skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the opposite outcome also being plausible: the LLM is viewed analogously to a blog author. The blogger/LLM may consume a book, subsequently produce "derived" output (generated text), and thus generate revenue for the blogger/LLM's employer. Consequently, the blogger/LLM's output -- while "derived" in some sense -- differs enough to be considered original work, rather than "derivative work" (like a book's film adaptation). Auditing how the blogger/LLM consumed relevant material is thus absurd.

Of course, this line of reasoning hinges on the legitimacy of an "LLM agent <-> blogger agent" type of analogy. I suspect the equivalence will become more natural as these AI agents continue to rapidly gain human-like qualities. How acceptable that perspective would be now, I have no idea.

In contrast, if the output of a blogger is legally distinct from an AI's, the consequences quickly become painful.

* A contract agency hires Anne to practice play recitals verbally with a client. Does the agency/Anne owe royalties for the material they choose? What if the agency was duped, and Anne used -- or was -- a private AI which did everything?

* How does a court determine if a black box AI contains royalty-requiring training material? Even if the primary sources of an AI's training were recorded and kosher, a sufficiently large collection of small quotes could be reconstructed into an author's story.

* What about AIs which inherit (weights, or training data generated) from other AIs of unknown training provenance? Or which were earlier trained on some materials with licenses that later changed? Or AIs that recursively trained their successors using copyrighted works which it AI reconstructed from legal sources? When do AIs become infected with illegal data?

The business of regulating learning differently depending on whether the agent uses neurons or transistors seems...fraught. Perhaps there's a robust solution for policing knowledge w.r.t silicon agents. If you have an idea, please share!
I have found Gall's law to be a corollary of "mastery before tools":

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."
My recent / favorite stack is Hugo, built by a Lambda function on git merge to the master branch.

I merge a change to master. Webhook triggers. Lambda builds the static site from a fixed version (for consistency) of Hugo (static site generator) and pushes the files to a CloudFront / S3 Website.

I can revisit my site after a year of non-maintenance and can add something without worrying about version changes breaking the site.. I don't even need any special software -- a text editor and git.

(For Rapid development, I generally run Hugo locally, but I can do a typo or link update from any computer very quickly)
"I wonder the last time anybody from... say... Metallica has actually had to buy gear"

Well, Kirk Hammett recently paid 2 million for the Les Paul that belonged to Peter Green, so there. ;)
I've never had the kind of experience you're talking about at an Apple Store, so I'm very confused about those anecdotes.
Ah, good call. I have "showdead" enabled, so I see flagged/dead entries, and didn't think of this. (I do actually often enough find dead comments that IMO deserve to be seen, and vouch for them.)

When you flag something, does it disappear immediately, or only if it's received enough flags to be killed? If the latter, then I think this is much less of a problem. Sure, you may have flagged it by accident, but if it was only one flag away from being killed, it'd probably end up getting intentionally flagged again by someone else soon enough.
I tried out a ton of static site builders, including writing my own, before I gave up and landed on Ghost. From a tech standpoint, static sites are amazing.
But when you think about it, it doesn't make sense to optimize for a simple tech stack, since that's a fixed cost. The unit-cost is the difficulty in writing and updating posts on your website. Writing in a font designed for code in a text editor on my computer and then committing and pushing to trigger a rebuild and deploy is significantly more overhead than logging into the ghost admin interface and creating a new post.
twitch streamers answer thousands of times a day questions about which keyboard they use.

programmers are no different. tool focus is a way to fool yourself into thinking all you need to do to level up is go shopping.

it’s a comforting delusion.
As you get older, you are more prone to other eye conditions, like AMD, cataracts, and glaucoma.

But from what I understand, you won’t have major changes in your prescription, such as what GP is dealing with.
You might be interested in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fechner_color
>This article frames the problem as if the value proposition of the science and the satellites is remotely similar. This couldn’t be farther from the truth

these kind of world-consequence decisions are supposed to be weighed and judged by The People In Power, rather than justified after the fact.

Yes, telecoms is important; they could have justified that importance before a tribunal of people affected by the installation of the fleet.

What happened instead?

They did what they want, were hit with complaints, and justified the existence afterwards by A) minimizing the impact of the science (absolutely unknown and unpredictable, by the way), much like what you're doing, and B) expounded on the absolute importance of global telecom coverage (a little bit more know-able.)

That's not an appropriate order of events for something that could have prolonged effects on an entire sector of research.
This has a lot of similarities to the setup I use: org-mode which lets me write my blog posts in markdown, and GitHub pages which hosts it for me. Except I don't have to pay 200 euros/year!

I guess I am missing analytics, but I don't use those anyway out of respect for my readers' privacy.
> On x86_64, on modern micro-archs, "rep stos[bwdq]" and "rep movs[bwdq]". I bet that, in modern binaries, memcpy/memset call sites are actually place holders for such instructions

You'd lose that bet.

An optimised memcpy/memset using normal instructions is typically much faster than "rep movsb" (etc).

It is however a lot of code, so "rep movsb" has its place in low-memory low-performance settings.

> hardware optimized and accelerated short and big memcpy/memset

Classic CISC fallacy: if they made an instruction to do it then it must be the fastest way to do it.

Nope. That wasn't even the intention of the designers of things such as the VAX and 8086. Those complex instructions were provided to let assembly language programmers write code a little more quickly, even if it ran a little more slowly, because according to the 1970's "Software crisis" theory computers were rapidly getting cheaper, but programmers were scarce and expensive, and vast amounts of software needed to be written.

The whole key was to make (assembly language) programmers more productive, and if that made the code slightly inefficient that didn't matter because you could easily buy an extra computer or two, and anyway next year's model will be faster.
> I’ve dabbled with a few other things as well, including building it entirely from scratch in raw HTML/CSS.

At times I feel tempted to do the same, but ironically enough HTML is not a particularly convenient document format.
> discourages overly aggressive flagging

I recently posted a tweet from pg [0] and as it starts getting some momentum, suddenly got flagged by someone who believes it is paywalled because Twitter rolled out the must-be-logged-to-view feature. It got unfairly flagged despite I provided the full tweet as a comment.

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0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36563683
Nobody is complaining about the database, they're complaining about poor communication. It could happen with anything that depends on a 3rd party.
In general copyright (in the us) doesn't cover transformational usage. If you can argue that the nature of your use is transformative you might be good.
The standard for a warrant is probable cause, a far lower bar than beyond reasonable doubt.
No clue about the patent, but this restoration video is absolutely gorgeous! I'm mesmerised
Or in my case Sphinx + Material Design + [ my magical list of 10+ extensions ] + VS Code + sphinx-autobuild + tox + GitLab Pages = magic

Send help pls
You can even email yourself the starter which is pretty cool
Looking at the Console is precisely what I thought of, at least coming from Windows, where I'd be looking at the Event Viewer to know more about such a message. Does the Console show more information?
CSS can control a web browser (software). C can control a computer (hardware).

That is how I see it. Others may see it differently.
That is nothing but an appeal to authority.
Yes, I have one eye under corrected for precisely that reason.

It’s not nearly as bad as you might think and it only ever comes up during my annual eye exam.
> What they actually have to do is make sure every person who gets one has the most perfect experience possible.

This is particularly important when it comes to a VR headset, where it's very easy for bad initial experiences to literally physically condition the user into getting sick every time they put on a VR headset.

Stepping the most diehard fans through how to metaphorically "hold it right" also gives them a built-in backstop of support when it comes to preventing those issues with future consumers once they eventually hit the point of proper mass market production.
> Really gives off "it's your fault for not reading the wiki." Is this how InfluxDB treats their customers?

I don't see any indication that the person who posted that is associated with InfluxDB. In fact, it doesn't seem like any staff member has posted in that forum in the past week. Up to you if you consider that better or worse.
The first amendment protects speech. Code is speech. E2EE is code. Therefore, the first amendment protects E2EE.
I have settled on hugo with generated content served from GitHub pages some years ago. Last week I disconnected from Google Analytics in favor of umami self-hosted in Hetzner, and Google Fonts which I now serve directly from my own domain.

Next step is to offboard from GitHub pages and move the blog directly to Hetzner where my analytics are hosted.
Law enforcement burglarizing your house to install hidden cameras without a warrant is indeed something you would want the system to address, but it's also a much narrower problem, because it's expensive and dangerous. Typically when doing that sort of thing with a warrant, it would be done by a team who e.g. ensures that the homeowner doesn't come back while the cops are in there installing the bug, and who wouldn't go to jail if the suspect's brother unexpectedly shows up just then and catches them -- because they had a warrant.

Whereas anybody can forge a document and submit it to the phone company, and the scope of who is able and willing to abuse that data is very large. So it should be narrowed by not collecting it and forcing access to go via the more expensive route which is less subject to abuse.
Why shouldn't workers maximise their utility?

If you want someone to work harder than they "should", you need to motivate them somehow.
I don't believe it's copyright infringement either, but I don't believe it should be allowed either.

It used to be that when people bought a piece of land they owned that land from the center of the Earth to the end of the Universe. When planes were invented the laws on who owned the skies had to change or planes wouldn't work.

It's the same here, but in reverse. If LLMs aren't prohibited from learning without permission then people will be forced to hide their works.
I think it's worth reading the article mate, it's talking about how they observed that satellite emissions and the effect it could have on their research and the things they do.
It’s just unnecessary to have “real” programmers and everyone else.

When you work with computers for long enough you realize there’s a massive grey area between those terms and most people are there.
declient cron job. No more DNS manual edits.
Mixing and matching 2-3 UI / state frameworks will always be an hassle.
Of course it was a good instrument, and it was made in the US with good materials, so it couldn't be the cheapest. It wasn't a Sears or Silvertone bass.

But it was still an off-the-shelf instrument that was mass-produced in order to be less expensive. I bet that virtually every instrument used in a professional orchestra at the time (except the tiny stuff) was more expensive than that bass.
> I think XKL uses an FPGA-based PDP-10 running TOPS-20 on its TOAD2 router, but that's about all I'm aware of.

I’m pretty sure the TOAD2 is a discontinued product. I believe their current routers run a BSD variant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30520851
That’s a whole lot of words to say the US was demonstrably right. South Korea is an actual country and North Korea is an open air prison.

South Korea is a vastly richer, freer and more prosperous country than both North Korea (and China for that matter).
> Don’t have to get so personal

"Nonsense" was a very dismissive reply. What saagarjha said is not only sensical, it's true. And you were presuming to explain Xcode to people who know Xcode intimately.

> I speak purely off experience, writing/porting software for macOS for more than 4 years, most of the time using Xcode.

And I've been a professional Mac developer for 17 years.

It appears that you created your HN account less than an hour ago, for the purpose of talking down to someone who actually knows more than you do. I find this very sad.
I've been using Nikola[1] to run my personal blog lately which is basically perfect.

Easy to configure (just python) and capable of Markdown or Jupyter notebook publishing. The latter was why I wanted it since it gives drag+drop image inserts.

[1] https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#deploying-to-github
That's the first time I've seen this word, yet it definitely distinguishes against real (Olympic) wrestling.

I never watched WWF, now WWE, because I couldn't see any use for rooting for any one of them, since the matches are far more about the super-human "stunts" than about anyone in particular winning. Given how manufactured the fights were, whoever the winner was, was a moot point anyway.

There is a similarity here for sure. Imagine if Hulk Hogan claimed all his moves were genuine hard core painful moves, and not carefully rehearsed to merely look painful.
I was a fairly satisfied Reddit user until I got arbitrarily shadowbanned in my home city's sub, the irony there being, I am fully in line with the echo chamber rules, someone just straight up didn't like my tone and instead of warnings/temp ban they went straight to shadowban. Didn't take long to figure it out cause I was a regular poster, not just a commenter.

I'm not mad at whatever coward did that, but that was it for my taking reddit seriously. If someone can anonymously remove an actual citizen of the city from the city's sub with no appeal or explanation, that's an absolute garbage public square. And while I had some other subs that amused me, I was there to interact with my real community.

So that was like a year ago and while I miss having all the funny links before all my friends get them two days later on the corporate platforms, I didn't find that I was missing much in terms of quality interaction anyways, and I'm as guilty as anyone I talked to, I was a shitposter on there. Not a racist or a troll or anything like that but I definitely trafficked in lazy sarcasm.

I'm kinda bummed about Mastodon because I was actually having some quality interactions, until about two weeks ago. Correlation is not causation of course, but there's definitely some correlations there...
What's the point of the Blockchain then? Can't I just login with a key pair that does not use a public chain of blocks or anything else? Or a single shared key... eg a password?
can you point to the part of my comment where I suggested anything about how laws should work?

what do you think an analogy is? do you think an analogy is something where the thing itself and its metaphor are "just like" each other, or do they share attributes for illustrative purposes?

would you agree that LLMs and humans share the attributes of information retention and contextual reproduction?
Possession of copyrighted material without permission of the creator is illegal, but yes -- rights holders don't really go after infringers except maybe via ISP three strikes crap.

They're very much incentivized to change their behavior for AI scraping, though.
I have a solution to this in https://github.com/anacrolix/btlink. Addressing your specific points:

> * No DNS

It extends DNS by mapping naming over DHT, and content addressed data to a corner of the existing DNS system (.btlink is the working example given).

> * No identity manager

Yep

> * No shared server. A server is fine so long as you are the only client that can access it as a server or other clients are currently known and prior authenticated (a peer).

It allows for a level of shared server to suit the user, to ease use. You can run your own "server" (the eventual default), or use a public or shared one to get started. Server here refers to a process that extends DNS and serves resources without having to modify existing software.

> * No root certificate or certificate authority or CRL.

It makes no attempt to modify the existing system in use on the internet. A certificate is required to serve .btlink traffic over https.

> * No blockchain

Yep

> * No shared database or other shared services

Yep (I assume a DHT doesn't count here).
One thing that is hard with submissions is duplicates. Reasonable to flag, hard to identify later.
Most first time, non-violent federal offenses, then?
Doesn't this set skip 20lbs? Since 10+5+2.25 has a gap before the next size of 25
A couple years ago I wanted an item in-stock at the Apple store but the soonest 'pickup appointment' they could give me was a few days out. What's worse is they have you choose a specific 15-minute window. That's not very customer friendly.
Isn't an "admit one" ticket the very definition of fungible?
Huh, nice. I got a little anxiety watching 6-3 of going the low path. That's not a human route, but then watching 8-2 there were a few nice bits that a skilled player would make.

I get that its a lot of trial and error, and its a nice attempt. What would it take to beat the maze levels, though? I guess since the reward is always just moving forward, its hard to tell when you're progressing without an internal map telling you that it's changed and that you're expecting that?

SMB1 i think is great to train on stuff like this, but it does have some secrets and some hiccups. Like, what would it take to get this AI to find the warp zones?
Once it is older than a few hours it probably doesn't matter any.
1990's? Once it was 1995 you wouldn't be caught dead with a 486.

Also, Windows 95 came with a boot disk to run the installer so you didn't need DOS and MSCDEX.

I was surprised to see no mention of a Borland product like Turbo C++ or Turbo Pascal, but by the mid 90's those were out of sight. You'd be using Watcom or DJGPP to make DOS games in the early to mid 90's.

Also...where was MSVC 1.5? Forgot what version I had before acquiring Visual Studio 4 or whatever everyone else had.
Also there are plenty of people that know everything, except when they don't.
Anyone who has seen what happened to Multichain lately?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_tetrachloride

Read the uses section.

It doesn’t make sense that silicon tetrachloride is a byproduct of purifying silicon. Why would you leave the silicon atom attached to the chlorine if the silicon atom is what you are after. The ratio makes sense - there’s one silicon atom and four chlorine atoms, but the statement that it’s a waste product is strange to me as it’s not. It is a intermediate and you do have to house it, and you can leak it and that’s not great (but as they state in the article you linked it’s not stable around water so I wouldn’t lose a huge amount of sleep over it’s pollution.
It's been a week now, you prediction held. Still can't access without an account.
Google Docs > Docs to Markdown > Github Pages = Free, simple, good.
The Vuzix Ultralight gives you a 30° FOV display with support for notifications and turn-by-turn directions... which makes it identical feature-wise to plenty of previous products that have failed to make any waves at all, just marginally lighter and with a longer battery life. That's not a mass-market product, it's a niche product that's at best riding on the coattails of the already-niche Xreal Air.
All u need is uml sequence diagram
I must say, if only able to use 3 adjectives in a headline, why would ethical be one, when it comes to visual software? Stable, beautiful, and elegant are three that come to mind that could have been used.

I'm having trouble seeing how an open source DE can even be unethical.
Right, that’s literally what cargo culting means.

It’s making a surface level imitation of behaviors, without understanding the underlying reasons, hoping for the same effect.

So maybe Jobs might have made experiences that looked superficially similar to this, but he would’ve done it in a manner that actually understood the customer.
Couldn’t it be just a bug in the beta?
This leaves out the ability to get to 85, 90, 175, and 180 lbs. Another set of 10s hits these missing numbers quite easily tho and allows for 330 lbs in total which should be plenty for most recreational lifters.
Do you get how insane this sounds as an experience though? I'm physically in the store, saying "just let me pay for your product so I can leave" and the default is to try and drag that interaction out?

The existence of workarounds doesn't make it not stupid.
> Frankly Windows 7 is better than Windows 11, I think many would agree with that.

I would not. Windows 10 has improvements to the compositor, scheduler, settings and seemingly other things that make it faster in many applications, even on low resource systems. It has other features (like HDR, DirectML) that make it far better for some more cutting edge apps.

One could argue the "stock" config of Windows 10 and 11 is really trashy... Which is true. But its not really a fair argument, as OEMs loaded Windows 7 systems with bloatware (where Microsoft is doing more of that these days).
I actually prefer expressing UI layouts abstractly in some kind of markup. Not necessarily in HTML and CSS, because the CSS box model is crazy, but something like XAML. In fact, last time I did a native application for macOS (many years ago), I decided I'd rather use the dead GNUstep Renaissance library, which is fairly XAML-like, than Apple's Interface Builder. I know I'm in a small minority here due to being legally blind, but drag-and-drop UI building was always a non-starter for me. I wonder how many sighted developers feel the same way for different reasons.
You can't software yourself out of most meaningful problems.
That's not what I was saying. Palm and RIM assumed their unit sales were an unassailable moat. Both almost completely ignored the consumer phone market then dominated by feature phones. Apple didn't jump after raw market share but an underserved market.

I'm not saying the Vision Pro will follow the same path as the iPhone. Past sales of the competition shouldn't be used as a signal of how good compelling of a product it will be. Meta's sales reflect the demand of a product from Meta. Apple has a lot more experience and success at building a platform for third parties. Meta can improve the Oculus platform but it's an open question whether they will.