skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire discussion about AI and copyright strikes me as a bit naive.

Right now, we are in a situation where nobody quite knows what these AI models are useful for. We have some inkling that they might be extraordinarily useful for making money -- but not precisely how, not even the companies that are developing the models themselves.

Once they money starts, the debate over copyright will fall exactly into the economic seams between the major players involved:

- new tech orgs who are monetizing models will say that the model is "exactly as humans are": they see copyrighted works in training, and then produce wholly original outputs. And of course that the model weights themselves are, like the outputs of employees, completely owned by the company.

- incumbents who stand to lose out on the new gold rush will say that every single output of a model belongs to them if just a single image or sentence was seen in training. And that because of that, we really should just shut the whole thing down, because how could you ever prove that a model was not trained on copyrighted material?

The faultlines will entirely rest on who has more power, hard and soft. How much can they influence the legal system, either by spending $ to hire legal talent or by sheer soft politicking, balanced with how favorable they appear to the general public who uses their product (or consumes their media). I suspect that the end result of this debate is a "legal" way of doing things accessible only to the extremely large players, and a small, politically insignificant collection of individuals, hackers, and startups who aim to unseat those large players (or just flat-out train "illegal" models). The worst possible end result is that the legal system is just too fossilized to deal and tries something draconian like not allow datacenter-scale GPU compute.

As an aside, I predict a sizeable space for companies that do "compliance" -- asserting the copyright status of a dataset, perhaps even themselves using ML. That market will carve off and leave rotting a sizeable chunk of the new money's ML profits.

It's fun to talk about this, I guess. But remember that what you or I have to say about what a machine learning model philosophically is has no bearing what-ever when it comes to the actual ability for individuals, startups, or large players to use models.

I will predict though: enjoy Llama2 while it lasts. Like the internet, it will become fully assimilated into the larger intellectual property machine.
> Is there really 50 different bank customer service specialisations such that someone who can do more than one of them is like asking for an astronaut surgeon?

No, but I suspect that time that you would be in a queue anyway where they can get you to do work to select the right script for the person you eventually get connected to have loaded is time that they can shave off the actual connected time on the call, letting them serve more customers per unit time with the same number of staff members and making the user experience for using the telephone less pleasant so anyone who can manage it (even if they would generally prefer telephone otherwise) and has a problem where it is possible will avail themselves of self-service solutions via the website rather than calling at all.
Ah but normal math is a social compact in a way that computer-aided proofs are not. Very few handwritten proofs are actually written down in detail, and there are various cases where attempting to do so actually failed or required new work to actually close the gap.
It's weird how projects like Turbolinks, intercooler, and pjax just don't get acknowledged in histories like this one.
And I think that is the key to dropping fertility: Once you experience relative wealth, you increasingly want to give the same to your kids.

It's not that we can't afford more children, but that we can't afford to give more children and ourselves the level of comfort we've come to expect.

I could afford to give quite a few children the standard of living we had when I was a kid, but while it was fine for it's time, it's not what I'd want to go back to for either myself or my kids.

It's also why I don't think this is a crisis in the long term on a global basis, though it may become one for individual countries:

Once wealth catches up to a level where we have sufficient buffer, I think we can balance things out.
> They keep adding tools that allow for very low-level memory management/manipulation and the ability to run on so many platforms/generate native code makes it very attractive. It's also just fun to write.

I've been having issues with golang's opaque GC when targeting wasm. Does C# offer anything on that front? Can I at least control when it triggers?
If My and first just stand for themselves, you're not interpolating variables; where is the templating?

Also, what if you don't want a space between the bold hello and emphasized world? Or between first and <b>hello</b>?
The first of these that's not totally killed by form factor and keyboard.

Like, I don't want to buy a bare, hardly protected PCB that will definitely break if I drop it and might short out against a pant zipper. Having a proper housing is a big win by itself.

Not sure if I'd buy it, I don't particularly need a handheld Linux for anything, but it's cool.
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Network effects, react is where the jobs are.
> Wow you just off-handedly resolved an issue I’ve been dealing with for months

Awesome! Glad I could help.

> I wish there were a way to make the LG monitor work like my other one and not have to do that

Yeah unfortunately that would be on LG to release a firmware update. And from what I can tell, they'd rather you just buy the new revised model.
I disagree with this.

There are better ways of having privacy preserving payments other than cash without being identified or using a service, vouchers come to mind that Kagi can do rather than crypto.

It is still a grift and a scam as it is not 'really' anonymous at all so Kagi has wasted all this effort for something that no one that is legitimate user will use.
Oh god, TVs in public places is another one. Automotive service, doctor office waiting areas… I need to start carrying around a universal remote.
> I just wish we had skipped all the in-between stuff and just arrived at htmx back in 2011 instead of now.

We kind of did (well, 2013), but it just wasn't backed by a massive developer marketing effort.
While you were streaming: Smoking on demand, Netflix (2019)
“Netflix programs continued to display much more tobacco than broadcast or cable. For both the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, episodic programming on Netflix had a greater total number of tobacco depictions than programs aired on broadcast or cable TV, with “Stranger Things” continuing to show the most tobacco overall. Researchers found that 100% of “Stranger Things” episodes coded included tobacco.”
Lately Bass is literally worth the $250 I spent for mine off eBay. It’s just flat out the beat techno bass like there is. It’s literally the only preset I’ll ever use because nothing can improve it, it’s just perfect.

A nontrivial fraction of all living people have heard this song at least once, and it’s 100% TX81Z at the heart: https://youtu.be/9EcjWd-O4jI?si=XgkC5avENfdTmlQF

(Also, yeah, to other replies, I now realize protobuffs are not to be joked about, I repent. Forgive me.)
You can actually prove that some company distributed a product with your code but you can't practically prove that LLM contains your source article.
Yes, there are many possible conflicts of interest in mapping. This is why I'm excited to see the improving usability of Open Street Maps through apps like Organic Maps, and big commercial investments in open mapping data from the Overture Maps Foundation.

In many cases OSM has much more detail than google maps, with business listings and addresses being the biggest exceptions I have encountered. Fortunately, business listings are one of the main things added to the first data release from Overture Maps. For the curious, you can interact with the POI data [here.](https://bdon.github.io/overture-tiles/places.html)
What if you just got a well compressed map of your area on device and could scroll around it like any other picture?
Sounds like a terrible idea. Can't imagine a good UI for that.
My pastime on the phone, besides playing chess, is to browse through Knots 3D - https://knots3d.com
Are these the "What Does the Fox Say?" folks?

That song both slaps and subverts all expectations. I had always assumed they were a one-hit wonder and simply disappeared. Very creative bunch.

Now I can't get it out of my head.
I would also be really interested in your AHK script!
> But it's like trying to rely on a calculator before you learn how to do addition by hand

I use salt to season my food but I have no idea how salt is mined. I have used log tables books in the past to do math work. Back when I first used these lookup books, I had a shaky understanding of logarithms.
> I also dont see a compelling reason why an 11 year old (the average age of a first time porn user) should freely be allowed to watch a woman be savagely sodomized by a group of men as is the case on a typical porn site's homepage.

Epic straw man? Perhaps?

Nowhere in the ruling is any compelling reason claimed for what you just described.

And making Pornhub less private for adults won’t stop children from online searching for “woman savagely sodomized”.

Speech limits need to at least effectively limit something, if they are going to chill adults access to free speech, among other hurdles, or they are unconstitutional.
Anyone interested in the pre-digital switching can spend some very satisfying time at the Connections Museum.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsx2ZsYggGw&t=956s&pp=ygUSY29u...

The all mechanical switches are flat out amazing, and quite performant, given the tech. Often, it was less than a second from off hook to dial tone! The video I linked has some great detail.

And they did not have amplifiers! One implication was surprising! Say you made a machine to generate dialtone. Great. It could service X number of subscribers based on its capability and Ohm's law.

Want or need more? Get more or bigger machines. It is crazy!

Another implication was each circuit needed to be ideal in order to carry voice. No amps meant a closed DC loop with the mic able to modulate voice via resistance. This is part of why the telcos resisted any attempt to connect to their network. It was easy to load it all down which required a service call

Anyhow, I was quite surprised to learn how telephony worked and have appreciation and respect for the engineers and their work connecting the nation.
The business model of what you are creating needs to be very straightforward / communicable (easy to sell and very profitable), TAM must be very large and penetrable, and your financial model needs to be very clear about what kind of milestones (one major customer over $X00k ARR vs. a dozen smaller ones, each with various demands) you need to hit and when. I would phone a friend in finance for this aspect to make sure your bases are covered.

Especially in this market, I think there are plenty of players in the VC ecosystem who would be ok with you not being a growth rocket and just planning an exit via secondary or acquisition. The one issue is, you will need to be growthy enough in years 3-7 of the business for them to justify it.
Restaurants, to each their own. A dozen hotels marked within a five mile radius of my home, which Google knows very well about, at all times? That’s just stupid.
I'd say one of the bigger issues is due to how legal everything has become.

Most of those air cabin PA announcements are necessary to legally cover their asses. I doubt am airline would want to find out what happens in court if they didn't give those ps announcements.
A lot of people would like their AI creations to have to copyright protection, but it isn't necessary to making money
Oh I'm pretty sure most people know plenty of knots but don't even think about it. Many knots are useful, but a list off the top of my head in order of how often they come up for me is: overhand knot, clove hitch, butterfly bend, figure eight knot, cleat hitch, slip knot, bowline knot, and trucker's hitch.

I'm certain I skipped many but those are the ones I feel are most common to doing anything useful with a rope. The trucker's hitch and bowline are the ones that can save your life, but the rest are everyday knots that you might already know except for their names. For example, I don't even know what the shoe tying knots are named but everyone knows those.
I tried something like this with the LinkedIn timeline, where they suggest a popular post from a stranger "Because you are interested in topic X". You can indicate that you are, in fact, not interested in topic X and tailor your timeline that way.

But the next day they will show you something "Because you are interested in Topic Y". Where Y is very closely related to X.

I religiously indicated I didn't want to see X, Y or whatever, because I am just not interested in posts from strangers at all. It took two weeks. Then apparently they ran out of topics for me and started right back at the beginning and showed me something for X.
But without the in flight PA announcements how else would you be aware of the special offer for the branded airline card?

I almost feel bad for the attendants slowly walking down the aisle afterward sadly holding up the offer paperwork after the announcement while everyone sits there annoyed waiting to land.
I guess so, why wouldn't they? Some worry about leaked assassination coordinates, for example (which in some cases might be even a valid concern).
What I was explained was how they kept reproducing without 100% incest
Im watching Netflix’es Narcos: Mexico now, and close ups on cigarettes, lighting cigarettes and such is mind bogging, every few minutes!
Need to mention the punishments and fines in Germany for making noise. Switzerland has even more strict rules (and very angry neighbours, I assume).
I didn't left any comments there at all :) And I hope my HN comment wasn't rude.
Ultimately they are asking individuals to make a personality association call.

The effect is not huge in the association of “cynical” and of “genius” which itself is not even defined as far as I saw. The association is essentially “People generally believe that people who have a propensity for cynicism are better at math, critical thought, and reading comprehension.”

The opposite finding actually seems much stronger, which is that most people strongly believe that non-cynics would be better at important social tasks like talking someone out of suicide.

People are under no illusion, as intimated by the title of the study, that cynics are geniuses, but instead they make the probably accurate assessment that someone who “scrutinizes motives behind others’ apparently selfless acts” (as opposed to someone who explicitly doesn’t) would be better at interpreting a complex diagram or ensuring they received correct change.
Has anyone found a good way to export starred/want-to-go places in Google Maps? Ideally want to move to Apple Maps.
Just went back and read it again, I see your point on that now.
But don’t forget, “today we are experiencing higher than normal call volume”- yeah today and the other 364 days of the year…
SSR is different I think because it can perform better, but given the state of most sites on the internet I think 2003 style rails is sufficient for most sites. And I haven’t met a JS-ey UI I have enjoyed using as much as a vanilla HTML one for most online stuff (drawing, games, 3D etc. excepted).
yes, we do.. of course we do.. why do you ask?
that was my first thought too, lol
Whenever I want to think about "what does it mean to prove something?" I dig into my copy of Imre Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations", a Socratic dialogue-style story where a bunch of aspiring theorem-provers try to prove a particular theorem about the Euler characteristic of polyhedra and discuss what they are actually doing and why it works or doesn't.

I originally picked up the book because I was trying to understand Euler's polyhedral formula better -- which in retrospect is kind of like reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance because you wanted to fix a motorcycle.

I'm not wired for pure math -- I loved real analysis then quit while I was ahead. Still it's fun to pretend sometimes, and Lakatos does a great job of making you feel like you're learning inside knowledge about what mathematicians do. He introduces fun concepts like "monster-barring" (the way people sometimes carve out special cases in a proof when they encounter counterexamples).

I've never made it the whole way through, but I like to go back every few months and absorb a little more.

edit to add: I just now skimmed the author's Wikipedia entry and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's story about the author's interaction with someone named Éva Izsák and I have a ton of questions.
Minor points:

> it couldn't drive far from gas stations

You could buy gasoline at a pharmacist.

> it needed oil changes at garages that didn't exist yet

You were expected to to it yourself. This 1909 manual describes how for a Model T: https://archive.org/details/ford-price-list-model-t-1909/pag...

I suspect local bike mechanics and blacksmiths could also do this work.

Given your recent drive, you might like to read about the first drive across the US, in 1903 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson_Jackson .
My use case is rather specific (web development) and my recommendation is of course not intended to cover all possible use cases. However, if you’re working on web projects and need VMs to isolate your development toolset then this is the approach I choose after years of experimentation.
Tangentially related. there’s a forest in the Philippines that is hectares of land where only a single species of non-native tree was planted [1]. Go there and you won’t hear any birds or wildlife. It’s spooky. It’s partially because the birds avoid it since they’re not familiar with it and even the insects that they might eat don’t like the tree so they all avoid it.

1. https://iamtravelinglight.com/2012/10/09/the-dark-side-of-bo...
indeed.. poor people get robbed for as little as their bicycles or smart phones, so of course those of us who have worked our way to wealth take our personal, professional and corporate security very seriously..
I didn't say it was men. Unfortunately I haven't seen any studies looking at if women have also had a decrease in testosterone levels. Like I said though, it could be another hormone.

Sure, we can find plenty of excuses...but to say that people don't want to have children anymore is like saying they don't want to have sex anymore - which seems to be happening more and more as well. Teenagers are having less sex than ever, in a time where knowledge about sex and birth control is at an all time high. I think something is screwy.
Worth it on rotary phones though. Those were so slow to dial, especially if someone had a lot of high digits in their number.
Does anyone know how to turn it off forever?
Thanks for the reply, that all makes sense. I remember now logging onto it once and seeing a very barebones feed. Not much discovery or anything to play with. I wish it well.

I'm trying urbit now which I'm impressed with so far, quite a few applications written on top of it already, people with good taste in music sharing stuff at least.

To each 'is own!
I wonder if that analogy represents the same thing. Speaking purely from a non-legal perspective on the ethics in my mind:

When you use Photoshop on propriety data you're providing the original data and choosing what manipulation to make (i.e. what tool) and directly creating the output. It makes sense that if you redistribute this it may be copyright violation.

When you use Copilot or ChatGPT for programming you're typically asking a non-proprietary question or accepting suggestions it's making based on non-proprietary (or proprietary to you) code in the file. You also don't dictate the manipulation process a black box deep learning model does (i.e. I haven't asked it to do something that could be reasonably thought to be a copyright violation).

Am I then responsible for the fact that Copilot is fooling me with effectively copy-pasted copyrighted code when it's being presented to me as generated by the software and I haven't instructed the software to commit a copyright violation? I'm not sure if intent matters for copyright, I assume it doesn't but perhaps that's a missing piece to this.

Diffusion models are gray to me, if you're asking/prompting with "Mickey Mouse riding a horse" I can see the argument that the prompt itself can be interpreted as asking the model to commit copyright violation and the user is just hiding behind a layer of abstraction. If I ask the model to spit out "a picture of a smiling cartoon woman" and it generates a Betty Boop lookalike is that still the users fault?

It seems to me like passing the burden to the user could be reasonable but would need some safe harbor type of exception. It'll be really interesting to see what the courts decide.
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ styling is sufficient for technical docs.

I hate the scroll hijacking and other shenanigans on modern docs sites.
> There are viable and constitutional means to achieve Texas’s goal, and nothing in this order prevents the state from pursuing those means.

This is the correct way to appeal to authority. Being willing to notice that the authority, or a different authority, can achieve the same goals in a different way, no matter how it makes you feel to have that discussion or train of thought.
That's why I assume most commenters who talk the big talk about bravery are either uncommitted or privileged.
For car based nav I stay on Google. For transit, I’ve found Apple is the way to go. I’m sure it depends on the location though
https://takeout.google.com probably
I had to read that for a first-semester discrete math course in undergrad. It was... challenging.
it's not that cheap. a good botnet will run you thousands of dollars a day. good proxies in bulk not cheap either.
I work outside.

I guarantee my 2 year old daughter will be just fine in regards to global warming. Some areas of the world might have issues, but if you're in a rich country like America you don't really need to worry about it on a personally-affecting-me-level.
This doesn’t work for me because I find the Ubuntu desktop experience to be quite horrible. It’s very janky way too often. I very much prefer working with headless Ubuntu instances since this is where Linux excels for my use cases. For GUI stuff I look elsewhere.
Eh, that's gonna be their problem to unfuck software that assumes 4 digit years. I'm gonna be long dead and forgotten by then.