skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What troubles me so much about copyright in the context of AI generated images are that we don't have any clear "Bright-Line" for what constitutes human authorship.

For example, let's say that I generate a bunch of images using Automatic1111 (the main Stable Diffusion webUI). This webUI has hundreds of extensions which give tons of additional functionality. If I generate an image using two controlnets, regional prompting (human deciding where particular prompt or part of prompt is applied in resulting image), and fancy prompt engineering (i.e. blending embeddings of multiple tags together, or deciding to change the prompt midway through the diffusion process), then I claim that I have put in enough human authorship that I think current courts should grant copyright in such a situation.

The courts have decided that a human simply gathering a bunch of AI images into a kids book was "enough work" for the kids book to be copyrightable. If I put at least that kind of effort into making an image (i.e. by writing what is ultimately a program, see comfyUI workflows for a visual example), than I think that image should be owned by the human who wrote the program to generate it.

Courts are dangerously close to deciding that any diffusion model being used as part of the images creative process would nullify the ability to copyright it.
Lol that's like me naming my filenames _final2_realfinal before I learned about git.
I'm seeing a post mentioning carbon and methane.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...

I thought it was an elaborate phishing attempt. Can anyone verify / vet that it could potentially be true?
Nah, price isn't going to be a motivating factor. If AMD came up with a card that had 3x the VRAM of the latest NVIDIA offering there would be research groups who would be interested because loads of models are hardware bottlenecked.
Why from space? We have people donating plasma every day! Silly scientists.
I grant you permission to document our encounters for your personal use, in perpetuity. Such transactions are common enough that society will formalize such arrangements, minimizing transaction costs (overhead).

But should you ever decide to write a book about me, I want my cut.

> Your data is not a person...

Correct. My data and myself are the same person. Legally.

Consider: You impersonate me for the purposes of seizing my property. You have everything necessary to prove to my bank that you are me. How is a bank to know otherwise? For all practical purposes, to the bank, you are me.

How then is my data not me?

--

Identity theft is now a growth industry.

Do you have any proposals for mitigating these crimes?

Ditto surveillance, behavioral advertising, profiling, stalking.

How does our society rebalance the scales to mitigate these problems?

Formalizing our individual right to privacy, universal personal sovereignty is my proposal. It's the cornerstone of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for society in our new era. Necessary, but not sufficient, of course.
"At the fundamental level, Terraform’s machines capture carbon dioxide (CO2), generate hydrogen (H2), and react them to form carbon-neutral natural gas (CH4). Our CO2 concentrators can also capture enough water from the air to supply our process with plenty left over. "

They seem to very deliberately not use the name methane in their presentation. CH4 is methane.
"Yes we would like to be responsible for it."
I'm not expert Clojurist, but my first guess of this is that it prints and pushes every non-nil value into a go channel xf, one-by-one, recursively, in a new thread, then return the channel, presumably so more work can be done and passed to it.

The number of exclamations in <!! means something, but I forget what, I think something about non/blocking.
Final images of the WTC interior by Konstantin Petrov
Its absolutely crazy to me that both major mobile platforms don't have APIs that are available with bindings for all major languages. Forcing developers to use Java on android (A VM on a low powered platform), and ObjectiveC/Swift(Languages that are barely used on other platforms) is so hostile to developers.
I wish you well, take care.
You are correct.

You used to be able to read any public thread without logging in.

Then it became "only logged in users" to prevent scraping for AI training data (Apparently)

Now it's "you can see the linked tweet but not the rest of the thread unless you are logged in"
so if i tell an artist to do some revisions i own that work now? what exactly did the human do in this case? wrote some words in a certain order? so the prompt is copy writable then? if that's the case can i just copywrite certain prompts that are commonly used?
You're thinking consumer.

MI250 cards are less than half the price of H100, and more importantly, you can buy them today.
Just guessing:

They bought a software from a third party and treat it as a "black box". There are few known ways that the software fails, and the local team has instructions on how to fix it. But if it fails in an unexpected way, good luck, it's impossible for the local team to identify and fix the problem without the vendor.

The reason it took so much was they realized too late that they need to call the vendor.

Probably you have to blame managers rather than engineers in the support team.
Scientists using Webb may be able to present some surprisingly strong evidence that we are not the only life bearing planet in the galaxy.
Because of long covid and the millions suffering with it, we are revealing many new findings of a category that has largely been ignored for centuries. Darwin for example was thought to had CFS through his health journals, but nobody knew or cared about it.

When those new findings challenge our current understanding, we get smarter as a species and work to alleviate the suffering by investing more money and time into these matters.

Points aside, your third point is largely concerning.
They would make a profit by renting below their monthly payment, because they are also gaining equity.

Making a monthly profit and ending up with a paid off, appreciated house at the end is profiting doubly.
Yes, in addition to deleting all browsing data (maybe in a private window) for that site prior to re-enabling internet otherwise the site could store information locally and transmit it once online.

It is time consuming to do this and do it right so I actually already created an extension for it in another ShowHN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469321
Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
That's my gut instinct, too. An alternate interpretation: putting them under 2 umbrellas now has 2 SPOFs.

I've found switching registrars to be pretty easy. I've done it several times with production domains.
Hype and _competition_ . If your adversaries have tech for e.g. Defense applications, you need to have some of the tech yourself.
There are AI tools like ControlNET that do give you intention in the method and process.
Evidence of the closest black holes to Earth in the Hyades star cluster
If the state made a similar law demanding newspapers provide their editorial policy would that be ok? You know in defense of democracy...
Emerging Non-Volatile Memories Enable IoT and AI Growth
> Where is the cut-off exactly?

This is the difference between legal thinking and CS. There is a spectrum between 100% human-generated (and copyright-eligible) and 100% machine-generated (and ineligible), and in between there are gray areas.

To us, that is a problem, because it implies ambiguity. Where is the cut-off?

In law, that is normal. No actions are the same; everything is on a spectrum from allowed to illegal. Judging the boundary is made on a case-by-case basis through legal argument, evaluated by a judge or jury.

So to the Copyright Office, it is sufficient to say that this particular way of AI generating art doesn't involve enough human creativity. But you won't get them to define enough in the abstract, for any general case, because that is essentially impossible, and can only be done by evaluating concrete cases.
This is great. I’m not clear on if the bugs you are finding are in Ghidra’s processor model or in the emulator? (Though I think it’s the latter?) Also, why would Ghidra have the best (most accurate?) processor model vs some of the highest quality emulators?

One other question: when the cpu is being emulated at a 50th of its actual speed (or less!) how does replaying recorded input work? Do all games strictly use interrupts to read input or do any poll the state instead (or maybe just at certain sequences or for certain portions of the gameplay)? If the latter, did you have to adjust the key down/key up events you were replaying to avoid a slow-executing cpu missing inputs? (As you might be able to guess, I’m an embedded dev but haven’t dabbled with emulators beyond using them.)

Thanks in advance and again, awesome work!
“Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are.” ― James W. Frick
MI250's (which are really 2 gpus on one board) are 128gb and can be chained together with other cards.
You’re talking about _being shown_ photos you don’t care about, while GP is talking about showing your own photos to someone. I agree with the example you’re discussing, though.
Try to get developers who love to code and create to stay on a support team and be on an on-call roster. I betcha at least half will say no, and the other half will either leave or you'll run out of money paying them.
I'd think of it as how many adapter layers there are to make a legacy technology work like image-only email.
Meditation should help with this. After all, it's about practicing to calm and focus the mind one thing only.
It always seems so easy to 'fast follow' in semiconductors, but then you're the GM of the GPU group at Intel and you look for SerDes designers, then find out there are maybe 3 dozen good ones and they already work at Broadcom/Nvidia/Cisco.
> That's clearly not a real policy.

Of course not - a HN posts are hardly long enough to contain the real policy which would undoubtedly be many pages long. hirundo is posting a hypothetical, exaggerated example.

But Twitter could have a policy that gave them great leeway to make arbitrary decisions, by stating things like:

* We use automated systems, which ensure a timely response and let us stay on top of many millions of tweets per day. However, these automated systems occasionally err in both taking down reasonable content and leaving up unreasonable content. We are constantly improving these systems, but with x00 million tweets per day some errors are inevitable.

* Bright line rules are not always possible in moderation. For example, we would generally not censor images of Michelangelo's David, the Venus de Milo, or napalm girl, despite a general policy of not showing genitals or female-presenting nipples.

Similarly, a post might be parody, sarcasm, exaggeration for comic effect, or otherwise acceptable. For example, we might allow NWA's 1988 hit protest song "Fuck tha Police", or a tweet by Donald Trump threatening nuclear war with North Korea, despite a general prohibition on calls to violence.

Decisions are made by our moderation teams on a case-by-case basis, following the vague subjective guidelines found in appendix A

* We hire our moderation workforce from around the globe valuing diversity and multiple perspectives and timezones blah blah therefore details that may be obvious to some audiences may sometimes be overlooked by our moderation teams

* The fact a tweet has been reported by a large number of people does not necessarily mean it will be blocked, as some more visible accounts may attract more flags proportional to their larger audience. Twitter also suffers from organised 'downvote rings' which systematically flag posts by their political opponents, hoping to reduce the reach of those posts. We may ignore such reports, when we detect them.

* Content moderation is interlinked with spam, astroturfing and bot accounts. For example we may block posts about buying cheap viagra, despite it not being extreme content or hate speech.

* Our automated systems may identify accounts as suspected bot or spam accounts based on heuristics that may not be obviously related to our moderation policies. Even a newly opened account that has never sent a single tweet or followed a single person may be blocked.

* The ever changing spam environment, the ever-changing language used by Twitter users, and the cat-and-mouse game with people who'd like to not be moderated mean the guidance given to our moderators changes on a daily basis. This document is a snapshot and our actions in the past and in the future may be inconsistent with it.

* We are committed to helping users stay safe and control their twitter experience, through options like Unfollow, Filter Notifications, Show Less Often, Mute, Block and Report.

Expand with a few more pages of waffle and voilà, you have a policy that doesn't actually pin you down to taking any particular action in any particular situation.
From a net-effect standpoint, Rust's implementation of async/await is fairly similar to protothreads, which were used even on smaller AVR and MSP430 targets where rtos threads weren't practical.

That being said, protothreads were implemented using wildly cursed C macros, and offered none of the safety guardrails that Rust has, nor the ergonomics, and had some insane constraints, like "you can't use local variables at all, only statics" because like rust, they were stackless coroutines that meant you would have no control of the stack across await points.

If you were VERY CAREFUL, you could get the same lightweight concurrency with almost the same fundamental model. Woe be on you if you ever had to debug though.

edit - here's a look at how protothreads were expanded: https://dunkels.com/adam/pt/expansion.html
> Wheater you need a professional or positive tone, she has everyone.

Did they use AI to write the home page?
A domain registrar can change the record of DNS servers that your domain is pointing at anyways. So I don’t see your concern.

How is switching registrars annoying?
>with seniors and extremists overrepresented in those electorates.

Which is exactly why we end up with senior and/or extremist candidates.

This isn't rocket science, people.
Musk has beef with Bill Gates because he shorted Tesla stock, says biographer
Informally, yes.

I'm spending a lot less time on the site formerly known as Twitter, and every time I return it feels ... urgh.

But this is entirely anecdotal.
Have you tried again in recent years?

Today it is much more of a binary experience. A game either runs smoothly out of the box or does not run at all. And the latter is the exception, not the rule.
At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the AIDS pandemic ending?
You'd need literal oceans of preservatives for this scheme to work.
> I think most people including doctors accept CFS is real whereas that wasn’t the case in the past.

I think most doctors accept that CFS is real, but I also think most doctors would not call a somatic illness fake. See for instance these researchers [0] who are research somatic causes yet all agree there is a physical/hereditary component. Anxiety disorders also have a hereditary component and they aren't fake.

[0]: https://theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/21/chronic-fatigue-...
There is a good argument that company policies about product use is commercial speech. "Here take this opioid, we have funded studies that say it won't hurt you" got regulated pretty hard. "We think the 'woke mind virus' is worse than capital-F Fascism and will moderate that way" is very much about Twitter's product.
What's retirement?
That is something oft-repeated in conservative circles without a shred of basis in law. In fact, Section 230(c)(2) of the CDA does the exact opposite. It was written to explicitly _grant_ immunity when companies moderate in good faith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
Cloud flare will require you to use their DNS, but not their cdn.
Is this going to be the new way to lay people off? Annoying them into resignation at random?
> Majority of plumbing work (which also pays well) is still just fixing legacy pipework from old building that's decaying and needing repairs or replacements, not installing the latest heat-pump powered 'Butt-Squirter 2000', which still uses the same plumbing concepts of the last 100 years.

This describes software engineering as well, it is just that this site is biased towards people building new stuff rather than engineers who do maintenance work!

FWIW the plumbers I know live in nice custom houses and enjoy learning about new things all the time.
> So it seems laughable for them to claim this affects their speech whatsoever.

AFAICS the proposal doesn't require them to moderate Twitter users in any way; it requires Twitter to state publicly and clearly what their moderation policies are. But arguably stating its moderation policies is "compelled speech".

Thing is, there's plenty of compelled speech going on, including food labelling laws. There's precedent (although I understand US law doesn't have "precedent" as such, just appeals to successive senior courts).
I got tired of Cableco, Inc. tech support identifying my router by mac address and ultimately them telling me to reboot/replace/reset my router rather than troubleshoot the actual issue.

So, I set my router's mac address to something that matched an ancient IBM mainframe. Fun conversations ensued.
Broadly speaking I think this is done for new systems. What you need to identify here is how and when you transition legacy systems to this new better standard of practice.
I have a ton of domains on Namecheap and have been using them for 10-15 years. Their business has gone downhill significantly in the past 5 years or so.

The MFA is a joke. I recovered a client's MFA myself with almost no effort. It worked out since didn't properly set up MFA anyway and needed to get it unlocked and set up correctly, but I was shocked how easy it was to pretend to be someone with them. They disabled someone else's MFA with only me confirming a DNS record (which i looked up publicly using dig), plus the name and password of the account. It was scary easy.

At one point many years back they decided to stop supporting Authy as their MFA provider and tried to move everyone to their namecheap app, which would be used as a second factor. But the app was so terribly broken and I got locked out of my account multiple times because the app would crash on newer iPhones for a while, so I couldn't access my account. This must have been super common because they disabled MFA for me by just confirming a code sent to my phone. I assume this was a widespread problem and they might have eased up MFA deactivation rules for a time since there were probably a lot of people locked out of accounts.

Luckily now, they use mainstream 2FA codes, so you can use any app you want. But the process has already scarred me.

Overall, Namecheap has deteriorated to all the problems that Godaddy orginally had. The bait-and-switch renewal prices, clunky UI, slower nameservers, and upsells upsells everywhere for email hosting and everything else.

So after about 15 years of namecheap, I will be finding a new home sometime this year for all my domains.
One important software engineering skill that is often overlook is the art of writing just the right amount of log, such that one could have sufficient information to debug easily when things go wrong, but not too verbose such that it will be ignored or pruned in production.
I've been using Nearly Free Speech for more than a decade as my registrar. I split DNS between them and Cloudflare.

I haven't seen NFS recommended on this site in years but it used to be mentioned fairly regularly.

Not the cheapest and the UI is very clunky, but it's also zero bullshit.
Or if someone really want to play around with types: Scala, especially Scala 3. People can’t even say that it is not nullsafe, as it is.
I never got anywhere with this, but as a kid, I was annoyed I couldn't easily create a two-computer network with modems and a cable.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/582/
It is very convenient for bad actors to insist on a game of whac-a-mole rather than a reckoning with the larger problem that seems to govern the behavior of a large number of significant companies.
>Debit is never been cheap.

In the US, it objectively has been for the last few decades (especially 15 years), hence the enormous asset price inflation. If you were not invested, you were losing ground, and if you were not leveraged, then those ahead of you were pulling away.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds
JLCPCB is great as long as your components don't get too small. They made a few boards for me with a tiny component that just didn't work. I think they vastly overestimate their minimum trace size.
Thus far I've been using Namecheap and wasn't aware that Cloudflare even operated publically as a registrar.

Even now, after googling, I found https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-cloudflare-r... but am still unclear, e.g., what I'd pay for it. Moving to cloudflare does seem to require using their DNS server for the domain in question according to https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran... but would be nice to be able to get a quick answer to a question like "what do you charge for a 1 year .com or .net registration?" without having to sign up for an account.
In case you wondered too, this is 124 light-years from us.
In the U.S. dishwashers are almost always installed directly next to the kitchen sink, where either the cold or hot line can be easily tapped with a tee valve. I guess plumbing/kitchen layout is done differently in Europe.

As for heat setting, what’s the reason to be concerned with tap water being too hot? I don’t think plumbing code would allow water to be available at the tap that was hot enough to actually damage any type of utensil/drinkware/etc? I presume the only reason there might be a lower heat setting is simply for energy savings, which is kind of moot if you’re instead pulling hot water from the efficiently heated water supply.
>How did author just assumed that CPU are competetive for inference.

Apple marketing has been fierce. You see it in text on the internet, but in reality, its just Nvidia everywhere (unfortunately).

If AI wasnt so transformative, I'd say we have a sad few years ahead, but the tools have been so useful, I'll just bend the knee to Nvidia.
I think the music industry lawyers have fairly strong ideas over who owns a digital asset :-)
This is a leap. If they publicly espouse some sort of policy and don't adhere to it, it makes them look hypocritical - but I don't see how this limits their editorial freedoms. They can change the policy, or actually adhere to it.

> Maybe the reporting law doesn't itself prohibit a company from acting against its published terms, but it sure creates a database that could easily be weaponized against them by a future law or unchecked executive order.

I mean, I guess? I feel like the same could be said for laws that require worker injury reporting. If at some point in the future it's decided that there should be some regulation around moderation policies (and this seems increasingly inevitable) it would be useful to have some actual data to work off.
There are a variety of tricks for making CPU inference competitive and start-ups who have made a business out of said software e.g. NeuralMagic.

But yes the author does not give a substantive position despite his expertise in the area (he’s worked on e.g. the usb TPU product Google used to sell).
If you have a package there is still a delivery address.

Though with the Amazon collection points - depending on your willingness to travel - you could effectively anonymise that already without the need for a third party.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking
> It is also mostly in "the wrong place".

It's not the water that is in the wrong place. People are not supposed to live in places that can't sustain their numbers.