skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great write up and very very true. The MUD I staff has a running joke (but also not a joke) that the first one of us to win the lottery will just pay everyone to admin it.
Wrong. Lotus 1-2-3 was launched at the beginning of 1983. They spent a million dollars on their launch, which told all the VC's that software was going to be a big business.

Ashton-Tate was large. Software Publishing (PFS: File) was large. Word Perfect was large.
Use Podman then. Now its just a command again.
We have built something very similar to what you are describing: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko
I’ve seen these types, and their cousins at Accenture, etc move into non-tech sectors as CIOs, CTOs and other leadership positions only to wreck the place in 2-3 years. They’ll quickly fill the upper ranks with their kind and before you know it everyone is fighting for rank, scope, and head count. No one is competent enough to lead large scale technical projects or transformations; technical capabilities will erode and then frozen as operations are outsourced.
I'd say their plan is to build a lot of houses of varying sizes and styles. Most of the other methods you'd typically use to address homelessness (safety nets, mental health funding, drugs legalisation/treatment and the like) are broader issues.
The not wanting to work alone for a year to bootstrap makes me want to find about $600k so I can pay a designer and two other devs to work on the software with me for 12-18 months.

Find a designer and two other devs to act as cofounders instead of employees. Pay them in equity. Find an accelerator and/or grant or work from someone's garage or basement or what have you.
Awesome. Thanks. Will tinker.
But you weren't receiving profit from your works originally? So therefore, why does it matter what someone else was doing?
Delhi Metro records highest ridership at 6.8M per day
Strongly agree. There's a big knowledge gap between the container author and the container consumer that Docker doesn't have a great toolkit for bridging. The best we get are the ENV, EXPOSE, and VOLUME directives, but authors should really have tools to say:

- what filepaths are important (both for volume-mounting and for files output by the container)

- what envvars (or CMD, or ENTRYPOINT) are needed

- what ports will be opened, and what they mean

- what protocols the ports talk

...etc. I'd really like containers to one day behave like software libraries: you pass in a set of documented parameters, and get an object that you can pass around and use in return.
This seems like a good way to burn out while making no money.
The analogy doesn't hold when you consider the sheer scale of the problem.

I can outright buy a machine for a few thousand dollars that can crank out a faithful rewrite of every Stephen King novel without the shitty endings and nonsense plot points. It can do it in a few days, maybe a couple of weeks at most.

To do that with human labor would take years and cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.

Instead of paying an artist a couple hundred for a commissioned drawing, I can just scrape up their entire portfolio and generate any image I want with their style. I can generate hundreds or thousands of images. I can take their distinct style and use it exclusively as the branding for my company.

What a ML model does is very fundamental not what happens when a human draws inspiration from prior art. A human would require an extremely significant amount of time and resources to perfectly imitate every artist they have ever seen. It takes a human significant time and resources to produce faithful variations on prior art.

A ML model is measured in words or images per second.
Replying to myself...

There's a real "No True Scotsman" problem here. Or like the legal fiction of the "Rational Person". We have the "Average Safe Driver".

After you've removed all these drivers:

- young and stupid drivers
- drugged/criminal/etc drivers
- tired/emotional drivers
- old/disabled drivers
- meek/scared drivers
- distracted drivers
- aggressive drivers
- tailgaters
- speeders
- road ragers
- left lane drama queens of both persuasions

Is anyone actually left?
the entire idea of having a "allow" list is itself exclusionary and divisive. why are some clients allowed and some are not?
</sarc>
ToastStunt is an actively developed fork of Stunt which is a fork of LambdaMOO. It's extended a lot of what LambdaMOO offered via patches, as well as adding a lot of new and much needed stuff. Active Discord community as well. And several large MOOs are running it instead of LambdaMOO these days.

https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt
Thank you. While they're familiar, I couldn't figure out where to go to see these cuboid icon variants. Spent a few minutes clicking around the Console and the AWS web site / marketing pages, and didn't encounter a single one. When I think AWS icons, I only know the AWS Console favicons and thumbnails in Console search results.

I was perplexed when it offered ELB as an answer when I've only known ELB to exist within EC2 and share its icon.
If people wanted to use Usenet for text then a service that didn’t offer binary groups should not have been a problem for people, right?

It seems rather that the value of the text groups was not high enough to get people to pay ~ anything as we scaled the internet and other text forums became widely available.

Text is ~ free. People typing at 180wpm only generate ~120bps of uncompressed text. A song is 2000x that, a video 10-100k x that. It seems like a model w paid barriers to entry to text forums is just not viable compared to free-to-the-user forums, or at least weren’t competitive when that ad-based model began.

I think it would be good for an open standard for text existed and was widely used, and didn’t rely on ads. But I don’t really see how logically one can blame the binaries for killing the text side of usenet. If people wanted to pay for text, they would have kept doing it. But as we’ve seen over the last 20 years, that business model has not generally worked.
Because driving here sucks
OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle
Love me some good satire.

I don't work with AWS a lot but I thought I could probably score a few points by following their rules for their color coding: orange for compute services, blue for DB related, green for other service management related and red for storage.

I got 6.

Why tf is Route 53 the same colour as compute services?
> Once there are millions of images, you end up with just tiny blobs of pixels being copied from many different images.

This is not how these neural nets work. They don't copy pixels from anywhere. They learn features.

The features represented internally are generally not easy to interpret to humans, but for sake of illustration, there could be an artificial neuron that fires when a subject should have blue eyes. Having a lot of blue eyes in the training data would help this neuron learn better when to fire (based on the values of other neurons, which may in turn represent other features). For example, it may learn to place more importance on an input that represents pale skin or Nordic origin.

It can learn concepts like cars have wheels, and wheels are round, etc. And then when you ask it to draw a car, it composes one from the concepts it learned. Some parts of the network will deal with the fine details that more directly influence pixels, but these aren't copying pixels from any image either. They're weighing a bunch of factors (eg is this pixel part of the iris and did the network decide to make a person with blue eyes?) and choosing pixel colors based on those factors.
NIST wrote an extensive report.
Protobuf/ Thrift turn modules into basically legos by abstracting away the infra between functions to just data.
Phrases like "transformative way" are meaningless woospeak to me. Everything is a transformation. Sulpose I run a linear convolution on ten images and average them. Is the result "new"? Does it not contain the original images? Subspaces and mappings don't create anything "new" any more than SVD does. This is just playing digital Ship of Thesius.
> 1. Sure, but verifying a spec is still much easier than verifying a whole proof (as we traditionally do).

I agree.

In the Metamath community, we also check all proofs with a collection of verifiers written by different people in different languages, all based on a very small kernel. That provides extremely high confidence in its correctness.
In case of the straws where people tried doing something that something is worth very little. You don't solve the tragedy of the commons by shaming people to fish less.
Finally, a use for the $700K burning a hole in my pocket.
how do you violate the TOS on accident? are you alleging that multi-accounting results in a fingerprinting ban? because that isn’t the case. you’ve given plenty of indication and hinted you were actually banned for something else - if you got a ban and then attempted to circumvent it, that’s a very obvious site-ban on any site that’s run remotely sensibly and your grievance is pretty silly.
I liked this video I recent watched, which covered the history of this, centered on Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLVO46FQX0
> They're busy thinking about much more important things.

Generally I agree (because the content of modern mathematics is largely abstract), but to nitpick a bit, number theory is part of mathematics too!

Ramanujan and Euler, for example, certainly cared a lot about 'arithmetic', and historically, many parts of mathematics have been just as 'empirical' in terms of calculating things as they've been based on abstract proof.
What does any of this have to do with creating a new expression?
Is anyone here worried about pouring hot water into Aeropress plastic? I know it's polypropylene, which is BPA-Free but could there be things that we haven't properly researched yet?
You think that, given a robot, it’s more dystopian to have it care for someone, vs kill them? Weird.
Essays are often about organizing other's thoughts, from references and other source material, and your own thesis based on that.

Organizing and arguing your own thought would be a good test. I think an assisting tool could still be reasonable - choosing between different organizations. Though it's unclear how to assess for original thought - the only such "essays" I know of are PhD theses.

People said similar about log tables and slide rules. And they were right - something was lost (e.g. the sense of nearby solutions). Yet here we are.
I'm so torn. On one hand, what you suggest seems to be a nearly ideal balance between advancing scientific progress and legal liability. By placing the legal burden to publish generated works on the person actually trying to publish, it allows for a more nuanced legal approach (i.e. the difference between "there are similarities to this work, but it's murky" or "you %100 stole that work").

On the other hand, is the company running the model themselves not already publishing all of that work and profiting from it? It seems unfair that their bottom line gets to be bolstered because they can produce work based on any artist, whereas the consumers of that work may need to end up walking on egg shells in order to publish them.

Like I said, I'm torn as far as how it "should be". I know how I want it to be though. I would love if AI continued training unabated. The results have been amazing, and I believe it would be a shame if the effort was slowed down by legislation.
Trying, though it's hard to get noticed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346620 And I want to participate in the community here, not merely mention the thing I've built.
300k ARR is not much but also extremely difficult if you have never done it before.
Set theory is pretty much the same: "inaccessible cardinals" are conceptually very similar to universes in type theory.
so we human beings just spent 1.5x of the age of the universe fighting covid-19. sad!
I wonder if YC would fund it. They fund a lot of things that don’t look unicorny (at least to my untrained eyes!)

That said it is not a business if you get to $300k ARR when you need that staffing level. Can it get to $1m?
Yes - see the back and forth between Washington state and the Feds over the past year+. Would it happen immediately? No, but the goal has been stated and studies begun. It's even a part of the official party platform of the Washington State Democrats (much to the chagrin of those of us over here in Eastern Washington )
Seems Cloudflare-related, though it's been persistent for weeks, going on a month:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>
I find it a bit of a weird comment. As my city (outside the US) releases land bordering the outskirts of the suburbs for housing development, no one says "What's their plan for unsheltered folks?"

They're releasing land for developers to increase housing stock and hopefully improve housing affordability. Creating shelters. That's reasonable and realistic behaviour. They mention potential schemes for residents becoming home owners (rent to own, something like NRAS in Australia, etc).

Maybe there's an opportunity for charities or government entities to speak with them about a mix of affordable stock, but usually that's done as a trade off for concessions. And not going to appear in the first brochureware site.
Do you run an IDE inside the guest or the host (through something like VS Code Remote)?

Keeping the IDE inside the VM would feel more appropriate for your isolation, but would be a continual source of friction to keep IDE plugins/settings/tools in sync. Using a remote development workflow feels like it would eliminate many isolation guarantees.

What does your VM provisioning setup look like?
Solar noon or clock noon? What happens if the full moon is on Tuesday? Will that Tuesday count towards the third? Even if the full moon is at 23:59 (23:59 in which timezone)? Do you use solar equinox, or the Julian equinox, or the Gregorian equinox?

I think you need to be more specific here.
Alrighty. Best of luck.
The usual workaround, as I've discussed with you in comments and via email, is far less tractable and has been for weeks:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37148681>
That feature comes from emacs; hit ctrl-y to get ("yank") the last thing you copied, hit alt-y to get the previous thing you copied, and keep hitting alt-y in succession to cycle through the clipboard, which is called the "kill ring" in emacs.

I don't know if vim itself supports that feature, let alone vi mode on the command line. "Real" vim supports adding text to registers - does vi mode support it?
> Copyright, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, exists "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"[1]. I can think of no better modern example of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" than AI models themselves.

This makes no sense. Before AI, it’s clear that copyright itself restricts what can be done, in order to promote overall health of innovation. You can’t just say this is cool so therefore allowed, then there would never have been any copyright in the first place. You have to argue that the overall result will be better given the rules you propose.

Now, I’m no fan of copyright, but it is abundantly clear that the tech companies are able to capitalize on new tech disproportionately. Thus, it’s a transfer of privilege from the very many designers, artists, musicians, authors etc to whomever will dominate AI. That’s not good, simply because of the centralization.

Moreover, you can’t just look at the short term gains of AI models that can be produced with existing content. You need to include the change in incentives, when creators financial prospects are even more minuscule than today. Even if AI is all that matters, they still need training data, and that needs to come from somewhere.
Except I’m not imparting some snowbro knowledge. I’m asking if they had indeed, thought about that approach because odds are, we’ll be asked about it. I’m trying to either see if you, indeed looked at all the options and carved the gnarly path forward through it, or didn’t know this other way existed and you could use some of that knowledge to improve your solution. I do know, without a shadow of a doubt, that the VPs will ask - “What about X?” because some vendor is in their ear.
Is it your experience that people's facial declarations cary the day in legal disputes? It's not mine. Rather, it seems like the whole thing is designed to provide scrutiny against bare facial declarations that something is true or false.

I see this on HN all the time "someone just has to claim" "someone just has to say". Yeah... that's not how it works. People can say whatever they want, that doesn't mean it satisfied their burden of proof. Self serving testimony is the lowest form of evidence imaginable.
Yes it's a bold claim philosophically. How would you justify it?

No, flat earth "theory", if you can call it that, has close to zero supporting evidence and AFAIK has no actual predictive power. Stick with consensus science if you want actually useful theories, but that is very different from claiming they are giving you objective truth.

Let me ask you this, when a theory that was previously accepted as consensus science loses support in light of new evidence and gets supplanted by a new and better theory, does that mean that the objective truth changed?
In fairness, it's doubtful that either Go's or Rust's time-handling facilities would implement support for an email auth header.
It’s compression + filtering. Nothing generative. Its output is like 99.99 % deterministic.
If you really want to build a company that sells "boring business software" you'd better to be an excellent saleman already.

So apply your salemanship to the investors.
What makes anything new? Is anything created by "AI" actually new? How much entropy is in a prompt vs in the output?
Now I'm wondering if anyone's making some money selling re-badging kits for these famously stealable cars. Like, to make it look like a citroen or something. I'd assume it'd be more useful than an aftermarket immobilizer, since the car's already busted by the time that's discovered.
Was there ever a hooters in SLU? I only remember the Red Robin, as a seattlite, I didn’t even see a Hooters until I did an internship in Florida in 1995.
What's the argument against the seemingly obvious possibility of instead of it being a bottleneck, it was the result of a dominant group? So for the contemporary example, something like 8% of Asian men are related to Genghis Khan [1]. And that's in a very recent time frame, and in a world that was already much more spread out than the ones in the distant past.

It seems that if there was a group that was particularly dominant (killing competitors, spreading their own genes far and wide), as were their offspring and so on, then it could easily lead to a scenario that would look like a bottleneck due to a surge of a very limited number of individuals taking over a disproportionate dominance of the human gene pool. It seems this would look near identical to a bottleneck, even if it wasn't.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_descendants_of_Geng...
If the new code is almost identical to the original code, then it is very much subject to copyright, or at the very least is grounds for a lawsuit. And generetive AIs can and do generate output extremely similar to some of its inputs if given the right prompt.

My personal opinion is that training a model isn't infringing the copyright. But generating outputs can, if they are sufficiently similar. And since the model itself can't be liable for such infringing works, I think the creator of the model should be responsible.
They are usually investing in the SP500 or real estate :-)
> without the need for KYC, while also providing an efficient off-ramp to USD for our own needs.

Until regulations require KYC for these sort of transactions and then Kagi will need to collect data defeating the point of this.

Why do we still bother with crypto when close to nobody uses it for any legitimate purpose?
I love porting my garden to native plants and just found out it'll be featured in next year's natives garden tour next year: https://www.bringingbackthenatives.net/

If you're in bay area, it's a great way to get ideas for native gardens. It is so fun to watch the pollinators flock to our flowers. Plant native!
That just means some judges got it wrong and congress really wanted to make sure others didn't. I'm not sure what proposition that stands for here, except that sometimes new things are hard to get right at first.
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If you don't need to access `docker` command from Windows, just install docker using the same way you would install docker on a regular Linux in WSL2. (e.g. sudo apt install docker-ce, curl https://get.docker.sh/)
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it doesn't. the faucet of these types of tanks is just a pipe opening and has laminar flow. it doesn't exit the normal sink faucet (which will have an aerator).
> I used words very carefully.

Then I am happy to use your word if that clarifies things.

Just replace everything that I said about "human input" with "human authorship".

And my point is that there are many things that a human can do using AI art that have large amounts of "human authorship" beyond just the boring case of prompting midjourney with a dumb prompt.

> It depends on the level of human authorship.

Oh hey! Yes that is exactly my point.

That point being that just like Photoshop images are copyrightable, because there is human authorship, so can AI art, if there is human authorship.

Glad you agree.

> thats directed by a human closely

Ok! You agree with me then! That's my point!

My point is that AI art can be directed by a human closely and that there is so much more than can be done than a simple prompt into mid journey.

You agree with my central point.

> If you remove large parts of the image with the ai erase fill, then you've given up authorship

Not if you "direct it closely"! Then it's protected.

> how much authorship is the human having

That's is exactly what I am talking about though, that I have said multiple times.

That there are lots of things that a human can do, related to AI art that are directed closely, and that these things are authorship.

But I am glad that you agree with me that if it is directed closely then it is protected, which was my point and that you can do this with AI.
A clear attempt to make a tool safer just made it far less of a tool.

I much prefer my AI tools follow the UNIX way.

Powerful tools. You can damn near do magic, or create a horrible mess.

Everyone makes the mess a time or two and then we grow up just fine, capable valuable.

Good grief!
> ISO 8601 uses a hyphen character (in Unicode, U+2010 HYPHEN "‐") and minus character (in Unicode, U+2212 MINUS "−").
When using character sets which don't have these characters a hyphen-minus character (in Unicode, U+2D HYPHEN-MINUS "-") should be used instead.

This is incorrect. What ISO 8601 actually specifies is that, if the target character set is based on ISO/IEC 646 (which definitely includes Unicode), then a hyphen-minus character should be used for both cases. There is a slight ambiguity here (e.g. what if some charset contains most but not all characters in 646?) but in the case of Unicode the interpretation is clear. I believe this is a roundabout way to specify the canonical mapping for 646 and guarantee the compatibility with other charsets based on 646.
How fast could a 6 legged cheetah run?
This feels like it might be similar to the difference between PYREX and pyrex [1]

[1] https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...
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Can a small, cheap, drone following modern fighter jet? If these drones are to be a companion to a fighter jets, I would think that they must be able to match speed and range, in order to be useful.
You’ll probably spend more time pitching and entertaining investors then just coding the mvp and start selling.