skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he’s mad at that wait till he sees what the cp command does!

In all seriousness, midjourney is like any other tool. You can break the law with it, big surprise. It should still be on the person that broke the law, not the makers of the tool. If you go down the “can’t use my art as training data” how far do you push it? I watched Batman, does that mean if I draw caped super heroes I am stealing training data? Wouldn’t that apply to all comics after Superman? Isn’t he guilty of derivative work himself?

Also, nobody is being harmed by this. AI is always derivative. Nobody is interested in copies or impressions of popular art, otherwise the guy selling animes on velvet at the local art fair would be making more money. This just sounds like a Luddite shaking his fist at this perceived enemy.
I wouldn't really call it a loophole, it's explicitly excluded in the law. Given that copyright only applies to original works of a sufficient level of authorship, I think there's a valid perspective that typefaces are excluded.
That's quite the Kerbal approach to space program safety you've got there.
> When you ask them, it's invariably that in their mind, there's mystic connection between comparison operators and if statements.

It doesn't have to be mystic. It's perfectly fine to design a language that works like this. It wouldn't be a good language, but it would be possible.

Just like PHP didn't use to support constructs like `f(10)[2]`, that used to be a syntax error. So you needed something like `x = f(10);` first, before accessing `x[2]`.

If you saw that kind of construction with the intermediate variable, you might also accuse the programmer of imagining mystic connections.
Why isn’t the M missing the top center pixel? Seems like it would make it way easier to read
I installed the app on my phone and laptop, and this seems extremely cool after playing around with it for a little bit.

I don't know if I can get past the faux-open-source-community appearance, however. In particular, there's an invitation to contribute to the project, and I don't understand why I would sign a CLA to give unlimited license for unpaid contributions to an "association" which will only share that contribution back with the community in a restricted way, that they can also modify to their choosing at any time.

Presumably, most or all of the "contributors" on the contributors page are employees.
If they’re making money producing images of IP then…
I'm honestly not well-versed in that, I only get the compliance briefings. I would be curious how they handle people with the same name, though.
I can't understand how people tie themselves into knots with non-equivalent whataboutism when it comes to these correlation black boxes.

The generative "AI" sports out an image it's owners claim is original. That's the infringement.
Maybe DEFCON is better for you? They stick more with the hacking and less with the higher level culture or maybe consider HOPE for that old school phreaker vibe. (Assuming you can easily\cheaply make it to the US)
Policy arguments don't depend on what the law is in a particular jurisdiction. Laws are often malleable enough that if you can convince the judge of what should happen, they can reach the corresponding outcome. When that isn't the case, the legislature can change the law. In either event the first step is to figure out how things ought to work and making them work that way comes after.
I think this is a more elaborate approach.

https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4
I don't like how notes look, which are how I'd use this primarily. I also wish I could put tags in my notes and Anytype would use them.
A stroller is literally an urban vehicle for transporting an infant. "Walking a dog" is the name for a type of ambulatory exercise which most dogs require daily. Car seats exist to make cars workable; cars do not exist in order to transport car seats.

Moving away from cars means moving away from framing our transport needs in terms of problems that only cars can solve.
I threw together a figlet font for this typeface, with a preview, here: https://wonger.dev/posts/monospace-dump#creations

It won't render nice here because of line spacing and unicode but it should work fine in the terminal.

See also another 3x3 font and someone else's figlet port of that one:

https://fakoo.de/en/fakoo/fakoo-ttf.html

https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/2021/05/18/3x3-typeface/
No way rotfl xD
>Just like the weight of a steak, the heavier a length of denim, the better the quality

That...is very much not how steak is graded.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/hugging-face-wants-to-beco...

'Named after the “hugging face” emoji , [...]'
Your friend should've put on winter tires. I've driven >100,000 miles in the snow with a RWD BMW with winter tires. Never had issues.
I don't know. This sort of thing will lead to stuff like recording your own memories requiring a licensing fee if not careful. I also think there's a reasonable argument that the prompter is the one creating infringement.
This illusion is particularly strong when looking from the moving car. Large low flying planes seem to be standstill in this case.
If I go to Google and ask for screenshots from a movie, it will also produce copyrighted material. So you're right that it isn't complicated. Tools with the same capability already exist and are perfectly legal, and therefore, so is Midjourney.
BYD Seagull costs 12k only
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade
504 Timed Out isn't as funny as a 410 Gone
Alastair Reynolds’s House of Suns (novel) and Galactic North. Incredibly fun sci fi.

I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj. It’s a collection of recorded conversations in QA format. I read from it on a weekly basis.
What a change, now the government penalizes marriage through the ACA. I wonder why the shift from promoting to penalizing marriage.
The Rise of the Sectarian University
At In-n-Out, you have to say a magic chant to have them make the food taste better (and even then it still tastes bad).
As for that "100% safe" homeopathic stuff... https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-conf...
Q12: Quantum K12; K12 QIS

- "Future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging industry" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255226 ; QISkit tuts, QuantumQ, The Qubit Game, Quantum Dots as teachable systems,

- "Quantum in the Chips and Science Act of 2022" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32421566 :

> The NSF Next Generation Quantum Leaders Pilot Program authorized by this legislation, and which builds upon NSF’s role in the Q-12 Education Partnership, will help the Nation develop a strong, diverse, and future-leaning domestic base of talent steeped in fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, the science that underlines a host of technologies

> #Q12 > QIS K-12 Framework: https://q12education.org/learning-materials/framework
I don't know how significant it is, but they found microplastics in the arctic, which is very far away from where it would have come from.

That makes it sound like you're going to come into contact with it no matter where you go. It's still a question of severity, but it suggests you aren't safe from it anywhere.
Yeah Dijkstra's main objection to goto is that it's really hard to formally define its semantics and even if you do, the formalism is so complex it's hard to reason about.

Break and continue on the other hand are considerably easier to formalize.
The Python 3.11 release notes have a pretty lengthy list of removed or changed Python and C APIs followed by guidance on porting to 3.11, which implies potentially breaking changes to me.
I’m in the same ship. I’m a serious conspiracy researcher (self titled) who only looks at verified sources.

A decade ago I read about Propaganda Due and Operation Gladio and got fascinated. I did read a couple of books about the topic but I suspect the depth lays in some document cache somewhere in a national archive. I do believe EU countries hold some material.

I was also interested in the Bloomfield archive but didn’t get the chance to dip further. These topics are also semi sensitive, I’m afraid, and might expose people like us to unnecessary dangers.
Exactly. I keep wanting to fall in love with Lapce or Helix because I'm very interested in Rust and like the idea of an editor that I could contribute to, but my (neo)vim muscle memory is just too strong, even minor differences drive me nuts.
itd look like an N.
Emacs is unbelievably full of them, but at the very least if it's missing a switch you can program it yourself easily (and fix any bugs yourself too). Not sure if that's a pro or a con, but the option is there.
> and saw the wage increase as a final straw.

...and saw the wage increase as a useful distraction to blame.
Who was making any money in this instance?
I’m not super familiar with midjourney but it looks to me like he used the free version
So if someone sketches Batman do you sue Bic?
ChatGPT is the next TikTok, in that it will widely influence what the next generation thinks and does. Just wait until advertisers, ideologues, and governments sink their teeth into it to manipulate it, and your kids, for their benefit.
Do you have children?

If you do, can you share a timeline to compare?

If you don't, remember to get medical advice from a real medical doctor, not from movie tropes or random internet comments.
Outside of FFI, is that mostly just for performance optimization?

EDIT: IOW, why don't projects just eschew unsafe in order to truly leverage one of Rust's primary claims to fame?
Here is a dopey idea, What if Wikimedia Foundation were to acquire Mozilla ?
Whole Chinese tech companies are adopting "Nobody got fired for using NVIDIA/QCOM" mindset. Gina is trying her hard to undo that tho.
So, manipulation.
How is the latency, impact on battery?

Would an iphone version be possible
https://thefinancebuff.com/marriage-penalty-under-obamacare-...

For anyone curious.
Absolutely baffling comparison, not sure what you’re trying to say
>if you make people feel like they bear all responsibility, it might help marginally even if it isn't legally effective.

Since we are talking about a system that needs a human on alert and ready to take over at any time to function safely, I wholeheartedly agree. Human nature is still human nature, people will zone out and look for diversions regardless, but fear will motivate some to be a bit more vigilant in spite of the boredom of staring intently at a road that you aren't personally navigating.
America doesn't know tofu
> The thing that gave me pause the first time I thought about it (it was during a test so I couldn’t ask or check) was that if zero is even, that means (despite numbers being infinite) there’s one more even number than odd numbers.

Thanks to Hilbert's Hotel you can re-arrange the numbers to have an arbitrarily larger or smaller overhang of even or odd numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...

> I also knew that 1 is not prime, even if logically it should be. Its definition specifically states a prime number needs to be greater than 1. So that means mathematics sometimes has exceptions for numbers inside a definition.

The definition I use is that a prime number needs to have exactly two distinct divisors. No need for any special cases in this definition.

(The motivation for this somewhat strange definition is so that factoring any positive number, including 1, into a multiset of her prime factors is unique.

If you redefine the prime numbers to include 1, prime factoring is not unique. Of course, you could still make everything work out in the end: you just need to declare that your new-prime factoring is unique up to the multiplicity of 1s.

Just like eg standard decimal numbers don't change if you add leading 0s, new-prime factoring would not change if you add factors of 1.

You can do math with almost any arbitrary definitions, if you add enough exceptions and explanations in your theorems to work around the rough edges in your definitions.)
Does Google claim the image is it's own? No. Does Google include a message that the image is copyrighted? Yes.

Does MidJourney attribute the source of the image? No. Does MidJourney's owners claim the requested image is an original generated by their black box correlation machine? Yes.

That's the infringement. Period.
Does it mean the OS is volunteering the information that something is tapping into the framebuffer? Can that be disabled to render the browser clueless?

Same can happen with Chrome + Google Meet + OBS Studio btw.
why would it, though? Qemu (probably) works on "M" macs.
Virtualbox is linked intimately with the underlying hardware, it's a translation layer - even though it can do emulation, it's x86 emulating x86.

i always thought i was one of the few people that used virtualbox instead of the more popular ones; i tend to forget that there's probably a subset of developers that still use it for the orchestration software that can use it.
i guess that person is just thoroughly unfamiliar with editing colors in hex. it's just as easy for me to think in hex or rgb as it's just something i've done for a really long time, so it's harder to equate to why one would be "better" than the other in their opinion. now, me trying to use HSL is a whole other matter.
Summary: How to Host a Party and Handle House Guests by Judith Brown
“Well, Sir, they do call themselves Hacker News.”
Wow. You really do need to walk me down the path you took from a correlation black box machine breaking obvious copyright laws and recording memories
yes, yes they do. they have entire videos about how to solder.
This reminds me of the time DARPA crowd sourced sub hunting drone testing in Dangerous Waters.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/752576/software-free-da...
Even if it's the paid version, the prompter had it make the infringing content for their own use. And it's only going to be anything more than equivalent to someone making their own sketch of Batman if the prompter reproduces and distributes. It's not like it's illegal for you to tell your artist friend to sketch a Batman either - Comic Cons and such are full of that.
By programming problems do you mean leetcode? Algorithm questions? Should they know sql, or assembly, or maybe JavaScript? Saying they should “test programming” is not saying anything at all. The people who wanted to ask brain teasers wanted them exactly because they thought they were a good measure of programming ability. That someone may think leetcode is what counts as programming questions is just a statement of their opinion about what programming is.
I would say it depends on the details. The generated image are clearly derivative and not pixel perfect recreations
They know exactly what they are doing:

“If You knowingly infringe someone else’s intellectual property, and that costs us money, we’re going to come find You and collect that money from You. We might also do other stuff, like try to get a court to make You pay our legal fees. Don’t do it.”

https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/terms-of-service
It’s not the same thing, but Michelin has a GPS app that has an option to take the scenic route! It’s great for traveling!
> Non-blockchain decentralization projects are often chronically underfunded, blockchain-based projects get a 50-million dollar series B round. It is not from the benevolence of the staker that we get people to put in their ETH to protect the Ethereum network, but rather from their regard to their own self-interest - and we get $20 billion in economic security as a result.
The picture in the article is a lot more than drawing a caped super hero after watching batman. Not to mention that the access to viewing batman for the inspiration is usually behind some sort of compensation.

I would argue that original creators are being harmed by this. Not in a traditional sense, or even in a legal way with any precedence but in a thousand cuts sort of way that is novel.
Slashdotted!
You can, but that won't protect you against invalid dates like an actual date type will.
So like definitions and references in JSON schema.
I don’t see Seo because I never make searches that aren’t restricted to specific sites to begin with, but i do see your point.
I don't get this one:

Did you hear about the two satellites that got married?

The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible.

Should the punchline be "out of this world"?
Quite similar to the New York Times lawsuit. If you can reproduce an original work, then use of the source material was obviously not transformative, and not covered under fair use. These systems can currently function like a lossy compression algorithm.

This is going to be a mess until higher courts in the US or Europe make some rulings. Personally, I think they are going to favor the copyright holders. A few billion handed out to damaged parties, and future commercial systems only trained on licensed content.
That's good insight.

One disadvantage of archived repos is that you can't submit issues. For this reason it is hard to assess how bug free the package is. My favorite assessment metric is how long it takes the maintainer(s) to address issues and PRs (or at least post a reply). Sure, it is not perfect and we shouldn't expect all maintainers to be super responsive, but it usually works for me.
Of course not because you PAID to see it in the first place. Or you watched it with someone who paid. Or you saw it on a website that was free and THEY paid for it. If you never saw it, you would have no idea what it looked like.

You had to see it at some point, the way in which you see it is the issue, not the memory of it.

If you're arguing that the AI is just like a random human browsing the web and they happened upon these things and now they are allowed to sell those things back to me. Man that seems like so uncompelling of an argument to me.

We're not allowed to do this in any other context. I can't learn music and go tour, take requests from the audience, and act like it is mine. No credit or anything. Sure on a small scale, and there are times when it's unclear, but I can't go to Wembly without paying the original owner when someone asks me to play "Thriller by Michael Jackson"
was the language even that bad?
> My point is that it’s more ethical to not make clothes than it is to be the most ethical clothes company

What do you mean? Clothes don't last forever. Doesn't someone have to make new ones...?

I can't tell if you're advocating for global nudism, or if you believe we can just reuse the existing clothes supply forever? Granted, probably they'll last a few decades at least.

It sounds pretty extreme. I do wish there was a way to make nonplastic outdoor wear though. What did people do in the old days? It's not like hiking in the rain/snow was invented recently...
Signal reception
Yes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child...

It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy household without a father.
I see you omitted Pak from this list. Was it an exclusive list?
VBA is still used all the time. As long as you have Excel or Outlook you can use it.
Let’s see how well this works out for them. Sounds like trying to pull the “we’re just a platform card”
How many pixels must be the same to qualify as copyright infringement?
Seems like you could easily add a couple of adjectives / adverbs to make a completely new scene from the movie and it may be considered fair use?
There is established case law? For a talking dolphin?
Since when have cops cared about facts?
Is a definitive legal ruling even possible?
Looking at music for example there are still many cases being fought over stolen melodies and that’s been a thing for generations.

I think it’s going to go a similar way with „AI“ - lots of court cases, lots of different and nuanced rulings converging on a general idea what the legal boundaries are but with many grey areas in between.
> The image generator

So if someone makes a forgery of, say, a picasso, who do we blame: The forger or the brush?

> This isn't complicated

This concerns copyright law, which is handled case by case, and deals with very fuzzy definitions like "fair use" or what constitutes "transformative works", and things like "impact in the marketplace".

So yes, this is a very complicated topic.
I'd actually love that feature!

We have AI now that can write the entire code for you. Surely it's not much to ask that a compiler, as it parses your code and likely already has high confidence you need a semicolon in a certain spot, can just correct it for you and move on. Maybe have a --fix-errors option to the compiler command line or something.
This has been tried in Switzeland circa '09 and produced earthquakes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2009/...
Is there a particular entry point into his work that you would recommend?
Do midjourney's owners claim everything coming out of the black box is an original image?
I couldn't get gpt to quote an actual nyt article no matter how hard I tried...it just hallucinated in the general style of a news article.

Presumably, if it can remember at least a paragraph or two of each article, then surely the same would be true of any text it ingested and the model size would approach the dataset size (probably actually much larger). I don't believe this is the case at all, even searching around, I've not found any good recent examples of it regurgitating copyrighted text verbatim.

It's cool to hate AI stuff if you're a creative atm. But gotta love those generative/algorithm based PS brushes, that's still real art!

"Indeed, the opening paragraph of "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin, with the chapter titled "Bran," starts as follows:

"The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted"

And then it cuts off, whether that's because OAI now have an oh shit filter or just the model had access to the first page or publicly available articles quoting the first line, I'm not sure.

I tried other chapters and random sections and it could get a sentence or two right but then hallucinated; what's more likely NYT and GRRM? That your works are being reproduced verbatim? Or that Facebook, YouTube descriptions, fan tumblrs and hell, the publicly available and multiple GoT related wikis that include a variety of passages from the books were used as training data?
Ask HN: Video Understanding
Is there any product on the market that can understand video, provide a summary of frames, and include OCR features allowing me to search for and locate specific content within the video? I have a ton of lecture videos to go through, and it is bit hard.
An Intuition for Attention (from the seminal Attention Is All You Need Paper)
Eh, it depends.

I don't know if this is the case, but if these images were released to press & public as part of a media resource pack with a permissive license used to market the movie (which I believe is commonly done in this industry), I'd have a hard time empathizing with the viewpoint that Midjourney is doing something wicked by including it in their training data.
Was this not the thank you from GW Bush to Australia for support in Iraq? Were you able to avail yourself of this visa?
"Transformative" seems to fit a lot more that "Derivative".

On the other hand, it's understandable why NYT is worried. OpenAI itself says that occupations like: Writers and Authors, Web and Digital Interface Designers, News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists, Proofreaders and Copy Markers
are "90-100% exposed" to what OpenAI is building.
I am sorry, but what?
"Education about psyops" is not "don't trust the media". Education about psyops is "These are the methods that people use. These are examples where we know it was used. These are techniques to detect it." and much more.

If your psyops game plan is foiled by "vpn detection" of reddit, I don't think you should be playing.