skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much better is to stop the service but add button "Resume" that re-enables service for two more weeks with no data loss. That way you give users opportunity to gracefully migrate away.

Stopping service and immediately delete data is just callous.
That corporate lock thing is called DEP, device enrollment program. It used to be easy to bypass (just don't connect to internet during setup) but then it would bug you constantly once you did. On T2/M1/M2 macs it's no longer bypassable similar to the apple account lock anti theft feature (which is a different thing)

Apple can remove it of course. It was probably a laptop stolen from the bank or their suppliers, then returned to Apple to whitewash it.

I'm not surprised this happens. What I am surprised about is that Apple apparently sells a returned item to another customer as new. Pretty sure that's not their policy and in most cases illegal. Perhaps they checked the seals (for activating DEP you don't need to open the box at all!) but still this shouldn't happen.

Normally these items go through a cleaning and reimaging process and then end up on the refurb store at a reduced price.
If AI companies get to successfully argue the two points below, what source was used becomes irrelevant.

- copyright violation happened before the intervention of the bot

- what LLMs spit out is different enough from any of the source that it is not infringing on existing copyright

If both stand, I'd compare it to you going to an auction site and studying all the published items as an observer, coming up with your research result, to then be sued because some of the items were stolen. Going after the theaves make sense, does going after the entity that just looked at the stolen goods make sense ?
Great turn around time for feature work.
Yeah, that project was the one paper, but there was essentially no focus on technical writing in the course. And even if it were half on technical writing, half of a single semester is hardly a major focus for a degree program. It's rather underemphasized.
I am going sort of the embedded full stack way. Like include microcontrollers and fpgas along with Linux embedded. Most of my hobby projects are heavy on electronics and ham radio. I'd rather spend more time getting a better understanding in RF than getting better at react, typescript etc. Don't get me wrong, if you need a good UI it seems way more versatile to have a web server and a rest api than a qt GUI, but getting better at that just doesn't feel nearly as fulfilling as learning one more corner case in antena design.. to each his own
I settled on my perfect stack 2 decades ago. nginx with .html and .jpg/.png/etc files in directories on a file system on my home computer with port 80 forwarded (20 years ago it was thttp). For templating I use server side includes which are the perfect balance of utility/expressiveness and a minimal attack surface with no mantainance burden.

Having it on my home computer also gives me massive storage space and ease of editing. The only cost is ~$10/yr for the .com domain. DNS hosting is free from zoneedit (they've been great the last 20 years).
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I would be interested in trying this... I'll be able to move mikrotik winbox over to my raspberry pi, which also acts as a serial console for my other arm computers.
there's a modicum of irony in posting this on an Ycombinator-enabled site. But at least they give enough leeway to keep this post here, so that's a good thing
Anyone who went to college should have taken multiple classes that require you to write. Myopic "engineering schools" miss the point of higher learning.
Ah, I've not had to combine DLLs, obfuscate code, sign code or create Nuget packages.

All of that does sound painful.

What makes it easier in other languages? Is it a matter of better tooling?
If you plagiarize it, yes, they absolutely are.

They're suing because OpenAI produced summaries of the works without any copyright information.

I'm not sure at what point a summary becomes a plagiarized abridgement, but that's why we have a court system.
Is this a new sales tactic, playing hard to get?
People don't use voat because it shutdown 2 years ago... Voat had an extremely poorly designed server architecture that cost about 100x what they needed and had frequent outages. The founders were very unreceptive to suggestions and IIRC even wanted to make the site costly to maintain because they thought it would look good to investors.
> What if it turns out that OpenAI bought a copy of every book ingested be ChatGPT?

That still doesn't necessarily confer to them the right to use it to train a model and generate derivative works based on purchased content.
Downloading is illegal. That people do not normally get sued or prosecuted for downloading does not mean that they cannot get sued or prosecuted.
Yup.

There's an entire industry of body shops that will send you lightly trained 22 year olds, in size.
WinMain and main are both called by invoke_main: https://github.com/ojdkbuild/tools_toolchain_vs2017bt_1416/b...

(that does not look like an official repo, but it's the best I could find in terms of a github link. The file pretty much matches c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\crt\src\vcruntime\exe_common.inl on my PC.)
> A real gold mine for a person like me who lives in a developing country with restricted access to old hardware.

Interesting, because if anything I would assume that old hardware would be more accessible in developing countries - I mean, that was the case 20+ years ago in my (still) developing country - I got my parts from an open air bazaar, where it wasn't weird to see 10yo items. Personally I was 5 years behind the state of the art.

My oldest piece of hardware was a dot matrix printer, which I used for school as recently as in 2007. IIRC the mentioned bazaar was the only place where you could find a replacement ribbon for it.

My hoarder relative still had some old crap from the 90s when I was clearing out his cellar a few years ago.
So you have to have your computer always on?

How does the DNS thing work? They use a DynDNS client on your computer or what
Interesting question: To what degree does additional training obscure lineage of a set of weights?
You can't "software" your way out of authoritarianism.
I suppose you could change further aspects of the current behaviour, but the issue with that idea is that the flagged items disappear currently, so you wouldn't get to see the "[you flagged]" entry, unless you got to the comments page for it via some other means (eg jumping to it from your browser history)
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I've spent the last 2 years porting the Flowx weather app from Android to Apple using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM). It's in beta testing on TestFlight and I've included a public link [0] for testing below.

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The reason I'm posting this now is that the pro data is still free in the testing version and when I submit to the App Store in the next week or two where this data will be behind a paywall. I would also appreciate more tester to catch those rarer bugs.

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> IMO, a better argument is that this is fair use

There is no way in Hell that this is fair use!

Fair use defenses rest on the fact that a limited excerpt was used for limited distribution, among other criteria.

For example, if I'm a teacher and I make 30 copies of one page of a 300-page novel and I hand that out to my students, that's a brief excerpt for a fairly limited distribution.

Now if I'm a social media influencer and I copy all 300 pages of a 300-page book and then I send it out to all 3,000 of my followers, that's not fair use!

Also if I'm a teacher, and I find a one-page infographic and I make 30 copies of that, that's not fair use, because I didn't make an excerpt but I've copied 100% of the original work. That's infringement now.

So if LLMs went through en masse in thousands of copyrighted works in their entirety and ingested every byte of them, no copyright judge on the planet would call that fair use.

For reference, the English Wikipedia has a policy that allows some fair-use content of copyrighted works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_cri...
Because the government and pretty much all those power ignore Y, and whenever they get caught, vast majority of cases they don't get punished. Of course anyone remotely intelligent would ignore the Y part too. Only extremely gullible people with their blind trust in government would look at Y part and nod along. This particular case very much the exception.
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An hour after I posted my comment there's a new submission. So OP isn't reading feedback and keeps using 3 accounts.
Or even more egregious: the patent game being played with insulin https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expe...
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> LLMs are built upon neural networks which are modelled upon how brains work

You are confused. Neural networks are inspired by how brains work, but they do not actually simulate brains.

Airplanes are also inspired by how birds work, but (presumably) you don't think that bird laws should apply to airplanes.

> can you explain to me how they're different to the degree that making an analogy between the two is "disingenuous to the extreme"?

It's disingenuous because you don't believe that either.

If you think that LLMs are just like human brains, and should be allowed to learn from books the same as people, then presumably you also believe they are entitled to all other human rights: to vote, to live, &c. If you operate an LLM and you shut it down then that's murder and you belong in jail.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36658486
It was proprietary and around the same time WP became popular they changed their license terms to become way worse.

I suggested the GPL in person to one of the founders (perhaps not very nicely at the time) and eventually it happened. Not for long, but by then the founders had left and SixApart was run from their Japanese subsidiary
Marketing isn't a sin. It's necessary. Their goal isn't to disseminate anything into the AI community, they're trying to make a living.
I have been using same tech stack for last 10 years happily. LAMP. And can’t be happier. And I use it for everything I do
As far as I can tell, $200/month is ridiculous compared to competitors. If I knew how to enforce "don't be a jerk and clearly overcharge" in law, I'd lay it out right here. It would be fair to require a moderate premium for legitimate privacy-upholding reasons.
but in this case what would they lie about? i don't think anyone would deny existence of defectors or how hard it is for them to move around.

It's more like a poor quality article though, they start off by claiming massive new difficulties for these people in the last couple of years but don't tell you anything about why that happened. Mass surveillance and greedy traffickers who ended up stealing the money and ratting everyone out existed years ago as well, so they didn't really add any new information here, or at least didn't explain it very well.
I'd be pretty surprised if good verbal communicators aren't usually good writers. I think politicians persuade people not by the clarity, conciseness, or coherence of their speech, but by the substance of their speech. If communication itself could be abstracted from the substance of what is communicated, then it wouldn't be true I think to attribute the success of certain politicians to their ability to communicate so much as their ability to choose what to communicate.

A writer has to be interesting though, every piece of writing we consider well written has a quality of gripping the mind. I'd argue then, that politicians though they may not be in the habit of writing long academic style treatises or "interesting" articles, perhaps it can be argued in the past they largely did, still if they are in part elected on the basis of their speech, must possess the same ability in writing.

If you don't believe me then how is it that Trump's tweets are works of art, "I have never seen a think person drinking Diet Coke,"The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.", etc... Crude, in bad taste, whatever you say. Another example is Obama, who honestly has a gift for writing in the conventional sense.
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If you haven't done it recently it's not the nightmare that it was. These days you say you want to cancel, they'll ask you "would you pay $X?", you say no and you're out.
your argument was predicated upon my comment being factually inaccurate, not analogously poor. I merely listed some leading questions analogising the ability of human brains to absorb, contextualise and emit copyrighted information to an LLM's ability to do all of those same things. you created a weaker position to attack which was that LLMs are the same as humans

if you want to discuss whether it is a poor analogy or not, I'm all for that, but the passage you've chosen to go down is to act as if it were not an analogy at all, which—to borrow a phrase—is disingenuous to the extreme
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What exactly is "c/c++"? Do you mean C and C++? Though they're obviously closely related, they're two distinct languages.
I do similar but with hugo markdown and a git repo linked with cloudfare - then it’s hosted on their static free hosting.
Obviously personally identifying information could be redacted without doing so for the request itself.

But you're just reiterating the problem that third parties are collecting the location data of innocent bystanders. Otherwise it wouldn't exist to be in the file.
It's too clunky to be more than a niche product, like everybody else's VR headsets. John Carmack, after he quit Oculus, said this wasn't going to work as a product until the size got down to swim goggle size, and wouldn't go mass market until the devices reached eyeglass size and weight.

What seemed more likely from Apple was the form factor of the Vuzix Ultralight, which looks like ordinary glasses. AR-only, offering access to a smartphone functionality with hands free. That's a mass market product. Several companies showed such things at CES.

What Apple is demoing is nicely engineered, but has every bell and whistle known to VR headgear. It shows in the weight, bulk, price, and battery life. It seems to have roughly the same market as the Microsoft HoloLens, which is an nice piece of expensive equipment sold to corporate buyers.

Meta and Microsoft have something in this space, so Apple had to have one too, in case somebody made this niche grow.
Haskell. (as someone with published Haskell-based research papers)
Writing is also a very useful tool for guiding/directing the conversation.

Create a document that lays out the approach you want, share it, and then have a meeting about it where people can react to it. If you get everyone together and try to decide something democratically, it's a shit show. Documents allow you to put a stake in the ground, and depending on how much colleagues care, what you write is 95% of what ends up in the product.
I don’t do a ton of blogging anymore but I’ve been impressed with Publii. You can piggyback it in GitHub so the incremental cost is very low/nothing.
If the OS didn't keep the pages around in swap after they were swapped back into RAM, I don't see how having more space in swap could reduce writes to it.

> Every write is different, because the bytes on the storage are already encrypted. Ie you write the same bytes to the same blovk pn the FS, but the underlaying, encrypted, bytes are not the same => new write.

How are they not the same as the previous encrypted version of the same bytes if the encryption key stays the same?

Are you sure TRIM/discard just wasn't enabled on the LUKS?
I see a ton of comments saying dividends don’t matter. Dumb question: Isn’t the idea of common stock to partake in company ownership and collect the share of profits from said ownership ? Since when did this concept die down and the sole purpose of stock ownership became to speculate on future valuation in hopes of selling? As the owner of the company- I should want my fellow owners to stay invested right ?
I flagged the parent. Yes, intentionally.
Your first sentence isn't exactly accurate. If you are not receiving a benefit from Facebook, why do you use it? If you don't benefit from your credit card or cellphone or bank, why do you use them? If you don't benefit from the relationship you have with your employer, why do you have that relationship?

All of those parties are collecting data about you. While there is some value to using that data internally, it is obviously valuable as a commodity to be sold to others. You might complain that your cellphone company benefited instead of you. But you gave up your data to somebody for some reason.

You can't complain about not getting invited to this weekend's party if you aren't willing to share your phone number with the organizers. If you weren't willing for them to sell that data later, you should have put them under contract. Of course, they may have responded by charging you admission to the party. If you don't like being charged admission AND getting your data sold, go to a different party or no party at all.

I know, I know. It isn't fair. Parties are a basic human right.
I had a job just a few years ago where I had to use it. Ugh
GUI development has never been as productive as Visual Basic in the 1990s and early 2000s.

You would just draw the UI, double click, and add code. Later versions also supported binding to data structures with one click and a few keystrokes.

Then we abandoned all that stuff in favor of the web and stuff trying to badly imitate the web like xaml.

It’s a bit shocking to me how totally out of fashion WYSIWYG is given how productive it can be.

If someone brought back that kind of experience cross platform with something like Go as the language, millions of programmer hours would be saved. Of course it won’t happen because nobody would pay for it even if it saved them thousands of hours.
Comcast only changes my IP once every 2-3 years. I just manually update it. But zoneedit does have a free dyndns endpoint if your IP does change often.

Yes, I leave my computer on 24/7/365. The webserver/my primary desktop is on a Core2Duo build from 2007 and it still chugging along just fine.
I feel like its sad that the answer to this question is not at all simple. I would like to seek reasons why its so hard even after so many amazing coding tools.
The issue here is the nature of contracts. A written dcoument signed by all parties is not (necessarily) a contract. It is evidence of a contract. Any agreement of exchange of goods and services may be a contract, whether it's an email, a phone call, a handshake, or almost anything else. A written document, video, or audio recording merely serves as evidence of the contract.
the comment you are replying to is saying that if the data is representative of the world, you will then be termed biased because the people doing the labelling think the world is biased.
Correct me if I am wrong but what is wrong with WordPress? Takes seconds to install, can run on a $3 a month hosting without additional effort. Tech is to make life easier, not harder.
Since we’re splitting hairs—LASIK doesn’t deteriorate. It’s a procedure.

You may be able to go for additional follow ups, but it’s case by case, as there is only so much cornea that can reshaped.
Aside from potential security issues newer versions of windows always provide new APIs and changes to old ones. Keeping support requires keeping track of that and testing, which costs resources.
Is this some kind of parody? He got caught because it was a literal blank piece of paper. Anyone with any sense would write some bullshit paragraph and I'm sure plenty did and got away with it.
You know what? I was just talking to my mom and she kept asking ”When are we finally going to get that left-wing echo chamber we've been talking about all these years?”
Pictures are worth a thousand words but if you don't know which words you want to communicate your picture is worthless. Something many artists eventually learn, what is it you actually want to say?

Diagramming is interesting because it relies heavily on writing, half of a diagram are words. You can slap on as many triangles, circles, and lines as you want to communicate your idea but if you do not utilize the right words it's a worthless diagram.

An HTTP request-response diagram is a great example of this. You can overcomplicate it with both symbols and text, you can also miss crucial points and give people the wrong idea entirely.

So let it encourage you to pick up drawing/diagramming tools, and improve your writing even further. Take already made diagrams, how would you improve them? If someone asked for clarity on how to expand on that diagram (ie: how would an ISP fit into the HTTP diagram), what would that look like and what symbols and text would you use?

Another fun challenge to improve on writing is how would you explain (topic) to someone who is blind? It's more difficult than you think as we tend to rely so heavily on visual information, but it's a fantastic way to improve your skills by highlighting weak points in cross-type information.
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I've always use the analogy of congestion collapse when you try to shove to much "stuff" (network packets, cars, work, whatever) through the pipeline.
Don’t have to get so personal, I do not know saagarjha nor do I know of his various achievements writing software, and as a matter of fact, you do not know me either.
I speak purely off experience, writing/porting software for macOS for more than 4 years, most of the time using Xcode.
Are we ever going to get this type of paint (or one with more colors, like a mood ring) preapplied to PCBs? I know there's one fab company that uses all purple boards, and sparkfun loves their red PCBs.

I assume the results wouldn't be worth the complexity of applying the coating.
My path was (C64) Basic -> Quick Basic -> (Borland) C++ -> (x86) asm -> Java -> Python. Mostly.

There's some Ruby, plain C, Lisp, Haskell, C# in there, and lately Ocaml and Rust. And lots of shell scripting in between. Never needed Pascal, and I stay away from Perl. Clojure is still on my wishlist, as is Scala (because of Spark, mostly).
Have you never experienced the engineering marvel that is Vise-Grips?
> If all of this bothers you, contact your state legislators.

Hoping this is a joke because in no world will that have any effect at all.
More trusted than you, mate!
If moving the plates around tired me out to the point of impacting the session and/or my recovery I'd conclude that my work capacity needs improving, not that I need to minimise extraneous effort in the gym.