skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too easy to say that... I'm not saying my suspicions are the total issue, my issues are just an example of the larger context...

I am citing that idea theft is real all across the Internet for everyone, and that measures need to be addressed.

In a small community like HN, posts can easily be monitored to find trends and capitalize on unique ideas. There is fierce competition on sites like Twitter and HN to make the front page because it means money for companies and enterprising individuals. Reddit alone has been cited for cases of moderators asserting sever control over their subreddits to dominate their own front pages and to charge users in many ways for visibility, why? because there is profit involved in taking credit for original ideas.

Can you honestly say you have a clear and direct means of expressing and owning your own original ideas on the Internet (beyond publishing them on your own web site)?
Only the setting up of the session, it's effectively P2P then. Routing traffic back out onto the general internet for people without tailscale in your private net will be b/w limited, as mentioned.
Wouldn't extra hops be more of an issue for low-latency applications?
Keyword "got", that fad lasted like all of six months.
How are we going to counter idea theft in the age of AI?

I think the same way as prior to machine learning perhaps. Copyrights, trademarks, patents, etc... It might be harder to prove someone stole an idea so maybe that will require the arms race of machine-learning vs machine-learning bots. Given none of them show their work this will be challenging and litigious. Lawyers will need more advanced machine-learning for discovery, probably hiring new corporations that focus on this. With each new implementation of a tech usually comes new business models and countering business models. such as anti-malware, anti-virus, anti-spam all of which were preventable but whack-a-mole was less friction and led to new business models.

I personally hope this leads to a swath of legal suits that push machine-learning sites to show their work. I would expect nothing less than a debug audit trail of data sources. Here [1] is one potential start of the battles.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35370915
I've thought about building a ChatGPT-based Twitter interface for this but... ironically, Twitter API is dead.
Seems to me like it makes Google look kind of pathetic. That's worse than any legal issue here. (Caveat: assuming I understand the situation correctly)
GPT4.0 and ChatGPT are both neutral question answerers. They are trained on lots of language and seem to understand concepts as a result of this, but their "purpose", as they see it, is to answer questions.

What does it take to give them a different purpose, like curing cancer, or proving string theory or whatever other type of drive people have. There are many experts in many fields and none of them think of themselves as a question answerer for that topic.

What part of AI is giving the tool a purpose? What's that called?
Technology Connections has a great video about exactly this! https://youtu.be/fsIFxyOLJXM?t=843

At the end of the day, the author recommends giving filament-style LED bulbs a try, where the emitter is built onto a thin filament away from the circuit housing so it's far away from the heat.
I'd say more like a classical virus with a loop earlier in the central dogma.

Ie, in the DNA => RNA => Protein cycle, viruses are a loop from Protein => DNA or Protein => RNA. Introners are a loop from RNA => DNA.
Are you still trying to present these experiences as typical ?
Is there any proof that all the signatories signed this? E.g. something like Elon tweeting about this particular letter?
We're mostly on the same page, but there are some caveats to buying the heavier bulbs, even assuming the weight is all heat sink- because that won't matter if the heated air has no where to go!

An expensive bulb with a nice heat sink will fail just as quickly as a cheap one when you put it in a well-sealed can light or something else that traps all the hot air.
That incandescent cant reach the theoretical 40%, at the color temp/physical temp needed, the tungsten filament would melt.
I think parent's (and OP's) point was that YC was more valuable for investing and strategy, but less valuable for finding customers.

And since customers are the most difficult part now (because 10-15 players), it adjusts the relative value of something that doesn't help you acquire customers.

IOW, the differences between a "build it and they will come" historic era and a "make me care about you" modern one.
oh. a "descolada"
Your graph doesn't really counter the parent's point. The profit line was trending upwards 2020 was their most profitable year. It certainly looks like the business was becoming sustainable.
Whenever I see interviews with YC advisors, they blame mistakes of founders of not taking their advice as the biggest as mistake.

I don't have a strong opinion on this, and I believe YC is worth it, as 7% of nothing is still nothing, so any way a startup can decrease its risks is great.
Would scanning packages be a perfect job for an AI?

edited for clarity
> This is the tragedy of modern times in the West.

What does "in the West" mean here? Is the situation better outside "the West"? Is this really a modern "tragedy"? Caveat Emptor is not a new saying.
I've avoided the espresso gear habit because I don't think I drink/want to waste enough coffee to have a good shot every time. But several years ago I went to a class where the instructor poured a bunch of slightly different shots of the same coffee ground finer/coarser, extracted longer/shorter, and dosed with more/less grounds/water. The variation in the flavors was surprising. But when she described pouring several shots a day to get the beans dialed in as they use different batches of beans. I decided it didn't make sense at a home scale for me. In a cafe setting is one thing, but in a house of 1.5 coffee drinkers not so much.

A friend doesn't mind, but he roasts his own beans as well. I've had great espresso from him, and I like it but I'm content with little filter
I don't disagree but the Piranha is damn cool. Crew of 9!
~about half - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/01/10/npr-traffic-congest...
I think we should all basically come to a consensus on the idea that it's morally right to steal/train from chatgpt (or any other model) given that the whole shoggoth wouldn't be a thing without all our data to feed it.
I wonder how it handles the seams between the regions. How does a player interact with another player on the other side of this border.
Here is Tyler Cowan’s take which I think clarifies things in terms of the 3 factors of production (land, labor, capital). Even if the LLMs themselves are not monopolized by a few companies, land and capital may still become more expensive relative to labor. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-28/how-ai... (paywalled)
According to the post, the Twitter API was already generating $400M/year in revenue. Not sure what it cost, but that doesn't sound like a charity to me.
Wouldn't twitter not have many of its current features and conventions if it wasn't for third parties?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/how-the-recently-shuttered...

Why couldn't they just add ads within the API instead of alienating the community which is responsible for its success?

Aka, name another major social network around today which has been as influenced by third party clients as Twitter has
Haha pretty sure GitHub counts pointless forks and generator projects though
I think people will need to be less possessive over "their" ideas. More like a MIT license mindset, like mod community or something.

This goes both ways, as there is less profit incentive for stealing ideas in a more open ecosystem.
Heh, I started an article with the same metaphor was too busy to finish it. We'll see what the fossil record looks like in a few years though.
I'd rather be killed by a super superintelligent pony
IKEA is acting as Apple in this space IMO. They hide all the details about their LED bulbs, but they are kind of the best you can find on the market if you search for more details about their tech, or at least AFAIK.
The Niche is seriously well reviewed.

https://www.home-barista.com/blog/niche-zero-grinder-review-...
> Whether or not you think that's reasonable though is pretty much the definition of whether or not you think it's price gouging.

Define "price gouging".

Is charging the price the market will bear based on supply and demand "gouging"?

Look, I personally think markets need to be regulated to serve the people.

But one person's "gouging" is another person's free market price discovery during a supply shock.

Unless there's evidence of cartel-like behaviour--i.e. price fixing--this is just the way free markets work. Don't like it? Regulate it.
Now do ten million plus ten million
Here is one common vendor:

$18 USD for a single 10 Watt bulb? I don't care how expensive electricity is, the $2 incandescent bulb is a better value.
It's all deep learning, making it the exact opposite of a Cambrian event.

Has anyone has tried searching for new basic operations, below the level of neural networks? We've been using these methods for years, and I doubt the first major breakthrough in ML is the most optimal method possible.

Consider the extreme case of searching over all mathematical and logical operations to see if something really novel can be discovered.

How feasible would this be?

>Tying it together, a big diversification is likely coming

I'd be interested in knowing what signs, if any, currently point to that.

What I see is a coalescing around the current paradigm. And considering that the hardware side led by NVIDIA is catering to this paradigm, I don't see us breaking out of this local optimum any time soon.
Putting them on a dimmer and running at 90% hugely increases lifetime
Also the Papa-class (only one built), which preceded the Alfa and remains the fastest submarine ever built. And the Sierra-class submarines which followed the Alfa class.
>almost all of them are using their parts, especially capacitors, well above the specs

Well, the LEDs themselves will last up to 20 years, so they have to make something in the bulb fail before that. Can't have people only buying replacement bulbs every other decade.
I think it's because the 38 muscles they have given their robot hand don't map perfectly with real muscles in a real hand.

In particular, there seems to be not much ability to move each finger left or right. For example, actuator 14 lets the baby finger swing outwards - but now try to stretch your baby finger out, and you see it can swing much further than this robot finger can swing out, and the pivot is closer to your wrist, allowing more reach.
There is no "recompile". It literally changes invocation to invocation. It might do something one time and refuse the next, even based on the inputs.
If I read the documentation, it appears to be that it will expand the region to accommodate both players or merge the regions, so that you will never have a situation where two players from different regions are visible to each other.
Funny that he left the incorrect numbers in his tweet and pointed to his blog for the fixed numbers, even though he’s paying for the ability to edit tweets. That’s one way to drive traffic, I guess.
A Matt Levine Effect?
“Symbiosis” as a solution / objective for AGI versus “Alignment problem”
Examples of symbiosis exist everywhere in nature. We don't need to recreate the wheel folks...

The "key word" here is "SYMBIOSIS". We have been myopically focused on "alignment" when what we really want is to cultivate (both from a human perspective and AI perspective) a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI. Consequentially, a symbiotic relationship between humans and AI (and AGI understanding of incentives and preference for symbiosis over parasitism) can help to establish a more symbiotic relationship between human beings and the planet.

Given examples of symbiotic relationships between very different organisms are prevalent in nature, pointing to this as an example paradigm for AI / AGI is much preferable than trying to push a concept of "alignment" that is not clearly defined or generally understood.
Do kids who start programming with Hedy get confused about when a piece of text is interpreted as a variable vs. a string?

https://www.hedycode.com/hedy/2#default

The way it automatically detects variable within strings seems to magical. OTOH AIUI Hedy has been developed alongside research on what works for kids.
any ability to import custom boostrap themes? This is great but like, I know we would want it in our style
So do you believe if you hosted a closed source project on GitHub, and GitHub decided they want to integrate this into their service they would simply be allowed to take the code?

Fortunately HN commenters are not judges. And I would wager any bet that MS lawyers would not try to argue based on their ToS either, that would be a recipe for loosing any court case.
Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive
I believe I tried to buy from them when I lived in SF, but their bulbs were at that time (and possibly still today) illegal in the state of California! I don't remember which regulation it was, possibly one around efficiency or maybe they needed to undergo some test. I think they even had a lab somewhere on the peninsula, too... I was so angry at the state of California for forcing me to have shit quality lights that I gave thought to becoming an illegal bulb runner.
Haven't fully left but my Twitter usage has dropped by like 90%. And often that is just when I don't have anything better to do.

Switched to getting my news from RSS feeds instead.

Haven't really switched to Mastodon since there's no one to follow on Mastodon and the platform itself is rather bad.
Mate explains addiction as a sliding scale. He worked with those whose lives were in complete toil. But he also worked on his own addictions which made his life worse but are not comparable in terms of severity of consequence.

Similarly trauma is also on a sliding scale.

Agreed that low-level addiction, even in cases that it may similarly be a form of escapism, is not necessarily caused by trauma. But I think that's actually why addicts are stigmatized. I just need a little more willpower today- a good night's sleep and some exercise is often enough- to avoid addictive behaviors. But for those suffering from severe addiction it's not helpful to think with that mindset.
Understanding the root cause has opened me up to truly empathizing to those with addiction- something often lacking in our society.
> Did science twitter migrate to somewhere else? Where would you go to keep up with scientific papers?

Science Twitter in particular has mostly migrated to Mastodon (although it's split between a few different subgroups).

A number of other de facto Twitter communities have migrated to Mastodon. Some have stayed on Twitter. And some have basically died without moving anywhere else.
Because it's not the default. Every time you go to Twitter, the first page you see is full of random recommendations.

There is a rule of thumb about online services and software: Don't fight the developers, because they have more power than you. If your usage is no longer compatible with the vision of the developers, stop using it. You may find temporary workarounds that make the service useful with a lot of effort, but it won't last. The developers will eventually find new innovative ways of ruining your experience.

Science Twitter was already dying before the takeover, because it was not compatible with the increased focus on recommendations. Musk simply accelerated the process.
If a war comes to you, then you've got to fight a war and an eye for an eye is the way to do that. But that's no principle on which to organize a civil society.
Still, "competition" among mechanical devices is inherently different from competition among species or clades.

you're right that it may provoke questions, but the inherent differences would give biologists plenty of reasons to just dismiss them.
Did you read the article? This wasn’t someone driving a car across the border.
Winter means that your nearest pole is tilted away from the sun. Your half of the planet is cooler, especially towards the poles.
Unfortunately nobody’s confused about the explanation. It’s finding a solution that’s the problem.
Or is this the String Theory period of AI.
Ohh nice ! commandline for a commandline.
I don't think "idea theft" is a useful way to frame this, especially since you talk mostly about copyright -- and copyright overtly does not protect ideas.

However, your underlying point is something I worry a lot about. I've already joined a number of people in removing everything I had on the publicly accessible web, because I don't want to contribute to these LLMs and there is no other way to prevent my own work from being used for that.

I don't know what the solution is. Or if one is even necessary. It may very well be that the number of people like me is small enough that it won't make any real difference in the big picture.
I remember my manager was obsessed with the plane and it's name. It sounded so cool. But then I told him what bird it really is (Koltrast in Swedish) and he seemed so disappointed. He probably thought it was a black Eagle or something.

Here the Blackbird is mostly known för its beautiful although melancholic song. And it is also the national bird of Sweden.
If you think PG is a great writer and fascinating mind you absolutely need to expand your horizons.
The API is not just about 3rd party clients. The API is about integrating all kinds of stuff from 3rd parties, and it's absolutely required if Elon Musk wants to make Twitter an "everything app" like WeChat.
Increasing numbers of scammers hit diminishing returns though. There is only so much money in the hands of the vulnerable/stupid.
We use corporate VPNs for daily work ffs
I think I might be confused by your usage of “about to do it” in your original comment to mean “actively doing it.”

You claim that the very engineer accusing Google of training Bard on ShareGPT acknowledges that the final product was not. As far as I can tell, Devlin did no such thing.

Not sure why you would presume they restarted their expensive training process.

It just doesn’t seem like a good faith characterization to me.
Capitalism is a farce and a complete house of cards. Remember when we realized during the pandemic that the most important people in society were grocery store clerks and gas station attendants? We learned nothing from that. Broken system.
Also Java performance doesn't have to be so horrendous, that is Mojang'a fault. They could iron it out with a tiny fraction of their sales.

That being said, the low hanging mod fruit they could incorporate is often poisoned by GPL or some other weird license.
Some older books that are good reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Recognition-Advanced-Econome...

https://machinelearningmastery.com/neural-networks-tricks-of...

There is something to say for downloading models from huggingface and just going from there. The fact is you are never going to train a foundation model but you can do useful tasks with one in minutes and if the one you use isn't good for your application try another one. See

https://sbert.net/

particularly the "usage" example that is right there. If you have 1000-10,000 short texts and put them through k-means clustering

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/clustering.html#k-me...

your jaw will drop or at least mine did because for years I have done clustering with bag of words, LDA and methods like that and when I applied to my RSS feed all the sports articles ended up in one place, the ukraine articles in another place, deep learning there, and reinforcement learning there... In like 30 minutes worth of work and faster than my LDA clustering engine. With DBSCAN clustering I get all the articles about the same news event clustered... It's just amazing.
I've noticed that LED bulb packages say they'll last several years, but so many of them die after just a year or so. I should start tracking this precisely, but I've just gotten the sense that they often die prematurely.
I use a service called Plausible for this - they are privacy focused (do not even use cookies) but there are some drawbacks (like not being able to really know MAU since user identifiers reset daily)

https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics
Exciting, but that article is from 2016 and here we are in 2023 with no commercial availability. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/j6hwn... asked what happened with no real updates.
You got me thinking and I think part of what it comes down to for typed FP languages is that you can either generally

1) Go for a simple design, but having poor interop with existing ecosystems because the language lacks equivalent features. I see Elm in this camp, and it's hard to live in because the FP community has fewer people than other communities to build up another ecosystem

2) Go for a more fully featured design, integrating with some ecosystem (like F#, Scala), but you end up with multiple overlapping concepts and inconsistency in the native language's ecosystem

It seems like dynamic FP languages are the only ones to get away with a simple core and wide ecosystem by avoiding the need for features that are important for writing modular code in typed MLs. OCaml is probably closest to the sweet spot as a language+ecosystem, but the language tools are a bit weak coming from other platforms
It would install its bootloader into its own partition and then it would be up to you to direct your boot sequence to look there. I just did this 2 hours ago with opensuse.
The main thing about the advice comes immediately before the bit you’re zooming in on. Want to talk to people who have seen hundreds of companies deal with what you’re dealing? YC is great for that.
I agree that's often a normal problem, but in this case it may be that the author perceives the other side as mixing the two definitions, perhaps on purpose. Because "public goods", in econ-speak, are things which basically have to be paid by taxes. To say that public transit is a "public good" in econ-speak is to say that it is in the same class of things as armies and police and law courts -- things which, by their nature, can never be supportable as a private enterprise.

And, as I explain in another comment [1], I think that transit actually is a "public good" in econ-speak: Not the transit itself for the individual traveller, but the availability of good transit for businesses and communities.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35372130
Looks very similar to Cloudflare Tunnels, except Tailscale goes out of their way to say web traffic only (CF had a bunch of shenanigans) and you don't need your own domain name. And you get all Tailscale's mesh network functionality too, which is awesome.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/
I like playing vinyls because there's something neat about interacting with a physical object representing the music. It gives a satisfaction that digital music, or even CDs, do not. I could not care less about the minutiae of the sound quality coming out of it. And that's okay.
Bed Bath and Beyond Has More Stock to Sell
Ask HN: What type of programming content would you like to see more of?
Calling everyone except yourself too retarded to figure out compiling Linux software is not a productive discussion. And glibc/mesa related breakages are well documented, if you care.
You can try the extension I built [0] which uses your existing ChatGPT session to send requests.

[0] https://sublimegpt.com
> For people who are really passionate about film as a medium, and respect what a delicate process image-making is, that shouldn’t be too big of an ask.

Director's cut is for those people, let that edition be hardly visible; the rest shouldn't suffer
Makes sense. Also, we wouldn't mind storing that context data in Baseplate, but only selectively and temporarily. As a cache, essentially