skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>why would I pay spotify $15 a month for ripped off content that doesn't even go to the artist

because if you listen to more than 3 artists, the ripoffs are cheaper. And as is, Spotify has original music but barely pays the artist.

Sad fact is that very few people care about who is behind the art they consume. Maybe they care about celebrity gossip, but that's it.

>while I torrent/share/sample/remix/cover their entire collection?

under this theoretical system, the 90-9-1 rule applies. Very few people will bother producing their own music, so the worries of pirating is way bigger than non-corporations remixing/covering
> According to the Texas Transportation Code, the owner of a driverless car is “considered the operator” and can be cited for breaking traffic laws “regardless of whether the person is physically present in the vehicle.”

This is all well and good when the owner is Waymo or Cruise and actually has direct control over the code that caused the vehicle to fail, but for consumer cars it brings up important questions of what "ownership" even means these days.

Let's say I own a self-driving car that's able to reliably park itself. I pay close attention the first few months to make sure that it's safe and reliable, and once it's proved itself I start trusting it. I've been as careful as can reasonably be expected, but one day the manufacturer pushes a mandatory, automatic over-the-air update that contains a critical bug, and my car suddenly starts misbehaving and I get ticketed.

This isn't an unlikely scenario—how many of us have "owned" a product that has suddenly changed its behavior in undesirable ways after we purchased it? It doesn't seem reasonable to me to hold an individual consumer liable for bugs in a machine that they are unable to fully control.

Either manufacturers need to be required to provide important software freedoms to vehicle owners, or the manufacturers themselves need to be liable for infractions.
I was hoping for more of a "how", but this is a good, "why".
Last time I was looking for a rental in Berlin the norm was to be ghosted after submitting paper portfolio with full professional, financial, and credit info.
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They are also being deceptive in my opinion. They should show their entire chat because if you take "animated sponge", it alone does not generate SpongeBob. The author almost certainly further prodded & guided the DALL-E to generate those images.

The author, I believe, is being purposefully deceptive and hoping people who don't use DALL-E see "animated sponge" generating a SpongeBob look-alike and think they should be burned.
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft to meet 'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis in 2029
Exactly. An enormous database of generic, unmoderated text descriptions. Basically any question you ask will be “covered” by some trademark description somewhere.

Not to mention that the cost and scale of checking every query against that entire database is … not approachable.
The creepy new digital afterlife industry
Google Fuchsia: cancellation of the workstation program
Or we just need a functional Congress that understands modern issues and can actually debate and pass legislation regulating industry.
Chrome browser on fuchsia won't be maintained due to the cancellation of the workstation program.
12 creatures that look the same now as they did millions of years ago
Arguably a nested JSON representation of a tree is even more "real" than the virtual tree you get when you store parent references in a db.
I'm not sure that would follow in the first place. If the thesis is that strong guidance over the shape and direction of a society is largely impossible, then starting over wouldn't really make much of a difference.
> I'm not sure why you think that Exelon didn't consider regulatory risk as one of the things that made it not make sense for them. It was certainly a large factor.

Who cares? That putative issue would be beating a dead horse. If it didn't make sense economically anyway, why worry about that?

> The idea that existing nuclear power plants are losing money because they aren't operationally competitive with oil and gas does not square with the facts.

Oil isn't in the picture (it's not used for any baseload power generation in the US, and precious little peaking). But gas is certainly an issue. There have been existing plants (not all of them, of course) that shut down because they could not make even an operating profit. TMI's other reactor was cash flow negative for six years before it was shut down, for example.

In any environment where existing plants are troubled, building new NPPs is obviously completely off the table economically. V. C. Summer was so out of the running it was better to write off the $9B spent so far on it than to complete it.
Google agrees to settle $5B lawsuit over 'incognito' mode
“The lawsuit filed in 2020 claimed Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using incognito mode. The suit argued that Google's advertising technologies and third-party websites that used Google Analytics or Google Ad Manager continued to catalog details of users' site visits and activities despite their use of supposedly "private" browsing, sending that information back to Google servers.”
States trashing troves of masks and protective gear as costly stockpiles expire
This is...brilliant.

As a vim user, I have never really gotten into the quick fix list. I want to do my stuff in the command line.

But I find that a lot of new command line tools don't match my thinking, so I struggle to use them. (One example is fzf, which it seems people love.)

I do love ripgrep, though. I also love tools where I can see what action it performs before actually doing it. I use `-n` on ZFS all the time.

But making the action itself require a flag? Brilliant. Using stsndard streams? Brilliant. Showing what it will do, not the end result? Brilliant.

I'm going to download and and start experimenting right away.
This is why the judicial system exists.
I think the argument is that, to the uninitiated, x = x + 2 looks more like an invalid equality than "replace the value stored in x with its current value plus 2".

Personally, it seems to me that = for assignment is so ubiquitous that this argument has become stale.

I still use the arrow because it's the prevailing recommendation in R style guides.
That doesn't mean I know enough to believe that it should be proprietary. It seems an odd thing to ask.
How serious is an expiration on something like a mask??
> It doesn't seem reasonable to me to hold an individual consumer liable for bugs in a machine that they are unable to fully control.

They chose to buy it. Manufacturers should also be potentially liable for some classes of problem, but consumers are the ones pressing the "run the self-driving car" button. The court system exists to apportion liability properly past that.
So the models overfit the training data, essentially memorizing, instead of generalizing?
Quantum gravity always felt like instance of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

The novelty of this theory gives hope.
Is there some way to read this without the endless scrolling?
I didn’t say anything about money or the motivation to create?
Humans and machines are regulated and viewed differently all the time.
Yes and no. Being a child of the late 70s and early 80s I "predate" most of modern social media. We weren't connected the same way Gen Z and Alpha have been. My generation knows what it's like to not live in a social media bubble, and have the experience/knowledge of how to live without it. These kids have never had that. All they know is the narcissism and peer validation style of this new world. So in some sense "willing" is a bit strong of a word to use here.
Do you have an idea of what “market value” is besides the value the market has assigned to a thing? I have no idea why you act like that is a bizarre take.

And why do you think engineers are making too much money while CEO’s are waking away with record profits off their backs?

All in all your argument is just anti-commoner pro-elite system gamers, and if that’s how you see things so be it. But I think people should be able to have their pulses measured even if the FDA doesn’t approve and they don’t have chronic hypoxia and they don’t want to integrate with Epic and they only need it on demand. I’ve had family members that were told they must go through complicated insurance processes to get fancy tens of thousands of dollar pulse measures, but then got by just fine with the watch. Masimo wants to put an end to that to secure their own profits, and this entire site loves them for it.
I didn't even realize that this had to be said until you said it. Yes, you should 100% follow up on this stuff. Looking for a position requires being proactive, and the effort required doesn't end when the interview does.
I didn’t say anything about money. Why are people talking about money

I’m not pretending anything. I’m just making a statement about what might happen. I don’t personally care much one way or the other.
For execsnoop, people running systems with DTrace can find the same:

* https://github.com/jorgev/dtrace-scripts/blob/master/execsno...

On macOS Monterey+ you'll probably have to install the Kernel Debug Kit per:

* https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/692444

The Linux variant was written Brendan Gregg (who previous did a lot of work on Solaris, where DTrace was created):

* https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools/blob/master/execs...

* https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/execsnoop.p...
Yet again confirming the pattern that when the title of an article is a question, the answer is "no".
We are comparing US single market vs EU single market. It's EXTREMELY difficult for people not in IT to move across Europe. Many of us have spouses or family in professions which cannot easily be done in different EU countries due to the language limitations. That can easily set you back years in your career or force you to learn a language YOU DO NOT WANT TO LEARN.

Another aspect is local culture. Europe is still INCREDIBLY centered around national cultures despite people trying to be more open.
A lot of X-nationality are still acting according to stereotypes and it's incredibly hard to stay in such country longterm.

Part of being happy is to live in a welcoming, happy place not just money and amazing infrastructure.
Good. Truly powerful ideas do not need to be an appendage of a corporation in order to succeed.
Writing a correct POSIX script to rename files programmatically in Unix is surprisingly tricky; one reason is symlinks, the other is the binary nature of pathnames (the third one is the anemic POSIX spec, but we make use of what we have). It is good that most people went with Perl for safety.

If I have time, I'll check these utils to see if they handle all pathnames correctly.
Usually invoked after some harm has been caused.

Perhaps there is something we can do before the, nearly obvious, harm occurs.
Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check
All while actually useful AIs keep advancing, but nobody is paying attention.

E.g. I think not even Gartner is talking about automatic IT environment configuration and monitoring anymore.
We could reserve the scifi for an esoteric inner circle of enlightened thinkers. People better able to handle the fire of scifi without munging things up.

The exoteric hoi polloi get pablum and propaganda. (They can't appreciate good scifi anyway). Give them moral fables wrapped in cowboys with laser-guns.
Losing weight without any stress
> It is dystopian, and it already exists, e.g. printers refusing to print anything that looks sufficiently like money.

There is no fair or private use of hyper-realistic fake money.

There are fair uses of copyrighted materials unless you want to start suing children for copyright infringement when they draw a character.
At the scale of Spotify and FAANG, hosting that data gets really expensive, really fast. It's again, why Amazon is a trillionarire from giving "cheap server data" to billionaires.

It's also tech literacy. Artists under may be able to host their own servers, but not well. They'd be the biggest targets of all the big hacks (which still happen to said billion dollar corps in 2023), you would want someone who can secure them for you. And they may not know how to host a server to begin with.
Your personal attacks are lame.

I based my argument based on reduction of human suffering.

Now please, buzz off.
I like fresh seafood you like doner kebab. Everybody has its own preference.
The thing is: OpenAI and Microsoft have indemnified their users - so their users problems are their problems.
They also, arguably, add value to the books themselves.
Pg_easy_replicate 2.0
I love the care that goes into the presentation in these old videos.

Slow, with plenty of breaks to let your brain catch up, usually filled with a nice graphical example to keep your bring churning. Plenty of “why” explanation, in the beginning. Authoritative, but not condescending. Just the right amount of jargon.
It's in gross disagreement with figures and modeling I've seen elsewhere.
I know the article focused on the deeper/code-ier aspects of AI. However, I think that it's mundane aspects are going to be huge.

I once had a co-researcher that asked for help with his Matlab code. We were in a smell-lab together working on mice. His code was about controlling some scent valves in response to a mouse putting it's nose in a hole and breaking a laser beam. Importantly, this code was running his thesis, essentially, and he had no coding experience prior to this experiment.

I said sure, I'd love to help, but you owe me a six-pack. So we sat down one day and started going through his Matlab code. After the 18th nested 'if' statement, I had to up the payment to a case of beer.

LLMs would have helped my co-researcher out a lot. He might have actually gotten the code working at least.

Most HNers don't appreciate, I think, how difficult coding is most people. AIs are already helping bridge that gap.

Another more mundane area is in communication. Research papers are notorious for being obtuse and jargon filled, to the point where many fields are nearly speaking another language entirely. AIs can help with that as well. Not only in the writing side, but also in the reading side. Can can put a paper into them and ask for summaries, you can put multiple papers in and ask for review papers. You must be very careful, of course, but the speed increase is just amazing.
I started a company that dealt with a lot of tree like data. It is possible to transform your tree structure into an indented list in O(n) time. This used to be one of our interview questions at the time. There are a number of ways to store your data in various SQL databases that allow you to quickly get and render segments of the tree as well without recursive queries.

Once you understand those concepts, then storing your data correctly as trees has a ton of benefits over indenting like this.
This is not true outside of a small bubble.

In Europe traditional media still enjoys relatively high public trust and high circulation. Weekly reach of traditional news media is at 80% to 90% of adult population in the Nordic countries compared to 50-70% of all social media combined, depending on the country.
In the bottom left "?" button it says it performs PCA down to 3 dimensions. That's going to lose a ton of information, rendering the space mostly useless.
Do you know if the divider can be a / for storing file paths?
Full AACSess: Exposing and exploiting AACSv2 UHD DRM for your viewing pleasured
When I cover generative AI in my Ethics in AI lecture, one of few soapbox opinions I give is that GenAI is doing essentially what people do - copy others. Picasso has a quote about "Good Artists copy, Great Artists steal", which doesn't mean try to pass Lario and Muigi off as your own, but rather that great artists are able to take aspects from other works (also called 'inspiration') without being caught. My personality is a combination of elements taken from Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and King of the Deathmatch Mick Foley. I like making vector graphics based on pictures. I have a folder on my computer called "Website Ideas" that's just screenshots of UIs that I've come across that I really like.

I also point to a YouTube video by Kirby Ferguson "Everything is a Remix" [1] which talks about how so much of our collective culture stems from copy. It's a great video if you have an hour.

When Little Timmy crayons a copy of Mario, we congratulate him for his creativity. Is it unique, one of a kind art? Well Timmy made it, but he didn't think up the original idea of a video game plumber. I give this view to GenAI right now - it's not capable of achieving that "next step" in "original design", but its performing like a novice artist/musician, it's mimicking what it sees.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA
> “funny magic parrot box” can write some mid-tier high school essays

That's your take on LLMs?

Ask it how it is possible for a photon to travel across the universe, arriving at the same time it departed, resulting in the journey taking zero time (in its reference frame).

Ask what implications are if certain viral amino sequences result in messenger RNA translocating to the host cell nucleus, potentially with the entire genome.

Ask if aircraft fly due to Bernoulli's Principle or Newton's Third Law and physical impact.

This is "crypto-bro territory"? No, not quite.
Which as we all know is a super level playing field.
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If I buy a defective toaster and it burns down my house, am I liable for choosing to buy it?
Couples race to get married in Las Vegas this numerical New Year's Eve
Exotic agriculture is ridiculous. We need to have seasonal diets.
I wouldn't call Naptster simple just because it's P2P. And P2P is in fact way more complicated and difficult to do right than a dedicated server. I hope I don't need to describe every disadvantadge and why even Spotify decided to stop using P2P (which isn't purely a control move).
In case anyone was wondering, the moreutils tools:

chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
errno: look up errno names and descriptions
ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
parallel: run multiple jobs at once
pee: tee standard input to pipes
sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
ts: timestamp standard input
vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

from https://rentes.github.io/unix/utilities/2015/07/27/moreutils...

Similarly, there's some lesser-known useful stuff in GNU Coreutils:

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

paste: Merges lines of files
expand: Converts tabs to spaces
seq: prints a sequence of numbers
shuf: shuffles its input
LinuxDAW – Quality audio software for Linux
I made/released this exactly one year ago today.

It's a simple webpage giving an overview over quality software that runs on Linux. It has search and filter to narrow down what you're looking for. Default sorting is latest additions so it can be used as a "news site". There is also a RSS feed available.

I needed this myself, so I used it as a pet project to upgrade my knownledge from Vue2 to Vue3.

Source code is ofc open and contributions/feedback is always welcome. https://codeberg.org/fractalf/linuxdaw.org

Cheers!
> ghosting is pretty normal on both sides of the equation.

I like that you mentioned this. As a job-seeker, if you've interviewed at a number of places and decided to take a position with one of them, letting the others know that you're no longer on the market is just as important as them letting you know if they've decided not to hire you, for all the same reasons.
OpenBSD – WIP port of the Linux ath11k driver
> Uber and AirBnB

The 2 darling startups that are now facing increasingly less rosy futures?

Airbnb in particular is facing enough backlash that I’d be surprised if it lasts terribly much longer.

Sure, they get away with it for a while, but not forever.

> We see in the news every day that once you have enough money laws don't apply to you

I agree with you here, but I think this is a much broader conversation about capitalism in general which would be getting a bit off-topic for this particular thread, except to say, capitalist forces aren’t above cauterising a limb if it becomes too annoying or intrudes on the other limbs too much. I think the “AI” limb might be overstating its own importance, and I suspect that if it got too up in everyone’s interests re-profit, it would, as an industry, very quickly find itself being neutered. Capital interests would love to get rid of pesky human labour, but if the alternative is too annoying, they’ll have no objections to going back to grinding people through the system again.
No, not at all. I see why you think of it as a curse, I don't enjoy it as a resulta, but it's an observation of a pervasive pattern, not a design decision. It emerges from the way humans communicate and organize themselves.

You can either fight it agressivelly and try to minimize it, or you can "embrqce" it and try to adapt. I could force it into a disability analogy:

if you become suddenly deaf, you can agressivelly try to reverse it by all medical means possible, and you might succeed. Or you might not, then it would be better for you to accept the fact you are deaf and design your life around this disability as a means to adapt yourself to it.

That's how I see microsservices, too: accepting that large enough organizations cannot communicate as effectivelly and efficiently as small ones, therefore designing systems to minimize the impacts of these communication failures.
OpenAI also plays some ugly games with regards to the difference between training and search. Search requests come from the `ChatGPT-User` user-agent, and I'd like to allow those; training and scraping requests come from `GPTBot`, and I have no interest in those. But as per their own documentation, putting one in robots.txt disables the other.
If only people would stop acting in their own benefit and increasing in power thereby.
Wasn’t this theory mostly laughed off by both the industry and online? Iirc his introduction of it was claiming he was being oppressed and his theory never taken seriously
Sure, but by that (correct) reasoning the fact that it’s SMS (as a system) or some other system is similarly irrelevant to them and not the terms they think in.
> An author may have planned out the entire story, but later decides to write and release later parts of the story first, and earlier parts later, as prequels, but not include an assumption in the prequels that the reader has already read the earlier-published works.

Still untrue. The author is going to include whatever information they possess in whatever work they create. If the prequels are written later, they will rely on information from the earlier works, whether the author wanted them to do that or not.