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Out_of_Characte··on Italy's ChatGPT ban attracts EU privacy regulators
Does that mean I have to pay you royalties for thinking about it or mentioning it?

Yes, if HN were to post copyrighted work that only they could spread, then you would be liable. In the same trend, any patents that HN comments share should not be redistributed/sold by you.

Chatgpt circumvents copyright law in a way that is hard to detect. How many sentences of moby dick does it take to prove chatgpt is plagiarising other peoples protected works?

Out_of_Characte··on Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive
Groups of people aren't people by that logic
Out_of_Characte··on Redditor took out $76,000 loans to trade meme stocks thanks to Wall Street Bets
The difference is in part, personality. I do use WSB because they often find interesting speculative stocks. But I would never gamble more than 10% of my portfolio and I would never use leverage.

In part, the deathly combination lies in new participants in investing that use wsb and robinhood which allow overleveraged positions before those new participants actually learn how the market is priced and how your leverage in premiums is priced according to your risk. I dont think anyone with a portfolio over 10 years in the making would be willing to make the bets that I see on the forum.

Robinhood allowing margin trading is a regulatory mistake in my opinion.

Out_of_Characte··on These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
I know its confusing but 'the nitrogen problem' does indeed refer to fixed nitrogen run-off pollution
Out_of_Characte··on These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
I have lived in zeewolde near the place of the datacenter, I can tell you that its massive, especially considering how small the country is and how densely populated it is. Historically, flevoland was created for the express purpose of creating fertile land to farm on. The only reason they didn't build it on industrial land was because of anti-competitive deals with the zeewolde municipality in order to reduce the land usage costs. Also, there are no big supermarkets in the Netherlands.

From an american perspective I can understand that this doesnt make alot of sense. but zeewolde is just shy of 60km from schiphol airport. Distances, building sizes and infrastructure and everything else has adapted really well to this dense country, this datacenter is not.

Out_of_Characte··on He who submits a resume has already lost
Lets say you're someone who has changed careers alot, it means finding and applying is your full-time job for months on end. Despite people who have changed careers, succesfully, are often the best kind of people you'd want to hire.
Out_of_Characte··on “Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (2019)
Mercury can get up to 430c, so Maybe yes. But you might as well use the sun
Out_of_Characte··on Money market funds swell by over $273B as investors pull deposits from banks
You're correct, but even underwater T-bills are better than holding the money. Its essentially both insurance and additional interest. the only risk is having to sell them at the wrong time.
Out_of_Characte··on Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
Wouldnt know what the OP refers to but silicon valley has been skirting regulations and running as close to a ponzi scheme as humanly possible, the likes of uber with blitzscaling, esentially growing their userbase with venture capital only to increase the amount of venture capital they can get to 'eventually' make a profit. Or SVB wanting to not be regulated because they hold less than 250B only to fail with terrible consequences. Then theres the numerous crypto startups that promise return on stake funded by new depositors to pay the old depositors. Money was cheap but in an economic downturn any weakness will result in investors leaving, cash drying up. So whoever cannot show profits will quickly wither and cause chain reactions in similar weak companies. I'm sure you can find an amazing list on hindenburg and you'll see most of them are tech companies because thats where the biggest venture capital pie was between 2008 and now.
Out_of_Characte··on GOOD Meat gets green light from FDA for cultivated meat
You cannot repurpose almost all land that farm animals use to grow crop. This is marginal land where only grass grows, or hilly, rocky terrain where equipment is not effective.
Out_of_Characte··on Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)
Without headwind you cannot get negative groundspeed with any conventional airplane design.
Out_of_Characte··on The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it
Because money and (stock) value is not strictly correlated. A business can lose money but their stock can be up because value depends largely on potential unrealised gain in the future. Then theres the fed making depositors whole again which means any negative sentiment against several banks before the feds involvement will recover. Maybe someone more knowledgeable could weigh in on that last part.
Out_of_Characte··on ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400
Yes, but it also completely invalidates the measurement of a 1400 elo rating. By comparison, any player making an illegal move is forfeiting the game, almost all people from ~300 elo can play without making illegal moves, chatgpt cant.
Out_of_Characte··on GPT-4
That would be another misunderstanding the AI could have because many people find reasoning between mass and weight difficult. You could change the riddle slightly by asking "which has more mass" and the average person and their AI would fall in the same trap.

Unless people have the false belief that the measurement is done on a planet without atmosphere.

Out_of_Characte··on Swedish pension giant loses $1.1B from US banks’ collapse
They can bank, but not too hard or they'll fall over
Out_of_Characte··on Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough
The rope would be a series of knots. Kind of like comparing the tensile strength of a scarf to synthetic wool strings (since regular wool is always knotted anyway.)
Out_of_Characte··on Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
The ambulance still shows up to declare someone dead.
Out_of_Characte··on Peter Thiel's Founders Fund pulled cash from SVB before collapse: Report
Although I wouldn't 'blame' startups that are having issues due to the bank run, They could have been in a better position if they understood that deposits are only insured up to 250k. If they had multiple accounts, their insurance would have been better and would also sustain less risk if any bank had permanent or temporary liquidity issues.
Out_of_Characte··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
These chips are meant to be cost competitive, not performant. There might be more incentive to add gddr6 bandwith rather than limited 3D cache. Theres also HBM memory as another alternative that would function better to reduce power draw compared to gddr.
Out_of_Characte··on Opinion: Gen Z is right to reject the false gospel of productivity
What does LCOL stand for?
Out_of_Characte··on New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
Im european and the app still worked perfectly fine when my data bundle ran out and I had to finish downloading data/apps on 4kbps.
Out_of_Characte··on You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)
To be fair, any profession or field can be turned into a con. Just because deepak chopra advocates quantum healing doesn't mean the field itself is corrupt. MLM are by definition corrupt but startups aren't.
Out_of_Characte··on Scientists prove particles in a quantum system can be rejuvenated
“you can run it without knowing about the system, its internal dynamics, or even the details of the interaction between the system and the experimenter.”

The scientific meta right now seems to almost contradict itself in the english language. Is there any tool/book out there that could help me understand quantum dynamics and its limitation better?

I'm having trouble understanding how the proof of this is supposed to look like.

Out_of_Characte··on 'The Problem Index' – Which Countries Have the Worst Demographics
Smaller populations isn't a bad thing, but a rapid declining population is. At a stable birthrate of 2.1 there would be a workforce of approx 60% of the population compared to 20% elderly and 20% minors.

( Assuming productive age is 20-80 and all people die at 100 )

Once you enter a low birthrate of 1 that would mean at some point your workforce could be cut in half and your elderly population could be doubled. Now, 40% of the workforce will end up needing to sustain a 50% elderly population and 10% would be minors. If you're not carefull the loss of capital in the workforce could mean less people desire to have kids in a world that cannot sustain their needs. Leading to a feedback loop that is very hard to get out of.

One way of improving the situation is by cutting back on all non-essential programs for decades in order to stabilise the population at the magical 2.1 number.

Out_of_Characte··on Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
It would lead to some hilarious malpractise if anyone understood floating point and stole a billion cents. Things like this has happend and will continue if people arent aware of floating point error.
Out_of_Characte··on Unconditional Love
I think unconditional love is a misnomer. You can love someone but its in your and their best interest to leave if your relationship is destructive. What most people truly desire is to be loved unconditionally while taking on the challenge of life whatever that might be for you.
Out_of_Characte··on Certified 100% AI-free organic content
I'd agree that there is no significant difference in accountability between content farms and AI. But I think that's burying the lede because what makes HN so appealing to many is the personally written blogposts and experts in specific fields or silly hobby projects. AI has the unique ability to mimick all of that for highly specific audiences with significantly lower cost and effort. This would impact curation efforts of many different user-generated websites and posts and could create a new status quo where a nobody could be treated guilty of AI-Generated articles, SEO hacking and upvote manipulation before entertaining the thought that a natural person could be making their first concerted effort for their reputation and prove their honesty.

For now HN is a bastion of conversation across many countries and domains

Out_of_Characte··on Certified 100% AI-free organic content
Regardless of spam, there is another fundamental issue with AI, Accountability. Any text you've read had a real person behind it with real intentions. Malice and greed or honesty and exploration. It would be very difficult to hold an AI accountable for any offence committed on accuracy or honesty. With a person, you can slowly get to the bottom of it and develop a relationship. AI will muddy the waters of people writing and thinking instead of offloading everything to an AI that could do it faster and you'd even evade any responsibility for your text as you could claim that the AI might have inaccuracies and does not reflect your own opinion
Out_of_Characte··on Paper map sales are booming
People are completely dependend on GPS but also might not use it as often as you would think. First time planning a route to some new job/home/friend requires GPS but after that I'll do everything on autopilot. Proximity to existing routes also massively reduces complexity.

In general, I think our adaptation has significantly increased our ability to navigate at the minor cost of using either the map and compass or the new gps and advanced map data.

Out_of_Characte··on Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters
Its weird to say that datacenters 'didn't see it coming' when every chip produced in the last few decades has relied on smaller process nodes to increase performance/watt/silicon-area at the cost of increased power density. Theres no good way around the power density so the first company that can integrate advanced active cooling features in chips themselves will have an advantage as cpu's are already hitting their tdp limits with your standard behemoth cooler unable to outscale the power density.
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