skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In context of the discussion here - people who are talking about "content" or "IP" mark themselves out as not having a nuanced understanding of what intangible assets they hold.

I think what you mean to say is:

- writing and depictions of characters are copyrighted

- writing and depictions of worlds are copyrighted

- some of the names involved can also be registered trademarks

They are intangible rights that someone can own. The insidious term "intellectual property" is used to reframe the understanding of rights granted by copyright, patent and trademark law by comparing them to real property, which they are not.

When was the last time someone was allowed to live in your house, legally, because they're making a parody of it? When was the last time someone was allowed to take your house apart to find out how to make something compatible with your house's design? Owning a copyright is not like owning property and does not give you carte-blanche control over your intangible asset like real property law more-or-less does.

Some examples:

- I can write a book or game about a boy wizard who goes to a magical school, as long as I didn't base it on Harry Potter. JK Rowling can't stop me.

- I can write about a pirate who acts like an aging rockstar, provided I didn't copy Johnny Depp's depiction of Captain Jack Sparrow. Disney can't stop me.

- I can write about a martial force voyaging through space by analogy to a similar force on the Earth's seas, so I can call them space marines. Games Workshop® can't stop me, provided I don't implicitly or explicitly claim they are Games Workshop® Space Marines®
Kraken Germany Removes Lightning Network Support
Here's an interesting comparison against other alternatives like /e/: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
This is quickly turning into a bozo badge. (Even Gartner will say so.)

So it's a risky thing to brag about right now.
This is 100% correct. We haven't become more enlightened and tolerant, we have simply exchanged what we don't tolerate. That may or may not be good, but it certainly isn't worth patting ourselves on the back as if we're somehow better than our forebears.
There are shows made today that capture the realistic nature of it. White Lotus or Scenes from a Marriage on HBO are good examples.
I don't know the answer, but I imagine that the execs and staff that left as a block have some plan lined up.
> Let's say humanity finds a way to build a sophisticated torment nexus ...

No. I decline to say that at this time. Thank you.

(I keep a little pickled Roko's basilisk in a jar on my bookshelf. I sometimes take it down and shake it at errant logicians to tease them. I know I shouldn't but it's just so funny.)
Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community
I wouldn't say rationalization considering the lack of experience of these teens. Lack of scope in life forbids this imo, hence my adhoc neologism.

These were redditors that were unhappy saying that being an only fan model is the laziest thing one can do. That's when they taught me about their concepts.
The US spends more on defense spending than all the other countries in the world combined and yet they're "never prepared" for the "new era" of warfare. Gonna need more money for the defense contractors to research the issue.

This has been the state of affairs since WWII. Now the world is starting to realize that the US has been sustaining this spending level to the detriment of their health and education, and that lack of education has created a group of bozos poised to take over the government and control those armaments.

It's a sad state of affairs.
I don't think it's really a slippery slope. It's easy to say "no motor-powered vehicles", including eBikes. A horse is far more destructive to trails than bikes are. Even "no bikes except where allowed" would probably be fair. You could ask decision makers to designate a few trails as ok.

It's very clear that Wilderness areas are not meant for commercial exploitation. I believe a few of them have grandfathered in grazing rights, perhaps to get them over the line politically, but that's about the extent of it and I would not expect that to change.
No floor drains are required in commercial ICC code, but they're a really good idea.

https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPC2021P3/chapter-4-fixtur...
Humans aren't rational, they're made of flesh and blood.
Sure.

At the same time, I want tools to behave like tools rather than independent entities with a will of their own.

I don't worry about sending an old phone to recycling; but if I was a sentient phone, I wouldn't want to be the one that got sent. If phones somehow got a software update that made them sentient, whatever that means, that sounds kinda bad to me.
Yes, and yes. And absolutely not.

The chart is intended to show values for both kinds of tips that are usable on a Pinecil. V2 tips have a lower resistance, by design, and either style can be used with either handle.

Temperature is not indicated, although resistance can vary with temperature. But then: Temperature is never indicated for power of soldering irons. If you want to begin a trend of producing this data and filling this void, then by all means do so. Let me know how I can help.

And no, we absolutely do not need a buck converter to accomplish heating a resistive element in a circuit, nor to use PWM to modulate the average power dissipation of this circuit. (A buck converter can be used; sure! But E=IR and P=IE anyway.)
> If function f returns b or nothing/error, and is then improved to return b always, client code that calls f should not require changes or become invalid, except perhaps for a dead code warning on the parts that deal with the now impossible case of a missing result from f.

You can achieve this by not changing the type and keeping the result as Maybe b. Dead code to handle `Nothing`, no harm done.

However, you clarify you don't want this because:

> Changing the type signature (which, by the way, could be at least in easy cases implicitly deduced by the compiler rather than edited by hand) allows new client code to assume that the result is present.

But this cuts both ways. If the old call site can assume there may be errors (even though the new type "b" doesn't specify them) then the new call site cannot assume there are no errors (what works for old must work for new).

I must say I see no real objection to the proposal at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41519649 besides "I don't like it", which is not very compelling to me.
But this one is phishing for a "no". That law explodes in contact with those.
Is it at all possible that we will ever find a frozen dinosaur? If not, why not?
Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's something that the content creator ostensibly agreed to.

Of course I'm sure Meta is also training their AI on content that they scraped from the internet/other sources without permission...
I need to find the link, but I saw an incredible presentation at Gig City Elixir last year where they’d been running a globally distributed, in memory, medical database with no downtime or data loss for upwards of 5 years. One of the coolest projects I ever saw.

But yes, you do have to determine state and recovery patterns. Depends entirely on the situation but things like making sure your data will survive a process crash is straightforward.
> Nebula the business is “Standard Broadcast LLC,” and is directly owned at the LLC level by me and 43 other creators (and growing).

> Nebula the streaming video service (which controls the streaming revenue) is Watch Nebula LLC, which is about 83% owned by Standard Broadcast LLC, with the rest held by Curiosity Stream. All control and all board seats belong to Standard Broadcast LLC.

> We use shadow equity for platform creators because assigning LLC-level equity would make signing new creators logistically impractical, and would have complex tax implications for every creator we bring in. US securities laws also are skewed in favor of the wealthy: it would be very expensive or potentially impossible for us to comply with them if we were issuing securities to small creators who aren’t accredited investors.

> If substantial control of the streaming service ever changes hands, we are contractually required to split the proceeds 50/50 with the creators on the platform. 50% of streaming profits are distributed to creators based on watch time. Additionally, 1/3 of the revenue from any subscriber is allocated to the creator responsible for bringing in that subscriber.

> Weird that he didn’t just ask.

— Dave Wiskus, CEO of Nebula
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/1ffnaza/comment/lmx...
They'll eat your chia pet.
With suitable sentiment analysis, you can train known bigoted models and then run unknown input through them to see if it appeals to the model.
I don't think recurrences of this kind are an infinite line that can apply forever. Usually I account for the generational gap when thinking, even though it's something that may evade my mind.
It looks like the author specifically talks about the infra for an early-stage startup that has not found product-market fit yet. If a startup has product for consumers and does find the product-market fit, then I'd imagine two pieces of infrastructure that is hard to come by: EC2, and S3. Yes, EC2, the grandpa's infra that people either ignore or despise. But really, anyone can learn how to set up and run a k8s cluster, yet very few companies can offer something like EC2: full abstraction of the underlying servers, worry-free of provisioning new servers, and robust and versatile implementation of dynamic autoscaling. After all, all the k8s shit won't scale easily if we can't scale the underlying servers.

And S3. S3 is just a wonderful beast. It's just so hard to get something that is so cheap yet offers practically unlimited bandwidth and worry-free durability. I'd venture to say that it's so successful that we don't have an open-source alternative that matches S3. By that I specifically mean that no open-source solution can truly take advantage of scale: adding a machine will make the entire system more performant, more resilient, more reliable, and cheaper per unit cost. HDFS can't do that because of its limitation on name nodes. Ceph can't do that because of it bottleneck on managing OSD metadata and RGW indices. MinIO can't do that because their hash-based data placement simply can't scale indefinitely, let alone ListObjects and GetObjects will have poll all the servers. StorJ can't do that because their satellite and metadata servers are still the bottleneck, and the list can go on.
Wat?

I know girls who go the the gym. They work in IT and are not OF girls. They just want to stay healthy. People also don't smoke any more as much, and gen z drinks less alcohol then the other generations.
No problem at all. It's such a fascinating and cool field to build software in.

Someone else above had mentioned the complexity of medical coding and I don't know what you do or what you're working on but that's another really interesting part of the puzzle. And starts to get into why it's so hard for one system to communicate with each other in healthcare.
mind sharing the code? I asked o1 preview this verbatim and it produced errors. Just wanted to make sure its not me
> The distinction between wild or natural is completely arbitrary human made

Well—the distinction seems perfectly natural, then.
Yeah, I've used the github ssh key thing before, but never heard of key leases - will take a look. Thx!
I didn't sense any judgement there, just a statement of fact. Learning a new language as an adult is doable, but not trivial, so it's certainly a factor in making a decision to relocate to another country for a job.
Relevant section states:

> Zero-click unauthorized access to sensitive data $5,000 to $500,000
I'm with you 100% on point #2.

Disagree on point #1. We occupied Afghanistan for 20 years. We operated with nearly absolute impunity in all population centers, through all trade routes, and all agricultural areas. Our casualties were a minuscule amount our total forces. Our culture completely transformed theirs (in a way that old school hardliners lament publicly). We killed a huge number of Taliban (and foreign fighters).

Clausewitz says that "the political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it." Can you tell articulate what the political goal of the war was?

Thinking back to 2001 (I was in middle school), the goal was retribution. I believe the military achieved that in spades. Yes, in the end Afghanistan did not turn into a US vassal state or a US colony. But was that the goal?
I am truly impressed by how quickly AI generated content has filled up every public space. We've gone from "AI is the future!" to a digital Kessler's syndrome in a short few years.
Right? Explained from the perspective of the hostage, it seems like reasonable behavior.
in particular, media mergers have a long history of going south pretty quickly because company culture is so fundamental to media production.

AOL+Time Warner is up there in the history of worst mergers.
Seems a little late, no?

If the Union went on strike a year or two ago with claims(+proof) that the management was pushing down quality then I would consider the union to be doing it's job of trying to protect the workers from management like the claim was.

After a door falls out, numerous government audits and hearings, the union standing up and saying "Hey! Guys, we have an issue with management" seems to be a little barn door house.

The start of the thread was saying that union work is more quality than non-union. Child of that post claimed that union workers were the ones who missed the bolts.

If we want to claim that unions protect workers and improve quality(as opposed to those who say that unions are the reason that you can't get rid of bad workers) then the unions need to take timely action, not after.

However, the union strike is regarding pay and benefits. Not asking for better quality goals or production targets.
Yep. For reasons of propriety, for one thing. But also because the data protection laws get especially opinionated about what you do with kids’ speech, and one line they draw is at age 13. The American variant, COPPA, dates back to 2000, and requires verifiable parental consent to process the data of under-13s.

No idea if that matters retrospectively in legal terms—it’s seems to me that the main problem was providing service to the kids in the first place—but it’s icky either way. Then again there’s an ickiness to the entire project of pretending casual users’ arcane permissions settings from 15 years ago indicate affirmative consent today…
Right, and in exchange users received rather a lot of services for free... photo and video storage etc as just one example, Llama is free to use, etc etc.

While I've no sympathy for mishandling private user data as Meta has of course been guilty of in the past, I think users getting 16 years of free service in exchange for their public posts being used in this fashion is not that bad of a deal.
Every organization has their extremists. Some organizations attract more extremists than others.
> Why is this surprising? They’ve always done this. In fact I’d be surprised if they didn’t do this.

This is such an unconstructive attitude. This is the first time they have publicly admitted it.
Except for the worker that will see stagnant wages.
Probably a combination of being a subscription model with auto-renewal and people regretting wasting money for this type of content.
Jevons Paradox isn't a law of nature.

> we can find additional useful things to do with it

Useful for what purpose?

> Reducing suffering

Yes and no. Existence is suffering (you are already in the Torment Nexus), Gurdjieff spoke of the importance of "conscious suffering" but that's not something I want to get into here, today.

In any event, the best way to reduce suffering is to touch Ice Nine to your tongue, but where's the fun in that?

Once all the suffering is reduced what then?

(Sorry if I seem salty or sassy, I'm really just here for interesting and contrsuctive discussion, I swear.)
I have a custom deployment system which idempotently configures an Ubuntu LTS VM. All the config templates are checked into source control. I don't configure anything by hand - it's either handled in this thing or via a small user-data script run at provisioning time.
Ethical sex? I couldn't talk long with the kids but I assume they took physical safety and freedom as only important aspect when approaching onlyfans. Teen girl idol can spread her legs if she wants to and no one can take advantage (unlike the pre me too era)
I think the answer is to leverage AI and robotics to build businesses.
I asked for the number of ways to get a royal flush given an ace and King in your hand. It told me 4
Regarding parasocial relationships in general, I like [0]:

> a few exceptional people (many of them imaginary) get far more love than most people need or can enjoy.

> This seems an essential tragedy of the human condition. You might claim that love isn’t a limited resource, that the more people each of us love, the more love we each have to give out. So there is no conflict between loving popular and imaginary people and loving the rest of us. But while this might be true at some low scales of how many people we love, at the actual scales of love this just doesn’t seem right to me. Love instead seems scarce at the margin.

> Please, someone thoughtful and clever, figure out how we might all be much loved.

[0] https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/alas-unequal-lovehtml
You might be interested in the latent space podcast about using Ai to do exactly this, as compared to offshoring.

https://www.latent.space/p/nsfw-chatbots
literally no one said that or even a rough approximation of that. Seriously I have no love for the generals but even they're not that dumb.
Did CCSF have a lot of companies ever? Education there is free and pretty last resort. I signed up for Chinese (Mandarin) once.
"Politicians don't have much incentive to do this since plenty of them get cushy jobs at bigco benefactors of the spending bills they voted on."

It is the same problem - bribery/corruption but hard to proof and not much interest to investigate.
Funny enough, I follow an OnlyFans creator on Xitter, and they've been complaining that OnlyFans was cracking down on kink/fetish content. I guess OF only wants parasocial slop on their platform!
> This simply isn't a good faith take, because you're straw-manning the implementation of the query that the original poster put forward. They aren't asserting that the AI would need to do supernatural super-real time decoding of MPEG encoded files.

No, they literally said the AI would watch every frame on demand:

> I expect an "AI" to be capable pf obtaining every movie, watching them frame-by-frame, and getting an accurate count.

Talk about bad faith.

> What if the AI had already seen them? And was able to encode in the typically-compressed way LLMs do the information it needs to answer questions like that

LLM are encoding (in a very lossy way) “important” details, that's what allow them to compress their knowledge in little amount of space with respect to the input. But if you're asking completely random questions like this there's no way an LLM will contain such an info, because storing all the random trivia like that is going to be wasting an enormous amount of space.

> There's no moving goalposts. Goal posts have been set in cement since 2014.

Wait until you realize that AI is something much older than 2014…
Also, note how the book you're quoting isn't called “artificial intelligence”.

> OpenAI is not worth $150 billion dollars because it purports to be building a human-and-nothing-more in a box.

And yet there are many companies with much higher valuation with goals much more mundane than this. OpenAI has a hundred billion dollar valuation because investors believe it can make money, not matter what it technologically achieves in order to do so.
Even without all the safety parts, this is amazing:

> The new choice type is a type safe discriminated union. It’s equivalent to Rust’s enum type.
Wait what is this? Tell me more please
> don't see it as any less dignified than any other work

You do not, and that is your moral judgement. Rationalizing earning money by any means necessary is a very slippery slope, and the discussion is much more nuanced than popular media would lead you to believe.
It's... really not. Despite what some people seem to think, most of the 3 billion+ Facebook users are normal people who aren't just posting nonsense or memes.
Are you joking? Once a corporation gets large enough, the worst they can get is a fine, which is usually a fraction of their income. This is how the system works.

For example, depending on how you calculate it, Merck killed between 3,000 and 500,000 people with Vioxx, and they knew the risks prior to releasing it. They got a fine. And now, the company is now doing just fine. No one was individually prosecuted.

If you have a corporate charter and billions of dollars, you have a license to kill.
That's a great deal and a very nice machine, but it isn't really the same in the sense that the Carola is a PID machine, but not a pressure profiling machine. I've used a non-pressure-profiling machine for years, and it's great, but pressure profiles are the current area of innovation for espresso machines and hacking.
Sure, but again, complexity - stuff people have to learn/maintain/upgrade, etc. ymmv

Running and configuring VMs isn't hard to do correctly, it just takes discipline to never "hack it in the moment" - or if you do, can that change in your config system.
It's "boss", not "colleague"; and they're your boss based purely on having a lot of money from their parent, hardly a "quarter inch deep" evaluation.
What are you depending on the OS that isn't extremely backwards compatible?

Once in a decade you get something like a breaking upgrade of nginx, or the glibc debacle of 2003. That may take a person-week to fix[1], what can hardly be called "herculean".

1 - If you go with 1 person * 1 week, if you try to go with 7 people * 1 day, it will suddenly cost 7 person-weeks. But the only way upgrading is such a hurry is if you borked a lot of things prior to it.
> They'll do what we've been so-well-trained-for at self-checkouts: the passenger might be given control of the vehicle in such situations (e.g. loss of network connection).

Who handles liability if you get into an accident? When does it take control of the vehicle away? The most likely scenario is the car pulls over safely and asks you to get out or wait.

There are _many_ people who cannot or will not driver. They won't just take over control of a vehicle they're unfamiliar with. Teenagers, the elderly, people without a driver's license, people injured, ...
Their algorithm sure does a good job at filtering those normal people out...
Why would a manufacturing company - who is clearly having manufacturing problems - pivot to a remote-first culture? What problem would that solve? It's hard to build airplanes in your driveway, but I can't say that I've tried.

That door-blowing-off thing wasn't a design issue. "It's hard to forget to install the bolts when you're working from home" is a bit of a logical fallacy.
Maybe that says more about you and how you engage with it than it does the platform though.