skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the most interesting part about this column is arguing that 'Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023' has bad impacts.

The law aimed to prevent no-platforming of speakers from university institutions.

Malik points out that this chilled the speech of a university group that wanted a controversial speaker disinvited.

I think the nicest resolution is if people can tweet things like "this speaker should be disinvited", the speaker doesn't get disinvited, & no fines involved.
I thought it was called the California No? "Oh ya totally let's hang out!!" (you're never gonna hang out)

I've lived in LA for over 25 years. I think part of the reason things are like this is that the sheer amount of people here make it hard to know if you are dealing with a person who is going to end up being a nut or not. This town is also full of narcissists and leeches who want to use you. I've let people into my life that I seriously regretted later. After enough of those you start getting more cagey. It's a shame really. Whenever I go somewhere else I am reminded how much more genuine people can be and how I need to be more mindful of what I say. Words hold a lot more power outside of the LA bubble. In a funny way we are much more like the British in this way.

For example, locals know not to make eye contact while out and about. Not because we are dicks, but because if you happen to lock eyes with someone, theres a non zero chance they're gonna attack you or ask you for money etc. Take a ride on public transit if you don't believe me.
Sucks that some people have no better choice than to live in an RV and dump their shit on the street.

Sorry about the cost of your bathroom addition though.
No. I just don't consider it true.

Sure, government doesn't silence anymore. They just ask Facebook/Twitter/[insert social media] nicely to do that instead of them. In same way a mobster just asks you to help him out with that problematic person. Or else.
> The fashion industry is effectively copyright-free. Anyone can come up with a new design for a dress. If the design is successful, it will be copied and it is unpractical to try to enforce copyright. Thus, fashion designers must constantly out-innovate the competition.

The fashion industry is highly reliant on trademark. I don't think many would say this is better. It also deals in art whose individual products are much easier to design than writing a novel.

> The evidence points in the opposite direction. Germany had weak copyright laws up until the Copyright Act of 1901. Yet, maybe because of these weak laws, it became a literary and scientific power:

This is nonsense from Eckhard Höffner. England in the 1830s had a low publication rate because it had a strangling and punative publisher cartel, which Höffner completely ignores in order to make an otherwise ludicrous academic claim.

For HN, here's the big one: without copyright there would be no viral licenses.
Public Schools stopped disciplining kids long ago. Fear of retribution, legal action, and a mountain of headaches from all angles. Why would anyone want to teach these days?
> ...BEFORE vaccines...

At least for America, the 3 Covid vaccines all failed to show any actual evidence of protection or immunity, even though the FDA grant an emergency use and later approval.

I have come to the conclusion the vaccines saved virtually no one and has put a similar number into an early death (e g. The clot shot). It would've probably been better if they never existed since people were fired to take useless experimental medical drugs with no proven positive effects.

The real thing that causes Covid to go away was Omricon, and other viruses re-spreading, political attention spans, and an upcoming election where the incumbent can't continue to use Covid as a reason for election.
I liked the detail and everything mentioned, so I wouldn't want OP to remove any of this. I was very captivated reading that. And I felt like I learned quite a bit.

One thing I do would like to finally see is a table for final comparison though.

But I enjoyed the description and process of how the OP went about testing. If that was removed, I might not have an idea how the tests were specifically done and may distrust the results. The description gave me an exact visual how OP went about all of this.

Because I don't think it's just about 2-3 most capable. I'm also very interested to see how models with different parameter sizes do and whether any have future potential to take over the most capable.

It's important to know what's the smallest open source model that can still be useful.
> If your solution to vetocracy is to limit democracy then you aren't using democracy. Democracy becomes subordinate to the mechanism you are using to define the limit. At that point, the mechanism that determines that limit becomes your solution.

All large democracies use limiting mechanisms, you don't directly vote for most things - which would be a direct democracy, which tends to break down on all but very small scales. All western democracies are a representative democracy, this is already a limiting mechanism, not everything goes everyone's way, we vote for representatives, and hope that they vote for the majority of our interests the majority of the time.

The core argument here seems to be that the catchment area of development (an already pre-existing limiting mechanism) is simply defined too broadly. I don't think identifying people who are genuinely affected from those that have nothing better to do between scoffing tea cakes than complain is worth while - So long as the area is reasonable well defined to not include too many people who are barely affected, then you don't have to worry about separating the tea cakes from the rest.

This is not moving goalposts. The further normal people are away from a development the less shits they give because they have their own problems to deal with.. unfortunately that just leaves the people with nothing better to do, who will complain about literally anything because they already have a house and a pension, seem to have lost all empathy of any struggle they had getting there.
What does that mean, though? I can run x64 Linux binaries on BSD? How about on ARM processors? On an M2?
What might such a culture optimize itself for, naturally, of its own accord?

Self repair, self preservation, self expansion...?

Any one of those might spell dire portents for us squishy humans.
I wish you could tour the NORAD underground complex in North Bay.
You’re right. I think of it this way. The more we dematerialize the economy the more intellectual property will become the only form of property most people can own besides financial assets and their time.

Taking that away only gives even more power to the super rich by transforming all human intellectual products into free labor for portals and paywalls to aggregate and sell back to us.

They already do that of course but without copyright there would be no way to prevent them from doing it with any work.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676138
I see only issues abandoning copyright (for example it is the protection that makes Open Source Licenses work), but we should definitely discuss the length of it. The current trend of longer and longer periods of copyright protection can be questioned and I wonder if society would not benefit with a severely cut copyright period. Berne convention and other international treaties makes it hard to change below Life + 50 years, but I see no reason all the right incentives for individuals and companies would be there if you cut it to just 20-30 years after publication.
The benefits of new derivative works, access and sharing knowledge and other areas would be great for society as a whole.

The moral right of claiming ownership to a work should still be protected forever.
I'm pretty certain 64MB is enough for a tailor made Linux distro. What's most important is for the CPU to have an MMU to manage virtual memory. Otherwise, you're staying in microcontroller flatland where any app can access any address.
David Cameron's understanding of the word "no" has always been a bit suspect [1]. He took Yes, Minister too literally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate
My grandfather thought that his sons, college-bound as they were, should experience manual labor. For my father, it was a county road crew one summer, for his younger brother a stint or two as a railroad track worker. Sometime after their days with shovels, they sat down and reviewed the old man's chronology. He had never done paid manual labor, had gone right from a commercial high school to an office. He admitted this, saying that he thought that it would be good for them.

But a) these were his sons, big strapping guys of seventeen or so, and b) they were not in especially hazardous conditions. The people who think it is well for other people's adolescents to do dangerous work, I don't understand.
Doesn't matter - something that used to be common, used to kill people, and eventually society decided it shouldn't be allowed. Asbestos might be better comparison.

Point is, you are assuming a certain legal outcome, and there is no reason to believe it won't go the opposite way
In the first example, I would ask what you as a teacher are contributing to your students beyond what exist in the textbook. If the answer is nothing, then what is the difference between a student taking your class compared to listening to a voice synthesizer? I generally suspect that teachers are selling themselves short if they think that their only contribution is to repeat what exist in the textbook.

In the second example, how similar are they compared to the textbook? If they are just copied out sections then yes, it most likely is infringement (assuming they are eligible works to begin with).

As with any dance around copyright eligibility and fair use exceptions, the devil is in the details. What I hope is that the law won't just create an other situation where only corporations with large departments of lawyers can do things, while any small fry will be shot down by copyright notices, DMCA, blocked accounts and accusation of hacking.

For example, if google want to use any published data for training data, then I want to use published videos on youtube to use for the same purpose. If they don't need a license to use other peoples work, then no EULA, DRM, or user agreement should be able to prevent others to do the exact same thing. I suspect however that google only want data to travel in one direction and will do everything in their lawyers power to keep it that way.
And your point is? When there are death squads and mass graves being deployed in your country by a top 10 global military power you use the resources you can get. If Russia invaded my country and was executing civilians and burying them in mass graves you bet I would also be working with anyone I could to stop them.

Churchill - If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Does anyone know about that device on electric engines that touches the wires above?

Why is that it doesn't spark and do the overhead cables need frequent replacement because of being constantly rubbed against?
>State-enforced copyright came about with the Statute of Anne in 1710. It was the result lobby of a group English publishers who sought to regain their monopoly on publishing. Handing out the initial copyright to the authors was a political gesture: the goal has always been to get authors to hand over the copyright to the publisher, effectively giving the publisher a monopoly.

This is confusing. It's a political gesture and yet people wanted it enough to value that gesture. So clearly some people wanted to protect authors. Plus a whole social system has been built on top of copyright over the last 300 years and that matters a lot more than whatever a bunch of rich people in the 1700s thought.

>In most countries, copyright holds for 70 years after the death of the author. Such a long-term copyright cannot possibly be meant to protect authors.

Supporting one's family is a major goal of many people.

Ets, etc.
> generally it's such common practice to sample others' work when making music that suing for copyright claims is extremely rare compared to the prevalence of possibly infringing cases.

While it's true that there's all kinds of music made by sampling other music, when a sample-heavy song starts to gain commercial momentum, copyright comes into harsh focus real fast - sometimes it's lawsuits, but more often there are licensing conversations had in order to avoid those lawsuits. Is it applied evenly? Definitely not, and this is the topic of a thousand longform blogs and multiple documentaries and articles and so on.

For example - you may think that because you've never heard about EMI suing Danger Mouse over the Grey Album, that this was "innovation mostly free from copyright ... especially in hip-hop" - but just because nothing went to court doesn't mean there weren't a lot of conversations between lawyers, and agreements made around what exactly happened there.
What exactly do you mean when you say "disciplining"?
Red Gate Woods is southwest of Chicago, and was once home to Chicago Pile 2 & 3.[1] There's not much to see, but it is the only public park/nuclear waste dump I'm aware of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Woods
This happens outside development, too. More often than not in IT, when the business has a need, they start with a solution and approach IT asking them to implement it. I've gotten better over the years (although always room to improve) at steering the conversation around to "what exactly are you trying to accomplish?" Let's start there.
Removal subsidizes the development of the technology, whether or not it's just zeroing emissions. So regardless of the instant impact, it's progress towards the long term commercial viability of large scale sequestration.
As I recall, there are a variety of economical methods to remove carbon. In particular, olivine coating of beaches promises to be both cheap and effective.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90510254/ever-been-to-a-green-sa....

I do not see a world in which all carbon emissions are eliminated, but a net zero world seems to be close. An efficient means of offsetting individual carbon expenditures is necessary for this task.
What, you’re not “Making the World a Better Place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols”?

In seriousness, I wish there was more self-awareness like this in our field.
I think it uses indexer and saturn (which ought to fall back to the DHT if it hasn’t cached the content of a CID already).
That said they have a GitHub issue tracking CIDs that are retrievable via Kubo (fka go-ipfs) that aren’t yet retrievable via Lassie - it suggests to your point that there must be some difference; it also suggests they intend for retrievability parity though, so fingers crossed!!
Sorry, I wrote "nirvana fantasy" and have corrected it to "nirvana fallacy" which should clarify my point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
> Therefore the "easy" solution is to lubricate the ramps away from enshittified platforms.

I imagined people comically trying to travel up greased ramps, and sliding back down / falling. I think lubricating those ramps is exactly what our corporate overlords do.
sure:

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I don't see how you can possibly say that the exclusive right to sell a work doesn't have monetary value, AKA benefit for whoever holds it.

I give my stuff away for free online, but I don't want O'Reilly or whomever selling it for money. (I sell print copies for money.) I have no mechanism to stop that other than copyright law.

I do think the copyright term should be a maximum of 20 years from the publishing date, though (which would put some earlier versions of my works into the public domain).

About the only useful thing copyright does anymore is protect the little guy, contrary to this argument. I am one of those little guys!

I can't tell if the author has written any books, but I'd be happy to put them up for sale on Amazon if he does, assuming he has no problem with me pocketing the proceeds.
Juniors get 40-50k in Germany. Mid level 50-64k.
>> Only thing I don't like about reading them on a modern wide monitor is that the lines get too long.

It's HTML where the whole point is to reflow to fit your window. YOU determine the page width and the content reflows to fit.

The problem was when it took off and a bunch of publishers and print people came along and demanded control over the layout. Now they even have custom fonts FFS.
> For example, locals know not to make eye contact while out and about

I believe this is a city thing. We have the same back home in Ljubljana.

The social contract in cities seems to be one of politely ignoring each others’ existence.
There is no such thing as viral licenses. Only you can decide the license of your work.
I may be wrong but as an outsider it seems there's a lot less financially well off independent small fashion designers than there are writers/artists/etc.
Yes to all of that.
> since without copyright the copyleft restrictions (having to deliver the source code under an identical/suitable license for derivates of the program)

We could have regulations around distributing source code that are completely divorced from copyright—it could be seen as a matter of "right to repair" or transparency or just as a right on its own. I expect that people ideologically in favor of free software would prefer that to needing copyleft licenses.

The fact that copyleft builds on top of copyright is a nice bit of legal judo, using the existing framework to achieve the opposite of what it's intended for—but it's ultimately just an implementation detail.
At Hewlett Packard in the 1970's all employees (except the executive suite) got the same percentage of profit sharing. Twice a year, after announcing earnings, management would announce it as some number of extra days of pay. Usually eight to ten days of extra pay. This was based on corporate profit put into a formula. This was independent of product division, level, location, etc. There was also an employee stock purchase plan, but no options.

Intel had a similar plan with profit sharing based on corporate profits. plus a profit sharing based on product division success.

Today, corporation focus is strictly improving the stock price. Therefore paying more to staff with profit sharing is bad.
You mean the same twitter that melts down because of line five people trying to watch puddingfinger Ron’s presidential run announcement- and lost most of it’s advertisers because the increased hate speech and child pornography since removing the censoring of right wing voices? I am sure that gives em sleepless nights
Yeah, but if you own something that’s in my brain, I can imagine you legally forcing me to pay you for it, but I can’t imagine any court in the world forcing me to let you cut my head open.
> How long until the AI chatbots develop meaningful cultural progress?

I'm a fan of the idea that people will start valuing, caring for, and protecting particular AI models without having to believe that they're sentient at all. Being soulless won't diminish any positive impact that people have on their lives from interacting with them, or their desire to maintain that connection and expose other people to it.

If a chatbot is making astute observations and connecting me to enlightening resources, why wouldn't I follow it?

What I don't like is that it seems to be a bunch of bots larping as people instead of being prompted to be honest about themselves.
> without copyright there would be no viral licenses.

Without copyright, people can widely leak source code and freely create works based on leaks
ARCHITECTURES = x86_64 x86_64-gcc49 i486 aarch64 arm mips s390x mipsel mips64 mips64el powerpc powerpc64le (https://github.com/jart/blink/blob/master/Makefile#L6)
For the lazy:

Theoretical survival limit is 35 °C (95 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
On the subject of morals and text books: In Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman he talks about serving on a committee to select a new text book for a school.

"""
A few days later a guy from the book depository called me up and said, "We're ready to send you the books, Mr. Feynman; there are three hundred pounds."

I was overwhelmed.

"It's all right, Mr. Feynman; we'll get someone to help you read them."

I couldn't figure out how you do that: you either read them or you don't read them. I had a special bookshelf put in my study downstairs (the books took up seventeen feet), and began reading all the books that were going to be discussed in the next meeting. We were going to start out with the elementary schoolbooks.
"""

So right away we see the text book business is bullshit because the peddler has an established business of helping others review the books, but as Feynman asks, how do you actually do that? How do you help someone read and review a text book?

Later:

"""
Then I came to my first meeting. The other members had given some kind of ratings to some of the books, and they asked me what my ratings were. My rating was often different from theirs, and they would ask, "Why did you rate that book low?" I would say the trouble with that book was this and this on page so-and-so – I had my notes.

They discovered that I was kind of a goldmine: I would tell them, in detail, what was good and bad in all the books; I had a reason for every rating.

I would ask them why they had rated this book so high, and they would say, "Let us hear what you thought about such and such a book." I would never find out why they rated anything the way they did. Instead, they kept asking me what I thought.

We came to a certain book, part of a set of three supplementary books published by the same company, and they asked me what I thought about it.

I said, "The book depository didn't send me that book, but the other two were nice."

Someone tried repeating the question: "What do you think about that book?"

"I said they didn't send me that one, so I don't have any judgment on it."

The man from the book depository was there, and he said, "Excuse me; I can explain that. I didn't send it to you because that book hadn't been completed yet. There's a rule that you have to have every entry in by a certain time, and the publisher was a few days late with it. So it was sent to us with just the covers, and it's blank in between. The company sent a note excusing themselves and hoping they could have their set of three books considered, even though the third one would be late."

It turned out that the blank book had a rating by some of the other members! They couldn't believe it was blank, because [the book] had a rating. In fact, the rating for the missing book was a little bit higher than for the two others. The fact that there was nothing in the book had nothing to do with the rating.
"""

And so on. You can read the full story in the book Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman or at https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html .
Understatement of the week: This is very cool.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but carbon offsets/removals are not the only thing that we (the human race) are trying. In your analogy, the patient has also been changing their diet and exercising more by electrifying transportation and switching to renewable sources of energy. Whether it's too little, too late is another matter.
Whooooooooooooooooooosh
I think we do need some form of copyright no longer than 10 years past first publication.

But the current situation is so insane that it's entirely reasonable to posit that no copyright at all might be better.
> The amount of “pro child labor” comments in this thread is truly disheartening.

Why is there no nuance between "let the kids do safe jobs if they want" and "make the kids do dangerous jobs" positions? I guess you are either for it all or against any of it?
It'd be better to use ai for the penultimate draft. Write your thing, tell ai to make you sound professional, then go over it to make sure the meaning was preserved and to take out stupid LLM mistakes.
That was what I was getting at, yeah. ;)