skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ31.pdf

> Copyright law does not protect ideas, methods, or systems. Copyright protection is therefore not available for ideas or procedures for doing, making, or building things; scientific or technical methods or discoveries; business operations or procedures; mathematical principles; formulas or algorithms; or any other concept, process, or method of operation.

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...

> 313.3(A) Ideas, Procedures, Processes, Systems, Methods of Operation, Concepts, Principles, or Discoveries

> Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act expressly excludes copyright protection for “any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.” 17 U.S.C. § 102(b); see also 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(b). As such, any work or portion of a work that is an idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery does not constitute copyrightable subject matter and cannot be registered.

> ...

> Mathematical principles, formulas, algorithms, or equations.
Dating sims are a real thing. Konami (The Japanese company behind Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid) has a long running dating sim series called Tokimeki Memorial. The games were never officially translated in english (a few of them have unofficial fan translations), but journalist/ Youtuber Tim Rogers has a five and a half hour video review of the first game in the series on Playstation.
I worked for an on-shore body shop, once upon a time. The reason why the compnay was successful was bc of the poor experience our clients had with off-shore body shops, like accenture - we fixed their work.

Given how poor the work they product is, I'll take that "retenue" and toss it in the nearest garbage can. [1]

[1] https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/10/case-study-hertz-acce...
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> tax cuts in exchange for committing to provide N jobs.

Does this ever work? That is does it work better than not giving tax cuts in the long run.

Committing costs very little, especially if the tax advantages are not clawed back if the jobs fail to materialise. How does one really measure the number of jobs created by the tax cut versus those that might well have been created even if there were no tax cut.
Yeah, I had a random idea the other day. I wanted to create a tool for myself. Basically GTD (TM) inside a ncurses Python app. I decided I wanted to have the command really quick to type so decided calling it "asdf" was a good idea but had to come up with a back-ronym to justify it.

I decided to get our new AI overlords to help. Asking bard was no help what-so-ever. The best it came up with was "ASDF Tasker" with no explanation for the ASDF part.

Moving to ChatGPT one of the first responses was basically that the letters of the name would stand for "add, sort, filter and delete" the main actions within the program which I honestly thought was pretty good.
Open-Source Competitor for ChatGPT
You can't technically enforce an application to cleanly split cache and configuration data and you will probably already fail to enforce splitting application data and user data for applications that need to access user data.

Technical enforcement is also not free - it has both a performance and usability cost at applies to everyone not just bad actors. One of the things I like about free software is that it allows for high trust environments because you don't need technical restrictions but can instead rely on people not being dicks. I consider this similar to wanting to live in places where I don't have to worry about locking my doors and closing all windows every time I go to the store.
u forget that there are torches and angry mobs of people, right?

at some point a forceful redistribution of wealth will happen naturally, like it did in history many times before.
Legality and morality are not the same thing. There are many activities that may be technically legal but still make you someone society would be better off without.
Yea, just search it on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Thanks for this super detailed and correct response! We are holding our hope that the miracle chip will appear some day to make it possible.

In the meantime, we have seen a community member start developing a Dual USB-C Expansion Card that offers only USB 3.2 functionality without USB-PD. That’s not a card we will build at Framework, so it is awesome to see it coming from the community.
More anecdotes from me on the input-method to wrist-problems correlation:

I weight train regularly. Lots of forearm tension. I noticed one day that it always hurt more when I was scrolling (using an original Apple Magic Mouse). Brutal repetitive strain injury. However, when I went for periods of time only using the trackpad in my MacBook, my arm would feel

Upon realization, pretty much immediately switched to a trackpad at my desktop as well, and problems went away.

It took about 18 months to get from "my arm really fucking hurts" to "yeah, it was the mouse". People always ask why I use a trackpad at a desktop, I tell this story. I don't remember the last time I used a mouse on my computer.
LLMs are very good imitations of what we expect from intelligent people. They are not intelligent themselves.

Not only do they have no street smarts whatsoever, but their book smarts start to disappear when you deviate from the training data.
AI-Powered Brain Implant Smashes Speed Record for Turning Thoughts into Text
Edward Snowden's bosses boss gave a rather good seminar on text analysis systems at a Semantic Technology Conference (that I attended) at the Union Square Hilton in San Francisco about a week before the Snowden "revelations" broke.

There was a time I was doing all sorts of sales and networking calls and found there were a lot of people in the Research Triangle Park area who had forgotten more about text analysis than anyone in the Bay Area knew.

The "secret" was not one great idea such as transformer models but rather the social and technical organization to break up difficult problems into easy and difficult parts and farm those out to very large groups of people. A person getting started in text analysis might look at Apache UIMA and ask "Where's the beef?" because UIMA doesn't really do anything all but rather is a framework for getting 10,000 people pulling in the same direction. IBM Watson did have the "big idea" of using probability scores to combine multiple question answering strategies but the real "secret" again was that they had the equivalent of an army batallion work on it.

If you don't believe me, try driving from the BWI airport to Washington DC at rush hour and witness for yourself America's worst traffic jam when the day shift at Ford Mead (the NSA headquarters) gets off work. If there's one "secret" about secrets it that it gets increasingly hard to keep a secret the more people that know about it.

(And I'll say yes, I know those details make me sound paranoid, I am just as paranoid as I sound, because if I told you I wasn't paranoid that would just convince you all the more that I am paranoid.)
Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during Covid
Discussed at https://reason.com/2023/03/23/virtue-signaling-by-scientific...
Given numerous individuals are paid to engineer prompts, appears so, regardless of how common it is as a specific role.
Got it. Even better if it automatically suggested plugins to enable to help with a stated task.
I've been suicidal. Some things that helped me:

1. Reading ancient philosophers. I like Alain de Botton's book The Consolations of Philosophy as a start. He covers different types of philosophers throughout history and then you can pick the type that resonates and follow that rabbit hole.

2. Understanding/confronting childhood trauma.

3. Figuring out what I wanted to do, i.e. long-term meaning/purpose, and creating an action plan. The plan didn't even end up working out, but simply working on it somehow scratched some deep itches.

4. Trying out a different diet. Maybe environmental toxins, too. I know those sound trivial but... Garbage In Garbage Out.
Agreed, it employs a lot of good functional concepts and shifts you into another kind of "reactive" thinking, where the render function is a pure representation of its state. This actually allows you to "declare" your state and its mutations in a way that perfectly executes your business logic and presents it in a single pure function, but generally, it's hard to think with pure functions for some reason, and side effects are imminent, as well as some asynchronous black-boxed action takes place. Actually – for many, side-effect becomes a patch for conceptual blanks in knowledge about functional data flow in its pure form, and you can tell who really understands it just by looking at his side-effect usage. In the end, what makes the library so appealing is that you need just 6 basic hook functions aligned together in a proper way to describe any kind of state and functionality user interface needs, and it actually performs top-notch and takes little space.
even less..
Classify any business model in a minute
Cargo is sufficient if what you're building is an executable or a Rust library.

It still doesn't support post build steps, and integrates poorly with other tools that are used for more general builds.
It's just the agent protocol, used by sshd instead of ssh, to make signing requests with a host key (instead of a user's identity key).
Let humans plug into it to get a peek at statistical distribution of their own prospects, and I think there was a Black Mirror episode just about that.
The man believes what he believes, and has sex the way he has sex. Lots of fascists are gay. It’s a whole trope.
France sets EU precedent with 2024 Olympics surveillance arsenal
Because it’s good? I wouldn’t mind paying for a commercial license to self host it.
I don't think so, but also with recent browser plugin I think it is kind of enough to make it having general understanding, not necessary knowing all the facts at all time.
building a slightly faster browser is not ground breaking... I feel like people were just excited about anything coming out of google, back then. But it was not a revolution in browsers or anything like that. Chrome only got the upper-hand in browser wars because they install it on all the android devices(and not being able to uninstall it) - which I am not sure how they got away with, they should have been kept in check by anti-monopoly measures.
> The constitution means what conservative judges say it means.

I'm not sure to word conservative applies. In the US you are just as likely to get a liberal judge as a conservative one in a local trial court. Most cases are never appealed, at the state level, it depends on the state if it's conservative/liberal, and at the Federal level we have judges appointed by both conservative, moderate and liberal presidents.

> It also can't stop the police carrying out violent retaliation against dissidents.

It can, however make violence expensive. We're seeing case after case cost local governments hundreds of thousands of dollars for civil rights violations and excessive force. The great equalizer has been cameras.
> No longer do I need to sift through pages of "12 best recipes for Thanksgiving" blog spam

Advantage that basic Google search still has:

- you can just open the page

- write the query

- scroll past the spam.

ChatGpt workflow is:

- register

- confirm your mail

- and then it asks for phone number...
Writing worked fine in Microsoft Edge on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 running Windows 11, but I couldn't figure out how to convert the writing to text.

Did far better on my Wacom One attached to my MacBook --- after writing out a word, it was automatically converted to text (correctly).

The scrolling thing is incredibly annoying, and I'd really like to find a web browser for Windows 11 which will allow selecting text using a stylus in a natural fashion.
Yeah, I'd take a 50k pay cut if needed, even more. As long as I could pay rent and pay interest on student loans and food.
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This is a great reply because it shows just how much things are about to change. OP is likely a smart, digitally inclined individual and they missed this use case. This will sweep through the general population eventually so lean in and learn how to interface with a young AGI.
https://archive.is/YMtV8
We would love to see that project! As before, we’re making the key modules possible to get good use of outside of the laptop.
> but making filming from "too close" a form of interference.

They are trying to, but these laws will likely fail to be constitutional because so far they are completely arbitrary and do not respect freedom of press.
Oculus has thrashed SteamVR, because the hardware side of things fell apart and the Quest 2 is a lot more like a console. It was actually pretty successful in 2021, Zuckerberg is doing his best to kill it with random rebrands and missing why people buy it (stuff like Beat Saber instead of weird replacements for the real world), but Vive/Reverb/whatever is nowhere
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Even if they were, any data is also only bytes - numbers - and therefore any knowledge, books, any kind of sound or picture would likewise be trivial. But isn‘t.
If you contact Dell support there's a pretty good chance you'll get the cable which should fix it for you :)
Don't worry, they'll still be charged with standing an ERP up at your local state DMV for $50000 million dollars
Yes, civil suits against government are common and cost cities and other local jurisdictions millions of dollars a year:

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...

It's generally not expensive enough to create enough economic pain to break through the 2 party (or 1 party in many locales) political system.
Someone should tell him (and all the other metaverse people) that VR is almost always dystopian. It's what everyone gets sucked into when civilization stagnates and there is no opportunity, no culture, and nowhere to go. It belongs in worlds of Malthusian collapse, after a nuclear war, or where inequality is so high the majority of people have reverted to high-tech medieval peasants.

VR has a legitimate niche in gaming but outside that it's just not appealing. It's dystopian and depressing. Nobody wants to spend time in a social network with a helmet on their head being served ads.
Back in the old days I could delete `.<whatever>` and reset a program to its defaults. Now I have to navigate through `.config` and try to find where stuff is. How is this better?
Agree that Alpaca is Important. I got the smallest one running on a pathetic notebook… 2 cores, 8GB RAM. It was slow. It was sloppy. But it worked. Getting these things running on GPU/NPU will be very compelling, especially if we don’t hit a wall on compression. I think a sweet spot exists where consumer clients are powerful enough and models are small enough to deliver value and privacy.
If you don't like learning from a man page (understandable), I can recommend a quick read of the Awk book by A, K, and W. It's very short and has fun examples.
Interesting. Who are paying these people? I'm not aware of any software products based on ChatGPT&co
Can you use it without worrying about getting sued because it's using licensed software under the hood to generate your tests without telling you? Wasn't sure how far their license agreements / guarantees had come...
Yes, for today, we’re showing an early developer preview to let folks get started on Expansion Bay and especially Input Module development. We’ll share more information on the laptop this spring and throughout the year.
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I think you're overextending the context of "cop".

A cop ceases to be a cop when they take off the uniform. They can be perfectly nice people in outside life (although they can also not) but when the uniform goes on, they're contributors to a system of abuse.

"No good cops" does not mean good people don't go into policing. It means that those who insist on trying to meaningfully change the system get forced out, leaving only those who contribute to it.
They could do what Microsoft used to do in the 90s-00s, make pirated Windows/Office available (by turning blind eye on private users) so that they capture and keep the mindshare.
What are humans mechanisms for determining truth?
They don’t work like that though. Instead they spend $3b / year on hiring fungible cog SDE 2 job code 67483’s and look at gantt chart roadmaps produced by fungible cog PM 3 job code 74842’s for fungible cog SDM 7 job code 84747’s with the nominal assistance of centralized (I.e., marginalized) fungible cog UX 5 job code 35563’s then wonder why it’s perennially late and complete garbage. Except no one wonders that because fungible cogs don’t have wonder in their job responsibly matrix.
Thats a modern buzzword way of saying "offshoring"
I don’t think the depositors should be blamed for attempting to get their money out of the bank once it became insolvent, but they certainly weren’t blameless in their own risk management prior to that.

Roku keeping half a billion dollars at svb without doing capitalization audits, or venture firms steering portfolio companies there without recommending backup banks is a business failure plain and simple. Those actions deserve scrutiny and the decision makers deserve blame.
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I’m already seeing advertisements in New Bing.
That doesn't apply to recording public officials doing their job.
Actually a bit of the opposite, there doesn't appear to be any idea of state here and obviously no vDOM.

In fact he mentions this at the end :

> It is entirely feasible to implement React-esque hooks like in Yew or Dioxus as a 3rd-party crate.

Looks like leptos could actually enhance this idea of `View`.
Oh good. The “they should have picked better jobs“ argument. Hopefully, we all agree that we need public employees for these jobs.

I have no idea why we think that they are less deserving of good conditions and good pay if we can acknowledge we need them to do their jobs.

Job security doesn’t outweigh the need to have a living wage and decent benefits and decent conditions. Neither does a pension that some people won’t even live to enjoy.

Everybody deserves livable wages and good benefits, not just private employees. Everybody. I don’t care if your job is teaching, garbage collector, fry cook, reporter, city collections clerk, any job under the sun that needs to be done, and a human being has to do it, requires a living wage and decent benefits.

This is especially true of public jobs that we need people to do for society to function. We need teachers. We need janitors. We need people in all of these public roles. In fact, in North Carolina it’s a royal pain in the ass to get your drivers license renewed if you actually have to go to the DMV because they don’t have enough staff, because the pay sucks. That affects everybody.

Maybe private employers should have to pay more than public jobs to offset the perceived security of public jobs. But that’s not the same thing as what you were arguing here.
Agreed, I think it was an honest disclosure that one obviously may have bias, but also that one might have more exposure to police than most. My dad spent about a decade as an undercover narc, some pretty interesting stories, including when he had to deal with police while undercover.

Getting pulled over leaving a bar on the way to a buy, with gun and badge in motorcycle roll. "I'm not unrolling that..." to prove he was who he said, "I think my boss would be more upset about dropping a buy than me blowing over on an alcohol test."

Or, getting caught in the middle of a shootout between the Feds and a biker gang.

Edit: My dad also quit two positions along the way, one because his boss was a clear racist, and another that had some other issues in the dept.

My mom was a dispatcher, and when retired was head of combined dispatch for a region. She mostly dealt with people in trouble, distress, or sometimes the absurd.
I was thinking less of “what if I went back in time” and more “what if I was my ancestor”

Obviously you won’t be able to tell for sure, but I’d guess that 1000 years ago I’d probably be a serf, and 100 years ago, likely would have fought in a large war and likely doing some form of physical labor or subsistence farming afterwards, based on what my family was doing then.
Same. Was at an F500 previously and we had a lot of Cognizant and Accenture personnel. COG was the line workers and ACC was engineers and higher-level stuff, like consulting for deployment roadmaps.

Both were terrible.
We have the Framework Laptop DIY Edition that ships without an OS or OS license specifically to make sure folks don’t have to do this and can bring the OS that they want.
I have certainly gotten value out of Stack Exchange and the like, but pretty little overall. The answers to most of my software problems simply aren't there.

Nor are they elsewhere on the web.

Which leaves me feeling like it's unlikely that ChatGPT will have the answers either. Perhaps it will still be a useful tool toward arriving at the answers, but I am not presently anticipating that it is going to be churning out all of the code automatically.
OpenAI published this to the internet. It's likely that anyone nefarious has already found this. Going public is up to the hacker. I'm sure OpenAI would prefer coordinated disclosure, but there's no reason to let them dictate what people do with information.
Well, planting evidence would also risk your pension in this scenario. It's not risk-free.
I agree that GPT will make creating software redundant.

Writing is definitely on the wall for outsourcing and MVP-style work. GPT can create a landing page and a backend/frontend for a business _literally today_. You just have to ship it, but it won't be long until that isn't needed.

There will still be a lot of value in understanding how systems work and interact with each other, at least until ML is able to build and maintain entire systems.

Until that happens, there will still be a lot of value in being able to dive into codebases and refactor/optimize as needed, at least in the medium-term.

Once platform engineering is mostly automated and running AI-generated binaries is de-risked, then code quality doesn't really matter. Hell, _code_ won't even matter at that point.
Yes, but Meta doesn't own that data.

They only own the arrangement of what is and isn't in the training set, insamuch as that training set represents human creativity. The process of training model weights is itself purely mechanical.

The closest that they could get would be trade secrecy violations, but that only punishes the original leaker and anyone working in concert with them. I'm not sure if anyone's successfully managed to get an entire BitTorrent swarm to be considered misappropriating trade secrets. Presumably at some point, when the trade secret has been violated, you can obtain it without misappropriating - otherwise, how does that not just become Copyright 2.0?
Maybe for Sr devs, Jrs probably get around $5/hr in my country from Accenture.

p.s. And many times, companies like Accenture will tell you they have a team of 5 Sr developers working on it when it's actually 1 Sr and 4 Jrs.
What the heck are you talking about? The XDG basedir spec is three variables. The user dir spec is more but those are not environement variables.