skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's already a MASSIVE amount of free art and culture on the internet, with very loose copyright.

There's also a ton of original fiction and art for cheap, existing within the realm of copyright but outside of the "IP titans" of Disney, etc.

What more renaissance do you want? The ability to put Spiderman in even more stuff? (Shit, even this already exists!)

EDIT: downvoted, but seriously: I can spend 10 bucks a month on Spotify today and get an order of magnitude more variety and depth of non-major-label music - ON DEMAND - than I could've gotten thirty years ago for practically any amount of money.
Yup, it's mad! I pay £2,500 a month for nursery for my son in zone 2. So... to send your kid to nursery you need £40k of spare gross income before paying the mortgage, and everything else.

I'm fed up and moving up north!
The i4i instances also have crazy fast disks to go along with that 1tb of ram. I hope to move all our stuff off i3 instances this year to i4.
I was actually watching this case precisely because it has implications for generative AI
> But copyright as it exists now does not protect or benefit the "little guy" or indie artists.

> There have been many many instances of big record labels or game producers ripping of small artists and I have yet to see 1 (one) instance of a small artist going against $bigcorp and winning.

So your solution to small artists getting ripped off is to take away all the rights those small artists now enjoy, so they get ripped off harder and faster by "those already moneyed and in power"?

Ok then.

> Copyright is broken; it only protects those already moneyed and in power and savagely attacks small artists, destroys the basis of creativity (sampling) and blocks access to vital research.

> It must be abolished.

That's foolish radicalism. Progress doesn't happen by over-reacting to some problem and calling for the abolition of the whole system because it's imperfect. In all but a few rare cases, it happens by reforming things to solve the specific problems while preserving the other benefits. Copyright isn't one of those rare cases. Reform is in order, not abolition.
Nope! This is straight through Verizon's main website.
This is all that needs to be said...

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2006/R487...
Try the fast.com or speed.cloudflare.com instead. Ookla is pretty easy to game by the ISPs
Guess it’s the culture divide, but it stood out to me that your description makes it sound like it’s second nature to charge immediate family rent on a property you own. Quite bizarre.
> You know, it's not different in ANY of the empires, past or present. Look at Russia and it's just a couple decades of further decline, but the same thing.

I very seriously doubt that US or even the UK will look like Russia in a couple decades. Russia was historically a backwards agricultural country, that went through breakneck centrally-planned industrialization during the Soviet era, which ultimately collapsed under its own mismanagement, corruption and stupidity. Now they're just playing in the rubbles, getting most of their money from selling vast Siberian mineral riches. Whereas US/UK for the past 200 years have been at the forefront of enlightenment, industrialization, innovation, scientific discoveries, creation of complex and extremely well performing businesses etc. All that is constitutes an enormous capital that can't be just pissed away in a couple decades.
Let him have his "OpenAI exists because of me". Unlike other projects where he claims to be a co-founder (but wasn't), in this one he was a co-founder. The fact he started bending arms and insisting on full control and they kicked him out was the best thing to happen to OpenAI though.
Its basically almost the same as convolution with image processing. For example, you take the 3 channel rgb value of a single pixel, do some math on it with the values of the surrounding pixels with weights, which gives you some value(s). Depending on the dimensions of everything, you can end up with a smaller dimension output, like a single 3 channel RGB value, or a higher dimension output (i.e for a 5x5 kernel, you can end up with a 9x9 output)

The confusing part that doesn't get mentioned is that the input vectors (Q, K, V) are weighted, i.e they are derived from the input with the standard linear transformation where y = A*x+b, where x is the input word, A is the linear layer matrix, and b is the bias. Those weighs are the things that are learned through the training process.
are we going to now invent a programming language that communicates with LLMs? I find that funny
Look man, if really believe in this stuff the military is really struggling to find recruits right now. A lot of people are disillusioned with the forever wars as their nations infrastructure crumbles around them, costs rise to unsustainable levels and their streets are full of homeless. They watch the VA fail to serve veterans and remember the lies they were told by the elderly politicians who still haven't been replaced. You on the other hand appear to have strong convictions about this conflict, rather than costing my daughter her future via debt spending are you willing to be the boots on the ground to make sure justice is served?
Infidelity does happen, but it's much much less common and is severely looked down upon.

Edit: it seems that HSV-1 is not an STD, but it causes genital herpes if engaging in oral sex? Which can explain the big gap between the two in conservative cultures.
Most photos have a timestamp and geotag. Knowing whether you're in a vehicle, at a concert or sporting event, or really doing just about anything can be gathered from that information as well as whatever the photos is of. One second of audio isn't giving much (additional) useful data.
That is anomalously expensive for Seattle. I eat out several times a week at nice restaurants and the bill for two virtually never exceeds $200.
Not unless they're forced to. It's the sort of thing that the EU might regulate. Except hardly anyone uses iMessage in Europe so its hard to make the claim they have dominant/monopoly market power in messaging here.
>$25/mo bundled with one of their premium wireless plans

I mean, this contributes to my point: it's only "cheap" if you buy into their plan and also upgrade your phone. For a variety of reasons, this isn't a good fit for me, and I'm beginning to suspect there might be a small-but-respectable market of others who resemble me.
To counteract your point, OpenAI was a "truly non-for-profit"
I don't see how that definition and this court case make it harder to prove that AI generations are not transformative work.
Do you think they would be paid more?
One way to combat this is to reframe disability/accessibility as universal design or inclusive design. Then refer to the many ways that approaches, features, and tools that make a product more accessible can also improve overall usage metrics or other KPIs.

In the olden days, people referred to the "curb cut" — the smooth cutout at the edge of a curb that allows a wheelchair user to traverse from street level onto the curb. This turns out to be useful for UPS drivers with dollies, parents with strollers, and many other users as well.

In the digital world there are other examples, including better SEO ratings for websites that have proper accessibility and can be more accurately parsed by web crawlers.

I've found that if you present both the accessibility benefits and the business benefits, you can make a lot more progress than if you just rely on one or the other.
I was a little upset I had to scroll through and endless series of "OpenAI" apps, but then I realized they locked the app to the US Appstore only.
Pity
I don't know for Java currently but for example in Ruby composition is simply a matter of putting your code in a module rather than a class. Then you can extend any class with this module. You can even extend instances. That is 3.extends(Some_module).method_from_some_module is perfectly valid.

In PHP, surely you can use traits.
First, if you read through that scipy issue (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/18118 ) the author was willing and able to relicense PRIMA under a 3-clause BSD license which is perfectly acceptable for scipy.

For the numerical recipes reference, there is a mention that scipy uses a slightly improved version of Powell's algorithm that is originally due to Forman Acton and presumably published in his popular book on numerical analysis, and that also happens to be described & included in numerical recipes. That is, unless the code scipy uses is copied from numerical recipes, which I presume it isn't, NR having the same algorithm doesn't mean that every other independent implementation of that algorithm falls under NR copyright.
I’m also going to plug a tangentially similar game I made

https://termsandconditions.game

I hope you hate it
> Traditionally, being a hacker is being a person who is very interested in learning how things work...

I am aware, and I agree.

> Being a hacker has nothing to do with how far up the stack you operate.

I disagree. The workings further down the stack are interesting only to hackers, and those paid to work in that area. I think that's quite different from the reasons for interest further up the stack.
Thanks for posting this, I will check it out. As a Midwesterner with a basement I had once looked into those claims about radon as the second-highest cause of lung cancer with concern and found the evidence much weaker than I expected. Even by EPA estimates[0] almost 90% of the lung cancer deaths attributed to radon are smokers (i.e. who have already weakened lungs), and there didn't seem to be good evidence of damage from basement radon for non-smokers.

[0]https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon
"Biased" implies the lack of a position; I think they're somewhat explicit about being anti-Bitcoin.

Besides: academic analyses of Bitcoin as right wing are not new. I haven't listened to that podcast, but the phrasing rung a bell: the guest on it wrote a paper about this 7 years ago[1].

[1]: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Politics_of_Bitcoin...
Yeah, you aren't wrong, but how do you know that you are talking to an actual human right now and not a GPT powered hackernews bot? Like you are assuming I'm a real person, but you don't know it. You can't ever really know it.
What do you consider the difference between the two?
They don't yet have a trademark so there's been no infringement for Apple to detect.
There is no basis for the “usually only” assertion and distinction, either historically or in the future.
Ops, was going for not just just a multimillionaire but actually yacht wealthy but messed up the edit.
We are all each other's arseholes. I didn't find what the author posted rude. I find accusing him of having a lack of empathy rude. Ignore the noise, engage with the content.
This sounds like great advice! I'll do this first thing tomorrow. Thank you!
I can’t speak for the other guy but I don’t pour tea for myself or others until it’s cooled down considerably, and also in this scenario we’re not giving the guest the beverage in a paper cup they’re meant to consume in their car.
for example see this:

https://itsbehnam.com/DetachGPT-Switching-to-Open-Source-Unc...
am i the only one worried that this will be one step closer for youtube to fight against yt-dlp and others, with a means to say it is circumnavigating more of their stuff?
All of those individual seconds don't add up to a sum greater than their parts. There are trillions (quadrillions?) of seconds of reality that those same cameras/microphones didn't capture. Capturing a single second of each of a billion people's lives isn't really all that useful, especially for advertisers.
gpt only exists in the cloud. openai has not released the model weights publicly. llama is the closest thing that you can run yourself.
No creation of art is infringing, you can rip other artists off in your home to your heart's content. It's the commercialization of your output that creates infringement - when you license or sell the work. Warhol's version of the Prince photographs might not be infringing if the original were sold, but that's really for a jury to decide. There isn't a legal test that can articulate the exact difference between a derivative and transformative work.

Warhol had interesting ideas but I consider him more of an impresario than an artist; his real creativity was that of his public persona, and many of his most famous paintings seem to me to be merely decorative (multiple tinted reproductions) or imitative (Campbell's soup can, which was just Duchamp in the kitchen).
California's state income tax is 12.3% starting at $677,276, so the top rate is 49.3%, and actually surpasses 50% once other taxes are taken into account, and then you have to factor in healthcare costs on top of that. Which as you get older and later into your career (which is when you'd make that much money anyway) can't be ignored either.
My boots on the ground mean nuclear holocaust due to open war between Russia and NATO, which probably impacts your daughter a bit. If you'd told a Cold Warrior in the 80s it'd cost 10% of a single year's military budget to kneecap Russia's military without firing a shot, they'd have laughed at you; it's probably the most effective military spending we've done since WWII.

Americans are simultaneously down on "forever wars" and supportive of Ukraine assistance. Your attempt to connect the two concepts doesn't seem to be a widely shared position in the American public.
yes please, i feel like i am dreadfully underusing iOS Workflows and Siri, and need more inspiration to integrate it into my life
It’s a LARP at best and a scam at worst. I shared some of my thoughts on the matter in a prior thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35145189#35147288
The OECD includes countries like Mexico, Turkey, and Colombia that are definitely less developed than the rest of the list. Hell, looking at the IMF figures, half the European countries on that list count as "developing" too, especially the less-taxing ones. Don't think I agree with them, but I'm not an economist so hey.
Automated pricing, based on user interest.

https://sell.amazon.com/tools/automate-pricing
> A lot of conquered people just get erased from history as if the people conquered in the name if Islam just one day became their conquerors. Why? How can we understand and learn from such strangely defined history?

This is history as written by Europeans*, don't forget.

So the question is: why do we refer to e.g. Newton writing in Latin as an English scientist (and not Christian, or Latin) but anyone who wrote in Arabic is either an Arab or Muslim scientist. Now this may have started due to lack of information (before Europeans came to fully survey "Middle East") but it persists to this day. One can speculate to the possible reasons, of course, but it suffices to point out the pheonomena.

* Ibn Khaldun, the famous Arab historian, for example, did not have this issue (to his lasting credit):

https://sonsofsunnah.com/2011/11/12/ibn-khaldun-on-the-persi...
but this is openai we are talking about, you'd think apple would fast track them towards ranking higher at least to not make apple look terrible
You can start a ChatGPT Plus subscription from inside the linked app.
Oddly the one child policy didn’t work out.
The best thing you can do as a British tech worker is not work for a British tech company.
Sneller: SQL for JSON at Scale
I don't think it's impossible, but being in the suburbs makes it an uphill battle. Most suburbs in the United States are built very very intentionally to accomodate car and discourage other modes of transportation. Cul-de-sacs and winding roads only make sense with cars. The logistics of having a bus serve an area like that don't make sense, and even walking these winding, dead-end streets is a much bigger chore than, say, walking on relatively straight streets that try to connect point A to point B efficiently.

That said, I currently find myself in a suburb, and bicycling is actually okay. I can bike out of my neighborhood to reach the main streets, and there are actually pretty decent bike commuting paths once I reach them. If you're wanting to haul things like pets and lumber, recent cargo e-bikes can haul a lot. They're expensive, but they exist if that's a priority for you. I think bicycles can be a pretty decent option for people in the suburbs, at least sometimes. Plus, bikes are just fun!

That said, using my car less is a big goal for me, so I sometimes take the less convenient option. My longterm goal is to find a way to leave the suburbs and live in a city, though, so I can be much less card-dependent.
Coral reefs are fine. In fact, the great barrier reef has made a significant comeback.

And yes, cities get hotter and dryer as they make ever more blacktop and dump all their rain water into the ocean.
Speaking as a pedant:
The top marginal rate is actually 60% and happens when you cross the threshold where you're nominally in the 40% band but you're also losing your personal allowance. The effect is, for every £2 extra income you lose £1 personal allowance (exposing an extra £1 to taxation) and pay 40p tax on that. That's 20% in addition to the 40% you're paying anyway, hence 60% marginal rate. Once you hit the income level where all your personal allowance has been fully cancelled out, then your marginal rate drops back down. And then the next threshold after that puts you in the 45% band.
A similar risk exists with geotagged photos.

Even if you don't mind it accessing locations from individual photos, nothing prevents the app from scanning your entire library and getting all the locations from there too.

Same risk with timestamps - the app can get a list of all the timestamps and use that to confirm/refute other fuzzy datapoints collected elsewhere (web tracking, etc).
The Internetcomputer
> I used Tcl and Expect (which was a very cool extension of Tcl)

I used "expect" about five years ago to help automate deploying an app to a local Roku box from the command line. Much faster dev loop than having to upload a zip to a webpage hosted on the Roku box.
I think that's part of the problem, if you don't have that package manager to bootstrap your signature key ring, DNS is your next best bootstrap. It is, of course, a terrible bootstrap for trust, but it is one so many users on Windows have been relying on for such a long time.

For power users on any modern Windows 10/Windows 11 there is at least WinGet now. Its manifests repo is becoming a very interesting (open) source of truth for common Windows applications. Admittedly, it in most cases doesn't seem to be checking specific code signatures in most cases either, but at least includes SHA checksums.

For instance, 7zip's manifests: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...

It's too bad there's still not a great option for "average user that doesn't know/trust how to use a CLI", given how sadly polluted the Microsoft Store can be for many common, especially Open Source, applications. For direct instance, because winget kindly includes Microsoft Store results when searching, there is a "7zip 22" in the Microsoft Store that costs some amount of money (winget details say "PaidUnknownPrice" for the pricing information; I'm on a corporate machine right now with the actual Store access locked so can't search in the actual Store right now) and the Publisher is listed as RepackagerExpress.com. (That website currently doesn't go anywhere, giving it a spot check.)

Having seen this, I may boot up my personal machine and try to report this specific Store listing for violating the Store's Open Source policies, though I'm unsure if such whackamole is all that useful. (Seems like it might be a useful winget feature request for it to provide Store Report URLs.)
Then we actually agree? You don't get heating without resistance, ergo resistance is the main problem. MRIs don't have any problems sending a thousand amps through their coils.
> My boots on the ground mean nuclear holocaust due to open war between Russia and NATO, which probably impacts your daughter a bit.

Oh but if you were to say, build a fighter jet and then go to Ukraine and teach the Ukrainians on how to use the jet to kill Russians, there is no way that will result in nuclear war? I'll take that as a no on the "go die for the war machine" plan.
I'm not an LLM, but I am a native English speaker and English is pretty awful for conveying information succinctly. The lengths you must go with prompts to ensure you're getting the right response is extremely similar to the lengths you go to when delegating something to someone or describing requirements to a project. I wonder if whatever language we end up using to "converse" with LLMs would have value within an organization/email/Jira.
There weren't actual rules excluding them.

Compare the "about" page for the more mainstream Worldcon with the one for BasedCon:

https://www.worldcon.org/about-worldcon/

https://www.basedcon.com/?page_id=85

BasedCon's "about" has hot takes on guns, socialism, abortion, etc. Worldcon's "about" doesn't say anything about those topics at all.

Here's the Registration FAQ for next year's Worldcon in Glasgow:

https://glasgow2024.org/get-involved/registration-faq/

There are no hot-button American political topics mentioned either way there.

The last time I was at a science fiction convention there was a wide variety of political views among attendees, just as there have been among Hugo-winning SF authors. BasedCon seems unusual not in what sort of views it permits but in what it explicitly rejects.
Discord has these exact same problems, arguably worse because the echo chamber develops behind closed, un-indexable doors and crawlers can't archive any content before the moderators censor it.

If clearnet can't see it, it's inherently of less utility to me.

Subreddits can make themselves more like Discord via private subs or approval-only posting but the majority of subs aren't this way. Reddit has a nice wiki feature. Downvoting doesn't remove posts. This is all great.

The only thing better than reddit would be a standard MediaWiki instance or regular old web forum. Something less centralized.

And yes, your web forum run by a cabal of mods could devolve into a censured echo chamber just like any niche subreddit, but this will never not be a problem. As long as my censured echo chambers are visible to web crawlers, the collective Internet can retain SOME level of agency.

Even 4chan boards are archived in several places. Despite inconsistent moderation, bad-faith dialog and the fact that it's ostensibly an echo chamber - we at least KNOW exactly what it is because there's a paper trail. On the flip side, HN has its own paper trail of good-faith dialog here: https://hn.algolia.com/

Discord is a black hole. And worse - it's tens of thousands of niche black holes, each one representing a community that otherwise would have found its home on the clearnet.
It will hardly change as long as scripting languages keep being used for full blown applications.
This applies to where I live in Canada. The price skew may be even greater elsewhere. Good residential broadband now costs in the neighbourhood of $60/month; this will be essentially unlimited, to the point of being able to leave a 4K video stream playing as background entertainment.

Good cellular service costs in the neighbourhood of $40/month and the amount of data you can use is going up gradually; currently I see 20-25GB advertised. That's plenty for "needed" internet access - not the leave video running part - and if you need your laptop online you can just tether it to your phone.

So it's perfectly rational, if short on cash, to get rid of the home broadband. Can't get rid of the cell phone anyway since you've likely gotten rid of your landline phone already.
This seems like a lot of work compared to just putting decent switches in their stuff to begin with.
"App Not Available
The app is currently not available in your country or region"

FFS, I'm a ChatGPT Plus subscriber, but I can't get the app. Why would they even restrict this?