skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When an artist's work is copied for commercial gain, there should be [(a)] a right to choose to refuse it or [(b)] to participate financially.

If anyone legitimately feels their copyright has been infringed by this competition, we and Stability AI will work to take down the video until the dispute has been resolved."

StabilityAI and Gabriel are providing (a) but not (b).

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66788385/13/getty-image...

If Getty wins, is Gabriel committing contributory infringement.

Even if what happens after text is entered into a prompt is not infringement, mass copying for "training" is done for commercial gain and it is done without consent. Google gets away with copying websites en masse into a cache for the purposes of running a commercial web search engine. Maybe copying for purpose of commercial "AI" will get similar treatment.

That said, consider what happened when Google tried scanning books. It seems that some of these training sets have used hundreds of thousands of copyrighted works from "pirate" sources on the web.

IMO, this is just another example of so-called "tech" companies, e.g., Uber, that can only operate if they are free from existing laws and regulations.

Does StabilityAI have a commercially-viable plan if "training" requires obtaining consent.
Thanks for posting that link. I found the article informative and actually well-written and driven by evidence and examples.

It is really striking to me how people are willing to throw the environment under the proverbial bus and literal rocket in order to further some false idea of improving humanity. We're actively killing a live planet, currently the only planet known to be able to house human and life in general for that matter, to reach a dead planet on the whims and wishes of paper billionaires.
That human bullshitters are treated more kindly than AI bullshitters just because of their human race. That's racist!
This is very cool. It sent me down a rabbit hole of NG’s Flash Forward submissions that ultimately triggered a strong sense of nostalgia for the late ‘00s and ‘10s. There was a lot of kid culture here at the time. I’m not familiar enough to know (probably since I don’t have kids), but I get the impression that in some ways New Grounds was for my generation what Roblox is for kids today. Can anyone attest to this?

It makes me wonder what a resurgence of flash via Ruffle.rs could mean for the web today. That being said, there are also a lot of exciting ways to make this kind of content today now too.
Our family car is a kei minivan (microvan?) with power sliding doors (=heavy) and everything.

No trouble going up long or steep hills in windy mountain roads with the whole family of 4+luggage in the car.

No trouble going up long hills at highway speed (120 km/h) with two adult friends in the back.

Aircon on and everything. Works great.
Not exaggerating the risk.
This has been a long time coming…
eBPF is the de facto tracing, networking and security stack on basically every platform that mankind cares about right now. Great to see the standardization kicking off now.

eBPF Foundation is the right body for this standard, as that’s where experts (from users and vendors) come together. I have had the privilege of working with the first engineers who designed and upstreamed eBPF. I have no doubt these geniuses can put a solid standard together.
"Even though that rocket costs a lot of money, what really costs a lot of money are people's salaries".

Interesting, didn't realize that payroll was so high that you could actually afford to lose the ship and not break a sweat.
No one really peers at above 1500 without some really good reason. There be dragons.
At what point did I propose taking away "all legal guns?"

I have put forth regulating all guns. But, it doesn't take an active imagination to see that regulation is not a total banning/taking away. We still have cats, after all.

Edit: leaving cats, for obvious reasons. I meant cars.
Why not allow imported cars that meet the requirements?
US states control registration. Also older vehicles especially kei cars aren't nearly as polluting as one would think especially if only used for work rather than daily use, with mpg in the upper 50 to low 70s though fairly crap nox by comparison to modern 2020s cars.

They also encourage lower speeds which could be a plus in every way.
Same for Honda. What's fascinating is the fact that Ford's manufacturing is less American than Honda, thanks to NAFTA but far be it to think a good ole fashioned American company like Ford would ever act like a corporation that's in it for the money, and move manufacturing out of the US.

The chickens came home to roost though, when the SEC declared a $196 million penalty in 2020 in import fines for the Ford Transit Connect, which was imported with a back seat, so it was considered a passenger vehicle for import tax reasons. Upon recieving the vans in the US, Ford removed the seats, turning it into a work van, and avoiding the import tax on work vans, something like 22%. Regardless of if it was clever of Ford or dishonest, the real point of my bringing up this story is those vans were made in Turkey.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2021/06/03/ford-...
https://archive.is/rVgD4
>are lifelong success in a wide variety of tasks GPT-4 can’t even begin to approach.

Right. and what are these tasks and why is intelligence the barrier? (meaning don't tell me something like driving, blind people are not unintelligent)
These is analogous to kubernetes conditions in the old-debate between explicit state machines with phases/transitions and events/conditions for k8s resources.

https://maelvls.dev/kubernetes-conditions/
Sorry to go against the stream but I have to say that they do have customer support for some businesses. They wouldn’t be the third cloud provider without that.
I know you’re just making a joke, but I was very careful about distinguishing MTU in the last mile from MTU within the routers powering the world’s interconnectivity.
I miss the content of the old Internet, but I do not miss its tech.

Web design in general was garbage. Not just the good kind of garbage, with funky animations and weird colors, but horrible typography, unreadable fonts, zero accessibility, horizontal scrollbars everywhere, images used as text, misaligned tables, no math typesetting, no videos, and no interactive content without installing more garbage like Flash, ActiveX, or Java.

When writing server-side stuff, your options were basically Perl/CGI, and later PHP, both of which are insecure trash that makes today's JavaScript look sane by comparison.

The average modern blog is a masterpiece of readability, usability, and frontend/backend engineering, compared to almost anything seen on the web during its "golden age".
I hate to support the muskrat but I concede that he does have a plan. I don’t think his plan will work, but he has done impossible things before so I could be wrong.

That being said, if I had five bucks I was required to bet for or against a successful turnaround I’d bet it against.
> airline travel is much more efficient then car travel

Sure, but for many business travelers, air travel isn’t competing with car travel. It’s competing with a nearly-zero-emissions Teams call or Zoom meeting.
Not quite. Singapore Airlines continued to fly a lot of near-empty planes to Australia during the pandemic, and delivered the first load of Pfizer. I believe Qatar kept flying also.

Qantas basically ceased all international operations except when underwritten by the government.
No, we haven't bought any ASKs. We have worked with them on a DPDK project and they were quite helpful when it came to debugging difficult bugs with it.

Improving the routing performance in Linux is near the top of my TODO list, however. XDP is one candidate (see https://forum.traverse.com.au/t/vyos-build-my-repo/181/5 for some results) and using the LS1088's AIOP is another possibility.
Japan airline blunder sparks mad rush for $550 Japan-US business class tickets
> "crashes" down, at a relatively low terminal velocity

I would like to see an analysis. 100’s of tons of string falling and accelerating the surrounding sheath of air (acts absolutely nothing like a meteorite). A good physics question!
It feels strange to me how these things are passing by and we don't have the energy to react.
no clock for society. some clock for companies to get ahead and make money while they can
Here's a fascinating film on Dhrupad https://youtu.be/Lye2FSx0F4c
So? Anywhere where there are economic interests, there will be lobbying for those interests too, that's unfortunately a fact of life. Still, I would take the renewable energy lobbyists above the gun lobbyists anytime!
I wish they would roll out a two (or two and a half) door version of the Santa Cruz like the original prototype [0].

My 2001 Ford Ranger hit this sweet spot beautifully but it was a DOHC and when the timing chain came apart it wasn't worth doing an engine swap. I can't find a replacement currently but am holding out hope for the Toyota Tacoma electric in a year or two.

[0] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/hyun...
Associating the desire of NVMe vendors to allow users to ship down eBPF programs to run on the device and XRP is a major mistake in the article. XRP has nothing to do with what the NVMe vendors want to do, and XRP is a pure kernel solution that doesn't need any participation from NVMe vendors. I think it's unclear whether XRP even has real value - it certainly may, but I believe the benchmarking in the paper was deeply flawed[1].

1. https://github.com/xrp-project/BPF-KV/issues/3
I should have added, "for a side-project, and on the cheap" :)
Versus distance and that is an issue of just the geography of the US, we are insurmountable large, even a high end bullet train would take 8-12 hours crossing the country. Stopping absorbs a lot of time for charging compared to ICE or hybrids.
Failing dollar will take a very long time if it even happens. The dollar is actually pretty strong right now despite people trying to hype china pushing the yuan.
looks like Yahoo! is still a thing. huh. Could have fooled me that it's long dead. I think it's the first time I heard about it in 2-3 years.
The dose makes the poison, as with most medication I would imagine.
They also have the majority of profits in mobile phone sales.
That's a nice tractor you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Can I interest you in some protection... Err, 3 year service plan?
Just leaving a comment to say this is amazing.
Dummy Boards: The Fun Figures of the 1600s
As technology gets more powerful more quickly, and the rule of law becomes more and more unable to prevent societal damage, this response becomes woefully inadequate.

For reference, look at how the societal damage of social networks has been handled: too little, too late. Same goes for RentTech.

But, I don't know the solution. The common computer has become so powerful that we cannot simply rely on inaccessible materials to prevent the danger of overly-powerful tech spreading too fast, as we do with bioweapons or traditional WMDs.

Fight tech with more tech, I suppose.
I completely agree. I've been asked to stay on an extra week or two and I think it was a terrible decision. Nobody really cared or paid attention in hand off meetings (I'd like to think careful documentation was later appreciated when someone had to take those things on later) and I was interested in moving on.
I'm a tabla player in (classical) training (still noob though). One of my favorite tala is called "Sardha Roopak", and it's a cycle of 10.5 beats which is trippy. There are other X.5 beat cycles as well.

Here's a video of someone playing a tabla solo in 10.5 beats

https://youtu.be/8e2L2mr3_W0?t=33
Ah, that must be why all the industry-funded lobby groups publish papers about how terrible climate change is going to be.
The API documentation should reflect that the result is context sensitive. Not reading that is a good way to get burned despite the language.

Perl is well known for it's multitude of idiosyncrasies, this is one of the reasons why it can be frustrating to programmers who have better experience in more modern or rigidly structured languages.
These cut little trucks are also the perfect form factor for japanese front yards, which tend to be on the tiny size.
Wasn't expecting the audio commentary at all, and I have to say (beyond the visuals, which are also cool) that it's very well-done. Thanks for sharing!
On the terminal emulator front, emacs-eat[1] is also worth mentioning.

[1] - https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat
The point is that a distinction without a difference is a meaningless distinction. Shouting "This is not real [insert property]" is beyond meaningless. Either this supposed difference is important enough to manifest in reality/output or it functionally doesn't exist.

If rationalizations work as well as human ones do then treat them as you would human ones.
> They had a presence in online services, MSN is older than even IE.

No, it isn’t. IE, Microsoft Internet Start (Microsoft’s original web portal), and MSN (originally a separate subscription-based dialup online service that later merged with the main portal) all launched simultaneously in August 1995.
Easy, DOT headlights, literally stopped innovation for 30-40 years from the 1950s to the mid 1970s. It is still an issue and is one reason why motorcycles have a very different stateside vs rest of the world design (till recently). Just one of several regulations that...can't be fixed if the car doesn't have parts shared.
It's wrong comparison. Flipping all switches in a room doesn't get you much added value beyond what's necessary.
This is an underrated comment that cuts sharp.
There's dozens of us!

Here's an old thread some of you guys might have missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31001916
We have built a cross between airplane.dev, retool and n8n. It's fully open-source: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
Compared to airplane.dev, our scripts are instantly deployed, run faster, and we are being deployed fully on prem air-gapped, and scale easily to large clusters. Our workflow builder is similar in features to a tool like temporal and can be used to run ETL on nodes with hardware acceleration. Last, our UI builder is more similar to retool so it feels similar to traditional BI tools to build dashboards.
That's a minute longer than I had to wait - I can't even resolve the domain name!
CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
> AOL was already dominant by the time MSN launched.

And never got off the pre-web walled garden end-to-end business model, despite connecting to the web, and died because of it. Not exactly the best example to use to argue Microsoft missed the boat on Web-era online services.
your approach is very cool!
That's a good point. Obvious in retrospect, but I hadn't considered it. So clearly "micropayments" can work in some situations. That said, I still think when people are used to something being completely free, it will be difficult for them to adjust to paying for it; I do still expect it would add stress for a lot of people in the web context.
Tbh this seems not that problematic. I get that there is a lot of distasteful stuff going on around John Deere, but I think it's useful to see this on it's own which is a useful feature.

Account locks have done a huge amount to reduce phone theft, a tractor is 100x more expensive.
They were designed to be replaceable and disposable.
TikTok uses a bunch of AI. From their algorithm for the FYP. To vision for classification of videos. And sound processing to bucket sounds/music. This feeds into their rec engine as well as their safety engine.
Evil lobbyists accidentally creating a cleaner world is something I can live with.
Permutation City never felt more relevant.
Thanks for the support HN! I've burned through almost all of my GPT 3.5/4 credits for the month, so the site might stop working soon.

I've requested an increase, and am looking into other options to keep things functioning.
polynomials are still king. a 6th degree polynomial is often enough and will be faster than a 2nd degree rational.
> stopped innovation for 30-40 years from the 1950s to the mid 1970s.

The 1950s to mid-1970s isn’t, even at the widest extreme that fits that description, 30-40 years.
We have access to video training data for driving, absolutely tons of it, as we've been attempting to train AI cars for more than two decades now. If GPT4 is what you say it is, we should be able to train it on that video data and solve autonomous driving. There is nothing inherently about transformers that prevents them from taking in video data. They've already been used by some researchers (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09224).

And yet, you can take a 16 year old who's never driven, and teach them within a week to be decent at it and maybe 50-100 hours of driving training and they're competent. You don't need to show them a billion man-hours of driving footage. Even the first people to buy cars in the late 1800s when they were first invented, were able to pick it up almost right away (there weren't even driving licenses back then).

At any rate, driving is just one example. Despite being one of the oldest futuristic sci-fi examples, I don't see restaurants powered by AI. I don't see housekeeping powered by it.

Ok, those are embodied examples, so you say they're unfair. Fine. What remote-friendly jobs are being swept away by AI? Can we even do customer service with AI right now? No, outside of some "front line" chat bot (which just replaces phone trees and terrible localized search engines), we can't. Even if a GPT is trained on a business's proprietary documentation, it's wrong or unresponsive enough that it would cost you more than it would save you by firing your customer support staff.
One common beliefs too this is that it’s actually a response to gray market/parallel imports of Mercedes cars from Germany.
On the contrary, an AI without agency could be instructed by a human to execute tasks that are evil and it will never push back either.
The website linked by OP is really good, simple explanations that are easy to understand. The section about Ragas is also well done.

Is there a similar source for Southern Indian (Carnatic) music?

PS also any good sources for watching performances? This is a YouTube channel that I started following recently https://www.youtube.com/@darbarfestival
I mean: if you're looking to go straight to theory, the classic textbook is Johann Joseph Fux's, from 300 years ago. But if you're familiar with writing melodies (with some voice leading) over chord blocks, try eliminating the chords and composing a second melodic line. This line should imply the original harmonies, while maintaining a unique rhythm and contour—and you can then add more melodies as needed. Many theory rules, such as avoiding parallel 5ths or 4ths, are essentially design patterns ensuring melody distinctiveness.

Of course, it also helps to listen to a shit-ton of counterpoint (the right suggestion here is "Bach", but personally it was Brad Mehldau's music that got me interested in this).
These days you’d think the US would do the same for compute power. I suspect microchip production will play a huge role in the next war.
the point of 7 bits is that you can double the digits with newton if you need, so a bad but fast version lets you choose how accurate you need it.
I remember observing my colleagues who had spent like a day troubleshooting an issue. The root cause was one end of a link sending super jumbo frames, which the other one was not configured to accept.

It may sound simple but it was pretty hard for them to reproduce.
I have heard that the TSMC fab is considered a strategic asset and has demolition charges that Taiwan gov can use if required, but that was just internet scuttlebutt and cannot be considered reliable. That said, I would be very surprised if the fab didn't attract a missile strike from western interests if it did look like China was going to be able overrun Taiwan and capture the fab intact.

I would much rather be sure the equipment is destroyed beyond repair (and that ASML cannot provide replacements or repairs) than risk a contaminated fab be put back into service. I'm sure the Chinese gov would be willing to throw a lot of resources at it if it was "only" contaminated and the chance of repair existed.
> I assumed they'd put some device on the exhaust

They used to do it that way. Still do, for some cars, although the pre-ODBII set is now out of smog regs in most states.

Turns out the tailpipe breather machines are finicky and difficult to calibrate, causing false positives and false negatives (sometimes corruptly).
Some things are objectively hateful. "This class of people should not have rights" is objectively hateful. "This class of people is subhuman and we'd be better off if they died" is objectively hateful. "This event that killed dozens of people was good, actually" is objectively hateful. If we can't agree on things like those then we have no common ground. If we can agree on those then it's just a question of where the line is, rather than whether a line exists.

Just because it isn't a perfectly bright dividing line doesn't mean it's entirely subjective. It is also to the benefit of a side regularly spewing hate to also argue that it's subjective.

(And to be clear, none of those things short of imminent threats should ever be considered punishable by a government; that has far more negative outcomes than positive ones. But they absolutely should have consequences by individuals and groups who choose not to associate with such things.)
Revisiting the baby schema by a geometric morphometric analysis of great apes
Exactly. Conservative opinions like "unions aren't an unmitigated good" or "people should have more of their money to spend as they see fit rather than paying it in taxes" or "governmental options are less efficient than private alternatives" are perfectly reasonable things to argue about and evaluate. I genuinely think it's a shame that positions like those that would make for interesting discussions and considerations are being drowned out by people whose identity revolves around attacking others.
It seems like "artifact provenance" or something would have been a better term. Is this related to SLSA?
It takes longer to get places at lower speeds.
Where did you find this rally clinic?
any reasons to recommend this book? and what were your big takeaways?
I have kids, we drive a Kei minivan. They only seat 4, so it wouldn't work for a family of 5-6 as in the example.
Is it faster than webgpu? If so, what makes it so?
Oh no :(
It's in the title, and is the most important part of the quote, which had to be used for brevity, but should have kept that instead.
It wasn't really forced. The employee chose to get an ultra-high-maintenance pet that required the employee to be home all day long, because the employee assumed they'd never have to go back to office work for the dog's lifetime. That was a really bad assumption, and a bad bet to make.

The employee could also have chosen to keep the dog, and just hire dog sitters M-F to keep it company. Apparently they didn't want to do that, or they couldn't afford it, in which case it's questionable why they thought they could afford such a pet in the first place.

IMO, people really need to re-think their ideas about dogs as pets. Dogs are pets for rich people, full stop. They're pets for showing off how much money you have, because you can afford silly luxuries like working from home (most of the working population can't do this), or hiring a dog walker, stuff that used to be normal only for rich celebrities. Nowadays, it seems like all Americans think they're entitled to having such a pet, no matter how much it inconveniences their life, their employment, their family, etc. How Americans ever got this idea, I'm not sure, because it wasn't like this 25 years ago at all. Back then, people who had dogs lived in more rural places and kept them in the (large) back yard in a doghouse; they sure as hell didn't plan their day around a dog.