skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait hang on, the AI bros want their 'fair use' back and want to freely generate their AI models on copyrighted music, for redistribution without permission from the record labels.

Not this time.

Not with the music and records industry which has deep pockets and isn't tired of litigation. Google themselves wouldn't even risk it either.
Due to his eccentricity, Stallman has always been a target of jokes, ranging from lighthearted to truly mean, both deserved and not, in various communities worldwide, even among people who have never interacted with him in any way. I lack information needed to assess his behavior, so I don't try to, but whenever I hear stories like "Stallman hates plants" or "tell him you're a vi user" it doesn't make the claims appear stronger. Quite the opposite actually - the newcomers being "warned" are obviously going to miss all the context behind these jokes and easily assume that the man has to be dangerous, whether that was the intention or not.

I'd assume that a person familiar with rms who would like to seriously warn someone about his misbehavior would go out of their way to not make it seem like a joke.
Does any of this do away with things like AMD Platform Security Processor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
The AI seems to be more interested in winning than answering questions - it doesn't really challenge ideas and seems to just make statements that are related to what was mentioned before, but this was fun to play with
That is surely going to work.
> But training an AI is really the same as me listening to the music.

That remains to be seen, legally. I think that if copyright law wants to keep existing it's going to have to treat training as a form of copying.
They even offer ten themes and a chooser which is 9 themes more than 99% of websites.
Do you mean Yoga classes with a group (mostly women?) or like a personal trainer?
I'd really like to read this, but for some reason the font size keeps increasing, which eventually crashes the page. It happens on Firefox and Chromium, on Linux and Android. Strange.
I just want to be able to install replacement parts without paying a dealer to tell the car everything will be ok.

Or even changing options like the passenger seat seatbelt alarm (I often have heavy boxes or a dog jumping in my passenger seat so get this alarm a lot). You can ask a dealership to uncheck the box for that alarm, but you are entirely at their mercy and many will refuse.
It's trying to be. It is early days but there is something called a network effect.
Even if the Earth was, the environments where life evolved very much are not. Vulcan and chemical processes are going to add and take away energy and matter from the molecular system that evolved into life.
Every political administration in the history of forever has had good policies and bad policies.

He did a lot as far as medical pricing, forcing hospitals to have price transparency. Medications were also supposed to have pricing listed on their commercials - and did for a short while. It looks like the courts blocked it, from a quick Google. Regardless of whether you think tax cuts are a good thing, increasing the standard deduction made tax season a lot easier for many people.

Personally I think clamping down on illegal immigration is a good thing, though some may disagree. I've literally never heard one single word from NPR about any negatives from unchecked illegal immigration, but many, many, many sob stories from the other direction.

So, there's some examples. I find that most people that hate a politician mostly do it because they're on the wrong side. My wife's parents and sister were just railing against Desantis, even though they probably know very few of his policies as we're on the other side of the country - and what they do know are probably one-sided things from their preferred news sources.
Chemically neutralizing the shielding water should be trivial. But why would the water need to be refrigerated? Energy absorbed from radiation would be emitted as thermal radiation, and lose a ton of thermal energy during the long lunar nights. If well insulated, the water tanks could serve as thermal batteries to keep the rest of the base warm.
Negative manipulation tactics at scale
It is instantly (figuratively) broken by quantum computing, which is on the horizon. The industry is in the process of telling everyone to stop using old encryption schemes now - not later - and switch to "quantum-safe" methods instead, like lattice-based encryption.

Why? Because of the concept of "store now decrypt later." It is speculated that entities are mass logging encrypted data of interest now, so that they can decrypt and review it as soon as quantum computers are available.

Great Veritasium video on the topic:
https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs

I personally think it is feasible that a quantum computer will exist with enough qubits (the algorithm already exists: Shor's Algorithm) to break all of our current encryption in around 5-10 years.
Are you saying that you are the Mayank Agrawal who made BharatGPT?
Well, you could do something smart with CSS columns, but nobody does that.
Is this really progress, or mere expropriation?
i started using linux in the mid-90s, after using commercial unices for the previous 10 years. i was amazed at how well-engineered it all was. i think i was using slack - too long ago to remember.

thanks linus.
As long as you can't sue me for injuries you sustained when I hit you in an accident. If you're willing to "man up" and actually pay for your right to not wear a helmet or seatbelt - fine. If you're expecting me to pay for that right, well, we have a problem.
Please rewrite your comments. I'm finding them quite offending.
Also fwiw, if this is self-hosted I'm sure you can export them from BigQuery in an acceptable format.

And if this is Supabase hosted, you can reach out to support and we can do that for you.

Log drains is high on the list for the hosted platform too.
Don't ask my why I clicked on this, and I have no idea why it was posted on HN. It was actually interesting though, it provides tips for girls to take Instagram pictures. In each they show a do and don't picture. To my eye, the "don'ts" mostly look like normal pictures of people, and the "dos" look like people making fake Instagram pictures. I didn't realize there was a technique to it.
You need to obtain the rights to samples you use, why should this be any different?
I am seeing this sentiment so often online at the minute that it seems as though nobody has learned anything about DRM over the past 20 years.
So many threads on reddit calling Italy "backwards" for protecting citizens data, and now people on HN expecting companies to give everything away for free because of the outcome is "inevitable"!

There are a bunch of for-profit American AI companies. Why on Earth would another for-profit company, especially one based in another country, be ok with other people making money from their content. They can either look at developing their own AI platform, or build deals with the existing AI companies. It would be just plain stupid to give it all away for free, or any price that isn't determined by themselves.
Draw a convex polygon which satisfies the conditions

1. Every point on the edge of the polygon is in water

2. Every point on the land in question is inside the polygon

And then sample some very large n points uniformly/randomly from inside the polygon, reporting whether you hit land or water. The closer to 100% land your sampling gets, the more “convex-like” the land in question is.

Basically, draw a convex bounding polygon around the land and ask how much of that bounding polygon does the land fill up.
My Google results defined it as follows:

“ A privilege is a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis”
> Always justifying the perspective of increased expenses under the argument of the need for greater redistribution of resources

It's a communist judiciary dictatorship. I don't know why they even bother "justifying" anything.
Exploring the Collatz Conjecture with Rust
Royalties are typically a contractual payment, though. Calling a voluntary payment a royalty is kind of an odd use of the word, if not plainly incorrect.
You have a good idea here.. Even though I feel it already exists even on my local market.
Interesting article...

As a side note, I have noticed that sometimes people that move into management from a technical position seem to not be fully aware that management is not only about managing projects and keeping track of people timely executing a project, and/or giving some guidance when a project gets a bit blocked, but also about growing people to their fullest potential and trying to understand how to integrate these people's unique abilities into a more cohesive whole, instead of different parts who do exactly what you want them to do, not holistically at all.

There's also a big empathic component to the job that I have noticed some people with technical backgrounds seem to lack. It's almost as if there's a tradeoff pattern of sorts: "Good Technically, Bad with People" vs "Good with People, Bad Technically." I would even dare say that I think the second version is better, since it's easier for people to grow technically than it is for them to grow emotionally... At least that's what I've perceived in the past...

I've met people who are technically magnificent, were amazing individual contributors, and who can plan a project perfectly but who just seem to me to not be able to properly handle the more human side of the equation. They treat people more like tools than actual complex humans... This leads to just "good enough" workgroups that get the job done, but not fully fledged integrated teams that can innovate and actually grow in a more efficient manner.

I urge everyone who is either a manager or is thinking about moving into a managerial position to check out:

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. He is the perfect example of how a technical person can become a great manager in every single way, and the book gives really clear guidance on how to follow the same path.

Last thing: A bit more technical, but the following article/paper is a bit connected:
https://necsi.edu/a-mathematical-theory-of-interpersonal-int...
Get buzzed by my garmin band at 7, snooze to 7:20, eat what I can find in the kitchen, boot my computer and run a script that downloads a few thousand articles and picks out 300 for me to look at, get dropped off at the bus stop, ride the bus to work.

I’ve had times when I got up at 5 in the summer and walked 6 miles before starting work, but lately I have been staying up late teaching myself huggingface transformers.
Further predicition: There will be a certification process that will be required to prove you only used data you have legally obtained. Running or hosting a model will be grounds for a fine, or possible criminal penalties.
It's not because they are inferior products, it's because the US is not a tea-drinking country. Before Starbucks came along Americans already drank oceans of coffee. Folgers, Maxwell House, Tasters Choice, and more.

UK is a tea-drinking country.
LOL. Horse, bolted. Already roaming free.
Well, Derek Thompson at the Atlantic isn't one of them. He seems to feel that the resettlement payment should be large enough so the refugees can live in the fancy neighborhood. It's the unwashed Americans who can't move there.
Kind of looks like an attempt at simulating the "modem dropped because someone picked up an extension phone while modem was connected" result. There was often a burst of random characters like that when the link went down due to "external causes".
Where do we draw the line? iPhone photos go through ml models should they not count either?

Just watching where the tech is heading I’m not going to be surprised if almost all creative tools in 10 years go through this tech so the whole idea that we can cordon off “pure and honest art” seems impossible on the long timeline.
Ask HN: Is MacBook Pro 14 M1 16/512 still a great choice for development?
I have been using my kind of old Dell Inspiron for about 5 years. It has 16GB of RAM but the keyboard has been incredibly buggy recently.

In my country, it's not that easy at all to buy a laptop without paying 2x price but there is one seemingly good option with MBP 14 M1 with 16GB of RAM and 512 SSD. The price is around $1700 which is not much higher than in the US.

There is also the newer Macbook Air M2 16/512, but the price label bites at $1900.

Based on what I have read so far, the MBP is a decent choice: the screen is gorgeous, as well as the performance. The price difference makes it a no brainer, what do you think?

I am a backend developer with no crazy performance requirements. The good old combination of an IntelliJ IDE, containers, K8s, plenty of browser tabs.

Would you pay more for the M2-based Air?

In general, what caveats should I keep in mind when buying a Macbook? I have been a Windows and then Linux user all my life so I have little no idea as to what could go wrong.

With some pieces of equipment there are rules of thumb like "don't forget to check X", "don't buy if Y doesn't equal Z"? Is there anything like that here?

Thanks!
If Side A has wanted to defund you for decades and Side B, and you always paint Side A in a negative light and Side B in a positive...

They aren't controlled by either party but I doubt that doesn't have an influence on their reporting.
Is there a contract similar to SAFE for early employees?

what would fair terms look like? obviously it depends on role and experience etc.

but why not come up with early employee friendly startups.
I have a list for Python here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/
Scary populism is really really scary
If LLMs can get all the "easy" and answered questions, whats left is the challenging and novel ones, which are more interesting to answer. It would make SO better, with more motivated answerers tackling a smaller, higher quality pool of questions.

But from a business perspective, this is a problem for SO because ultimately it means less engagement on the site.
PSA: You might need your old iPhone to open WhatsApp on your new one
There's a quote in the book "Radical Candor" which talks about Empathy vs Compassion which I rather like:

"picture yourself walking along a mountainous trail. You come across a person being crushed by a boulder on their chest. The empathetic response would be to feel the same sense of crushing suffocation, thus rendering you helpless. The compassionate response would be to recognize that that person is in pain and to do everything within your power to remove the boulder and alleviate their suffering. Put another way, compassion is empathy plus action."
It feels shallow to me to let oneself be rebuffed by such petty small barbs. I try to follow the "Highest Form of Disagreement," to find the best interpretations of things first. Rather than let small fry shit cause roadblocks in my mind.

Your ask about Moz/Safari I've said quite a few words on elsewhere in this post & on others. I think the far more interesting topic is what a bunch of jackal villains the IAB is. I cannot stress enough how hard a time Google has had trying to preserve any privacy on the net when there is a huge lobbyist group close to regulators pushing so hard to end user privacy. These people have the worst most anti-user outlook imaginable, are up to absolutely no good. My strong language is a just a start on describing how awful the IAB is & what sinister monsters Google has to go to the mat & wrestle to try to preserve user privacy in a post 3rd party cookie world.

Personally I don't think it's right that I get flagged for my previous reply, but I'm glad to have made a better go at my reply this time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35565707
The difference between "recording" and "training" is really fuzzy. Not even the "exact reproduction" provides a well-defined line, as re-mixing and modifying a song is still considered a copyright violation.

People love to draw the analogy to human listening, and while in principle I agree, the AI is still not human and the argument isn't necessarily valid - it needs arguments to why it's valid, too.
> After finishing the game, Linus started learning Intel assembly language. One day he showed me a program that did multitasking. One task or thread would write a stream of the letter "A" on the screen, the other "B"; the context switches were visually obvious when the stream of As became Bs. This was the first version of what would later become known as the Linux kernel.

Reminds me of: "Gall’s Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked. If you want to build a complex system that works, build a simpler system first, and then improve it over time."

I owe so much to Linux and the whole free software movement, as a self-taught programmer. I set up my first Linux computer in late 1995 - it was a laptop with 4 mb of memory (which wasn't much even then) running Slackware that I'd downloaded over a modem over the course of several days.

It was so cool to realize I could examine and modify the source code for... all of it! And interact with the people who had written all of it. I was hooked. I'm still using Linux as my primary development system these days.
This could be true.
> unlike the original metal

The correction at the bottom seems to imply that the originals were not metal.

> Correction: IBM's Selectric balls aren't made of metal.
> Sometimes I talk too much in my own meetings.

That is a problem indeed, but this doesn't solve that. You can talk as much as you want as long as the volume is low enough.
I've never managed to find a Wii-connector-to-USB adapter that wouldn't inexplicably die within six months, but the 1st-party SNES Classic controllers are basically perfect clones of the original. Ditto the NES versions they have. Wii Pro Controllers are also great and have a similar feel & quality, but with modern ergonomics (no rumble, though, so not great for e.g. Playstation games, and IIRC the triggers aren't analog, which is limiting)

You can connect Wiimotes to PCs over Bluetooth and use any of those Wii-connector controllers through them, which would make them wireless and solve the finding-a-reliable-adapter problem, but I've never managed to make that kind of set-up sufficiently stable. Always having to screw with re-pairing and such.

In the end, my go-to for BT emulation controllers is usually a PS3/4/5 controller. I haven't tried the XBone but I found the d-pad on the XB and XB360 controllers unusably inaccurate, and the face buttons weirdly slow when trying to play old-school Nintendo-hard games. Playstation controller d-pads are much better, and the face buttons feel quicker to switch between, for whatever reason.
Space Launch: Who, What, and Where We're Going
Boeing outperforms Airbus in orders in Q1 2023
The context was thermal energy received from the sun, not attention received from man.

Your clap-back might make sense when somebody is criticizing Pink Floyd, but it doesn't make sense here.
define 'rightsholders'

Oh right, in most cases, it's actually the majors themselves.

lol
> This is not very costly, unless you need to scan specific enterprise systems that can not be emulated, and are beyond ones price range - to buy to learn.

This is where my advice comes in handy :)
What was their original plan when they purchased it?

Was it just an acquihire all along?
Sam Altman: OpenAI is not training GPT-5 and "won't for some time"
A certification would happen in the EU first.
Soon AI will not need a lot of training data anymore.

Anybody will be able to let their computer listen to one Metallica record and say "Do you hear this? This is called heavy metal. Can you make an album like this? With distorted guitars, a screaming singer and heavy drums?" and the AI will understand the whole concept and make a new heavy metal album.
I really like this description of empathy vs sympathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBTYViDPlQ

It was the first time I "got it".
Ask HN: Why do most platforms have the same host pattern?
A lot of platforms like fly.io, Heroku, vercel, etc. have more or less the same simple host pattern. The pattern seems to be:

{random-string}{domain}

Some reasons are obvious like:

1. Using the same subdomain allows for a single wildcard cert
2. The random string label probably helps to avoid collisions, protect privacy, security, etc.

What other reasons would this common pattern be used?
I've come across several articles and discussions that suggests empathy is a bit of a trap. You may feel what someone else is feeling, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're helping them. I'm currently reading Rutget Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen) about how people in emergency situations or when society breaks down, tend to be far more altruistic than we usually tell ourselves. The exact opposite of Lord of the Flies turns out to be true. But then where does xenophobia come from? One of the culprits, he suggests, might be empathy. As we feel and identify more strongly with one person who have something in common with, we tend to see other people as more different. So xenophobia might be the other side of the same coin as empathy.

Not sure if it's true, and I haven't finished the book yet, but Bregman tends to be pretty thorough in his research, and he does base this idea on experiments.
> That said, when most of the web looks more or less the same way, it feels like this site stands out too much and the design detracts from the experience, in my eyes.

The site's design is not to my taste -- but I seriously love that it doesn't look like almost all of the rest of the web.

Most of the web all looks the same. I applaud Exotic Silicon for pushing back against that.
> I wonder what makes Sidekiq special?

Time, know-how, and long term dedication are the key ingredients from my perspective. Maybe he's working 10-20 hours now, but there's support and development every day for the past 11 years.

> I don't imagine any equivalent product (background job processing) in the other languages is raking in that much, if making any revenue in the first place.

I guarantee, there are background job processors in other languages making revenue.
I get quite tired of catty replies like this. If you think "your side" doesn't contribute to an ecosystem of cause and effect I don't know what to tell you. If you're so fragile that you need to hear it spelled out, "The right is still on average worse than you but you're still bad" then I also don't know what to tell you. Maybe, just, don't participate in discourse or something. Your opinion isn't needed, wanted, or appreciated.
Then this post is not aimed at you, obviously.
If it were, we would be saying that WWII started in 1938, not 1939
In 2017, Sidekiq was generating over $1M/yr in revenue.[0] It sounds like his costs are basically nil, so he's living the dream.

[0] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/016-mike-perham-of-side...
Prediction: clean room AI will forever lag behind AI that hoovers up whatever data it can get it's hands on.
Empathy is knowing the mental feelings of someone because you’ve known them. Sympathy is knowing the physical symptoms of someone because you’ve felt them. Compassion is a way of acting when knowing empathy and sympathy.
Suspect in classified documents leak appears in court
That’s an interesting story.

I think the key thing missing here is the notion of “well-being”. When designing with well-being in mind (of end-user, community, society, ecology), then sympathy, empathy, and compassion all makes more sense. (Though I disagree with how Chopra distinguishes among those terms).

I don’t think males are incapable of it. We’re socialized to reject it, but we all need it in some way or another.
Synecdoche is relatively common:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche