skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I may have missed the first time, but didn't miss this. I'll change tone.
Source other than the Daily Mail?
I devoted 10 years of my life to reading Heidegger
Why would they do that? Covid is bad enough already.
It seems they route along roads between bus stops, so you won't get train routes that follow the tracks. But in principle the solution should be very similar.
I mean, it seems like casds of AI regurtitating entire works verbatim is pretty rare. It happens but is unusual.

And also not really what this is about. If AI was just another libgenisis it would be a lot less controversial.
Trade unions in India are paper tigers, and have no influence on those who want to go to the Middle East for labor jobs. The genuine question: are conditions for Indian labor going to be worse in Israel than in the Arab countries?
I don’t see why we should object to equipping our defenses with more advanced technology than those of our adversaries. Maybe forcing vague principles down a company’s throat by a board of uninvolved non-builder types isn’t a strategy for successful internal cultural alignment.

The peanut gallery’s objections don’t matter.
No it's not. Did you even read it? There's a big button that says "Read the guide" that keeps you on the page and tells you what to do. The FAQ even links to this: https://support.google.com/android/answer/6193424?visit_id=6...
No — the Supreme Court will often review circuit splits in law, but these are splits in facts
> If an AI views it, and is inspired by it, again, no harm done.

There's such thing as consent, I hope you've heard of it.

No artist whose work was used to train the AIs consented to such use.

Particularly if they released their work online before generative AI was a possibility.

>it's really there for everyone to view and be inspired by

Generative AI model is not "everyone". It's a model, a combination of data that goes into it.

It's a thing. A product. A derivative work, to be specific, made by the person who trained it.

>If an AI views it, and is inspired by it, again, no harm done.

Such a romantic notion!

But the same metric, a photocopy machine is an auteur that gets inspired by the work that it happens to stumble into to produce its own original art.

No.

The AI doesn't "view" the work, it has no agency. The human that trains the model does.

And that human is the one that is ripping the artist off.

The AI, as many people said, is just a tool. It doesn't suddenly turn into a person for copyright purposes.

It still remains a tool for people who train the models. A tool to rip off others' intellectual property, in the case we're discussing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel%E2%80%93electric_powert...

no idea if any cars use it. probably not since regenerative braking is one of EV's selling points.

I think if you add a small battery to recycle braking energy you get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Seri... which is pretty rare for some reason https://www.greencarcongress.com/2023/01/20220114-mazda.html
Given your particular medical history, preexisting conditions, including past GPs and specialists which your current insurance company may know nothing about, you may already know who you need to see. Re-convincing an insurer can be a waste of everyone's time, and can in some cases create greater net expense and delayed care.

And GPs and other medical professionals have complained to me in the past that some test is not actually necessary, that they are confident in a diagnosis, but some additional test is necessary purely to convince the insurance company that they do in fact know what they know.

I value diagnosis by the appropriate trusted medical professional. I do not value the opinion of my insurance company.
There's no way Apple will capitulate on sideloading in the US. It's clear they are going to go every inch as far as the law allows to guarantee their 30%. They will strictly geofence sideloading to the EU, and they may even try to resist even more strongly by challenging DMA enforcement in court as long as they can before complying. And they'll probably pull more shenanigans like this to try to impose the 30% even on third party app stores.
that's astounding; i would have guessed months or years
This is fascinating to me. Why do we have to go through all these hoops with the bank and somehow, when the credit card # is eventually and ineluctably leaked, the thieves have no problem using it to make purchases, whiteout going through all these 3FA etc.

How is that possible?
My whole BSc degree was in systems engineering and automatic control. You make me nostalgic about all those classes that at the time I hated. What a weird feeling.
You have been using Google less.

Quick: If you want to search on what is the best toaster to buy, what URL do you type?

How do you find out the weather?

How do you find a local brewery in your area?

For me the first answer is Amazon. And the second is ask Siri. The third is Apple Maps.

Google is now below 50% of my search terms. Heck, I’m more likely to search Reddit for some queries.
Those deals are not made in one week. Maybe this agreement with the Pentagon has something to do with the drama of a couple of months ago.
I'm not saying it is or is not a good reason, only that these people probably care about the decision either way.
A little more credit to people for making a funny and a little less assumptions that people are that boneheaded would make the world a better place to be sure. I know for one, I rather enjoy being able to see the humor and having a laugh rather than getting all enraged and venting on the internet to show some sort of self perceived superiority.
Apologies for the strawman then. I just hope humanity can pass on that one, for once.
I'm so confused by this comment
I'm an app designer and was able to get my PWA to look very native. This is my way to avoid the app store fees which are absolutely ridiculous. Apps take up too much storage space anyways.
Reality is not meaningfully redundant at the data level but the computation is nonetheless compressible because the dynamic feature space is vastly smaller than the data.

The macro characteristics of entity dynamics in the world is that of a sparse metastable graph. There is considerable compression possible at the computational level, since most entities in the world are fungible in every discernible aspect, but the data model is not similarly reducible because what can be compressed away is context dependent. Since the computation is less tractable part, this makes the modeling problem eminently viable albeit still extraordinarily difficult. To model the effects of the relatively small number of nodes and entities that can shift the equilibrium you need to compute over the true graph, not some aggregate and summarized roll-up of the graph. There is a real tension between anonymization/privacy (and reducing computational costs) and the ability to build models of human systems that remotely reflect real-world dynamics. Models based on anonymized aggregations are notoriously rubbish when ground-truthed.

It is also important to treat these models as sparse metastable graphs. I am always slightly horrified by the number of serious academic disciplines that often default to modeling human systems as if they were a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problem. Global human systems don’t have CFD-like structure but CFD is attractive because it is easy to reason about computationally and widely understood. A lot of scientific research on models of human dynamics (e.g. epidemiology) that were ultimately debunked had a root error in the use of CFD-like assumptions about how humans interact and behave.

It is technically possible to build a far higher fidelity model of physical world dynamics than I think most people would expect or intuit. Unfortunately, that is not the hardest part of making it useful.
> that is unrelated to its costs.

Are you serious? airline companies is not a good place to be when it comes to margins and making a profit. Business class subsidizes air travel "for the rest of us". Even then, they still often depend on government subsidies to make ends meet. You say business class is a fee not related to their costs? you really don't understand how unprofitable airlines would be and how cheap air travel currently is. In France it's cheaper to take a plane from Montpellier to Paris than it is to take the train!

Meanwhile Apple is one of the highest margin company in the entire world. To put things into perspective, Apple has a /cash reserve/ of 162 billions USD. They have far more money than they even know how to spend. The 30% on in app purchases is definitely not because they need to recoup their costs in any way, shape, or form.
The main problem is censorship by apple on the "app" store... everything else is smoke and mirrors, including money.
Sure, you're not wrong, but my focus was that the benchmark is indicative of the raw performance impact of bounds checks (when they are unable to elided) in a real world algorithm (as opposed to a micro-benchmark).

With that said, convincing a compiler to elide bounds checks (especially Java's JIT compiler) is a hugely frustrating (and for some algorithms futile) task.

It could be an argument that bounds checks make up a small percentage of total application performance. However, I've profiled production Java servers where >50% of the CPU was encryption/compression. JDK implementations of those algorithms are heavily impacted by (and commonly fail to elide) bounds checks.

Performance matters!
One thing I haven't seen anyone mention which I think is the most obvious reason for commission on outside purchases: if Apple did not charge a commission on purchases made outside the app, it would leave a huge loophole - developers could just list their apps free on the App Store with limited functionality, with a link to an outside purchase to fully activate them.
Just a reminder to myself how happy I am to leave this academic level of snobbery behind and migrate to languages that help getting things done and save you from nonsense like this. I did C for about ten years. Hope I’ll never have to do a single line of it again.
This is like hearing about life on an alien planet for me.
this says `goto 50` but there are no line numbers
I think not so much "the harder I work, the luckier I get" as keep working even if you don't get paid much for a while. Which probably is repeatable and you'll likely make money eventually if you bring value to others.
Stock purchase agreement :)
This is the same bad argument made in a sibling comment.

Undefined behavior in C is actually strictly defined: if you want to avoid undefined behavior, don't do stuff the spec specifically says results in undefined behavior, like deference a null pointer.

Writing up a set of rules to guard against undefined behavior (which is a primary job of a C developer) is simply not possible with an LLM.
I also think apple's 30% cut is excessive, but I don't think this line of argument helps. We should discuss the points on their merits, not based on who's making them and how much money they have.
Beaches Are Blankets of Fish Poop
Because being fast is no longer the main reason you make money from software, the platform makes money.

I recently wrote a slowest piece of software I have ever written since I found a job and it is making 1M per day for the company since it owns the damn platform.
The status of Norwegian Nynorsk is reminiscent of Yue/Cantonese. In areas where it is native, it’s used in writing more rarely (and very rarely in official writing) compared to Mandarin (a distinct, not mutually intelligible language) or English.

Another similarity is that Cantonese, like Nynorsk, is considered higher status where it’s spoken, and like Nynorsk it’s under somewhat of a threat so the communities know they have to keep it strong.

What makes it more interesting is that the non-phonetic, semi-ideographic nature of the writing system means no direct unambiguous translation between sound and written symbols—so that you may actually struggle to write down certain turns of spoken Cantonese, even if you are a native speaker!

Another difference is that, unlike Nynorsk (which began as “New Norwegian”), Cantonese is old—at least on par with or arguably older compared to languages used for writing in the same area.
A tuned PID loop should follow a moving target with no issues and no advanced control theory. Here is a similar example from a Lego robot with a pixi camera [1]. The pixi camera recognizes the ball location in 2D, sends to arduino. There are two independent loops, one keeping the ball in the center of the horizontal visual field, by rotating the camera left-right, and the other is keeping the ball in the center vertically, by tilting the camera via two levers.
One thing you might notice is that the ball sometimes goes too fast for the robot to follow - this is due to the limitations of the power of the motors, and the rate of sampling in the loop. Games usually don't have the limitation of the power, but I suppose the rate of sampling and updating the loop could be limited by the game loop. In that case, it might be useful to update the PID multiple times per loop.

Other than that, there are some tricks to make the loops more stable. Limiting the error can be useful. Limiting the action of the actuator. Smoothing the action of the actuator is very useful. I tend to think of PD loops as damped springs. The P term is like the spring constant, and the D term is like friction or viscosity. The first one determines the speed of reaching the goal, and the second one reduces the oscillations when reaching the goal. I rarely use the I term.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IZb0RJN_U
The argument is not so much that waiting will work, as that things more drastic than voting etc. will.

Personally I gave up trying to improve politics where I lived, and instead moved to a country with better polices. This feels kind of like cheating, or shirking my responsibilities, but it was vastly more effective at getting me the life I want.
> While we do offer unlimited searches to our users, such volume was a clear abuse of our platform, against our terms of use. As such, we removed searching capability from the offending accounts.

Don't advertise something as unlimited if it's not actually unlimited.
I think a lot of the discussion is where the balance of the creativity lies when a human uses a model (trained on other artistic works) to create art.

Is the result a copy, or perhaps a derivative work of the art in the training set?

Does the person using the model have authorship of the result?

Was it even okay to use the art to train the model and then share the resulting weights?

Are the resultant weights protected by copyright themselves?

I suspect the actual answers we'll come to on these topics will be full of nuance.
Amiga had no such thing.

exec.library is a RTOS kernel with a round-robin scheduler and (strict) priorities.
Someone told me once "...the thing about missed opportunities is there is always another one right around the corner..."

Focus on making your here and now the way you want. Do the things now that matter.

We can all imagine an idealized world where everything worked out perfectly...but how horrible would that be? To not experience all the pain to make the pleasure worthwhile.
Sometimes it takes decades to realize that experience that scarred you can have a cause/effect on your life in a positive manner.
In my case I know that if it hadn't been for every bad/adventurous decision I made in life led to where I am now...and there are parts of the here/now that I would not trade for any amount of money.
The people I care about, my ethics, my attitude...everything would be different without the experiences that weathered me.

Stop thinking about the potential millions lost...start thinking about how you are going to lose the next million.
Such behavior violates C89 (they later made it unspecified, likely to match the divergence):

> If size is zero and ptr is not a null pointer, the object it points to is freed.

It also violates every version of the SUS and POSIX up to Issue 6 (they made it unspecified in Issue 7):

> If size is 0 and ptr is not a null pointer, the object pointed to is freed.

Going down to at least the 3rd edition of SVID:

> If size is zero and ptr is not a null pointer, the object pointed to is
freed.
I work in a giant investment bank with hundreds of people who can answer across all time zones. We still f up, we still don't always know where problems lie and we still sometimes can spend hours on a simple DoS.

You'll only get better at guessing what the issue could be: an exploit by a user is something you'll remember forever and will overly protect against from now on, until you hit some other completely different problem which your metric will be unprepared for, and you'll fumble around and do another post mortem promising to look at that new class of issues etc.

You'll marvel at the diversity of potential issues, especially in human-facing services like yours. But you'll probably have another long loss of service again one day, and you're right to insist on the transparency / speed of signaling to your users: they can forgive everything as long as you give them an early signal, a discount and an apology, in my experience.
BBC BASIC is surprisingly efficient for an interpreted language. It kind of had to be, running on processors that slow.
Grains of Sand: Monte Carlo Drawing
We don't know what percentage is independent inspiration for a person using the AI to create art.

Once upon a time it was a contentious idea that humans had significant authorship in photographs, which merely mechanically captured the world. What % is the camera's independent inspiration?

Here, we have humans guiding what's often a quite involved process of synthesis of past human (and machine) creation.
I wish the opposition would campaign on, and actually tackle, standards in public life and standards in public procurement.
In about 2004 Business Week had an article that said 'the value of an MBA is simply the salary of the job that your school gets for you on graduation'. No job, no value. Some schools have much better placement departments than others.
I've yet to see an HN hate thread about the trillion dollar company Google and its Play Store, with the same fees, stealing 30% from an even broader part of society.
Yeah, this feels a bit like people complaining about the hippies, but in 1981.
Reasons Not to Use React [video]
confused how both it is advertised, and against ToS
Puerto Rico is using residents' home batteries to back up its grid
Everybody be on the lookout for ToS breakers! The scum must be outed, shamed and alienated. No one should feel sorry for them and we should all compare their actions to piracy or cheating in a video game. Clearly these “beeper” using are infiltrating the platform so they can spam our legitimate users by purchasing $3000 laptops and claiming that they’re only using said app for convenience!

Round them up boys!

PS: my iMessage account was flagged for sending spam (never happened) and unsolicited messages from a legit device. Apple can’t tell where the messages are coming from is what that means.
Fact: Current gen AI are alien intelligence built by brute force - nobody explicitly programmed them (loosely speaking) so the real problem of runaway AI is definitely something to consider, especially since everything is accessible via API nowadays.
Square Enix Splatoon Clone Is Using AI-Generated Art
Reminds me of Mediterranean Omni-Spear https://acoup.blog/2023/11/10/collections-the-mediterranean-... but for this case looks like it's not because of trade, but maybe technology?
> "Go back 10 years"

> College major

OK so we're looking for life advice here. :D If I could go back 10 years with the knowledge I have now, I wouldn't because I'll take what I have now over something potentially infinitely worse through any number of random chances. If I did, the first thing I'd do is go back another 20 years.

Seriously though (and leaving aside 'Grays Sports Almanac' style responses):

- Never stop learning. Everything in life is a lesson, and everything in life is a test.

- Just because you behave ethically towards someone doesn't mean they'll behave ethically towards you.

- Saying no is as important as saying yes.

- Be kind to people when they make a mistake. Mistakes are how we learn, and besides, it's your turn next.

- Be kind to people you have power over.

- Until you take the plunge everyone will tell you not to gamble on a startup. The moment you do, everyone will tell you what you should be doing. Listen to their advice but think really hard before acting on it - after all, you ignored them before and so far it's working.

- Never underestimate the value of looking after people. Genuinely trying your best to help your clients/customers will be remembered and that's better marketing than any ad campaign.

- That said, don't be afraid to shut the door when someone takes advantage of you. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but remember how they treated you.

- The most difficult employee to manage is yourself, so you might have to cut yourself some slack, as an employee and as a manager.

Edit: Oh, also, if you're the kind of person who hangs out on HN and has a burning desire to start a business, it's worth seeing a psych. I'm not kidding, founders have a much higher than average chance of being diagnosed with a range of things, and it might turn out that some of the traits you thought were shameful character flaws are actually easily treatable.
Au contraire I believe Google is the most hated company on HN by a mile and half. We see this play out IRL even with their anticompetitive lawsuit outcomes
You clearly not been looking hard enough; Google, rightly, gets hated on way more than Apple. My experience tends to be that on HN apple can do no wrong.
Turns out they are already geolocking. EU and US have different app stores. When I visited Poland I needed to install an app to install eSIM for my phone and couldn’t do it.

Had to change the country on my account and it dropped all my subscriptions. Then I had issue when I came back with apps not updating. So I had to fiddle with it again.

Extremely annoying.
Caveat: I am not a mobile dev, I don't really have skin in the game here. I stay away because App & Play store sound like nightmare environments to do business with faceless entities and automated bans without appeal.

It really seems to me the best way around this is:

- Don't sell on the Apple store at all with no alternative (likely same for Google if your particular gripe is the 30%). Stick with web.

- Push more PWAs to your customers. Sounds like Apple is finally opening up a bit on that front? Maybe the EU antitrust will open the doors wider.

- Sell ONLY on Apple (and again Google), then 15-30% is your norm, and you won't feel the "loss" of not having a middleman.

The argument about 30% being standard and OK to me only makes sense without the $99/yr license in place, and if only comparing to other locked down platforms. E.g. with Steam, there's plenty of ways to distribute via Steam and still have them take a lower cut, or you have other stores you can sell on. It's only the consoles that have the same kind of locked-down environment, but even then those are explicitly niche devices whereas phones are general-purpose.
>1) Starbucks is a more American thing than a worldwide one.

Starbucks is easily the most popular coffee shop in urban Japan these days. The second-most popular is probably Tully's, which came from Seattle but has disappeared from America and is exclusively in Japan.
Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39010070