skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've memorized the Getty image and could reproduce it for you. Should I be lobotomized?

Can I download you via a URL?

If not this analogy is completely meaningless. You and stable diffusion are just too different.
The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Piracy isn’t piracy either :-). No sailors were harmed in the watching of this torrent.
No, what? This is not about an ideal world, it’s about what ought to be in this one. Murder is wrong, stealing is wrong, and piracy is wrong, same kind of thinking (though hopefully it is obvious that one is worse than the other).
How to probe the silicon inside of a chip – Explained by John McMaster [video]
I would separate pre-order from early-access. With early access content is available and can be reviewed, and you can then decide if what's available is already worth it to you.

And kickstarter is funding, the game will probably not happen without it.

Compare to like the pre-order for Diablo 4, I believe you had like 2 days of closed limited beta test and could play 3 days before general release and that's it. Absolutly not worth buying before review imo.
The social contract is so broken that I'm not surprised that piracy is rampant. I justify it (and I make games). It has all become a matter of leverage, I truly believe that if some companies (or people) could point a gun to our heads they would, and it shows in the way they operate.

And no, it's not always "it's just profit", sometimes it's a shortsighted chase of the next stock value high with complete disregard for the future since lack of accountability is pretty much built-in into the higher classes of managers
Without a clear definition of morality that is considered universal you cannot make any claims about generality.

There are many examples of piracy where no one loses out yet someone does benefit.

Painting such a complex subject with such a broad brush makes it seem like we’re just talking about your particular feelings rather than something universal.

Which is fine, but you’re making claims of generality without presenting a cogent argument.
> There are Arabs who are full citizens of Israel

But they don't live in the occupied territories, duh. They are also second-class citizens de-facto, with a constant need to go through the courts to do everything they are technically entitled to but denied in practice. They are a fifth of the population but don't express anything near a fifth of the ruling classes - to pick the example you chose, 1 out of 15 supreme court judges is Arab.

It's very much like the condition of black people in the "separated but equal" era in the US, when theoretical legal equality was simply denied in the field.

> the population of the muslim Arab citizens of Israel is much greater now than when Israel was formed.

And this is the source of much public anguish in Israeli public discourse.

> The Arab population in the Palestinian areas has also multiplied.

But their land keeps shrinking. The land claimed by settlements is cleansed indeed.

> it seems to be really bad at ethnic cleansing.

Attempted murder is still a crime.
If you don't want to communicate with other Apple owners over iMessage, then there is no issue.

What Beeper set out to do was to solve the opposite problem, people who don't have Apple devices, but want to use iMessage.

And the poster above did have an Apple device, and wanted to use iMessage, but didn't seem to realise that iMessage works on Macs too.
If we're talking analogy, it'd be the loss of revenue from the 2nd car that would've been rented had the copy not been made.
They offer a life-time membership that requires a one-time payment.
Where are the lunches going from? I can bet a few dollars that you as a hired dev are mistreating your users making their computers to do a lot of things they are not aware of for the sake of cancer like growing of your favorite industry. RMS is Clair Patterson of our world and programmers like you are equivalent of those guys who unfairly claim that leaded fuel is OK and a lot of lead in the air was since the creation of the world.
The first pages have drawn me in -- thanks! And likewise, if and as it doubtless holds up to further reading, I'll be recommending it to some friends who will rather enjoy it. :-)
I don't see that I misunderstood anything.

If a software developer consistently delivers high-quality software on time and on budget, that means they're good at their job, pretty much by definition. It would make no sense to infer they're bad at fixing bugs.

It would make sense to infer instead that they're good at catching and fixing bugs prior to release, which is what we want from a software development process.

> the driver who never misses a turn is a bad driver because he doesn't know what to do when he does miss a turn

Missing a turn during a driving test will never improve your odds of passing.

The driver who never misses a turn presumably has excellent awareness and will be well equipped to deal with a mistake should they make one. They also probably got that way by missing plenty of turns when they were less experienced.
Piracy isn't exactly a zero-sum game, there is a cost associated with it. Pretending piracy doesn't hurt revenue is a shaky ground to stand on; now whatever it hurts the artists revenue is a different question, with interesting arguments for how or why modern copyright might not provide the intended outcomes.
Rest assured, I am not defending piracy. Pointing out flawed reasoning is not the same as defending what it is criticising.

My point is that piracy is a natural response to a predatory practice. And that is what I think, that the current state of how the market is configured is anticonsumer, and therefore piracy is a natural response to it. It's not a matter of who is right or wrong. Everything is less than ideal in this whole affair.
So it's immoral for the license owner to share it, not for a random person to download it?
Piracy is so much more than that. If that is your concern you should specify it. Even then the morality is still debatable but in my view discussion of it is a distraction from the bigger issues.
Generative Al in the Enterprise
Speed paint videos for software installations
I wish there was good software for hot pixel removal in normal digital cameras. Sure you can photoshop pictures one by one, but if you have the same set of bad pixels on every shot and need to remove them in batches? Nothing will do that as far as I know.
I think I agree with you. Seeing how something as rudimentary still (in regards to the potential it has) such as Github Copilot makes me write code approx. 30% faster simply by auto-completing the mundane, boring bits of code for me, I'm pretty sure this would have the domino effect that a company can soon not need as many software developers anymore, since 3 devs can do the job of 4 devs.
I kind of liked they did that because now the whole "you would not download a car" became a joke and made the position of the copyright lobbies weaker morally.
Since posting I've reread this and I'm sorry I posted it. Even with my limited knowledge of the subject there are too many complex issues involved here for me to have summarized them in the simplistic way that I have done.
Yeah, but since it won't stop otherwise either, it's better for Israel to maintain stronger military position, which occupation provides, rather than making unilateral gestures in the faint hope for peace.
You can continue to use actions/cache if using WarpBuild :)
Thank you. The company logos connecting to the influencers is a representation of the "bridge" that describes us. We've never heard the whitespace problem before but thank you for pointing it out!
I truly don't see how it matters where the computers are is he saying they airgapped their corporation and never looked at any output? that their product never operated in the UK?

Bizarre.
How is productivity measured in their study though? As it's survey based I presume self reported?

I worry that expectations may have a confounding effect: those required to work long hours may feel less productive relative to the higher expectations of their work culture?

I could well believe they actually are less productive as well, on some objective scale, but not sure a survey could prove this.
Tech doesn't replace you. It amplifies
Don't worry, once they figured it out they are going to put this stuff in every food and you won't be able to eat anything at the supermarket anymore.
> Either this is a lie, the USA and Spain have zero competing interests, Spain absolutely ignores it's own laws and regulations or Spain gave up on being an independent country.

Or the spy chiefs in the USA know exactly what they can ask from their Spanish counterparts and how so they avoid asking things the Spanish cannot legally fulfill.

For example the USA can ask for Spanish defense information, which the Spanish agencies share with them since they see themselves playing on the same team. The USA can ask for information on criminals and terrorist and non-affiliated spies operating in Spain, which Spain shares with them since they are playing in the same team. And presumably the USA is wise enough to not ask for compromat on Spanish leaders or things which undermine legitimate Spanish business interests.

> or Spain gave up on being an independent country

If you want to put it that bluntly. Have you heard the term Pax Americana? This is how it looks like from the ground up. Countries have the choice of being aligned with America (in which case they receive various boons) or not (in which case they receive pain and suffering in all kind of diffuse ways). Countries (and individuals in the countries) then make the rational choice. If you want to be crass about it you can describe it as giving up on being an independent country. In reality it is more like they accept to colour inside certain lines to achieve a greater prosperity for themselves.

Things like they can build regular weapons, but they can’t aim those weapons at the USA, or they can’t sell those weapons to unaligned countries.
exactly what i was hoping to see.

unfortunately i think i fail at building this together.
but if i find a good ipod with decent battery life i might consider building this.

my last ipod had very bad battery.
you never know when buying used
The basic definition of wellfoundedness in Lean and mathlib is in fact constructive, same as in Coq. There are technical implications to being able to reason 'classically' about well-founded relations but they apparently are fairly minor, having to do with the "no infinite chain" definition of well-foundedness. https://proofassistants.stackexchange.com/questions/1077/wel... -- and actually, this requires a form of choice in addition to classical reasoning. Mathlib knows about this, it's in https://leanprover-community.github.io/mathlib_docs/order/or... .

I think I've emphasized above that constructivism is more about preserving and leveraging the implied computational content of existing proofs than insisting on constructive proofs everywhere - the latter in particular adds a lot of complexity even when it's actually feasible, so I agree that Mathlib shouldn't do that. But when something can be phrased as a computable construction or decision procedure "for free" simply by relying on straightforward direct reasoning and eschewing classical assumptions, it makes sense to enable that, including as part of a mathematical library.
Linus Torvalds, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel [video]
Then which specific thing in your conception of the social contact are you equating piracy with?

The post states that piracy isn’t stealing and you agree.

There must be some other thing in your mind that is equivalent.
Try Fuyu-8B or CogVLM. Failing that, there’s always the GPT-4V API. There are also other non-LLM solutions for image captioning / tagging (e.g. what the smartphone vendors do), but I’m less familiar with those.
Sorry but no, this is not a vague concept that we do not share; morality is indeed agreed upon in large strokes, by the very virtue of us interacting in this forum, we already are implicitly agreeing to a number of shared values. For one, you’re not calling me insulting names, you’re accepting I have a point of view, etc.

What I am claiming presumes only that you live in a modern society, and therefore you participate in the social contract. Given that, what I am saying is then a conclusion of that.
> And all that's assuming there is no change to the relationship with the Palestinians. So maybe a change won't do as much as you think – it might just hasten the inevitable.

So destruction now or destruction some time after 2065? I know what I'd pick ...
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Hey there, we offer Ubicloud Runners that are 10x cheaper than GitHub and bill them by the minute. You get a fresh VM with each job; and we use Hetzner as our underlying provider.

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Yes.
Graham is a great guy and I'm working with him to ensure it does.
In my mind chopping off is just stealing. It also kills incentives to invest and improve, which has negative effects in prices, employment...

Deregulation is what allows people to enter markets. Regulation is what puts barriers.

There are plenty of times where regulations are just plain absurd and what they contribute to is to kick out smaller players from the market without any real improvement. It also forces consumers to buy more expensive because the market is more monopolized. Safety is the typical excuse. Sometimes it could make some sense but sometimes is just plain cheating.

I would let people choose carefully and have ALL the information clear (must be really dilligent about this in laws) about what they are buying or not, contracting or not and let the market decide what those levels of quality for each service are and the value they have.
This doesn't happen with the normal REPL (or invoking with clj -X) after a couple of first examples that came to mind:

user=> (defn foo [[a b] (+ a b))
Syntax error reading source at (REPL:14:26).
Unmatched delimiter: )
user=> (defn foo [a b] a/b)
Syntax error compiling at (REPL:1:1).
No such namespace: a
user=>

It will give you a stack trace of the compiler when asked following a syntax error though, with a disclaimer not to confuse it with your own code:

user=> (pst)
Note: The following stack trace applies to the reader or compiler, your code was not executed.
CompilerException Syntax error compiling at (1:1). #:clojure.error{:phase :compile-syntax-check, :line 1, :column 1, :source "NO_SOURCE_PATH"}
clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6808)
clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6745)
[...]

Possibly you were using tooling that always tried to present the stack trace without discerning between kinds of evaluation errors?
It's not even as straightforward as that. Most serious studies on the topic have demonstrated that piracy not only does not lead to lost sales, but in fact it leads to increased sales instead.
Yes everyone spies on each other. It's why embassies largely exist these days.

The only reason you would expel someone is if it was overly egregious.

Not sure what it is particularly special about this event.
My response was nothing to do with owning something and losing it.

It was about the problem of rigid copyright when accessibility options are missing, and the measures that a disabled person might need to resort to to have the same access that everyone else does, especially when the copyright owners decline to make those options available.

It was about being inclusive, and inclusivity is absolutely part of our modern social-contract.

I'd love it if you re-read my earlier post, and respond to the points as made. It's an interesting and engaging debate. Thank you.
It’s immoral for the person who made the implicit agreement (via the social contract and the presumption of the appointment of copyright law) with the owner claiming they wouldn’t share it, and then proceeding to share it.
Every study done on the matter shows piracy correlates with sales. If we are to stop pretending, we should start with ending the myth that piracy hurts sales. There is no evidence whatsoever of that.
We did not try mass refusal of defective by design technologies since Clair Patterson.
It's called a "phone". It works with the "phone network", AT&T communicates with Verizon. They each fund themselves and are interoperable.
RebolView ??
Life isn't fair. If I didn't like a movie, I can't unsee it and get my money and time back. That's just a fact of life. In the same way, people can share content since physics doesn't prevent it. We should just accept these limitations of how we can control each other.
Where did he say anything about 10k versus a million?
Quoting Wikipedia: "Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

Copying a friend's legally-purchased epub is copyright infringement the same way that making a photocopy of a physical book is copyright infringement.

It is not the same taking a book from a library due to the "first-sale doctrine", which Wikipedia describes as "an American legal concept that limits the rights of an intellectual property owner to control resale of products embodying its intellectual property. The doctrine enables the distribution chain of copyrighted products, library lending, giving, video rentals and secondary markets for copyrighted works (for example, enabling individuals to sell their legally purchased books or CDs to others)." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

> so why do we give digital publishers that ability

Because people agreed to special licensing terms that restricted what they could do, in favor of convenience.
MSFT today: $373. Yeah I would say 10x growth vs 4x isn’t comparable.
> What about the hostages?

Legit question and there would have been negotiations happening to exchange hostages for prisoners (like it was done in the past)

> What about border security?

What about it? I didn't say that Isreal should not secure its border. The entire reason why Hamas was successful in the first place was because the border was not secured because the troops were moved and Israel's security services didn't take the warnings and threats seriously that Hamas was planing such an attack.

> The game theory is absolutely clear here. When an attack of this magnitude is carried out, you need to respond with overwhelming force to cutoff the possibility of further escalation. Stop it cold

First, I don't think game theories applies in this conflict and second when did this ever work in the past?
At least I would argue that the "war on terror" after 9.11 was anything but successful. Actually compared to the current reaction of Israel the reaction of the US after 9.11 looks very restraint.

> Restraint here is the significant effort that has been taken by the IDF to minimize civilian casualties.

That's a bold claim, looking at the number of civilian deaths in that relative short period of time. Yes I know that the numbers come indirectly from Hamas but they were relatively accurate in the past when they were confirmed afterwards. Most people say Hamas to blame for this because they hide behind civilians. However I would argue that it's neither morally right nor strategically smart to killing dozens of civilians for one Hamas operative.
Also Israeli officials were quoted with: "We’re focused on maximum damage and not accuracy" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/right-now-it-i...).
I recently found Cosmograph and have been using it for a project, it’s quite good for the specific things it does.

https://cosmograph.app/
It's not stealing. It's communication. You can't "steal" ideas, information or facts. To steal means to physically take someone's property without their consent.
Exactly, he could go and train grog. But seriously, some AI companies raise with ease 100MM or even more. Guess Ilya would have no trouble to raise the same amount or even more. He knows for sure what is needed to get to GPT4 level.
I mostly agree with your comment.

However, HN isn’t only about tech. HN is about fascination for the world from a scientific angle. Most on HN are techies, so that explains its tech bias.

“anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” [1]

“Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.”

^ This does not justify the current topic that strongly. It does justify the fascination for the world from a science perspective angle. It also corroborates your part about stating it’s not particularly significant.

For me, the good faith view of all of this IMO is that having a discussion about friendly states spying on each other with this crowd is interesting enough.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
RCS will be on iPhone next year . Problem solved
The 2009 Euro debt crisis made it clear that Spain has little economic autonomy even when Germany's demands are, economically speaking, insane.
And in my view, the casual nature of piracy enabling the breakdown of the social contract is one of the many things tearing society apart, so to me it’s pretty important.
Or intelligence. Looking at her career and papers sounds like being in the intelligence business, not nepo. AI safety is military intelligence only
Looking at bank security is probably the saddest landscape around.
Most will ask you for a PIN at maximum and then tell you it's not possible to have stronger authentication because of "safety".

I wish there was stronger laws forcing banks to adopt stuff like that.
Natural things can be immoral, and the “state of the market” has no impact on the morality of piracy. There is no justification for lying, misrepresentation, breaking your word, or knowingly benefiting from ill gotten gains, given the immensely low stakes involved in listening to a particular song or watching a particular tv show.
the most likely outcome seems to be a black hole event where new rules of copyright will be established.

I think if you replaced human with computer and went through all the training, you come to the conclusion that the human is recreating copyrighted works . so if you the send that human out to all these people knowing what they know, they're creating infringement.

the hinge will be that the training data was never licensed by the model maker, the trainer for the human computer analog.

the only thing limiting damage is that the scale of impact is unmanageable.
That's true. We have a slightly different focus - CI workloads.
However, the goodness of depot.dev comes from buildkit remote builders and remote cache. That'll be natively integrated into our runners in ~2 weeks.

So you'll get that goodness when running CI with zero changes to your actions needed.
My CPU trying its best to run inference: parallelwhat?
You’re claiming that all piracy is immoral or breaches a social contract. Then you claim exceptions are ok. Thus not all piracy is immoral.

I am trying to get to specifics but you keep waving your hands about this stuff.