skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Psychology is all about context, that's kinda its motto. A good therapist always considers the family, socioeconomic backgrounds, all the things you say it ignores.

Not what I said. I said they don't treat the family or the community. Psychology is typically an individualistic treatment of a single person (or a couple).
My buddy built Loop, the iOS app for managing this (which, thru another org just got FDA approved). I was living near him in Oakland when he was first building it and I just feel really proud of what he was able to do not only for himself but for others.

For all of you out there who are trying to use tech to solve your own problems, please keep at it, one day your work may help thousands or millions and be featured in Nature.
I don't get it. True to the name, AntiX seems to define themselves by what they're against; but I don't really see why I'd use it instead of say, Alpine.
That's not really how measurements work though. All real-world measurements have precision associated with them. It's not a matter of measurements being correct or being wrong.

As GP hints at, since you don't measure an arm the same way you measure an ear, it's reasonable to expect the errors to have different characteristics.
I thought the nvidia kernel driver is open sourced? https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

It says it's dual licensed MIT/GPL2
Why would you apply the word "simulation" to the activities of 6th-dimensional (or 67th-dimensional or googolplexth-dimensional) entities? Assuming you could even apply human concepts to them like intention, consciousness, or research, why would these proposed creatures be "simulating". Why couldn't the Universe just be some by-product of some kind of industrial process? Or something else? At what remove do you start to say "yeah that's too weird to be called a simulation"?
AntiX = Systemd-less Debian.
True, could have worded it better. I still think how I can have the data preserved for more than 100 years, I haven't yet found a way. I did find a few methods but I felt that they would put the privacy at risk. One was using blockchain (which as you told is stupidly expensive) and the other one was using distributed databases like https://gun.eco/ with a few nodes hosted around the world (kinda like nostr).

Even if the platform manages to stay alive for 50 years is a big W in my book! The older generations know about their histories but they never tell the newer generations because time is limited. This leads to the newer generations not knowing their roots.
Two thoughts:

- I think it's OK not to want experiments like these to be conducted connected to the global internet and rather in a lab such as the one benjojo used.

- NANOG is known to be a bit of a joke within the networking space, not too long ago someone complained about NTP issues with traffic passing through TATA and they were told to make their devices stratum 0 or something to that effect, so don't always take them too seriously.

I think the first applies here.
A great point. That's also wrong reasoning and in this case more harmful.
Actually just a specific fee is capped in EU, the interchange fee.

"Interchange is a small fee typically paid by acquirers (retailer’s bank) to issuers (cardholder's bank), to recognise the value delivered to retailers, governments and consumers by accepting electronic payments."

The interchange fee does not go to Visa or Mastercard, do I think they are free to increase any other fee (if they are not colluding in a cartel ;)

BTW This is the reason that in EU credit cards gives no rewards or very small ones. Rewards are, for the most part, coming out of the interchange fee.

https://www.mastercard.com/europe/en/regulatory/european-int...
The point is that "insurance at market prices" should be considered part of the all-in cost of the house, and that if you can't afford it, you shouldn't have that house. Surely even as a European you agree that if you can't pay $10 million for a house on the French Riviera, then you don't get to have a house on the French Riviera; once you conceptually include insurance into the total cost of the house, the exact same logic applies.
That’s a really long winded way of saying “we tried some things and they didn’t work so we’re going to try racism next”
Isn't this all just René Descartes's Demon, the 'Deus Deceptor' that he proposed in his 'Meditations on First Philosophy' in 1641.

Are we doing anything more than updating his question to our latest technology?

Is there a fundamental difference between this and, say, 'The Truman Show'? Other than a more sophisticated layer of MacGuffin.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_on_First_Philosoph...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show
Could "energy density" not refer to energy-per-volume rather than mass? Then that headline might make sense per this quote from someone at Honda: "Simply, the energy density would be doubled. So same energy, same volume base, kind of half [the weight]"

Although the author himself confuses the matter, suggesting volume is also reduced: "If Honda's solid-state batteries truly do cut weight and size in half without reducing performance, there could be quite a bit more space in the floor of future Honda vehicles."
There's a few things happening

Preference falsification from engineers, which was normalized after James Damore had his character publicly assassinated. Throwing rotten tomatoes at him and screaming "shame shame" before chopping off his head was a warning to everyone else to keep quiet or echo the correct opinions.

There's a lot of tribal signaling and "don't hurt me I'm one of you".

Then there's a new brand of engineer, and some old gen converts, who are true believers in the new religion and programming is just a lucrative way to participate in late stage capitalism as a wage slave. Many among them are aggressive bullies and codify their beliefs into CoCs and concern themselves with purity testing.
the artist is not actually given copyright, but the person who paid the artist is given the copyright.

This is only true if it is written in a contract. In general, the artist keeps the copyright. Photography is the same way: Photography studios own the copyright to wedding pictures, school pictures, family portraits, sports functions, and the like. If you pay a photographer to take a family picture, you have to get permission to use that picture for a greeting card unless you've signed a form giving that permission to you.

Similar rules apply if I sell some artwork that wasn't commissioned. Someone else might own the original, but only I can make prints and post a picture where I choose. Unless, that is, we have a contract that says otherwise.
> Company management used the low interest rate environment of the recent past to borrow money that was then used in buybacks.

Are people who buy stocks not incorporating the increased debt levels of the business in their valuation of the share price?
Newer training techniques likely removed most of that by simply deduplicating training data. All the papers I read on verbatim techniques could only find items that were overpopulated during training.
Do you consider all automation to be bad?
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Indeed, and also that whoever wrote the article, didn't actually investigate the reason why they decided to raise the prices at the same time (besides "the fees help cover costs related to fraud prevention and innovation" but not saying why both of them need it at the same time), and questioning if there is collusion going on as that would actually be malicious use of their market position as a duopoly, and would make for a much more interesting article.
Sounds like parallel construction here.
Telling them to fuck off means using linux. It's a hard step at first, but I highly recommend giving it a shot.

After learning the basics, I can't go back to windows anymore because I know how a proper OS works and can see how terrible windows actually is as an operating system, not just in terms of user experience.
That alone keeps me motivated to push through any difficulties I face with linux.
You are trying to reason with russian troll. It futile, they have plenty of scripts to convince you white is black and black is white. Just move on
This problem has been solved by most European countries. Why do you think it's unsolvable here?
I just don't see any world in which we don't end up with at least largely autonomous, armed robots in the relatively near future. Look at the soldiers with the big gun in the picture in the article - they look like teenagers. It's just so much easier to make the case that arming robots will mean people's kids don't get shot than it is to make the case that maybe these robots will turn on us and kill us, sci-fi style.

Add to that the fact that if China has autonomous fighting robots, we're more or less forced into it - I think at this point it's probably more useful to be resigned to the fact that this is the future of war, as that'll at least let us focus on how to make sure we've got the best autonomous robots with guns and the best possible control over them.
You could add other address (nearby, which work right) and tell people to get there.
> All I see in the article is the discussion of "profits".

> I would think the PR department could come up with something about "trying to keep costs competitive for our customers" or something like that.

Keeping pricing competitive and staying profitable are both things that a business has to do when it doesn't have a monopoly (or oligopoly). It can't stay profitable for long while losing customers, and it can't keep customers w/o having competitive pricing (or quality). It's a tight rope to walk. Which of these they talk about will depend on what audience they are talking to.
FWIW, I find current gen (starting with 8th) HP EliteBooks decent enough. They work perfectly in Linux (actually better than Windows, since for a while some bits weren't recognized...). They're quiet unless I'm compiling something (if I don't use Windows, which for some reasons gets the fan spinning even when it's supposed to be asleep). The trackpad is good, even though it's worse than my 2013 MBP's. The main issue I have with them is the absurdly bad displays. Even the top-of-the-line display is ridiculously bad.
Now wait for the same PM to go work on vscode and github.

"We see .idea files in your repository, do you know that VSCode can make your hair grow again"

"You are running Linux, but have you tried Linux in Windows with WSL2, free 30 days license by clicking here"
"GoG" what is that?

> Unfortunately Linux is still far from ready.

Depends on person. I use it for over decade, exclusively for few years since my Windows install bricked itself and recovery partition few years ago (and I discovered that I have no idea how I should reinstall Windows)
I use cloudflare and it works for me.

It’s more likely op is using pihole or something like that.
NVIDIA already ostensibly open-sourced their driver for GeForce RTX 20-series and newer.

Yes, they shoved all the important bits in the firmware, but this still could make for a much more stable Linux module, if NVIDIA actually respects license/code boundaries.
We'll see where the dust settles but I'm kind of shocked that so many people seem to think that using wizardlm without attribution would be fine if they did. Before getting to that though - seriously why are people fighting over twitter? In public? What is this nonsense? Just email them privately.

If they did use their work without citation - that's plagarism. That'll get you fired. Your career will be over. If you pull that sort of stunt on a publication and you're caught, maybe you'll get away with it. But many places have very strict zero tolerance policies for that sort of academic dishonestly and will expel/fire you. You're more likely to end up with your life ruined for plagarism and dishonesty like this than fraudulent data because you can claim bad data is a mistake, while if you actively take credit for someone else's work, yeesh. Don't mess with plagarism. Cite your sources and give credit for ideas. Scientific fraud doesn't have a clear tangible 'victim' to center the story around but plagarism does and the person you ripped off is motivated to achieve justice. Like stealing from the poor vs the rich.
It's not about individual cases, it's about the aggregate effect of the rules governing the process. Making it easier to convict people (by lowering or shifting the burden of proof, weakening procedural protections for the accused etc) will result in more guilty people being convicted, but it will also result in more innocent people being convicted. And making it more difficult to convict has the opposite effect.

It's not like the only two possible outcomes of a criminal investigation are that a guilty person gets convicted or an innocent person gets convicted. You can also convict both (eg, if there is evidence that multiple people were involved), or neither.
In the Lua world, there's a project, Pallene[1], that aims to solve this problem in paricular[2].

[1]: https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene

[2]: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/pallene-sblp.pdf
I had to make an account just to come in here to tell you you are not correct.

Copyright is held automatically by the person who produces the work unless otherwise specified in a contract or agreement. I am a commission artist, and I retain all copyright to all of my work, per my terms of service, unless otherwise sold via agreement, and I charge extra for copyright.

Someone can't commission me to paint something, and then turn around and sell prints of it themselves. I still did the work, and they need my approval before they can legally make money off of it.

The reason why AI art is so devisive right now is because thousands of artists have had their work scraped and the AI trained on their work without their permission or compensation, and unlike a human who looks at other art for reference or inspiration, an AI can look at a dataset and pump out thousands of similar images in a very tiny amount of time.

If the AI author or the user generating the image owns copyright, you can kiss artists selling their own work goodbye. The space will be flooded with "AI artists" who create work at a far faster pace than anything a real artist can create, for a fraction of the cost. The people who train AI on this art are profiteering off of the hard work of the people who spent years of their lives developing a skill.
You're making the assumption that our universe 1) is the universe, 2) is as computationally complex as the universe, 3) that all, or any, of our universe exists outside of simulated minds, or a simulated mind, 4) that time passes and that we exist as more than a single moment with memories of a non-existent past.

In other words, we have no basis for saying our universe exists, that we have physical existence, that anyone but ourselves exist, or that we exists in time.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101#:~:text=a%20%...

If an employee makes something at work, the employer is legally the creator of it.

If someone contracts someone else to make something for him, the copyright in the work vests in the hiring party essentially when it's part of a larger work and the contract says it's a work for hire. A one-off commission on its own does vest in the artist.

(Disclaimer: I'm a lawyer, but I'm not your lawyer.)
That's only for a small subset of their more recent GPUs, as you can see here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules#compatible...

Also it's not the same codebase as their proprietary driver, it is inferior in performance for desktop/gaming users. So it is not really a complete alternative yet.
This isn’t true; it’s entirely based on the contract. E.g. I believe wedding photographers usually make contracts to retain all copyrights. They either sell the couple prints of particular photos, or sell them a license to make more copies (which will cost more than the typical photo order).
But this is the mitigations I am asking in terms of risk management. Perhaps people using the app can comment if any of this is already implemented?
This is an extreme and poignant caricature of the labor market in general as vast numbers of people experience it. Not to minimize what's happening here: extreme financial pressure with very high stakes is not rare. It's disturbing to see the extremes because there's no hard line between normal labor and this, it's really a continuum.

Aside from enforcement and regulation, what really prevents these exploitative forms of labor from spreading?
I would think that the market would also adjust towards building more hurricane resistant housing like earthquake proof buildings in San Francisco and Tokyo
This is a Jitsi instance hosted by Brave, right?
It is always the same argument: things are not perfect, ok, but what we replace it with? Noone know, so we keep the thing going.

I think this is what the parent commenter had in mind - we are just incapable of solving this problem, doesn't matter how we put it. Our climate will be gone and as a skeptic I would only ask: will we manage a slow degrowth or have a rapid system collapse?
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The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
Very interesting. Seems like that works much better as the power demand per house in the EU is lower, and the higher voltage gives you a bit more leeway. Frankly, I would be concerned about voltage drop for the far houses... even 400V is going to have some pretty beefy voltage drop under load unless the conductors are enormous.
>Are there any secrets from, say, 50 years ago still hidden?

Who killed JFK? Just because it's a secret in that we don't know the exact answer doesn't mean that the question is secret and not known
Why should we buy them out? Nobody forced them to buy beachfront property in the first place. If the property ends up being abandoned, it's abandoned, and the owner should lose their investment.

You're acting like a buyout is inevitable when it's not. The last thing we should do as a society is a multi-hundred-billion / trillion dollar buyout of beachfront hotels and luxury property.
There is still no replacement for CUDA. ROCm is a compatibility joke, Vulkan is too insanely low-level, OpenCL runs way too slow. Compute shaders are technically fine but bring flashbacks to 2006. Metal is a good alternative but only offered on systems without discrete GPUs! so we’re running CUDA for the next five years. In a conflict between Linux and Nvidia, in the HPC or AI spaces, Nvidia wins.
From the context, I suspect they meant “And then it is fine if they offer a cash discount” (but you have to give the full price for non-cash customers as the default).
My view is that if AI is trained on public data and it doesn't need to pay royalties for it, then it doesn't make sense that the public should pay royalties to use the AI's output.

If AI companies paid royalties for their entire training set, then it would be a different situation.

But given that it may be infeasible to prove or disprove whether or not AI was trained on public data, we should err on the side of caution and not allow the companies which build/operate AI to have copyrights over its output.

A case could be made that most work which humans produce is itself derivative of various public works and therefore the AI is not so different from humans and therefore it should be given copyrights... But I think the key difference is that the AI is not human, there are 'human rights' but there are no 'AI rights' or 'machine rights'... Until an AI can prove that it has agency and that it works for its own interests and not for a third party, it should not have any rights.
While I agree there is a bit of difference, it's somewhat inconsequential to the end user having their preferences respected:

* Microsoft: we will let you set a preference, but we will ignore/reset it

* Apple: we won't let you set a preference at all

If someone wanted to say "Microsoft and Apple don't care about your preferences, but Microsoft is slightly worse", I think that'd be a fair thing to say.

Agreed that apple's is a lack of a feature, BUT if you look at the features which apple does support, it feels closer to they don't want to add it for anti-competitve reasons, and not a technical/implementation reason

* ios apps can be deep linked via "apple-app-site-association"

* ios apps can have custom url schemes "comgooglemaps://?parameters"

* android has had "intents" for a very long time

* ios sms is already detecting "this is an address" from free text and is hot linking it to their maps app
I would not recommend Tox anymore, as it is unmaintained - https://lists.tox.chat/pipermail/support/2023-August/000340....

It was a decent piece of tech, though!
It is not odd. It is lobbying - have the government force people to pay you. In the case of autos, they're dangerous and deadly. Too many people should not be allowed to drive. But due to other lobbying, public transit is unavailable in the US, so you must drive in order to have a job, or reach grocery stores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
car-tel: Noun. An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
I'd like to express my shock at reading something so uninformed and poorly thought out in a place like HN.

HN goes through its phases; just as the moon waxes and wanes, but this anti-AI, primitivist phase is quite annoying.

If you do not seek progress for humanity and the construction of things that are more meaningful. If you do not have the hacker spirit and want to explore. If you don't want to create just to see what could be... Maybe you're in the wrong place.

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And make no mistake, this is poorly thought out.

This technology is never going away. Trying to ban generative AI is an attempt in banning math. Far more powerful people have tried for far more compelling reasons to do the same for a very long time. And when all was said and done, their crusade came undone.

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The anti-AI arguments quickly crumble when you start asking questions like,

What was the state of artists before this? Did all artists enjoy a high standard of life in every part of the world? Or, were they barely scraping by on Fiverr?

In a world where copyright is required to train generative AI, who will be the only ones who could train any meaningful system?

What happens if we forbid people from learning and building on art that is already copyrighted?

What happens when people can copyright style? If only one band owned the copyright on Grunge and that whole Nirvana thing was just a non-starter?

What happens if non-human entities (like a LLC or S-corp) can't meaningfully participate in artistic creation?

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Based on how the law currently stands, it is the EFF's estimate that there is no way to modify the law to forbid a system from learning and creating derivative works without opening a can of worms and impacting human creativity.

Fundamentally, the point of creative culture is that we add onto each other and that we stand on the shoulders of giants. An artist doesn't have to figure out how to draw in perspective because all the clever people before us have already thought it through for us. An artist doesn't have to figure out how to soften light, because others have done it before.

All culture is fundamentally additive and intellectual property is an artificial restriction that has caused broader cultural stagnation by making sure that nothing comes into the public realm for a hundred years.

The primitivists want to give this system even more power so that now you can't even see the works and be inspired from them. That's a take that's antithetical to HN's ideas of intellectual curiosity.

The EFF's take,

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-cop...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/ai-art-generators-and-...