skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> way it's currently done is a bit... Shallow, lazy?

Many in this thread have valid whataboutism points of the diversity argument, even if they are valid the danger is that they derail the argument. You should not undermine a movement if you support their goals in someway, you have to learn how to compromise or just learn from them and take up the fight for yourself.

I've been part of building up many organizations, the online ones are always easier. That said I do not spend time with any of those people except online. I do not have the capacity for that.
IANAL, but not sure I necessarily agree I with that. Why then worry about monopolies or cartels? Price setting is just "at scale" there, for example.

Granted, things around power concentration have deep philosophical and social roots.
Right yes, agreed with all of that (I’ve been doing we accessibility for over two decades now), I just didn’t get what a US public sector code had to do with my point.
No one outside some artists is going to give a fuck about the legality. Joe Schmuck out there is too busy either not knowing this exists or making funny pictures of Han Solo eating a banana on a toilet made from the skin of Yoda.

That reputation damage you think matters doesn’t exist.
> You're right that you don't owe them anything. It's the same in the open source projects.

In my limited experience, it seems that people think that developers owe them. It is so very strange how they have come to this conclusion.
> One of the prime prerequisites of e.g. zfs actually is using ECC RAM.

ECC RAM is not a prerequisite for using ZFS.

Matt Ahrens, co-creator of ZFS and still one of the main developers, said this [1]:

"There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. If you use UFS, EXT, NTFS, btrfs, etc without ECC RAM, you are just as much at risk as if you used ZFS without ECC RAM. Actually, ZFS can mitigate this risk to some degree if you enable the unsupported ZFS_DEBUG_MODIFY flag (zfs_flags=0x10). This will checksum the data while at rest in memory, and verify it before writing to disk, thus reducing the window of vulnerability from a memory error.

I would simply say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS."

[1] https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/ars-walkthrough-using-...
This is why I switched from Vue to React. The library support is just not there compared to React. Never discount network effects in programming (or elsewhere). Even if one might think a solution is worse (and I definitely don't think React is worse than Vue or Svelte, on the contrary I think it's much better), you might simply have to switch for the fact that you can get stuff done a lot faster and in a more production scale environment (better maintained libraries with a larger community instead of only one option whose last commit was 2 years ago) if you go with the most popular language, library, or framework.
Minutes and hours are not SI.
> You can google an image of any great work of art and look at it for as long as you like, for free and take from it what you can and use all of that to create something else and get paid for that thing.

If you're referring to piracy, that is very much being kept in check. Otherwise, the vast majority of copyrighted art is only available for payment in various ways (streaming services, museum and theatre access fees, library cards, buying e-books etc).
Can someone help me understand: is ChatGPT essentially just using the GPT-3 text-davinci-003 under the hood, with a bunch of prompt-prefixing (similar to what is going on in this guy's Siri Shortcut)? Or is it using a significantly more powerful model?
> selling it to one of the big guys to just then sit on a few billion at home seems quite a boring life.

Depends for who. If you are inventor, you can sell your invention and then go on working on your next invention without worrying about cash instead of trying to be a businessman doing business.
Dear Friends Without Kids
Most famous example is Christmas. From winter solstice to black friday.
I was responding to this:

> You can wipe it and install Linux and use the hardware you paid for unencumbered.

My point is, it works. In fact, it works fairly well. Some people use it as a daily driver.

Not all drivers are finished though, which is what I meant by "not all the hardware". By installing Asahi you are deliberately choosing to not use the GPU, not having brightness control and a few other things are missing.

With that in mind, my point stands: by installing Linux on an Apple Silicon machine, you cannot "use the hardware you paid for unencumbered."
>Many Japanese women would prefer to be full-time parents and homemakers, exiting the workforce after having children.

This also plays a significant negative role in women workforce share.

In Japan, it is customary for full-time employees to work their entire career through retirement at a single company. Companies in turn invest in their employees, expecting them to return that investment over the coming 50~60 years. Men are generally fine with this arrangement, even today, but this throws a spanner when it comes to women.

As far as companies are concerned, if a woman is going to leave in less than 10 years, maybe even just a few years, after the company invested time and resources training them, then they would rather hire a man who will stay with them for his entire career.

So this results in two things: Women continue to form a small minority of the workforce, and the women who do manage to stay are either single or otherwise managed to find a precarious balance between work and private life.

Maybe Japan needs working reform, but working women aren't entirely compatible with being a good Japanese housewife.
What do you (or they) think “our choice” is if not the result of these processes? It’s not like “you” are just the part of your brain that is consciously aware of making decisions.
It’s up to the courts to decide if this is a copyright infringement. The EU at least already allows the use of copyrighted material for research purposes into text and data mining, so the main question will hinge on whether or not the result of such research can be commercially exploited.
Sounds a bit like our own minds, honestly. It seems to be a giant box of connections with only a vague understanding of subsystems.
These type of investors have been chomping at the bit to do this for about a decade. I sort of knew it was coming which is why I transitioned to become a trader of capital rather than a trader of my time.

That being said, the salaries will still be great, just not "I make more than a surgeon" great.
How about OSS Sabotage Manual that was declassified. Then you think about all the infrastructure attacks and it looks similar to how the manual describes to do sabotage. KGB sleeper cells still doing their thing? Or American communists dreaming they are fighting facism when in fact they are inviting it in.
Interesting history I had no idea about. Thanks for sharing, will keep an eye out for the original. Sad that sometimes credit is not given where it's due.
Happy but blurry memories of emerging from a night in Fabric, watching the market workers doing their thing.
Hiya jaycroft, et al. First time / long time, here. It sounds like you're already taken care of, but I hope this will benefit /someone/ reading through here. Iofd, I am a card-carrying ALoA member and professional locksmith.

The Associated Locksmiths of America (ALoA) [0] has its own search tool [1]. Of course, the same rules apply as everywhere. Not all good locksmiths are members, and not all members are good locksmiths. But, personally, I'll take the word of a trade organization over that of an advertiser any day. The real tragedy here is that both google and yelp apparently missed the opportunity to serve up a tool like this, in favor of (I'm guessing here) whoever bought the most expensive SEO package.

To answer your question: In my experience, yelp is dealing with this by being a smaller service, in every sense.

Google has, by making itself the de faco choice for each and every mode of search, become a "bucket of crabs" [2][3]. As such, it as an environment is selecting for that crab who can best pull down the other crabs, and not the "tastiest" or whatever.

That said, I can't think of anyone, off the top of my head, who puts any money into yelp. Where I live, it simply isn't popular. It's not a part of the culture, the same way that google is, and so is not as attractive to interlopers, "puppy mill"-style franchises, etc. I believe you're getting better results simply because it's too small a bucket for bad-ish actors to see it as a viable feeding target.

Back to the trades: Imho, screw search engines at large - even ALoA's. Ask your friends for recommendations. Don't have any friends? Call up your favorite cafe, and ask them who they use. Even if their tradesmen work strictly in the commercial space, and you're looking for someone to do some residential work, they /really should/ be willing to recommend another tradesman. One doesn't work in the trades for very long, without being exposed to the other players in one's area.

Lastly, I beg you: if you've found a tradesman who treated you well at a fair price - evangelize on their behalf. Tell your friends and family. Ask that locksmith for a dozen business cards. Most of us will knock a few bucks off of a service call if we were recommended by word-of-mouth. Not everything needs to be an on-line affair.

[0] - https://www.aloa.org/index.html

[1] - https://www.findalocksmith.com/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

[3] - The only entity that wins, in this scenario, is the cat who owns the bucket... I know a number of very good tradesmen who feel like they need to spend very big money on SEO and advertising just to come out one index-position ahead of their competition. If the numbers -one and -two position, on google specifically in my area, would put aside what I call their "advertising cold war," they could both afford to take a very nice holiday every year. Sadly, they choose to subsidize some advertiser's very nice holiday. So goes the world.

edit: formatting...
150k headcount reduction ? Are they crazy?

Edit: haha my bad. I was too furious reading the letter. Hate billionaires and their influence tbh.
wow. the hubris and inhumanity. How can someone who isn't running the company day-to-day purport to know exactly what staffing levels ought to be. Also why is a billionaire begrudging people for making 300k/ year. wow

hopefully this letter is fake
Eventually better understanding of the mechanisms should allow us to make better models. Right now OpenAI is still exploring the boundaries of "how much does it get better if we just make it bigger", but that is just the first phase of making LLMs. Remember that transformer models are basically brand new, having been invented just six years ago. There are bound to be lots of improvements left that will later be described as low-hanging fruit.
I didn't understand what this meant when I first read it. Now I see it's basically saying the same thing as I was trying to get across. The "underlying composition of algebras" are the mechanisms and policies with the components being the mechanisms and the differing compositions being the policies chosen when used. If this same pattern can be used for all problems, then you're effectively skipping the step where in my case I would find a partially pre-composed set and make that the interface.
Is it really that baffeling? Take ChatGPT, a model specifically fine tuned on dialog interactions to seem more human like. Of course people are going to anthropomorphise it. And the whole thing about it not being AI but an ML model, I think we can let that one go. It didn't stop the term cloud computing ("it's just someone else's server") and it won't stop the term AI from being used for this tech.
I respect his point of view and also the point of view that says a highly profitable company doesn’t need layoffs.

The middle ground that sundar took is weird

I really don’t get the purpose of such a small layoff. Kills employee morale and doesn’t move the needle on costs
I don't think it can. Even if you banned lawyers from court rooms, rich people would still hire "legal tutors" to prepare for a court appearance.

It's would be better - far from ideal, but marginally better - to increase the number of lawyers in criminal and family law and ban for-profit private representation. All cases would be heard before a random judge and argued by a random public defender and public prosecutor.

The paradox is you can only have perfect justice with perfect surveillance, because that's the only way to eliminate doubt about matters of fact.
You get the developer experience of writing in the component format without necessarily shipping that JS to the client. Basically, PHP but with TypeScript, since I much prefer TypeScript and typed languages in general over PHP.

Also, you can have most of the site be HTML with a little JS on top, like 20 years ago, but again fully typed and you can use the same language throughout the codebase.
The very idea of art becoming "outdated" because of changing political and social norms is absurd. Even if most of us no longer share the sentiments behind a piece of human cultural history or its creators, doesn't mean we should reject it as a part of our history or not be able to appreciate something of it at the very least for reasons of historical learning. A vast proportion of history's most interesting thinkers, creators and writers were full of flaws that in some cases would today be considered literally criminal, should they be erased from modern appreciation because of this foolish idea of "outdated"?
Right, but on the other hand there’s no responsibility if there’s no metric. Someone took responsibility on them to have revenue enough to keep people around, someone failed at that. Maybe revenue was enough but there was a decision to cut people anyways - someone who had responsibility to keep people they’ve hired. Someone might’ve hired HR people in order to grow the company, and now they’ve decided they don’t want to so let’s cut HR people.. nothing outside of contract stands between management and a worker if there’s no syndicate. Contract is easily terminated though, with or without penalties - depending. I guess companies aren’t our friends after all?
> - Even if you get the system to work, what about future artists and writers? Are we just creating an entrenched historical group of creatives getting royalties forever?

The boat has long since sailed on this… ands it’s globally entrenched as a norm of international trade that we are all “ok with this” regime of 75 years or century plus copyright terms …

And arguably the entire copyright vs AI/ML training datasets debate is founded on the notion that the artists individual copyright will last long enough that it’s going to outlive the average artist. If we look at one of the old copyright regimes, for comparison… in a world where copyright is a short default/implicit/automatic term (14 or 28 years) and the copyright owner can elect to register and pay for extensions (for a more modern twist, preferably combined with increasing incentive to prevent perpetual renewal abuses by Disney, et al)… now imagine how much data from up to 28 years ago there is, the catalogue of art and photographs and text and books and academic writings… all public domain because the authors didn’t consider them of sufficient value… all free for the ML model training… this gets even larger with a 14 year term…

Suffice to say that we are seeing systemic impacts already, culturally we’re seeing more and more money put behind less and less content controlled by fewer and fewer people due to a slow death spiral off copyright stranglehold across multiple industries, written, visual, audio and video arts are all dominated by large corporations holding IP … yes individuals continue to create, but other than rare breakthrough chance successes and internet age viral success (which are often just completely arbitrarily/random and have no real quality) these companies decide what will be popular culture…

My prediction is that the AI/ML models will be allowed but heavily scrutinised, under the simple legal doctrine that the user is the one committing the infringement since the primary purpose of these models is not infringement but unique creation, but suspicion will linger by artists and it will become a normal part of contracts in the art word…effectively an artist equivalent of the way police in many places view spray cans… just as the primary purpose of spray paint is not to create illegal graffiti, which is the justification many places used to overturn poorly justified civic bans on possession of spray paint.

I’d like to see any more draconian spread of derivative work rights (style rights etc) to be accompanied by drastic reductions in the automatic copyright term, as the ability to churn out lots of automatic content drastically lowers the value of long long terms, and the counter argument that it makes the existing rights more valuable is fucking insane as we do not need to pass copyright down to the great-great-great-great-grandchildren… the terms are already too long.
We should print a trillion trillion dollar coins and end poverty.
Isn't giving only a month of severance terrible for morale of remaining team members?

I suspect I'd be looking for another job if this was me.

Or conversely, why is every other company giving a minimum of 2 months of severance?
This should not have "Show HN:" in the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> Unfortunately, last time I tried it it required the system admin to enable support in the system for that

Why??
"And another thing, employees keep using up a full allotment of oxygen every day. Consider half portions or cutting breathing gasses out of the budget entirely."
This feels like a pithy negative quote, but I’ll say it anyway. How is a Node.js ORM a business in the first place?
How about “fix the hands”?
> French inch was then shorter than the British standard and Napoleon was around average height for the time.

A) It's not shorter, it's longer, according to Wikipedia. B) even if it were, he'd be taller, not shorter.
The changelog for sure! https://changelog.com/podcast
Ukraine needs tanks before Russia's Spring reinforcements, any tank will do.
That's either a very pessimistic take on human creativity, or a very optimistic take on the ability of AI to mimic human emotion and experience.
I’m curious. These lay-off were inevitable… however what are people predicting will happen in 3-4 years time? Back to hiring frenzy?

> Severance pay: All departing team members will receive one month of additional pay per year of service, plus the payout of any accrued PTO.

Compared to other companies. This is worst I’ve seen
>TL;DR: Dating as a whole is occurring less often between Japanese men and women. Economically, traditional households are not forming because people cannot afford to support the traditionally desired lifestyle where Japanese women become full-time parents and homemakers after parenthood.

I hate resorting to stereotypes, but it looks like that after a certain age(I don't want to use the magic word boom*r), people are completely blind to any argument that takes in account the most obvious reason for which people behave like they behave: their economic condition.

People can't afford to raise a traditional family even with well paid jobs? This is irrelevant, the main reason people are not raising families the old way is because of tiktok and avocado toasts.
Yes! Or the Mitchell & Webb farming sketch:

https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE
I think he meant reduce headcount to 150K, which would be approx 20% reduction. I hope this guy sleeps well at night.
I guess it's more about sending the message to squeeze the rest.
I think the parent poster has the right idea. This is not just anthropomorphization; it's an analogy.

They take away is contained in the first and last sentences.

Derivation is key.

Copyright protects original expressions, and copying means to reproduce (read and write) something. The analogy OP made is focused on the reading and writing done by humans and the reading and writing done by an algorithm.

Algos like stable diffusion are reading, and their user is controlling what is written.

If the user produces a work that is unique, but uses the style of a particular artist, that seems like it should be valid, since style is simply a process. It's how to create art, but it is not art, and processes are not subject to copyright based on copyright.gov.

With all that said legality isn't morality, and I sympathize with the artist.
They're talking about googling any copyrighted image and looking at it, as a human or an AI.
to 150k

not by 150k
Robot taxis? Hyperloops? A top technologist wages war on tech's hype machine
Reducing headcount growth to a level 2 years ago, doesn't really sound that crazy in a recession. Also, headcount in tech, grew at a ridiculous fast pace over the past 3-4 years only. All these lay-offs aren't really surprising to me. What is surprising is the amount of people actually being surprised.
Yes, genies can be put back into bottles. We’ve known this for millennia
I went through a Jordan Peterson phase maybe a little later than you, but I don’t get a lot of JBP recommendations anymore. When I look at the recommendations I do get, though, it’s generally content I’ve engaged with more frequently and recently. Though I probably watch more YouTube than any other video content overall, so maybe that’s a reason why. (I feel a little sheepish admitting that, but I honestly shouldn’t because there’s a lot of good content.)
arguably still inappropriate - you wouldnt put Bing in an ios shortcut and call it Google. we need to be less tolerant of lying to technical people because we fear they are too dumb to understand that software has variants or has layers
Reduction to 150k. So around 38k reduction (so roughly 25k in addition to the already announced 12k)
how about telling cars where to go ?
It was in Brave New World, and I think originated there. The Feelies are also a jangle-rock band.
Same on Windows, your memory allocator can request 2MiB or 1GiB pages, and some allocators support this (mimalloc comes to mind), but the admin needs to change a group policy setting to allow that. It's still used by some products like SQL server.
I think that. I am definitely feeling the squeeze myself. I don't like that this works but I cannot deny that it worked on me. Edit: I do not work at Google, can't say much about myself and my own situation more than what I've already shared here, but it seems that every company is going through this now.
Indeed, laying off the CEO too screws over the entire company, not just the portion of people who got laid off.
The thing is, we aren't really talking about AI here. We are talking about datasets being used to train AI and the companies offering the services of a trained AI. If a company trained their own AI on their own code, the discussion would be very different (likely centred on moral issues rather than legal ones). We probably won't ever have a discussion about companies submitting proprietary code to train an AI created by a third-party since there would be a contract between the two parties (and it is unlikely a company will submit proprietary code to train an AI that will be used by others in the first place).

What we are looking at is a kin to a company that makes paint brushes, trains graphics artists, and contracts out their graphics artists to use those paint brushes. If it turned out that the graphics artists turned out derivative works without the rights holder's permission, you can be assured that people would want to "sue the company that sold the paintbrush".

I'm not going to claim that my example is equivalent to what is happening with these AI services. And while you may be right about AI fundamentally being a tool, like a paint brush, I would suggest that is only true if you ignore the data that is fed into it.