skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it really sticks out to me that your comment may well be based on wrong assumptions about the afterlife

My assumption, if you can call it that, is that the only afterlife for which we have any empirical evidence is fame. If there's life after death, it's in the memories of those we left behind. I'm not too worried about that. People will either remember me or they won't; that's beyond my control and thus not my problem.

> As a Christian, I prefer relying on the good old ways of God's revealed Word in Scripture.

Is this really the place to proselytize? Hasn't it occurred to you that I most likely grew up culturally Christian at the bare minimum, and if I don't exhibit Christian beliefs there might be a reason for that?

I grew up Catholic. I'm not any sort of Christian today and haven't been since I was 18. I've never believed in any god, whether it's Crom or Yahweh -- but when you're an unbelieving child in a family of believers it's safer to fly false colors until you've gotten your own ship and sailed into open waters before you hoist the Jolly Roger.

Since I don't believe in the Christian God, the Bible is not the revealed Word of God to me but merely the words of men, translated by men. Since the Bible is only literature to me, I have no more reason to believe that it is a true account of historical events than I do to believe that the events of the Iliad actually happened.

In fact, because archaeologists have found a site that may well have been Troy, it's a little more plausible to believe that a bunch of Achaean kings besieged a city because one of them got cuckolded than it is to believe that a Jewish carpenter turned rabbi was somehow both God and the son of God and rose from death three days after he died screaming on a Roman cross -- though I suspect both tales grew in the telling before they were finally written down.

I'm not going to tell you that your beliefs are wrong. But they are precisely that: your beliefs. I don't share them. I have no objection to them as long as you are content to live by them without shoving them down my throat. Nevertheless, they do not give you standing to say that my assumptions about what comes after death are wrong.

We could both be wrong; for all either of us know, the only afterlife that awaits any of us is an eternity serving as sentient chew toys for Yog-Sothoth.
President Biden said the US was going to stop it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8
Ah, that's what you're referring to. As I mentioned in a comment on the previous thread (which I now see you commented on two days ago), we didn't want to require phone numbers for verification and went the email-only route instead. Unfortunately there was a not-insignificant amount of abuse from temporary email addresses. Because they are temporary and throwaway accounts and we have no way of reliably contacting the humans behind those accounts, our best option was to prevent players from using accounts with those throwaway domains.

As you stated in your other comment, it sounds like you got your money's worth. Accounts can still be registered with non-throwaway emails.
The authenticity cycle, as I understand it, goes:

- honest signal (good-looking profile pics!)

- the signal starts becoming cheaper to create (AI filters)

- users of the signal look for subtler signs of authenticity (technical cues like blur around the edges, overly-softened features, lighting is wrong, or social cues like profile information doesn't match quality of image)

- signal becomes effortless to fake, information content is wiped out entirely

- retreat to authenticity / burn everything down and start over in a new game

There's tons of value to be had in that middle area, where people assume the honest signal but it becomes possible to fake. That's what TV, for example, is all about. Take regular people, add white teeth, makeup, and flattering angles, and they become 10x as compelling as Joe from down the street (without having to be 10x as good!).

And this is all armchair philosophy, parroting stuff from ACX and Ribbonfarm. The product concept itself is fantastic (if it works!), and I'm sure tons of people will pay for it.

I think most users will want to slip under the radar, and have it not be obvious that they're using the service.
Bluntly, who cares?

It's better than people being forced to work multiple jobs just to provide the basic necessities for life.

Employee wages are already lagging behind every measure of a employee's worth (productivity, revenue per employee, etc) over time... why do we think it's good policy to fuck them over even more?

Morals matter, even for businesses. Perhaps especially for businesses, given the power imbalance in their favor over ordinary citizens.
The vast, vast majority of actors in SAG make far less money than software developers. Only a small percentage earn enough to not require some other job.

Yes, famous actors get paid millions, they aren't really the people SAG is trying to protect.
I find the mainstream ads far more offensive than the ones that are accurately targeted towards me.
Sorry, just to be sure, its a theory, or you know it as a fact?
Study: Scotland’s minimum pricing linked to 13% drop in alcohol-related deaths
> > The other elephant in the room is the astronomical amount of money in derivatives, and their lack of transparency.

> It does feel like this is where the systemic risk may have gone.

It's... kind of supposed to?

Take SVB, for instance. What they should have done is use derivatives to hedge their exposure to interest rates rising. They should have transferred the risk to other parties that either had the opposite exposure, or else were willing to take the risk for the right price.

Now, as we saw in 2008, all kinds of eldritch horrors can hide in derivatives, and the lack of transparency makes it very hard to see problems coming. And even in the case of SVB, that would still have left them with the counterparty risk. But the derivative market is where the risk is supposed to go, because it's the place that's supposed to be in the business of handling it.
Is there nothing on 70% of the page with contents only on the left side? Just making sure, wondering if it is supposed to load some web editor with code examples because without it, it is a bit confusing what am I supposed to do.
He meant to say LaMDA, which is a family of Google's conversation tuned language models, a smaller of which is used in Bard.
What's up with this being a copy paste of a comment above also claiming to be the creator?
Did you bother to browse the entire page? There are videos showing live editing and changing a backdrop. This is a teaser of a live product that is actually working remarkably well.
Is it really that different from an avatar if we reach a point where we all recognize them as avatars? Seems like the danger is in not knowing where the line is between "real" and "tuned" - the more tuned, the easier that line is to see. I don't think this is really that different than people Photoshopping their photos - it's been a plague for dating apps for like, what, two decades?
> I assume it's still possible they have something better and this is the nuked version that's "safe"

Its explicitly a smaller model to save on compute costs for scaling up to more users; but that’s a questionable decision given the situation with OpenAI’s accessible models and, if you are going to do that, why also do a slow-roll waitlist? I think both are signs of the kind of caution that will hurt Google in this market, even though the tech is near to the heart of what they do, the product isn’t, and they’ve gone very established-corp-cautious on products outside of their core.
Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing
OpenAI: This technology is too power to be put in the hands of mere mortals!

Also OpenAI: ... unless, they pay us $20 per month!
The statement in the article:

> a limit on the size of a set of integers in which no three of them are evenly spaced

This misses a key detail. You can trivially find arbitrarily large such sets e.g. take the first however many powers of 2: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ...

The missing constraint is that the set of integers must be a subset of { 1, 2, ... , N }.
Which new hot language of the day are you chasing this week?
Flipping that around, it seems inevitable that [leftists] will insist on mass collective action based on the predictions of unreliable academics, until the moment they realize those predictions were wrong. Again.

Example: the idea that global warming doesn't cause warming is new. 20 years ago climatologists were telling British people with absolute confidence that by now there'd be no more snow. In the 1960s they were telling people there was a new ice age on the way. Both predictions were dead wrong and have now been white-washed out of existence.

Why is it only conservatives who require that if people claim their understanding of the climate is good enough to predict it decades into the future, they actually be able to do that? Why is it only conservatives who recognize that academia's reputation should suffer if they constantly make aggressive predictions, get it wrong and then pretend it never happened?
It's been awhile since I've built an API with Rails or Express, so I'd be learning them again anyway.

What would be your "first" choice?
Who doesn't enjoy a bit of schadenfreude when it comes to lazy, bloated, arrogant multibillion dollar corporations like Google?
I've just spent hours messing with Window Maker. I was a NeXT admirer as a teen, so this is A. Maz. Ing! Your answer was really helpful. I'd already figured out how to just globally override window decorations (Firefox became draggable again!) but I think your way of doing it on a case-by-case basis may be better.

One of the most useful new things so far IMHO is being able to just move around or resize a window (without having to hold on either the title bar or a corner) by holding down Alt and left- or right-dragging. (Do GNOME's standard window managers provide anything like that?) That plus live move/resize has been amazing. But now I actually want to assign those to another mouse button; basically I want my "back" mouse button to be another Alt key I guess. It looks like "imwheel" might be able to do this remapping? I haven't finished investigating yet.

App discovery- Unlike the nicety of Gnome, which seems to autodiscover any newly installed apps, I seem to have to manually add icons for things or to put things in the right click menu. Is there any way to facilitate this? For example in Gnome when I hit the Windows key, the view pulls back and I get a search box with all my installed app icons shown below, which I can then page through. Anything like this in WindowMaker?

Mini-applications- There's not a whole lot on this but it sounds neat- basically the icon becomes an output region so I could have things like a Current Weather icon; it seems they are incompatible with Gnome? Any idea how I might be able to mess with that in NixOS/Window Maker?

Minimization- There's no clear place minimized things go, although they still can be brought back with alt-tab. Actually, I somehow lost the minimization widget in the menu bar I just noticed; the native controls (which I forced across everything in order to get draggability back) might not have one. I can windowshade title bars (hah, like old MacOS!) Actually maybe the whole concept of "minimizing" is off: Alt-H will "hide", which is fine actually. Uncluttered =)

I like that all the config files are text files, but I tried to comment out some lines in the menu bar config and it borked it and I subsequently ended up accidentally losing the changes I'd made (oops.. I assumed VSCode would remember unsaved files, as it tends to, but in this case it did not... maybe because windowmaker KILL's it when you close it, and I should have Exit'ed from within it instead?). So for the time being I decided to source-control the whole thing by setting GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT = "\${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/GNUstep"; in the environment session vars and since my XDG_CONFIG_HOME is source-controlled, that made that trivial. So now I can manually edit these with aplomb.

Nitrogen will let me set the desktop background but it won't stick...

Default sound input/output devices- Is there a nice GUI to set these?? I tried using "pacmd" to set the default sink but it didn't "take" (apparently, I may have to reboot?)
I'm not a Java user, but I really don't love the overloading of `if` in Python (statement, ternary, comprehensions), so introducing a new keyword here seems pretty reasonable to me.

And don't even get me started on `static` in C++.
Says development ended in 2008
This year. Six months from today.
Fight scenes definitely took the brunt of this. First it was shaky-cam, then it was 100 jump cuts. Older action movies didn't suffer from this. I suspect it's much more time consuming and difficult (aka, expensive) to film real fight scenes. Despite the gargantuan budgets of modern films, very little seems to be left for actual acting and set design.
A clean room design ensures the new code is 100% original, and not a copy of the base code. That is why it is legally preferable, because it is easy to prove certain facts in court.

But fundamentally the problem is copyright, the copying of existing IP, not knowledge. grondo4 is completely correct that there is no legal framework that prevents learning from closed-source IP.

If such a framework existed, clean room design would not work. The initial spec-writers in a clean room design are reading the protected work.
Bits =/= let's dump C
prolly some legal stuff
More then few millions.. not just "hundreds of thousands", i don't like the way it is worded

He most likely used data from a survey in 2007 [1], hence i'll question the integrity of the article

Already mentions millions in 2008 [2]

> More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003

And 2.4 millions in 2016 [3]

> But our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20090422225308/https://surveys.a...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-deaths-survey-idUSL3...

[3] - https://www.salon.com/2018/03/19/the-staggering-death-toll-i...
You’re falling into the trap they set of confusing monetary inflation with price inflation.

Two different things they try really hard to make sure people can’t tell the difference.
Why not let people see all the results for free and watermark them? Then you can purchase only the ones you like?
This is kind of like Copilot inside of VSCode right now.
The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door
Sure but the infringement is the problem, not the ideas themselves.

You're describing thought crime right now. It's not illegal to learn things.
At the very least, you could have been a whole lot more clear than responding to a comment of "But for the first ~3 weeks of the pandemic, our sawmills ran flat out -- more production than ever. Notwithstanding that fact, we saw unprecedented pricing -- because demand was radically outpacing supply." with "What you describe is the definition of price gouging."
Well, compared to the alternatives that go around, dressed up in nice propaganda but horrific beneath.. they still kind of are even though heavily deformed by 70 years of empire.
> That is, these companies are largely not doing the hard part,

Are they the hard parts though? The short time it took from the first waves of public excitment around DALL-E to stable diffusion being the well established baseline looks more like the class quantity of problems that can be reliably solved by shoving enough resources at it. What I consider hard problems are those full of non-obvious dead ends are where no matter how much you invest, you might just dig yourself in deeper.
Nvidia's big AI moment is here
> AI is a feature, not a product

Part of the reason for this is that very often the best applications of AI are really invisible to the user, making everything a little bit better, quietly behind the scenes.

The same is true for software in general. The best software products automate loads of stuff behind the scenes so from the user perspective they just click a button and the thing they want to happen, happens.

Perhaps the most successful and important AI product is a great example of this: the spam filter. I bet most younger email users don't even realize how much value this old AI tool provides them unseen.

But the trouble is making effective AI products is not "sexy" right now, and if your team ships one it won't get any credit in a big company. I've had my PM instantly shoot down plenty of interesting applications of AI that wouldn't be very visible to the customer or larger product-org.
> People pay for it because they don't have a choice.

Almost everything has substitutes. I did some construction projects these past years, and because lumber prices are up, there's a lot more metal in my construction. Metal siding and roof for a goat shed, metal studs in new walls. Those were always options I wouldn't have normally chosen. The metal goat shed is likely going to last longer, which is nice, but the metal studs in the wall don't provide a benefit, other than cost/availability.

When all the items in the category go up, there's not much substitution to be had, of course.
its amazing how much the world hasn’t been able to keep up with java. github PRs still have no syntax highlighting support for record and var
Will there be a waitlist?
I think the only reason is that they're very different, if you define them:

type when expression -> block

if expression -> block

For parsing works better, for programmers is better since they don't confuse both concepts, and in general pattern matching isn't the same as a if condition or a switch.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/199918/explaining-patter...

I think the difference is when you start pattern matching on tuples and other types that you cannot do a simple `if ident.isinstanceof(type) ->`.

For example in Elixir you can do:

def ident(param = {:key => true}):

This will only match when the param type is not only `map`, but also contains a key named `:key` and its value is `true`.

In the end though, it's syntax sugar (but everything is if you put it that way classes are syntax sugar).
We did a demo at CES in 2015 which retargeted users on a secondary device.

The demo delivered an ad-unit on mobile after viewing an ad-unit on TV.
https://archive.ph/0l4Bz
No it doesn't, that's just people trying to tie together two hobby-horses. Nobody is migrating to Europe or America because of climate change, they're migrating because of wealth and war.
There are at least two potential issues pertaining to copyright law here, and it's not clear which one you're asking about. That's why the responses you're getting here seem to be answering different questions.

1. Are the AI systems violating the copyright protections of the images they were trained on? If so, are users of such AI systems also in violation of those copyrights when they create works derived from those training images?

Answer: That's not yet settled.

2. If you make an image with an AI system, is your new image eligible for copyright protection, or is it ineligible due to the "human authorship requirement"?

Answer: The US Copyright Office recently wrote[1] that your work is eligible for copyright if you altered it afterwards in a meaningful way. Here's a quote:

>When an AI technology determines the expressive elements of its output, the generated material is not the product of human authorship. As a result, that material is not protected by copyright and must be disclaimed in a registration application.

>In other cases, however, a work containing AI-generated material will also contain sufficient human authorship to support a copyright claim. For example, a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that “the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.” Or an artist may modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection.

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
> Heck, from what I've heard the teachers don't like the tech any more than you do.

The school district found the ones who'd push it. If teachers aren't fond of this I hope they fight it themselves.

> It's not all about what teachers are pushing.

Sure, I bought my child a laptop. But I spent time teaching computer skills under the guise of game design, etc, and it wasn't for classwork but for everything else. It wasn't a one-size-fits-nobody cash grab.

> I'm asking if the schools are even going to still be relevant, expulsions would carry as little meaning as being banned from owning horses does today.

I don't care if the violent kid thinks he wins, as long as he's not allowed to spend more time with the non-violent kids. His failure isn't my problem, my kids happiness and success is.

> what counts as polite, friendly, professional, intelligent, serious, or severe is absolutely a moving target,

Not so much, I think, that it needs practice over the years. I've seen people pick up social media with no practice whatsoever and right away seem to fit right in.

> I have literally no idea what this is supposed to be about. Computers themselves are not part of any of the things you just said are bad.

Yeah, it seemed to be a bit of an unguided post. I'm not sure if you don't like that I don't like excess tech in schools, or what. I don't think computers are bad, I think teachers and schools pushing them uselessly is bad.
I personally wouldn't do this even for an MVP. The product is competitive with Airbyte and they're breaking Airbyte's license.

Definitely cases where it's ok to do something similar for an MVP, but I wouldn't touch this product knowing they can't continue to operate it this way (could get shut down at any moment).

I'm a bit surprised someone at YC didn't flag this.
Ha I was waiting for it to be edited, I thought they pulled the trigger too soon... but guess not?
okay totally on my side: it was uMatrix :) https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki/Per-scope-switches#r...
An oddball? Yep - not sure how I wound up this way. I never could follow the outlines when drawing in kindergarten. And the blursed change from /cmp/ to /key/ from Python 2.7 to 3.n really baked that oddballness into me. I've had to add even more vanilla to my chocolate chip cookies.
You are the worlds most popular donut shop. People are literally fighting each other in line to get your donuts.

For reasons (quality, scale) you can only produce 100 donuts a day. Definitely no more.

On an average day, you have 200 potential customers. Busy days, closer to 400.

A donut costs you $0.20 to make (incl labor).

Do you sell them for $0.20 each and let the first person in the door buy all of your donuts for $20? Do you ration them and let each person only buy one? (Sorry mom! Guess you have to split with the kids.) You have not benefitted anyone! You have made the situation worse.

No, you raise the price of your donuts to $5 or so. Some people will buy a couple but most people in the front of the line will get a donut still.

This is literally what the super famous donut shop near me does! Buying a dozen donuts from them would be like $60+, but almost everyone can buy a donut or two.

Raising prices for a limited commodity when literally not everyone who wants one can get one is the best strategy.

> everyone is able to afford them

It doesn't matter if all 400 people in line could afford them if the first person in line buys them all!
Clippai™
But that's because SF broke their real estate market. In a more functional one the cheap money flows to builders as well and they then build more houses bringing prices down.