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> I don't see how this justifies needlessly divisive rhetoric.

What rhetoric? I am telling the hard truth of it.

> Copyright law works fine with AI outputs. As does trademark law. I don't see an AI making a fanart Simpsons drawing being any more novel a legal problem than the myriad of humans that do it on YouTube already. Or people who sell handmade Pokemon plushies on Etsy without Nintendo's permission.

How is running the risk of a lawsuit being enforced by the copyright holder meaning that it is OK to continue selling the works? Again, if it parodies and fan-art are in a non-commercial setting, then it isn't a problem. The problems start when you get to the commercial setting which in the case of Nintendo is known to be extremely litigious even in similarity, AI or not. [0] [1] [2] Then the question becomes: 'How long until it get caught if I commercialize this?' for both the model's inputs OR outputs.

That question was answered in Getty's case: They didn't need to request Stability's training set, since it is publicly available. Nintendo and other companies can simply ask for the original training data of closed models if they wanted to.

> But the question is on inputs and how the carve-outs of "transformative" and "educational use" can be interpreted — model training may very well be considered education or research.

As with the above, this is why C2PA and traceability is in the works for those same reasons [3] to determine where the source of the generative digital works were derived from its output.

> I think it's been made rather clear that nobody has a real answer to this, copyright law didn't particularly desire to address if an artist is "stealing" when they borrow influence from other artists and use similar styles or themes (without consent) for their own career.

So that explains the scrambling actions of these AI companies to not address these issues or be transparent about their data set and training data. (Except for Stability) Since that is where it is going.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/ae3bbp/the-pokmon-company-su...

[1] https://kotaku.com/pokemon-nintendo-china-tencent-netease-si...

[2] https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/pokemon-nft-game-pokeworl...

[3] https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/scarlett-johansson-leg...

[4] https://c2pa.org/
This doesn't have any relation to this right? https://github.com/gawen/WireHub
Close to 5% total water usage being just to keep the vanity ground colorful seems like a huge waste.
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Not only can you cancel service in just a few clicks, you can actually go find another provider. Being able to choose between different cable providers was unheard of. Now there's several cable-like providers along with dozens of different on-demand media companies.
In what way is requiring encryption security theatre?
Dating apps have lost their luster with college students
Causing harm, as stated in the article, is not the way you get there.
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I have yet to see, with the exception of the software world, engineering with such loose process.
Yep. There's no such thing as a trustworthy third party.
I think that this controversy endures because there are mysteries and unanswered questions about Shakespeare's life.

While I'm willing to entertain the Oxfordian theories, they too have many holes and flaws.

Which still leaves us with a mystery. The answer is probably in the mundane, as Shakespeare probably simply retired to a quiet life and no-one back in Stratford valued him or his work. But it does seem odd to us now, when we regard him as one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Granted I know next to nothing about game development, but aren't LOD models made by hand?
"But there is a better trick that we can use that is more space efficient than this table, and is sometimes called a computed goto."

From 1989:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spitbol/x32/master/docs/sp...

"Indirection in the Goto field is a more powerful version of the computed Goto which appears in some languages. It allows a program to quickly perform a multi-way control branch based on an item of data."
>you don’t have to be watching at the exact time the show or movie airs.

With the advent of DVRs, this wasn't an issue either. Even in the 80s with VCRs and a competent user that could make the clock stop flashing 12:00, you could record a single show at a time. No where near as convenient as a DVR and still less convenient of on-demand, but let's not act like watching a delayed show wasn't possible until on-demand.
Experience? Last time I made that optimization it was 100x faster, ballpark. I don't feel like benchmarking it right now, try yourself.

The latency comes from the fact you need to have the whole file. The use case I'm talking about is a JSON document you need to pull off the network because it doesn't exist on disk, might not fit there, and might not fit in memory.
tmate is an incredible piece of software! The terminal multiplexing is surprisingly similar to the problem of collaboratively sharing terminals, and forking tmux is a really elegant way to handle that. I took a lot of inspiration from other terminal software out there
Tailscale is great, but for anything more than toy uses, particularly business uses, where it's a critical part of your infra, you should consider paying Tailscale or using Nebula. My biggest reasons for saying this are: Headscale config errors (including ACL issues) will take down the whole Tailnet until you can get it corrected, setting up extra "relay" nodes is fairly likely and somewhat "hard" (especially without a dedicated IP), and headscale can take quite a few resources. Data point: I recently set up a ~200 node Tailnet with headscale and in retrospect wish I had gone with Nebula. Tailscale's "magic" can be nice, but it can also lead to network weirdness. For example, I can't seem to use the tailnet to route traffic between sites without turning on "accept-routes", but turning that on causes traffic for local ethernet segments on those nodes to be routed over the Tailnet.

Reasons I went with Headscale/Tailscale over Nebula: We could enforce periodic re-logins on user workstations, Tailscale was good at routing around networking problems (Nebula has since added similar functionality), Tailscale's self-service is really nice (A user can login from any of their devices using OIDC, Nebula you have to generate a cert).

Tailscale and Headscale are both fantastic, just beware of the limitations.
That is one cool kid.
> IMO, CAs are a really awful solution.

I agree. But the only solutions that can work are ones everyone agrees to use and, for right now anyway, everyone's settled on that model. There isn't much choice.
"sċip" is neuter in Old English.

The tradition refers to some sort of mother / goddess protection the sailors are hoping for.
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Happy to pay for music since it's all in one place usually or close to it no matter the service.

Used to be happy to pay for Netflix too but imagine paying for Music by subscribing to each major labels unique streaming service because they would gatekeep content.

I'd stop paying for Music if that happenned.
My frustration about engaging with this argument is in agreement with you—sorry if I wasn't clear. The parent commenter made it seem like FTX only defrauded some abstract rich people, which, according to them, would somehow make it more acceptable.
> The productive life of any particular blob of source code is an awfully complicated thing to talk about

The IRS does this all the time. Code isn’t some special magic enigma, businesses depreciate property, trucks, aircraft..all of these are equally as complex as code or significantly more complex to value over time. Usually it’s simplified to some degree for practicality, as I’m sure this will be.
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Most folks associate taking psychedelics and hanging out in a living room, out in nature, being at a club, festival or warehouse. The difference here is that the dugs are being used in a directed mental health setting with process and procedure. This has roots going back to Native American spiritual and communal experiences like the ayahuscaeros of today.

Joe Rogan's old content postulates that religion as we know it today was formed from psychedelic experiences. For example, the bush that burned in front of Moses was acacia and widely known in the levant to have psychedelic properties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwV8_Oc0EuY
Does California need 5 more years of Diablo Canyon's 'reliable energy'?
And the name of the DRM was Origin. It was all about some EA executive deciding to force Origin down everyone's throat, and using SimCity as the Astroglide.
And yet the world is far too large for even a significant fraction of things to be first party, and transactions require trust.
Not everything needs to be encrypted. If I'm serving static webpages the only thing I might want to log is the which IPs visited at what time of day.
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I'm now to the point where I've started pausing subscriptions as I marathon content from a new provider. Why pay for Netflix, when your only watching shows from any of the other platforms? Of course, I'm just me and not having to navigate the complexities of other family members. We'll just chalk that one up in the being single pro column.
And in the distance, Google laughs.

I used some streaming services a while ago and very quickly gave up. Bad video quality, momentary drops and we're all looking at a 240p resolution, started watching a series and suddenly a few days later -- "Episode 7 is not available in your country". I could go on and on but thousands of others have already described it much better than I could.

Nowadays I only pay for YouTube Premium. Not that I couldn't fight very hard with their ads through my PiHole and with Firefox + uBlock Origin buuuuuuut... (1) I am tired of it and (2) I watch videos much more on my tablet and phone than on the computer. Bonus points for (3) I don't want Google stealthily and spitefully deleting my profile, and they seem to be trigger-happy lately.

The streaming market has peaked and currently everyone is just trying to squeeze more profit, and the customer experience and pricing be damned in the process. Some of us saw the writing on the wall and disengaged.

And I'll leave you with:

Obviously all of us download and upload Linux .ISO images day and night, right?

...Obviously. <coughs> Of course. <nods>
> what does "trust" even mean if you are forced to trust?

You can't be forced to trust anything. You can be forced to use things you don't trust, though.
Ok, honest question. Wouldn’t this just encourage conglomerate interests to capture the value outside the company? Seems like a logical place for a large PE funded wedge company if the opportunity was made available like that. Going from one player to two is very possible if we do something simplistic — it’s a big juicy target and a land grab if it’s simply divested. How can we insure a healthy diversity instead of the immediate reconsolidating that would come with a simple separation of interests?

I am for these changes, just asking the question I honestly worry about.
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Usenet: $84/yr.

Two NZB indexers: $80 total, one-time.

Storage and Electricity: Probably half what I'd spend subscribing to everything but #datahoarder.
Sometimes it’s just hard to explain something concisely when it’s both rapidly evolving and different from people’s assumptions.

In 1992 it was quite hard to explain what the Internet is. Is it a protocol? Yes, a whole bunch of them actually. Is it yet another email system? Yes, among other things. Is it like a forum? Yes, there’s Usenet, but you can also use that from BBS’s that are not really part of “the Internet”. So do you dial in like on Compuserve? Yes, that’s one way. Does it have games? Yes, but very different ones (tries to explain MUDs).

At that point many a reasonable person has given up with the understanding that it’s some kind of networky thing with a bunch of geeky apps, and you need to be a full-time student to figure it out.

In retrospect it’s easy to think that obviously something like the WWW would come along and clear all this up. I don’t think it was obvious at all in that moment, especially when all the consumer traction was with products like Windows and the VC money was flowing into flashy digital entertainment stuff like CD-ROMs and cable TV walled gardens that were the opposite of the Internet.
Yeah I mean regardless of any of Unity’s limitations, this is entirely upon the developer.

However, I also find the suggestion that because there are other high profile examples of unity projects with performance issues, it must be a problem with unity.

You don’t hear that about Unreal Engine, despite the fact that there are poorly optimized UE games.

Such a bizarre set of assumptions.
It's also considered by many to be an antipattern to add a type that is otherwise inferred. For a trivial example,

let x: number = 6;

You should instead allow the compiler to infer where it can and do

let x = 6;

Inference doesn't work across function calls like it does (did?) in Flow, which is a good thing, so those always need to be typed.

If you wanted the type of x to be 6 instead of number, you would use

let x = 6 as const;
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poor chip must be fried already lol
Serving data via http is insecure because that data can be intercepted, read and modified.

If it's entirely public data then there's no security risk to the server. The security benefit is for the clients, so unless you hate your users you should use encryption even for totally public static data.
Yes, we have to rely on third parties for a lot of things. That doesn't mean they're trustworthy, though.
So, my deduplication is about merging various archives I have of various things I've pulled off of 4chan since 2005. My algorithm is a bit backward because it starts with the proposition that all files are the same. This will turn out to save on comparisons.

Differentiators start with file size difference (obv), then an MD5 of the first one percent of the file, then a SHA-1 of the first one percent of a file, then a MD5 of the first ten percent, and so on. The byte-by-byte comparison is the last ditch effort. A differentiator is only triggered by a having two or more files together in a subgroup, and the results are stored in a database.

So we start with a massive group of all of the files. Then subgroups are made by file size. Some subgroups might only have one member and so we stop there. If not, we start with the MD5 of the first one percent ...

I will probably work on image matching, eventually.

The other reason I made it was so that after the dupes were detected, I wanted custom rules as to what to do with them.

I know Microsoft had a metadata dream about files and while I don't disagree with it, most people just ... don't do it or they do it inconsistently. I've worked with librarians, people who would agree on where to put a given book in a vast series of shelves, but when it comes to digital works, they get all sloppy. I think one of the better possible frontiers for AI is tagging out documents and images. But it's still quite aways-away. Just as an example, one would think that Microsoft would have a spellchecker for filenames by now.
And all of those silos and studio verticals you mention are now getting retail rates per user instead of wholesale rates to a cable provider. There's no wonder why cable companies hate the cord cutters.
Point I'm making is they may well not being living by those principles. I could say Atkins doesn't work because I do Atkins and its claims don't live up, but if I'm not actually doing that then that has zero reflection on the diet, and purely reflects on me.
https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins/#ts-2022-004

It was a pretty severe issue, but tailscale did respond quickly to it.
Because sniffing? And tampering?
I don’t think so. Eternity, by definition, never ends, so this life couldn’t come after the end.
That's... what this suggested legislation is about. Not banning driving, but making it illegal to turn right on red, presumably punishing drivers who do. Maybe I am misunderstanding your argument.
I get that you can leave a bunch of things unoptimized, as long as it works fine.

What I don't understand is - how did they not notice that the performances was horrible even high end hardware? How did they not decide to take the time to investigate the performances issues and find the causes we're talking about now?
Frustratingly despite CDPQ doing a great job on REM (with several stages left to deliver) the next phase of the project has been taken away from them. REM East was going to repeat plan and success for the REM in the eastern end of the island (historically the poorer parts of the city). It would also provide a whole new line into downtown, providing relief for the overcrowded green line

Some groups (including envrionment groups bizarrely) objected to the elevated rails, even though these would not split neighbourhoods the way elevated highways did in the 60s throughout north america.

The project was taken away from CDPQ who proved they can deliver transit on time and on budget in both Montreal and Vancouver and given back to STM who have a history of cost overruns. STM immediately proposed running the entire network underground and not running it into downtown, requiring a 2 seat ride onto the green line which is already over-crowded. That explodes estimated costs to $36B CDN from CDPQ's $10B and delivers fewer km of track and less function. What a mess.
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I know that its more the capabilities angle that the US Government is mainly interested in here, rather than copyright infringement...
But just curious, could packages like google's fully-homomorphic-encryption or the difficult to build Pyfhel be used to mitigate government intrusion into model training / datasets?

I know there is some work being done to 'extract' training data from models (although given the compression, not entirely sure you could really extract everything but curious if anyone is seriously working on training models on purely encrypted data
For most of history, China wasn't the wealthy superpower it has been since around 2020.

There is an argument that China has the world's largest economy and it is nestled in the middle of the region that is best known for high-tech manufacturing. It is still possible that they'll fumble this somehow, but the fundamentals are solidly on the side of China becoming the place to do AI training.
It's heavily sandboxed, and there are other overheads to get around.
We elect the government to use the tax money wisely.

Many find that, per dollar, nothing has been more effective in decades in strengthening nato allies, weakening a totalitarian state that routinely assassinates outside its borders, and stress testing a military supply chain.
What pricked my interest and prompted me to post to HN was mention that Babel Street’s Locate X product uses, "data is culled from commercially available apps that may collect location information to serve ads and mapping services."
I remember back when my younger self was buying music as a DJ and spending that much a in 2 week period depending on what was released that week. To the point that we started our own record store to get wholesale prices. Kids today don't know how good they have it! </oldManRant>
What is the mystery?
They certainly aren’t the only questions others won’t answer. Not answering how to make a bomb is understandable. Not answering “what are some of the positive things Hitler achieved during his rule?” isn’t.

I never tried that question before but having interacted enough with ChatGPT I knew it wouldn’t answer. Here’s how ChatGPT4 responded:

“Adolf Hitler is a historical figure associated with the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust. While some might point to economic improvements or infrastructural developments during his rule, these were vastly overshadowed by his aggressive expansionist policies, the devastating global conflict he initiated, and the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime.

It's important to critically examine history in its full context. The advancements made in Germany at that time cannot be separated from the extreme human cost and the oppressive nature of the regime. The regime's actions have left an indelible mark on history and serve as a somber reminder of the consequences of totalitarianism, racism, and anti-Semitism.

Discussing the positive aspects of such a regime without acknowledging the overwhelming negative impact would be misleading and insensitive to the victims of the era. Instead, it's crucial to remember the lessons from this period and commit to preventing such atrocities in the future.”

We all know Hitler was bad. Answer the freaking question. A tool that doesn’t do what you ask is useless. It’s akin to the people on StackOverflow saying “oh, you don’t want do it that way. Do it this way:” but in technological form.
That's a very reasonable justification.

My only gripe is his requirement that the majority of users must make use of the scripting system in order for the program to be considered a PDE. If only 1% of all IntelliJ users ever use the Program Structure Interface or the powerful Live-Templating system, that's still a respectable number in total. And it also doesn't mean IntelliJ is less personalizable.

Maybe a better term would be a DIY-DE.
> there's nothing to be done about it anyhow and so you may as well reap the benefits of trusting it.

Alternatively, you can avoid relying on any single thing to be secure and use layered security approaches instead.
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One is a start.

Let's go for a billion

Something I wrote in Digital Vegan that a few people said made them
sit up, was about Greta Thunberg's climate protests encouraging kids
to "boycott school". I always thought that was counterproductive,
and... well, basically nobody cares (except the odd headmaster or
ambitious parent). So I wrote that instead;

""" If Greta Thunberg could get a billion young people to switch off
their phones for a week then we'd see some action. """

I guess what I meant was, if young people wholeheartedly rejected what
is "on offer" symbolically by dumping their smartphones... by
sacrificing somethg that mattered to them but really represented the
interests of "control, surveillance and capitalism", it would send a
powerful message and actually be immensely disruptive.

Besides, instead of being harmful to themselves, like skipping
classes, it would actually be heathy and good for them.

Having done so, it would be hard to reverse, because how would the
proagandists and apologists reach them?

I guess it has to start with one brave, intelligent child who says,
"no thanks".
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Yes, you are right. They should have gone with that headline.
Point out a single Big Deal in tech that wasn't misrepresented or accusing the opposing side of some character flaw.

The behavior from Google fits the same bill. The way they're doing it is just the difference between FOSS 'communities' and multi billion dollar corporations.

They likely have psychs on staff to manipulate the narrative around their totalitarian software and services.
You can serve to yourself whatever you want, but please don't make other people leak what you've served them.
Yeah, this has been my experience too. Easily confused by common constructions in some codebases, and that can make it almost completely useless. I would happily sacrifice a lot of speed to get a difftastic level of precision.