skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happened to be sitting in front of a JavaScript book as you wrote that.

I finally opened it. I was always curious if I should learn js/node to replace PHP and maybe even get away from server side rendering in php. Right or wrong, from what I've read I think I can put that to rest for now. I see just as many issues with doing things in JS as PHP. Just spending a few hours of reading let my brain move on from that curiosity for now.

Good tip you gave. Thanks
This is actually kind of a huge deal since it means that all 24 chromosomes have now been fully sequenced. As it says in the abstract, up until now the Y chromosome proved difficult to sequence due to its nature.
Then why should AI?
https://archive.is/qlVxk
I recently came across Beanie. A Python ORM for MongoDb. A pleasure to work with and integrates well with FastAPI, the tests document the code well, and at this point it’s only as complicated as it needs to be.

https://github.com/roman-right/beanie
I know about https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider. Have you got a link to any others?
Curious how you’d evaluate competency or trustworthiness.
TIL the human Y chromosome hadn't been completely sequenced until now.
I was trained on copyrighted books. I only get in trouble when I spout out paragraphs from them from memory and pass them off as my own.

I know not to do that, though.

Seems only fair that the same should apply to GPT.
The Supreme Court requires an expertise in Constitutional law that a random judge or lawyer isn't going to have.
The single-use coated cups and lids are probably full of PFAS also.
The movie "don't look up" was very prescient in a way. I can see denial and unfounded optimism everywhere, including myself.

As long as we keep falling for the illusion of continually being able to always "buy ourselves out of this" we won't impose any of the drastic changes that would actually be called for.

"we'll just set up HEPA filters everywhere in our house", "we've got good AC", "we'll move to a safer area, where x is unlikely", etc

Our consumer mindset won't solve this issue, eventually this will get even the richest and the smartest.
Historically the notions of cleanliness and health are excpetionally strongly aligned with virtue, and filth, disease, ugliness, and disability with sin or evil. This appears across a large range of Eurasian cultures that I'm aware of, and quite probably even more widely elsewhere (though I'm less aware of those).

Even such attributes as handedness can be ascribed to virtue or sin, as with, well, sinister, literally, "of the left side", but with the evolved sense of "prompted by malice or ill-will". See: <https://www.etymonline.com/word/sinister>

(And apparently "sinister" and "sin" are not related, though that possibility had occurred to me whilst writing this.)

The same concept often extended to medicine and medical practice, and it wasn't until the emergence of germ theory of infectious disease that medical knowledge and practice began to emerge from its moralising of pathology to a general understanding of disease and dysfunction as being organic in nature. That shift is still incomplete, and there are places, institutions, individuals, and conditions in which moralisation remains a too-common occurance (obesity, addiction, sexually-transmitted diseases, and mental health most especially). We also see moralisation of pathology in other contexts, most notably in criminal law and politics.
Please explain how this is any different than the Google Books case. Please do so without any feelings involved to the best of your ability.

Even if OpenAI maliciously ingested copywritten work, it is just a bunch of numbers and if you go in and ask for it spit the book back out, it won't. That simply isn't how this works.
35TB is a reasonable amount for e.g. storing raw camera footage or other legitimate business needs. It's definitely not automatically abusive for 100% of that 1%, which means they're blaming at least some legitimate users.
Thanks for the update, yeah that makes sense!

I think it's useful to add as a note how to add credentials when running inside Docker since that mode is included right there in the readme (ie. adding a volume with the credentials).

As an idea, for the "Adding string descriptions" section, having stuff like dbt docs (or even just the manifest that generates) could supercharge the context.

Very interesting in general, definitely trying it out for our database!
Trustworthy - because politics selects for power trippers
> you literally see top-scoring posts like "I felt in love with Rust, can't stop loving Rust, it's so wonderful" every month or so on r/rust

That's expected on any forum dedicated to <subject>. People tend to only specifically seek out communities around subjects they like, not dislike.
> Bun’s APIs try really hard to make the obvious & default way
> also the fast way.

Nice! That makes a lot of sense, and look forward to trying them.

Fwiw I sometimes worry about the slippery slope to infra that exists on the JS side, i.e. I work a lot in a GraphQL backend, and even if Bun gave us (or really our framework, so fastify/mercurius) a super-optimized way of getting the raw bytes off the wire, Mercurius is still doing GraphQL parsing, validation, routing, response building in JS land.

Granted, I want to keep my application's business logic in TS, but naively it seems tempting to push as much of the "web framework" / "graphql framework" as possible into the native side of things, where as I think historically Node/etc API have stopped at the "here's the raw HTTP request off the wire".

> I’ve thought a little about this.

Sweet! That's awesome just to hear that it's crossed your mind. Agreed it would be a moonshot. And, yeah, I'm perfectly happy leaning into JITs and good APIs.

Thanks for the reply!
The article's focus on copyright is inflammatory, but the paper does present some big questions.

Original paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2308.05374

Abstract:

major categories of LLM trustworthiness:
reliability, safety, fairness, resistance to misuse,
explainability and reasoning, adherence to social norms, and robustness.

Each major category is further divided into [...] a total of 29 sub-categories.

The measurement results indicate that, in general,
more aligned models tend to perform better in terms of overall trustworthiness

The paper shows that trustworthiness is now a design goal. It would seem good to avoid e.g., hallucinations, but is it really socially good to induce reliance?

Compare AI companies targeting "trustworthiness" today with social media companies targeting "engagement" in decades past: they might increase uptake, but build significant externalities into their business model, and then lose most of the social benefits of adoption.
There was no chance of this getting off the ground in the early 80’s given how fluid the processor industry was. Things have stabilised somewhat, at least since the market accepted TPM 2.0 requirements for Windows 11.

Nonetheless, software have capitalised on the ability to offload the key management problem to the cloud to perform online activation, which offers secondary benefits in terms of telemetry and subscription design. IMO, this is a much worse outcome than having to insert a USB license key, which was the norm for strong software licensing well into the early 2000’s.
Great writeup. I had a similarly frustrating experience getting a minor but popular improvement submitted to VS Code (but at least it got accepted in the end!). They are both great products and I respect their development teams, but it’s extremely annoying when there’s clearly something the company doesn’t like about the PR but they refuse to elaborate or even acknowledge it.
I am not saying that using knowledge is a copyright violation. Sorry but I think we're talking past each other.

Inputting entire books verbatim into a model is not the same as a human learning a fact and using it later.
Yeah we got those in school with our milk when I was a kid. They lasted about 10 minutes and then came apart.
For those who don't recall: Back in the Dark Ages, there was a race to decode the human genome. The leading competitiors (wealthiest) were Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project. After some time, Celera (headed by Craig Venter), announced they had done the deed. However, what Celera had actually done was used what they called a "shotgun method", which meant they took small samples here and there, then built a model of the genome with various statistical shenanigans. About five years later, after all the hype, they admitted they had not sequenced the entire genome.

Ref: https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/09/04/223919/craig-ven...
Because AI isn't human? It's a machine/algorithm?
There's an argument that we've made the job of politician so undesirable that only the most unfeeling, cynical and power hungry would seek it.

Lets make it into a normal job. 40 hrs per week, an expectation of privacy for those in the role and their families, and remove the cameras from the debating chambers so they can actually speak their minds instead of grandstanding for the home audience. Reduce the length of elections to 2 months max so that campaigning isn't a full time job in itself too
Another notable WoW Classic incident: Biny of <Afterlife> discovers that the "Living Bomb" effect used by a raid boss, that targets both players and their pets/minions, remains applied to pets and minions even after they have been dismissed and re-summoned.

So logically, the appropriate thing to do is deliberately get his minion afflicted with Living Bomb, dismiss it, and re-summon it in the middle of the auction house, killing everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYOt3hETYE

IIRC, he got a week-long suspension.

They fixed that one pretty quickly.

I am also personally guilty of kiting Lord Kazzak from the Blasted Lands all the way to Stormwind, and watching him wreak havoc.

Fun times.
We of course should increase energy consumption. We have ridiculous amounts of energy sent to us by our local star every day. We're just bad at harvesting and storing it.

But we should decrease carbon emissions. Partly it will be by turning to fully electrical processes (trains, trucks, etc) and generating more electricity using more solar, wind, and nuclear power plants. Partly it will be by turning to synthetic fuels, again powered by non-fossil-fuel sources. Burning hydrocarbons is fine if you recycle the CO₂ after that.
> The concept of training a model with the explicit intent of selling the output of that model is inherently different

Uh-oh, better tell the colleges and universities to stop promoting degree programs off the back of the potential increase in lifetime earnings. Wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that it's okay to absorb a bunch of copyrighted material during college to update their mental model, then make money by selling the output of that model for the rest of their lives.
> Except that they're proven to not work

If that's your objection, I have great news for you. They are proven to work, there's already scientific research in the case of Russia and Ukraine. You can't be bothered to inform yourself so I won't be bothered to search for a reference.
Would it really be lower on the bot net in the majority of cases? I'd imagine that real users probably wouldn't want to have their entire cpu spent on this.
TY. Chris
Borrowed it from the library.
but buying a book is not buying the copyright of it.
"Allowed" by a technology in this case, I guess.

Like should they be allowed (i.e., have a possibility) to financially support opposition, journalists, etc.? Should the persecuted minorities (LGBT, etc) be able to hide their actions that may reveal them? Or should they be able to leave the country without revealing such plans to authorities in advance? And so on.

It's relevant because a privacy in finance (i.e., "breaking the laws") is important for those people. So I'm curious what the KidComputer thinks about this.
> give them a machine gun and you're likely to meet a bit more resistance

Not in America!
Umm, I'm sorry sweaty, but since I didn't read this on CNN or the Huffington Post, your lying eyes are guilty of spreading dangerous far-right misinformation.
Cool to see it going this way. Over the last two years, we've been busy reinventing contracts and financial models as the dependency graphs that they are to provide a deterministic, intermediate representation of this information in finance.

Still not sold that it'll fly in finance without that sort of observable, intermediate representation.
Sorry, it sounded snarky/pointed, that was more adversarial than was ideal. It really is hard to ask a question these days, if it's political...
Also curious about this. There must be a better way to scrape using LLM.
California voted to build high speed rail, they're spending $35B for nowhere to nowhere. If built with Shinkansen efficiency, they'd get 1000 km for the same money, more than enough for San Diego to San Francisco to Sacramento.

There's simply too much bureaucracy to overcome, too many fingers in the pot, too many laws blocking expediency. The USA is a broken cruise liner full speed ahead to climate destruction and it won't be stopped without blood.
Mechanism is capitalism, as long as government doesn’t press too hard on the scales against clean energy.

Displace oil with something better and you can win.

Unfortunately people become climate activists instead of engineers. Demand someone else fix things.
A way to deal with N. American ice servings.
> Put their app on the niche store and not on the main store (which would lose them money; fewer people will go to a niche store and buy a paid app than a freemium app. Therefore, developer have no incentive to do this)

You're assuming that all customers want the same thing.

Right now if you want to make a paid non-freemium game, no one can find it because the freemium games will have more downloads and the main store sorts by popularity. The customers who want such games hate this too, but because the main store has no competitors, they're just as stuck with it. And since customers can't find them, developers don't make them.

If you had a store that has only non-freemium games, the developer who makes one can go there and actually reach their customers, because being at the top of the list on a store with 1% of the market generates more sales than being on page 5000 of the main store's search results where even fewer people will see it. And then more of those games actually get made, which grows the market for the alternate store, which allows more of those games to get made.

Meanwhile that store doesn't take a huge chunk out of the main store's market, but it takes a percent or three. Many other niche stores each take a little share. And then a big store that competes directly with the main store but only charges 3% instead of 30% takes the rest.
Don’t use metal straws, almost chipped a tooth!
Low- and Moderate-Income Households Are Coping with Inflation
> It is not now, and it never has been, and it never will be possible to have widespread distribution and absolute control over copies.

I sure hope this is true, but this strikes me as a bold statement given the ongoing war on general-purpose computing.
Robert Dunn has two channels that are both very good. I wouldn't call him "undiscovered", but he still has far fewer subscribers than the big guys, and he absolutely deserves to be a big guy.

"Aging Wheels": https://www.youtube.com/@agingwheels Old and obscure cars, especially older EVs.

"Under Dunn": https://www.youtube.com/@UnderDunnOfficial General making, mostly woodwork.
"Some people are so poor all they have is money."
Now these are some really good arguments in favor of mandatory voting.
This is old and needs (2012) in the title. In over the decade after this was published, I think now the prerequisite to be in politics in most places is to be a psychopath. The “more likely” in this headline is sorta toning it down a bit too much.
Regular people are very often incompetent, deceptive and corrupt. Plenty of regular people have psychopathic and sociopathic traits.
There are times when capital is cheap and abundant and there are times capital is scarce and hard to come by
Of all the cities that have been rapidly expanding housing, the zero of them have become more affordable. I used to think market rate housing would bring down prices but it has proven to not. What we need are affordable housing units, price caps, rent as percentage of income, rent control, and things along those lines. Singapore and Vienna have done a good job but 70% of all housing in Vienna is government owned and 80% of all housing in Singapore was built by the government.
Yes, it is different that human has magic and machine don't. I learn stuff from books and sell my skills. I definitely copied someone's knowledge about calculus, engineering, and I am intented to earn money from them. Machine cannot do this because only me has magic.
https://archive.is/BjHpZ
Gist: Managers actually need to be effective managers and provide actionable guidance.
The comparison to CFCs to climate is terrible and should stop. Telling a handful of companies to stop making one chemical and sell another is hardly the same as replacing almost all energy infrastructure.

We all worked together to boil an egg, so democracy can make a five-tier wedding cake no problem! It’s not that I believe we can’t solve the problem, it’s just a bad metaphor. And that we’ve collectively chosen to value our own comfort over our children and grandchildren.
Many people become power trippers once power is suddenly thrust upon them.
Could someone explain exactly what it means to be "completely sequence" the human genome when all humans have distinct genetic makeup (ie, different sequences of nucleobases in their DNA/RNA)?
So they changed the license because they said they weren't even getting good community contributions... and in reality they just made it impossible to get community contributions to begin with and turned everyone away.

I guess at least by closing up the license they are more honest about how they never wanted to play ball.
it always has been. All the projects attempted thus far have failed or been suspended[0][1][2] every time its been meaningfully tried

[0]: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_wholer...

[1]: https://ieefa.org/resources/carbon-capture-crux-lessons-lear...

[2]: https://thebulletin.org/2022/09/plagued-by-failures-carbon-c...
But we are talking about copying verbatim. The entire text didn't just land in the training corpus by magic.

A human copied the entire text of many books - verbatim - into the training corpus.

Under copyright law, the human was free to read the whole thing. But not copy the whole thing into an AI model with the intent to profit.
> Scanlime

I like their videos, but 26.4k subscribers is definitely not "undiscovered"
Good question. I’m guessing so.
Of course Tarantino copied a ton for his films…
I'll join in with the others and say a few good words. It's unusual in 2023 for a company to focus on delivering a good customer experience while respecting the preferences of the customer. Imagine a company that builds a business around providing value to the customer.

Renewed for my third year of Sync yesterday. While I could use other tools to sync (I mostly have markdown files in my vaults, so there's not a lot of data moving around), the quality of the sync service, and the ease of setting it up, makes me renew without thinking about it. And it's not easy getting me to pay for anything these days due to subscription fatigue, scam fatigue, and price hike fatigue.
I wouldn’t consider how the accounting system treats this as relevant to what the real opportunity cost is.

The accounting approach is driven by taxation, and governments strong preference for maximising their tax take.
In my opinion the risk is coupling accelerated intelligence to competitive business models.
The easiest way to describe how gonzo cyberpunk had gotten at this point is that people debate whether or not Snow Crash is a parody of it or not.
I trust this just because they trust they can escape from this.
Single use plastics are not a climate change problem.
Focusing on the maximum sea ice extant barely captures the concern.

Sea ice extent cycles from a maximum to a minimum every year.

The maximum extent has been pushing outwards a bit as more of the core ice volume has melted, and the minimum extent, in recent years, has sharply (greater than five sigma drop against data since 1970s) dropped as sections of the Antarctic now see summer time ice free beaches.

The minimum extent complement to your graphic (that you posted below):

https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_widt...

A lengthy discussion:

Understanding climate: Antarctic sea ice extent

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
No. :-)

That was certainly the promise/hype of Rust ~2-3 years ago, that it was going to become so ergonomic that even "boring line-of-business applications" (i.e. JS backends) could be written in Rust, by everyday programmers, without any slow down in delivery/velocity due to the language complexity.

But, from what I've seen, that's not played out, and instead the community is still on the look out for the killer "systems-language performance, but scripting-language ergonomics" language.
2012.

Title asserts "research suggests" yet neither cites nor mentions any actual research while quoting commentary from a social magazine article.

This is low quality fodder for gossip.
While I don’t doubt your experience at all, really, I have great parents and a nice childhood in a happy house.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
To summarize the article, the six types of wealth (according to the article) are:

1. Money

2. Knowledge

3. Time

4. Health

5. Relationships

6. Experiences
Sometimes I think people don't really want to survive. When faced with an extremely minor inconvenience, what is the answer? Industrial poison.
Maybe not dead, but the opposite of what you suggested
All their engineers then quit because their RSUs are now worthless.
I had the same question. Perhaps this will help you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing
https://chat.openai.com/share/3d5d3fd1-57d3-4d17-b367-acbd17...
Ok. I imagined it.
Did you really cite turning oil into plastic as evidence that we can't move away from fossil fuels for large scale energy production?
PFAS might absorb into glass, but according to diffusion coefficients it might take 10^15 years.
For a very entertaining and educational book that tangentially related; I can highly recommend: Y - The Descent of Man by Steve Jones [0]

I am thrilled to see more chromosomes being mapped/sequenced. Please excuse my high-school level of biology knowledge here, but have we definitively progressed beyond correlation when it comes to genes, gene expression, and how they all interact?

Take "Blue eyes" as an example, we know that [1] OCA2 is responsible for brown/blue eye colour. BUT are we sure that none of the 20,000 others are involved/needed?

In laymans terms I would guess that to get 'blue eyes' would require several genes to ALL be on/active/present as well. More like a recipe, then a simple on/off it's located in 1 position.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/436071-y-the-descent...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-021-01749-x
Exactly this. I don’t really care if google drive or Dropbox is closed source. Why would I? I’ll just use syncthing (open sourced alternative) if shit hits the fan. Let them earn their money by providing bandwidth, safe storage and file versioning.
I've never understood this either. I assume the genome is many megabytes of [ATCG]+. If we have that sequence, what does it tell us? Do we look at it and say "Ah, yes, ...ATGCTACGACTACGACTAGCG... very interesting?"
Paul's work on this problem space is worth following, or at least reading the thoughts and iterative engineering results such as this comparison of the GPT models and the new functions API:

https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks.html