skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Time dilation goes to infinity at the center of the black hole - at the singularity, not at the event horizon

That is incorrect. The inside and outside of the black hole are causally disconnected. For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them as the universe warps down into a single beam of light as the black-ness engulfs you.

From the perspective of someone outside, nothing ever "crosses" the event horizon - it just slowly redshifts into darkness and appears to take infinity to "touch" the even horizon.

There is nothing "happening" inside of any black hole right now that has any corresponding time in the outside universe. From our perspective, it happens in the infinitely far future.
What's the difference between acting as if it actually understands and "true understanding". I'd argue there is none, or at least that it doesn't matter. For instance there is nothing you could do to prove to me that you aren't just a black box acting on input in a sophisticated manner (eg. chinese room argument[1]), yet I give you the benefit of the doubt. GPT's lack of understanding of math may be a localized lack of understanding where it does "understand" other topics. I don't require you to display an understanding of quantum physics in order to prove that you're able to understand anything at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
After trying out their adwords platform for a year combined with the fact that search in general has plummeted in quality i can't wait for them to crash completely.

Adwords is such a scummy endeavour that squeezes more or less all companies using it, but more so smaller players. They are not a friendly company. They are a MegaCorp that is so monopolistic and dark (design) in its behaviours it's incredible that it's legal.

Hope alternatives would be better.
As a French, if I do an amateur crypto algorithm, I'll name it Waterloo.
One thing that high-performance polars/arrow enables is to build ETL without data sharding because in most cases, all your data fits into one node. Jupyter and local scripts become sufficient and you avoid a lot of complexity.

We hesitated a lot before mentioning ETL in the OSS project windmill [1] but since we support any python including polars, passing data between steps through shared folders and since polars is blazingly fast, it is a suprisingly good system for ETL waiting for the need of using spark/materialize directly.

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
Rockstar Games Needs to Fix GTA 5 Immediately IP Leaks [video]
Presumably AI trainers aren't hacking into Amazon's servers to steal their copyrighted ebook files. All the data they use are publicly available to view by the AI, just as a human might view them. So I don't think your distinction is accurate. It think the question is to what degree are AI systems "inspired" by the content they are trained on, versus merely regurgitating it - to be honest, it's hard to draw a line between the two for people's creative work, never mind those of machines.
It is superior, but it is absolutely still learning

No, it is not. Memorization =! understanding.

I can teach a parrot to spew the times table, good luck getting it to understand how to apply it.

And a parrot is billions upon billions of times more capable than any current AI algos.
It could be time to give AI human-like rights. Human passports, human rights, 8 hour work schedule, weekends off, vacation time, and of course workers wages.

If an AI reproduce a copyrighted work they should then be sent to robot jail, and the human who requested the work should be sentenced for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

It might however be a bit early to let the horse back in the barn.
It's just humans being humans. Some years ago microsoft was using FUD against Linux. Now linux users are using FUD against microsoft.
Well, just worrying the small argon bottles can quickly run out.

Maybe it's better than expected in typical use cases.
It is good that someone formulated this argument, but I have to say that the conclusion should be obvious to anyone that is not totally blinded by philosophical beliefs about intelligence and algorithms, as opposed to looking at the real evidence of the capabilities of real AI.

Pick any human. I claim there exists some subject that ChatGPT has a better understanding of than this human, based on a surface-level evaluation.
I don't disagree. I'm not saying how they should feel, just that I think they feel less of it lately.
I’m very against IP laws and controls in pretty much all their forms.

I think if we tried to calculate the cost to humanity of the things that don’t happen or aren’t created, are very expensive to do, or are restricted to people and companies with the right “rights” we’d uncover a tremendous tragedy.

In addition to the first order effects (you can’t do X or have to pay to do Y), there are huge chilling effects on uses that are allowed (especially as companies regularly overplay their hand well beyond the protections they are actually afforded), and the cost of technology and people that exist only to enforce these rules.

We should embrace the free sharing of information and maximisation of its value for all of humanity.

If we worry about researchers, programmers, and artists not getting paid (and we should!) then we ought to pay them as a society for the public goods they create (as we partly do for science and research). Finding and implementing a good and democratically reasonable way to do this would be truly revolutionary.

I hope that AI research and training only goes to prove the long term damage and futility of IP as a concept and accelerate its downfall.
Ask HN: Tips for first time SWE Manager
I recently got hired as an engineering manager at a SaaS company with over 100 million users. This is my first time leading teams of this size and I have previously only worked with ICs directly, but not leading multiple teams. As a first-time engineering manager, I will start with leading 1-2 teams of 5-6 and hiring 3-4 additional team leads with 4-5 ICs under them.

What skills should I focus on developing and what resources should I turn to in order to maximize my chances of success in this new role?
What's the best approach to taking over existing team (where the team leads may have interviewed for my position)?

Are there any specific podcasts that you found to be particularly helpful for new SWE Managers?
I got beaten once in school by a teacher, and it was well deserved and fixed the problem at hand.

But my mother told me once, that when she was in school her teacher was fixated at one girl and did beat her often and mostly for no good reason. The girl was from a poor family, and my mother was upset by the unjustice, but never spoke up, IIRC.

So YMMV.

At the end, I think such occasional injustice is the lesser evil compared to the sheepish society and nanny states that are the consequence of the pathetic antiviolent decadence we have nowadays in most of the nation states.
That's what Googlers think but where's the PR apocalypse for OpenAI? Everyone outside of the hyper-partisan US media bubble thinks ChatGPT is amazing and OpenAI are some kind of sci-fi operation.

Reality is Google's primary problem in doing demos of their newest models is the activism and views of their own employees, not the rest of the world.
The future of flight is renewable hydrogen
I'm more curious about the first word in that article - is "dodgy" becoming accepted as part of the US English vernacular now? It's particularly common in Aus English but I usually have to find alternatives when conversing with Usonians.
I wonder if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine related sanctions - and - the simultaneous restrictions to China using western technology (namely Matlab) will have an effect on Octave progress and development?
That's not a scientific paper.

I find it easier not to make mistakes when I index from 1.
If machines were totally free to harvest all human work and expression for their owners' benefit, why should anyone ever allow any of their work out in open unless strictly necessary?

Why go down the route of turbocharging new forms of rent seeking?
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I'll file a issue
They let you log in with a Google or Microsoft account.
"Nominalis! Eum comprehende, eum combure!" ;-)

(Meaning, there has been an ongoing discussion about this for about a millennium, but I'm a nominalist, as well.)
It does work in non-pro colab apparently. Here you go:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rOvQNs0Cmn_yU1bKWjC...
Google has lots of useful products that aren’t advertising-based, but they mostly seem to be loss leaders.

It seems by their own making, too: they famously shut down everything after a long enough experiment phase of, “how might we leverage this to sell ads?”

Something like 80% of Google’s revenue is advertising.
The interesting thing is how Heather Meeker carefully avoids mentioning the obvious approach that is perfectly compliant with laws and regulations around copyright and use: opt-in. If a new way of using information arises, asking for consent through opt-in is the obvious choice. But also the most costly one.

That's why the "forgiveness instead of permission" approach is seen as somehow heroic, when it actually simply is abuse.
Are they though. Not google's biggest fan for various reasons but most of that stuff you mentioned does still apply. The nice offices never went away and their impact on eng comp/perks has been astronomical. They didn't go evil either really, not like MS in the 90s which is what that referred to, not unless you're some sort of anti-capitalist who thinks all advertising is inherently wrong (prolly whilst collecting a nice faang paycheck). The most sinister/evil stuff they do is manipulate the public conversation around controversial topics.
I wonder if lack of ECC is a form of planned obsolescence. It makes the computer cost less, and it insures the computer starts failing after a while as the OS and files get corrupted, making the owner want a new computer. More profit due to both of those. Kind of like using rubber for seals in a car rather than silicone, even though the cost difference is tiny, so owners eventually have to buy a new car.
I was expecting something balloon-like to appear, and was not disappointed.
I wonder where Google ("improving quality to compete") and Open ai/Microsoft ("reducing quality to advertise") will end up meeting.

If GPTSearch ends up as infested with spam and ads as Google it will be little more than a new input interface with embedded ads in the output.

Part of the appeal right now (for me) is it's lack of SEO spam and over the top ads.

That won't last (obviously), at least not for their mainstream implementation.
So how does mysticism and unprovable-and-likely-false analogies-to-life help the engineering?
Putting emphasis on Good codebase. I'm afraid in practice good codebases are few and far between (the companies). Doesn't mean we should not try to make them better.
Here is a colab you can try it in. It crashed for me the first time but worked the second time.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rOvQNs0Cmn_yU1bKWjC...
Your mind is not infinitely scalable. It's a factor. Your mind is able to be recognised an author under copyright law. The AI model is not. It's a factor.
Running the company into the ground whilst it became far bigger richer and more powerful than ever before? Yeesh.
Oh come on, I haven't tested it lately but for like 5 years, if you asked Google, "play Mozart next" it would say it can't find "Mozart next".

Even with the most common use cases it doesn't even try. One coder, one evening, simple pattern matching + a few rules and it could be improved so much. I simply don't understand how they can keep it so bad for so long. There were more examples like this, I don't really have a list since I gave up on it.
Islam incorporates Jesus, Moses and Abraham. The continuity is direct, both historically and theologically. The histories of Christianity and Islam are wrapped up in one another. After all, the Arab conquests took what europe called the “near east”, which had previously been Hellenized and Romanized. Whatever perceived gulf lies between Islam and Christendom politically, I don’t think the history bears it out.
Still bad at poetry due to the tokenizer though. I wrote a whole paper on how to fix it: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/most-language-models-can-be...
Somebody who wants to be harder to follow.
It is rarely awesome for the lead or senior dev.
Taiwan has /never/ been under control of the Qing Dynasty. That's true.

It wasn't until 1885 when it became a provience that they attempted to rule over Taiwan. But they didn't. Remember for over 200 years they did nothing with Taiwan. Right at the very end, they tried, but failed, they didn't rule or control Taiwan. Japan did tho.

So if you take Qing Dynasty point of view, their rule over Taiwan was shorter than Japan's rule over Taiwan.

That doesn't mean that Taiwan was ruled by the Qing Dynasty.
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The problem with Octave seems to be that, even if you put in the time to dig, you eventually hit some insurmountable roadblock because there’s no library that does what you need, IMHO.
Ad.1 it is very hard to give exact number because it’s based on many variables but still you have fairly good explanation of what you can get in each category
Ad.2 how would you do it differently? Like with power of thought? :D
Ad.3 imagine someone sent big camera into space… would you hire excavator to dig 30cm hole in your backyard? :)
Folio Photonics archive optical disk technology is real (2022)
Here is a google colab you can try it in:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rOvQNs0Cmn_yU1bKWjC...
> The company details a 512 GB module of DDR5 memory, running at DDR5-7200, designed for server and enterprise use.

That just shows how useful ECC memory is not that these bit flips didn’t occur.
And how much of those spoils does Big Pharma deserve solely? Were there not other players who had a hand in this victory? Should they not share in the reaped economic value?

I'm talking, of course, of the public that paid for the development and roll-out of the vaccines.
I've played with ChatGPT and see it as (at best) just complimentary to existing approaches. Unfortunately, I also see it as a vector of misinformation and potentially harmful. It appears highly knowledgeable on topics that I know little about, but otherwise it's replies are often riddled with errors and inaccuracies. It also seems unable to quote sources or references for such information. It seems reasonable to use a statistical process to generate conversational chat and boilerplate, but as a source of truth, it appears not.
Presumably you don't know much about SQL semantics, what's the spec will you know ? Do you wait until you understand full SQL semantics before implementation ? Or you just code as you go ?
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> Just because you can view something or free doesn't mean you can use it anyway you want.

This whole thread really makes me want to pull my hair out.

Difference between illegaly creating a (even temporary) copy of a copyrighted work (e.g. streaming a movie) vs. creating a derivative work of said copyrighted work: Two completely different things, with completely different legal outcomes.

If OpenAI in any shape or form creates a temporary copy (<--- by copyright definition of what a copy is!) than this needs to be adressed with the former. If OpenAI creates a work that is considered to be a derivative work (<---- by copyright definition of what a derivative work is!) than that needs to be adressed with the latter.

The crux of this whole thing is: Human minds cannot make a copy of a copyrighted work by definition of copyright laws (in Germany, I presume the same can be said for pretty much all western copyright laws), while anything that a computer does can be construed as making a copy.
I think the big difference is distribution vs consumption. Where I live, there are additional clauses in law, for mass reproduction and selling.

But republishing any work as your own, probably falls into that category. And it isn't about profit, but commercial use; thus pasting onto a blog to improve your business (rankings, hit count) is a business use case.
That's one thing I've been asking myself a lot recently: Is it realistic to expect that AI can properly attribute the source material in its output anytime soon? IMHO this is a non-negotiable requirement if the field wants to be taken serious. How can I trust the output if I cannot verify the correctness of the input?

And then there's the legal aspect: in music, sampling is legal nowadays, but you have to ask the original author for permission and then pay royalties based on how much your own creation is based on the original sample.

AI isn't much more than automated sampling, how can AI generated content ever hope to avoid a legal quagmire if it cannot properly attribute its source material?
Worst that will happen nowadays is that it would throttle heavily.

I broke the fans in my laptop through overzealous cleaning and when I turned them off completely to not hear the rattling the laptop generally still worked - just forget about any heavy tasks. CPU: AMD 4800HS.
> Exactly because you don't know it makes sense to optimize for the common case.

What is "common"? What if I want grep to match text that has an escape code in the middle of it - do I have to first inspect the generated escape codes? What if I'm redirecting the output to a file, and opening that file in a program that doesn't process escape codes?

Every sane tool I know of calls isatty. It's only those that don't that cause problems.

> Yes, because it's useful.

Please read the article I've linked about "cat -v". There's no doubt someone (perhaps many people) find it useful; that doesn't mean it isn't a bad idea and/or a poor design.
Personally I always thought that formal equivalence (word-for-word) is better than dynamic equivalence (thought-for-thought). And that’t not just the Bible but generally speaking about any ancient text. On the other hand that doesn’t mean that the translation should be archaic too (see the “ye and thou vs you”)

But oh well it’s a nice topic. Our languages constantly evolve as time goes on yet the originals stay the same. Who knows maybe AI will be helpful too here one day.
Ask HN: Melbourne-based website hosting similar to Neocities
A few months ago I came by a HN post regarding a Melbourne-based website hosting service which is very similar to Neocities. I cannot find this comment/post. Does anyone recall the name? Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot...
> my only criticism would be that they’re doing so in a lossy and extremely static way.

Indeed, these are my thoughts too after some interaction. It seems a lot more like a compression algorithm with search as an interface than any kind of intelligence.
I love that it’s just called “Basic Electricity”

Not electrical engineering, not electronics. Let us scare nobody off with the cover.
> they should get to control what type of entity should be allowed to view the work they purchased

No, that's not it. It's more like if I memorized a bunch of pop-songs, then performed a composition of my own whose second verse was a straight lift of a song by Madonna. I would owe her performance royalties. And I would be obliged to reproduce her copyright notice, so that my audience would know that if they pull the same stunt, they're on the hook for royalties too.
Think from first principles before you Google (or ask ChatGPT)
My circle is 98.5% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
It becomes a problem when violating content can be generated faster than it can be discovered and fined.
The Economist is a UK publication
Sure, but I do that with code or text written by others anyway.
But I'm a person and not a trillion dollar company. There is no reason for the rules, laws and morality have to be the same for people and companies
We're not dealing with AGI but modern models absolutely demonstrate creativity and newness. If it was simple copy paste, we wouldn't be having this whole conservation since it would be simple for copyright owners to sue and win in case of infringement.
> my loud 8” ultraportable Chuwi Minibook, with a Intel Core m3-8100Y, and how much I hate that fan.

Isn't it possible to open it up and replace the fan with a Noctua?
100's of millions of years.
> dark design

I wonder how much of Google's revenue is from Foobarbazz Corp buying ads for Foobarbazz searches.

The conversion rate for those searches is probably really high since the consumer was going there anyway.

It is like a silent agreement between marketing folks and Google to pretend it is value for money.
For each existing photo there is a date in which photo was taken, this is clearly visible in app and web, for second part of question: you have an input what amount of clouds you accept, if there is more clouds photo is most likely not even captured
They line up because that’s where the holes are, move the holes and they would line up in the new location.

It’s not high precision that caused this anything reasonably pyramid shaped using the same material works. It could also be twice as tall and you just pick a different frequency.
A great way to counter this would be a series of online tutorials showing how to do common and popular tasks, projects & applications with Octave’s existing libraries.

Surely people versed with it (or the developers) would be able to show how to work around its limitations vs. Matlab toolboxes’ über-completeness.

Call Python libraries if you must from within Octave. But show how to accomplish a popular application from beginning to the very end.
The cheapest NVidia GPU with 11+GB VRAM is probably the 2060 12GB, although the 3060 12GB would be a better choice.

The setup.py file seems to indicate that PyTorch is used, which I think can also run on AMD GPUs, provided you are on Linux.
The child porn check is to please the government, not shareholders
> "The Art of Electronics", for example, I found to be absolutely abysmal.

Agreed. I had this damn thing collecting dust on my coffee table until someone expressed interest and took it off my hands.

I'll check out the PEfI book. I don't consider myself a total noob, but I'd also fail the first week's exam in any EE intro course.
in the CBD?
Reviews have a distinct "character of use", one of the four cornerstones of fair use exceptions.

A review can be commercial, can cause significant harm to the market, can include substantial amount of the work, and yet the character of use can be significant enough to convince a judge that a exemption should be applied. Since judges historically has come to this conclusion there exist now legal precedence. With precedence we can make some general conclusions which tell us that reviews are in general exempted when using other peoples copyrighted work for the purpose of reviews.

This character of use is very different then if I convert a studio record of a song into mp3 and publish it on p2p sharing site. Judges has historically viewed the character of use in those situation as not being worth giving exemptions.
Yep it’s a very narrow focus on one person, and disregards the millennium of Judaic and Christian traditions that followed on from Abraham.

In general, to my ears “Abrahamic religions” is a forced academic classification, and doesn’t point to any actual spiritual kinship shared between the religions thus classified.