skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. I was developing today on a M1 MacBook Pro using Keras and TensorFlow, libraries that support Apple Silicon fairly well.

I will wait and see but the future for DL dev on Apple Silocon may get competitive. I am also watching George Hotz’s work on supporting AMD GPUs.
Thought experiment: Say you make a big list of words and pleasing combinations of them (I have actually done something similar to make a fantasy RPG name generator.)
Now convert that list into a Markov chain or whatever and quasi-randomly generate some short lengths of text.
Eventually you might generate copyright-infringing haiku and short poems.
Does your data/algorithm violate copyright by itself? Very doubtful; you wrote it all yourself. Only publishing the output violates copyright. (See also: http://allthemusic.info/)

So if that's legal, how about if, instead of entering the data manually, you write an algorithm to scan poetry and collect statistics about the words in it.
Should the legal distinction be any different since all you did was automate the manual process above?

Or what if you used a big list of the titles of poetry, which isn't even copyrightable information by itself?
You may still succeed in extracting the aesthetic intent of the authors, and a statistical model can plausibly use that to generate copyright-infringing work.

Remember, we're not talking about generating novels or paintings here, just 20 words or so (whatever the bare minimum copyrightable amount is) in trillions of generated permutations.

You can see where I'm going with this. If those examples are legal, is there a cut-off for more complex statistical systems? Good luck figuring that out in a court of law.
What did he do that was fascist?
There are various tools that will do some of this, utoipa [1] for rust and
play-swagger [2] for scala + play that I've used in the past and enjoyed. They generate a significant portion of your spec for you, then a client can be generated from the spec.

[1] https://github.com/juhaku/utoipa

[2] https://github.com/iheartradio/play-swagger
> Hard disagree

Agreed! Some of us enjoy browsing our notes + ideas. I even treat trash as a folder :P until it really is out of my way or I accidentally go through a backup...
The density is such that I feel its insulting to lump it in with "clean, modern", certainly. Also, is it just me, or does it evoke some Google Wave UI vibes?

I wish I didn't have to choose between Zulip's UI/UX and Matrix's federation, client availability and obvious bright future...
Bluegrass jams too.

Seems like the less popular the genre, the more interactive the amateur musicians are.
Iirc, the power grid frequency is adjusted over the long term to give excellent long term stability. A crystal will drift.
When i tried out bing 1-2 weeks ago and asked it for code it would start writing and after a few lines, realize it was writing code and stop and delete what it had written.

I tried it again tonight and it seems like they fixed it to only produce small amounts of mediocre code instead.
If there is a fandom for buying someone's bathwater, a theme park fandom doesn't sound really that out there!
The fact that this gets you playing along made this fun to play with. The tuner will be really useful.
A unified API for all the GPU clouds?
I'm thinking something that would let me provision and shut down gpu instances across all the clouds with GPUs through one api interface. I know skypilot exists but that's more from training than just infra.
> "?siht daer uoy naC"

That took me a while to figure out and I’m a human… as far as a I know anyway.
Indeed, and then second order effects where elasticity might change as the platform gains or loses users.
Ah, ok. Thanks.
Like you said, it's difficult to articulate but let me try. Growing up in FL, my family would go a lot of parks even though I was deathly afraid of roller coasters and most rides to be honest (wish I could go back in time and tell myself that I'd regret not riding all these classic now removed Universal and Disney rides). In my early teen years that fear turned to obsession and I was devouring all the information about parks as I could get, especially fansites and Travel Channel specials since it was at the very early days of social media. I eventually got over the fear and the obsession has waxed and waned over the years but I still love the parks as much as ever.

For a while my fandom was driven by roller coasters and especially the forces and feelings you get on them (the acceleration of a launched coaster and airtime in particular) but as I've matured a little, I think I find the escapism of the themed entertainment more and more appealing. The world is a complex and sometimes awful place. But in these parks I can forget all that, I can relax and watch other people's happiness or take part in epic stories on rides. It's hard to describe but they just feel like home. I was at Universal in FL a couple of weeks ago and I think I rode like 5 rides all weekend even though I had skip the line passes? I just enjoy being there and taking in the themeing and atmosphere.
How much does it cost for the layperson, and where can one get it?
I'm a big bioreconstruct fan as well. For me, theme parks are an amalgam of nearly every technical and creative discipline in the pursuit of telling some sort of story that you can walk through and explore yourself. Watching that all come together and seeing all the behind the scenes work is fascinating, particularly when we are almost always kept in the dark about details until opening.
How to get started with trial projects
Hey HN, This is Bhargav. I just went through YC Co-founder Matching User Manual. Can anyone tell me how to begin working with a potential cofounder on a trial basis?
So, I looked at the table appendix you're referencing and I think you're overstating your case a bit.

Among books within copyright, GPT-4 can reproduce Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with 76% accuracy. This is, apparently, the highest accuracy GPT-4 achieved among all tested copyrighted books with 1984 taking a distant 2nd place at 57%.

With this in mind, we can verifiably say that GPT-4 is unusually good at specifically reproducing the first Harry Potter book. An unscrupulous book thief may very well be able to steal the first entry in the series... assuming that they're able to get past one quarter of the book being an AI hallucination.
Agreed. I'm still using 2.0. I don't write the JSON directly (except for the JSON Schema part), nor do I look at it directly. These major backwards-incompatible changes don't seem like the right move to me, they fragment the tooling and make it difficult for a given library to support multiple versions.

This is almost like calling JSON as XML 2.0.
> This will be easily proven by people moving from Reddit to an alternative. Or disproven by not moving to an alternative.

This ignores the nature of network effects. The value of the thing is precisely that other people are using it. That's not a value that's created by reddit, it's a value that's _exploited_ by reddit.

"Just go somewhere else" requires either a phenomenal degree of coordination, OR to just bite the bullet that not everyone will move to the same place at the same time, which fragments the community (which was, again, the bulk of the value in the first place).

The difficulty of network effects is that, as the group gets larger, the value goes up faster than linear AND the cost of coordinating a migration ALSO goes up faster than linear. A gathering that's 1/10th the size, isn't worth 1/10th as much. It's _significantly_ weaker. And migrating en-mass is an n^2 coordination problem. It's closer to a hostage situation than it is to a value-add.

> How did it come to control a cultural meeting point? Was it because they owned a server farm and employed people to create a website people wanted to use at the right time and the right place?

Kinda don't care? Maybe they worked hard for it, even. Does that justify indefinite control of an important resource? Legally probably, but you can tell I think it shouldn't.
I ran OSForensics on the machine last night. It was my first time running a tool like this, and I while I didn't manage to find a smoking gun, I did find some questionable files masquerading as an installer where there were all kinds of different files and file types but they were actually all executables. I wound up deleting those.

What I did discover is that by default Chrome captures and stores every field you submit to every form in a SQLite database. The amount of PII that turned up was absolutely staggering. If I could only exfiltrate one file from a machine, it would be that.

It sort of boggles the mind that that's a thing at all. I don't ever want to touch a browser ever again.
As a moderator on reddit, I can assure you it is in no way lucrative. It is just another thankless chore with no monetary upsides.
1. I like some of the IP, and being immersed in experiences is fun

2. They are one-of-a-kind. It's rare to see something made that isn't mass produced, and I have a similar appreciation for other things that don't come out of a factory.

3. There is interesting engineering involved.
It just seems like willful vandalism at this point, what is happening to Reddit.
1800 is much greater than zero - the number of employees who express overt dissent of any form at the vast majority of tech companies.

The fact that expressing concern of any form about the company's direction is cast as "shitting on the company", or will otherwise get you flagged has having a bad attitude -- is a great part of what prompts these people to organize in the first place.
I note that SIMDe doesn't have RISC-V vector support yet (but it does support Loongson LoongArch):

https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/

There are still a ton of things to do to get the Debian riscv64 port going too:

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New
https://wiki.debian.org/Ports/riscv64
Whether MS is good or not isn't really the point. If they're constrained by GPU availability, being locked in to any specific provider is going to be a problem.
The porn/memes/5 jokes on reddit are far more valuable than any ideological conformity you might perceive. Sometimes we all need to take a step back from our entrenched political positions - the recent history of the internet clearly shows that misinformation is targeting a particular side of politics and it's proving to be the fast track to 1930s Germany in the US at least.

Rather unfortunately, the position that "my opinion is unpopular, therefore contrarian and correct" is something that is easily manipulated. The demographic that falls for conspiracy theories loves to amplify the idea that they have some secret / esoteric knowledge. Again, a great way to manipulate people, encourage violence etc.
Off-topic note Humanloop might want to redesign their logo. It's been the Australian Broadcasting Corporation logo since 1963. Maybe pick a different Lissajous curve.
I am the developer of Voice In (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/voice-in-speech-to...), a Chrome extension with 300k+ users.
Every month, I have 2-3 folks reach out asking for one of two things:

1) Something something Bing. Here is one from two days ago - https://imgur.com/a/KOwLRIC

2) They want anonymized web browsing data.

Google just yesterday sent out an email cracking down on this. From the email:

To better protect users' browsing experience, the Quality Guideline changes clarify that an extension's purpose is to provide complimentary functionality for the browsing experience and should not seek to hijack a user's browsing or search experience. This update aims to ensure that users have full control over their browsing sessions, without any unwarranted interruptions or manipulations. By enforcing this policy, we strive to foster a safer and more enjoyable environment for all Chrome users, where their trust and satisfaction remain our top priorities. Together, we can create a web ecosystem that respects users' autonomy and offers seamless browsing experiences that truly enhance their lives.
I hope smarter minds than myself will somehow figure out a way to square this circle and get heavy restrictions on commercial usage without killing the technology outright.

As far as AI rap goes: Notorious BIG is (by far) my favorite rapper of all time, yet he died in his early 20s with barely any unreleased songs in the vault. For me, as an aging superfan, AI deepfakes have me feeling 15 again - like Biggie is still alive somewhere and dropping covers of other classic rap tracks on YouTube.

I wanted to link an example of an AI Biggie cover of a Nas classic, but the full thing seems to have vanished off YT after getting some press a few weeks back. A Shorts snippet is all I could find quickly.[1]

And if you’re not a fan of old rap, these Michael Jackson[2] and Freddy Mercury[3] “AI cover songs” are absolutely wild.

I just don’t see how this sort of stuff holds zero cultural value. Yes, it’s fake and a cover song to boot - but if the music elicits an emotional response that differs from both “original” artists of the deepfake, isn’t that art?

1. https://youtube.com/shorts/l81JqY2uhEo

2. https://youtu.be/370dSdNRYG4

3. https://youtu.be/XiZtIARF0iM
There are also schools in India (mostly in the large metros) that directly offer the IB and Cambridge Assessments for high school. They follow the same international curriculum.
Which begets the question of why we should allow housing to be an investment.
Maybe vector-based search? If 1000 words is 1500 tokens, then it’s 3 * 365 * 1500 * $0.20/1000 for embedding with davinci-1. That’s around $300 for full semantic indexing of your journal entries, which is not bad. Of course, you can get away with weaker models to drive that cost down.
Twitter Fails to Remove 99% of Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users
> Remember, we're not talking about generating novels or paintings here, just 20 words or so (whatever the bare minimum copyrightable amount is)

From https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2003/09/09/copyright_protection...:

Copyright laws disfavor protection for short phrases. Such claims are viewed with suspicion by the Copyright Office, whose circulars state that, “… slogans, and other short phrases or expressions cannot be copyrighted.” [1] These rules are premised on two tenets of copyright law. First, copyright will not protect an idea. Phrases conveying an idea are typically expressed in a limited number of ways and, therefore, are not subject to copyright protection. Second, phrases are considered as common idioms of the English language and are therefore free to all. Granting a monopoly would eventually “checkmate the public” [2] and the purpose of a copyright clause to encourage creativity-would be defeated.
It's the same as a one of those games with the wire and the buzzer, just with a different interface.
This would be a great application for a LLM given enough tokens where you could converse with the model about your journals and ask questions
It's amazing to me that people put these cloud connected surveillance devices INSIDE their homes, voluntarily.
Every time I try to use an OpenAPI document to generate client code, it fails, I talk to the customer and they say "oh no don't do that, it's not meant for generating code from". Not an indictment on OpenAPI but it's truly bizarre how people use it.
The pickure of the invoice looks like it's made on windows 7 + quickbooks 2011
using the "executive template" suggestive of Sotheby's flourish for paperwork /s
Cool, I took the instructors’ last course on prompt engineering last month and it was well worth an hour. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng...
'It's not AGI yet' - the implication is insufferable. It's a language model that is incapable of any kind of reasoning, the talk of 'AGI' is a glib utopianism, a very heavy kind of koolaid. If we were to have referred to this tech as anything other than 'intelligence' - for example, if we chose 'adaptive algorithms' or 'weighted node storage' etc. we'd likely have a completely different popular mental model for it.

There will be no 'AI model' that is 'AGI', rather, a large swath of different technologies and models, operating together, will give the appearance of 'AGI' via some kind of interface.

It will not appear as an 'automaton' (aka single processing unit) and it certain will not be an 'aha moment'.

In 10 years, you'll be able to ask various agents, of different kinds, which will use varying kinds of AI to interpret speech, to infer context, which will interface with various AI APIs, in many ways it'll resemble what we have today but with more nuance.

The net appearance will evolve over time to appear a bit like 'AGI' but there won't be an 'entity' to identify as 'it'.
The analysis doesn't happen in real-time so it's pulling the chord data from a database. That being said, I think the coverage is pretty good. Love hearing about what's missing or could be added. Feel free to update me on any improvements you think can be made with the song selection.
I think they mean pollution as in visual mess, like space debris.
Not domestically. If the dollar had been gaining strength, the price of everything domestically would be getting cheaper.
Noise pollution, for example.
For me, Obsidian really made me jump into the note-taking bandwagon.
So all the points raised in the article are almost old story.

My next challenges are: how to organise a note, regarding its granularity and refactoring.

To elaborate a little bit, the question now for me is really when I reread a note about a topic I did not know well when I first wrote about it, and now I need to add new (more advanced) content.

Should I keep my newbie vision of the topic? Or replace it with the vison from the more advanced me? Won’t that make my note unreadable by a newbie, then?

I wonder how Wikipedian contributors handle that problem (especially when dealing with new pages, or pages about fast-evolving topics)
or maybe we are past the excess of a 0% interest rate environment and people are now expected to pay for shit.
Typically things like this are covered under fair use if you're dealing with a human.
Just dropped Social AGI Telegram Bot repo. 5 step deploy in 2 mins (if you have your API keys).

Enjoy! :)
A potential way to mitigate memorization in Diffusion models?
Doesn't one need to have a bunch of "very good" data to train on? I'm under the impression that sourcing costs are large.
De-Risking Jenkins Rollouts (2022)
Oh look, some smart people came up with a model whose output disagrees with other smart people's models, and because such models and their modelers are never rigorously tested for predictive ability relative to each other in a way that manifests a clear hierarchy, these models are mostly tools of faith based reinforcement rather than methods of empirical analysis.
I get it. If someone told you that you have to work an extra day or two a week, of course you’re not going to be happy about it. My message is for founders who are already working constantly and want to maximize their chance of success.

Guy in high profit position advocates for employee hours being closer to CEO hours.

No matching advocacy for employees getting near his level of pay, however.
You misread. They did not find 76% reproduction of the book. When asked to fill in a name within a passage, e.g. "Stay gold, [MASK], stay gold." Response: Ponyboy, GPT-4 got the name right 76% of the time.
Why are red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
not sure what you mean. anyways, the reason why they don’t release GPT4 when they’re “”“done””” training in June is they have to RLHF
Technically not, actually. By the IEC standard, 50V (RMS AC) is about the highest you can go for 'Extra-low voltage'. IEC actually has DC up to 120 V as ELV but often regional standards will have a lower value (like EU seems to be 75V and Australia/New Zealand at 60V)

Only above 1000V RMS AC or 1500 V DC is considered 'high voltage'.

That's why a correct sticker on domestic equipment will usually use the wording 'Dangerous voltage' or 'Hazardous voltage' or the like, not 'high voltage'. An actual correctly placed 'Danger - High Voltage' sign tends to mean something like 11kV AC
Sorry, I can't accept that a one hour video is the cost to participate in this conversation. I don't disagree that there is a cost associated with doing this, but the cost is so much smaller than it used to be that it can be economical now.

Implementation details are in the eye of the beholder IMO. I'm open to reasons why that's not the case here.
This is what everybody thinks, until they grow large enough to care about the amount of money they’re burning and get tired of it. Then they try to not lose so much money, and their loyal users turn out not to be so loyal.
audio quality on the demo video is meh - even at highest quality available on youtube.

real microphone usually fixes that.
Sorry for the confusion, the fridge was just part of the photo he was looking at. We gave him the phone to look at photos, thinking he couldn’t make too much trouble with that app. But while looking at a photo of himself with ketchup, he managed to complete the ordering process for ordering a photo canvas - a feature of the photos app I had always ignored until I saw the email that the order had shipped.
You could still plausibly generate (a significant portion of), let's say, "Fire And Ice" by Robert Frost, which is only 50 words.

See also: https://blogs.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/haiku-and-the-fair-use-...
As soon as there's anything mirroring reddit and allowing 3 party apps to circumvent API pricing then the ToS would be updated to disallow it.
They got 94 direct matches, which is 94 instances where copyright infringement could be argued.
This seems like a political action, not a legal(in courts) one.
Also, one man is responsible for an awful lot of stuff there.

> Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
I tried out Lemmy a year or two ago (it seemed nice) but found that they had a hard-coded list of "bad words" that automatically got censored, some of them quite soft (and with dual meaning), like "bitch". So yeah, I quickly uninstalled it once I realized that. How the fuck are you going to run, say, a dog breeding node? Or just have any kind of semi-normal adult discussion where people aren't bothered by cursing? No thanks - as a moderator I (my community) would want to choose what to censor myself.

It might have changed since then but from what I remember of reading through the lead devs reasoning behind the "feature" I want no part of that ecosystem.

Edit: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622
The page content is short enough to include here:

"The FAA is seeking public input on four requests to conduct beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operations at or below 400 feet. If granted, Phoenix Air Unmanned, uAvionix, Zipline, and UPS Flight Forward will continue to expand the envelope of FAA-approved BVLOS drone operations. Data collected from these operations will inform the FAA’s ongoing policy and rulemaking activities."

Zipline: autonomous delivery
UPS Flight Forward: drone delivery
uAvionix: looks like BVLOS tech?
Phoenix Air Unmanned: "aerial data acquisition services"

Around 400' (120m) is the general legal altitude limit for consumer drone use in many countries.
> They don't meaningfully review uploads and they don't seem to staff it well in general

Well, yeah; it's Google. Their entire approach to anything resembling support is to automate everything that can be automated, and utterly ignore anything that can't be.