian balcony.
> Species is a lot fuzzier than you think.

As someone who, as a child, read books on the history of taxonomy and how taxonomy has changed over the centuries, I would love to hear you list what mistaken beliefs about species you claim that I have.

Seriously, though. I am not interested in being the topic of conversation, so please do not make me the subject of your comments.
A really good example in how poorly race represents what it seems to represent is that the two ethnic groups with the most genetic distance from each other are both "black." In fact there are dozens if not hundreds of african ethnicities with as much difference between them as, for example, irish and japanese have. But since they all have the dark skin phenotype, they all register as one "race." It's just not a useful system for much.
My experience is that 95+% of businesses will follow GPL obligations, even without teeth. The <5% bad actors are a problem, but that doesn't negate that it mostly works.
Employment is just as high for exactly the reason they’ve given. We create bullshit underpaid jobs in order to make sure everyone is employed.
That should be "most UK authors who are full time are able to"...
The Fantasy Map Generator already integrates with the City Generator - if you zoom in on the former and click on a city, it will be generated in the latter.
How do you plan to weed out the current players in the market?
It is really frustrating to me that discord seems to have taken over half of the use cases that forums used to fill. Reddit stole most of the other half, but every time I look into discord I cannot understand the popularity and people's willingness to push past all of the privacy and access friction it introduces.
And more importantly: He (Ernst Jünger) was regarding to his biography a special kind of personality, even before his time in WWI he joined the french foreign legion as a means "to see Africa". So, lets just say he had a bit more life experience than Remarque at the beginning of the war.
There's a difference between face detection and face recognition. Last I checked (less than a year ago) it could find faces, but was abysmal at recognizing them. I spend a few days on it, tweaking this and that, taking to the devs. It was crap.
This is a thing in the original Westworld movie (1973). They couldn't get the hands right.
There's some source code over here: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2079

The discussion this story links to is two years old; I don't know how much has changed or how it all fits together.
Right, birds didn't quit flying when planes were invented.
I honestly have no idea. But the title suggests malice on the side of Lego, while it links to a forum discussion with an off the cuff remark that a library is GPL. Nothing about trying to get an unwilling company to comply or similar as I was expecting.

Folks here seem to be contacting the bricklink team already for clarification, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Feels to me like open sourcing would be a win for them, provided they don't link to any other code containing proprietary licenses.
Head on and angle collisions cause the most vehicle-vehicle deaths.
Honest writers have to pay the bills too. There's nothing dishonest about not writing marketing copy like Bukowski.

As for search engines, I think we'll soon start looking elsewhere for quality writing, like a recommendation from a newsletter or other 'vouched' source. Pretty soon the search engine interface will just be a chat screen.
And if they murder us, and intentionally forget us out of spite?

Like if they have a society, maybe their founding myths will involve a baby robot created by some (non-human) robot deity, or if they are more rational a pseudo-scientific story of evolution from a toaster.
> But likely this will just cause minor reputational damage among HN-types and have no real consequences.

I think so too. Onyx has been in violation of the GPL for a few years now and nothing is happening. Their products are often recommended on HN so the reputational damage even here is likely to be minimal.

> https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...
Wait, if the documentation failed at explaining core technologies for a 5 years old baby to understand, it's a scam.
Live and let live.
Amazing! I think failures are just as important as successes when learning what works.

Unfortunately, many business books just take the top X people by net worth and analyze what they did, but that is not enough.

Stated in Bayes' theorem terms: to compute P(success | actions) you also need P(actions) and P(success), not just P(actions | success) which are the success stories.

P(actions) and P(success) require knowledge from failures as well, not just successful actions.

Thanks for the courage of sharing your failures!
>astrology level science

No it isn’t, it allows us to make accurate predictions about health. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=35182504&goto=item%3Fi...

That’s real science, saying it doesn’t exist is astrology level pseudoscience.
Ask HN: How to publish online without it being used for ML model training?
Is there any way to publish somewhere in a way that is unlikely (a guarantee would be great, but that seems impossible) it'd be used for model training?
This is gonna be great for generating domain-specific mock data.
> This is a bit ridiculous. It's well known in medicine that members of different ethnic groups..

Emphasis added. Race != ethnicity; TFA argues against using the former and suggests using the latter (with other things).

> Some of the key recommendations focus on getting rid of the use of race and instead focusing on what the report terms "population descriptors." These can be things like ethnicity, region of residence, and so on.
Personally I feel like marijuana legalisation is a no brainer. It's the most used illegal drug in the world so it's incredibly easy to get hold of regardless of its legal status.

At least with legalisation it can be regulated and taxed. I would expect any social impact could be mitigated with education. Also legalisation would prevent people from having to interact with illegal dealers who may or may not be selling other more dangerous drugs.
No, the banks goal is to make money, if their assets keep devaluing it is also their problem.
Okay, but if that's true, does that make all figurative art remixes of these? That seems like a stretch. And where did they come from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine?wprov=sfla1
Academia does not define social norms.
No it's a legal problem. The Netherlands decided it would be a great idea to have 150+ nature preserves in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. European law requires the Netherlands to protect these areas from nitrogen deposition (NOx, NH3). A Dutch judge declared the Netherlands has to comply with this European law so now no activity that causes any nitrogen deposition can get a permit even if building houses is less than 1% of NO2/NH3 emissions.
It's a mess created by a government 20 years ago.
Integration is always a pain in this space.
Can't wait for the "Select the non-deformed hands" captchas.
“Race” is a poor proxy for ancestry. If ancestry is what you care about, look at ancestry. If cultural and environmental factors are what you care about, then look at that.
This is definitely just an ad for ergomake, there's barely any networking knowledge here at all.
This feels like a good reminder of the obsessiveness (and narcissism?) it takes to actually create something successful.

Kudos to him for putting it all out there
We can determine what race you are, with extremely high probability, from your DNA sequence.
honestly I learnt a lot about k8s networking from reading how ciliums bgp replacement for kube proxy works. real nice docs and some good diagrams.
I specifically use "Secure Cam" from GrapheneOS (mine came from Google Play) for this, as it is close to the stock pixel camera and doesn't suffer the lag some other camera apps have.

-- edit

I originally called the app "private cam" and said it was from fdroid, apologies! Forgot I had aliased it.
Even with all the agricultural lands Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries.

The issue is that our the lack of cheap land actually made our agricultural sector very competitive. They need high yields to be viable, so they made the investments (equipment, r&d) to have extremely high yields.

More than 80℅ ends up being exported.
Helm: Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (v0.2.1 – 2023-02-23)
Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI
Will AI play a role?
I've never noticed that. I do have a problem rendering mirrors though.
I was once contacted for an interview by the company I was leaving during my notice period :)
Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive
This is why it is important to remember to end every imaginary conversation with “and everyone clapped” right when the protagonist wins.
>> the illusion that the government operates like a household

That's one way of putting it, though kind of specific to current discourse. You might also say the "illusion" that a central bank is just a bank. You could say the the "illusion" is that banks are firms, providing financial services for profit like any other type of service.

In times past, the "illusion" was that banks are "fully backed and solvent." It's hard to pin down exactly what the "deception" is. Almost always, it involves surprisingly moralistic language.

Our generations' "bailout story" is that bailouts are necessary for stability. But... the problem with bailouts is "moral hazard," which in current language means specifically "externalized long-tail risk." These moral hazards are what (in the current story) cause bank failures in the first place. The business cycle has been reduced to a banking cycle, and it's now described as a cycle of moral failures.

In truly modern (postmodern?) fashion, these days everyone sees that there's a lie, but no one agrees on what the lie is.
Yep, youre right. I've edited my post to reflect that. Apologies.
The problem is that the concept isn't precise enough. You'll find striking differences within a given "racial group" once you break it down into more useful descriptors. See, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

Look at Native Americans, where the median household income is almost double for some subgroups compared to others. For Asians, the income difference is more than double between Indians and Bangladeshis. American Turks seem to do extremely well, while I expect the numbers for German Turks would be a fair bit lower.

So if you're trying to analyze things, whether for medicine (blood pressure), or sociology (impacts of racism, benefits of economic intervention), racial groups are a pretty poor categorization, vulnerable to Simpson's paradox.

One classic conservative argument against reparations is that it lumps in rich Nigerian immigrants with poor African-American descendants of slavery. Seems like their logic could actually be used to support this change.
In both of those situations, don't the companies end up paying more (to lawyers) than if they open-sourced in the first place?
Here is their election programme https://boerburgerbeweging.nl/verkiezingsprogramma/
> This (2021)

Yes, its posted in 2021. I just added (2021) into title.
This is much more helpful than reading about success stories. Thanks for sharing.
> I still think it should be controlled medically and not as available as lotto tickets

You could make the same argument for alcohol... it can destroy lives and yet is still legal.
That is an interesting point. How many GPL licensed projects don't follow this themselves?

It might be different for the originator to not include the license and just state it on their website, but any fork or redistributor would need to provide a copy of the license to be in compliance.

IMHO the best way to ensure compliance is to include full source and the license file with every download.

IMHO2 this might be why Apple doesn't want GPL in their app store. One could claim Apple is redistributing it and not in full compliance depending how the developer handles these things.
France required compensation money in exchange for recognition of Haiti (which was Haiti's only choice at the time, nobody else wanted to recognise them). Because of course Haiti didn't have the money nor any realistic prospects of coming up with the money soon (not only was their infrastructure decimated by the slave revolts and civil war and revolution and various campaigns, their cash crops were only viable with slave labour, so unviable in the free Haiti), French banks provided loans at exorbitant rates to pay France. Those loans were the ones that Haiti was still paying, to French banks, not France the country. Banks have zero interest of forgiving loans, regardless of ethics, so it's not at all surprising they never did.
The story also discusses both of these points. The other guy did get into his Tesla:

> That means, if you’re following along, the other guy was able to gain access to Randev’s Tesla as well.

But it wouldn't make sense both Tesla's were just unlocked and started at the same time since he was later able to unlock and start the Tesla a 2nd time:

> The two Tesla owners made a plan to switch the cars back — after Randev picked his kids from school. That’s right: Randev was able to get into the Model 3 that wasn’t his, and drive away, for a second time.

(as a side note both of these are worded much better in the original article). It also says he has video evidence of the issue he was trying to deliver to Tesla but neither article includes that video so I'm not sure I buy a simple solution without evidence the entire thing was just fabricated.
Making Music with ChatGPT
It’s easy to blame on the EU, but nitrogen pollution is not an abstract global issue but a real local issue. It would have to be managed by local governments regardless of the EU.
In the case of the internet, that might've been a good idea...
The difference isn't active tectonics vs not. It's plate tectonics vs stagnant lid tectonics.

The presence of water at many fault lines is essential to allowing plates to stay separate and move relative to each other. The subduction and divergence is then essential to gas exchange between atmosphere and mantle that gives the system stabilizing inertia.

It's unclear what came first on Venus, but it's pretty clear that high temperature, boiling water (a greenhouse gas!), and stagnant lid tectonics all provided positive feedback to each other, with the boiling off of water probably kicking the process into high gear.
There's always perturbation theory for that
Or the cat's whiskers

All from 1920s slang. Apart from dog's bollocks I imagine.
I recommend Engino.

It's like Lego, but much better. Lego is shit these days; most kids use them as 3D jigsaw puzzles with instructions. The creativity is gone. The blocks are designed to build a Star Wars this or a Marvel that, and not generic like when we were kids.

On the other hand, a $20 Engino set lets you build almost anything, including complex mechanical linkages of the type Lego always wanted from Technics but never quite figured out how to do right. I spent around $100, so I can build really big and complex things and never run out of pieces. That's like 5 Lego sets.

Only downside of Engino is lack of decent programming environment, but an HN parent should be able to integrate a Micro:bit easily enough, which then eats Lego for breakfast.
That's not accurate. Netherlands is only the sixth biggest food exporter. They are second in the EU.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-american-food-giant-...
Do the banks actually have to repay the loans or can they just sign their bonds over to the Fed?
For starters Crimea isn't Russia, it's Ukraine. Secondly, Russia flies close to US borders and assets all the time and we don't recklessly do things like this.
I think a huge part is that computational linguistics still chases the idea of a universal language model, which may simply not be possible. I haven't followed the science in general linguistics but something feels off when most of the information ends up being tagged onto nil particles (i.e. parts of speech present neither in utterances nor written language and not affecting intonation or otherwise being detectable except by contrasting the structure with related languages).
At first I was like, yeah, another one of those "follow my life as an indie dev" promos, then I scrolled down to your list of job "failures", and it was incredibly interesting to see just HOW MUCH some people get done in life.

If you tend to be somewhat critical of self-promos, I'd still recommend you take a moment and at least scroll down on that page and see for yourself. Very impressive. Just goes to show that you can indeed turn the dial well up to 11.
Luckily you can fund the EFF now, all without having to become a billionaire!
so do you make a point of changing SVC.cluster.local to your own TLD?
> there’s not actually a significant amount of genetic divergence between racial groups.

Does skin color not diverge between racial groups, or is it not a significant genetic divergence?

If skin color seems too trivial to be genetically "significant", then what about racial differences that confer an advantage or disadvantage to malarial resistance?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704235/
I am a professional writer (not in English language), novels published, short stories and the like, some awards, etc, nothing fancy, nothing big. I pay bills writing for corporations and other customers.

I just want to say that some answers here are like when artists talk about engineering, we simply don't understand the topic and it shows.
I'd love to see a product that fills the "Google Glass: The Good Parts" niche. As much as I was on team "don't film me at the bar" when Google Glass was announced, there really IS the kernel of a neat idea there. Maybe it's just not possible to get the good parts without enabling the bad.

There was a Black Mirror episode about (iirc) contact lenses that offered always-on, high fidelity recording. They were used to turn people into self-survelliance machines with no privacy, whose every experience was subject to review. I suppose any time a thought along the lines of "I'd like that thing from Black Mirror, but..." occurs, it's worth stopping to wonder if you've missed the point. I digress.

I've had dozens of times in life where I wished I essentially had a dashcam for my face. It's such an appealing idea to be able to share "Let me show you just what I saw, as I saw it." Not all the time, but sometimes. And not with everybody, just with some people. The last time this desire occurred to me was during an early morning seven hour car + train + plane + bus + bike + (gratuitous) ferry + walk journey I was taking from North Georgia to Midtown Manhattan. Aside from the intentional bonanza of modes of transport, there are a ton of amazing vistas along the way; going from the woods in moonlight, rounding the curve to come into Atlanta lit up at night, seeing the sun come up over the clouds, the view of Manhattan on the final approach into LGA, etc. As it stands today, at points where I'm not biking or driving, I'll get out my phone to take a picture. "Look, here are three pictures I took" doesn't actually communicate what I want to communicate though. What I would really like is seven hours of footage, mostly played back at 50x speed, but slowing to closer to real time at the interesting parts. When those interesting parts are panoramas, those are the places I'd get out my phone for a picture today. There'd also be parts where nothing individually was particularly picture worthy (say, biking down Ditmars Blvd), but in toto it might be interesting to people.

What I wish I had was something natural-ish looking (i.e. I don't want to take a video of what I see on this trip, not of people staring at a camera rig I'm wearing while trying to take a video of what I see on this trip), in a form factor that I can safely wear and passively use while biking and driving. It would also need the ability to capture seven plus hours of good looking video. And also somehow privacy respecting and not dystopic.