skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea maybe it was a bad example. I meant to say what type of enforcement is behind the FTC's order? With bail, the enforcement is through expensive monetary forfeiture and the guarantee of jail time. And if any laws were broken during the time out on bail, the person will get additional charges in addition to the ones they already had while on bail. Basically all crimes/violations are covered and punishment dished out accordingly to each current/past violations.

Facebook violated the order by the FTC, and for the order to have any teeth to it, there must be some sort of enforcement action behind it, just like for bail. Right now it seems like FB is just getting told off by saying the FTC will 'propose' FB not to benefit from certain data collection. Ok, so nothing has been actually enforced for the violation.

And what about for the past violations? Will FB be forced to delete all their data they collected during the time they were under the FTC's order? The proposal (if even passed), will only limit future collections, not violations that have already happened and profited from.

> Now, the FTC has proposed changes to the 2020 order that would prohibit Facebook owner Meta from launching new products on any of its platforms without procuring written FTC compliance confirmation and prevent the company from monetizing any of the youth data it collects across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.
There's a less 'western' view of consciousness that it's not contained in any one thing, but a common thread of the universe itself. This may not be as 'woo' as it seems at first, since when we scientifically analyze an 'individual' it falls apart under scrutiny. Why does this pattern of electrons make me distinct from someone else? What is 'me' exactly?
Schools have already started implementing blanket bans on ChatGPT, claiming that it prevents cheating. Receiving real-time feedback on an essay from a GPT certainly gives students an advantage, but I would hesitate to call it cheating. There is a growing uneasiness, particularly among individuals like Paul Graham, that GPTs diminish the importance of writing skills. However, I don't see it that way at all. In a future dominated by language models, written language is more relevant than ever.

When I was in school, the existence of YouTube and Google made many classes feel like a farce. You'd go to class, and the teacher would explain a concept so poorly that you would be forced to go home and watch a YouTube video about it. LLMs feel like an extension of this, further diminishing the relevance of in-class learning to actual education. Time will tell if this finally puts an end to the farce.
Isn't this all the same thing as what airlines did after 9/11? You pay the fare and get a seat. Want it to not be a middle seat? That's $50. Want to carry on a bag? That's $50. Want to check a bag? That's $50. Want to check out the lounge before you depart? That's $50. Want some WiFi? That's $50. Want a snack? That's $50. Now your flight is $200 more than the quoted fare. (OK OK you can probably get WiFi and a snack for less than $50.)

Everyone seems to love this, or at least, they didn't stop flying. So why would any rational company not try to use this business model? Your AAA game gets to be $59.99 + $0.99 download, and your competitor's game is $60.00. Sort by price ascending makes you the top result, but you actually get $0.99 more money with each copy sold.

You are right that legislation is the only answer to curb this abuse. Consumers fall for it hook/line/sinker. Companies can't resist free money.
Given the use of various IP in a project for which you are soliciting payment, you have either done an amazing job wrangling licensing that doesn’t even require acknowledgement of the IP owners or you are very, very brave. (And that’s even assuming that the actual selective use of the material through the OpenAI API is entirely outside of the coverage of IP law, just the names and imagery used directly on the page outside of chat.)
> And note the breakdown by religion--most of the opposition to pornography is religious-based.

What does that matter? The objection to pornography among religious people isn’t rooted in the supernatural or doctrinal aspects of religion. It’s not like mixing fabrics or eating shellfish. If you broke down the results by different religions, I suspect you’d find that Hindus and Muslims and Christians are all pretty opposed to pornography.

What you’re really talking about is moral philosophy. Do you believe that society should prioritize individual self expression and satisfaction, or collective duty and family formation? These are correlated with, but separable from, supernatural religious beliefs.
Dude, what? First off, OpenBeta kinda sucks. It's slow, and honestly, has some pretty bizarre UX/UI decisions. MP is vastly more comprehensive and looking at my local areas it's clear he/she just scraped MP (or straight up copied payloads from their API) to populate the db. There's no clear connection between operating a meager route database and implementing a timed reservation and permit system for national parks and campgrounds. There's literally nothing about OpenBeta that would make one think: "Yes, this (potentially singular) person has the skills, knowledge, and resources to run a nationally available service with all the SLAs that accompany gov't projects in a domain that's only veeeeeeerry tangentially related to OpenBeta."
It’s just a new name for WebAuthn/FIDO2 credentials. It’s easier to say, remember, and write the thus more marketable.

This support has existed for a while, but not with this rebrand. I hope more companies will adopt this approach as it seems like an effective strategy.
Agreed, even the best open source projects, like Linux or Firefox, in their wonderful success, didn't render proprietary competition unable to have there piece of the market share.

And even in markets with very dominant free offers like video consumption, programming languages or VCS, you can still make tons of money by providing a service around it. E.G: github, netflix, etc.

OpenAI has a good product, a good team, a good brand and a good moving speed.

Selling them short is a bit premature.
They already have those digital license plates that I've seen just displaying a Tesla logo instead of the plate number and state.
> That's my question as well. The models are clearly derivative works based on other people's copyrighted texts.

That's not that clear either. (Sometimes it's more clear. If you ask the model to write fan fiction, and it does, and you want to claim that isn't a derivative work, good luck with that.)

But the model itself is essentially a collection of data. "In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter is a wizard" is a fact about a work of fiction, not a work of fiction in itself. Facts generally aren't copyrightable. If you collect enough facts about something you could in principle reconstruct it, but that's not really something we've seen before and it's not obvious how to deal with it.

That's going to create a practical problem if the models get good enough to e.g. emit the full text of the book on request, but the alternative is that it's illegal to make a model that knows everything there is to know about popular culture. Interesting times.
Are you sure? I have yet to see any evidence that anyone at all (including Google) has built a model (or a "platform" as you prefer to refer to them) that can follow instructions as well as 50% of ChatGPT, let alone GPT-4. I don't think any amount of work in LangChain and vector databases is enough to fix this: you really need a strong base model that is trained to align with human intentions well. Of course if you just want a bot that can answer free-form simple questions, then maybe people can't tell the difference. Just give them some real work to do and it becomes glaringly obvious.
I get that. But they are explicitly comparing it to Codex themselves.
Because, for the things that do care about synchronization, they might want multiple explicit MonitorSlot members. It makes more sense to just be able to synchronize on MonitorSlots directly, and then decide where they go.

The only reason I added the `synchronized (this)` allowance was because the parent said that they think that that's "good ergonomics" — and presumably, the Java1.0 authors also thought that — and I was trying to suggest an alternative that would preserve what they consider "good ergonomics."

But personally, if I was the sole dictator of Java1.0 language design with nobody else to please, I would just have `synchronize(MonitorSlot)` + explicitly-defined MonitorSlot members (that, if you declare one, must always be declared final, and cannot be assigned to in the constructor), and that's it. Just refer to them by name when you need one.
Completely agree. It is interesting, but the gravitas of it seems lower than of course if an executive said this and corroborated it. I do feel that opensource for AI is going to be really interesting and shake things up.
There is no difference between expressions and statement in Ruby (a descendent of the Agol Family). Everything evaluates to a value so everything is an expression.

(to be fair, it took a lot of inspiration from Smalltalk and LISPs)
Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
If the moat is simply brand name recognition, then the market leader is OpenAI. That's an existential problem for Google and explains the author's perspective.
That is correct, yes. You can limit the scope of a function to a single file using the static keyword; otherwise all functions are in the same global namespace for static linking.

In practice, this is not a big limitation by itself. Although C has function pointers, it's not a functional programming language -- there are no closures, and you can't create new functions at run-time under any circumstances. (Not within the language itself, anyway. You'd need to embed a compiler, or at least a minimal code generator.) On Harvard-architecture systems like microcontrollers, code and data may be in different memories (ROM vs. RAM) with different access permissions, and some platforms even put them in entirely separate address spaces.
> Again, show me that learning to use the notation is not a problem, objectively, and then we can talk. Otherwise, you're just saying that "you just have to learn it, I did it and it wasn't that hard". OK, but that's not a proof that it isn't hard or it isn't a barrier to entry that could be lowered.

It's always believable that the barrier can be lowered. However, consider that on the one hand, you have millions of people who are quite comfortable with the current notation. On the other hand, there is ... nothing.

As I said, show me the alternative notation where people are comfortable solving Griffith level EM/QM problems with it.

I've heard this complaint for years - particularly on HN. An insistence that a superior notation must exist, that decades of SW experience shows this level of brevity makes working in the field harder, etc. Yet no one has come up with an alternative where one can solve higher level physics problems with it while maintaining sanity.

The status quo is we have a widely used system working. The burden is on those who claim it can be better to come up with something better.
Lutke and Zuckerberg are billionaires. It is literally impossible for them to run out of money. Their grandchildren's grandchildren will be born incomprehensibly wealthy. They have won at capitalism.

But they also captain their first large enterprises: do they know what they're doing? Can they transition these firms into businesses that will endure? Or will they capriciously chase shiny objects while they waste the trust and goodwill of investors, the people who work there now, and the people who will want to work there in the future? They might have seeded the garden, but it took thousands of smart people to build it up, and it takes a constant supply to maintain it.

A new CEO will probably be rich, sure, but not "endow a historical dynasty" rich, and might know how to take a successful company and reposition it for the long term. Maybe the younger guys can do it. But it would just be for vanity at this point.
I should have added "theoretically". I haven't had much luck with it, using a prompt like "Tell me a story about a character named X, a Y, living in Z."
> Of course it's more than a decade later now and I still use Google Maps, Bing Maps still suck, and the view times I've tried OpenStreetMaps I've found it far behind both.

The sheer size of the OSM project is staggering. Putting it next to Wikipedia, where missing content at some point wouldn't cause much fuss, makes it a bad example.

Besides that, your limited knowledge of the popularity of OSM gives you a wrong picture. OSM is already the base for popular businesses. Like Strava for example. TomTom is on board with it. Meta for longer with their AI tool, same as Microsoft. In some regions of the world where the community is very active, it IS better than Google Maps. Germany for example where I live. In many regions of the world, it is the superior map model for cycling or nature activities in general. Sometimes less civilised areas of the world have better coverage too because Google doesn't care about those regions. See parts of Africa or weird countries like North Korea.

One should also not forget the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team which provides humanitarian mapping in areas Google didn't care. You can help out too. It's quite easy: https://www.hotosm.org/

> What's more every company I've worked at since has paid Google for access to their Maps API.

Many others have switched away after google lifted their prices.
They'll lose the race here too.
A simple donation of up-to-date world satellite imaginary would already be enough for an even faster grow.
Does Mercedes understand this is destroying the reputation of the brand? This practice needs to be made illegal and an exception made to the DMCA specifically legalizing attempts to bypass it. Bypassing such measures absolutely should not be a felony.
Playing dumb is not a good look.
You can find the guy who created it on reddit u/edwardjhu. I remember because he showed up in the Stable Diffusion Subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1223y27/im...
Having a pricing page with disclosed pricing tiers, one of which has an active (even if broken) signup link might produce a different impression to, say, the legal team of an IP owner who came across this site.
The completeness and quality of OSM depends on the local community, and it varies greatly depending on where you live and use it.
"So long passwords, thanks for all the phish"

"The beginning of the end of the password"

This is confusing. Is there some plan on Google's part to kill passwords that I'm not aware of?
What else? Well, one thing was making a lot of money as an investor. I don't remember quite what Fortune's Formula said about his overall rate of return over many decades, but iirc he made less than Warren Buffett mainly because he started with much less. (That book is about information theory and betting.)
I dont know why you are downvoted. This is mostly correct.
Counterpoint, we deployed our first nextjs app on AWS last year and it's been very set-and-forget. Even with our hacky https in front of nextjs.
OSM's main problem is that it has no open sourced satelite imagery dataset to display, they're only using borrowed data to build its vector maps on. It just doesn't exist. Until that becomes a thing it'll stay a second rate map app for the average person, unfortunately.

It's the only map anyone can actually integrate into anything without an api key and a wallet with a wad of greens in it, so that keeps it relevant for now. Maybe if/when Starship lowers cost to orbit, then we'll see non-profit funded satellites that can source that dataset and keep it up to date.
This is a relief, i was genuinely shocked this was even brought forward to be honest.

It's also a bit counter productive for the Gaye family too to be doing this. They already sued it seems LST year for 5+ million USD. If I was looking for a piece of music I needed to pay royalties on, i would rethink the great music from Marvin Gaye.
Respectfully, I do have a much better idea than most people about what is being deployed and used, as I built some of them.

I am not saying it is bulletproof. I am saying it will reliably pull 10 photos of the same person out of 100,000,000 total photos, for any given person, based off a single new photo it has never seen before. That’s the kind of scale and accuracy we’re talking about here, it’s not parlor games. And that 100M was small fries compared to bigger players - who I am sure were into the billions, with even better precision than we had.

I still don’t understand the multiple objections I see relating to “top of the line equipment” or advanced expensive software. The mental model you should have is something like Copilot or GPT3.5. The landlord is just buying access to a nice UI that makes API calls.
OSM is quite popular through commercial providers, mainly Mapbox. Why you're not using it daily is because there's no concentrated effort to make a consumer-friendly product from it, like Wikipedia mostly is for Encyclopedia. Too early to tell what will be the case for LLM.
Pretty easy to get API access, I got it within a few days. Aware this is a sample of one, but also can’t believe they fast tracked me.
Utter nonsense.

US withholding taxes only apply on dividends and other fixed income.
In 9th grade I would text my crush from my mom's phone and would later delete the entire conversation since I didn't want others to read them.

I just wanted a way to save these messages in a way others couldn't read them.

We had just started to learn Java. I used the basics I picked from school to write a cipher program which would take some plain text, a pass key and generate encrypted text. Although, I didn't know at the time (but realized couple years later) that I actually coded a little extension of our age old favorite Caesar cipher.

This brought back so many memories!
also noticed that chatGPT can't NOT rhyme when asked to mint songs :D
While I can see where youre coming from – misinformation is already a problem and modern AI will make it a lot worse, I dont think I would want to give up my anonymity for that. Even if my real name wasn't publicly linked to my account.
Where are you getting your reality from?

Even here in NC in an "unsophisticated" municipality (as far as tech is concerned), the situation is precisely reversed. The municipality started the project for stringing fiber during the period where the FCC overturned the state law banning muni broadband. And they lease that out to an ISP with a contract requiring delivery of symmetric connectivity.

The online reviews for that ISP are the pits; however, in this municipality that ISP hired the team that had been running the muni wifi program that started during that FCC-allows-muni-broadband period. I've been getting 300/300 for months; my ire is now wholly directed at the crappy state of wifi on my linux machines! :(

Long story short-- I'd steer clear of taking an upshot about muni broadband in the U.S. unless it's from a user reporting what speeds they are actually getting on a business or residential endpoint on a muni broadband plan, measured over at least a few months.
> Interestingly, I can't find any information on Google about this, but ChatGPT does support this. Unfortunately all the primary sources it gave me are for docs that no longer exist on the web.

Or perhaps that never existed. It's well known that ChatGPT often hallucinates non-existing references (see for instance the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841672).
> at literally no cost or effort.

But somebody designed, implemented and tested (presumably) the feature of remote enabling functionality for money, manages the subscription and payment systems, real time communications to the fleet of cars, etc.... that costs a lot of money and effort, doesn't come for free.
3 months vs 2 years, I'll take it :)
Like buying a dumb TV or a printer that isn't a scam. Good luck!
> Fines should be a percentage of income.

or better: net worth.
It did read rather like something inspired by stories from 80's hacker culture.

And the build systems sound like they were made by managers.
He recently did another commentated video, I believe maybe the first commentated one since that legendary video, on pendulum manipulation. https://youtu.be/nYDmBdUalgo

It may be a bit slow for the types here already well familiar with floating point and the like but it's still got amazingly deep content on something silly but fun.
You’re completely ignoring the customer (people like you) in favor of the (already mega rich) corporations. What a mindset.
My experience is the opposite.

People in the real world care about things like hours of operation. Google makes it really easy for businesses to keep them up to date on things like holiday closures. OSM makes it a nightmare.
> The real problem behind that are various Evangelical groups running scare campaigns against parents and pressure campaigns against ISPs and individual sites. The US was the first with FOSTA/SESTA, the UK followed suit, and here in Germany our media regulators are going nuts as well.

100%. Happening in Canada right now too: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/age-verification-require...

It's a concerted evangelical Christian campaign across the board. The lobbying groups for these policies - in the UK, Germany, Canada, etc - overlap a lot.
I don't know if I agree with the article. I recall when Google IPO'ed, nobody outside of Google really knew how much traffic they had and how much money they were making. Microsoft was caught off-guard. Compare this to ChatGPT: My friends, parents, grandparents, and coworkers (in the hospital) use ChatGPT. None of these people know how to adapt an open source model to their own use. I bet ChatGPT is vastly ahead in terms of capturing the market, and just hasn't told anyone just how far. Note that they have grown faster in traffic than Instagram and TikTok, and they are used across the demographics spectrum. They released something to the world that astounded the average joe, and that is the train that people will ride.
Any chance the tunnels could later be re-purposed as subway tunnels once people realize that this approach doesn't work?
a “bug”…
For optional features it’s rent seeking if they’re charging much higher margins for the optional extras than for the base product.
Overall: love the idea.

Any chance of updating the RSS feed item "summary" to something more useful than "significant news" and title to something more than the date? Or maybe an RSS feed of the newsletter format?

(I do see some of the older items have titles that include some info on what's included)

Basically, I think the ideal RSS feeds would be _two_:
1. RSS feed of every item that hits the 6/10 threshold (title and link to original, summary not too important, either same as title or paragraph summary of what the article is about)
2. RSS feed of the newsletter (title: "May 4 2023 - significant news", link: newsletter page, summary: list of article titles)

I suppose versions of #1 with diff thresholds could be nice, but I'd probably only use the default threshold.

Background: I run a bot that sends RSS feeds into discord channels (easily followable to any discord server) and this particular feed seems potentially quite handy for good news info. Probably overlaps with https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ but that automation probably means it can catch breaking news faster than a manually-curated site like that.