skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the nostalgic nature of the article, but it feels unfair as it seems to compare the "best physical menu experience" to the "worst digital" one.

At its best, a menu can be a nice leather "book". At its worst, it is a one page plastic menu that has been touched by hundreds of people before you and never cleaned, it is also probably ruined or broken on the corners and in the middle, and has also a lot hand-made corrections to ingredients and prices that makes reading it way more frustrating.

At the same time, a digital menu can be easy to navigate (with sections based on first courses, second courses, appetizers, etc.), it can show you the pictures of the food you're going to order and, sometimes, allows you to order without waiting for someone.

Even at their worse, I still prefer the digital version as it is more hygienic and I don't have to wait 15 minutes for a waiter if they forget to bring one to the table (and then we also have to share that between 6 people).
And not human readable, is my point. The value tradeoff in accuracy and compactness is the question. Will that be enough to sustain QR codes? I don't think so.

Also most QR codes seem to include a text url nearby the code anyway, so there goes the "compactness" argument. In that case it's redundant information as well.
GP's comments are interesting indeed. And while I think they're a bit extreme, I sympathize a lot.

I've observed people who believe themselves rational use "reason" to lead themselves astray. Because "reason" is supposedly more reliable than "emotion", they tend to think whatever "reason" leads them to must be true, despite it disagreeing with "emotion". Kind of like giving oneself enough rope to hang oneself with.

Personally I'd be quite suspect of any conclusion where "reason" and "emotion" does not converge. The former is more useful in convincing other people to agree with your views, but to be really honest, the scant few things I already know about utilitarianism smells enough that when GP brings up the mummy story, I'm not going to read a dozen books and academic papers on utilitarianism before I decide to agree with him...
I did this with Linux and PCs 25-30 years ago when I was in high school and college. I don’t have time or interest in that anymore. Besides, the small amount of embedded work I do scratches my hardware itch better than any PC could, with their layer upon layer of crap (management engines, etc.).
(My below remark is a tangent and isn't meant to judge your experience.)

My unqualified understanding is that UK's injurious laws (eg:defamation) are somewhat more favorable for prosecuting malicious behavior, than their US counterparts. The differences can be said to reflect a shift toward prosecuting an offender (UK) vs protecting the innocent (US).

I think we can see this whenever US govs tweak law to ease prosecutions. It's non-powerful people who can expect to feel the brunt of it. Stated differently, for each newly enabled prosecution of a well-protected person, an exponentially greater number of vulnerable people will prosecuted.

This is far from an absolute principle. It's more a comment about the trends that occur in the absence of ethics - which describes most moments in most justice systems.
This is good advice. Especially the parts about filtering the timeline and your engagement to get what you like out of twitter.

Meta commentary: Twitter mostly serves the same function and has communities around most of the same subjects it always has. I tried the fediverse and bluesky and they resembled the intellectually incurious bubbles I would imagine gab and truthsocial are like, but from the other side of the political sphere. In Bluesky communities in particular I saw a lot of open harassment across sites and into the physical realm very highly promoted. Worse yet, none of these facilitate the kind of personal interactions with prominent figures in tech/my-favorite-hobby/public life.

I haven't tried and will not be trying threads, so I can't comment there.

Otherwise, all these alternatives are just... boring, I suppose? Overly consumed by politics? Echochambers? It just feels like reddit, in that there's a homogeneous Borg spending its time meta-commenting on things happening on twitter or tiktok.

Twitter's pretty good at showing you what you engage in. So if you find yourself surrounded by content you hate, follow the advice in the link (ignore and aggressively mute content you don't like - participate in ways promote content you do like).
I dislike these lines of thinking, because they seem based on conspiratorial thinking. Our imagination lets us always think something is lurking, something is deeper & scarier than we imagine.

This site is popular because it's organic & good & a fine service, one without peer or equal. It asks nothing of the user, and helps them make good informed decisions effectively.

Imagining there's some secret agenda is all too popular in way too many areas in the world. Fear Uncertainty & Doubt (FUD) can have some basis, but letting it get in the way, letting it obstruct or out shadow simple good as it comes lets us miss out on understanding value and positivity, and with those basis undermined we (society) are screwed.
After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays with a Key Theme: Race
Was it still scannable? I thought they had perspective correction built in, given that any picture you take of one will always have some distortion?

edit: 2022 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36174607
> Ultimately, each are OS-specific solutions, while it would be interesting to make a crossover between efibootmgr and GetSetVariable (and that C program) to create a tool working on both Linux and Windows

I seems that nobody except for Linux (for some not yet determined reason) is having issues with retrieving EFI variables on this hardware, and one could potentially classify this as a bug in `efibootmgr` as well (due to how it handles creating the new entry in unknown conditions).

In either case, Linux is the only thing affected by this, so in real-world setups Linux is going to be the only boot option that is available while the boot menu is in a broken state.
This is the DRM problem again.

However much we might wish that it was not true, ideas are not rivalrous. If you share an idea with another person, they now have that idea too.

If you share words on paper, then someone with eyes and a brain might memorize them (or much more likely, just grasp and retain the ideas conveyed in the words).

If you let someone hear your music, then the ideas (phrasing, style, melody, etc) in that music are transferred.

If you let people see a visual work, then the stylistic and content elements of that work are potentially absorbed by the audience.

We have copyright to protect specific embodiments, but mostly if you try to share ideas with others without letting them use the ideas you shared, then you are in for a life of frustration and escalating arms race.

I completely sympathize with anyone who had a great idea and spent a lot of effort to realize it. If I invented/created something awesome I would be hurt and angry if someone “copied” it. But the hard cold reality is that you cannot “own” an idea.
But there is. You are arguably making unauthorized copies to train.
> Given that predicting what happens next requires predicting what humans do, because humans are part of the world, if they keep getting better and better then they'll be able to predict what humans would do well enough that they're capable of thinking any thoughts humans could think, because that's a requirement for predicting human behaviour.

This doesn't follow. A just as likely (or even more likely) prediction is that they will fail to predict what happens next once it requires modeling humans. It won't get any more progress even if we increase training set size or model size - it will require an architecture change of some kind.
> This is a stupid take. Partly because of the use of acronyms for key terms

I thought that was clear enough in context. But: "Anti-Money Laundering" and "Know your Customer". They come up a lot in discussions here. Also, FWIW: if you're unclear about what someone meant, calling them stupid is a really terrible way to educate yourself.
The only reason I've used their shitty OneDrive over NextCloud was the 1TB Storage for a small sum.
But thanks to that change it will be NextCloud only going forward. The Linux Support is much better
I thought so too, until I needed to help my uncle Jack off a horse.
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When internet infrastructure was much less advanced, the server application used to be part of the delivered product so you could host it yourself at a LAN party.

I understand that packaging, documenting and supporting an additional application is a cost that the company would rather avoid if possible. But upon shutting down a game's servers, it would cost them nothing to provide the discontinued app code "as is" with no warranty or support, to let fans figure out how to run or improve it themselves. I doubt most game companies have any incredibly valuable and cutting-edge networking code worth protecting.
There are huge regional differences.
When it's one video of an angry mob killing bystanders, it's easy to dismiss.

When it's hundreds, from different viewpoints, it's much harder.
They are someone in the eyes of the law. They just have a different set of rights.
Digital signatures are one solution: traceability back to an authentic source would be good evidence that the item isn’t fake. This might be provided so some degree by the hardware (the sensor in a camera, for example) or the authoring software.
Which is pointless in targeted models like I'm talking about. If I train a model that is *only* trying to detect e.g. stable-diffusion-2-1, training an adversarial model is pointless, because then you're just using a different model anyways. You would be spending a lot of training time when you could just use another already-extant model.

State actors, for example, don't need to use public models for their generators anyways, so it's not like non-state actors would have true-positive images to train models on to counter said actors' models.
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Huge market for snake oil here. There is no way that such tools will ever win, given the requirements the art remain viewable to human perception, so even if you made something that worked (which this sounds like it doesn’t) from first principles it will be worked around immediately.

The only real way for artists or anyone really to try to hold back models from training on human outputs is through the law, ie, leveraging state backed violence to deter the things they don’t want. This too won’t be a perfect solution, if anything it will just put more incentives for people to develop decentralized training networks that “launder” the copyright violations that would allow for prosecutions.

All in all it’s a losing battle at a minimum and a stupid battle at worst. We know these models can be created easily and so they will, eventually, since you can’t prevent a computer from observing images you want humans to be able to observe freely.
"social rules" don't supersede the law.
what about as a sole proprietorship?
You can get an ML workstation with 2xRTX4090 for around 10k. A 4xA800 setup tops out at 100k and should last you a few years. I consider that fairly affordable to do bleeding edge research especially compared to other fields.
Do you believe Twitter respected data before? This is just Tesla bringing to automobiles what social media companies started.
No, it's much closer to (in fact, it is simply) asking if adversarial AI tools count as DRM or as malware. And a court is going to have to decide whether the model and or its output counts as separate software, which it is illegal for DRM to intentionally attack.

DRM can, for instance, disable its own parent tool (e.g. a video game) if it detects misuse, but it can't attack the host computer or other software on that computer.

So is the model or its output, having been trained on my art, a byproduct of my art, in which case I have a legal right to 'disable' it, or is it separate software that I don't have a right to corrupt?
Not really. It is inevitable such a system would lead to people spoofing the sensor to get fake images signed.
It's astounding to me that we're capable of flying a remote vehicle on a literally other planet, but we also kill each other in large numbers over whose god is correct.

Genuinely astounding to me, and slightly disappointing.
This doesn’t stop anyone from viewing or scraping the work, though, so in no way is it DRM. It just causes certain methods of computer interpretation of an image to interpret it in an odd way vs. human viewers. They can still learn from them.
The way to address "not knowing anything about the numbers" is to actually look up some numbers and not just pontificate incorrectly. Real median personal income shows essentially an identical curve: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
My point is that in a lot of places in the US you can point a video camera at the street and record. In Germany, you can't. The law in some locales makes a distinction between manual recording (writing or drawing your surroundings) and mechanized recording (photographing or filming). Scalability of an action is taken into consideration on whether something is ok to do or not.
That policy still seems clear as mud if you're using, say, generative AI within Photoshop to help design components of a cover design. I'm also not sure how that's really different from using CC or public domain imagery as part of a design.

"AI-generated: We define AI-generated content as text, images, or translations created by an AI-based tool. If you used an AI-based tool to create the actual content (whether text, images, or translations), it is considered "AI-generated," even if you applied substantial edits afterwards."

My reading of that is that, if you use AI to create any image even in part, that's AI generated.
There was no mention that this costs >$100 which does limit its usage compared to a $35 rpi.
Ok now you’re running and your foot clips a rock. Think fast machine. Does a blob clip your foot and cause you to fall irl?
Being able to fairly monetise your creative work and put food on the table is a bit rivalrous though, don’t you think?
Note: I just submitted this post to the simulator ... meta
https://hnsim.vercel.app/article/5f35fcc8-61c2-5057-9796-df1...
Virtual comments are quite interesting :)
If you're assuming this is open-shut, you're wrong. I asked this specifically as someone who works in security. A court is going to have to decide where the line is between DRM and malware in adversarial-AI tools.
I'm not denying that and I am concerned about that possibility. The thing is, I don't think you need deep or any fakes at all for that. What it takes are people willing to believe lies and consume hatred (fwiw, WWII was based on huge lies that didn't need much forgery). The more people are questioning hatred they're being fed, the better of a chance we have.
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The problem with USING is that it isn't supported everywhere.
"And that's what a comprehensive assessment will include"

Do you have evidence of this? A typical assessment of impacts, especially any environmental assessment I have ever heard of, only focuses on the negatives.
> You wouldn't be able to denoise as you'd have to denoise the entire dataset

Doing that requires much less compute than training a large generative image model.
Can't speak for everyone but anecdotally I have seen a very similar thing in India too. Often, it turned out to be something else (commonly it was undiagnosed ADHD which apparently can be in 5-10% of the population.)
Isn't there still an open bounty on reconstructing shredded Nazi documents? Perhaps useful on that too.
Having worked for years in this field (at a non-profit called "Democracy In Action") I can tell you: the scripts work.

It moves the calculus of measuring sentiment from a fuzzy game of figuring out how to classify opinion to one with very clear quanta.
I'm honestly curious what age kids start having a phone with a data plan these days.

It's wild that the IPhone barely existed when I finish high school 15 years ago and that now I'm asking myself if 5 years olds all have ones.
I have extensive restaurant experience on all levels and while philosophically the importance of that experience would subjectively suggest a bias in my statements, I assure you I offer only my philosophical approach to this particular dilemma in the industry.

QR codes aren't novel in their approach to information; they are rather applicably similar barcodes. I think generally speaking most would agree.

This is the disconnect for most of humans. Generally speaking, when instituting out-of-the-norm operating standards in a generally selective common environment, most tradition is bonded with rather than against.

Such as a QR code as an example in replacing physical menus with physically-required experiences. Such as; walking in to physical place, sitting down or standing somewhere, picking up or looking at a written menu, speaking to someone (perhaps soon enough to be, some thing), ordering something to eat, eating said items, paying for said items, maybe a visit to the loo or not, and leaving the physical establishment.

When you insert a new method that (generally speaking) detracts from societal norms, it isn't a question of whether it works or doesn't work it's purely a matter of fucntion for the experience.

Example:

If there were a true 'ghost kitchen' which also had a (let's just say hypothetically) street-facing counter window due to (again, hypothetically) extremely small real estate space for the transactional process of obtaining the food, like a 2x2' window where you pickup the food - and the entirety of the transactional process from the financial arm of this experience, were to functionally as such: scan QR code above window, place order, pay/send order, wait nearby window, pickup food as ready.

That'd make sense.

But not so much when you or you and a group or more are interested in sitting down inside a physical space, expecting a physical experience.

The two are not equal and should be used as the experience is required, in my very humble, 25+ years of experience in this very industry, opinion.
Fair Use is the relevant protection and is not specific to manual creation. Traditional algorithms (e.g: the snippets, caching, and thumbnailing done by search engines) are already covered by it.
> Does "maintenance" on an amortized asset have to be amortized as well?

Usually not. Also, from other comments here, it looks like bug-fixing doesn't count as R&D (anyway, in a development focused company, you'll probably spend more deciding what is or isn't bug-fixing than you'd get from the difference).

Still, there are many more things that make software disappear just after being written. It's actually similar to most of R&D, so it makes little sense to count it the same way as capital investment.
In the US a few months ago, a food truck used one of those carbon copy card swiper things. And yesterday I tried to pay for a cabin reservation and the lady took it down over the phone and said she'd run it next week. Many grocery stores and gas stations still swipe. Our tax people still use faxes and our hospitals manually create and deliver CD-ROMs for medical imaging. We're not a very advanced country, lol.
I should perhaps do something useful with this super power, stay tuned!
The prices aren’t sticky either.
The insight I was talking about was required by the producer. Products don't have insight.
Why pick this over https://github.com/google/zx?
It absolutely is DRM, just a different form than media encryption. It's a purely-digital mechanism of enforcing rights.
It has been proven in much simpler toy models that LLMs just trained on token prediction can and do build "world" models[0]. That's not the same as evidence that they must build a world model, but it's proof that at least sometimes they do so even when just being trained on prediction.

[0]https://thegradient.pub/othello/
I don't see the parallel between this offensive tool and DRM. I could, say buy a perpetual license to an image from the artist, so that I can print it and put it on my wall, while it can simultaneously be poisonous to an AI system. I can even steal it and print it, while it is still poisonous to an AI system.

The closest parallel I can think of is that humans can ingest chocolate but dogs should not.
Objects in an immersive environment are not static and unmoving. Guy punches you in the face. What does the system do?

Seated is kind of stupid imo.
Why does VoIP not make sense for a small business? From my experience working at small businesses it looks like VoIP and the features it enables is a huge gain. Call waiting queue, voicemail to email/website, automatic hours/go straight to voicemail, holding/transferring calls, multiple lines with only one phone number, etc.

I'm talking <15 employee businesses.
Thanks! How "bad" are these LLMs though, especially for smart home-esque basic tasks? I'd imagine them to be alright-ish?
The animation when you change images makes it harder to see the difference, I opened the three images each in its own tab and the differences are more apparent when you change between each other instantly.
I've heard many good things about it from Android developers. As an iOS user, I despise it. Apps written in it feel extremely janky. How is it even possible to bring down an iPhone 15 Pro to what seems like less than 10 fps in simple UI element scrolling?
Fair, I was interested in whether the argument was overlooked or already acknowledged and there is no way? to probe without inserting it.
Yep, that was exactly what I meant. Thanks a lot for posting!
that's not how licensing work, be it art, software or just about anything else. We have some pretty well defined and differentiated rules what you can and cannot do, in particular commercially or in public, with someone else's work. If you go and study a work of fiction in a college class, unless that material is in the public domain, you're gonna have to pay for your copy, you want to broadcast a movie in public, you're going to have to pay the rightsholder.
It will be interesting to see what solutions people will come up with to support cropping images and videos. Perhaps one can already do that with Merkle tree inclusion and consistency proofs. Definitely good times ahead for doing cryptography.
Incidentally, one of the LXC containers I have running on mine has a copy of my IoT metrics database (2 years, roughly 10GB in SQLite, a bit over that when imported into Postgres). Queries are lightning fast compared to the Pi, even doing aggregations--which is why I mention at the bottom of the article that I intend to move my home automation stuff to it.
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just to get an understanding how the UI was...

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
It doesn’t enforce any rights. It modifies the actual image. Humans and computers still have equal, open access to it.
There's a pretty decent chance nobody else is actually trying. The only other OS getting installed is Windows, and that's probably coming straight from a disk image or a recovery partition.

Especially in laptops, a lot of hardware / firmware issues are simply "solved" by baking a fix into the pre-installed Windows version. It's a solution for 99% of users, so why bother spending time looking into the root cause?
A photo signed as an authentic iPhone image wouldn’t completely pinpoint the photographer, but would be good evidence that the image is authentic.
The thread started with a public school flaming. Why only step in when someone takes the other side? I agree these flame wars are silly, but this thread was lost from the start.
Thanks! Do you have any guides/websites/github repos for running these models on CPUs?