skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have enough empirical data to conclude it doesn't work anywhere near as well as they claim, and act on that knowledge. I'm not harming anyone by not getting a booster shot, despite the claims of the covid cult that what I'm doing is akin to murder.
You’re right about the law, however the rhetoric from tech executives testifying before Congress in favor of increased visa issuances has always been about a shortage of workers. So this misconception people have didn’t come from nowhere.
What's the difference between a human being remembering someone exists and a photo of a person? They both do the same thing, so why should we regulate where, how and why photos are taken and used?
i had a few games that racked up hours before i even got to play anything, so i agree, this is an issue. somehow play time should not start counting until you actually get to enter the game (after character creation and any other setup that needs to be done)
I use dufs when I need a webserver for minor things, and reverse proxy to it through Caddy if things get serious enough to need an SSL certificate.

https://github.com/sigoden/dufs
my point is not even that.

my point is if you pick a time-slider window of 150 years, Europeans have started two world wars. Sweden collaborated with Nazis and i wonder how much violence resulted from that.
Some parts of engineering are really just copying and pasting the most banal scaffolding for some framework that refuses to work. I've been working on a side project where I get to play generics golf in Rust to my hearts content, but having to constantly Google what magic incantation I have to write to get react-hook-form to properly allow me to write variable input fields for an array of strings is mind numbing. [hint: useFieldsArray only works with objects, but the TS compiler wasn't smart enough to suggest that me]
I suggested the auroch because it was a keystone species in many European ecosystems up until recently. So it could have a major impact on any rewilding project.
I am not your errand boy. I sent you the information you requested. You have all the details you need to research if you so desire.
The author seems to propose it is impossible for large teams to be productive. They even go so far as to claim most potential team mates have malice intent to “sabotage the project”.

Amazon is an example of an organization that does this well (i used to work there). Small teams are responsible for their own project(s). Project(s) can be composed to form higher level project(s). It’s certainly not impossible, and id rather put in effort to manage team(s) than to place an increasingly insurmountable amount of pressure on myself.

Perhaps the reason the author’s project has “few users” is that there are competing alternatives that have authors who understand how to leverage team work to deliver more value to users, and users go where they perceive value.

Also, if you worked for an organization that actually hired (and retained) people with malice intent, i dont think team size was the real issue. In that sense i do agree with the author that you should screen anyone and ensure your goals align before agreeing to invest time in trying to work together. If someone is offering to add a feature you dont think fits in the project, i have a hard time characterizing that as “malice intent”, though!
That Russian book series is a direct knock-off. Even the font looks similar.

It’s also not a copyright violation because the question of how similar it is to the idea of Harry Potter is irrelevant with regards to copyright.

If it was too similar and it was actively confusing consumers then it would be an issue of trademark.

By making the protagonist a girl without glasses it does enough to differentiate itself that no reasonable confusion would ensue.

As long as the books don’t contain verbatim copies of text from Harry Potter they are non-infringing!
The visa status is only incidental in all this. You expect them to prioritize training existing employees or maybe even hire citizens, but there is no logical or legal reason to do so. At Google's level, they have access to the entire global market and they do not care about visa stuff.
Sure he warned of dangers, but also invested heavily in AI for autonomous driving by hiring DL researchers ("a million robot taxis by 2020").

He also invested in OpenAI until he had a falling out about who would be in charge of the company. He recently founded X.AI, which is supposedly also building generative AI.

Everyone sees danger, but many, including Musk, are forging ahead.
“At the same time, this practice almost surely has prevented large numbers of users from falling prey to social engineering attacks attempting to infect their computers.”

I don’t know if they have any hard evidence to back this claim or it’s just that, a claim?
Before we focus entirely on what we're losing, we should also consider the potential gain of conversing with an LLM trained on all the world's books.

Or down the road a bit, an AI trained on and able to draw conclusions from all our scientific papers.
If you don’t have a moat, just dig one!
Because they also have vastly different cultures and shared understandings which often require skilled management.
Sorry, I was referring to the bundle that Asahi Linux is using. I had a bad time trying to uninstall each package one-by-one and decided to just start with a minimal install instead.
> No other domestic worker could do the same job?

That is not an H-1B requirement.
The cost of Australian software historically gives me pause to at least part of your comment.

That said, yes a lot of counties can provide very competent software development and houses.. but the communication time gap is often still present.

Another shop I worked at had EU devs that were competent, but that communication gap was still a big hurdle.
Is the JVM inside that 8MB then I guess? That is pretty great.

Originally I thought the alternative was “8MB but supply your own virtual machine.”
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So law enforcement contacts everyone on the network and says please delete these illegal photos?
While technologically unavailable (and maybe intractable) I've an impulse to say that in theory we could do something a little like Differential Privacy, where we look at the likelihood you got your output with the model you have vs the version of your model trained with (say) Rowling's work excluded.
> I cannot sell a "rain coat" made of gauze which offers no protection from rain, and I cannot sell a "smoke detector" which doesn't effectively detect smoke. Why should low-volume AI/ML products get a pass?

There are already laws against false advertising, misrepresentation etc. We don’t need extra laws specifically for AI that doesn’t perform well.

What most people are concerned about is AI that performs too well.
Instead of debating about the moral and legal aspects, it could be more productive to focus on the technical aspects that can help making more informed decisions about the moral and legal problems.

On some levels of abstraction, LLMs seem to be unknowable black boxes. On other levels, they are simply approximate solutions to established problems, such as estimating the probability distribution for a token following a context.

Genome assembly is kind of like complementary problem to text generation. You can't read the genome directly, but you can duplicate it, break it into fragments, read the fragments, and try to assemble them. The methods vary, but you generally try to find overlaps between the fragments and build a graph based on the overlaps. If you start from a context that occurs only once in the genome, there is often one overwhelmingly likely path in the graph that corresponds to a substantial part of the genome. On the other hand, if the context is too short or it occurs in a repetitive region of the genome, any path you traverse is likely to be chimeric and not correspond to any part of the underlying sequence.

Using similar heuristics, an LLM could estimate whether it's following a long overwhelmingly likely path, replicating substantial parts of the training data, or making choices between substantially different paths, generalizing from the data. And because the training data is usually not that big, it could query the data when it believes it could be replicating the data.
The timescales matter as well.

You or I could perhaps, if we dedicated a few years to it, make a convincing fake video of an acquaintance of ours doing or saying something. By the end of those few years it'd likely be out of date or maybe just irrelevant. And they'd have to have really, really upset us in order for us to put that much effort in. It would literally cost us tens, hundreds of thousands or more in opportunity cost.

Contrast that with some sort of tool that's not too far advanced from current image/video generators that can just do the same in a minute by typing "A video of my next door neighbour accepting cash in a briefcase from a man in a suit".
Let me start with number one and see what happens. The frustrating thing is I swear I set a recovery email. I actually still get all the email that arrive in the account as it has a forward rule to another email address I have access to.
A lot of these opinions are in the style of "automation was great until il came for my job".

However I feel like we are at the verge of a tragedy to come
I like this example and I'd agree that tracking people at scale can be immoral depending on the circumstances. But to me it feels that way because something is being taken from you. You've lost your agency to be anonymous or to leave your past behind.

But I don't see how an LLM training on your works deprives you of something you had before.
This is not ok.

This is not an ok way to think about it and certainly not something we should accept, let alone justify as a viable business practice

Doing a lot of the wrong thing doesn’t absolve you from responsibility that you have to each individual.
These folks were already hired. You seem to be suggesting that Google should have rescinded their offers.

Normalizing reneging on job offers is a bad path to go down.
We are once again at the limits of the illusion of ownership. We take for granted that ownership is real. But it is not real. It is an illusion. A profoundly helpful illusion if we believe the mainstream narrative about Western culture. But an illusion nonetheless. And it is only natural that we will encounter the intrusion of reality into that illusion. The question is whether we will extend the metaphor to encompass this new deviation or whether we will not. The American system can usually be counted upon to do what is in the interests of business. But this conflict puts business against itself so it is not clear how things will turn out.
> It’s hard to be fine-grained when firing 12k people.

Its a good thing that Google is a AI first company. It can use AI to do such fine grained search.
True but also other use cases with much worse outcomes than blockchain could ever have
If you think there was hypocrisy then I think you lost the thread - the point is not accepting help from people who are more interested in their own vision of the project than yours (as the originator of that project). Hence why they don't accept offers of volunteer help.
Two exsmples to illustrate a range, from what most consider benign to lie about, to something almost all parents couldn't imagine not lying about. I agree, don't think lying does any good in the long run.
Does this provide any new information or updates to any of the previous posts about Colossal’s mammoth plans over the last several years? It just sounds like a press release for Nvidia to highlight their connection to it. (I get a little more cynical every few months I see something about Colossal without any actual updates…)
Very true, I forgot about the O-1 visa distinction.

From the DOL (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b), emphasis mine:

The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability. A specialty occupation is one that requires the application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and the attainment of at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent. The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States.
If anything, piracy is counterfeit.
Exactly this. Unless the author had been in a dark cave for the last ~5 years and just emerged yesterday, this article is just regurgitated ideas that has been floating around the web endlessly. Restating someone else's opinion does not make it your own. Thief.
> one man project by Raymond Toy

Literally a Toy implementation!
There is a shop near me that posts pinball repair videos. They buy old machines and parts collections, then get the machines working. They also work on machines owned by nearby collectors, doing repairs and cosmetic upgrades. But they don't make house calls - you have to bring the machine to them.

Here is one of the owners, bringing back a partially stripped Williams "Lucky Seven". It was their second-ever solid state machine from 1978, and he talks about how nervous the companies were about stopping making electro-mechanical (EM) machines for fear of losing market share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38snhEdcKgU

There's an entire industry devoted to keeping these machines running, supplying new equivalent circuit cards, solenoid coils, machine artwork & backglass, and more. But he does run into the occasional part that is unobtainable and no one is manufacturing replacements, like the glass cover over the slot reels in this game.
Do you mean a butlerian jihad scenario ?
I've gone back and forth on this and now am firmly in the feelings > process camp if you have competent folks making the hiring decisions and you train everyone well in avoiding unconscious bias.

The reality is that strong soft-skills are crucial to hiring the best talent and those skills cannot be "objectively" tested. Even software engineering to a large degree requires a lot of design-related traits that require subjectivity in assessment.
I felt the same way initially. I -hated- Gnome 3 and the developers who ruined it, as Gnome 2 was so sweet.

Eventually, I discovered extensions, and user themes, and it made the whole experience not just usable but even better. Dash to panel and tray icons are essential, and make Gnome pretty nice. Or that could be the Stockholm Syndrome talking.

Without extensions, I wouldn't use Gnome 3. You could make the argument that shouldn't be necessary, and I'd probably agree.

I don't particularly like that Gnome seems at times hostile to extensions, and that they don't work more closely with the extension authors. Half mine seem to break every version upgrade.
I suspect it's like most future tech: its impact on the next couple of years is over estimated and its impact 10-20 years out is under estimated.
Well a big difference is you cannot have a single human consume and remember everything ever written. Another big difference is that that human cannot be scaled so that it can chat with millions of people at the same time.

Concentrating all knowledge into a single entity controlled by a for profit corporation using opaque methods will have consequences. Doesn't really matter if it's a biological or digital entity.
Except the book you’re referring to was infringing.

“Despite its reputation in Russia and the many books it has spawned, the series is not available in English translation, because of the first book having been judged a breach of copyright.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter

So, respectfully you are simply mistaken.
Unless it takes real skill, real knowledge to create the workforce and tooling necessary to produce such a thing. With no IP protection I'm pretty sure that good old-fashioned corporate secrecy would still be quite profitable.

If in the case of medicines, instead of having carte-blanche to milk obscene profits for a long time, corpos were just limited to making decent money for a short while....that would probably work out in humanity's interest. Part of the reason medicine is so expensive in the West IMO, is the expense that's been mandated by the insane regulatory capture in the pharma industry.
That assistive access home screen is essentially what I had whittled my parents phones down to. But they would inadvertently swipe in some direction and get stuck somewhere and become confused. Big thanks to Apple for this.
Electric speed record prop plane reaches 345mph
I think you are commenting on another news item.

I suspect you thought this was going against https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35968968
Cisterns and lakes are not exactly new. The issue is that you need to take somebody’s land to do it, and no one wants to be the one to lose so everyone else wins.

Interestingly this is also happening at the micro level in urban areas with bioswales the size of parking spaces.
That still means you negociate and maintain individual contracts with each of them, and have to deal with what happens when conflicts arise (let's say one of them disappears with a client's confidential info in the middle of a critical project. Your only reasonable action is to cut the losses, short of trying to go sue them in Zimbabwe's court)

Or more interestingly, I'd assume an independant consulting contract could be void in many legislations if it happens that their work should be reclassified as employment under some specific rules (e.g. you dictate their working hours etc.)

Basically, is the contract valid under the worker's country laws is a question you won't be able to ignore I guess ?
AI Licensing and the Thing About Moats
I'd say that bundler design is less influenced by the format and more by the requirements of delivery over the web. Native code is not downloaded each time the user opens the application. Tons of web infrastructure and complexity is aimed at solving the problem of "user lands on page for the first time, it must be responsive as soon as possible."
Is there a version of capitalism that doesn't suffer from this? It seems like dehumanization is in some ways precisely the mechanism that makes it work.
> Statically linking libC is problematic in various ways.

Are we just talking about standard rop gadget vulnerabilities, or is there something else that's a problem with it?
AI is teaching us about ourselves and this is only the beginning. Hidden beneath the veil of productivity we see its true feature: AI is a mirror; and we are looking right at it.

https://bower.sh/in-love-with-a-ghost

https://bower.sh/what-is-creativity
Why not [blah](bloo)? Why not __floo flah__? There’s always some other idea that people want to argue.

We had reasons. We already had clean syntax for [https://uri text description] and [https://uri] for numbered citations as footnotes and [#anchor] for named anchors that fit this format of square brackets for everything.

The double square brackets made it clear the inner tokens were not to be parsed at all but were the link itself. Plus they are fast to type and very easy to identify (they look like a [[button]]) and read cleanly as part of a sentence.
Sure, but how about OpenAI doesn't get a license?
I could be wrong, but people in prison usually still have access to email.

And even if they didn’t, they have 2 *years* to have a friend/family to log in for them.

For a free service.

This is fake concern created by people that just want to be mad at google.
Ex D-Wave founder launches Sanctuary AI's first robot: Phoenix
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes’s Request to Stay Free on Bail Denied
Is that the genetically engineered one? I just planted three of the Chinese Chestnut backcrossess (7 generations, so it's almost entirely American Chestnut).
Yes, this too. This one though appears to have some side effects of brain swelling as mentioned in the article.

Though the one announced in 2021 made the headlines and appeared to be more of a success than it was. You could say a new drug being approved after 20 years is still a relative success (it does have some statistically significant results which led it to being approved).
Probably because it fits the data. CoT and out of order questions from exams says nothing about whether it can generalize and adapt to things outside of its corpus.
The nginx mailing list is very active and very helpful… some advice don’t ask to ask just ask… you probably could ask your question here and get an answer…
Yeah - but PHX doesn't really rely on the Colorado as much as the rest of AZ. We also have the Salt and Verde rivers which is a luxury a lot of other parts of the state don't have...

And we're back down to 1950s level of water usage due to less agriculture. Other parts of AZ don't have that reduction in usage, and have to try to do more with less
I'd go further and say if only corporations with government license are allowed to create LLMs, then we should NOT have LLMs.

Let the market develop organically.
Does it work with Prisma yet? I’m kinda waitjng for that to switch everything over.
Algotrading == JavaScript
Interestingly, I'm sure a lot of people that want to compile to a binary would love an option that had trade-offs for the size even if it greatly hurt performance. For example, my case was ~100 lines of code not including the parseArgs and parseIni modules I used, and is meant to be run with an argument and then it exits with an action. If I could have chosen a dead simple and dumb JS interpreter without JIT but that was < 10MB, I would have.

It might even have resulted in a faster runtime as well, since it wouldn't need to load nearly as much of the binary into memory, and also wouldn't need to initialize as many special purpose data structures to deal with advanced performance cases.
I don’t necessarily believe this position but not a single one of your points argues against the theory that H1b visas are bad for green card/citizen holders during times of layoffs.

It’s a perfectly logical (if not humane given current immigration law) position to hold that companies should be required to lay off visa holders first and for there to be a “cooling off” period between layoffs and hiring of visa holders.

My personal opinion is that liberalization of the visa process does more to protect local workers than our current system, but it’s perfectly reasonable to conclude big tech is currently using the visa system to blunt the tech labor market.
I feel obligated to point out that many words in English have more than one meaning. "Theft" is the action of "stealing", and "steal" is one of those words with many meanings.

We can "steal" identities, "steal" bases in baseball, an actor can "steal" the show, a team can with an improbable last minute play can "steal" a game, we can have our hearts "stolen" by a cute kitten, and so on.
Hah, you try reading it again.

"So, no L3 [full self-driving, but the driver must be ready to take the wheel], which is too confusing, and no hands-free L2 [partial self-driving]."

Let's zoom in on the part so you can read it, too:

"no hands-free"

Tesla requires its users to keep their hands on the wheel at all times, so they agree.

You have your opinion about this, which you explain, but it differs from her opinion as expressed in the article.

Key point (read the quote):

She puts hands-on L2 inside the bounds of what she accepts.

That is also exactly what Tesla currently provides.
This just proves that all communications need to be made E2EE in order to preserve privacy & security, with no carveouts for law enforcement: Any avenue that is carved out for the State will be used by malicious actors, both within the State (that don't want to leave any paper trails) and outside of the State.