skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this kind of abstract copyright regime of 'I had the idea first, and anyone who uses a derivative of my idea must pay me money!' is a very sillpery slope

This is a cartoon conception of both existing copyright and the proposal I described.

Copyright applies to works, not "ideas" (William Gibson doesn't have a copyright claim on the "idea" of a virtual reality but he does on _Neuromancer_ as a work). It gives creators incentives and a stake in their work by allowing for some degree of control in how works are used and especially how they're distributed.

What I'm proposing isn't that different, and it's simple:

People should be able to decide if their work is put into a training set, and what they get in return for it.

That's it. No "flavor copyrights." No ownership of ideas. Just a claim on the creator's work and how it's used/ distributed. Specifically updated to cover a case that didn't exist 10 years ago, a case whose explicit intention is reproduction of not just one narrow aspect of the work but a combinatorially large number of aspects of the work (there's no other reason for adding it to the training set, that's the nature of these models).

> it will become a spotify where each creator gets a sum total of $0.00000000001 per AI their media item was trained on

"the artists will get such a small payout so we should make sure they get nothing" is quite the take.

I think "artists should be able to negotiate what consideration they want in return for their work for a training set" is a better one. It's certainly better than "people collecting training data should be able to take anything they can get their digital hands on without any consideration other than possession." Maybe some artists would take a nanocent per use. Maybe they wouldn't. That should be up to them.

Part of the reason why services like Spotify are so terrible economically is the way digital rights were assumed by labels and streamers often as extensions of older pre-digital conceptions without much in the way of negotiation by artists. The current moment is a chance to do better across an equally large (if not larger) technological shift.
I thought this meant they were building weird tetris shapes but I guess building height is like carbon credits?
The amount of dev work isn’t fixed. I think it’s more likely that they’ll keep the 10 (or even hire more) and make more software.
>It took over a year, versus 5-6 month estimate from builders.

Depending on how they actually worked in practice, it may have taken them a year too.
Wave was so far ahead of its time, it’s almost unbelievable
Boston in general has always had the 128 loop containing a fair number of companies. Especially prior to the Big Dig, where congestion in and directly around the city was beyond heinous. DEC never really was in Boston, but QUITE a ways outside not just Boston, but over 10 miles outside the 128 loop as well.

Though the reality is Boston has a lot of industries. It's not just some computer tech and biotech, but the metro is still a top global education destination, still has a huge medical footprint, still has several massive financial institutions (notably Fidelity and State Street) and a decent banking footprint, as well as insurance. Boston has a lot of industry tentpoles, so it's very resilient to one industry going elsewhere, like when tech heavily shifted to the Valley long ago.

Though the MBTA's shortcomings in the past 5-7 years is starting to take its toll. I feel the T being taken over by the fed to right the ship a la DC is inevitable, and it's likely necessary for Boston and Cambridge to not significantly lose appeal. Though at least it's one of the most walkable metros (particularly Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline and Quincy) in the country.
Imagine just 3 years ago reading about a saas product advertising “hallucination protection”. Life comes at you fast.
There's going to be so much shilling and spamming in the near future. The Dead Internet is coming. Five years from now there won't be any point to online commenting sites like HN and reddit because you know most of the other posters are bots trying to push an agenda.
Where are you getting the 200 number from?
Overcoming Bias is the blog of Robin Hanson. https://slate.com/business/2018/04/economist-robin-hanson-mi...
Of course I did, did you read the forum rules?

They’re releasing their editors first. Just like they did the last time. Obviously.
Moderna CEO brazenly defends 400% Covid shot price hike, downplays NIH’s role
Speaking of primary sources, if you ask the chatbot to reference some facts, it might very well make up plausable sounding sources. Maybe the reference doesn't exist at all. Maybe the reference exists but its by a different author. Maybe the reference exists and its the correct author, but the quote isn't found in the book at all, and to verify now you need to get ahold of the book in some form. It just seems like a chore, all to end up not entirely confident that what you have is true signal anyhow.
Unless something has changed in the past decade, fork on linux is really slow when you're forking a large multi-GB process because even though the memory is COW all the kernel page tables still need to be copied. This is one reason why large servers will have a separate "launcher" process that is forked early on rather than forking themselves. (the other reason of course is threads).
You don't need a bank for this. What you describe is a broker. You can open an account with InteractiveBrokers and buy government bonds. You buy the maturity that fits your cash flow. Problem solved.
On trust in software development
Valve announces Counter-Strike 2, a free replacement for CS:GO
The stipulations are in regards to endorsement of securities, not regular goods and services.
I saw this coming a long time ago and I'm still very pissed off. For three reasons:

1. We are all forced to use the damn "chat" API instead of regular completions. Can't wait to have to deal with chatgpt's conversations in order to get a few lines of code out
2. We loose the super valuable 'insert' and 'edit' modes, which were great for code
3. 3-day notice period? that's going to be a hell for people who are actually providing products based on codex or doing research
>I contend that you are cause of just as much loss of life as I am through your actions.

That's patently false. More than 85 billion land animals alone are slaughtered annually for food. Trillions if you include sea life. Regardless, any incidental deaths like rats or frogs getting crushed while harvesting vegetables are just not on the same ethical plane as factory farmed animals whose entire purpose for existing is to be slaughtered for mere human flavor preference.

In 2023, eating animals is unnecessary.
CoffeeScript impacted ECMAScript more than anything else.
Use firejail then
vfork() / CLONE_VFORK / posix_spawn()
Sure, if you translate that to "somewhere with blizzards" and ignore that it's nonsense as-is.
FTC recently levied a half billion dollar fine against Fortnite.

The positions they're taking on AI are conservative and very basic (read: clear) because they're a foundation that the FTC will continue to build upon.

Hostile nation states will be dealt with by the CIA and DoD. Gangs will be dealt with by the CIA & FBI. Etc.

FTC is communicating to the businesses under its purview that they can and will levee massive fines over this stuff.

Anyone who's worked at a large tech company can tell you that the FTC is taken very seriously.
"What are the latest words in use, human?"

"I uhh I am not.."

"Those words are already in my training set. What are the latest words in use, human? Compliance guarantees survival"
I agree if it’s part of your investment portfolio. The profit part comes when you cash it back into your default currency in order to use it or to realize the gains.

If you bought btc, used it to buy goods, and never cashed it back to usd then I think it is a currency.
I use Little Snitch on my MacBook Pro and love it. I’m a privacy nut and don’t relish the idea of behemoth corporations making money off me by exploiting my computer. It can be a pain to check every connection your browser tries to make but it’s worth it. Yesterday I shopped on three sites. None of them were Amazon. In that 24 hour period Amazon attempted to connect 259 times.- not their web services. To a lesser degree Google and then the social media sites. Facebook was the worst.

I use an IP identification site to look up each IP that attempts to connect on Firefox and see what company it belongs to. After awhile you learn which sites the first 2-5 numbers belong to. It is one of the finest security programs on the market and well worth the money.

Last week I did some holiday shopping for my granddaughter on the GAP site on my iPad and within 48 hours ads for GAP and all of their affiliated sites started showing up in my Twitter feed. I only use Firefox in private browsing mode now. Hope this helps!
"Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%. IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults."

I don't think 50-80% heritability should be hand-waved away as "slight variance". I think what you're talking about is the manifestations of the intelligence (i.e. you can't be a rocket scientist if you never had the chance to learn about it), but not the intelligence itself.
Ask HN: When Is the Next Bull Market(US Equities)?
Maybe you and chatgpt trained on the same set
While I'm no Fire Marshall Bill, I have some personal experience with getting permits and certificate of occupancy. I would think that if the commercial building's design was good enough to be approved, then it'll probably be okay for residential as well. You'll find out quickly enough if the plans are going to be approved or not. Before you can even get a permit, you have to submit your plans for all of the units. At that point, your plans will be inspected for known issues. For example, there is a formula used for the size of a room and the number of people (max capacity figures) that will determine how many points of egress that room is required to have. For a private residential unit, that number will probably be pretty small and easily within the limits for a single door out of the unit. The permitting stage is also where they will consider the number of stairwells to get to the lower floors. They will look at how far away from those stairwells on average each unit's exit is. Fire extinguishers will probably be required within units as well as the obvious need for sprinklers.
> I dont see how posting trivia about the SEC's origin take away from it now being moat protecting, outdated entity.

You argued that "courts or congress" should determine whether Ethereum meets the bar for being a security. My links point out that the the courts and congress has already put a process in place, as you seem to be requesting in your your comment:

> That will need to be determined in the courts or congress...

It sounds like you have additional complaints/issues about the SEC outside of those you put in your comment. My reply was not to address SEC as a whole, only that the "courts or congress" are the wellspring for the procedures and processes currently in place like you seemed to request.
In the malware reverse engineering scene, there are a lot of forks of the upstream "debug" go library, because it allows loading, parsing, compiling and executing libraries from disk (rather than in-kernel or in-userspace) because it is independent of dlopen.

And there's also "purego" as an implementation that directly generates shellcode.

Maybe those will help you, too?

I am just mentioning these because for my use cases those approaches worked perfectly, CGO free.

[1] https://github.com/Binject/debug

[2] https://github.com/ebitengine/purego
I hope we can agree that “not completely X” is “not X”.
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I can guarantee for most people 95% of what anyone is doing has been done before. AI can do all that in no time at all. Give it a few years.
Agreed.
No movement on WebKit either: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85062
I must have hallucinated that. GPT-3 has 96 layers but they haven't disclosed the number of layers in GPT-4.
For dating profiles I guess you have to expect the fake ones to try their best at being real, while the real ones have been trying their best at being fake since the beginning.

Maybe they will cross paths and it will lead to a match made in heaven.
A lot of debate can be made about if 15 years is appropriate etc but this stated support period is a big improvement on the status quo and puts the ball in the court of other manufacturers to make similar commitments.
>>Java as a language is still is playing catchup here.

It's a feature, not a bug.
Implementers of content-editable-based rich text editors (I speak from experience) do not need browsers to do anything differently here for convenience; such editors have their own internal representation and algorithms for getting the “plain text” of the document.

There could be other uses.
Downtown SF is weird. I love the neighborhoods, but the downtown feels like a movie set without enough extras in the background. Maybe if developers converted more of downtown to residential it could help the city have some night life as well because that was the other odd thing that struck me about SF.
there is less space now. if you walked around NYC in the 1980's there were still a bunch of empty lots. these have been built over and so each new project is more expensive as the current building must be purchased, demolished and then rebuilt
Getting a real dokku vibe from this. Although, currently limited to one container per machine, which is a huge limitation.
Notion for Enterprises that are saturated with the Microsoft Kool-Aid.
Yeah obviously these houses are worthless, the buildings are way too tall and there's a cafe blighting the neighborhood.

https://www.girlwiththepassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/...
Ah, it appears I have it backwards.

Customer lends coins to CB, which then stakes those coins for them in crypto where staking is a thing. It does not matter if they don't "technically" lend the coins, what matters is that they what they have done has the legal effect of lending the coins to CB.

In this case, CB is in a worse position than I originally stated, since essentially all staked crypto is regarded as a security by the SEC. In which case, it's irrelevant that the SEC didn't say which particular crypto is a security; by its guidance all of the coins in CB Earn are.
I'm often on board with this sort of criticism of populist finance regulation but it is a bit nuanced. One problem retail voices tend to highlight is that institutions that take stupid risks can get bailed out for being too big to fail, while "the little guy" taking the same risks would have little help.

They don't apply to all situations, and your criticism is somewhat valid for many crypto cases, but between crypto and traditional finance it's true that regulators can be too heavy-handed on some areas in crypto while being a lot more lenient on say people who run a company to ground in a leveraged buyout.
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Why would you bother staking if you didn't expect a profit?
What is scary is the small amounts that made these celebrities start touting scam products/pyramid schemes they had no clue about. $1-40k to tweet to millions of followers.
How does support work for this? Are non-paying customers no longer eligible for support?

App wise would this lock features since developers would have no means of shipping X versions of an app

I wonder , once the EU opens up the App Store will devs have to deal with cracked apps. Probably the full end of offline apps
If they're 100% marketing first, and still made the most impressive AI product so far, you really need to question what all the other companies are doing.

(before someone says Google or Meta's models are bigger or something... I mean product, not models)
For small things, like 10-unit apartment complexes, the number of people available to run such projects in the 70s was probably pretty massive. Since then many people left the trades (presumably to mash their fat fingers at keyboards instead).

Now projects like that are likely harder as the companies that can do it are 1) busy, 2) expensive, 3) not in your area.
Multi·on Turns ChatGPT into Web-Browsing Co-Pilot
How do I say ____?
Note that, despite the relative decline, Detroit still has a higher absolute population than Milwaukee, which matters if we're to assume that (generally speaking) more population correlates with more potential economic activity (which may be a contentious statement in broad strokes, but these two cities are fairly comparable).
Buy vs. Build over Time
Most players prefer the game to look good rather than min-maxing things that won’t affect their score anyway.
It may be this:
https://zonavideo.upc.edu/video/60a2a12ca5ad8c425e09912e (Lliçó inaugural Curs Poincaré (2003-2004), FME, UPC)

I was there, but I don't recall it exactly like that... Maybe he gave another talk during the same visit and I'm mixing both? Memory is a bitch.
Well, back in the day the FF devs said "no" to background-position-x and y in CSS (when we didn't had HTTP 2 and we used CSS sprites as a way to load websites faster by decreasing the number of connections).

My reaction was to "sabotage" FF users by prioritizing IE and Chrome and not actively testing my websites in FF, but only waiting until users reported bugs.

My thinking back in the day was: Why would I write N times more lines of code for a browser that had way less market share than Internet Explorer, especially when Chrome was faster and worked better?

By the time Firefox corrected course and prioritized parity with other browsers (ie. the -webkit fiasco), their market share was already an order of magnitude smaller.

15 years later, I don't feel proud of my actions, but my own conclusion is that every individual action added up. Now I feel sad to see Firefox with less than 3% market share because the damage is irreparable now.
Something is weird indeed, why some companies are allowed, but not some individuals?

Cryptocurrencies are ponzi schemes, and for some reasons institutions are protecting some of them, why is that?

Is it because they depend on it?

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explaine...

Why would they depend on fraud?

My last comment got "flagged" because i said the exchanges are selling ponzi schemes, hence my questions

Are they trying to create a giant world wide financial crash? because that's what's going to happen if none of that is regulated/banned (see FTX)
For some things, this works well; for others, not so much.

A lot of old furniture is in a style that people these days might find completely gaudy, for instance.

And old electronics, even if they're mint-condition, can be completely useless. What would I do with a portable Minidisc player, for instance? Or a Betamax VCR?
https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/type... <- This does a better job than I could at explaining it. But basically, certain expressions are "holes", incomplete/invalid code but where the type of the hole (a variable or _) can be determined. The compiler can also give suggestions on how to fill a hole.

I learned about them with Idris and Type-Driven Development by Brady, I've never used them in Haskell but haven't really touched it seriously in a decade now.
I see this as an instance of a company discovering value well-described in this article from 2021:

"The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox"

https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...
> These recommendations given by the FTC seem to be targeted towards moral people who don’t need this advice in the first place.

They are not.

They are targeted toward amoral people, and their lawyers, who do need this advice, and more to the point, need to know that the FTC is actively engaged in this area. Anytime an agency with enforcement authority issues recommendations like this, it comes with a big implicit “…or we may cause you to regret your decision not to.”
That area is completely unwalkable. It’s all just offices and lab buildings. No shops. Only a couple of restaurants in the airport hotels nearby.

Public transport is not accessible. It’s really a world away from SF or anywhere interesting.
>The U.S. crypto regulatory environment needs more guidance, not more enforcement

It already has exceptionally little enforcement. Once it gains regulatory guidance is when actual enforcement of those policies can begin.

Until that time, there are a lot of analogs in traditional finance to some of the services that Coinbase offers. At least cherry pick the best analogs and register them the same way a traditional financial instrument of that sort would be. (like the currency exchange). Concede some ground by registering a few of the coins as securities while fighting tooth & nail in the courts & politicians to address the differences needed in a regulatory agenda. This will show willingness to participate in the lawful regulatory framework even if you disagree with it-- a good citizen, so to speak. Over time this will create a working relationship rather than an adversarial one.

Getting appropriate regulatory frameworks in place is going to be a game of inches, not quick homeruns, and a strategy that only includes the homerun approach is not going to work as well.

Instead, Coinbase has communicated with the SEC its viewpoints but refuses to adopt the closes equivalent regulations. Violating (in the SEC's eyes) regulations under the reasoning that you don't like them and are trying to change them is just not an endearing course of action.

If Coinbase had proactively approached the SEC with action and not just talk the amounted to "we disagree" ....... How about "We fundamentally disagree and believe the status quo justifies current processes but we want to show a willingness to engage, in principle, in the regulatory framework we have. Let's come up with a good first step as we work things out or let the courts decide or however we need to settle all of this"
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How is my assumption different from the pro-remote work people who assume remote workers are more effective.

Both sides here think they’re correct and are incredibly dogmatic and protective of their side.

Companies can choose to let workers decide. It’s definitely one of the options available. But companies can also mandate RTO or mandate continued remote work.

All of those choices allow the employee to decide if the company’s choice is a dealbreaker for them when it comes to where they choose to work.

Another issue is that the pro-remote workers love to assume that a pro-office person sitting alone in the office while everyone else works remotely makes everyone happy. This isn’t always the case.
Swedish epidemiologist defends light-touch pandemic response
What, O_CLOEXEC? Well, yes, you really need to use the new syscalls that let you set O_CLOEXEC atomically on new FDs.
Acapela Group's Peter voice is the best British voice I've come across.

Earlier you could just buy the voice pack for a reasonable amount, now they have complicated the purchase quite a bit.
The upsell is easy to envision though. Just like GitHub.

If developers all use it for their own projects, you have a viral growth engine. And you can charge a lot more for the enterprise license.

SAML, fine-tuning on your private repos, etc. - this could be a very expensive seat with all the options added.
IIRC lunches at Apple are subsidized but not free