skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They've had their content mocked, copied and even used as hate speech for decades now.

Yeah, by actual PEOPLE not corporations. Even then you aren't allowed to use copyrighted trade marks what the hell??

>There's a good arguement that all of these images are derivative parody works protected by Fair Use, AI-generated or not.

That doesn't even make sense.

>The AI-generation legality part is yet-to-be-decided-on, but it will probably err on the side of model freedom. I wager it's too late to draft a bill that changes things this far in the game.

Hmm، so let's see, it's the entirety of the worlds entertainment and media industry, estimated annual revenue (globally) 2.32 trillion U.S. dollars vs. some startup run by jewish guy that employs less than 400 people.

I agree tho that by now the cat is probably out of the bag and that people will most likely just create their own shitty little models at home and that this will only ever get easier as compute gets cheaper and cheaper.

But do people even realize, do they have the brainpower to understand that AI doesn't mean "independent consciouss mind living in a machine somewhere discovering ideas on its own", that it's in fact much more mundane than that and that in reality what all these models essentially are is just a distributed compression algorithms for digital media?
They stumbled into a position where they can make a crap ton of money going up the stack, which can fund the ongoing march toward AGI. (The revenue not only is cash in their pocket, but it’s also driving up their evaluation for future investment.)
One of the most famous is Rollo Beck and the quelili. Collecting bird species was a very fashionable thing to do, the rarer the more money it brought in. Better to stuff it and exhibit it than to lose it to the forest - this is before conservation was as concept was a thing.

We're losing bird species like crazy - mostly due to lose of habitat (the big reason for the quelili as well). We're never going to learn.
> Clauses in terms of service are routinely updated or removed.

True, but that plays a bit differently in B2B land, because your customers also have legal teams and law firms on retainer.
Inkscape is getting a little old in the tooth. I've used it on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Even though the features and updates are much less frequent than in the old Sodipodi days, I still haven't found the a tool that works better for my needs.

I use it to generate images and graphics for my books. I wrote an extension that lets me create a layer where I create rectangles with ids that will correspond to PNG filenames. When I run the extension it makes the layer invisible and exports each rectangle.
These remind me of the artwork of Ana María Martínez Jaramillo and Natalia Rojas for the board game Wingspan.

https://www.nataliarojasart.com/portfolio

This interview has information about how they create their drawings.

https://www.greenhookgames.com/wingspan-artists/
I have yet to find a conventional hotel search engine that can do anything of this sort either. Want a 1-bedroom suite? Good luck.
AirBnBs are still my preferred travel stay. There’s a lot of negative comments here from people who never used or no longer use it. Here’s why I choose it:

1. Immediate access without having to talk to a human gatekeeper.

My introvert-side loves this, especially after a long day.

2. Beds are great.

There’s a number of standard amenities now for most AirBnBs which is helpful, but I find the beds to be almost as good or as good as my one at home.

3. I can eat at home.

This is a major one for me. I can order the food that makes sense for me, I can cook, and it’s all manageable with an easy kitchen. I’m surprised so many people like hotels given they trap you with no place to store food for yourself & charge you for junk food. This one alone is worth it to me.

4. Hosts are generally responsive to requests for accommodation or addressing issues.

Not every AirBnB is perfect and I rate/review for other travels, in as fair a way to the host as I can. While I’ve certainly had my fair share of places that suck, they were all in cities that were AirBnB hostile. RIP NYC & LA.

Like ordering off Amazon or picking a restaurant off Google reviews, it helps to develop a radar for what a quality AirBnB looks like and how it presents itself. Unlike those sites, I’ve found the reviews to be accurate and helpful in finding the right ones.

While I think the article is fair in its assessment of Chesney’s approach to hyping minor product upgrades, the platform has come a very long way in reliable quality.
Ask HN: How can startups find so many AI-skilled individuals?
I've been closely observing seed-stage startups in Paris, and many of them (perhaps one in two) are currently looking for engineers skilled in artificial intelligence. This is quite new; it wasn't the case at all a few years ago.

What I don't understand is how these startups seem to be finding their recruits without much difficulty (otherwise, the salary offered would be much higher, compared to web development, for example).
How is it possible that despite this strong and sudden increase in demand, the supply is able to keep up?

Have engineering schools anticipated this and trained all their engineers in AI? Have web developers managed a rapid career shift just with YouTube videos?
Or is it that startups claiming to do AI are just connecting to APIs after all (and perhaps I could apply as a web developer too)?
That toaster factory is in US GDP and in China’s GNP. (I think.)
Seriously arguing that "their" in the suit refers to the sellers, not Amazon.

And then they quote a Amazon spokesperson, a VP from NetChoice. Founded in 2001. NetChoice is a lobbying agency representing Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, PayPal, TikTok, Etsy and Yahoo! [1], and the senior vice president of TechNet, another lobby group representing more or less the same group as NetChoice, and more.

1 https://netchoice.org/about/

2 https://www.technet.org/our-story/members/
Yeah so they will basically give protection, like mafia rackets, to anyone using their loot. Classic among a certain type of “business” people.
Folk music. Digging up weird old ballads and learning about how they've changed over centuries. I'm putting together a version of Captain Kidd (Roud 1900) for my repertoire right now.
If you told me 6 months ago that it was possible to get this level of performance out of 7B parameters I would have laughed. Absolutely incredible.
Do you build on AWS AI services then? Or any other cloud provider? The outcome is the same, right? Technical lock in, cost risks, integration maintenance, etc.
They were not able to recognize them as kids rather than generic humans. Kids behave differently and more erratically.

The details are not that imporant. The main point is that they were aware they were couldn't match human performance on kid safety yet still put their cars on the street. all while talking about the terrible toll of car crashes on children.

> Two months ago, Kyle Vogt, the chief executive of Cruise, choked up as he recounted how a driver had killed a 4-year-old girl in a stroller at a San Francisco intersection. “It barely made the news,” he said, pausing to collect himself. “Sorry. I get emotional.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general...
> Are these health effects mainly from (unburnt) gas poisoning and have little to do with actual burner usage/combustion?

It’s a combination. You’re never going to get a perfect seal. But a good range hood will still draw those gases away from your lungs.
Here's some informed speculation and commentary/explanation from a radiation safety expert:

https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2023/11/ultraviolet-rant/

"Having now had a chance to take a look at the likely culprit, assuming a repetition of the previous incident, all I can say is You Completely Irresponsible Fucks. I am having flashbacks to yelling at Naomi Wu for irresponsible deployment of germicidal UV designs in 2020."
>Jogging?

Yes, exercise can be a major trigger for cardiovascular events as well, almost stereotypically so. This depends on your health and risk factors. Similarly, getting high isn't the same as going jogging, even if they both elevate your heart rate. How they do it, and what else they do matters. Chemical stimulants aren't anequivalent substitute for cardiovascular exercise.

>People should realize that smoke is always harmful and then do real studies on actual drugs if they want to know something about them

Smoke shouldn't really have anything to do with these findings. We're talking about heart disease and not lung cancer. Smoking cigarettes is a risk factor for heart disease, but that's not because it is smoke, it's about the chemically active compounds in cigarettes.
Can relate. I get excited about so many things I want to do, but ultimately lack the energy and abilities (executive dysfunction) to do even a tiny fraction of them. And there is this constant self-pressure of “I should do so much more”, which is not helping. Anyway, hope you have a great time and success with your indie game studio!
That is a quote from a political document with a clear agenda, but in context at the time, that statement isn't damning at all (because means of transmission wasn't as clearly understood), and was clarified just a few days later on CDC's website.

At that time, many people thought that transmission was (or might be) also prevalent thorough surface contact. If that was the case, it would be less of a reason to wear masks, as the general public isn't trained in aseptic technique and, as I'm sure you're observed, touches the heck out of their masks.

In that context, there's not a damn thing wrong with that quote.

> Somehow herd immunity dissapeared from the media too.

Yeah, because we all learned new things! We learned that while the vaccines did do a good job at preventing death and serious disease, they not provide a great deal of immunity. And we also learned that immunity, if any, waned quickly, and people could be infected multiple times. So yeah, there's not much reason to talk about herd immunity, because it ain't gonna happen.
Heh, yeah. I was "randomly" pulled aside for extra security screenings every flight. To be fair, I later learned that I was going to the same Arabic language school that John Walker Lindh did. I managed to avoid doing what he did though lol.
Washington D.C. Gives Residents Free AirTags to Help Track Stolen Cars
The trademarks
Powerlifting.

Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't.

It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascular function). Also being strong is useful surprisingly often.

Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested, with the exception of (hopefully) temporary setbacks like injury. Hitting personal records and milestones feels particularly good because you know you've earned it. It's hard! But it's also not so hard that I'm liable to get discouraged.

Lots of people prefer bodybuilding style training, but there's something magic about the barbell for me. Olympic lifts are also a lot of fun, but they're more technical and you need more gear and space.

Also it's much easier to quantify your strength progress (I have a literal spreadsheet), and it feels less vain than focusing on looks (not that it isn't a significant bonus).

Dunno. Feels good. I'm gonna keep at it. Two thumbs up.
Something I guess kind of fits with this is doing seed-bombs, we used to do that a bit when I was young. You basically forcefully plant colorful flowers in places that are not so colorful. Coolest thing we managed to get the flowers growing at was a roof where you could just barely see flowers on the top corner of the building.
This seems like a very misleading title, the Bluesky PDS is the meant-for-selfhosting thing they distribute, not the bluesky service as experienced and used by most of its users.
What's the point of running unquantized models? If you want to run 70b knock yourself out, but you're wasting electricity and life-hours by using 16-bit float at full precision. Even if you could accelerate such a model well, it's not going to perform any better than a decently trained finetune.

The line seems pretty clearly drawn, to me. Datacenter customers flat-out get better treatment, and the gaming segment is going to have to cope with that. Mellanox networking is not coming to gaming hardware, and Grace CPUs are probably not going to get crammed on an ATX motherboard. They aren't the same market, full stop. Maybe Nvidia will have something for you when their desktop chips launch.
They knowingly facilitate short term rentals in buildings where they are prohibited, until they fix that I don't really care what else they do.
Nothing proves to me that you haven’t gotten the slightest idea about what you are talking about than the claim that ARM is a legacy technology.

The fastest RISC-V core available is nowhere near ARM chip speeds; the core itself is proprietary; the drivers can easily still be proprietary because RISC-V says nothing about open-source drivers or boot toolchains; and it would probably be more expensive like all bespoke technology is.
Cheers.

Yes Promethazine (the anti-histamine I'm using) is a moderate anticholinergic.

AFAIK Melatonin needs a doctor's prescription in New Zealand.

I will balance the risks as best I can (lack of sleep is also very unhealthy!!), and keep scientifically trying softer alternatives.
Do you think the West earned its prosperity through hard work? Fossil fuels and colonization built their civilizations, not them. Humans are no more genius than they were a millenia ago. They just accessed a new free energy source, which is soon to deplete, taking the civilization it built with it, into a horrible famine.
Good gas has temperature control feature (at here in Japan), though IH is better for such use case
Repairs and maintenance would generally be expensed.

Expansions and improvements would generally be capitalized.
I'm referring to the second bullet point, though.
Flashbacks to Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic
Collection of "Today I Learned" notes
I doubt their application is suitable for coding, unless of course the goal is to create bugs or nonsense.
Imagine going to the event and all you have to look at for the entire show is hideous monkey "art". If this is what the people like then maybe they didn't deserve to have eyes in the first place.
> If the GDP grows but the people saving money aren't getting the same cut

This is much more meme than truth, and it's frustrating how many people just take this kind of statement as a prior. Here's a FRED chart of median personal income as a fraction of per capita GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b46r

Indeed it has been trending downward, but... not by a lot. In the 80's it was 61% or so (so the median person got 61% of their "fair share" if the GDP was shared equally). Right now it's about 53%, up from a minimum in 2013 of about 52%.

And of course in exchange real per capita income has grown wildly (up more than 50%) in that same 40 years. If you told someone in 1980 that you could get a 50% raise, but only if the people above you on the ladder were allowed to get a 65% raise, would you have rejected it?
> we're talking about calling people as "heads filled with rocks" for suggesting that the current recommendations are bad/wrong/inapropriate/.

There's two different things to discuss here. One is "the science" and one is "public health guidelines", and they're different things. It is one thing to discuss the behavior of the virus in a scientific context. It is another thing to spread memes, FUD, or armchair conjecture in a forum of non-experts that make claims counter to the latest scientific consensus.

> censoring them from social networks, calling them covid deniers, conspiracy theorists, having their wikipedia edits removed,

This isn't a fault of scientists or regulators. This is a failure of social media and their user base. They are incapable of being nuanced enough to determine the difference between scientific discussion, pseudoscience, conjecture, and malice. And so, those platforms became filled with speech that confused all four, and those who managed those platforms threw up their hands and resorted to heavy handed tactics because they lack the capability to do anything more precise.

> If someone (from the government, national 'cdc', whoever) stood up infront of the cameras, said "we fucked up, masks are really needed

When the guidance changed, they did announce the change, along with the reason. The reason wasn't a "fuck up" it was new data that changed the calculus.

> Oh yeah, just a thing I'd like to see with people in power, scientists in doctors... "we lied to you, because we couldn't fill out order forms in time, you could have died by following our advice, but here's new advice, we're totally not lying now, whoopsie, sorry!" (but without the 'sorry'). How am I supposed to trust them now, when they recommend something else?

That isn't at all what happened, or what the problem was. The national stockpile of masks wasn't mismanaged by scientists, it was mismanaged by politicians. And JIT inventory wasn't implemented by distributors and hospital management by scientists, it was done by MBAs. And divesting manufacturing overseas wasn't done by scientists, it was done by wall street. And again, as I said in a sibling comment, the CDC was upfront about the rationale from the beginning.
A walled garden cuts a platform it doesn't like, news at 11.

I don't even like Twitter, but this is yet another reason I stick to PC gaming.
I've had this happen exactly once in I don't know how many hundreds of nights of hotel stays. Yes, it can happen, but it's incredibly rare and not something I worry about.
I do too, except in cases where it’s being used simply as a more complicated UI for `git merge --squash` and there’s no actual “generate a diff and apply it to a different base commit” going on.
"all this time i thought the lasers were going in the other direction" -Molly White

https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1721549511950999579
It may be that they can disagree on other things, but agree on a small thing, like "this code works, or doesn't."

It may be that they don't need to makes sure the whole community can agree on anything besides the thing the community was organized around: in the case of most FOSS, code.

Yes genocide is bad. What has it got to do with the code?
Normally HN is HN. In these comments HN is Reddit: cheap sarcastic “haha I’m smart they’re dumb” jokes.

Very little curiosity or intriguing anecdotes, just “I was smart enough to identify NFTs were a scam from the get-go, so now enjoy your eye damage losers”.

It’s a cheap way to feel good about oneself, but it makes us look like what our detractors say we look like.
If anyone wants to read this in book form, Linear Algebra Done Right includes it as an exercise at the end of a very short and readable chapter 5.C on eigenspaces and diagonal matricies.

The treatment in thirty-three miniatures describes the steps you take but doesn't mention what you are actually doing (finding eigenvalues) or leave you with any intuition for why this was a natural thing to have tried
The principal reason for VCS has nothing to do with "history" at all. It has all to do with "versions".

What exactly the word "version" means depends on context. If you put your essay under git, you probably want to track how it was changing with time. When you hack on some codebase and throw things at wall to see what sticks, you want to be able to go back to the previous attempt should your next one turn out to be useless. You may even want to commit things just because it's a convenient way to send things to be built by CI - so you basically produce "versions" to test.

But when you collaborate with others to develop a project, nobody cares about whether you made typos during your hacking session and had to come back to fix them. It's not a useful information and it never becomes a "version" of a shared project, because why would it? It's just confusing and wastes people's time on review, and makes things like blame and bisect harder to use.

Or when you put a tutorial under a git repo, with each commit representing the next step to achieve a certain outcome. You may have tweaked each step gazillion of times to perfect it, but that "history" is completely irrelevant for the resulting repo. It's meant to store "versions", not "history". Those may correlate, but don't have to.

A git repo is a data structure that you operate on. Treat it as such and use to achieve your goals.

What's funny is that "squash on merge" strategy gets you worst of both worlds. You don't get nicely curated versions in your project because if someone actually cared to fine-tune their MR you just throw that information away, and the rest doesn't care in the first place anyway. Rebasing and squashing is an incredibly useful tool for everyday use by developers in their work, but it often gets used as a band-aid for lazy developers instead.
> I never use rebase, and I've never once had trouble understanding who did what where and when

And a well-organized commit can also tell you the “why.”
I am curious, does the HN folks know if bluesky is more active than nostr or the mastodon network?
Sure Apple could be indifferent to a small percentage of people boycotting their process, but the Public Relations (PR) and Comms group is extremely averse to negative commentary. I'd imagine there are some emails flying around right now...
Reduce the massive amount of dysfunction in heavy civil construction project delivery. If you only knew how bad things really are.
Horsemanship, as a philosophical pursuit and an AI-proof retirement business. Learning Bach arrangements for guitar to play around a campfire. My oddly perfect job.
A booster just completed its 18th flight last week. 18 flights within 3 years. They’ve raised the limit for Starlink launches to 20 reuses.
In many countries of the world, employees get up to about 5 weeks of consecutive paid vacation. Some countries also have a 'holiday loading' of some 15% on top of their normal pay level. https://www.australianunions.org.au/factsheet/leave-loading/

The US is an outlier with very little paid vacation. It seems that some people get no paid vacation weeks at all.
>> My understanding is also that LFP batteries have basically eliminated the raw materials bottleneck, <<

the casuality between the raw material supply bottleneck and LFP would be difficult to demonstrate. LFP has lower energy density and would have required more lithium to get equivalent KWh than what is normally required by high-energy, high-nickel batteries (eg, NCM/A); therefore higher lithium demand, but ...

The price of lithium, and other battery raw materials, however, plunged by 75% since last Novemember peak (still falling) -- it's widely understood that the drop is largely caused by slower than expected EV demand (and oversupply).

>> but I believe the reason for the slow drop is mostly because most of the battery factories currently under production are not online yet... <<

GM forecasted earlier this year that their (Ultium) cell cost would drop to $87/KWh by 2025; just last week, GM reported a 40% drop in their cell cost YoY. Sure, there is 400+GWh new US battery production coming up in 2025-2026 and the commodification/mass-production of made batteries would accelerate further price drop.
I think your math is wrong on this. Advancing the clock one hour (e.g., by making DST permanent) would indeed give more evening sun in the winter.
The fetish scene has remarkably high numbers of people with autism and other behavioural disorders. I think it's because the scene is so open and accepting above all. You can be yourself.
It is clear that these morons didnt understand anything about stage lighting risks. They obviously just went with whatever light sources gave the best bang for the buck. Cheap green lasers, cheap high-power UV lamps, no respect for best practices. I bet that a close look at the stage structure would reveal other shortcomings too.