skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point imgur built a front page. Initially it mirrored reddits front page. And then it diverged, and very strangely for an image hosting site, most of the content on the front page was text. Often about current events, engaging in a superficial way (so, falling into the traps that HN is set up to avoid) but sometimes just tweet screenshots.

This i guess is another move away from image content for imgur. Dunno.
But it’s actually not a great song.

It IS very impressive for the technical accomplishment of just how much it sounds like Drake & The Weekend.

I think 15 million people have listened to it for that reason—to marvel at the likeness of artists they know like a digital audio wax museum.

I think it will be important for artists to be able to copyright their appearance & sound; their visual & auditory identities.
I don't want to sound negative or discredit this contributor but having Asperger syndrome "helps". I got lost deep diving into several topics to the point where I spent almost all of my free time for a couple of years trying to understand each of them as much as possible.

That can lead to very positive output. The flip side is that my mind starts going in circles repeating the same thoughts over and over again.
> While the 787 might not be as silky smooth taking off and landing, I prefer it for the long term comfort that matters for most of the flight.

Cyclists generally prefer carbon fiber over aluminum because the former is smoother than the latter. 787 is carbon fiber, A380 is a fiberglass/aluminum composite. I wonder if that's why the 787 is smooth.

I'm not an expert on planes but I'm not aware of another commercial airliner that's carbon fiber.
>But really, the underlying filesystem is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

I think that's vastly under selling what's done to ensure that each block is written linearly, blocks are structured, sized, written and accessed in a way that the filesystem does very little (directio, fadvise, droping caches on writes, etc). I was in total agreement with you, for a long time. The rocksdb devs have put in the work, and tuning rocksdb usually gets faster the less the FS does.

Lately linear reads and writes are not why one is choosing LSM's in a datacenter setting. Access times of even cheap slow ssd's are amazing.

They are used for controlling write amplification with tunable known costs. That is you write fewer hardware blocks to the flash chips with a well tuned rocksdb.
You can just post directly to Reddit now.
ChatGPT involvement is disclosed at the bottom.

This is a massive conflict of interest. How can I be confident the data is correct?
Jimi Hendrix could probably never happen again, he’d put out three hit songs and his music, his style would just be ripped off from there ?
My poor yak is already bald.
Laughing at myself for ignorance but I thought "port" was east because sailing south from Europe meant that the ports were on the left, and the stars were on the right and most cargo ships didn't make it back. Sigh
FWIW you can use OSS-to-ALSA wrapper and sound will work.

In general you can get most of old Linux stuff to work if you find and install the relevant libraries, the main issue is that these libraries tend to be spread all over the place and sometimes even conflict with existing libraries.

With Windows you also need to do something similar with older games (e.g. use dgVoodoo2 to play old Direct3D and Glide games) but since Windows comes out with a lot more stuff and that stuff tends to be backwards compatible for the most stuff, there is much less to worry about.
what about some sort of Lagrange point orbit rather than orbiting the moon itself?
Modern chat apps & message boards use their own image hosting rather than people sharing links. A bunch of old message-boards are going to be full of dead links though. Hosting these old images probably cost a ton of money that they don't recoup, whereas new users pay for their storage by forced app download & giving up their data.
>A very similar argument can be made for particle physics and their colliders. Yes, telescopes produce pretty pictures, but fundamental particle physics occasionally produces practical results.

>Well, they used to (the colliders I mean). Modern particle physics seems to be more in the confirmation stage of current theory rather than a discovery phase like it used to be maybe 40 years ago.

There are some good arguments as to why a muon collider might be a really good thing to build, and why it would be smaller than the LHC. CERN already has a program to look into it.

If you have an hour this is a good talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed about muon colliders from last month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPwzezceGo&t=3379s

But to address your point about being in the confirmation phase, you can go to this particular time stamp, where he talks about why a muon collider is a good way to probe the higgs boson itself, which is new science.

https://youtu.be/wKPwzezceGo?t=618
I was super impressed by Windows' efforts on the backwards compatibility part, in particular with all the legendary articles on them testing specific apps and leaving alternate modes reproducing the bugs so the apps can continue working.

And then I opened again a windows laptop...and the words than came to mind were "missing the forest for the trees".

Like, I feel that Microsoft really cares a lot about each and every tree, and went above and beyond to make the most trees happy and cut down as few trees as they could at every iteration. And we lauded then for that, cheering at every tree that could stay alive.

Except now the forest is really badly planned, it grew and expanded a lot but without enough prunning really, each user has to carve a path with a chainsaw to get anywhere livable, we regularly fall into forgotten valleys with runes to unlock lost technology.

I won't argue it needs to be a walled garden breaking new at every release, but there must be a better middle-ground for all of this.
I would have approached this problem this way: set a lower bound say 3. Then we wish to prove there doesn't exist any n,m>=3 that satisfies n^m=m^n. This is much more easily proved using just double induction. Then you can just search for a case where n=2.
IMO, the vibe thing is how I usually use it (Dutchie over here).
does Bill Hader spending countless hours watching celebrity scenes to work on his impressions count as training on copyrighted material
Yeah I've started doing the same. When I [rarely] log into my YT account to find an old favorite from a couple years ago or whatever, I notice that something like 2/3 of my Favorites are unavailable now (I've been using YT since it launched so that kinda skews the chances in that direction of course, but the point remains).
gorilla glass is more like materials science than high energy particle physics.
> it’s actually not a great song

It is now. That the labels reacted like so. They’ve shown it’s great, or the king has no clothes.
I couldn't recommend seeing it more highly.

I stopped there on the way to the Grand Canyon, and I honestly enjoyed the Boneyard more than the Grand Canyon.

Plus, the Mexican food nearby is great :)
> How is the song a violation of copyright?

Few people are arguing this is an issue of copyright infringement. It's a very weak argument.

> You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough

This isn't "mimicking". You can sue someone for impersonating you, especially if money is involved.
Have you heard any hit single in the last 20+ years?
AI couldn’t possibly come up with anything worse that every single one of them.
How is running a LLM related to stable diffusion?

Your contention is that models will run on devices; but latent diffusion models have lower memory footprints (see: latent).

The hardware you need to run a good LLM is what, 10x more than a latent diffusion one?

They are not comparable.
JWST was being built with the knowledge that there would be no way we could ever get to it to make repairs. A telescope on the moon would be something we could send the Maytag repair guy to make a house call. The risk is much smaller
Can we please stop using “NSFW” as a euphemism for porn? I feel like I’m going crazy today between this and Reddit. The standard for something to qualify as NSFW is much lower than straight up pornography. It was originally anything you wouldn’t want your boss to see you looking at if he walked up behind you at your cubicle. The use of the term is incredibly vague. If you’re banning porn just say you’re banning porn Jesus Christ.
I'm not saying there's a definition that works down that path (I don't know); I'm saying that "we only have multiple infinities because of this definition, which people objected to because it didn't give us enough infinities" seems a little muddled.
Core tools like Linux, Apache and Node? (to name a few.)

But I think you're talking more like tools that are deployed somewhere (thinking of HashiiCorp Vault, GitHub or AWS.) I guess if you have to run servers to make it add value, then an argument could be made you need a business to collect cash to run the servers.

VSCode is another example. It started off as VizDevStudio's free younger sibling, but had grown into quite the solution of its own.

So yeah... your assertion isn't crazy.

But the reason sn-props was abandoned is it was never advertised outside our small little group. I don't think it adds enough value to warrant putting a company around it, but maybe there's more value buried in there somewhere based on it's interface. Like it could be the interface a kubernetes or lambda like tool uses to communicate config info to apps it automatically starts up in request to scaling events.

Or if you wanted to see it survive, you could popularize it among node users and get a community of people updating it after the original company runs out of money.

I'm sure non-commercial tools getting abandoned is your experience, but I've been using emacs for about 40 years and non-commercial versions of BSD and Linux for 30. I think I started using gcc in the mid-80s.

But the versions of Windows and MacOS I liked have long been EoL'd. I scour ebay to find parts for my Canon Cat. And multiple generations of JTAG probes from otherwise decent companies have gone under the hill.

My experience is when a commercial product's market gets too small, it's abandoned just as readily as an open source project.
Thanks. A suspicion lingered as soon as I wrote that comment. I guess I was going off of some YouTube video. Now I see rationals are countable.

But what explains the power set being larger though? It seems intuitive but I don’t want to trust it for obv reasons. Is diagonalisation impossible?
Happy Gilmore AI?
Multiplication is used because when a frequency is present and in phase (meaning peaks are aligned), it would result in more 'positive curves' sitting above the x-axis than negative curves below.

This is also the principle behind DSSS modulation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-sequence_spread_spectru... ), which is used in numerous communications systems.
This is just such nonsense. Musk is the literally the longest serving CEO in the car and space industry. And he is well known for being the opposite of hands-off.

You can read interviews with lots of former engineers, journalist who cover SpaceX and pretty much every other source, Musk is incredibly hands on, he leads engineering meeting that can sometimes be 4h long going into the night.

What is your source for this 'hands-off' attitude? Because its the opposite of what every source who actually works or observes SpaceX professionally.

The reality is many people just hate Musk and feel the need to not just dislike him personal but try to discredit everything he has ever done. Giving credit to somebody who you personally dislike as a person is just not something many people are willing to accept.
Lived in Philly for a few years and my family is from there.

Makes sense that the Cheesesteak would be a popular export. Its origins are Italian, and like other Italian foods you can make it anywhere if you get the prep and the ingredients right. It's also heavily customizable and can last a while like pizza.

IMO getting the bread right is the hard part, but I imagine a good chef will recognize that quickly. Philly has special bakeries that supply a lot of the steak places (Amorosos, etc).

Also I'm sorry but cheese wiz is disgusting. Get Provolone :).
Many social networking sites (YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) prohibit sexual content, racism and unauthorised use of trademarks in their terms and conditions, but in practice they've mostly left it alone, so I doubt Imgur will be so thorough.
Lots of people listen to EDM.
You have to wonder how long that's going to last, though, as Reddit is in the same situation of quietly tolerating pornographic content while not explicitly promoting it.

The worst possible outcome for Reddit is that this move shines light on how many porn communities exist on reddit, which causes media scrutiny, which causes advertisers to bail or threaten to bail, which causes Reddit to ban NSFW subreddits, which spells the end of Reddit.
Not on NSFW subreddits. Unless this changed recently, you have to upload your image elsewhere and then submit the link to NSFW subs
Fortunately, it's billed as average DAUs.
So a user logging in once a day over 30 days would count as 1 DAU.
anyone who uses the iPad as a babysitter is a terrible parent IMO

Do you include a draw/colouring/painting app? That seems OK to me. It is a digital form of colouring books.
Elon Musk, renowned entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has announced that he is starting a new artificial intelligence (AI) company called X.AI.

According to Musk, X.AI will focus on developing advanced AI technologies that can help people work more efficiently and effectively. The company is said to be part of a wider plan to create a so-called everything app under the brand “X."
Its a nice bit of rewriting history.

When Ariane 6 was first discuss politically it was all about how it would beat SpaceX in the market, how competitive it would be and so on and so on. Endlessly talking about how Arianespace was so superior to SpaceX in terms of launch cadence and reliability and so on.

And now 10 years later its 'well we need to launch sats ourself, of course we can't compete with SpaceX on the open market'.

If their goal had actually been assured independent access to space, doing the Ariane 5 ME was a better plan. Because the reality is, the cost for Ariane 6 is far greater then the money saved by going from Ariane 5 ME to Ariane 6. It will take a decade or more of flying Ariane 6 before this actual saves money. And by then the better have their next rocket in planning.
Reddit has also recently announced moves in regards to NSFW content[1] by limiting data access to mature content more aggressively than they currently do. It seems like an area a lot of platforms are struggling with and seem to opt for a complete ban.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_r...
Many licenses require retesting every couple of years
> he’d put out three hit songs and his music, his style would just be ripped off from there

If his further work can do easily be extended, it’s commodity. Valuable. But not artistic.
Lagrange point orbits are unstable as well.

It all can be done but takes propellant.
I hadn't thought about that, but you're right. My story probably makes little sense to non-programmers of that time.

Going deeper, most of whatever the 20th/21st century leaves for future historians may very well be indecipherable, if at all recoverable.
AGW: Anthropogenic global warming?
It might not violate copyright, but it may violate a "right of publicity" for imitating the voice of someone else. See e.g., Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9th Cir. 1988), in which Bette Midler sued Ford Motor Company for commercials in which Ford used a sound-alike singer to copy Midler's voice.
Ah no worries then. Thanks for your datapoint regardless
Of course that is a completely different situation and one I would welcome but that’s not where we are now and I’m guessing not where we will be any time soon.
My uninformed impression is that Tumblr users were relatively unique in how freely they mixed pornography consumption and non porno. There are some Twitter users who do this, but Twitter is public enough that most people are wary of doing that or get caught by follows, likes being public. My anecdotal experience is that I don't see porno comments or submissions from most reddit users either, but that's obviously skewed by the reddits I'm in.

I also know that Tumblr has norms against "horny on main", so maybe Tumblr users were very diligent about using alts and the other sites make that too frictional
Yup. It's like an article comparing 2023 Manchester City with the 2020 Bayern team. While it might work as a thought exercise it wouldn't have an impact on who wins the cup in 2023.
There's a really nice website by Goku Mohandas called Made With ML. IMO it is the best practical guide to MLOps out there: https://madewithml.com

Incase you want to dive a little deeper, https://fullstackdeeplearning.com/course/2022/ is also something I have been recommended by folks.
> A random AI mind plucked out of space of possible minds is highly unlikely to have internalized a good approximation of our value system

There is no common value system amongst humans. We have voluntary murderers, cannibals, mad scientists, misanthropes, various religions, wannabe influencers and lifetime recluses. Not even self preservation is certainly a factor when dealing with humans.
Ok maybe it’s not a violation of copyright by current standards, but should laws be reconsidered?

What if I use AI to make and sell web dev educational content using the voice & likeness of Evan You, for example? Where are the lines?

Isn’t this in some way bootleg merchandise? As identity becomes radically easier to duplicate, should laws adapt? While impressive & novel, I think AI mimicry is its least useful (and likely most dangerous) feature.
We shall wait for the day when a highly competent chatbot can explain this to us peasants
Musicians train on copyrighted content and then play music that is similar to that originating content. ...And that's what a musical genre is.
Imgur will also be deleting images that aren't associated with a user account. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
'Chaos-GPT, ChaosGPT, Chaos_GPT'
The Raspberry foundation at this point is no diferent from TI's Beagleboard, a veneer of educational project who's core business is to cater for industrial clients.

Perhaps I'm being too cynical in lumping it with BeagleBoard but at this point to me the bbc micro:bit + MicroPython is effectively filling the educational void that Raspberry left behind.
There's this weird world of people who get their memes from Imgur directly and don't know about reddit or their other sources

Looks like the shadow theatre has a captive audience
For any headline that ends with a question mark the answer is no.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “Ministry for the Future” opens with the most terrible and graphic description of how exactly thousands or even millions of people could die in a heatwave in India. I hope his prediction does not come to pass.
> That just isn’t true, you clearly haven’t used GTK. FLTK has never done core redesigns like GTK.

One, I've wasted 6 years of my life writing GTK 2 and GTK3 apps. Two, What does "core redesigns" have to do with breaking backwards compatibility? Did the redesign necessitate removing GtkStatusIcon for example^1? What about ANY of the breaking changes made?

1: The reasoning given to justify breaking compatibility here paints a more clearer picture of how GTK devs treat breaking backwards compatibility. Remember, this is coming from the developers of what is supposedly a cross-platform toolkit.
Seems easily gamed and hard to implement.

One's official political affiliation is easily changed.

What do you do about independents?

What about third parties? Is there a minimum threshold for party size? That is, if party X has 10,000 members, must an X judge be appointed? What about 1,000 members? 10 members?
Pat or Geno?
It’s “a jury of peers” - that line says nothing about judges. And indeed, judges have very little in common with the common person they see in court.
I really miss the golden age of MMOs, this would be truly amazing.

What would be used as the training set though? All that player input is long gone.
The paid-only API was only for excessive/commercial users, I believe... At least until the enshittification progresses.

The NSFW thing is bound to be shitty.

I wonder whether they'll allow things like combat footage.

Watch the rules change after that, so anything not Disney is NSFW.
Most "American Slices" do contain dairy, as it is a USDA requirement for the classification of "pasteurized process cheese product" that there is at least some cheese in the product.

I have made some exceptional vegan cheesesteaks with marinated seitan and pumpkin puree + nutritional yeast "cheese" sauce. The key is the bread - if you can head to a local bakery for a proper fresh hoagie roll, the rest will follow. I personally like grilled onions and Bavarian mustard on mine. Fantastic sandwich - just don't put lettuce and tomato on yours!
Why do advertisers shy away from porn? It's not like iPhone owners don't watch it so what's the problem with Apple putting their ads next to a pair of boobs once in a while?
> I’m personally a fan of both Amjad's (CEO)

Why?
Thanks for sharing. Are there any other posts on your blog you highly recommend?
> such as the technology of propulsion, which is much better than the US one, both in solid and cryogenic propulsion

Both of these are totally wrong but ok.

> This allows us to launch [two satellites at once]

Something that is very restrictive, requires the perfect set of costumers. And they are able to do that, not because of their amazing technology, but rather because they just build a really big rocket.

> one (main) engine on the Ariane 64, whereas our competitor is going for re-usability because he is using much more engines

Yeah one incredibly fucking expensive main engine that isn't all that good. And also a bunch of very expensive solids.

In total Ariane 64 engines cost more then those of SpaceX and are not reusable.
> What drives me bananas is when anybody starts using the words "size" or "larger" or "smaller". I will insist to my dying day that while the cardinality of even integers is the same as that of integers, the set of even integers is still smaller than the set of integers. That's it's still half the size.

Note that size of a set has nothing to do with individual set members and subset relationship. This is true even for finite sets:

Set {'A', 'C', 'G'} has size 3, while set {1, 2, 5, 6 } has size 4, It is clear that the second set is larger than the first set, despite i have no way how to compare individual elements between the sets.

But what does even mean that set {'A', 'C', 'G'} has size 3? We get such result by counting the elements, which is just process of defining one-to-one mapping to {0, 1, 2} (or traditionally {1, 2, 3}, it does not matter), canonical representation of size 3.

From this point of view, the concept of infinite cardinality is just a natural extension of this.