skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way Nightshade works (assuming it does work) is by confusing the features of different tags with each other. To argue that this is illegal would be to argue that mistagging a piece of artwork on a gallery is illegal.

If you upload a picture of a dog to DeviantArt and you label it as a cat, and a model ingests that image and starts to think that cats look like dogs, would anybody claim that you are breaking a law? If you upload bad code to Github that has bugs, and an AI model consumes that code and then reproduces the bugs, would anyone argue that uploading badly written code to Github is a crime?

What if you uploaded some bad code to Github and then wrote a comment at the top of the code explaining what the error was, because you knew that the model would ignore that comment and would still look at the bad code. Then would you be committing a crime by putting that code on Github?

Even if it could be proven that your intention was for that code or that mistagged image to be unhelpful to training, it would still be a huge leap to say that either of those activities were criminal -- I would hope that the majority of HN would see that as a dangerous legal road to travel down.
Would you give C examples of this? I am having trouble imagining how a cast would look like a function call to the compiler.
I was just saying that it's not off-topic. I don't really understand what you're trying to say otherwise.
The "if we paid people fairly things would be prohibitively expensive" argument is a terrible one, just to note. First, it rarely seems to actually be the case since the requirement that employees be paid fairly mostly just drives away low-value efforts. It's also an attitude that, if taken to its logical extreme, demands society have an underpaid underclass that suffers so the rest of us can have nice things.
I generally agree, that said we had a number of our animators move into gamedev from traditional VFX roles and from they way they told it gamedev was significantly better, uf da.
I was a cycle commuter for a long time. I never seemed to have all the issues other cyclists have with auto traffic, and my area was pretty "middle of the road" for car-centrism (ie not suburban america, but not amsterdam either).

The reason i would sometimes ride at the outer edge of the bike line was because the middle of the bike lane was right in 'car door' range. Assuming that people are not only going to look before they open the door, but that they are going to look for a narrow, quiet vehicle, that requires them to look in the very corner of their mirror is naive. So if I couldn't see through the back windshield and confirm a parked car was empty, I just wouldn't ride there. Saved me a couple of times.

In another post below you mention "the road was free of debris". It's very unlikely you can tell, from a fast moving car, through a windshield, that the road is clear of debris that would effect the narrower, thinner tires of a bicycle. What might not even register for an automobile might be a repair job for a cyclist.

All the above having been said - I absolutely saw some very stupid behaviour from cyclists. But also realise people usually aren't doing things just to annoy you personally. And I'm a larger than average man, nothing remarkable, but I could bowl over old ladies walking slowly in-front of me at the supermarket if I wanted to. After all they are smaller, slower and in my way. Yet I never seem to fantasise about it like many automobile drivers do. Worth thinking about.
Because it's a very uneven power balance. Big company using young inexperienced workers that just want a foot in the door on a childhood dream and have no idea how much their work is worth. Most companies knows to exploit this to the full. Especially known in arts, music and game industry. Less so with (metal) industry jobs where there are old unions helping the workers to a healthier power balance. Except for Musk that seems to be a strange new coin behaving like the industry did 200 years ago.
This is the intense appeal of the billionaire-you-agree-with. They can use their resources to accomplish what you and they want, bypassing or defeating the forces that maintain the status quo. It’s essentially a superhero fantasy, with a bit of operatic revenge as well.

Some CEOs or VPs hold this appeal as well, telling the middle managers to stuff it while the workers cheer.
Not if you're an engineer
Why? What would you talk about instead?
Pretty fucking good, actually. That's why we're here writing copious amounts of text, more Bachelor's (a big general education) than average, reading articles, and upvoting ACX posts, someone who was top of the top in English class writing competency.
Its probably them requiring continuing growth and the US is tapped out.

Five Guys also showed up, their pistachio shake was intriguing but a huge disappointment.

I don't like what Paris has become, multiple French bistros have dropped in quality post-COVID(in my opinion).

Also seems like Costa coffee has abandoned the city? Their coffee wasn't anything to go crazy over but it had good memories when I was a broke unemployed dev touring Europe via backpack.
'giant quantum vortex' mimics a black hole
-> Radiocarbon methods precisely dated the main cultural layer of Shiyu to between 45,800 and 43,200 years ago.

->"Our new study identified an Initial Upper Paleolithic archaeological assemblage from the Shiyu site of North China dating to 45,000 years ago that includes blade technology, tanged and hafted projectile points, long-distance obsidian transfer, and the use of a perforated graphite disk," said associate Prof. Yang Shixia, first and corresponding author of the study and a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Agreed, I'm fortunate, as are many of us on this site. We have opportunities to keep the powerful in check that others do not. Therefore we have a responsibility to take advantage of those opportunities, because it's a bit much to ask the Walmart employees to do so.

Also, you seem to me implying that a malware author and a shelf stocker are equally culpable for the actions of their employer, which is an odd sort of moral stance to take. Treating your users like enemies is a rather direct thing, and working for someone who behaves badly in some dimension unrelated to your work is quite another.
All the debates about cars vs bikes are so stupid. Bicycles are vehicles according to law basically everywhere on earth. It's all very simple - you over take vehicles safely, vehicles signal where they are going and drive predictably, you don't overtake vehicles when stopped at an intersection, etc etc. It's just a smaller slower vehicle, that's it.
Shoot. I thought I was going to be able to absorb all of the Switzerland's wealth for a moment there.
When would candidates compete to work for less? I haven’t seen that demonstrated anywhere. I have seen firms compete on pay.
Is this done in zig in the core bun runtime or is it implemented as part of the standard bun lib? How much perf is there? Small commands like cd or ls I'm less interested in. You say you provide your own shell... bsh, zigsh, what?
The UK energy market is complicated.

The high-voltage transmission grid is operated by National Grid, which is a British company. Distribution to end-users is operated at a regional level by one of six* Distribution Network Operators [1], three of which are British-owned.

Consumers can purchase electricity from any electricity supplier that is willing to sell to them. Naturally, since it all goes into one grid, suppliers are responsible for ensuring that they purchase from generators and sell to consumers an equal amount of electricity. EDF is one of several suppliers in the market. (There were many more until energy prices rose following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and many suppliers collapsed.)

The gas distribution system works similarly, but I'm not familiar with the details.

* It's slightly more complicated, but it rounds to six.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_network_operator
> doesn't matter if there is a better separation of power in theory in this case, since it didn't prevent half a million to a million people from dying due to the Iraq war

Yes, war is bad. That doesn’t mean all wars are the same, nor that nothing can be learned from them. Comparing the checks and balances on the Kremlin with those on the American President is wrong; it creates a world model which won’t make good predictions.
They do have free will, but large groups of people are at an extreme negotiating disadvantage versus individuals or small groups that can more easily plan and coordinate -- and who happen to control the resources. This is why we need things like unions and government regulations: Not to unbalance things in favor of workers but to help achieve some amount of balance between owners and employees.
As a Rust fan, it sounds remarkably similar to "if you still need unsafe somewhere, why bother trying to limit unsafe at all"
The acidity of bird droppings causes deterioration in clear coatings _and_ corrosion.

I’m not making a statement about clear coats that don’t exist on Cybertrucks.
Suck carbon out of the atmosphere and desalinate seawater at the same time?
Why your website should work without JavaScript (2021)
The Forces That Drive Evolution May Not Be as Random as We Thought
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
Minimum wage does solve a certain kind of unskilled worker exploitation. I don't think passion tends to be at play for minimum wage jobs. This is a different kind of exploitation that's more difficult to regulate.
Although I'm not who you asked, I can think of a slightly contrived example. If a is a variable name, then this is using b as the first argument to call the function a (which is surrounded by unnecessary parentheses). If it's a type name, it's casting b to the type a.

result = (a)(b);
They literally put it in the job descriptions -- "Must have worked on AAA game X" for the high paying job listings. This makes people think "ok, I have to do this shitty low paying job to get my name on a AAA game, so I will work for peanuts for now" but then the cycle repeats because the listing also says "within the last 3 years" or similar.
They used off-the-shelf components because they were low priority, low cost side projects that were not expected to last long anyway.

Similarly, the video (and associated audio which malfunctioned) of the skycrane-deployed landing was done by COTS components which otherwise would not have been present at all.

Also, by COTS, they're using components which would otherwise be meant for industrial use, so they're still likely to be more rugged than what might come to mind when thinking of off the shelf components.
Wonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
When they can replace you no matter how talented you are, it only takes hiring the next bright eyed young aspiring artist.
Why a Supreme Court decision on fishing boats could change everything
I did a watch face on pebble once... the programming style was "uncommon" when you're hardcoding the ONE watch face that is currently rendering the screen. It "felt" very leaky and illegal... but it's a watch face with limited functionality, so... shrug?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_and_feather
Sam Altman says the future of AI depends on breakthroughs in clean energy
It has cameras, they'd be able to compare terrain features against photos from Perseverance and flyovers by MRO.
This reminds me of USA MLB players' optimization for home-run hits over time. I guess a strike is essentially the "home run" of bowling.
We were looking at moving 9front's implementation of troff to neatroff at one point. It may still happen, but there are a lot of small differences between the current troff, some of the scripts and tools in the current document processing pipeline, and neatroff that need reconciling.
The rules of Go very much are programmed in to AlphaGo. The neural nets are generic, sure. But the game rules programmed manually into the training system are vital to the system working. Even with MuZero: while it uses a world model which is learned, ultimately during training there is still grounding in the manually programmed rules of whatever game it's playing. When it trains on Atari, the Atari system (manually programmed, obviously) provides the grounding rules.

What I am saying is there is no analogous source of manually programmed rules to ground language models during training.
I think AI art is a complete misnomer and there is no net benefit of being able to generate images so easily, it just means there is more noise in the world

Agreed. It will be difficult to not sound grandiose or pretentious when discussing this subject because the whole discussion becomes a question of what art is in the first place, but oversaturating it with soulless noise will benefit nobody.
i don't know enough about tax codes and how business works to comment on the actual policy, but it sure does seem to me that changes that result in immediate and massive new liabilities are unfair.
This seems to be the case with the entertainment industry in general.
Frankly I think they should just take their lumps and shut up. Other bits of the article mention that apparently Heise Online was able to freely download a copy of the binaries (passwords included!) from Modern Solution's website in 2021 and I'm going to guess based on that that other people probably did know about this who were reasonably moral about it, and the company was likely ignoring the issue... ...until someone offering competing services noticed it and said something, at which point they panicked and decided it was still cheaper to shoot the messenger than to hire a couple of highly-caffienated teenagers to fix their trash architecture.
This is what salary exemption in CA is for, in my understanding. Unless you're making more than twice minimum wage overtime must be paid, even if salaried. The bar may be even higher for certain professions (like software!)

(Caveat that more of the world exists than CA)
If you can recommend one of these gadgets... I'd really appreciate it.
I see more and more people coming out of college (or through apprenticeships) with miserable SQL skills. Relational databases are boring technology, and people want to work with shiny new things. People don't want to learn it, and they rely on ORMs so they don't have to. The result is miserable performance and reimplementing parts of SQL badly in the application itself.
There are probably thousands (and my guess would be much more) viruses that that dance on the information playground that is our genome, metagenome, and the genomes of the organisms we host. Fighting a few of them is probably not going to be a significant issue.

Having more individuals around by itself would also lead to mutations which the environment may select for in the future. By itself there is no such thing as a beneficial mutation (gene import) unless the environment proves it to be.
Well that’s sort of on you for not using the correct MPC 2.0 compatible Labtec speakers!
Helicopters on Earth use internal combustion engines (often in particular jet engines) to provide power. Those engines' performance depends on the air pressure (and temperature and humidity).
Hey guys, I've recently created an AI calorie calculator, just snap a photo of your meal or beverage and get an estimated range of calories!
Currently 100% free while I'm in investigation phase (until credits run out :D)

Any feedback is appreciated! <3
Would love to try one of these :) With regards 'only', only can get quite big, 'The global Military Simulation and Training market size was valued at USD 9815.49 Million in 2022 and will reach USD 11603.49 Million in 2028, with a CAGR of 2.83% during 2022-2028.' (from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/military-simulation-training-...)
Academic goes to work at a grocery store and decides that shoplifting isn't a problem because they're only stealing food. Very "I'm at soup".
'I Almost Sound Like a Crazy Person, but I Think It Is a Superconductor'
Yeah, I noticed a thing students in math class would get confused is the difference between local and global variables. So I'd ask people if we're discussing functions from the reals to the reals, are these the same function?

f(x) = x^2 vs. f(t) = t^2

They are, because they produce the same set of ordered pairs (input, output).

Some of the confusion is the fault of math profs, because we get lazy. We could say "the function f: R -> R defined by f(x) = x^2", but we wind up saying "the function f(x)" (wrong - f is the function, f(x) is the value when x is plugged in) or worse "the function x^2" (really wrong). But if you always say the absolutely correct thing "the function f: R -> R defined by f(x) = x^2" you sound really pedantic, and the extra words make it hard for students to comprehend. Oh well.

What was more confusing to people was if you had f(t) = t^2 and people thought "t" had some sort of independent existence outside the definition of f. Some guy was asking me about it and I was trying various explanations and he wasn't getting it. Then I remembered he was a CS major and I said "t is an argument to f and it's local to the function block" and he got it and nodded his head.

So I wonder if these kinds of distinctions are easier for programmers than for typical math students - in the sense that programmers would know there's no difference between these:

int f(int x)
{
return x * x;
}

int f(int t)
{
return t * t;
}
Agree that these animators should work to unionize if they want to improve their situation.

But I think for professions like these, the "they have free will" argument is pretty compelling. If they were being exploited in a low-skill, low-status job, where there are few to no alternatives, sure, definitely an industry that needs worker protections. But no one needs to be an animator at a big anime studio to survive. They're there because they want to be, and many/most/(all?) could find gainful employment in an adjacent industry or field where they'd have better pay.

To me it's similar to game development. Game devs famously get paid poorly (compared to other devs) and work under stressful conditions. They don't have to do that. They can get a job as a web developer, or an embedded developer, or... some other kind of developer, and get paid more, and experience less stress. But they want to build games, so that's what they do.

I'd definitely support all these folks if they wanted to unionize. But I'm not sure I'm convinced legislation is warranted. (Well, except for strengthening and actually enforcing sanctions against union-busting efforts.)
Instead of using "<<" and ">>" buttons, with instructions and popups explaining these mean next puzzle and previous puzzle, just make that the label on the buttons.
Chat GPTs's response to this prompt:

The "Monroe Effect" you're referring to seems to be a variation or misinterpretation of the "Munroe Effect," also known as the shaped charge effect. This effect is a well-known principle in explosives engineering and military technology. It describes how an explosive charge can be shaped to focus the energy of an explosion in a specific direction. This is typically achieved by hollowing out a portion of the explosive, often in a conical or lens-like shape. The concept was developed by Charles Munroe in the late 19th century.

In a shaped charge, when the explosive detonates, the hollowed-out shape focuses the explosive force into a high-velocity jet of metal that can penetrate armor or thick materials very effectively. This principle is used in various military applications, including anti-tank warheads and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The post you are referring to seems to suggest a makeshift application of this principle, using a drilled hole and fuel to create a focused explosive effect. This kind of improvisation is extremely dangerous, unpredictable, and, in most cases, illegal. It's crucial to understand that handling explosives without proper knowledge, training, and legal authorization is hazardous and can have severe legal consequences.
Which browser and OS are you using? I notice that behavior in Firefox on Mac, but not in Chrome on Mac. When I tested years ago in Chrome and Firefox on Linux, that definitely wasn't happening. In general, I've found a few inconsistent behaviors on how drag and drop is implemented across browsers and OSes, and possibly in different browser versions over time.
> Right, and in this case, the superior alternative should be an animator who makes a decent living.

I mean, i am not entirely sure about animation, but there is a “superior” alternative to gamedev, and people still willingly choose it over being a software dev elsewhere.

Despite gamedev having way worse WLB and worse pay. Most of gamedevs can easily just become SWEs at a tech company, get paid much more, work much less, and on any numerical metric do better. And many of them intentionally choose not to. And it isn’t for the lack of skill at all.

If it was just due to the lack of superior alternatives, then we wouldn’t see this situation occurring in the gamedev/swe world.
"Debt", for me, was one of those life-changing books that completely revised how I think of money and macroeconomics. But I found "On Kings" to be unreadable, deeply mired in esoteric academic theory debates. "The Beginning of Everything" was somewhere in the middle -- it successfully challenged the conventional "Noble Savage" and Lockean views of the emergence of the state. But it was filled with a TON of conjecture, and ultimately made the unsatisfying point that things were very different at different places and times.

I'm sad there won't be any more from him.
>enjoy a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian cultures

Apart from the food, what specifically about these cultures is enjoyable?
> Is flying in a thin atmosphere harder?

Yep. Setting maths and motors aside... it's why helicopters have service ceilings and why no one has built a helicopter that can fly away into the stratosphere.
On the other hand, US animation is mostly in a pretty sad state compared to the diversity of content and target audiences in Japanese animation, as well as compared to how US animation used to be.
> It’s only going to get worse with AI now in the mix.

s/worse/better

Soon the creators and artists will be able to make full films without studio capital in the mix. This should start happening by the end of the year.

The studio system exists because film and motion media is hard to make. It requires a lot of people, a lot of logistics, and a lot of capital. That's not going to be true for much longer.

Soon the webcomic / fanfiction creator will be able to build their own anime shows and audiences.
It’s discount to the seller/middleman. Ie I can sell a legally or illegally sourced phone. The illegally sourced phone is cheaper to me so more profit.
I've heard that it's hard to measure gas in residential contexts, because the pressure is so low.
While I agree with your argument, it's not as simple as "letting the low value efforts die". If most anime were to stop being produced, most of the animators would also be fired and be unable to continue what is (I assume) their passion and career. The simple fact is that there isn't enough money going into the industry to pay all the animators a fair wage, so either animators get paid less or there are fewer animators.
An interesting variant of Pratt which I haven't seen elsewhere, and should have written up, is to allow application as juxtaposition, i.e. shell command-like syntax rather than FORTRAN-like. I don't remember the code, but it was a simple mod. Long ago, that plus (inefficient) combinators straight out of Burge gave me a quick prototype of an alternative Scheme reader intended for interactive use inspired by Haskell syntax. S-expressions could still be used as a natural part of the syntax. I guess there's something like that for Racket now.