skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the whole point is to compete with the underlying works

AI doesn't compete just compete with "the underlying works" though; it competes with all works, even works that weren't in its training set. So the type of "competition" you're describing is incidental, and not connected to the AI's use of any particular copyrighted work it was trained on.

I don't know whether that makes a difference under existing law, but I'd argue that it should.

I'd also argue copyright/fair use shouldn't even come into play, since AI models do not (typically) contain copies of the works they're trained on in the first place (except in cases of over fitting), but that's a completely separate issue.
Fair enough, hadn't thought of it that way. Though of course cricket has a stumps (bowler's end) umpire too, who has to judge if the delivery is legal (i.e. it must not be "thrown" and the bowler's foot must be behind the line etc. And if the ball is too wide the batting team gets a "free" run etc.), and whether a catch taken by the keeper was off the bat, or if the batter used their legs to prevent the ball hitting the stumps etc etc.
I've been surprised at how little adoption of the Python data / viz toolkit gets picked up in finance settings, when it seems like such a natural fit, so I wrote this post to help unpack it.

Curious what y'all have seen in your experience.
Same, iOS developer here. Maybe if software were treated less like fashion that had to constantly be updated, resulting in a neverending revolving door of bugs and new waves of learning curves, and instead like a focused tool, it could catch up more to paper.

There are absolutely benefits to software over paper but they feel hamstrung by the constant desire to roll out the next UI paradigm. Sooner or later the set of constraints between device, OS and app versions forces an upgrade. Security updates should be the only reason to even hint at that possibility IMO.

Maybe I’m just too close to the problem. If I squint enough I can see how a pen running out of ink is like an app crash, and replacing the pen/ink has a real, nonzero environmental cost. I’m not sure how to amortize the costs of device manufacture and software development across all bugs, and compare that to the costs/benefits of pen and paper. There is some shade of rose on my glasses, no doubt.

I need more information, but I sense it’s not the kind of information that is important to many people, and especially corporations, to gather.
> just assume the midpoint is the starting offer

This is reasonable and is what I thought as well. But I worked for a firm where senior manager band was $120-350k. Most senior managers came in at $120-150 and would climb through years with the firm. If a new hire at the senior manager rate asked for $225-250 as a midpoint it would kill their negotiation and likely cost them their offer.
The idea is that the community decides on a fork and maintainers move over.

Are those really the exception? Do we have examples of large projects that made a monetization TOS change and didn't immediately get forked?

The only one I can think of is Docker maybe?
CSP, WTF? – Explanations of common CSP violations sent to report-URI endpoint
Is this the way to go, and if so why?
> To commemorate this moment, we are hosting a five-day event at the Alte Münze in Berlin this Oct. 12 to 16 that embodies all of what Mozilla has been, what it aims to be and what it envisions for the internet.

If Mozilla really wanted to reclaim the internet they'd focus their efforts on their flagship product rather than hosting awards ceremonies to "explore the future through four immersive rooms that show what’s possible when internet users reclaim individual expression, inspiration, wonder and community"[sic]
Buying books doesn’t imply reading them (talking from personal experience)
I had a Chevy that very much enjoyed breaking in annoying ways (window motors, fan actuators), but I generally do like the Chevy brand.

The real issue to me with American cars, going forward, is that I cannot rely on the company to exist at any point in the future. Strikes that reduce parts and labor while making unaffordable pension demands are going to keep me away from unioned brands. And I am currently in the market for a new vehicle.
> * Either sleep in the same house as the people you dropped with, or get back together as soon as possible in the morning. This is essential to processing the experience in a positive, social way.

Looking back on my raving career, now retired of course, this is fantastic advice and something I would never have thought to articulate.
I would characterize it more as "All models are wrong, some are useful, but it is never useful to use a model in a domain it is known to be wrong in".

We are extremely confident in the wrongness of relativity and QM in this matter, so using them in that particular way for philosophy is really a waste of time.

One could sensibly write philosophy of the form "If string theory is true, then..." or "If Loop Quantum Gravity is true, then...", because while those are not proved, they are also not proved actively wrong in the relevant ways.
The Mystery of Red Brooklyn Honey:

https://us.latinhoneyshop.com/blogs/news/the-mystery-of-red-...
Ask HN: Learning AI – Recommend me some resources
Hi Everyone,

I am just looking to the YC crowd to help me take the next leap in learning about AI. I am pretty good at prompt engineering and understand models in general, using AI systems to create plugins, proposals, create fairly complex scripts etc. I also work in a field where AI is already changing our products and how we do business (explosive simulations/destruction etc.)

I'd like to learn a lot more of what goes on underneath it all and take it to the next level but I am not good at maths. In fact, I am number blind (Just be thankful I don't do the models :D ). All the talk of P^2 in input filters or whatever goes right over my head!

Suggestions are most welcome as are any useful experience.
Stormlight is great, but I feel like his novellas are really underrated too. The Emperor's Soul is one of my favorite books ever.
I’m just saying, I’ve been in similar situations without the drugs involved. There are people out there who act like that and will be like that with each other without MDMA. Myself included.
In this contexts license is everything, I can’t understand why people won’t get this in their head.
They also tried to down-level me. I said no (here is a competing offer). They said we'll get back to you. 2 weeks later, a good offer.
But isn’t that as it should be?

Just like you never step in the same river twice, you never do business with the same company twice. Staff and executives change over time, and companies shift for better or worse.

Should we hold grudges against brands for things totally different people did 10? 20? 50? years ago? That seems weird to me.

Unity specifically deserves loss of trust and all the pain they get. But in 5 years, or 10 years or whatever, should we assume they are less trustworthy than other companies because of what this group of managers did?
> property taxes

Anywhere that has property taxes really needs to have a clause similar to what Oregon has that states that the assessed value of your property cannot increase by more than 3% per year for property tax calculation purposes.

It's pretty bonkers that people can very quickly, over the course of less than 5 years, get priced out of a place that they own, just because the market became white hot.

I bought my house in 2015 for $340K. It's currently estimated to be $600K. Yet I'm paying taxes assuming a $250K value.

Granted, I think the 3% limit is too low. I think 4-5% is more reasonable.
Seems like it.

I only learned of this operation from reading this blogpost. "Permuting Bits" seems like a bloody obvious use of this instruction, but honestly, anyone who is familiar with carry-less multiplication will immediately see the widespread capabilities of this instruction.

It really demonstrates to me that once again, Intel and their design of AVX512 has some very smart people in there. Its a good, flexible, operation. Albeit arcane and few people probably see how to use this instruction well, but its really exciting to see "such a good idea" from them.

GF(2^8) fields (aka: 8-bit GF operations) are used in all sorts of CRC, Error-correction Reed Solomon, Elliptical Curve, etc. etc. operations. But beyond just that, bitshifts and xors innately have a huge number of applications outside of cryptography or GF-stuffs. It makes sense to make a dedicated instruction like this.

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EDIT: Upon rereading the end of the blogpost:

> I will probably keep using a SAT solver to solve the masks

Yeah, that's actually what's needed to generalize this.

Note: common operations like "if(a) b else c", or "min(a, b)", or such can likely be specified in terms of AVX512 operations now.

Powerful, efficient, operations like GF2P8AFFINEQB, pext, pdep, and pshufb are getting damn close to an FPGA-like parallel processor.

I mean, pshufb is already an arbitrary 4-bit truth table / 4-LUT if you think about it.
In a single-threaded system, you only need to worry about concurrency when there’s an await keyword. Everywhere else, it’s as if you have an exclusive lock. Any functions that aren’t async can be treated as atomic. This makes it much easier to reason about concurrency.

With a multithreaded system, async or not, you have to worry about the concurrency issues that come up when sharing data between multiple threads, because that’s what you’re doing.

It’s odd how Rust ended up with the worst of both worlds by default. I think people got overconfident because Rust otherwise handles multithreading so well.
Are open source tools banned on playstation and switch?
"Paper doesn't provide GPS" - spoken like a child of the magenta line! ;)

Paper provides the VOR frequencies and visual navigation info, and approach procedures if you're really in a bind. It's also cheaper than a second tablet.
By that argument, the law "allows" crime.

People do things they shouldn't. That doesn't mean they are "allowed".

Your link makes the point nicely, since users responded quickly to that comment by flagging it.
> Stack samples can be captured using Linux perf_events, FreeBSD pmcstat (hwpmc), DTrace, SystemTap, and many other profilers. See the stackcollapse-* converters

https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph
>Last year in Britain one in four book buyers used TikTok

What does that mean? Do they surveyed the buyers and 25% use TikTok? Is this data pointing at something different to say, IG users or other social media for book advertisers?
She did, there's a full list here: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/abramovic-rhythm-0-t148...

Only ~6 of them are things that I would classify as "weapons", and maybe ~10 others are not weapons but things that you could obviously use to hurt her (scissors, needle, etc.) There was food, paint, clothes, makeup for anyone that wanted to do something benign and creative.

I disagree that the weapons were "temptations". It is not normal to be tempted to hurt someone merely because you have a weapon and opportunity.
Punish corruption, violations of transparency laws and not disclosing lobbying contacts in public by a 10 year minimum prison sentence for involved persons and a 50% worldwide income fine of the parent company for involved companies, and provide a bounty of 10 million dollars + 20% of the fines levied and complete immunity for whistleblowers...

It's a matter of incentives in the end, I prefer adjusting these over complicated bullshit regarding "insider" trading rules that's constantly gamed anyway because it has no real teeth attached.
Unity has been on a buying spree including traditional TV/Movie CGI firms for some insane reason†. They're just plain _bad_ at spending money.

(† Yes, I know the growth potential from real-time to rendered. I still think it's a terrible investment.)
Figure 3 is interesting, it's topic distribution of 100K sampled conversations:

Cluster 1: Discussing software errors and solutions
Cluster 2: Inquiries about AI tools, software design, and programming
Cluster 3: Geography, travel, and global cultural inquiries
Cluster 4: Requests for summarizing and elaborating texts
Cluster 5: Creating and improving business strategies and products
Cluster 6: Requests for Python coding assistance and examples
Cluster 7: Requests for text translation, rewriting, and summarization
Cluster 8: Role-playing various characters in conversations
Cluster 9: Requests for explicit and erotic storytelling
Cluster 10: Answering questions based on passages
Cluster 11: Discussing and describing various characters
Cluster 12: Generating brief sentences for various job roles
Cluster 13: Role-playing and capabilities of AI chatbots
Cluster 14: Requesting introductions for various chemical companies
Cluster 15: Explicit sexual fantasies and role-playing scenarios
Cluster 16: Generating and interpreting SQL queries from data
Cluster 17: Discussing toxic behavior across different identities
Cluster 18: Requests for Python coding examples and outputs
Cluster 19: Determining factual consistency in document summaries
Cluster 20: Inquiries about specific plant growth conditions
Why does something need to replace them?
Maybe as of 2023. But in 2022 this is absolutely not accurate.
US Government IT contractor could face death penalty over espionage charges
I tie it that way too, but as that page points out, it's the same knot:

> The whole twisted mess of the previous drawing will rearrange itself into exactly the same finished knot as my Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.
There already exists a fast serarch tool reasleased by Microsoft themselves, called PowerToys Run.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
Some insurance against this dam breaking wouldn't be so bad however
This isn't possible yet. I want to add as an option that in the future, but it's not possible yet. Sorry :(
> All the examples you list are general applications of NLP's, not of generative AI.

I think you are being purposefully obtuse.
from the README:

> Currently it only supports Golang's pprof dump, I am working on supporting more formats
> We found that Linux and Firefox users struggled to use passkeys, as those platforms don’t yet have strong support for passkeys.

> As a result, we decided to enable cross-device registration of passkeys. That means, you can register a passkey on your phone while you’re using your desktop. The passkey lives in the phone, but users can connect it to their desktop and set-up and authenticate through the desktop’s browser. This enables Linux and Firefox users to set up passkeys.

This has always been the real no-go for me when I was implementing auth.

I looked into supporting passkeys and found that they're basically useless unless you can make some strong guarantees about who/what can access the keys stored on the device. Linux and the various BSDs can not do this today (and likely will ever be able to do this well given that someone can always recompile a malicious OS that pretends to be another well-trusted OS).

If a user needs to reach to their phone to log into something on their laptop - that's never going to be really secure. It's only a matter of time before everyone starts having "We will never ask for you to log in through your phone, don't do this if someone asks you to" warning labels and respawn the entire industry of anti-phishing mechanisms for this new attack vector.
Getting hit on the head because someone held a brick over it and let go isn't a punishment, it the consequence of an action. Car manufacturers aren't being punished, their business is suffering the consequence of an action taken by the British government.
The people who were smashing looms had their own looms. They were being undercut by automation and forced out of running their own one family business to working for a factory.

The factory could also cut costs by employing child labour to crawl among the machines fixing breakages at risk of their limbs.

That's capitalism for you. Are you really surprised people opposed this?
Assassination in Canada makes a mockery of the West’s alliances
How is this "an even dumber approach"? It's literally the one thing this article is advocating for. Did you read it?
Oh, so it's arbeit mach frei, is it?
Google Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro complete specifications revealed ahead of launch
I think you might be right. I’ll take the hit.

Still, I think talking about Kafka without load feels like Christmas without tree. I thought that was the main point of it. Handling massive loads (by distributing them).
>It's an embarrassment that sub-second feature-rich file search isn't built in to Windows.

It's not built in, but it exists:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
I tried to hit it up on Archive.is, but no dice, there paywall maybe too effective.
UPSERT support is really for OLTP databases with frequent transactions that may conflict. If you're doing periodic batch jobs then you can just use plain insert/update/delete (and I believe a common pattern for syncing to an analytics database would be to first dump all the data from the transactional system into a staging table, from which you can run easily comparative queries (e.g. to check for records no longer present in the transactional database) before updating the main tables.
> This is a digression. There are use cases other than creating competing books, do I need to actually list them out?

Are the generative models crippled to only be able to do those things?

And some of the things you list are also likely to be in direct competition with the original works (e.g. "Summarizing news.") I believe "AI" generated news sites are already a thing (e.g. plagiarizing/summarizing original news articles, so another party can generate ad-revenue from them).

> Do I need to cite the math textbook that I used to learn algebra when I write a book on calculus?

No, because I previously said: "...generative AI systems aren't people, so I think it's totally fair to not grant their operators rights by analogy to something a human [mind] would do."
One of the great festures of using paper is, that it exists physically. I can see my stack of to-dos or bills or notes and this also helps remembeing where what what is.
I don't have this experience using digital. My brain just remembers computer as the general location. I loose all spacial intuition.
On the other side, this is great for anything I don't want to remember.
Making the user manually escape parameters (and be very careful not to miss any) seems at odds with the goals of ease of use and maintainability. Most template libraries do this automatically by default.
What you're writing isn't really correct either, this partly stems from the difficulty of what we mean by "robust".

To increase throughput (i.e. bitrate ) we can either increase the channel bandwidth or the SNR (and use that SNR for higher modulation formats). Increasing the channel bandwidth does increase the noise power (assuming matched filtering) but we typically also assume that the psd of the signal stays the same => signal power increases and SNR stays the same.

If we mean by "robust" that the signal is not as susceptible to fluctuations of the noise, than increasing the bandwidth could help. Assuming we want the same bitrate, we could use the larger bandwidth to reduce the modulation format and thus the required SNR while keeping the bitrate the same. However a larger bandwidth typically also increases probabilities of impairments (interferers, filtering...) but this is typically still a win, because capacity throughput is linearly proportional to bandwidth but only logarithmically to SNR.
not 10 GB though. especially when similar options can do it in less than 200 MB:

https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases

I would be eager to hear actual data in further replies, rather than guesses.
> I am not sure why a productivity suite have to be ML/AI powered tho.

In order to continue being relevant?

Functions like search and spell checking are already basic forms of ML/AI. A productivity suite should enable users to benefit from ever more powerful algorithms that, ahem, enhance productivity :-)
You truly live in a tech industry bubble if you think most people would side with mass unemployment of truck drivers, one of the most common professions for men in the US, or want to consume AI-generated drivel for entertainment.
I hope they advocate for decentralization. AWS and Azure have centralized the Internet even more than it already was by 2010. Companies like Reddit and "X" and Meta are ruining the Internet. All of my Reddit accounts have been permanently banned, yet I never wrote anything illegal or discriminatory (their rules about what you can and can't say are actually quite exhaustive for an American company that seems fine with spreading misinformation, racist/sexist comments, et. al).
I've been writing some assembly, learning ED, and some other things on my Kaypro 1. I write notes on paper from the reference material on my desktop then go over to the Kaypro to apply it. Seems to work really well for learning and brings back memories of college classes.
Maybe, if new people are in charge.
What made you choose St Helena for your travel? Did you feel like you got to see most of the island in 10 days?
I don't fault them either. In fact I'm a big fan of many of those companies.

I think the fault is with the consumers. Many companies consume but do not participate in open source. All the incentives are there for companies to become vendors rather than participants (stewards?) of an open source project.
He can say whatever he wants. His credibility is in the tank given that he stole from his only cheerleaders.
the initial idea to be free from legalization, no obligations, no limitations and regulations. Of course, that is not replacement of official marriage. But it maybe a new way for various couples around the glob to unite.
I too have a "living" library haha
> If you can provide a script that takes in an HTML file and provides an image ready for rendering, that would be amazing.

Yea, that's something I have been trying to build, but it's surprisingly non-trivial. There are a bunch of headless browser options, but I haven't found a good way to tell them: "Render the page in X width and Y height and then take a screenshot".

That seems like a problem that should have 100 open source solutions for it, and I am sure there are some that work really well! But I personally haven't found one yet.
I grant the premise that Unity sucks and has made changes that make it much harder to be an indie developer using its runtime.

That said, I don't understand the decision to shut the group and encourage members to move to a more general game dev group instead. If the reason is "everyone stopped using Unity, we don't have any members" then I understand, but the press release didn't say that. In fact it implied there might be thousands of members.

The closest thing to a reason they gave was that Unity has become hostile to indie devs. But Unity doesn't run BUG, so if some people are still using Unity, which I assume is the case, wouldn't they still benefit from having a users group? If it's an act of protest by the group organizers, that seems annoying for the people who still use Unity and got value out of having access to that community.

Without sufficient context to understand the decision, I find I'm not sure what this act accomplishes, or what it intended to accomplish.
I was also considering this, but while this strategy works wonders on the consumer, I don’t know how well it works in more B2B offerings.

Video games specifically get away with this because, as we saw with Diablo 4, people are going to give game companies money regardless how bad and unpalatable the game is.

Man. My Reddit account became limited in the Diablo subreddit for saying that I cancelled my preorder after the beta.
The problem with Bolts are the batteries. They are expected to last 8 years or 100k miles.

At 10k/year mileage, you're looking at 2-3 years of use gone, so about 5-6 left.

Battery replacement is ~$16k, which is a huge time bomb.

https://chevyguide.com/chevy-bolt-battery-replacement-cost/