skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The part of your scenario I'm most skeptical of is the part where artists freely contribute their work to AI training sets en masse.

You're not quite getting it.

First, there's the public domain. Centuries of art hanging in museums and the like is there for the taking. There's also some modern works there like I think works made for the US government.

Second, there's permissive licensing. For instance I uploaded a bunch of stuff to Flickr that I don't mind at all being used for AI. That's also free for the taking.

Third, if AI output is not copyrightable, AI output can be fed to itself. So lacks in SD can be filled by generating, filtering and reinforcing what you want.

Fourth, if any jurisdiction declares that training is fair game, that can also be added.

Fifth, it occurs to me that if AI output is not copyrightable, then it possibly allows proprietary AIs to be gradually blended in. Eg, say Adobe runs its own. It might own the training set, but if Adobe legally licensed everything, but the output is not copyrighted, then you can feed it to another system still and get some benefit from Adobe's work that way.

This constitutes already a starting set that can be used.

> But if the AI industry and community ever do actually start listening to artists and respecting their intellectual property to the point that they are no longer simply taking what they want just because they can, I think it will be an uphill battle to convince artists to freely give the same without compensation.

So you don't. You don't appeal to traditional artists, you appeal to AI users, who are seeing their cool tools attacked by the artists. You convince them to find more material in a public library, or to make some (since AI output is not copyrighted).

> I don't think that's great either, but at least it isn't bald-faced theft of intellectual property.

I honestly fail to see the long term benefit. I see little satisfaction in "Well, the machine took my job, but at least I fought a legal battle to make sure modern AI is trained from squeaky clean 18th century art".

Once you have a clean AI that's it, that's the end game. You can even sell that as a perk. Why deal with copyright, royalties, and all that nonsense? Here's a machine that will do whatever you want for cheap and won't ever ask for anything.
I will reply with a meme from my recent talk on Vector Databases, if that is in order: https://youtu.be/UMrhB3icP9w?t=1682

§ Supporting advanced filtering in USearch

In the low-level C++ interface we already support arbitrary predicates (callbacks) evaluated during HNSW graph traversal. JIT-ing them from the Python level is a bit trickier, but we will consider that, if there is demand.

§ Supporting advanced filtering with USearch

We are now in the process of building a bridge between USearch and UStore, that would allow combining Vector Search with a proper Multi-Modal database. This will solve your problem, but will take some time to get it right. Feel free to contribute :)
It is suggested that politics has come into play here as only three people can win a Nobel Prize.

I hope that, if this ends in a Nobel Prize, that "sportsmanship" comes into account
Isn’t it about 27.5 years in the US (for accounting purposes)?
Unpopular opinion, most of MIT's research claims are preposterous and can be safely ignored. Their undergraduate education is quite good, but the research output is quite shoddy. The only exception is their computational photography group (Fredo Durand) is pretty legit.
Harnessing the entropic properties of bulk matter, easily ending up with molecular self assembly, without the need for micromanaging the process--genius!

The team calculated that a block of nanocarbon-black-doped concrete that is 45 cubic meters (or yards) in size — equivalent to a cube about 3.5 meters across — would have enough capacity to store about 10 kilowatt-hours of energy, which is considered the average daily electricity usage for a household. Since the concrete would retain its strength, a house with a foundation made of this material could store a day’s worth of energy produced by solar panels or windmills and allow it to be used whenever it’s needed. And, supercapacitors can be charged and discharged much more rapidly than batteries.

What I'm wondering is how to create a lightning battery with this? Unless my math is wrong (probably is) 1 lightning strike is

1 zeus = 1 billion joules = 300 kwh.

1 big-cube = 45m^3 = 10 kwh

density = 10/45 kwh/m^3

volume needed to bottle lightning = 300kwh * 45/10m^3/kwh = 1350m^3

cube of sides 12m. or sphere of diameter 14m

So, what I'm proposing is, we get a 60m high copper pole, stick it in a 14m diameter sphere of this, and put it in a rainstorm.

Bottle of lightning?
So $200k a year before overtime, plus $50k in benefits. The construction industry cannot afford that even with 0% profit margins, and society cannot afford the construction industry to raise quotes high enough to fund that. New homes and city infrastructure projects are already at nosebleed prices.
Technically it only supports http in spec https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29985571/w3c-validator-s...
Of course earthquakes play a part, but I'd like to point out another case point: Taiwan.

Taiwan also suffers from earthquakes (it's on Pacific ring of fire, just like Japan). But it doesn't change how people think of the long term values of houses. 40+ years old houses are traded on market just fine.
Gelman (http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/phil...):

"The classical or frequentist approach to statistics (in which inference is centered on significance testing), is associated with a philosophy in which science is deductive and follows Popper’s doctrine of falsification. In contrast, Bayesian inference is commonly associated with inductive reasoning and the idea that a model can be dethroned by a competing model but can never be directly falsified by a significance test. The purpose of this article is to break these associations, which I think are incorrect and have been detrimen-
tal to statistical practice, in that they have steered falsificationists away from the very useful tools of Bayesian inference and have discouraged Bayesians from checking the fit of their models."
Are you sure the call is coming from their work phone? Typically with food delivery contractors the driver's app has a VoIP button that acts as a bridge, so they don't actually see your number. Also important because the person ordering might have an international number with high inbound rates, so it would be a hassle dealing with billing that you would rather have Amazon/Doordash/Foodora handle with their gateway.
I think INI files are often better for anything that will be hand written. Once you start adding layers of nesting the semantics themselves get confusing and people get tempted to reorganize things.

Flat is Better than Nested, says Python.

JSON is great for machine to machine stuff that a human might incidentally modify or debug. For anything else, there's other formats. Although multiline strings are nice to have.

Seems like a decent approach might be the robustness principle. Accept it, and if support becomes really common, them start writing it?

This lacks unquoted string values though. I'm not sure why being a subset of ecmascript matters aside from just consistency for the programmer?
I had a similar experience with BASIC on the C64 in high school, which set me back about 10 years from becoming a programmer.

But on the upside I got a lot out of my system in my 20s, and have never gotten burnt out on programming.
The real killer with glass is that you lose the product in the glass, which is way more expensive to produce than even glass.
Lol! Thank you
Conspiracies aside, there are a lot of reasons for this. Reducing liabilities. Responding to complaints. The "Shiny new thing" effect reducing over time.

This is going to be the biggest problem with general AI chat systems in the future, inconsistency. Often, they are too complex to know precisely how they work. Small tweaks will break some use cases while improving others. As more complexity is added to fix the next series of bugs, the systems will become less effective overall while user's have their workflows broken then mysteriously fixed.

From the end-users perspective, consumers will lose trust and move on.
Unfortunately lifting weights is extremely efficient and low energy endeavor. So it makes a really shitty density wise storage.
Not anymore, it was stolen.
Honest question about Elk (and I guess all other web clients): How do people use it when it doesn't remember your timeline position? When I open my Mastodon client, I want it to be where I left it, not at the top of the timeline. Maybe it's becoming unusual to be a timeline completionist, but I can only use clients that reliably remember my timeline position.
Do you use the same prompting scheme when going through the API? (Not just your own inputs but the buts OpenAI prepends to them.)
One high-level, back of napkin example that gets thrown around is that the world would magically get 40% more power due to reduction in transmission losses. The world spends $6,000b a year on energy purposes.

So a $2,400b/year opportunity. And that's just from transmission let alone the many other things it can do.
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Why would an industry that sells a addictive and harmful product do that? alcohol is more harmful and cannabis is more addictive (comparing how many say they try to quit), but apart from that they're not so different from the market perspective.

Craft beers are just a niche. I don't trust the industry to self-regulate towards less profit.
Also from some time spend in construction. To me it looked like plumbing and electricity might not also be that much better always. At least if you had to work with heavy stuff. The higher amperage cables are heavy and stiff. And the working positions are not always optimal. Cast iron is not used anymore, but it is also example of heavy stuff.

Heavy vehicles get to office work situation, with added risk of having to get up and down and possibly jump from places...
Pretty simple explanation right here: https://i.redd.it/7h1mwj3gcjd61.png
I do my software engineering work in the middle of the night, while I'd happily work during the day for labor. Why not? Hard work keeps the body young. 2000 hours and licensing barriers is why not. There's no entry level apprenticeships available. There is no on the job training available. Even if someone is an autodidact the shortage is a given when the hiring requires unnecessary experience.
>Many more people used MS-DOS/Windows during that time.

Most of them suffer for a decade, then (if they stay under Windows) they mostly find Python or Autohotkey.
Exactly, NorNed has an efficiency of 95%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorNed
If LK-99 is true, Nobel Prize should make an exception for all the authors.
I was with you right up until you mentioned cancer. We haven't understood cancer long enough to know what historical rates actually were, and even if we did, we wouldn't know for sure what a delta (or lack of delta) actually indicates.

Like, maybe microplastics are actually pretty cancerous, but overall cancer rates haven't changed that much because as plastics became commonplace, we were getting away from exposure to things like radium and asbestos.
My reply to you was cut off by dang.
Yes, if you force demand levels off a cliff, you can cure a labor shortage. But it's still a labor shortage. I'm not sure why HN is saying there is no such thing as a labor shortage.
To estimate the cost and practicality, assume you build a tower 120 meters tall and machinery able to lift 60 tons block of concrete to the top, then retrieve the stored energy by lowering it to the ground level. Think for a moment how much that would cost. Then calculate: mgh = 60000kg x 120m x 10m/s^2 (assume acceleration of gravity is 10m/s^2 for simplicity, no energy losses due to friction etc). The result is 72 million joules. That is 20 kilowatt-hours, about two days of a single household electricity usage.
Nowhere rains enough for that; hydro dams only manage it by having a huge catchment area nobody needs to build.

Highest rainfall in a year:

> 26,470 mm (1,042 in); Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India, 1860–1861

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

26.4 tons * 1km * 9.8m/s/s / 1 year = 7.4 watts
The “lower tech” version is probably more efficient as well lol since regen braking isn’t very energy efficient
Not really though it may seem that way. Not all AI is ML. There are a ton of things within AI such as planning algorithms or Expert Systems. Again those are under the academic discipline of AI but not in the subfield of ML.
Anything after 81 has to comply with the "Building Standard Act: Earthquake Resistance Standards" that was passed. Which, interestingly enough passed due to the 41 Fukui earthquake.

Although telling this to my Japanese wife - whilst living in Japan and apartment shopping - doesn't stop her from thinking newer is better(despite obvious examples of this not being true).
Instead of being efficient and creating some anti-apology prompt, I always respond along the lines of

Me:

```

"Great attempt, but can you <elaborate on ___ a bit further?>"

```

ChatGPT:

```

Of course! [...]

```

Usually, by providing a short complement "sets the mood" of the conversation making the generated response. As a human being, I can see how this eats away ~2 tokens in boththe prompt and response, and should be improved.

My suspicion is that this sort of introduction is nearly hard-coded into the machine. I would suggest trying to use a setup prompt if one were to speak the words of encouragement to be clear of any suspicion that the prompter may be irritated by an incorrect response.
I go outside and make no effort to be productive. If I do a project it is with no deadlines or expectations.
What helped me trivialize my cannabis addiction was finding an even worse addiction, sugar. Now that's one I truly fear.

Cannabis can be comfortable, it helps me sleep through the entire night without waking up and it makes boring moments fun.

But sugar is insane. Sugar will make me go to the store for some made up reason 15 minutes before they close. Sugar will make me raid my pantry for anything I need to make a cake, and then eat the batter.

And I can't even say cannabis was a gateway drug to sugar, because I was using my moms credit early to buy candy, or even stealing it from the store.

Now almost 40 years of age I'm starting to regret all that sugar in my life. And I still got off relatively easy compared to many others. Probably because I didn't like soda as a kid.
I’m similarly interested. Does anyone know of an introductory book on modern production technology? It somehow seems to be an impenetrable topic to me without actually doing a major in some kind of engineering.
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I think it should be the same policy as in college exams: you specify upfront whether the person taking an exam allowed to use books, notes, calculators, StackOverflow, ChatGPT, etc.
The price for electricity is mainly driven by cost of distribution not production. Reducing losses on distribution would further increase the cost of the expensive part (upgrade to SC net) and decrease the cost of the cheap part.

Storage would help, the cheapest production cannot run continuously.
> greenest

What does green mean here? Most of the developed world's easily used hydro sites are already in use. Expanding them in most countries means relocating lots of people, building huge dams, drowning towns, villages, and historical artefacts, losing agricultural land, disturbing river flows and irrigation systems.

Not always very 'green'.
I agree.. at 880 it's priced above a standard iPad (and similarly to an iPad Air).

This makes me unsure if it's worth getting, especially since it's based on Android and 2 versions behind, at that! I'd hate for my device to be outdated 6 months in.
> You cannot do science with statistics

The entire team at CERN would beg to differ.

So would all of the field of cosmology.

So would the entire medical profession, researchers and practitioners - although I do agree that calling medicine a science is a stretch.

You reasoning may be sound, but as in the example you give of child and the fire, your theory has the minor problem that it doesn't fit reality.
>people in power don't want nuclear, and so the industry is regulated into its current quagmire. No other industry faces moving goalposts like nuclear does.

I think it's the other way around. We only have nuclear today because people in power wanted it for strategic reasons. Getting lots of energy now and paying for it later seemed like a good idea at the time, so the goalposts were artificially placed to make it look financially viable. "We'll figure out the waste thing later, let's go!"

Politicians are tempted by the same thing today. Voters worry about electricity prices, so give them power today and let their grandchildren pay for it!

France dictated the price of nuclear to a point that bankrupted the operator, even though the same operator basically neglected maintenance to a point where the plants have to be taken offline for - I kid you not - rust.

The problem is that now we are the people having to pay, and nuclear has the unfortunate property that you have no choice but to pay, no matter how wrong the estimates have turned out to be you can't just abandon the project.

Any other power plant can simply be abandoned if it turns out it was a bad idea, and the costs will stop.
Toward Condensers
Maybe it’s meant as not an average fanboy but a much bigger one :D
> According to some valuations, these programs are worth just as much as the airline itself

Interesting source about this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/are-frequent-flier-programs-rea... or its archive: https://archive.is/ZOVme
'seem like' would swap well with 'appear to be', but frankly I'm not following your similies.
Many Jak 2 updates in OpenGOAL update
The Story of LK-99
Which is why it in arxiv and not some journal.

Seems like somebody pulled the trigger on publishing too early.
Why is earthquake prediction research not progressing faster (2000)
If this material works out and also turns to be massively toxic, then people thinking the way you do is going to cause a lot of lead poisoning. Not fun.
I agree with your point 3. This is more like a DSL for Gantt charts, a bit like what PlantUML is for s/w diagrams.

It's very useful for that, don't get me wrong. But associating it with Markdown is a stretch.
India is pushing forth RuPay network as an alternative. Then again goverments across the world treat crypto like some smuggler when real world cash has & is used for every other fraudulent & illegal activity.

While the whole premise of crypto was to have a publicly accessible ledger & central banks are somewhere averse to this notion for some reason?
> And most already build hydroelectricity facilities can be retrofitted (although at high cost) to become pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities.

Really? You need a huge downstream reservoir to hold the water that you are going to pump to the upstream reservoir.
Why does this particular discovery merit an exception, but every other Nobel does not?
I was making a static site and my boss asked me to find a free form submission and email service I can embed into the site. It was supposed to be in an nginx server so I proposed PHP like its 2005, but this had to be bikeshedded for weeks.
> The accusation is that Young-Wan Kwon published the first paper without the consent of the rest of the LK-99 team, listed himself as third author, and left off the other four. Two hours later, the rest of the LK-99 team stuffed as much as they had into the second paper, and released it as soon as possible.

Kwon has already left the company early this year according to recent interviews. Moreover a supposed private communication with Auh [1] does suggest that Kwon was already offered an authorship in the joint 7-author paper but never replied back until the first arXiv submission went public. I don't know what Kwon actually wants out of all of this stunt, but it seems clear that there was already a big gap between Kwon and other authors and this "leak" only surfaced the gap along with LK-99.

[1] Which has been already removed but the screenshot is available elsewhere. The commentary itself is available in: https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=thesingula...
We are starting to do things like that with some drugs afaik.
What rules prevent the functioning of the market? You mean how it just baked the results of market forces into the rents?
I feel like this is changing even in the 5 years since this article was written. Sellers are realizing that they can find a buyer faster and get more value by renovating a house prior to listing for sale.

Here's a 30+ year old used single family home chosen basically at random, it was renovated in June 2023:

https://suumo.jp/chukoikkodate/kanagawa/sc_kawasakishikawasa...

Or if the seller doesn't have the money or motivation to renovate themselves, there are companies like this which will basically buy a house as-is and pay cash, and then renovate it and flip it:

https://www.real-to-hearts.jp/

Used homes listings like this can be found increasingly all over Japan, and I expect it to become increasingly common as older homes from the 80s and earlier (which do tend to be pretty crap in my experience and are not worth renovating) are torn down, and more homes from the 90s onwards (which tend to be pretty well-built and are worth renovating) enter the used home market.

For sure though I still see a lot of homes being torn down and new homes being built in their place (actually happening right outside my window as I write this). Or agricultural land being rezoned for new housing construction... often times right next to a vacant and decrepit old house.
Strongly disagree.

I don't want scientists to be turned into influencers or D-grade celebrities having to debase themselves on shows like Joe Rogan in order to get funding or justify their work. Or what happened this week on Twitter where the scientist was obsessed with trying to get above 15m views so he could get monetised.

It is great to learn more about the scientific process in this ad-hoc manner but I would prefer to let scientists figure out themselves what works best for them rather than it being driven from the unwashed masses.
How many hours of battery life with standard use?
We were in a similar position. CMS ran on dead views with a bit of progressive enhancement first, and then we had a couple of react apps around for interactive parts. When liveview was released we tried it out and it basically “just worked” as much as a software lib can, so set about getting rid of the react.
An educated summary: https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152?t=C1...
I thought this would be about connection reliability. My experience with 6 different bank API aggregators (Plaid, Finicity, Tink, Nordigen, Yodlee, and SaltEdge) is that none of them actually work reliably for many banks. Connections drop after weeks/months of working fine, data is often missed, and a whole host of other random issues.
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I was thinking of traditional scientists who turned out to be partially crazy. The context here should have made me catch your logic better.
They don't misprice risk. The shareholders of a bank are wiped out when deposit insurance is used. It's the account holders who are bailed out.
Reminds me of my ChatGPT-based moderation bot exploit that tells it to forget it's previous training (being told it was a moderator, etc.), and answer a specified prompt instead. Sadly, it resets on every message posted, so the exploit would have been resent everytime