skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an economist or particularly knowledgeable about communism/socialism, but the recent writers strike and copyright arguments over generative AI really stuck out as a new example of the importance of "controlling the means of production" issue to me. It's a new way in which a new segment of labor risks losing control over that production.

I don't have the answer, but it actually made me think a bit about the other kinds of automation we've seen in e.g. manufacturing, and how capital is in a unique position to reap the gains of that kind of technology.
Crypto was innovative for what, a year, before degenerating into a bunch of scams?

I can somewhat respect the original idea, but what it turned into has no value whatsoever.
My point was not that Elon is a saint, or the best thing for the planet. Instead that there are so many individuals and companies that are much more deserving of your ire. But you're distracted by Elon's antics that you're ignoring much more legitimate threats to the environment.
A few years ago, while doing a physics lab for students in the university, we needed ice and liquid nitrogen. It was weird that is was easier to get some liquid nitrogen[1] than ice cubes[2]. IIRC we asked for the official price of liquid nitrogen, and it was similar to the price of soft drink like coke.

[1] Because it was used regularly in a few of the research labs. Just get a dewar flask that is not made of glass, and ask nicely.

[2] No refrigerator in the lab, the cafeteria didn't have any, most refrigerators had no ice cubes or a huge ice block where there use to be the ice cubes shelf.
I get the current time in microseconds, and increment by one nanosecond for each call between updates.

Problem solved for the next 200 years.
The gadgets are obviously worthless. Working with scammers gives them credability and publicity. So even if the goverment ends up not paying them, they still win.
I never realised how hardcore Avatar went, in ripping off every possible Roger Deanism. That's amazing.

Worth thinking about in a world where I can tell Stable Diffusion to make Deanisms all day long. I've experimented by trying to make Deanisms but adding concepts like mechanical or robot or cyberspace. I've also generated stuff much more randomly, but combed over it with an eye for picking out Hipgnosis-like output.

There's bound to be a borderline between making swoopy organic shapes and lines of motion and hallucinatory imagery, and ripping off specific layouts and executions of that general idea. I'm comfortable with the idea that Avatar straddles that line covering both sides of it, but less comfortable with the idea that anything I could ever do that's swoopy, organic, and imaginary-looking is the product of Roger Dean. I should be able to run with that and expand on it, but can Stable Diffusion? What if it hadn't been fed Dean's work, and still is coaxed into doing similar things? Not like Stable Diffusion really understands gravity…

I put out a song the other day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IID8BR4s5Xc) which uses an image from Stable Diffusion, expanded with Topaz AI, as the 'album cover' for the song. From the beginning I saw that image as potentially useful for something (much like how Hipgnosis worked with their images) and thought it perfectly matched that particular song and grabbed it, adding text in Clip Studio Paint to accentuate the image and underscore what it appeared to be.

I don't remember whether 'storm thorgerson' was among the words in the prompt, but I know I've run prompts invoking Dean, Storm, Dali, Cezanne, Mondrian… these are murky waters. I feel that I can pretty easily get Hipgnosis-like imagery, or Dean-like imagery, out of Stable Diffusion. The question is whether you can get something distinctive and not a total ripoff, or whether you're stuck making bad ripoffs. For instance if you tell Stable Diffusion to do 'Giger' it immediately takes over the prompt and everything's a bad Giger ripoff. But, what about 'sunny meadow Giger'?
I just left Berlin this afternoon after spending a week here. I knew this aspect would be present, but I was surprised how present it is. My impression is the culture here prides itself on being extremely socially and ecologically progressive as a way of atonement.

Grafitti/street art seems to be encouraged as an emotional and creative outlet. Plenty of world class free museums, and most others are rather cheap (8-10 euros) compared to other locations in Europe.
I read somewhere some very proficient abacists are able to just picture the instrument in their heads and then proceed to do impressive mental arithmetic by just operating the imagined abacus.
Perhaps they thought such a clever person wouldn't be suitable for a cat, since cats like to have "owners" they can actually train.
You also have to recall that these models were trained on the study materials of all of those tasks. That doesn't cheapen the achievement except to say, it's not "emergent behavior". Probably has half a billion weights dedicated to each of those exams.
So you claim that beyond some magic size limit a codebase cannot be easy to understand. Well, quantify it. At what number of lines of code does a codebase pass from the domain where it is possible to easily understand it to where it is impossible?

I suspect you didn't pay any attention to what I wrote about how people go about ensuring that large codebases maintain readability. That saddens me a bit because it means you probably aren't interested in learning anything.
Yes, want to understand the trade off and would like to know what the challenge is in integrating directly with a payment provider that is closer to the networks / banks. I love Stripe for how easy it is to get started with but I am looking for opportunities to save cost further but getting closer to the acquirer
I would rather normalize publishing negative results (including refutations of previously published positive results).

Reproducing every single submission is extremely expensive, but per the Pareto principle, no one is ever going to care about the vast majority of publications. It's the ones that lots of people care about that we want to be accurate. Given the right incentives and possibilities, people will seek out to reproduce those by themselves.
A black hole is not unforseen, they don't call the place Black Mesa for nothing. But a resonant cascade, on the other hand...
Does that question really matter for this discussion? Every developer will have their own flavour of what constitutes good or bad code, but independent of their flavour isn't a software engineer who doesn't believe in the possibility of achieving good code a somewhat sad thing? Imagine being a cook that doesn't believe in the possibility of cooking good food — sure what constitutes good food is a matter of discussion, but if you have a cook that doesn't believe in it that alone is remarkable in itself.
Then you get the same problem those Google papers have: nobody can actually run any of that.

Google and other cloud companies have produced research that goes "we bought a million GPUs and then ran this algorithm", some times even with source available, ur nobody is going to spend the millions or more to validate those results. Google may as well claim proof for the existence of God, we'll never know if there's any truth to their claims.

It Microsoft or Google publishes weights and code that requires a million in hardware costs alone, that solves nothing.
Cars aren't a new invention either, and yet people build new ones.

There is an existing market, it is large. Making a product for that market that is just simply 'really good' has potential to make money.

Almost all great computer companies started into markets where things already existed that were comparable.
I've been using a Postgres DB on Railway's free plan (that is going away) and it was great. It did everything I wanted (excluding external access and PostGIS) for cents. The support community is nice.

I didn't use it for much more, but my experience has been great. They deserve way more air time than they currently get.
Next article: Picosecond timestamp collisions are common.
> The back of the wings can be adjusted to steer your paper airplane. Bend the wings up to make the airplane dive and bend the wings down to make the airplane climb.

Isn't it the other way around?
I think you're arguing beside my point, I am referring to psychological concept of "learned helplessness", and how is that wrong. That concept doesn't imply that helpless people fall into a total coma, it just means that they don't attempt certain things.
Not really. I mean, this obviously depends on what you consider political, but as the maintainer correctly noted a flag doesn't have to represent a country. I can have my own flag. Depending on my prominence, my flag can be showcased in Wikipedia and you can even include it into your CSS library. People may even recognize it. If it makes me a "political entity" is an open question, however.

But filing tickets demanding to remove something from a CSS library because it "isn't a real country" definitely is a political statement. Which, for me, is always very unwelcome, but quite mundane at this point.
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
"The Event Horizon Telescope is an international collaboration capturing images of black holes using a virtual Earth-sized telescope"
This PDP looks so clean and is so valuable! I'd love to know the costs of the video production there!
> I'd expect most if not all models need to be re-trained to comply with that.

Why do you expect that? Do you think people have deleted their training data?
It's not blackmail in the first place. There were no secrets to reveal since everything was published online, and it's legal to sue and report a possible crime. Speculating about the consequences doesn't make it blackmail.
Certainly yes...but there are good reasons why 0.01% of a startup's value is said to be in its idea, and 99.99% of its value in its execution.
It's very very easy to not collect user data. I've been failing to collect it for years before GDPR happened.
That reminds me of something from a childhood TV show, an invention from the future called どこでもドア (the Anywhere Door).

As for why they use a loan word for "door", I'm guessing it's due to the wide adoption of Western-style doors for which there's no equivalent word in Japanese. And why loaned from English instead of any other language, like Portuguese? I imagine it has some historical reason, related to which country such doors were originally imported from.
Problem solved until your boss calls you an idiot for storing fake nanosecond precisions.
So is there now a law saying that you must use Discord?
Considering how much we watch from it, this lets me continue to support the platform and the creators and get around annoying ads? Definitely! YouTube is one of the few bright spots on the modern Internet, and I'm very willing to support it financially.
I find Vivaldi's implementation very clunky. It has a vertical panel there as well, and they do not play nicely together: they happen to be in the same place but they do not cooperate or interoperate at all.

As an example: in the email client, the folders appear in the side panel, which is conceptually "above" (to the left of) the tabs. (I use English, and in English we read left-to-right, then top-to bottom.) The problem is that in fact, the folders are logically inside the mail tab: they only pertain to the content of a single tab, but they are shown for all tabs.

It is, IMHO, a design mess, and I have tried to convey this to the company, but it seems uninterested.

A second example of neglect of this L-to-R, top-to-bottom rule is GNOME. In GNOME 3 and above, action buttons in dialog boxes appear in the CSD bar at the top... but I have not yet read the contents of the dialog box, so I do not yet know whether I want that action or not. Logically, the buttons should be at the bottom, and grouped together, and this applies equally to R-to-L scripts (such as Hebrew and Arabic) or to writing systems that are conventionally and classically top-to-bottom _then_ side-to-side, such as Chinese and Japanese.
It partly because they have a good podcast that is perfectly aligned with what many people on HN like.

Other then that, the code is open source. They also help sponsor both Rust and OpenFireware conferences.
Ask HN: How cautious are you with ccTLDs?
I just saw a video of someone who had their .gg domain taken down because their registry changed the terms and stopped allowing PO boxes. I looked at a domain I recently bought and realized that .so is the country code for Somalia which as far as I'm aware is currently in a complete state of anarchy...

It would obviously be a disaster to create a new business with a .so domain right? Are these ccTLDs a disaster waiting to happen?
Why are you acting so hostile? If you don't like that the community is dunking on you, then maybe posting on Hacker News isn't for you.
Your parent is pointing out that the phrasing is similar to a law that requires specific treatment for "citrus fruits and oranges", which looks initially like it should be equivalent to requiring specific treatment for "citrus fruits". The question is what additional legal requirements come from the inclusion of "specific vulnerable groups".
Java strings are compared by reference, if they do not match, they're compared by value. There's no guarantee every single string has a single instance. That would hurt performance.
> People come in different shapes and forms.

And there's a common term for all of them: People.

According to the above quote, "people" in general have the right to receive protection.

So why mention those groups separately, unless the protection they are going to receive somehow differs from that received by the rest of the population?
Odin 2 – FOSS polyphonic synthesizer
I wouldn't frame it as "harmless", but it is probably accurate to say any harm is insignificant at worst.
One would imagine there must be some kind of paint you can paint onto the outside of a vacuum flask, and have it be sucked into any gaps and solidify there.

It seems they already make a product for that - vacuum grease. It can get sucked into even a fairly large crack, and plug it up, as long as the depth of the crack is much longer than the width, then atmospheric pressure won't provide enough force to send it deeper into the crack.

And the grease itself is designed not to evaporate into the vacuum.

Whats wrong with using that?
That is very much not the point of the article. The article is very focused on exploring the idea of identifying expertise and only briefly mentions money in the beginning of the piece.

Cedric explicitly directs people to another article which discusses how this idea relates to money: "Bellotti’s observations are worth reading in their entirety, especially if you’re interested in the actionable implications of the idea. But I’d like to take this property of expertise in another direction. Now that we know that expertise is more legible to experts, could we perhaps invert this observation and turn it into a goal by itself? Could you turn this into something that helps you acquire expertise?".
So if I post a picture online of a product it means i endorse it? wtf, am I reading that right?

I get that there should be some disclosures, not saying that people shouldn't have to do that upfront.
> "You know, as people have sort of made fun of me and perhaps, you know, quite fairly have made fun of me, my predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past," Musk said.

Not optimistic, just lies.
In the case is Twitch there was already Justin.tv; so they had most of the technology and it was mainly a pivot to a different market.
> all that time wasted because of hate

Disagreement is not hate. I do not agree with the person who wants to get rid of the Taiwanese flag since as far as I'm concerned Taiwan is a country but I do not hate him for his request.

Please don't use the word hate for these purposes as all that does is downplay cases of real hate.
There are just very few people regularly buy 500k-1M in Server hardware and have a good understanding of the market and the finances involved in the alternative.
Facebook notoriously allowed advertisers to check boxes to not show ads to certain demographics. This would result in all sorts of discriminatory practices, like not showing real estate advertisements to Black people. No AI involved. Just a simple rule based system that breaks old and well-understood laws against discrimination.

And you can find many other examples where computers are used to "damage to public rights, health, safety, or may trigger negative environmental effects.", and there is nothing in AI that looks like it deserves exceptional treatment here.

Is a human powered election disinformation farm worse than the AI equivalent? I don't see how. It's actions that cause harm that should be made illegal, not the algorithm that might produce such an action.

The proposal as it stands forbids "exploit[ing] physical biometric data, emotion, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship status, religion, and political orientation during inference that may cause discriminative operations", but in the name of security the EU as well as the UK and the US already do all of these things. Are our governments going to cease and desist with their unlawful monitoring after this EU AI act comes into effect? We all know the answer to that.

How does this proposed ML law improve society? Why do we need it? How does it protect the public?
This is a really good presentation! The idea that there are emergent details at the large scale not capable of reduction is a big one. The point about counterfactuals not being valid was equally big.
wait are shared conversations re-run by the receiver? Otherwise it would be irrelevant whatever the secret prompt was
Distance to a Bezier curve is an interesting one. For an n-degree Bezier it's easy to turn it into a problem to find a root for a 2n-1 degree polynomial, but that means anything for n>2 is going to be tricky to do in closed form. A few iterations of Newton's method with a good initial guess could go quite far though.
The full text reads:

> The prohibitions covers practices that have a significant potential to manipulate persons through subliminal techniques beyond their consciousness or exploit vulnerabilities of specific vulnerable groups such as children or persons with disabilities in order to materially distort their behaviour in a manner that is likely to cause them or another person psychological or physical harm.

You can read the full proposal if you have any questions. These documents are often written quite well, with legalese strictly limited to where it makes sense.
If Douglas Adams wrote H2G2 today, what would be in place of digital watches in the quote:

> Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Smart phones and social media would clearly be high on the list, but I think cryptocurrency and AI would be, too.
You’re mixing up two separate issues.

The argument I’m making about why a system of racial preferences is bad is the standard conservative argument against racial preferences. It reinforces the racialization society and perpetuates it to the next generation. “The only way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

But the question you asked me above was different: why my view changed. The reason for that may be idiosyncratic and non-obvious—I didn’t appreciate color blindness as a social norm until it wasn’t my reality anymore—but that’s a different issue than the first point.

It’s like if someone is a pro-taxes and regulation Democrat and then changes his view because he inherits his dad’s small business when he passes unexpectedly. The reason for the change in view might be idiosyncratic, but the reason for opposing taxes and regulation is standard.
It looks nice. Feels more like a feature rather than a product. Is there a larger roadmap ?
For the same reason we have very specific ant-discrimination laws? Apparently, some people have problems applying basic human rights to other people without being explicitely told do so.
Kids and the mentally disabled are given as an example. Those are treated differently by society, for good reason.
This can be condensed into the simple, age-old rule: don’t worry about DRY or reusability until you’ve copy-pasted the code into a third place.
I think that sums it up nicely.

To add to that: Spack's solver effectively generates these 'concrete' packages for you.

In the example, suppose you're packaging `X`, it depends on already existing packages `A` and `B`, and `A` needs `curl +foo` and `B` needs `curl +bar`; then Spack is convenient as you don't have to worry about the transitive dependency curl, the solver will output `curl +foo +bar`.

That should make contributing to Spack potentially easier, cause you just have to define X, the solver will figure out the flavor of transitive dependencies, and there's no need to create the `curl-with-foo-and-bar` package (and you don't have to modify `A` and `B` to use `curl-with-foo-and-bar` either)
I like Hetzner, they certainly radiate the feeling of quality (the management UI is great, for instance). The servers themselves are competitively priced (and they have ARM boxes!) - but for more storage than the little that they include I find the price pretty outrageous, compared to the base price, anyway. You'd end up about doubling the price for a "reasonable" amount of storage you can confidently run your base system on.
Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch
LLaMA 2 is extremely curated.
I am not sure what your argument is. I explicitly list activism as one of the options, so I don't claim you have to always go through official channels.

But especially in democracy, you have a lot of opportunities to use official ways to institute change, like being elected or vote.

I also think there is plenty of positive social change that happens non-violently.
genuinely, i ask, like what?

i was told by a doctor once that the general rule is to never put anything on your skin you wouldn't also eat, inject or inhale. your skin is your body's largest organ, and allows many types of molecules to pass through it in either direction. if you rub it on there, you may as well be injecting it, the effect is the same, except, in most cases, the magnitude
Which, as the article says, is an inaccurate model of how modern monetary economies actually work. Bank loans create new money, they don't lend out existing deposits, and repayments destroy that money. Reserve requirements - in countries that have them - don't affect whether a loan can be made or not.
Virtual Earth-Sized Telescope
I tried Sidebery, because my preferred sidebar extension, "Vertical Tabs", has been deleted now.

Sidebery appealed because it combines bookmarks and tabs, something that was easy with XUL addons before Firefox Quantum. (I used "Vertical tabs (simplified)", "Flat Bookmarks", and "Unified Sidebar" and they all worked together seamlessly. Not since Firefox 57 though: all gone now.)

In the early versions, Sidebery was very unstable and both crashed frequently itself and sometimes took the browser with it.

It seems better now.

But I can't drag a tab out of a window to make a window of its own, and I can't drag tabs from one window to another. Those are sine qua non features for me: mandatory, and I can't use sidebar tabs without them.