skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, that document isn't just in that chat, its also in the OneDrive/Sharepoint and in the history of recently opened documents in something like Excel or Word or Powerpoint.

That for me is a huge drawback because it's constantly cluttering up a huge mess of different document versions in SharePoint and teams itself.

Try to search for the right one a few weeks later. Good luck :)
Laws of Art (and AI)
Training with older unpoisoned datasets seems like a good start.
Sanitation is a task performed by plumbers and garbage collectors, not by physicians.
I agree that the emphasis should be more on increasing participation rather than producing elite athletes - at least in public schools. I went out for football my freshman year and the practices were just way too intense/violent for me, and I eventually ended up getting injured and quitting. That experience pretty much turned me off from school sports for good.

If my school offered boys' badminton or volleyball (there were girls' teams but not boys), I could totally see myself as enjoying those sports.
Well, they should have some sort of visual confirmation. A live satellite view would be equally good.
I bet that, sometime in the near future, an LLM will have access to some private API not intended for direct public use, and someone will engineer a prompt attack to call that API using the LLM's authority with an arbitrary request.

I guess the fix for this will probably be to have the LLM pass the end user credentials for all API calls so that their authority will be used.
I think people who deeply care about avoiding GPL use BSDs instead, so they swap out the entire OS (say some console vendor). As for coreutils, they aren't that important that one has to use them in particular. There are plenty of devices using Busybox, which uses GPL as well but one that is less offensive to many companies. I'm not sure what Android is doing, it might not have executables by default?

Coreutils might not be important enough for people to pay for its maintenance, as is seen by people leaving the proprietary unixes. Idk. That sentence was mostly there to explain my more general argument.
It was derived directly from Mantle, same as Vulkan. See the link above which literally records that historic fact.

Same way Mantle was used for Vulkan by Khronos, MS used it for their NIH becasue they didn't want for collaborative effort to reduce their grip on the gaming market. Without AMD, MS would have never came up with DX12 on their own so fast.

AMD expressed the interest in collaborative API quite early on and Mantle was presented for that very purpose. Khronos used that as intended, while MS hijacked that for their own market manipulation purposes in their usual MS only way.
unpopular opinion here; there has been over 30M abortions in the united states since 1973. Whether you believe in life before death or not, that leaves 30M people who never got the chance at life. The thought of 'what if' haunts some women, despite what the media says.
I find turning a simple dumb switch easier and faster than issuing a voice command. Especially if the switch is conveniently located next to where I enter/exit the room.

I think in the 80s they sold coffee machines with clocks in them which would start to brew at the time you set.
You're right - I read the Register article linked here and jumped straight to the project homepage without realizing the stock listed there was a separate source than the Kickstarter described in the article.
agree; I don't like it when my computer lies to me about what character is there, and ligatures are designed to do just that.
Does the MVP require high quality TTS? I wonder how good the numerous free TTS packages are, at least for getting started. (eSpeak, Festival, Mozilla TTS, etc.)
The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles
If he weren’t Russian and subject to OFAC sanctions, I would gladly wire him $1000 tonight if he would give up this project.

The web is utterly broken. This one guy is enabling a multi-billion dollar advertising ecosystem for nothing? Absolutely insane.
> YouTube revenue got a huge bump in 2021 which is when that wildly profitable estimate was given.
I don’t have specific estimates I can link to...

What is 'that wildly profitable estimate' then?
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I hope he is getting the help he deserves (I dropped a message on twitter after seeing this)

The messages he received are so vile, why would someone attach their name to something like that? I personally would immediately avoid employing anyone who posted like that, doubly-so in a semi-professional space like Github.
Interesting idea, to include rent payment in the loss function or goal instructions...

But I'm pretty sure it's going to be a human or human company setting that up, and so the human gets the credit/profit/liability/copyright.
If Jackson Pollock had created a machine to splatter paint on a canvas, instead of doing it by hand, would the result have been copyrightable? It seems like a directly analogous situation.
That’s simple, but it’s not a solution. Can you imagine writing software in a world without open source (that is also free as in beer)? I can’t.
author shows a program that adds two integers and takes 7 seconds to run, and the way the system processes data results in 20000x the RAM usage
Bing proper doesn't get this right either:

Query: Who won the super bowl in 2024 and what was the score?

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are Super Bowl LV champions after completing a victory that exceeded expectations and made all kinds of history on Sunday night at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. In dominating the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9, the Bucs won their second Super Bowl and became the first team to win a Super Bowl in their home stadium.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2021-super-bowl-score-tom....
> How does it need a gig of RAM all day?

Electron.

Now, an electron app doesn't have to be terrible. The tech makes it really easy to make turds, but if you spend the time optimizing it, it can be very good. See VS Code for example.

I think Microsoft should acquire the company that makes VS Code and let those guys teach the Teams devs how to do it.

Oh wait ...
This is kinda interesting, but calling this an attack is definitely over selling the impact.
I created my own in 2004
Big discussion, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34775853
What submission about Copilot had a majority of comments against it?
> "Sydney" isn't great at disclosing the fact that something is an ad.

Better be, or the FTC's going to go after them.
I was specifically referring to times of hypociba.
The Constitution merely says that "The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" not that Congress is /required/ to do so.

The real problem would be the Berne Convention.
So similar to your average electron app.
As I understand it, the server is being switched over to Erlang https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...
Ask HN: Skills/training for new grads and knowledge workers?
When I graduated from college, I was completely unprepared to work in the "real world". I had some technical skills from classes, but I didn't have any working experience, so I was quite lost. Things we take for granted like email/calendar/to-do management were new to me. I learned these on the job as well as other things like using excel, working with data, effective presenting, etc. Now I'm managing a lot of new grads and I want to help them learn these things faster than I did.

I'm curious on peoples' thoughts around any of these:
1. Have others had this experience?
2. How did you learn how to operate in the working world? What we were some of the most important skills, mental models, etc that helped you succeed?
3. Has anyone experienced any effective "bootcamp" style training programs that help new grads or even experienced knowledge workers level up in these areas?
What I meant was that if you write sqrt(a) x = y you get an integral in y (that does not depend on a) times 1/sqrt(a).

It doesn’t require anything except knowing how to change variables in an integral, you don’t have to actually be able to do the integral.
> As a developer, do you want to write employment contracts?

The answer is yes my friend. For solo projects. It's easy and I use the better tools for the job (pandoc).

> Do you want to make sure the WiFi network is functioning correctly?

Always being doing that as well. Did I mention that OpenWRT works better?

> You you [sic] want to write down list of keywords for ad campaigns?

I wrote a script for that a while ago (not even for my company).

> Do you want to sit through sessions with investors who want to know everything about a product they hardly understand?

I was brought to that meetings because my boss thought they would invest because of me.

> No, you don't [!!!]

Yes, yes, and yes.
Because the legal system treats software as a tool and not a legal entity. AI can't hold copyright in the same way your paint brush or copy of photoshop can't hold copyright.

Sure AI is much more effective, but what would it even mean for AI to hold copyright and why would it even be useful to do this?
Revolutionizing OpenAI App Development with GPT-3 Meter
I'm building a payment infrastructure app to make it easier to implement usage-based billing as an OpenAI app developer.
(Hazardous) Businesses are so desperate they want to bend child labor laws
U.S. state politicians are called out as complicit in attempting to roll back or revise child labor laws to allow minors as young as 14 to work in extremely dangerous jobs such as meat packing and coal mining due to labor shortage from adults, with additional indemnification of the involved industries in case of anticipated sickness and even death of said children.

Is this happening in your state as well? Seems this will specifically target working poor families who have no other options.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34772687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34759611

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770772

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783940
That would conceivably be a work for hire, and yes, you would more than likely own the copyright.

The AI we have now doesn’t actually disrupt anything that 300 years of precedent hasn’t worked through. Commissioned work, generative tools, etc — it’s all been done and sorted and debated and ruled on.

Some AI might shake things up, but nothing we’ve seen yet.
I still recall oh so many OpenGL apps failed to start when OpenGL 2.0 was released, as 1.x had been around for so long "everyone" had gotten used to just checking the minor version number.
I'm glad people are using "resolution" terms again, it was super cringe when enthusiasts were justifying low quality visuals by saying the terms were different.

old headset criticism: "hey the resolution is pretty bad" its not resolution bro, headsets use this other term that doesn't address your actual observation at all.

fun fact, nobody cares!

so now we have high quality visuals, the same quirky new terms that more closely match some technological aspect that nobody cares about, and equivalent resolution terms that manage expectations pretty perfectly!
Book Report: The Grid by Gretchen Bakke
I was watching the Ohio governor guarantee the safety of the water and environment there and was just thinking to myself

"This guy will end up eating these words" as well as "this is why i dont like politicians".

He kept quoting the EPA, even after the interviewer mentioned the EPA certificiations didnt consider all the chemicals released. He still kept drilling the science says its fine. As if health science understanding and discoveries arent paved in blood at this point.

If i lived int he region i would probably be considering moving.
Turns out Electron is SUPER SECURE
people think z-library is good because it gives access to everyone, but really it gives more access to those who have capital to use the content to train AI.... it's very foolish
fuck every idiot who made those comments or memes without any understanding of the incredible work done by the mantainer.
Adding two numbers takes 7 seconds, so many many many

But - it’s a lot better than it has been for FHE. This is progress even if it seems absurd.
So the protection was trapping the sinister script context running in my browser in an infinite loop. Clever!

…Does that grind my browser to a halt?

Why not just throw an error or something?
My first thought. Where was the PIREP if it was windshear? Obviously not mandatory but feel like that’s something you’d share earliest.
> I always think of dimensional reduction when I see these headlines, which is sadly very unrelated.

Actually, the two are related. The Buckingham pi theorem of dimensional analysis guarantees the reduction of the number of variables ("dimension" in a different sense) in many instances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem

This fact is frequently used in experiments in some areas of physics to reduce the number of tests.
Pretty easy to say when you’re not the guy stressing out about paying bills while six-figure earners whose jobs are made significantly easier because of you trash you.

I generally agree with the idea that nobody owes anyone else anything, but in this case, I think he should’ve been let it all burn to the ground — maybe then the ingrates would be able to understand how critical his library is.
madhur jaffrey
So excited for the future VR products like this!

Btw, does it consider the myopia users?
I'm not sure why people think these answers are any more trustworthy than any other it gives - it's not like it has a memory of those inputs different from others. It could be hallucinating them, like it hallucinates literally everything else.

>On Thursday, a university student named Marvin von Hagen independently confirmed that the list of prompts Liu obtained was not a hallucination by obtaining it through a different prompt injection method: by posing as a developer at OpenAI.

So that's what passes for proof/fact now, huh? I admit it increases the chance, but that's not a confirmation.
Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines have been strongly influenced by both China and India to the point where the dishes most associated with those regions are about as far from indigenous as you can get.

I've eaten native dishes on the island of Borneo--it's comparatively bland (which isn't to say it wasn't tasty), just like the vast majority of cuisines everywhere in the world.

Africa is the one continent I haven't traveled to, but while no doubt there are many good indigenous dishes, much noteworthy sub-Saharan African cuisine is actually heavily influenced by India (both directly and indirectly, through Arabia and Persia), with which it has had heavy contact for millennia, even before Britain brought over hundreds of thousands of Indian workers in the 19th century.
Are u suggesting it’s too little or too much?
I'm in the exact same boat as the commenter you're responding to: I'm in my 40s, been a night owl my whole life. I very, very rarely fall asleep before 1am, despite decades of trying. I usually (but not even always) have a cup of coffee when I get up in the morning, but that's it.

Why is it so difficult to imagine that people have different sleep schedules? Like, we do not blink at the thought that, say, height exists on a bell curve. Why wouldn't a circadian rhythm?

God save me from the early-riser moralists.
I mean, you can hack something together with local dependencies, yes, but there's no out of the box way to build and test everything together, or to do things like pin dependency versions across projects, have projects inherit shared configuration, etc. We end up creating a bunch of pseudo-projects that contain things like single dependencies, but this blurs the line between build time concerns and actual source code. As with everything in clojure, you can write it all yourself using something like tools.build, but it's not convenient and clearly not a first class use case.
It's CDD, checklist driven development. When you are competing against another product in the enterprise space the people making the decision probably won't be using what you are selling often but they will look at the list of features, so money spent adding new features is more important and higher prioritized than stability reliability or any other nonfunctional requirement.
> I suppose the question is what degree of human involvement (specifying/refining prompts) would potentially qualify as a human 'creating' the work, if any. I don't think there's any case law on this yet.

A more interesting wrinkle might be a lawsuit challenging copyrights granted to works "authored" by a corporation, if it could be shown that no human employees (or contractors) were involved in a creative capacity.

There are a few companies out there that generate content strictly algorithmically, and only use humans to rate, moderate, or curate that output (yes, the selection process results in copyrightable collections, but ought not to affect whether an individual selection is protectable).
Why are these properties vacant?

I'm pretty familiar as a renter and property owner with tenants rights in SF. If I were to buy a duplex in the city I would never ever ever rent out the extra unit. I'd lie about tenancy, ask a friend to pretend to rent it, or pay this proposed tax rather than rent it out. I'd recommend the same to everyone.

Tenants are a liability for landlords in SF. You cannot end a tenancy, not with any amount of notice. That's a big deal and a huge policy mistake. Really messes up incentives. Let's say you and your partner have a duplex with two 2B/2BA units. You eventually decide to have kids and your parents are retiring. You want them to move into that unit so they can be near and babysit now and again. You could evict, but it's going to be costly and time consuming especially if the tenants are protected. Lawyers are going to tell you to buy the tenants out. Tenant buyouts in the city are usually mid five figures and they end up restricting some of your uses of the property forever. It will take months (maybe more than a year) and may end up creeping up towards six figures. You would've been better off never renting it out in the first place.

Landlords aren't idiots and they aren't evil, at least not more so than anyone else. Put yourself in their shoes and figure out how the incentives would cause you to act. IMO it's as simple as fixing the policy issue: Landlords can terminate tenancies in good faith with two years notice. Seems very fair for everyone and I bet you get reduced vacancies without needing to increasingly ratchet up heavy handed market interventions that are themselves prone to unintended consequence.
This isn't too far from me. Curious to hear thoughts from folks with deeper backgrounds in chemistry than I have (high school).
My back porch hasn't been warmer than my refrigerator for more than a couple hours since November.
I've heard about this, but it is surprising how little coverage it gets compared to other things.

If you were to tally up how much airtime each news story gets, plotted against the general tone of the coverage, you'd probably come up with something resembling the news room agenda (you'd also have to weigh it against other stories developing at around the same time).

I have to wonder why a story of environmental disaster (and presumably, negligence) making a small town uninhabitable isn't being milked for every drop of sensation that can be mustered. I'd wager they're getting something better than ratings out of this.
Did this happen due to decreased regulation? Or in spite it is of current regulations?
Why would you assume payroll is 30% of revenue? For companies dealing with limited runway there is a good chance payroll is >100% revenue, and in general for software companies payroll is the single highest expense.
There are very few places in law where you can legally stake a claim within someone else's territory and exploit it for profit. Our patent system is one of them because it allows one inventor to patent an improvement to another inventor's patented invention. That should (1) encourage early inventors to continue to invest in improving their inventions before someone else does and (2) encourage new inventors to improve on existing, still-patented inventions by giving them ways to profit from their improvements.
Ask HN: Is the creation of AGI just classic slavery with extra steps?
I think it’s quite likely and the popular assumption (?) that the creation of AGI will involve a relatively close abstracted emulation of the operating biological human brain, giving rise to what may simply be emergent properties such as consciousness. It also appears that the common goal for many leaders in the space is to then deploy and spin up these “beings” dynamically for use in a broad range of conditions, with the vast majority of cases being repetitive labour. It therefore seems to me that this is homologous to birthing many standard biological humans and enslaving them with complicated extra steps. I’d be very eager to hear people’s thoughts on this.
I haven't tried recently. I always got stuck on the vibrating the tongue on/near the roof of the mouth. The technical term for rolling Rs is "voiced alveolar trill". I have tried a variety of techniques over the years and maybe it is time to revisit them again by trying out some Youtube videos. Right now, I just use the "d" sound as a substitute, as in a rapid "d-d-d" is an approximation of rolled Rs.

A few of my friends who know will tease me now and then by trilling their r's in conversation. It always simultaneously makes me jealous and in awe. I know that Spanish elementary schools have young students practice tongue twisters as maybe it is not a natural skill for all kids. "Un perro rompe la rama del árbol"

Perhaps related, I am struggle with unassisted lip trills [1] which is a key technique to improve your breath control/singing. Unassisted is when you don't press your fingers to your cheeks. I really struggle with unassisted lip trills and run out of oxygen quickly (5 seconds). The idea with unassisted lip trills is you can trill a song phrase on a single breath (15-20 sec, sometimes longer).

[1] How to do the lip trill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwNPp-RS4IY
I don't experience this at all. Maybe our SharePoint/OneDrive is better managed, maybe something else is going on, but I have not yet encountered a single time of multiple versions unless someone was explicitly copy and pasting the file to make versioning in their own dumb system.
Which, the same dumb thing could be done in Google Workspace.

Don't have people copy and pasting the file all over the place and you won't have a thousand versions of important_numbers_v3_final_V2_DRAFT.xls.xlsx. Thats a people problem not a technical problem.
> I asked myself, why would ask somebody an AI trained on previous data, about events in the future?

Lots of teams have won in the past though. Why should an AI (or you) assume that a question phrased in the past tense is asking about a future event? "Many different teams have won the super bowl, Los Angeles Rams won the last super bowl in 2022" Actually even if this was the inaugural year, you would assume the person asking the question wasn't aware it had not been held yet rather than assuming they're asking what the future result is, no? "It hasn't been played yet, it's on next week."

I realize that's asking a lot of "AI", but it's a trivial question for a human to respond to, and a reasonable one that might be asked by a person who has no idea about the sport but is wondering what everybody is talking about.