skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transformative use doesn't necessarily mean copyrightable.

Google's thumbnails are a purely mathematical transformation on images (no copyright themselves), and yet are considered a transformative use.

I believe that trained models are similarly a purely mathematical transformation of {data}, but is transformative in what that can be used for going forward.

"Can" bearing a lot of weight in that sentence.

It's how the human, with agency, uses the model that may be a derivative or copyright infringing use - not the model itself nor necessarily the output.

The output of a generative AI may be similar enough to an existing work that it is derivative of that work. It is possible to construct a prompt that infringes on an existing work even if that work wasn't part of the training data.

For that case, consider you drew a picture. That picture that you just drew isn't part of any training data. I could presumably look at it and describe it with sufficient detail that something similar enough would be generated... and that may be considered a derivative work. The same test could be applied to me describing it to someone on Fiverr with the same outcome.

If I were to publish that work by the generative AI or Fiverr - who would be infringing on copyright? me? or the black box that may be AI or Fiverr that created a picture based on my prompts?
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Yes. It’s my gaming machine log on. It’s just easier to know this password than to always have to find it.

I do not trust corporations, so I generally do not do things like biometrics and stuff.

I don’t completely understand how pins are more secure than my complex password either. That could be ignorance.
Thank you for saying this.

I’m kind of surprised by how many of these responses regard reciprocity.

Isn’t it enough to help make another person better?
Being a Florida native, seeing an article titled "Heat Pumps [are] the Future of A/Cs" feels like it should have a ` [1973]` tacked on to the end of it. A heat pump is pretty much the only thing we use here, we just use them in reverse. Literally. Most residential units have a "reversing valve" that must be held open by a constant 24V in order to cool the air - the default mode is heating -- which is so smart to have a failure mode that causes your house to be heated in the summer to 95F while you sleep.

Anyway, my heat pump just stopped working this weekend, and its getting very hot in here.
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It's an interesting idea, but I think it would be worth trying to actually prototype it as its own library first and see if it catches on. My suspicion is that it probably won't work as nicely as you think it will unfortunately.
Yeah. Also, in my estimation, AI doing some tasks for cheaper than humans is the real margin/frontier of disruption here. That frontier is only going to expand from here unless we have a particularly bad economic collapse…
Or get signed and trusted apps from a community run alternative "app store" like F-Droid, Arch, or Debian.
Ask HN: Transcribe and Summarize Meetings
What's the state of the art product for transcribing meetings, calls with multiple participants?

Ideally would work with Zoom, Google Meets, or even IRL meetings via an app. Ideally would transcribe then summarize the key takeaways, action items, and open questions.
I said I praised Poland for building nuclear plants. I didn't say they did everything perfectly.
It is still cheaper on a 10y timeframe to buy ipv4 than it is to pay for a NAT box for ipv4 and to deploy ipv6 and run both.
Why? If people will fully developed brains who have an active, vested interest in society don't care. If activists don't care. If the only people who care are, on average, 15 years old, then why should I feel the protests are important?
As always, a lawyer is not necessarily your lawyer.
As a thought experiment, the same logic can be applied to any region where lack of shelter or heating would make human life unsustainable.
> I would like this to be true, but I think it varies a lot. I have seen execs be very excited by name-brand degrees well past that point.

I have seen executives (in startups and small, private companies) effectively stable PhDs and others with graduate degrees because of where their degree was printed. They pay these people a lot of money to keep them on payroll because it is, whether true or supposed, a strong signal to potential investors, etc.
The rise of open-source startups in France
I wonder if they are posting themselves out of a job again.
Ensuring a model never outputs copyrighted content is unimportant and tangential. It's irrelevant. You don't look for a way to make humans output no copyrighted content, you address each time they do case by case.

A model training being rendered fair use doesn't mean any of its output can be used for whatever regardless.
The ability to prevent an extension from accessing specific sites is an improvement as long as the user can control it and it is not used for centralized access control.

The reason this feature is there is that many extensions play poorly with or should not have access at all to specific sites. For example, Grammarly has no business accessing a corporate billing system and IT might want to disable access. In other cases an extension slows a site massively and a user might want to say, "not that site" to an extension. This could be the start of a big end-user improvement, especially if it can be managed by users and installers.
The man credited with making Singapore the powerhouse it is today has also been adamant that without Air Conditioning, tropical countries couldn’t develop https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
I dunno, now you’ve got a bin of parts to store, and what happens if they get lost or damaged? You order more and wait for shipping? Print more and have grad students glue magnets in? The mean-time-to-kitchen-drawer seems low.

I wonder if someone needs to better introduce the SpaceMouse to this crowd.
I guess if you value your time far less than money you can save a couple bucks on cheap keyboards? I guess they now have a cherry brown based keyboard and can experience the different between that and awful membrane boards. Personally I think a little extra money is worth it for a keyboard that lasts years instead of dumping a membrane board in the landfill like OP apparently does.
It's impressive how well Firefox does at making it hard to justify using Firefox. Can't wait until 116 release to see what other feature they removed or anti pattern they decided should be opted into by default for "confidential reasons"
But what's the difference between reasoning etc. and giving the appearance of reasoning?
> add more threads to the pool, start hitting overhead from that

I would like to know more detail about this claim.

The scenario you are describing is one were 64-128 OS threads are fully blocked waiting for IO. If that's the case, is it likely that you will have additional unused IO resources that could be being utilized?

Also, what overhead do you see as the main limit on spawning a lot of threads? Is that the CPU time of context switching? If so, in this scenario CPU is not the bottleneck, and switching between processes will be nothing, especially with a 32-64 core CPU.

This is a genuine question as I have never worked on an application that got close to maxing out either approach.
You are right - AGI does not need consciousness, and consciousness might not require general intelligence (a mouse is conscious but GPT-4 will beat a mouse at most 'general' intelligence tests).
The React library requires no custom file types, and doesn't have templates. Just import the React package into your pure JS project, and get crackin'. Just like jQuery.

JSX is an optional extension of JavaScript which adds a few syntactic sugar features, e.g. writing `<FooComponent ...` instead of `const FooComponent = () => createElement(...`. It's completely distinct from templates in Vue or Svelte. This is crucial, because templates are a bad idea. As Steven Wittens[1] put it:

> Many competing frameworks acted like this wasn't so, and stuck to the old practice of using templates. They missed the obvious lesson here: every templating language inevitably turns into a very poor programming language over time. It will grow to add conditionals, loops, scopes, macros, and other things that are much nicer in actual code. A templating language is mainly an inner platform effect. It targets a weird imagined archetype of someone who isn't allergic to code, but somehow isn't smart enough to work in a genuine programming language. In my experience, this archetype doesn't actually exist. Designers don't want to code at all, while coders want native expressiveness. It's just that simple.

[1] https://acko.net/blog/get-in-zoomer-we-re-saving-react/
> Safari is quite usable

The majority of device with web browsers cannot use Safari. I can't use it at all.
Mac App Store app updates, yes. macOS system updates, no.
Firefox is lagging behind on enterprise configuration options. Adding in additional features that allow sysadmins to deploy policies that can further control Firefox like Chrome and Edge could be potentially behind why this is happening.

This is of course, complete speculation and if it was for enterprise management reasons, Mozilla should have clearly communicated it.
> Hydrogen cars actually exist and work exactly as advertised.

And if by that you mean very badly and very impractically then you are correct.

> There are no fundamental challenges.

Except, you know building them cheap at volume. Just a small thing.

> This reads like one of those anti-BEV posts from a decade ago.

Except it also reads like anti-Hydrogen EV post from a decade ago and since then BEV have made utterly insane amount of progress and hydrogen vehicles are still in the utterly sorry and embracing state they were 10 years ago.
If anything - this entire conversation just highlights (Over and Over and Over and Over again) how absolutely bonkers abusive our current copyright laws are.

The vast majority of small individuals are compelled by contract to surrender their rights to large corporations. Those large corporations then abuse the ever loving fuck out of those rights.

The express intent of copyright is now a sad joke.

Personally - I'm pretty over the entire show. This system is generating an incredible amount of inequality. New and novel content is absolutely NOT getting made, and these laws are creating vicious infights that drain resources from well intentioned companies & individuals and pass them along to complete scam corporations.

We are told stories as children that we cannot retell in our own voices decades later to our own children.

I am firmly ready to burn this copyright system to the fucking ground. It's been 300 years since the Statute of Anne - I'm ready for a different game.
It's a non-exhaustive list.

Iowa State has a strong STEM program because of Ames National Lab.

They also have on campus recruiting at UTD, UMinn, Purdue, BYU, ASU, and Stony Brook.

And when did you attend college?

And, to be fair, if it wasn't Ohio State I doubt they would have been there.

> (just to be clear, I'm not picking on Google specifically and these comments can be applied generally to all the top hedge funds, tech companies, non-profits, etc.)

What school you go to does matter, but it's doable for most students to attend a semi-selective program and still have plenty of doors open. Indiana Tech or Wright State aren't one of those and probably won't be.
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Clearly, you don't understand the processes for which CentOS (and, by extension, Alma & Rocky) is an appropriate solution. Redeclaring the problem domain does not solve the problem.
In effect, Red Hat, by refusing to acknowledge actual developer workflows and peoblems, are not actually solving a problem at all, but instead are making new ones.
No one using authoritarian computing platforms will fare well at resisting authoritarians.
>>Same with cold weather,

I 100% disagree with this...

Heat is made by everything, waste heat is a byproduct of all modern things, and there are TONS of easy low cost ways to make heat even it is just as simple as burning something.

Also the body makes head naturally so adding layers to trap this heat does not require continual inputs from an outside resource

Cooling on the other hand is MUCH harder, and electricity is really the only avenue to make cooling. Even if you say use ICE, well that Ice was made at some point by a freezer running on Electricity

IMO hot climate is MUCH MUCH more dangerous than cold, which is why I choose to live in an area where there are only 1 or 2 months of even remotely hot climate.

As I told my last HVAC... Heat I can make 100 ways... Cooling I need central air for...
"Now, courts are not typically stacked with dummies, but again how many are well versed in issues of technology?"

Even if they are well versed in issues of technology that does not mean they'll make what any given one of would consider a good decision, as plenty of people well versed in issues of technology disagree with each other on these issues.

Nothing guarantees that on, on any issue, really, as you can always find people who disagree.. and if they happen to be judges, they get to decide unless another higher judge overrule them.. and that judge has the same problem as the first.
I'm wary of Manifest v3, but like you say, it isn't a mandate yet. Is there any reason today why Chrome isn't usable? There's also Brave, which I love on Android.
If the platforms agreed with the request and complied with it: coordination

If the platforms disagreed with the request and complied with it anyway: coercion (and the platforms themselves don't even have to claim they were coerced!)

So what this resolves to is: platforms cannot concur with a request or notice made by the government.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36600777
You need a backup heat source, but it doesn't necessarily mean you need full infrastructure of gas lines, ducting, and gas furnace. You could have an electric backup connected to ducted heat pump (e.g., non-efficient, pure electric) or could use electric strip heating, electric portable heaters, wood stoves, etc.
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Me? I just realized I'm not motivated to get up to work in industry. I just can't get up to chase and achieve goals that serve the needs of shareholders or any other stakeholders. In academia, I probably still won't care about the stakeholders, but I'll at least get to explore stuff that interest me. Well, that's the hope anyway! Haha!

Reminds me of how many entrepreneurs don't become entrepreneurs to become rich. They do it to become free from having bosses. Except for me, I'm not sure I'd be able to make it as an entrepreneur if I only chase what interests me instead of what a market wants. If I chase what the market wants instead of what interests me, my motivation drops. Been there, tried that. So... here I am. Even though it's painful right now.
If you completely ignore the concept of energy efficiency, sure.
my worry is that by firefox 225 that option will be gone, or will require modifying some text file in your profile.

I say this because I already have had to modify a text file in my profile to get firefox to do what I want (tree style tabs without dupe tab-bar on top).

also, by "firefox 225" I wonder how easy it will be to arbitrarily modify a 'protected' app/system text file (this is already difficult on smartphones)
Those are the whites white teeth I have ever seen, incredible.

Also the message was great, the combination rarely happens!
Can I just claim to have breached some company and have the law compel them to issue that quote?

I don't think anyone would have to claim to have breached the company in question.

Just the act of asking the question would compel any company to have to respond "Yes, we have been breached."
I'll bet that most students with good grades who are applying to elite colleges have higher than average IQs.

MIT and Caltech are not Ivy League but even then I'm sure they have a lot of students who benefit from private schools, private tutors, and pricy college prep programs. What differentiates the ones who get accepted from the ones who don't?
Yeah, async is a type of greenthreading.
This is essentially the correct explanation.

Karl Marx showed 150 years ago that a state under capitalism is a capitalist state and therefore predominated by the interests of capital itself, an observation that has never been refuted.
In general, composing Unix commands is a very powerful means to construct complex applications... poorly, with no real pathways to fixing their shortcomings. I believe the traditional "Unix Way" is to gloss over said shortcomings and pretend they don't exist, and when that fails, move the goalposts and argue that they don't exist "in the real world".

For example, what combination of shell commands can I use to output the number of files in a directory?

Hint: it's a trick question, you can't.
The world is messy and disorganised. People are fallible and at times stupid. The people who keep things working despite this might feel that their jobs are pointless. That doesn't mean that the people paying them to do the job see it the same way.

Sure, as an omniscient, infallible being you might be frustrated at all the waste. You might rightly be angry at imbeciles like me who can't see through it. But at the end of they day this nonsense keeps things from completely falling apart.
what to do instead?
I've tried making this point to my father, with little success. He is someone who very clearly struggles with anxiety, and has an incredibly unhealthy news consumption habit -- its news on the radio on the way to work, lots of newspaper reading at work (he runs his own small business), followed by constant cable news in the evening. He can't turn it off. As best I can tell, he struggles to consume longer form (especially written content), and I don't know that he'd be able to tell me the name of the last book he's read. He's an incredibly intelligent man, but I can't help but feel he's doing himself a huge disservice with his habit. But, alas, I am always met with "but I need to be informed" retort, despite my many objections to it. Anyone experience something similar with their parents and have any advice?
Cool, so two examples, both more than five years old, one of which--the now eight-year-old Pocket integration--has in the long run been a complete non-event.

(I'll grant you that Mr. Robot thing six years ago was pretty damn stupid, though)

You'll forgive me if I don't find myself moved to outrage.
No, weights are not just data fed but also the training process itself. I think the whole argument hinges on how much human thought and action is needed in training the model.

On the other end of the spectrum, AI generated content couldn't be copyrighted if there is no human involvement. If someone asks GPT to write 1000 poems, it couldn't be copyrighted.
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Yes, but it's not an Ivy, as you mentioned in your comment. Unless you are using Ivy to represent the 50+ top universities in the US which are a mix of public and private schools.
HTTP client library is the one that got me yesterday. "reqwest" has a blocking mode, but it's less featureful than its async version, and the code I needed to do signing etc was only possible with the async API.

I don't think this is the right way to design libraries; I think the right thing to do is to expose the state machine etc that drives the I/O and then provide async and sync entry points to the same thing. But 'async' keyword makes it too easy to just sprinkle it all the way down, and now you've imposed your lifestyle choices on your user.
Right. It's a problem best confronted by the AC manufacturer. Except they have no incentive to do so (because if they don't, they get to sell an entirely separate heat pump down the line). Which means it's perhaps a problem for the regulator.

There are tax breaks involved with installing "energy star" rated equipment. Perhaps we ought to start witholding the star from AC units that are not easy to convert to heat pumps (and from thermostats, etc, which are not ready to handle the conversion).
> Again, the medallion only goes as far as ensuring that all drivers get a sustainable wage.

I'm saying that no, it doesn't do that. Taxi drivers are staying afloat despite medallions, not because of them.
Tesla is probably the biggest example that springs to mind. I'm not sure they were any different from the myriad of other car startups that come and go all the time.

I think Github and Linkedin (both acquired by MS) are both more popular now but I presume they would have continued to grow in popularity anyway, so I don't know if it had anything to do with the takeover.

Instagram is another one that has done well, but again it might have done well anyway.
I don't understand, what are the columns? Is this ratio thing a factor of how much slower one library is than some other unspecified thing? And why aren't all benchmarks run on all engines if the results are averaged anyway; does the benchmark count column mean something different?
I see and agree that education and support at the earliest levels of education are heavily correlated with inequality in elite outcomes. However, I think this has always been the case in American history, no?

There were brief periods where this wasn't true for the richest people in the US, but the majority of the top 1% has always been bred for the top 1%. If you accept that it's more or less constant and think that the magnitude of inequality is the bigger issue, this isn't necessarily a bad thing: as long as the top 1% continue to allocate capital effectively, and don't get too greedy (i.e. leave enough wealth for the rest of society to lead fulfilling lives / don't exacerbate the inequality gap).

For what it's worth, I think the primary issue today is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to live a "dignified life" (i.e. free from debt or peonage), unless you fall on the right side of the inequality distribution. That quality-of-life-burden is less severe of an issue in the other countries you mention. Unfortunately, expanding higher-quality education does not solve this problem.
It raises the question of if we should deploy 'emergency coolers' - perhaps single-use barrels of some chemical that gets cold when a pull-tab is pulled. To be a workable solution, it needs to be more reliable/cheaper/more effective than just a regular gasoline generator powering a regular aircon unit.

After a flood/hurricane/nuclear strike, they would provide enough coolness to keep people alive for a few days.
When people talk about weights, they talk about a network of weights that takes an input and computes an output. There is really not much difference between a saved model and a program.
Mine take maybe 2 minutes to switch from heating to cooling, or cooling to heating.
Update: This is working quite well. I occasionally run into errors "Error: The network connection was lost." but I think this is mostly because of my Wifi.
The correct naming would be "prometheus client library" as per prometheus docs.

If you didn't have issues with multiprocessing that's great, but it seems like it's not uncommon for people to have issues with that approach, for example (the reason I started to experiment on this as a sideproject) in the k6 team at grafana we had the problem of too many files getting created and not properly getting cleaned up, we were forced to go into single process mode and with kubernetes that's fine. But if you are not running in kubernetes, I'm not sure you had a clean alternative :)