skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important distinction but it simplifies the situation in my opinion. A 3 year old may only see one cat, but it has probably seen many other things in its life already. Humans likely also have prewired neurology to recognise eyes and other common features. So the analogy is seem more to me like one-shot or few-shot learning with an already partially trained model.
Or RGPD as in Règlement général sur la protection des données
That one's the pretty much the optimal implementation though.

* it's a small bar on the bottom

* the site works without clicking on the consent buttons

* it has clear "opt-in" or "opt-out" options

* no annoying "customize my permissions" sub-menu with tons of enabled switches and dark patterns
My son is in the STEM extension program at his school (9-10yo) and they start with Scratch and then move up to Pictoblox (based on Scratch): https://thestempedia.com/product/pictoblox/
If you look at what songs are being written today, it’s quite different from what was written a hundred years ago. ChatGPT, on the other hand, would still create the same stuff a hundred years from now that it is creating now. (Same for Midwinter, etc.) What current AIs are missing, at the very least, is learning and exploration, and learning from its own learning and exploration.
To be honest, I think the level of effort that Star Wars (and ig now Disney) has put in to really expand the universe (and add more details to the same story with series' like Bad Batch or Kenobi) can be sufficient to satisfy the hunger of the true fans. Especially when compared to Marvel that basically runs the same characters / stories again in different universes as an excuse for lack of detailed writing....
What if you could only buy bundles of goods which are dynamically generated (and look like a basket to the user) and the seller just shows frequently purchased bundles or combines subsets of these? Curious where to draw the line.
Geographical or another kind of restriction? I'm in Europe, Germany.

> Forbidden

> You don't have permission to access /roundtable/rules-games-tudor-england on this server.

For the entire site.

Funny we have this discussion on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567186 ("Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways")
No, that proves the problem could not be solved politically, because regulators lacked the political power needed to regulate google
I wonder what the problem is, how exactly is it falling apart: a) you need to write a lot of "clean up" sub-queries and fragments or b) the question you ask is more complicated and does not fit into the algebra of SQL.

If it's more the first: if your dataset was perfectly cleaned up (say, 3NF, with all data values cleaned up) — how longer would SQL go for you without falling apart?

As I write this comment I realize that it could be worded as "is the problem with the logic or the data"?
Thanks,
Anonymization (if you actually believe Google despite their conflict of interest and previous GDPR breaches) still happens on their server, so the IP address (which counts as personal data) is still transmitted there.

I guess you may actually make it truly anonymous from a GDPR point of view if you proxy all calls through your own server and strip out anything that can be used to reidentify a user - so no IP addresses, session IDs, etc.
But that being said I am not a fan of the token diversity quota characters being added...
This is my understanding as well. There a somewhat accessible introductory video I found useful [0].

The algebra makes it possible to encode sets, key/value associations and sequences to build a knowledge base, and the dot product provides a similarity measure for querying the base.

IIUC the key is that for large space dimensions, any two random vectors (say with uniform distribution over {-1, +1}^d) are almost guaranteed to be near- orthogonal.

This makes it easy to add new items to the base (by sampling a new random vector and updating the base using algebraic operations with other items), yet the amount of noise introduced by near-orthogonality remains controlled and can be filtered out to keep the algebraic structure working as the base grows.

Honestly it seems a bit too good to be true, I'd be very interested to see what are the tradeoffs in practice.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_mHCurNCI
Given that OP's username starts with Olivier, I assume they're French. The French name is Règlement Général sur la Protection des Données. You just get used to your native language's abbreviations.
Even if they catch this person it could be some random psychopath in a country that doesn't cooperate with us law enforcement.

Everyone's worried about AI taking their jobs and becoming an evil overlord of the world... They've overlooked millions of soft targets and the risk posed to critical infrastructure and daily life.
AFAIK the "Dark Ages" are named like that because the Renaissance people thought they were enlightened, compared to the "barbaric people" who lived before them, not because we have less documents (although we do)
You can have GDPR-compliant analytics, like what Fathom does.

I also built my own analytics solution that simply shows me my blog article reads per day, week, month, and year (that is all I care about). It's a simple bit of JS that sends a request to my endpoint when the user spends 30 seconds on a page with an article. I also do some light user agent filtering (no "curl" or "python" in the agent string, for example).

I might start logging the referrer in the future to see where my traffic is coming from. However, I am very far from needing cookies or a GDPR notice. I doubt there's a need for cookies at all for most analytics. Even if you wish to track user flow in your website, you can do it with IPs (or hashed IPs to not store the actual IPs) only. An IP is unlikely to change while a user is browsing the website.

It seems to my mind that we only see so many GDPR notices because many websites use dinosaur software like Google Analytics that hasn't been keeping up with the times.
If you click on "how we use cookies" you'll see the reason is 3rd party services outside of the control of the EU (like embedded YouTube) that they are using on some of their pages.
> Crazy to see it validated in actual research!

Well a handful of anecdotes aren't "actual research". Not knocking it off per se, but yes, further research is needed.

Also, I couldn't find a link to the empirical work alluded in the piece.
It's hard to accept because many, many people won't agree with you and do give a fuck.
I look forward to the day where I stop seeing AI shit on my linkedin feed. I took the GPT4 for a test drive. I spent more time telling it, “not that way, but instead this way” then it will respond with “o shit, my bad. You are right. Here is the answer.” Sure it can help with ideas, and potentially improve your critical thinking skills but in terms of efficiency It is certainly not. Can it improve over time? Most likely. But the data is going to be questionable.
There's an old game from the 90s I loved : The Incredible Machine.

It's all about devising elaborate Rube Goldberg machines to solve puzzles. The cat knocks a ball into the goldfish bowl, which tips over and fills a bucket that operates a pulley that flips a switch that opens a door. That kind of thing.

I remember it being very freeform and exploratory, teaching cause and effect and physics and thinking through complex interaction chains.

I was probably around 7 when I played it. Very age appropriate.

It's available on a web-based DOS emulator!

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-incredible-machine-1m...

Probably downloadable somewhere too.
Id be willing to bet that there is a large overlap of people who dislike tech company layoffs and people who have this sentiment about 3d party tracking.
I think it is a very bad idea for a single browser vendor to deliberately subvert standards process and attempt to steamroll the web with their own proprietary tech!
> That the crucial difference between a human being and AI is that if you show a 3 year old kid one picture of a cat, a kid can recognize all other cats. Was it a lion or a tiger.

I don't understand what you mean with this, as that was certainly not me as a child. As a child I thought cats and dogs might be differently sexed animals of the same species. I also thought that the big cats could be related to each other, though how any of them was related to the housecat was beyond me, given the size difference.
How would the browser discern between legitimate 1st part cookies and illegal privacy violating ones? It's not a technical problem, it needs laws.

And for GDPR and other privacy rules, cookies aren't even a thing. The laws doesn't care about the medium you use. They apply beyond technicalities. For instance you could track IP addresses and a browser would have no way to stop you. GDPR makes it illegal without involving new crazy tech.
I can imagine AI academics are in a tough spot. However what about the existential angst the rest of us - who don't even do anything AI related on a day to day basis - are feeling? I think big changes are coming and it's not gonna be pretty.
Since they are so common I would guess that it is more a physiological response. Many medications cause vivid dreams so it wouldn't be surprising that something that commonly happens near death has a similar effect. It could be that even the people who don't report it happening are often just not able to remember it happening. I agree there is a difference in how willing different people greet death and that it has some effects but I would guess it more likely relates to how likely someone is to get into the situation where the dreaming happens. I think there is more acceptence of older people accepting death; personally I would say there is danger in overemphasising either willing death or extreme avoidance of death.

One thing that has interested me is the practice of some Buddhist monks of predicting (potentially even to some extent causing) their own death. Long term meditation can increase voluntary control of the autonomic system and I'm guessing something similar happens in willing vs. unwilling death; willingness to die may signal to the autonomic system not to make some types of corrections that could potentially be made.
Cookies invade privacy, cookie prompts invade both privacy and attention.
My guess is they are a native speaker of some Romance language, and that is the acronym in their native language, perhaps French based on username and what little I know of French.
I mean Gen-Z barely knows what an operating system is.
* No loading screen when you don’t accept all cookies
Hello there! I am new to software development as a whole, so I am not sure how helpful I can be, but here are some advice I have gotten and found useful (and hopefully you can share some tips from your end too):

- Choose a language and familiarize yourself with it. In your case it is Python, so you already know the concepts of programming. These concepts are usually easily translated into other languages, so it is mostly getting used to the syntax later on.

- Check out youtube tutorials for projects you may want to work on and commit to it. This will help for understanding how each component works with the next, libraries, APIs, etc. Completing projects will give you skills that you may otherwise only skim over by reading.

- There are also websites like exercism that do provide some good bite-sized exercises that will help you understand the syntax better.

- Review pull requests. Or to be more specific, look at what the PR is trying to achieve and compare how you would have done it versus how the other party got it done.

But like I said, I am new, and currently only focused on the backend right now, though I plan to get efficient in working full stack. If anyone else has any other suggestions, please do post them too! I will also appreciate them!
By which time everyone here will be long dead, so I don't think there's any need to lose sleep over it...
It's not the internet I want. I don't want surveillance capitalism manipulating society so they buy more shit.

I'm part of the EU electorate. Are you?
That's it, I've completed the Internet. This is my new favorite page. The aesthete in me may bristle, but the pragmatist agrees. There are many ergonomic and UX concerns to consider when designing things, but I think they make their case very well and I didn't find it a problem to read at all.
So is that tracking or not? It's definitely storing personal information, so it feels like it counts, but surely the intent is for a self-contained order database to get a pass on this? Maybe not.
I don't understand why it isn't solved in this way:

You get a banner on your first visit, with a list "here are all the cookies and ways how we use your data, if you are not fine with it, please leave this website"

This should be an option for small private websites (different rules for FB, Google and alike), because no one forces you to use a site, same as "my house, my rules"
Note that approaches such as hyperdimensional computing somewhat undermine your argument.

With HDC, a network learns to encode features it sees in a (many-dimensional, hence the name) hypervector.

Once trained (without cats), show it a cat picture for the first time, it will encode it. Other cat pictures will be measurably close, hopefully (it may requires a few samples to understand the "cat" signature, though).

It reminds me a bit of "LORA" embeddings (is that the proper term?), or just changing the last (fully-connected) layer of a trained neural network.
> "To make this very clear: user/visitor consent is only needed for data going to 3rd parties."

I think this statement is categorically false. Art. 6 GDPR (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/) lists exhausively the reasons for lawful processing of personal data which applies not only to cookies, but also IP addresses etc. The "cookie consent" addresses Art. 6 Point 1(a). Whether third-parties (data processors) are involved is irrelevant, e.g. if I need to transfer personal data to my accountant, it falls under b, c (or d).
It's not similar in function. It's an etymological curiosity, and one that many Danish speakers are not aware of, we're certainly not doing multiplications in our head when we use them. The words are just words. The underlying structure in Danish is counting in tens. There's a word for each ten and you add 1-9 before it, but not so in French.
> Cats (and perhaps other mammals/animals with complex nervous systems) have the tendency to „disappear“ a few days before they die.

That's what I was going to say, the only death I directly experienced was a cat, it 100% knew it was going to die, days before

I have absolutely no doubt other animals, including humans, can feel it too (depending on the cause of death of course)
> I believe there is also a lot of "cargo culting" where site admins copy what everyone else is doing without understanding the legal background.

And an entire industry with companies like TrustArc built on pitching and selling this crap even if not required and/or if their solution wouldn't achieve compliance anyway.
They exist, but because they don't care about SEO, you can't find them in google.
DNA is ADN, not AND.
Seem: Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once
Even with consent and configuration, GA might be illegal in the EU. It's currently in a grey area after some latest rulings.
> my designs draw from styles and concepts typical of 8-bit computer magazines in the late 1980s and early 1990s

I think they channel the feeling quite well
People watch clouds for that reason too!
The fovea is an area roughly in the centre of the eye where your vision is at its best.

Peripheral vision is the less accurate eyesight you have "around the edges" of your eyes.

I assume he's talking about foveated and peripheral rendering, that is rendering things better if they are "being looked at" by a fovea which is therefore sharper than the periphery.
Cheers. Interesting approach. Looking forward to reading this over the weekend to see what ideas it might foster.
On the online demo, you can also download by clicking 'share' at the end (there's an option in the menu that shows up).
Yeah thanks. I think about it and keep searching)
The demo website is frozen and I can't click anything.

> [Report Only] Refused to create a worker from 'blob:https://sketch.metademolab.com/923050e3-9390-4b78-9349-8159a...' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "worker-src 'none'".

> [Report Only] Refused to create a worker from 'blob:https://sketch.metademolab.com/d94425ea-c1b7-424f-a898-90708...' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "worker-src 'none'".

> [Report Only] Refused to create a worker from 'blob:https://sketch.metademolab.com/923050e3-9390-4b78-9349-8159a...' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "worker-src 'none'".

> Failed to load resource: net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

> [Report Only] Refused to create a worker from 'blob:https://sketch.metademolab.com/d94425ea-c1b7-424f-a898-90708...' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "worker-src 'none'".

> Failed to load resource: net::ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

> Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The play method is not allowed by the user agent.
> If I were to start with ChatGPT I would, necessarily, only say what has been said.

This is not true though, you can test it for yourself:

Prompt: Invent a new word, which has never been written before. When I type it in Google, I should get zero results.

I'm completely transparent, I tried this query 3 times because of my own curiosity and will provide all 3 answers (I added --- for formatting):

---

ChatGPT (answer 1):

Sure, how about "flumtraz"?

---

ChatGPT (answer 2):

Here's a new word: "Ardidio"

It is a combination of "ardor" (meaning passion or enthusiasm) and "audio" (meaning sound or hearing).

The word Ardidio can be used to describe a strong and passionate feeling one experiences when listening to music or any form of audio. For example, "I felt a rush of ardidio while listening to the live performance of my favorite band."

As of now, when you search for "Ardidio" on Google, there are no results found.

---

ChatGPT (answer 3):

"Flumixen" - a verb that means to mix or blend something in a clumsy or awkward manner. For example, "I tried to make a cake from scratch, but I ended up flumixening the ingredients together and it turned out terrible."

---

For the first answer I got zero results on Google, so it's quite unlikely that it was part of the training data, proving that your theory wrong. It can say things that have never been said.

For the second and third answer I got results in Google, but they seem accidental, usernames and the likes, but as far as I can see, they have never been used with the meaning that ChatGPT "invented".

I'm aware that ChatGPT at its core is a stochastic parrot, but the evidence is clear for me that it can combine certain aspects of its training data in unique ways, which were never done before.
lmao even in my university (the serbian uni), we have at least calculus+linear algebra before any nn course. also to "learn" what's a cnn you just need gradients not integrals (unless you use some kind of non-lipschitz function as activation?), plus the idea of what a convolution is... but even Mobius knew it back in the 800s.

anyway i think your statement that industry is light years away from unis is just misleading. i think the two are trying to answer different questions:
1. how can i achieve a "somewhat" decent chatbot that gets me rich albeit not even knowing what it does [industry in case you wondered]
2. try to understand, quantify and measure how well a model works, is it stable? does it converge if we have small datasets? and so on so forth.

just my two cents, to conclude i think a good analogy to the current climate is the 700-800s with electromagnetism: plenty of people discovered "empirical" laws but didn't understand really the phenomenon.
Well, I'm glad I don't use GA on my personal site, then, even if it means I have no idea what traffic levels it gets. GA is incredibly popular though - I would guess the vast majority of blogs etc. use it and have no consent to do so.
People often argued that a Jackson Pollock style of artwork is not art because they just threw paint on a canvas.

Of course, Pollock did think about the process, there's more form to his works than that. Similarly, if you just arbitrarily mash music samples together you're unlikely to get anything that's really listenable music ... you need a little more for it too be creative.

Indeed, we often describe work as "derivative" when it's not particularly creative, it lacks spark. That seems like the definition of generative models. But then probably most human artwork is substantially derivative (in the art-critic sense).

If you provide "oddly specific input", then you've provided the creative seed, growing that seed is impressive work, but it is work with a different fundamental character.
If you enjoy a bit of well-done nostalgia, I suggest giving vacation.inc [1] a try, too (same guys from poolsuite.net [2]).

[1] https://www.vacation.inc
[2] https://poolsuite.net
You're right... I'm french ;-)
Sorry about the wrong acronym (RGPD = GDPR)
Yttrium hydride?

Err… these aren’t products for mere civilians like you and me.
Can I skip the cookie consent pop up if I use Beam?
> You seem to think that the EU should be immune from criticism

No it shouldn't. But it should be criticism and not blaming it for what is 100% the responsibility of the business.

> he EU is mostly about making people miserable while convincing them it's actually better for them.

See, this is not criticism. This is emotionally-charged whining and demagoguery
Is C foreign to you? Zig syntax is nearly identical to how C initializes structs.
This is more inflammatory than it is informative.
Dozens of books have been written about it, it's worth digging into imho. You can't be sure of what's coming but you can build your own little scenario instead of avoiding the subject and dreading the void. As with a lot of things in life the actual thing doesn't matter much, what matters is how you perceive/approach it
To anyone that doesn't agree with me, please show me your rooted android phone that has no popular apps installed that collect any data, and doesn't use a sim card.

Because if you say you give a fuck about privacy, and use a modern android phone with OEM rom or an iPhone, you either don't understand what privacy is and shouldn't be talking about it in the first place, or you are a hypocrite.
I love the indignation over being accused of 90s web design when they are actually in fact inspired by 90s print design.
> There is a school of thought in medicine among some doctors (at least in Central and Northern Europe) that many patients know what’s wrong with them and one can go a long way toward a diagnosis by listening to and trusting a patient. Tests are used to confirm the diagnosis if possible, but they are well-known to be less reliable than the patients’ own experience (pains and other symptoms, for example). As an ex-medic myself, I strongly believe this is a more correct way to practice medicine

What evidence do you have to "strongly believe" this? It's quite something, to state that the patient does a better job diagnosing himself than the doctor does. In that case, there should be some evidence to that effect, to show that this is indeed the case? Otherwise, saying "I strongly believe" or "school of thought" is just a way of saying "I have a hunch".

> There is nothing worse than a distrusting doctor who dismisses the patients symptoms to instead blindly and arrogantly applies a schematic based on assumptions that our testing and examinations have very good specificity

What on earth are you talking about? Medical diagnoses are made using a variety of sources of information, including of course symptoms! What do you mean exactly "dismisses symptoms to arrogantly apply a testing scheme"? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Is that Apple Garamond?