skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I read a book I read a "copy" of that book, which was typically reproduced on paper under contract with the copyright owner.

The model is not capable of reproducing the input verbatim (not enough synapses to do that and it wouldn't generalize properly if there were) although the training process does involve producing a cleaned up text which is typically retained. (The point of building your language skills from watching "Friends" or an LLM developing linguistic/world knowledge competence or the simulation thereof from reading text is not that the text can be regurgitated, but that you or the the model develops a generalized capacity.)

(... if LLMs were able to remember everything they read, why do we always catch them confabulating?)

It would be possible in principle to point a camera at the book, OCR it in real time, and feed that into the training process. Of course this would be slow and wouldn't benefit from the cleanup process that goes into making a training set.

Note that somebody could stick a fine grid of wires into my V1 visual cortex and extract something that looks very much like an image of what I am focusing on at the moment. Thus, for just a few milliseconds an image "copy" of a text I am reading exists in my brain.
I don't really believe that, for the case of a chemical engineer who was able to complete at minimum a four year engineering degree who works in Texas (where said company is located).
Google has actually audited using cargo-vet every crate that chromiumos and fucshia depend on that have unsafe in it. They also have some additional rules related to cryptographic algorithms. I'm pretty surprised they haven't done the same for rust usage in android. https://github.com/google/rust-crate-audits
Shout out also to the NTP Pool, a volunteer group of NTP servers that is the common choice for a lot of devices. Particularly open source stuff. Microsoft, Apple, and Google all run their own time servers but the NTP Pool is a great resource for almost everything else. https://www.ntppool.org/en/
> what drugs can do to a place (SF)

I miss raves and house parties in 90's San Francisco.
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I think it depends on the problem. I've worked at a tiny telco (<100 people) where MySql absolutely wouldn't have worked. We ended up using Scylla DB. We had billions of rows in single tables.

If you're launching an e-commerce site that sells shoes or something, yeah, you probably aren't going to sell a billion shoes every year so MySql is probably fine.

Finally, I use this example a lot: Github thought they could scale out MySql by writing their own Operator system that sharded MySql. They put thousands of engineering hours in it, and they still had global database outages that lost customer data.

You get that shit for free using Scylla/Cassandra (the ability to replicate across data centers and still fine grained control to do things like enforce local quorum to not impact write speed etc.)

They probably made the wrong choice.
Hi, if you don't mind opening an issue asking for this we can run these and put in the readme.
One thing that immediately struck me is all the mentions of petrified wood. Aren’t these folks mostly young earth creationists? How do you get petrified wood in just a few thousand years?
Seems wortwhile to update this. Maybe even have a running calculation that is updated on each data release? It provides an intersting context for understanding monthly and annual temperature anomalies.
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Imprinters are a convenience, not a requirement. Stores could still accept the cards without one.
Oh I read a lot of HNSW stuff on your/Pinecone blog series. (Great learning resource btw, well done!) So I assumed you were using HNSW already. It's a news to me that you don't use it.
> People who have been unemployed for more than a year are not included.

Yep, let's just exclude all the people who tell the real story here.

Every gen-z in my family (and neighbors!) also have 18-21 year-olds who are doing weird shit like working for two days up to a max of two weeks, then abandoning the job. I don't know what this is about ("working" once per quarter to get the work credits for Social Security?) or how this is captured by the stats, but they are by no means employed.
We started using an automated feeder with our dog. It broke one day and we were surprised to see that he was prompting us to feed him almost exactly at the programmed times. Like down to the minute.

Not sure if he’s relying on other sensory information like certain smells or sounds. I don’t believe that’s the case; we didn’t replace the broken feeder for 3-4 months and he was able to keep time within a few minutes during that period. Our behavior is erratic and changes often; we work jobs with very inconsistent schedules (thus the automatic feeder) so it’s likely not that our behavior is prompting him as well. We can even observe him consistently going to his feeding area on the security camera at the correct time when no one is home. Interesting stuff!
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Free speech in the absolute form never existed. What is free to say now was not X years ago, and what is taboo to say now was openly free and accepted X years ago. This is because society and social norms change over generations. Not to mention, people support free speech when it aligns with their values, beliefs, etc., and oppose it when it goes against them. The concept is very fluid.
The US generates ~18% of its electricity from nuclear, ~13% from wind and solar and ~60% from fossil fuels. France generates ~68% of its electricity from nuclear, ~10% from wind and solar and ~8% from fossil fuels.

We're trying to reduce the number for fossil fuels, one of these is actually working.
Most of the query optimisers would automatically convert subqueries into join.
Interesting given there's been articles and posts here on HN about it scanning files outside the project since before ChatGPT. I've never investigated further since I'm not the target audience but if your client cares they might want to reconsider.
>If I want to ingest/read a book I need to pay money

Or you just go to the local library. Or you borrow it from a friend. Or you stand in B&N and read it in the store.

You're arguments are not great.
India will attempt to geoengineer the sky way before that happens, international pleading or possible other dire consequences be damned.
The sample is really designed to show the simplicity of the syntax, and the performance is just a side effect. Where you'll see a bigger performance difference with numPy/cuPy is when kernel fusion happens where MatX is typically able to fuse many things into a single kernel at compile-time and cuPy launches many kernels. If you have a specific type of expression you'd like to compare please let us know.
Partly. One of the refutations is that they say there will be substantial economic impact on authors from generative AI, which is one of the four criteria in OpenAI’s fair use claims (point #4).

You’re right that the complaint seems to go “all in” on this one particular point, rather than listing reasons to refute points 1 through 3. That seems surprising, but maybe it’s a good legal strategy since there’s less attack surface to raise objections.
As a European, after reading "1491" and "1493" by Charles C. Mann last year, I agree: I learned a lot from that book. I didn't realize there was such a treasure trove of world history there, and so many intricate links between these societies in the early history of American colonization.
I think it would be ethical to consider that pricing current residents out of the chance to have a family is not good, and that a supply of willing immigrant meat into your fertility shredder metropolis does not cancel out the harm to actual people.
And he is one of the worst eigjt-to-repair advocates there are, given how often he even gets the most basic stuff wrong when it allows to create attention.
Why on earth are these messages not signed with a key that is distributed to the phones by the carriers?
I genuinely laughed at your comment.

Here's someone who has lightly lived off their passion.

First and foremost, look up the origin of the word "passion" if you're not familiar with it. You'll be surprised by its original meaning.

Living off something you love and that lights up your eyes doesn’t take months, it takes years, many years. In the initial years, you have to fight against all possible forces, starting with your own imposter syndrome, the lack of money (if you’re not from a wealthy family), and then there’s the phase of convincing everyone around you who doesn’t believe in your "talent" - that is if you come from a culture that needs the validation of others to feel good. Besides that, you still have to deal with the sales and marketing part. It’s not enough to be talented, it’s not enough to do your job well, there are still many variables. All of this doesn’t get resolved in months (maybe very, very lucky people manage to turn their passion into success in months, but that should be less than 1% of the entire sample). Anyway, I could spend many hours talking about this topic that I experienced firsthand for 7 years and was forced to switch to the corporate world because of the pandemic.
I’m misunderstanding or that’s just not true. Maybe you’re imagining classic Java?

I use Scala and the syntax is pretty slim to get very rich typing. Love it compared to non-static typing.
In order to present a book to a ML algorithm you need to copy it, either using a camera, or using other means (eg as a file). In USA that copying might be Fair Use, it's almost certainly not allowed in UK law AIUI.

Copying a webpage into a cache that allows presentation of the page to a user is only allowed because it is part of rendering the page to a user. Even if a computer only copies two words at a time from a source text, if it copies a substantial part overall then it still copied.

Honestly, I don't think slurping data to train ML models is allowed by copyright (but, I do, probably think it should be, as long as any significant reproductions are then prosecuted as infringements [also we should reduce copyright terms to ~7 years!]).

This is all my own opinion, unrelated to my employment.
The prevalence of PR work means that such direct hit pieces are usually at least nudged by a competitors actions, yes.
No we better get even more specific lest someone think the database is made out of game engines. "database containing information about various game engines"
As long as you only train the network and never use it for inference, I suppose that's a reasonable argument. But a person is restricted in action by copyright regardless of the writing implement they choose to use. Whether they use a pencil or an LLM, they cannot freely reproduce copyrighted works in whole or in part, excepting some narrow conditions.
It's just setting up the stage/precedent before going for Starling
My opinion on that would be: If the social group you play with, knows that you can crash it by high score, that would count as the win.

Context makes a huge difference on perception when it comes to the fine details of play. And it only matters to people who have to explain it to students every year.
"We need to negotiate a better living arrangement with our evil vampire overlords"

I'm not convinced
But I thought they were being trained on pirated data...

Seems like a problem to me.
Hey, DDG engineer here. Sorry about the issue, that’s super annoying. I want to get this fixed, but I’m having trouble reproducing the issue - navigating to the link in the parent comment seems to work as expected for me. Any chance you’d be willing to provide a few repro steps so I can track down what’s going on? Namely:
- which browser you’re using and version
- extension version
- when it’s happening. Does it only happen when you click a link from another site?

Thanks so much for your time, and for sharing the issue.
Everyone should be able to roll their r's, but many people have a disconnect because they think it is done by moving their tongue and that misunderstanding prevents them from figuring it out.

It's done by cupping your tongue to the roof of your mouth and blowing air through the cup, the pressure builds up and then suddenly releases, and if done correctly it will vibrate and make a purring, rolling r sound.

The sides of your tongue abut your teeth on the sides and stay firm, but the tip only gets a little pressure to return to the roof of your mouth.
With new bookmark managers for some reason they're usually a website, and no matter how good the design choices are, I just won't use it. Not because it's not amazing, but because not integrating it into the browser makes my life more difficult. Not a critique of your product, just an opinion.
People by and large understand and ask for and vote for solutions to this.

The various comments here blaming "people" are a mix of victim blaming and cover-up for the well organized forces that have held the democratic will back for decades and despite (or because of?) this, the agents of this tragedy are very popular around these parts.
A problem identified in the article is that if you access a word-size object, your compiler may use a load or store of some different size, violating your assumptions about atomicity. This is not just about ISAs.

The example cited was in a library written in C.
> "Fair use" doesn't generally include taking the author's entire work (or for that matter, his entire lifetime's corpus).

If someone studies every one of Stephen King's books, studies King's style, studies his plots, etc. and uses the knowledge to learn how to be a writer, there is no need to invoke "fair use" unless they are actually copying King's books. Studying an author's corpus in order to be able to produce works like the author is not copyright infringement. It is just the way we learn...and the way LLMs learn as well.

If we want to say it isn't allowed because LLM read too quickly, then we could do that. Maybe make them not read any faster than humans. But LLMs aren't doing something different than humans other than just the speed at which they do it.
Even memory safe languages do not technically eliminate all memory issues but they significantly reduce the amount of code you need to audit for memory issues.

You have no magical way of removing all memory security issues but you can definitely reduce the chance of one occurring by picking one of those memory safe languages.

The less time you have to spend on checking every piece of code memory allocations the more time you can spend on checking business logic for logical errors.
I didn't know chrome didn't allow self-signed certificates. Since when?
> A major economic change sounds impossible, but we've done it in the US at least three times in the last century.

No.
Overcoming information overload in the age of AI
Let me preface everything by saying following your moral compass is good, even if you do it inconsistently, and even if that inconsistency is biased. It is unambiguously better to do something good when motivated, even if you didn't do something that would have been even better, and just as easy for you. In other words, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer in the British Army’s online psychological operations unit [1,2]. Despite this revelation, Twitter at the time defended his employment, and did not fire him. I don't know if Musk kept him or not.

The Iraq war (which predates Twitter, but is the kind of operation a Middle East psyops unit would try to sell to the public, and the risk of further US/UK-led wars in the area is high) is responsible for about 460k deaths [3].

But perhaps you were simply unaware, as the story was mostly ignored by the media [4]. Searching "Gordon MacMillan site:url" finds no relevant articles on theguardian.com, bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, nytimes.com, cnn.com, msnbc.com, latimes.com, theatlantic.com, washingtonpost.com, or foxnews.com

[1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-executive-revealed-psyops-s...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

[4] https://fair.org/home/media-ignore-unmasking-of-twitter-exec...
Exynos 2400 is a deca-core chipset
People don't go to jail for not paying their bills.

It's a case of "if I owe a hotel $200, that's my problem, if Booking.com owes a hotel $200,000 that's the hotel's problem"
You can check out some books at libraries for free, sure.

LLMs are trained on tons of books and papers that are not available to humans for free anywhere.
Maybe I read too much into “imagine”.
Sure, it is fractionally "valuable" in the sense that it is worth some tiny percentage of the large datasets it belongs to that get purchased for significant amounts.

I think the point stands that it wouldn't be easy to sell your individual data, and even if you could, it would be for a pittance from someone who is looking to build a large dataset. They certainly wouldn't be giving you an amount that justifies advice like "hold on to your data".
I was there, and I remember "Do not feed the trolls". It worked OK in smaller communities, where the moderators (BBS admins) could kick the Nazis out of the bar before it became a Nazi bar, and nobody was trying to look good on their next quarterly report so the shareholders would earn money.

We also learned, within a decade or two, that if you just ignored the trolls and did nothing else, they would bring their troll friends and engage in coordinated, ideology-driven trolling, and then you had the Nazi bar problem.
I read it the opposite way: that Huxley was using consumption as one example of how modern society substitutes happiness for purpose (religion). Other examples being safety, sexual freedom, and drug use.
I doubt governments will want to impede on the progress of AI. Doing so would likely be economic and cultural suicide over the coming decades, a modern equivalent to banning the loom or tractor.
Girlfirend's minpin-chihuahua mix is like this. Thinks its breakfast time well before it is, indeed, time for breakfast.
The irony is that it required a lot of capitalism to reach this point in time where we got to see a glimpse of what might have been possible.

Is the sad thing reality itself, or is the sad thing that one can envision a better reality which will never materialize?
This is not a "religious debate".

You are making incorrect assumptions in a discussion and don't like to be corrected.

For the record, Android can also update system libraries via the store. The two platforms handle security updates very differently. If you want to get into a debate and criticise the one you are not using, at least try to learn how it works.
Great overview, thanks for sharing. Maybe this was unintentional, but I got a good laugh out of, "In 1952, the International Astronomical Union changed the definition of time"!
What if they heard it on the radio? Or read it in a library?
Was the invasion of Vietnam by the US a genocide?
Also, it makes it easier to append new files to an existing zip archive. No need to adjust an existing header (and potentially slide the whole archive around if the header size changes), just append the data and append a new footer.
Not long? You guys realize summer ended 14 days ago. We're only 14 days into Fall / Autumn, 2.5 months to go.
What do you mean?

Caches don't break atomicity.
Has anyone tried using the GPU acceleration features? Curious if it works well with speeding up vector search.
Gotta pick some project that matters to you and do it. Putting Python code into production with multi-person teams is outright maddening, but for the individual who wants to put their skills on wheels, Python is a great place to start.

Another fun thing to try is

https://www.arduino.cc/

I got started with that buying an Arduino and a breadboard and a handful of 74xx logic chips and I started writing Arduino programs that would generate inputs to the 74xx chips and verify the expected outputs and thus taught myself C coding for the Arduino and how to make circuits with discrete logic at the same time.
If there is a verified signature, it skips the confirmation page. Your link does not. The user has to manually confirm that they want to visit a non-Google URL.
Maybe they make a fortune just because they leave the bills unpaid.
Neither of us is purporting to discuss the original intended use. Your quote:

> It would be like saying, I'm not consuming this media for enjoyment, but to learn how to create media, therefore it's ok that I'm not compensating the creators for that media.

> That would not fly.

The copyright statute explicitly contradicts you, by requiring courts to consider the purpose and character of the infringing use. Perhaps you meant to make some other argument?
New tools are available to help reduce the energy that AI models devour
The Milky Way is only 100k light years across. So one of those two things can't be true. The article says: "N6946-BH1 is in a galaxy 22 million light-years away". So it's a different galaxy.
Unless that bill is to the government.
Ditto.

I stayed at a hotel that had bed bugs, the hotel was uninterested in refunding us or giving us a new room (I had only been in the room shortly before discovering them). I went back to Booking.com and they said I had to be refunded via the hotel and they would only act as arbiters. After showing proof the hotel wouldn't refund me, they continued to not refund.

To really add insult to injury I wrote a review of the hotel explaining the situation and it was removed!
What do you mean by "central booking system"? As far as I know (working on a rental car contract for a couple years), there are just various travel industry standards for bookings and whatnot.
Absolutely. But he skewers GB Shaw very explicitly, which certainly points to a satire on socialism too.
The oil and gas lobby literally masquerades as activists to torpedo wind and solar industries (see Trump's recent ramblings about wind farms hurting whales... there's almost zero evidence and the fishing industry is demonstrably worse).

They've been spreading false information for decades. I'm not sure there's ANY industry that has undercut competing industries to the extent that they have. This is especially damning considering the millions of gallons the oil industry has been responsible for dumping directly into the ocean. All this and they still get massive federal subsidies.

Worst I've seen solar and wind do is over-promise and support existing climate activists.

The solar and wind industries haven't even existed for as long as the oil and gas industries have been spreading misinformation. They're not even in the same league.
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I disliked that video very much. It was FAR too long, talked about things like parasitic capacitance long before even getting near the topic of the video.

Then out of no where it's talking about tantalum nitride...

No, I'm pretty sure that video was made by an AI.
"When searching for flights on Google, you may have noticed that each flight's carbon-emission estimate is now presented next to its cost. It's a way to inform customers about their environmental impact, and to let them factor this information into their decision-making. A similar kind of transparency doesn't yet exist for the computing industry, despite its carbon emissions exceeding those of the entire airline industry."
Oh, the EU shows that even the biggest corporations can be brought to knee if they pull off too much bullshit. Apple had to introduce USB-C and will have to open up their App Store and NFC interface, Meta got slapped with a billion dollar GDPR fine, Microsoft to this day has to sell European versions of Windows that don't come with a media player or that allow everyone to choose their default browser...
I never mix work stuff with personal stuff. Every job I've had has given me some brand new workstation or laptop to work from. There's no reason to pull in all of that into your personal device.