skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but you still need local handlers for them, and they would be “foreigners trying to blend in”
TCJA actually says 5 years for domestic research and 15 for foreign.
A substantial fraction of those weapons were considered "Tactical" or "Battlefield" and could not easily reach the North American mainland. Europe, on the other hand...

Cold War Joke:
Q: How can you tell if a nuclear explosion is strategic or tactical?
A: It is tactical if it explodes in Germany.

Remember, towns in Germany average 7kt apart.
do you have any proof for this? this is up the alley of something I'm building
Is there an Underhanded Javascript Contest.
I'd argue the opposite: more computers have an end-user accessible JavaScript engine (a browser) than an end-user accessible shell.
now the focus shifts to unrelenting growth at any cost, yay
You can read the whole document, not just this section here:

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...

My read on the section on management has always been that here we moved from theoreticial means of sabotage (cross electrical wires in cable, then plug it into multiple outlets around your apartment to blow as many fuses in the building as possible so that your neighbors can't listen to a propaganda broadcasts) to something that the writers had had deep personal experience with in previous jobs. The OSS was defined by their being outside the old stuffy system, and I'm sure this was a dig at the bureaucracy they were trying to escape from. In the OSS way of making things happen, they didn't want speeches or buck passing.
I've always wondered if this document was originally written in jest.
>need to find underground training models

It's not particularly that hard. The furry nsfw models are already the most well developed and available models you can get right now. And they are spitting out stuff that is almost indistinguishable from regular art.
That's a fantastic point!

Also it made me think about the converse, which might be interesting - libre software. Assuming a company has no plans of dual-licensing, ownership of the actual copyright of libre software is independent of how that software gets used to generate income. Anyone else could come along and use a copy of the software to create a business without any license payments to the owner. Or alternatively the original company could donate said software to a nonprofit steward (eg FSF or Apache) and be in a similar position. So accounting wise, it would seem that amounts spent on developing libre software could be more appropriately classified along with things like recruiting, advertising expenses, or even charitable donations, rather than the creation of an income-producing asset.

Setting up that software to work on the company's production infrastructure would still be a development expense requiring amortization. But the work to keep it running would still be maintenance.
(A) Forget to unmute yourself in meetings as much as possible.
I spent a couple grand[1] building myself an all-flash Pi CM4 NAS that I reckon will deliver RoI in ~25 years at €0.39/kWh. I did it for the sport, mainly, and because I wanted silence and minimal power draw. It works pretty well, though!

The Pi has a nice ecosystem, is better for hardware hackery than N100 mini PCs, and like all cheapish consumer products, people will kinda buy them just to buy them. I have a Pi5 sitting unused on my desk. Doing my part to pay for Eben's private island, I guess. I'll find a use for it eventually.

[1] https://github.com/theodric/NASty/blob/main/NASty-bill-of-ma...
NBA players work at extremely desirable jobs and make a minimum of, like, $1m per year. And yet they're unionized and have the right to advocate for themselves collectively.

There's no "but their job is cool and they could do something else" caveat that makes someone less worthy of professional advocacy.
Then the government pays less by violating the law.

Why would they consider this to be a problem? They defunded the courts, especially for cases like this. And even if convicted, it won't affect anyone personally. Except of course through promotion if they can make it happen as often as possible.
I did some LN work way back at the start of my career. I got to know the C apis pretty well, it wasn't that fun.

Strangely, as CPUs/PCs got faster, it seemed to get slower. By the time 2000 rolled around it would take SO LONG for a notes square/app to open.

It was an interesting piece of software. Nothing has really replicated it. I'm kind of shocked it hasn't been dumped on the open source market and then rebuilt from the ground up.
You can thank all the scalpers scraping the website every second and possibly trying to circumvent blocks with VPNs.
No, it takes a long time depending on the product and doesn’t really self-seal per-se. It just hardens in the hole and kind of draws down into the hole in the first few hours…

You drill a hole and then mix and fill it. This product and its competitors is generally like a pancake batter.
The product sits in the hole and becomes hardened fairly quickly as it reacts.

Generally I’ve seen it do cracking work overnight (like 12-16 hours), though most of the time when I’ve used it 2 days show the full results you’re going to get. It can really take some time.

I’ve split absolutely massive boulders with this stuff. As big as houses with a 3.5’ foot hole. Often the cracks will run hole-to-hole so you have to really think about the pattern to break the rocks.
> Every major commodity ... etc has large scale automated production.

the automate-able industries have done it, leaving behind the ones that aren't as automatable. This is why there's still many developing countries that export cheap labour. You can think of those as the "underpaid" class.

Not necessarily bad, since i believe they are not being forced under lock and chain in slavery. They are merely economically incentivized.
starvation is not a problem in developed countries which is the topic we are talking about here...
If NASA says "We're going to send a helicopter to mars with the mission of taking 5 flights" is that somehow bad? If the quality of the engineering and the quality of the parts, and all the redundant systems and fail-safes required to absolutely guarantee that the helicopter will complete its mission of five flights then go on to allow the helicopter to take more flights before it finally breaks down, that isn't NASA lying to anyone or "pushing a line". If the media then tells the public that the helicopter was designed to make 5 flights, but got over 70 that's not misleading anyone.
Just went to MySpace to see if it is even possible to start a new account. The most recent posts are from March, 2022. Did it shut down? Nothing about it on Wikipedia.
> With all due respect to LeCun, not him nor anyone else in the field predicted the new emergent capabilities brought within the last few years.

Turing predicted it would happen around the year 2000 and take ~1gb of ram.

> I believe that in about fifty years’ time it will be possible to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10^9, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent, chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning. https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238

I think Turing was right. If I run TinyLlama 1.1B on my computer I can have a conversation where it pretends to be a person. It's small and fast enough that it'd probably run fine on a high end workstation from 2000. If the tech was possible back then, then it probably existed. Keep in mind Turing was the sort of person whose work at Bletchley Park took 30 years to declassify.
> still can't believe this century got off to a start so bent out of shape over mere terrorism.

that would be because nukes are completely useless against anything assymetrical
wage fixing to limit the number of figures in existing 6 figures salaries in Silicon Valley? Please, don't make me cry.
No. Places where execution can be interrupted should be obvious and explicit.
COVID, according to my fiancee
The image generation models now are at the point where they can produce their own synthetic training images. So I'm not sure how big of an impact something like this would have.
I feel that Graeber had made a conscious choice to create a new fable, in a sense. That is, to the extent that most people think about the beginnings of civilization at all, they repeat just-so stories invented during the Enlightenment. Those stories wove themselves into our collective subconscious, and guide our collective decisions today. They help provide limits on what we think it is possible for government to be -- or not to be.

Graeber, I think, wanted to change our perceived limits by challenging the old stories and weaving a new one.
Why is that video an unlisted video?
It’s pretty damn conspicuous to use. :)
If every part of a human coming from evolution, how it synchronize between each part? Is there any books explaining evolution in detail? How cell formed? How they found a way to multiply? How they choose DNA to store the information? And so on.
Nightshade is intended to make minimal changes so I think that might be one argument though a difficult sell to some.

The original post is mainly about the current legality, I'm torn as to what the moral balance is, but poisoning data is similar to a lot of historical asymmetrical methods of topical influence through intentional property destruction, and that's an issue.

For example, the counterintuitive example of you poisoning a sandwich if your coworker is eating it makes you liable even if the original action is wrong on the coworker's part, if that makes sense.

It's not necessarily an intuitive legal construct but a necessary one at least.

That said, I think w.r.t. a final solution, grassroots vs big money legal will be the long-term playing field and I think efforts would be well spent on that. Though I worry about the perceived desperation of the field if people are this ready to poison open-field data in order to protect what they determine their own interests to be.

I think that's the big marker here that we should look at and be worried about, usually when ignored that tends to preclude different types of issues/problems.
That’s why we invented national labs, to keep those potential bad actors occupied with better goals.
Yes, that's a legal doctrine that offers a great deal of utility. But how does it in any way alter the underlying reality of anything?
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Are you inherently saying that the Japanese anime industry is not following regulations? Because they are, and they have been surviving this way for decades and have no problem finding people who want to work there.
I have proactively searched for factual critiques of Debt. I've only found quibbles about the phrasing he uses to describe the Federal Reserve. If you can show me a more substantive critique, I'd love to read it.
What is the biggest weakness of India?
Ask HN: Are there any human blood tissue FT libraries out there?
Looking to spear-head turning off breast cancer cells using low-frequency ultrasound (there is a 510(k) substantial equivalent!); would like to know if there are any repos with biovascular tissue filters pre-designed for the frequency analysis of the plasma membrane acoustic transductions?

Thanks! -Joseph A. joseph@adilettante.com
This means something different than adrr is asking about. The IRS has depreciation schedules for different asset classes. For example, trucks are 5 years; real estate is 39 years; but you can under some circumstances use an Alternative Depreciation Schedule (ADS).. the depreciation schedule should match the usable lifetime of the asset.

But if the typical lifetime is 5 years, but you use an ADS of 2 years... you are not disposing or abandoning the asset if you keep it for 2 years. 2 years is the expected life time of the asset, and at the end of year 2, the asset has a value of $0.

If you depreciate over 5 years, but then on year 2 decide you don't need the asset anymore, then you'll dispose of it. The asset is valued at 3/5ths of the original price. The paragraph you're quoting applies to this scenario.

ADS doesn't apply here though, because TCJA requires 5 years for domestic and 15 years for foreign research.
I'm sorry, but Singapore came pretty close to collapsing in the 1960s, especially just after its expulsion from Malaysia. Just about only thing it had going for it was its geography. The UMNO in Malaysia was banking on Singapore asking to rejoin the federation on significantly more unfavourable terms than the latter got in 1963, after teetering on the verge of complete state failure.

Make no mistake—Singapore's prosperity today is no accident.

Your claim is essentially that cities, and therefore city-states, will naturally fall into wealth and prosperity. I wonder what happened to Athens, Venice, Genoa, and all the other merchant city-states, the equivalents of Singapore on the ancient, mediaeval, and early-modern world.
Adult ADHD Is the Wild West of Psychiatry
The practical reality so far is that SteamOS is functionally a platform exclusive OS not available to any other vendors.
You're correct that lithium mining is digging holes in the dirt, much like iron ore.

That is not the problem.

The issue is concentrate processing, to get useful elements from the "dirt of interest".

That concentrate processing involves large quantities of sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, and other fun agents and also requires long term storage of waste waters (with aforementioned acids) and storage of low-level radioactive waste.

This is the reason that Lynas was asked to leave Malaysia and why they are seeking other locations.

> Lithium mining is a drop in the bucked compared to iron and friends.

Apples, oranges, and a clear sign you're not familiar with the details of both.

FWiW I worked decades as an exploration geophysical surveyor, contributed to the seeting up, running, and sale of the world's largest commercial mineral intelligence database, visited many mining and processing operations aboout the globe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-22/malaysians-divided-on...

An Australian mining company has been told to "get lost" and "go back to Australia" amid an ongoing row over hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste piling up in Malaysia.

https://www.australianmining.com.au/a-big-win-for-lynas-in-m...

https://www.australianresourcesandinvestment.com.au/2023/02/...
There is no such thing as an "engine of economic production" that has any concrete existence per se. You are reifying abstractions. These analytical models might be useful, but they are just that -- conceptual models -- all layered on top of the same underlying reality. Everything in society reduces to people and their relations with each other.

Corporations have no factual, objective existence as anything other that networks of individuals coordinating their activities according to certain methods.
> If for some reason we were still part of Russia, chances are I’d be sent off to kill Ukrainians right as we speak

To be fair, if you were still part of the USSR then so would Ukraine, and you wouldn't be fighting a war due to MAD with the US (maybe a proxy war in Myanmar or something), you'd most likely die of alcoholism or heart disease
> can't wait for the ideal job to appear because you might starve first.

and therefore, you choosing the current best option available to you is not coersion. Therefore, it's free-will.
I'm sorry to say i know your pain.

No words will make this easier, it just dulls over time.

I understand the motivation for stability and applaud you for that. My experiences were similar.
Thousands of different Web browser surveillance companies.
> As for animators having to find new work... good?

Isn’t this a paternalistic point of view? Why do you know better than the animators who are accepting these jobs? Who are you to tell them that their career choice is wrong?
JSON is a terrible configuration file format. Property names must be quoted, tons of brackets and commas, a mistake comma breaks it, no comments allowed, etc..
Pfff, anything missing that Thais write 55555 (because 5 in Thai is "hâː") is missing a trick. Also, FWIW, I've always thought the numeral (when written in Thai, which is a bit unusual) looks like the cereal-spit guy ๕:

https://obs.line-scdn.net/0hTLsunG_HC2NODB-jHVl0NHZaBxJ9ahFq...

(update: oh, I scrolled down and found it. It was immune to being found with Ctrl-F)
Go works fine for C FFI, all of its problems there are caused by its innovation wrt dynamic stack sizes and having a garbage collector. I'd rather write multithreaded Go FFI than deal with JNI again, anyway. There isn't really a language keyword-level concept of async in Go that's comparable to `await` in JS, or Java futures, or Rust async.
And soon nothing because AI.
and yet they are the first to preach others
I'm not sure where the word "dorking" came from, but it is good to know the AND/OR/NOT search syntax. I figured out NOT on my own a while back, but not the other two.
There is literally a world of biology (text)books that describe the process of evolution and how life came to be. I would recommend finding a syllabus at a local college for a biology class, getting the textbook second hand and then reading it
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The French have their own thing going on. Fortiche and Blue Spirit are making some of the most beautiful animations we have seen in western TV series. They draw from a rich heritage of art and comics.
So? This is not a fallacy but a conversation. What you are doing is not answering the question.
This is my excuse when others critique the book as well. I don’t know if it is true, but I like it. The contrast of a new story is needed to understand the limitations of the existing one.
I think the most extreme case of this is probably ski patrol. Dangerous, difficult, high skill, high cost of living, pays peanuts and pocket lint.
JSON5 is a more reasonable format for config files, in my opinion.
God, that email takes me back to days when email was much higher signal-to-noise and sig lines were for color, not credentials.
Wow this is like an "evolution isn't real because there's still monkeys" level of response. Try opening a book or Wikipedia or anything and having a gander.
This is, basically, what happened to movies. Because of that, you'll see very few risks, and the people who get to be creative tend to be the ones who have an established track record. People have been complaining that the theater is full of sequels and superhero movies for decades.
> except when regulations or external factors somehow break things.

That is one hell of a hand wave.

To say nothing of the lack of other regulations making it to where even with proper payment transparency one has no clue if an employer has a corporate culture that in many states would constitute an abusive pattern in a domestic partnership yet most of those same states have at best some limited carve-outs to do anything about it.

The entertainment industry in particular seems to be really good at exploiting folks, but in IT there is still a sort of elephant in the room; So many of us who read and post want to be the sorts of folks with vested-FAANG security cushions, however we know through self or colleagues plenty of cases where many shops will have a huge uphill battle to make a huge impacting change and the result is a nice review; in the extreme cases the reward/value is in multiple orders of magnitude.

And maybe that would be OK if it wasn't for the other pressures; which is probably something animators deal with too based on general tone and the times the industry tries to cleverly sneak jokes in about the situation.
There’s also bwahahaha or wakekeke.
This is a false equivalence because there are a limited set of NBA players. Sure lots of people play basketball, but NBA players have gotten to that upper echelon for a variety of reasons such as training, genetics, perseverance, etc. It's simply not the same.

There is a surplus of game developers and animators and a league like the NBA for game dev doesn't exist (unless you count working for Valve or other prestigious organizations "the NBA of game development").
> Seems really easy to fairly compensate the artists.

they want just the upside, not the downside as well.
Javascript shell?! It's like c shell, only worse.
People, capable of pondering life’s great mysteries, are going to place faith into something, only difference is if they accept it as a faith or argue their faith into fact. I think this makes many here uncomfortable.
> Any time you use something with "fair use" in mind, it is the equivalent of saying, "I'm going to steal this, and hopefully, a court agrees that this is fair use."

Thousands of reviews, book reports, quotations on fan sites and so on are published daily; you seem to be arguing that they are all copyright violations unless and until the original copyright holder takes those reviewers, seventh graders, and Tumblr stans to court and loses, at which point they are now a-ok. To quote a meme in a way that I'm pretty sure does, in fact, fall under fair use: "That's not the way any of this works."

> There is a crap load of case law showing "research for commercial purposes is not fair use,"

While you may be annoyed with the OP for asking you to name a bit of that case law, it isn't an unreasonable demand. For instance:

https://guides.nyu.edu/fairuse#:~:text=As%20a%20general%20ma....

"As a general matter, educational, nonprofit, and personal uses are favored as fair uses. Making a commercial use of a work typically weighs against fair use, but a commercial use does not automatically defeat a fair use claim. 'Transformative' uses are also favored as fair uses. A use is considered to be transformative when it results in the creation of an entirely new work (as opposed to an adaptation of an existing work, which is merely derivative)."

This is almost certainly going to be used by AI companies as part of their defense against such claims; "transformative uses" have literally been name-checked by courts. It's also been established that commercial companies can ingest mountains of copyrighted material and still fall under the fair use doctrine -- this is what the whole Google Books case about a decade ago was about. Google won.

I feel like you're trying to make a moral argument against generative AI, one that I largely agree with, but a moral argument is not a legal argument. If you want to make a legal argument against generative AI with respect to copyright violation and fair use, perhaps try something like:

- The NYT's case against OpenAI involves being able to get ChatGPT to spit out large sections of NYT articles given prompts like "here is the article's URL and here is the first paragraph of the article; tell me what the rest of the text is". OpenAI and its defenders have argued that such prompts aren't playing fair, but "you have to put some effort into getting our product to commit clear copyright violation" is a rather thin defense.

- A crucial test of fair use is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" (quoting directly from the relevant law). If an image generator can be told to do new artwork in a specific artist's style, and it can do a credible job of doing so, and it can be reasonably established that the training model included work from the named artist, then the argument the generator is damaging the market for that artist's work seems quite compelling.
That makes it mediocre, not terrible. There are workarounds. For terrible, see sendmail.