skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every human artist is trained on copyrighted works, reproduces that art during school, and often incorporates referential elements into their own art.

The problem is that while some people view machine learning as equivalent to human learning (including some case law apparently) I do not believe most people see it that way. The way machine learning algorithms work today is decidedly very unique.

A human artist learns to draw or paint a picture, but diffusion models are literally going from noise to final image directly. There is no sketching, or painting. If it generates artifacts that make an image look "drawn" it is because it "learned" what those artifacts look like.

Even if a program really did paint something from scratch, and you sat there and directed it by typing in "over 600 prompts"... That's a lot closer to commissioning an artist than it is producing art. (Apparently, an artist who is very hard to communicate with, but thankfully has unlimited patience.)

Photography is an interesting comparison point specifically because it is one of the lowest effort things that a human can possibly do to have copyright eligibility. I'm not saying photography is not a valid art form, but every picture you take is eligible for copyright equally even if it is not particularly creative. That's not the point of photographs being eligible for copyright, though. As flawed as copyright may be, one thing you can say about copyright is that it is very nuanced and specific, and the reasoning that led to the legal status of copyright in photography is not likely to be repeated for diffusion models. The legal status for photography seems to hinge on the fact that it clears the "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" requirement. This is a pretty complicated concept and I'm not a lawyer and won't try to conjecture on whether or not results from machine learning models used today could clear this bar.

Either way, let's stop directly comparing "learning" for machine models that do things that humans literally can't and don't, such as "synthesize a fully-formed painting out of a bunch of latent noise" by analyzing trillions of pictures, to human learning wherein spend years and thousands of hours learning how to draw and paint (needless to say, analyzing factors fewer pictures in the process). They both behave very differently and accomplish very different goals. The only thing they really have in common is probably that they both boil down to statistics on some level.
There are a several features here that go beyond 'learn SQL'. I don't see how you could jump to this conclusion if you read the docs.

Why does pgcli exist. What about dbeaver, datagrip, pgadmin, postico, LINQ, ORMs? It's almost as if people value different interfaces to databases.

Maybe it's not for you, but it's not hard to imagine that someone, beyond the author, might find it useful. Maybe it's just me but to dismiss those people as individuals that should just 'learn SQL' is a pretty rude thing to say.
I cannot find any source that shows e-waste being primarily sent to third world countries. It looks like it mostly goes to India and China, if not processed locally.

And at least in India it doesn't look like a burning hell hole of toxic waste.[1]

[1]https://namoewaste.com/what-we-do/
And then we wonder why everything gets worse and worse.
Put weapons on it (as already seen in current conflicts) and it becomes a seek-and-assassinate tool. Drones are cheap enough it could even be done en masse. It is a scary future, and it’s not far away at all.
When should you upgrade to Python 3.13?
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/upgrade-python-3.13/

Python libraries support
https://pyreadiness.org/3.13/
I'd probably look at using S3 as a backup and only have the working copy with Hetzner. Not sure how much more expensive that would be, the pricing for the non-standard S3 and glacier does seem to require a bit more work to understand properly.
If us-east-1 ever suffered a “FULL” data loss, it would be a company-ending event for so many companies that it would practically end society as we know it.

OVH’s failure was a single building. That’s the problem with a lot of server hosters - even Google has their availability zones all co-located in the same building, so a physical event like a fire could take down an entire region. AWS has AZs in physically separate locations, each with 1+ separate DCs.
>(2) Given the complexity of the problem and the involvement of hundreds of research groups and dozens of national and international funding agencies, why give a Nobel Prize to just a couple of research group heads for this new understanding?

Because these two were directly responsible for the discovery and the initial understanding of the mechanism of what was going on. The depth and quantity of the resulting research, funding, and all the other streams of new jobs or additional lines of research are follow-on results from the finding, which to me is a metric that highlights the enormity of their achievement and the richly deserved nature of this award.
Yup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo
Depends on the jr dev. You have the actual devs which develop solutions and the jrs who grow out to these roles. But I’ve been in plenty a company with just a bunch of code monkeys as well to write unit tests, boilerplate and center divs.

They are definitely being replaced by ChatGPT in our company. Think of it what you will, several teams write all their unit tests with ChatGPT now instead..
Not to nitpick since it's still in the same magnitude, but I think it's more like 25.5 lbs

118,000,000,000 / 4,640,000,000 = 25.4310344828
Taking short breaks might help you stay more focused.

Do you have any alternatives, things to do to take a short break without your phone? I would advise something that includes moving, like take a short walk (even to the coffee machine or the restroom).

It helps me to decide upfront how to spend my breaks.

The pomodoro technique (mentioned below) might help too.
I mean if you don't think Tesla already records everything you do in your Tesla car, I don't know what to say.
We follow this rule (about two dozen services with in total ~100k loc of Python):
By default, use the version 1 release below the latest.

I.e. we currently run 3.11 and will now schedule work to upgrade to 3.12, which is expected to be more or less trivial for most services.

The rationale is that some of the (direct and transitive) dependencies will take a while to be compatible with the latest release. And waiting roughly a year is both fast enough to not get too much behind, and slow enough to expect that most dependencies have caught up with the latest release.
I believe both early TP and TC had black backgrounds. It was much later that they became cyan/yellow on blue, because Turbo Vision [update?].
Since this is HN, I must suggest a technological improvement to this system, which is somewhat problematic because that's a lot of cards to try to shuffle through "blind":

A monitor above the chair, and a simple joystick on the arm of the chair, which can be easily covered with plastic. Left/right to cycle through those card-equivalents, press down or push forward to select the card.

Also, for most procedures, you're likely to only need "yes", "no", and "get your hands out of there so I can say a few words".
Source for 270: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting. Search there for “necessary bandwidth”.

For AM, that’s 5KHz+-, or 10 total.
This is not really related to Mediaset, but rather to illegal streaming of football matches.
> Don't give them ideas, they might read "Torment Nexus"

Oh I have. It was so cool. The R&D on that technology can't happen fast enough.

I'm just lampooning tech apologist tropes.
what is getting worse and how?
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241007090749/https://interactiv...

The journalists that still remain in place documenting those war crimes are heroes. Another one was assassinated just yesyerday: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-journalist-ki...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
When I worked in a grocerie store.

The bread guy took back the unsold breads and we were only charged for the sold ones and credited the unsold.

This was in Montréal 20 years ago.

Not sure how it is today and I have no idea in California.

But since it passed I'm guessing it was thr same and now this would be an obvious advantage for the sellers since this would assuré they sell everything.
It exists in Estonia ("thanks" to Googley Eric Schmidt!), it's a company that had codename White Stork.
The audience of Ars isn't "general" and the usage wasn't colloquial. The article is about evolution and the pressures that caused the adaptation. It would have been nice if the author had demonstrated a bit more knowledge of the topic. Its a mistake that grows less forgivable the more years that pass. Hell, I recall the days when people frequently called whales fish. That wouldn't fly in article about evolution now, and neither should this.
From a web point of view, you get full access to .NET, all the associated packages, and all the tooling. You start with a huge head start as opposed to Ocaml and haskell for that usecase.
> typically, you're not restoring everything, just recent backups

Not knowing the pricing difference between the two and assuming they are similar, I would favor Backblaze as it would allow me to exceed the limit if I needed. Based on how you framed it, I would expect that with Wasabi you might hit a hard limit.
> Rust is great, but - heretic idea - not literally everything needs to be in Rust. Go try Ruby on Rails for a while! Or - if Rust has whetted your appetite for more functional styles - Phoenix on Elixir! Yes, it's not quite so blazing fast, but - let's be honest here - you're not going to be getting billions of requests per second on your hobby website where you write about taking apart Amigas. It's OK! She'll be right.

Who changes their minds about what to do for fun because someone on HN thought it was unnecessary? Doing what some random person wants instead because they want to be “heretical” (because it’s a religion right) sounds like the opposite of fun to me.

But I’ll see you on the next thread about making a Rube Goldberg web server in C++ templates. Or some such very necessary and “approved for prod by HN” thing.
> Hearing these two people just get REALLY INTO this unfinished story, engaging with the themes, with the characters, it's great...

Except they're not people, and they're not actually engaging with anything. It's all literal bullshit.
Your perspective is probably also affected by living in a country whose government does largely spend its taxes on public goods and club goods rather than on, for example, pork-barrel politics, invading other countries, and harming the public and itself. Living in a country where the government spent some of its tax money on keeping me from getting vaccinated against covid, and where I used to live in a house full of refugees from Venezuela, gives me a different perspective—even where we know the same facts, different ones may seem especially salient to me.
When I'm in a docker container using the Python 3 version that comes with Debian - is there an easy way to swap it out for this version so I can test how my software behaves under 3.13?
I like Go a lot and can work with it's error handling paradigm, but I still often wonder if the same semantics could be accomplished with less verbosity in a way that makes the underlying algorithm more clear when reading the code.
My father’s philosophy textbook from university (A Modern Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Arthur Pap and Paul Edwards, 2nd ed., 1965). As a young teenager, I leaned on it to argue to my mother that God did not exist and therefore she should stop forcing me go to Mass with her

When I was 15, I went to the library of the nearest university, and stumbled upon a book - IIRC, it was Vickery’s The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough (1973) - which introduced me to Algernon Swinburne’s The Triumph of Time-and from there I discovered I liked many more of his poems

When I was 11, I read a large chunk of The Lord of the Rings - I got bored near the start of The Two Towers, switched to reading the chapters of The Return of the King in reverse order, then gave up and to this day have never finished it. But I fell in love with the Appendices
Thus one of the reasons why SEo is a bad idea in general. There's always going to be something else. Therefore, I just choose not to care about it.
Performing the test in fixed order creates a risk of bias due to either training or exhaustion. With a sufficiently big data set, it would be interesting to show the test to different groups in different orders, or at least repeat one of the "easy" tests at the end.

I noticed that my performance significantly dropped towards the end because my brain was just fried.

(Also, who else did the test while task-switching to HN while waiting for something to finish?)
I've always used the system of "grunt so they can take their hands out" so I can speak, more or less.
It is probably much better if the compositor implements parts of the accessibility functionality. Then you can have other parts as libraries and in the toolkits, but the integration should probably be in the compositor.
All interesting ideas.

a lot of cards to try to shuffle through "blind"

That's why I suggested the raised dots or micro-notches. It's used by the vision impaired and magicians but I am not supposed to give away their secret. Pen and Teller use a different trick and I pinky promise I won't give that one away.
1991 tag. An all time classic.
Haven't had the same experience here in the US or back when I was in Brazil, might have been biased as all college grads I interacted with had been interns (specially in Brazil, as you'd usually intern at least half a year) so they all had some experience in coding and were able to get the job done with proper guidance.

For bootcamp graduates it was very hit and miss and they usually lacked most of the basic computer science knowledge in data structures, algorithms and higher level concepts like design patterns and object oriented design. So the ramp up ended up being much longer. I think you can do something in six months but it's not the same as college, had a great experience when I was there and wouldn't trade it for "faster" job placement at all.
> I'm not really seeing anything I can't do with standard SQL and CLI tools like psql.

Developer here. There's a few features other than the query stuff that I still think are pretty handy.

The "sq inspect" stuff isn't easy to do with the standard CLI tools, or at least wasn't when I started working on sq back in 2013 or so.

https://sq.io/docs/inspect

I also regularly make use of the ability to diff the metadata/schema of different DB instances (e.g. "sq diff @pg_prod @pg_qa").

https://sq.io/docs/diff
Consider a hurricane evacuation where you need to have a way to provide real time information for people in their vehicles trying to leave the area. Cell service is down. You can't provide emergency workers to direct traffic.

This is exactly why we should still have AM radio in cars, and why you still see signs on the highway about tuning into X AM station for emergency updates.
What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Tons, but there are notable standouts.

- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adam - Spent all of senior year in HS reading the entire series

- Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut - Maybe it was because I mentally compared Harrison to Crow Sting from professional wrestling or because it was a short story, but I always think about this story

- Have a Nice Day! by Mick Foley - Pro wrestling is my guilty pleasure and like many fans, Foley's life resonated with me about friendship, giving 110%, all the while keeping a positive outlook on life

- Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson - A comic is a book with pictures. Out of all the comics about superheros, webcomics, and old newspaper comics, if I had to only read one of them for the rest of my life it'd be C&H

- Honorable Mention is Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I'm started reading them during COVID, but I'm thoroughly enjoying that dry English sense of humor, modern society cynism, and fantasy setting. I'm currently on my tenth book (out of ~40)
Copyright & capitalism is the crucial part of how we have the technical foundation that got us ML and most of the material used for training it. Big tech companies that want to monetize it at scale would like us to not think about that (or any long term consequences that do not affect shareholder value beyond current management), of course. If anything, the problem with intellectual property law is that they feel it’s safe for them to ignore it when it comes to ordinary people’s work (good luck suing ClosedAI).
When I designed the tool I've tried to mirror the experience of screen readers users instead of only displaying ARIA roles and properties.

For example you have to navigate the page with your keyboard only. If a dropdown isn't accessible - it's instantly clear for the user. Another example are tables. They present only one cell + their headers at the time. I think it's super close to the actual experience of screen reader users.
I tend to agree! but this seems to have a subtly different use case. It's actually very cool. I can see this being a good addition to my toolbox.
Those who lived in USSR remembers soda vending machines (they poured your drink in a glass cup; you were expected to wash it before using by pressing on a cup, which stood upside down on plastic plate with holes, kinda inverted shower head; very unhygienic, I know). Well it had a button behind that let you have a free drink. You could also "upgrade" pure carbonated water (1 kopeyek) to a sweet soft drink (3 kopeyek) by pressing another button. needless to say schoolchildren would abuse the hell out of this "feature".
This... Honestly the first lines seemed I thought this was an arrogant take, but he made _really_ good point and now I tend to agree with him.

Still I am a bit bothered, does a counterargument exist?
Agreed. It's important to bear in mind that DNS is one thing that uses ISO3166, but by no means the only thing.
Tom Swift series, they have aged badly but the science adventure parts of it steered me into engineering.
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffery gave me an introvert as a role model.
Want to get in touch with founders / indie devs who feel burnt out
Upgrading my ebook on Founder Burnout and would like to include interviews and experiences from startup founders and indie devs who have burnt out or are simply feeling exhausted.

Is there a way to do that here on HN?
Why anyone listens to folks like this is beyond me.
You can already install sq using several of the common package managers, or build from (Go) source if you prefer.

https://sq.io/docs/install
Conditional move between registers is common. This is like masked load / stores with postincrement. Seems a reasonable instruction to me, if rather specialised.
OpenAI's Realtime API is a step towards outer-loop Agents
From corrosion yes. From dents and scratches, no, it is pretty soft.

And even then, there is a caveat, as gold can superficially corrode and change color under some anoxic conditions (as some people who put gold jewellry in safe boxes discovered).
I don't understand why people are arguing against this. It's pennies to continue the service and utilizing an established system. All you have to do is say "yep, looks good". Why close this door?! There's literally no upside.
Why is ChatGPT so bad at math?
I responded to your quote, which didn't restrict itself to airline pilots. There are also people flying their own planes for fun. And military pilots. Both of which may pull risky stunts in real planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_aerobatics
Pirate radio stations are extremely rare in the US. They exist sure but, not so much that it's making the FM band not useful. The FCC really doesn't fuck around.
There was a Netflix movie last year or so about an attack on the US where
people outside NYC was meandering aimlessly trying to get Internet signal in their phones while NYC appeared to be under attack I they where lost without their phones.
Are people that dense?
All military radios support AM radio waveform
I would not purchase a vehicle without AM radio support.
Not really, car insurance rates need to go through alot of state level validation in order to be approved.

Other models are not considered insurable by GEICO as well. So likely small pool of policyholders + exorbiant claim payments == not worth the headache
> even our designers don’t know of any similar roundabouts this small

Mini-roundabouts are commonplace in the UK, e.g.:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4072632,-0.2739497,3a,29.6y,...
Not defending their specific course of action here, but you should probably try to wade into the linked discussion (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84559). Looks like the push to disable warnings (in 3.13) is mostly coming from one guy.
> It's not hard to figure out who people would vote for (on average). Pick a town that leans in your direction but has low voter turnout and I'm convinced you can affect the outcome.

And you've just described pretty much every voter registration and voter turnout effort ever.
Developer here. Thanks for the kind words.

Substring matching is on my short list (also totally open to a PR!).
Locking semantics? Consistent listing of large numbers of files?

I'm speculating but those are at least the two I can think of that aren't explicitly linked to speed equivalency of a basic filesystem.
It looks like a huge pile of AI-generated images, so it likely won't give you accurate data. Even if it did, research into what people find attractive already exists, so I'm not sure that I buy the premise that you are trying to do new research here. It looks like "Hot or not", but with AI. Kinda weird, seems pointless?
Wow. Downvoted
To be honest, it's probably not enough to just block these scrapers if they are acting maliciously, people should just start serving generated content back to it and see how long it takes for them to catch on and fix the problem
Ironic name.
All of those Choose Your Own Adventure books really built my interest in stories of all kind. I'd juggle 3-4 different by using my fingers as bookmarks until I couldn't hold the book any longer and had to pick ONE storyline.
Entropix: Entropy Based Sampling and Parallel Cot Decoding
Maybe if OVH had installed an automatic fire extinguishing system or an electric mains cut-off switch, the firefighters wouldn't have struggled with meter-long electrical arcs and could put out the fire quicker.
S&R has always been a front for weaponized robotics, IMHO.

The last DARPA grand challenge (Subterrainean) had automated drone networks that could find and identify humans in caves and tunnels. They were at least up front about the military challenges in these environments. (https://www.darpa.mil/program/darpa-subterranean-challenge), but the nod at civilian first-responders doesn't seem fair. Honestly, is cave-in such a big civilian problem that we need to prioritize it as a talking point at all levels?