skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Literally explaining why you could never have known,

That's the entire point of coming from the future to the past with information unavailable. It's pretty much Time Travel 101 sci-fi trope. Rather than going back in time with sports scores and stock picks, I was putting it towards nerdy tech dev. Sheesh
Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far
> Sure it can. Statistically there is some language semantics associated with that sentence, and given a large enough training data set, there will be a generated answer thats purely statistic.

This is very reductionist. Of course everything is numbers under the hood. But it's entirely orthogonal to the question. Numbers can encode all of the complexity needed for anything that can do reasoning. Numbers in the form of a neural network can execute arbitrary algorithms, given enough layers.

> Lets say I ask you the following question "Here we have a flibert, nine moltice, a grook, a seerik and a lopo. Please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable manner". You would be able to figure out how to stack them, given the fact that you have the ability to "reason" and figure out what those items are in the first place. In the same way, an AI that can reason would be able to do the same.

I really don't understand the purpose of this thought experiment. A human is able to figure this out because they can see what those objects are. Is your objection to language model reasoning that they are not multi-modal?

> Sure it can. Statistically there is some language semantics associated with that sentence, and given a large enough training data set, there will be a generated answer thats purely statistic.
Unsubscribe from partisan news and your partisan friends and you’ll find thats not unusual at all
I've used them for years and have had no major issues, and the wiki is good enough to follow along for most any normal setup you might have.

It is certainly a step up from "plug in and it works" consumer routers/APs but the setup has gotten much easier since the early days.

Recommended. And if you check you can even find some of their hardware can run OpenWRT so you have that as a backup.
> The error free solution to achieving lower prices is to increase supply and decrease demand, which are many times politically unachievable due to them requiring sacrifices (higher taxes, lower consumption, etc).

But in this case the lack of supply is due to a lack of competition, as a result of vertical integration.

Suppose you want a logic board for your PC. Well, it's not a secret what goes in it. It's got a circuit board, a processor socket, some memory slots, a network port, etc. If you have an Asus board and it goes bad or you need one with more memory slots, you can go buy another one from Asus, or you can get one from Gigabyte or ASRock or Supermicro that can be mounted in the same chassis and use the same processor, memory and storage devices.

Phones don't have to be any different. Some may argue that they can't be modular because of size and weight considerations. That's not true, companies have made modular phones. The Fairphone weighs about the same as the iPhone Pro Max, and in fact the Fairphone is marginally lighter. Shiftphone weighs 19g less than the iPhone 11.

But no one can make a logic board for an iPhone, because it uses a CPU that Apple won't license to anyone else. Even if you could make a board that fits in an iPhone chassis and could source memory chips and a baseband modem and so on, you can't get the CPU. And then iOS is tied to that CPU. That's why you can't get a replacement iPhone logic board from Gigabyte or run iOS on a Fairphone. It's not because Gigabyte doesn't know how to solder chips to a logic board or make one in the right shape to fit in the chassis, and it's definitely not because they don't want to take your money.
If ‘the company’ (unclear who that refers to. Bad statute-writing. Assume it means the same thing as entity but a court could interpret it however it chooses) or a ‘user’ (whoever that is) ‘operates’ the TikTok app in the territorial jurisdiction of Montana (insert your own interpretation of ‘operate’ and ‘in’) then a violation occurs for which ‘an entity’ is liable.

So if someone inside Montana launches the TikTok app on an iPhone either an App Store (presumably Apple’s) or TikTok itself is liable for that violation.
At least for once Betteridge was wrong.
Nintendo is a deeply Japanese company, and in Japanese animation, frame rate can be heavily deprioritized. If they have a limited budget, and have to choose between better art/design, or better frame rate, they'll choose the art every time.

Nintendo also clings closely to its roots as a toy manufacturer - their primary goal is to build games that are fun to play.

It shouldn't be surprising that their focus on creating beautiful, fun games resonates deeply with the wider populace. I do notice the framerate occasionally dip during complex scenes, but it's such a wonderfully designed game that I don't really care.
I thought the users already paid to get that traffic delivered to them. And the tech firms also have to pay for their bandwidth. But I guess 'fair' has nothing to do with it.
This claim (which ultimately came from the EPA) is suspect at best. It just comes from assuming a Linear No-Threshold model, which flatly contradicts the available body of medical evidence.

https://youtu.be/TYZglUjLE0Y
Or said another way, they can't say "we take your privacy seriously" without first saying "we take your privacy"!
> in my view copyright should be use it or lose it.

It serves an additional purpose with respect to takedowns of private material (such as revenge porn). Using that would obviate the purpose in the first place.

But yes, if something was available for purchase earlier, it should still be available later (and not just on the second-hand market).
Ridiculous take on multiple fronts, man.

-> The thing was released like two months ago, think what LLMs will do in like 10 years.

-> They likely want an industrial scale indestructible app for their multi-million $ product, they can take at least three months to build it.
If you ever need to use GNU make (still a popular tool) then you will be glad that you kept a policy of avoiding spaces in file names.

There are places in Makefiles where no amount of quoting will help you, and it simply cannot handle files with spaces.

Yeah, this is a problem with the tool that should be fixed, but my understanding is that it will never be fixed because of architectural reasons. And it's a very popular, useful, and most importantly, ubiquitous tool.

So this is another good reason to simply have a policy of banning filenames with spaces (and there are many more reasons).
OpenAI making intentionally racist and sexist models (or just extremely uninteresting and less competent; whatever the twitter mobs consider "safe" this week) isn't so much of an issue when people are free to train, fine-tune, and operate their own. In fact, OpenAI's freedom to make models that espouse whatever views they like ought to be strongly protected no matter how ill advised or repugnant.

But now OpenAI is lobbying the government to make it unlawful for others to do their own thing and that changes the equation significantly.
I'll just make a note of a few good ones..

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/121830/does-eart... There is no tidal bulge
Agreed. I'm not saying she isn't merely that we should think about why is this happening to her and not others with the implication that many more elites should be in prison not that she should get off.
That's a good point. Perhaps a refining of the question as to why there are fewer hackers in software specifically since you're right that the conditions exist for hacker development in electronics (and I'm super hype for a lot of that suff - I need to get off my butt and earn some $$).
If citizenship is citizenship, who the fuck are you to say that us citizens of south asian descent should go to another country?

This is just bigotry. Clear as day.

I was living in Virginia in 1989. You don’t get to tell me what I value.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Rumi

“Greece” extended from Sicily to Afghanistan to Egypt. Hellenization incorporated a lot of different people. Then Islam incorporated a lot of different people.
That's fantastic. I read in another comment that the startup time of the Pi is 5 seconds. Could this be optimized further? Afaik most of the startup time of Linux is detecting and initializing the hardware, so presumably this could be significantly optimized when the target hardware is known ahead of time.

I'm also sort of disillusioned with modern computing when I see a video of a home computer from the 80s that you press the power button and it's on (command prompt) before you've even removed your finger!
Don’t believe this, West Lafayette is terrible. Go Illini ;)
If your use case is you want IoT isolation, the standard advice is to just use separate SSID's.

If you are using one of the routers that has true VLAN support like the AX86U Pro, there are anecdotal reports of people getting it to work but it's hacks and workarounds.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/ax86u-pro-vlan.83996/

VLAN support in the AX86U (not Pro) would be a win. But it looks very hacky.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/l47ocn/secu...
The thing that makes me loathe Bash more than anything else is it’s 3 types are string, int, and list and those are not the only types of data I work with day to day.
This reminds me of the firewall that can be run on a floppy, floppyfw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppyfw
https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/index.html
Folks should read the article – the infringing act was NOT the creation of the art, it was the attempt by the Andy Warhol Foundation to license the image to Conde Nast.

> Here, the specific use of Goldsmith’s photograph alleged to infringe her copyright is AWF’s licensing of Orange Prince to Condé Nast. As portraits of Prince used to depict Prince in magazine stories about Prince, the original photograph and AWF’s copying use of it share substantially the same purpose. Moreover, AWF’s use is of a commercial nature. Even though Orange Prince adds new expression to Goldsmith’s photograph, in the context of the challenged use, the first fair use factor still favors Goldsmith.

That's not to say this doesn't touch on larger issues, or that this ruling won't have wider-ranging implications, but the text of the case makes it specifically about the licensing, not the creation of the work itself.
Without copyright, moneyed interests would be able to simply wait for promising new artists to create something that resonates with an audience, then copy that thing and aim their massive marketing budgets at dominating that audience with the new version owned by the [corporation, famous artist, etc].

Similar to how going viral with a new mobile game as an indie dev means you will almost immediately be cloned and pushed out by King et. al., removing copyright protections would mean that only the largest and wealthiest artists' and corporations' versions of art dominate the market. Creating something truly new and interesting would become simply a donation of that idea to the powers that be.

The main problem with copyright isn't it's existence, it's that technology has allowed the wielding of it to become too quickly and brutally applied a la youtube's automated DMCA system.
> Kagan and Roberts dissented. Seems like that would be an unusual duo to end up on the same side of a 7-2 ruling.

Its not, particularly, for an issue that isn’t tightly related to an issue that has been a strong partisan split of high salience in judicial nominations at the times they were appointed.
From the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
I'd hope that Apple would at least block applications that are doing trademark infringement which it seems like they are doing if they show up when someone searches for OpenAI ChatGPT
Excellent post, specifically love the observation that worse open source models + control is frequently better than better closed source models without control.
It's getting to the point where it seems absolutely silly that you can 'own' a particular arrangement of light and sound.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...

> McDonald's claimed that the reason for serving such hot coffee in its drive-through windows was that those who purchased the coffee typically were commuters who wanted to drive a distance with the coffee; the high initial temperature would keep the coffee hot during the trip.[12] However, it came to light that McDonald's had carried out research finding that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving.[22]
Sorry i dont get the point.
Wutang chose to not release the album publicly and it will most likely never be public.

copyright does not change that in any way, it would still be private without copyright - what am i missing?
My question would be "who is able to NOT be tracked?"
The US Congress passed copyright laws.

Reality raises questions on edge cases.

The courts clarify edge cases.

In this case, the courts' clarification just happens to be on "What sort of artistic transformation is sufficient to qualify for that copyright exception?"

This essentially clarifies that pasting (adding) something on top of a copyrighted work isn't sufficient. (Notably, there are other exclusions besides transformation that a work could also qualify for)
It's easy to test it with old text, why do you assume people saying that it has gotten worse haven't done so?
> What makes human intelligence different from today's AI is the ability to ask why, reason from first principles, and create experiments and models for testing hypotheses.

So my reaction was "citation needed" and "have you talked to GPT-4 at all?". But a few screens further on there's a ref to a Judea Pearl paper from five years ago. It'd be reasonable if this'd been published then.

(N.B. I'm not saying there's no difference from human intelligence.)
What? His reply is just a natural reaction to the hostile and reproachful tone of your comment.
What intellectual damage does it cause?

If I build a house, do I have ownership of it? Or should I allow someone to walk in, change the locks, repaint one of the rooms, and rent it out for their own profit without paying for it?

Artists create new things. That's the job.

There's a certainly a case to be made against parasitic rent-seeking which sweats existing resources for profit. But you're not going to have your "renaissance of art, science and culture" if the people working on it full-time aren't getting paid.

Mostly these arguments come down to "I want something for free so why I should pay for it?" and "I don't understand what these people do, it seems pretty replaceable and trivial, so it can't be worth anything."

It's classic management-think. It's exactly why so many jobs, including many elements of software development, are hugely undervalued, and why so many people have to work in harsh and aggressively inhumane environments.
DNS records don't take days
Because an AI cannot reason abstractly, including asking and answering questions of "Why?" and "How?", it is a cargo cult machine?

That the current LLMs have not achieved AGI is fair, but calling them cargo cult machines goes a bit far.

(We could have a cargo cult discussion about science, though, which put extreme titles on articles with little substance. This is cargo cult in my opinion.)
Right, in theory iOS should sandbox it. But all the other functionality that’s exposed is probably getting sent over (think ip address, connection settings, iOS OS fingerprint).
My guess is most of that data is just a keep-alive c2 style connection with ByteDance. Heaven forbid the CCP develops some iOS zero days and then has a list of every single iOS device that would be vulnerable to it.
I literally was unable to purchase something from Currys on my phone, it was so bogged down in JS madness that it just didn't work. It would only work on my computer, and then only in Chromium (the payment flow just stopped loading after entering the card details on Firefox). When I did manage to place the order, the payment was processed twice, so that white loading screen in Firefox did so something. When I picked it up, I was told that they can't process online returns, I would have to take the extra one away, arrange a return online and then bring it back.
I think the unaccountability of the high criminality of US elites is so entrenched that people read my comment and think I'm arguing that because no one else goes to prison Holmes should get off. On the contrary, we should be calling for more prison for more elites but also not be naïve as to why Holmes is going down in this instance.
Somehow using default zip functionality creates files that are corrupt according other software.
So, does this run on iOS, or is it a wrapper of some privacy invading cloud thing?

It says it syncs between devices. Is it E2E sync, which is kind of table-stakes for the iOS ecosystem at this point?
I'm in the middle of moving from Texas to New England. In Texas, Radon is such a "not a problem", that I've never considered it before our move. In New England, our basement tested above the "safe" limit (iirc, 4 somethings), so we are having a venterlator installed for ~$1.4k.

In the south, Radon "can" be an issue, but it simply isn't an issue. In New England, it is often an issue.
For my specific setup and a single row lookup, the ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 is faster (0.1 ms vs. 1.2 ms).

The ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 one is the same as the DISTINCT ON query, but the DISTINCT ON can return more than one resource.
I've been thinking about getting a cheap Mac mini and shoving inside a custom mechanical keyboard. Basically acting as a slab top with ridiculously low power draw for the performance.
Supreme Court declines to address Section 230 in Gonzalez v. Google
I categorically reject the notion that LMMs (Large Markov Models) can ever be aware or intelligent. Comparing weighted next-word-engines to feeling, thinking, aware beings is insulting.
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multi-core architectures have been optimized for web servers i.e. tons of clients hitting relatively simple backend processes. also, my day-to-day gui workstation (ancient xeon mac) gets far more core usage than my dev server (threadripper) which is honestly kind of a waste of money, but it's shiny so i bought it anyway. it should last me a decade+ just like my gui workstation has.

now that single-core GPU/CPU/TPU/whatever performance is back on the front burner i think we'll see some horsepower and compiler improvements over the next few years. luckily the i/o problem has made great strides in the meantime so network/memory/storage will be there to support it, unlike in the past. ecc ram is also plummeting in cost, so that's good.
> Little woody's is a $7.50 burger but has no sides. add fries for 3.5 and you are at $11.

Or better yet, how much is a burger at Dick's now?
I've been following DuckDB for a while now, and even tinkered with a layer on top called "IceDB" (totally needs a rewrite: https://blog.danthegoodman.com/introducing-icedb--a-serverle...)

The issue I see now is that there is no good way to know what files will match well when reading from remote (decoupled) storage.

While it does support hive partitioning (thank god), and S3 list calls, if you are looking at doing inserts frequently you need some way to merge these parquet files.

The MergeTree engine is my favorite thing about ClickHouse, and why it's still my go-to. I think if there was a serverless way to merge parquet (which was the aim of IceDB) that would make DuckDB massively more powerful as a primary OLAP db.
> but they are highly sensitive to beta

I’m not familiar with Geiger counter design/specs but would the considerable static electricity send some electrons into the detector and cause a false positive beta hit?
Why did nobody tell the GDPR folks to require websites and browsers use one standard interface for the permission updates? It could have been so simple. Just let the browser prompt me so I can tell the browser once and for all what I want. Instead it created a website UX virus.
So pay and get a license from the original artist?
Are these things HN readers didn't know?

I didn't know you can do operator overloading in Java (with Manifold). That would be interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwQs-308OdY
As far as approach is concerned, all the bitter lesson advises against is trying to shoehorn human high level processes into the architecture. There's still plenty of room for different approaches outside of just faster compute.

CNNs and Transformers are very different. Both can be used for computer vision. The bitter lesson wouldn't stop you from switching from one to the other.
This is such a ludicrous comment chain. The tone was clearly negative. You said you said you wanted to have a chat "about needing to envision longer term visions for how nefarious people can be".
The CAP theorem.
Don’t Build Software
It's true that many businesses which build software have no business writing software.
Deepmind was literally founded in the UK and is headquartered in London.

Comercially supported research is (in my opinion) relatively OK in Europe, its just that the big US tech companies are so big they'll just buy you if you do something sufficiently interesting.
Open source will be behind always since it is harder to organize a large group of people and once it publishes it will be copied by big players, however if an organization like the original OpenAI gets formed that is truly non-for-profit and support the community, I believe it can beat big players. I think only Meta is the company that can support such an organization at the moment.
Radxa Rock-5B PCIe and RTL8125B networking in U-Boot
I think a lot of AI stuff is really cool and promising, but am dismayed by how impressed people are by it sometimes, especially the visual output of systems like DALL-E. Seems like machines are testing our intelligence, rather than the other way around.
How to Speed Up the Emulating Process with Pydrofoil
The web version is very far from perfect on an iPhone.

It keeps logging me out, the copying UX is subpar… And god forbid I lock my phone while I'm getting a completion back. It stops mid sentence and there is no way to continue with it. Which (locking one's phone for a bit while interacting with it) is a very valid use case if you are doing stuff with your hands and want to put the phone in your pocket for a bit.

I'm looking forward to the app.
Driving is not a right but a privilege so it makes sense.

Obviously if folks were guaranteed the ability to drive around, then the liability system wouldn't make sense.
If that's really all you need, Termux on Android has you covered.
> Louis Rossmann videos, NYC is headed back to the dumpster

It's not and he's wrong and I'm sure there's plenty of other media you could consume that would be less ridiculous
IMHO, the best resource to learn about both Unix shell usage at the command-line prompt, and shell programming in .sh script files, is still the book "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, except for shell gotchas and subtleties which were discovered later.

Of course, they still would not have covered all possible issues known even at that time, because that was not the focus of the book, which was to be a Unix tutorial, not just on shell, but many other commands, general Unix usage, and the environment too (hence the title of the book).

But they did cover and warn about some issues, including giving solutions.