skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text of the law referenced:
(4) Where the notification is unjustified or ineffective, the person notified may demand reimbursement of the necessary expenses incurred in respect of defending their rights, unless the person giving notification was not able to recognise at the point in time when notification was made that the notification was unjustified.

So it seems the notified party doesn't have to demand any money, but if they do so then only necessary costs can be demanded. I find it hard to believe that $1000 (or whatever) was a necessary cost. Otherwise, you could create companies that operate on the legal fringe that pretend to "serve humanity" when the real MO of your org is to profit from charging legal fees to regular people confused about the law. This is a new type of patent troll.

Addendum - to clarify my point, I am arguing that someone is almost definitely profiting handsomely from charging $1000 to send an email saying "nope, we still aren't infringing" and that "necessary costs" (as required by law) probably doesn't include such leeway for egregious profit taking. Otherwise, you create a huge moral hazard that silences dissent under threat of arbitrarily inflated legal fees. Not a German resident and not a lawyer though.
I've built real time mobile app to provide visual feedback for vowel articulation based on the formants[0](2d/3d) graph and live recording to teach accent, still need more work, and data for different languages (as the "accepted" vowel region, i.e the region where a native speaker expects the vowel to exist is somewhat different between languages and dialects)

The problem is that when someone tries to learn a new language after years of exposure to his own language, he never really practices pronunciation usually because there are fewer vowels in his language so they map to bigger regions.

I'm sure many people had the experience that said something to native english speaker which they were sure they said correct but the listener just had a blank face and didn't understand.

As this is very delicate thing (see vowel shift) I'd rather get it right the first time and not teach something wrong but one could make his own vowel chart approximation[1] (Although it's not that consistent, and there are multiple algorithm which would produce different results). I would also like to expand it to consonants

There is a good physical explanation for why vowels are charachterized by formants. With vowels you don't restrict the airflow so the pitch wavecreated in the vocal cords travels in 3d in the vocal tract some would go straight to the exit, and some would bounce so there is destructive interference patterns in most places but for some frequencies(overtones) there is a constructive interference so the amplitude('energy') for that frequency is higher. One could model it with quadrilateral pipes of different length and shape as described in the video. I think the frequency change from you pitch is due to the 'bouncing' on the vocal tract some energy would be Refracted and some would reflect

Another cool thing about the vowel space is that the most common vowels are the one that lies on the boundary of the chat as far from each other(highest diff between the formants), this is of course increases understanding as there is a clear cut betweeen the different sounds, but if you could teach clear distinction you could "pack" more data at the same time.

Teachings kids to distinguish more precisly between vowels is just like teaching them "Color terms"[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGW8J4cG0qY
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term
TDD. 100%.

Design on paper first, and then convert those paper thoughts into tests. As you're writing your tests out, you'll think of edge cases and it will take a second or two to write a test header for it.

Before you have a line of code, paper and pencil are your best friends.
https://www.livescience.com/62393-dead-fingerprint-unlock-ph...
I mean, if this is true, we have to quickly prevent gas stove as well as gas and oil heating to be added to home units. We also have to say to women to avoid barbecue afternoon when pregnant.
> font-family: sans-serif;

> Thank you for a sensible font-family.

Not sure this is sensible in 2023.

I'd suggest:

font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;

After all, the purpose of system-ui [1] "is to allow web content to integrate with the look and feel of the native OS". Seems like a natural for something that's supposed to be minimalist.

system-ui [2] is supported by 96% of web users, so there's no reason not to use it.

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-fonts-4/#system-ui-de...

[2]: https://caniuse.com/?search=system-ui
Yeah, I cannot see this merger being a net benefit for consumers. It reads completely like Microsoft just flexing its financial muscles gained entirely from things unrelated to gaming, and using that money to take over the industry in the long-term.

Sure, they did sign on their games with services like Geforce Now for 10 years and bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles. However, these all seem like short-term theatre to make everything look nice.

First of all, the reason why Microsoft games were not on Geforce Now was because Microsoft PULLED them from it [1]. And considering that Activision-Blizzard is (allegedly) worth $69 billion, I don't believe that they couldn't bring their games onto Nintendo platforms if they saw a market there. Seems like Microsoft is just making up imaginary markets to be able to say "look at all these people who will get Call of Duty because of US".

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228792/nvidia-geforce-n...
At these levels of discussion everything is asserted as axioms to see what the consequences are.

If a human isn’t conscious of Chinese, but the arrangement of paper rules is, one would have to assert that paper + human is conscious.
I don’t think extra large tech companies are uniquely capable of any meaningful innovation. Ie. there’s no benefit to everyone by having them exist at that size.

In fact, I think their size makes them uniquely incapable of innovation. All they can do is push everyone down to stay on top.
Unfortunately yes. I'm working on a fix but it looks like the API I use for the generation data wasn't able to handle the influx of visitors. Not much I can do right now but I did upgrade my Vercel account to get a longer timeout at least.

Hoping it'll be resolved soon.
You don't get the fact that nuclear power requires just as much storage, right

France has this problem in a hidden way: They have to import power in the summer, because they DONT have that peak capacity, nuclear or otherwise. To provide that with nuclear, they would either need storage or increase the number of their nuclear plants, and probably like 50%.
As I understand it current EU law (both the AI team and the photographer are in Germany so this seems relevant) explicitly allows data mining (for example to train AI) if that data is available online and no machine-readable reservation of rights has been made, but please correct me if I am incorrect in my believe. The German law Podcast "Rechtsbelehrung" also has an Episode [2] on copyright law and AI that touches on this topic and might be interesting for any German planning on using AI.

> ...In the case of content that has been made publicly available online, it should only be considered appropriate to reserve those rights by the use of machine-readable means, including metadata and terms and conditions of a website or a service... [1]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
[2] https://rechtsbelehrung.com/113-ki/ or on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sHjcmwqL1hUETKwINtHKu?si=7...
This is actually a good analogy. TPB is just linking to copyrighted materials. It’s the user who is committing the infringement by downloading, using, reproducing, etc the material. In this case they’re both linking to the material and controlling the application that’s downloading, using, reproducing, etc the material. That seems like a material difference to me. (Pun intended)
We now know what is entirely wrong?
It's back now… I'll keep an eye on it.
tldr; no.

"The loss of time was so profound that, when her support team came to retrieve her, she was surprised that her time was up, instead believing she had only been there for 160-170 days"
It is tech; it's just not just Silicon Valley "I Don't Know How To Count That Low" FAANG style tech.
In practice you don't. Nobody wants to transition to renewables over night. And so far it works quite well.
DMCA only applies if the pirate stream is showing a signal from a US broadcaster (for soccer, NBC or Fox Sports). As soccer is a global sport, live games will usually have pirate streams from many different countries' broadcasters, not just the US.
That's a lot more detectable, and has a high risk of coming out, see e.g. Pegasus. Cloud access is nearly invisible.
A pretty big deal? If it's true, P = NP. That's the biggest deal in CS since approximately ever.
This doesn't look good. I thought First Republic Bank was a small bank in New York. I was wrong. It has over $100 billion in assets and seems to be in California? https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/first-republic-share-price-...
The tokenization is done by the tokenizer which can be thought of as just a function that maps strings to integers before the neural network. Tokenizers can be hand-specified or learned, but in either case this is typically done separately from training the model. It is also less frequently necessary unless you are dealing with an entirely new input type/language.

Tokenizers can be quite gnarly internally. https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter6/5?fw=pt is a good resource on BPE tokenization.
Yes, I agree: In practice, all learning tasks have a common underlying structure because our physical reality can behave only in certain ways, determined by the symmetries in our universe. However, as far as I know, no one has formally specified or proved this commonality in learning tasks.

The most persuasive argument I've seen for this view -- our view -- is laid out in this paper by Lin, Tegmark, and Rolnick, written between 2016 and 2017 (although it feels like it was written a century ago!): https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
My omnivore underwear doesn't fix itself.
It's a feature, not a bug. Seriously, though, Tesla would be better off without the drama and with a rational assessment of FSD.
In this context it means streaming the game from cloud (xCloud, GeForce NOW, Luna, etc)
You make a good point, that is which institution has more legitimacy inside a de facto authoritarian state? The state itself and its authoritarian leaders? Or a private corporation that got so big as to "submerge" the state? (for the latter case think Samsung and South Korea, if South Korea had kept its 1970s-1980s state-policies).
Anybody who plays games is not happy about this. Activision is the worst of the worst and the Microsoft deal was a chance to make their offering more refined and accessible via GamePass. Especially it was about saving Blizzard from turning into total shitshow. Id this deal will not go through, nothing will change. CoD will remain trash, Diablo IV will have micro-transactions in addition to its $70 price tag.
I know a lot of people here are anti-big tech and I am too, to a certain extent, but I want to play devil's advocate here and provide my case for the deal:

Activision-Blizzard was in total corporate chaos before the deal was announced, the CEO (Bobby Kotick) was accused of permitting workplace sexual harassment and employees at the company were on the verge of mutiny. They were also seen as a stagnant publisher that only cared about its billion dollar franchises (Call of Duty and Candy Crush) while letting its other IPs like StarCraft and World of Warcraft rot and turning the beloved Diablo into a cash-grab pay-to-win mobile game. The Microsoft acquisition would have likely breathed some new life into the company and allowed corporate to clean up shop. This will probably lead to Activision-Blizzard continuing on its previous, doomed trajectory that it was on back in 2021.
Microsoft has practically destroyed every major game franchise it’s owned in the past decade and Xbox only exists because it’s being subsidized by Azure. Very happy with this decision.
"Easily" my ass.

"The industry favors eager people who are hungry to continually learn and grow. While there can be short term bumps in the road, those that fit these characteristics have and will continue to do extremely well."

That wasn't my experience.

The people you describe making so much money are statistical outliers who got lucky.

I'd love to live in whatever bubble you do. All I'd have to do to make stupid level of money is be myself (enjoy learning and growing) and it would easily happen...
I don’t understand your comment.
On the other hand, what kind of life do you have if you need to watch every single event/games of at least 4 different sports/league?

I mean I like different sports but I mostly stick to the one I love the most (cycling) and even then I skip most of it and only watch the events that count the most for me (spring classics, a bit of the grand tour in the background especially while working, world champs and MTB world cups). And given the choice to go for a bicycle ride or watch a cycling race, I will always go for the former and do the later only when I am tired, my partner or kids aren't at home or busy doing something else and I feel like lying for a bit on the couch after my own ride. I don't mind the occasionnal motogp, world rallycross, or rally coverage but I have accepted I can't both follow everything and live a decent and happy familial and social life.

Only exception being Paris-Roubaix which is probably one of the only classic that is worth watching from km 0. But even then I didn't watched live this year. I avoided getting spoiled by living mostly offline appart from professionnal stuff for 3 days before dedicating the time to watch it.

It is the same for social medias in fact. Most of them are trying to make you feel bad if you don't see all their content. I deleted my twitter, fb, instagram accounts a while ago and although I keep a bit of presence in mastodon I have accepted the fact that I will just connect to it a few times a week and miss tons of informations/content/jokes. Is my life worse for it? Well, not really.
Automated Exploit Generator for Smart Contracts on the Chains
Even the film industry might have had trouble getting the Pirate Bay guys if the pictures they were linking to were hosted by the film industry themselves.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Gender isn’t a real thing biologically, it is a societal construct. It describes human behavior. So the gender role of the researcher can’t possibly have an effect on the experiment as it is imaginary. Only the sex of the researcher is what can trigger a response, as there is a biological basis.
Whimsical, a diagram tool, has a new feature that works a little like this but you have to do a bit more work, I've been enjoying it. I'll have to give this a go, thanks op!
pivot into it later in your career

How "later"? Age discrimination seems somewhat problematic in tech.

Edit: Two other "old" replies pop up at the same time.
The point is that if they are not letting go of employees for economic reasons i.e. they are no longer economically viable because of the environment, then they must be getting rid of them while the employees are actively valuable? otherwise the AI agent argument holds no water, because the employees aren't creating value anyway, so their dismissal is orthogonal to the AI agent question.
That's not correct, there's no time allowance to remove. What there is, from the person issuing the DMCA, is two weeks before you can start legal proceedings.

You could argue that this means that you don't have to act for two weeks, but in practice this is where if you got into legal proceedings you'd be looking at damages claims for the period.

You get two types of hosting providers: those who act promptly and those that don't. Those that don't, mostly fall into one of two camps: conscious safe spaces for piracy (and potentially other dubious content) and providers who don't have the facility to do anything promptly (e.g. no 24/7 NOC looking at email notices).
If we want to go down the rabbit hole where a hyperlink in a text file to a publicly accessible copyrighted photo on an artist's portfolio site/web server is "copyright infringement", or more accurately "assisting in making copyrighted content available", where the artist themselves is the one making those images is available publicly, then we're officially in clown world.
There's a few like that but Electricity Maps is a good one

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
that was my first glance reading too - shape-changing toys written in the scratch language! how cool could that be?
It also includes Gender Queer, a book with graphic illustrations of sex that for some inexplicable reason some people really want 8 year olds to read.
I like it. Artsy, sure, but a fun experiment with AI. The author took a long description of a mysterious abstract painting from Moby Dick and got dall-e to generate it, then iterated with the proceess over and over with nautical-sounding language, choosing variations on the image to shape it into a heart
If the image is available publicly, without restriction, then what license is needed?

If the artist doesn’t want people and algorithms to see the image, then put a password in front of it. Or add no-index to robots.txt.

This is like driving around with a sign on your car and complaining that people are looking at it and imagining the image in ways you don’t like. If you don’t want people to see the image, don’t put it on a sign and drive around.
Sorry, why would you say such a thing about me? I was actually quite concerned by the absence of a strong international and especially German reaction to the invasion of 2014. Especially it became obvious, that all the Nordstream pipelines were a weapon against the Ukraine.
So wait. If I forget my office dooropen to my office, are you entitled to enter, make copies of documents and leave?
I don't believe it's LION that's copying the image. Just the URLs and alt text from links. They don't actually build the AI models. It's really no different than a search engine.
I've been petty enough to cut off quite big deals in my life, I wouldn't expect the moral outrage company that Microsoft harbors to not do something similar. As we know, MSFT did remove Twitter from their ad network due to API pricing changes, price of business is cheap compared to the benefits they got there, so that's quite a ridiculous cut of spending to say the least.

Then again, we know they operate in countries fundamentally opposed to their "corporate values". So who knows.
Ask HN: Article about Webcam streaming jpg to update HTML Page
Hello HackerNews.
Some time ago someone shared a blog article where someone described how they use long lived http connection to update a JPEG by sending multiple (delayed) responses in a Webinterface of some form of Network attached Webcam.

Does someone remember the link?
Attention Is All You Need (2017) [pdf]
nsfw if you have hn as referrer. copy and paste instead
Backing off these claims will crater the share price. NASA should have paid attention when they gave Elon the lunar lander contract without a backup plan.
Anybody who plays games is very happy about this. Activision is the worst of the worst and the Microsoft deal was a chance to cement this problem or make it even worse.
TV is not a sign of inferiority anymore. Welcome to the decade in which TV has surpassed film in quality
The model predicted COVID-19 could not be transmitted through the air. The model was wrong; COVID-19 is highly transmissible through the air.
Replying to the last sentence: the essay is also full of repetitions. I didn't make anything of it the first time I read it, but now the AI-generated hypothesis is on the table it seems quite likely.
20yr ago the full stack (engineering concept to slapping the shipping label on the box bound for the customer) cost of actually getting a product into buyers hands was sufficiently higher that it made lower quality versions of many things simply not economically viable to produce and sell.

The range of options for any given consumer product has grown substantially on the low end.
This already happens to an extent. I've noticed that some live streams will splice in non-football content (lets say a car commercial or sports panel discussion) for 10-20 seconds, then switch back to the live feed. This is done to circumvent the image recognition described in the article.
There's a difference:

* In the Pirate Bay case, the copyright owners hadn't posted the copyrighted contend anywhere. Someone who was not the copyright owner posted an unauthorized copy, and the Pirate Bay were linking to that unauthorized posting.

* In this case, the copyright owner has posted the content; and LIAON is linking to the copyright owner's authorized posting.
I would have thought the same, but then i tried GeForce Now.

It works Just Fine(tm) (with fiber internet) but guess what's missing: a lot of AAA titles.

So yes, there's a problem with cloud gaming.

Not sure if it's mine or theirs though. I don't have a gaming PC right now, only a PS5. Since we're speaking of ActiBlizzard, i maybe would try Diablo 4 if it were available on GeForce Now. But it isn't and I won't.

Incidentally, I doubt there will be a console Diablo 4 for the PS5 either. They were too far into the acquisition process to not dump non Microsoft platforms.
Plot twist: the male mice were asked to state their gender identity and as a result the studies are still conducted using exclusively male mice. /s
The Pirate Bay links to pirated content. LAION links to the photographer’s own website.
Your arguments are fueled by a lack of understanding.

Ramping down renewables is lots faster and easier. The stability argument is just populistic bullshit. Plausible on the surface, not a concern in actual practice. You are acting like those who plan and build this renewable capacity never thought of that.

The goal with renewables is to reduce the total emissions. There are still plenty of years left in that process before you even need any storage to cover capacity fluctuation. Because even when covering SOME extra capacity with fossil fuels SOME of the times, total emissions are still getting reduced. Is it that some people just want to ignore that a coal plant that doesn't produce energy also doesn't produce emissions?
I don’t like these forms of half-truth articles. The headline, and really article leaves out the important step of “photographer filed bogus copyright claims” that’s a very important step in the middle.

This article assumes the audience is already on the author’s side so seems to just stir up existing emotions and beliefs by telling an inaccurate story.
LTE is industry jargon for the fastest type of 4G
Linked to the data that is illegally hosted by someone else.

Here, they are linking to the data that is legally hosted with extra metadata. This is exactly how we wanted the www to work.

Then again, Google guys said, we are just linking to the data...
Right, the alternative are renewables and if the previous governments had not screwed up the transition, coal would play a much minor role now.