skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly think you're more certain because you want the courts to rule in a certain manner.

I'm more certain because I'm thinking about this separately from my opinions as to how the courts will rule. Yes, I will just so happen to agree with that ruling because I happen to agree with the logic and knowledge contained in our legal process. I agree that the existing legal doctrines already capture the spirit of what we are asking them to judge. I agree that the statutory law, case law and doctrine that informs their judgement will successfully balance both the limited rights of copyright holders and the natural rights of a public to unburdened access to the arts, knowledge and information. I agree with their process of balancing the potential impact on existing commercial practice with the potential impact on new forms of commercially significant non-infringing practices.

Some things in copyright might just seem unfair, like the case of Baker v Selden:

In 1859, Charles Selden obtained copyright in a book he wrote called Selden's Condensed Ledger, or Book-keeping Simplified. In it the book described an improved system of book-keeping. The books contained about twenty pages of primarily book-keeping forms and only about 650 words. In addition, the books contained examples and an introduction. In the following years Selden made several other books, improving on the initial system. In total, Selden wrote six books, though, evidence suggests that they were really six editions of the same book.

Selden, however, was unsuccessful in selling his books. He originally believed he could sell his system to several counties and the United States Department of the Treasury. Those sales never happened. Selden was forced to assign his interest—an interest that apparently was returned to his wife after his death in 1871.

In 1867, W.C.M. Baker produced a book describing a very similar system. Unlike Selden, Baker was more successful at selling his book–selling it to some 40 counties within five years.

Selden's widow, Elizabeth Selden, hired an attorney, Samuel S. Fisher, a former Commissioner of Patents. In 1872, Fisher filed suit against Baker for copyright infringement.

The poor old widow lost. Boohoo. But this was a just ruling!

I'm not sure that the people who think that ChatGPT is guilty of copyright infringement are thinking about the issue in a balanced manner. Luckily our courts probably will!

One strategy that the defense could use to lower their risk profile is to allow open access to their models and allow an entire ecosystem of commercially significant non-infringing uses to blossom because they are aware of how the courts will be influenced based on existing statutory and legal doctrine...
Applied Information Science Course
There is also the classic "what are you doing in my home!"
Most orgs claim that they need X% more money to serve X% more users, and they use that money to hire X% more devs. Since the users and money are both there, they get it in the short term, and nobody looks at the big picture until money tightens up
Everyone claiming that "problem X could never occur on (our) system Y" should be approached with lots of scepticism

They either define "problem X" very narrowly (so that a slightly-different problem, X', could still happen and with essentially the same result as X), or they are overconfident in their system in general and just can't seem to imagine that things like (for example) "two datacenters burning down at the same time" could ever happen
Here in the UK, I think the cost of installing a new heat pump, bearing in mind that it's an installation from scratch, starts at about £10k ($12k as today's rate) to several tens of thousands. A ground source heat pump (which seem to be the ones pushed by the gov?) is probably £15k to £30k if you can install one at all. Replacing an existing gas boiler, which is what most people have, is probably around £2k or even less in simple cases. I had mine replaced 2 years ago with the new one installed on a different floor so a fair amount of plumbing was required, and it 'only' cost me £3k.

There are government subsidies but it's still much more expensive in the end. I think they are simply too expensive and impractical to install for most people.
On the other hand I know multiple people who basically never move their laptop, and their list of reasons for getting a laptop boils down to "everyone has a laptop", "I've always had a laptop" and "it takes less space". For these people, an eGPU is a reasonable choice.
The language model has no idea what it's talking about because it has no idea about anything at all.

In other words, there is no real "intelligence" in AI as it currently exists.

It is simply a statistical mirror that reflects back the data used to train it --- without any real comprehension or understanding or veracity.

The results may seem plausible from a language perspective but expecting any sort of "truth" or accuracy will most likely lead to disappointment.
I think every neighborhood should have an elementary school within walking distance (my local elementary school is not and it annoys me to no end) but I agree that for high schools this might be unrealistic, and anyway a good transit system should be able to make it easy for kids to get to high school whether they attend their local school or not.
There is a business where you take picture, glue it to cardboard, cut it into pieces and then sell it to people who try to put it back together. Sometimes a puzzle is fun, and that’s all you need.
Hey Michael, been following for awhile now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21882791#21883808

Many entrepreneurs dream of being able to get to nearly 1 million in annual revenue, very surprised you only are taking 6k. Hopefully you won't spend much more on redesigning and web design? 30k is an insane amount for a startup to spend on web design. It sounds like you are happy with it but I hope you do not continue to spend that next year.

It looks like Tinypilot is mostly a one time purchase. I could imagine there are software addons many of your customers go through - like taking a screenshot every x seconds and sending to aws that you could eventually for an extra cost (or even monthly subscription)

Just thinking you have something nice here and it hardware will always need to be improved and redesigned so maybe you can continue to add nice products on top of this with healthy margins. I look forward to reading next year when you finally pay yourself a decent salary from this.
Right, like OLS.

Don't get me wrong -- they're great tools. Especially OLS for analysis has this whole framework for understanding errors you will not get in models fit using maximum likelihood methods.

But as a final usecase for a product there's generally better out there.
Yeah but... I want to stick to the CLI. Or in GUI Emacs.

I'll have to check how does NeoVim fare with these things.
Yes and no amount of random articles will convince people this obvious fact is untrue. People can be conditioned and brainwashed just as I can breathe the air.
Like Steinbeck, I was not speaking literally. Even if you hate those 5 specific companies, they represent a kind of pinnacle for tech workers in the way they pay, value, and empower their employees. Maybe you would never work at any of them today. They have a lot of baggage at this point. However I’m confident that many people here would have loved to work at a company like them at some point in those companies’ histories even if that time was back when they were run out of a garage.
How did they fail at doing that?

Did they announce an AR headset, not bring it to market and someone else's got wildly popular or...?
Is there anything out of the ordinary here? Doesn't basically every lawsuit have the defendant file a motion to dismiss, based on any halfway plausible reason?
> They are still big state-machines, unlike the human brain.

The human brain can also be captured by a big state machine. See the Bekenstein Bound.
The implication is that the AI follows instructions to make contact but the human operators then misinterpret the results as static.
Yeah. Some things need to be kept out. Funnily enough, it's nearly always car related. Repair shops, gas stations, parking lots, ... Nothing trashes up a city more than cars.
The youtube video alone will probably make him an easy 5 figures just in ad revenue over the next few years. Plus it helps build up his channel overall, which will get him exposure for his other videos (and more $$$ from ads and sponsors). Well worth the hours he put into it.
The cheaper AirPod cases don’t support wireless charging.
Zoning laws are a great way to implement social segregation without explicitely saying it too loudly, I guess that's the reason they are so popular in "free" and "open" societies.
> He deliberately took cultivars from his neighbour's plot

You mean stole? Where do you see this in the link you provided?

That's what I read in the article.

> As established in the original Federal Court trial decision, Percy Schmeiser, a canola breeder and grower in Bruno, Saskatchewan, first discovered Roundup-resistant canola in his crops in 1997.[4] He had used Roundup herbicide to clear weeds around power poles and in ditches adjacent to a public road running beside one of his fields, and noticed that some of the canola which had been sprayed had survived. Schmeiser then performed a test by applying Roundup to an additional 3 acres (12,000 m2) to 4 acres (16,000 m2) of the same field. He found that 60% of the canola plants survived. At harvest time, Schmeiser instructed a farmhand to harvest the test field. That seed was stored separately from the rest of the harvest, and used the next year to seed approximately 1,000 acres (4 km²) of canola.
The new order world government will have to pry my wood burning lightbulbs from my cold dead guns!
According to the USDA, about 6.2% (19M) Americans have limited/no access to a grocery store.

https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts covers the research (and links to the paper).
If you are referring to a case where litigation was executed under the terms of patent contract, the farmer – being a member of the public who grants such patents – has still entered into a contract by virtue of choosing to be a member of the public who has agreed that patent contracts are desirable to issue. The public had no obligation to issue the patent, but chose to. The farmer need not be a member of that public, but chose to be.
Yes, you might want to do some research on it.

The core idea is that you aren’t using 1 unit of electrical energy to create 1 new unit of heat energy. You are using 1 unit of electrical energy to capture several units of pre-existing heat energy from the environment and pump it indoors.
> Are there many neighbourhoods which don't already have some kind of grocery store?

Tons. They're called food deserts.
The part I don't quite get (except insofar as it's an understandable emotional reaction) is why people are mad at companies hiring more people than they should have and then eventually laying them off a few years later. Would it have been better for those people if they were never hired in the first place, never had a few years of getting paid for extraneous work? Is the trauma of getting laid off really so great that they wish they had never been hired in the first place?

Okay, so the job wasn't the last of your career, you didn't get to commit the rest of your life to the company. But come on, it's not the 1950s anymore. People change jobs all the time, it's normal. If a company overhires for a few years then eventually corrects itself, that's the company screwing itself over but I think workers offended by this are getting emotionally over-invested. You got paid for your time and you got more out of the relationship than the company which never actually needed your labor in the first place. That's a win for you and a loss for the company, but not all good things can last forever.
Obviously nobody can answer the long term cost differences between gas and heat pumps, since the cost of natural gas and electricity can change drastically over the lifetime of the unit.

GP's comment was about the tech, though, and not the cost of said tech.

It's absolutely not a perfect solution for all heating needs across the globe, the the technology is far better than GP is suggesting.
or end the offensive/defensive patterns used by modern corporations?

someone invents a thing, someone else uses thing for evil. what to do? we ban the thing!!! yes, of course, that's the solution. don't punish the one that did the evil. <hangsheadinshameatthenotion>
> you absolutely need more engineers to maintain the software and you need to buy more servers and hire more sysadmins etc.

Apple makes software, you know. ;-)

They also have many internet services, such as iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, TV+, etc.
What if Infrastructure as Code never existed – Adam Jacob
He planted a field next to someone else's roundup ready crop. He then collected the seeds from the whole field. Next year he planted the seeds collected, waiting for the crop to start growing and sprayed roundup, which killed all seeds not roundup ready. Then the new crop went to seed and since all the parents were roundup ready, the seeds also were roundup ready (I'm not sure if roundup ready is a recessive or dominate trait, which will influence which % is roundup ready using basic genetics). Those final seeds were collected and were enough to have a whole field that was roundup ready next year.
Gamers Nexus has done such testing for GPUs, dB adjusted performance numbers. No reason you can't for laptops.
Ok guys, thank you for the feedbacks !

So onboarding is shit, I understood and will improve it asap.

You actually have to click on login, and you will receive a magic link in your inbox.

Please refer to the blog to discover AJIR, specifically this article:
https://www.ajir.app/blog/ajir-in-a-nutshell/

It is still very early, I will improve the blog, the documentation, etc. over time...
JavE – Java ASCII Versatile Editor
You can't revert this trend - C++ is a legacy language being depreciated by more and more projects.

C++ and Rust are simply not competing on the same level. You don't need a complicated "enterprise" building farm/cluster to build your project, dependencies are managed by the guys who also write your compiler, there is a growing community that actually listen to your feedback and you don't need to wait 40 years to get networking support into the standard library. What C++ can offer? Languages like Rust, Golang and Zig all want their users to focus on their applications, while C++ just wants you to focus on C++. OO was a cool concept back in the 90s, but that was 30 years ago when you have 8MBytes of RAM if you are lucky - who wants to model every program using OO in 2023?

It has never been a better time to depreciate the C++ language and codebases written in C++. Museum is a much better place for C++.
So the term efficiency with heat pumps typically refers to COP Coefficient of Performance. It a measure of how many watts of heat you are able to pump per given watt of electricity used. So 400% would be a COP of 4.0 which is definitely possible with air source heat pumps in milder weather and ground source heat pumps in pretty much any weather.
Knock it off with the Half Life jokes or we'll run you out of this town On a Rail.
Sure thing.

I can still have fun with it in the meantime, if blender fails to export meshlab should succeed :p

Very cool project
South Africa President Declares State of Disaster over Power Cuts
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" isn't exactly straightforward.
> The server would necessarily observe the source IP address in the TCP session uploading the report, but the server would not record that address with the data

Users can't confirm this. In fact, this makes the next part a falsehood:

> a fact that can be confirmed by inspecting the reporting server source code (the server would be open source like the rest of Go) or by reference to a stated privacy policy like the one for the Go module mirror, depending on whether you lean more toward trusting software engineers or lawyers.

Sure, the source code of the server might be available, but you can't confirm that the server wasn't built with modified source code.

Second, as we've seen before privacy policies are empty; companies violate them all the time.

IOW, I don't trust software engineers, and I don't trust lawyers, and I would bet my life savings that there will be instances of companies lying in the ways I mentioned above.

> I don't get this. Given the design that the article is describing, how could most of your private conversation with a machine be backdoored?

Counts are enough. He says that counts are the only thing that will be uploaded, but he forgot that timing will also come into play.

(A week's delay is only an offset to subtract, by the way.)

Here's how it works: the tool reports counts, maybe in batches per hour. The server logs the counts and the hour those counts came from.

Yes, there's already another piece of data they captured, even though the tool ostensibly only sent counts.

Then those counts plus their timings can be used to infer things. For an example outside of Go (this is one I saw somewhere else), imagine a person texting more and more as the weekend approaches, until they are texting frantically. Then they suddenly stop in the evening of Saturday.

You only get the report of counts and the hours they happened in. Can you give some plausible explanations?

I can. They were texting someone they were planning on meeting that weekend, and then meet them. Can you give a few guesses as to why they're meeting them?

I'll let you fill in the blank.

Sure, there might be other reasons, but I would bet there are not many. Enumerate them, and you already know more. Find the similarities between all possibilities, and you know even more.

People forget about side channels all the time. In this case, the side channel was timing, but it doesn't matter what the side channel is; data can be extracted from it. And companies will.

> Specifically given that the Go tool is open source and used by millions already. Are you worried about sneaky code hidden inside that source code?

Yes. Just because there are eyeballs on that code doesn't mean they won't put sneaky stuff in. For example, the counts could be packed in a different order to tell the server more information. Or the tool could time its uploads. Or it could batch some counts and not batch others.

I'm not smart enough to catch all of the tricks they might pull. Are you?

> If so, you should be worried already, because there's no reason that they couldn't already be doing that if they were so inclined.

It's Google. Of course, they are so inclined!
> Growing too fast is damaging to both culture and productivity.

This seems to be general sentiment here lately. Do you have any evidence to support this or is purely conjecture?
There is a difference between being held accountable if your negligence ends up hurting someone vs. proactive audits and reporting requirements - the second has overhead even for those that already have high standards, overhead that is unreasonable outside a business setting.
They're called food deserts and they exist all over the United States. Even in big cities.

They are not the same as a food dessert.
In many ways the gap between the bottom 1/3 and top 1/3 of Americans is larger than the difference between someone at the 70th percentile vs 0.1% percentile.

It’s only when you’re talking 0.001% that things get really different.
I think it was more of a tragedy of the commons where some companies started aggressively hiring, and other companies followed suit to avoid losing access to talent. The pandemic was a huge societal event, but nothing indicated it was going to be the new normal and CEOs who grew headcount expecting it to go on indefinitely made a huge, and arguably an easily avoidable, misstep.
It looks interesting, but it looks like it has no or limited XML namespace support, which is a shame.
That is an ahistorical take. Deflationary periods have not generally been good for regular people.
My guess most of these companies were also borrowing money. You can look on their balance sheets for the stock. When that rate is low it makes a lot of sense to grow and borrow. When that rate goes up the math changes. No matter how profitable you are. There could be quite a bit of 'someone had to go first' fad going on too. Adding headcount just because you make tons of money does not necessarily make sense. It just means you are probably overcharging for your existing products and really should be passing those cost savings onto your customers. If you do not do that you risk a competitor doing exactly that. Interest rates plus decent inflation plays into how much debt/risk you can take on what your headcount will be plus what you charge your customers.
Search Wittgenstein's Tractatus with GPT-3 embeddings
50 / 50. I find the Rust Users discourse forum to be generally welcoming, though sometimes it seems people find your question too obvious and nobody ever responds. I found that showing that I made an effort and pointing at my source of confusion increases engagement. But it might be sensitive to timezones or such as well, no idea.

Rust's Discord however is AMAZINGLY friendly. I've been contacted in DMs by maintainers of very prominent and popular libraries by outlining a problem that I had, in detail.

And finally, r/rust I witnessed first-hand being extremely toxic at times.

It really depends where you're looking.
I think that baby died a long time ago.
Curated Papers on Machine Learning in Production
A GCC COBOL status report
Yes. Apple's size is still large but isn't ten times as large as Amazon, nor has it grown as much in a short space of time.

But surely someone must have questioned the industry mass over hiring with the Covid bubble and VC cheap money fuelling it for decades to result in these mass layoffs?
I think this is why people tend to like the Japanese zoning model where things are divided up into different "nuisance" levels. Something like an auto shop would be more of a nuisance than say a coffee shop. You're allowed to build anything in a zone as long as it's below the zone's nuisance level. This will help keep real industrial style work away from where people are living and eating, but allows for so much more retail opportunity in those zones.
I don't get it either. 100% agree with your sentiment.

The HN mob in general is pretty level headed, but its like someone kicked over the beehive.
> and in the end not clear they're a financial net positive

This feels like another instance of Deming's (paraphrased) "People will destroy the enterprise to align to their incentives."

The people who make these decisions may be incented on the _short term_ cost savings. It's a fractally smaller version of the entire org aligning to shareholder expectations at the expense of company growth.
Even the brightest minds are not immune to the human tendency to force everything through a black/white filter. Buckminster, like Elon, and like many other people/topics, must be either a demon or a saint. Tribalism ensues.
> But for some reason, we dont do this with computer programs

I'm unsure what you mean here. It's pretty foundational to the structuring of programs hierarchically (eg, trees own their children, functions own their variables, closures own their environments, and so on).

The classic argument against ownership as a language semantic is that it doesn't play well with graphs and circularly linked lists, where there isn't a meaningful hierarchy and therefore no one ancestor is the "owner" of any descendant. The counterargument is that these datastructures are both rare and better represented with a single owner of the data and the relationships represented through indirection even if your implementation language doesn't enforce ownership (for example, adjacency lists/matrices for graphs, vectors for lists, etc).