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> "Incentives don’t matter" is usually a bad take.

I didn't say that I thought incentives don't matter. (I was trying to say that I thought IP law isn't an especially good way to incentivize creativity, and that there might be better ways.) So I might be misunderstanding what you mean by this.

> The idea that patronage isn't dominant because... it can't compete with copyright? is a not-even-wrong take.

Could you explain why it's not-even-wrong? I can definitely accept that I'm wrong, but I don't see why it's so misguided that it can't even be discussed, affirmed, or denied.

Today, I can (usually) make more money as a software developer writing proprietary software than I can writing libre software. If software couldn't be copyrighted, it doesn't follow as a matter of course that demand for software would plummet. If the demand remains, in this alternate world I ought to still be able to make a living writing (libre) software.

In this alternate world, I would necessarily be paid for the labor I perform (writing code) rather than making money by selling licenses or copies. So, if the only difference between our world today and this alternate world is the existence of software copyright, and in our world today I'm incentivized to sell licenses or copies but in the alternate world I'd be paid for my labor per se, it seems fair to say that the reason I'm incentivized to sell licenses or copies – and the reason why e.g. patronage isn't more dominant – must be "because we recognize and protect copyright the way we do".

That was my line of reasoning.
I think AI pentesting is going to be huge really soon (both offensively and defensively)
> But they never stop trying even the most obsolete methods as the automated scripts are what they have available.

As described on the Security Now podcast, this is now part of "internet background radiation"
I once went to the hospital with my fiancé. The doctor insisted on a pregnancy test before an xray, despite my fiancé insisting she was celibate.

I’ll never forget the look of horror on the nurses face when she found out what he was requiring.
Talk to Asian American parents like me about how we feel about this AA nonsense. No matter how you look at it, it penalizes our kids for being hard workers.

At the startup I work at, the unwritten hiring rule is that the college major is important, while the college itself is not. A STEM degree from Chico State is worth a lot more than a history or anthropology degree from Harvard/Brown.
Reminds me one this project for a comm's device
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921
Doesn't it require a phone number? What's the best way to create a burner account for it?

I'd be interested in how GPT answers that question.
Depending on what you are hosting, I recommend hosting just for yourself for perhaps a year. After you have the redundancies, backups, processes and other knowledge, you can share it with your community. I would never expect my family and friends to have the skill or desire to self-host, but I do not like to see them abused by platforms. It is a labor of love for me.
> That’s how laws work.

Not really. It's entirely reasonable to expect regulatory agencies to lay out in painstaking detail and with perfect clarity the necessary criteria for anyone to know what is or isn't within bounds, and not take 10y of mixed messages to do it.
In the cases mentioned in the Reason article, all 3 mothers had hair tests showing zero opiate use.
I'd love to see a study that tried to estimate to that extent absurd, invasive, and overly protective nannie policies cause people to choose to not have children at all, contributing to declining birth rates?

How many kids never get to exist at all because the government and other institutions have made it ever more obnoxious, even personally dangerous, to have one?
I wish more of the HN crowd would understand that Cloudflare were never the good guys. Their business model has always been man-in-the-middle the entire internet.

Every site you put behind Cloudflare contributes to the future where they have the singular ability to decide what networks can connect to others.
http://archive.today/FsUbx
And judging by the response of the then administration (the brits) that would be correct?
Ah, yes, have a privatized public sector, use the gained funds to lobby in other countries, pushing a ideology that destroys public sector/services, use the result of ones own actions to push the conversion to more privatized public sector. The ultimate glider gun ideology.
Could you try writing even in this simple language a longer program? Just simply increase the input to 20x or something around that. I’m interested in whether it will break and if it does, at what length.
Because they don't satisfy the Howey Test, which legally defines a security.

https://kurtalaw.medium.com/the-howey-test-the-supreme-court...
Here is a chart I found in a minute of searching: https://imgur.com/a/MenAVtj
The French used to fly Mirage jets over the sea near where my family used to go on seaside holidays - no airport anywhere near. I don't know what altitude they were flying at, but you could see them clearly - as long as you looked at the opposite side of the bay from where the sound came from.

To be clear, they boomed, and it was loud and annoying.
Not really. Compared to the number of domestic pigs, parasite infections (like the deadly for humans Trichinellosis) are almost inexistent.

And domestic pig meat is tested for parasites nevertheless.

With all that I feel uneasy eating raw meat, although salami and prosciutto are very tasty and sometimes I submit to temptation. Feel like running the Russian roulette everytime although the probability of an actual parasite infestation is extremely low.

Wild pigs would probably be okay if processed into I dunno, pasteurized canned meat. If that's guaranteed to kill parasites it should be okay for human consumption provided the meat is tested before nevertheless.

One thing I'm thinking of is this problem: as far as I know testing the meat is a slow, manual process, where a human is required to take slices of the meat and check them under a microscope. Therefore it's only done on a statistical basis. That's enough for farm pigs, if a pig from a larger culture is parasite free, chances are very high that all are parasite free.

But this is not possible for wild boars. Every pig they shot needs to be tested coze you never know otherwise. This is again feasible for the occasional hunt (here at least). Hunters will send a probe to the lab before consuming the pig and that's doable because it's like ... one or a few pigs. Not really possible if you massacre 1000 of them.

So unless some technology is developed for automating this testing procedure, you can't safely eat the meat of a wild boar mass slaughter.
I think the framing here has to be very careful: I agree with the general psychometric data that ~15% of struggle to get or keep a job delivering packages or packing things. This is not the same as packing something or delivering a package. Jobs require a certain speed of execution, ability to adapt to changing conditions, low rate of mistake, and a maximum training time.

Remember, even the army during war time, which requires people fulfilling botho f these services won't hire people with such a low IQ.
> The minimum IQ required to graduate college (and even some masters degrees) with decent grades can’t be much more than 100 at this point, but was certainly more like 115 or even 120 in the 1950s

Where's your data to back this up?
I think they learned from Microsoft Tay what happens if you train AI online without a curation process.
Yeah. I know about PlatformIO. I'm pretty agnostic about languages and tooling TBH. I've used Arduino, AdaFruit things, Raspberry PIs, ESP8266, ESP32, ATTINY84, esptool, luatool, avrdude, you name it. Python, Lua, C, C++. Whatever gives me path of least resistance. Sometimes a Makefile, sometimes an IDE.

https://blog.jgc.org/search/label/hardware
> Very long wait times due to limited resources, subpar medical care, limited prescription options and drugs, beauracracy.

those are all there because the people that created the system did not think paying for it was good enough. it doesn't have to be that way. and even with wait times being long you still eventually get it. in the privatized system if you are poor and have bad health care you don't get it at all.
Show HN: PiFrame – Display Currently Playing Spotify Album on an LED Matrix
This is a build log of a recent personal project that displays your currently playing Spotify album on an LED matrix.

Any feedback, questions, or potential improvements, please let me know in the comments!
Restricted time window fasting had a tangible impact on me too (psoriasis vanished 50%) for a while, slept better and less joint pain too. It's not always a silver bullet (causes stress maintaining it in the long run too) but it was interesting to experience it.
Or perhaps, since IQ is relative to general population, the average person is a lot smarter due to better nutrition, less lead exposure, and access to information?
"beer"...

/ducks
The image in the text shows a bagel with some poppy seed sprinkled on it. If I compare that to poppy seed strudel[0] the amount of seed on that picture is laughable. I wonder what would the test show after a few slices of said strudel. Are those strudels available in USA?

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=poppy+seed+strudel&hl=hr&sxs...
To get pedantic, the executive is there to enforce (and decide how to enforce) the law.

The judicial is there to decide if a given law should be enforced (and if a given enforcement method is valid)

This is why I’m not a big fan of originalism: that is almost always a subjective decision.

Otherwise we would just have a legislative and an executive.
It does make some sense to drug test patients, and a doctor does have the wide authority to order tests with some manner of invasiveness. Patients don’t want to disclose illegal drug use, even though these drugs do interact with administered therapies.
I’m not going to defend that commencement speech but I want to push back on your thesis.

Why should Harvard be reduced to a job training program for McKinsey or Goldman? Why is it bizarre and silly for people to pursue happiness over money?

From a societal standpoint, I believe we owe much to people who did just that. Scientists and mathematicians, yes, but also writers and actors and poets and musicians. Where would we be, as a society, if everyone focused 100% on the hustle, the grind, the drive to be a founder or a lawyer or a quant?

We’d be a morally and culturally bankrupt desolation. And our schools would be 100% complicit.
Exploring the Impact of Language Models on Cognitive Automation
Also IMO stop taking Pell Grants, Federal aid, and pay taxes on their endowments and these schools can admit whoever they please.
While I agree with you, the type of people looking to get into Harvard aren't just looking for a STEM job at a startup. They are looking to become CEOs, judges, politicians, etc. That sort of thing usually tends to value where you went. Not only for the credibility of the paper but the social networks you gain.
I have a wallet somewhere and if I needed something from it I’d take it.

However a photo of my drivers licence is enough, and then it’s just money. A credit card is in my phone case.
this is works by copying openai answer and executing it in our prompt right?
IQ talk is funny like that. It’s intended to give a science-y sounding veneer to whatever argument is being made but because actual studies are a lot of work, people just throw around numbers with nothing more than “common sense.”

Given that it’s all “common sense” people ought to skip the veneer and just say “more intelligent”, “less intelligent”, “much more intelligent”, and so on. That’s more honest rhetoric.
Let me introduce Eleftherios Argyropoulos, a Greek mathematician, currently alive who has invented 520 different theorem proofs on the subject, and most likely counting...

You can check out his books, a brief excerpt of him, it is in Greek tho.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JaaDmEMsum4
Pay a little more, get a better board. I've been using Sunstone for many years and the results are consistently good. 6"x6" 4-layer board with a 1-week turn marginal cost $50 per board. Compared to how much time you will spend figuring out that the PCB shop blew out one of your plated holes, it's a bargain.
There's much worse problem that when the poppy seed false positives get enough exposure, real criminals are going to use poppy seed doubt, and get away with it it their lawyers are good enough.

You are not winning with this.
> the rest of the world is pretty much on board with crypto and making pretty big advancements.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/visa-mastercard-pause-cry... "Visa, Mastercard pause crypto push in wake of industry meltdown"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/28/faceboo... "The social media giant’s shuttering of the Diem project "

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/03/13/meta-will-end-suppo... "Web3 Meta Will End Support for NFTs on Instagram, Facebook"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/el-salvadors-bitcoin-holding... "El Salvador has lost around $60 million on its bitcoin bet one year into a nationwide crypto experiment.
The use of bitcoin in El Salvador appears to be low amid the market volatility."

Want more?
Isn't it simply a bunch of if-then-else and switch statements running really fast?
Many of these comments dismiss it as Microsoft hyping itself for marketing reasons.

But I feel like it's the opposite, where these guys at Microsoft know they have discovered an actual path to super human cognition, and they are downplaying it for whatever reason. Maybe they don't want to get regulated. Maybe they don't want to engage with whatever beliefs people think they have about "AGI". For example maybe they are picking their battles and choosing not to argue with someone who for whatever reason thinks that if "AGI is real" then it means they will never see their dead grandmother in an afterlife. Probably lots of people have even weirder ideas about it. Anyway I thought it was funny that the original commented-out title in the TeX source for their paper was "First Contact With an AGI System."
The original terms do sound pretty good relative to today. 28 years, with some action required to renew. What does the Berne Convention say? “the general rule is that protection must be granted until the expiration of the 50th year after the author's death.” Since this is fairly globally adopted and not very US-specific, does that influence your opinion on terms? What is the reason that the Berne Convention allows for terms this long, and if we want them to be shorter, what needs to happen, in order to get lawmakers globally to agree?

I certainly might have misunderstood your comment about being “fair” to authors. I guess you were saying that the US copyright law isn’t doing anything to distinguish between independent authors, small businesses, or large corporations? It certainly does allow for big business to have an easier time of things, and is not at all fair to individuals and small businesses, that’s true.
It’s not like that’s a secret, it’s the whole point of their service.
You are overthinking this - the team that managed this got laid off that’s there’s no more Ai story to it.
King Biden can do this without due process?
That won't help you there. Germany's public healthcare system denies plenty of things too, and will only pay for treatment when you sue (or know someone who works there). Germany's private healthcare system on the other hand is usually better (I'm sure there are exceptions and some insurance company that sucks).
Ask it to fine-tune LLaMa to be an agent that collects paper clips
What Google's new guidelines for AI-produced content mean for SEO
> The researchers looked at how infection in a wolf affected its decision to disperse and its assumption of leadership roles. Toxoplasmosis proved to be a strong predictor for both actions.

Toxoplasma gondii never ceases to amaze and scare me. I'm one of the many humans with an identified infection of it (over 25 years ago.)

Also super interesting part of this article:

> “We found that even more important than pack size was whether a pack had an old individual, male or female,” she said. At six years old, a Yellowstone wolf is considered an elder—only about one in five lives to that age. “If they have one or two older individuals, they are more likely to win—which was not what we’d expected to find.”
There are also separate podcast channels, one with full broadcast episodes, one with specific segments. I'll dip into the latter most often for the PBS take on a story of interest.
Unfortunately for many people on HN, you should never start a business in a legally muddy sector and ask for clarification, because you should've known all along what the SEC was thinking or would've thought of!

To many people here whenever a crypto post is posted, it's unreasonable to ask for clarification from the officials who make and enforce the law.
> To guard against false positives, the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs, published in 2017, require a codeine cutoff of 2,000 nanograms per milliliter of urine. But the Hackensack University Medical Center's lab, according to Kate's complaint, used a cutoff of 300 ng/ml, less than one-sixth the federal standard. Virtua Voorhees Hospital's lab, according to Kaitlin's complaint, used a cutoff of just 10 ng/ml, 99.5 percent lower than the recommended level.

This makes them look pretty negligent.
They’re treasuries, when they mature you get the full face value plus interest. They cannot be worthless at maturity without the entire American state imploding. That's why they're able to offer this facility at all.
Right! Just thinking about it makes me laugh.
Maybe in 10 that aspect of things would happen better or outsourced to Ai also? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Uni CS lecturer here. One of my mentors in grad school was the compiler professor, and I learned a lot from him. I also got a chance to actually teach compilers for the fist time last year and it was one of the most difficult courses I have ever taught. Used the dragon book and had my students create their own lexer/parser based on an invented language that I came up with.

Compilers is one of the few topics that none of my colleagues seem care about, but IMHO it's so very important to learn how to do. In my Uni, the course only gets taught once every few years (it didn't help that our last department chair didn't care for the course at all and never scheduled it).

I count the day that I finished my LL(1) parser and lexer for my own compiler course as a student as the day I "earned" my chops.

Edit: Since there seems to be some discussion on this thread, I'll throw in the actual project that I gave my students (warts and all). https://github.com/agiacalone/cecs-444-semester-project
My point is that fairness or guarantee of author’s natural rights or whatever is not in my understanding the fundamental premise for copyright (in the USA). US copyright, at least as established by the US Constitution, is based on practical/utilitarian considerations, and is primarily concerned with benefit to the public.

In my opinion the Berne convention (which is instead premised on authors’ supposed natural rights, without much concern for the public) is a incredibly harmful and anti-social system which should not have been ratified by the USA. It has become even more harmful in the digital age.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert on copyright history, law, or philosophy.
These medium posts are some of the worst writing on the internet. It's a shame these are shared on Hacker News.
Probably this statement will be false somewhere in future.
According to the article, they’re acting much more strictly than the law requires (or recommends).
The field is definitely weak. I got a top 50 result in round 3 (but not top 25) of my first GCJ, my second programming contest ever, the first being the one time I showed up for one in college, and that score was ahead of some ICPC and IOI gold medalists. My only preparation being doing a few practice problems from prior years and making a blank C++ file with some includes, an empty main function, and "using namespace std;".

I think it helped to have some background in time-constrained thinking from high school math contests, but I was never particularly good at those, either.
GPT-4 identifies SVB’s biggest risk & gives good advice using 2021 balance sheet
40 years is nothing. So if you father was assaulted, your mother was harassed, your son was killed, or your daughter was raped, you’d forgive and forget in your lifetime? Every Sikh knows someone that suffered unimaginably and the Indian state police was either the direct perpetrator or knowingly refused to stop it. Those kinds of scars won’t heal quick and anyone that expects them to is hopelessly naive
> small number of religious lunatics

That's a very bigoted thing to say.

If Luxembourg can be it's own country, surely Punjab can be too. Why would you want to force people that have nothing in common with you to be in the same state? It defies all logic, unless the capital is exploiting those people in some way (likely).
Truck driving certainly has mythical appeal; like being a cowboy, or even a gangster.

That said, autonomous long-haul trucks aren't that far into the future. We might be decades from full autonomous densely populated Urban A to Urban B trucking. But once outside those center there's a lot of territory begging for the lack of need for the human mind. AI does most of the mileage. Humans handle the last (couple) miles.

This driver shortage will be short-lived.
This is all true, and it's not clear the grandparent is doing this. Last sentence of the original post:

> Last weekend, I went on a hike because ChatGPT told me to. My life is better if I just do what it says.

I'm not sure how literally to take that sentence, but it's worrisome.
An apologia of lazy evaluation
> a doctor does have the wide authority to order tests with some manner of invasivene

False. A doctor has zero ability to order tests without patient consent (or consent of a guardian) in the US.

> Patients don’t want to disclose illegal drug use,

This is why medical care should NEVER be directly connected to law enforcement or make conclusions. For a care provider to thing that a patient waking up, handcuffed will make that patient EVER come back for care again is insanity. Medicine should not be about punishment, ever.
PHP always had everything you needed built into the language. Coming from a C background and moving to a Javascript lifestyle php always offered you everything you need out of the box and extensions for that little bit more.
>doctor does have the wide authority to order tests with some manner of invasiveness.

That they have the authority doesn't mean they should have the authority. There is nothing more sacrosanct that bodily autonomy. It doesn't matter if the doctor "knows better" or the medical testing you don't opt in for could potentially lead to worse medical outcomes for you. If you are an adult, it should be your right to decide what testing and procedures are performed on you - full stop.
Anyone know of a 65B instruct model I can run on llama.cpp? Or if it’s possible to train one on a 64gb Mac Studio? Haven’t come across either yet.
I have Crohn's disease, and I'm fairly certain dealing with health insurance's ineptitude directly led to multiple hospitalizations and a major surgery last year.

Had it not been for their constant denials of a drug I had been on for over two years prior, I might still be taking that medication instead of having developed antibodies for the 6 months they denied.

My doctors office gave me free samples as long as they were able, but in 2022 they were wiped out as all patients that were on that drug were being denied coverage.

Worse still, insurance recommended "use drug X, which is similar"... but I couldn't because I was on drug X—until I had anaphylaxis from it!
You did not answer a single thing and maybe I am those things. You don’t know me.