skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History of free and open-source software
From whom?

Your average voter neither knows nor cares about the DMCA. We've all got things to do, people to see, and computing is just one industry/hobby.

Influential companies prefer predictable systems. They are thrilled that they can wash their hands of liability for their users' unvetted uploads. Having the removal process boiled down to a simple form they can dedicate an inbox to is icing on the cake.

Rightsholders are happy, because they can commit perjury with impunity in pursuit of defending their IP.

Legislators don't care, because their constituents are happy and their voters don't care.

Where would the blowback come from?
What sort of latency are people seeing from LLMs? I type faster than an LLM outputs tokens, so predicting my continuation would be slower than waiting for me to type it. Most people speak faster.

An LLM that knows when it should interrupt me, as the parent comment mentions, would be really cool but I don't think it has the ability to determine when an interruption would be helpful. I'd be annoyed if I was asking "what is one plus three plus five" but the LLM interrupts with "1+3=4", for example.
If the user wants software that actually meets their needs, they want the requirements to be reasonably unambiguous, to have interactions with other tech thought through, etc.

To achieve that requires special training, and paying someone with that training to figure that stuff out is a good idea.

If you want laws that actually function in the legal system, pay a lawyer to write them (at your direction). "Written by a lawyer" does not mean "to represent the lawyers interests" any more than "written by a developer" means "to represent the developers interests".
Save reason they observe Yule at midsummer.
Probably will enshittify at some point. Enjoy it while it lasts.
This is very Cyberpunk, I can't wait for a Delaware city to allow LLCs to run for seats on the council or to become the mayor (several-dozen votes per controlling entity may help!)

In my imagination, the first thing Mayor Blackrock 9754 LLC will do is approve a referendum to phase out residential zoning for new developments, next comes the requisite Japanese tech corps, holographic ads and perpetual night. I never imagined this would be set in Delaware - but it sort of tracks.
You're putting the burden on "people" here. I think instead, the right way to look at it is that institutions should provide both prompt reactive investigations and proactive work to keep investigations from being necessary. The reason people get thoroughly upset here rather than waiting quietly is that this stuff gets ignored or covered up all the time.
Magical thinking and a waste of money. This has been proven it doesn't do much and doesn't scale. And not all action is progress, it's just motion. The issue that needs to be addressed is reducing atmospheric carbon by bio CCS. In the meantime, people in areas of drought either must pay for more expensive water from other areas or relocate because there is no practical and effective way to control the weather.
> the watermark signal is detected by inverting the diffusion process

Which, by definition, requires you to know in advance the exact process and parameters that were used? That seems untenable.
Why Did the Missing Titanic Sub Use a $40 Video Game Controller?
The form factor we have now is basically identical to what headsets looked like in the 80s and 90s [0]. They are barely smaller than they were back then. The problem is not the computers, it's the optical pathway. You can't shrink optics.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/946xvariable...
Canonical Shrinks OpenStack for Small Clouds with Sunbeam
Did you ask them?

A quick call along the lines of "Hey, we talked about this, and you haven't taken up my offer to demo a solution -- please, I won't be offended and this isn't a sales pitch, but could you tell me why that is?"

As always, the advice is: just actually _talk_ to people. Not email, not a survey form, not a Slack message, _talk_. You'll learn a heap.
It sounds like you're implying that permissive licenses don't count as free software licenses, but that has never been true. FSF has always said that permissive licenses are free software licenses and that permissively licensed software is free software. However, they advocate the position that this might not be the best way to protect all downstream users' freedom.
I mean in an highly automated way, ala modern call extortion and such.
https://archive.md/n9V1V

Well it attempts to be a nice parable ... except they overlooked in 2008 or so, in language to fit their parable, a move to remove a lot of sewage sanitisers was enacted, much IMO for the benefit of Facebook, and ignoring the lessons learned in the 90s in regard to TMI (too much information.) Facts will out, but if it has to be that a person had to publish their real name to do so in a flame war situation, to be fully liable ... less so, especially if they know someone who's suddenly had real life bad sideways reaction that has more cost (mentally) than being on the net. 2008 or so, marked a time when many forums dedicated to annoying other people when they said trite or similar, few found a safe harbour to move their site to and most shut down.
Shall we consider Ruby essentially dead if two good references are 10+ yrs old?
would recommend changing the license to something more restrictive like AGPL if you're going to keep it open source
thank you for this comment, by the way. it forced me to question my thoughts and really helped me to a better understanding: a natural product is produced from something that has dna. obviously this isn't the original intention of the word natural, but it's an extremely useful explanation for an instinct, and your comment forced me to it
We have those here. They're destructive.
I wouldn't be surprised if the urban legend had been inspired by Feynman's famous anecdote of the mouse maze-running experiment [0] (recently discussed here, the link is also by the author of this post)

[0] https://gwern.net/maze

(edit: the earliest refs for the tank story predate Feynman's, so this would be wrong)
> If you allowed free reign access to the sensors people could record the inside of your house/work, capture your face, fingerprints, retinal pattern etc.

Yes, yes they could. That's not and shouldn't be Apple's problem. That's your workplace's problem to regulate how the device is used on-site, the government's problem to regulate how it can be used in public, your household's problem on how it can be used in private, etc.

The device will be inevitably jail-broken anyways, so a walled-garden isn't going to stop bad actors.

Not to mention, most of the things you mentioned can already be accomplished with less expensive and much more subtle devices, like a standard digital camera. And those device definitely don't try to prevent abuse. (Imagine if your camera refused to take a picture because it thought you didn't have permission!)
Most humans aren't even ready for the Internet as it has existed for decades.

Thirty years ago, we were discussing science papers on Usenet. I recall writing a message expressing optimism about a future in which everyone uses the Internet to consume high quality information directly from relevant specialists, rather than low quality information from nonspecialists. For example, I imagined Americans basing their voting decisions on an understanding of public policy issues developed by reading the journals of the American Economic Association, the American Society of Health Economists, the American Society of Criminology, the American Geophysical Union, the National Academy of Sciences, etc.

Instead, Donald Trump was elected president.
I know you're getting downvoted, but seriously, Rust compilation/linking does take a long time, especially if you enable fat LTO. The upside is it's doing a lot more for you than say the C or C++ compiler would. It's a very small price to pay for what you get.
Humans are already great at generating propaganda and lies, in written and spoken speech form. at scale. coordinated.

and almost all of it "goes into the can" and becomes static propaganda artifacts which can and are redelivered and re-consumed over and over again, by the target audiences, and at near zero hosting cost. no AI/LLMs needed

(Disclaimer/credentials: I've worked for the US State Department on a closely related
& overlapping problem in this space.)

I do feel that the increasing realism of trained NN-generated photos and video, intended to smear an opposing political candidate, is the biggest "new" threat. I had expected it to be deployed by Trump/GOP/Putin against Biden/Dems in the 2020 election, as an "October surprise." Shocked it was not, not really (IIRC).

I do expect they'll deploy it in the 2024 race. Especially in the closing weeks/days (Oct surprise), in order to gain biggest (however small it all adds up) sentiment shift with smallest possible time window for fact-finding efforts to debunk it.

As villains they'd be almost comically incompetent if they did not try anyway.
If it were feasible, China would be sabotaging the US and India. Unfortunately, it would be both obvious and very, very expensive.
> We did some inverse model explanation work which quickly showed that our car was paying attention to the overhead skylights more than the actual tracks.

It must've been posted here before: this is exactly the strategy Andy Sloane used to localize his car.

https://www.a1k0n.net/2021/01/22/indoor-localization.html
I agree. All I can steelman from it is "it's not crazy if you know that [people have generally been able to own a vacation home and vote]"
> I think that what's going on here is incompetence, not fraud.

There’s a middle ground: sabotage. DMCA complaints have asymmetric incentives. You can, afaik, send a near-infinite number of (generated, duplicated, likely-to-not-exist) complaints at the cost of an email. As a host, you are obligated to comply with each individual report. Automating the process of decoding arbitrary emails, mapping to content you have and verifying that it’s copyrighted is extremely hard if not impossible, so you end up with a manual defense against an automated attack. This can obviously be exploited for purposes of sabotage.

Imagine sending bulk emails to the police reporting all people you don’t like for all crimes you can think of, without any risk. Or if you could call mayday on the sea, get other ships to reroute and risk their lives, with no consequences.
> Why are you assuming that your guests’ shoes are dirtier than your floors?

Are my guests regularly cleaning the bottoms of their shoe the way I regularly clean my floors? (Almost certainly not, because why would you?)
> silent

From memory this does have a fan
Depends. Can I set up a fish and chips truck to serve the lunch crowd in City of London and get a vote for that?
I feel like the VisionPro is a demonstration of what it takes technically. All the frameworks are fleshed out. The work is done and in x-number of years it will take off or the various pieces will be absorbed into other products.
You are conflating an advertisement -- a separate category, which normal people and regulators recognize as often being deceptive and manipulative -- with "news," including statements from current and formal government officials, and even testimony in courts and congressional hearings.

Advertisements are often total bullshit (and I would likely consider anything created by AI to almost certainly be), but that is an entirely different phenomenon than today's concept of "disinformation."
I've never understood this criticism of iOS. It is a fully fledged general purpose operating system with bare metal access and ability to run anything that can be compiled. Sure you can't distribute apps that do whatever you want on the app store. But there is absolutely nothing about iOS that makes it any less of a general purpose computing platform than Windows or Linux.
> I think that what's going on here is incompetence, not fraud.

Due to the following bit in the notice:

> Gareth Young, Internet Investigator, swears, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate

It would appear that in this situation, incompetence in fact constitutes fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_overseas_colonies?wprov... Everybody tried to take over the world in that era. Hell, the Scots had Panama at one point.
It's more that ARKit is a shared component used by iOS and visionOS. When you develop a fully immersive scene, you have easy access to the necessary ARKit APIs to do things like attach objects to walls, etc.

See the block diagram from a WWDC session here:
https://twitter.com/firt/status/1665835204953481218
Why one would use Qubes OS?
There is absolutely a benefit, but it doesn't sound like one to you: it explicitly requires you to know that you're actually doing something with memory, which rapidly deteriorates as a concept for developers once they no longer have to be cognizant of the fact that they are indeed actually using it.

I prefer a world where people actually think about the resources they're using.
You're my favorite tech writer these days probably because I find myself nodding yes to so much.

I think the problem with email is a lot like, the problem with reddit. Something's broken, but we need a whole lot of people to make a change before a replacement is viable. I've tried a few things that claim to "fix email" like hey, and it just didn't really improve things all that much for me.
Sorry, I intended two separate concepts. Puberty can mess with motivation. A new math subject can suddenly present a mental block that is hard to overcome.
> which can't be further from the truth in the US.

thats what the good document promises, not quite what plays out in real life
American houses often have a garage entrance in addition. Depending on the season you’ll want shoes in the back too
Sounds good to me, as long as that catered food is pizza, preferably deep dish ;)
that person was wrong
> rights are "granted by the government" which can't be further from the truth in the US.

Yeah, this is a disconcerting trend that I've observed too. Do you this think could be an issue that's always existed at the same levels and is now easier to observe due to the window of social media (and looks like a trend), or do you think it's something new?
> Is it normal for the state legislature to make changes to a city charter?

Yes, states almost always dictate how local governments are organized and run. In many states, they’ll have a pre approved list of charters that cab be adopted. For example, https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVII/Ch... has the charters that cities and towns in Massachusetts can adopt. That said, Boston doesn’t have the freedom to adopt these forms of government and instead has a charter made up of a bunch of random state statutes. https://www.cityofboston.gov/Images_Documents/2007%20the%20c...

> Why Seaford?

The sponsor of the bill is from Seaford. Presumably, he’s doing so at the request of the local government.
Here’s a project attempting to do just this!

https://github.com/yacineMTB/talk
Glad to hear there are others working on similar things. I've been wishing there was a good forum for like minded folks to share ideas about AI coding, beyond the random drive-by commenting that happens here on HN.

I have been looking at tree-sitter quite a bit actually. I love that it has broad language support, which is a key design goal for my tool.

My only hesitation is that it doesn't appear to correctly identify multi-line function signatures & calls. If you look below at create, io.tool_error and __init__ you can see that the (row,col)-(row,col) indicies only reference the first line.

GPT would really benefit from seeing the entire function signature and call sites.

$ tree-sitter tags aider/coders/base_coder.py
...
create | function def (39, 8) - (39, 14) `def create(`
check_model_availability | call ref (54, 19) - (54, 43) `if not check_model_availability(main_model):`
tool_error | call ref (56, 23) - (56, 33) `io.tool_error(`
EditBlockCoder | call ref (66, 19) - (66, 33) `return EditBlockCoder(main_model, io, **kwargs)`
...
__init__ | function def (74, 8) - (74, 16) `def __init__(`
set | call ref (89, 26) - (89, 29) `self.abs_fnames = set()`
...
A nice addition to this page would be the fact that Maine is the US state closest to Africa.
Here in the South we call them "house shoes".
Microsoft’s ability to execute at anything hardware other than Xbox is very questionable.

I don’t even know if it is ability, rather than unwillingness to invest the billions of dollars and 10+ years it would take to get something like this off the ground.
Also a legal hack.

If you even reply to them you acknowledge their validity and accept whatever legal geography they send it from to be judged on, if you're outside the US. ignore them
RHELs model is to support such ancient versions of software that they don't have to support many pieces of software, because the features most people would rely on aren't in 3, 5 or 10 year old software. If it wasn't effectively required (until recently) for most US government use, I would imagine they would have a substantially smaller customer base.
The top comments miss the big driver for the first couple of years: business applications that are remote and/or collaboration heavy. I think these can easily drive more demand than Apple can fulfill in the first few years. Such applications are very price-insensitive.

Also the military training applications are potentially enormous. The cost reduction in training with simulated environments is huge, there's already a lot of DOD investment in this. I don't know how quickly this will ramp up, though.
CS50 Will Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Course Instruction
The teacher’s union leadership wanted to cover up their tracks and hide objective measures of how harmful remote learning was to the Commonwealth’s children, including how it was especially harmful to poor minority children who lacked proper IT (laptops, reliable internet, etc…) and where many of whom many came from single parent households where the parent could not work from home.

https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2022/11/07/study-pan...

As I said, despicable.
Related:

Ruby hacking guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197222 - Aug 2013 (22 comments)
I'm a string player, as are both of my kids, both now in college. What I've observed in the US is that the "Suzuki" method is not strictly followed. Most teachers introduce reading at a reasonable point.

At the same time, exclusive use of reading is a problem too. I believe having both skills is best.
Todd Rundgren – Rundgren Making Music for the Ears – and Eyes
Yeah my Quest 2 never had that issue. Updates were always super fast or non intrusive too.

Best $300 I’ve spent in the last 5 years.
Replying to myself but...

Imagine just the eye and hand tracking with no screens. That could be a much smaller device and one can trade the screens for an interactive environment.
System Initiative Launch Demo – From CoFounder of Chef [video]
What even is the enshittification potential?

Put models behind subscriptions? Eh, doesn't seem that lucrative.

More inference/training UIs and APIs? Thats not a bad thing at all.

The HF libraries are Apache 2.0, so whatever they do to those can be forked away.

Maybe a "business" tier?
Nice - but hang on a second, I thought you cannot shadow language keywords in Go. So projects bumping to 1.21 in the future should be aware that you will run into compile time errors all of a sudden… doesn’t that actually break the compatibility promise?

max := something()

https://go.dev/doc/go1compat
Yes, all languages with two good references that are 10+ yrs old are essentially dead.
Ask HN: Any suggestions for tools for testing and monitoring LLM applications?
Little diversity of opinion and worldview how? (Should DEI teams be hiring people who are against diversity, equity, and inclusion?)
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418713
I would go a bit further than that, and posit that most complex or interesting systems resist the construction of concise, accurate narratives and that one reason we fail in our management of complex economic, political and ecological systems is because the stories we tell ourselves about them are too simple to capture the truth about highly-dimensional systems with lots of feedback.
Thank you! I will try this. I think I had the pan down, but would have liked shift+scroll for sideways and it wasn't doing that.
This reminded me in part of the work of Francis Su on math and the virtues: math and human flourishing https://youtu.be/FTXhj-puDgw

Mathematical practice can be a means of achieving the various virtues, and ‘show up’ (or make us more sensitive to) our vices. Meaning that there is something inherently good in the learning and practice of math, for it to lead to more good and to manifest to us what is bad.
> I can imagine locals who live there full time having problems getting city see that a guy who lives there 3 weeks a year doesn’t care about

There is a balance of interests. That doesn’t mean anyone not somewhere all the time should get zero representation. This is part of finding that balance.
I am not defensive, I just loathe rich kids who can't even comprehend how much of their values is dependent onto their safety nets and privilege they grew up in, going around telling others how it's "possible to have morals in poverty". Go live in true poverty for a couple of years, then we'll talk about how morally superior you are, when you have to choose between feeding your kid and being morally upstanding. Otherwise stop talking about life you know nothing about.
I agree it is more flexible and might be more preferable to some, but it is also more dangerous, and I believe it is harder to maintain as well.

Since the comment I replied to specifically said "better", that's what I directed my reply at.
They make money from their cloud services: storage, GPUs, dataset hosting, model training, model running, code sharing, model distribution. They're a one-stop shop for nearly any ML cloud solutions you'd need.

The transformers library and other products boost their image, making more people know and trust them, making more people pay to use their cloud services.

That's not to say they won't screw us if we start trusting them too much and relying on them with no alternatives. Or that they'll ruin a good thing in order to make even more money.

But I don't really see how they can screw us right now. All the code they release is open-source (transformers under Apache 2.0), and they data they provide isn't theirs. They're the de-facto standard in every academic and open-source setting I'm familiar with; it doesn't mean these people need to use huggingface, these people want to use them. And, they have a way to make money (cloud services) which not only should be profitable on its own, but encourages them to be charitable and keep good reputation to get and retain customers.
Builtins aren't keywords.
Never have I seen such an accurate description of figma.

My soul resonates with this
This sort of lie can occasionally result in researchers being fired and PhDs being retroactively canceled, it's a fairly big deal.
Also the admin has eye contact in his profile photo! Shouldn’t that be labeled ec
The only way I can see this making sense to anybody who is paying attention is if its presented as a tool to help their political side, which is obviously correct, against the opposing side, which is obviously the devil. Surely if _they_ had access to something like this they would use it to their benefit, the bastards. You'd have to be a saint not to use it against them! Acting fair is very hard when you keep being told your opponents aren't. No, you'd rather have an unfair system that is only unfair against your enemies...