skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I am serious and I meant nicotine. Many ADHD people are already addicts usually the worst form of it: cigarettes. It is a nootropic with a big health tradeoff. So don't consider yourself unmedicated if you are a user.

In my case, cigars help me a lot, much more than dopamine stimulants. I think acetylcholine stimulation should be studied more by the pharma.
> I have a Proton account by the way, but I'm not under the illusion that my emails are safe from 3 letter agencies.

Absolutely correct.

Nor are they safe from the Swiss government either.
The rules we have now were made in the context of human brains doing the learning from copyrighted material, not machine learning models. The limitations on what most humans can memorize and reproduce verbatim are extraordinarily different from an LLM. I think it only makes sense to re-explore these topics from a legal point of view given we’ve introduced something totally new.
The cognitive 0-day is not the way that humans act like LLMs, it's the way humans anthropomorphize LLMs. It's the blind faith that LLMs do more than they do.

The illusion of emergence is fact not fiction. The cognitive biases exposed by stochastic parrots are fact not fiction.
- Raycast (with List Repos, Snippets & Window Management Extensions in it)

- Logseq (Wasn't able to use Obsidian due to licensing issue, accidentally found this amazing alternative with a supportive FOSS ecosystem)

- vscode (with Github Copilot, Better Comments, Error Lens, GitLens)

- iterm2 + zsh + fzf
Cars are so much safer with all the technology we have in them, this is just a bad implementation.

A lot of the actual mechanical/engine related software really does help a tremendous amount. Even something like ABS can be improved with more sensors to help sense exactly what's going on when you need to stop to prevent yourself careening through a barrier and down a cliff in bad weather.
There is no magic in the brain. There is no magic in LLMs. There is just new experience we gain by interacting with the environment and society. And there is the trove of past experience encoded in our books. We got smart by collecting experience, in other words, from outside. The magic in the brain was not in the brain, but everywhere else.

What is experience? We are in state S, and take action A, and observe feedback R. The environment is the teacher, giving us reward signals. We can only increase our knowledge incrementally, by trying our many bad ideas, and sometimes paying with our lives. But we still leave morsels of newly acquired experience for future generations.

We are experience machines, both individually and socially. And intelligence is the distilled experience of the past, encoded in concepts, methods and knowledge. Intelligence is a collective process. None of us could reach our current level without language and society.

Human language is in a way smarter than humans.
Focusing on more than one thing is easily the best way to get nothing done.

Certification: Cisco, Red Hat, AWS, Azure. Pick one and finish it. Then do more. Having basic certifications in all of them sounds like a good idea, but employers don't seem to care. Keep going with whichever one you pick.

Programming languages: don't spend a month on every language you can find, or every framework you can find. It's great to know more than just one language or framework but it's more important to actually make interesting shit in whichever one you pick.
This has to be one of the most abused terms on this website.

“People are willing to pay for it” is not even relevant to the question of whether it’s rent-seeking. Rent-seeking has to do with capturing unearned wealth, i.e. taking someone else’s work and profiting from it.

There is some portion of OAI’s (et al.) value that they themselves produce. There is another portion that is totally derivative of the data — other people’s work — they have trained on for free. A simple thought experiment can tell you to what degree OAI et al are “rent-seekers.”

Imagine a world where they had to enter into mutual agreements in order to train on that data. How much would the AI companies be worth? Not quite zero, but fairly close (Andreessen pretty much stated this IIRC). How much would the data producers be worth? The exact same amount or more.
Still on the climb imo
Sorry, how exactly LLM threatens NYT? Are people supposed to generate news themselves? Or like wait a year or so before NYT articles are consumed by LMMs?
Good. I hope they win.
AI. And, I fear, it will be good.
It was probably the lack of structure like blocks and scopes. Everything is flat and global and GOTO means control can enter and exit at any point.
This looks great. I have a work PC and personal PC on the same desk but cannot install anything on the work PC. Would be great to declutter my desk with this.

Unrelated - surprised JLCPCB does not have a way to share a link to a PCB so folks can buy a board without needing to upload the files themselves. Maybe I am missing it?
Compared to Dijkstra I'm quite certain that I'm a miserable programmer.
We do have systems that reason. Prolog comes to mind. It's a niche tool, used in isolated cases by relatively few people. I think that the other candidates are similar: proof assistants, physics simulators, computational chemistry and biology workflows, CAD, etc.

When we get to the point where LLMs are able to invoke these tools for a user, even if that user has no knowledge of them, and are able to translate the results of that reasoning back into the user's context... That'll start to smell like AGI.

The other piece, I think, is going to be improved cataloging of human reasoning. If you can ask a question and get the answer that a specialist who died fifty years ago would've given you because that specialist was a heavy AI user and so their specialty was available for query... That'll also start to smell like AGI.

The foundations have been there for 30 years, LLMs are the paint job, the door handles, and the windows.
"Neurotypical" means "not neurodivergent". In the colloquial usage, a "neurodivergent" person is someone who is autistic or has ADD/ADHD. More generally, it means someone's cognition and behavior differ from the average to a clinically or socially significant degree, which could include e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar, etc. as well as autism or ADD/ADHD.
As much as I personally believe that neural networks do bear a lot of resemblance to the human psyche, and that people are just sophisticated biological machines, I don't see how LLMs are capturing all of our thought processes.

What I say is not just regurgitation of my past experiences; there is a logic to it.
I’m reminded of Steve Yegge in 2009 saying, “Everyone these days, when debating the merits and demerits of marijuana legalization, seems to have completely overlooked the fact that it's HARD. It's a project of vast, nearly unimaginable complexity.”

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
Had the same issue on Reddit recently. Toxibaccin was discovered in soils in 2018. Hell I know someone who developed one recently at a university. It’s AMAZING AI can do this, but it certainly doesn’t destroy prior approaches. Yet.

Disclaimer: spelling and name of antibiotic may be incorrect. It is not my field, and the spelling is phonetic from myself. If pressed, I will ask the scientist for the specific name.
What if even though it's a small portion of the training data, their content has an outsized influence on the output being generated? A random NYT article about Donald Trump and a random Wikipedia article about some obscure nematode might be around the same share of training data but if 10,000x more users are asking about DJT than the nematode, what is fair? Obviously they'll need to pay royalties on the usage! /s
Dupe (406 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776591
Tell HN: GPS Interference over Baltic and Poland
Since 2023-12-25 GPSJAM [1] reports high level of GPS interference over southern Baltic and half of Poland. NOTAM [2] has been posted without further explanation.

[1] https://gpsjam.org/?lat=53.39072&lon=19.51357&z=4.5

[2] https://metar-taf.com/pl/notam/EPWW-C1142-23-70689986
Tesla engineer 'pinned' by robot at Giga Texas factory, leaving trail of blood
Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
They won't believe he is sick, because he'll do everything in his power to hide it. Even if he doesn't hide it well (and he won't), they will continue to talk around it, as if what you are seeing is not what's happening.

On the other hand, they will be absolutely fixated on any and every sign from Biden to continually declare Biden's impending doom. They will see a missed mountain bike excursion as evidence of his increasing frailty.

I worked hard at making that last part sound as tabloid-psychic as possible. Nikki has nothing on me.
We have this now with humans. I've been in a lifelong sruggle for knowledge and tools that I can afford.
Okay, so how is it possible to take and deprive the author of their original? The correct term would be "unauthorised copying".
I think at some point we’re going to realize algorithmic addiction is worse than addictions to most drugs.
> In normal conversation I've got a part of my brain monitoring and thinking "no don't say that, you'll look weird"

I was born without one of those and have had to reverse engineer one by gauging the you-look-weird look in people's faces after I say stuff. That only happens like 68% of the time now. HN feedback has been good for calibration, thanks y'all.
The exact words used to explain the scientific law are copyrighted by the writer (presumably the paper's authors). Rephrasings are not copywrited by the source, but by the rephrasing entity (e.g. the NYT, or a teacher that made a handout for their class).

Copyright on scientific papers is most definitely a thing, by the way.
The LLMs don't create new content, they can only rehash existing content (in term news), which they then don't pay for... It's not really the definition of rent seeking though, they do provide some value and mostly without manipulation, not deliberate anyway. LLM also aren't harmful as such, they can be, if we use them wrong, but that's not really the fault of the technology.

I do find is a bit dishonest when they charge for their services, but don't wish to pay the people who's work the models are based on. Why should I pay to use ChatGPT, if they won't pay to use my blog posts?
Certainly there are myriad 'causes', and likely at least a few mechanisms if you get into specifics, but as a general rule a cancerous tumour is a group of cells that multiply faster than they die (or don't die at all), and consume resources without 'giving back' to the organ in which they reside - effectively the "I have outlived my designated usefulness" switch gets commented out and replaced with "multiply even harder, forever"
In contrast to child labor laws, which are intended and written to protect vulnerable people from exploitation, current copyright laws are tailored to the interests of Disney et al.

If they were watered down, I wouldn't see any moral or ethical loss in that.
there are all kinds of problems first and foremost is incentives if tax payers (i.e government) are paying for the losses why should they care if they injure anyone? removing product liability is universally a bad idea

Further there is all kinds of Due process issues that make filing a Vaccine claim problematic and very expensive to appeal, there are all kinds of horror stories out there about denied claims, and to appeal the denial is $$$$$$$$$$$$ and no lawyer will take it with out up front payment, and no class action is possible to spread the costs out...
The argument may be that having very large models that everyone uses is a bad idea, and that companies and even individuals should instead be empowered to create their own smaller models, trained on data they trust. This will only become more feasible as the technology progresses.
I've been under the impression that we don't have new antibiotics because it is not economically viable.

When you invent new weight loss drug you can sell millions of pills to anyone.

If you invent new antibiotic it is immediately classified as "reserve antibiotic" and the sale is restricted.
> This doesn't mean that Louis Vuitton is more valuable than Red Hat, but rather that it captures Value more effectively than Red Hat.

What definition of 'valuable' are you using here?
I think the only feasible outcome of the NYT winning would be a royalty structure that would have OpenAI paying the NYT to access their work, including back payments
Don't forget that (almost assuredly) some percentage of HN comments are made by these very LLMs in question!!
I had the same need and ended up using a USB Hub that required manual clicks to switch between devices. All software-based or network-based switches were a no-go in my case. I love the idea of a hardware-based switch that allows for seamless transitions between devices.

Who will pick up the gauntlet and allow those of us without a soldering iron to buy a ready-to-use box?
This is just the typical example of how we do a very bad job of teaching financial literacy. Statistically this is very common thing for people who are average or below to suddenly come in to a large sum. Since this was an inheritance from their parents, I somewhat blame the parents here. They clearly had financial discipline but were unable to teach it to their kid. Additionally as part of the inheritance and will they could have tied a financial planning course to getting the money. Or set aside a small portion of it for a financial planner for 2 years so they at least have the advice.

Sometimes I talk to my friends about what we would do if you won the lotto. They all have plans for vacations and helping friends and paying off debt and those kinds of things but I hit them with the sobering reality. If I was to win the first things I would do is get an attorney and get a financial planner. So whatever the amount was if it was 2 million or if it was 200 million it would be able to meet my financial goals for the rest of my life first and then meet the goals for my entertainment and fun after that.

Of course my thinking is influenced by my childhood and my own life. My parents were upper middle class parents even though they did live financially conservatively the money they had in the bank and were able to spend and the neighborhoods we live in we're all upper middle class. When I moved out of my parents I was poor very poor to the point of the needing government assistance but that upbringing still influenced me. I had the financial discipline to work my way out of being in poverty and now I am also upper middle class. While I still can't imagine seeing a number with six zeros behind it suddenly dropping my bank account I do have the wherewithal to understand that I don't want to see that number get smaller until I'm the nearly at the end of my life.
fair point, perl5 is pretty fast too

the raku vm (moarvm) does have jit already but until the current AST work is done, it is limited in the depth of code inspection it can do to meaningfully accelerate

even with very mature jit (eg. java) it is not generally possible to outperform static compiler optimisations
If developers didn't win over github / microsoft copilot, what makes you think NYT will win?

There is something that doesn't smell right with microsoft, hopefully NYT will help expose it, wich i greatly doubt
This is driven by the idea that since LLMs are probabilistic engines during inference that, if the LLM "knows" or can "surmise" the correct answer, it will have a higher probability of being generated and thus self consistency methods can more reliably tease it out.
My understanding is they have one of the most corrupt and unjust legal systems of the developed countries.
Is there something in their license that forbids the use of their content to train a model?
"Teamonkey's law" sounds good to me. Whenever BASIC is mentioned, someone will invoke Dijkstra's rant.

>If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript.

I'm not sure about that. The only language that I felt led to bad things from developers was perl, mainly because it was so difficult to read later.
2024: The year AI gets real
When it comes to foundation models I think there needs to be a distinction between potential and actual infringement. You can use a broadly trained foundation model to generate copyright infringing content, just like you can use your brain to do so. But the fact that a model can generate such content doesn't mean it infringes by its mere existence. https://www.marble.onl/posts/general_technology_doesnt_viola...
I share two monitors and audio equipment between a desktop and a windows laptop (dell XPS) using a "dumb kvm" that wrangles a few USB outputs and two DisplayPort inputs. the laptop only has USB-C output so it connects to a fancy thunderbolt dock borrowed from a friend which then goes to the KVM. I have a third monitor only connected to the desktop with a laptop stand in front of it for a third screen

It takes a couple seconds to switch but otherwise works flawlessly unlike my previous solution of shitty dongles, switching dual input monitors, and moving a usb hub input cable between machines. I also considered rebuilding the desktop to have a thunderbolt output and buying a thunderbolt switching KVM but I couldnt make it work

desktop - kvm - fancy dock - laptop
Full diagram: https://imgur.com/a/ah54fjd
Thanks - and fair challenge.

Reviewing this, I realised I was guilty of an assumption: that as a low haematocrit can absolutely cause a high heart rate, so a high haematocrit might contribute to a low heart rate... but I can't find any support for this supposition. :)

Sadly, I can't edit my earlier post.
> but this was when Paige and Sergey were more involved (being from formerly authoritarian communist countries).

Does this mean S&P would be more receptive to operations in China or less receptive to it?
The copyright laws are unjust to begin with. Copyright shouldn’t last beyond ten years anyway. Simply claiming that piracy is always bad ignores the evil of the laws in the first place.
Nope. The source page links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetical_hierarchy . I can't figure it out.

An HN comment search, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... , finds a few more lay examples, with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210043 by dwohnitmok being the easiest for me to somewhat make sense of.

I think the idea is, suppose you have an oracle which tells you if a Turning machine will halt, in finite time. There will still halting problems for that oracle system, which requires an oracle from a higher level system. (That is how I interpret "an oracle that magically gives you the answer to the halting problem for a lower number of interleavings will have its own halting problem it cannot decide in higher numbers of interleavings").
https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/nitrogen-deposition/m...

> "Any increase in the occurrence of anoxia in the ocean should therefore enhance the geologic organic carbon sink. The solubility of oxygen decreases with increasing water temperatures, so a warmer Earth should have a less oxygenated ocean (all other things being equal). Increased stratification will also reduce the downward transport of oxygenated surface waters to depth. An increase in carbon preservation and burial in marine sediments in response to global warming is therefore starting to look like a distinct possibility."

Basically, you end up re-creating the conditions that led to the formation of the majority of the world's large oil & gas deposits some hundred(s) of millions of years ago.
Free Linux distributions are controlled by companies or by unpaid developers (or both), and they have decided that Wayland is a way forward, even when the whole UI platform is not yet ready. The only thing user can do in this environment is to choose different distro or create new one and see what it means to support X.

If you are not paying for it, you become eternal alpha/beta tester.
Humans do more than just enhance predictive capabilities. It is also a very strong assumption that we are optimised for survival in many or all aspects (even unclear what that means). Some things could be totally incidental and not optimised. I find appeals to evolutionary optimisation very tricky and often fraught.
21 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542056
As I understand GPIO speed is limited and below usb 2.0 speed if I am not mistaken. So what is the maximum speed of this setup? How ‘gaming” gaming mouse can be?
I think I may have just skipped a step or not expressed myself very well.

What I’m saying is, I suspect information technology has made classic production companies vastly more efficient and productive. To the point where we can afford to have massive companies like Facebook that are almost entirely based on value capture.

That’s my speculation at least. Your example puts me in a tough spot, in the sense that Louis Vuitton is pretty old and pretty big. I’d have to know more about the company to quibble, and I don’t feel like researching it. I wonder if the proportion of their value that comes from pointless fashion branding was originally smaller. Or if the whole pointless fashion branding segment was originally just smaller itself. But I’m just spitballing.

In the past we also had mercenary companies and the like to capture value without producing much, so I could just be wrong.
Cognitive Video Game Training and Depression: Boosting Subjective Well-Being
Show HN: Free and Open Source browser based AI Upscaling tool
If you're a casual user who just wants to upscale a few videos you have around, it's surprisingly frustrating. You have paid, professional tools like Topaz Labs, or open source projects like Video2X which require a bunch of setup & config.

I'm building a quick, free, no-nonsense tool for upscaling video in the browser, by porting popular AI networks (like Anime4K, and soon ESRGAn)directly in WebGPU, so anyone with a modern browser can upscale videos for free, without signups or installation of any particular software.
I remember when I finally figured out the point of GOSUB (I was maybe 13, so 1986), and why it was more powerful than GOTO. Still no stack, and the only calling convention was that RETURN would take you back to the line after where you called GOSUB.

Writing this words now, I don't know that I ever looked into what happened if you called GOSUB from a GOSUB routine, or how deep you could call. That would imply some sort of stack!

[edited to correct a typo]
Apple has received preferential treatment from US lawmakers, for almost a decade now. One could argue that's why the DMA and Japanese legislation exists in the first place.
While I broadly agree with your core argument, I would disagree that LLMs are good at rote learning — LLMs can do a mediocre job of that after a huge training run, while a simple index search is much easier, much more compact, and much faster.
The problem is X is a lot less broken than what is actively trying to replace it.

The fact that this post was written in the first place is a litmus test of how utterly broken Wayland design is if it has to be defended by a core KDE developer.
Agonistic approaches to sexuality: A critical analysis of the conservative mind
> What exactly is the problem?

Don't expect me to provide an exhaustive list of problems. In support of my "blank check" statement above, CTRL+F, "not limited to".