skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the other way around. Arguing from similarity to humans is a counter-argument to the idea that a process similar enough to a human practitioner[0] should be covered by IP laws as if it was regular piece of software - IP laws that are mostly archaic and already stretched to near-breaking point to cover computers in the first place. It's not about whether or not humans have inherent rights. It's about logical consistency.

This is perhaps a "failing"[1] typical to STEM/tech people: expecting laws to be consistent. Consistent in a way similar to mathematics, in that for any ruling you can trace the arguments back to underlying interpretations of laws, and trace those down to written rules, and trace those to some more fundamental rules, and eventually to some sort of intuitions about morality and fairness. And at least to me, arguments that generative network training ought to be treated like compiling and obfuscating a regular dataset of copyrighted works, is justified merely by "it's different because computers".

This is not to say that current models are learning and creating art and text the same way humans are, but rather that the process just seems to be close enough. And the point of mentioning logical consistency is this: I may agree with copyrighting the living hell out of LLMs for pragmatic reasons[2] - because it shakes the boat too much, has potential to destroy livelihoods of too many people in too short a time, while further centralizing power, etc. Those are all valid arguments. "Because it's a computer", to me, isn't. Not when the process and effects are already eerily similar to how humans work. Not when such argument would apply just as much in a hypothetical future where we develop sentient AIs[3].

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[0] - In very limited scope, but also the very scope subject to legal issues.

[1] - I don't really consider it a failing. There's both beauty and efficiency in things making some kind of sense.

[2] - Intellectual property laws themselves are mostly pragmatic in this sense anyway.

[3] - Even in this future, we'll have to face pragmatic issues. I read an interesting take on this long ago, I think in one of Eliezer's essays: how do you handle democracy, fair resource allocation, basic ethics, in the presence of AI people that exist in silica? Such AIs will likely be able to reproduce much faster than humans - bringing new individuals into existence at the speed of factories pumping out GPUs. Equality and democracy are all fine until suddenly there's 10 trillion of AI people, and only 10 billion of human people, and everyone gets an equal vote. How do we deal with that?
After duckduckgo, this is the second time in a few days where I hear about some relatively big company using Perl for their backend.
I don't think it is possible to find a perfectly balanced internet discussion area, thus, echo chambers are unavoidable. With that in mind, I see more civil discourse here than ANYWHERE on the internet. Very rare.
South African ...

Although I was under the impression that soapies was an American word.
That's a great sign your company actually sucks and you should quit. Probably likely: It wasn't actually a high-margin company.
Acquired by private equity last year; https://theintercept.com/2022/05/10/democrats-campaign-tech-....
Elegant Palantir Access Control PowerPoint (2008)
> There's another story on HN posted today about balancing money and meaning and one of the top comments is a sarcastic put-down about the AI generate image at the top of the blog post. If the author had used AI to create the web page they'd almost certainly receive similar praise as the comments on this one. Both AI's are trained on other people's work, yet you seem to think even pointing this out is unfair. Very strange imo

Most of the comments on that submission are negatively and fairly accusing it of being ChatGPT generated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779591

That submission also appears to have been flagged/penalized, so yes, people aren't happy with it.

There is a significant difference between using AI for a functional purpose that others can learn from and using AI for low-effort marketing blogspam.
It's expensive, but like $295 to replace all the color toners (high capacity), not $1200 or $300 each.
Hi HN!

I'm Syrus, from Wasmer. We worked really hard to make Wasmer Edge available for everyone.
We also added support for full Python applications (such Django) which is a first in Edge Infrastructure.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
they did say "for programming related tasks" which could just be running vim.

I agree though, this claim seems unlikely to me.
It's pretty objectively crass to ask people to die so that you can continue your consumption unabated. Just as it was with COVID.

Pretty much anyone who opens up with "the proper role of government" is guaranteed to using some self-insert version of the founding fathers as a debate-terminating cliche, and it's usually followed by some incredibly crass take like "you're going to have to die so that GDP and consumption can continue growing". Like, it's all just numbers, and it turns out the numbers are a lot more important than the lives of the affected individuals.

Does "I will never mask up, I don't care if a million front-line workers die, reopen the economy and let's get GDP back on track" make you a bad person? Well, it doesn't make you a good one. At best it makes you the edgy kid in your college debate club, but people tend not to like that "abstract, formal" argumentation when it's their lives you're debating.

It's not polite to say it here, of course. But treating a practical issue with real-world consequences as a boring dry debate club to score points over is kind of a shitty approach in general. And nobody else is obligated to play along with that and treat every possible position you might take as having inherent and equal merit, which is really the point of the tone-policing thing.

Taking a position that we should just let climate change happen (TFA announcing yet another "hottest month on record" and "hottest year on record", let's remember) because otherwise it would make your imaginary version of the founding fathers sad is not a position that deserves a whole lot of rhetorical merit or gravity. Of course it is "the role of government" to take action to mitigate dangers to its citizens - whether that's indian attack, or a socialized healthcare system for merchant sailors, or controlling an outbreak of smallpox, or climate change. And it's objectively silly to get hung up on what some 16th-century document thinks about it.

The debate-club stuff and the faux-neutrality doesn't really matter, and actually probably is offensive to the people whose lives you are debating. And again, that's an observation you are not really allowed to make here, that maybe this faux-debate-club schtick and enforced politeness around deadly issues isn't really healthy or right.

(I don't think anything I've said here is any more offensive than a PG essay - go read "haters", that's not an essay you could write on HN today, it's dismissive of people's opinions! it doesn't treat them as having inherent merit and deserving equal respect just because someone farted them out! but I expect to be tutted before too long anyway.)
In the fine article, all the trails have identical paths.
Other than making the PDF freely available what in your mind would need to happen to make this book open source? I'm not even sure what an "open source" book would be in the FOSS meaning of the phrase.

From the edition notice page of the PDF:

> Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

And the comment you're replying to says "It does contain a plethora of references to other databases" so I'm not sure the snarky "I'm referring to the content itself, not what is advertised about it." is necessary or particularly helpful.
Thanks - I had a very brief look at Chromium OS, but couldn't spot answers to:

(1) Is there a de-googled version of Chromium OS?

(2) Is there a non-hacky way to install it to a Chromebook?
> - "Switch to dev mode". But I don't want to be prompted to factory reset each boot.

Developer mode simply puts up a splash at boot warning you that the OS is custom, you just press enter to boot. The requirement to do a drive wipe is a one-time thing when you enable it the first time (for obvious reasons, to prevent exfiltration of data stored by a secured OS).
This means you are already a programmer
Wait like 2-3 years and while you won't know it, you won't have to imagine it.
You're getting confused with NoSQL ;)
Language encodes geographic information (2009)
At the target price of $1.50/kg, a hydrogen burning combined cycle power plant would produce energy more cheaply than a new nuclear power plant, in the US. If just used for backup of renewable sources, the overall gap would be much wider.
> or have JS enabled

For 99% of users, they don't even know what Javascript is, let alone that you can disable it, let alone that they _should_ disable it on any site.

Not saying if that's a good thing or not, but I doubt allowing JS to be disabled would have any real effect on their engagement. In fact, I'm sure the frontend team at X would argue all the visual stuff enabled by JS increases engagement.
In C++ your relational operators can return std::partial_ordering etc which is a bit more semantically meaningful, for the reader and the compiler.
I don't like that malware called Onedrive. I really don't like it.
I've added the USA ones as I had some time between clients. I have some Canadian ones and if memory serves a UK one as well.

I will add them shortly.
Which translation? I've checked a few and they only mention an altar, nothing about burning the ark.
This work is significant enough that it should be published in an academic venue.
The beauty of the browser is that you can choose your own adventure. Being able to use or test apps in a browser tab is awesome, and it's up to the dev to choose a ux that showcases / informs the user of additional capabilities unlocked after adding to home screen. We're at the very early days of exploring what this ux can unlock.
People are vastly everestimating how unique this problem of hallucinations is.

It seems to me it relies mostly on discounting just how much we've already had to deal with this same problem in humans over the millenia.

The problem of proliferation of bad information might be getting worse, but this isn't native to generative AI. The entire informational ecosystem has to deal with this. GPTs compound the issue, but as far as I can tell, no where near what social media has forced us to deal with.
Horses for courses I guess, but I don't think I've ever seen anything on YouTube that I would consider paying for. I'm sure I'm in a tiny minority, but I find the relentless chasing of "fame" to be completely grotesque and a large contributor to the rise of fascism. No way I'm going to fund that.
Sweet domain! Was it expensive?

Feedback: The home page's horizontal carousels/reels lack trackpad scrolling functionality. Interaction is limited to the arrow buttons on the side. To enhance user experience, it would be beneficial to make them scrollable via trackpad, similar to the Apple Store website.[0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/store
Is this used by traffic lawyers to fight tickets?
Levono service is the best I've experienced. Anecdotally of course - when my tower PC that I bought in 2019 started crapping out this year, they sent a repair person to my home several times, each time replacing parts without question, including a $4K graphics card (which turned out to be the fix). That warranty is worth its weight in gold and I happily extended it.
I laughed out loud when I got to the third one. Nicely done.
I absolutely love the idea. More sensors and IO is the main thing I hope to see in future phones. Like, I'm still annoyed there's no AI powered raman spectrometers in phones telling us where the pollution is, or radiation sensors, UV index detection(Preferably with UVC to catch wrongly installed germicidal lights), etc.

Laser distance sensing would be amazing, I wouldn't be surprised if we could even find avalanche victims with radar or at least see studs in the wall by now.

I don't actually plan to get the pixel 8 pro, I think I will get the regular pixel 8, but the temp sensor might be the start of a new direction of including more sensors.
Not to be confused with the Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) like TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces!
The international allocation of 2.4GHz spectrum for microwaves happened at lobbying of USA, but is global - and exists in order for airplane galleys to be equipped with microwave heaters and be allowed to travel internationally.
And turns it into a skating rink five minutes later. You want the snow to go away, not to change into liquid water on a sub-zero stone substrate.
Be careful about jumping to conclusions just to convince yourself you're right and I'm wrong. I do not assume what you think I assume. But it's obvious you're not looking for a curious conversation and reaching any kind of common understanding.
> It's nice to have things all basically browser based as it gives the developer more control of the product and creates a single reasonable platform.

I get that. But as a user, I really hate browser-based applications and avoid them entirely unless I have no other option.
> or have JS enabled
> but maybe that's just me

To be fair there are probably a least a couple dozen people who do this.
The kids can't code locally on a git repo on Chromebooks and run make; they don't even have a terminal.

Googlers only code remotely on Chromebooks.

The kids MUST be able to run `pytest arithmetic.ipynb` on whichever platform.

(It was not appropriate for Google 2016-2020 (?) to decide that we should all accept WASM runtime vulnerabilities in sandboxed browser processes running as the same user instead of per-app SELinux contexts like Android requires since 4.4+, or instead of containers and VMs like almost all of Google's hosted apps and internal systems)

Cannot believe there's not even a JS console on these for the kids (because "Inspect Element" and "Turn on Linux" are blocked for them all)
My old favorite daily, iosnoops, has quit operations. There, you could get daily "gone free" and "price drop" listings, and I grabbed plenty of free and discounted apps. They indicated in color apps with IAP's/subscriptions and new apps (mostly subscriptions these days) So, ALL of my ios apps are ad-free. A price drop to free almost always means ad-free vs. always free, meaning all too often ads inside.

So, I am looking at appsliced and igeeksblog as substitutes but they fall flat.

Of the apps I put on the new iPad, I like (and some of these I actually paid for) Basic! and techBASIC (out of nostalgia), some databases that I don't use, QuakeWatch (it's CA), ForScore (the reason I got an iPad1 long ago) MaxCurve (lets you adjust photos like xv did and Gimp does, on a curve) Kanban and list apps I don't use, outliners I don't use (I put rarely used apps in folders to hide them) Promised myself to try logseq and Obsidian, and Joplin, as I cancelled the Evernote subscription for obvious reasons,

Carnets (essentially Jupyter) a-Shell (looks to be a complete unix VM) Processing, various star apps, Trunk Notes still seems to work, as does kiwi (I Like Wikis) Promised myself to try tiddly wiki. Paprika Recipe Manager (they jacked up prices with a new version. I have the older version/ios and macos)

File Explorer, highly recommended, By Evgeny Cherpak (goes on sale for free now and then) It's remote file access. Works when airdrop fails or balks, which is too often. I really hate bluetooth. And I dropped all password managers but Samurai Safe. Trying Sheriff to block cookies and JavaScript on a per-site basis.

I forgot PhotoSync. It's not free but works with everything ... Only photo transfer app I know of that will do that. I got "Symbols" because for unknown reasons, I can't search for emoji on the iPhone, unlike the other devices. Autosuggest is supposed to hint at emoji, but that depends on the app, so it seems. Apple puzzles me at times.

Cheers
It isn’t just the difference in rate. The main content of Circular T https://www.bipm.org/en/time-ftp/circular-t is the time offset of the various national realisations of UTC. Another important aspect is characterizing the stability of each clock, which determines the weighting of its contribution to UTC.

The algorithm behind Circular T is called ALGOS.
What do you mean? If they were easy to make they wouldn’t be worth millions.
Thanks - has this changed in the past few years?

A few years back (when I last looked in depth), it was very easy at every boot (not only first boot) to accidentally wipe everything - e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/Crouton/comments/3be2su/reducing_ri...

I also remember that it made a loud beep on every boot!
Former Trump NSA Robert C. O'Brien: Air Force Needs 300-400B-21 Raiders
Really? I've been finding it doesn't even find stuff it used to in certain documentation (I'm talking like things it found maybe a year ago), "searching in quotes for this stuff", things that other search engines (bing, kagi) are indexing just fine - And since I've switched to using these engines more when I'm searching things for programming work, it's definitely been a lot more helpful than google which often just seems to be missing a ton now
In comments given to the National Interest, former Trump National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien explained that the U.S. Air Force needs 300-400 B-21 Raider stealth bombers considering the growing threat from China's rising military might.
Not parent but came across it yesterday as well, in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37770008 (Show HN: A nom parser for the Starcraft 2 Protocol Replay format)
Have a look at my open source tool aider. It is really focused on a smooth “AI pair programming” chat workflow, and directly integrates with your local git repo.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
The exact same would apply to you. Projection. You are extremely arrogant with your opinions that no one else really agrees with and you talk down to people who disagree. Essentially you are insisting that your own personal definition of "world model" is true and the normal meaning of the term is not. Your argument is totally subjective and philosophical.
> I think for YouTube my no-brainer price would be around 4.99 or so. Even if it just gave me like 20* hours ad free or something.

Uhg. I hope paying for hours of """premium""" streaming service isn't where the industry goes.
Because development speed and flexibility matter way more than "correctness". Engineer salary is expensive, and there is software to manage running processes that makes errors in software in niche cases not a big deal because it can just restart the failed container or the failed process, publish logs, and then an engineer can implement a patch.
I tried for a moment to engage with this, but it’s frankly a bunch of contrived arguments about why no other world is possible. It also cherry picks from what I wrote when the defense of the status quo conflicts with different aspects of my comment (e.g. why would direct state construction be single family homes vs multiunit buildings? Nowhere did I indicate that you don’t have to build more housing?) Even the most extreme market fundamentalist would acknowledge that within the basic principles of supply and demand, flooding the market with a fire sale of the properties currently in the possession of corporate investors would cause prices to go down.
I'm a Bay Area startup alumni, so closer to the actual VC scene than most on here, and all the actual successful founders I know have a pretty strong belief in the good that their products will bring, even if they usually overstate the likely impacts quite a bit.

"Move fast and break stuff" != "...and run people over in the process". Are there greedy a-holes in every space? Of course. But if you think that's the default mindset at startups, I don't feel like you're going to have much success in the space.

Do I think OpenAI probably thinks that their work is less impactful to Steven King's sales than he is claiming? Absolutely.

Do I think they're lying to themselves about the actual negative impacts of their work because they think their product is really cool and has so many potential uses? Absolutely.

Do I think they secretly all just want to be the guy with the boot, crushing artists' livelihoods and pushing for regulatory capture, like you seem to be implying they (and others here) are? No.
I've only ever heard "soap operas" or "soaps" in the Upper Midwest and East Coast.

Let's blame Australia.
US fighter jet downs a drone belonging to NATO ally Turkey over Syria: officials
How so? They seem to have done some kind of modeling to determine that it will in fact save fuel, they even predict the payback period.
I work with the OP and i can attest he really did not know how to program before he tried this. I'll still help you debug Jeff don't worry
Heads up, this blog doesn't seem to work on Safari. I see a couple errors in the console, but the culprit appears to be `SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: invalid group specifier name`
Like: The interesting tools you find when people "show" their tool, and then everyone mentions a bunch of other similar tools in the comments.

Dislike: Down voting. Down voting just makes for an echo chamber (as someone else already mentioned.) It's a terrible, nasty, way of punishing people who's posts don't fit the popular cliques viewpoints. It should be replaced with either a mandatory "this is why I down voted" comment, or flags that everyone can see. Like "off topic", "insulting", "spam", or things like that. At the least, it should cost karma to down vote. Oh, and if you down vote, or flag, and it gets reversed, you should lose karma.
Have you ever tried to use the video controls on YouTube in Safari for iOS / iPadOS? Or manage a GSuite (or whatever it's called this week) account? I'd say Google are both malicious in intent, and incredibly bad at design.
I meant to say that it "outperforms" less in terms of speed (although it's not bad relative to the price of the laptop) but more in terms of developer experience. Everything just works in Linux and it's fast compared to WSL which I get constant issues.
The Apple Watch isn't anything to write home about, but it gets the job done (for the most part). Battery life is horrible. I'm charging daily. After using a bunch of form factors, only Garmin seems to get the circle right and WearOS seems like there wasn't a lot of thought put into doing smartwatch tasks on that form factor.

They are seriously going to need to come up with something out of the box that you mentioned to draw users. There is no wow factor at all with this thing.
How fast are they compared to raw memory throughput?

It's interesting that memory mapping is so expensive. I've often wondered the price that everyone pays for multiple address spades. Is isolation really worth it?
If you're trying to teach or learn about undecidability, I've always thought of busy beaver problems as unnecessary added complexity over the halting problem. I can't think of a good way to explain the undecidability of busy beaver without invoking the halting problem. It's not because there is an enormous number of 6-state TMs or because BB(6) is at least 10^10^10^…^10. It's simply because you can't decide, for each TM with n states, whether that TM will halt.

Busy beaver problems are interesting in their own right, particularly for 1) demonstrating the huge amount of complexity that can arise from very simple rules and 2) for the epiphany that a busy beaver function grows asymptotically faster than any computable. But I don't find them to be great as an introduction to undecidability.