skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. I maybe wrong but I think it was Netflix first which normalized generating one web service call generating 1MB worth of logs. In our place finance is kind of whopping ass of teams which are generating extensive logging and monitoring as Splunk cost goes through roof.
Do we know if OpenAi bought the book, or did they just "accidentally" pirate the book?
"But Defendants’ LLMs endanger fiction writers’ ability to make a living, in that the LLMs allow anyone to generate—automatically and freely (or very cheaply)—texts that they would otherwise pay writers to create"

This kind of luddism sees copyright as a way to enrich rights holders, as opposed to "promoting the progress of science and the useful arts".
Genestealer?
currently anything generated by llm is not copyrightable, right? so are they really threatened by public domain or what?
No single person can control rent costs, climate change, or global wars.

But you can control what you eat.
I am jealous of my friends who take care of their things not just enjoying the use of the thing.

Motorcycles, for instance. I have friends that enjoy working on them and cleaning them as much as riding them.

I have noticed I appreciate what I have a lot more when I spend time cleaning, performing routine maintenance, etc on the "thing" (whatever it may be)
Proponents of legalizing marijuana aren't necessarily advocates for it's use or benefits: for example, I am one. I have absolutely no interest marijuana, and don't particularly care for people who's identity is "I smoke weed" (I mean, the same would also apply for alcohol too).

But that's quite different to thinking the current regime of anti-drug enforcement, incarceration, and generally catastrophic waste of time, resources and lives - is at all a productive or even useful thing to do for society.

I'll discourage everyone from drinking alcohol or smoking weed, but that's very different from thinking any of this should be banned.

Though I'll happily commit to the notion that I suspect you'd get a lot fewer fights among dedicated stoners then drinkers on a friday night.
I wonder if it would be possible to have more than just one PostgreSQL database.
The T2 patients weren’t fatter or more diabetic. There were just 62% more of them.
I don't think that would work - with Liveview the code is on the server and only the rendered HTML (or the dynamic changes) are sent to the client. Based on what you are suggesting, you'd need JS to to the processing or maybe WASM.
oh right was it really proven that they were training on bittorrent book collections?
They were the "cool kid" on the block but every kid grows up, becomes an adult and is no longer cool. Th same can be said about Tesla, their roadster was without a doubt a cool looking car and the fact that it was electric made it even cooler. Since then it's rode the "scrappy new start up road" busting the balls of the large auto manufacturers but Elon is getting a little long in the tooth and soft in the head, the upper income liberals don't like what's coming out of his mouth and considering the price they'd be better off purchasing their over priced EV from Mercedes or BMW. Further it's a pretty well known fact that Teslas are horrible cars, Kia quality at BMW prices. Finally like anything that's considered cool everyone wants on the band wagon, Teslas are no longer just for the monied tech mom it's open to everyone including Uber drivers, yep Uber made a deal with Tesla so instead of being edgy a Tesla is what picks you up when you go to the airport -to quote Memphis Raines, " I saw three of these parked outside the local Starbucks this morning, which tells me only one thing. There's too many self-Indulgent wieners in this city with too much bloody money! Now, if I was driving a 1967 275 GTB four-cam...". Nobody is going to drop $70K to drive the same car and Uber driver drives.
“Cooking” at home does not necessarily mean healthier than restaurants.

Home cooking for most people uses tons of sauces/cheeses/creams/butter/chocolate/breads/etc loaded with sugar and sat fats.
Indeed. I enjoy vacuuming (sorry iRobot) for the mindlessness, repetitive pattern and results. Likewise, mowing and hedge trimming. And, dubiously, I’m building a small wooden boat for something “completely different”.

To connect with the technology theme, I think these tasks make me a better professional. Being able to enjoy the mundane makes code maintenance less awful (keep those patches coming!). Being able to quiet my mind leads to clearer thinking and creativity when problem solving and in crisis (code red!). And, there is some research that suggest fine motor tasks lead to better memory.

Now I need to unload the dishwasher…
> What does this have to do with self driving vehicles?

Everything! The media only wants to talk about robots when things go wrong, but what about all of the theoretical accidents they’ve avoided or the fact that not a single person has caught COVID from a Cruise electric vehicle?
Google Pixel is also overdoing the postprocessing, some people are altered so much that they are almost hard to recognize. Luckily, you can save the rates directly
I feel like I don't have enough time in my life to do even a fraction of I want to do. Even if I count only the free and low-cost things I want to do, I don't have enough time. Then there are expensive things that I can't afford to do which I definitely want to do as well...

My problem is that I'm so greedy for my own time that I struggle to find enough of it to spare towards monetization in order to be able to afford to do slightly more expensive activities (like overseas travelling). I spend a lot of time reading books and articles, writing comments online, working on open source, hiking, swimming, snorkeling, gold fossicking, other outdoor activities (all free/very low-cost activities). If I had more money and time, I would tinker with electronics more. If I had even more money and time, I would travel more. I have so many things to do within my low-cost plane of existence that I don't even have the time to fully imagine what I would do with more money. I lost my job a few months ago and I like having extra time. Having time to do what I want to do is 100% worth being an employed loser IMO. Only issue is making it sustainable. That's why I'm working on a side project now.
When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
Even DVD to be honest; the resolution of the stream is basically unimportant, what really matters is the bitrate, and DVD is high, Blu-ray is insane (10.08 Mbit/s vs 40-100Mbit/s).
Headline's a bit misleading; from what the article describes, staying home and watching other people clean is their idea of a good time!

I've always found the "CleanTok" phenomenon fascinating (from a distance) because I'm a self-described clean freak and those kinds of videos do absolutely nothing for me. Compared to:

> From her home in Yelm, Wash., 41-year-old Gretchen Barocio follows online cleaning star Jack Callaghan, who brings viewers along as he degreases the oven or scrubs the toilet. Barocio finds it calming.

> “He uses the same products and follows the same routine,” says Barocio, a human-resources professional. “I like watching because it makes me feel like my life is organized.”

What makes cleaning my go-to stress reliever is the fact that my shower is, in fact, actually clean after I've scrubbed it. Merely watching someone else clean their own shower doesn't offer me any catharsis... but for other people, it seems like it does.
Why would they? Financially, on paper, their income isn't US based. And their production isn't US based either. The only US thing they have is "designed in California".
> I think this is the only time I've read the word "database" and thought "blockchain might be a superior solution".

...how is this relevant to the linked mailing-list thread? They're talking about compilation units.
This is simultaneously exciting and embarrassing: exciting because the US is finally seeing some amount of non-remedial rail investment after decades of intentional neglect, and embarrassing because the outcome is still so menial (a diesel locomotive traveling at barely HSR speeds at its peak).
I'm sorry but what makes it a swipe is that it's a low-information putdown (and even a cliché of those). That's the high order bit, not whether it was an opinion-earnestly-stated, because it's what determines how the comment lands with the other user in the typical case, and that's what determines whether we get more interesting thoughtful exchanges, or less interesting flamewars. This case ended up being typical because we ended up with a flamewar of the tit-for-tat variety. That's not what HN is for!

(As a side note, one reliable indicator of thread deterioration is when people start arguing about what each did or didn't say.)

Instead of putting down the other person's knowledge level, it would have been better to share* some of the specific goings-on of early cipherpunk mailing lists, since you obviously know something about that. That would have gratified the curiosity of the general readers (me included!) and this is more important—it is in fact the purpose of the site—than defeating somebody in an argument.

As for the other user getting flagged, I appreciate your looking out for them—but it isn't about either you or them, it's about the general audience, which comes here hoping to read things that are more interesting than putdowns and tit-for-tats. We have rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that try to encourage that and discourage the opposite, and when people break those rules, it's good to mark that by flagging the comments because it indicates to the rest of the userbase that concern for discussion quality remains present here.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There's been a couple of attempts, but that wouldn't service the same customers. Most customers still using Netflix DVDs by mail are in rural areas without adequate internet or just not interested in streaming.
I get your point, and I agree with it for most cryptocurrencies.

In this case, the proof-of-work would be peer-review instead of computation, and the "blocks" would be as frequent as "minor releases". The need for computation would be pretty light.

Not that I'd actually support it in practice lol
There’s a character in the Aubrey-Maturin series who uses this construction often. I always wondered if it was an idiosyncrasy, a regionalism, or an archaic usage. Guess this answers it!
There's an excellent and pulitzer-winning book about this widespread dynamic called "slavery by another name." The practice continued routinely in huge swathes of the south until world war 1, and in a few places decades even after that.
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> “Netflix is such an interesting company.”

An often forgotten fact is that Netflix started Roku as a product & spun it off.
The most popular page with Hacker News appears to be the Tetris rant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342543

https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris
>Ideas have never been the scope of copyright

This isn't about ideas, it's about a specific individuals work given that the reproduced text lifts literal characters out of Martin's book. That has always been covered by IP law. Canonical example, you cannot write a novel about Harry Potter, you can write a book about a wizard going to a magical school.
https://archive.ph/dOXT3
That's what discovery will be for, the complaint alleges that the likely source was libgen. Most of these authors haven't released DRM-free ebooks, and it seems unlikely that OpenAI has a large scale book scanning effort (and even if they did, that authors would likely claim that to be infringement itself.)
An hour of dishes daily isn’t my idea of a good time but laying in a bed that’s freshly made every night is. Take all the sheets off and put them back on nicely like you’re at a hotel.
When you do your research, you use TLS. So it’s adding a second system on top, not removing TLS as the security lynchpin.
Ah, you all are correct. Thanks for the correction, will use the correct term going forward.
The US, South Korea, Japan, etc.. China about 3.8% in the iPhone 14; and 4.5% in the 13:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/iPhone-14-teardo...
It's odd given that OsmAnd is the most feature complete OSM app for Android that there are so few custom map styles for it. I know the weird format it uses is a contributing factor (I think everyone else uses Mapnik compatible styles). But I find all the included themes really hideous and haven't found a good alternative. There are really good raster styles for outdoor use, so if anyone has advice on adapting an existing theme for OsmAnd I'd be curious to hear about that.
It proves we are in fact capable of grading a railroad to support faster speeds. We have a lot of historical tracks that never had this requirement
This is what's known as a Merkle tree. It's how git works and was invented in 1979.
At the start of the article:

- all functions go into a global (searchable) Key-value database

...
- there are no "open source projects" - only "the open source
Key-Value database of all functions"
What’s the explanation for the Martian look at z≤8?

e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/40/-111&layers=P

And it looks like this is a proprietary fork of Carto? Its inclusion on the OSM website is essentially an advertisement?
That can’t be possible.

Energy in = energy out

More likely, people are underestimating the calories they are consuming, or are cheating.
I don't see the contradiction. A market requires music to have value. Most music is worthless.

Historically, there was no practical way for the average Joe to find and obtain worthless music. Only well connected hardcore music geeks had a chance, and even they often would fall short. Now it is right there at everyone's fingertips, every bit as easy to listen to as Taylor Swift, and recommended to them by algorithms.

Of what music that has been able to find value, it stands to reason that segment is shrinking with people now finding and listening to more and more worthless music. It also stands to reason that with more and more time spent listening to worthless music, it has become more and more difficult for music with potential value to find its place, thus leaving a market ripe for monopolization.

But the rise of worthless music has broken down the monolith. We're not stuck all listening to the same 1,000 valuable songs. Now we have 1,000,000,000 worthless songs that divides up the attention and some remaining segment paying for 100 songs that rose above being worthless.
ahaha the amount of coffee cups I amassed was enough to fill the room at one point
evolutionary precursors, literal wingmen, working selflessly in favor of better chances for reproductive success.
Personally I'm in a metropolitan area, but I just liked the far greater selection on the DVD service, and the availability of French and Spanish language tracks.
The Liberland people are exactly claiming the land, that's the whole point of what they're doing.

Croatia, even if it claims the land is Serbia, consistent with its border claim, it still administers it as a practical matter, that includes keeping people out of where they shouldn't be.
It's also how blockchains work:

"A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.[1][2][3][4] Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Definitely interesting, but the author has no idea what a "blind" test is.
This article was very detailed and yet conveniently did not mention the massive layoffs Shopify did over 2023,

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/how-shopify-bungled-its-la...

This is PR, not journalism.
Yes, the FBI is reading your shitposts
Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes
>> American cars may not be popular in Europe but they do sell in the Asia Pacific region. <<

America's brands such as Buick and Cadillacs are quite popular and sell well in China via local JV where their sales are so-so in the US.
They are threatened by the fact that LLM can write better stories about their invented characters then themselves.
If you read the claims to relief (start on page 44 of complaint) it's mostly just standard copyright infringement during training. The claims about ChatGPT writing works that infringes their works seem to be to be to try and head-off a fair use defense. One of the tests for fair use is the effect on the potential market for original work.
I had the same thought. My (white sharecropper fwiw) great grandfather went to Parchman (probably in the 30s or 40s) and supposedly came out broken and insane. I've always understood it to be a hell on earth on par with Alcatraz so it seems strange to see it framed as a place where people made some cool music :/
> congratulations, your queue mess has now brought down your primary datastore too.

Just don't put your queue tables/logic in the same DB instance as your datastore. There are still a lot of benefits to using the same tech even if you have segregated instances.
Yes. I strongly feel that reinforcement learning should be applied to punish the LLMs for speculating about their past behavior. They should respond along the lines of “I’m sorry, I don’t know why I said 3 + 5 is 9, but I will try to answer again.”
Only for us needy humans to be able to use short names. Modules can be thought of as prefixes to function names.

You already have this global key value of names to functions. The name just happens to be module+function name
> I don't think very much "cleaning for sex" actually happens.

Now you tell me!
Perhaps we can attribute his unique formatting choice to a very specialized training dataset?
> gold fossicking

Please expand!
There’s issues with the simple calorie in - calorie out theory (there’s research showing that different bodies digest food differently so multiple people eating the exact same food might not absorb the same amount of calories, and also, all calories are not the same. You can eat 2000 calories in fries and 2000 calories in balanced meals and your body will respond very differently).

But for the sake of argument let’s assume, as you claim, that calories in - calories out is all that matters. Especially if you make that assumption then “Just eat less” is a nonsensical piece of advice. Because “Just eat less” simply restates the problem, which is people eating too much.

Actually useful advice would require helping a person with how they can eat less, and helping resolve the issues that lead them to eating more than they should eat.
I just get CAPTCHAs any time I try to visit that site, or any of its mirrors. I guess they don't like my iPad browser. Or maybe they don't like my VPN.
> If you charge and discharge a lithium ion cell from 4.2V to 2.75V, you might get 250 full cycles. If you stop charging at 4V and call that 100%, and stop discharging at 3.2V, you might get 2000 cycles before capacity is reduced.

Is there literally an almost 10x difference in the number of full cycles? Where can I read more about this?
Enshittification is the problem that crypto solves. When you have a giant shared transaction log, many forms of information that were formalized services are now self-servicing, aggregated by the chain.

The usual rebuttal to crypto is that something else is cheaper, faster, more safe, more convenient. And within the crypto space itself, the worst actors have sold themselves on being cheaper, faster, more safe, more convenient. And then, much like the early railroads, they exploit anyone who buys in, and do nothing to deliver on the principled part of the tech.

Well, you do this for a while, and it does seem like it's scams everywhere. But the bull cycle creates a round of scattershot investments in the core tech. Some of them become survivors and succeed at some kind of pro-social function, if only in proof-of-concept. We can even extend this cycle back to the pre-Bitcoin electronic cash ventures. Bitcoin proof-of-concepted the idea that it was actually possible. Of course now it's a chain inhabited by laser-eyed prospective future masters of the universe. But the people working on the tech have largely moved on from it.

Crypto's real allure as a tech is not that it has to be good at the things that are already good(as much as that tends to be the inclination), it has to be not bad at the things that are presently hopeless and normalized as unsolvable nature-of-man type problems. And it has to be roughly as boring as a train running on time.
Its very misleading! I'm a bit disappointed in the WSJ here.

An interest in watching is no surprise to me. In fact, there's a variety of cleaning simulators on Steam, moreso than most weird "simulator" niches.
See, this is what I’m talking about. It can’t even come up with a plausible anecdote for this rebuttal.
Well yes and also on totally premature fears that the LLMs will put everyone out of work and take over the world. There’s also that problem.
Its the same reasons why I like cooking so much: It has a definitive amount of time to accomplish and on top of the satisfaction of making something, I get to actually eat it.
> nobody in their career has ever been asked to balance an inverted pendulum

Thats what all those self-balancing scooters are.
This is their link to their more detailed reasoning: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:Moving_from_Fandom
They initially proposed changes that were retroactive, potentially leading to fees for released, unmaintained games.

I just don't see how anyone can trust them after that.
Oh yeah, Power Washing Simulator had a fun speedrun at GDQ a while back. I'll admit I did enjoy watching them power wash a flying saucer...
why don't they put sliding keyboards in cellphones just like the Nokia N900?
Other people know a lot more about this, but IIRC Unison has some ideas that go in this direction: https://www.unison-lang.org
Streaming caused the TV writers strike [video]
I mean, we all make choices and sacrifices. Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything, and I think it's reasonable that starting a startup a la YC requires a lot of commitment (that's their model and principles, there's plenty of other opportunities out there). Being an astronaut is closed off to a lot of people because they didn't fully commit themselves to it, that's just how it goes.
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How so? Ate more healthily at home, walked more, got outside more generally. Physical health likely improved with lockdowns.
Even where the hardware is available, it can be harder to prove properties about the behavior of the floating point versions. It's no fun when everything turns to NaNs because of surprise cancellation in subtraction.
While you're right that bitrate is king, most common HD streams will look better than a DVD.
In Cocaine Bear nearly none of the people mauled by the bear in the first half of the movie were drug users. The maulings seemed randomly chosen, save for the two kids. I'll go ahead and speculate that aside from the kids, the second half didn't involve any lectures on correctness. Am I right?

Perhaps more to the general point-- reality tv has rooted itself into the modern entertainment ecosystem at the speed of English Ivy. Other than the cooking shows, the cast are ostensibly chosen for narcissistic traits and then goaded into incorrectness for the pleasure of the viewing audience. Again, the outcomes seem randomized, probably to milk the endings for maximum intensity.

It's almost like that entire reality genre were carefully cultivated in a lab as a counterpoint to your comment here.
Early-onset T2DM is quite different. It’s very plausible something’s up.