skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this is news.yc, I get to be a little pedantic to begin with. In this case all the little mistakes start to add up quickly.

- 'We own what we make the moment we make it.' ... you hold a copyright.

- 'Publishing text or images on the web does not make it fair game to train AI on'. ... postulate without further grounding elsewhere in the text.

- ' The “public” in “public web” means free to access; it does not mean it's free to use.' . Actually it is, barring restrictions on copying and trademarks etc as per (implementations of) the Berne convention.

- 'Someone who publishes my work as their own (theft)'. No, this is a) a copyright violation or b) plagiarism.

- 'or republishes my work (like quoting or linking back)' This depends, but linking is not (re)publication of your work. Quoting counts as fair use copying.

- 'doesn’t have the right to make the choice for me to let my content be used for training AI'. A link is not your content, you have no rights to it period. If someone makes a fair use quote of your content, then they may do so under fair use as a quote. I don't really see "quoting" as reposting, since that implies a substantial amount of copying. If it is not substantial, an AI would be permitted to use the quote in a similar manner. However, since an AI training system does not typically retain a copy of your quote, copyright probably doesn't apply at all (exceptions excepted).

- "Whether reposting my content elsewhere is in good faith or not". Previous examples were not of reposting (probably) but if they count as reposting, then you have standing to sue the person doing so either way. AI training is a red herring here.

- "To add insult to injury, that person may not have the knowledge—or even the power—to do so if they’re posting content they don’t own on a site they also don’t own, like social media.". Let's make a difference between ownership and holding copyrights. If you post things, you must hold the copyright, or have permission from the copyright holder. If you do not hold the copyright holder, posting content to a site you do not own is not permitted by law, and very likely a violation of the TOS of the site where you posted.

- "I can play whac-a-mole with those bots on servers I control—which I don’t like doing, for the record—but I have none of that control anywhere else." ... sure, but you seem to be pulling together disparate concepts and several misunderstandings of law here to begin with. Your conclusion(s) do not follow from the premises, given real world laws, treaties, and customs.
I mean, we don't have to guess – this is what current copyright law protects against.

The question is whether it should be illegal even if you never profit from it, or somehow dilute the IP owner's brand.
That just killed v0.dev
This comment is completely off the rails. Your extremely idealistic interpretation of "I should just run the program directly" is preventing you from gaining enjoyment out of literally the most popular gaming program in existence. And it's popular for a reason: It's really damn good at its job. All these extra steps are just a consequence of you extremely rarely opening it - steam is likely giving you the "first start" experience because it's been so long (I say this because nobody else is reporting issues like this online). I've seen it happen after certain major updates too. There's also an element of PEBKAC; password managers are a thing and make logging in take no more than a couple clicks.
Nobody gets rich from diversification. Its just what they tell uneducated people so that they dont take on huge risk
loose consistency (John Rose and Valhalla team)
There's probably a correlation/causation thing going on that breakfast is associated with a healthier lifestyle.
For running fiber, all of the landline customers already have lines running to their house. My impression is that running fiber on existing poles is much cheaper than digging or putting up poles.
In the specific case of the Drake track, hateful is an appropriate word.

He was using Tupac's voice on the TaylorMade freestyle in a really disrespectful way that would borderline on hateful of his artistic legacy. Just read these lyrics...

> Verse 1: 2Pac (AI)]
Kendrick, we need ya, the West Coast savior
Engraving your name in some hip-hop history
If you deal with this viciously
You seem a little nervous about all the publicity
Fuck this Canadian lightskin, Dot
We need a no-debated West Coast victory, man
Call him a bitch for me
Talk about him likin' young girls, that's a gift from me
“Despicable” would’ve been a better word in that case.

“Hateful” definitely has a strong connotation of something that is motivated by hate.

But I think she said “hateful” specifically because she meant just that. Hate agains humanity..
Minus the bar charts, the site works fine with JS disabled.
If WebGL takes the whole page with it when it crashes, that's kind of on the browser to fix. Having a hard time even seeing what WebGL is used for on that page though: there's a canvas tag in the menubar, but it doesn't seem to be used for anything.
This sounds like an appeal to tradition.

And an appeal to putting all your eggs in one basket and then demanding that eggs remain valuable long after you're dead and replicators are invented.

Also, why does your family get to shirk their obligation to contribute to society?
Absolutely. I call it the options fallacy. It gives the illusion of risk free money but in reality it’s just capitalizing on a particular market pattern. There’s no free lunch.
If anybody wants to use AI to immortalize me after I'm dead they can go right ahead. Imagine getting to be the person who plays or voices a beloved character, forever, instead of just being the person everyone after you imitates.
If space debris hit my home, I think I'd build an exhibit around it, put it up on Google Maps, and charge admission. Real space junk! You can touch it!
Just me, or is this ornithology for birds?
Once you are doing 40 or 50 any accident you do have with a pedestrian is almost sure to be fatal. Lower speeds offer more of a chance.
Yeah, I've noticed that. I've had the chance to meet with people who have their fortune on land. they might not have a lot in their wallet. but the amount of land they have is enough to build a small city.
Most societies learned to respect their dead. We may be at a turning point.
The trick with compound interest is to find something that beats inflation, because inflation compounds more quickly than your savings interest.
Compose Multiplatform: Develop shared UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, web
My conscious thoughts are verbalized in my head, and it is somewhat slow, but I also have a sense of intuition, which is very fast, though works best in silence. I can pull things from intuition into conscious thought, but explaining why I feel something is the same slower process.

So thinking about something isn't a one speed operation, but being able to communicate those thoughts is.
So no one should ever buy from someone who is dying or ill?

That’s crazy. Supply and demand curves are in constant flux. The seller didn’t like the market prices when they were healthy, that does not mean they are entitled to a minimum price. Everyone gets ill and dies eventually, and everyone knows it. They are free to sell before that at the market price.
AT&T has been giving mobile adapters for years. They cost more like $90.

The problem is that there are customers outside of mobile range. Mobile is also less reliable than landlines and that matters for people in rural areas with flaky mobile service.
It's doing the creative work badly, which I find particularly interesting. It's recapitulating the best criticism of the original Marxist definition of value: value is not labor added to materials, value is quality improvements to those materials.
I always try to learn new things, and new skills that allow me to be able to get income even in a crisis.

but how do you expand that so it doesn't depend on you, In the end, our body has an expiration date.
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> Can you point to the relevant statutes?

This is about sound recordings rather than books, but one of the more insane features of US copyright law is that the copyright status of sound recordings made before 1972 is governed by state rather than federal law, and many states are thought to have no applicable statute. Some of these states determine copyright status for these works by deferring to federal law, which does not cover them.
Can't imagine anyone would be against this sentiment regardless of other political points of view.
I compile a few hundred thousand lines of c++ in “minutes”… it’s sad to see the state of the ecosystem be actually slower than languages that have a reputation for being slow.
There must be some sort of misunderstanding here.

> If we were to bet on whether a person is black or white, freckled or not, has epicanthic fold or not, etc, I don't need no special "data collected" to know what people born in Lagos vs Dublin would look like for example.

Yes you do. In order to make an educated guess, you'd have to know, given where they were born, whether that place is more likely to produce certain traits or not. You could then use that information to make your guess about how likely they are to possess those certain traits, having been born there. But without any information on how likely those traits actually are for people born there, knowing where they were born grants you nothing.

> It's common knowledge.

It's not common knowledge what my Human Design type would be given only when and where I was born. That's the whole point I'm trying to make. Astrology or not, the entire idea of giving me an answer solely based on when and where I was born, will always be bogus.

Now, if they had an actual dataset of the Human Design types of people from all around the world, and wanted to correlate me with that, then maybe I'd be inclined to give it a try, just out of curiosity.

But I'm not even the slightest bit curious about bogus astrology (or any other types of divination). I'd be glad to take a personality test, for example, because they ask actually relevant questions. Just not this.

> And in some cases where this changes over time, the data of birth would also come in handy. E.g. in the tendency of a random London citizen to have say South Asian features in 2024 vs 1950.

I'm not arguing against correlating this with other data. The entire point is that one needs to correlate it with other data in order for my answer to be at all useful, and what I have a problem with is that correlation is not being done. The alignment of the planets alone is not going to reveal my personality type, and not even when combined with my location.
Mine was a bad example :) the command also lets you input stuff from stdin for that very case
So it's better to stick with it and focus your energy on one thing?
We don't know whether a letter from the past was written by a human or by a committee of people who wanted to be trolls and all used the same name together (this happens). We won't know whether intentful communication was written by a robot either.
>The country that allowed replicators would be no.1 fairly quickly

No.1 in jobless, fat and addicted peoples. You need the full Star Trek experience/mindset before you introduce unlimited everything. Also the first thing that would be produced are weapons, drugs and food....and everything sex.
Implicit assumptions in the Tversky/Kahneman example of blue and green taxicabs
One of the sources you provided has only one, clear, obvious definition: one that applies 99% of the time, and aligns with how they (and me, and I can assure you, every single reader of BBC.com) interprets the word.

The other source has practically the same definition listed as the top one, providing two alternatives, one of which is practically synonymous, and another showing an obscure alternative which is new to me and almost makes sense in the example sentence.

Yet they're loading the word.

Therefore sorry, but for me it's you who comes off as hateful. As in, unpleasant; dislikable [1]#2 :D
>I mean, we don't have to guess – this is what current copyright law protects against.

I dont think this is clear to others given the parent comment answer Yes instead of No.
I am linking about cancer and cardiovascular disease and mortality, whereas you're linking about weight. Weight is something that anyone can trivially measure and then adjust one's lifestyle accordingly. The others are not. The outcomes for cancer and CVD hold significantly more weight for obvious reasons.
I experience nothing of this. Just run w10privacy once, takes 10 min.
That doesn't strike me as financial advice; land is only more valuable than money if you care about a particular piece of land because of ties with it. Otherwise if you have money you can buy a piece of land. Having land takes effort, having money doesn't. You might enjoy the effort of course
Because changing the definition would require getting two diametrically opposed parties to cooperate, one of whom weaponizes the debt ceiling whenever it wants to do something inhumane, racist, or just plain stupid.
Yes, something can be just a correlation, but still be a very good idea because it is part and parcel of a healthy lifestyle.
2 month old article.

https://archive.is/bLaDA
The way it was used, in context, was certainly a kind of hate.

It was in the middle of the rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, employed to fire shots at not just Kendrick but at the entire West Coast rap scene.

You might not understand the consequences of doing something like this, but as Kendrick replied, "I think that Oakland show gon' be your last stop, [...]".
The board in the article is interactive you can actually play out Larsen's moves with the arrows underneath
many 520STs had TV out built in so you could get started by hooking it up to a TV if you had to.

very cool machine, with affordability that made it available for many. so much cool european software.
The real fix is to not use -ffast-math. It breaks all sorts of things by design.

If you really want to relax the correctness of your code to get some potential speedup, either do the optimizations yourself instead of letting the compiler do them, or locally enable fast-math equivalents.

As for the is constant expression GCC extensions, that stuff is natively available in standard C++ nowadays.
Well, totally fair because I also did not read very carefully. You said 'distribute' – and in that one word is where lawyers and judges earn their pay :)
The question would be who this rule is for.

It's not for the artists, they're dead. It's not for the right holders, as they're already in control of what happens with the likelihood of the deceased artist. If it's for the family, they should be set as right holders from the start if it mattered to the artist.

Is it for the public then ? Should the public have a say on how the right holder monetize their assets ?

I see an argument from preventing art pieces from disappearing at the will of the right holder, but preventing creation of new art should not be a public decision IMHO.
It varies by the state and town in the US. There are some that get a lot of funding from speeding tickets and the police stake it out. Then there are places like southern california where I’ve never seen a cop taking radar ever.
I think it's more along the lines of a bird in the hand.
Why we would ever equate humanity's creative response to art and a machine's rote ingestion of data into mechanical output?

Morally, legally, socially, these are entirely different.
It's been almost three years since the release of GPT-3, and there still isn't any regulation or standardization for opting out/in of AI training.

Can we expect any changes in this area at all? Can anyone point me to some resources?
Encarta paid for licensed content too, so it had nice audio clips of, say, Malcolm X speaking. Wikipedia is of course much more expansive in content, but since it all has to be Free, in some ways it doesn’t match what Encarta had.
One bit of advice - see if you can make sure you get respite care ie, mom stays for a week at an assisted living facility / nursing facility or even better go through a few in-home care folks who could help out and find one you like.

An issue is caregivers burning out. It's work that normally grows, so even if you don't think you need it, having the paperwork done for assisted / nursing so if needed Mom can spend a week there or having a relationship with in-home care so you can take a few days if needed can really make a big difference.

Also, if you get sick, there's a safety net for mom.
Can we count that as war?

Yes of course, and I'm not defending it, but it's still totally different in both scale and nature from what Russia is doing in Ukraine.

At least on surface appearances the US isn't taking control of the oil and selling it on the market (the oil is owned and marketed by the autonomous Kurdish government which runs the region).

And unlike Russia, the US certainly isn't seeking to permanent annex the region.
Of all the adjectives to use, why “modern”?

Very common these days. I don’t get it.
Massachusetts 911 Call Outage
“A preliminary investigation conducted by the State 911 Department and Comtech determined that the outage was the result of a firewall, a safety feature that provides protection against cyberattacks and hacking. The firewall prevented calls from getting to the 911 dispatch centers, also known as Public Safety Answer Points (PSAPs).”
what if god was one of us? (or an AI)
The context of _rm’s post is not about the OP’s dad’s specific business in its specific regulatory environment which may or may not constitute a “highly efficient, open market”.

> lot of these solo owners who build up a business over the course of many decades serious underestimate how hard they are to sell, and have an unrealistic idea of what valuation they'll be able to get.

From this, I get the sense that _rm was talking about owners of niche businesses that are surprised to find a smaller market of interested buyers, and hence are surprised they cannot sell their business at a price they hoped to get.

My point was simply that just because a seller cannot get a buyer to pay the price they hoped, that does not make the buyer a “bad” person.
We could have locked down all the libraries, APIs, and tools to what they were in 1999, but then people would complain about that.

:p

But really, you can just use skip it all and write your own code. People would scoff now, but that’s what we did. Well, maybe with prototype and/or jQuery.
The commonplace example of this would be a battery, correct? You can touch + or - separately and feel nothing.
I think the person you were responding to doesn't understand proof by contradiction.
This doesn't really answer the sign problem (which is just an arbitrarily chosen convention), but I view it more as "the field makes the electrons move".

The rule of thumb I always use is that at household voltages and currents in copper the electrons move a few tens of microns per second. If your lights are on all day the electrons might move a meter or so from where they were when you turned the switch on.
> puts us back where we were pre-google era anyway...

Google (search) is becoming increasingly less relevant. I know of DuckDuckGo / Kagi, a quick search (on DuckDuckGo) shows a lot of other search engines such as Mojeek, Ecosia, Qwant, Brave:

https://proton.me/blog/alternative-search-engines

As well as a lot of what I'd call "domain specific" search engines like Wolfram Alpha, various targeted social media engines, etc:

https://neilpatel.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/

However I wonder if it would be technically feasible to distribute the search problem instead - Mastodon for search. Technically a node only needs to spend time spidering results with a simple variation on something like PageRank, then some trust/value mechanism needs worked out among the nodes.

The problem with the rise of new competing engines is just that, their competition. Lets say one, e.g. Kagi, becomes the de-facto quality non-AI search engine in 5 years, there's nothing to stop them being bought/sold/bankrupted (financially/morally/infested with secret AI).
> The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned.

Especially with the rise of SEO/GenAI spam content, I kind of wish media had more rigor on citing claims - rather than leaving them as bare assertions - ideally so that someone could follow the chain all the way back and see the actual evidence giving rise to (and hopefully substantiating) the claim.

Is this from first-hand investigation where you could show access logs? Is this further communication put out by "TollBit", the licensing broker, in addition to their mentioned accusations that didn't include names? Is this coming from anonymous insiders at OpenAI/Anthropic who emailed BI? Did this information materialise in front of the article's author?
How does this work though? 11 pm the sky is still light blue here. 3 am the sky is light blue again. 3:30-4:00 is basically daylight outside already.

Do people in northern latitudes have chronic inflammation during summer then?
I have a goofy habit of sleeping with a winter beanie cap down over my eyes. Got it from my wife who sometimes does the same. Makes it dark and the ears warm and cozy.
> two system settings screens

I dread the time when they remove the old one. Small settings that I like to tinker with are hidden here and I doubt program managers will care about them at all.

Example: customizing the mouse theme. Seems frivolous, but without changing the text cursor, increasing the cursor size too much makes it very difficult to pinpoint text since the effect point is on the center of a big cursor rather than on a clearly defined edge.
For an article titled, "don't let them tell you want to think," there sure were a lot of opinions and positions that were pushed. Sure, the reader can choose to disagree, but I think with a title like that the write needs to tread lightly. My first instinct was to not read it at all, because reading the article would undoubtedly go against what the reader is being told in the title.
Currently ingestion has been proven to be legal.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24072131/sarah-silverman-...
OP called the USF fee on his AT&T bill “compensation” to AT&T for maintaining landlines. That overlooks that the vast majority of that money is redistributed from AT&T and its customers to other carriers serving a small population of very high cost customers.
This is quite a good story. Since it happened in 2018, I wonder what’s happened to the business since then?
Whatever the name, I am sure the good people of the world, washing their cars on their lunch breaks would agree
Poor deer. Poor fox. Poor dogs. Funny how that whole story was started by jackasses, though.
What this is saying is that creativity is privileged and (unlike other forms of labor) should be given more than the market says it's worth.

Why should non-creatives go along with this?
thank god for brexit
Look at how different we are from each other. Then consider that humans actually have less genetic variance than most mammal species. Now imagine meeting actual aliens whether from space or from our own AI efforts.
My argument is not based on that premise at all.

It's the idea that a comment that supports the basic foundation of the organization who run this board gets so severely downvoted.

I'm justing calling out how ironic it is.
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Why? Because you don't like it?

It's all perverted now, but the intent of copyright was to encourage artists to create new works for the benefit of society. It wasn't because there's some inalienable right to protect their ideas - it was a trade: "limited monopoly" for "new creation".

What benefit are the rest of us in society getting in exchange for this rule you want to impose upon us?
> AI “art” will never be genuine art until it’s produced by some genuine intelligent being.

The ultimate Turing test?