skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No of course not. We’ll just ban it to level the playing field.
> it would still not be representative of the racial makeup of our population.

I think the point is that it doesn't need to. College admission is 18 years late for trying to correct racial and social disadvantages.
I am from India and have lived in the U.S for over 2 decades.
I have observed "affirmative action" arguments in two continents.

I am going to answer your specific questions,

>Why not just.. well, let poor people come first?

Racial justice issues are separate from economic justice issues.

Shouldn't this just be run-of-the-mill social democratic "lets hand out some extra opportunities/benefits to the poor" program?

Racism is a complex issue and in listening to Black/Asian/Brown Americans I have come to the realization that such programs have to be specific to each and every race because they experience racism in different ways.
At some point, you have to declare the war against something, over. The war against polio, the war against dengue fever, etc. even while there may continue low-grade outbreaks. Perfect is the enemy of the good.
You're more likely to be maimed or killed in a crash though

https://jalopnik.com/let-s-watch-cars-from-the-90s-crash-184...
Why does HN support and believe everything the WHO says when it comes to transmissible viruses but not anything else? Honest question.
Me too.

So I decided to learn SICP on my own. I already have the book, so I'll watch the MIT lectures of the original authors available online, and try to make progress.

I'm not in any hurry to complete it anytime soon.
> "and should be banned by policy."

This is really the kicker. Not only is the phenomenon really shitty, but Airbnb's refusal to police the practice shows that their interests are firmly aligned against actual guests and instead aligned with hosts.

A lot of the platform's problems come down to this alignment problem. As Airbnb has matured as a service I've found that hosts have gotten lazier and lazier - the chore lists are a relatively recent phenomenon of the last few years. The platform is rife with "hosts" who have no interest in actually running a hospitality business, and are only interested in passive income, and Airbnb itself refuses to uphold any consistent bar and forcing poor hosts off.

This has been wildly destructive to the trustworthiness of the business.

I would be more willing to attribute this stuff to growing pains if I didn't feel like these issues are only symptoms of a significant misalignment between guests and Airbnb corporate.
I think you may have misread the comment you're responding to.
Symbex: Extract Python functions and classes by wildcard
Just to nitpick, this landing technique is something every pilot has to demonstrate to an FAA designated examiner to get their first pilot certificate (or, the private pilot license). So it's kind of like saying "Wow, you did the thing every pilot has to do!". I get what you're saying though - there's an emotional difference between doing this when everything is fine and when you have a real emergency.
Aspartame is interesting in that unlike caffeic acid, it's a newly-introduced substance that saw rapid, widespread adoption in the mass market. So, where's the statistical increase in cancer rates among aspartame consumers that would have accompanied such a trend, if aspartame were carcinogenic to humans? Is there one? No? Well, what made them even ask the question, then?

When everything causes cancer, nothing does. Like Proposition 65, actions like this ultimately leave us all less aware, less informed, and less safe.
A nuclear war wouldn’t eliminate all governments involved, so in some sense they are “winnable.” The best way to frame MAD is not that all nations involved are destroyed, but rather that a Malthusian trap is simultaneously triggered for all nations. Nuclear war destroys the global economy, without which we all no longer can specialize but must become generalist subsistence farmers. In this scenario many people die in a few weeks and most people die in a few years, but still some billions eke out a meager existence based on their geographical location and the difficulty of transitioning to a subsistence economy.

It should be noted that the author is not a military theorist, and that he assumes there is no ladder of escalation, most targets are countervalue, and that most strikes are groundbursts. There are also reasonable arguments[0] to be made that so-called “limited” nuclear war is the more likely outcome of nuclear engagement. The fact that not even this has been seen since 1945 suggests that even “limited” nuclear war is not in the interests of any nuclear powers today.

It must be emphasized that nuclear weapons are more of a political tool than a military one so long as the nuclear taboo holds. Countries whose international and domestic reputations depend on an appearance of indomitability may wish to emphasize their nuclear posture during times of military and political crisis. The purpose of which is at least partially to generate irrational discourse in foreign media.

In my opinion tensions were the highest when Biden made his “Armageddon” comment and have cooled substantially since then.

[0] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780804790918...
It's foreign to most American college students too, almost all US colleges accept almost all applicants.

A very small number of private, public and military colleges attract so many applicants they have to select students for admission.
No, the developers just need to “affirmatively confirm” that the own the copyright on all the works in Midjourney’s training set, and they are good.
This ruling will overwhelmingly help Asians and only marginally help white people
Yes, but very amusing regardless of how it came to be.
That's my understanding, also--they're hypersensitive to the realities of the road. They really need to refine their models a bit rather than simply rewarding what they consider "safe" behavior.

Yes, aggressive driving is a bad thing--but it's not something easily detected by a sensor.
An update on Canada’s Bill C-18 and our Search and News products
You don't need to have both to sell search index access to anyone with an LLM, which seems like just about anyone these days.
> What about generating foliage or varied ground textures? What about generating buildings? Or NPCs?

This isn't how NVidia DLSS or AMD FSR works at all. DLSS/FSR can't create new buildings or foliage, or NPCs, so hard to foresee problems of the kind Valve are concerned with. Same for varied ground textures- the entire point of the technology is to sharpen and upscale the original image, or in case of DLSS3 inject new matching frames.

The only "risk" to DLSS is in Nvidia's own training data, but there is no "risk" of another company's existing IP leaking into final frame - again if there was, gamers wouldn't want to use it, as its destroying the original frame! If the resulting frame isn't a near perfect match for the original, DLSS has failed. Thankfully it does nearly perfectly match the original in use and alongside AMD's FSR 2.0 stuff has been one of the best advancements in gaming technology of recent years - effectively significant FPS boost "for free" on same hardware.

> https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/dlss/

> https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/fidelityfx-super-resolut...

While the line may be gray for other AI technologies in gaming, such as using it create new original textures or models, DLSS/FSR is just a really good upscaler - no "new" content being created and therefore no risk of IP infringement. To be really blunt; FSR and DLSS are in almost every new game for the last couple of years on both PC and console across literally hundreds of games now - if there was IP infringement issues, we would know by now - we are already onto second/third generations of these upscalers.
Can you explain to me how "you must affirmatively state that you own or have licensed rights to the training data (and if you're lying, the legal responsibility is yours and not Valve's)" is not a clear rule?

And yeah, they should kick those games off for using copyrighted materials that they do not own.
In California: 10% of each shitty school gets in to the top-tier UC system
Hello, How does one use "Trust Pilot" to get app reviews on Google Play or App Store?
30k is to businesses, not consumers. Consumers don't buy H100s.
Are using novel as in newer or novel as in different than widely considered at current?
Nope. You said:

> I wasn't asked and I don't really care to donate work to large corporations like that... I do get to decide what happens with it.

And I said:

> No. Both legally and practically, you absolutely do not.

You think you get to decide whether large corporations can train on your work. I'm saying the the law suggests you very much don't get to decide that.
someone failed their ethics class in college....
> it is definitely the case that poor people of color have a harder time getting ahead than equally poor white people

Do you have any sources for that?
Got it, so not studies in the sense of a peer reviewed publication. Maybe something more like a "position paper."
This will change within 6 months I promise you, EA/Ubisoft/etc will ALL be shipping AI generated textures in games before the end of the year.
> And then I think: you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right.

You're implicitly assuming it can be made right. That seems doubtful. The people who had been harmed by those policies are not the ones seeking admission to Harvard. Everyone seeking admission to Harvard has been born into circumstances through no fault of their own, so just help the financially less fortunate to provide more equal opportunities across the board. Black people are disproportionately represented among the poor, so this would disproportionately help them anyway.
I see your perspective better now. The Linkedin case was specifically regarding CFAA and is relevant to the original suit against OpenAI and web scraping, but I now see you weren't discussing that. The copyright limit you mention is related to completely automated generations, it's not as clear when a human uses it. The UK assigns the copyright to the user/custodian of the AI. The neural network models can repeat data, but it requires a certain frequency, and still relies on a probabilistic output. The complication comes from the fact that there is no "copying" when training a model. Fundamentally, I think we disagree on how data use laws apply in this situation. I appreciate you discussing this with me, it did helped clear some misunderstandings I had.

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/external/document/XDDQ1PNK00000...
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It's cool how they wait as long as they can before gently placing the nose on the runway. So much smoother and quieter than I anticipated. Delta owes these pilots an off-duty drink!
Same - I had to rent a place outside for the mornings, when my kid is at home. Its great to know I won't be interrupted, I focus much better. Still miss some coworkers though. (Coworking spaces open much later than I like etc)
They are saying no AI content trained on copyrighted work you don’t own. Thats a very different framing.
Sure, then don't do it, and instead pay into a risk pool, aka insurance.
how long do you think country needs to behave until it will clear its name?

Also, most of the major powers did some kind of bloody wars in last 100 years, its just happened that Germans lost two wars and winners usually decide who are good guys and who are bad guys.
> Finally, I suspect that anyone who can prove that they're able and willing to indemnify Valve against lawsuits for AI content that their game contains will be allowed to have AI content.

Yes, they're quoted as saying that AI generated assets are permitted if the developer can "affirmatively confirm" they own all the IP in the training set. seems reasonable to me.
funny, a while ago MSFT said Copilot was not stealing code, it was merely reading it...
"Bill C-18 has become law and remains unworkable. The Government has not given us reason to believe that the regulatory process will be able to resolve structural issues with the legislation. As a result, we have informed the Government that we have made the difficult decision that when the law takes effect we will be removing links to Canadian news from our Search, News, and Discover products and will no longer be able to operate Google News Showcase in Canada. Read our blog and consult our FAQ to learn more."
Well what if someone ships a model exclusively trained on legal content?
I think I had the inverse experience. I started with Lisp because I was customizing and extending Emacs. As I self-taught programming from that point forward, most other languages have sooner or later frustrated me with inexplicable inconsistencies with the syntax and data model. Lisp, Tcl, and Prolog all clicked into place quickly and easily, and for everything else, I'm constantly referring to a guide to the syntax. Not that big a deal, but feels internally like at best sort of a head-scratcher.

None of this has anything to do with academic computer science. I think I'm just unusually bad at memorizing syntax.
Reminds me of when the WHO declared meat as a carcinogen. Pretty useless information.

Well, it's useless if you don't read past the headline. But the link between eating red meat and colorectal cancer has been established for what, decades? So I fail to see what you're arguing against. If I were to "follow their advice", I'd be eating a vegetarian diet, which I'm pretty sure has been studied plenty.
Don't consume high doses of anything. Sugar is fantastic.
The decisive majority of black people agree with justice Thomas that colleges shouldn’t use race as a factor for admissions: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/02/25/most-amer...
it's "million" as in 10^6, but I don't know why that is not abbreviated just with a single M or m.
2/3 of men choose partners like their mothers
Well, is it good or neutral for you? I've always felt like these diet drinks were just marketing to make you think everything was fine, feel free to drink as many as you want. I've worked with a few people that would go through 4-6 Coke Zeros every day. In no world can I imagine that that wouldn't have negative long term effects on a human -- all things in moderation, right?

Personally, I'll drink a Mexican Coke with cane sugar maybe once or twice a year, knowing it's not great for me and treating it as a dessert.

But I do agree, it's not good reporting. Pretty much no info on the actual scientific research, but hopefully WHO will give more in depth data.
That's a very good way of framing it: Opportunity is largely inherited, therefore there cannot be real equality of opportunity.
It's not being "rejected entirely". That is mendacious editorializing. Generative AI products are being rejected unless you affirm that you have rights to the entirety of the training data set.

What's wrong with that?
Four unit multiplexes is a joke. No city with a population above 100k should have any restriction on height or density of any kind. With the cost of acquiring a house and the permitting BS, I'm sure very few of these multiplexes will be profitable to build.
In part this is only possible at Meta because it incremental measured improvements would raise all boats. You didn't have someone being evaulated how well a project was planned (Product Managers), how well it was executed (Engineering Managers) and how well it was built (Engineers / IC). All 3 of these things can be extremely orthogonal to each other and human nature makes it so more often than good intentions of a person to even realizes.

Meta cut through that by focusing on measurable improvements.

The downside is it can create silos, a negatively competitive environment. IE, teams not sharing resources or credit etc because they are only looking out for themselves at the end of the day, because any measurement you don't capture is one you can't claim as yours.

I also argue it can breed short therm thinking. Meta even had special teams from what I understand that were "exempt" from the typical metrics driven review cycles because they'd create the wrong incentives.

I think the general ethos can be really powerful though, but I'd peg it to collaboration and value driven measurements (and value is loose here, I'm not strictly thinking monetary) rather than strict "user based metrics".
Thank you for mentioning Product Hunt. I will post there.
> And would new images need to inherit a public/Commons

Well first we need to know if using images for AI training can be considered fair use.
If they claimed that then they lied because we all know those games studios didn't train their own Image gen models without relying on the base SD models
I love this confessional personal anecdote of ambivalence. I often wonder how so many people seem to be so sure about how they feel about seemingly everything. But you, I relate to.
> who’s to say they won’t bend their standards on grading?

Schools that do this will lose their accreditation.
Similar thing used to exist in the Netherlands. Think it's been gone for a decade now?
We are also on the cusp of individual developers being able to produce works that used to take entire teams.

I'm working on simulating a small town using Generative AI agents, schedules, social interactions, realistic reactions to outside events, dialogue between characters, the whole shebang.

A year ago that wasn't an "after work side project".

I just did a full launch on https://www.generativestorytelling.ai/ - a side project that was only possible because of AI help. Between art assets and also coding in brand new areas that I hadn't used before, AIs are an obscene boost to what individuals can do.

The price and complexity of software development projects has been increasing for years now, AI is a huge reset on the amount of effort needed to make stuff.
They seemed to have timed placing the nose down better than I anticipated. It speaks to their experience how gently they were able to handle the situation.
I had a computer science professor who drank so much diet coke that she had a wall of empty cans stacked up from floor to ceiling in her office. Even then, 20 years ago now, I was so grossed out with that level of artificial intake I wanted to grab her shoulders and shake her. But that wouldn't have helped my grade.
Then you tell Valve that and they say "OK"?
This just shows me the future is people using AI tools to make their own games custom for them.
On my work PC I use Kagi via the session link feature.
I think there's nothing wrong with exploring them. By the sounds of it OP is not keen, but if the concern is career then there's something to be said for being able to say "I had a look and it wasn't for me."

I've found it a really mixed blessing. Great for getting the boilerplate out the way quickly and trying new frameworks; but it gets in the way a tonne, and the second guessing and context switching eats at the gains.
I don't think both aspects are to be analyzed at once. Or unless maybe through the lens of minimization.

In most mainstream languages you have a large syntax, lots of idiosyncracies, and limited ability to hack with the innards of your tool. Scheme is small, regular and freeing.

Now personally, after my first year of college, I asked why on earth can't we access the methods in an object (java4 at the time) to generate a UI to dispatch / interact with it. Teacher rapidly walked me off the room while mumbling "but that would be metaprogramming!". I left confused about his annoyed tone.

Not until year 4 we had the chance to see reflection/intercession, lisps, macros.. I wish someone showed that to me when I was 12.

ps: it might not be obvious, and maybe I'm wrong but I see adhoc DSL's everywhere I work. ORM, build tools, they're all pseudolanguages.. and people keep reinventing them. Scheme/lisp offers it on a silver plater for you.
The article is pretty spot on. It is the very fundamental structure of Europe that will never let it be a sovereign force ala US.

Europe in the end was an American project and is simply untenable without US support, granted US had its own goals in supporting the Marshall plan. It’s too good to be under the U.S. security umbrella.

Expect more fissures as US-China relations get worse, Europe won’t take the path we would want it to.

I would add that there is a middle ground, Europe need not be a vassal, it can at the very least build up militarily to defend itself. But the larger trend is clear Europe is no longer the priority.
Yes, and light is actually how the LIGO and similar detectors can measure such small changes in distance. Light emitted from a laser is split into two beams traveling different paths, and then merged back together.

When the light merges back together, if the two paths traveled took exactly the same distance (or an even multiple of the wavelength at least), then the beams add together constructively and you put back together the light from the laser.

But if one path becomes longer or shorter the other, the light is out of phase with itself (peaks of the waves no longer line up with each other) and you can detect the interference between them.

LIGO can detect a change in distance of less than one ten-thousandth the charge diameter of a proton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO#/media/File:Gravitational...
Not that parent needs me to defend them, but they didn't say that they didn't believe the WHO. They just said the information wasn't helpful.

And as a public service reminder: HN is not a single hive mind.
I'm against building an entire education system around having children excel at standardized tests. Which is basically what will happen if it's the sole determinant of ability for universities.
Can't Harvad et al just stop taking Pell Grants and all other Federal funding and mostly admit who ever they want? If so would they do this or do they value that funding too much?
That strategy didn't work well for the submitter. Steam is rather stingy in allowing resubmissions, so the better strategy is to make your best effort to comply with the terms on the first try.
There is paperkey that generates far fewer and better human readable characters (it removes metadata publicly known).

Have you tested that the OCR software can read a scanned version of that PGP public key?
This wouldn't be a hull-loss or a major rebuild? I'd think the runway is keeping some of the aluminum from the nose for itself. Plus that's a lot of vibration near sensitive radome.
What's funny is that Thunderbird UI is not native. It uses XUL which is Mozilla's version of something like Electron that has existed since before Electron was even conceived as an idea. That it feels like a native application shows just how really shit Electron is.
Except the relative would get in the news if she said "the boy was obsessed with the titanic, he was eager to go!" Any angle would have given her camera time, she just has an incentive to say _something_.

What she said I think more likely has some truth than the wife of the deceased father the statement throws shade on. Aren't we talking about billionaires here? Mom is likely quite concerned about appearances and her future.
If by on a whim, you mean after removal after 6 years of being warned against (the first "maybe use setuptools instead" note was in Python 2.7.12 in 2016), deprecation was proposed in october 2020, agreed in january 2021, and removal will happen in Python 3.12, which... hasn't been released yet.
No, they are not caused by the galactic filaments. We don't know exactly yet what all is causing gravitational wave background (GWB), but a theory is that it could be caused by supermassive black holes, or primordial black holes from the early universe, etc.
The study on aloe seems compelling.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3537128/
I'm using Orion as my iOS browser and in the past few months I've not had to reach for Safari. Looking forward to a Linux and Windows release.