skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The demo for the chatbot search says Google will prioritize “getting facts right, ensuring safety and getting rid of misinformation,”

This goes to the chaotic problem which is still to be decided. There is no consensus position on what facts are, what is safe and what is misinformation. Part of the success of modern democracy hinges on being able to switch the leadership out with people who have a different frame on life than the old group. Yesterday's misinformation can become tomorrows facts (consider, famously, the impact Snowden had on the conversation).

Can a company as large as Google do this without splitting their own market along various political boundaries? Will they be forced to take religious, political and moral positions? Will they be out-competed by more neutral or more partisan chatbots? If chatbots become a big deal, will the target audience scale like search did or is it fundamentally fragmented?
I don't know, but I would guess owning a bar is not the same as being a bar tender. Criminality would be a concern for me.
Because the latest data there is few years old vs getting completely fresh data on-demand?
It doesn't really. Fuschia is a fairly standard microkernel design written in C++. Their big idea was a sea of internet components but it doesn't seem to have worked out? Where's the eye-catching Xerox PARC style demos of what they spent so many years figuring out?
For some people, the existence of a parallel system with significant differences that works very well for the people who live in it is the source of fascination.
We discuss this issue a lot, be it about Japan, Korea, Germany or even stretches of the US.

I wonder about a more global perspective on this, and whether it's actually truly a problem in the long run. I assume the unspoken assumption of many who worry about population decline in the developed countries is that it will cause the world to regress in some way (either via instability or without) as the rest pick over the bones and important infrastructure and knowledge get lost.

But must this happen? Can't the developed countries perhaps pass their developed traits on to other up-and-coming countries to also stabilize and then slow their growth, and eventually we arrive at a stable and peaked, or perhaps smaller global pop the planet can actually more easily sustain with a sensible energy mix?

Population decline often seems like a hopeful opportunity to me, if we'd stop obsessing about the fortune and minmax of single nations and start putting humanity first.
The different entrances to stations are missing from most maps, and they're important on the Elizabeth line. If anyone knows a map which has them, or knows how to add them to a map (like a layer on OSM/Google), let me know!
No, we have those and they also have low birth rates. It doesn't appear to work. It's like how the countries with the least sexism have even fewer women in STEM.
The news about the breakthrough in FTL will reach Andromeda long before that patent clerk's quaint musings about bendy space ever will.
I'm with the OP. I sometimes like AI capabilities, but I don't like my phone making AI decisions or predictions on my behalf.

E.g., if I open the share menu, whatever contacts and apps Google guesses are always wrong, and a simple list of whoever I've last shared with would be better.

I also don't want any "smart" contextual behavior (widgets changing out throughout the day, etc.). The phone simply doesn't have enough context to know what I want from it at any given moment. I'd rather just tell it how to behave using my own judgement.
You don't need to pay for or "borrow" anything to learn from copyrighted works. Nobody has had that expectation for years, and that is also not what copyright pertains to. It's not that AI breaks into libraries and isn't paying the fees. 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. The stuff that AI uses to learn is available to you, as a human. That is not being challenged in the least.

As parent said: Everything is derived work. We are remix machines. It is how we learn and how we make money. Now with AI, apparently, we are offended, when something does it better and faster than we can? To me it seems, if we expect AI to pay additional fees, the question is: Why?

I am not saying that it's not an important question. Google has built its entire business around information other people have provided. I would argue most people are quite happy with the existence of something like Google search and see it as a net positive in their lives. Does that make the business part okay? Where do we stand on this in regard to an open web? Is it okay for Google to do what they do (and if they do it well to win the space), or should there maybe be a license where people have to pay the owner whenever they are indexing a website? I don't know. Feels complicated.

> If you stop paying them, then it doesn't get created.

That's an interesting thought. But is it true and, more so, is it a problem? What if humans from here on will only be paid to create stuff that an AI can't?
As a foreigner living in Japan (similar situation to the author), this article hits the nail on the head.
I'd say China is an obvious candidate. They already have a fair bit of AI infrastructure and tech. Europe, India, and a few other places also could step up. That's where a lot of the AI researchers in Silicon Valley come from. The harm to US companies would only be enormous if anything actually happens. And precisely because of that, it likely won't. These companies can move some serious amounts of lobby power and historically the US doesn't like to constrain its own industry with arbitrary laws. So, this will likely just fizzle out with a nice court ruling.

And good luck filing a court case under US law in Afhanistan. That's not how trade agreements work. They'd be applying Afhan law (i.e. Sharia law as of recent changes of power). In China it's Chinese law. And in Germany it would be German law. All trade agreements govern is the notion that people need to have some notion of law that applies to things like intellectual property and a way to take legal action when they feel their rights have been infringed. But you get to do that under the local law whatever it is and in the local courts. And of course some countries like China have historically not really done more than pay lip service to such notions. Whereas other countries in the EU have strict laws related to e.g. privacy that don't really apply in the US.
Japan already does a lot of that. Housing, food, and healthcare are not only affordable but taken for granted by most people.

Individualism is a problem but the culture as a whole is not very individualistic.
I’ve tried it with the exact prompt from your comment: «what is the song with the lyrics, “hello darkness my old friend.” » and Siri answered correctly with “The Sound of Silence.”
You see how you’re introducing a viewpoint and assuming it’s true — you’re just saying “humans can create things” and “ai can’t create things”. You don’t even address the possibility that the AI itself is a tool of the human who created it to create things.
Interesting, here in the UK your PIN stays the same when you get a replacement card.

Revealing a card PIN to anything other than ATM/POS hardware seems fundamentally wrong too.
I remember when hard drives moved to 4k sectors. It seemed insane that they were still 512bytes, and seemed neat to have them the same size as memory pages. But 4k pages seem incredibly small today, and I would argue that any application suffering with larger pages is doing something wrong. To have performance problems you need to use large amounts of memory with small allocations right? Not only that, but also free some to cause fragmentation?

It's strange to me that this is an issue so late in the game.
And we've created a society of elitarism and exclusion. Which was failing us at every step so we created an agonist of this - the internet. Which enabled us to do AI...
caused by... an increase in the number of childless women.

Has there not also been an increase in the number of childless men? Or are men having as many children as they did decades ago, and it's only the women who are having fewer?
Comments about impedance and the BJT calculations were completely wrong. Also it suffers from having bits of information in little islands and no clue as to how to stick them together.

One of the fun things in electronics is when someone builds a small signal amplifier then wonders why the output is lower than calculated with zero understanding of source / load impedances. Because no one taught them about that.
Children.

Edit to make it a more substantive point: me and my spouse are currently 35 and 36 years old and after much deliberation together (as well as observations of friends who did have children) we don't think our lives would be substantially improved by having children.
This isn't just a Japan problem...this is a worldwide problem. Testosterone/sperm levels are declining everywhere (and not just in humans).

https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a47476/dog-spe...

https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/sperm-counts-decline-d...
FANGM all did layoffs. And many other companies as well. That they are all incompetent can't be the explanation.
Ted: The single biggest reason why startups succeed by Bill Gross
There are many rich people in Japan who can afford to have multiple wives and support all of them financially. Some of them might do that in secret with a mistress but in the current social and political environment they probably wouldn't have children with their mistresses.
Most non-copyleft licences require attribution. That's significantly more than than public domain. Copilot breaks even permissive licences.
Well the real question is what new capabilities did anyone justify that project with? Fuschia seems to lack a killer edge, some radical new take that can justify such an investment. If you read their website it's all about components and stuff but consumer IoT is the opposite of an extensible component platform.
They say GTM and it sounds like mid-market/enterprise sales. Scaling these teams requires a lot of support staff and if they’re ineffective things go sideways fast.
Ecosystems are experiencing the one of the largest mass extinction due to those capabilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Saying it’s only going to be as bad as the industrial revolution isn’t a pleasant prediction.
It is part of some regulatory frameworks. I’ve met someone from an European insurance company once, who told me they have be be able to switch to a different hyperscaler in 24 hours.

I also think it’s generally a good business practice to keep the number of companies you depend upon as small as possible. Only being able to deploy to one cloud provider is like only having one customer. It can work, but it is risky.
I am not sure if you are asking this seriously.

Managing a bar is not about talking to customers.

A bar (besides the initial capital you might need to open it) is a full-time activity, and you will become an employer, which brings its own additional (after hours) needs, even if you have the best (in the sense of availability) accountant in the world, there will be counting hours of employees, paying suppliers, various bureaucracy, etc..

Even when (if) you are not there you need to be reachable in case of need, essentially it is a 12 hours/day minimum, 7 days a week work, it can only be your main (and only) job.

Otherwise you will need 2/3/4 other people as partners and divide the work.
Europeans have more gas stoves per capita than in North America. Are Europeans more brain danaged than North Americans, on average?
That's a new SCP to count amongst my favourites. Reminds me of Coding Machines [1] and Second Variety [2] but with the added twist that it's not even a computer. There's something elegantly horrifying about it.

[1] https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
Free Will Is Only an Illusion If You Are, Too
Who did that?!?
This AI boom feels very similar to that of crypto/Web 3.0 of a few years ago. Wouldn’t be surprised if the same people are behind the current AI/ML hype.
> I wonder how much of Google's revenue is from Foobarbazz Corp buying ads for Foobarbazz searches.

I don't know if it is a common practice or just an excpetion, but not that long ago we had this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218340 where two competitors of (the FOSS) Kdenlive tried to advertise on "Kdenlive" on various search engines and it seems like "They had them on Google too, but we complained and they were removed.". That made me wonder if it really is true that you must advertise on your own keywords or if you can just complain and get it removed from Google like they were able to do.
The vast majority of women who end up single and childless into their forties don't do it by choice. At least not directly. They _want_ to find a partner and have children; they just didn't succeed at making the right decisions in their life to end up in that desired destination.
> some prescriptions about the one good tool to use for 99.9% of use cases

And we've always had such tool, the humble "pip". Now it even works great with pyproject.toml.
Plus built-in "virtulalenv" if you need isolation.
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?

Yes, that’s exactly what happens when you buy a book, or pay for a music subscription. The work is in the public domain, then global permission to observe and copy the work is already granted.

> Do you ask for permission when you get new ideas from HN that aren't your own?

You don’t need to. It’s implicitly assumed, by virtue of publishing in a public forum, that the author is providing permission for people read their comments and ideas, and remix them as they wish. That permission doesn’t include exact replication, but reading and understanding is assumed, otherwise why did the author publish it?

> Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of "copyrighted" insights that they eventually remix into their own creations without necessarily reimbursing the original source(s) of their creativity.

Correct. Literally everything produced by a human is automatically copyrighted. But the manner in which work is published creates implicit licenses for the public to consume those works. You publish in public, you automatically grate licenses for the public to consume and transform it.

If a human transforms an idea, it automatically becomes a new idea with its own copyright. The same doesn’t apply to AI because they’re not human, and thus the law generally doesn’t recognise them an having ability to create or transform ideas. If you believe AI can create and transform ideas, then you need lobby for the law to recognise that ability, but right now, only natural humans have that ability according to the law
Super nice. Would this work if I have my own version of fine-tuned SD? Also, curious how / whether this is different from img2img released by SD. Thanks!
Human birth rates aren't declining because men are infertile now. You got millions of those things and you only need one of them to make it.

Take a zinc pill if you care.
Your statement here is simply ignorance. Generative models do not only provide “copy paste”, they can interpolate and extrapolate from training data. When a human sees a bunch of ideas and mixes them up to produce something slightly different it doesn’t bother anyone. But when a human creates an AI and uses it to do something similar suddenly it’s a problem. I think the burden of proof is on the laypeople here that keep whining about how AI is just copy paste (which is simply not true and such a base simplification it wouldn’t even pass a ELI5 truthfulness test). I’m sure this will get downvotes plenty.
https://archive.is/Chu00
You mean if your memory can only hold a single large dataframe, polars won't work well?
Google is getting worse and worse. Today I searched for exact term “boat skipper b”. Google threw ton of trash at me. Ended looking through Bing results and found what I needed. 2/3 of my Google searches are not usable to me. Some advertisement and shady websites as results.
Because people don't think it's Sinatra like, but omasake like Rails.
In summary: some people think it is copyright infringement, some do not. They can't agree. There is a lot at stake.

Sounds like a courtroom is the right place to find an answer? That is the the US system isn't it?
TIL the Russian Army is inspired by 4chan
The most common commentaries used across all the Protestant churches would probably be the Tyndale commentaries. You will also find the Tyndale's on many a Catholic priest's book shelf.

This sounds less like a complaint on professionalism, and more like a personal beef. Not one reflected by the wider church - you'll find many leaders both in and outside the Catholic church, who communicate regularly, and coordinate their efforts together.
Would "it's curve fitting by building an internal representation to better describe all the curves seen so far" be a better layperson-ish analogy in your opinion?

Depending on how the model is set up, we'd say 'set of basis functions', 'language', 'strategy'.
Bob Shaw's 'slow glass': https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/slow_glass
Romans thought in base 10 (X,C,M) a bit strange to refer to them.

But I would happily adopt a base 12 number system with base 12 units. Let’s say we use X for 10 and Ǝ for 11, 134 would be 1Ǝ, 24 hour clock a 20 (base 12) hour clock
Courtesy of the market you could have a proper fry-up with a pint at an unfeasibly early hour.
Things have changed since then, now you can do per application malloc backed huge pages.
AI could be the new Adsense. Unlike Adsense where you only get paid if you an ad is clicked, site owners could charge AI crawlers money per page.
Threads are a strange case, I am convinced US standard threads are better than metric threads. However this is not because US customary units are any better than metric units but because whoever came up with metric threads messed up.

In short after a lot of math it boils down to the fact that US threads are defined as threads per unit. and metric threads are defined as units per thread. "So what" you may say, "6 of one, half dozen of the other", but threads per unit ends up having a lot of common factors and can be cut easily and swiftly on a lathe with a threading dial, and metric threads can't. Here is a youtube video that explains it better than I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9XYDCDwWY

If you ever see someone cutting threads on a lathe and they swiftly engage and disengage the power feed without stopping the lathe, they are cutting US threads on a US lathe. If they have to stop and reverse the lathe, they are using a metric lathe. This has an interesting implication on lathe design, metric lathes tend to be able to stop and reverse much faster than US lathes.
>This article is well-written

Considering the bleedingly obvious political slant fueled by feel-goodism, especially towards the end of the article: No. This is just another make-readers-angry hit piece.

Among many egregious errors and ignorances: No, the LDP has not "ruled ever since". There have been a number of times the LDP was not in power, including most recently when the Fukushima #1 power plant underwent a meltdown because the Democrat Party (not to be confused with the LDP) government at the time was utterly inept.

Rivers are "walled with grey concrete" because to not do so means the rivers flood uncontrolled during the rainy seasons leading to washed out towns and villages which fucking nobody reasonable wants. The coasts are "blighted by tetra pods" because high tides, waves, and fucking tsunamis are commonplace.

Japan absolutely faces many big problems as it moves forward, but this article serves to help precisely nothing. The author might as well have wasted his 10 years in Japan if this is truly all he could write.
"Mistakes were made"

"Challenges were encountered"

"Building a Stronger Company"
Apple's AI is on your phone. It unobtrusive. Recently I needed to quickly find a company's QR code which I had photographed and Photos search found it in an instance.

It even finds text inside images.

Am sure Android has these features but I don't know if they work offline.
No. But the police and FBI have fighters (I should have used the term agents in my first post, and I am using it to mean anyone exercising force on behalf of the govt).
Translation: people are trying to make it less profitable for us, please stop them.
I am not a lawyer, so the following is only my opinion.

Copyright law serves the purpose of peoples works being protected from unauthorized parties making copies of their works, and profiting off them.

It doesn't protect from technology making the production of new works cheaper, faster, more efficient. An artist using photoshop can be, and is allowed to be, many times faster than one using oil and canvas.
My fire department is spreading FUD about forgetting to blow out candles.

What is your point? If "Linux users" are right it is not FUD or the concept of "FUD" is pointless.
The Grid[1] by Gretchen Bakke. May not get as low-level as you like (physics of electricity) but great for learning about how the grid came to be, the operation of it, and the regulatory environment surrounding it.

[1]The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future https://a.co/d/g78jGlx
MLK probably wouldn't be rolling in his grave but rather be supporting what's happening today, sadly:

https://edwest.substack.com/p/would-martin-luther-king-be-an...
Microsoft

https://www.pcmag.com/news/as-layoffs-loomed-microsoft-execs...
Japan has increased immigration for that reason.
Fast video rendering and encoding using web APIs
I think focusing on birth rates puts attention on the wrong thing when it comes to talking about Japan or other post-industrialized countries. Even the replacement birth rate (i.e. keeping the current population) is at best just-barely sustainable from an environmental and quality of life perspective. Having too many retirees is indeed an issue, so I think the solution is to have fewer retirees. Realistically, a good amount of people could work well past the typical pension age without much of a sweat. They may not want to, but the cold fiscal reality is what it is.
Do you think they would act much faster if you charged a dollar or five? I don't.
You're right. The deeper issue here is that we do not live in a meritocracy. People are frustrated. Digging into why the CEO gets another chance eventually leads us to these larger societal issues.
How these Dog Walkers Make over $100k a Year
Sure it is. Google for example increased headcount by 24% in a year and cut it 6% in the next year, a clear sign they made a bad decision.

Further in Google’s case they have plenty of money to pay these people until headcount naturally shrinks, but they don’t have anything useful enough for them to do that waiting and avoiding a large severance package is cheaper.
Off the cuff, I would say ESV is probably the most mainstream translation that fits your requirements. The translation style attempts to be literal and the source texts are based on the original Greek and Hebrew, not Latin translations.

How literal you want to get beyond that is kind of a deep rabbit hole, that probably ends with learning ancient Hebrew and Greek.

> I would like one that does not force a meaning on words that are not known.

A study edition or commentary would help with that.
"So I am paying back staff and investors with my own money"

That sounds like responsibility
How do you know it's because of mistakes?
Since when are markets totally predictable?

More than once inferior products and services get investor money and good ones fail to receive any funding.