skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more analogous to if you had tweaked one of those famous works directly in photoshop then turned it in. The model training likely results in near replicas of some of the training data encoded in the model. You might have a near replica of a famous photograph encoded in your head, but to make a similar photograph you would recreate it with your own tools and it would probably come out pretty different. The AI can just output the same pixels.

That's not to say there aren't other ways you might use the direct image (e.g. collage or sampling in music) but you'll likely be careful with how it's used, how much you tweak it, and with attribution. I think the weird problem we're butting up against is that AFAIK you can't figure out post-facto what the "influence" is from the model output aside from looking at the input (which does commonly use names of artists).

I work on an AI image generator, so I really do think the tech is useful and cool, but I also think it's disingenuous (or more generously misinformed) to compare it to an artist studying great works or taking inspiration from others. These are computers inputting and outputting bits. Another human analog would be memorizing a politician's speech and using chunks of it in your own speech. We'd easily call that plagiarism, but if instead every 3 words were exactly the same? Hard to say... it's both more and less plagiarism.

Just how much do you need to process a sampled work before you need to get permission of the original artist? It seems to be in music that if the copyright holder can prove you sampled them, even if it's unrecognizable, then you're going to be on the hook for some royalties.
'is a popular passtime for many [] people'

Fixed That For You.

Interestingly for the ethologist, they have habitats: for example, the bottom comments in the stacks in YouTube...
Replicate: Run Models in the Cloud at Scale
Yes but the vast bulk of wealth is owned by a very small minority. That's who people are generally talking about when referring to the "millionaire class".
Indeed! Great article on that: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2019/01/30/html-css-and-...
"many of us without a computer science background are here because of the ease of starting to write HTML and CSS."
How Discord handles push request bursts a million+/minute with Elixir (2016)
This paper specifically provides strong evidence against this explanation:

> We also do not observe logarithmic spirals toward the centre of the light source, a key prediction of celestial compass entrapment.
While lobbying for Government funding for 5G, too.[1][2]

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/accelerating-5g-united-states

[2] https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/...
They have a filter for that (that I always use).
Have you tried filtering search results by "Property Type" (Hotel) and "Property Rating" (3-star, etc.)?
Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it! I like your idea of allowing the bus to use the shoulder lane to get to work faster. In some countries, like Jordan, there are actually lanes that are used solely by public transit buses for that exact reason.
Governments tend not to think of their citizens as customers but subjects.
Ciccio!
I recently discovered that T-Mobile does this too, but they actually let you disable it on their site. Ostensibly, it's a feature for your benefit (somehow), and they're doing you a favor by enabling it by default. In reality, of course, it's for their own benefit, and they're banking on people not realizing it can be disabled. I suppose giving you the option lets them advertise things like "no throttling" and "4K streaming supported" while still reaping the benefits of throttling/lower-bitrate streaming.
That was far less onerous than I expected.
Results at the top of your article/project please
Ask HN: Is IQ test a thing during hiring in your country or industry?
Hi HN folks.

So recently while applying for a software developer job in Sweden, for the first time in several years, I was given a pseudo iq test (raven matrix test) + some really shoddy personality test that resembled a watered down version (fake) of big5. This was after an initial coding assignment and coding interview was already passed.

I'm originally from Sweden, and I do remember taking those test multiple times in the past, mostly for tech jobs. (software)

But when I've applied to jobs in US/UK and Japan noticed that I've never even be asked to take those test.(but coding test ofc) As I usually do above average to average, even when I'm tired, I shouldn't be bothered but I do, given the IQ tests very dubious origin and Swedens.. Rather dubious past and awkward history [1],[2]...

I've been working with neuroscientists and cognitive neuroscientist for a couple of years, and while I can't recite their very well crafted arguments, they were all (independently) strongly against the iq tests and personality tests as pseudo scientific. But I've never known the reason why, and if it's even legal, to use it for hiring.

So after googling a little bit, in US it seems to be a gray-zone; if it can be shown to not be relevant to the job, and does discriminate against certain profiles (race, socioeconomic status, gender) one could be liable under laws against discriminations, was the closest answer I found.

And then the top search query returned HN discussions from 2012 and 5 days ago[3,4].

I know that there's different options about the test in HN from reading the above links, so to make it clear I'm not asking if the original test is valid or not, but if you've encountered any version of it during hiring stage (or used it).

I have to admit taking it does make me upset; Im from a mixed race background and I know that at least in Sweden, it have been used by school of thoughts that would essentially deem my existence to be a "mistake" so it's hard to not take it personal, considering that I've experienced people that share that attitude multiple times through my upbringing here. So I do have a negative bias towards the practice, for full disclosure.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/37848

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35530815

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772897
Ah, okay thanks for clarifying! I thought perhaps there's some special significance to this site that I wasn't aware of.
I became aware of a huge trove of forgotten 1960s-1970s Atomic Energy Commission videos sitting in a basement at the National Archives on 16mm film. I started filling out forms and personally funded the digitization of one of them [1]. Then, I leveraged how awesome it was to convince a utility in Nebraska to fund the digitization of another 2 (which were relevant to them) [2]. Roughly $900 a pop, but so worth it.

Now I just have to find funders for the next ~90.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/zppr.html

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2023-03-13-hallam-historical-...
I have not, actually, it's been floating around on my to-read list for ages. This trope is all over the place, but the main examples that were floating in my brain when I wrote this comment were The Name of The Wind and Unsong. I should really give Earthsea a read, been meaning to for a long time.
Then no one would vote for them in the next election
AI is coming soon to Google Search with ‘Magi’ as Samsung considers Bing default
Good point, although you could still do logic like only activating the throttle after the customer visits netflix.com. You can't distinguish the CDN traffic, but you can still tell what website is being viewed.

Incidentally, my speeds on fast.com are always terrible (about 1/8 of what I get elsewhere), despite the fact that I'm fairly confident it is not being throttled. That's because the speed I see is >100 Mbps, which is like 4 Netflix UHD streams. Wouldn't be much point in throttling to that speed, you'd want 10 Mbps max, and less on wireless.
The website gets stuck on the fancy loading animation in Firefox. Not a great (jump)start.
All service providers have to be in the CCSP program, nothing wrong with that. And we do use it for clients. But it kinda sucks that even our in-house stuff has to cost the same. Discourages use of RHEL in-house.
> No it wasn't. It was 6% max and more like 3% before Ukraine. If you want to correct somebody's statement, bring sources. Here is one for my numbers

If you actually looked at data from previous years on the site you posted:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

You would see that nuclear was still 11,8% in 2021.

I mean really? You keep saying stuff like "fake news" and "ridiculous claim" when you can't even be bothered to read the sources you're "citing". Why?
It’s not as simple as that though because the algorithm does learn by itself and mostly just uses the training data to score itself against, it doesn’t directly copy it as some people seem to think. It can end up learning to copy things if it sees them enough times though

“you can't find an artist for a generated picture other than the ones in the training set. If you can't find a new artist, then the picture belongs to the old ones, so to speak”

I don’t think that’s valid on its own as a way to completely discount considering how directly it’s using the data. As an extreme example, what if I averaged all the colours in the training data together and used the resulting colour as the seed for some randomly generated fractal or something? You could apply the same arguments - there is no artist except the original ones in the training set - and yet I don’t think any reasonable person would say that the result obviously belongs to every single copyright owner from the training set
There is some code that controls the speed when there is a single alien left it moves faster right to left see the code at 00C2 in http://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/Code.html

But basically one alien moves every video frame.
But this person’s dog isn’t in the training set, so why should some artist be credited for a picture they never drew? Not a single person has drawn his dog before, now there is a drawing of his dog, and you want to credit someone who had no input to the creative process here?
I hope the AI will also be able to recognize AI-generated headlines. The idea that the AI model will both be tasked with determining if headlines are bearish or bullish and actually writing headlines sure feels like a loop.
It's still rude. I'll accept the quick spouse/so update, the actual emergency or the "hey I might have to talk to x" but that's about it. If you're there to hang out and talk then do that. If you're just going to fuck with your phone the whole time you might as well not be there.

I'll also accept phone use as a furtherance of the discussion, eg pulling up details, addresses, info, memes to share, etc, but that still all focuses back on us being there together, not you being there in name only.
Could someone explain the semantic difference between "lake" and "sea" here?

Why is this called a "lake" (or even "megalake") even though it was far larger than many of today's seas? (or indeed some of today's seas are fragments of the ancient lake)

Edit: I guess it has more to do with salinity and whether or not the body of water is connected to the ocean?
How is that substantially different than using grammarly or a spell checker?
I tried disrupting my lithium battery, and it blew up.
Using AI as a tool to create art takes nothing away from anyone who spent time learning a skill or craft that they use in their own pursuit of expression.

People will be arguing about whether or not art made with AI is art, and artists will just be using it or not. I remember an interview about electronic music where Bjork addressed concerns that if you use a computer to make music, it has no soul, and she said if the person using the machine to make the music puts soul into it, it will have a soul.

I remember David Bowie in the mid 90s saying if he was young in that decade he might not have been a musician, because in the 60s being a musician seemed subversive and at the time of the interview the internet was carrying the flag of subversion.

Anyway, it's interesting to watch these conversations. I'd never claim to know what art is or try to tell someone, but it seems to me that already because of the controversy artists are drawn to AI and further exciting the conversation. Commercial artists seem the most threatened; animators, designers, etc. I understand why, but I don't think arguing that AI isn't "art" is going to help their cause any more than protesting digital painting wasn't art, electronic music wasn't art, and much earlier that photography wasn't art.

All the time these conversations are happening, the art's getting made and we're barreling towards the next 'not art' movement.
> In fact, learning English as a native Korean speaker, one of the greatest difficulty was asking questions - you can't just start your sentence and make it a question later, you have to mentally pause, construct your question in your head, and then invert the first word! It took me years.

Thank you, you've answered a question I've had about different languages for years as a monolingual English speaker! I've always suspected that it might feel significantly different to construct sentences in languages with different word ordering, and I think that confirms that.
Not normal when I go out to eat. What kind of people think its socially acceptable to accept a phone call unless its an emergency?
yes, I'm not sure the logistics but it's definitely done in other places.

Certainly in Australia if you are travelling international you go through outbound immigration control. I'm not sure what happens if you need to get out again for some reason after you "exit" the country. I assume you have to "re-enter" the country by circling through inbound immigration. Perhaps having no land borders makes outbound immigration control more reasonable.

It does seem like the cost of adding some secure departure lounges might be less than circling huge numbers of passengers through unnecessary immigration procedures, security lines, etc
There was color but it was achieved via tinted cellophane tape. (though I do remember playing pure black and white versions as well) Later, there were 'real' color versions in arcades but I don't recall if it was a later iteration of the hardware or a knock-off.
My go-to for a pbrt-type renderer is Lux[0] which ticks all the same boxes. If you're willing to go closed source then the standard used to be Maxwell Render, but I don't know if that's changed in the last couple of years.

[0] https://luxcorerender.org/
Thanks. I hadn't heard of latex.js before, but I just looked it up now, and it says "Math is type­set us­ing Ka­TeX."
If you can find a new artist then I think the picture belongs to him.
I had that same experience, some time there is a lot of back and forth with junior support people that doesn't seem to have a clue what's going and only follow a script, it gets better when it gets escalated but that's painfully slow to get there if you are not a marquee customer.
Great to see Mark Twain fail to engage in actual war. Leo Tolstoy, Thoreau and other men, too, were even less fond of it.

As a left-libertarian, I would like to recommend two great speeches regarding war:

Eugene Debbs: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/eugene-v-debs-speech...

Smedley Butler: http://kether.com/words/butler-smedley--war-is-a-racket-1.pd...
Interesting article but it sounds like all the author had to do was schedule an appointment and wait 30min.

Also the conclusion is discouraging: rather than make self payment easier, the IRS easily has the information available to estimate and deduct taxes as they are due automatically or via an easy online form. Turbotax and other providers lobby against this for good reason, because with TurboTax you still have to input information and calculate taxes whereas with the IRS they have the data available already.

The conclusion I drew from this article is the most annoying and tedious part of this process was manually calculating taxes well in advance, which I’d be willing to bet took significantly longer than the commute to the IRS office + 30 minute wait.
That's surely how I would have done it.
With any luck, AR glasses that show exactly the nuts and bolts to loosen at their pace, instead of a YouTube video with a mechanic standing in the way, that you have to repeatedly rewind and rewatch in order to get the confusing bit.
Not sure if it needs to be said, but try informing your hotel the day of, but close enough to when you're actually arriving that you're speaking to the same person, that you will be checking in late so they're less likely to give it to a walk in.

People _do_ book hotels and no-show enough that they're more than willing to assuming you're not gonna use it if you don't give them a heads up.
Zero-Day Bitcoin Attack – Bitcoin, Doge, Litecoin and More Vulnerable
According to your source it was 11,8% in 2021. And well... 2022 hasn't been the best year for German industry (obviously discontinuing nuclear isn't the main factor but the timing was still exceptionally poor/unlucky)
Periscope Films does a lot of this, they have a lot of old 16mm government and military films on YouTube. I don't know if they have other stuff behind a paywall.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13569538

appleseed is one of the few open source renderers designed for production rendering and targeted at animation and VFX. In addition to fully programmable shading via OpenShadingLanguage, strong support for motion blur and many other specific features, it supports accurate spectral rendering, which is quite a unique combination.
You were likely downvoted because you asked how to use it for NFTs, which you just edited it out.
FOSS is big aspect here. There aren't that many production-ready FOSS rendering engines out there. You have Cycles which is very tightly coupled to Blender, Mitsuba which is purely academic, and LuxCore which is probably closest competitor for Appleseed. Just recently DreamWorks released their MoonRay, but it is still so new that it remains to be seen where it falls.

Looking at the feature list, Appleseed seems very full-featured. One thing that struck out to me is having spectral rendering support, which is still relatively rare feature. Otherwise they seem to have strong emphasis on OSL, so that might be nice?

I guess the lack of differentiation/big killer features is why Appleseed didn't catch on, which is bit of a shame considering how it still seems like solid good project.
CS50 is Harvard's introduction to computer science course. It's pretty good. https://cs50.harvard.edu
A data pipeline. You'll see Conways law take place at team boundaries.
But I'll eat until they kick me out. That's how I know I got my moneys worth
I'm normally not the guy posting the nigh-mandatory XKCD, but as nobody has covered this one yet...

https://xkcd.com/149/
> an artist for a generated picture

Normally - outside the specific context of AI generated art -, there is not a relation "work¹ → past author" , but "work → large amount of past experience". (¹"work": in the sense of product, output etc.)

If the generative AI is badly programmed, it will copy the style of Smith. If properly programmed, it will "take into account" the style of Smith. There is a difference between learning and copying. Your tool can copy - if you do it properly, it can learn.

All artists work in a way "post consideration of a finite number of past artists in their training set".
Friendships Matter Much More That the Value We Place on Them
Part of this is how things work in Germany though. I was asking a German friend what would happen if you drove with a suspended license in Germany, he said "But why would you drive with a suspended license?”. I said ”maybe there's an emergency, maybe you have to get to the hospital”. He replied "but you have a suspended license so you can't drive"... This went on for some time. He really couldn't wrap his head around the fact that someone with a suspended license may in fact still drive a car. I suspect that there are so few cases where folks break rules like Tesla did that the administration just doesn't really know what to do about it.
Any pincer attack damage will help get rid of any free radicals by forming a new oxidation layer.
I thought surely that would be public domain by now but a brief search indicates that copyright is the life of the author plus 70 years.
Nowhere in your supposedly superior evaluation of the situation do I see a single of the supposedly cringe fud hysterical points addressed.

They all made specific points with the reasoning explained. If the reasoning was somehow invalid, you sure didn't show how.
The key finding of the research in this article is that this is not what is happening. See the "Flight path manipulation via light switching" section and the Discussion section.
Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (2016)
Caravaggio Lost at Sea (2022)
There is indeed nothing in JPEG-XL worth breaking the entire image ecosystem for, where the image can used in a normal <img> tag, where you can direct link to the image URL, where you can save the image, where you can upload the image to any site you want, where you can see the thumbnail in your file browser, where you can open it in any image editor, etc.

There is probably never going to be an image format that would be worth throwing all that away for a JS shim that dumps pixels into a <canvas>. But that doesn't mean it is never worth adopting a new format into the image ecosystem.
I agree that the original source is probably better and that permission and attribution would be the best thing for Aeon to do (particularly as a sizeable publication), however he did intentionally publish it as CC0.

I suppose things like this are why people hesitate to publish under CC0: it sounds great from an ideological perspective, it's much more difficult when you realize how little control it leaves you with.
I prefer good old AXI4
>Everyone's favorite law to cite but I rarely see a lot of examples

If you're looking for experimental validation of Conway's Law, the best work I'm aware of was done by Microsoft Research analyzing the Windows Vista development effort[0]. They found that organizational measures (eg. how high up in the org structure do you have to go to find every developer who contributed code to a particular DLL, etc.) were significantly better predictors of post-release code quality than traditional metrics like churn, complexity, coverage,
dependencies, or pre-release bug counts.

If your company builds software, there's a tax to pay if the code architecture and human architecture are poorly aligned. The bigger that misalignment, the bigger the tax. Conway's Law misalignment is like technical debt in the sense that it's always there at some level, and there are times when it's important to reduce the cost and there are times when it's better to accept the cost and focus on other taxes/debts.

[0]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Does anyone advertise 'inside' IR35? I get tonnes too, but it'd be at my risk not the, err, employer's.
Yes they're great. They put their watermark on them and post them on youtube, which is huge amount better than nothing. Some of my favorite old vids come from them. You can guy unwatermarked ones from them, which I guess is how they sustain. I'll take it I guess. They hadn't gotten to these extra obscure AEC ones yet though.
“Abundance” is kind of a tricky concept. 99.999%+ of earth’s resources are not yet within human’s ability to mine. Mostly either inaccessible or too sparsely concentrated or locked in compounds difficult to industrialize.

Titanium for instance is also very abundant. But it hasn’t been until relatively recently that humans were able to mine and process it at industrial scale.