skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm blown away that I can watch 3 hours of h264 content on my flights and only 5% of my iPad battery is used.

That sounds wild. Apple says iPad is rated for up to 10 hours of video playback [1]. The display alone should consume more than that.

1: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/
No facebook, no instagram accounts after years not posting on both.
Me too, #
> But then why do you need any new laws at all? We already have laws against false advertising and breach of contract.

My preference would be for generative content to be disclosed as such. I am aware of no law that does this.

Why did we pass the FFDCA for disclosures of what's in our food? Because the natural path that competition would lead us down would require no such disclosure, so false advertising laws would provide no protection. We (politically) decided it was in the public interest for such things to be known.

It seems inevitable to me that without some sort affirmative disclosure, generative AI will follow the same path. It'll just get mixed into everything we consume online, with no way for us to avoid that.

> Companies already do this with human foreign workers in countries with cheap labor. The domestic company would show an invoice from a foreign contractor that may even employ some number of human workers, even if the bulk of the content is machine-generated.

You are saying here that some companies would break the law and attempt various reputation-laundering schemes to circumvent it. That does seem likely; I am not as convinced as you that it would work well.

> Doing nothing can be better than doing either of two things that are both worse than nothing.

Agreed. However, I am not optimistic that doing nothing will be considered acceptable by the general public, especially once the effects of generative AI are felt in force.
Sadly, if your relatives are anything like mine, they have probably already made the decision for you.
I think there are two main reasons:

- Early versions of SQL were actually called SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language).
- Sequel is just much easier to say than SQL, especially within a sentence.
> Yes, but there are also powerful provisions like section 230 [1] that protect smaller operations.

This isn't because of the organization size, and doesn't apply to copyright, which is handled by the DMCA.

> But it is clear to me that it operates in a gray area of copyright law.

Which is the problem. It should be unambiguously legal.

Otherwise the little guy can be harassed and the harasser can say maybe to extend the harassment, or just get them shut down even if is is legal when the recipient of the notice isn't willing to take the risk.

> > In the Aimster case, the court suggested that the Betamax defense may require an evaluation of the proportion of infringing to noninfringing uses, contrary to language in the Supreme Court's Sony ruling.

Notably this was a circuit court case and not a Supreme Court case, and:

> The discussion of proportionality in the Aimster opinion is arguably not binding on any subsequent court, as the outcome in that case was determined by Aimster's failure to introduce any evidence of noninfringing uses for its technology.

But the DMCA takedown process wouldn't be the correct tool to use even if youtube-dl was unquestionably illegal -- because it still isn't an infringing work. It's the same reason the DMCA process isn't supposed to be used for material which is allegedly libelous. But the DMCA's process is so open to abuse that it gets used for things like that regardless and acts as a de facto prior restraint, and is also used against any number of things that aren't even questionably illegal. Like the legitimate website of a competitor which the claimant wants taken down because they are the bad actor, and which then gets taken down because the process rewards expeditiously processing takedowns while fraudulent ones generally go unpunished.
Related ongoing thread:

Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067314 - Oct 2023 (97 comments)

Edit: these threads are so similar that I think we can just merge the comments thither.
> Oracle kept him on paid leave that whole time

This is almost exclusively about the manager of that person. It's very rarely such facts speak about the company as a whole.
It's transactional email - so generally speaking it's not a subscription list that recipients are on per se. This is in line with the CAN SPAM guidance (although that is a US law it's good guidance to follow globally).

Also it requires senders to actually implement it, which is not possible to confirm. Although we could add a catch all service that does this automatically, which I think we'll do.
There are different methods for concentrating the solar light, some of them are able to achieve only lower temperatures, for which it is more efficient to use organic Rankine cycles (i.e. like the steam turbines, but instead of using water some organic fluids, which are similar to those used in air conditioning or in refrigerators, are used in closed cycle), while other methods, e.g. the solar towers, can achieve higher temperatures that are suitable for supercritical CO2 cycles (e.g. up to 1000 Celsius degrees).
The Russian drones are expensive; hugely more expensive than the Ukrainian ones. And ISW says the Ukrainians are shooting down most of the drones Russia sends over (and vice-versa, of course).

Granted: what ISW says is probably based on what Ukraine says.

And granted: if you dont shoot down every kamikazi drone in a swarm, then the swarm succeeded (or could have succeeded).
For the red dots, see my comment below @hammock

The red square region is an image artifact of the overlay process. If you check the paper linked, there's a legend in the original image, which was then copied over to the combined image. I also discuss the image combining process a bit in the same comment.
How difficult would it be with 2023 technology to produce DNA trace evidence for someone else given the sequenced information in these systems? Is there enough information there to do that, and if so, what are the technology hurdles?
YouTube takes 45%. Same with ads. The rest goes to the creator.

Seth Everman reported that about 35% of revenue came from YouTube Premium: https://youtu.be/WmAD8lyU9TY?si=oMGhR0skLgWUiq_8

But that's music, where ads are less profitable. So he made that quality financial content to get to the 100x CPM from quality financial content.

But if you mostly listen to music and memes like me, Premium is a good source of income.
Why is Midjourney completely off the hook while Stability AI is not?

I'm trying to pull up the original court document, but the PDF isnt loading.
No damned idea if I’m autistic, but I do view humanity like an alien anthropologist.

I have had the misfortune of spending my school years in the company of many people who are now politicians, captains of industry, princes, doctors, lawyers, and all the rest. I say misfortune, because it means that I absolutely distrust all of the above, as every exemplar I have personally known has been one variety or another of common-or-garden idiot.

Doctors - I cannot fathom how people put their faith in these unimaginative individuals who followed a default career path and squeaked their way through medical school on charisma alone.

Politicians - every one a self-serving charlatan.

Captains of industry - daddy bought me a newspaper.

Lawyers - see also: doctors.

Princes - thankfully harmless, but good lord, what they used to have run countries. Pudding between the ears.

I can’t trust any authority, as I have seen behind too many curtains - although I never did, even before the denouements - I never respected any rule or order which couldn’t be reasonably and justly explained.
Looks like an example of pg's 'submarine PR strategy'*; this very schtick was floated in a Wired article posted here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38050392

* http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Which generally aren't hired by the government (unfortunately).

Wage rates should be higher.
Exactly! (except for that I'm pretty certain I don't have autism, though I know I'm not wired like other people)
Regardless of this specific policy change/tweak:

We should all stop using email providers who are known to massively compromise our privacy, build profiles of our online activities, manipulate us through ads, pass lots (or all) information to the government, and consolidate ownership of too much of Internet communications and activity.

Specifically, we should stop using GMail (and Yahoo), and encourage our friends to leave that email service as well. There are plenty of fine alternatives.
That's too facile. Email was intended as a federated service that allows anyone to send mail to anyone. Privileging large companies over small companies and individual users is a clear violation of that principle, and a danger to the open and impartial internet. I get that spam is annoying (I hate it too) but letting giant American tech companies decide who is allowed to send email and who isn't is not the solution.

Imagine you live in an apartheid state and the people in power say: “White people will now refuse mail coming directly from black people. If black people want their mail to be received, they are required to send it through a trusted white liaison. If you're black and you don't like it, just make friends with other blacks and the tiny minority of whites who will accept mail from undesirables like you."

The above analogy is exaggerated of course, but I think there is a fundamental truth for it: large tech companies like Google have cornered the market by offering free solutions, and now they are imposing an apartheid system where mail sent through big companies is given priority over mail sent by real people who run their own email system.

(Personally, I've disabled all spam filters in Gmail since I've noticed that Gmail is likely to filter out legitimate email while the amount of spam I receive is actually very low.)
Thanks, I think this is the most accurate take and it does feel better.
The joins problem is fucking killing me in some personal projects that will need a total rewrite at this point
I think most of this would be resolved by just reducing the left and right padding on small screens. If the author is monitoring this thread, please consider making that update!
I don't see how reducing turbine size is a good thing. Power plants aren't just a source of power; they're a source of mechanical inertia for the grid.

I suppose you can compensate by incorporating energy storage, which also has the side benefit of allowing the plant to be self-sufficient for cold-start.
Exactly. And the calculation should be Total Energy output per cycle. i.e In the future your Solid Sate Battery will last 2-3 times longer per cycle. Meaning you will only have a full recharge cycle once every three days if not more. A Solid State Battery that degrades to 80% after 1000 cycle super fast recharge would still provide you with 8 years of usage time.
Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Definition and Guide
Who ever did not see this one coming when 23andMe launched was asleep at the switch. DNA databases are ripe for abuse and this is just another form of abuse. First they get you to pay to give them your samples and then they get paid again to pass your data to other parties without obtaining your specific consent for that transfer.

When 23andMe launched I was absolutely amazed at how HN and less technical audiences ran with it, the abuse potential - and that's before we get into 'hacker lifted your sequences or prints' - was blatantly obvious.
Orrick also dismissed McKernan and Ortiz's copyright infringement claims entirely.

Well, duh. The judge is helping out the plaintiffs in this case. A jury would have been easily convinced by the defense that no images produced by Stability's systems are visually derivative.

The key is indeed what follows:

The judge allowed Andersen to continue pursuing her key claim that Stability's alleged use of her work to train Stable Diffusion infringed her copyrights.

So unless there is some kind of summary judgement I would wager that this becomes the focus of both sides as this heads towards trial.

But that's it. As predicted by commentary from legal scholars, the outputs of Stable Diffusion are distinct from the model and are not infringing on copyright... at least for this complaint!
This is fascinating, and exactly the kind of research that one would expect from Airbus, which created the first digital fly-by-wire airliner back in the 1980s. Does anyone have a video of this system in operation?

The first question that comes to mind for me is whether this new control system takes into account the ground effect, that is, can it hover safely at just a few feet off the ground? This is one of the earliest things taught in a helicopter piloting course and is apparently extremely difficult.

It's already the case that the rotor in a helicopter spins at a consistent rate, where the governor system automatically manipulates the power of the turbine for the pilot; the article doesn't mention that without it you'd have yet another control to manage! This kind of automation should be pretty useful in reducing the pilot's workload in much the same way that the governor does today.
I did save one company enough money to finance my salary for the year I worked there, just by removing dead servers provisioned but no longer used. Seems like my predecessors were blind to both cost and the past.

I felt bad for leaving so soon, but good for not having cost them a dime.
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I'm 100% sure the complaint isn't made about OpenText because no one is taking about OpenText and being talked about is a prerequisite to being complained about.

I don't think anyone will defend OpenText's name as a good name if they make closed sourced software.
Interesting points about the BeagleBone; I will check it out.

But this is not credible: "People at my hackerspace are willing to spend a bunch of money on RPi to do Octoprint rather than buying a full blown x86 computer for half the total cost."

I run Octoprint on a 4GB Pi 4. Total cost was probably $75. What kinds of setup are you talking about?
Baratza coffee grinders. They have a well-deserved reputation in the coffee community for excellent customer service. They sell replacement parts at very reasonable costs. I’ve sent them pictures of my disassembled grinder and they diagnosed and sent out parts immediately.
I have that friend that whenever I don't feel like putting my own email or phone number I just put his. You probably have that friend too, the other way around
Your cynicism runs through you like your skeleton but I don't share it.
Was the cryptoscam ads all around the country before? Was it addressing the regular (a non-software, you know) people?
It's Time to Rethink Traditional Career Trajectories
email is perfectly usable without _Google_'s spam filters.

And if you use non-GMail email providers, you would know they do fine. Not perfect, and of course it differs among providers, countries and accounts, but it's generally fine.
A working website that every citizen can use would be the least of my expectations in a democratic society.
Probably the most significant rewrite was from the original 68K assembly, not surprisingly championed by Jean-Louis Gassee who also opened up the hardware side.

Once code was in C (which was being standardized), they could work on porting across CPU's. The huge mistakes of Copland and Taligent were largely due to trying to also jump into some variant of C++ and object-oriented language at the OS level. Of course, that was at the same time Linus stuck with C for Linux and made much more relative headway.

This also gave Apple a lot more leverage in the application space. They spun applications out to Claris originally because the apps were such a pain point, but once C and MPW settled they could duck MS O$$ice leverage/fees with their own more integrated approach (and sell Works + round pink blobs to creatives et al). That made it feasible for Steve to ink the deal with Bill to keep Microsoft apps relevant on Mac's, when most of the other vendors were giving up on that 10% of PC share.
Related ongoing thread:

Autism and responding to authority (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072756
This isn't about regulation this is about Market control
What is it the fault of this crisis that we have been ignoring it for 50 years?

Climate scientists have for years warned that we were running into a catastrophe and now you blame them for... trying warn us?

What other strategy for publicizing would you have preferred? That climate scientists sit on this knowledge until the problem is a crisis right here and now, so that we would take it really, really serious?

That doesn't seem like a rational strategy. But that's just my understanding of your argument.
Can work great, but watch the incentives.
Don’t overoptimize a business process and later fix it with a 10% bonus.
Related ongoing thread:

People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067494
Learning something new every day. Thanks much for this.
Yes, I wrote about that when this all first started happening. Not that anybody cared... it doesn't take a whole lot to be able to identify you given some samples of your extended family. And as a means of elimination it will be extremely effective.

Gattaca is an amazing movie, it has aged so well I find myself having more and more appreciation for the amount of thought that went into the script.
If all the conversations about AI risk have taught us anything it's that the most crazy comes from some of the most experienced in the field. I don't know if it is due to some outrageous desire to stand out or be heard, but it's pretty absurd.
people who managed to migrate to KeePass - was it worth it?
Feedback on the site:

The English on the it is very bad and unnatural, and unfortunately it's right at the start

"You can no longer puzzle over where to get beautiful pictures for your brand. You can create optical illusion art with your logo in a few minutes!"

You really need to fix this!

Also consider adding a way to just wait and download the image from the website itself!
It's more complicated than that. Autistic people are spread more widely, they are more likely to have very high or very low IQs, and it's not all that useful to generalise.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.8560...

It's a little strange to me that everyone accepted the premise of this claim since it's really, really obvious that the situation isn't a straightforward jump in IQ.
Related. Others?

Recursive Drawing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28005194 - July 2021 (1 comment)

Recursive Drawing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680149 - April 2019 (36 comments)

Recursive drawing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16728049 - April 2018 (17 comments)

Recursive Drawing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255 - May 2012 (83 comments)
This lawsuit was always weird because it was a much much weaker case than the GitHub Copilot lawsuit by the same firm: atleast with text you can point out exact infringement, but the Stable Diffusion lawsuit (https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/) seems mostly based on inaccurate technical memes like "diffusion is just compression" without examples.

The HN discussion back when this lawsuit was first announced was correctly pessimistic: the top comment was "Where are the copies?". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377910
I was so saddened by this title.. I thought there was a way to find annoying neighbors (at homes I’m interested in acquiring) and assumed this was a service for literally finding nearby annoy[ing] neighbors. To then go through the comments and find that this is a service with a minimum input of addresses and census data which are both freely available as is this service. Bravo hn!
> If the monolithic application is written in a language with sufficient encapsulation and good tooling around multi-module projects, then you can indeed have well known and encapsulated interfaces within the monolith. Within the monolith itself you can create a DAG of enforced interfaces and dependencies that is logically identical to a set of services from different codebases.

So then, not Rails apps
That has little to do with inflation and a lot to do with the greed and political influence of landlords.
Good write up. Not sure speed is all that crucial in a SSG.
I have no idea if this is still the case but Mark Monitor a DNS registrar had highly responsive support and people that knew all the limitations, requirements and regulatory issues around all of the ccTLD's which is trickier than one might think until they try to register their domains on every ccTLD. They saved me a lot of time. I migrated multiple companies to Mark Monitor and never regretted it.

Another one that I have no idea of their current status but had incredible support was Checkpoint. They would quickly escalate weird TCP/IP bugs in their firewall to people that actually knew how their firewall handled each and every part of the IP stack. One time they unwittingly helped me argue with a customer about some simple aspects of TCP/IP. The customer a self proclaimed CCIE hung up in embarrassment and anger and Checkpoint apologized to me and I said, "No no, you were perfect, Thankyou!"

Less about another company and more about former coworkers, ages ago I worked along side some network engineers that would go out of their way to troubleshoot network issues on the customers devices for them even though they had their own network engineers and they would figure it out every time. They were former UUNet folks. If you have former UUNet engineers, keep 'em happy.

Another group I had really good interactions with was the part of IBM that still supported Sequent NumaQ / Dynix PTX. IBM is expensive but that group was worth it, trying to keep those old beasts alive. One of the independent contractors that supported those systems was also very pleasant to work with. Always friendly and always willing to go out of their way to help. One of IBM's engineers that wrote the bonding code in Linux also went out of his way to help me with a weird bug.

One that is long gone but was incredible was Sun Microsystems. My customers would tickle some of the strangest kernel bugs. I could send Sun core dumps and they would send me a new kernel package the same day. I also experienced that once with Redhat but that was a lucky one-off because a kernel developer replied to me email directly for a funny NetApp CIFS mixed mode bug in RHEL4. He was out bicycling with his kids and took the time to help me.
"As the complaint alleges, SolarWinds’ public statements about its cybersecurity practices and risks were at odds with its internal assessments, including a 2018 presentation prepared by a company engineer and shared internally, including with Brown, that SolarWinds’ remote access set-up was “not very secure” and that someone exploiting the vulnerability “can basically do whatever without us detecting it until it’s too late,” which could lead to “major reputation and financial loss” for SolarWinds. Similarly, as alleged in the SEC’s complaint, 2018 and 2019 presentations by Brown stated, respectively, that the “current state of security leaves us in a very vulnerable state for our critical assets” and that “[a]ccess and privilege to critical systems/data is inappropriate.”"

So I think if I'm reading that right, he knew things were “not very secure” and part of his role was to disclose that, and he didn't? I assume there's some rules in place that C level folks sign off on statements and he's the one to sign off on statements about security?