skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
machine learning is apparently now the software version of carrying your dirty money to the casino.

As a thought experiment I wonder what the reaction would be if one day it was revealed that copilot is actually just minimum wage coders in Lagos who strip open source code of their attribution, rename a bunch of variables and reformat the code and then sell those snippets as a service at the behest of a gigantic company.
I submit that a roomba set to an automatic schedule is conscious under your definition.
I commented on a Fauci video where he said every1 will likely eventually be exposed to the virus. I said "and eventually we will all die" which was marked as misinformation and I was cancelled.
It's not Macron threatening to use nukes in Ukraine. Putin is. And the less the world is willing to stand up to him (like Macron) the more likely he is to use them.
> Either these things stop or software licensing is meaningless. Pick one.

I think this is overly simplistic. People routinely write code that bears a lot of similarity to existing code (there's only so many ways you can write "for x in my_list: print(x)") so there's some threshold for originality that's applied. Looking at it from the other side, minor tweaks to otherwise interesting and novel bits of code shouldn't exempt you from the original licensing obligations.

There's a happy medium in there somewhere (though admittedly it's hard to define).
Sadly it's an insurance issue more than a prescription issue.
It might be interesting to try out the CodeSandbox app: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/codesandbox/id1423330822?l=e.

It's the same concept, you get a VM you can work on from a native app, but our app is for iOS only and supports iPads natively.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of CodeSandbox.
It’s a rabbit hole but you can find some of the tricks online - you either do slight of hand, control the card picked (a force), or you control the card once in the deck.

Combining them and being really good at it is what makes it “what”!

https://youtube.com/c/Jasonmahermagician Is another one I enjoy and he has longer videos showing some of the tricks.
"Generating intelligent agents" is not a worthwhile (or safe, in any meaning of the latter) goal.

I don't want anybody being able to generate "intelligent agents" and will support all legal changes likely to slow this down or halt it.
You’re right, it’s odd that the article mentions memorization. That’s not what makes this interesting.

Obviously bits is the relevant concept here from a modern information theory perspective. But “digits in fraction” is more interesting. 22/7 vs 314/100. 355/113 vs 3141592/1000000. Of course you don’t need to “remember” the denominator when it is a power of 10. But the error in the approximation is unusually low, compared to the size of the denominator. This is true when comparing to decimal approximations, or other “nearby” rational approximations.

In that sense, these approximations should be “surprising” because they work much better than the decimal ones of similar size (or, much smaller than the decimal approximations of similar accuracy). But they also work better for pi than for many other common irrational numbers.

This is also historically meaningful, as some calculation was done in fractions, e.g. in ancient Egypt. It is an interesting mathematical fact that 22/7 is an approximation to pi that is small enough to be easily discoverable, easy to compute with, and still practically useful.
But this time the EU will make no exceptions for the UK! So they have to agree to metric units, the Euro and right-hand traffic.
That would be a nice relief
Russian Su-27 shot missile near RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint "spy plane" on Sep 29
Imaginary Property is logically inconsistent when you dig in to it.
I view depression as the result of a faulty process. It seems to me that it's mistake to take a drug to correct these symptoms, rather than learning to control one's thoughts and perspectives.
I think had the author gone with a thesis more like "AI will remove the decision-making from middle management, leaving purely the human-to-human aspect of management," it might have been a more palatable (though still arguable) essay. As it is, there's tons that managers do that AI will never really do, because those things can't be boiled down to mathematical formulae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro...
YouTube SHOULD charge for 4K. Hear me out. [video]
I think this is a becoming repeating pattern in creative industries where a machine learning model is taught from a corpus on existing, copyrightable and attributable work - it creates content that plagiarizes and infringes on the rights of original authors.

I'm using "pattern" quite loosely here as recent ruckuses come from the StableDiffusion image synthesis and CoPilot - n=2.

I have no idea what the ethical and legal long term ramifications are.
Ideally, I want the "army of robots" prevented from being created at all.
But "robot slaves" is close to the second best option.
But if you are a lazy, stealing dev you know what you are doing. While if you were using CoPilot you wouldn't even be aware that you did something wrong.
Of course, the debate is generally about whether you can have both free will at the macro level (the human brain) and determinism at the micro level (particle physics).
His code is already used in thousands of repos without proper attribution. Isn't that worse? If you want to steal his code you can just copypaste it. No need for a convoluted prompt baiting Copilot into reproducing it.
A Proper Sign in with Google Implementation
Excel (MS Office in general) replaced similar roles, such as secretaries and accountants. A couple of decades earlier, computers replaced human "computers" (which used to be a role description for people doing various calculations by hand).

AI has already replaced some types of managers, such as most branch managers in banks, who were mostly doing credit worthiness assessments.

Middle management is not going to disappear suddenly, I thin, but rather be thinned out gradually. Manager roles that perform tasks that are easy to automate can over time get fewer responsibilities. For instance, managers in supermarkets may be taken out of the loop for most operational work, such as product placement in shelves, store layout, accounting/budgeting, and with improved AI there can even be automation of tasks such as supervising cleanliness, removal of past-due items, etc. All-in-all, this may cut a job that used to require a full position (and perhaps an assistant on top), to maybe 50% or 30%. This frees up time for the manager to either do other tasks. This can be either regular grocery clerk duties at the same location or it could be that a single manager may manage 2-3 locations.
Note that he goes into detail why he is so pissed:

> It’s the “after careful review” line that has me riled up tbh. I can understand why an automated system suspended it. Don’t lie to me!

-- https://nitter.kavin.rocks/benthompson/status/15830633139484...
What doesn't add up is that MOND can reproduce many of those observations using only the visible mass and a tweak to gravitation. This makes all of these tuned distributions seem very suspicious by comparison. It would be a remarkable coincidence if there wasn't something to MOND.
Doing a search, I count 40 results with "stack" in their text; it appears that 18 of them have "split second", a few of them have "stack" in their name, several are from "Un" expansions or this weird "Mystery Booster" thing, several mention the stack in explanatory text about what it means to end the turn or end the combat phase... but there are several cards such as Grip of Chaos ("Whenever a spell or ability is put onto the stack, if it has a single target, reselect its target at random") that are from regular expansions.

https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?actio...
As a kid, when sugar came around and other kids would get hyper, it always had this effect on me and I was really confused.

But some of that may have been environmental because I had experience with hyper friends breaking my stuff and so learned to be cautious, so I might have developed increased caution in response to stimulation for non-physiological reasons.
It's also crazy how MS is defending stealing code, because variables are renamed. Is it ok for us to publish `Window MT` source on GH now?
A nice demonstration that consciousness does not necessarily result in self-awareness, bravo.
Well, automated banning is going beyond absurd.

OT but just yesterday I finally decided to join Discord fad for some open-source communities, but my freshly created account got instantly disabled after successful validation with email and phone, that without sending any message. Unfortunately I don't own a second phone number to register another one.

I better stick with my veteran ways - IRC, mail-lists, forums. Matrix is on my list to check.
Ask HN: What's hard about AI/ML today?
What are some of the hardest things about taking an AI/ML idea to production these days?

Issues I could imagine range from obtaining/labeling training data, communicating with peers about datasets, testing model quality, and updating models in production. I would love to hear your specific thoughts and experiences.
>It's very rare that these drugs ruin someone's life.

I don't agree, I think its just under-reported/under-studied, because it clearly won't make anyone any money to do so ..

For-profit mental health should be illegal, or at least treated the same as religion - do it if you want, but don't force your ideologies on others who don't agree with you ..
While the fact that github is unclear about all thisis true and the legality of both training copilot with licensed code and using it's output is even less clear, in my opinion copilot can still be a usefull tool when you know when and how to use it.

> Developers may wonder: is this AI that generates code, or AI that searches the web for open source code that might be suitable?

Developers who wonder this never tried/researched about copilot.

What it's actually usefull for is to generate code thightly integrated into yours, or doing boilerplate/repetitive stuff based on what you have already written.

Example :
I have a base exception class and classes that inherit this class all with different names.

I'm writing error handling logic and only wrote the case for the first error class, with an error message and everything.

Copilot is able to generate the cases for all the other classes, with unique and descriptive error messages for each one.

If you only use it for this kind of stuff, it saves time and you don't have to worry about licenses/code laundering for simple cases like this.
Podcast Addict does that, you can backup the full app settings, and more than just the subscriptions/listened episodes. I'm guessing the format is specific to the app's export/import feature, but could be worked with.
He goes into detail:

> It’s the “after careful review” line that has me riled up tbh. I can understand why an automated system suspended it. Don’t lie to me!

-- https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1583063313948499969

And yeah, I have to agree. I absolutely hate it when providers (shipping companies are great at this) tell me obvious lies. Hey, I can handle issues and problems. What I can’t handle are lies.
The biggest takeaway is that his name is actually not Stratechery. Why on earth would you name your site something so extremely hard to parse?
I seriously doubt billionaires would be willing to live in a post-apocalyptic world: they have the most to lose. They live like kings right now, so I bet they would do anything to avoid the Armageddon, no matter how well stocked their shelters are.
At this point in time I think I am comfortable saying the web is more detrimental to humans than Television ever was.
I just don't trust the assumption that the world's leading forestry science experts and a perfectly run government could manage a forest.

There are unknown unknowns. It's an ecosystem that's way more complicated than we realized 40 years ago, so thinking "yeah we just do these 5 things and problem solved" is hubris that could end up be called mismanagement in 40 years, because it created an even bigger problem when we failed to consider an unknown.

If people need to evacuate the area for a few decades, so be it. It sucks, but not as badly as another 100 years of dealing with problems.
If it was only so easy.

If you're running a business, you most likely need to meet people where they are at. Sometimes, your target audience are mostly on Facebook, then you most likely need to be at Facebook in order to reach them. Sometimes they are on Twitter, then you need to be there. Other times, you're doing something completely different, like running a restaurant, then you need to be visible on Google Maps/Tripadvisor, otherwise you'll lose out on ton of business.

It's really hard to just start a business without having any place for finding users for it, and sometimes the best place is Twitter but you're shit out of luck if you get banned...
What's the Future of NFT
Do you agree that every person on the planet is going to have at least one NFT in 10 years?
What basis is there for the assumption that nuclear attacks will result in so much soot in the stratosphere? Seems strange that this would be orders of magnitude more than wildfires that burn much larger areas. Are there measurements from Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
IoT labels to help consumers figure out which devices are spying on them (2020)
There's no such thing as appropriate moderation at Twitter scale. It's societal techology we as humans do not have. Underlying moderation is some shared vision of decency - morality claims that should be enforced via justice. These claims certainly don't exist across nation borders, and they barely exist within a given nation's borders.

The bot moderation conundrum is a wholly second moderation question layered on top of the first. How do Twitter accounts map onto human bodies? Is it 1:1, like government ids? 1:many so brands can have accounts? many:1 so humans can amplify their voice? Until this is answered all moderation actions taken in the name of 'bot policy' is capricious. As is the assignment of blue checkmarks.

Reddit struggles with these same problems at website-scale, where moderation must work across subreddits. They only appear to have a better solution because some topics at subreddit-scale make enough of the questions I raise irrelevant that you can install a goon and have them moderate via edict. Just like chat rooms and message boards did in the old days. To make that point a little clearer: you can be off-topic in a subreddit or an Orange Site thread, but you can't be off-topic anywhere on Twitter.
I'm not too familiar with the ancient history of it, but it requires an accurate clock. There's a good book called "Longitude" that goes over the development of the clock that could be used at sea. But, before then, it was well known that you could measure the altitude of Polaris to get your latitude, so ships would sail to the latitude they wanted, then turn East or West.

We've had accurate star charts for a long time, Hipparcus had made accurate enough measurements to detect the Earth's slow 26,000 year wobble called precession. The key piece missing for navigation was a clock.
I just checked at home, and the latency I get on my Cable connection is about 70 ms on average!

If Starling does indeed provide even a lower bandwidth connection at just 20ms, that is a nett win. Cool!

I don't know if a fiber to home would achieve lower latencies than 20 ms.... Someone mentioned DOCSIS - don't know much about it. Is that not needed for a fiber connection?
They could create two different AI. One that writes code based on code that supposedly has an allowing license. And one trained on private code or code with a restrictive license that takes code as input, and tells you if it breaks the license.
I think any legal theory that must equate people with machines to prove its point is dead in any real court. Laws are made by people for people, to protect people's interests, so the analogy is just about as effective as requiring a human to work 16 hours because a horse can, and both operate on similar principles.

Of course everything a human learns and produces is a derivative of real world input, some of it copyrighted. But people agreed that this transformation is a form of fair use, as long as the derived work is sufficiently creative - where the key implicit assumption is that creativity is a human ability that warrants protection. Both the creator and the learner enjoy protection because they are human.

In the AI case, the output of a program will certainly not receive protection by default - it will be protected only as a consequence of its human creator or user rights. It doesn't really matter how transformative and analogous to the human mind the program is, the output only deserves protection solely for its unique human created parts - the internal working and the extent of the craft embedded in a GPT3 text prompt. The first is unrelated directly to the work produced, and the second is laughable vs the artworks embedded in the model.

If in the future AI advances to the point where it can be granted natural rights, this could change, but we are far far from that point.
> Don't let the nonsense above scare you away - you CAN talk to your therapist about this stuff. It's why they exist.

I’ve had every therapist I’ve ever seen give me a rehearsed speech about what things they’re required by law to take action (i.e 5150 although technically a different number here) for and it’s always self-harm and suicidal-thoughts, but not ideation. Maybe it varies by state?

The speech always came with a wink wink just don’t tell me explicitly and we can talk about it here so I think they agree with you.
>but I don’t see where it says it is worldwide as you claim.

An example that is not hard to find. A PR from Singapore

https://www.apple.com/sg/newsroom/2022/10/apple-unveils-comp...
Adopting an attitude similar to Tom Lehrer in "We will all go together when we go" [1] may provide some peace of mind in this case.

In any event, here is a rousing, uplifting song which is guaranteed to cheer you up:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
It's almost like tools/technology comes with both good and bad sides, TV and other things included. Internet has made humans more connected than ever, which means both the good and the bad from being connected becomes amplified.
The predictive planning _could_ be done with AI that tries to automatically infer what will be bought. However, it could also be done by a (maintained) list of hard-coded rules. If it was some form of automatic inference, perhaps one could call it AI.

I simply don't think a hand-designed decision tree for a specific task can be called AI.
Kroger gross profit is up 10% last year, but was up 0% the year before.
Overall, the nominal growth over 10years is 60% ($18B to $30B), mostly due to a bull run around 2015, and overall rather modest compared to inflation.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KR/kroger/gross-pr...
I find Twitter amazing. (though I'm currently suspended again - https://twitter.com/breckyunits).

The trick is not to have a smart phone. When I'm coding I can pop in and out of Twitter. But then when I close the lid I'm unplugged.
> It states ~72% of music (down from ~88% in 2012) is owned by the big three (not four, after EMI was eaten by Sony in late 2011).

It's hard to keep specifying the exact composition of the music scene, and the market share by the Big Four then Three then Four then Three again is fluctuating between 70 and 90 percent from year to year.

> I'm still optimistic and naive enough to think things may improve for artists.

The Big Ones have the industry in chokehold. Bandcamp is fine, but if you want to listen to something other than indies, you're stuck with the catalogs owned by the Big Ones. For example, https://www.sonymusicpub.com/en/songwriters Anything from Betales to AC/DC and from Enio Morricone to Dolly Parton is owned by Sony.

So you want to start a service and provide a service that provides both indies and this music? You will bow to industry's terms. If you have enough money and clout like Apple, you'll be able to negotiate better terms. Until then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Macron is right. If Russia nukes Ukraine, I would choose letting them have it over nuclear war with Russia.
Care to elaborate on that claim?
Which, just to be clear, is meant to convey the opposite obviously. "Reddit cares" is 99.99 % used by people to send others (I've seen mostly women raise this) a "kill yourself" message. Just like people who put "heartwarming" awards on posts about abuse, harassment etc.

On some subreddits every other post will be reported like this.

Meanwhile, Reddit tends to do very little about reports of even direct violence threats ala "I will find you and I will kill your children" etc. which are frequently found to "not be in violation of the terms of service".
If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place.

And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about (https://www.farcaster.xyz/) is incredible.
We Become What We Behold (2017)
How do you find a specific screenshot once you have thousands of them down the line? Are they searchable somehow?
But it's available on AWS. Can't google query it there?
Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes
Monocle is also camera software. It's simple to setup and free as well.

https://medium.com/@monoclechris/raspberry-pi-onvif-cctv-cam...
New Ground for International Terrorism
cutting gas pipes, cables, ...
I wonder what the discussions with the lawyers are like at companies who want to use it. Are they all advising to avoid it and let someone else be the test case?
Vivaldi is another fine option, it even has a built-in ad-block on both the desktop and mobile
Last time this was posted someone linked the GitHub terms of service, and they explicitly stated that when hosting your code on GitHub, you allow them to analyze your code.
Sad to see this downvoted, because it's a good point. Not so long ago, all the talk was about preventing overpopulation and reducing birth rates. China had their one-child policy, which was very heavy handed and lead to a ton of problems, including gender-based abortion (or even child murder), but nobody disagreed that a reduction of population growth was necessary. It's just that everybody in western countries felt that education and access to birth control were the better option.

Now that some countries actually have shrinking populations, everybody switched from panicking about overpopulation to panicking about having not enough working population to support too many elderly people. Immigration is the popular way out, but somehow I'd expect this shouldn't have been such a big problem in the first place. A couple of decades ago, women barely worked (paid, that is; they were probably overrepresented in unpaid elderly care).

I don't think a shrinking population should be this big a problem for a country. Sure, it probably requires some economic choices, just like everything does. But especially for densely populated countries dealing with housing shortages, a lower birth rate shouldn't have to be a bad thing.