skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but that's not the point of contention. The training data set has been granted the right to be distributed (by virtue of it being available for viewing already - it's not hidden or secret). The proof is that a human can already view it manually. Let's call this 'public'.

This is wrong. My paintings are publicly available (especially going by your definition [which I'm confused by the origin of?]). Taking a photograph of my paintings is still a copyright violation. I hope we can ignore all the legal kerfuffle about personal use, as it has no bearing on our discussion. Again -- all of this boils down back to what I've said before: Bare human consumption does not constitute as making a copy, nearly everything else does.

Your second point -- a copyrighted work automatically granting someone else any rights (especially distrubtionial rights) by just being available to be consumed -- is even more wrong. I'm not going to go further into that, as you can very easily prove yourself wrong by googling it.

>The question is, whether using this public training dataset constitutes creating a derivative work

I'm not well versed in the US copyright laws, but I would assume (strongly so) that this would not be the case. I -- again, for US copyright law -- assume that for something to be considered a derivative work, it needs to include (or be present in other ways) copyrightable (!) parts of the original work(s). In other words, the original work needs to "shine through" the derivative work, in one way or the other. The delta of parameter changes of a ML model would (imo) not constitute such a thing.

Problems with derivative works will come into play when considering the things ML models produce.
How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette
What’s great about your comment is that you show that what we need the most is to reduce the power of copyright in such a corporate-centric legal regime.

Personally I’d like to see the right to train statistical models on any works without the permission of the author enshrined in statute and an end to common-law copyright, a return to the Statute of Anne 14/28 time length, and a clear delineation between the “work” as having an author for an eternity but having a “copyright of the work” vastly limited in scope.

Ask yourself, do we want to be extending the reach of large copyright holders like Disney into taking a fee from LLM producers because they COULD be helping people draw Mickey ears on their private creations?

This is Betamax all over again and luckily that Supreme Court opinion will favor heavily in the lower court’s judgement of these models as fair use.
Any thoughts on the Arkansas black?
I'm using GPT3.x to make money at work
Exactly. It costs money to support things.
> They all share the same god ...

Except that they don't share the same god.

The Christian God is triune, one God existing in the three distinct persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, which the Jews and Muslims both reject.

Further, though Judaism and Christianity agree that the only true creator God, YHWH (or Yahweh/Jehovah according to Christianity), has revealed himself in deeds and words, Islam says that his name is Allah.

And of course, fundamental to Christianity is the acknowledgement of the full humanity /and/ full divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified and resurrected. Judaism and Islam both reject those beliefs, thus we again see a difference on who God is.

These three monotheistic religions each have separate conceptions of God.
I understand your unpopular opinion. But here is another unpopular opinion.

Behind every for-profit business, and a out-of-touch with reality hedge-fund billionaire -- are the people who actually get shit done. And those people, who get shit done - are humans. And while layoffs suck, and it's inevitable they will happen, the distinction will always be between humane approach and greedy-billionaire approach.

This letter, if it's real, is written from a very very very high tree, by someone who belongs to 1% (or even less) of society in terms of the amount of money he makes. And this out-of-touch with reality, hedge-fund billionaire - is not longer seeing anything humane in humans. For him, humans, are an expense in his ledger. The same way as let's say groceries.

</unpopular-opinion>
> I had the privilege to live in Japan for one year

The people that are gushing the most about Japan, ready to defend its honour on every corner of the Internet, are those that don't have much experience living there. Says it all, really.

It's such a common phenomenon these people even have a slightly derogatory nickname. Also:

> Western countries are kind of a shithole compared to Japan

I'd really like to know how many Western countries have you lived in for at least a year.
100 people is a big number for a SQL transpiler with some SaaS "value add".

From a technological point of view I can't fathom how anyone would add this level of bloat to their project. Just write your SQL queries like a normal person.
> they ask AI to "paint a landscape."

that's the responsibility of the user said AI to check.
I have got 12 cores. We partition the work of over all threads, I think we are mostly IO bound as we don't use async, but we do require some pre-work before we can start reading.
I'm doing a small project to convert JSON/YAML to SQL here: https://yaml2sql.netlify.app . Please let me know if you see it helpful.
It's funny how this moves in circles: Automatic merging into hugepages (THP) is added to the kernel. Some workloads suffer, so it gets turned off again in some distributions (not all of course). But for many different workloads (some say the majority), THP is actually really, really beneficial, so it is ported to more and more mallocs over time.

It might have been more straightforward to teach the problematic workloads to opt out of THP once the problems were discovered.
>Culture isn't free. Someone is paying for it, and if you stop paying them, then it doesn't get created.

This is just deeply wrong. Culture existed before money. It is tragic to me that a person can't see culture as anything but a marketable good.
Hahaha that's great.

One of the comments there made the excellent point that the lib was still 'early access' which most mature devs wouldn't use for production. Maybe if it was 1.0.0 prod-ready, use would have skyrocketed but Prisma would never know that.
I get your point.

In that case I would have created a task "buy a screwdriver" with a relatively high priority or scheduled before the other tasks and maybe link to or comment about the other tasks as motivation to why the screwdriver is needed.

In practice, when using basic to-do apps like the one mentioned here for simpler projects such as re-build the living room or a one-man software project or just some around-the-house projects then I think a DAG is a bit overkill and complicated. You would also need to remember to connect the screwdriver dependency to any new task that depends on it and also avoid creating a new duplicate "buy screwdriver" task as you did not know/find the already existing one.

For projects such as "build the next generation 747", for sure something DAG like is needed.
I would guess they are less concerned about where ChatGPT is today than where it will be in 5 years.
The biggest issue with pro se litigants is not their lack of understanding of the law. Honestly the law is not that hard. The law is usually very straightforward if you spend any time thinking about the particular domain in front of you.

The issue with pro se litigants is that they haven't picked up "how" to think about their case. Court is, on the surface at least, a very sterile environment filled with people who deal with life altering situations every day and are mostly numb to any individual case. That isn't an indictment because for the most part people care a great deal about things, but probably not about what the layman cares about.

Case in point is drunk driving. I've done it two or three times in my younger years. Growing up in a rural area I had my own ethics about it. I never did and would never have done it in a populated area, but I never saw the harm in making my way home on dirt roads surrounded by corn fields where there was no one else to hit. Again, i only did that a few times in my college years and was very against drunk driving. But this is the ethic that I had in mind as I showed up to my first "DUI Day" in county court as a student in practice prosecutor. The entire courtroom was filled, and more people overflowed outside - at least 200 people. And that was just the morning docket. In the afternoon it was a different 200 people. This happened every single week, 400 new people a week, without end. All thinking to some degree, just like me, that they were special in some way or what they did wasn't that bad. I learned quickly just much of a problem drunk driving is and how naive most of these pro se litigants were in thinking about their own cases. They would raise some minor complaint about the officer or some stupid thing expecting the court to side with them and throw the case out. But we see a thousand complaints and stupid things a day and almost never does it materially impact the evidence against the person. But the mindset of the pro se litigants is that they are special.

The only litigants that were ever special were the ones who either a) detached from their case in a way that let them actually objectively decide if they had a good case or not; or b) had enough sense to know they were guilty and present to us good reasons why this episode would never happen again. I dropped the hammer on so many people who weren't ready to accept they were going to ve convicted. But I let people off incredibly lightly who demonstrated that they were accountable despite making a mistake that I myself made a few times.
> How are you planning on proving a particular licensed work was used in a sufficiently large model? One of the commonly mentioned issues with current ML is the inability to reverse the output to figure out 'how it got there'.

That's a different problem. Let's not get into the argument of "Just because the victim cannot prove something, we should remove the relevant laws."

The current laws are sufficient; all that it takes is for licenses to have a non-AI-training clause.

Lets solve the problem of "how do you prove" when we get to it[1].

[1] Right now, due to the systems already trained being given every single image on the net as training data according to the owner of those systems, in a civil suit the burden will be on them to prove that, on the balance of probabilities, a particular image was not used.
Sure, if this was a commercial product i would also scream about feedback. But as this is a free side project im not going to criticize decisions on what they think they need to do to avoid unnecesary drama. I credit them for making the bypass relatively simple.
There's a difference between moderation and abstinence, no? If I notice there's nothing I want to watch in my collection or online, I start to ask myself why that is and what unfulfilled needs might be the cause. Then I know I need to deal with that somehow instead of trying to distract myself with a movie.
I know the rules of chess, but my rate of attempting illegal moves is above 0%.
And while I’m at it let me add another unpopular opinion: I don’t think anyone should be mad at said investor, Christopher Hohn.

It’s very easy to hate billionaires. But he invested a lot of money in Google (which allowed it to pay its employees among other things) and he wants to see his investment pay off.

He’s doing his job. I just think he’s not particularly good at it. This is where Google execs need to step in and tell him to fuck off.
Whatever 3060 variant that has the most VRAM is probably your best shot these days.
Not for the >>50% of people who they know. The IRS just mails you their projection and you can amend it if necessary. It clearly is less work for the citizenry.
Microsoft’s big bet on AI could bring ChatGPT to the masses
that's like saying "you say you don't believe in borders, yet you oppose this invasion? curious"
It’s the case of pretty much every grown food product. As a comment above it comes down to the incentives / optimisations of a grocery store.
The responsibility companies have towards people are generally defined in (i) the contract of employment, (ii) company policies, and (iii) legislation within the relevant jurisdiction.

Outside of anything defined in these areas a company doesn't have any responsibility towards the people, including those laid off. It's an incredibly good idea to have that clear in your mind when you accept a job.

Many of us are working for, or help lead, much smaller companies who - because they weren't so spendy - are much less likely to need to invoke large scale layoffs during the current economic turmoil (no matter how careful you are, things can still go sideways though).

Nevertheless, many of our companies have been subject to the disruption of companies like Prisma (and plenty of others: Meta, Google, Shopify, and the rest) hoovering up every developer they could get at inflated salaries just because they had plenty of money to spent and a bit of an anti-competitive streak (and I note that many of the layoffs I've read about so far have mostly included staff outside of engineering and product development, so not much has changed on the latter). This has hurt our businesses, set back projects, caused a lot of stress amongst employees who've remained, and of course cost us a huge amount in rehiring.

I can't blame anyone for accepting a role with a 30 - 50% pay increase elsewhere: everyone is under financial pressure, particularly at the moment, and everyone has aspirations for their future (nothing wrong with that). But it's not all upside, and I do wish people would be more careful in assessing possible outcomes - in particular understand what they're signing up for.

When a market changes as much as it has, as rapidly as it has, over the past 3 years - be that employment or any other market - there is always going to be some sort of regression to the mean, and some element of bullwhip effect.
More efficient businesses are better for the world et large. It’s not an indoctrination into extreme capitalism. Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently.

And really, your perspective on Bay Area salaries is detached from reality. Yes it’s expensive, but there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. Make friends with your janitor or something and get some perspective.

The rest of the country is starting to hate tech workers, and takes like this are why.
In Altered Carbon, criminal punishment was making that criminal "sleep" (well, destroying his body, keep his memory/conciousness and resleeve him later) for many decades, waking up at a time where he knows no one, and his knowledge was totally outdated. Putting someone into stasis for long would fit into that idea of punishment, and should be a crime by itself, who cares if your wife is alive or dead if she won't be there for the rest of your life anyway?

The bubbles in Vinge's story send people to a future they don't know, and that may be hostile or deserted (I think he wrote a sequel with that idea).
> How much of that is going back to the copyright holders whose work their service derives value from ?

how much of the earnings of the student of art goes to the textbook authors, paintings and learning materials he used to get to where he is today?
Indirect threaded code is quite a universal program representation.

We used to have our Forth-like system back in 1994, with a virtualized NEXT point, so we had execute, interpret, compile and two link stages behaviors for each word. This allowed produce making an optimizing linker, which produced very tiny .COM-files. I still have source code for it.

I think this idea can quite easily be taken to the extreme, and allow adding things like
- type checking
- debugging
- SSA IR generation (say, for LLVM optimizer)
- lots run-time checks (for tests)

So I believe a Forth system can be made quite safe.
And for chains don’t forget uniformity / repeatability.

There can be local variations but the chain usually wants a baseline for staples.
The one I'm enjoying right now is Introduction to Stochastic Processes by Erhan Cinlar.
In practice, if war happens and TSMC facilities are bombed to avoid passing into Chinese control, how many years does the world go back in processor state of art? Are we back to 486 level, Athlon 64 level, core family first generation, or what? What is the new average feature size, in nm, we are likely to fall back to if things go south in Taiwan?
Or they fired the workers so they could afford the concert, as well as fine food, dining and escorts, with all the other aristocrats at Davos.

No time to care about the little people when you're pocketing the silverware and golden chandeliers as the titanic sinks.
There's much more to design than just pictures, including color theory. I think you've overlooked this because you didn't mention it. I'd also say colors are the more important aspect of Googles branding than just the text.
I would do the Pandas and Polars examples differently:

```
pd_df['date'].value_counts() # pandas
pl_df.select(pl.col('date').value_counts()) # polars
```

Note: we could also do it the Pandas way in Polars but square bracket indexing in Polars is not recommended
A rather sober and balanced discussion of that by Adam Ragusea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwcWe85Wnc
Nitrogen oxide & dioxide (NOx) air pollution is certainly a problem, but in terms of policy and impact, diesel-burning engines are probably the greatest immediate problem.

Fundamentally, the issue is that the atmosphere is 80% N2 and when combustion takes place at high pressure and/or high temperature, some fraction of that N2 gets converted to NOx species. Gas burns at a high enough temperature to drive this process, and internal combustion engines (especially higher-pressure diesel engines) do the same.

Using gas-powered stoves and heaters can certainly increase indoor levels of NOx without a good ventilation and exhaust system. Poorly adjusted gas burners of all kinds can also generate carbon monoxide, CO, due to incomplete combustion, which kills about 400 people a year in the USA and accounts for 100K hospital visits (CDC).

However, diesel (and older gasoline) engines generate an additional list of air pollutants that greatly increase asthma and other respiratory ailments: ozone and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which undergo further reactions with NOx in the atmosphere to form things like PAN (peroxyacyl nitrates). This toxic cocktail makes up much of the smog that hovers over so many regions, and it definitely is a major cause of childhood asthma, certainly more so than indoor gas stoves.

Hence in terms of regulatory approaches, replacing all diesel vehicles with electric ones would have a greater impact on childhood asthma than something like a ban on gas stoves would. Ensuring homes with gas appliances have good exhaust and ventilation would make more immediate sense.

(2018) Diesel, children and respiratory disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5976105/
"popo" (German word for butt) makes a closed rectangle that's _almost_ a square
> a Catholic Nun who broke a ruler over my hands as they were laying flat on the desk

What the fuck kind of shitty human being is this? Can you even imagine doing that? Putting someone’s hands flat on a desk and hitting as hard as you can with a ruler? That’s some next level twisted psychopathic shit here.

> I actually have a fond memory of it now

There’s your psychological damage. That’s not a normal reaction, even years after.

> It was deserved and fixed the problem at hand and by example to the other students

2 questions for you:

- did it fix anything? Did you learn a lesson or were you just scared of getting caught? I guarantee the only lesson other students learned was « don’t get caught »

- assuming it fixed the issue somehow, was physical abuse the only way to do that?
Far from every application does that, nor would it be practical. As skifi won't be the contributor (I would, for example), it also wouldn't show up there. There is no mechanism to make attribution work if anyone who sees the derived material needs to be made aware of the source rather than just setting a source tag.
In this case I think the American fig fell victim to disease more than optimization. But perhaps those are related too.
It's not perfect, but switching over to a "loser pays" system would go a long way in killing the strategy of the wealthy to just drag things out ad-infinitum.

> It has been argued that this might even save the government money, as pro se litigants are a severe drain on judicial resources, and this practice might weed out frivolous cases before they're even filed.

The biggest drain on government money in the judicial system is when 2 big corporations sue each other. You get 2 teams of hundreds of lawyers filling 100s of motions for YEARS which takes a bunch of resources from judges, court reporters, and the clerks.

pro-se litigation is a drop in the bucket for the government when all is said and done. A pro-se litigant simply will not be able to generate the amount of paperwork out of sheer ignorance that a real lawyer could file. Sort of an 80/20 rule. Why spend the time worrying about small fry tax payer costs when the real problem is when google and oracle sue each other.
USD: no gold

This: maybe gold

Any other questions?
Re-read the post.

It clearly says "we are going to reduce the team size, which will impact 28% of the people".

It's not just saying "We are restructuring and 28% of people will be impacted", it clearly says that they will lose their job.

People answer you off the mark (according to you) because your question is nonsense to begin with.
The median is probably much much lower than average, but perhaps not by enough to change your point, and odds are those fired are around the median not in the stratosphere.
> we don’t think our lives would be substantially improved by having children.

By that logic you should evade your taxes and park in handicapped spots. Having kids isn’t an individual choice, it’s a social obligation like paying taxes.

And that’s not a moralistic point but a basic economic one. Any sustainable society needs people to have and raise 2.1 children on average. That’s self-evidently true in subsistence agricultural societies. But our society is still closer to those than to some hypothetical post-scarcity one where robots do all the work and replacement humans are created in artificial wombs. We can afford some people to be childless, but it can’t become a widespread thing.

You can paper over that temporarily with immigration, but you’re really just outsourcing a key social function to immigrants. Those immigrants then have to bear the burden of raising kids a toxically individualistic society that’s hostile to children.
I don't know why you're getting worked up by previous posters quote.

As an Asian American you absolutely can attribute our success to "social engineering", we went from rail road workers to laundry mat owners to Harvard graduates. You can't have these kind of change on the societal perception level without some kind of engineering.
Someone already tried it with homeassistant.io (https://mikegrant.org.uk/2022/12/22/gpt3-and-homeassistant.h...) . I predict that there will be a homeassistant integration module for openai soon.
They're giving the appearance that they're working on marvels. Given the amount of raw human intelligence they've hired over the years and the profoundly underwhelming output of the organization it's pretty clear it's was an illusion to trap investors.
Even more convincing when it is wrong?
How do I get it to use CPU rather than GPU, please? I have 128GB of RAM but a lowly 2GB of VRAM in my PC.
Integrated photonic circuits could help close the 'terahertz gap'
> I love their JAX

For those out of loop: https://github.com/google/jax

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682507
I learned electronics from Forest Mims III.