skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will push back here. The fossil record shows change over time. There are several theories consistent with the facts:

(1) Evolution by natural selection

(2) Evolution guided by God

(3) God created the world 5000 years ago, but didn't want to leave evidence to leave open the question of faith

There are many others. You will find some more reasonable than others, and for others, it's the reverse. A big part of what I'd like my son to develop is empathy: being able to step into the mind of others, and understand what they think.

Even if "they're wrong" and we're fighting "them." If he were growing up in Ukraine, I'd like him to be able to understand the Russian soldiers' mindset. That fits into Sun Tzu / Understand Your Enemy.

In the scientific process I learned in high school, we have hypotheses confirmed with experiments (the current process adds things like preregistration and replication). For things which only happened in the past, we can't follow this process; it's fundamentally extrapolation.

Yes, we can observe and simulate evolution right now, but unless we invent a time machine, we can't know -- in a scientific sense -- that's what led to where we are today over millions of years. That's the whole micro-/macro-evolution debate.

Getting back to Sun Tzu, without understanding the intellectual basis, it's impossible for you to have a meaningful conversation with a well-educated young earth creationist. In a debate, they WILL win. You might be right, but your arguments won't be. In a discussion, you'll look like an idiot. Stepping up a level, politics will become more polarizing because your side will be painted as idiots to them, and vice-versa.

That's what I don't want for my child.
Same here. Very cool looking, but today everything is a subscription. And we are a bootstrapped statup, in the end it adds a lot.
Insane, the amounts of energy we casually carry around. It has to be said, though, that electricity is useful for a lot more than petrol is. If you'd want to use this 26m³ for powering some machine, like your vacuum cleaner, you'll lose a lot of this energy in the process (wikipedia says "most engines retain an average efficiency of about 18–20%") whereas putting electrons through a wire into an electric motor has much lower losses ("up to 98% for permanent magnet motors", another Wikipedia article).
I think this is a very thoughtful, high-quality post.

A lot of people are saying that this is all way too much drama and analysis for a language community, and I do think a lot of this was overblown; but I think posts like this ones are symptoms of a healthy community, that takes the time to understand problems and have thoughtful discussions about them.

I think it's better to have a mindset of "talk about problems soon and often" rather than "don't think about it, let it blow over", even if the observable result is a lot of hand-wringing sometimes.
Well, we have internet using hundreds of expendable satelites that is somehow expected to be cheaper than 5G or fibre. For some reason, people really seem to dislike cables...
You can get the Adobe suite for that much.
The difference is scale.

An artists studying and copying/integrating other people's art in their own style can get a job for $75,000/year.

An LLM copying/integrating everyone's data and reselling can become the most profitable company in human history, and capture the most value of every incremental piece of human generated content, in perpetuity.
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This thread was awesome. From the informative takes about legal issues of drones to the comments on finding work you care about. A rewarding read.
Yeah, if the end result is that the majority of Google searches are answered by a llm trained on their index can they really claim that the whole thing is fair use?
Might be HN's auto-capitalization behavior when submitting.
I'm curious about the security implications with using distcc. Doesn't this mean that if one computer gets compromised, the attacker can run code on all other computers using distcc, or secretly inject malicious code in the build result.

So using distcc means that all computers using it must be trusted. And that means that using it on "all developers computers to share the load" is good for performance but bad for security.
You seem to have taken the words "policing by consent", applied your own interpretation of what that means and focussed on that. From the second paragraph, we can see that the actual meaning of that phrase is in this context is:

> "Policing by consent" indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so.

So there's a bit more nuance and explicitly references transparency, integrity and accountability. If you keep reading there's a nice list of 9 principles in a pretty easy-to-digest form further down the page which set things out in a bit more detail.

This doesn't mean that the UK's police is perfect (see the recent report on the Met police down in London for one example), but it means that they're driven by different goals/principles and held to different (arguably higher) standards than those in, for example, the USA.
Thing is, you can't load javascript code... But you can easily write a mini virtual machine to run any code you download from the web. And due to javascripts introspection abilities, that VM can (if the developer wishes) do anything.

The simplest javascript bytecode interpreter is probably only a few hundred bytes, which is easy to hide in a big extension.
> As per the current policy, we only accept reports from services that have a security.txt file pointing to the security policy.

So if their security.txt doesn't point to a service someone finds an issue with they won't respond?
A magnet URI is a little bit like a web link in the sense that it refers to a particular piece of data, but it doesn't point to any particular host or location. It is merely a hash of the files it describes. So in other words, the link doesn't tell you where the particular content can be found, it only tells you what the content is that it refers to.

To actually find the content in question you take the link, go on a peer to peer network, and basically ask machines if they have the content in question available or know where it is. There's various ways to do that, in some cases your torrent app might know the location of some centralized "tracker" servers, and ask those servers whether they know locations for those files. Some torrents are "trackerless" and use a DHT, a type of distributed database that keeps information about where to find files.
> the path langage makes it unreadable.

at least this part seems over-the top criticism :-)

Anything that can capture free-form graphical information will be unreadable. You could represent paths with points but that would make it more inefficient.

The thing to keep in mind too is that because it fell out of favor the standard has not really evolved.
Can you suggest any books or resources on how to effectively apply spaced learning?
Or just accept that for some cases, using non-renewble energy sources is more feasible. E.g. disaster relieve, instead of parking a battery ship, that still needs a grid to connect to, use diesel generators and conventional tankers.
If you keep your hands dry or if you're a male, then 48VDC can be quite safe too.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chp...

We're running out of copper. So better keep your voltages on the high end (but still safe of course).

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/07/there-isnt-enough-copper-in-...
> How about the 1,370 caused by those driving under the influence?

How exactly is it solved by self-driving? Your self-driving car won’t suddenly turn reality into fast&furious or whatnot and won’t be able to prevent an accident caused by someone else being grossly irresponsible with their car, and unless you mandate literally everyone to switch cars I don’t see it helping at all.

The problem is those assholes that drive that way — unless you can selectively replace them (at which point we could just ban them from driving and be happy), you won’t be actually ahead.
Why is the news section showing me a palate of DeutcheWelle and AlJazeera???

But I like the simplicity of older webpages sometimes. Overengineering websites such as Reddit is useless beyond testing out new ideas.
I don't know how Apollo works and that's why I lifted it more as an open question.

But my HN client cache the frontpage when you go through the articles so you have to manually press a button to refresh it once you want to see something new. Does the latest scoring from this minute actually matter? Similarly, there's little need to automatically refresh the comments if you go away from a thread and click back within one minute. Maybe you can implement another method for dealing with upvotes/downvotes so they don't require API requests.

It just seems crazy that the average person uses multiple hundreds of API requests per day.
And I was needlessly nitpicking. I mostly found it amusing to read a few sentences about not having a GPU, when almost every piece of software that renders anything has come to depend on GPUs.
4-Bit Finetuning of Falcon LLMs
Some base requirements like not hitting a stationary fire truck/concrete block would be a good start.
This is why it’s important to support free culture models like SD and LLaMA.
Much or some OpenAPI tooling has not even moved past OpenAPI 2.0 some even refusing and saying that they will not update to Swagger 3.0 [0] and others have issues open since some 2019 and still open with no resolution in sight (because these are individuals doing out of passion and the spec is complex to implement) and yet we have Open API spec 4.0

All this is - trying to do RPC over HTTP in a fashion that was deemed virtuous in some doctoral thesis.

I wish there were better alternatives for RPC that work everywhere including browsers.

EDIT: typos

[0]https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/issues/1122#issueco...

[1]https://github.com/swaggo/swag/issues/386
Occasionally? Had he ever say anything remotely smart?
Heard of it, but I’m still wondering why every RFC looks like it’s from 1998. We work with structured data all the time.

Then I remembered the armistice between yaml and toml and how I’m still confused about why the python community was torn asunder.

(lol. One looked like python to devs on mac/linux, and one looked like python to windows users who used INI a lot. Only a true scotsman uses plaintext, HTTP-style)
Does this stop working if you stop subscribing, or do you just lose access to updates? This needs to be made very clear.
Can anyone explain the architecture/how it works at a high level? I get that it is distributed. Does it basically copy the complete source tree to every worker and have them compile some independent subset of the object files? Does performance scale linearly with the number of worker nodes?
> These days, politics and PR frustrate me because the tactics are no longer among 16 year old classmates but about things that actually matter.

That’s because the audience is usually at the stage of a 16 year old, even if they are older. The aim of politics and pr are easily manipulated folks.

You know, those referred to as the “the market” or “the electorate”.
Very cool, but out of my price range unfortunately
Far right extremism - call it with its name: fascism - is gaining traction every year in may EU countries, including mine. I have no idea if that's more the result of ruthless politicians speaking to people's bellies rather than their minds, which is a well known recipe for success among uneducated masses, or simply that more people don't trust progressive parties anymore (which could be explained by growing vote abstentionism in some countries), or both, but the result is anyway a worrying slide towards another backward destructive era which shouldn't find place in a modern civilized world.
You could probably run a successful "ai design" scam where you ask your mark a bunch of psychographic details about the customer and product, then ask them for their website url.

You discard all the psychographic data and blindly apply let's call "apple-ify.css" where you change the fonts, colors and contrast to just knockoff apple and then charge something like $499 for it with an elaborate pitch using buzzwords about machine learning and big data on how you're doing the latest in analysis driven design with cutting edge AI.

Meanwhile it's just a stupid static css file.

It'd probably work frighteningly well
What could possibly make you say that? I am the author, and an engineer. I pay my engineers 1% salaries and give them lots of toys. They get autonomy and purpose in their work. What more could you want?
IME sometimes you're lucky and it goes to a product manager, but then it is often put in the backlog with 100s other tasks.
Tell them to follow my lead.
Some examples trying to deal with this involving Mastodon (years before the Twitter Musk debacle) :

Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable ["child porn"]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064

Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894684

How the biggest decentralized social network is dealing with its ["]Nazi["] problem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429465

Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29079404
Good, copyright is broken anyway.
900! For lifetime use! I remember when Photoshop wasn't even that much.
Your first link is incorrect, it should be:

https://mijn.overheid.nl/.well-known/security.txt

which redirects to the second one.
The privacy issue isn’t just about the data being available as people’s names, addresses, and phone numbers are generally available. The issue is if they show up as part of some meme chat and then you as the LLM creator get sued because people start harassing them.

In terms of copyright infringement the bar is quite low, and copying is a basic part of how these algorithms work. This may or may not be an issue for you personally but it is a large land mine for commercial use especially if you’re independently creating one of these systems.
> I don't think you understand what's being proposed here. I expect that, as today, the AI output will absolutely be copyrighted and strictly protected against any attempt to copy it by others. However these protections won't apply to the inputs a company will use to train the AI.

And the output of that will not be copyrightable to train AI, whose output will be copyrightable, but not to train more AI, ad infinitum.

Copyright is the problem here, not AI.

> ...and oh yeah, if the Sam Altmans of the world get their way you'll need a license from the government to run your own AI model.

That may be impossible to enforce, as models leak into the world, and you can run then offline in a sufficiently powerful machine.

Let's hope that becomes the case.
I looked it up and women are more neurotic on average, apparently (using the Big Five personality trait definition). specifically, GAD and panic disorder are nearly twice as common in women [1], and somatic symptom disorder (preoccupation with symptoms) is 10x more commonly diagnosed in women [2] (though [3] suggests the true prevalence may be much more equal.)

this isn't surprising to me, as a woman with several anxiety disorders - sex hormones have profound effects on the brain, and it matches my experience.

the issue is that doctors see more neurotic women than men who present with complaints that turn out to be benign, so they become dismissive. but women still get sick, even us hypochondriacs, so having a doctor primed to dismiss your issues is dangerous.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

2. https://www.physio-pedia.com/Somatic_Symptom_Disorder (I've had trouble finding a non-paywalled source for the 10:1 but it seems to come from Medscape.)

3.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/215013190935333...
Yeah the guy i shared the video from is another person with a 20 minute video of screenshots, so he fits the exact same description.

My point was more that unless someone credible wants to spend days investigating we will never know the truth here, except for the obvious truth staring us in the face: stay away from _all_ _these_ _people.
Not "fantasy," as in magic and dragons and such.

Fantasy, as in whimsy, as in unqualified wonder.

Too many games, shows, and movies these days feel compelled to explain why things are the way they are.
It is literally orders of magnitude harder to commute on roads than flying, and is very likely GAI territory. This cute little robot vacuum logic won’t cut it and won’t be better on its own.
> Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register.

Copying the Google+ model, nice. We all saw how very well that went.
40% of reddit posts are marked NSFW. All those won't be able to be accessed from the API.

And those NSFW posts are far from just porn. It's frequently news (especially related to war), the "vice" subreddits (cigars, guns), mental health subreddits, ect.

Also, 4x of Apollo Ultra is probably not enough. After the Appstore takes its cut and the dev pays himself, you're not left with enough money to pay for the API access of the power users you're now inevitably left with. Powerusers, who, again, can't access 40% of posts on your app.
I agree with other replies that UK policing of protests is deeply flawed. Especially in Northern Ireland where policing is done completely differently. But apart from NI, there are several ways that UK policing differs from the US:

- They basically never use weapons like tear gas or rubber/plastic bullets to control crowds. There is limited use of pepper gas, but generally it's criticised when it happens.

- They do not ordinarily carry guns. Some specialist units do, but it's rare. Even heavy duty riot control police will have batons and shields at best. It's easier to feel comfortable about a police force that won't kill someone due to an itchy trigger finger.

- Community focus. In the UK the police will engage with local authorities, community leaders, residents etc in a polite and respectful way in order to support the reduction of crime in the area. If you are lost or need any kind of assistance, asking a police officer for help is always going to result in a positive outcome. It's very common to come out of a train station and see a couple of police happily chatting away with some of the locals.

This webpage is pretty good for more detail: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/race-an...
Or they will respond by slamming down your door at 6AM :D

I take it as a way to say "don't even think of touching the services that don't have the security.txt file".
how dare you use my favorite paul verhoeven movie against me. ahaha. touche.
I mean if you're just going to keep repeating that then there's no point continuing this conversation. The Reuters link I provided clearly shows that Russia is projecting growth this year.
Might it be that because they know that their own morals and ethics are so fluid that they therefore think than everyone else is the same and thus has to be surveilled to be sure to have "performance...? Just a thought....
No, political ideology is genetic.
Caution this is very very experimental but you can build your own, and there are kits on Amazon that sell products as well. There's a whole universe of jargon and methodologies concerning "montage" but the community likes to study these through scientific right.

Here is a starting point

https://www.reddit.com/r/tDCS/comments/2e7idx/simple_montage...

I'm not an expert, attempt at your own risk
> You can make private works if you want to keep control of them, but at some point the public deserves to share and rework the things that have been pushed into the public consciousness.

There's already a licensing framework for artists doing this - should they wish to. It's called Creative Commons, and allows a pretty fine distinction of rights from public domain to free for personal use not commercial, and everything in between.
https://creativecommons.org/

I agree our shared culture in some sense ultimately owns the productions of the culture. But that's wildly different to (and in some senses the opposite of) letting private companies enclose, privatise and sell those products back to us. As for example Disney has done over and over again, taking myths transcribed by the Brothers Grimm, or classic novels now in the public domain, 'reinterpreting' them and viciously enforcing copyright on these new interpretations.

The entire point of copyright law is to allow the Bach's of this world to profit from their work - without having to die in poverty and obscurity, as so many artists and musicians have historically, even while others have profited from their work at scale.

> Humans have always learnt by studying what's out there already.

Finally - as other commentators have noted, there's really no similarity at all between a human at human pace studying and integrating understanding of a piece or genre of art, and an AI training to replicate that work at scale as perfectly as possible. A much better comparator would be the Chinese factory 'villages' that reproduce paintings at scale for the commercial market, without creativity or 'art' being a part of the process. But even that is a poor analogy, since individual humans mediate the process. A really good analogy would be a giant food corporation like Nestle somehow scanning the product of a restaurant and then offering that chefs unique dishes that had taken years to invent for nearly free - using the same name and benefiting from the association.
Take a look at https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psycho... and mutualism, patronage, crowdfunding, bounties and commissions, which seem to be good alternative models for post-scarce goods such as digital data.
I used this in a uni lab (good lord 15 years ago) when we needed to compile for a robot. It took maybe an hour or two to compile run directly on the robot but I was able to setup distcc to run on all the lab machines in that room and get things done fast.
> I wouldn't be surprised if their economy collapses/stagnates before this day even comes.

As predicted every year for the past 15 years.
In the real world Russia is making pre-war level profits of its energy exports. It's like you don't understand the concept of supply and demand, the need for the energy and other commodities that Russia was exporting hasn't magically gone away, and you can't just make these things appear out of thin air. The fact that so many people are unable to wrap their heads around is idea is just amazing.
Axle’s Red Rectangle of Doom
People have experimented on themselves and found it to support that
This form of argument by the author breaks down very quickly.

Rich people get away with a lot of shit poor people don’t. Theft, scams, murder, genocide, illegal wars, etc.

The equivalent of this argument would be that locking people up for murder is simply a pretext for rich people controlling the masses because they rarely if ever get caught whereas the poor and ordinary are locked up for it all the time, therefore those advocating for legalizing murder are not really wrong.
> I believe HN has around 1.5-2.5 million and the content here is way better than Reddit.

I have to heavily disagree with this. Reddit content is way better in both quality and quantity. The only thing worse is maybe the Signal to noise ratio, and even that is questionable. For example, askHistorians is a gem. Many subreddits are very useful. Moreover, for many questions, I find myself adding "reddit" on google. Not once have I needed it to find useful content on hacker news.
I wonder sometimes if the right to representation should include the right to have an (attractive, well dressed, female, white) actor play you during the trial...