skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how an ML system scanning and training on a copyrighted work is different from a highly skilled artist doing the same?

You just answered it? One is a ML system and one is a human?

I'm really, really baffled why people keep using this argument. Like you guys know machines are not humans, right? ...right?

Humans are special cases in laws. Always have been and always will be (until AGI). A pedestrian is treated differently in laws than a driver is. The fact that a pair of legs and a car both move you from point A to point B doesn't make them same. Selling human livers on your local market is very different from selling cow livers, even biologically they are all organic tissues.

Let me say it again: humans are special cases. AI learning copyrighted materials might be illegal or legal, but it has little to do with "what if a human being does the same".
20 minutes going, 20 returning is 40 minutes a day. Unless you live by the train station, it is 10 minutes going there, and you have to wait for the train, 2-5 minutes. That is at least an hour/day, 2 hours/day are not that far away from you.

It is important not to idealise the perfect timing, what it should be if there were no cars on the roads, no traffic jams or the train comes exactly on time. Take a chronometer and measure it every day and you will be surprised by reality. I did it lots of times.

I have been living in big cities around the world and almost everybody spent an hour or so going to work.

I had a small apartments but was living alone and did as much remote work as I could.
> If you want to solve multiplayer game cheating, there's no solution other than to make your game fully server-based and stream a video feed to the client

Yep, but that would result in no games being commercially viable, and so no games existing.

So there needs to be a compromise in order for those games to exist.

It you want to play a mod friendly game, then… go play one? Lots exist.

Or invent a way to allow anyone to modify and run their game clients in any way they want to preserve abstract notions of freedom whilst also preventing them from modifying and running their game clients in a way that hurts the experience of others.

Good luck!
You can have a dev team of 20, everyone has their own Lambda function running at all times so they can run their own branch without affecting others.

When people go home, the dev Lambda cost instantly becomes zero.

You can't do that with (virtual) servers, the cost is exactly the same 24/7. In some cases it's a good thing, some not.

You can't also trivially handle Hug Of Death level load spikes.

Not to mention Lambda uptime vs everything else.
> The only thing I've wondered about is whether we show a one-off notice saying "we note your DNT setting and we've disabled tracking"

How would you make it one-off?
Learning how to fail
> Compared to most other tech/gaming companies, it's shocking how non predatory and customer friendly they are.

That is a low bar indeed. Steam got its initial install base because Valve bought Counter-Strike and then made Steam a functional requirement to play it.
The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do
People never stopped using VP8. In fact, your screen sharing is probably wasting excessive amounts of CPU every day because there is no hardware support.
On the other hand, German newspapers now offer you "allow ads and tracking... or sign up".
The LVM howto https://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html says "In LVM2, snapshots are read/write by default". And RedHat's docs https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... include text "Since the snapshot is read/write".

So I think LVM2 snapshots are indeed read/write. Perhaps that manpage sentence was not updated since LVM1 read-only snapshots ?

(I agree with you that 'snapshot' to me strongly suggests read/write; I'm just saying that you can't actually rely on that assumption because it's not just bcachefs that doesn't use that meaning.)
There's a roast chicken recipe we do occasionally, where you flambé the chicken in brandy (towards the end of roasting) and then add a load of cream.

It is really quite epicly good.
You are comparing to things that don't even make sense in the current context.

You have two choices.

I predict correctly or I predict incorrectly. If I'm randomly guessing, I will be right 50% of the time (effectively, this is a coin flip). If I always guess incorrectly, then I'm correctly guessing the incorrect choice. If I always guess correctly, then I'm correctly guessing the correct choice.

I'm trying to explain why 50% is your target for "fooling the algorithm" and not 0%, which is not fooling the algorithm at all. There's no reason to be obtuse here, I'm legitimately trying to help you understand some statistics... this isn't an argument, it doesn't matter "what you believe" ... this is math.
In Louisiana, if you leave your car unlocked and someone takes it, it isn't GTA, its unauthorized use of a movable.
Well yes, it’s not native, but the point was that it’s very simple to use (and install).

As to specificity, I’d argue that it works on the things which stand to benefit the most from it. Parallelizing loops, vectorizing, etc.
Just a reminder that there is a Genetic Information Non Discrimination Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

AND it was passed with a Republican president and with essentially unanimous votes.

"In 2008, on April 24 H.R. 493 passed the Senate 95-0. The bill was then sent back to the House of Representatives and passed 414-1 on May 1; the lone dissenter was Congressman Ron Paul.[5] President George W. Bush signed the bill into law on May 21, 2008.[6][7]"
Ok genetics are fascinating, but 23&me is a privacy nightmare. What’s the state of the art on safely exploring my DNA?
Well, keep in mind that language has remained unchanged for a few years now. Certainly BcacheFS has some theoretical advantages (lack of write hole etc.) but BTRFS has nonetheless improved since then and BcacheFS has gotten more complex.

It's still a very exciting filesystem so I'm sure we'll be seeing third parties test it rigorously very soon.
I'm confused, how does php-fpm connect someone to the right machine? It just looks like basic multiprocessing to me, which should be a basic feature of any decent http server.

Unless you're referring to the 'load balancer' in the comments where someone builds their own multiprocessing by launching multiple servers and putting nginx in front of it. I mean do what you need to do but at least be aware you're hacking together something that should be a basic feature of the http server.

If you wish to push me I'd be forced to admit that I don't like load balancers either, but that's because they're doing routing on the application layer which is not ideal and creates a single point of failure. That ship has sailed though.
Sundar Pichai explained why Apple gets paid so much more for its default deal
Can and do when they get desperate for recruits. They are willing to put more effort into training when they have a shortage of people joining.
People who do the work should be compensated when their work is used to generate income for someone else. This is the way it's worked for as long as I can remember: I get paid to do some work, the company then gets my output.

What we have here is someone hoovering up copyrighted and protected content, from all over the internet, and using it to generate income. They then are turning around and claiming that they do not need to pay for these protected works because... Well, it's always something hand-wavy like "machine learn like people" but it boils down to "I want to keep the money."
DEC did it in the 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_9000#SID_Scalar_and_Vector...
I assume in the smallprint when you got 23andMe to do a DNA analysis of you, it said that you give them the right to do this.

One of those times where reading that small print realllllllllly was important. And anybody who signed it presumably didn't actually understand what they were signing away there.

I'm not a lawyer, but if I'm 23andMe, and I get sued in the USA that there was no actual meeting of the minds here, and that they don't really have consent regardless of that smallprint, I'd not be all too confident I'd win that case (I wouldn't be confident it's a total loser of a case either; the users _did_ sign, after all).

Same situation in the EU and I'd be even less confident.

Hypothetically pushed scenario: A smallprint / clickthrough / 'you accept by tearing this sticker' style licenses dictate you owe them $100000 and a kidney if you fail to review the product with the maximum possible score within 1 month of purchasing the product.

You tear that sticker and fail to review in time. They come a-knockin, scalpel at the ready. There's zero chance you lose in court. That's not something you get to stick in a clickthrough contract. No meeting of the minds would be the legal basis.

Hence why I wonder: Will 'you signed away your rights; we now get to sell your DNA profile' actually hold up?
A glimpse of the next generation of AlphaFold
Zinc ionophores are thought to be very important for zinc availability within cells: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01620...

I’ve seen green tea extract (EGCG) mentioned as a promising ionophore, but there are probably way more.
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And yet these systems are incapable of genuine creativity. If they were, they would be taught rules & techniques and set off to their own devices to draw, like humans. But, they can't and they're not. LLMs and humans don't learn or create in the same way. Moreover, there's no reason we should grant LLMs the full rights and privileges of humans.
Probably just IP location given that it doesn't ask for any location access (unless you click on the button to center the map around your position)
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and X Elite have AV1 encoding too
Does this work without javascript?

I know folks that are very privacy conscious that are used to and hate cookie popups and will treat formbricks as just another cookie popup and will adblock, download a blocklist, or use a PiHole to remove intrusive popups automatically.
Libraries exist?
Do you think books fly onto library shelves for free? As far as I know, someone bought them.
Your neighbour or friend also bought the stuff. I suspect you're not being straight here, I just have to ignore this whole line of reasoning since it seems so absurd.

>Until AGI arrives, or some other method of training LLMs from the ground up on sparse examples by incrementally building on structural knowledge of language.... training on ridiculous amounts of copyrighted content is required.

that's not my problem. Those AI model folk should just compensate the people they're using training data from, and they should ask for permission.

>You could train a LLM only on project gutenberg, and the LLM would churn out stilted English and the occasional iambic pentameter. That's great if you want works that seem like they were written over a century ago, but nearly useless otherwise.

Not my problem. Why are the problems of the wonderful AI developers suddenly human, global problems that we all have to find a way to fix?

If they want access to training data - they should pay for the privielige.
I don't know insurance law well enough to say if that's legally discrimination.

Now if you're asking me personally, I dislike the insurance industry in general. Insurance shouldn't be required, legally or otherwise. At that point insurance companies can use whatever data they want to price policies, as long as the terms are clear customers would actually have a choice whether they want insurance or not.
The difference is that Valve allows you to use a gaming device from anyone.

And even if they wanted to block you, that wouldn't really work as you can either go around it (via the power of Linux) or just install Windows and make it work that way.
You can change it in theory but if that's where your family, job, kids school, etc are? Then realistically you don't have a choice.
> To enable it, use Thunderbird’s settings, access the advanced config editor, search for the setting mail.smime.accept_insecure_sha1_message_signatures and set it to the value true.

I.e. it’s not the default.
The phenomenon of the migration of upper-middle or middle class (that is, those on the margin of luxury) holders of the beliefs mentioned in TFA from blue to red states is strong evidence of his thesis.
I can’t test it on mobile, but the last time this page made the rounds, I was able to defeat the prediction algorithm by mindlessly tapping improvised rhythms (I’m used to doing that when I’m bored).
Skimming the track list, Tendering was first to grab me. The mood changes are so fluid... love it. Thanks for sharing.
Goes on to write a post so unnecessarily long and full of quotes of little known auteurs français, that only people with a lot of spare time can read.
Who is on the right side of history? Visualizing Geopolitics with UN data
I trained a Machine Learning model which groups countries by how similar their voting patterns are in the UN General Assembly (graphs, and link to source code in post).
It's my understanding that the filet is preferred for dishes like this because it's not the 'top shelf' product that it is often made out to be

Steak au poivre, for instance, is traditionally prepared with the filet

Now using a ribeye, I would consider that a waste
50% or 0% are both interesting goals, but the headline implies that the website is some test of free will. If you get 0%, then it shows there is an algorithm that predicts your performance, and the Kolmogorov complexity is finite. That algorithm is the inverse of the one the website is using.

If we conflate "free-will" with "ability to generate truly random sequences" then the goal should be to generate a completely incompressible, unpredictable sequence, which 50% would probably be closer to.
Microsoft Edge does support AV1, but weirdly only through a Microsoft Store extension [1], even though Chrome has support built-in. This actually really sucks because in practice hardly any normal consumers would bother to install a strangely named extension, and so web developers have to assume it's largely unsupported in Edge. Safari ties support to a hardware decoder, which I suppose is understandable to avoid accidental battery drain from using a software codec, and means eventually in some year's time support can generally be relied upon when enough new hardware is in use. But that won't happen with Edge as things stand!

I think it's high time the web had a single audio and video codec choice that is both open and widely supported, which is why I've proposed support for AV1 and Opus for the Interop 2024 effort [2] [3].

[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/av1-video-extension/9MVZQV...

[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/485

[3] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/484
"Return on investment" has nothing to do with spending
According to the article, I rightly choose not to believe they exist because they are inconvenient and I am too busy working to accept such an inconvenience.

The same logic refuted abolitionism.
Sometimes one must examine the criticism of the "other side" rather than simply writing them off as "racist" or "heretic" (depending on the century).

It may turn out that there's some interesting points being made, and you almost walked into one yourself.

What if a lot of these luxury beliefs promulgated by the elite are really just conscience laundering / overt cover for all the bad things you point out they do covertly (strike breaking / bribery / fraud / etc)?

It's a thought worth examining and has non-zero merit.

Some of my trendiest, leftiest friends (hey and I vote all-dem, all the time myself) are actually far richer but come from family money. And many of them are less white/straight/male than me! And many of them have strongly ironic ideas about things..

Greta IG re-posting "climate change is an existential crisis", while owning big ICE SUVs and flying 10x/year. "Soak the rich" (because their dad bought their condo for them in cash and their lifestyle doesn't depend on the high income they believe should be taxed). SATs are racist (but THEIR kid got all the SAT prep / coaching / etc to ensure access to the best school). AOC good & "billionaires shouldn't exist", but happily spend summers crashing in their boarding school friends mansion whose father is a well known but politically quieter CEO.
Saying can’t for a problem with a short term solution is the worst kind of clickbait. “This might delay the process by a few weeks.” Is really just an abundance of caution situation.
easily replicated by my 5-yo niece

I know people say this all the time, but I've yet to see anybody actually try. Pick some "famous pieces" and have your 5-year old niece try to reproduce them. I'm sure you (and she) will find there is a lot more to them than superficially meets the eye.
Not letting you see my face is actually about respect: I don't want people to embarrass themselves trying to read my mind based on what my face is doing while ignoring what I'm actually saying with my words. I've found it's usually people with a need to see a face (or worse, eye contact) when talking who refuse to trust my words in favor of what they assume based on "body language" (at best a weak signal often given too much weight), so it's better for everyone.
I suppose we all deserve a chance to gripe about our jobs in the relevant website or reading material of our profession. That is, to the extent of my capacity to tell, entirely what this article is. With some facts about Flambé sprinkled in. There aren't even really any "confession" anecdotes except "I wasn't trained and I messed up sometimes" and "this woman didn't like bananas but ordered it anyway".
Apple's App Charges Violate EU Antitrust Law, Dutch Agency Says
Which is a kind of nit picking for Google laywers, as the approach taken by Dalvik/ART has been quite common in the embeded space, see PTC, Aicas, Aonix, microEJ, Websphere Real Time,...

Not all of them are available, however all of them do support AOT compilation, and their own bytecode format more optmized for their use cases than regular .class files.

The big difference between them and Google, is that they always played by the Sun/Oracle rules regarding Java licensing.
I used to live in an RV & cabins park in a very dark area, actually inside of the radius of the Very Large Array radio telescope. As part of a barter arrangement I made a website for the park. On the site I pitched the park as a destination for amateur astronomers. Come camp inside of a telescope! We put up some Google ads to that effect.

I don't think they ever got a nibble from that. It turns out that the population of amateur astronomers willing to drive long distances to dark spots isn't all that large.

But this is the internet, and a niche interest can have a significant following, and you're not trying to make a bunch of money with this. So from us dark sky lovers, thanks.
I don't find this lack of separation of concerns appealing, especially for crypto since it dilutes auditing resources. And blockdev-level crypto is simpler and harder to fuck up.

Snapshots and compression OTOH are better done on the FS level.
What is intuitive is strongly dependent on what you have been taught. For example, if you have only been taught to use loops, then iterator functions like map and filter seem less intuitive. However, once you have learned them, iterator functions are dramatically more intuitive than loops.
On the contrary, I think it's very true to the spirit of lost critical thinking.

Every single consumer protection has people show up on the side of the giant corporations. Usually a libertarian type with no clue how furious they would be if they got what they were asking for.
I remember that this was trying to be a thing in the mid-2000s (via COPPA) in order to help better age restrict adult content. Sites would use metadata to signal the apropriate age limit for their content and web filters could use this to deny access. I don't think that ever went anywhere.
Are we going to hold all human artists to that standard as well? I suspect many would fail it.
The term "cultural appropriation" has been widely misused and diluted by people who don't really understand it.

If I, a white man living in upstate NY, were to don Haudenosaunee ritual gear and record myself performing a traditional dance of theirs, that would be cultural appropriation. It refers to a dominant culture taking the trappings of a colonized or otherwise marginalized culture and using them for entertainment, for clout, or otherwise for our own purposes.

On the other hand, if I were to travel to Japan, stay at a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), and wear the simple kimono they provide for guests, or go to a kimono rental shop and rent a kimono from them for the day, that would be cultural appreciation, because that is something that the Japanese offer openly as a way for foreigners to connect with and understand their culture.

In general, cooking and eating food of another culture in your own home cannot be cultural appropriation. (The only exception I can think of offhand is if the food is part of a closed religious practice of some sort.) Similarly with music—it's very unlikely to be cultural appropriation unless the music is part of a religious practice or being used disrespectfully. Hairstyles and clothing require a bit more nuance and can depend on the situation.
I'm competitive. I simply won't play FPS that have aim assist in multiplayer. If a controller has a disadvantage to KBM, they should learn to use KBM, not give them a built-in aimbot.
1. Software companies need to support it. My employers both don’t anymore, including one that says it is “socially deprecated.” A bug in Firefox gets closed as “did you try Chrome?”

2. People need a reason to use it that isn’t privacy. I don’t care about privacy personally and certainly am not changing browsers over it. Could be a killer extension or some new browsing system.
You can release your DNA with an open (source) license. I personally would be hesitant, similar as I would not open source my fingerprints, health records etc., even if it is forbidden to abuse them.
purely functional cookies (eg dismissed_banner=true) don't require consent
Buying your own centrifuge, I'd assume. Though apparently it's easier than I thought: https://hackaday.io/project/160183-diy-dna-sequencer/details
Benjamin Franklin made a similar argument about civilization being dependent on a strong middle class of financially secure business owners who could afford time to engage in politics.

The key difference is that Franklin's middle class wasn't interheted status.
Right, but for some reason it lets claim the moral high-ground. Right now individual taxes account for more revenue than all companies combined, perhaps barring payroll taxes.

Socialize medicine, please. A million dollars for a cancer treatment is insanity, when nearly 50% of the US population will get cancer at some point in their lives.
Recipal. I was building an automated feed for nutritional data based on what customers purchased from the company I worked for as a proof of concept (it was a company sponsored 48 hour hack day).

We found Recipal which really suited what we were attempting to build, but they had a $49 a month API licence cost. I reached out to the founder, Lev, who very graciously provided us API keys for as long as we needed for free, and offered support along the way.

It’s a small gesture in the grand scheme of things, but the whole process was super smooth.

I reached out, just hours later he responded, explaining typically they wouldn’t do it, but he was interested in what we were building. I outlined the details and within the hour he’d produced me a free account to use at no cost, just because he thought it was cool!