skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But where should that exist on the spectrum of copyrightability vs painting with a physical brush? I don’t think we can just handwave AI generated art away but isnt your contribution a lot less than painting?
> There is still a replay possibility with DKIM even if limited to replaying the exact same message

If DKIM signs both the Date: and Message-ID: headers, can you really call it a replay attack?
> how do you prove you wrote a particular novel?

The forensics for that are easy.

The forensics here are hard: how does a plaintiff in the USA prove that an AI, and not a person, wrote a novel, when the authors live in China?
The sine qua non of corporations is compelled speech. A corporation can't exist without articles of incorporation / corporate charter and it needs written policies for basically everything it does to keep the corporate veil intact.
Basically every decent test framework has a concept of test suites which can be used for this purpose.
>Do you really want the government controlling how you access information?

You've already given that power to corporations, and corporations have far fewer regulations on actually performing said control (as in they are able to control you far more).

You are so deep into Reganomics "government is bad, corporations are good" that you don't realize these large (near) monopoly status corporations are effectively their own governments in amount of power and control they have.
It won't fix anything. JSON is the "standard" today, 15 years ago it was XML and in 15 years we will have protobuf or another new standard.
Fair. I was talking about doctors denying the existence of CFS, but that wasn't the topic, was it?
Note that 8 times more massive doesn’t mean it has 8 times surface g, unless it’s exactly the same radius as the Earth. If the planet is larger you’re further away from the center of gravity.

For example, the Earth is 10 times more massive than Mars, but only has 2.6 times surface g.
Funnily enough people on the right are largely immune to cancel culture because they have their own support structures.

Meanwhile innocent people on the left get their lives ruined by cancel culture twitter zombies that think harassing and stalking people makes them righteous. And just the usual, people who want to be assholes and just pick the 'socially acceptable' way to hurt other people. "The Left" is extremely cannibalistic among those who subscribe to a central "Left" dogma.
That's like saying that because one browser tab tried to parse some invalid JSON then my whole browser should crash.
I seem to remember another problem at NATS which had the same effect. Primary fell over so they switched over to a secondary that fell over for the exact same reason.

It seems like you should only failover if you know the problem is with the primary and not with the software itself. Failing over "just because" just reinforces the idea that they didn't have enough information exposed to really know what to do.

The bit that makes me feel a bit sick though is that they didn't have a method called "ValidateFlightPlan" that throws an error if for any reason it couldn't be parsed and that error could be handled in a really simple way. What programmer would look at a processor of external input and not think, "what do we do with bad input that makes it fall over?". I did something today for a simple message prompt since I can't guarantee that in all scenarios the data I need will be present/correct. Try/catch and a simple message to the user "Data could not be processed".
The Discovery of Copper
Having worked in IoT since before it was called that, I was very happy to see physical SIMs get retired because that's one less potential point of failure.

It's not fun to have a card or socket fail on a device that is somewhere on the opposite side of the planet.
Are the economics actually better, or do they look better due to a lack of quality control? Because no TTS - even the most current AI ones - are perfect. They need corrections, which involves a human's time. And it's time that dictates prices, not skill (which largely reduces time).
There are already standards like XML and RDF Turtle that allow you to clearly communicate vocabulary, such that a property 'iso3779:vin' (shorthand for a made-up URI 'https://ns.iso.org/standard/52200#vin') is interpreted in the same way anywhere in the structures and across API endpoints across companies (unlike JSON, where you need to fight both the existence of multiple labels like 'vin', 'vin_no', 'vinNumber', as well as the fact that the meaning of a property is strongly connected to its place in the JSON tree). The problem is that the added burden is not respected at the small scale and once large scale is reached, the switching costs are too big. And that XML is not cool, naturally.

On top of that, RDF Turtle is the only widely used standard graph data format (as opposed to tree-based formats like JSON and XML). This allows you to reduce the hoop jumping when consuming responses from multiple APIs as graph union is a trivial operation, while n-way tree merging is not.

Finally, RDF Turtle promotes use of URIs as primary identifiers (the ones exposed to the API consumers) instead of primary keys, bespoke tokens, or UUIDs. Followig this rule makes all identifiers globally unique and dereferenceable (ie, the ID contains the necessary information on how to fetch the resource identified by a given ID).

P.S.: The problem at hand was caused by the algorithm that was processing the parsed data, not with the parsing per se. The only improvement a better data format like RDF Turtle would bring is that two different waypoints with the same label would have two different URI identifiers.
To be a smartass weren't the 12 hour days also the norm in agriculture? Working sun up to sunset as a norm.
I agree, both those libraries just have bad api conventions leading to user errors. They've just become so pervasive now that bad habits have become the standard convention in those spaces.
If the autocompleted part were copyrighted, why would you be able to use it freely? What claim to you have to authorship?

Did you, perhaps, write the stuff that the autocomplete used as context to give you a selection of choices to make about what to put there? Because that still sounds like a human making choices about things to me.

This is a vaguely recognizable metaphor for prompt engineering, but I think you're orders of magnitude off in estimating the ratio of human choice to computer extrapolation. Sure, a compiler or something maybe is a better metaphor, but even then the concept, the source material is generated by a human.

You could say that a prompt is source material and the generator is just a compiler analogy, but I think they made the only choice they could here. Otherwise you can use a generator to make literally a billion images, copyright them all (including aspects you did not make a choice to add, like details on people in the background there), and control art for the rest of time.
Ahh, yes indeed.
Please don't do tit-for-tat flamewars on HN. It's against the site guidelines and makes for tedious reading. If someone else is stubbornly wrong, usually the best thing to do is just move on to something more interesting. Trying to win an argument or have the last word is not a curiosity-driven activity and the latter is what we want here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I wish more designers would read the section on color: https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/color/overvie...

Especially the sections on contrast and accessibility. The current trends for shades of gray/off white everywhere often make pages disturbingly hard to decipher.
First time I've come across the term "hyperpalatable"; I guess it's the same as what's referred to in the UK as "ultraprocessed".

Ultraprocessed food doesn't appear to be much to do with the ingredients; it appears to have a lot to do with activities like extrusion, and the use of certain additives, most of which are harmless, as far as I can see (exception for HFCS). Apparently a hamburger and chips is considered "ultraprocessed"; I can see very little about that meal that's different from ordinary homemade food.

The bun might use the kind of strange chemicals that make most white bread cotton-wooly, and the chips might use some shifty trans-fat, although I think trans-fats are now mostly banned.

FWIW, I buy premium hamburgers made from minced steak, no cheese, one pattie. I could make the same thing at home, using steak from the butcher, if I had a meat-mincer. The fact that I buy it takeaway doesn't make it more harmful than homemade food.
True. Memory bandwidth may be the most limiting factor.
My front-loading Whirlpool has a delay start and I wish it had delay end instead! I end up pessimistically delaying it less than the ideal amount just to make sure it finishes by the time I’m up in the morning.

The only appliance I have with a “delay end” or “schedule end” feature is my Zojirushi rice cooker (and ironically I never use the timer feature there).
I've had brief glimpses at these systems, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it took more a year for a simple feature like this to be implemented. These systems look like decades of legacy code duct-taped together.
I'm somewhat curious about the legal status of publicly using / exhibiting and/or selling uncopyrightable media, such as AI generated imagery and video. If it is uncopyrightable, is it also a free for all - as in once publicly exhibited it is "free media" anyone can take and remix?

What about AI generated media that includes / incorporates copyrighted elements, but used the legal loophole of parody? As parody, anyone can include copyright protected elements of others in their original works under US copyright law because satire is protected speech.

If someone were to create a "satire AI" does that completely break copyright law?
Bugs happen. Fact of being written by fleshy meatballs.
What should also have been highlighted is that they clearly had no easy way of finding the specific buggy input in the logs nor simulating it without contacting the manufacturer.
If I have a burning thought about something work related, I'll send myself an email to review the next working day.
> The twitter files turned out to be a kind of huge exaggeration.

"Twitter Files" was hyped as ushering an new era of radical transparency on Twitter moderation. If you take that on face value, it is ironic Twitter is now refusing to be transparent about reporting its moderation (or lack thereof).

If you do not take it on face value, then it appears to have been a score-settling exercise motivated by animus against the previous management.
Wow!

Thank you.
> I think it's actually pretty damn easy to define "enough" precisely. If the AI + human generated image cannot be easily recreated by AI, than it's enough.

Would you be on-board with the inverse of this?

You cannot copyright what cannot be generated by a human.
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash (2020)
For low-level (i.e., trees-not-forest) visuals - e.g., where the user can see a block or two from street level - why not use real cities? Don't identify the place, change the names, remove anything especially identifiable (e.g., Eiffel Tower in background), and nobody will know. Someone who lives on that block might find a cool Easter Egg for themselves.
Mental and physical aren't separate. Your brain is part of your body.
This seems like a misunderstanding of the argument. It has nothing to do with inputs, it has to do with the creative process of making of content. It doesn't have to with the method but the creative input and making of content.

Example used above: I tell an artist to make me a picture of a dog. They created the image, and they own the copyright. They would have to give the copyright to me, I do not own it merely because I made the request.
Dentists rotted the teeth of mentally handicapped to study candy's effect
About the Vipeholm experiments at a Swedish institution for the mentally ill.
Yes you are right it does. Namely the twitter files! Having this argument after all of the revelations in the twitter files is down right hilarious.
> why not put the good stuff in them?

Because the good stuff may cost more than the 'placebo', and given each pod can cost 10-30¢ each, small amounts matter in terms of margin.
Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at X
A lot of it is, but the point remains no matter where you set t he bar, you can usually get most of the benefit with a tiny portion of the code. Sometimes squeezing out a tiny bit more performance isn't worth much, sometimes it's worth 10x or 100x the amount of code - the point is not that it's inherently wrong to write all that extra code.

But you should at least be aware when the returns are diminishing to a point where the payoff becomes uncertain.
Upbound Introduces Spaces for Enhanced Cloud Control Plane Management
EDIT: I replied to this before refreshing and seeing sibling replies. So I guess all I have to add is another link.

On the contrary, Section 230 is what allows platforms to make some editorial decisions without thereby assuming liability for all user-generated content.

Before 230, what you said was true.

I like this explanation:
https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
How is that not entrapment?
>IMO this doesn’t seem disrespectful, more like an attempt at authenticity. For those who used computers at that time, it will remind them of what it was like, and for younger people, it helps communicate the era (before you were born, but post-GUI) that 9/11 happened in.

I mostly agree with you. However, I visited Las Vegas and stayed at the New York, New York casino hotel a few months after the towers came down and noted the "memorials" people put up on the outside of the casino. Which, as a native NYer who worked across the street from the WTC (and walked through it pretty much every work day for many years beyond that) for more than three years, really pissed me off even though I realized that people wanted to show their support -- I found it a disgusting display.

I still live in NYC and to this day I avoid the area around ground zero whenever I can. Not because I'm afraid, but because it's still painful to think about all those dead people in a place that was so familiar to me.

As such, I understand GP's feelings. The events of that day shouldn't be made light of given all the innocent people (and not just in NYC, but in Washington, DC and Shanksville, PA as well) who died needlessly. And each of us processes/deals with that differently.
The Man Who Shredded the Newspaper
The title of this post made me think there was a new, current meltdown !
Microdevices Implanted into Tumors Offer New Way to Treat Brain Cancer
> Because they hit "unknown error" and when that happens on safety critical systems you have to assume that all your system's invariants are compromised and you're in undefined behavior -- so all you can do is stop.

What surprised me more is that the amount of data existing for all waypoints on the globe is quite small, if I were to implement a feature that query by their names as an identifier the first thing I'd do is to check for duplicates in the dataset. Because if there are, I need to consider that condition in every place where I'd be querying a waypoint by a potential duplicate identifier.

I had that thought immediately when looking at flight plan format, noticed the short strings referring to waypoints, way before getting to the section where they point out the name collision issue.

Maybe I'm too used to work with absurd amounts of data (at least in comparison to this dataset), it's a constant part of my job to do some cursory data analysis to understand the parameters of the data I'm working with, what values can be duplicated or malformed, etc.
ADEXP sounds like the universal data standard you want then. The UK just has an existing NATS that cannot understand it without transformation by this problematic algorithm. So the significant part of your suggestion might be to elide the NATS specific processing and upgrade NATS to use ADEXP directly.

Using a JSON format changes nothing. Just adds a few more characters to the text representation.
> Apple dominates the high-end smartphone market in the country and counts China as one of its biggest markets, relying on it for about 19% of its overall revenue.

Well, maybe Apple wants to improve iOS security a bit. Having zero click zero days regularly does not promote trust.
He cherry-picked one of the three examples in your post and attacked it. He won't choose the other two because he has no argument for them. Ignore.
This comment is misleading &| misinformed.

Sum types are built-in [1] for formal parameters. `nil` is only for `ref|ptr` types. In much code you can just use stack allocated value types and there is neither GC concern nor nil concern, but there is also a mode to help: https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/manual_experimental_strictnot...

Nim has an easy-ish to use Lisp-like syntax macro system where you just receive & process an AST. So, to do the rest you can make libraries adding the feature without relying upon upstream compiler: such as https://github.com/beef331/sumtypes for variables with sum types or pattern matching libs like https://andreaferretti.github.io/patty/ | https://github.com/alehander92/gara.
There are several XML formats for expressing flight plans, most notably ARINC 633 and FIXM.
Not a lot of useful insight in this article, but it does make me want to remind all of you that if you want MacBook Air, especially the 15” version, consider the 14” MacBook Pro.

The price gap looks big, but it’s actually not.

If you consider the upgrade to 16GB or RAM and 512GB of storage, you’re already at $1500 for the 13” model or $1700 for the 15” model.

$1999 gets you the 14” MacBook Pro with 16GB/512GB standard, where you a get better screen, microphone, speakers, processor, graphics, thermal performance, I/O including HDMI port and dual external screen support.

You sacrifice a little weight and thickness but not much else, and the difference in a backpack (especially with the 15” Air) is minimal.

And here’s the other thing: you can just pick up the M1 14” MacBook Pro and essentially have a better machine in every way at a very similar cost to the base price of the M2 Air models.

You can’t really do that in the same way with the M1 Air because you’re sacrificing the newer superior form factor to get a system with a really ancient design, large bezels, and bad webcam, while the M1 MacBook Pro compared to the M2 is a nearly identical system with almost all of the same advantages.

The 8GB/256GB models of the MacBook Air are a price anchor more than a practical model, because I think that the majority of buyers should upgrade at least one of those specs if not both regardless of how light their usage is.
Which glucometers? Any info released?
> In law, that is normal.

Normal, sure, but still a problem in the sense that they need to clarify it and try not to write ambiguous laws. The existence of the law, lawyers, and the whole judicial and lawmaking systems is proof that its difficult and complicated.

I just dont see the contrast with computer science here.
> tries to reflect the requirements of the British public

The issue though is that quite often the Dailymail doesn't reflect, but rather controls the requirements of the British public.
I don't think GP's complaint is about Java and Swift being unperformant, I think the complaint is that you can't use the language of your choice easily. If we just had a C API we could interpret Ruby or Python with a standard interpreter. But instead, if you want to write a Ruby or Python mobile app, you need to translate objects between the language of your choice and Java/ObjC.
I’m not an iOS/Mac developer, but aren’t Swift-only APIs common these days?

How would this binding work in such cases, if at all?
A Multi-Level View of LLM Intentionality
I used to use that.

I sincerely prefer total commander.

Total commander also has all those goodies, including browsing and backing up apps and using FS providers.

Plus ghost commander had this stupid approach about copying into SD card, where if the source was external it had to copy to internal storage first.

If it failed the files would just linger there permanently.
I feel like the card forces them to make it easy. Whoever physically holds the card is authorized to use it. eSIM is required to have additional auth steps, and that opens a can of worms that might not be solved so well. It's kinda like audio jack vs bluetooth.
Crash is a feature, though. It's not like exceptions raises by itself into interpreter specifications. It's just that it so happens that Web apps ain't need no airbags that slow down businesses.
Devastating floods sweep across eastern Libya, heavy death toll feared
I sort of let things drag out the past few years. Partly because of COVID (it's not like I could travel) and partly for other reasons. I wouldn't have been unhappy to get a severance or even just get pushed out at some point. But I used up a bunch of vacation time I had saved up and pretty much gliding to a comfortable endpoint. I didn't really need to additional money but figure I might as well take it if I can given working isn't really getting in the way of other activities.
To emphasize, I agree with you. I don't think "back in the good ol' days" that things were always benevolent, nor do I believe that today that things are always evil.

But I do think it's a mistake to say this is just another step, or going from an "8 to a 9". I think this idea that so much of our technology is actively hostile is a part of the puzzle around why many people feel that our pace of real technological advancement and our ability to build big projects has slowed greatly (Patrick Collison has a great blog piece, https://patrickcollison.com/fast)

I feel part of this is a consequence of the fact that we've gotten so good at data analysis, when you look at 2 alternatives and one shows an immediate, clear payoff (but the downsides are long term and not all that clear), while the other shows a riskier, longer term payoff, we (collectively) nearly always go with the short term win. E.g we can see with A/B testing what keeps people the most "engaged", but we just kind of ignore that this "engagement" is with the lowest common denominator of content like rage-inducing tribalism.
Assuming roughly comparable density to earth, the surface gravity would only be 2g
I don't think you should be downvoted for having opinions that are based on a lack of information.

Everything I talked about is to illustrate that it is impracticable to resolve the issue of authorship by doing something like, "I got permission for the data."

The first step on the expanding brain meme is understanding all the stuff I wrote, it basically means "in order for the generative AI technology to work, you use a lot of other people's unpermissioned data in many, many ways, that are impractical to replace."

The second step in the expanding brain meme is to understand that your opinion, "if you use art you have permission for in a generative AI model, you're In The Ethical Right," is co-opted by Adobe. Because they happen to have the good fortune to run an image licensing bureau, so they can "get permission" for "the data" and you were convinced that's "all they need." When of course, they use tons of unpermissioned data, because that's how these models work, but you just don't know enough about the problem yet to understand that. So you're going around essentially astroturfing this feel good position that has no stronger technical basis than doing what CivitAI users do. It just has a really appealing starch to it.