skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is, to my knowledge, no mitigation of this that has been implemented, or even conceptualized by either stability or anyone else.

I've tried with newer models, and you can't produce outputs with Getty logos, if you use "getty images" in prompts it won't work. Even if you type "Getty" you don't get the logo, I remember reading a tweet by Emad that any reference to Getty had been removed as of 1.5, but I can't find it anymore, maybe deleted now?

So yes, this is a thing, feel free to try it for yourself.

Emad
Then dispute it. I’m claiming it is, and giving lots of reasons. Plenty of angles to approach this, for you.
This peaked my interest until I saw:

"Requires [paid] Nebula Membership".

I see zero reason that I should need to pay them a subscription when all I want is a one-off product. Sure, I can see the use in being alerted when new genetic diseases are discovered, but that should be my choice. It's frustrating that everything is becoming subscription based these days.
How is "theft vs copyright infringement" just a "meaningless difference"?? Stealing takes something away from person A to benefit person B. Copyright infringement just...benefits person B - nothing is taken from person A.

The better car analogy is if you steal a car from me, I no longer have a car, but if you take a detailed 3D scan or photo of my car, I still have it. Of course car analogies are terrible. A library book is better: if I borrow a book and don't give it back, nobody can borrow it again and the library needs to buy a new one (theft), but if I borrow it, make a photocopy and then return it, other people can also borrow it.

The only way you can make it sound like stealing is using the "lost sale" logic, but if the sale isn't guaranteed, it's still "less" than theft, and many studies have shown that the sale to a pirate isn't even close to guaranteed.
traditionally contracts have to be signed by both parties to be valid
Fully agree. On my last job interview, I sat in front of the committee (about 7 to-be colleagues) and the director. I said:

> I will only work maximum 30 hours a week. The reason is that I am not productive after 6 hours. It simply does not make sense for you to pay me after 2PM, because I will not do anything productive from 2 to 4PM and you are wasting money.

Everyone smiled. Except the director.

I still got the position, but the director is still hoping I will at some time upgrade to 100%. I said I will consider again after 2 years, but I doubt my perception will have changed by that time.
A poor kid who can't participate in culture arguably endures more harm than whatever harm might be caused by copyright infringement.
Seems impossible to store photos without recording religious affiliation. Some Jews, Sihks, Muslim women etc wear headwear that is a give away.
> Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with.

I tried beeper before (not Mini though, so could be wrong about Mini) but it seemed to be running a VM somewhere and passing messages to the MacOS Messages.app via some kind of scripting interface.

So beeper itself (the full version) was not “speaking” iMessage protocol at all.
Discovery recently deleted any already purchased shows and series on PlayStation without a refund.

It is not immoral to download content illegally when the alternative is a revocable digital token being sold fraudulently.
> Wouldn't everyone just prefer..

Sure, but I don’t think personal preferences matter that much in this case, most people just end up using what everyone else is whether they like it or not, which makes perfect sense.

But yeah, I think in most of Europe (not all, they were free/almost free since the late 2000s where I am) this started because SMS messages very relatively very expensive back when smartphones were becoming widespread.

Now WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Viber and whatever else there is are quite entrenched so even if Apple and Google get serious about properly supporting RCS it might get tricky to get users to switch back to the default client

Popular non open-source 3rd party messaging apps don’t really have much interest in supporting interoperability due to obvious reasons.

> ..modern texting app that could message literally anyone with a phone number? Without having them download a specific app?

Well on this thread it seems that WhatsApp might be exactly that from the perspective of some people (to the extent that they don’t even believe that anyone in Europe could be using anything else)
Piracy is to increase big time. All it takes is a remote-autonomous drone canoe with explosives and a protection money racket.
Why Switched from SvelteKit to Golang+Htmx (video)
> I think being anti-Zionist means being against both prongs, meaning that there should no longer be a Jewish state. Given the practical implications of that, it seems hard to justify without antisemitism.

Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin is professor of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University. He criticises Zionism, and promotes binationalism as an alternative–the idea of a single state shared equally by two nations (Arab and Jewish)–also known variously as the "one state solution" or "Israeltine" or "Isratin". [0] Obviously if he had his way, there would no longer be a Jewish state–if by that one means an exclusively Jewish state. But, I find it hard to take seriously the idea that a Jewish Israeli academic is antisemitic – his views may well be impractical and overly idealistic, but where is the evidence he's an antisemite? And I think this is just one example of the several different forms of contemporary non-antisemitic opposition to Zionism.

[0] https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/kommunikation/de...
> As cold as it sounds what Israel should be optimizing for is minimizing the number of dead Israelis, now and in the future.

Yes, I get the logic.

But as someone who isn't either Israeli or Palestinian, I give the same value to any life and I'd like my government to 1. at the very least, not support the ongoing massacres 2. pressuring them to stop what they're doing 3. send help to gaza. I'm not american, but if I was, I'd be very pissed that my taxpayer's money is going to this.

Then one could argue that what is done isn't the best course of action of Israel's safety, regardless of any moral consideration.

> I think knowing Israelis will give you some sense of what kind of people they are,

I have no doubt that Israelis are no different than any other people on earth. But really, this isn't the question here.
Nope, it is my conclusion based on a set of priors we almost certainly share.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578872
Sorry, I guess I must have missed something -- why would they crack it if it didn't have DRM already?
That's very black and white thinking.

Copyright is broken, and in many cases actively impedes accessibility. For example, I have many DVDs that have no subtitle options. If I were hearing impaired, and if piracy were "immoral", I would be shit out of luck if I wanted to watch a film I'd, you know, paid for.

In this day and age I can go to OpenSubtitles and find a subtitle track, enabling me or someone who was in genuine need to actually enjoy what they purchased.

(Except in Australia, Open Subtitles is blocked! Its considered by the lobbyists to the Government to be piracy and of course, piracy as you point out, is "immoral regardless" and a "violation of the social contract").

There are many other examples of copyright impeding the creation of accessibility options for media where there is no economic motive or legislative requirement to produce such things, such as in the case of Audio Described content for blind and low-vision users for older films. If you're blind and want to watch, say, the Special Edition of ALIENS (1986) then there's no official option to do so, and the only way to be able to enjoy that is via (illegal) volunteer efforts on an "immoral" pirate-archivist website.
I like the separation that different messaging platforms offer.
Yeah, almost all of it (level 14 or so). I felt the tone was super light-hearted, which was fine but I was concerned that BG3 might be similar. Fortunately, it's not it has a more appropriate tone.

To be fair though, we had our second child in September, so I'm just at the end of Act One (hoping to get some time to finish it over Christmas).
How would the USA know that Spain is sharing everything unless they checked?
>I’m saying; if you’re covering a court case, don’t go off on a tangent and start saying things which are misleading or false with regard to the case.

This adds the caveat "as far as I can tell". That's a caveat that the capability to produce Getty outputs has been removed, it can be tested and amended if new information comes to light.

>What people care about is what the court rules.

Courts also rely on experts and expert testimony, the judge here is even citing a law professor's opinion. The idea that judges never rely on legal experts and commentators is strange.
Except that is not the alternative, is it? Couldn’t you just not watch the show?
"prohibits ... social scoring based on social behaviour or personal characteristics;"

Does this outlaw Tinder?
You can fine tune an LLM to output a particular token for category X. This way, you get 1) fast inference (just need to generate a single token) and 2) confidence metrics (just use the logprobs for the token that was chosen). Gets me to 93% accuracy with a 7B model, trained with only 15 examples per category (around 10-15 categories in total, I think).
Copyright is applied to books and it is illegal to organize a book club where you hand out copies you made of your books.

Handing out the copy of a book you paid for is of course perfectly legal as is giving away or selling your original Blu-Ray discs. Even though entertainment execs would love to outlaw that as well.
Glad you asked: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/
>The fair use excuses here are absolutely weak in Stability's case and this will only end with a licensing deal being made.

There's no fair use in the UK, and this decision is preliminary on whether the case should proceed.
It doesn’t change the argument much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

Off topic: China has done a great job pulling half a billion people out of poverty and it shows.
You signed it when you were born, and you benefit from it every waking moment of your life. The least you could do is abide by it in turn…
Your argument is based on the terms of a conceptual social contract which is ill defined and not universal.

You seem convinced that your system of values are the same set everyone else has. That doesn’t make for a useful argument.
> What about permitting free usage but restricting support to paying customers?

I already provide a generous free version of my app, I can't see how pirating the Pro features, on which I spend an enormous amount of time, can be justified.

Restricting support is what I tried first, but it takes too much time and effort. Email is slow since I'm very often in a different timezone than the buyer. So increasing the back and forth messages for asking for the license, and then me having to go to a non-mobile friendly site to verify that license made the support emails pile up so much that I got burnt out in less than two weeks.

Asking for the license also upsets people that are already angry because they think my app bricked their monitor or something along those lines.
Part 1 doesn’t even mention the destruction, that’s a bad way to write a series of blog posts.
We were taught these things at the Bachelor's program in CS I went to in Sweden. At my first job I then slipped on a banana peel into a de facto tech lead position within a year, and I don't think it was due to my inherent greatness but rather that I was taught software engineering and the other colleagues at my level had not.

Ironically, the software engineering courses were the only ones I disliked while a student. An entire course in design patterns where strict adherence to UML was enforced felt a bit archaic. We had a course in software QA which mostly consisted of learning TDD and the standard tooling in the Java ecosystem, with some cursory walkthroughs of other types of QA like static analysis, fuzzing and performance testing. At the time it felt so boring, I liked to actually build stuff! A couple of years later I joined a team with very competent, CS-educated developers tasked to set up a workflow and all the tooling for testing software with high security requirements. They were dumbfounded when I knew what all the stuff they were tasked to do was!
For simple state management here is what I do: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag...

Here is an application with an OS-like GUI making use of that concept: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
Perhaps if you could register your hardware key using its public key, which could be saved on your device? So you don’t need the hardware keys to be physically present when registering; just when signing in later.
A very “is” argument, but the conversation around morality concerns whether you “ought” to.
> Nobody dies

Yes they do. Copyright and patent trade agreements kill and they kill a lot people.

If anyone is interested in the topic, a good first entry point paper to understand how this works and impacts:

> "What is the impact of intellectual property rules on access to medicines? A systematic review"

> "With very few exceptions, the articles in this review found that the introduction of patents following implementation of TRIPS rules and pharmaceutical-related TRIPS-plus IP provisions are associated with an increase in drug prices, consumer welfare losses and increased costs to consumers of pharmaceuticals and national governments."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013034/

This paper alone should probably get you depressed, but if that gets you going, read "Information Feudalism" by Peter Drahos, then you'll understand how people in power truly have no respect for human lives in developing countries.
What to the Amazon, ChatGPT and Walt Disney logos on your homepage mean?

Your content blocks have massive whitespace between headline and content for me.
In 2023 isnt it almost always better to make a webapp through dash or something if you need a “gui”?
That's a very peculiar understanding of what a contract is, and even of what the ill-named implicit "social contract" is.

There's the law, that applies upon everyone in a society. There are treaties that try to make laws from countries work together.

No morality in that, just practical, time-tested and updated (and updatable) rules & codes. No need to leave a society to refuse and change its laws, hopefully.
I told her it's not activated by default but she doesn't want to touch crypto with a 10 ft pole. She says if it's in there then tax authorities might eventually come asking if the feature becomes popular. And then she would have to keep evidence of not actually using it.

I think her concerns are overblown, but it shows how incompatible taxable transactions are with a privacy focused app. The two things should be kept well apart.

[Edit] Politically, it kind of defeats the purpose as well. You want to be able to argue that you have a right to privacy when it comes to personal communication. You don't want to be in a position of having to defend the privacy of trading securities.
Updated Pricing: 10k MAUs Free, and a New "Pro Plan"
But we are not haggling over the price. apple has control over an enormous portion of the market. I can't haggle because the big guy controls everything.

And saying apples cut pays for more services is just hilarious. we are forced to use those services and forced to pay for them. Stripe does refunds and fraud detection. There are other app development platforms for API's like kotlin and flutter.

And you and I both know that apple's margins on the app store is a joke. Thats why they dont report it seperatly in their financials. Whether epic couldnt make it is their problem.
> Either this is a lie (...)

It don't think there is any doubt that it was a bald-faced lie. The comment reads like a puerile feign of ignorance.
I was getting stuck on some of these things too. Ended up having to explore more of the map to find stuff that was more manageable as well as checking YouTube for some tips on how to play.

Sure maybe they could have included a little more education on how stuff works in game, but it’s not too bad.

What has me most entertained about the game is that your choices and dialogue options have real impacts on your path through the game. Unlike most games that feel like they are on rails.
Cost. Cost is what you are forgetting. Yes - we try to reduce risk as much as we can but the more we protect ourselves the more expensive that is until the last little part it's costs everything.

How many resources are you willing to allocate to limit and control dangers and risks instead of using them for your kids, education or maybe simple enjoyment of life? What percent of your income are you willing to give those who promise that risk-reduction and how can you measure that they lived up to their promise?
The false presumption you make here is that you are entitled to these works; you are not. Furthermore, your example isn’t piracy! If you own Aliens, go watch it. If you’ve lost it, you no longer own it I guess then, do you?
Reminds of the art style of Interface https://youtu.be/gdAbs95GIm4?si=b13uE7ePuBSdK0ev
How to build a Tech startup with no technical skills by Siebel and Caldwell
Summary here:

On Embracing the Startup Adventure:
"They don't realise you're offering Adventure, you're offering the unknown. An adventure isn't here's my idea for a social network for dogs, will you build my website? No, let's build a company together. That's adventure."

On the Necessity of Great Engineers in Tech-Enabled Businesses:
"The more that we're exposed to seeing what these companies look like at the earliest stages, even if they don't look like strictly tech businesses... there's no way these things would have gotten off the ground without having a really great person who cared as much as a co-founder cares."

On the Compounding Effect of Hiring:
"When you start with a team of business people assessing engineers... all of your future engineers are... it compounds bad."

On the Value of Recruiting Skills:
"There are a lot of very successful non-technical people in our network that do amazing work, and one of the things... they're great recruiters... they find a way to get that person to work with them."
I have heard that Deleuze’s works highly derive from Whitehead’s process philosophy (along with influences of Bergson and Nietzsche). Which was pretty unexpected to me, since I’ve previously known Whitehead as a mathematician who tried creating a foundation of modern mathematics with Bertrand Russell (writing the book Principia Mathematica together). So I wouldn’t have expected that he’s actually one of the more foundational people behind continental philosophy, which has a (mis-understood) image of being illogical and vacuous!

Anyways, should read Process and Reality someday, since my interest in panpsychism is growing… (And which might be more useful than reading Deleuze/Guattari since they’re just too cryptic)
> Where is the hacker spirit here?

There was none to begin with. It was an attempt to build a business on top of a virtual macOS.

Edit: sorry, confused them with a different service. This one used previously published research on reverse engineering iMessage to build the business.
Because he quantizes up and coming models. You pay attention to him because he's a proxy for what's currently hot.
"Democratized" is just a fancy way of saying "made it easier for more people to get into it". So you get the same result: more people seeing that becoming famous is actually attainable, which drains talent from more useful endeavors.

(And yes, I'm going to assert that becoming an astronaut, engineer, scientist, etc. is immeasurably more useful than becoming an influencer or whatever. It's fine to disagree with me there, but that's my position.)

Having said that, I do get a lot of value and understanding and useful information from some YouTube channels (which I do my best to support through Patreon and my YT Premium subscription). But not all channels are created equal.
I just have to say, after I discovered the ultra-thin and very fountain-pen friendly Tomoe River paper, I've not looked back: https://www.galenleather.com/blogs/news/tomoe-river-paper
The old version indeed worked that way. Mini was implementing a fully reverse engineered protocol.
TIf I copy the money in someone's bank account - it's just numbers, after all - I haven't actually stolen anything. So that must be ok?

TBH I would be ok with that. But - inexplicably - the pro-piracy people never are.

How about the videos of your personal sexy times on your phone?

Ah but wait! Money has value! No, money does not have value. Money is a special kind of resource-constrained IP with a unique protection mechanism and tightly controlled access rights. If it were possible to hack that system - and some people have done this - it's still just numbers with no more "value" than any other numbers.

Either you accept that ownership and access control are valid ways to manage access to resources, or you go full post-scarcity neo-communist and destroy the concept of ownership altogether.

Anything else is hypocrisy.

The fact that most IP is owned by terrible people and doesn't benefit the artists is a different argument. That's an argument against wealth capture, political inequality, and rentier capitalism - a much bigger issue with relevance across multiple domains.

The real tell is that this is only ever about creative and never expands into wider questions of ownership and resource control.

My suspicion is that non-creative people resent the apparent agency and freedom that creatives have, and this is always more about that resentment than some supposed question around IP.

Basically some guy who makes music is an easier target than CEO bro, and it's always easier to punch down than up.
My man allow me to blow your mind: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/

This is neither my idea, nor is it peculiar in any way. It’s a term used to describe the agreement we all commit to in order to interact in a shared environment.
I was comparing anti-piracy measures with DRM, I don't have actual DRM in my app. I can't block users that really bought the app from using it (which is what DRM is notorious for).

But I do have a license verification for the Pro features (https://lunar.fyi/#pro), and that is what people are cracking in the app. I only added more protection around this verification.
I think so. I haven't read any recent news on it or anything, but there are surely still pirates that steal individual containers or sets of containers rather than trying to hijack the entire ship.
No self importance. You called it a bubble, but the subject is simply so broad and deep that I won't be able to convince you otherwise in the comments section of a forum. For most people it involves turning their world view on its head. If you're truly interested in understanding, listen to the full "What is money: Saylor series" by Robert Breedlove, which is a good introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jAZ0x9H0bQFY6wIbQfn...
I like shotwell better than Folsom... less cars.
Anecdata: all members of my nuclear family have crowded, crooked teeth. We all have a penchant for sweets across the day. My mom is 93 and has no cavities, but her A1c started reading for 6 in the last few years.
I'm 61 and have one filling. FWIW, offer the years, lots of dentists have found other cavities in my mouth, but no two dentists have ever found the same cavities...
Between the four of us in my family, there aren't even 5 fillings in our ugly teeth.