skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a good idea then. The librivox experience turned me away from professionally read audiobooks for far too long.

Amateur readers are hit & miss. A lot of professional readers are actors or have a lot of experience. There is a reason people do pay for professionally read books instead of electronic reading or librivox only.
Looks Like Twitter Shadowbanned the New York Times, Which Advertises on Twitter
Hold on, I think we take cheap shots at French people, but _expensive_ shots on the food and wine
not that difficult either. i wrote a script in 10 minutes and had a result in under a minute: https://twitter.com/schuilr/status/1701268438931460311
In this case, the winning image wasn't a single prompt to image. The author generated a lot of images and invested lots of hours into it till he considered it ready. AI was more like a custom stock asset generator in this case.

We will need to seriously revise copyright laws in the age of AI because this new technology is simply not compatible with the assumptions the current ones are based on. (regardless how much lobby power are in them)
> don't count the principal payments.

I strongly disagree. You compare all costs. Interest, principal, maintenance, insurance, taxes... If I knew how to calculate them I'd add things like risk that you need to move (realtor fees, potentially making payments on a house you are not living in...)

If you sell the house before you die, then you can pull out the difference, which can be applied to nursing home costs. Otherwise the gain of a house is in the lower rent you pay after you pay it off.
Disney and Charter reach deal to end blackout, expand streaming services
> Does Rust (as a result of not having GC) put restrictions on the kind of code you can write

Depending on what you mean by kind: yes. That is, Rust does limit your code’s architecture to a subset that is fine for most things, but not everything.
A Tale of Outage and Revival
But the prompt could be copyrighted?
> Must I "produce specific harms" before I have the right not to consent to my data collection? Isn't "I don't like it" enough?

Of course you must. I don't like it when people fart near me, but I don't have a "right to not consent to farting near me". Some people "don't like it" when other people look at them in public, but they don't have a "right to not be looked at in public".
I only do this if it's under $.50 and I found everything I was looking for. Something about donating to the food bank seemed off in the early pandemic when I was picking over the last scrawny beef knuckles when I was supposed to buy ground turkey.

I might be traumatized and a bad person. Either way that's my rule and I keep a backup wholesale package of SPAM on hand for the next supply chain collapse.
This is basically how the Cocoa-Java bridge worked 25 years ago, except of course Java has GC.

The article makes no mention of memory management. ARC is a compiler feature, so I guess this C code makes a ton of calls to an nsobject_release() function for everything allocated in Obj-C world. The code example shown seems to be just leaking the NSString instance.

Which platform doesn't have Clang? Why not allow the Obj-C compiler to take away all that C boilerplate and fragile retain counting gruntwork, and then wrap those calls in a concise C API that provides the exact interface your application needs? I don't really get it.
Bonus: No more forced reboots!

Switching to Linux has saved me sooo much time. I go to my computer, log-on, and it just works. No reopening files, nothing lost, no having to save 'recovered' files, no browsers reopening all your tabs for a few minutes.

Every week with linux has saved me something like 5-10 minutes.

Invest those 5-10 minutes into fixing those random Linux bugs until those random Linux bugs are gone. Now its just pure time savings.
This is a very interesting take, thanks for raising it! And also super interesting detail about the fighters not having time for weapons loadout. I did not know either of those things...A lot of good people died that day.

How would the unarmed fighters even have taken down the airliner?
We're doing this at https://www.approximatelabs.com
How is this different than attaching 10 paint cans of different color from strings and poking hold in them and letting them swing?

Could the creator of the ai producing code then hold copyright, or maybe it’s those who found the weights?

This ruling seems to suggest any method of automating works would not qualify for copyright.

If so. We are just one step closer to abandoning the notion of a copyright, which still is the only logical solution in a world where we can have and do anything we desire at the click of a button.
Is it? Should I be able to copyright painting the wall a particular color since, after all, many copyrighted works are created with brushes and paint?
In the simplest terms, you can’t even adhere to various regulations (like CAN-SPAM) if you don’t retain who you’re supposed to suppress emails to.

Arguably this information should be stored encrypted, but I suspect that’s very rare.
Everyone Is a Girl Online
Small suggestion. Don't choose obscure language (in terms of popularity, 28th on TIOBE index with 0.65% rating) to visualize structure and algorithms. Otherwise you risk average viewer will stop reading the moment he encounter code samples.
There are 27 more popular languages, some of them orders of magnitute more.
I imagine, for this kind of system, there is only one supplier. Why not force that supplier, as part of their 10-15 yr contract, to publish the source code for everything, not necessarily as FOSS. This way if there are bugs they can be reported and fixed.
What kind of command.com they use? I don't remember any with autocomplete.
Normally, the filesystem wouldn't directly twiddle the disk hardware; even on the PDP-11, you had a bewildering array of disk types: fixed head RC disks, single platter RL01/RL02, multi-platter RK01-RK07, RP disks that were a somewhat more advanced RK (but completely different interface), Massbus disks like the RM04, MSCP disks which were a very weird beast (the programming interface was not entirely unlike io_uring), etc. (to say nothing of the 4 different tape drive interfaces, two different floppy drives, and a mind-numbing array of serial interfaces) v6 unix already had support for most of these, and even the famously tiny RT-11 (which would happily run with 8k of core for the kernel) supported multiple different types of disks at the same time.
One thing I think about: over time, more and more training will probably move closer to users devices.

- Client-side training carries a lot of financial advantages; you can push the cost of the silicon, storage, and electricity onto the user.

- There's privacy benefits, which while not a major driver in adoption is something people think about.

- Apple does this already. They're going to keep doing this. When Apple makes a decision, it instantly impacts a massive plurality of the human population in a way that no other company can; and, it tangentially influences other companies.

I think you're right that "inference costs will dominate" is a short-sighted take. But: I think the better point is to think about where training will happen. Nvidia is weirdly poorly positioned to have a strong hand in client-side training. They don't have a cost-efficient and electricity-efficient strategy in any of their products; except for Tegra, which has seen zero consumer uptake outside of the Nintendo Switch. There's no hundred-billion-dollar client side AI training strategy anywhere approximate to the RTX 3070 in my gaming Windows PC, that ain't happening. I'm doubtful they can make that pivot; there's a lot of entrenched interest, and legitimately great products, from the existing computer & smartphone manufacturers. Apple has their chips. Google has their chips, and a really strong relationship with Samsung. Microsoft will be an ally, but they have very little power toward convincing their Windows users that a $1400 laptop is better than a $800 one because it has local AI training capability.

But, I mean: server-side training is still going to be huge, and Nvidia will still be an extremely successful company. Its just when you consider their percent ownership of the net total of all AI training that will happen in 2030; its going to drop, and the biggest factor behind that drop isn't going to be AMD; its going to be client-side training on chips made by Apple, Google, and others.
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> I took it as “you can’t just use college to ‘find yourself’ anymore

This FUD is exactly what I’m worried about. You took away a summary point that things are changing and somehow bad for degree earners, when in fact the bottom third of college grads have always been worse off, they’re the bottom third. College was never a guarantee of financial success. Of course some people can go into tech with only a high school diploma and earn more than someone with a degree who does social work or poetry or anthropology.

What does it say when you look at the stat that degrees earn 2x more than non-degrees, as a summary? To me it says that the dream of finding yourself in college is alive and well, that it’s not risky to go, if you have the means and the choice. To me it says the risk of not going is much higher than the risk of going. I agree with your point about choosing your major and sticking with your plan, if income is your goal, which is what most people try to do, I think. ~2x the income on average for 4 year degrees compared to high school is pretty big number, it surprised me, and it tells a different story than this article does. Before I read the Fed’s study I thought that college was maybe worth 15% more, on average (which would still be a nice boost…)

The Fed’s report calls the extra income that degree holders earn the “income premium”, and they even point out that the income premium is quite robust and not changing much, at the same time they’re arguing that the “wealth premium” is going down. They go so far as to ask “Why Has the College Income Premium Been More Durable than the Wealth Premium?” As far as the US Federal Reserve goes, there is no question and no debate about whether degree holders are earning more.

> Let’s never forget the elite are insulated from the problems of the future working class.

Sure, that is true. But with ~40% college degree attainment in the US, we are not talking about the upper class at all here, we’re talking about the middle class too, and talking about education that is available to most people.
>It is beyond me how people can deny post viral syndromes.

I feel part of the problem is we don't really have any good treatments for it. I know my doctor put it down as post viral tiredness but when I asked how long it might last or what I could do about it he just shrugged his shoulders.
Absolutely! We'll keep you posted once a local-only option is available. Thanks for your interest!

By the way, are you more excited for the iPhone app or the Mac client?
Yes, there is an obvious public health interest in food labelling. I feel that the compelling interest is not obvious here, and given that the law is not censorship, but lives in the same zip code as censorship, the state should demonstrate a public interest being served that would withstand 1st amendment scrutiny.
> So you think special interests don't run the show right now?? Do we live in the same universe? Because the us government is almost exclusively run by special interests.

And term limits will make it worse.

This isn't some theoretical, research has been done on states that have implemented term limits, everything got worse.

OK imagine senators have a 2 term max, 12 years. They are now 100% incentivized to plan for their next job and not actually care about being a senator. We already see this with roles that are appointed by the administration, FCC commissioners are famous for this. Go from industry -> government -> higher paid industry role, utilizing the connections one gained while in government.
sending mail to a bunch of random people you got in a giant list you bought that have never associated with you is a nefarious plot
I mean this is just going to promote "bad actors" that are not going to disclosured the use of AI with actual pieces that looks like created by a human.
Homemade Sriracha
No, the same. Have 13.5.2 installed on both.

What does your Battery system settings say?

What does the Energy tab in Activity Monitor indicate? Especially the "Energy Impact" and "12 hr Power" columns.
Seems like possibly a corollary from Citizens United
From the definition in the bill how a "Social media platform" is defined has no requirement to userbase, so wouldn't every Mastodon server and small self hosted message board have to submit to this too or face fines?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
No it may not be legal. If you continually follow someone, silent or not, it could cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or to experience emotional distress. There is nuance to this, but just the act of continually following someone can be stalking (even if you never engage with them).
It seems highly likely that the prompt itself may be copyrighted, yes
And SOCK_SEQPACKET which greatly simplifies fd-passing
I don't know about that.

Newspapers enforce editorial policy over their opinion columns and things like which letters to publish. This law sounds like, if it actually applied to them, which is doesn't, they would need to submit a report about why they didn't allow "Letter from Aunt Ethel" to be published. What criteria did they use in not allowing it to be published, etc.

Why did they publish "Letter from Uncle Frank" instead.

Simply, they need to enumerate their internal editorial policies.

And I can see it argued that editorial policies are political speech. We all know magazines or publications and websites that represent a political philosophy, what articles they publish, how the articles are worded, etc. That's everywhere. "Why didn't you allow XXX to be published? Because we don't like the point of view of XXX!"

And part of having a political philosophy and the speech rights around it is that you should be allowed, should be "free" that is, to not say anything at all! When you start getting "have you stopped beating your wife" questions, you should be allowed to say "no comment". Compelled speech is not freedom of speech. Publishing in detail your moderation policies and activities is arguably compelled release of a political philosophy. Now, does a Corporation have such a right? Today, it's hard to say. If a Corporation apparently has the right to impact elections (economically) that implies it has a political position and perhaps that the detailing of that position (or not) should be a protected. IANAL.

The big problem here is this shouldn't be an issue. How many websites have a privacy policy of "We're going to gather everything we can from you, and sell it to the highest bidder. If we could get your DNA, we'd sell that too."

That should be a perfectly viable "privacy policy". If X has to publish "yes, the exact details" of how they moderate extreme speech, maybe they'll just publish "we don't" and leave it at that. Which, of course, brings even more, indirect, scrutiny.

In the end, there's no good answer to this question. Every answer any service would publish, is the "wrong answer".
Hover's parent company is Tucows, listed in the parent article as being the third largest "domain holder".

I started using Hover/Tucows back when they were Domain Direct, as I liked the idea of using a Canadian-based registrar. Hover has been great. I've rarely needed to contact Hover support but they've always been responsive and helpful.
One of my college housemates barged into my room and woke me up with "dude you need to turn on your tv". "What channel?" "It doesn't matter...".

TV warms up in time to see a replay of the second plane hitting.

I was groggy and said "woah good effects... what movie is this?".

The guy (who was rarely serious) looked me in the eye and said "this is real".

The world changed that day, in ways we're still figuring out.
Sorry, not everything is evaluated on a "case-by-case" basis per say, there is a difference between a "Bright-Line" (clearly specified rule in court) and a "Balancing-Test" (what you describe).

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.

So, for example, random image from civit.ai which is nothing more than a prompt, and negative prompts. This fails the test because I can run the image through CLIP and get (almost) the same exact prompts used to generate it

Now let's say I generate an image using a bunch of custom tools and extensions, such as regional color-loss (i.e. top right of the image must be blue and I will force the model to prefer blue outputs), and leveraging a lora model at 0.3 weight trained on my kids sketch-book drawing style. There's no way for any AI model that hasn't been configured exactly by my human hands to deduce anything approaching the prompt used to generate it (CLIP/Other LLMs doesn't know about extensions and loras).

Courts need a bright-line here, balancing tests lead to miscarriages of justice, which is what looks like is going to happen here a lot.
Given this it would seem running any simple algo such as balance colors or adjust lighting would disqualify the output for copyright. Only change here was the algo used.
This is addressed in TFA:

> The Board finds that the Work contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”), and this content must therefore be disclaimed in an application for registration.

The human-authored portion of the work would be copyrightable if the author disclaimed the portions that were created by an LLM.
> Youtube was an acquisition

And the relied on VC money before that. It wasn't self-sustaining financially.
- You give up your first amendment rights when you sign non-disclosure agreements.

- You give up your second amendment rights when you enter a school or hospital.

- You give up privacy rights when you go through security screenings.

- You give up rights to a law suit when you sign a liability release at a climbing gym.
It's not really so much "Mike Masnick's opinion" as "Masnick explaining his TechDirt colleague's, Eric Goldman's, opinion".

Eric Goldman is a "leading expert in the fields of Internet Law" [0]. His assessment of this bill's constitutionality is probably a good one. The Washington Post cited it in one of their stories [1], and quoted the part where he says it's "likely to be struck down as unconstitutional at substantial taxpayer expense".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Goldman

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/13/califor...
>I sometimes wonder why we're all not more annoyed that we get sent to specialists for the parts of our body . . . . at no point, is there a department of immunology that takes over or even contributes.

As a person with Multiple Sclerosis seeing a neurologist I have been wondering this very thing since my diagnosis. I am on a B-cell depleting drug. It feels silly talking to my neurologist about my B cells. Lots of tests to determine neurological function, but very little tests done on immune function.
"Code" isn't going anywhere, but the language people write in may change. Just like how written language will always exist, but people may communicate using other means in the future.

There's never going to stop being a need to describe programs precisely, which "no-code" never offers by design. They're all abstraction layers at the end of the day for pushing electrons around a circuit.
> If I see you on the street and write in my diary: “Saw specialist on the street today.”

Are you a private individual, or a corporation (or agent thereof) that will use information specifically about me to earn profit without acknowledging your use of my data and compensating me?

If you are a private individual, say hello. If you are a corporation or agent thereof, do not collect without my permission.
> In 80% of cases people overestimate the usefulness of AI.

Looking at my chatgpt history, my partner and I seem to average about 3 conversations a day. We would use it a lot more than that if we had a way to invoke it with our voices, like Siri. Our usage is increasing over time as we figure out the sort of questions it’s good at answering.

I’m not saying all the hype is justified, but if anything I think people underestimate how useful AI can already be in their lives. It just takes some learning to figure out how and when to use it.

This is markedly different from both web3 and VR. It’s 2023 and I still make purchases with my Visa card and play most video games with mouse and keyboard (while my quest - cool as it is - gathers dust).
I think this is a promising approach. My version of it would be to switch to the Bell Labs / Xerox PARC layout style of individual engineer offices surrounding a central conference room area. Couple that with a genuine leadership backing and incentives promoting mentorship for senior individual contributors to come in and mentor juniors in the physical offices. When those juniors are promoted to a sufficient level of demonstrated consistent self-sufficiency and outcome-driven behavior over a number of years, the new more senior position includes the right to go full remote.

In any case, in my personal experience with clients' engineering organizations, those where you have to micromanage to the point going to the office is necessary to manage well don't accomplish much in any case, and tend to produce technical debt at a much faster pace, than those with much tighter company culture cohesion around self-motivated engineers. I've concluded over the decades it is due to a highly useful information compression dynamic leading to an even more useful abstraction interface only possible in a high trust environment.
>Kinda like the dotcom bubble.

It's interesting to me that people bring up 'The Dot Com Bubble' as an example of empty hype, when in fact, investing in the Internet even at the peak (deploying capital proportional to 1999 market caps) has one of the best IRR's in the history of time (Amazon, eBay/PayPal, eTrade, etc.).

I don't think hype will die down so much as winners will be chosen and the long tail will stop buying GPUs (in the same way Pets.com and Webvan stopped building warehouses).
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Telesat books 14 launches with SpaceX, bypassing Blue Origin and Relativity
One needs a FXS port, the other needs an FXO port. FXO's are only commonly found on telco gear.

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