skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is any defensible reason to have people at large suffer over AI advancement, without having a plan for making their lifes better.

If AI takes jobs because it's simply superior at them, and that creates friction and anxiety until we have stuff figured out, that's of course sad and we should do our best to soften the process, but I think it's inevitable. The carriage must die. It seems obvious that restrictions on training data are just a distraction and will not move the needle on any interesting time frame.

If however AI does not pay forward, in an arrangement that makes our collective lifes better, I will be the first to work on burning it into to the fucking ground.

But, on a lighter note, since that has generally been the direction of human civilization (not linear when zoomed in, but always when zooming out) I remain optimistic.
> Couldn't you have one main task which describes the overall task and then it has a list with checkboxes that has links to the other tasks it depends on?

That only works for trees of tasks, ie. when a task is a dependency of at most one other task.

Imagine you have two high-level tasks: "repair the chair" and "repair the computer", which both depends on the task "buy a screwdriver". Without support for DAGs of tasks, you would need a "buy a screwdriver" bullet point in both tasks, and remember to check both after you buy it.
Huh, I'm trying it now and the results seem so weak compared to any other model I've seen since dall-e.
You mean something like OKRs+KPIs, sales quotas, revenue targets, budgets…
Has anyone found a personal productivity /todo app that

- gets out of your way

- doesn't feel like a chore even after months of use

- has some sort of intelligence built-in

?

IMO all apps I've tried so far feel good in the beginning and then start to become an annoyance.
Reading that mass firing email by Sundar, I noticed it was littered with reference to AI.
Rumble, odyssey, rokfin, bitchute
Hooks are a very useful abstraction, they are like functions but with a built in of lifecycle state (so not pure but implicitly effectful). I cut down so much code using hooks, I even use them in non JS projects even, such as in Flutter with flutter_hooks, that's how strong of an abstraction they are.
Exactly. Somehow it is so 'hard' for many AI companies to ask for permission to use and monetize copyrighted images in the training set these days and instead of asking permission, they attempt to bypass copyright law and give out frequent useless excuses from AI bros like: 'but muh fair use tho', 'oh well genie's out of the bottle it's too late', 'oops, cat's out of the bag, but you can opt out now'.

Little do some of them know that OpenAI was able to get permission from Shutterstock via a partnership to use their copyrighted images in the training set for DALL-E 2. [0] There is also a reason why Dance Diffusion was trained on only public domain music and copyrighted music which has the actual permission from the authors. [1] If they did otherwise and monetized on copyrighted music without the permission from musicians or record labels, they would be sued to the ground.

With the recent cases of Getty, Shutterstock, and even as admitted by the CEO of Stability themselves [2], the way forward for using copyrighted images in the training set for commercial purposes, is via licensing. Neither Getty or Shutterstock are looking for banning it, despite the AI bros claiming that these companies are trying to.

If not, just train only on public domain images to avoid these legal issues.

[0] https://www.shutterstock.com/press/20435

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-d...

[2] https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1603390169192833027
i've read a lot of books professionally typeset in english that either do or don't space around em dashes — used to denote pauses, in the way we are discussing here. my preference is to space around them, but i prefer using \u2009 'thin space' instead of a full word space. unfortunately hn rewrites that to a full word space.
> If you have properly set pension system

In large parts of Western Europe, at least, these systems were robbed and then slaughtered in the 90s.
Is the new “unprecedented times”.
Can you even take responsibility for something if you don’t face any consequences yourself?

Like a surgeon killing a patient “taking full responsibility”…
>Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.

When you buy a book, you’re not paying a licensing fee. You’re exchanging for goods. You’re granted very few rights to own a copy of the work. But they’re almost all to do with distribution. None of those rights is the right to read it.

>You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.

By this interpretation, all the artists upset by stable diffusion have given tacit permission for their works to be used as they are published in the public. Even though those works are posted to websites, the artist has not granted any rights to the viewer of the work.

> only natural humans have that ability according to the law

The law is not explicit about this, and we have case law that describes non-human entities as having rights associated historically with personhood. This is definitely not clear, nor is it obvious.
One of the most insidious of such words for mass firing is "efficiencies".

Enterprises adopted the euphemism then forgot there are any other cost or overhead reducing approaches to improve efficiency other than "efficiencies".

Managerialism is value-generation destroying.
Fractions are good for your brain and inherently more accurate.
Yeah IIRC they had an emphasis on disaster response and getting fixes pushed out across all 20+ languages.
NextJS 13 introduced an app directory which is different than file based routing (to some extent). But it's till in beta so you don't have to worry about it right now.
The Redis example is a little different:

"fork() e.g. Redis: Calling fork marks all of the process's pages as copy-on-write. Then when a single byte on a page is modified, the page must be copied. Redis uses fork to create a read-only "snapshot" of memory, when writing a checkpoint to disk."

So prior, that fork forced only a rewrite of some collection of 4kb pages. Afterwards, obviously much larger rewrites.
Thanks for sharing. That was beautiful
Sorry to say but you can play Neos and Chillout without VR. Source? Just simply check the steam page of both...

I can only talk about neos, most players play in VR yes. (Source from the API directly)

For Chillout I don't know how to check this infromation
LinkedIn indicates 40-50 in engineering out of 164 total.
https://archive.org/details/gateway0000pohl
So basically you say "two days", while knowing that won't be two days - it's "virtual day". At this point how is it different from story point? :-)

It's weird how people whose half of work is coming up with clever abstractions, have so much problem with that one.
Why? Do you worry the code will work 28% less well for your problem?

Stability is bliss. So many tools would be better if at some point they had just stopped glomming on.
Yes, it is "al hya", not "ai hya".
Do “Python the hard way.”
All these that you mentioned are metrics for measuring responsibility towards the company and its shareholders.

I mean metrics for measuring responsibility towards the people, especially the laid-off ones - there seems to be absolutely none of these.
> Apple's AI is on your phone. It unobtrusive. Recently I needed to quickly find a company's QR code which I had photographed and Photos search found it in an instance.

I believe the iPhone automatically classifies photos based on who or what show up in them. Users can contribute to train classifiers, but the iPhone already works out of the box.

The iPhone also creates theme-based photo albums from the photos you took. I recall it creating Christmas photo books, photo books featuring a pair of people, persons and pets, etc.

This might be low-key AI, but it's the useful kind.

> It even finds text inside images.

I'm not sure OCR counts as AI. But yeah, the iPhone indeed does that too. We can take a photo of a telephone number or even a credit card and automatically fill in those numbers.

I worked on a similar feature in the past for an unrelated project, but that was not AI though. Marketing changes though.
It does sound a bit inflated. Over the years though I’ve learned that whatever your engineering gut instinct tells you, you need to double that amount and that’ll be the actual number of people and then double to triple that amount in order to account for vacations, illnesses, maternities, people leaving and also having a new stream of people being trained in (not to be in a situation where someone leaves and no one to replace) AND then also add 10% of support staff or budget for external. This all without sales, marketing, etc.. that’s how easy it is to get inflated numbers, while it all still makes sense.
I understand your sentiment, and agree with it in some contexts, but look what HBO Max added as an intro [1]: "a prime text for examining expressions of white supremacy in popular culture ... it is precisely because of the ongoing, painful patterns of racial injustice and disregard for Black lives that Gone with the Wind should stay in circulation and remain available for viewing, analysis and discussion. ... an opportunity to think about what classic films can teach us." [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)#Anal...
2. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/opinions/gone-with-the-wind-i...
Dark energy ‘chameleon trap’ wins £100k prize for Nottingham scientist
With React, why not just read the beta docs only and not the current ones? The beta docs are mostly complete, it says on their home page.
Right, but the letters are typically directed towards employees.
How did they train the AI without first storing the data? It's not in the model, but it was used without permission in the pipeline that lead to creating that AI model.

I don't know if that counts as plagiarism, but there's clearly some use of this copyright material that the authors probably didn't envision and did not grant permission for. I have no idea what the law would be in cases like this
Good job there's no feeling of decline in Western Europe

Thanks to immigration, young generations have all they need and there's plenty of optimism
Childcare benefits don't work for the same reason steep prison sentences don't work. Nobody does a cost benefit analysis of "years lost"/"benefit of murdering someone".

I'm sure there is a positive correlation with "home ownership, and low debt" with children however.

Because that would make you feel secure about your future.
How interesting! (And sad, I hope that / guess that the new place is/was better)

> integrate with more and more of their other products, which introduced a TON of extra "stakeholders"

That scenario I hadn't heard about before. Good to know about that way for things to fail, too.

If you haven't seen:

"Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34290539
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books?

The law already makes many distinctions between humans and machines. For example, looking out the window to see when your neighbor is going to the supermarket: allowed; using a machine-vision system to store the movements of groups of people into a large database: not allowed.

Also, "training the mind" and "training a machine learning system" are two completely different things, even though the language used is the same.
Strand Games have remastered some of the original Magnetic Scrolls games (The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves and Jinxter so far) for modern PCs.

https://strandgames.com/
Say a person makes a program which completely automatically samples songs to eight bit, giving that “retro gaming sound”. Maybe that person uploads an album to YouTube and credits the original album in the description, saying that they do not own this work (the people who made that album do). This seems to be the standard practice for this kind of work.

Will the person be able to monetize that video.

Say a person makes a program which automatically makes a collage of movies with some music on top. The movies will be credited in the video description.

An AI is also a program. First of all, why can’t it credit its inputs? And second of all, should it be allowed to facilitate monetization on behalf of whoever owns the program?
"Serious"? I mean, he doesn't give any sort of proper description, but flu-like symptoms for a day or so are not uncommon.
Google Search URL Request Parameters (2016)
Ukrainian ethnogenesis is happening in real time. If that is worth fighting for is up to Ukrainians and their native Russian speaking president.

However to portray it as something with a long history is fundamentally dishonest.

It is somewhat similar to the American revolution where people with common language and history rebelled against their parent nation and over time formed a new national identity of their own.

Bohdan Khmelynytski was a medieval peasant warlord. He can only be considered a founder of the Ukrainian nation in retrospect. At his time the main mission of his calvary was slaughtering poles and jews unfortunate enough to live in territory he controlled, as a kind of precursor to NAZI death squads several centuries later.

It is a historical fact that Ukraine and Russia are two branches of the same tree and are essentially the same ethnicity speaking different but mostly mutually intelligible dialects.

I mean Zelensky (who Khmelnytskyi would have killed) speaks Russian as his first language.
"For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them"

I believe this is only true if you have found a way of lingering with zero speed at the event horizon. If you are entering it at near light speed, as you likely would, you will be ingested as a part of "treadmill" containing yourself as well as all the light and will not see much of the future history.
Based on LinkedIn they grew from 134 to 164 in the last 6 months. I get taking a bet in 2021 on the post-covid world being different but making that same bet in mid 2022 doesn't seem a good decision.
Yes, that means that he takes full responsibility for a mistake, and it wasn't due to other staff, equipment, unforeseen events etc...
I think it is brutal and terrible.

I’m at Google and had reports get laid off. I don’t just have their personal contact information or whatever and neither does my team. No opportunity to easily say goodbye or thank them for their hard work or offer references or whatever. Just poof. A name on a dashboard.
The beta docs are just that, beta. They're being written as a replacement for the current ones but aren't yet stable. So asking "why is that the case", the answer is simply that they're rewriting old docs and aren't done yet.
Also free from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/navpers
It is like adding a clause in the license that you are not allowed to read the license.

The moment you share your creation/work to someone/the world, you are training their nn.

You can not share something publicly and then demand "xyz" can not view it. Viewing is training.

You are free to keep your creation under lock & key and only share with nn (of people and/or AI) of your choice.
As a counterpart, if you have to layoff that many people, is it really the right time to also put the stress of a leadership shift into the company?

I can see the argument for this triggering an eventual change, but having _both_ the chock of a CEO change _and_ 28% of the company being layed off at the same time seems unwise.
You're the one derailing the thread. I made a factual statement that is true. You argued it wasn't. I explained how it was true. Then you keep insisting with "but [...]" that are all irrelevant to the problem that this solution addresses.

Being in the kernel alone doesn't remove interrupt-driven context switching, or being scheduled out by other kernel threads. Those are all completely orthogonal concerns, which can all be fixed without needing to put more user code in the kernel.
> It's very possible that a judge will rule that AI models do not violate copyright.

Current market odds for that are at 77%: https://manifold.markets/JeffKaufman/will-the-github-copilot...
You're conflating technology with functionality. Surely Siri's core tech can be improved.
Errrr no, there really isn’t? And yes, immigration has helped us keep relatively strong economies and filled positions that natives don’t want to do anymore
Copyright does not grant the right to consume content. It only deals with distribution, whether that is done through a copy, or a derivative.

It is not illegal to read a stolen book, only to steal the book.
Was this blow up due to a dependency with an 'any' type somewhere, and your code fed the dependency library some garbage? That's what bit me, even with the strictest ts settings, this can't be picked up by tsc.
Seems that was a good guess, have a look at the sibling reply :-)
It's hard enough to get factory workers, who it's way more clear are being exploited, to vote for a union. There are professional people whose sole job is to create FUD about unions when there's a campaign on, and it works on people making minimum wage.

I am completely with you morally, but with the amounts we make, I have a very hard time seeing it ever get any traction.

If the workers ever unite in a real way, we could possibly make something happen in that context, but I have a hard time seeing that too. I can more easily see robot slaves getting here first.
I would be happy to be able to schedule lighting and media properly. Just the basics actually working would be great.
Flagged for obviously partisan take.

"AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law" is perhaps the oddest take on the current situation: people's copyrighted work being in danger of being swallowed up by AI.
I know of banks which, in 2023, requires exactly 8 digits, the first four being numbers, the other four later letters. No digit can be repeated. Also no consecutive numbers.

It's like they're deliberately trying to reduce the pool of valid inputs.
Nah, React is quite simple. It doesn't have much complexity to it as a base library. Yes hooks have some gotchas but once you understand their design (that they are functions with a built-in memory of lifecycle state), they're easy to grasp. Svelte and Vue on the other hand, they have multiple ways of doing things and have their own HTML DSL. You couldn't pay me to write another v-for or #if again.
The problem is that BSP only applies to a specific types of pipes, soft water piping like PEX, gas and other pipes are often a mishmash of thread standards as they are not covered by BSP.

So in reality there already is a mixed system which is often what causes a lot of headaches, what’s worse is that BSP is also a mixed standard it has both metric and imperial measurements for its standard threads however when you mix fittings that were machines using metric and pipes that were machined with imperial I’ve found that because of slight tolerance differences you often can get into a point where stacked tolerances becomes and issue.
What do you suggest as an alternative, when Ukraine needs main battle tanks?

There are a lot of potentially available Leopards in Europe.

While the American Abrams requires jet fuel and constant maintenance, so not very practical in this war.

Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. (And that's assuming the article is even accurate/relevant/applicable, which the Daily Mail isn't always.)
You don’t need permission.

If you want to prove your data was used to train an AI, the onus is on you to prove it. Good luck.

The AI who follow the law strictly will be at a disadvantage to those that do not.
Mostly agree. The point of my bringing up the Chinese story was to highlight how far medicine, and apparently only medicine, seems to diverge from common principles, and - expounding later - how this is coincident with its failures.

Something is up with healthcare, and I don't claim to know exactly what it is, or what the solutions would be.

Where I don't agree is your misinterpreting the analogy to self-serve. A cellphone that works as bad as cans on a string is analogous to the healthcare industry working as bad as accidents. No one should put up with either.

But with healthcare, we do.
It did the same thing for me on Gell-Mann amnesia, which is the same concept. Read carefully, it's a particularly good example of "wrong but highly convincing":

> Gell-Mann amnesia is a term coined by science writer Michael Crichton to describe the phenomenon where people tend to forget information that contradicts their preconceptions or beliefs. The term is named after physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

> According to Crichton, Gell-Mann amnesia occurs when people encounter information that contradicts their beliefs, but rather than updating their beliefs to reflect the new information, they simply forget the information and continue to hold onto their preconceptions. This type of cognitive bias can be a significant barrier to learning and can lead to flawed decision-making.
yes it's pretty bad, but this is not Google sitting on billions of cash and dedicated groups analyzing macroeconomic conditions, this is a small startup with a complicated product and a complicated unpredictable b2b sales process.
I think the difference is working in teams or with other people's code. Bad python is usually fairly readable, there is a sense of "pythonic" code that the language pushes you towards. R is the complete opposite, there are 50 different ways to do every simple thing, coupled with R users generally not having much sense of good code practices.

Maybe I'm just jaded because I've inherited a 100K+ line R codebase at my job written by a single person with no unit tests and about 3 lines of comments, and it's a completely miserable experience.
Thus the hypocrisy.

They are taking the responsibility for having overhired and are acting on this responsibility by laying off.

They are not taking responsibility in front of laid off staff in any actionable way but "you can blame me rather than human resources, PMs that cried for more engineers, investors that were looking for signs of growth via head count..." which again is a sign of taking responsibility in front of shareholders, not really employees.
Well, I hope you don't have any kids!
Depending on the team, number of tasks, size of task etc, answer to this ranges from: guy who does the estimate, to: whoever picks it first.
Ask HN: What Popsci books of today could inspire tomorrows Einstein?
Started reading an Einstein biography and learned the nugget that Einstein was introduced to Science when he was 10 by a series of Popsci illustrated books written by one Aaron Bernstein. The biographer (Walter Isaccson) draws direct lines from concepts in these books about the speed of light to Einstein getting the inspiration (which Einstein himself also confirms it looks like).

This made me wonder what books exist today that could similarly inspire young Einsteins of tomorrow! Does anyone have recommendations?
Incidentally what Afghanistan has done, with the claim that it will raise the birth rate. Women are banned from universities.
How would they determine the guilty party or would it be a case of putting all the suspects into stasis?
Can we maybe drop the whole sneery "AI bro" lingo? HN is not the right place for that.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html