skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a CYA thing.

Steam says "we don't allow AI content".

Someone shoves AI content on the platform anyways.

If it can be proved they violated the TOS, they then have the ability to nuke their game and stop someone from suing them. If they can't prove it, well they can't prove it and the game stays.

To do otherwise opens up the door to steam having to "vet" all the AI content. So yes AI content will slip through (in massive droves) but it will be indy scene.

The biggest impact here is going to be AAA devs who can't just neglect to mention they used AI at some point. This is actually the first thing that could "kill" steam or give Epic a competitive advantage. There's 0 doubt that companies like EA/Activision/whatever want to jump all over AI to make yearly releases like FIFA even cheaper, and if Epic is willing to say "come on over" we might see epic exclusivity for that reason alone, rather than the current "here's a pile of money to make up for all the sales you'll miss out on when no one remembers your game released"
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, […] Since black people were under-represented in this category, people came up with the idea of putting a thumb on the other side of the scale and artificially increasing their rate of admission.

This is a nice story, but actually not true.

If it were true, Harvard etc wouldn’t also discriminate against Asians. Maybe they weren’t as oppressed as blacks in the US, but they should thus get at least equivalent treatment as whites and hispanics, not worse.
It used to be trained on specific games, but I think most of the time it isn't nowadays outside of a few major titles
Meituan buys founder's months-old 'OpenAI for China' for $234M
Weird to have Coke in the Reuters headline when it's not just Coke that uses aspartame.

And this is interesting may be related?

>Aspartame is hydrolysed in the body to three chemicals, aspartic acid (40%), phenylalanine (50%) and methanol (10%). Aspartic acid is an amino acid.

>When there is an excess of neurotransmitter, certain neurons are killed by allowing too much calcium into the cells. ...The neural cell damage that is caused by excessive aspartate and glutamate ... they ‘excite’ or stimulate the neural cells to death.

>Methanol is highly toxic; it is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group of the aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin. It has been pointed out that some fruit juices and alcoholic beverages contain small amounts of methanol.

source: https://www.3dchem.com/aspartame.asp
DLSS requires no training on your own game to use - you just use the pre-trained system NVidia provides, IIRC. So it has been trained on game data, but not necessarily yours.
I would compare writing code without Copilot to writing code without Intellisense and autocompletion. Sure you can do it, it's just going to be a lot slower and more work.
> Artificially attempting to slow progress

Why do you think Valve is just trying to slow progress? Don't they win when people on their store win?

It seems more likely to me that this is CYA against the major lawsuits that are happening right now from copyright holders.
The Handshake [0] project used (uses?) Vickrey auction to auction off the initial supply of names. It had some other cool ideas, such as replacing certificate authorities with self-signed certificates verified by the blockchain.

I know everyone hates blockchain, I kind of do too, but Handshake I found genuinely interesting.

Disclaimer, I own some Handshake names so you could say I'm shilling for it but mostly the project appears dead anyway...

[0]: https://handshake.org/
Roughly speaking, it's because the waves are emitted from the region outside the black holes, being created by the in-spiraling of two black holds before/during their merger. Once the black holes merge and settle down, they stop emitting gravitational waves.

But that's just a cartoon. Strictly speaking, the picture of a wave traveling with respect to a fixed background spacetime is only an accurate approximation when the wave is very weak. In the immediate neighborhood of a black hole merger, the approximation breaks down, and you just have to look how the whole spacetime itself is evolving (usually through simulation).
How fast does air have to go to hurt your face?
So using Adobe Firefly is fine, since they only trained on data they had the rights to?
Right, longer stays with kids, AirBnBs are almost always more attractive because there can be a kitchen & more spaces. It's hard to dine out all the time with kids.
I would say both are in need, personally, but affirmative action is looking at the reality that society will discriminate more against the Hispanic immigrant… so everything on the way to education and afterwords will reduce the chances of upward mobility and the self-confidence to withstand such discrimination compared to someone who is the dominant perceived race.
There was a logic to the idea of racial preferences as originally envisioned. Studies show that the income gaps between American descendants of slaves and indigenous Americans basically have been unchanged even after segregation and legal discrimination was ended. The reasoning goes that racial preferences are necessary to undo these disadvantages.

But the actual practice in US universities has become completely disconnected from that logic. For example, the largest group eligible for racial preferences is Hispanics. But Hispanics enjoy similar income mobility to whites and previous generations of white immigrants: https://economics.princeton.edu/working-papers/intergenerati.... Insofar as they are poorer than whites as a group, that’s a transient condition due to recency and circumstances of immigration, just as it was for say Italians or Vietnamese.

A child of a poor Guatemalan immigrant statistically will end up better off than the child of a poor Appalachian whose family has been in the US for centuries. It makes no sense to put a thumb on the scale in favor of the Guatemalan under the original justification for racial preferences.

Moreover, most black students admitted to say Harvard are not American descendants of slaves: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/15/gaasa-scrut/. Some are immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America, who also are descendants of slaves. But many (up to half) are immigrants from Africa. Not only are they not descendants of slaves, they are typically elites in their home countries.
We're on the cusp of a profound content shovelware crisis. It will happen regardless, but any oasis of real content will become important.

Automation will be a force multiplier for laziness and predation more so than for creativity.
None. Non-whites have plenty of unfair disadvantages however.
The cleaning fees on AirBnB are dishonest (hidden by default), ridiculously high, and redundant with giant list of chores that make me do all the cleaning anyway. They're predatory and greedy and deserve all the calling out they get.

AirBnB cleaning fees are the same garbage as eBay sales for $1.99, $50 shipping, and should be banned by policy.
This is incorrect.

The names in the NBER study were drawn from actual birth certificate data correlated with race. It was not a subjective choice from researchers. Latonya was used because Latonya was the first name given to 4.7% of the black female babies born during the study period. Just like Allison was 4.7% of white female babies in the same data.

If you perceive common African American names as lower class than equally common white names, I believe that's part of what the study is trying to demonstrate and not a flaw of its design.
He's probably asleep
Lemmy front end alternatives are popping off
"bullet proof glass" is not really a single thing. It's a matter of what kind of bullet do you want to stop. Something from a BB Gun, or a tank round? There's a lot of degrees in between.
> Of course it’s less than ideal they keep everything silent but their incentives probably point them that way.

> The company won’t close itself if what they’re doing is morally dubious but legally perfectly fine

It always surprises me that society has been programmed to accept morally-dubious practices that are legal as something inevitable, that a company can use that as a cop out. Perhaps amoral capitalism isn't a great system for society, and needs some reform to stop fucking people's lives for economical/financial gains...
There isn't one trained model per game I think, to update DLSS manually you just replace a .dll file.
Basically valve is saying no AI generated content. The premise is that all AI generated content violates copyright which isn't necessarily true. To me, it sounds like their side stepping a potential issue rather than an actual issue with a copyright holder complaining of infringement with a particular IP.
No, it isn't. From a strict textual reading, the 14th says

> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Admittance to a school is not a deprivation of life, liberty, or property. Nor is this "equal protection of the laws".

Where in the 14th does it say anything about school attendance? When did school attendance become a right? Which amendment does that come from?

Seems like a pretty liberal reading of the 14th to come to the conclusion that prestigious school attendance is somehow a right for white people.

Oh, and this ruling also said that "private schools are allow to discriminate on race if they so choose, this only strikes down the federal law tailored to roll back institutional racism."

But hey, if you want to make the argument that higher education should be a right funded by the public I probably could get behind that. I just don't think there's constitutional or historical backing for that conclusion.
I do not believe this will be limited to Valve. I expect more companies to start covering their backside by implementing similar rules to avoid copyright lawsuits. I can't say I would blame them either. I am not a lawyer but I think one of the risks is that LLM's do not show their work so proving where something came from is likely to end up in court after a lot of expensive discovery is performed.
I applied to university as African American/Black because I'm 1/4 Egyptian. I am very white. Some people may guess I'm Jewish (I'm not) but no one guesses African American.

I got into a nice school and I was enrolled in the "minority engineering excellence program". The program was like 25% white kids with "1/16 native American" or "1/8 Spanish". We got free tutoring and we all took an exclusive class just for the program and 100% of us got an A. It was definitely unfair.

Half of the minority engineers just left the program. They were clearly capable of passing engineering school and the minority program was culty and a bit weird. The kids who stayed were dragged through the system with copious free tutoring and paid staff helping them stay on top of their course work. These kids dropped out at Juniors when they would have probably otherwise dropped out as Freshman.
> best universities are meant educate the highest achieving kids. That's how they keep being the best universities. The middle achieving kids can go to the middle universities; there are plenty and there is a whole gradient of them.

How is what you described in any way incompatible with lottery systems? Did you not catch the phrase "So find the right bar and do lottery?" The best colleges set the higher bars, middle schools set a middle bar, etc etc.

> Do we live in a meritocracy or not?

Absolutely not. That's the lie we've been told all our lives by the haves. But either way, the lottery is more meritocratic: you have one seat, two people who are both qualified, how do you choose? Merit has already been established! After that, the lottery doesn't care about race, age, etc etc.
Towards Automating the Password Game
I know, but I expected that to be restricted only to older modules. I don't expect them to annotate all existing modules.

I don't see why they would introduce _new_ code without annotating it, when that's clearly the trend for 3rd party libraries. From a quick look, it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to type either.
> Length, 2,540 mm; outside diameter, 1,676 mm; service pressure, 6,600 psi; pressure safety factor, 2.25. “They basically said, ‘This is the pressure we have to meet, this is the factor of safety, this is the basic envelope. Go design and build it,’” Spencer reports. And he was given six weeks in which to do it.

Six weeks. Classic checkbox-driven Technical Program Mismanagement (TPM) by whim of pseudo-technical overreaching hucksters.
>are intrinsically inferior to whites. Most white people (and plenty of black people) choose to believe the latter.

Your assertion is that most (>50%) of whites in the US believe that blacks are inferior? I find that hard to believe.

It's my impression that these folks are mostly concentrated in certain states and retain power solely due to the fact that land mass = power due to the nature of our government.
Hotels win for some intersection of short-duration-of-stay and low guest count (with the break-even point varying somewhat as both those figures vary)

AirBnB wins for longer stays with more guests, or if you want to stay somewhere without hotels (but with houses) and also don't want to camp.

Stopping one night on a leg of a long drive, not really doing anything in the room except sleeping for a few hours: hotel/motel tends to win by a long shot. Staying somewhere for several nights with a family of 4+ or a group of friends or something: AirBnB (and similar services) tends to win.
Serious question: if I am on vacation, why do I need a full sized kitchen and fridge? If you are just cooking at the short term rental, and not experiencing the area. Then what’s the point of taking a vacation in the first place?

At most, all you really need is a mini fridge to store take out and alcohol.

The only use case I can think of for having a full kitchen, fridge, and other amenities is for temporary workers. Maybe a company has their consultants stay at an AirBnB with the aforementioned amenities and in an attempt to reel in the costs, will only approve business meals with clients and personal meal expenses if cooked at the STR (ie, grocery store line items).
> This just creates a moral hazard to not disclose the use of any AI-generated assets

The whole space is somewhat amusing to me. what is the bigger moral hazard: Openly disclosing everything about your content pipeline and getting your team's efforts shitcanned, or keeping everything private unless a court order shows up?
There’s a difference between practicing for a situation and being able to perform under the pressure and stress of when it actually occurs and the consequences of failure are dire
Etymologically, meritocracy is equivalent to aristocracy... also how did the meaning of meritocracy drift to become positive ??
Even the racket teachpack libraries designed for education are very capable; I was able to make this structured editor with only using teachpack content without external deps: https://github.com/disconcision/fructure
I had an absolutely terrible experience once that stems from AirBNB not inspecting any listings for things like bugs. It completely turned me off the whole system. VRBO seems to have a better system because they have regional managers in areas with lots of rentals, so there's a third party there who can deal with some issues you might have. Offloading all of that onto hosts leads to some pretty major conflicts of interest, where it's in AirBNB's best interest to pawn you off onto the owner, and it's in the owner's best interest to downplay any issues you might have.
The image of you having a movie trope training montage involving pac man and tai chi is amazing.

What careers did you pursue?
As a tangent, I've heard the Google and others are moving away from second price auctions.

Does anyone have more info on this topic?
> The maintainers are absolutely right in principle that they really answer to no one and donate their time

Well, it makes the project unprofessional. What is perfectly ok, but you don't want to use it professionally.

They have every right to that choice, and they state it very clearly, so nobody has any right to complain. But yeah, it is a very good reason for not using the language.
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> HN audience is wild

Predictable, too.
Depends on your upbringing.
So hard work should be punished?
http://thecrimereport.s3.amazonaws.com/2/fb/e/2362/criminal_...

Here's a PDF. White people with a criminal record are received more positively than noncriminal black-sounding people.

"Employment discrimination against people with criminal records, especially in entry-level positions, is rampant, as demonstrated by a 2005 report produced by the Commission called “Race at Work: Realities of Race and Criminal Record in the NYC Job Market” written by Drs. Devah Pager and Bruce Western. [1] The report relied on results from matched pairs of testers of young white, Latino, and African-American men who applied for 1470 entry-level jobs throughout New York City. Not only were whites more likely to get a callback or job offer than Latinos or African-Americans, African-Americans were nearly half as likely to be considered as whites.[2] When white testers presented with a recent felony record, they were as likely as Latinos and much more likely than African-Americans to receive a callback or job offer.[3] Overall, people with criminal records are only half as likely to get a call back than those without; for African-American applicants, the likelihood is reduced to one-third.[4]"

from https://www.cssny.org/news/entry/testimony-in-support-of-tes...
The big, open question right now is how would Asiana 214 have gone in a 787.
Acoustic waves propagate through what are essentially elastic deformations of the material they travel through. Can gravitational waves be thought of as propagating by elastically deforming spacetime?

If this analogy holds, then can it be taken further? Acoustic waves dissipate their energy insofar as they trigger plastic deformation in a material. Could gravitational waves plastically deform... spacetime itself? Or would they just be deforming the material? Or is gravitational energy not dissipated into other forms of energy at all?
That would mean it's safe if "you" are Google or Microsoft+OpenAI as no one else has both a search index and an LLM.
But most places will suffer 0 events on this scale in their lifetime, so it's not clear it would pay for itself on average.
Just dealt with this recently and up until then mostly had great experiences with hosts. When something goes wrong (ex: had a family emergency that blew up my travel plans a couple of weeks out), any refunds or resolutions are at the discretion of a host who is directly financially affected by the outcome. So there's never an incentive to be reasonable, and they'll often get hostile or combative - in this recent case pretty much immediately. I was able to easily alter/refund every single component of my trip, including a hotel stay, but couldn't do anything about the AirBnB because the host dug his heels in and started getting hostile.
This kind of dynamic brings home how screwed small landlocked countries are (unless they're part of something like the Eurozone). And conversely, how amazingly lucky I am to have been born in the US.
Equality of outcome is just a fancy way of saying tyranny. Freedom can only exist and only be freedom if you have the right to fail or succeed, if no one can fail or succeed because everyone is made the same there is no freedom, there is no choice.

Those that advocate for equality of outcome desire to make again a slave state, where they as "superior educated white people" can ensure that black people are "taken care of" by ensuring they all have jobs, they all have housing, they all have healthcare, they all have food, and that they have no freedom.
If Steam (or probably more likely Steam's lawyers) is/are worried about liability, shouldn't Epic be also? The lawsuits are firing up, I wouldn't want to be the whipping boy chosen by the copyright holders to punish.
It may help a bad engineer tread water, but it won't take you from good to great.

Agreed and very well put, but with a caveat:

It can also help when venturing outside one's domain.
pmOS has no intention of moving off of Alpine base, and systemd is still incompatible with musl (or vice versa, depending on which side you're on in the arguement :) ), and OpenRC works well enough for now.
>It's bad enough paper money is now just a joke without a gold-backed or other real world commodity, just print as much as you can to keep the average joe/jane in the dark about how bad the value of the currency really is

Why does this matter? According to Fisher Black people just substitute the money they don't want with the money they want. So far the only widespread substitution that is happening is boring fractional reserve banking. Barter clubs are an unimportant niche. For everyone else they can just trade their money for something that matches their philosophy better. If you think gold is the right choice, then don't force it onto other people.

Also, the value of money today is mostly backed by contractual obligations, so the situation is actually pretty good.
Many scholars note thay a B-corp is mostly a marketing strategy. There is little in B-corporate status that meaningfully differentiates from a traditional corporation, except to signal to customer and shareholders the intent of the firm to consider total stakeholder value.

https://theconversation.com/b-corp-certification-wont-guaran...
This legacy system in likes of Harvard boggles me. If someones parents went to Harvard it might be actually logical to be harder for him to get into not easier. His educated parenting is already a huge plus for him and if he is unable to get into the same university it's on him.
Cockos Reaper 4 (2011)
Formal support for RDNA 3-based GPUs on Linux is planned to begin rolling out this fall, starting with the 48GB Radeon PRO W7900 and the 24GB Radeon RX 7900 XTX, with additional cards and expanded capabilities to be released over time.

Yay. This is great news for fans of the AMD / ROCm ecosystem. Can't wait to see more of the Radeon cards supported, as well as general improvements / enhancements to ROCm.
A great step against racism and for respecting our constitution, while maintaining safeguards to revert situations where actual anti-minority racism took place.
I don't think it's really about enforcement. It's more about liability.

Valve has an official position that they don't allow AI content (apparently). When the lawsuits show up they can say that they don't serve any AI content as official policy. When someone points out the AI content that they do serve, then they pull out their expert witness that testifies that their AI detection method is as good as possible and they couldn't haven been expected to do any better. Meanwhile, they're more than happy to remove anything explicitly flagged that falls through the cracks.

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.
I think it's fine.

You have to have rights to do AI things with the content of your datasets. No more "download the whole internet" or "create image generation models from the scraped contents of a stock image provider".

I think it's going to turn into a new class of copyright permissions.

Along the lines of

> thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

More like

> License is hereby given for the consumption of these contents by human minds