skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a missing step in this story it feels.

He asked for them to be deleted.

Their lawyers responded to say that the pictures are not stored and so they can't delete them and said if you try and make an unjustified copyright claim we can recoup the cost.

He made some kind of claims in a letter that as far as I can tell isn't in the article - I guess he pushed forwards with making the claim about copyright and/or demanding they delete his pictures? What did he send?

They responded saying well we told you it was unjustified and now we've incurred costs so as previously stated we're charging them to you.

> while LAION continues to use his pictures.

Are they using his pictures? What they have is a link to the picture, right?
That international content is quantity but not AAA quality. Dark is probably among the best and it doesn't clear the bar... 1899 is better, but cut short after 1 season. Most others are noticeably low budget.
Public opinion is entirely fabricated.
The pandemic hiring blitz was more like seasonal hiring in a sector that doesn’t normally do that, and nobody had the vocabulary to describe the phenomenon.

Combined with talent hoarding the whole thing became a luxury companies can’t afford without free money from either investors or the fed.

Even with all this cutting, headcount is still growing. But it’s harder than ever for the entry level guys. Painting a rosy picture here is wrong.
Just wondering, could this in theory be used to connect a phone to a personal 4G network without needing some subscription or prepaid service?
Reason 101 why android studio and development is a horror show.
> gender: how you feel about yourself: e.g. you could feel more masculine or more feminine, or something in between

That seems to be assuming everyone “feels” they have a “gender”. Some people may know they have a biological sex, but without having any feelings about that fact. If “gender” is defined in terms of one’s own feelings, does a person who lacks such feelings have one? And I’m not talking about “feeling genderless” (as in a person who calls themselves “agender”), since that’s still a “feeling about gender”-I mean a person for whom “gender” (or “sex”) simply isn’t among the subjects upon which they have feelings about themselves.

The idea that “sex” and “gender” are distinguishable is only widespread in certain cultures. A person who comes from a culture which doesn’t commonly distinguish them, the question of what “gender” they “feel” themselves to be may not make any sense give their own cultural understandings-they may know they have a “sex”/“gender”, but to them it may be a given about which it makes no more sense to have feelings than “feeling” one was born in a particular year, or born with whatever colour skin or hair or eyes
How to teach me physics: Tradition is not always a virtue
Good point. The entire concept of copyright was, frankly, invented out of thin air. That’s not a bad thing, to be clear - that’s how pretty much all laws get invented. The point is just that you can’t analyze existing copyright law like it’s a sacred text that has the One True Answer to whether AI training without permission is ethical or not. If we as a society decide that we don’t want to allow it, then we can simply write a law that says that. What current laws say is irrelevant.

At least in the US though, meaningful action on major legislation like this has become virtually impossible, which is why everyone is staking their hopes on the interpretation of existing copyright law.
Reminds me of all those open source maintainers, putting their work out there only to be contacted with demands by entitled end users. Except in this case those end users want you to pay because they looked at your code..
Surely a system where you have a single point of trust and key backup is better than the current mess of using a single password on multiple sites, like most people do.

And no, the solution to that is not security education, people don't change and a system that expects behavioral changes without enforcing them is simply an insecure design. The truth of the matter is that passwords are insecure and problematic for the vast majority of non-technical people.
So your threat model is a sovereign state able to subpoena cloud data.

Under this model, if Google gets a court order to root-break a specific phone (push malicious update), they will be forced to, and that's all the legal framework necessary, so end-to-end encryption doesn't protect you in this case either.
I agree that it's not only the death count, but what do you do with contamination caused by fossil fuels? The radioactive isotopes released by burning coal are released gradually and everywhere, not concentrated into a certain region. If you want to eat mushrooms at all, you will eat mushrooms with coal-related contaminants. How much damage is that worth?

At least with Chernobyl, you can escape contamination by avoiding Bavarian mushrooms.
This gets into hairy territory of derivative works. I think this will be an uphill battle for content creators until laws are updated for the new state of the art.

Prior to the unfettered access to generative AI, derivative works took time and effort comparable to the original. Now, derivatives can be created en masse and in seconds.

Where's the line? What's fair use now? These questions will likely be answered in a court or by legislative bodies.

In the meantime, protect your images, paywall high res versions, watermark thumbnails, etc. Also, if you're going up against a company? Lawyer up.
Is it legal though? Article mentioned forbidding the use of crawlers. Besides, it talks a lot how they only link to the image... but that's not how AI works, right? Maybe after incorporating the photo into its weights the model no longer needs the original, but it doesn't seem like an explicitly legal thing.
> If these problems continue to proliferate, society at large is not going to tolerate it

You mean if society is convinced that these problems continue to proliferate. And that’s the problem. Whether or not these specific problems actually exist and are widespread enough, they can always find something else to pretend to be upset about, and yell to reporters, who love to report on a good crisis. The public is then convinced that some problem or other is serious enough to bend the democratic and free speech principles “just a little, for this special case”, and then on to the next time, where it will all repeat again. Note that this has nothing to do with CSAM specifically, it’s just used as the latest scary thing, regardless if it is true or not. This has been called the “Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse”¹, but the general phenomenon is much older than that; witch trials have always existed in one form or another, whether they are called “witches” or not.

My point is that solving the CSAM problem will change absolutely nothing to save E2EE.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
How come dogger bank is sat out there where there looks to be plenty of wind, but generating zero?
Russia and Turkey are not part of the West because they have distinct cultural and historical legacies that have shaped their societies in different ways. Russia has been influenced by Eastern Orthodoxy and communism, which emphasizes communal identity and submission to authority, and has a long history of autocratic rule. This has led to a political culture that values obedience to the state over individual rights and freedoms. Similarly, Turkey has been shaped by its Islamic heritage and its Ottoman past, which has fostered a collectivist and authoritarian ethos that is at odds with the individualistic and democratic values of the West.
announcement here https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-April/241196.html
> The input string is tokenized into a sequence of token indices (integers)

How is this tokenization done? Sometimes a single word can be two tokens. My understanding is that the token indices are also learned, but by whom? The same transformer? Another neural network?
so if they remove it from the web, will it be removed from the dataset?
I agree that JavaScript got much better but I still feel like updating the DOM by hand is still too cumbersome to forego using a library or a framework.

Whenever I write an app with just regular JavaScript I find that I always end up creating an immature library for DOM manipulation.
> As I read it, the spirit of copyright is to give creators safeguards against their work being misused, so they aren't cagey about sharing it, in limited contexts

"misused"? "Someone else making money off it" more like it. Not so they aren't cagey about sharing it, but aren't basically ripped off.

Of course, nowadays people have gone all crazy. I had a discussion with a dude who seriously thought that if we could trace the invention of the wheel or the alphabet back in time, the living descendents of those inventors should own these inventions!
I wonder what are the actors who invest in small indie games. It seems like the indie game market is quite a complex, with a lot of bad games, but still a few games of high quality who deserve so much more attention.

I really wish there were investors who could better invest in the indie game market and at least take more risks and burn more cash, even if it's socially questionable.

Every respectable gamer knows, deep in his heart, that the AAA game business is a horror show.

I restrict myself to indie games and I have more and more trouble finding a game that I can actually like and spend time with, it's hard to say if that's because I'm old or if I have very specific tastes or if I set the bar too high.

There are a lot of developers out there who are ready to make games, yet it seems the market rarely lets them. Of course, quality matters, but the top reason I want to make games, is because I cannot find games I can enjoy, would they AAA or indie.

Important note: I dislike capitalism.
Yeah:

> More than a third (36.3%) of the electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in the third quarter of 2022 came from coal-fired power plants (third quarter of 2021: 31.9%).

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/12/PE22_518_433.html

And that number is from before the last nuclear reactors were turned off.
Thank you for the link. I definitely need to review the legislation. I definitely remember that the license let's me operatea police scanner while your driving.

For example here in Michigan the law explicitly allows ham radio licensees more privileges: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-750-508
Did Time Tick Slower for a Woman Who Spent 500 Days Alone in a Cave?
How about even replacing MySQL with SQLite?
I don't think people that come to HN are nowhere near worried about not finding a job, especially the technical ones.

I think we're mostly worried about not finding jobs that were as lucrative as they have been in the last years.
> I really wish there were investors who could better invest in the indie game market and at least take more risks and burn more cash, even if it's socially questionable.

The challenge is that many games are labors of love that are fantastically unprofitable. AAA games with microtransactions are unpopular but very lucrative.
It kind of seems like an intimidation tactic. Not too many artists will be willing to claim copyright infringement, if they can get hit with a suit in response. And in the meantime, they cab happily continue training their model on whatever they want.
Satya Nadella has said in interviews that Google makes more money from an average Windows system than Microsoft does, which probably explains their lack of focus on improving Windows. They probably figured that it’s better to spend effort in improving Azure.
There Is a Serious Problem with Lab Grown Meat
Social Jetlag and Related Risks for Human Health: A Timely Review
But it's the same thing - the threat model described is not safeguarded by end to end encryption when the encryption device itself is compromised.

"secure as practically possible" depends a lot on what practically means, and that is just a function of cost vs threat level. If you believe that Google will access your private data, you should not be using a Google-developed application and OS in the first place.
To people who were laid off,did layoff changed the commitment to employers
What was the psychological impact of layoff?
Did it changed your commitment level?
Were you laid off due to neopotism?
Serious question - is the staff member _that vital_ to the company by which they cannot be unavailable for one month?

The first thing I'd do is involve a lawyer familiar with working for a western company in "hostile" environments and involve InfoSec for a risk assessment.

Coincidentally I know of a Chinese citizen, living & working in EU (western employer), who needs to be in China for 1-2 months for medical reasons. He casually (well, naively) believes it will be no different to working remote in EU, and therefore not a problem for his employers.
How to Develop “Good Taste”
Conway's Law and Division of Labor
While morally I can agree with it, from a pragmatic and gaming perspective I think this is terrible since it will 100% lead to some games not being available in the UK.
There's not many Macs with suitable GPUs for higher-end gaming, are there?

And between the move to Metal as a graphics API and the transition away from Intel CPUs, porting PC games to Mac seems like it'd be rather more of a pain these days.
Hmm, very interesting. It sounds like with a bit of wrapper code, futexes could be used instead of mutexes? If they are genuinely faster, there are many use cases where this would be valuable.

Is there a production-ready library for this? I do see the code in the article but I'm not sure I'm ready to venture into these deep waters myself.
Steam Deck 2 lets go!!!
That's AAA TV content. Maybe a tellatle of an ongoing diversification of streaming services between "TV-like" and "cinema-like".

Sure, all of Apple, Amazon, Netflix have dipped their toes into AAA movie production, but their collective throughput isn't anywhere close to becoming "players" in the field.
Bungie was a $3.7b acquisition, which I wouldn't consider to be small by any means.
What are examples of unsupported data types?
Good question! Dogger Bank is still under construction but I decided to include it on the map for now (it's a constant work in progress). If you click the little "sparkle" button on the right of the map you can see an estimation of what Dogger Bank would be generating today if it was operational.
The dataset don't contain the image it contains a link to it. Whoever uses the dataset well receive a 404 and move on with life
I don't want software from someone "just not built for cross engine work"; their ignorance is normally much more extensive.
Yeah but people who want 4k120hz etc and play console are an extreme minority.
[too late to edit]

From the code comments, it is likely that UNIVAC is using something like solaris park/unpark and the queue is fully in userspace.
Disclaimer: I work at Forest Admin and I'm really glad to see this news.

We've been already shipping more and more features for non-dev users, but the Cloud version of Forest Admin makes it truly accessible to anyone. Thanks to the rapid installation, drag-and-drop editor, custom interface builder, and an integration with Zapier (coming soon!), everyone can generate and customize an admin panel.

At the same time, our mission to make developers' lives easier when building and maintaining internal tools hasn't changed - Forest Admin Cloud is a new product that empowers non-dev users.
So China got to 5G faster than the west… did they crush the west?

They got to cardless/cashless payments before the west. Did that crush them?

They built the largest and most used (every day by everyone for everything) app. Did that crush the west?

They crushed the west on solar, EVs, banking security, manufacturing…

Love this framing of China as a bad guy… but all of those things above have either had no effect or been beneficial for “the west”. Why will AGI be different?
It's in the works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forewind
Also fantastic for those of us who only have a work laptop and don't want to buy an expensive console or PC to play the occasional video game.
As someone who is mostly neutral on nuclear power: The pro-nuclear fanboyism I see on Hacker News and large parts of Reddit is mostly as irrational as the anti-nuclear culture in parts of Germany.

Any thread that mentions "energy" and "Germany" here is full of completely full of incorrect facts about Germany energy infrastructure.
I agree it's not the xbox killer feature, but you can stream new games on your old PC or non-gaming laptop.
> but that's not how AI works, right?

What this organization is doing is making a database of links to pictures with metadata that includes what is in the pictures. AIs can use this to train. The organization is not using it to train AI nor do they host the image.
Very unsurprising. [0] This is just basic horizontal integration and this is the right decision to block this deal.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518102
Good news: the rockets are reusable now.

Bad news: the launchpads are disposable.
India's quest to build the worlds largest solar farms
> complained that they were violating their copyright. LAION was not.

Actually, thats not clear cut. Copyright isn't a binary thing, its a license with a bunch of terms that could be anything. Just because its on the internet, it doesn't mean you can do what you want with it. the chances of you getting caught and told off are very slim, but it doesn't mean its right or indeed legal.

> it's what should be an acceptable response to having to deal with bullshit legal threats from ignorant people.

again, its not bullshit. The person created those pictures, and has the right to distribute them as they see fit. Now, if you want to allow people to use your pictures in anyway, then you can. There is nothing stopping you.

However its down to the individual to choose.
I'm not sure if it's a separate issue but I've had trouble creating new VM instances in Google Cloud Console or listing GPU types using their CLI and I'm in europe-west-2. The ticket I was following originally got merged with the Paris flood ticket (by Google). It was working until midnight (London) last night but went down before 8am before recovering about 1h ago for me. Not sure why an outage at one regional data centre can affect services elsewhere in the zone. Perhaps it's when pooling together meta data from different data centers for listing options?
Despite the obviously charged assertion the authors make, I believe this is a good topic to discuss now that the weight of the pandemic is complete. You don't change emergency management plans in the middle of an emergency. We can and should question our approaches, extracting global principles that can be used next time this happens. Similar topics we should rigorously evaluate include FDA and CDC policies, but those are outside scope of the article.

I respect the authors' asking the question, but think their narrative is a bit weak / not tied down sufficiently to make a strong claim based solely on literature review.

For example: they raise the question of increases in stillborn births and then cite a 3X increase in stillbirths among studied women versus the population rate. Without additional facts, that looks potentially damning to mask wearing during a pandemic driven by a respiratory virus. What is less clear is how the accounting for observed versus actual is performed. Similar to crime statistics, the count of incidence is biased by several positive and negative factors, and stillbirths are not always captured. What _was_ observed was a significant increase in stillbirths due to COVID-19 (especially the Delta variant, which to be fair the authors mention).
Yes, it would be less confusing to say “down”.
Why can't Microsoft buy the services they want from Activision without buying Activision itself.

The only reason I can think is to prevent others from using those services which is anti-competitive and harms the general public.

I'm aware it happens all the time elsewhere.
Someone can correct me, but is this paper really making the claim that wearing masks a contributing factor to stillbirth rates in Asia?

>Other cultures have been wearing face masks long before COVID [[157]]. The prepandemic face mask wearing habits of such countries are not comparable to the pandemic face mask wearing requirements, but scientific data supports our hypotheses from sections 4.1. and. 4.2. Even before the pandemic, in Asia the stillbirth rates have been significantly higher compared to e.g. Eurasia, Oceania or North Africa

Also, the authors don't explain how pre-pandemic mask wearing is different than pandemic mask wearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-1n-05Xu6Y

This video has it's own sources list linked in the description: https://pastebin.com/AbaJ8EW1

To summarize: in Soviet Russia you got early retirement if you worked in mining, or moved to certain smaller towns. A lot of people in Russia maximized their early retirement by doing this. Then the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia went through Hard Times. Their fertility rate fell off a cliff and never recovered. While other countries also had falling fertility rates, they also have lots of immigration to offset that, but nobody wants to move to Russia. So imagine America, but with no millenials, no immigrants, twice as many boomers, and they all only care about keeping Medicare functional for exclusively themselves.

One of Putin's first acts was to attempt pension reform, because it's the $3600 spent on candles[0] in the Russian budget. This led to massive protests, so he backed down. He tried again around the time COVID started, and again, massive protests. It's the one thing that reliably causes Putin's popularity numbers to fall. Not even an unpopular invasion will do that. Because, for a large proportion of older Russians, the government exists solely as the medium by which treasure is pilfered from the rest of the world and into their pocket.

I don't remember the exact proportion of Russian pensioners to the rest of the population, I just remember that it's unusually dire.

[0] https://twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472
https://archive.ph/yYh4J
... technically, the "sex" of the researchers.
If Mrs. Maisel is not AAA then I don't know what is. Probably in top 5 shows of the current golden age of western cinema and TV (yes, TV is now way ahead)
Cavern Beneath West Antarctic Glacier Is Teeming with Life
Do you think this will actually have a good outcome for UK gamers? I can definitely foresee UK gamers not having access to products.
Show HN: Rewrite AI – Rewrite the Content on Every Page (Chrome Extension)
I would have thought the "few parameter" high-error region corresponds more naturally to the part of language learning where the learner overgeneralizes and thinks everything is regular, and the "many parameter" high-error region corresponds to knowing the irregular forms for each word that you've encountered. But this blog seems to think of it in the other way around. Maybe I'm missing something.
Why would I choose yet-another-build-tool if Maven works, is stable and backwards compatible? Even worse, why I would choose Java as my language to run a build? The only benefit is to avoid learning a tool that isn't Java, there's nothing else to it.

For some Java build tool to actually gain traction it'd need to be better than Maven in every way, that's pretty hard to accomplish and I'd say that starting a tool that runs code already goes against the best practices for infrastructure code: convention-over-configuration, declarative.