skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fine, but you really should call MessageBoxA if you're not going to use _T() around your strings.
It’s funny given the content of this blog because one of the open source blogging engines you can use is… Ghost.
Did the trainers illegally access and obtain copyrighted works which are ordinarily protected?

I see multiple questions raised by this suit. Were copyrighted works being illegally stored and distributed by certain sources? Of course they are. Were these illegal sources accessed by the trainers and used to obtain copyrighted works which are not otherwise available for no charge on the public Internet? Are substantial and reproducible copies of these copyrighted works retained within the bowels of the LLM neural nets? Is the LLM able to answer prompts in a way that it would never be able to do, had the copyrighted material not been ingested?

I see the lawsuit addressing several questions at once, and so even a resolution of this suit itself will leave questions unanswered and needing to be kicked upstairs to higher jurisdictions.
Heh, huggingface is already filled with junk. Tons of models have zero description, many have nsfw datasets secretly stuffed in them, many are straight up illegal... Like the thousands of LLaMA finetunes.

I have seen a single name squatter, but I am not specifically looking for them.

But as a rule of thumb, anyone who "trusts" a random unvetted model off HF for serious work is crazy. Its a space for research.
#showcase on bevy discord has cool stuff dropping daily. it’s fun to watch the scene progress.
Or the opposite: having dramatically less energy. Our ancestors were not destroying biodiversity, and were running on renewables :-). Our modern problems came with fossil fuels...
Atlantis was a great tool back in the day and still works well in most scenarios. The main issue with it is that it also takes on running the jobs (as in Terraform binary runs on the same VM it runs). Which makes it similar to Jenkins and other first-generation CI systems.

Companies that use Atlantis at scale (eg Lyft) felt the need to fork it and use a scalable compute backend instead, eg Temporal. At which point you've basically got a DIY in-house CI.

Our view is that it's best to keep matters separate. The CI part with compute, jobs, logs etc is a solved problem. What's unsolved for Terraform is state-aware logic when / how to run those jobs. It's all about the orchestrator really.
Anyone with experience in this domain that could provide any feedback/pointers?

Thanks!
When setTimeout is a blocking call after all
Yes, it delivers 400 kW of charging goodness today with more to come.

Remind me again, how fast are Tesla's chargers with the Tesla plug?
Sure, it is precisely: Some portion of the overall revenue the product brings in.

The point of this is if you understand your value and your place within the company revenue mix, you can protect yourself better against being blindsided by a layoff.

Scenario 1-My product brings in $0 and I cost the company $100k.

Scenario 2-My product brings in $1B and I cost the company $100k.

When the company belt tightening happens, which of those two scenarios has the greatest danger of layoff and disruption? If I know I am in scenario 1…I might start looking for a new gig because some portion* of $0 is $0, but scenario 2’s some portion* of $1B is certainly not $0.
This is not a particularly new direction for Apple. I just bought a Mac Studio and set it up today. Latest and greatest non-beta (Ventura 13.4.1). I'm not even trying to do anything particularly adventurous, just install a basic suite of applications and get to the point where I can use my machine. I have been besieged by dialogs, popups, and notifications asking me to give a program access to a file or removable disk or my downloads folder, or "informing" me that a setting has been changed, or that something will run on startup, or most intrusively, in half a dozen cases, preventing a program from working until I open the security preferences and find the "Allow" button.

At one point, after rebooting my computer
- a required step in the 10-minute process of updating the firmware for my fresh out of the box Apple monitor - I got a dialog that said "The application 1Password is not open anymore" (exactly like https://us.v-cdn.net/5020219/uploads/editor/w1/apqiiyi6lwer....). Clicking the help button opened the classic Apple help panel that grinds your computer to a halt and, in this case, displayed a blank white window. I spent a few seconds trying to puzzle this one out, ending on an Apple discussion forum (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252590137) with the again-classic mode for those forums where derision and insults are provided in lieu of assistance.

I fell in love with the "it just works" and "an actually usable GUI plus Unix under the hood" and "they actually sweat the small stuff" aspects of the Mac experience that drew a lot of us to the platform in the early days of OS X. Over time, the shine has worn off and many patches have tarnished or even rusted through. The user-annoyance-factor difference between modern Windows and macOS is very slight.
Sorry, I may have got this wrong!

I honestly thought they got removed but it looks like this isn't happening for me (at least not right away), unless it's the scenario you mention where it's only one away from being killed. I think I must have been conflating the behaviour for hide with flag.
> I buy a book and give it to my child

> how about they become a therapist and sell access

> what if they sell access to lectures

I fully agree. But in all of your examples someone is purchasing the right to access the information in question. Did Meta or OpenAI purchase the books (or lectures) with the intention of feeding them into the training for their respective LLM's?
>The problem we’ve found is that integrating SwiftUI in existing UIKit apps that also rely on stuff like RxSwift isn’t easy

Your RxSwift codebase should have converted to Combine 3 years ago, and today you’d map the observable streams to SwiftUI with a simple @Published property wrapper (now called macro… ugh)

It’s really not that hard, and Combine can push your state to both new and legacy views with a few lines of hookup.
I don't know if CuriousMarc discovered something new, but AFAIK:

Cause of alarms is described there: https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

Alarms indicated system restart, but because landing program was designed to automatically restart with data from last checkpoint, checklists deemed it was safe to continue. The trouble though was what was causing the restarts: due to unexpected CPU time stealing from hardware, new SERVICER jobs were scheduled before previous one finished! And previous job wasn't removed from list immediately (that only happened when everything restarted with alarm), which mean that with load fluctuations previously interrupted stale jobs could be continued. In effect there were multiple active instances of routine that was never designed to be reentrant, potentially stomping over global variables and submitting stale commands. The reason that effects of this were relatively benign was that the last thing SERVICER did was updating display, and that's where unintended behavior appeared. In case hardware was stealing a bit more time and jobs would be interrupted near throttle command submission, effects would have been worse.

See also https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Documents/LUMINARY-memo-138.p...

>It is now known that the stacking up of Servicer jobs which precedes a 1201 or 1202 alarm in the event of TLOSS can cause completely wrong throttle and attitude commands, and in one special case, random branching. This happens because the Servicer job can clobber its own erasables. Luckily this did not happen to Apollo 11, which encountered TLOSS estimated at up to 15%.

EDIT: I watched the talk and I'm not sure whether he implies there's additional CDU problem, or just discussion about exact amount of CDU-caused TLOSS, so I hope he will explain that on the channel.
Wow, that is helpful when adding a youtube video here. Was that manually transcribed or is there a tool you used to get the script?
It's been quite a few years, but AFAIK he didn't hack JSTOR. He downloaded papers en mass using a guest MIT account that had legal access to JSTOR. Maybe he violated their terms, but that is not illegal. He did illegally trespass an unlocked MIT switch closet to do this. They blocked several IPs but his script would rotate to continue. The downloading was over a week or two, enough for security to set up a camera in the closet to catch him retrieving the laptop.

I believe JSTOR sued him to prevent him from releasing the downloaded materials, worried he had offloaded the papers separately from the laptop. The final blow was an outrageous set of charges by the federal government. I also recall several prominent leaders in the open source movement calling it out for what it was, a power trip to make an example of a "digital terrorist". Such a shame.
It is distribution of copyrighted material without permission of the author that is illegal, when you download you're not distributing so it isn't illegal (unless you're using something like BitTorrent that also distributes it while you're downloading it).
Cool! I have an automatic skepticism of things that boil down to 'shell snippets embedded in yaml files', but it does look very complete.
I might play with this for personal projects.
Not really. Apple is catering to the majority of consumers who don't arrive at the store with their exact purchase ready to go. They want to be guided and shown all the options.

And if you are in the small % who don't want this. Either go to one of the other retail stores selling the product, or order it online for pickup or delivery.
Car’s tires are swirling donuts of pollution
https://archive.is/UM1lR
It happens with Youtube sometimes, but you have to search for the exact name of the creator you heard somewhere else. Or you find very "pure creators" when you search how to fix your toilet.
Not at all. That's not how science works. A huge percentage of rigorous scientific studies are specifically showing correlations between things.

"Correlation doesn't equal causation!" cried the internerds.

It doesn't need to. If you've got a set (P) of N people who consume substance X, and N people (Q) who did not consume substance X, and 100% of set P died within half an hour of that act, and 100% of Q are still happy little dandelions, that is an entirely valid scientific finding, and an entirely sufficient reason to stop the supply of substance X.
> - copyright violation happened before the intervention of the bot

What is this supposed to mean? The bot didn't "intervene," it was executed by its operators, and it was trained on illicit material obtained by its operators. The LLM isn't on trial. It's not a person.
> in order to claim fair use, you have to be legally in possession of the work.

Which work? The original work, or the derivative work that you're using?

Wikipedia uses non-free content all the time, and they're not purchasing albums to do it. Wikipedia reduces album covers, for example, to low resolution, so that they could not be reused to reproduce a real cover, for example. Sometimes Wikipedia uses screencaps of animated characters, for example, under their non-free content policies. They don't own original copies, they're just hosting low-resolution reproductions. I don't even know what entity would be required to be "legally in possession of the work" for that to be a thing. Could you cite a source, maybe?
If you write a book where Harry, Ron and Hermione go to a magic school you will get sued. If you change the names, perhaps you can claim it's unrelated.
Readability is not "prettiness", it's minimizing the effort as much as feasible to understand what the code is doing. I don't care what lines the braces are on.
Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates and can be dangerous for you to use.

I see that the paranoia-FUD pushed by the forced-obsolescence corporate-authoritarianism crowd has infected them too.

Looking at how many new vulnerabilities are being found in newer and increasingly complex (often for zero benefit), while at the same time also more user-hostile software, should make you see what they're really trying to do. Software that has been around for a long time has gotten far more bugs beaten out of it than the new stuff, and due to the way the industry is going, it will only get worse.

Fortunately there's a huge and growing community which has forked Firefox and continued making functionally-equivalent versions for older OSs.

As the old saying goes: "There are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns."

Look at the truth yourself if you don't (or don't want to) believe:

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/112/Microsoft-Windows-95....

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/343/Microsoft-Windows-98....

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/462/Microsoft-Windows-98s...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/107/Microsoft-Windows-200...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/739/Microsoft-Windows-Xp....

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/9591/Microsoft-Windows-Vi...

You can find the stats for (all the different versions of) Windows 10 and 11, and combine the yourself.
BASIC (GW & Apple) was ubiquitous, but a BASIC compiler was incredibly difficult to find, even illicitly. And 13-year-old me had no hope of purchasing it for $500.
What is your internet speed? Do you host any videos?

I'm self hosting a family blog frontend by Cloudflare but using wordpress instead. The media seems to be a bottleneck for me and I've kept most at 480p. Family a few states away report it takes quite a long time to get anything to load except for the html.
This comment is really the height of gaslighting. These D&I topics have never been an open dialogue, and it’s never been the intention for them to be. Nobody who objects to a D&I project feels as though their input is welcome, and those who are fool enough to voice their objections invariably suffer the consequences for it. These “open dialogues” are about proposing a change, with the implication (or by just explicitly stating) that any objection to the change is racist/sexist/whatever… and would victimise minorities.

The term whitelist is a legitimate piece of technical jargon, and has no racist origin. That is the end of any reasonable discussion on this topic. If you wish to litigate that point any further, that only direction that could possibly take is into wildly unreasonable territory. Renaming anything that people may feel is associated with other problematic concepts has no finish line. There’s an infinite quantity of problems you could invent using this approach, and all of them would be completely equal in their unreasonableness. The only way you could potentially limit this scope is to elevate the unreasonable feelings of one group over the unreasonable feelings of all other groups. Which is an exclusionary practice, and goes to show how subversive the use of language like “inclusion” is here.
The tolerance for error is a huge thing! I also see (or intuit) people making tradeoffs between fault-tolerance and speed, ex. taking a tight curve on a regular block and a wide one on a piranhna plant.

That's more interesting and reassuring to watch. I think it's because the player's mind comes across in the playstyle. It's almost as if their entire history with the game is revealed.
same here. i was able to skip a fitting for an apple watch when i told them i already measured. also with buying iphones outright i've never been hassled or up-sold. i've been going to my apple store in a medium sized american city for the past 10 years.
I didn't accuse Google of using copyrighted materials for training its AI. I accused Google of existing under a different set of laws than mere citizens.

As an example, the mass usage of copyrighted materials to build Youtube.
I'll assume that you're speaking in general, because that last line especially isn't like me.

Sure, I give data to my bank. I expect them to do bank things well, and if they expect action on my part then I'm liable for not doing it. I benefit and so does the bank, because it does investing or whatever. Does that mean the bank should have carte blanche to share my data now? As a pure matter of trust, I have no recourse because I trust(ed) the bank. That's the "scary cracker breaking into the database" kind of trust.

However, I feel I'm entitled to more than that as a citizen of the fine and upstanding US of A. Governments are worthless if they don't protect the people from (or at least try to resolve) getting robbed and whatnot. I view "not getting my data spread to arbitrary parties with possibly only direct consent or knowledge on the surface level" as another thing to be protected from. A cost-benefit analysis breaks down if my benefit is "I get to use these services" and my cost is "I'm literally, financially paying and I'm tracked everywhere and I have a social credit score" and I don't have a feasible alternative.

For parties, perhaps they shouldn't be regulated the same as companies, so I guess I should be prepared for my phone number to be sold if I go. I can still complain if their excuse is dubious.
Junior dev copy-pasting from stack overflow: this is already happening! Whatever bad thing AI tools can do, this is already reality all over the world.
"I almost spilled my consumer surplus all over the floor."

Does this writer know my deepest thoughts while I'm at the mall!
It's like saying Hitler was right because Germany is doing pretty well today and Russia isn't, which unfortunately would also not surprise me.
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I think you'd need to be able to control the direction of each photon coming out of the screen, so that it landed in the intended place on the retina after going through the misshapen cornea/lens. That's basically what a corrective lens does. Doing it dynamically for each thing we call a pixel indeed sounds like science fiction.
YES! Peak of conventional oil was in 2008, Europe feels it economically. Global peak oil is around now. We are facing a big energy problem, and we don't have any viable alternatives (renewables are just not up to the task, even nuclear is not).

> We need to transition away from fossil fuels to avoid this fate.

Yes, IMHO that involves degrowth: do less with less. Doesn't mean living like in the Middle Age, but make technology that helps degrowth. That's a big technical challenge that is not in fashion (because we love to jump on ChatGPT APIs and feel like we are productive making prototypes using it).
Back in 2009, buying a MBP, the salesman questioned why a CS student would want a mac over a pc. Luckily for him I wasn't considering his thoughts. I definitely didn't need that powerful of a computer and glad I switched to an air a few years later.
This is exploration vs exploitation. You want to be trying out different things in your early career.
Yes, there are tons of Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps consultancies.
I’ve not had such a terrible experience but I’ve had the experience of being confused trying to work out how to buy something and the shop assistant being almost surprised that someone wanted to buy something instead of just looking at things. It was smooth enough after that but I would typically order online after that (which was mostly fine except for an annoying case where they would only deliver if I showed up in person)
Oops. Perhaps it should be different but I know next to nothing about the topic. I think my point still stands, though. Thanks for the info.
Apple is which car in this comparison?
Can I memorize copyrighted material and recite it on Youtube? What if I do so but imperfectly? Where do you draw the line? If it's infringement for a human to do that why is it not for a LLM?
Fair enough. I will need the custom lenses due to wearing glasses so I want my ~5.5k AUD purchase to not give me a headache.
Really? Abortion is a wedge issue in the USA because of Big Diaper?

I can't say I have ever heard this particular conspiracy theory before.
> Writing is reasonably easy and it's hard to get much better than you already are.

Dang you and I have complete opposite worldviews on this.
Relativity isn't a technology. The only technology I can think of that it enabled is GPS. However, we probably would have gotten there anyway. We knew from terrestial experiments that the speed of light is finite. That is pretty much the only insight needed to come up with GPS. Relativity is needed to make the calculations correct; however if you are in a position where Relativity breaks your system then you have essentially conducted an experiment confirming relativity.
Reviving Interlisp with the Medley Interlisp Project
Throws keyword basically never coming to TypeScript (
One of the things that Twitter used to do well was have a balance of pseudonymity and real identities, and allow multiple identities per person; the latter of those particularly reflects how humans actually work, with separate personae for separate contexts.

Other than ownership, I think that the worst thing for Thread is that carries over Facebook's real identity obsession.
How does Bibliotik base their rate limiting? Per-IP? Per-account? Would it be possible to create a massive number of accounts and use a massive network of crawlers that could work around rate limits?
Nice to see this! Path finding in Mario works very well! I implemented a bunch of classical methods including an A* based implementation in java back in college to play Mario for coursework and honestly a whole bunch of methods people may not think work well for something like this absolutely do.

https://github.com/iantbutler01/MarioAIImplementation

Notably we were the only group to choose Mario over Pacman and the framework the professor had us use was broken so on top of the algo implementations I also rewrote the forward model and more!
> Copyright law may eventually destroy business models founded upon AI.

I think you have that backwards.

Mark my words.
Also useful, the classic Win32 API tutorial: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

(Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459616)
I returned the Pro XDR display and the person at the store didn't ask me anything other than for my receipt and opening the box to check the product was there.
(Assuming I'm understanding the comment correctly, happy to be corrected or nuance added!)
> you seem fixated on the racist reasons

Okay let's go back to the beginning here.

> The more you oppose someone telling you not to use a word, the more racist you appear, no matter the actual origins of the word in question.

And I expounded why -- literally agreeing with you. Then you called me insufferable. If people took "you're obnoxious" as a valid defense then there would be a way to win the game. Your entire point is that all roads lead to racism and then got defensive when in fact all roads lead to racism. As much as it would be fun to be an omnipotent benevolent dictatress, am I in fact not and have no power to change how people behave.

Also you're clearly mad about word policing but your gripe with them is that you think the way they deliver the message is obnoxious and insufferable. But since you did voluntarily switch up your wording you clearly have no issue with the message itself. Which means you're tone policing. I bet some folks view you the same way you view them.
> They don’t explain to you why you need to write

That is a failure of the professor. I was blessed to have a professor with an engineering degree, a writing degree, and industry experience as a technical writer. He was uniquely qualified to teach engineers how to write and why good writing was important.
Astrophysics was a key starting point for discovering Newtonian mechanics, Newton was thinking about gravity and planetary motion. Hard to understate how much impact Newtonian mechanics has had on the world.