skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You make it sound like any government should be able to cut ties with any company at a whim.

Well, yes. An individual company should absolutely not be more powerful than an entire state. Yes, migrating away from Microsoft would be painful and expensive, but it must be possible, otherwise Microsoft can get whatever it wants from the UK on pains of pulling its business.
I'd like to see some sources for the claim that this death toll is so much higher - on a per kW basis. And even that assumes that scaling up the number of nuclear plants scales the risk up linearly, which is probably impossible because regulations, standards and democratic participation would have to be lowered.
Users have defence against snooping, it's not using Google in the first place if this is a consideration in their threat model.

Does or should grandma care? No.

Should a political dissenter living in an oppressive regime think twice? Yes.
mr kotick going to have to buy a smaller yacht i'm afraid.
Lets all celebrate dictatorships not wanting other powerful entities in their country.
Good. Governments should be block FAR more acquisitions. We need more small to mid sized companies and far fewer mega corps.
Well it depends on how Microsoft's accountants manage the maths:

Hypothetically, if MS + Activision - UK > MS + UK - Activision (assuming it's only blocked in UK), it's plausible that Microsoft withdraws from UK to pursue its business with the merger everywhere else. The UK is a decent sized market, but it's far from the biggest.
I think the current case is interesting, because "GPT" is both a technical term as well as a term widely known in the general public by now.

To illustrate with a fictionalised version:

Suppose a few years from now, OpenFlyingCar Inc. becomes the first successful commercial vendor of flying cars. They archieved this using a revolutionary new design centered around a device they call "Gravity Inverter" or GI. (They'd probably also rush to patent this device, but let's assume it's still early days in the tech, so there are still a lot of easy, substantial improvements possible that a patent wouldn't cover)

Competition is alarmed and soon there are several competing models on the market, from other automakers, each a variation of OpenFlyingCar's original design, each with its own improved reimplantation of a gravity inverter.

OpenFlyingCar, having been the first however, their car is quickly established in the industry as the "reference design". Inside the industry, cars that copy the design are generally called "GI-based car" and "gravity inverter" becomes a term of art for any implementation of such a device, regardless of who made it.

At the same time, OFC is still riding the initial wave of publicity and are heavily marketing their own car. Inside their marketing materials, the Gravity Inverter plays a prominent role - and of course they mean their own, original implementation by the term.

So now suddenly, the term has two different meanings: Inside the industry, a "gravity inverter" is a term of art that refers to any device which supplies that specific functionality - whereas, the general public only knows about the "Gravity Inverter", which is a thing that OpenFlyingCar made and that is used in their cars to make them fly.

So I wonder, would OpenFlyingCar under those circumstances be allowed to register "Gravity Inverter" as a trademark?
>Actually, thats not clear cut.

It is almost perfectly clear cut. LAION is linking to the images, not redistributing them or storing them. A link. In a text file. To photos. Served from a web server. Presumably, the artist's web server or portfolio site hosted by a company they do business with.

>The person created those pictures, and has the right to distribute them as they see fit.

Yeah, they do have the right to distribute them as they see fit. So, if they don't want them linked to, they can put them behind a paywall.

It's a bullshit legal threat. The artist has a complete knuckle dragging understanding of copyright and the web.
Semantic errors dominate syntax errors.

(that said, I've been adopting several Drakon ideas as layout suggestions for my traditionally-parsed algebraic language, but as aids to communication and comprehension, not for syntax hand-holding)
Yeah I think the drawbridge is getting pulled up on that one. This won't be as common in the future and from the other side we're at the point where most new hires went to college to get a degree specifically to get a tech job. This creates another problem where the new crop isn't curious about tech for it's own sake - it's just a respectable career option :-/
Buses are competitive to driving because they are subsidized, obviously. Poor or frugal people will choose a bus because they either cannot or don't want to afford a car. Ill people also might not be able to drive at all. This is why you don't see private buses. If they really had been competitive on their own, businesses ran them for profit.
you are so correct. people don't even question this anymore.

Everyone also might have "google play protect" enabled on their phones which allow google to pack and ship all and every app at regular intervals (no mention anywhere if it include user data) to their servers for threat analysis.
I'm not sure on that. the the pieces seem to be there as far as hands that can manipulate rubix cubes and stuff, catch baseballs, boston dynamics robots agility, other humanoid robots.

Do I think white collar jobs go first, yes. also, the dynamics who buys all the stuff that blue collars workers install and build? without a white collar workforce the demand for that goes way down, and the supply of workers goes up.

Not saying it's going to happen just think other jobs aren't that far behind.
You are still assuming that the only alternative to nuclear power is coal power.

That right there is a big fat lie and makes all your arguments worthless.
Cloud means internet.
> 90% of taxpayers only have income the government already knows about

Can't these people already file their simple tax returns for free using a number of tools (including Intuit/TurboTax)?
Activision UK cannot be part of the purchase deal. This lowers the valuation. And stops activision from going along with the merger in the other countries.
What makes you think it's too late?
Neural networks do have a memory of sorts, that’s why they improve with node size. A mathematician proved something along these lines recently.

The memory isn’t digital bits like we think of now though, but abstractions in higher dimensions.
Really? Cloud gaming is where this gets killed off?

I suppose they can't really block the merger for their exclusive titles seeing as all of Microsofts's competitors are the same or worse when it comes to exclusives, but I'm still surprised someone managed to convince these people that cloud gaming was going to be the way this merger was going to bite people in the arse.

I do hope regulatory bodies will maintain these decisions across other platforms as well (i.e. Sony's acquisitions, Epic Games) but I'm not sure that's realistic if cloud gaming is cited as the main reason why two tech conglomerates merging is a bad idea.
Completely agree. Another issue plaguing some animal based neuroscience research is shoddy sample size. Understandable, given that some of the experiments are so damn challenging, but in the long run this does no favors to reproducibility.

That being said, for both of these issues, grants should award more money to fund the expansion in research protocol. Expecting any change without additional resources doesn't help.
Well, actually...

The firemen flooded the DC. The air conditionner stopped working at around 4 PM from what i got, the firemen were called at around 5, then once arrived asked for a shutdown and put off the fire with water. Lot of it.
In the polynomial fit case: it’s pretty clear to me that if the number of parameters is higher than the degrees of freedom in the data, then the model can simply memorize the input.

That doesn’t explain why it generalizes well, though.
https://archive.is/2mV5g
The right to make money off of it is only one form of misuse that copyright protects. My source code that I publish under the Apache 2.0 license gives me the right to defend against other forms of misuse than just making money off of it. Some of which are:

* Publishing the code without giving me attribution.

* Shipping software to end users without giving them the source code.

I care much more about those than I do whether someone is making money off of it.
Does the video stream goes to telegram servers or are people sending video to each person connected similar to what jitsi does with videocalls?
No, i'd probably be fine with that too. I just can't relate to how passionate people are about this issue i've never really cared
There is a possible negative impact risk by imposing extended mask mandates especially for vulnerable subgroups. Circumstantial evidence exists that extended mask use may be related to current observations of stillbirths and to reduced verbal motor and overall cognitive performance in children born during the pandemic. A need exists to reconsider mask mandates.
And if anything I don't expect EU regulators to be more lenient than the British ones.
You authenticate to a cloud escrow provider using any of your account's other associated devices. If you have none, because Yellowstone erupted while you were away, and someone also yoinked your phone in the ensuing chaos, then you input either (A) your device's passcode and an SMS code, or (B) a recovery key. If you have neither, then you use an established recovery contact. If those steps didn't work, then it's not too late to visit Wyoming.
I personally don't see how it can happen but of course I'm not a corporate lawyer. The parent companies merge so they might keep up some local branch to support the UK market, but how would that be connected to the parent company? What level of separation is needed, in the UK's eyes? Will the UK Activision branch workers allowed to work with Microsoft US? Or would that be seen as evading the ruling?
Which isn't what you and others said at the time, I'd guess. Hardly anyone was advocating for this. None of the major parties for certain. Nobody wanted more expensive energy.
I did too, and was not at all surprised.
Those “metrics” require good instincts. The kind that justify the eye-watering compensation packages that upper management demand.

I’m a data engineer but even I think we worship data instead of understanding it as part of a larger decision making process.
You can live a good life, but if you've transgressed the law at any point you're guilty of it all. Jesus himself said if you even look at a woman with lust your heart is guilty of adultery, or if you're angry at your brother your heart is guilty of murder.

"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” - James 2:10

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." - Revelation 21:8

"The thought of foolishness is sin: And the scorner is an abomination to men." - Proverbs 24:9

"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." - Isaiah 64:6

I don't know about you, but I've BEEN unbelieving in my past, I've lied and sometimes still do, and I've thought foolishness and still do. So I've transgressed God's law, but it has been forgiven of me because I accepted God's plan of salvation, which is faith in Jesus Christ through His substitutionary death on the cross and bodily resurrection.

If you never broke God's law, you'd never die and you would completely earn your salvation. It's impossible for us, but it was possible for Jesus because he was God and born to a virgin, therefore he was fully man and fully God. His work on the cross makes it possible to be born again in this life, with his same duality (having our flesh and our spirit), and the promise that we will one day receive a new body without sin.

The point is, God is so entirely holy that we cannot be reconciled by anything that we do with our bodies, or "works". Faith is required to receive the gift Jesus Christ paid for, which is not something we do with our body, it's a spiritual transaction.

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." - 2 Corinthians 5:21

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” - 1 Peter 2:24
Wait it's not DNS for a change?
> But if a machine can do this over weeks or months and take my job away, sure I won't like it.

You make a good point which often overlooked in the debate about training data. Machine Models operate on a scale widely different from human learners, they need not sleep, they can operate in a widely parallel fashion, and therefore need not curate their own "knowledge" into a niche.

"Scale of action" (for lack of a better phrase) makes a big difference, for example quoting a passage from a book is fine, quoting five hundred passages from a book is not at all the same thing. Taking a few still frames of a Hollywood movie is one thing, screen-capping every single frame is very different.
69 vs 3.7? plus the difference on the amount of IP is huge, not in the same league
How many times have lost your house keys and needed to break the window and change the lock?
I'v seen charts (someone posted on HN as a comment) where it shows generated electricity by type: solar, hidro, wind, gas, etc and by hour, for many countries. Anyone can bring up the link?
I was laid off from two jobs. One was right in the middle of the GFC, and the company did very right by me. They were awesome, and I remained friends with the managers left behind. This didn't affect how I felt about future jobs.

The second job was a "lay off" by surprise. A new manager came in and a pile of staff were let go. I was blind sided, and it's really screwed me up. Even now, years later if I have a meeting with a manager, I'm nervous. I don't ever get emotionally involved in work. I don't care as much about their "WHY". I cover my butt.

To be honest, I don't know that I'll ever recover from the last one. My only hope is to become a freelance, or my own boss. At least being let go then doesn't hurt.
> You carry the keys to your home everywhere, don’t you?

Perhaps most people do.
There's also quite a few people that lose those keys - perhaps through neglect or being stupid, perhaps through an accident or getting mugged.

Note that of those unfortunate people that lose their keys, very, very few of them lose their house and everything in it as well - there's many paths to normally quick recovery that would need to be replicated digitally.
You still don't understand. A coal power plant that doesn't run doesn't produce harmful emissions. And at lower capacity they produce less emissions, proportionately.

And you are still lying about coal being the only replacement for nuclear.
Dentists are already 3:1 dental hygienists these days and I would expect AI can make that ratio 5:1 or 6:1. Technicians will also be enabled to be more effective with AI (faster diagnoses, remote diagnosis, predictive ordering so you don't have to come back twice with a special part, etc...). Also AI will drive higher reliability of the underlying equipment so the number of technicians needed will be lower.
Thanks for the kind words!

Personalization is only based on your prompt. How unique the prompt is defines how unique the playlist is. On principle, we want users to volunteer their uniqueness rather than extract it by some other means.

Jams isn't about red tape, so we've avoided auth for now. We may add a "Connect with your Spotify" option later on so that a user can own the playlist that Jams created and edit to their liking. At that point it may be possible to connect personalized Spotify data (ie liked songs) to Jams' model, with user consent.
On the other hand, assuming that the following are true:

* The activity "has been expressly permitted by the European legislator"

* The person in question continued to threaten / press legal action

Doesn't it make sense to be able to ask for damages? IOW, shouldn't we be intimidating people against making baseless legal threats?

Obviously if either of the above two are false, then the legal firm in question are in violation of professional ethics and need to be hauled up before the German equivalent of the Bar Association.
Ask HN: How can I filter certain domains in my HN feed?
I would like to auto-avoid certain domains (let's call them flirgleburk.co and gringlepuff.net for sake of argument)

Is there a way to prevent certain source domains from showing in my HN feed?

ie, any time a flirgleburk.co or gringlepuff.net link is posted, hide it from my view?
> Clearly because nobody wants to own it

Is it open source? If thats the case, you already own it.
Robert Kneschke asked for his work to be removed from the training data, and LAION replied that they only maintain links to the work.

That is a non-answer that didn't work out well for the Pirate Bay.

The intimidation tactics are despicable, but that is expected for "non-profit" that pretends to work for the "democratization of $X".
That was also the thought process of many smaller companies to implement EU data privacy rules. It was easier to stop serving the market instead of complying.
> The British economy cannot work without Windows PCs, the Office suite, and Azure and OneDrive

I would expect that much of the British Government, including its armed/security forces, rely on those MS products and services. As such, I think that telling a big major US ally "tough luck, you're on your own right now" in the middle of this very tense global political climate is not in the best interests of Microsoft the US company.
> unpopular but very lucrative.

How do you resolve that oxymoron?
Given time and effort it's possible. If such a move were to be done I'm sure every democratic country would be most displeased. Which would in turn, warrant them all the will in the world to completly reform their dependencies on Microsoft.

I don't see any reason as to why this couldn't happen, the EU has already demonstrated its concerns on relying too much in certain companies, and they don't have as much of a flagrant issue as the aforementioned agressive move would imply.
Let’s be realistic here. They’re not training the model from a link to the image. Whether or not they’ve downloaded and stored the image seems irrelevant to the copyright claim. They’ve clearly used and reproduced his content without a license. Does this count as fair use? I don’t know, but to claim that they’re just storing a url is bogus.
Drugs being illegal and unregulated is the reason that there's fentanyl in the heroin supply and it's the reason that pills available to recreational users vary so widely in potency. Prohibition itself is the cause of overdose deaths
> Trans people feel (often from a very young age) that their gender does not match their biological sex,

I think that’s true of many (most?) people who identify as trans, but not necessarily all of them. I’m sure there must be some trans person out there (probably more than just one) who disagrees with your statement with respect to themselves

> they feel is their intrinsic gender identity.

Do all people who identify as trans believe in the concept of “intrinsic gender identity”? I think that’s a very widespread belief but I doubt it is universal. I’m not convinced a person has to believe in such a concept in order to be trans

> a function of your brain wiring (which I suppose is a subset of your hardware)

Some people definitely have “cross-sex” brain characteristics (various neurobiological features more commonly found in the opposite sex). Definitely these characteristics are more common in trans people-suggesting many cases of being trans likely do have a significant biological component. However, not all trans people have these features. Of course, we can’t exclude they may have other “cross-sex” features we don’t know about yet; but it also seems possible they actually don’t, and while for some (most?) trans individuals biology plays a major role in causation, for others maybe it doesn’t

Furthermore, we also know there is a correlation between these brain features and cishomosexuality. It isn’t clear if (those) trans people and (those) cishomosexual people have some unknown difference in their neurobiology, or a shared neurobiology which can develop in different directions due to random chance or social factors
What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
Valid reply
The toxicity of chronic exposure to elevated CO2 levels has long been a topic of interest related to climate change for the reason that we could plausibly reach levels of clinical significance over the next 100 years. Interesting to see it arise in a different context.
> Tech is a rare industry where you can easily pivot into it later in your career

Everyone I know who is older and already in the industry, is having a bad time trying to change jobs.
They already got enough political power.
https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
All of this stuff is only lightweight if Electron is the benchmark.
The End of Coding as we Know it
Thanks for the idea. I'll give it a go. srsRAN includes carrier frequency offset estimation and compensation, but it can't hurt to assume it's got a problem there.
That's not how it works. I don't know the actual numbers, but what if peak load is 50% higher than average load? You need quite a lot of battery storage to make that work, especially if the peak load lasts longer than a few minutes (it usually does).

And that's true even assuming instant capacity adaptation. It's just not efficient to keep nuclear power at a capacity lower than their peak capacity.
“But it’s not a copy its tRaInIng”
Note that Microsoft has an extremely high operating margin of 40%, which indicates insufficient competition. Even Apple has "just" 30%. With all that money laying around, they can just gobble up anything but the biggest fish.
I don't think size is really relevant to the issue at all, it's simply the general anti-competitive practises that size has enabled these companies to pursue as aggressively as needed to crush all competition. What Microsoft is doing with bundling for example is far more destructive to competition than acquisitions.

I think what we need is more nuanced regulation to give smaller competitors room to compete with big tech products, if this were the case then who cares about their size or acquisitions? So long as smaller competitors can always rise and challenge the big players then size is fine since it would just correlate to quality and value, rather than an ability and willingness to crush competition.

The question to be asking is if a practise is unduly restricting competition. Having a market share of 95% is fine in my eyes so long as there is competition.
It's insulting that people think most of HN are highly paid. I dont really fit in anywhere. I suppose I don't even fit in on here. $150k would be a very nice raise for me, one that I'm not capable of abtaining.
I'm afraid we killed it… I see just a gray base map and the browser is getting a "504 Gateway timeout" from the API:

This Serverless Function has timed out.
Your connection is working correctly.
Vercel is working correctly.

504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT
Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_TIMEOUT
When a country and a large corporation start playing chicken with each other then the country wins.