skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this article frustratingly vague on how prosecraft.io actually worked. As far as I can tell, the author scraped the web for books, including in-copyright books. Then he analyzed it with techniques based on "classical" natural language processing techniques, rather than transformers or deep learning. He appears to have retained the books he scraped for future analysis. The site itself seems to use only snippets.

However, the apology [0] says that the creator did not "intend" to participate in AI that can "create zero-effort impersonations of artists." I'm not sure if the wording is unintentionally vague, or if there is some way his project could be used in that way.

For what it's worth, the Computational Story Lab's hendometer [1] seems to have largely out-of-copyright books from Project Gutenberg, plus the Harry Potter series.

[0]: https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797...

[1]: https://hedonometer.org/books/v3/863/

Edit: Apparently he was working on an LLM project. https://twitter.com/stealcase/status/1688721685585809408. It's unclear whether he was planning to use the books he scraped (although as @stealcase points out, GPT-Neox itself was trained on books that were pirated).
Why does HN have such aggressive and seemingly illogical post rate limits anyway?

Is it a theory about increasing quality of communications? It can't be a tech bottleneck.
There are more corrupt people in my country, especially for puan Maharani He is a rat with a tie that we deserve to break into his personal data to reveal his vicious secret #jokowi Dodo #darkweb
Electoral Commission subject to cyber-attack
> > People here who have never had so much as an afterschool fight

That is the perfect description of Musk, the only fighting experience he had was back when bullies used to beat him up in high school.

And in retrospect, the bullies were right
You pay for some combination of:

1) The historical artifact. Case manufactured in original factory, IC's manufactured back in the day under (in this case) Commodore's supervision, etc.

In this case,"original condition" is paramount. Some may be happy with minor fixups like replacing electrolytic capacitors, power supply, broken connectors, replace dead IC or whatever. Some may want as original as possible, in working order or not.

2) The look & feel, having original-looking machine in front of them, that (as much as possible) connects to the same peripherals original machine does. And runs software exactly like original machine would.

In this case, most buyers won't care (or even prefer) various upgrades / replacements, as long as that look & feel remains. See eg. CPLD or FPGA based replacement parts, new keyboards, or "mini" versions of systems like the NES. That C64-in-a-joystick or similar is grey area here. :-)

I suspect user group pursuing 2) is larger than those pursuing 1). Let alone the purists among them.

Software emulators are just a lower-bar, easier way to tip one's toes in the water (or do sw development).
The chart toward the end really provides context for how historically large the number of fires this season is, particularly given that we are only halfway through and by all accounts no relief is in sight.
That's gonna be fun when Amazon switches to RISC-V for their next (or next+n) iteration of Graviton.

ARM presence in the server market will go away like poof. More than half of it.
Doctorow actually defines it pretty wonderfully.

It doesn’t just mean “bad”. It’s a name for the process that happens to VC funded businesses.
Intel definitely has a challenge – having gone through both of Apple’s PowerPC migrations, this was the smoothest yet because we’re in a much better place with open source software dominating and internet distribution being the norm. I remember things being held up by proprietary compilers or needing to port hand rolled assembly but this time around we’re using higher level languages & frameworks a lot more and it’s been mostly transparent. Similarly, back then getting hardware to build and test was a chore; now it’s a checkbox in the EC2 launch options.

Thinking about it, I knew that Intel not landing the first iPhone contract was a big loss on mobile but I don’t think anyone expected it to savage their traditional strongholds like this because that paved the way for so many tools not just being ported but heavily optimized for ARM. They’re certainly still doing a ton of business but now there’s a cap on how much profit they can take even if AMD completely founders.
Funny you mention paying more, but they actually cut prices for many members recently.

In the past 6 months, WeWork split their buildings into 2 tiers. The All-Access pass at one tier is $149 and the other is $299. $299 also gets you access to both tiers of buildings.

I only go to the locations here in Portland and went from paying $299 a month to $149. They didn’t advertise this change to me, I had to find out from a friend who just signed up. I emailed the salesperson and asked why I wouldn’t make the change given my situation. He just replied defeatedly, “I’ll start the paperwork.”
We repeat the mistakes because in the short term, someone finds it profitable, hence a prisoner's dilemma type situation.

If an AI tool was killed, I consider it a victory. That's because even if there are some small useful applications of AI, AI on the whole will certainly put most creatives out of business.

Instead, I propose the following: anyone who is interested in preventing AI from taking over their craft should join me in a coalition of ban AI from their own business. By placing a notice that your work is "100% AI FREE", you are doing something akin to the fair-trade/sustainably sourced sticker on chocolate or other food products: you are letting consumers know that your work was made by a human, so that they can support you.

If enough people get in on this, and pledge to support only those creators who don't use AI, then we can make AI an unprofitable venture and hopefully kill it forever!

I already put a 100% AI FREE badge on my YouTube channel, which means that I will never use AI for writing scripts, editing videos, producing images, etc. Moreover, I also pledge to support other creators who pledge never to use AI, by buying their products over others!
I hope that fad dies. It assumes all the world is x86-64 Linux. Maybe you get a few who acknowledge the raspberry pi. However there is a whole world of new other processors, *BSD, and others that the fad makes difficult to use.
Nice catch, thanks for pointing it out.
No, because the government doesn't need to demonize communism to make it sound dumb. Hell if anything, the contrarian nature of Americans caused many to entertain the idea after witnessing the demonization, which makes it basically the opposite of China's situation.
My summary of the case: Someone did statistical analysis of a bunch of texts and created a tool that evaluates your text according to the developed model. Writers accused him of plagiarizing/using the content of their works.
This view is extremely western, not all ISPs are obligated to show "financial reports", and "shady analytics" does not imply a user's complete network traffic record into perpetuity. And even if your arguments were valid, this is not limited to the ISPs financial gain, but surveillance which occurs in every country.
We aren't going to agree here. You think it is science but you don't have any evidence to support your conclusion that this is irreparable harm.

I am fine not agreeing, I don't care to argue that point any further. But one thing I am curious about from your original comment.

You said that we had the vaccine with nurses, doctors, and teachers and why did we keep the schools not in person learning. My question is, are you pissed about the timeframe between March 2020 and January 2021. Basically before vaccines were generally available?

I also assume you are talking about the USA. My kid's school was back to in person school in Sept 2020 even before the vaccines (except for parents who chose to keep their kids home which we did due to autoimmune issues in the home).

So really, the distance learning was between the end of March and end of May for my kids for most of the kids in my school district. And yes, for many kids, they weren't doing shit during that time frame between March and May.

I just don't understand the time-frame you are angry about because schools were back to in person learning (while requiring masking) prior to the vaccine.
as soon as we can find an economic paradigm that doesn't rely on taxing the trade of exclusive assets we can have a digital renaissance.

the thing with digital information is we can all copy it. the problem is that our economic paradigm doesn't deal with infinite-copying well.

so far the only 'solution' I see, is figuring out ways to restrict, limit, and restrict the copying capabilities of digital stuff. which is not a solution, but a rejection of the 'novel' possibilities enabled by digital technologies.

more cynically, it's not a rejection, but a capture. a few get to reap the huge benefits of digital copying, while the rest are relegated to collecting, trading arbitrary tokens and using them to pay for the permission to copy digital assets; which is completely dumb, I will die on this hill
HSBC in the UK clipped passwords at the first 6 (maybe 8, I forget) characters.

This is the problem with having old mainframes somewhere in the backend. Their rules bubble up even where it doesn't make sense.
Someone should recreate the website and change the word "AI" to "underpaid worker" and everything would be fine.
Given the wide variety of quality around vendor provided controls I wonder if a better route (sorry) is the router. Figure out what the MAC address is of the device and see if there are ways to basically shut off internet for that device after X minutes consumed. Maybe you'd have to write some code and run that devices DNS through a Raspberry PI or something, I don't know if routers have parental/time based controls like this. This doesn't stop them from playing games w/o internet requirements though so obviously some physical monitoring is needed.

A more manual way would be to figure out at what % battery left is appropriate limit of their screen time and then charge the device just to that level (like 8% is 30mins or something). Probably not great for the maintenance of the device but solves the problem.

Another option is to write an app of good quality that does exactly what you want, makes it easy on the parent to manage, maybe tracks usage over time, etc.
I think Apple would want to do it. The problem will always be regulators blocking the deal. The breakup fees would be costly. The productivity loss would be big.
I really enjoyed his video about consciousness (https://youtu.be/qd1LG_2Fthk) as well. He states he’s not an expert but there’s a sincerity to the way he talks about his thoughts that made it interesting still. Not standard YouTuber fare.
It's that time of the year again: the trinity of infosec conferences
I do recall hearing that this is/was precisely their business model: given that rent always* goes up (and never* down), lock in rates with a 10- or 20-year lease, wait for rent to increase for other people, [???], profit.
Ampere ARM chips still have a similar price advantage (check out Hetzner cloud pricing, for example).
What does WeWork actually sell? I mean... what is their source of revenue, or is it just dumb me and it's my own fault that I don't know that?
And in any other machine when something breaks you fix it. If your rotator cuff gets torn you don't say "just stop having shoulder pain" or "shoulder is a natural part of the process of life and you have to deal with it," you go to a PT, maybe have surgery, maybe even take a pill or two.

If you think PPD (or any other form of depression) is "brain chemistry" on the same level and getting hungry or horny you grossly misunderstand what depression is at a fundamental level.
Unfortunately even if you did not pull code from random groups, and instead curated your GitHub dependencies, you can still be caught by surprise when one person has a re-used password and no 2FA because “ugh it’s so inconvenient”.

Nothing will fully secure the supply chain, but this certainly reduces risk and given the impact software has in today’s world it’s important.
Same thing with problem reports and maintenance requests. The more work you make them, the more people will put up with things that kind of halfway work. That's bad for the productivity of the organization as a whole, though, no matter whether the more cumbersome process makes things more convenient for IT or management or auditors.
You might want to debug your process for figuring out which information sources to trust because "humans didn't descend from apes" is about on the level of "birds aren't real"
But if Intel "wins", it means yet another instance of corporate consolidation, where a majority market holder of one markets (CPUs) destroys a whole different market (GPUs) by integrating and price dumping their products into the majority/monopoly market.

It'll be really hard to compete for AMD Radeon cards and nVidia itself against Intel if they aggresively price dump their GPUs and use typical megacorporation tactics to push out and destroy competition.

Why would you want that? Why not root for an independent GPU company? Where does this love for megaconglomerates consolidating whole markets come from?
AI is going incredibly fast, but package management is going incredibly slow. I have a beefy GPU and I should have all this AI stuff at my fingertips, but package managers are not working along and I'm too tired to get into another dependency hell.

This is what's killing useful tools more than fear of AI.
At some point, we thought it would be the BRICS. All of them have moved away from that in the last decade.
Computers were supposed to make things easier. Was this all so that little old ladies counting votes wouldn't have such a hard time distinguishing one hanging chad from a chad off the hook? Perhaps life is too easy to vote in a turnip for Vice President of Vice.
Oh yes - there are some green technologies that are a good idea even ignoring any climate impacts. But those technologies alone won't fix the climate. The painful changes will need to be made too. For example CO2-free production of steel and concrete, which, even if you assume magical 100% efficiency and zero R&D and capital costs, still don't make sense economically - and in a competitive world market, that means whoever goes green goes bankrupt shortly afterwards, unless governments step in with rules, caps, credits, or subsidies.
Which is itself completely irrelevant because support structures or lack thereof don't have anything to do with PPD in any way. Plenty of people with amazing support in their family and community end up with crippling PPD. Plenty of people with zero support don't have the slightest bit of PPD. It's irrelevant.
Thank you for your comments. We're well aware of the pitfalls you're pointing. Some of them can be avoided now, others will need a dose of AI down the road. For now, we log the data when we find it.
Mentioning the sources is a tricky issue. Our philosophy is to say as little or as much about everyone. Barack Obama's record is no more developed than yours. Linking a record to Wikipedia or to the list of Minnesota's sex offenders would break that rule, and not in a good way in my opinion.
Canonical’s greatest contribution was probably distributing Ubuntu installation CDs for free anywhere in the world on demand.

This was a pretty big deal at the time before broadband was easily available.

Canonical was also focused on user friendliness more than any other distro. Which was also important for desktop Linux’s growth.

I must be missing something, but TBH I’m finding it hard to remember any major technical contributions from Canonical.

They’ve also had a pretty disturbing history of NIH syndrome, wasting years of effort on alternatives to what the rest of the Linux community is going forward with before deciding to abandon their alternative.
I don't want to discourage you from using Mullvad, but there are lots of captcha and cloudflare problems there, too. I consider it a cost of doing business.
Yes, I really dislike those companies that spend so much effort blocking pasting into the second password field when filling them out so they break password managers.

Luckily it's normally easy enough to edit the tags on the text box but even so, this shouldn't be necessary.

Fucking BT.
> Out of the smaller cloud providers, IBM and Oracle wouldn't have needed to buy a CPU company, they'd both been designing top tier CPUs for decades.

CPUs that need an insane amount of power and have barely any applications in mainstream computing. Not exactly a good fit to provide to customers.

> The price differential on AWS isn't coming from any kind of intrinsic advantage, but from Amazon subsidizing their ARM-based compute for strategic reasons.

By running their own CPUs, AWS doesn't have to rely on Intel's ability and willingness to ship stuff and they don't have to pay Intel's margin either.
Back to the terminal: the new era of CLI and TUI software
The ethical implication of indexing books?

Also where do you read the author of the website was using LLM?
It's a significant money investment to renovate a space for co-working. Also, if you move spaces, you will lose some customers to attrition. There's a lot of overhead... it's not like everyone just teleports to a different building.
Commercial leases are usually 7 years. If they bought in during the go-go run in 2018-2019, they've still got years left. Breaking a commercial lease in good times is already very difficult (I was lucky to get out of one a year early in 2019 because I found someone to take it over that the landlord liked). And who would take over or sub the lease today? Everyone is trying to get out of their leases right now because office space is underutilized with WFH.
And/or Taiwanese workers should negotiate higher pay and shorter hours
That is correct, time is the only entropy for the command, and the function they use to generate random numbers is also flawed in that it can only produce 2^32 possible outputs.
I wonder what are those categories and if Intel knows something we don't know.

For instance, this information will be useful for the coming implementation of CBDC in various countries and form a basis of social credit score.

Intel will probably make a ton of money by selling this information to governments.
Where's capitalism to go once it's milked that cash cow to saturation? Think of the poor shareholders.
I'm glad to read this. We considered switching to them earlier this year (couldn't find the budget) and it was still on the table, but this is a deal breaker. If we'd switched I'd have been in the same situation, with a lot of prepaid service I couldn't use as intended.
I wonder if even the multiple servers and dedicated SQL server are overkill for most applications. The simplicity of running the whole thing on one machine using SQLite, with Litestream or something like it for backups, is really seductive. Edit to add: and as you've pointed out before, the locality of having the database right there in the application process leads to really good performance.
Yes, the support is limited at the moment. I am planning to port llama.cpp models in the future.
I probably agree, but how does this have any relevance to copyright? If the tool is bad but otherwise legal then it should just fail on its lack of merit.
If you want to do this kind of thing, let authors opt-in (or publishers).

Yes, it will take effort and probably go slow, but if the tool is really useful and amazing, it should be doable.

I suspect the authors are put-off by a couple things:

- the text of the works scanned seems like it may be from pirated sources. That poisons the project, no matter what it does with the scans, for many authors.

- the use of these scans in a commercial product

The article itself is clueless… it doesn’t engage authors’ concerns at all, and just portrays authors as stoopid AI-fearful luddites.
I thought about this for a while now and I think for the class of problems GP is referring to, no maintenance will actually be needed, the tools will just be discarded re-written again -- at least in one-man projects where no other person than the author is needed to create the tool. Maybe in the future some kind of pseudo-code between real code and natural language will be established. This kind of pseudo-code could be as expressive as code but more concise than natural language. I am not certain if it will ever replace actual software engineers for scopes beyond on-man projects.
The bar for calling yourself a writer or an author is incredibly low. Doing so doesn't qualify you to have an opinion on much of anything.

These people are just joining an outrage wave in an attempt to advertise, e.g. "How dare this project touch BOOK TITLE written by Me! (chain of hashtags)". They're not concerned at all about what they are breaking along the way.
That's what they said about wikipedia and here it stands 20 years later, stronger than ever. Trolls will always exist but there are ways to keep them at bay, we're working on it.
This sounds like it was made up by some racists to try to explain why some races are better than others.

Race is a bad idea to begin with. There is no major difference, we are all human.
The scripts I write are relatively short and simple. Another reason I have no interest in bash. I have seen some enormous bash scripts.
Ah, I see. On that, there are different degrees of "realness". Aside from historical preservation, there are enthusiasts (I might be one of them :) ) who want the most realistic possible retro experience given the constraints of ageing hardware.

Using the actual hardware with 100% accurate modern part replacements is one way to get there. Another way is to have perfect, "cycle accurate" emulators but these aren't easy to come by - some emulators have been in development for years and still have glitches. This kind of hardware replacement has a much higher chance of reaching the 100% accuracy I'm referring to.
> Huge red flag

What could be worse than a small joke from 20 years ago?
My company has an office in a London WeWork. They are drastically attempting to control costs, e.g. things like the air con "not working", more like they don't want to turn it on because it's expensive.

I expect that they will renegotiate the lease on this building to more favourable terms. It's either that or the building goes empty.
"The people" value different things depending on who they are. I'm sure you can find Russians who value liberty and peace, and I'm sure you can find Americans (or Germans, or Canadians, or Australian Aboriginals) who don't.
Our metrics are low enough at the moment that we would notice anyone trying to add thousands or even millions or records. But I hear you.
My effort was rather in trying to speed up all the python looping, etc. around the np calls. But I never went far trying to actually benchmark the entire pipeline in order to find out what was the actual bottleneck.
Agreed. I'm an ex-developer, turned sysadmin.

But these days my titles are Devops-This, and SRE-That. I find it hard to take too seriously, but I guess it is what it is.
They still support opening up ports, it’s just randomized instead of dedicated like uPnP.
Lua, C.
It is my understanding that many ISPs and backbone providers sell or otherwise disclose full detailed packet metadata, including precision timestamps, and that there are companies that aggregate this data across the entire Internet.

At which point your VPN becomes just another hop in the trace.

VPNs, no matter how secure they themselves are, are effective for accessing lightly geo-locked content and defeating unsophisticated analytics and tracking. They are really not a serious privacy solution in any sense, unfortunately.