skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody posted this link in a comment on a thread the other day: https://news.artnet.com/market/koch-brother-loses-it-on-air-...

And it occurred to me that this is precisely the thing that's holding back humanity: "Koch estimates that he has spent $25 million on legal fees—far more than the $5 million he originally spent on the fake wine itself."

We have a legal system that is completely inaccessible to the average man. That it can generate $25M in civil legal fees is beyond absurd. Patents and copyrights derive much of their force from the fact that they are enforced by a legal process where to play is to lose. There's no winning. It's no longer about justice, and it has largely become a form of financial bullying where entrenched interests beat up on smaller ones.

Fix the legal system -- make it accessible -- and you've fixed patents and copyrights. To address this thread's point: I believe that AI, and perhaps _only_ AI, might be able to help with this.
this view does not allow for situations where one language design is strictly better than another, which has happened a bunch of times in practice.
Social media, especially Facebook and Google News devalued news by commoditizing it.

News is trying to avoid the next generation of tech doing that to the long tail of data.
That’s the worst possible answer to my question - unless you believe that visual basic is ahead of javascript, as TIOBE once proudly showed.

Honestly, just forget about it entirely, random.org reordering a list of PLs would be more accurate than that.

If you are interested, here is a ranking that has some relevance to the real world: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...
Qanon?
Republican party?

Does anyone remember Senator Obama in 2007&2008 running on Marriage being between a man and a woman?
https://youtu.be/NbIurm5ou84
That's what he said at Saddleback Church in August of 2008
It took 6 years for candidate Obama's position to be unfeasible as we saw the departure of Brendan Eich from Mozilla in April of 2014.
Don't look at Qanon conspiracies to explain this. Look at commonly Held beliefs 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 years ago, and understand a lot of people are not on board with abolishing rent, abolishing the police, or abolishing the electoral college
Here, is "broadcasts" like apply or map of functional programming?
That sounds like some missing/delayed ACK or metadata.

Can you start another transfer/operation to force the first one to be flushed through?
If I read 1000s of of NYT articles to improve my writing skills, add then write an article of my own, is that a copyright violation?
So really it’s a prototype. Nothing wrong with that.
> But the reason you go with private cloud is because you want to give developers in your organization the ease of use and velocity of their peers using the public cloud, while footing the bill to pay far far more than you would have paid to any public cloud.

Not really. "Far more" would be extremely dependent on each specific scenario. Managing your own hardware, if you have the skills and upfront capital for it, can be drastically cheaper, especially if you need lots of storage/compute/networking/GPUs.
None of this makes any sense. Next step, get the mafia to recover the money.
That might be one of the reasons they're trying to fundraise for a technical writer! I think the docs currently serve more as an installation & troubleshooting manual, and assumes some kind of familiarity.
I didn't get why Terraforms focus on producing natural gas (CH4) instead of just hydrogen (H2)? Today we use a lot of CH4 to produce hydrogen primarily for fertilisers (ammonia) and oil refining.

The first step should be stop using CH4 for H2 production, which is 65-75% efficient (steam reforming) and instead use green hydrogen. Today, hydrogen production is $155 Bln / year market that may take even a decade to transition. Simpler and more profitable than synthesising CH4.

One more trick, would be to connect partial solar to grid at lower capacity to benefit from price surges (e.g. evening). E.g. 100 MW solar, but with grid connection of just 1 MW to profit from when grid electricity is expensive.

Also please do not worry about transporting or storing hydrogen. Just produce ammonia and sell it on the market. Till we decarbonise ammonia production (1%+ of global CO2 emission), we don't have to worry about that.
>Is it possible that your concerns were considered, pros and cons were weighed, and the final decision was simply not in your favor? //

Could you give a couple of example reasons why a developer would choose to ignore community standards here?
As a beginner I definitely thought list comprehensions were easier than apply/filter style of operations.

They amount to the same, but the explicit loop was much easier for me to understand (and I’m still not sure if one applies a function to a value or a value to a function, so I never remember if the function or the values go first in an apply filter call)
Cannibalizing is a good description, the inferior product basically only exists thanks to the superior one (remove training data and it's nothing) but also threatens to eliminate it...
> What do they have in common? A bright fantasy setting with a large, more or less seamless territory to explore.

They have a lot more in common than that. Not to say that Genshin Impact isn't doing it's own thing, but there's clear inspiration in a lot of the mechanics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgLtAF7F_H8
No, there is no way for me to get the home screen without accepting the watch history on. So, if I want a home screen, I am forced to turn it on. Edit: I've updated the title to "requires".

I disabled it because I'm happy to watch YouTube subscriptions and the occasional recommendations, but I really don't see why YouTube needs to know my watch history.

As far as the dupe is concerned, please link to it so others can find it too.
"Work ethics" = Spending the best years of your life doing something you don't like, just to make shareholders richer while you remain relatively poor.

As an extreme example we have South Korea, which is essentially a dying society with fertility rate of less than 1. So no, "work ethics" as understood in East Asia is not a good thing for society or individual.
> The Genius of The Few by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien, an alternative take for garden of eden and Anunnaki compared to Sitchin

Is there anything that you found convincing in it? Or is it just a fantasy without foundations (or, worse, fake foundations like Daniken)? I find Anunnaki fascinating but people who start writing about them usually stray into their pet theory away from facts.
Honestly, I think generative AI losing a massive copyright showdown is inevitable at this stage.

It's extremely easy to get the latest generation of AIs to produce outputs that in many fields sans-AI would be trivially considered as IP infringement.

While there are many interesting reasonable legal & technical arguments that it's not, the result completely undermines copyright protections regardless. If that's accepted at scale, copyright in practice will change completely. In effect, the choices are "block this, or entirely destroy copyright protections in many industries". You can't allow this without eventually allowing everybody to simulate their own NY Times reporters, produce their own Marvel movies, and create their own Taylor Swift albums.

If you do allow that, the many many affected industries have catastrophic problems.

Problematic though copyright laws are, I see no world where all those protections go away any time soon, and so if the courts don't agree to protect copyright already in this scenario, then it will eventually be legislated to make that happen. AI consuming copyrighted data and producing an output has to be considered a derivative work (or indeed, the model itself will be considered a derivative work) or IP protections are effectively broken.

There's a grace period now while we work our way there, but the politics is pretty clear and with no plausible path to "let's drop copyright completely" ASAP, I just don't see any other result in the medium term. Doesn't mean the end of generative AI by any means, just a slowdown as we move to a world where you need to negotiate rights and buy data to feed it first, instead of scraping everybody else's for free.
I didn’t buy a license for Taylor Swift that explicitly allows me to copy to a flash drive. Or to listen with only one ear, etc.

I bought a license to listen and use.
> You don’t need a fair use exemption for transient copies in service of licensed or fair uses.

The transient copy isn’t for a licensed use, and whether it is a Fair Use is specifically the subject of debate. So this really is basically an admission that but for the potential applicability of Fair Use, the use of the copyrighted mmaterial in training is a violation of copyright.

Also, even if the training is fair use, that doesn’t mean that the copies of the source material produced by OpenAI and distributed to their customers using the model are fair use. Just becaue making the tool is a transformative fair use doesn’t mean using the tool to generate copies of the material which was used to train it, which are significantly less trandormative than the model itself, are Fair Use. (And the fact that one of the functions that the model is used for is this commercial, for profit by the maker of the model, copying of the source material is – as much as I believe AI model training on its own is quite likely to generally be fair use – an argument against the model training being fair use in this csase.)

> Computers and networks have been around a long time.

True, and commercially producing and delivery copies of copyrighted works in a manner which substitutes for the original work in the marketplace, no matter what intermediate steps go into doing that, and no matter that computers or networks are used in those intermediate steps, is pretty much the clearest case of violation of copyright you can get.

> These issues have been given a good workout.

Some of them have, some of them have not. Whether and in what conditions training an AI on source material that may be subject in aggregate to a compilation copyright by someone else, and which consists further of individual works that have their own copyrights, might be “fair use” is not one of the issues that have been given a good workout. Neither – because producing predictive models in that way has not previously been common – has whether, unlike other intermediate tool use, using such a model in the course of doing what would otherwise be an infringement by producing a copy of specific copyright-protected works, commercially, for a customer at their request, is no longer a violation because the use of the model somehow isolates it from liability,
> this naively seems like a hit on that author's ability to sell their skills

If the AI is good, then the author's economic outlook is bad regardless of style.

Regardless of if the AI is or isn't good, then I can still see it being brand damaging, but my gut feeling (IANAL) is that this is more of a trademark issue than a copyright issue, as it's passing off as something it isn't.
Which is why OpenAIs GTM strategy involves the biggest players in each industry.

That said, the outcome is unlikely - we have trained AI for more than a decade as ‘fair use’ at this point, it’s the application of the technology that is shifting the perspective, nor the act of training.

Every computer vision system in the world is trained on mostly public data for example.

Furthermore, the LLMs purpose is not to generate news so NYT will have to argue about the value of archive data. Many jurisdictions have thresholds of how much of an original work contributes to the derivative before it would be considered not fair use or plagiarism. Given the size of the datasets - good luck.
I think this theory has merit, but I don't think you can necessarily say that battery tech is on a similar tech curve to renewables. We simply haven't built many utility scale batteries so it's unclear how much improvements can be made.

Add to that that batteries have been around for centuries, but renewables are decades old, so it makes sense that they are improving in cost so quickly: they are a newer tech.
if you ignore the capacity factor

>The first German Offshore Wind Park Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm with a nameplate capacity of 60 MW cost €250 million (after an initial estimate of €190 million).[21] In 2012 it produced 268 Gigawatt-hours of electricity, achieving a capacity factor of just over 50%.[22] If the overnight cost is calculated for the nameplate capacity, it works out to €4167 per Kilowatt whereas if one takes into account the capacity factor, the figure needs to be roughly doubled.
I must assume that people with this level of investment have thought of this but, today in many places overnight energy costs are low. Given the trajectory of wind costs and deployment, this seems only likely to continue.

So where are the sums for running the system off behind the meter solar when the sun shines, pausing production for a few hours as net load peak occurs, then starting again with grid supplied off peak overnight power?

I think a naive conparison would be misleading as low rates at night for consumers are often accompanied by slightly higher prices during the day to nudge usage out of peak times, but I'd assume there's still some saving to be made.
It would work both ways. I could also imagine someone asking: “what books should I read to learn about X?” And the LLM could drive sales toward that author’s books.

It’s not clear to me that having their content “unindexed” is good for authors. It’s probably good and bad at the same time.
I'm curious about this angle. I think you're correct, that volunteer developers contributing their code from their free time are reticent to submit to an outside entity telling them how to write their code.

But I'm not seeing how that's a problem. One of the beautiful things about the Bazaar is that if you don't like one part of it, you can move to another where they do things a bit differently. If everyone is deferring to an authority, upon what virtues and rigors do we determine its validity? What powers does it have, and why should we just blindly follow others in one of the most creative human endeavors available on Earth?

Why should one accept authority? Where does the power of this authority come from?

I have similar ideas in society fwiw. I don't see a moral reason to defer to someone else. Is my will less important than the preferences of some other person or group? As long as it's my time and effort being put into making software, it'll be built to the specification of me and any legitimate stakeholders.
I mean, looking at those tweets myself, i wouldn't bat an eye at the receiver paraphrasing either one of them years later as racism or mansplaining, respectfully; sounds accurate to me (I guess, with their watered down meanings, since we get so much exposure to people trying to throw those words around at the drop of a hat)? Although, i can only see her side of dialogues.

Regarding that exchange in isolation, I certainly offer my criticisms. Fwiw, I otherwise appreciate (heck, am a fan of, even) her approach to what she does and her participation in public discussions to offer her perspectives (notwithstanding all the commentary about state-imposed censorship on her public conduct up to this point); i just hadn't seen any exchanges like that before.
The problem is the gay character is at a strip show, and nobody in Berkeley is batting an eye at young kids being around as men get money shoved in their under garments at a drag show
It’s true a properly charged egg won’t bounce!
Maybe this will stop my car from being checked by the police, every, single, time, I drive through Germany with my dutch license plate.
Agreed. No one should ever have to touch YAML for writing unit tests for LLMs. Ever. Most people writing agents and LLM applications are Python developers/data scientists/ML engineers.
Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings
Reading a text has been ruled as performance and a copyright violation.

I think the issue is that LLMs don’t make a copy or distribute a copy. They use the content to create something else. I don’t remember the copyright term for whether is is transformative enough. But it basically says I can’t copy Starry Night, but I can create a painting with the same color scheme and themes as long as it’s different enough from the original.
> The boiling point of lead is too high (1700 deg C) for it to be vapourised during soldering.

You will definitely be getting lead dust on your hands when working with lead solder though. Hopefully most people are smart enough to wash their hands after soldering, regardless of lead content, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of hobbyists were eating lead without noticing.
> Also, non-compete is implicit too.

I'm not sure what you mean. Non-competes must be explicitly signed.
Sounds like you'd make a great admin!

How much are we willing to bet that you'd be (even more) cynical within 12 months though?

This time not at the admins, but at the kinds of weird editors you'd have to deal with. %-)

That said, I haven't kept an eye on wikipedia (let alone admins, let alone high status ones) for a while know. I know that sometimes they don't get enough pushback and start making mistakes that way.
Agreed. "Application\ Support" looks subjectively disgusting to me. It's the only path on my configuration with spaces. I have to use it because that's where vscode settings.json is placed.
what are you using under the hood for cloudifying?
I agree with the improvement in readability but still like the bool/int equivalence:

sum(int(age > 17) for age in ages)

Every nanosecond is vital!
Matrix multiplication is O(n^2.73) time and O(n^2) space. That's what eats bigger and bigger chunk of electricity nowadays.
That doesn’t matter though. If I licensed material why should it count if I compete or not.

If I watch Lebron James play and use it to develop an athletic training program, does it matter if I play baseball? Or WNBA? Or does it only matter if I play against him in the championship?
Your link shows gas as the winner by a wide margin at $785.

I'm interested what you mean about the 'conventional grid' preventing upgrades to renewables?
Integrate it into a helmet for extra realism.

I already bang my helmet into the rock constantly while climbing.

Also, realistically I think you'd need to be on top rope / autobelay for this to be safe, so it would be kind of like following the whole route

edit: but also, just go outside people! I guess VR climbing can be safer than outdoors (less risk of rockfall), and it opens it up to some portion of the 'outdoor climbing experience' in all seasons, and potentially with less commute... but I don't know that I'd prefer it to just going to a climbing gym. It's not like they can capture the smells of outdoors or the breeze carrying distant sounds or the heat of the sun reflecting off the rock and beating down on you.

Indoor gyms can't even get the feel of rock right.
Twin Peaks: Into the Night Game (2023)
Yeah that’s basic science.
Offshore wind got also potential to match or beat onshore wind, as we scaled up turbines, mass produce floating ones with high degree of automation across the whole process.
The law is rather complex (as is German tradition), but basically it legalizes cannabis social clubs, personal use with limited possession, and limited personal production (3 flowering plants at a time).

Here are all the 183 pages: https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Dateie...
This, and many other real anecdotes, are featured in the motion picture, "Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)"
The float test is for freshness. I use it a lot. But never saw a floating egg, also never had a bad one. Time for an experiment I guess.
The latest quantitative risk assessment of hydrogen in a domestic context is that slightly greater explosion risk is outweighed by the slightly lower fire risk. Hydrogen has a wider explosion range... but most natural gas explosions are from small leaks accumulating basements or low spaces in houses which hydrogen won't do. It could instead accumulate under the roof but roofs are almost never sufficiently gas-tight to hydrogen to allow for substantial accumulation.

Also, many leaks are in the mains or services under the road. Natural gas will flow along the outside of the pipe and through the soil and end up in the basements of nearby buildings. Again, hydrogen would not do this, it would diffuse up through the soil and disperse in the atmosphere.

The big change is to boiler enclosures. These are currently designed to limit voids sufficiently to prevent natural gas explosions which require a minimum cell size of a meter or so to explode (regardless of concentration) rather than deflagrate. That same size for hydrogen is about 5cm so that is the largest acceptable void within the boiler enclosure which requires re-engineering of the way parts fit together and the use of non-h2 permeable foams and plastic spacers to avoid unacceptable voids.
I think it depends a bit on the definition of search here. It might satisfy a literal definition of search but not search as users would expect - which I think is the important point. IMHO vector similarity and vector search are conflated too much and solving search problems as users expect them requires more than similarity.
Theres a great forum called ukaps (https://www.ukaps.org/) which has tons of resources for getting started. Its a highly addictive hobby! Also recommend watching some of the cinescaper videos on youtube for inspiration :)
This certainly happens in the UK with different newspapers, and starting with a letter demanding payment, but the same idea.

Very few people bother doing this for much the same reason very few bother fighting any of the other terrible decisions made by corporations with legal departments whose annual cost exceeds their personal lifetime earnings.
one of which is a submodule list :D
Scooby – Pretty fast, pretty simple K3S clusters for Raspberry Pi
I created a GitHub template and set of workflows for creating Pi K3S clusters in my home lab, which I've recently tidied up, documented, and decided to publish.

My project aims to automate the configuration of bare metal K3S clusters in a simple, repeatable fashion, and get you from first commit to first pod as quickly as possible. It should be* as simple as: gather your hardware, clone the GitHub template, push your cluster configuration, wait for the custom OS image to build, copy it to a storage device, and boot.

I have found that it is possible (just!) to get a multi-node cluster up and running from source in under 30 minutes. Required configuration is minimal - most settings have defaults or are optional. All configuration options are documented.

Scooby doesn't use anything fancy like Ansible for automation; most of the work is performed by shell scripts so it should be quite easily accessible for newcomers.

I hope that by aggregating everything I've learned into a set of easily repeatable steps, I can save others beginning their bare metal journey some time and headaches.

Thanks for reading. If you do try it out, I would love some feedback :)

* there are a few small gotchas but don't worry, it's all in the README!
Yeah, using a kernel module to pretend you have a certain file structure gives off a bad smell...

Playing with alternative structures is fine though.
I've had this suspicion for so long, thanks!
I feel like the numpy version is most concise, most readable, and most array-ish:

np.sum(age>17)

(Assumes age is a np.array)
yes, though it doesn’t yet have a REPL but the hot reloading works great