skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely. AI model trainers should have to pay the people who provide their training materials, and there should be a default assumption of opting out until someone or their company explicitly opts in.

Unfortunately the Peter thiels and all those bizarrely out of touch silicon valley assholes have already effectively scraped the Internet because ethics don't matter if you're special like them, so to a degree regulations are way behind the ball.

That said it's still worth doing, and I'd love to see it done retroactively as well. It's not as if "I forgot that I had a public Myspace 25 years ago" is an implicit user opt-in for some startup to save your data - however anonymized they claim it is (lol!) - and train its AI on it.
Simply get every nation on earth to cooperate and ban a vaguely described technology that hundreds of billions of computers can run to varying degrees of efficiency! It's that easy!

If we can't get this level of cooperation for global warming, which is largely the result of a few dozen companies, what makes you think that governments across the world can stop everyone with access to a device with a reasonable amount of compute power? This idea is a non-starter and assumes that there is one single entity that could halt AI altogether. The genie is out of the bottle.
I recently came across a sidewalk stamp with a 4-digit phone number which was quite interesting to see.
I’m a minor contributor to Nushell, it’s a great community working together and I really enjoy developing in rust on a shell. It’s much easier than the old c/c++ shells. It also has a native integration with polars (dataframe) that is very powerful.
Nah, 5 years sounds about right to me for a cheap Dutch Omafiets.

I use my bike almost daily in all weather conditions, and it is only stored indoors at home. Chains and brake pads are wear items and are not too difficult to replace - just like tires.

I believe my previous one lasted me about eight years, and I only replaced it because the gears wore out and it wasn't viable to replace those. My best estimate is that it lasted 15.000-25.000 km, which isn't too shabby for a €200 bike.
Longplay 2.0: An album-focused music player
That's about how I remember my 40MHz 386 playing it. At the time, it was mind-blowing anyway. I would usually play it with the window shrunk a couple notches.
> But the URL has instead been directing those who gave it a go to an adult website showing explicit sexual acts.

> “The worst thing is that not only is this a product for kids, but it actually says ‘kids’ in the URL, which is disgusting given the type of stuff that is on the website.”

I'm in disbelief to be honest. This is a colossal fuck up.
Nice story. I watched the landing live it was quite exciting, it's great to see how the entire world is starting to join the space voyage.
Elon has zero respect for people privacy. Teslas are spying devices on wheels.
When I'm trying to figure out how to build a side project for my team and simultaneously fighting company bureaucracy who reflexively stonewalls things on the order of "no one's done that before, we need permission," I don't also want to deal with some immature idiot's stupid namespace. I want a damned Noun Manager for my own sanity's sake.
Would we get the same result from a few millennia of a tribal social structure where only the chief gets to impregnate the women?
You are in a unique situation. You're both financially free and without domestic ties. Your best bet is to try a few different things first before you decide where you want to land. Don't think it too long. It's possible to overthink it and do nothing. Try different things but don't be quick to quit. One of the issues with your situation is that if you get a bit frustrated you'll be quick to quit. All jobs have their points of frustration but that does not mean you should quit and move on. Before you start, decide how long you'll try something before you quit and stick to your decision.

Job satisfaction is key. I hear good things about Physical Therapist. Think about it.
Copyright is for humans, not AI. Since the AI is doing 99.999% of the work on an "original work" and since the work is derived from the work of others, copyright should not apply. Copyright is for humans and creations of humans. If we get a truly sapient AI then we can revisit.
Not at all. There's only a handful of bridges over the river near me that I could use to get to my friend's house. There's only one AC unit in my house that's keeping my house in a livable temperature. A failure in almost any "engineered" thing in my life would have more impact than the loss of literally any programmed thing in my life, and the only programmed things that come close are treated more like engineering projects in my experience.

Regardless, none of that was the point I was making. You're claiming that because code could run anywhere, that it's therefore every programmer's responsibility to make it work everywhere, because that's "engineering". My point is that Engineering is nothing like that - most actual engineering is of a vastly more defined and constrained scope than most software. My mechanical engineering friends spend years building, say, an AC unit that only is ever sold to something as niche as hotels within a certain latitude range in North America.

Do engineers have to be more robust? Often yes. Should some software also be developed to that level of rigor? Yes. Should all or even most software be required or even expected to have that rigor? No.
The comments start my day with a lot of lol
Hmmmmmm. I think they had some onboard cache around the time of DOOM? Now you got me interested....

This 4GB Western Digital AC-14300 with mfr date of 1995 seems to have 512KB of cache? Not sure if these specs are reliable though.

- https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/western-digital...

- https://www.ebay.com/itm/325794470911?hash=item4bdadd1bff:g:...

This 250MB Samsung from 1993 has 64KB of cache:

- https://www.directitsource.com/product-p/shd-3122a-ds2.htm

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-X2uYEx7tU

This WD Caviar 280MB from 1992 seems to have 8KB of cache.

- https://www.ebay.com/itm/154446527853

- https://www.priceblaze.com/WDAC280-WesternDigital-Hard-Drive

This 40MB Maxtor from 1990 has 32KB of cache.

- https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/maxtor/8051A-41...

So, I think any contemporary hard drive in those days would have some cache. Thanks for leading me down this nostalgic rabbit hole.
I think that we shouldn’t burn perhaps the greatest digital art tool ever created in the sake of preserving our currently broken copyright system.
And canoe or kayak enjoyers.
I think standardized JSON output makes the value of nushell weaker, not stronger: more structure on stdin and stdout (e.g. switching them to unix sockets instead of fifos and passing FDs around) means the shell composing commands can be less sophisticated. The only way a monolith like nushell adds value is if you compare it to the current standard of unstructured bytes everywhere.
thought it was the npm thing
Probably the floors of craters never subjected to direct sunlight at the poles would be the most likely surface indication. The rover had to navigate around a crater, might have been the place to look if they had the capability.
Is there anyone willing to make the case for allowing generated works to have copyright protections?

A lot of people here seem to mistake copyright for "right-to-sell" generated works. As it stands now, with no copyrights granted for AI generated works, anyone can sell any generated works unless some copyright holder believes it violates their copyright.
Sadly, these days you can be Chrome-only and still sweep the web dev world. As a desktop Safari user (we exist), I wish it were otherwise!
There's probably no legal way to do that in the US. Bald eagles (and Golden eagles) have special protection under Federal law which essentially makes having anything to do with them a felony unless you are a zoo or are a Native American using the eagle for religious purposes, and even then you need to get a permit.
Worth noting there is also 'The Decline and Fall of IBM' by Cringely (2014) : https://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
I'd assume it would only apply to the parts generated by AI, and not the whole movie. But of course you'd have to rely on the studios telling you which parts are generated, if they tell you at all.
> but waterfall does mean exactly that by definition

No.

This article The Myth of the 'Waterfall' SDLC gives you the details (archive version since the site seems to be down) - https://archive.is/jbBta
Up until a decade or two ago, rhetoric was an extremely effective tool when it came to denying the origins of caste. But with genetic evidence piling up, such positions are simply untenable[1]. As to why certain social institutions endure for so long, it's for the same reason why monarchies had endured even longer than caste endogamy has.

https://www.brownpundits.com/2018/06/07/genetical-observatio...
> There are groups of tools whose sole function is just to help stitch other commands together

This is an example of the Unix philosophy working: replace smarts in the tools with smart compositions of tools; i.e. don’t make programs have to determine whether to read file names from arguments or stdin, use arguments by default and `xargs` to convert stdin into arguments.
> Can you embed all of that stuff into a single .html file?

Technically yes, but there are two problems.

First is that inline style and scripts are a potential security vulnerability.

Second is that if someone does not inline everything and instead references css/js from the web the document will stop rendering correctly when those resources go offline.
Huh? Using a shell interactively is a REPL. REPL means Read-Eval-Print-Loop. That's what you do when you type commands to a bach/zsh/fish/nushell/... prompt.
But it also how you type commands to a gnuplot or Mathematica or APL or Python or Lisp prompt.

Some REPLs have nicer interactive features (such a completion than others).
Some REPLs have nicer or more powerful syntax or different data types.
But as longs as you have a Read-Eval-Print-Loop it's a REPL.
I can appreciate how this line of thinking might be attractive.

But IMO the human<>machine comparison doesn't lend itself much credence. We shouldn't assume that just because a human is allowed to do something, a machine is automatically allowed to do the same thing, too. I think some care should be taken when considering if we allow machines to have the same privileges as humans.
State Patrol Capt. Bryan Niewind said both the pick-up and the semi were southbound on Highway 281 just after 6:00 p.m. when the pick-up slowed to take a left turn at the junction with 75th St. SE. The semi, which was traveling behind the pick-up, pulled into the northbound lane to pass the the pick-up and hit the drivers side of the pick-up as it turned.

https://kfgo.com/2023/08/29/one-injured-in-cattle-semipick-u...
Just two days ago.
Yes, and it seems an incredible amount of work. It took years and many developers to get to a usable Win32 implementation and it’s still not 100%.
isnt this a repost?
Afaict Lumafield (the company behind this) sells b2b. Seems like a very non-egregious form of advertising. I think most likely the engineers that work on this are hobbiests. Perhaps they managed to convince C-suite to let them use part of the marketing budget but I find it hard to believe a company would pay $4.5k/month for their tech because of hype and a pretty website alone

https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans
I implemented a partial generator based on the idea in my previous comment. It was quite a fun challenge.

At each step it determines the reachable squares for the given piece, that are not occupied or block past moves, and chooses one at random, then it computes the shortest path to that square.
This procedure is repeated until there are no squares available.

Only pawns, knights and kings are supported so far.

https://gist.github.com/oessessnex/bc617095675da44f857216f98...

Great game btw :)
>All information is a weapon in the hands of an abuser.

the only way to stop giving your company information is by not working there. Why does this come off like you can hide the work you do at work?

>I may have helped you complete your task but my manager could interpret that as wasting time not delivering my own task.

If I feel that worried I simply won't help. Direct them to your manager and make sure it goes down the chain of command before getting a task assigned to you. Boring, and inefficient, yes. But it is maliciously complient to the oppressive atmosphere your manager contributes to.
You forgot the link ;)

And it just had to be 1280... at least they will all have one column each on the demographics graph of my old monitor.
Remixes, generally?
> I keep pcap files of all my network traffic to protect myself against this.

How does this work if you receive the payload via HTTPS? Do you MITM all your apps? (advanced version: can the payload be encrypted using an application-level Diffie-Hellman? e.g. if a JavaScript does a DH exchange and decrypts the payload with it)
Lichee Pi 4A: Serious RISC-V Desktop Computing
> is that an AI, being a statistical model and not generally intelligent, should not be allowed to disregard the copyright of its source material

But then you are just shifting the problem forward by an inch. What happens when tomorrow someone declares that their model is generally intelligent and is therefore allowed to disregard copyright when training just like a person can?
I don't think that model weights are copyrightable.

They're a mathematical transformation of the source material.

As a trivial example, applying gray = .299 r + .587 g + .114 b to a pixel is also a mathematical transformation but it doesn't create a new copyright.

And thus, the model is a mathematical transformation and a derivative work of its source material.

However I am also of the opinion that the resulting model is sufficiently transformative and fills a different purpose than the source material and so the model is not infringing.

From the Perfect 10 case against Google and Amazon:

> …We conclude that the significantly transformative nature of Google's search engine, particularly in light of its public benefit, outweighs Google's superseding and commercial uses of the thumbnails in this case. … We are also mindful of the Supreme Court's direction that "the more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors, like commercialism, that may weigh against a finding of fair use."

That was dealing with thumbnails being used in search and it was found that thumbnails being used for search was sufficiently transformative and applied to a different purpose that Google's use didn't infringe.

I believe that a model is even more transformative given that bar.

That doesn't mean that the output of the model isn't infringing, but that's a human with agency creating and publishing that output which is a different artifact to be considered than the model weights.
Yeah changes to copyright are the solution. Not unenforceable rules around AI.

Local LLMs are going to make enforcement impossible.

Unless corporations and government collude to lockdown the frame buffer, a user at home can build a corpus from their own gameplay footage and train an AI to make new environments for those entities (working on such a setup now, modeling AI vectors with an open source engine’s geometry primitives and shader language).

The output space for visual content is much smaller than language which has to understand context.

Visual outputs we find acceptable for forming spatial understanding are much more limited. There’s only so much nuance to geometry and color gradient to be layered on before a virtual space is an unintuitive psychedelic miasma.

People have favorites and will use them to extend them.

The Constitution offers an opening for copyright change. It protects works “for a limited time”. Anything encumbered by copyright for an average person entire life span was effectively copyrighted forever.
LLMs are generative though not just compressive
Why is being a statistical model relevant?

The simplest statistical model is an average. Why would the average pixel rgba of a bunch of images invoke the copyright of those images?
The US had to update copyright law to explicitly protect binaries
Education has been in dire need for reform a long time. The writing was on the wall even with the advent of the Internet. We now have supercomputers in our pockets and hyperintelligent assistants at our fingertips.

Chesterton could certainly not predict the exponential growth in access to tooling and knowledge. And we're only at the start of the curve.

In my opinion we should go back to absolute basics. Forget grades. Focus on health, language, critical thinking, tool usage, and creativity. Skills that are intrinsic to humans.

Make sure education is fun with lots of play. The main advantage humans have over computers is empathy and creativity. I'm not sure AI will ever "get it".

Provide each student to the extent possible a path to follow their own curiosity and talents. Advanced maths, programming, writing, chemistry, physics, etc available for those interested, even at a young age.

But the baseline education should focus on learning the absolute minimum to survive and otherwise maximize fun, creativity, and empathy.
Y Combinator removes Indian startup from batch over 'irregularities'
> The letter was from a wizard named Albus Dumbledore, and it explained that Max was the orphaned son of two powerful wizards who had been killed in a battle against the dark forces of the wizarding world.

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.
A seems obvious for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that the US is supposedly a modern country, much like Canada and most of Europe. When it acts like an autocratic, undeveloped nation, people find that notable.

Is there some reason you think that we should spend more time talking about how non-Western countries treat gay people, than how the US does, especially in light of the number of Canadians who might visit one vs. the other? Or are you just trying to blame shift?

Why do you think anyone is implying that the safety concerns in those countries are comparable to the US, or that that matters in terms of advisories? Should Canada only warn its citizens of the single worst country, and pretend other concerns don’t exist? Should US citizens be proud that at least FL isn’t throwing the gays in prison?

I don’t understand why you think your questions have any meaning or value, aside from a sidestep into saying it’s actually ok to treat gay people really poorly as long as there’s someone else who treats them worse.
Such a great utility for serverless tile hosting. Really enjoying where GIS in the cloud is going.

Another really awesome tool that is used a lot with protomaps is Tippecanoe.

https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt

Excited that active development is started again
About halfway through that video the cruise decides that a left turning car is double parked.

It goes around the car in the oncoming lane and forces an oncoming car to stop
That range figure is WLTP (euro) rating. Which tends to be higher than US EPA ratings.

US ratings are likely to be around 360mi-375mi, vs the current 333mi.

Also those ratings are based around averages speeds well below interstate speed. You will probably get about 80% of that EPA range at 75-80mph on the highway.
The latest public training figure I can find (which are very old) indicate that 29 NYPD officers have been trained to operate 14 drones[1]. That's around 2.1 cops per drone.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/nyregion/nypd-drones.html
A reminder that both direct-dial long-distance <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=C7YM9Sz9wxo> (1936) and direct-dial calling <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uaQm30DDHL8> (1951) were once novel technologies which needed to be introduced and taught to the public.
Where is the money going? Anyone got a copy of the budget? Haha. I am always so interested in how NYC’s bureaucracy comes out with these crazy decisions.
This new (preview) official "C# Dev Kit" VS Code plugin seems relevant, should help close the gap: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

But also Rider is awesome, and I recommend it to everyone.
NopVer Specification
Software specifications are important. Or not, depending on how good your practice is.

In case you do not want to use SemVer, or you hate it, here is a proposed alternative to it:

https://nopver.github.io

It is so easy to adopt, you might already be using it!
> "Is unconstitutional" does not mean "would require a constitutional amendment to exist."

It kind of does. Your version would make any interpretation of the law a constitutional question. The plaintiff in a civil case claims they're entitled to damages but the court found their argument unconstitutional because it's Congress and not plaintiffs who make the law?

> That doesn't make the supreme court's decision absolutely fucking rank idiocy based entirely in political goals covered in the thinnest veneer of jurisprudence.

It feels pretty consistent with a "separation of powers" interpretation of how laws get made. Do you really think they come to a different result if it was Trump's EPA saying they had to replace renewables with "reliable" generation methods over whatever pretext? And wouldn't that be the result you want?

> Yes, Gorsuch thinks that Congress can't delegate at all and basically all execute agencies should be destroyed. We know. He'll ride out climate change in a mansion.

They could exist without making laws. Agency drafts a bill, proposes it to Congress, Congress votes on it. It's democratic.

It seems like people have forgotten how to compromise. You want a climate change bill, Republicans don't. Republicans want school vouchers, or to reduce the number of federal employees, or immigration reform, or lower taxes. You give them something they want, you get something you want.
Until they're driving everywhere humans drive, I don't see how it's possible to make any such comparison. Is Waymo taking skiers on I-70 in Colorado on a powder day? Heck, how about we get central Boston[1]? It's rather telling that the only areas of Boston were tiny slices of the very spacious, well-marked, and recently developed expansions of the city.

It's been 10 years, and the real driverless car scene has been unchanged in that time. The Silicon Valley Season 1 jokes about them have yet to age out out of relevance.

Until then we're extrapolating safety by comparing the car equivalent of train tracks to, well, people driving cars.

1. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/29/business/san-francisc...
Irish Wolfhounds have been brought back through outbreeding, I wonder if the same would hold for them.
I personally feel the mere fact that it was fair use of mostly copyrighted images it's fairly self evident that anything produced from it should not be copyrightable, UNLESS the origin of the art used to train the model is 100% owned by the "artist". This could either via licensing for that purpose or they own the copyright to, that right not extendable to corporations, as a corporation can't be an artist. It doesn't matter how complex the prompt or series of prompts are, the key here is that the "artist" either owns the training material or licensed it through the proper chain of licensors.
I am having trouble making sense of that last statement - can you rephrase it?
I wonder how this will affect sales of the Model S. To me the pic in the article looked almost looked identical to a Model S.
Conferences take note: the pandemic is not over
The Birth of Comedy
No it isn't, this is made up by you. GPT-3.5's writing is several grade levels higher than this by default.
Google Maps testing new colors that look a lot like Apple Maps