skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An LLM is simply a model which given a sequence, predicts the rest of the sequence.

You can accurately describe any AGI or reasoning problem as an open domain sequence modeling problem. It is not an unreasonable hypothesis that brains evolved to solve a similar sequence modeling problem.
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Aquifers. Also, it's probably Superfund Central.

A few times a month, I pass a fancy adult condo development, built upon the land that was formerly Deutsch Relays[0]; an old superfund site.

[0] https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0...
The second paragraph of the article is

> As outlined in the lawsuit, the Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft’s large language models (LLMs), which power ChatGPT and Copilot, “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style.” This “undermine[s] and damage[s]” the Times’ relationship with readers, the outlet alleges, while also depriving it of “subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.”
Because that doesn't do the same thing. The point is to have two monitors connected to separate machines, and use the same mouse and keyboard to control both of them.
> great to see an SSA pipeline, but that implies that this jit is not ideal for baseline jiting.

I'd be interested in knowing the reason -- it's not clear to me tbh.
Surprised they don't mention Bard anywhere in the article. I wonder if the NYT has worked out some sort of licensing deal with Google for Bard, or if Bard isn't trained on NYT data?

The lawsuit mentions this, so maybe they did work out some agreement to license their data: "For months, The Times has attempted to reach a negotiated agreement with Defendants, in accordance with its history of working productively with large technology platforms to permit the use of its content in new digital products (including the news products developed by Google, Meta, and Apple)."
If you use an ESR browser, you’ll get security updates, but not new features. Some users prefer this as providing more stability and possibly better security.

Firefox ESR is updated with new features about once per year, so that’s probably the minimum time one should assume for new features to become universally available.
Can someone explain the technical difference between what search engines do to index newspapers versus what is being claimed here? Is the difference as simple as me being able to get summaries and content from a newspaper from GPT without needing to visit their website?
There are significant differences: attribution and snippetting. OpenAI probably cannot claim these.
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Does anyone know what the copyright status of LLM generated content is? That is, if I feed a NYT article into GPT4 and say, summarize this article, and then publish that summary, is there argument or precedent that says that is or is not copyright infringement? Asking for a friend.
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I still believe there's a place for a marketplace that rewards creators and journalism for their content if used as part of AI training specifically. As part of my exploration of that idea with faie.io, I got in touch with one exec in the publishing industry to speak about this and the desire was there. What felt sad to me was the lack of awareness from publishers around the existential threat that conversational search will pose to their business.
Being downvoted by people that I complain about, obviously quite expected :)
Afaik for C & C++, that's not true – you can turn const references into normal references and are even allowed to mutate the object they point to unless said object is declared as const.
You're correct, white males are a minority, so they shouldn't be (from the point of view of diversity and fairness) the majority in any corporation. Your comments just prove the necessity of these policies.
But what of her past indicates she's propped up by a social framework like DEI? She's related to NYT best-sellers, she lived in Saudi Arabia with a father that worked with the Army Corps of Engineers. She attended a private boarding school in New Hampshire, completed her undergrad at Princeton and Stanford, and earned her PHd at Harvard. If anything, she sounds like a privileged rich kid who's a legacy hire. Now some DEI-supported "token".
This is a wonderful holiday present. It's hard for me to imagine an outcome of this trial that I'd be against. Whoever loses (preferably both), it would be positive for society. It would even be great if the only outcome is that future LLM's are prohibited from using the NY Times's writing style.
Are you seriously arguing that fabricating data should be allowed for social sciences?

Because otherwise it might just look like you are you just going off topic to grind some personal axe.
That one was absolutely amazing, it (and the electric current maze solving one) brought my intuition for electricity to a whole new level.
> AFAIK reading copyrighted works is not copyright infringement. [...] Are they trying to say that LLM training is a special type of reading that should be considered infringement?

Nobody can argue that OpenAI was feeding the content to ChatGPT because ChatGPT was bored or was curious about current events. It was fed NYT's content so it would know how to reproduce similar content, for profit.

I think getting a case-law in the books as to what is legal, and what is not, with LLMs, was inevitable. If it wasn't NYT suing ChatGPT, it would be another publisher, or another artist, whose work was used to "train" these systems.
Thing is, I used the old OSS Synergy some 15-20 years ago, across Linux, Windows and I believe OSX as well (although I am not 100% certain about the latter). It worked absolutely flawlessly for several years while I used it and I loved it dearly. Fast forward (I had no need for a software kvm until last year) and I use Barrier now and it barely works. Autostart on Windows doesn't work at all, the installer failed to create certificates so nothing worked until I created them manually and sometimes the keyboard dies completely or exhibits frustrating bugs which only a reboot can solve. It's baffling how this used to work so well and is barely usable 15+ years later.
I think you're right. Re-implementing the Red Alert engine is fun... at least for the sort of person who's doing OS work in the first place!

But playtesting the game isn't so fun. ("Have they fixed that collision bug yet? Let me try systematically driving the harvester through every other kind of unit to check.")

And another problem is that commercial game development moves very quickly, relative to OS. Like, 0 AD had its initial release in 2010, and it's currently still in alpha. Age of Empires 4, a similar commercial game, went through the full [concept, implementation, release] cycle in, what, 2-3 years?
It’s not pedantic, because pedantry is a pointless insistence on detailed correctness. It’s simply wrong. Many words in English mean something other (sometimes something opposite) than what their roots and etymology suggest. Mistaking etymology for meaning is a tiresome, sophomoric mistake. Antisemitism is Jew hatred, period.
Take estimated losses of the NYT from this "innovation" and multiply by 10^x where is "x" high enough to make tech companies stop and think before they break laws next time. That would be my approach at least.
> could not stick to their typical schedule

They chose not to stick to their typical schedule, prioritizing COVID instead.

> [average construction time of 7.5 years] That's dumb.

Only in the universe of reality-denial. In the Real World™ it is accurate.

> "The average time taken to build 441 reactors operational today was 7.5 years."

Yes. Unlike you, I don't have to look only at the most extreme outliers to make my case. Because my case doesn't need distortion.

> Most of the reactors operational today are decades old.

Yes, they last a long time. Which is good. Alas, since they built so many so quickly and they then didn't expand further and didn't need to replace the existing ones because they last a long time, they didn't keep the expertise of building alive very well. That was bad.

Anyway, if you think that this means construction was only fast in the old days, you would, once a agin, be incorrect.

The reactors finished in 2022 were finished in...drumrolll..around 7.5 years.

And in fact most of the outliers are in the past.

> None of the EPRs ...

And once again, you focus on the currently most problematic design, which also happens to be brand new, so at the beginning of its learning curve...

> ...in Europe ...

...built in the region that has built hardly any plants or reactors in the last two-three decades.

Single examples.

However, hop over to Statistia and you will find, again, that the plants finished in 2022 were finished in around 7.5 years. Just like the ones before.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-constructi...

And again, those numbers are consistent:

"Overall, this picture suggests that nuclear plants don’t take a really long time to build (with a few exceptions). Most are built in 8 to 10 years. Many are built much faster."

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-constructi...

Are we getting slower?

"The data suggests that the world is not getting slower. Times vary a bit from decade to decade but average times are not slower than in the 1970s or 1980s."

So no, your singular examples notwithstanding we are not getting slower.

Data. Facts.

Have a nice day.
The video used modern social media length dragout techniques that make virtually all modern podcast like media so tiresome to listen to.

"You won't BELIEVE what everyone got wrong"

Here's the trumped up drama from people involved.

Here's an interview

Here's a restatement of the cliffhanger

Oops the author dropped enough info that I can read the Wikipedia article in 30 seconds. End streaming media.

The amount of "good podcasts" that are ultimately a Wikipedia page drawn out over 20-30 minutes is just ridiculous.

"Good tv" like a good john Oliver show or Frontline is chock full of information, further avenues of research if interested, and dense.

Geewhiz podcasts like these seem like the result of YouTube algorithmic game theory result rather than an improvement to the access and organization of info that Wikipedia represented.

I'm cranky this morning, sorry
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Their docs explain it. It’s sorta like “implicit this”. https://www.chisel-lang.org/docs/explanations/multi-clock
I’m no fan of NYT but can you elaborate on this point? It is just a bare assertion.
She attended Princeton and Stanford as an undergrad and got her PhD at Harvard. She sounds more like a legacy hire than a DEI hire.
The arguments about being able to mimic New York Times “style” are weak, but the fact that they got it to emit verbatim NY Times content seems bad for OpenAI:

> As outlined in the lawsuit, the Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft’s large language models (LLMs), which power ChatGPT and Copilot, “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim
TIL about that - great. Of course, there is the poor man's scoping:

.page1-card {
border-color: green;
}

.page2-card {
border-color: red;
}
There are no tests that can prove causality due to reasons I outlined in my previous comment. Correlation can be reliable enough to be considered causation for practical purposes, but unless you possess some sort of transcendental sacred knowledge about the nature of the world you’re in, strictly speaking any “causation” is mostly correlation with a pinch of unfalsifiable pixie dust (or, more charitably, metaphysics).

A model, especially when described to a layperson, can offer various simplifications (such as electrons flying around their atoms like planets around a star, or X causing Z), but no one seriously considers a model as literally depicting reality.

An explanation with unfalsifiable claims is always slightly metaphysics.

Metaphysics, and philosophy in general, is how we have natural sciences, scientific method, reasoning, all those things. Dismissing it is not even wrong, it’s nonsensical because it’s not a sibling, it’s a parent.
As someone who spends time in Eastern and rural California, I can totally see 'em taking up arms! A lot of Californians are already in militias. There are plenty of roiling pockets elsewhere outside these red counties, too. Don't get too comfortable with assumptions about "blue" states.
An introduction and overview of the state of the art and work in progress. Discussion at: https://fosstodon.org/@underlap/111652832812061992
For me it's quite obvious that if you make a profit from an engine that has as an input copyrighted material, then you owe something to the owner of this copyrighted content. We have seen this same problem with artists claiming stable diffusion engines were using their art.
It’s the NY Post, barrel scraping is their business model.
Yeah, and dossier.today is Jordan Schachtel's substack, who is also an interesting person:

https://thefederalist.com/author/jordanschachtel/

https://brownstone.org/author/jordon-schachtel/

https://www.aier.org/people/jordan-schachtel/
Well Xinjiang is basically governed by the PLA, and institutional memory of the insurgency is strong.
The NYT publishes about 200 pieces of journalism every day (according to their own website), and it was founded in 1851. That makes for a lot of articles.
Many dedicated pharmacies (not pharmacy sections in stores) have the necessary equipment for compound medication production.
There seems to be some fundamental failure to grasp this. The employer hasn’t changed. Its ownership has, but that’s irrelevant. If changed ownership was a get-out-of-jail-free for liabilities, no public company would ever owe anything.
Isaiah 7:14 (NIV):
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel."
The Phi paper and various approaches to distilling from GPT-4 demonstrate that the training data and plausibly order of presentation matter.

The challenge is that we both do not understand which set of data is most beneficial for training, or how it could be efficiently ordered without triggering computationally infeasible problems. However we do know how to massively scale up training.
What does neurotypical mean?
"Milli Vanilli"
AI Might Make Windows 11 Usable
> So, the goal should really be to hire proportionally within US roughly aligning to the overall demographics of the US population.

Well you're welcome to shoot for that goal if that's what you believe.

But I don't believe that; I believe exactly what I said.
Proton Mail versus Tuta (Tutanota) Encryption
Yes, I'm aware. My mechanical engineering undergrad program had 2 semesters of thermal fluids engineering. I'm just saying "We tried air cooling, but switched to fluid cooling" is an odd statement, since air would have been a fluid in their use case.
No one knows, this is new territory.

Maybe the fermi filter is litigating an AI that would otherwise save humanity.
You could definitely argue that it's more than just reading since they made the model out of it. But the matrix of parameters generated by training is so fundamentally different than the input that it is certainly covered by the transformative use exception to copyright.
Google brings privacy washing to Android
The periodic reminder is to at least use 2 different implementations to make backups than rely on 1 such as Borg.
The problem with the US is trying to play fairness around the world, when in fact their population is not interested in that, they really want the same old white supremacy ideas. This becomes very clear when the US alone supports the genocide of colored people (not just in the obvious place currently in the news). So, their "diversity" policies are hollow no matter how they try to sugar coat it.
Why sell them when you carry them with you to your grave?
At first Cable TV networks had little advertising. It seems to be a natural progression of all mass-media to eventually enshittify. It's not if, it's just when?
NYTimes is an ad-supported business, so you visiting their website to read the content those ads pay for is important.
Not OP but Vyvanse is a miracle drug to me. It's a stimulant, same as Adderall, but a prodrug. Your body processes it into dexamphetamine so it is much smoother with little side effects.
Interesting! I’d never want my bank to _enforce_ a daily limit though, I’d just like to know roughly what we can spend today.

We tried spreadsheets but that’s a bit too manual for us.
Sections of this statement absolutely parrot back NYTimes article text vebatim depending how you look at it. What's the line? 3 sequential verbatim words? 5? 8?
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I would say there are some that could already be hotswapped without much disruption to output...
Swiss Privacy and Honest Competition
Not the best, but the City has worse.

What Long Island is, is the site of some of the oldest heavy industry, built for the world wars.

Many those planes and tanks you see in the documentaries, were often built right here.

And they set it up quickly, with very little regulation. People have been straight-up dumping toxic sludge for decades. Since Long Island gets almost all its water from local aquifers, there you have it.

Traditionally, this kind of thing happens to disadvantaged communities, without much clout, but Long Island has a lot of billionaires (old-money billionaires). They get cancer, as well.

But they are also absolutely aghast at the prospect of government intervention, and hate regulations. Add a bit of mob spice, and you have a situation, where no one wants to raise a stink.

We do have some damn good cancer hospitals, though. Very few of the people I have seen fight cancer have actually died.
which laws are broken exactly? it's not remotely settled law that "training an NN = copyright infringement"
Typically if you ask a chatbot to "summarize" something, it will paraphrase the original closely enough that it would be considered plagiarism and copyright infringement. To avoid that, it's required to distill the relevant ideas contained in the text, and expound on them in a way that's not dependent on how the text itself was expressed, structured or organized. You would need to tell the model to do this over multiple steps, and then derive a rephrased article without looking at the original at all. (Which is not really possible if the article was in the AI's training set, as is the case here.)
I would call it "unchained cynicism" more than pessimism.
The challenge for all these AI companies is that the only thing of value for building a defensible commercial product is having proprietary datasets for training. With the underlying techniques and algorithms all being rapidly commoditized the power lies in who holds and owns that data. Like all other ML “revolutions” it’s the training data that matters and if one doesn’t have access to training data others don’t have then you’ll soon be toast.
How do modern KVMs address OSes thinking an HDMI or USB device is unplugged when switching? I’ve never found a solution that actually works because of this issue.

It seems this only addresses KB/Mouse by keeping them enumerated on the host PCs at all times and just sending no inputs to one. So that feels fairly solved. But what about monitors?
What does this have to do with diversity?
“Through Microsoft’s Bing Chat (recently rebranded as “Copilot”) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment,” the lawsuit states.

I can't be the only one that sees the irony of this news being "reported" and regurgitated over dozens of crappy blogs.

ChatGPT [..] “can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style.”

If the NYT thinks that GPT-4 is replicating their style then [as anybody who has tried to do creative writing work with GPT-4 can testify to] they need to fire all their writers.
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Critically, they usually involve forbidden intermediates in an approximation of Feyman diagrams where the degree of the graph with quantum interaction nodes/vertices between particles/edges is bounded.

The way out is contracting the edge of the forbidden intermediate between the interactions you'd have to decompose the forbidden transition into, until it's so short in time that you hit Heisenberg or similar and basically quantum-tunnel across the sequence of decomposed interactions.

Which, just like quantum tunneling, can and does happen, but it requires multiple low-occurrence events to randomly happen so quickly in succession that the quantum coherence time is essentially long enough to span across these individual events that have to occur in sequence.
I'm a professional software engineer that has paid for numerous books and similar learning material, and even then $399 is steep for me (and yes, I know there are cheaper packages, but they only get you part of the course).
https://archive.is/zXu6v
My last name is Hare so this was mildly confusing to see, though I'm 30 years my namesake's senior here
iPhone Triangulation attack abused undocumented hardware feature
Demis Hassabis of Deepmind echoes a similar sentiment[0]:

> I still think there are missing things with the current systems. […] I regard it a bit like the Industrial Revolution where there was all these amazing new ideas about energy and power and so on, but it was fueled by the fact that there were dead dinosaurs, and coal and oil just lying in the ground. Imagine how much harder the Industrial Revolution would have been without that. We would have had to jump to nuclear or solar somehow in one go. [In AI research,] the equivalent of that oil is just the Internet, this massive human-curated artefact. […] And of course, we can draw on that. And there's just a lot more information there, I think, it turns out than any of us can comprehend, really. […] [T]here's still things I think that are missing. I think we're not good at planning. We need to fix factuality. I also think there's room for memory and episodic memory.

[0]: https://cbmm.mit.edu/video/cbmm10-panel-research-intelligenc...
> If there’s one language guilty of causing brain damage it’s surely JavaScript.

Why JS and not PHP?
I think we'll probably see a renaissance of this kind of game when LLMs get cheaper to run.
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