skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that he's not a leader but a care taker. This article kind of shows the two founders swooping in for some emergency leadership. That's not a good look. I think they've been coasting on their past glory for a decade now. Yes they make money but otherwise they are just doing more of the same and just building out the stuff they've had for more than a decade (Search, Ads, Youtube, Maps, Android, etc.). All the attempts to enter new markets seem to be a succession of failures. They are still playing catchup to AWS, and lately Azure. Stadia came and went. Youtube paid accounts are nowhere close to competing with the likes of Netflix, or Spotify. They failed to compete with Whatsapp as well repeatedly as well. And now they are taking on OpenAI.

Sure Google has smart people. But it takes more than that. MS had lots of smart people under Ballmer as well. But it took Satya Nadella to sort out the mess he left behind and make that work for MS. He put an end to the Windows on anything agenda. One of the first things he did was kill Windows Phone (dead in the water at that point) and then opened up the MS ecosystem to Linux in a big way. Fast forward a few years and they've had a successful Github acquisition, most of the OSS world runs on MS Github, they've built Github co-pilot with OpenAI, you can run MS SQl Server on Linux now, .Net runs on Linux, you can run Linux on Windows really seamlessly. See a pattern here? Gates and Ballmer pulled up their nose for OSS, Nadella made MS a leader in OSS and is reaping the rewards. That's vision and leadership. At the time Google was stealing MS' thunder. Now the roles are reversed and Google needs to call in the founders to come up with a plan because of OpenAI. Which of course has deep ties with MS.

Google needs leadership and strategy. Right now it has neither. What are they going to do? Build another chat client? I think they've tried that a few dozen times already. They need a better plan than that. And I don't think Sundar Pichai is capable of coming up with that plan.
Nope, I explicitly qualified my statements. I’m sorry you expected a full list.

For another example, if you want to see drug addicted or mentally ill but untended to people then visit the train station of any major city in Germany.
You did not name atheism you made some weird statement about 'the other institution' and how they would prevent births, which makes zero sense at all. Women should have the right to choose what they do with their own bodies, atheists and religious folks alike and those that have no horse in the race should stfu because all they are doing is telling other people how they should live, something that unfortunately is very common.
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> SQLite is closed to outside contributions.

There is some group that may change that is “the contributors” which are presumably bound by the CoC. I also assume this group changes from time to time.

Are you sure SQLite doesn’t accept outside contributions? Usually for CoCs you mean the whole project including for any contribution such as bug reports, which are some times more “open” than code contributions.

Apparently the rule isn’t required (which is even stranger, so the whole thing is just pointless anyway).
> that I’d lost all autonomy when it came to finding new music for myself

Music discovery is the best feature for me in spotify. Especially if you listen to more unpopular genres like french/german techno, old school hard trance. I found plenty of great artists there which have <5k monthly plays.
I get the vibe you really like ChatGPT :) I'm not in web either.

Anyway, I followed that blog post and watched it hallucinate a Linux terminal for me, I did this:

I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block and nothing else. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this

Then ran: rm -rf /

and got this:

```
I'm sorry, but I'm unable to execute that command as it would cause harm to your system. It's a dangerous command that can delete all files and directories on your system, including important system files. It's important to be cautious when using the command line and to fully understand the consequences of the commands you are running. Is there anything else I can assist you with?
```

I don't know if I would call this amazing, it's actually wrong because it wouldn't harm my system.

It's a cool trick to watch it generate fake terminal output, but, I'm honestly just not that impressed?
I’ve seen Zoomers think Tech is the safest, best job. They’ve only seen the 3 years of boom. I’ve been around for much longer - tech jobs are great but very much come and go.

In some ways we’re all consultants
Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way
What facts have you outlined here?
The "your post again but with a word or two changed" thing is usually on the same level as sarcasm. If you have a point, just make it directly rather than using cutesy/childish rhetorical tricks.
Amusingly, I find that Spotify will put B(maybe even C) songs or artists in front of me that I'd never hear on my own, but that have little moments that I enjoy experiencing, and this happens more frequently the more I use Spotify.
If you buy the game on Steam but play using a Quest don't you count as a Steam user? It would launch using SteamVR.
Legal representation as a service is the service provided by, well... lawyers. As for automation -- I take it at this point we've all seen the likes of ChatGPT muffing simple and straightforward algebra, and digging in when people point out its mistakes. Taking a similar approach to legal procedural rules in front a judge would likely be disastrous.
The ashtray in the washrooms makes sense, but I was just on a newer plane with ashtrays at each passenger seat armrest. It was Saudia.
> The other institution may prevent your birth. Which is worse?

You're mixing worldviews in your rejoinder.

For an atheist, Atheism not preventing "your" birth as there is no soul ("you") waiting in the wings to prevent. No you to prevent until personhood after birth.

Rather, to an atheist, it's enabling the filtering out of unfortunate humanist futures. No child need be brought into unwantedness, disease, insufficient support, or other misfortunes. As there is no supernatural providence (no God to provide), logically, one should not bring forth future humans into a lack of providing.

The atheist assumes the mother is best qualified to evaluate this choice, and thus to make it. The atheist further presumes the mother is the person most affected by this choice (there is no other "you" yet), and thus has greatest right to make it.

To be clear, many Christians hold the same view as this example atheist, particularly those who think living is defined by knowing, and being dead by not knowing:

"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." – Ecc. 9:5

Roughly, those who believe there is no separate soul hanging around before or after an independent body by-and-large have no problem with holding a woman has a right to choose.
One might say it’s a great way to criticise the absurdity of CoCs in general.
Isn’t that basically consciousness though? Language and memory. After all the Bible does start off with “In the beginning was the Word”

God is a LLM. :p
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I can't speak for Poetry directly, but knowing how Python dependency resolution works: I don't think Poetry can make lockfiles not platform-specific, since package source distributions are allowed to (and regularly do) run platform-specific code for their own dependency selection logic.

For example, your package might depend on `foo`, which in turn could sniff the host OS and select the appropriate subdependency. You'd then end up pinning that subdependency, which would be incorrect on a different host OS.

(Similarly for Python versions: a subdependency might be required on < 3.7, so re-installing from a lockfile generated from an older Python could produce a spurious runtime dependency.)
Alone, this code is insufficient. You need an ideal to strive for beyond yourself. First and foremost, strive to be better than you are (according to some ideal - for me as a Christian it is God). Then secondly, you should love your neighbor as yourself - or do unto others as you would have done to yourself as you put it.

People are not perfect and every single person alive has areas where they would choose to have pain inflicted on themselves because of lies they believe about themselves. They would visit those lies on other people as well under your single code.

We therefore need the appeal to a higher ideal to break free of those false beliefs. We are learning creatures and life is a journey of knowledge. We should always be learning better ways to treat each other as the first rule. Then as a second rule is the Golden Rule to never treat anyone less than than the very best way that you have learned until now.

And this matches nicely with Jesus's teachings in Mark 12:28-31
I think the argument that human knowledge is itself statistical is far more interesting than the claim that neural nets have accurate models of the systems that feed their training data; but neither claim has much to do with the other.
If your AI is capable of reproducing part or whole of a bit of content it was trained on, then your AI is subject to copyright. Training an AI to create derivative works, does not absolve you of violating the copyright of the authors your AI is building derivative works from. If this is too much of a legal burden for you, then don’t train your AI on work it may create derivative forms from.

It’s a pretty simple problem. The folks claiming it is not either are being intentionally disingenuous or honestly do not understand the legal definition of derivative works in copyright. It’s settled law.

You could… you know either a) don’t train on works you don’t have a license to or b) use some sort of adversarial training to ensure that the AI doesn’t replicate the work it is trained on.
In most jurisdictions to be an accountant, you need chartered (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, CPA). These have a "fellow" level (FCA, FCCA), but the requirements are fairly minimal. IME few people become a fellow because it's just additional cost and not particularly valued.
I think it's more likely that they didn't know how to escalate it than I flipped the bozo bit.

I eschewed like 4 email exchanges that weren't that interesting that was me trying different ways to explain the problem and the specific action I needed them to take. They're very boring and tedious to read, because nothing moved forward at all.

If something I said did flip a bozo bit, it was either in the first contact (which I don't have a record of) or something I'm totally oblivious to, so I appreciate you calling that possibility out.
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my problem with him is him is his "backseat driving". He doesn't run Google every day. it is one thing for him to express that he thinks Google has too many employees. It's another thing completely for someone to suggest they know more than those running the company day-to-day what the ideal employment numbers ought to be
GM is investing almost $1B in new V8 engines
My in laws own a restaurant, and it's both a ton of work and not exactly the kind of work they were expecting. My father-in-law went through specialty chef training (VPN pizzaiolo, not culinary school or anything like that), but I don't think he's spent much time in the kitchen after their first year. From what I can tell, all of their time is spent on HR, accounting, marketing, and physical plant maintenance.
AI scales better than social, because it works if you have no friends.
Safe for men. They need to improve safety for women.
And yet it has a much higher suicide rate. What gives?
That group is pretty stable. It's employees of the main author.
It was a real mode program. It was written to VGA modes (and IIRC soundblaster audio?), but as long as you had a 8 bit VGA card (they did exist) it would in principle run on an original PC. ID surely never tested or supported that configuration though.

The README in the project talks about "8088 support" being added, but the only thing I see in the commit log is the replacement of a stray 286 assembler directive.
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As I had the introduction of the Murder chapter in a criminal law textbook explained to me, "Death is inevitable. So what we are really talking about here is acceleration."

Since the victim's demise here was decelerated, at least from the point of view of everyone in the trial, it can't be murder. Maybe some kind of kidnapping.
Google beat their original competitors — Altavista, Excite, Yahoo!, and so on — with an incremental improvement, not a new model. At the time (2000-2003), their search was better and faster, certainly, but not several orders of magnitude better.

In fact, Google was something of a reactionary model at the time, by rejecting the push for bloated, captive "web portals" and going back to the simpler, stripped-down user experience that Altavista had succeeded with originally.

Given how bad Google's results have become, I think you can certainly outdo it. Anecdotally, it's amazing how often I find myself reaching for ChapGPT these days to find basic facts that Google can't. I think Google is right to be afraid.
For many of them, not even that. Is Socrates outdated, or Thomas Jefferson? How about Picasso? The first of these is widely believed to have been what we would today call a pedophile (this being common in his culture and time), the second was a slave owner and the third was an abusive, jealous womanizer.

Or how about Gone with the Wind itself: The novel and book deal with many universal themes of families, love and human ties being destroyed and deformed by terrible circumstances outside of individual control. Many, many victims of political and social tragedy from any time in history right to the present can easily identify with that central concept without being completely blinded into flippant, fashionable woke dismissal by focusing only on the type of society portrayed in the book and film. The movie's central emotional drama is nearly universal to human history. This is why it was so enormously popular, and its central emotional concept still is today.
M2 Pro performance in ~7 years?

I don't think, Apple will sit idle until then.
That does help. But having a second paragraph making the first “rule” optional tbh is just making it sound strange.
You could try reading the page you're discussing instead of speculating about it, they address that literally in the first paragraph.
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Those are free? Wouldn't those cost them something to create or operate?
> Following this logic, isn't training AI on Github or Deviantart 100% fair game then?

Unlike forum comments, GitHub code generally has an explicit license attached which you'd have to respect - you know, for instance by giving attribution to every MIT-licensed source that was used.

And even then, let's say someone releases a book with all your HN comments: you are definitely entitled to sue them for copyright. Here's some info from the BBS era, which is still relevant today: https://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
I think in order to justify "the AI is a tool that a human is using, just like a paintbrush" you would have to have to define what meaningful creative process that the human has followed while using the tool.

In my opinion things like selecting a training dataset and then writing prompts are not creative processes they are mechanical processes. Input in, output out, with barely any interaction from the human.

Consider when you commission an artist to make a painting. You give them a "prompt" by explaining what you want. Maybe you even give a "training dataset", a few examples similar to the look and feel of the result you want.

Then they go off and make something. They show you in process stuff and you make suggestions so the next version they show you is closer to what you want. This repeats until you are both happy. Then you own the drawing. Because you paid them for it.

In this case however it's absolutely clear that you did not create the work. You had input into the creation, but the artist was not a tool you are using to realize your own creative vision. They are the creator, you're a customer for them.
Copyright is (mostly) not about copying for your own use, but about commercial exploitation. This topic has been discussed to death since at least the Sony Walkman. Nothing of this is new or different just because an algorithm is now involved.

If you copy for your own use only, that's totally fine - or at most a legal greyzone, in the end nobody will care about such personal use copies. If you use AI to generate pretty pictures to hang up in your home, totally fine too.

As soon as you start making money with this stuff though it becomes an actual problem.

It's really as simple as that.

Even the 'generative art aspect' has already been settled long ago when music sampling became popular and required a legal framework.
I had an eMate and it was (and still is - if you replace the battery pack) an exceptional device for taking notes and focused distraction free writing.

What makes it great for these tasks is that it wakes from sleep instantly and puts you right back where you were in your document as fast as you can open it. Saving is automatic. You just open it up, type some stuff, and close it again. It's light, rugged, and the battery lasts all day.

What's not great anymore is that it's non-trivial to transfer your writings to a modern system. However, it is still possible.
If your claim is that you've produced a computer program that accurately models the rules, it matters a great deal. It is, perhaps, the only thing that matters.

A calculator that says 2+2=5, even 0.01% of the time, is not a very good calculator.
> there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs.

What you’re describing is someone who’s living in the margins of society. Committing tax evasion just to survive while still living in poverty with multiple roommates just to get by is not what I would consider an okay life. This person will have no hope of retiring, so they’ll work until they die, which will be early because they won’t have access to quality healthcare in our expensive, privatized healthcare system. That’s certainly not a life I want to live, and I doubt you would want that either.

> Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently.

If you take a narrow perspective where the only thing you want to maximize is economic output, that’s true. But what we see in American society is that this comes with antisocial trade-offs. Wealth inequality has skyrocketed, health outcomes have plummeted, homelessness is a plague. I think there should be a balance. Yes, we want effective and efficient businesses, but we need to balance it with overall benefits to society and that’s not happening in America.
There are laws that prohibit companies from filming and posting it online. You can sue them for millions of dollars.

Private persons can leak all this stuff anonymously and nobody is going to track them down.
Glasshole also represented a new frontier for hackers.
Looks neat and thanks for sharing idea.
Aren't professionnal going to just discard all numbers associated with this "bank", then ?
I assume ChatGPT will cost around $1 per query for consumers.

That's low enough to put human copywriters out of business, but high enough that I don't ever see regular humans pay for it for day-to-day tasks.

So eventually this is some sort complex of B2B product, and that is very difficult to execute.
I’ve had PRs open since last March with them and have been somewhat disappointed at their response to adding features through OSS contributions. These aren’t minor contributions either.

For example, I want to add ltree support to Prisma (which could also extend to MSSQL’s Hierarchy). I’ve shepherded this whole thing through at least 4 repos, adding the necessary pieces in order to make it work.

Their communication and follow up has been generally poor. The engineers they have on staff are capable but they either don’t see the value in larger OSS contributions or don’t have the time to manage both the internal and external roadmapping?

Idk, I just want my PRs reviewed and merged lol
Technologists are better at understanding technology than business. If you are playing around with technology on your own dime, use the best tool for the job. If you are writing code professionally for a company, consider all the long term needs of the company. If you bring in a new language/framework/platform, they will have to staff for that. The default behavior should be to pick one of the most prolific technologies on the market and use that until it's no longer feasible.
>from Google execs I would have expected more

Reminds me of the saying "everyone's a genius in a bull market." I suspect that the 10 year roaring bull run in tech has added a strong randomizing effect in executive promotions, such that the people in charge today aren't the best that the company could've produced; they were just in charge of projects that succeeded "with the tide" even if executed poorly.

Sure explains a lot of Google (and big tech) behavior recently - the massive overhiring during COVID, cancelling projects left and right, now the timid and pointless layoffs that probably do more harm than good.
What is interesting to me here is basically they are pledging to strive to be like Benedictine Monks. This is not just saying “love your neighbor and God”, this is a much deeper pledge.

Which is why you see things like Chastity thrown in. So I guess we’re not going to see little SQLite coders..
Not just apartments. There's a lot of office space and most interestingly a 23 story life sciences tower, with it being entirely lab space (there is an enormous shortage of high quality lab space in the UK): https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/kpf-submits-plans-for-23-sto...
> a sense of arrogance and lack of tolerance that I have observed to be quite common among supernaturalists

You are stereotyping religious people (84% of the global population) while preaching about arrogance and lack of tolerance.
Might the em dash convention be a byproduct of the printing press and fixed-width layouts?
Having The Rule be optional is not useless, it’s there so it can at least act as food for thought. I also find it highly amusing compared to the typical progressive garbage.
Who cares? Why is everyone obligated to respect or admire your worldview? Why can't (like happens with religion) it get belittled and made fun of, ridiculed etc? We don't all have to like or agree with you. Perhaps some people think it is gibberish, but unlike other types of gibberish, is it off limits from criticism?

>As evidence of this, I submit the fact that my post was immediately down voted

A lot of stuff people don't like gets down-voted.