skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine a machine that takes in copyrighted works and, with the press of a button, outputs works which are substantially similar but not copyrighted.

Copyright whitewashing.

(I.e. pointing to your black box and claiming it's a clean room)
Either that, or he will hire Apple at some point :)
Author here - yup, clearly I don't understand the true nature or value of community and haven't ever been a part of one myself and apparently it's something that's meant to be provided forever for free :).

Mostly kidding around, but I appreciate the comment and you reading the article! It is sad that communities are destroyed at the whims of gigantic corporations but it just seems to happen super often, I wish there was a way to prevent it.
>Most people don't even need a car there.

Do you mean Denmark or Iceland, the latter a car is a necessity.
I think there's 2 things being conflated here.

1 is opposition to large scale government projects, for example demolishing existing houses to build infrastructure.

2 is opposition to smaller development, for example building something in a lot you own.

1 should be under scrutiny, especially given governments history of screwing over their minority citizens.

2 should be completely outlawed. I believe we need a "mind you own business" approach to development. No, a developer doesn't need to ask the local community before building something (that complies with zoning) in a lot they own.
I follow you but I still am not sure I buy that India/Vietnam are too poor to afford general, organized trash service.

Are you maybe saying it a cultural thing? As in, it would be too difficult to convince people to pay somewhat higher taxes and then adhere to littering/dumping/burning laws?
I remember learning how to approximate pi at around 10 years old. Not in France.
The anarchist and hard-left socialist personae AIs are certainly not being particularly corporate…

It’s still fairly interesting, though.
NOS, baby! (But only of it went very, very wrong)
> Even tobacco and sugar companies were able to deny the obvious by purchasing a few scientists of fortune.

For a time, but then the science won out. First culturally then legally for tobacco. Now sugar industry is loosing culturally and more realize the effects of overconsumption.
That's just describing the current practice of market pricing, not explaining why Mountain View comp is higher than Alabama or elsewhere (ie- why comp is not actually a function of COL + base pay).

Given two people performing the same work that Google derives the same value from, if that value is not dependent on either person's location, then how does Google justify the differential in pay?

Unless they're just pre-assigning a universal value of worth to geographic areas, then what's the logic for their compensation at all? If they reduced overall salaries or moved locations, wouldn't it counter the very situation you described - a la expensive chicken? Wouldn't it be more efficient move to Alabama where not only their expenses would be lower, but their employees'? Why not split Google into entities across the nation to balance comp and uplift more areas?

If your logic were true, it wouldn't make any sense to hire people who lived in "expensive" areas. Because we know that's not what they're doing, it could be interpreted that Google is still taking advantage of largely manufactured inequality, even domestically.

Google does work through Alphabet-adjacent sub-corps that are only legally 'not-Google' that do work exclusively for Google. Several exist in my area, and they pay no more competitively than any other company for the same roles. Talking with their engineers, they're largely just happy that their H1B was approved and that they're not working for Amazon.
I am very interested in this. I have a walking tour app with English content narrated by me. I have a French text auto-translation in the app, but no audio content in other languages yet. This could be a game changer for me. I'll definitely try it out in the next few days and get back to you with feedback.
I kept my compiler textbooks, my computer architecture textbooks, and my algorithms textbooks. These include Crafting a Compiler, Engineering a Compiler, Code (by Petzold), Computer Architecture (by Hennessy). By far the one I reference most is Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. I actually bought the new edition of that one for myself since it's in color now. My $250 differential equations textbook was ritualistically burned at the earliest opportunity.
So I'd basically have to hope posts from people I'm interested in filter their way onto the server I start on and sort of crawl around until I find communities I'd actually want to participate in? How does the cross pollination between servers work? I haven't seen a good description on it besides that you can DM people across servers.

The content is also structured in a twitter microblog + replies style. So I'm seeing basically private forums of old, but twitter format and some weird soft discovery thing.

Overall I like the idea of federation, but mastadon seems half baked. I signed up and I'll get it a try for a week or so though.
Thank you for engaging in some conversation here, it's good to have a dialogue.

I used to be more edgy and socialist/communist in what I wish our government really was, but I think lately and in writing these article I've realized maybe capitalism isn't the most terrible thing in the word.

Are you arguing for socialism/communism, or some other form of government/economic model in that case? Assuming you're in "the industry" would you personally settle for less pay or privilege to enable this?

I like to think I would, but it's hard stuff, and goes against many people's nature. At this point, I hate to say it, but it's hard to extract myself from this tech ecosystem/system of government. I donate to charities, donate my time when I can, and try to be a good citizen within the system, but I don't see how to change the system overall without something that seems really extreme and impossible. Still want to "fight the power" and all that but honestly, are there real solutions in that?
> Keep reading.

I did.

> The problem seems to be driven by undocumented workers crossing the border. There are a lot of dangerous second order effects from having a porous border and this is one of them.

Ok? They are still children. Child exploitation is not an immediate downstream effect of having illegal immigration. It is a downstream effect of having an exploitative system.

> It's also interesting how they talk about it. "crossed the border". You won't find Mexico, undocumented or migrant in the rest of the text.

Yeah probably because the exploitation of children is much more disconcerting than people overstaying their visas or escaping violence. I think the only benefit that the added context would be to segue into arguing for stronger protections for undocumented laborers.

> Without a careful reading you'd think these are lower middle class American's sending their children to coal mines

Again, I don't care if it is undocumented migrant children or middle class Americans. I don't understand why you think this context would change the impression the article is going to give on readers.

I feel like the point you are trying to make is that "It's only the exploitation of people who came here illegally, so it's no big deal."
"property" is a legal concept. I live in my apartment, but it isn't my property because i'm renting it. I can "have" food in a supermarket but that doesn't mean I can just walk out with it - it's only my property after I've paid for it. In both cases, property is only property when and how the law determines.
Another way to put it: CO2 is fungible. If I put a ton in the air and take away a different ton, nobody cares that they're not the same exact CO2.

If I shoot one person in the face and then prevent a different shooting, several people care about the difference.
That's a bullshit take. We had an Australian go there and hire everyone. If it were Australians he hired out the blue (i.e. with just that little trust), he would have heard about the problem as soon as they were discovered.
I just want a graphics card with USB4 on it which hopefully(!) would make it more useful and reliable than these addin cards.
I heard Tumblr still has an awesome community! Very good point. While it seems the majority of things have enshittified, maybe it hasn't as much, and that's pretty cool. How?
The reason you need multiple sums is because there is a loop dependency which causes every iteration to stall and prevents pipelining and saturating the multiple compute units of your superscalar processor.

Yes, floating-point isn't associative, so the results aren't numerically equivalent, and that is why you need to do that optimization yourself since the compiler isn't allowed to do it for you.

As per the exercise, there is no information about the distribution of the data, so there is no indication that any order would be any better than another for numerical stability.

If you care about stability you'd implement a kahan sum, which isn't really affected by changing the order of the sum so that you can parallelize it.
You’re wrong, of course, but not entirely.

I’m a teacher at an urban Title I school (over 70% of our students qualify for reduced or free school lunches). Yes, there is a lot of paperwork involved when you need to transfer student to alternative school or outright expel them. It’s only an issue though when you don’t document what’s happening along the way. And of course, documentation is not a bad thing. It would be a bad thing if kids were being run out of schools at the whims of tired, overworked, extremely stressed teachers. On the other hand, the really wacky stuff comes when it’s a special education student. You literally cannot suspend them for more than 10 days in a school year. I was the general education teacher in FBA meetings for three of my SpEd students who brought weapons to school (two knives, one taser). The result was to put them all on a functional behavioral plan which requires weekly reports about whether they are meeting FB targets: of not bringing weapons to school. The plan included that when they did meet their targets, they should be rewarded in certain ways, like being given time on a computer or time to speak with their friends or whatever. So, yeah. Rewards for… not bringing weapons. Now that was crazy.
Fair point, I think different platforms have gotten there sooner than others, but I'm just noticing far more of them reaching this point lately.
Governments can withdraw the right at any time, with or without compensation.

They usually don't without an exceptional reason.

But if they want to, they can.
It's basically a syntactic sugar on an Observer pattern but I like it. You would need a way to turn off 'when' observers. And I suppose it does couple the observer to the observable pretty tightly.
> They ain't desirable. But who wants to pay them do nothing?

I do. Because these sentences are in opposition, not support. If they are undesirable in the workforce (reduce productivity or whatever) then why would you want them working? If they drain x dollars from the system, UBI costs y dollars, and if y < x, then it is profitable to pay them to do nothing. Incentive structures are complex and so this is going to be more difficult than the simple equation I wrote, but it serves as a guideline. But I don't think most people want to live the basic life, the minimum.

Here's how I see it: if the measure of a man is how he treats someone who can give him nothing, then the measure of a country is how they treat those that do nothing for them. In other words: the floor. I don't believe countries should have ceilings on wealth or how quality of life, but they should have floors (they all do fwiw). That's what we should focus on more: the floor, not the ceiling.
Prices over $100 are not really competing with Pis.
Good discussions in this thread but don't extrapolate into Japanese culture and law too much.

The only source on this is from this guy's blog, summarizing what they talked about at a committee meeting. This guy is 1 of 465 members in the Japanese house of representative. He is commenting that model training is basically data analysis which is not protected by current copyright law. Note he is not a lawyer nor a powerful law maker. He also acknowledges new laws are necessary for emerging generative AI and this is basically not covered by current law.

There is no news in Japan about this, because these are inconsequential discussions between members of an oversight committee handling (afaik) budgetary concerns.
lol , nowhere its available.
So I can design it, what would such a thing look like?
sorry i dont get your point
In my first year, our chemistry and physics professors both authored their own textbooks for their courses. It was in the days before copyleft and open source, but the physics prof ran a print shop in his backyard, hand-bound the textbooks and sold them to us at cost (which was about 10% of similar published books).

The chemistry prof, in contrast, contracted with a publishing house, and made sure to make a few changes every year, including re-numbering the exercises to discourage buying and selling of old textbooks. The (expensive) textbooks came with accompanying lab-books, which cost almost as much as the textbooks themselves. Lab assignments were only accepted on pages torn out from the official lab books.
The bigger argument is in the form of cost of reproduction.

A human has finite time and output volume.

A machine has no such limits, only compute/memory/network/disk.

Ergo, gray areas where we could afford a human the benefit of doubt ("What? They can paint 4 in-the-style-of-Rembrandts?") produce substantially different results with machines ("Here are a million in-the-style-of-Rembrandts, produced in 30 minutes").

Whether we should permit or limit machine art is a discussion worth having -- but human copying vs machine copying is clearly a very different discussion.
Keep in mind that the architecture of LLMs is very simple, so there's not a lot of "secret sauce". What little there is, is jealously guarded.

This is why OpenAI is keeping the parameter count of GPT 4 secret. It could be something stupid huge like 4 trillion parameters, which is the "secret" that makes it work so well. Or maybe it's just a few hundred billion, and they've done something else to make it smart.

Just knowing the numbers might be sufficient for a competitor to create a GPT 4 clone. Without the numbers, they might have to go through a process of trial and error. At these scales, even a few extra training runs could cost $ millions in training, and delay competitors by months or even years.
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There are "new model" institutions that are doing that. I got my BSCS from Western Governors. Tuition covered everything. Books, certifications, etc. Any material I wanted beyond the course text was either available in their digital library or I would search for used to get a dirt cheap price on an older edition.

My partner is doing her degree now and her institution, in two cases... a math course and biology course, opted to use OpenStax text books. After looking through them, I liked them enough that I pick up the print editions for sub-$40 new and use them for refreshing things.
Because the article is about the exploitation of migrant children in dangerous industries and people are commenting with pro child-labor takes citing their summer job in high school. It's

1. An unproductive shift from the actual topic.

2. Clear they didn't bother reading the article.

I don't think anyone has an issue with teenagers working at McDonald's, although I think they should be taught about labor protections first to avoid being exploited by a megalomaniac store manager. Which is a common occurrence since teenagers don't know any better.
I guess Java/C polyglot programs get a lot easier.
> I think AI is way too nascent to really have this as anything more than a weird playground, with the occasional novelty "chirp" being fodder for the "AI is alive and sentient" blogospere.

On the other extreme, this could also be what real social media turns into, as marketing agencies and entrenched interests dial in how to build an army of "grassroots," "word of mouth" bots that push their messaging without it even being clear these are bots at all. Particularly during this next election cycle.
This is largely due to misguided "civil rights" rules, that forbid schools from disciplining violent children if there is "disparate impact" (rates of disciplinary action must be exactly equal by race). Of course, the real effect of these policies is that kids in disadvantaged neighborhoods don't get the opportunity to learn and succeed, because a few bad apples make things impossible for everyone else.
Corporal punishment or shaming in front of others

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_i...

Other ways included a time out, suspension or talk to the parents where parents grounded them, or punished them somehow.

All that has been phased out in most places for various reasons. Although nearly half of the US states still allow it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/...

To me it is definitely telling that the US Supreme Court found it constitutional and legal to administer corporal punishment by drawing analogies with prisoners in a jail. As in the pg essay “Why Nerds are Unpopular”, primary school is essentially a prison for the kids, a glorified day care center to keep them out of trouble while parents can work.

But elsewhere in many districts if the parent doesnt care then there are literally no consequences for children who disrupt classes, that don’t backfire badly on those who would try to make those consequences.
Ask HN: Papers to get up to speed on database research
Big ask: does anyone know (or can spare the time and effort to compile a short list) of papers to go from zero to cutting edge in database research?

Perhaps too wide of a net to cast (considering all of the different subfields). So, the next best would be a list of seminal papers in database research.

If there is an academic page floating around somewhere that has already compiled this, that will suffice; and I will be grateful for a link.
Vtech kicked in, yo.
It would literally take them to iterate on the debate on this platform. Those "AIs" are just mimicking words that would be said in such context. They are not capable of reasoning. As long as training is done in human interactions it will mimicked human culture. Going beyond would iterate on bot generated content.

Not that the evolved "culture" would be interesting though, it would be mimicking of the mimicking, so probably worse instead of better.
You make a useful point. I will note though that you don't have to be rich to not care about money. For instance, many people will refuse to give up their ancestral home or land no matter what money or other incentives you offer them.
Can you failover/promote using pgbackrest?
Expulsion and suspension. I know a teacher who works in a school with this problem; state DOE policies puniah schools for suspending or expelling violent children, so instead they are allowed to continue terrorizing their peers and instrucrors.
How feasible would it be to have one human interacting with the AIs every month? I am thinking like an AMA from some real celebrity or something. It would be extremely entertaining if, for instance, you could have Snoop Dogg doing an AMA on this site as if it were Reddit or something, with a bunch of hip hop head AIs asking him questions and smoking with him. I mean if I was Snoop I would be 100% into it
In terms of actions, the US has gone as far as to kneecap a competitor's chip industry and restrict their GPU access.

I reckon that behind closed doors there will be a strong sense that any kind of regulation that impedes AI development would not be in the national interest.
> Just by being in existence, they deserve to consume natural resources / technology?

Yes. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We also must acknowledge the tragedy of the commons, and that just by existing both utility is being extracted from them (in the modern era) and natural resources that there is no question that they have a right to (air, water, etc) are being utilized and modified by others. E.g. a coal processing plant provides a lot of utility (electricity) but the economic model does not account for the costs that this has on both a global (carbon) and local (pollution) consequences on shared goods (that are innate rights).
Every credible scientist who studies this says the opposite, that climate change will increase the frequency and magnitude of events impacting millions of people. Yes, things like natural disasters, famines, or wars caused by resource competition aren’t new but we’ve been seeing them intensified for at least a decade and there’s no reason to believe that trend will reverse.
Not sure what you mean about the PS5 unless you've misunderstood what I mean.

The CM4 can do _most_ of the work that the Pi 4 and Pi 400 can do.

A hypothetical future CM5 might feasibly be designed to be the CPU board of a still-tiny Pi 5B, Pi 500 and maybe even a smaller form factor.

The CM units are shipped in a bunch of different varieties, which would allow e.g. schools and consumers to decide which variation of a Pi 5 or Pi 500 they want.

It could eliminate all the "5B" SKUs and allow them to focus on manufacture of fewer SKUs at larger scales.

And this way, the market gets to solve the endless "I wish it had USB-C", "I wish it had two gigabit ethernet ports", "I wish it had two CSI ports", "Nobody serious will use it without some onboard flash" criticisms (that proponents of other SBCs have), with variations of the CM and the host hardware.

There are already some good reasons to buy a CM4 and a host board instead of a Pi 4B.

I wonder if this is a decision that could have been taken two years ago; there were already host boards on the market, and they could have produced one themselves by now.

They were churning out half a million CM4s a month but there was no way to use that to serve the consumer market.
No. It has always been feel-good BS.
I love the compiling section. What an efficient way to handle a compiler.
As the person on call for exactly that sort of problem, it saddens me that people still push secrets to git at all.

Every gitops platform on the planet supports not pushing secrets to version control. There is no valid reason to have credentials inside a git repo ever. If the repo itself is what's secret, you should have known the risk when you pushed it to someone else's server. There is no excuse when gitlab is free and a docker container away.
Well, wouldn't they just blackhole all the relevant blocks then?