skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tidal bulge one is one my all time favorites, you should absolutely read the answer. tl;dr the simplistic view of two tidal bulges (that started with Newton) is wrong! This is one of those physics simplifications that still gets pushed around. For another example, see speed of light in glass is slower than vacuum.
The nuclear power plant had built the homes to house workers in the early 1980s and to an early form of Energy Star compliance, with an emphasis on being air-tight. Radon was trapped in these homes, workers set off the alarms, and the radon mitigation industry was born.
My wife uses the local thrift shops as "storage" for a very large fraction of our household goods. The shop will send someone to pick up our donations for storage for free. When we "take stuff out of storage", it isn't quite what we put in, but usually close enough and a nice change of pace. And the storage fee is very modest.
This is leaning on "regular" too hard. Certainly there are lots of nice conservative people who don't performatively sneer at queer folks. Lots of trans kids have grandparents who love them but still vote republican. "Regular" people aren't, in the general case, assholes.

What's true is that "median" political discourse in conservative circles has swung pretty hard on the sneering side over the past few years. But this doesn't so much reflect the views of "regular" voters as it does an attempt to use this as a wedge issue to pry a small handful of voters from the other side.[1] But "median" discourse is aimed at a tiny fraction of the population! "Regular" politics is boring, so no one reports that stuff. Only voter-motivating controversies make their way into press conference material.

[1] Basically: there are a lot of people, mostly older voters, who hate gender pronouns and all the new social conventions, but who might otherwise be tempted to vote for a democrat.
you must think like a child
But you still have a cellular connection, it's just metered. Which doesn't matter because checking if your date is running late uses a trivial amount of cellular data. Whereas if it turns out that they are late and now you've got an hour to kill and want to watch Netflix on your phone, you connect to the local WiFi.

Which it will have done automatically at home and at work and anywhere else that you actually frequent, so having to do that is rare.
Because the basic foundational knowledge of biology is useful to understanding the world you exist in.
Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida
Interestingly enough I read the above comment and assumed it was speaking about the MBA types having the lack of empathy, not the other way around. The purely transactional relationship (often one sided) is one of my biggest issues with them.
> We've known about this for a long time. Everyone expected it to happen.

Absolutely. The 2006 "A View from Berkeley" is still a great paper [1]. And we still have a long ways to go on this recommendation:

> To maximize application efficiency, programming models should support a wide range of data types and successful models of parallelism

We are still stuck in the winner-take-all mindset when it comes to software development.

[1] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-...
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I get your point i think.

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.

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.
Turris Omnia Enterprise: https://old.reddit.com/r/Turris/comments/11ns0ho/new_turris_...
And of course it’s also just an announcement

You need to dig through multiple articles and links to get to the waitlist signup page

(Join waitlist buttons under the fold here: labs.withgoogle.com)

Until this is actually out, it’s just vaporware

This is not Google catching up, it’s Google being left behind
Agreeing with the original post I was commenting on that said:

> Without some form of protection, a lot of work would never be available to most people because keeping it hidden will become the only protection artists have.

Wu Tang had a bunch of listening sessions where people could listen to the record with headphones for a price. They could not record what they were listening to. It's like a concert, but no one can make bootleg recordings of it (okay, maybe with hearing aids).

In the early days of the telephone there were similar ways to listen to operas and concerts remotely through a headset.

If copyright didn't exist, musical artists and visual artists would be incentivized to release public snippets of their work to generate interest, and then only showcase the whole thing in private without the ability to reproduce. I can only imagine what radio would turn into.
There’s a setting in iPhones which will just send the static image when you share images.
Yeah I thought the same thing. I enjoyed his movies but they weren't life changing or anything. Seems a little primadonna-ish. If he wants to retire he can retire. It's fine, there's tons of people making cool stuff nowadays.
Non tracking ads pay something like 90% less than tracked ones.

If your salary was going to be cut 90% tomorrow unless you started every conversation with the exact words 'I might remember this conversation later', would you just take the paycut?

So no, they didn't require them in plain text. But they essentially did so when the only real alternative was to go out of business.
> only if it was substantially similar to an existing work and was not transformative of that existing work

That's a giant only.

If the resulting image is nothing close to the source image then yes I agree you're unlikely to lose any copyright case.

But its the cases where they are similar that anybody cares. I pick the word "stock imagery" for a specific reason; I do no see a way that you can have a transformative use of stock imagery since its use is so vague. And a reminder (with a quote this time) transformative does not refer to the production it refers to the use.

If you painted every single stock imagery you could find and let companies license those paintings (or pictures of your paintings) instead of using the source stock imagery I believe you'd lose a copyright lawsuit.

> [1] AWF contends that the Prince Series works are “transformative,” and that the first fair use factor thus weighs in AWF’s favor, because the works convey a different meaning or message than the photograph. But the first fair use factor instead focuses on whether an allegedly infringing use has a further purpose or different character

[1]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf
Okay, but these asus routers have also silently successfully updated themselves hundreds of times.

So against the one time you win by manually updating, you are weighing hundreds of times you had to research before clicking ‘update’ to see if there were any reports of this update bricking routers?

Because if you don’t do that, you just click the update button whenever you get round to it, you are running your router in a ‘vulnerable to zero days’ configuration, AND you’re going to brick your router the one time they ship an update that goes bad.
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Sotomayor's argument, as I understand it, is that transformation into a direct replacement of the original work in a given commercial context is not fair use.

So it's not fair use to transform a photo of Prince for the purpose of illustrating magazine articles about Prince, where the original, untransformed photo could have illustrated the article equally well.

But presumably it would be fair use to transform a photo of Prince for the purpose of illustrating magazine articles about the history of pop art, where using the original photo would be inappropriate.
From what I know nobody in China cares about English and that's a nation like 2-3x bigger than all population of English-speaking countries :) Can't see a demise of Chinese even after 1,000 years. As well other languages with big enough user base (I'm not speaking about smallish European countries)
I looked there and I looked at my city. My city has worse statistics than SF, but it doesn't have as many liberals so it doesn't work as well in a scare narrative. I wouldn't consider my city anywhere close to a dystopian hellscape as some depict SF, and they certainly aren't soft on crime here.
> the main subs

The list is the top 100 subs.

Anyone can create a sub to moderate, so one person having 200+ is going to be mostly squatting -- almost all of those subs are going to be empty.

I got the list from someone who made a script to get the info and posted the results in the github I linked to.
If true, that explains a lot.

This sort of response appears deranged to outsiders, but would be completely logical if you rationalize it as calling in a favor from your former colleagues. For someone like that, it's not a vulgar display of force-- it's just another Tuesday. Optics are overlooked in favor of ease.
It's the only place that has guanciale and decent pancetta near me, plus they sell pasta from my in-laws village in Italy, which is fun to cook carbonara with from time to time. They also sell wagyu which is hard to find in the Bay Area! I absolutely would never ever do my actual weekly shopping from there!
The EU regulation enforced _asking users for permission before being tracked_ for non legitimate interests. There is new regulation in progress that mandates opting out to be as easy as opting in ("the Good").

None of this would be a problem if companies only used cookies for legitimate purposes.
We can take down revenge porn or other private material without copyright of important works of science and art.
Cyberstalkers Using New Windows Feature to Spy on iPhones – Certo
I'm certain both countries could get at least one working nuke within a day if they had to.

Notwithstanding that Japan already "has" plenty of nukes, they just happen to be on American submarines.
You will be soon free to use this one without Disney's permission.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Steam...

But not this one.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Stand...
The reddit model is not without serious issues. Over the short term, reddit communities become echo chambers through the upvote/downvote mechanic. You only get group think, no outside viewpoints or discussion. The model promotes insular communities of single viewpoints. You also get thought-police moderators who will ban your account if you offer an opposing viewpoint.
Right, but I don't want to always send static images either.
Zen 4C is somewhat delayed but should be an interesting shift on these great numbers. It's a significsntly smaller core, first for servers, then latter big/little consumer parts.

Maybe the IPC or GHz really will be significantly lower, but I tend to think things like cache size will be the biggest hit, and that cache size change wouldn't show up in these graphs. Essentially, same number of transistors, but more compute less cache is my guess. But perhaps the cores really are smaller & narrower & the IPC * GHz rating doesnt budge much!
huh? even the official UK Forces News youtube channel dedicated an entire episode to how hollowed out UK defense spending is at present

when Queen Liz set out to sea, half of the planes on her deck were F35s from (and staffed by) the US Marines...afaik the UK cannot provide full air wings for their own carriers
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This was a really good visualization and the quality of the interaction really made it worth the visit!
Nice, I’ll check it out!
Protecting Copyright of Large Language Models for EaaS via Backdoor Watermark
1) people use youtube to not have to see TV ads
2) tv ads of today are wildly different that TV ads of years ago; they (ads) are simply getting more aggressive every year
3) electronic DRMs means an AD company knows exactly which microseconds were watched and by whom; many folks do not want to be tracked like that (and more folks simply "dont care" and offer "logic" along the lines "everybody poops, who cares if they know when i go poop", ect
Spatial abilities explain positive association between LEGO and math performance
I have some thoughts about that, as someone who had a small role in that community:

https://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went...
I’d go for a NUC (roughly 4.5" x 4.5" x 1.5") or similar plus separate keyboard as the next best and arguably more flexible solution.
UUIDs are obsolete in the age of Docker
The UI is eh. It is functional and really not all that different from Photoshop, though it lacks a lot of the spit-n-shine polish that PS has.

What is your problem with it? Is it too ugly? My complaint is that it takes too much clicking to do a lot of stuff.
OK. Well, it turns out that the rationale behind AI risk is a bit more sophisticated than that.
The piece ironically misapplies the term "cargo cult" to mean something irrational, presumably because Levine has seen this work to spurn something in the past. Cargo cult behavior means repeating the ostensible look/feel of something that worked before.

Intelligence has been constantly redefined over the years as other animals and then as mechanical means have met the previous standards for intelligence. Intelligence is a moving target. With no background in that, the author boldly declares that scientific thinking is the real goal . . . the real intelligence. It's a little hard to believe.

ACM clickbait?
It can be accurate but she is also totally within her rights to not listen to him. Do as I say not as I do has never been effective. If we want less war we need to set an example not raise the share price of our private defence contractors at the expense of civilians while wagging our finger.

Also the powers that be in the US want a war in Ukraine as much as Putin does. Probably moreso. They are selling a lot of killing machines.
How much $ can she get from Andy?
Closest I've got is a game concept where it's your job to manipulate populations's attitudes. However, this assumes that gamifying something and having people able to do it themselves, would give them insight into seeing it on a grand scale around them… and it assumes they'd be able to do anything useful about it if they did get that insight.

Might be like trying to guide chaos. Get beyond the Dunbar number and you're in trouble.
Although you gotta add state taxes too, especially property taxes, which don't exist anywhere near as much as they do in the US.
thank you very much, here is my notebook app https://github.com/shi-yan/Epiphany

Exn does look very related.
If you are watching for free, then you are the product (for advertisers). This is not a new thing. If you don't like ads, pay for a subscription.
Isn't this basically how all economies work? You get taxed on your paycheck and then on purchases too. It's not unique to the UK to recognize taxes diminish your purchasing power.

In Canada tax rates are similar, although we do have lower VAT. In other EU countries income tax is more aggressive but they have more social benefits.
First portable quantum computers on sale in Japan?
If they won't let us SEE their standards, let alone collaborate on them, we should just write our own.

Membership for FOSS developers: $0
Membership for anyone even tangentiality related to a massive corp: Call us for pricing details.

Fund the whole organization by gouging megacorps.
Training a model on a bunch of images by {artist}, and then telling it "Generate me 20 images in the style of {artist}" seems pretty close to this ruling.

It's non-transformative in the legal sense that {an original image by X} and {a generated image in the style of X} are likely used for the exact same purpose (be it display, advertisement, whatever).
I'm sorry, I have to ask. Do people often shop for broccoli in Times Square?

I am aware of many events and activities that go on in Times Square, however broccoli consumption was not at the top of my list.
Good point about the workload. On the other hand, typical GPU tasks seem to be scalable basically ad-infinitum as graphics moved from fixed-function pipelines to per-pixel shaders to raytracing and path tracing.

So maybe GPUs still have some room until they run into the same problem as CPUs.
We have many bigger issues than farm space that we need to solve before vertical farming makes sense, if this is your reasoning.

Human population is already declining with no external factors like famine pushing us to do so.

We aren't going to have significant populations on any planet that isn't earth for decades.

I don't disagree with you that vertical farms may become useful some day in the long future, although maybe I'd argue we will move to fully artificial factory food before that happens.
Explore some versions of the first ever C compiler written by dmr himself
I thought this was a decent debate on the subject: "Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2-ohgFOys)

One thing that struck me was that both sides in that debate agreed that the current copyright/patent system was not in very good shape. That's one nuance that I think can get lost in these discussions — somebody says "copyright can be good" and is met with the retort "look at how bad our system is right now" without allowing for the possibility that we could have a better system, rather than outright abolishing it.

Anyway, I think there are good points on both sides; you seem to be more on the absolutist side (fair enough), but you might enjoy watching it.
Simple things that don't seem impressive to you, but are impressive to others, may be because you haven't experienced the first hand difficulty of doing that thing pre-transformers/GPT.

For example, I get _unbelievably_ excited with knowledge extraction and question answering demos on PDFs. Why? Because i've built similar systems for over a decade and know how difficult it is to build on top of messy archival data. Now, with very little code, i'm getting SOTA results.

If you didn't have experience with this, you'd probably thing "Huh, that's not impressive, XYZ does this already". But it's the moving of the baseline that's what's really impressive.

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AI hype-beasts aside of course - the breathless pontificating of "influencers" and former crypto bros is cringe.
ShellCheck can check for POSIX compliance with the option `--shell sh', e.g.

shellcheck --shell sh myscript.sh
ChatGPT is great for nontechnical people and technical people!
If you paid for said site, sure.

If you didn't pay, I'm not sure why you feel entitled to anything.
Isn't it possible that Sam is actually a lizard person with a really good disguise?
The scope of "what to try" is large, we (as a community) should prioritise things that we think would work. If the criteria is not only "faster compute" it would seem "things that mimic human high level processes" would be a good candidate.

We started with MLPs then CNNs were invented, and that brought on pretty large gains. Arguably CNNs are architectures inspired by "human high level processes".

Edit: I will say though, this is a new take on the nuance of "Bitter Lesson" that I've never heard, though even this interpretation I find to be strangely contradictory for the reasons above.
Are you saying they're acting like PRIMA-donnas?
Are you an IC, Lead, or in some kind of engineering-management role?

I'm also in the Seattle area, with just-over 10 years' full-time experience and started my career at a FAANG and everyone in my orbit (with similar education, roles and experience) is around 150-180, I don't personally know anyone who has admitted TC over $200k.

I'm not skeptical of your claim, but just sharing my experience.

(Yes, Levels.fyi makes me feel insecure about my career accomplishments, but at the same time I don't interview well...)
Here’s an interesting real-time shift in language happening.

You just referred to these things as ‘chat apps’.

And that seems reasonable - they use a chat interface.

But they aren’t ‘chat apps’ as we would have understood them a few months ago. They don’t let you chat with people. They let you chat with an LLM.

Is the word ‘chat’ changing its meaning?
DNS records take a minute or two to update
> they had to cut back on turning on their heating at night during the winter

There is this little inconvenient thing called the Russian Invasion of Ukraine that is still ongoing since 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks and 4 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/06/soaring-gas-pr...
right, but it sounds to me as you are reading it as i'm calling the inventor of the cookie as nefarious. i'm suggesting having a conversation with the inventor about how nefarious people will use his invention.
They did apply for one IIRC. Which is silly, but people apply to trademark all kinds of generic terms.
Could be interesting to open it up for other developers to implement in their own shopping apps!
It is not a "Ploy" - or at least not a ploy from the applicant side - if colleges are eagerly favoring every sort of expensive deck-stacking scheme which well-to-do students' families might try.
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What does E2E sync mean here? They already know what you wrote because you submitted it to them, similar to a Google search.
It's using whisper to do speech to text, which is a non-trivial amount of on device processing. At least that's why I think it's heating up my phone, because that was the first thing I wanted to try.
Beta particles are basically energetic electrons flying around, yes, but for a Geiger counter to detect them they have to be quite energetic in order to penetrate the Geiger tube itself (detection occurs essentially inside the tube, in the gas)... So I doubt that static field is generating electrons anywhere near that energy needed to be detected by a Geiger tube.
Nobody in Texas has basements.
"Cold start" problems are usually not about the app being indexed, but about the recommendation/ranking system being based on what other users have clicked on or downloaded.
This reminds me of a comment I heard a politician make in private among a group of us.

When passively asked "what's going on?", her reply: 'oh, much to do about nothing!'
no. and you won’t be able to start paying from inside the app.
It was a typical blame-the-immigrants comment with no evidence.

I don't mind what arguments people make when they provide some evidence to support them, but the commenter wrote "physical impossibility" when it took me 2 minutes to find statistics to the contrary for their first point.
I read an opinion that the TCL community was divided into two factions. One faction wanted a lua like small embeddable interpreter. The other wanted a full feature Python like platform. Neither faction won, so TCL got stuck in the middle.

I don't know if this is true, but it was such an interesting opinion, that it stuck with me.
This is a bad example - bard just seems to halucinate and make up 50% of the answers.
He's not taxed at 45% he just doesn't understand progressive taxation. You'd need to make like 1 million a year or more for the effective rate to be 45% i think.
How can you create a US account? Don't they ask for a credit/debit card and/or phone number?