skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is quite a bit of precedent for "making copies of digital things is copyright infringement". Look at lawsuits from the Napster era. [1]

What makes the use improper? Licenses. Terms of service. Mostly licenses though. For example, all the images on Flickr that were uploaded under Creative Commons licenses (e.g. non-commercial) have now been used in a commercial capacity by a company to create and sell a product.

Similarly, code is on Github with specific licenses with specific terms. Copilot is a derivative work of that code, the license terms of that code (e.g. GPL, non-commercial) should extend to the new function that was derived from it.

The reason I mention competition with the original is the fair use test (USA). When courts decide whether something is fair use they consider a few aspects. Two important ones are whether it is commercial, and whether it is a substitute for the original. When art models output something in the style of a living artist, it is essentially a direct substitute for that person.

Sure, I can make a shirt with Spider Man on it and give it to my brother, but if a company were to use what I made or I tried to sell it, I would expect a cease and desist from Disney.

Training the model may very well be a copyright issue. The images have been copied, they are being used. Whether that falls under fair use will likely be determined on a case by case basis in court. I do not believe closed commercial models like Copilot or Dall-e will pass a fair use test.

There is a lot of money involved here though, so we will need to wait for years before we have answers.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota...
I’m embracing RINORIN

My phones browser kept crashing. I thought I had about 80 tabs open so I went to close some.

I had 1200+ tabs open. Mostly HN stuff I surely couldn’t live without.

The next time it crashed and asked to restore.

No!
I’ve witnessed a good number of online interactions that went like “where do I buy your blouse/dress”, “I don’t recall, just use <app>’s AI feature to recognize it”. I’ve witnessed it once or twice in meatspace as well. So it’s absolutely a thing that real people find useful, especially among women who are into clothes shopping.
DNSSEC failures are how you get people to disable DNSSEC
The current plan just seems to be to progressively reduce the functionality of extensions to the point that they don't do anything useful.
Maybe we saved all those snippets, bookmarks, links, and notes because one day, one bright shiny day, we will feed them all as one big prompt to our new personal multimodal super-intelligent brain-interfaced skull-surface-wrapped self-augment subsystem.
Because it plugs in to a wall outlet.
This Financial Times article may cover the story better:
https://www.ft.com/content/11cb394d-a13e-4826-b580-823b9367f...
The reddit UI has gotten so hostile that I stopped using reddit a few years ago. Third party apps are nice and all, but I think a site that's so hostile to its users isn't worth me wasting my time on. I have several friends who are active reddit users but exclusively use third party apps, if those apps stop working I'm confident they'll just stop using reddit all together too.

I remember when Digg.com launched v4 and everyone hated it so much that they planned a "quit Digg day" and then collectively moved to Reddit. Maybe some day reddit users will do the same thing and move to something else.
Yeah ok, why not just go there when it opens. It’s like sneaking at plots and sets in a new movie, a great way to spoil it
These seem like things affordable with money and crowd sourcing of volunteer labor. In some ways it feels too valuable to leave in the hands of megacorps.
Agreed. I see these claims all the time. Feels a little bit like, "dId yOu KnOw iNsTaGram lIsTens tO yOuR cOnVeRsAtIoNs?"

It would be pretty easy to prove. Show us before/after screen shots.
OpenAI Whisper

https://github.com/openai/whisper
Or Seaboard 5D: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seaboard-5d/id1173937855

(This was extra cool when iPhones supported 3D Touch.)
> No, that is a document ID and changes with each reissuance.

TIL. My last and current number had the first 4 characters the same, so I didn’t even realize that (and the times before I never thought of it).
FTC Charge Amazon with Violating Privacy Law by Keeping Alexa Recordings Forever
For a brief time when they were still written in assembly, they were called "programs" in OpenGL, which I thought was a better name for them. I guess "shaders" stuck because it was also used in Direct3D, even though it's a more confusing name.
6 - 10 don't offer any useful information, except to say "blockchain is hot hot hot". You're only further showing that your grift is confidence.
All reddit is doing is storing text and serving it to people.

This not expensive or a hard problem. You grab a bunch of servers, you set them up properly, and then you write your app properly.

No resume-driven bullshit; no hype-driven bullshit; no “we need to be galaxy scale now” bullshit. No email notifications, besides basic “thanks for registering, here is your login” and “here’s a password reset link.” No cloud-based bullshit. Don’t use fucking python. Use a real systems language to eek out as much performance as you can from the hardware. Actually understand databases and how your specific databases work. Use Postgres unless you have a very good reason not to.

Just a few thousand dollars a month, and a brief reprieve from short-term mania to actually think, and you too can literally serve 1 billion pages a day.

Why does everyone run into problems with this? Because they have personal hang-ups and delude themselves (or simply don’t care). This path has been tread numerous times before. The mistakes have been made thousands of times. The people who made those mistakes are available to help you out (for the right price, or if you’re good enough company).

I am sick and tired of systems engineering being grandized, when all you have to do is sit down somewhere quiet and think about the problem — with a bit of tea, and some way to access reference material.

Reddit is not a hard or interesting problem.
https://ring.com/collections/indoor-security-cameras
Given how vastly multipurpose GPUs are now for all manner of parallel processing, why is everyone still beholden to the paradigm of shaders? It seems weird to shove so much specialized computation (like ML) into this weird graphics programming metaphor, using vertex and fragment shaders, etc. Is the industry working to create a more generalized version of GPUs in the future? Sort of like...PPUs? Parallel processing units?
We disagree before your argument even begins to form. I don't believe that piracy, the act of downloading a movie, tv show, or song is stealing.

On the flip side, these corporations take from society and refuse to give back thanks to ridiculously long copyright protection terms.

They take advantage of their workers, paying a fraction of a penny to them that they make.

They screw artists over with bad contracts or lousy residuals.

They defraud investors by purposely producing works they know won't perform well.

They use things like the DMCA to bankrupt anyone that tries to write software that gets around DRM.

They threaten to sue people into oblivion that use P2P software to download something they "own."

They cover up the crimes of pedophiles and other sexual predators because they make them money.

So, again, I don't care about the pocketbooks of these corporations. I don't care that someone can download a movie without paying for it. I don't care that groups like rarbg or TPB exist.

> you are my enemy

This is exactly the type of thing an internet white knight would write. You're ridiculous.
Do you have concrete examples? I recently moved from Japan to Europe after 10 years in Japan and while some things seemed old-fashioned in Japan, things also change overnight there. During Covid most companies changed to digital signing.

In Japan I often needed a paper from the city, but it was an easy-to-obtain printout I could get immediately from city hall or even from 7-11. I tend to require the same papers in Europe too, with the extra hassle of needing some from Japan (2-3 months) and some from Europe (2-3 days).

Example 1: get ID card at the airport when you emigrate to japan. In Europe it takes 2-3 months.

Example 2: getting a local driving license takes 1 day provided your country has a treaty with japan. In Europe it can take several months because you need to request criminal records from your previous countries

I have yet to encounter a situation that requires a fax machine in either place.
I was driving home late one night and this extraordinary, experimental jazz piece comes on the air (KUVO, Denver). I was captivated and my daughter who was with me correctly identified the instrument as the bass clarinet which she had played in her middle school orchestra. I later found out it was Eric Dolphy - God Bless The Child. I hope you have a chance to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQZ1c3ixoa4
> Now the only way to access site Y is by a) routing all your data through some third party server, or b) installing a native application which has way more access to your machine than the web app would.

Or installing a browser extension that allows rewriting CORS headers.

> Some days you gotta wonder if anyone on the web committees has any interest in end-users.

Oh, they do. The defaults are much safer for end-users than they used to be. Who they mostly leave out is a narrow slice of power users with use cases where bypassing make sense, and the extension facilities available address some of that.
invidious is the closest analogue, if its still alive.
That sounds like a reasonable factor on all of this.
You're right. I meant to say that international airports don't yield a 100 mile radius for the CBP to perform arbitrary stops. Shorelines count; the whole situation is ridiculous.
Very interesting. Not the intent of the article, but it shows the power of positive thinking, affirmations, visualization et al. Silencing the inner critic seems to be the common theme.
aka “policing by consent”

The gov.uk website says it quite well, “It should be noted that it refers to the power of the police coming from the common consent of the public, as opposed to the power of the state.”

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policing-by-conse...
I've had the same experience and gripes as the comment op, but RTKquery is one of the better experiences I've had with OpenApi based tooling.

But ya... JSONschema is confusing and doesn't really support type composition the way you think it would.

If your API model is simple, then you'll probably have decent experience with clients... But if you need "allOf/anyOf/oneOf" and to restrict "additionalProps", you're probably going to have a rough time...
This is a fantastic resource. Thank you.
If its anything like nitter, it doesn't use the public API and so is not as vulnerable to Reddit's changes.
Off the top of my head, I can get a new LG V50 for under $200 on ebay. There are tons of phones around $150 with far better specs.

As for usability, iPhones are too limited for my use. I use apps that need root and others are sideloaded. I typically load alternate firmware (Not the current one tho. That was a mistake, I think). Many $200 android device are fast and capable but zero iPhones are.

Do iPhones come with preloaded carrier crapware like Androids do? I hope not and for that I'd give iPhones a plug.
That doesn’t sound super successful.
> We would need to know how many requests the FISA courts receive and how many they reject

We aren't entirely without numbers

"1,856. That's the number of applications presented to the court by the government last year. And it's also the number that the court approved: 100 percent success." (https://www.npr.org/2013/06/13/191226106/fisa-court-appears-...)
I agree, it could be replicated, but is it? I feel that there are much fewer independent forums than there used to. And if instead the conversation steps into Facebook, then I am not following.
A lot of this makes sense if you add some smart regulation. Drones over a certain weight class should be transmitting ADSB out if they plan to fly outside line of sight. ADSB in could be optional. If your drone is flying outside line of sight, it's most likely large enough and big enough to be able to transmit. Everyone benefits from that sort of case from pilots to drone operators. Will be interesting to see for sure.
technically this looks really impressive. great to see a new compression approach that supports extremely high performance decompression, with a high performance open source implementation.

re: winning adoption of new compression approaches, there's an interesting podcast interview [1] with Yann Collet (of lz4 / zstd):

Some factors Yann discussed that helped lz4 & zstd gain traction were: permissive licensing (BSD) ; implementation in C -- widest support for including it into other software ecosystems ; open development & paying attention to issues raised by users of the software ; the new compression approach able beat an existing popular approach in some use cases with no downside: e.g. if a hypothetical new compression approach has 200% faster decompression but offers 10% worse compression ratios, then there's friction for introducing it into an existing system, as the new approach might first require purchase and deployment of additional storage. Whereas a new approach that is 50% faster and has exactly the same or slightly better compression ratios can be adopted with much less friction.

It looks like the Iguana code has recently been relicensed with Apache instead of AGPL (which used for the rest of the sneller repo), which could lower the barrier for other projects to consider adopting Iguana, although there are still dependencies from the Iguana code to code in AGPL licensed files elsewhere in the sneller repo.

[1] https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/
That video inspired me to get off my ass and start looking for companies to work for who have a mission I'm in love with. It's tough because my specialization (infosec) is mostly valued in industries I don't give a shit about, but a reduction in income to get an increase in satisfaction that I'm supporting something I'm wholly in love with is worth it.
You can appeal and talk to payment processors today, and they essentially tell you that your category of transactions has high fraud rates or exposes them to legal risk until you do XYZ impossible or arduous things to mitigate the liability or risk. They will use the same motte that they use now to justify their bailey reality.
My point is that for caching to be cost-effective, it requires long lifetimes -- especially if your # of users is relatively low.

Especially for an app like Reddit with millions of subreddits. There is no monolithic "reddit"; the experience is tailored to each user based on the subs they've joined. So your % of requests that will be asking for a cached resource is lower than other high-volume websites. I think your 99-to-1 estimate is _way_ off.
If you don’t match the terms in your email exactly right with your query, gmail starts returning email that matches one of the terms which is rarely what you want.
You might've liked the now-closed themed Hotel Valdivia in Santiago:

https://www.google.com/search?q=valdivia+hotel+santiago&sour...

My now-wife and I stayed there almost 20 years ago, in the disco room: spa and waterfall, shower in an orange glass hexagon, a toilet room surrounded by mirrors. It was quite the experience.

On theme parks, I wonder if there's ever been research into serious fans of them, and if they have formative history in common, like first visiting one at a key age, or similar. I can appreciate the experience, but I'm personally baffled by people who just keep returning to the exclusion of other opportunities around the country or world. Each to their own though!
I have heard an appropriate analogy for situation.

Imagine a confident ten year old who has just learnt the rules of chess or Go.

Could this person explain or quantify how the best player in the world might defeat them?
It’s interesting that a large number of the comments are formulaic in nature and state how dangerous the drones could be to the operation of hot air balloons.

As a fixed wing pilot for almost 30 years it seems to me that the real danger is with hot air balloons and their inability to safely maneuver and control their direction within the airspace and not the operation of ‘drones’ or UAV’s.

I realize that my opinion is probably not going to be popular but it’s just my opinion.
JavaScript Features You Need to Know to Master React
seconded.

so a lot of people say a lot of things.
i like chapters 1-5 just as much as the rest, btw.
it's objectively a great book, written by objectively great developers and computer scientists.

is it the best to learn from today? who can say.

you might also say we should not start the education for structural engineering by studying the Brooklyn bridge either.

but, so here we are.
Fat is far more satiating which is why keto and paleo diets are relatively easy to adopt. For most people, it’s easier to control overeating within the same calorie amount by reducing carbs and increasing fats.
Funnily enough the Reddit community originally started on Digg and moved there after Digg shot themselves in the foot in a similar way to what Reddit is currently doing. So while Reddit now is a lot bigger and more entrenched than Digg then, I wouldn't be at all surprised if history repeated.
Show HN: Alt history comic made with ChatGPT and Midjourney
I'm a big fan of "Superman: Red Son," a non-canonical alt history timeline Superman where the hero lands in the Soviet Union and becomes a great champion for communism. So I wondered, how difficult would it be for me to make my own alt history comic?

I present to you "Red Stars and Stripes / Capitalist Comrades," a comic written by ChatGPT, illustrated by Midjourney, and assembled by me. It took me about six hours to put together.

ChatGPT script, for those who are curious: https://chat.openai.com/share/a3237b50-6a10-4fce-b58a-9ed434.... If you scroll down, you'll see that ChatGPT also provided descriptions of the illustrations. I used these descriptions as starting points for prompts that I fed into Midjourney. At the very least, I had to append "In a comic book style" to each description, and usually the modifications were more extensive than that.

Ironically, I often ended up going back to ChatGPT's original description for each scene verbatim (except for adding "in a comic book style") because Midjourney just wouldn't do what I needed it to do. It's almost as if ChatGPT knew Midjourney's limitations and crafted prompts that led to unsatisfying but accurate results. That was a better result than what I got with my more creative prompts, which Midjourney couldn't handle at all.

The main limitation I ran into with Midjourney was that it doesn't seem to be good at mixing "real world" contexts that have social meaning or semantic value. For example, I unsuccessfully tried for 2 hours to generate a scene involving a blue collar/factory worker-type person arguing with a diplomat at the United Nations. It could only generate a scene either with all factory workers in a factory or all diplomats at the United Nations.

Another curious example: I couldn't get Midjourney to generate any kind of symbol, flag, or emblem associated with the Soviet Union whatsoever. The best I could do is get the Vietnamese flag to appear when prompting for "communist symbols." But in those cases, Midjourney would only generate Asian people in those scenes. I couldn't get another type of person in any scene with a prominent communist symbol, ever. Same thing when I prompted for "American worker in Mao-style suit." The worker and every other person in the scene were also Asian, every single time. Seems like the model is overfitting in some strange way.
He talks about hybrid which I agree is shit. Too much juggling going on.

You either go full remote and organize yourself around async and better written communication. Or you all sit in the office the whole time and much of the comms is just talk. The in between sucks.

I worked full remote and it works fine. Teams were working well, information flowed, blockers were dealt with. We didn't even use our cameras in meetings. Now I worked for 1 month hybrid and am quitting. This has all the downsides from both remote and on site working.
That's very nice and I would like to see it really take off.
Do they use the new toroidal propellers for better efficiency and lower noise?
Not if you want standard user features like login, profile, commenting, posting, etc.
While "In the Penal Colony" actually is really funny and readable, I don't think much humor could have been lost.
Multi-Query Attention, used here, should make 40B inference viable on systems where even 33B LLaMA with Multi-Head is basically unusable, so sometimes improvements still come from software optimization (it's no free lunch though).
I’d also like to add I’ve lived almost half my adult life in the US, being from the UK originally and encounters with the police in each country has a very different feel. It subjectively feels like the peelers in the UK have more latitude and responsibility than the cops in the US and I’ve often wondered if this was due to the Peelian Principles. It also feels like the US has cops everywhere, unlike the UK, though I suppose there are massive regional differences.
Every house in my neighborhood came with a Ring doorbell. I can’t open my front door without being recorded. This would be bad enough if Amazon actually cared about privacy.

Its a shame what’ve we’ve given up in the pursuit of “safety”. These types of devices should have e2e encryption turned on by default, and also automatically black out areas outside of the owner’s property.
Technically you can still do that by launching chrome with some special flags or with a chrome extension.

But I do agree that CORS is being hijacked/abused for this purpose. But at the same time it's an important security feature. It prevents the scenario where you visit some website and some malicious javascript starts making calls to some-internal-site/api/... and exfiltrating data.
That's not simple to create with inverters alone.

Yep, inverters can easily read the frequency change to adapt their output. But a device that reads the network load and translates it into a frequency change is really not trivial. Grids do this because mechanical generators do that translation, but the easiest way to add it to a non-mechanical grid is adding a mechanical device.

Lines exclusively fed by inverters will naturally get undervoltage, instead of frequency shifts.
Thanks for the correction! I just dimly recall the title from my grandfather's old books.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, announced today that SeaTunnel has graduated from incubation and is now a Top-Level Project (TLP). SeaTunnel is a cloud-native, high-performance, massive data integration tool initially created by open source community members, data experts, and developers in China.