skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A resized, smaller, or encoded version of an image is still subject to copyright. Calling an encoding an 'impression' is deceitful.
Even if their reasoning strikes me as quite muddled -- at least you got some kind of a genuinely human response.

Which is kind of the best we can hope for. Beyond that, people are people, and are going to keep on making weird decisions.
What I'd assume Valve is worried about is that it only takes one major decision against Stable Diffusion in court to suddenly leave us in a state where "this game used Stable Diffusion" is the proof that's needed.

Given the whole "Stable Diffusion reproduces the Getty Images watermark" lawsuit[1] that's still ongoing, it's not an idle concern.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright...
If this can't apply to Harvard, then presumably it's legal to have private schools that only allow white people?
I tried the 30 day free trial of Copilot and, while it pretty much works as advertised, I didn't particularly like it.

If I had to articulate why, it would be that I could feel it putting me in a sort of "begging" mindset rather than a "thinking" mindset.
People want to play identity politics, not solve tangible issues like income disparity and economic mobility.
Lot's of families have disputes, that relative might have motive to lie. We don't know because none of us really know the family. It's all speculation, including the supposition that the mother is lying to save face for her husband.
As I understand it, Epic already has a smaller and more curated catalog by intention. They're already trying to keep out the tens of thousands of low quality and hobbyist titles.
Many years ago I daily drove Vista for about a year. Literally anything else from before or since is a vast improvement.

(I've been on *nix land for a decade now — I wish my Mac (intel) was a bit more snappier, but I'm happy nevertheless).
And only a matter of time until a major game lets you talk to NPCs by generating dialog with an LLM.
Seems like you are moving the goal post?

Are you saying rich black people aren’t as black as poor black people? I seem to remember a presidential candidate saying something similar.

Why would you punish someone for their success despite the disadvantage you insist must be accounted for?
copyright issues aside, a platform has to consider 'spam', AI generated content could quickly and easily overwhelm a platform.
Good point - often I won't get this kind of detail in a rejection.
It would be interesting to see if this model can be applied to other enthusiast-driven markets or if it's uniquely suited to markets with high-value, low-volume products."
Asset store is still a more effective tool to create shovelware than AI. It's been this way for years. Recommendation systems (digital or otherwise) are already coping with it.
I wonder if it works like the ESG scores, where an oil company can score max results because it is ranked against peers, i.e. other oil companies.
In extreme cases they could be made to flip or fold to present an armored back, but you would have to be very sure it mattered enough.
Midjourney has been really helpful to me as a one man dev. I can mockup art much faster then what I can do in photoshop. I still intend to at some point do a complete pass using a professional artist (or learn to draw myself) - because generative art is not consistent thematically from asset to asset. But if I just want to see what my tile assets look like if they were all done in 30's art deco style, I can do it in 20 minutes.

As placeholders or to create little bits and doodles (like a mouse cursor in the style of an armored fist), there are lots of little graphical icons in a game that would other have to be created by a graphical artist. Generative art is really useful in my experience.

It's reduced the work to the point where I can toy with it in my off time and spend most of my effort in the actual programming and development.

The other idea I have toyed with, coming from professional ML experience - was to build my own generative model and use it to create my own art assets. Here I wonder how the copyright rules would work - would the assets I train on be subjected to copyright? This is a much bigger conversation at that point and I wont be the only one affected.
Do you feel the same about the courts rulings on segregation? Initially decided on 1896, revisited in 1954.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Towards an adaptable systems architecture for memory tiering at warehouse-scale
The war winner does get to do a lot of historical revisionism. That said, I’d be interested in hearing the argument that Germany was the good guy in World War Two.

The sides in that war ranged from ‘Bad’ to ‘Very Bad’ in my opinion.
The problem is, it's _not advice._

People take different imperatives away from the same information.

What does it mean that red meat causes cancer? Does that mean that all things being equal, high quality red meat should be avoided? Does it mean that red meat is associated with other lifestyle factors that cause cancer? How well controlled are the variables? How was the meat cooked? All red meat, or just certain levels of leanness? Did the diet of the animal matter? What about their location? Was the meat itself tested for contaminants?

In most nutrition studies, the controls are extremely difficult to put in place, especially for things like cancer, because the tail is so long. Studies are almost exclusively observational in nature, relying on recall and cohorts that do or don't eat red meat, which has SO much selection bias associated with it.

Even if you got to the end and could say definitively that high quality sourced red meat is still carcinogenic in all of its possible cooked forms, that still isn't "advice." There are still benefits, and those benefits carried by something like red meat, and those benefits might outweigh the risks.
> Jan 2023 5664

That's 183 searches per day, assuming 8 hours of sleep that's 11.5 searches per hour, that's roughly a search every 5 minutes. That's a busy month :)
I'm the total opposite. How can I trust Amazon if they aren't the ones selling me the merchandise? 3rd party sellers killed that website entirely for me.

I needed to buy creatine and the last place I would buy it would be Amazon because there are too many chinese counterfeits, and worse Amazon seems to wash their hands of any responsibility. I ultimately bought creatine from nootropicsdepot. I buy things directly from the manufacturer now or physically from Target.
A lot of aircraft could do this but the rules are most likely the same for the majority of air planes large and small.
That is great, almost what I was imagining. I think it needs more places to ping from and a map in the webpage.

Suggestions aside, look at the difference between HN and Google (measured in milliseconds):

us-east: 39 HN, 40 GGL
us-west: 128 HN, 118 GGL
europe: 186 HN, 109 GGL
tokyo: 291 HN, 143 GGL
sydney: 405 HN, 303 GGL

Kind of interesting, did not expect Googles latency to be that high in Sydney.
Ok, dumb question: Is the link supposed to link to the actual book (i.e., is the book free and/or open source) or is this just a page of miscellaneous interesting links about the book (which we can pay for, later, when it's published).

I was expecting the book, but the page itself says "This page is a placeholder for material related to the second edition of The AWK Programming Language."

It's fine if this is a placeholder page (and an awesome excuse to read talk about AWK here on HN :) ) but I want to be sure that I'm not missing the book itself.
Then why have the goal posts moved? That’s my only challenge to the status quo. Presumably they’ve moved because moving them is the only way (or at least the only cheap/easy way) to maintain a narrative of injustice. Shouldn't we be able to pursue this vision without frivolously chasing a metric we have absolutely no understand of let alone control over?

It’s subtle but the motives are very different: if you want to maintain a narrative of injustice, then you will find ways to do that. OTOH, if you want to build a narrative of equality, success, and support, then you need to be open to the outcome that racial undertones and the victim status of minorities will fade into history. Thats the entire goal, right?
Having previously lived in the area. It depends. But yeah we usually just parked in the garage. But not everyone has that and they get their car obliterated by it. Insurance usually covers it. That size is rare enough that it is not that big of a deal. But when it does. Usually it is pea sized. Golf ball sized is decently rare. Baseball (this case) is very very rare. That size is along the lines it would damage your roof on your house too.
I run two SMEs in Tourism, and as their size is small we opted years ago, to spend certification costs into CO2e offsetting. We use United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a pillars for managing.
I file it under the same category as, "The Daily Mail trying to divide every known substance into ones which cause cancer, and ones which cure it."
People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers
Fake story, guaranteed
Why stop at the students, choose the professors by lottery too, Nih grants by lottery… May as well just burn limited resources. Lottery math doesn’t work. Someone has to fund the lotteries. And lotteries funding lotteries ain’t going to do it. Someone has to actually produce something of value for there to be value to allocate.
Every email you send to a gmail backed account is this.
If the outcome doesn't depend on your actions, there's no point in doing anything. Such a lethargic society cannot function, so to push it into motion the ruler has to use force and cruelty. The people will do the work, not because they hope to get something, for the outcome is always the same - cheap food and 4 hours of sleep - but because they want to avoid punishment.
It's not customer-friendly. It doesn't take into account families or even people who go in as a group and 1 person makes the purchase. Gift cards also exist and can be given to anyone, though they can't be reloaded online, only in person even if you are a member.

Membership cards without a photo exist, I understand they plan to start requiring people to show photo id for those as well.
Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal
Static typing in programming languages are propositions[1] that the type checker proves (because it is a prover of sorts). It's very simple; it has to be simple to ensure that it's reasonably fast and above all, terminates with a clear yes/no.

It's a bit off for this article not to mention that whatever cleverness underlies these examples, things will fail. That is it may not terminate in general, and if it does it might well do so without proving anything useful. I really, really like the idea of formal methods and I would really, really love to use them but they don't come for free unfortunately.

[1] in an informal sense, perhaps calling them proposals might be better
Water in the stomach isn't harmful, but water in the lungs absolutely is.

If the human digestive system can trivially break down the amounts of aspartame found in a diet coke, it's fairly pointless for just about anyone to entertain the scenario of inhaling a bucket of pure aspartame crystals.
If you run anything in a hostile repo, you already lost.
> Bitcoin seems to be for real on some level but the transaction volumes it can handle are anemic.

Same with physical gold in much of the world today. Different forms of money have different use cases and tradeoffs.

> So far Bitcoin ETFs have struggled to track BTC accurately

This is only because of the stubborn refusal by the SEC to authorize "full" ETF status for them. The funds that trade today like GBTC are essentially closed-end funds that cannot be redeemed for the underlying asset on a regular basis. That daily/intraday mechanism is what allows full ETF's to track correctly as arbitrage strategies can profit from any significant deviation.
Healthcare Triage did a review of the research years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf82FfX-wuU

tl;dw: artificial sweeteners get a bad rap, multiple studies have found no harm, studies that did find harm were on rats (which often doesn't translate to humans), and the harms associated with excess sugar consumption are numerous, well-founded, and damning.
I think her strategy is pretty plausible. They're abusing their position. I won't say it's slam dunk monopolism, but we've been on a decades-long trend of looser and looser regulation and I think it's high time the FTC takes a stand to actually tighten a bit. I'm not familiar enough with legal statute to say how strong their case will be, but it certainly feels like the kind of the thing they should be doing and I trust Lina Khan to have her ducks in a row. She wouldn't be teeing up a high profile case that doesn't have a high chance of success.
After being presented with new information, they came to a different conclusion. As a result of their previous decisions, the data showed that the limited discrimination allowed has had a larger effect than anticipated and led to an outcome of less than limited discrimination.
AFAIK it can cause diarrhea.
With Garmin watches, the GPS tracking is enabled when you start an activity. So you're not using it all day, it's for the hour or two that you're out doing something. My old Fenix 3HR is good for close to a week with a daily walk tracked. My Descent G1 Solar (based on the [edit] Instinct 2 I think) is more like a couple of weeks with activities tracked.

There are quite a few settings that you can tweak as well, depending on the model of watch. My Descent has most things turned on during the day, but switches most off automatically using a power-save mode configured to match the "sleep" time on my phone. I think if it's set to minimum power usage, it's closer to a couple months. (Estimated battery time is typically shown in the watch face.)
I hope they go after KDP (Kindle) exclusivity next. Authors put their content on Kindle Unlimited, then have to live with Amazon eating into their profit share. Amazon also has no problems rolling over entire subgenres with algorithmic tweaks, destroying them.
Show HN: Nerds and sales = better sales on autopilot
We’re 4 nerds that love to geek out about tech, sales, marketing, growing startups, products and automation.

Also, we’re not exactly salespeople (although we do know a bunch and have healthy experience)

Long story short.

We saw old-school outbound sales playbooks fall apart (at our previous companies).

We were advised and coached by a guy who put in place a new engineering-focus automated sales approach at some bigger SaaS brands (you’ve probably heard of).

We implemented an automated outbound program that produced better results for less headache (but it was a challenge to get it done due to politics).

And thought why don’t we offer this to other startups?

That’s how atom8 was born.

Feedback welcome.
Being cautious when not being cautious could mean lots of big lawsuits against you doesn't seem that ultra-super conservative. I hope this ends up going the other way, but I understand Valve's calculus here.
Technopolies are the blood sucking vampire squids of the modern economy.
AirBnbs were great years ago, but the fees are often more than the rental price these days. We pretty much stick to hotels and Bed & Breakfasts these days.
Thanks! Helpful advice :)

I'm not entirely sure. The narrative above my level is very tightly controlled and the company lacks openness I've seen in the past.
For anyone who is unable to get the "Open in App" to open in Aurora (and not F-droid), check that you've actually clicked on the App webpage and that you're not just in the search page (play.google.com/search?app=blah, for example is bad)
Actual link without the twitter spam: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
But the question is whether those wrongs will right themselves and over what time period and at what cost. (Black) Affirmative action seems like a reasonable way to speed that process up, given the strength of network effects (ie who you know) on progress and wealth.

IMO compared to helping the poor, its something that should have a stopping point, presumably at least several generations out.

Lastly its also about atonement and making amends, also distinct from poor and even other races / genders with a history of oppression. IE when i lived in austin tx I often walked by a statue near the capitol building, erected after the civil war, whose inscription rejects the outcome entirely. Its bananas that thing exists, or that replacing it would be contentious. Yet here we are.
The point is, the AI must know about the technology.

Until now they have exposed important limitations IMHO (wrong syntax, invented knowledge), which leads to more headaches than simply reading the documentation of a particular framework/library/language.

In my opinion, it's nice to know that AI is there, but I personally don't find it, at the current state of art, trustworthy. On the other side, it's totally perfect for preparing documentations, attempt to create tests or doing translations.
We do try to confine those activities to industrial zones and not in and around protected environments, and we do try and mitigate the worst effects where we can. I personally thought their decision to launch without a proper launch pad was asinine before it happened, and my opinion was not changed for the better by the outcome.
I'll suggest a real motivation: they want to make their own game generated by AI and have first mover advantage while they work out all the scary AI copyright issues they have to deal with that they already deal with because the same problem exists with human generated art.

Why do I say that? They want the developer to prove they only used material they created to do the training and Valve has the resources to follow that rule unlike the rest of us.
The trouble with coupling the two is that now I have to either trust some third party db service, or some custom db.

The DB is so fundamental, and so hard to get right / scale, that it's hard to trust a startup to do it well.

We use Firebase and even with all the resources google has this has a lot of issues (especially with the client libs).
Depends a bit on the subcategory, but for programmatic video with real time bidding basically the whole industry started second-price, then moved to first price (different entities, such as exchanges, felt they wanted to extract more profit) and these days it barely qualifies as an auction process due to the amount of "side bidding".
When reading about stories like this I get reminded of how unfair life really is. I'm currently a student but somehow in my bubble things seem fair. Real life is not the same.
Also just creates an incentive to just lie about what AI model / training data you used , how could anyone possibly prove your deception?

What would an satisfy an audit trail that no tainted AI data have made it into a digital image? It would involve a chain of attribution per fraction of a pixel through all it's past iterations.
This decision was a big win for Asians. Who right now are being discriminated against.

Before race based admission was used “as a positive” for minorities, it was being used to keep ivy leagues from being “too Jewish”.

It doesn’t take very long to see what this is, but the topic is always about removing the benefit, not preventing the abuse.
Obviously there's a difference between pressure vessels that have to keep pressure in (like a spacecraft) vs one that has to keep pressure out (like a submersible). I believe keeping pressure in is generally easier.

But the much bigger factor is the pressure difference we are talking about here: At 13k feet you have about 1 atmosphere of pressure in the sub, and about 400 atmospheres of pressure outside, for a difference of about 400. In a spacecraft you have about 1 atmosphere inside and about 0 outside, for a difference of 1. 1 bar of pressure is much easier to deal with than 400.

This also changes your emergency procedures: In a spacecraft, losing pressure means you need a pressure suit and a breathing apparatus. Because you still have the spacecraft for general shielding these can be pretty sleek suits like [1] that you can just wear the entire time and connect to an oxygen line as needed. In a submarine at these depths your best defense against sudden hull damage is being in a part of the sub that isn't damaged and has a solid bulkhead to the damaged section. Which isn't viable in a small submersible.

Spacecraft are challenging for other reasons: you want to go up fast to spend less time fighting gravity, which provides challenges because of aerodynamic loads; and when you come back down all the momentum of your orbit gets converted into heat as you slow down, which necessitates a decent heat shield. On top of that you try to minimize weight of everything, because being heavier means you need more fuel, but more fuel means you need more fuel to carry that fuel up, meaning you need more fuel, etc.

1: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8PVWQ6hR7SsGLK9PDoCFdU-120...
Justice Thomas is (to me) an extremely frustrating figure, but this a compelling argument for the 14th Amendment.
And when there is not a tower nearby, you, uhh... find a way. My buddy was flying into one of the many uncontrolled airports in NorCal, and there was a guy in a single-engine retractable gear circling the airport. When Buddy made his downwind call, the Guy radioed "Hey I'm not getting any indication whether my gear is down or not, can you fly by me and tell me if it's down?" It was down, so Guy ended up attempting the landing with a bit more confidence than he started out with.
I bet it's 2 because OP said they used "admittedly obviously AI generated from the hands" and a lot of AI generation makes really funky hands that you have to fix because it looks so bad.

So it sounds like OP slapped some half-assed generated images into a game and tried to submit it. Valve now can't really trust someone that does that to have done any due diligence.
Apple could indeed fab a small memory controller chip, but I am not sure the M2 Ultra die has the interconnect to support such a thing? AMD makes this looks "easy," but it is not easy, and they built for Infinity Fabric from the start.

As said below, the answer is CXL. Apple would be stupid not to support CXL devices on the M3 or M4, though I would not be surprised if they skip it
when traveling for work why does the cleaning fee factor in, or is it just the chores does your work not book your travel? or do they give you a flat fee and tell you to find your own accommodations and any money extra/left over is your own deal?
INAL. But... show me the case law establishing there is near-zero risk to them if they let it go through.

People make business decisions all the time to avoid murky areas that may hold peril. Unless there is a big benefit to them, why take the risk?