skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> US copyright law only applies in the US

This isn't entirely true, due to various entangled trade agreements that require countries to respect each other's intellectual property as a prerequisite.

See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
Did Kenneth Li publish his model? As an Othello player i would like to examine it.
isn't it curve fitting at the end of the day. A multi parameter curve fitting ?
why do people say they don't now how it works. Yeah i get it that the cocktail is fairly complex, after training it on very huge dataset (all most all possible logical scenarios). But telling it we do not know how it works, seems like just adding mysticism to it, which attracts "clicks", but is not an honest description.
Exactly. If I produce a work, and then you produce an identical-enough work, you're infringing my copyright. I don't care how you did it, it makes absolutely no difference to me.
It's not lookg very bright, but it's still better than getting into something like graphic design that will be devalued even quicker
Wolfenstein 3D with a CGA Renderer
Haha yeah pretty much
> If you're not understanding this properly and wasting time trying to contact someone through customer support, that's on you. Which company doesn't even matter.

There really are plenty of companies where this would have worked fine; I'm reasonably confident contacting support@ for something like this at all places I've ever worked would have been escalated. Maybe with some back-and-forth for 1 or 2 messages, but not outright refusal.

One reason why I always try to have a good relationship with the support staff (including talking to them at company parties and the like) is so they're not afraid to "bother" me if they're not sure about something. Of course support shouldn't be bothering me with basic inane stuff, but as an organisation you can certainly foster different kind of cultures and attitudes.

That said, your chances of this working are usually proportional to the size of the organisation: the larger the organisation, the less chance you have. Still, LastPass isn't that large, and the support person does seem rather obtuse. I suspect that Soatok's style of communication didn't help with that, as it may have caused the bozo bit to flip for the support person. This in turn seemed to have caused Soatok's bozo bit to flip for the support person as well.

However, at the end of the day, it's primarily the company's responsibility they're contactable in a reasonable manner, and it's not "on you" if they're not. Having to e-stalk and contact random people who happen to work for LastPass is not reasonable.
Heh. Wait until these are written by GPT then we’ll see how easy they are to spot.
There's another practical niche - museums. The Museum of the Liberation of Paris - General Leclerc - Jean Moulin (same museum, they couldn't decide on the name apparently) uses HoloLenses in the underground bunker that served as a command post during the uprising in Paris that led to it's liberation. It allows for a much more immersive experience than just signs and mannequins (they have both of those too). I can also see that working very well in e.g. natural history museums, with AR making fossils come to life.
Yeah it's fluffy terminology. They use that to distinguish from usual mechanically assembled devices. With rotating parts, friction, etc.

This is more like a one part cast/deposited with some degree of elastic deformation.

Supposedly a lot more reliable.
Hah, I think they were pretty buggy when they were first enabled by default in RHEL/etc.. We used to turn it off in our prod fleets after running into some serious memory / perf issues with them. I think they're in a better state these days.
Just found PEfI's 4th edition online and looked through it. It's beautifully laid out with clear illustrations, summary tables and well-explained text. I'm not usually tempted to buy a hardcopy but this looks super handy.
A half-serious thought I had is to allow AI to be trained on copyrighted materials but require all output to be public domain.

It doesn’t solve attribution, and you could get a sufficiently advanced ai to “launder” copyright but at least it would prevent those corporations from leveraging public works into copyrighted projects
I don’t know why people use this “AI” thing, I have been using make my logo bigger cream (tm) for ages with success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwi3x92teo

;)
First of all, don't pretend that copyright depends on how much "worth" a copyrighted piece of work has. Not just the works of Prince and the Beatles deserve copyright.

Then, a lot of open source authors understand that their works are not groundbraking inventions and want to share them with the world without any fees or costs. And others have groundbraking inventions and still share them for free with the world.

But there are almost always license terms attached to the piece of the work. They can be essentially non-limiting, like public domain or MIT. But they can also enforce some minimal requirements like attribution. Why should any entity, especially huge corporations, not be bound to those conditions? It was mostly those corporations which created a restrictive copyright. Try to draw an image of Micky Mouse and put it on your website and see what happens.
The training set for GPT-3 is about 500e9 tokens; any given synapse in a human in their lifetime is going to fire about 2e9s * (10% * {100Hz to 1000Hz}) = 20e9 to 200e9 times.
HelloSystem 0.8 Released as macOS Inspired FreeBSD Desktop OS
Corporations are almost universally posting record profits. In what way is this a "tight financial climate"?

Answer: some people will do anything to justify corporate cruelty to peope.
There's still a 10% difference in wealth on average between people with noble Norman family names and everyone else in UK.
Information asymmetry is a subject all in its own right, I see it as a modifier, it can obviously improve on the risks but it can also add risks and in some cases taking advantage of it can land you in jail. Typically if there is such information it is communicated to prospective investors as either a trade secret or some other mechanism (for instance: a patent that has been filed) but in the typical start-up setting you are going to have to let other parties know that you have this advantage if you want to get into a position where you can leverage it.

I've come across this a couple of times but in 15 years and 200+ companies not often enough to see it as the big differentiator for success or something that negates the usual risk/reward trade off.
Sort of feels like an extension of the 0/1/many concept.
Magic leap had some pretty interesting demos for remote support at CES this year. You should check those out if you haven’t.
Every time I have let complexity live, or increased it in a program, it was due to deadlines, bugs in third party software, artificial complexity in third party interfaces, fear of touching a part that's a "ball of mud"... Rarely was it for technical reasons or because the problem domain was on the level of a PhD thesis - I would say they are "political" reasons. I think that's the daily life of the average programmer.

TFA talks about artificial vs essential complexity, with the term "impedance" being used to talk about artificial complexity introduced by the tool being used, typically the programming language. As the author notes, the tool being chosen is partly a political choice.

The paradox they talk about, is that e.g. doing CGI in C is "wrong", but on the other hand if you are extremely good at C, you might be more productive than using, say Perl. Between the lines of TFA, you read because productivity. The "wrong" tool is a local optimum (of your all-C shop). If you want to go after the global optimum, you need training. And that's another political decision - which can be tough to make, because as typically don't have expertise in the field, you don't know what's right and are likely to fall for fads or new hires that supposedly brings that expertise to you.
I’ve taken a pretty fatalist position on this one: whatever’s going to happen, will happen. I have heavy biases that, even if I acknowledge them, are impossible to shake.

My only hope is that somehow generative art, code, and all other media can somehow benefit the little guy rather than continuing to enrich the largest and most powerful, however unlikely it seems.
> when they spit out source code that mirrors individual repositories

That's not a problem, we already have copyright laws that prevent people from distributing mirrors of copyrighted works. They don't care about how the works were copied.
230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Well, time to advertise my own competing offering: https://github.com/netheril96/securefs. Works on Win, Linux, Mac and BSD.
Games have the tightest reinforcement feedback loop one could possibly imagine, second only to something like sugar or cocaine. They are made to be addictive and cost $60 for 30 hours of often thrilling engagement. Add the social element for networked games and you are talking about a ridiculously compelling experience.
I got you: https://i.imgur.com/5JMU164.jpg
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/ . It's surprisingly lively and they have lots of recommendations for beginners.
Maybe not a great example? Isn’t watering plants a case where, with in reason, it really should tend towards a fixed interval? Isn’t the ultimate goal “10cc a day” or some such?
R is Perl for math
> There’s a lint rule about naming the error parameter in catch “error”, not “err” or “e”. Who cares about this shit???

That is certainly in the less important end of the linting rules spectrum. Nonetheless, conventions like these add up in larger codebases in my experience. The more consistency you have with things that repeat a lot across the code improve readability quite much because the brain is able to do more chunking over time.

Of course this doesn't matter that much when you are learning a language or a framework and only have a couple of files.
How long has it been running? Have you figured out anything to use it for beyond what other assistants can do yet? I'm very curious as I had the same idea but don't have time to implement...
The key point is: an AI calls itself an intelligence but this so far is quite a bit of marketing. A human is considered an intelligent being. Where a process of creating new things happen. They are based on true learning and not just reproduction. And where they have been just reproduction, of course it went to the courts.
The media that reported on it make it seem like it's a complete new paradigm that will change the way we do stuff while in reality it's nothing more than a toy and many of it's supposed uses have been solved ages ago by search engines.
You should look into /r/mud games.
This is an argument for a reform of an abusive justice system, not for adding additional forms of abuse.
So, Deckard can ask it to enhance, finally :)
"The first ever solid state thermal solution"

Peltier coolers have been around a while, but aren't very efficient. How's this compare?
china can get all mentioned resources (fertilizer, pig iron, food, steel) from their neighbors (esp. russia). no way to cut china off. the days of low-quality are long gone. semiconductors and some other hightech are the only pressure points still available, and the US tries to use these.
It's Disney that was most responsible for those copyright extensions you hate.

It's Disney that are, by proxy, suing Stable Diffusion to create the legal precedent that you desire.
I suspect their investments in the US are also simply because the US asked them to and they (including the Taiwanese government) are not in a position to refuse.
It's in their FAQ:

>> Who can view my conversations?

> As part of our commitment to safe and responsible AI, we review conversations to improve our systems and to ensure the content complies with our policies and safety requirements.

>> Will you use my conversations for training?

> Yes. Your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve our systems.
Apart from IF, I still sorely miss playing MUDs from when I was younger. Some of the worlds created by amateur writers were truly magical. Something I haven't ever quite got the same feeling from any graphical MMO.
I'm not disappointed, just reminded that internet is amazing.
> If nobody used it, why would they need to cut it off?

Low usage? Crypto's failure to be used as payments? Don't companies like Google and the like do this all the time when a technology fails to live up to expectations?

I see SWIFT cutting crypto off as a great thing.
It seems like intellectuals of his integrity are leaving this world one after the other. Instead of keeping their legacy in high esteem, the ideas they refuted so vehemently are what is popular with the young generation.
The point isn't to use a hammer for everything, it's that you maybe don't need to get a new, slightly different sized, hammer every time you get a slightly different size of screw to hit in. And that when you want to pull a nail out you can use the other side on your claw hammer, rather than go hunting for a dedicated NailRemoverPro TM that you've heard will make your nail removal even smoother.

Unlike with carpentry, when it comes to programming languages there actually are multiple options that can be used for such a wide range of purposes that it's possible to built entire projects/products using just the single one you prefer, which is of course less likely to be feasible when it comes to using a single tool like a hammer.
It's likely one or a small group of people that have the exploit. Chances are they aren't spraying it en mass so it only happens unexpectedly to a few people here and there, none of which are security experts. The only source that can give these details are Rockstar, maybe once they figure it out, or now that it's out someone else may figure it out as well.

I believe it's likely real, and we'll see more details soon enough.
Google has more data and more money than anyone on this planet, so they easily could tell fakes apart from real ones if they really wanted. The question is why they do not want to do so ... Will end up another dumb topic to be regulated in the EU in the future.
I never understood why they didn't let the camera flip up (to give visual appearance you weren't recording directly ahead). A simple physical move could have helped it gain acceptance
Ask HN: Do you use XCP-ng (XenServer fork)?
What do you think of it?
I loved these games far more than reasonable when I was young.

However for me, the appeal has passed.
This is a better argument than your smiley implies. Given a work, we can't (or soon won't be able to) tell whether its creator was a human or an AI. So the only important thing that matters is whether the final work infringes copyright or not. Unless people are seriously arguing that nobody should be able to use AI to produce images even for their own private use.
I don't think it will benefit "the little guys", because "the little guys" rarely have the resources and time to litigate in the first place, or lobby to lawmakers to make the details work in their favour. Copyright always benefits "the big corps". Everyone is so eager to get one up on Microsoft that they're forgetting the bigger picture.
That’s just the US’s beyond fkd up police system, though. Most of the police in Europe will actually bring the culprit to court, instead of going the medieval way of “police officer gets to be the judge and executionar” in one.
To me paying the fee for YouTube is utterly rational. I get enormous pleasure out of YouTube without commercials. I too am exceptionally frustrated with their algorithms. They have never got my taste even remotely right.
Can you mention some books of this type?
The conversation on another thread is currently exploring exactly that question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34474043
Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight
> Your analogy with cellphones doesn't relate this because cellphones work.

So do humans. But sometimes both of them stop working, or some part of them stops working. The service provider will not care if you break your cellphone, they only provide the cell service.

The problem with the idea of "you pay a flat fee for your health, and someone else makes sure you're healthy" doesn't work unless you also give them control over most of your life: what and how much (and when?) you eat, when and how much you sleep, any other substance you (ab-) use, what and how much physical activity you engage in. But who wants that?

Malpractice is a serious issue, but it won't be solved by "payment on success only", you just won't have anyone take on cases that are somewhat complicated, and then litigate forever to define what "success" means.
An artist keeping their work out of AI models will be like one from previous generations keeping their work out of museums. It will be a great way to ensure your work is forgotten by history and has no influence on the next generation of art.

Like it or not, you can’t stop people from copying strings of ones and zeros. Time to let go of primitive notions of copyright and embrace that we’re all one species and we benefit by sharing our knowledge.
resh is my favorite
After paying taxes in Germany their net salary was less than what they had made net in Ukraine. Most of them went back.

This is insane. It overlooks quality of life: stable democracy, low perceived corruption (police, gov't, biz, etc.), economic stability, personal safety, food safety, social safety net (physical and mental healthcare, national pension, etc.), (industrial, economic, financial and environmental) regulation, quality of public education, quality of public transportation infrastructure, quality of publicly funded arts, income inequality gap, etc.

Income tax in Ukraine is about 20%. I used to live in Hongkong. Max tax rate was about 15%. Overall quality of life was terrible compared to advanced economies with 2x/3x tax rates. Sure, you might be "rich" on paper, but you pay a lot for privitised versions of these quality of life services. I always say: "If you pay little [in taxes], you get little [in gov't services]."

Another way to think about it: Look at countries that are not corrupt but it is very hard to get rich. Usually, those countries have excellent quality of life.

And maybe they went back for cultural reasons (food, family, education, etc.). I have observed that pattern many times.
I've been programming for 25 years. I really can't remember where I learned what for most of it.
The author repeatedly makes the case that people can handle more complexity when using familiar tools and that in many cases this can outweigh the costs of using familiar tools for tasks they’re poorly suited for. I completely agree!

It’s still a bit disappointing that there wasn’t any mention or consideration for becoming familiar with more tools as a solution.

You don’t need to be familiar with everything, but to extend the author’s metaphor it’s better to have a variety of tools in your toolbox than to be a one-trick pony.
I don't think you deserve the downvotes.
I think it is obvious that just like this (or its future iterations: higher resolutions, shorter delivery times) could enable many valid and useful applications, it can also be used in many undesirable ways.
At some moment that will have to be addressed
The question posed by the article, and reviewed therein -- namely, "what did Posner really think of the law?" -- is comprehensively answered in Posner's own book "The Problems of Jurisprudence." It is an excellent and sadly overlooked work, which contains fascinating comparisons between natural law and positive law.

The article makes Posner's support of pro se litigants in his final years seem crazy and haphazard, like a side-effect of his Alzheimer's diagnosis. And maybe it was, but Posner's heart was in the right place: Pro se litigants are taken advantage of by the legal system and have the deck stacked against them. Bigtime. In civil cases, even most middle class people can't afford to hire lawyers, and are forced to knuckle under and settle, or fight and probably lose. This gives people the impression that "justice" can be bought, and it's not necessarily a wrong impression. Posner was responding, in a way, to a great and longstanding injustice.
Where? Even Afghanistan’s joined the WTO. Wouldn’t the US file a WTO dispute if that’s the way the wind blows? The harm to US industries would be enormous.
Yes, it's that. This model wasn't trained on natural language texts at all, so it can't be "prompted" with sentences like ChatGPT, etc. Lists of Othello moves is all it has seen.
> One of those paths is right-wing polemics.

Agreed completely. Uh… is it your thought that they do not employ left-wing polemics for precisely the same reason?

Because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34463025
The only red flag being set off for me is how has Apple, Intel or AMD not bought these guys up already?
Wasn't dlp labeled as solid state even though it had spinning mirrors?
resh is my favorite
https://github.com/curusarn/resh
In the music business there is already so much copyrighted that there is a real risk of making something that is too similar.
This has the nice advantage that range(k,n) + range(n,m) == range(k,m).
That's actually what Lua, Python and Shell are doing: the first language is the scripting language, the second language is C in some form. And obviously, that's a successful strategy. But most users won't dive in the C side. Partly because the internal API is more difficult sometimes, and partly because the C part is not as portable as the scripting part.

But even then, I think there's something more needed - perhaps complementary paradigms.
That's not what I took away from the article. On the contrary, to me, the article listed several trade-offs that come with choosing what might be the "right" tool at any given time.
The carpenter metaphor does not really fit here, because at some point, a carpenter is clearly "done" and moves on to other projects, whereas developers continuously maintain and extend the work - their own and their colleague's.
I have a ruler. What number does the first centimeter start at?
> scale commonly matters in law

I am not a lawyer, so the following is only my opinion.

Scale matters, but so does the legality of the thing that scales.

Reading two dozen books by other authors, or studying hundreds of artworks, or visiting the museum of awesome statues every week, in order to get inspired for ones own novel/painting/scuplture, isn't illegal.

So a lawsuit will have a really hard time argueing that it somehow is a problem if its two dozen billion books/paintings/sculptures. Because, such a lawsuit would suddely need to explain why the smaller scale is also problematic, only less so. And given that this is basically how art worked ever since the first human had the idea to paint pictures on a cave wall, that's a hard sell.
The only ways to earn money I can conceive of are owning robots and/or real estate.

Going to be a ton of disruption as labor is collectively devalued further by the deflationary forces known as technological advances.
They (imho) ruined Spitalfields market when it was developed a decade or so ago. A similar large open space market that used to serve indoor independent food stalls; a market and indoor 5 a side football. Half of the market was lost to office buildings and most of the food became chain restaurants. The market does still exist but the overall elegance of the historic building has been desecrated.
Thanks for the pointer.

Any idea of how clever the wrapper around these things is? For example, would OP’s use case simply get forwarded to the neural network as one single input (string of words) or is there some clever preprocessing going on.
reminds of me https://infiniteconversation.com/
Pybi and Posy: “pip install python”
he had such talent in football undoubtedly yet dude spoiled his image with back to back biting incident.