skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many books would exist if authors were never paid?

I guess a few would. There are authors with trust funds. But do we want only the voices of those with trust funds to be heard?

The IA lawsuit is about the IA using the pandemic as a cudgel to try to force through the idea of unlimited royalty free digital distribution, which would if normalized end writing as a profession.

Of course with AIs able to generate convincing text on demand it all might be water under the bridge now. That’s going to flood the market with noise at the very least.
Effective handheld and mobile synthesis of computing and communication in a wireless world. The ‘00s were desktop bound. This continual proximity to ‘network’ was entirely new and has changed society, globally.
Wow, this is truly an exciting development in the realm of AI and mobile technology! As a frequent user of GPT-based tools, I've often wished for seamless integration of GPT's alpha features directly into the iOS keyboard. Kudos to the developer for making this a reality!

This app has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with AI on our mobile devices. Think about the possibilities: more intuitive and accurate text predictions, enhanced natural language processing for voice assistants, and even assisting with complex tasks like programming or creative writing. All while maintaining a familiar typing experience.

Of course, there will likely be concerns about data privacy and security with an AI-powered keyboard. I hope the developer has considered implementing robust security measures and transparent data policies to address those concerns. Additionally, it will be interesting to see how Apple's stance on AI integration in their ecosystem evolves in response to such innovations.

I'm eager to try this app out and explore the potential of GPT's alpha features on iOS. Hats off to the developer for pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible on mobile devices!
Manhattan is obviously an unhealthy place to spend any consistent amount of time, no?
Super important to know what Ergodicity is [0], and how it affects the chances of someone (e.g. from middle class) "rising" to the top.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity
Recreating the Title Effect from Creativesouth.com
No. Lichtenstein didn't paint depictions of comic books. He painted the actual images from within the comic books.
Meanwhile wizards of the coast is out there printing money still. Such a missed opportunity for a smaller TCG to come in and get a real foothold.
China loaned a lot of money to my country (Nigeria). Most of it was spent on bogus infrastructure projects with little yield and siphoned into various levels, and now our debt servicing literally exceeds revenue [1].

A typical African country...useless and corrupt.

1- https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nwest/544216-nigeria...
I'm convinced half of all those massive do-nothing pickups these days have hacks on their emission controls to save a few dollars per tank because to hell with pedestrians/cyclists.

It's like barely visible rolling coal and it's non-stop every time the truck is driven.

Just one mechanic sold thousands and since it's software you can be sure it's copied and used by anyone wanting to make a few dollars on the side

https://jalopnik.com/a-mechanic-pleads-guilty-to-selling-tho...

Since many states do not have inspection, once turned off it may be for the life of the truck.
This looks really interesting! If these guys succeed in bringing self-attention's computational cost down from O(n²) to O(n log n), that would be a huge win. The quadratic cost makes it very difficult to increase sequence length on current hardware. I'm going to take a closer look.

There are other interesting ongoing efforts to increase sequence length. One that has worked for me is this dynamic routing algorithm, related to self-attention, that can handle sequences with 1M+ tokens in a single GPU: https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing . Right now, you can take 1,000 sequences of hidden states computed by a pretrained transformer, each sequence with, say, 1024 tokens, concatenate them into a single ultra-long sequence with 1,024,000 hidden states, slap 1,024,000 position encodings on top, and feed the whole thing to that routing algorithm to predict the next token (or whatever other training objective you want to optimize for). It works. Search the README for "Very Long Sequences".

If anyone here has other suggestions for working with long sequences (hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens), I'd love to learn about them.
It's a pun. Nomograms - no mo(more) grams. A product that converts grams into another unit.
https://basicfun.com/knex/ Still made - I see them now and then.
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Apple device still being released this year. That’s the real make or break.
To be honest, I am a little surprised to see this article on the front page of HN. There is a lot of speculation with almost no substance
(for two years)
Microsoft will acquire Canonical at some point. Ubuntu is already powering a majority of Azure cloud. I thought they would go for Red Hat as they already had a huge presence in enterprise, but IBM beat them to it. Canonical is next up.
Target actually carries a decent amount of those around here in store. Might be ebcause there’s a Lego store nearby.
> No, but ...

Ok, that's cool.

> to be able ... run of Minio ...

What's Minio?

> ... irrevocability ... license-entrapment ... is what you'd like to do ...

Hahaha! You are making some provocative accusations there. You really believe they are true?

Looks like you are a bully who maybe needs validation of an angry answer, but you probably just innocently misinterpreting, right?

The situation is: I want people to use the product. We don't care to litigate them. There's no business model in that.
> No it is not stealing

Let's assume you are right about everything you are writing. It still does not support the "It is not stealing" narrative. It is supporting the "This is how Roy got away with stealing" narrative.
When I recently visited my dad with 4yo and 6yo, he pulled out three “Meccano” sets, mainly in German, from the 1960s or maybe 70s.

Everything is absolutely delightful. The parts are great quality. The boxes are amazing. And the manuals… wow. They’re basically engineering text book excerpts.

Apologies, I don’t know how to get it as one album:

https://ibb.co/qphSfC3
https://ibb.co/B6PGFDs
https://ibb.co/wWrn9Rw
https://ibb.co/5Tk8RPr
https://ibb.co/dJJtYSZ
https://ibb.co/Tq6wXyx
https://ibb.co/4WVSgPR
https://ibb.co/FK9spg7
https://ibb.co/0GKc5Qb
https://ibb.co/jHRMSXW
https://ibb.co/VMmT8DB
Some recent discussions on the topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35468753
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35272708

Remember, this ruling is about controlled digital lending as a whole. The pandemic National Emergency Library was barely mentioned by the judge.
Ah! Right, so I should just eat cheap, unhealthy food so that big companies can have ever-increasing profit margins purely to line their execs' pockets. Got it!

Truly, you have opened my eyes. Now it is clear to me that it is right and good that the Freedom of the wealthiest people in our society to increase their dollar-denominated high scores be deemed more important than the ability of the poorest among us to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves.
What kind of job is only focused on fact retrieval?
So this statement is not true, you cannot prove its value. But I understand what you mean, let's just talk about provable statements.
Simple rule of thumb in most cases is if you can convert it to grayscale and still tell it apart your colorblind users can too.

Barring that as a red-green colorblind person, yes red-green contrast is the worst, but way more common are colors that are only different by their red or green strength (especially red). The two most common by far being pink becomes white and purple becomes blue.

Your green-yellow-blue suggestion is actually making the same mistake as red-purple-blue just using green as the fade instead of red. Having said that in my experience red-green colorblindness is actually RED-green colorblindness. So, I would much prefer a green-yellow-blue interface to a red-purple-blue one. As I am much more sensitive to green than red.
No... if Java isn't used in system programming, which is what storage, and databases sort of is, C# has no hope of doing it. At least due to tradition. Same way how nobody will write Linux utilities in C++, even though it's technically possible. It's just a tradition.

Storage people have a very strong allergy to anything that comes from Microsoft. You probably would have a better chance of writing storage applications in Common Lisp than C#. Only Microsoft uses its own storage products in places that matter. Even just having to integrate with Microsoft's products is seen as a huge pain that's not worth the effort.

And, truth be told... I want it to stay that way. Companies like Microsoft should be kept as far away as possible from critical infrastructure. We failed on few fronts, and are paying through the nose for it. It's nice that at least on this front, this is not a problem.

Also, on a personal level, no other language makes me want to puke as much as C# does. I mean, to the point that if the only programming jobs available in the world were the ones that ask for programming in C#, I'd go farming or cleaning... whatever. Just not touch that steaming pile ever again.
Yeah - I spent only $5 on morrowind on steam and just started playing finally (on Xbox where I paid $15 for it).
There's one in Sydney, and apparently about 80 in total around the world:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-13/beijing-sets-up-overs...
> no such product has publicly emerged as yet

I am not aware of what was used in that occasion; there is also a good chance that the scammers could hack a system internally - the stake is stellar.

Surely, to convince the other part during a phone call a high degree of capability for interaction is required; from the same article, right above your quote:

> we can reasonably assume that the speaker is using a live, real-time deepfake framework

The quoted article is from late 2021. In these current days, we are seeing denounces according to which

> Voice scams are on the rise in a dramatic way. They were the second most common con trick in America last year, and they’re headed for the top spot this year (ex Voice scams: a great reason to be fearful of AI at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35459261 )
The Physics of Intelligence
"I worked like a dog on this stupid page and this guy has $20m to show for it. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be [funny].”

People underestimate how hard is to sell something, particularly when it comes to art. It requires not only business and social skills, but access to a very exclusive network which many usually arrive by third party connections (relatives and friends) and just in very rare occasions by luck or by working like a dog.
As the article says, there's no copyright issue. These reproductions aren't traced - they're redrawn with a new color scheme and new elements. This is like taking a recipe and writing it in new words and changing some of the ingredient, which makes it not copyright infringement.
If anybody wants to get into making fermented foods at home I 100% recommend _The Art Of Fermentation by Dr. Sandor Katz_. Be warned, it is thorough enough to be a text book.
Great interview. I think the most interesting part of this to me was how someone forked Zig and tried to sell it, that must have been stressful.
Maybe the heyday of social media and the rise of "fake news".
“Weird animatronics” That description is perfect in so many ways. I love it. Also they can do most peoples jobs better, faster, and more reliably than a person can. Maybe we need to add “effective” so the description better captures what they are.

I used ChatGPT to write some bash code on Thursday. It took about five seconds. Would have taken me a couple hours to go look up the syntax I needed for the api I was connecting to. It wasn’t great, but it was good. It was fast and it was cheap. I speced out (specked? How do you even spell that word. Maybe it’s not a word but you get it) some code for a couple remote teams. I basically wanted them to do small half hour tasks so we could measure progress towards a deadline. All of the remote teams took longer and produced worse results than simply pasting my tickets in gpt as prompts.

You’re right. They’re weird robots. But they’re good at stuff and that changes things. What specifically does it change? All the things they’re good at. What are they good at? Everything.

What does computer science look like in a world where auto-generated code is good enough? I don’t know, but I’m reluctant to say “exactly how it looked ten years ago”.

The hype is real. But there’s something solid obscured behind the swirling mists. I don’t know precisely how the future will look but I expect your naysaying might age poorly.
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This was an annoying issue with one of the Twitter competitors a while ago; their app asked for photo access, I gave it partial access, it grumbled that it needs ALL of it, and refused to let me upload any photo. I thought it was a "total photos < X" heuristic, so I went back and picked like 30 old photos, and it still knew that wasn't all of it.
I used to work at a large prestigious tech company in Silicon Valley that makes very popular, widely-used software.

And despite all the talk about inclusion and fairness and how we need to hire a diverse bunch of people, each year, without fail interns--some even high school seniors--would show up on our team.

So if I'd talk to these kids, who usually had names like "Bretton Pinkerton III" it would always turn out that they were the grandchild of a board member, or the kid of some venture captialist that the CEO or CFO was working with for another company that he was on the board of, etc.

Never once did they get interns from say, East Palo Alto high school, or one of the community colleges, or College of San Mateo, or any of the schools that a poorer kid was more likely to be at. Never.

The company, desipte their "diversity officer" was actually elitist as they come.

(Oh, and these rich kid interns rarely had any interest in what they were doing either. If they were high school, it was just resume padding and then they were off to Harvard or Stanford.)
Why would people go to the trouble of defeating a bike lock and then throw the bike in the river?
There was no need for war to send a message. Taking tailored action against the SAM crew, leadership, associates and families would be sufficient and may have been happening already. Ukraine is orthogonal to the issue.
How many music bands would exist if the authors never got paid? How many games? How many pictures? How many photographs?

There are thriving communities of people who do all those things without trust funds, and never getting paid for it either. Or getting paid for commissions rather than for duplication.

Take a look:

https://www.deviantart.com/

https://www.etsy.com/

Even books and stories:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/
In the swearing in ceremony photo, her hand is on the book, "Pale Blue Dot", by Carl Sagan.
Given how small the sales of a typical book are, there's a strong argument to be made that "if authors were never paid" is a fair description of current reality.
I think this approach briliant. However, I believe it can be simplified to avoid depending to trigonometry and geometry series, while keeping the original idea. I have no idea if it is similar to any existing proof of the theorom, but I put my thought into a post [1].

[1] https://eneim.notion.site/On-a-new-proof-of-the-Pythagorean-....
I was under the impression that the messaging apps (WA, Messenger) use end-to-end encryption for the conversations, in which case how does Meta have "access to 70% of all human chat conversations in the last 10 years"?

My own understanding has always been that Facebook cares not one jot about the content of the messages; it's the metadata (i.e. the social network and its patterns of interaction) that's valuable. (Of course that may change, now.)
WhatsApp still uses your contacts as its "friends list", i.e.: people appearing in "new chat". You can still text any number with wa.me links but the UI doesn't offer number input IIRC.
If only Mark's big bet was on AI and not the Metaverse. Better late than never I suppose. I wonder if he will be brave enough to rename Meta again to an AI-themed name.
I love VR and AR. I think it’s
incredible and will eventually replace phones as the primary UI. It’s just too versatile, ambient computing around you all the time, anywhere from a single button to a virtual interactive world.

I think though that the tech won’t exist properly till display tech catches up and can give you 10 times more than the Quest 2 gives in a pair of standard eyeglasses. I think we are two decades off still, so all of Meta’s pioneering efforts are way early.

A pivot into AI and spinning off the VR division would make investors very happy and probably be the best move for the company.
That the AMP part self destructs after 30 days, and falls back to html, is really weird and doesn't fit the spirit of email at all.
All these comments is why I like HN. Thanks!
"Chess is now in 'superhuman' territory and likely we will never see a reversal because any insight that benefits humans also benefits computers but not the other way around."

What is considered human is malleable. It is conceivable that humans will be enhanced in various biological and non-biological ways to a point that they can once again compete with computers.
Thanks. Not the same as the 1st proof in https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-one-method-for-provin..., but still reminds me of it.
What gives you reason to believe so? (Not that I disagree, just wondering at the thinking behind your rather terse assertion.)
I was trying to describe a hierarchy of LLMs as an agent. I don't think that's a uniquely human ability.
Pro tip: install an AMP redirector script/add-on in your browser to not support Google trying to own the web.
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The line visuals at the bottom are not using Mapbox for the data rendering. Rather they're using the open source Kepler.gl [0], (a user-friendly wrapping of the deck.gl library [1]). These can use Mapbox for the underlying basemap, but the data rendering is done separately.

(This is easy to tell if you look at the page source. The map at the bottom is an embed from a static HTML kepler.gl map [2]). Disclaimer: I've contributed to deck.gl

[0]: https://kepler.gl/

[1]: https://deck.gl/

[2]: https://senseable.mit.edu/bike-trafficking/assets/kepler.htm...
This was in the news a while back, they're all over the place. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/world/china-overseas-police-s...
I have measured some cheap aliexpross specials and they ware remarkably dirty.
A forest of spikes around the fundamental thanks to parts of the TX strip oscillating.
I guess the manufacturers just pulled every last bit of gain and output power from their transistors with minimal amounts of additional parts.
And the end result is something you cannot run even if you had a licensed FM broadcast band frequency.
Same as it always was.
Always dreamt of seeing this. Don’t know if I would stand the cold, but it must be incredible.
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This is pretty much what people are testing now with Auto-GPT
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That's not how art works. If collectors and critics (and the public!) like Lichtenstein's distorted drawings, their opinion matters. It is totally irrelevant whether he went through a photorealistic phase. He could be said to be concerned with the picture plane, i.e. with the arrangement of shapes and colours on the canvas. The painting is broadly representational but the abstract qualities actually matter more in art.

Art doesn't operate through skepticism, through doubting the artist's ability. It is about valuing what is in front of you, whatever it expresses or evokes. Nobody with any sense cares whether Lichtenstein could pass a Perspective Drawing Test.
Not really.

I know enough Rust to make myself usable coding in it, however it is mostly for hobby coding.

On my line of work there are zero reasons to move away .NET/JVM/JS stacks, unless driven by customer requirements.

What you're describing is FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out.

One of the things in the IT fashion industry is to learn what to invest right now, what to ignore, and what to keep an eye on for later times.
Interesting about Butterfly architecture for hardware FFT support. In the 1980s, DARPA provided two types of exotic hardware to the company I worked for: the first Connection Machine, and the Butterfly machine. I wrote Star Lisp code for the CM, but never touched the Butterfly machine.

Off topic, but I am curious what hardware Apple will release in the future for more direct AI support. Their Core ML libraries working with Apple Silicon have been very effective so far. The next step would likely be a built in foundation LLM model, extending what they have supported with BERT models, etc.
I hope not. I get extremely motion sick from VR.
> The IA lawsuit is about the IA using the pandemic as a cudgel to try to force through the idea of unlimited royalty free digital distribution, which would if normalized end writing as a profession

It was about an alleged loss of revenues which clashes at least with the fact that libraries are a "consolidated" practice, and it ended with a judge decreeing that you cannot provide remote consultation of material just because you have the item locally.

People have been buying books even when those books are freely accessible in libraries - since libraries existed.
I suspect it will be a technical marvel that will still break, not make. It’ll be an amazing vision of what will eventually replace phones decades from now. Think Apple Newton to the iPhone. I think it will be the high water mark in this generation of VR/AR before the tech gets put on the shelf waiting for compute and display tech to catch up.
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The Pythagorean theorem is the most frequently re-proved thing in the history of math, with hundreds of published proofs and entire books dedicated to collecting them. The reason to come up new proofs these days is solely for the novelty, not because we have a need for a simpler proof. The fact that it's such a popular subject for proofs is why novel proofs are inherently interesting, regardless of their complexity.