skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So! Here's my really dumb question: what is the difference between the two?

I agree, in that first instance and at first glance, clearly copying. There are plenty of incredible copy artists in China who fabricate like copies of fine art, who approximate the role of our AI here.

There might be something to be said later about the nature of what makes a work transformative and whether the use of an AI is sufficient for it, but setting that thought aside, let's slide the scale from the meatspace to the rasterized space.

For the second: our mockey mouse is the spitting image of mickey mouse. Maybe the lines are a breadth of a hair off the fine print from what was submitted to the USPTO. Maybe it is by all intents and purposes using the same line width for his outlines, etc, but due to some fluke with how AI works, Mockey has three buttons instead of two, or (incredibly) 5 fingers instead of 4. Or maybe Mockey is exactly better proportioned than the cartoon friend we know, appealing more to our gross human sensibilities, but some may still construe him to be Mickey Mouse from a distance.

That image can't be copyrighted (as an AI can't obtain a copyright). Disney can't claim that image as Mickey too, lest they claim every permutation of his characteristics possible, the territory of which is really large.

Still, it stands to reasonable, common law: if its the 90s, and I drew Mockey myself and put him on a bag and made enough money on it that Disney goes after me, it's a sensible outcome that Disney wins this in court, and its primary defense is that this likeness violates their copyright. Yet if an AI made this in 2023, suddenly there is a gray area, as I am selling a likeness that nobody owns (by virtue of a lack of personhood in its creation). I feel that's a bit odd, and something people may try to exploit with this ruling. At the same time, if we give that to Disney, what's the end of the scope of copyright?
The remaining issue is the durability of the catalyst.
Well sure, it's not going to literally block every single website (to my surprise, HN on fact seems to lack all of the above factors. Or at least UBlock cannot trace them. Kudos). But so much of the internet is closed down that I essentially cannot rely on anything that isn't a small personal blog (that is NOT hosted by any of the major web deployment platforms. e.g. WordPress).

I'd need to roll my own email provider (and deal with that fallout since I'm now "spam". Ironic), cannot apply to 99% of job portals (employer nor job boards), cannot use most of my productivity apps on the web, and I still can't access most major news, subscription or not.If I was still in school there's a non-zero chance I can access my class portals.

I can replace most of these, but not all.
Being one of those weirdos still using a proper receiver and 5.1 speaker setup on our main TV, but a stereo pair on our other TV, it's incredible the difference the lack of a discrete center-channel can make. It seems like Netflix et. al are more interested in pushing a 5.1 Dolby mix to everyone instead of detecting whether or not they have hardware capable of playing it properly. My more unpopular opinion is that they (the streaming services) should all be pushing a stereo track by default and have a/the surround mix as a selectable option, because it's become obvious that down-mixing on user's devices doesn't work as intended.

For what it's worth, we keep subtitles on for the stereo TV nearly permanently, while the main TV rarely is a problem - nothing a small boost to the center channel can't fix anyways.
I think it's a German made-up thing in analogy to Web 2.0. The decision-makers wanted to make clear that it's quite the quantum leap and therefore jumped directly to 4.0 (also fourth industrial revolution).

"The term was coined by Henning Kagermann, Wolf-Dieter Lukas and Wolfgang Wahlster and first made public in 2011 at the Hanover Fair."

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrie_4.0
I always preferred AutoIt to AutoHotKey, but AutoIt never got any updates and the community is slowly dying while AutoHotKey seems to be doing great.
> 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium-functionalized Mo3P nanoparticles coated with an anion-exchange ionomer

How hard/expensive are all their materials to produce at scale?

Molybdenum is not as rare and expensive as platinum, so that’s certainly a win.
Great read and endeavour.
What a fantastic region to hike, drink the finest beers with some smoked ham and enjoy the golden hour. 2 other great and well documented trails are the Eisleck trail and Escapardenne Lee Trail.

Happy trails!
Yeah, I've noticed a strange subset of companies who are eager to add the "big new thing" to their products every once in a while, no matter what the thing is or how it's relevant to their main business. While I haven't paid attention to Brave much, I've seen some other companies jumping on AI just after hopping off the NFT/Crypto train from a year or two ago - whenever I see that, it's almost guaranteed that they don't actually care about AI or have any experts working on it, but just want to seem all cool and up-to-date.
For everything to become incredibly amazing. 5G was more pumped than AI, especially in Europe. For some reason people kept mentioning robo-surgery as a use case...
Only if we get the same flexibility in native code and COM interop, for the complete feature set.
If the price is competitive the market will guarantee it. Otherwise regulations can.

Why would you oppose technological solutions in favor of ideological ones? Unless of course you don't care about solving the problem...
1 is steam coal steel.
2 is Ford and such.
3 is early digital
4 is post 2010 buzzwords (IoT, smart whatever, gene editing, AR/VR)

It's a totally arbitrary distinction.
Ridiculous? Well, pardon me. This wasn't meant to be an argument against nuclear power, hopefully obvious when read calmly, but rather a statement of facts. I didn't want the nuke cheerleading go on without pointing out some inconvenient details.

It's a complex topic, and I appreciate the more detailed responses about the french situation.

Edit: Let me add the fact, that France seems to have trouble training enough personnel for these highly complex plants, rightfully so to protect the environment from the dangers of radiation. Considering the demographics of Europe in general, that is a troubling development for maintenance of these power plants decades into the future.
I think someone didn't get the joke, or took OP too seriously.
No offense to you though.
But do this exercise, imagine I have 1 billion lines of C code on GitHub under GPL. You train a new AI only on my GPL code then claim that the output is somehow trans formative and it is not GPL or it is not derived from my code but is new and original.

What happens is that Microsoft or OpenAI will use 1000 or more different sources and then the author is not clear unless in few outputs where the tool outputs the exact code as the training data. If the AI is actual inteligent they could train it in a few books and say MDN documentation and not a few thousands of GPL code.
It costs a lot more to incarcerate a prisoner than their labor will ever pay for, so there’s no meaningful incentive from the government itself.

Private prisons have an incentive to incarcerate more prisoners regardless of prison labor—as do corrections officer unions—and I can understand abolishing both of those (the unions are probably an even bigger problem). Nonetheless, judging by our high rates of violent crime, it seems clear to me that the United States isn’t incarcerating enough people.
You either didn't read what I wrote or misunderstood.

My point was exactly: how many people want to go through all of this AND would instead pay IF this route wasn't available?

a 12 year old without money won't pay for your service no matter what you do, so does it matter if you let them "hack it" for free?
Is it though? Worst case call road side assistance and what an hour or two. Now if you live in the back country, okay, but for the majority of people it’s just an extra 40 pounds to lug around to use once or twice.
You can have whatever you want, via FPGA instances (like F1).
It is still quite used in many European countries, I know of German and Belgian companies, and there are enough companies to keep an yearly conference going, and regular sessions on BASTA! conference in Germany.
From my experiences discord servers tends to draw people who are least interested in talking about the project and more about casual talk and sharing memes. Most of the time these places feels like an equivalent of shoutbox feature on old forums.

Still, I received more support via discord than forums which on the other hand seems to be mostly full of people who vent their complexes and issues on users and lock discussions for absolutely every single stupid thing, just to show they're in charge.

Perhaps a community has to be small, dedicated, mature and aware enough to use e.g. Matrix or other solutions, leaving running blessed, approved discord servers to communities, various enthusiasts.
And just to support how much verisign business is racketeering based on their Monopoly, look at their financials:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VRSN/verisign/fina...

They have stable negligible costs. R&d is just symbolic. Their biggest costs are administration fees that we can probably explain by their executives paying themselves q lot more than what their deserve.

The biggest part is just pure revenue. And they try to increase that consistently without valid reason.
Here in Norway, a "consultant" is just someone who is employed by a different company but works for your company. We don't get people to listen to the right people.

We just work like everyone else while the company pays a premium for us and we're the first to be let go if things go downhill.
The Problem with Tech Media: Ego, Dogmatism, and Cult of Personality [video]
I remember Authorize.net was one of the first credit-card processor for eCommerce (Archive.org goes back to 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981206052326/http://authorizen... ), they were the Stripe.net of the dot-com boom - at-least insofar as FastCGI or ColdFusion could take you back then - this was before "XML" was a buzzword: systems were exchanging SGML (if you were lucky!) or EDI[1] (if you weren't so lucky)

Obviously big-players, established businesses, et cetera would have had a more direct relationship with the banks and/or card-processors, but smaller site operators ("webmasters", heh) I assume must have had to run nightly batch-jobs that sent flat-files of card-numbers to card-processors using a modem that called the processors directly - rather than over the Internet (I understand this was also how many brick-and-mortar retailers sent in CC details transcribed from those manual card-impression machines[2], though I assume most let their bank do it along with their cash-deposits?)

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Unrelated-but-related: Authorize.net definitely sat on their laurels: their platform, web-service, and even their marketing landing-page was basically frozen-in-time from the mid-2000s right through to around 2017, I know because that's when I was working on a side-gig to migrate a system from Authorize.net to Stripe - that was such a breath of fresh-air. Sometimes I go back through time in the repo's commit history to remind myself how bad things were back then so I appreciate that things sometimes do actually get better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter
“Enlightenment is achieved not when there is nothing left to post, but when you disable the comment section on your personal website”

—The Buddha
Firefox for Android can install uBlock Origin and do this.
Instead of wegovy and mounjaro, hookworms can be taken.
>Discord is doing so well

Are they? They try to sell me Nitro at least once every month, which only gives me the impression that they're desperate to increase their revenue stream to make ends meet.
Pedantically speaking, that's more of a key extraction tool than a decryption tool as such.

Most efficient, though.
It seems you made a lot of assumptions about me… maybe it was instinct.
I know your profile says you majored in chemistry, but my instinct tells me you must have done an MBA… because you are a Master of Bullshit Art.
>What's really needed is culture change on growth and consumption.

It is not.

At no point in the history of human civilization has growth been static. It will not ever be. It will and should be exponential. Figure out how to make that happen or go join one of the religious groups that stop using new technology.

We want, need, and benefit from growth.

Our energy source just needs to change, and is changing. Plenty of earthbound solar and nuclear to satisfy our growth for a good while. There isn't enough fossil fuel around anyway if we wanted to keep growing with it.

By the time we need it we can produce plenty of energy in space. Think square miles of solar arrays in solar orbits fixing energy into whatever passes for a future battery while also colocating with asteroid smelting and refining facilities.
All of Europe has written in Latin 1 for a decade. There are billion of files encoded in Latin 1 everywhere.
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It occurs to me that instead of blaming government, it’s really the non-voters who have created this absurd mess. If they voted, I believe that most of them would vote for the better candidates. But because they don’t vote, the highly incentivized voters—which is to say the single-issue crazies—get the win. Next thing you know, your libraries are closed, your teachers are quitting, your infrastructure fails, and your country starts looking like a third world nation with plummeting lifespans, millions of homeless, devastated economies, and more corruption than you can shake a stick at.

Please, encourage your friends and coworkers to vote. Not to tell them who to vote for but just to vote. It really does matter!
>Of course you know how to put food in your mouth and eat, but do you understand how to deal with the physical/emotional/mental challenges of living as a person who’s without enough food?

I think we are so far ideologically from each other that we can't even communicate. I can not follow this logic at all.
> it tells that you're not familiar with the subject and most likely googled what looked related and found outdated man pages which seemed related.

That is an assumption, for which I have yet to see proof :-)

> I think common sense would disagree

Please, do enlighten me: How do I access SHM without mapping it first, or otherwise setting it up?

> Now you've accepted it doesn't require syscall

There was nothing to accept. If you actually read my post, you will see that I talked about the issues of IO and setup seperately.

And my point stands still solid ;-) SHM requires syscalls not required when directly using shared memory.
It's per file, although I also think it applies per message (i.e., you can upload 10 photos at a time, but they can't collectively exceed 50MB on the free plan; you'd have to split them across multiple messages).
But did it have to be Verizon's roof?
Electrolyzer reactions tend to be reversible...

If they could do the reverse (water+propane to CO2+hydrogen+electricity) at the efficiency claimed (91%), they can replace all gas turbine generators (who typically have efficiencies of only 60% at best)
Energy policy based on being "nice" will never have significant longevity.
I wrote about my definition of intelligence earlier this month: https://tildes.net/~comp/194n/language_is_a_poor_heuristic_f...

I have a definition of intelligence. [...]

Intelligence is prediction.

In the case of intelligent living processes ranging from single celled organisms to complex multicellular life, intelligence arises from the need to predict the future to survive and reproduce. More intelligent organisms build more elaborate models of the world using better developed senses in order to do so.

Humans model the world primarily with language, which allows us to share our models with each other, across both space and time! Without language, it is extraordinarily more difficult to communicate complex abstract thoughts. As a side effect of our high level of intelligence, our wetware is capable of modeling things outside of language, such as mathematics. [...]

In general, I think we need to stop equating intelligence with consciousness, agency, moral value, and living things. These are entirely different concepts, and, as a species, we are blinded by our egotistical identity of being smarter than the other animals.

According to my definition, intelligence is actually all around us. We are blind to it because we focus only on how intelligence manifests in humans (defined by by our specific social organization and biological senses), and then use that as a benchmark to judge every other thing in the world.

A less socially-charged definition of intelligence would make it easier to compare intelligence across living and non-living processes, though it would not be "popular science" useful for ranking humans.
Last time I tried spec'ing a lead acid battery in a product I found you have to derate the lead acid battery a lot more than would expect if it has to deal with constant deep charge discharge and temp extremes. Where you don't need to derate a LFP battery much at all.

So lead acid is okay at lower temps and with only occasional deep discharges.
There's nothing exactly like it, but I use Keyboard Maestro for macros and such.
In Norway the only difference between consultants and everyone else is that we cost more and are easier to fire.

Besides that we just do software development like everyone else. And sure we have colleagues to lean on but so do the companies we work for. Most of them are huge.
Interesting, I'll really have to dig deeper into Bun. I know I've been having a hard time switching to anything else because I rely heavily on a typescript compiler transformer and that hasn't wanted to transfer to well to other things (like from Webpack to esbuild for example).
There is a law (laws?) in the US that dictate the amount of parking spaces each building needs. It's calculated using a Magic Formula.

IIRC the formula was made by a man who had zero experience in anything and didn't even own a car. He just made up the numbers off the top of his head.

And now Americans have more parking spots than people.

Still everyone seems to love the European style walkable cities but refuse to understand they've actually made it illegal to make cities like that. Zoning laws don't allow for mid-rise buildings with commercial use on the bottom floor and regulations about minimum amounts of parking space force every second block to be a parking garage...
You can be addicted to quality production as well.
1.0: The original industrial revolution of 18-19 centuries. Steam, railways, powered loom and lathes, etc.

2.0: Since 1870s and on, cheap steel via Bessemer process, electricity, large-scale chemical synthesis; unified parts, mass production.

3.0: Since, say, 1940-50s, advanced control systems, electronics, early computers, pervasive plastics, power semiconductors, advanced alloys and advanced welding, simple CNCs.

4.0: Since, say, 2000s, highly integrated electronics, pervasive computers / MCUs, highly programmable and precise CNC machines, everything through CAD software; carbon fiber, advanced glues, 3D printing.

https://sustainability-success.com/industry-1-0-to-4-0-2-3-r...
mmwave was supposed to give more bandwidth in 5g but it was not widely implemented by SK'n telecoms which i am told also has non-technical reasons and now they are complaining that it failed.
Based on numbers alone, it's obvious they weren't even seeing patients at all and selling directly to drug gangs. Selling more pills than would be lethal to the entire population of the county they were being sold in is simply being a wholesale distributor.
> I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

As someone who only sends up PRs containing complete features in their final state implemented exactly as I hoped, I have no idea.

Unrelated aside: just started my fifth new job this month. I never seem to jibe with project managers.
What's often lost in a simple review of the history is that in modern times certain elements of the Unix philosophy [1] have become more important than ever. In fact as technology becomes more pervasive I would argue that the ideas it encapsulates are no longer only relevant to computer architecture, they're now relevant to the survival of a free and open society. This isn't just about how to build the best widget anymore (though I still think the Unix philosophy is a great contender for that).

In particular I'm referring to the principles of composability and universal interfaces. These principles make the Unix philosophy inherently democratizing - when you apply it you're producing something that's intended to interoperate with other agents in a diverse ecosystem beyond your control. This is in stark contrast to the monoliths that tend to emerge from proprietary software development where the socioeconomic goals are to control everything strictly and limit interoperability because there's commercial value in having a "moat" or a "walled garden" which people can't escape.

As computers become interwoven with our lives and our society the general purpose computer has become a tool like the printing press. The printing press was a precursor for democracy as we know it because it enabled the dissemination of information on a scale that was previously impossible.

What sort of social progress we might ultimately achieve through the general purpose computer is yet to be fully determined. But in the modern era we have many examples of what the competing philosophy of proprietary monoliths looks like - it's a hellscape where more your time and attention are harnessed by the monolith's owner, to serve his own ends, even at the detriment of your health and well-being [2].

Facebook and Instagram wouldn't be killing our children if they had been designed around the Unix principles of composability and a universal interface. How many people have lamented their inability to take their data, content and relationships away from Meta's silo? It's a constant refrain in our industry that people wish they could get away from a service that started out great and gradually "enshittified" - had these services been designed with the Unix philosophy in mind, it would be possible.

Either way, the Unix philosophy is now just as much about your human freedom and well-being, as it is about whether your code works well.

Stallman of course saw this coming decades ago and predicted with disturbing prescience - that "either the user would control the program, or the program would control the user."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

[2] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...