skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I'm an academic; if my research, note-taking, and paper writing skills lead to fair-use, cited quotations where applicable, general knowledge not identified, and the creative aspects and unique conclusions creating the intriguing part of my work, that's copacetic. If I spit out (from memory, mind you) verbatim quotes and light rewordings of NY Times articles, that's not; "I don't remember where I got that material" doesn't cut it. My reading the NY Times every day for years because I judge it to be more literate and accurate than other sources, undoubtedly it has informed my thinking and style, but I don't need to acknowledge that.

If I use ChatGPT as a research tool, as long as it lives within the same parameters that I have to live within, I don't see a problem with its education/learning.

I understand that the NYTimes would like a slice of anything that comes out of the GPT but I'm talking about what seems reasonable. People who share their copyrighted material do not own all of the thinking that comes out of it; they own that expression of it, that is all.

Will AI destroy the economics of "writing" the way the web has killed newspapers? perhaps, perhaps we'll all benefit from and need a new model, but killing the new to keep the old on life support is not the way.
I think trackers are a thing of the past. The cost of solar panels has sunken so low, they come essentially for free in installations. A tracker would be way to expensive. Here in Germany, people even start covering north-facing roofs with solar, and of course even walls and fences, if they are roughly in the right direction.
I believe you mentioned two orthogonal features. 1) Import/export from CAD tools. Absolutely. That’s one of the main goals. PartCAD will be the persistence layer for parts I create in FreeCAD. (Whole OpenVMP was designed in FreeCAD.) In another channel I’m trying to convince the author of similar plugins to join PartCAD. 2) Enrich the model metadata with anchor/relative position/orientation. Absolutely. This will be required to enable replacement/alternative parts maintained by different parties. We can come up with a convention how to define such metadata in FreeCAD so that PartCAD is able to recognise it, until FreeCAD supports it natively.
Technologies Left Behind
> wants a bare metal os with just a database

> doesn't want to configure it

what.
Really like this. I might use it as a way to keep myself accountable.

I wonder if the screenshots can easily be categorized as "time wasting" vs "productive" (possibly via ML model?). Could optionally gamify statistics. Example last hour: 78% productive, 12% hacker news, 10% inactive. You could go for your own high score (e.g. 3 x 100% hours in a day would probably be a great day for me!).

PS: love the video demo. I figured out what this does in < 30 seconds. Thank you!

PPS: (very tangental) video speed controller (browser addon) now works with loom videos - a few months ago that wasn't the case.
It’s more of a thought experiment. Here’s another with more commercial applications:

Suppose I start a service called “EastlawAI” by downloading the Westlaw database and hiring a team of comedians to write very funny lawyer jokes.

I take Westlaw cases and lawyer jokes and feed them to my autoencoder. I also learn a mapping from user queries to decoder inputs.

I sell an API and advertise it to startups as capable of answering any legal question in a funny way. Another company comes along with an API to make the output less funny.

Have I created a competitor to Westlaw by copying Westlaw’s works for their original expressive purpose and exposing it as an intermediary? Or have I simply trained the world’s most informative lawyer joke generator that some of my customers happen to use for legal analysis by layering other tools atop my output?

Did I need to download Westlaw cases to make my lawyer joke generator? Are the jokes a fair-use smokescreen for repackaging commercially valuable copyrighted data? Does my joke generator impact Westlaw in the market? Depends, right?
As I say, I don't really know. But then, this is exactly how SaaS licensing works. There may even be a free personal tier, where you can't sell products based on it, and a professional tier which may be very expensive indeed.

Typically providers of online databases go to some effort to stop people from sharing logins. Even from that point or view, I can imagine scraping articles and providing paraphrases of it for a fee is fishy.

All I'm saying, to some people it's obvious that the whole LLM on scraped Internet is fair use, to me it is not obvious.
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The example in A) won't work as the plugin can't convert the functions with variables in it. https://github.com/csstools/postcss-plugins/tree/main/plugin...
This is because the producers are not paying (enough) for the waste they create.

Emissions or nuclear waste.

Seems like natural they would?
Biofuels do not require hydrogen or atmospheric CO2 capture, well beyond growing plants.

Also something I learned recently is that the idea that biofuels are a no go because they compete with food is a simplistic deflection. Looking at Brazil as an example the biofuel crops like sugarcane and groundnuts are grown in marginal land in the south that wasn't being used for agriculture. The main driver of Amazonian deforestation is cattle ranching.
I feel you. Two years later I finally feel like I'm not always in crisis.

It took quitting a job of 8 years for a less abusive team, and trying to make things in my personal life 0.5% better every day.

I just do tasks religiously, hoping that eventually I'll be able to do more than that. I cut out a lot of things I used to do, down to the bare minimum, and slowly started figuring out small ways to make my day to day better.

My hope is that diagnostics and treatments slowly catch up and give me more back.
For the highest possible input, all of the program needs to be read into memory. Just not all of it at the same time.

I guess technically most of the RET instructions are jumped over, and so they don't need to be in memory. But that isn't how cache-lines (let alone pages) work.
We're here to help :

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I'm sure it's available wherever you live for around 30$ or so.
No it should go towards a recall to fixing the cars that are now in the world that violate emissions standards and then to federal green transportation or vehicle initiatives.
> Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past.

I continue to buy older cars because this has been false for me everywhere I've experienced new cars (borrowed, friends, my own).

Pointing out lack of data to support an argument that relies on anecdotal evidence is good practice. However:

- The anecdotal evidence is strong amongst older people

- Data not existing doesn't mean it _can't_ exist

I suspect that younger people are just used to things not working, so they don't complain. Then there's the fact that there is no incentive for anyone else to show things could be better (except the old codgers like myself, but we're not a profitable demographic).

I scour online auctions for old gear, because I know it'll work. Hi-Fi systems built in the 90s for example, were the panicle of hi-fi. Heck, I even have a CRT from _thirty years ago_ that still works like new (now think of your smart T.V. in thirty years).

Forget that, is there anything you've bought new in the last _ten_ years that you still have?
I suppose that's a relatively easy thing to fix, technically. It proves, however, that th underlying LLM is trained on copyrighted data.

I'm not sure the problem goes away simply if the LLM in question (or any other one) gets some "no verbose regurgitation" filter.
Looks like it makes up what your business does, including the features, needs, and product maturity. I doubt this is helpful.
Coverage.py with Sys.monitoring
If I prove I got a shell prompt on a remote device without any authentication, do I then need to show that I can execute arbitrary code? Or is it clearly implied?

If the page body can read a file, then it can just execute an XmlHttpRequest to send that data to the origin server, which is the attacker in this scenario. This is just how the web works, nothing more to say about it, and no need to prove it.
Organizations must monitor and evaluate vendor performance on a regular basis to identify areas for improvement and ensure that suppliers meet or exceed expectations. Here are some commonly used methodologies and key performance indicators (KPIs) for efficient vendor performance management.
First carbon-based cave drawings found in France
The article doesn't state the entire program has to be read into memory before it starts executing. Instead the article states that during execution, for the highest inputs, the entire program needs to pass through memory for execution to finish.
Nuclear has a lot of externalities (residues, security, financing... usually paid and supported by others). You talk about nuclear like it was a small enterprise, when it's the very definition of "greedy corporation".

It's funny-and-sad to see the old behemoth of nuclear power begging for government support as they last chance to be alive.
this looks excellent!

if you are looking for this, you might also be looking for https://opengameart.org/ and https://openclipart.org/
You're not replicating yourself millions of times and selling yourself for $20/month. If you are, then NYT might sue you too.

I'm not saying LLMs are by default, illegal. All I'm saying is that there is some merit to why NYT and content companies want a piece of the pie and think they deserve it.
IIRC, there are ways to use stuff from newer API levels (or not use newer stuff, if you're on an older system) on android but it's harder than just dropping support. This seems to have a minimum api level of 1, a targetsdk of 29 (android 10) and a compilesdk of 33 (android 13, minimum for going on the play store)

I think android studio even warns you if you call a function from an api level newer than your minimum outside of an if statement checking that you're on a newer version.
We can have different rules for humans than for machines. In fact, that happens all the time.
> If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the authors work directly? Why go through the LLM middleman?

If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the DVDs directly? Why go through the Netflix middleman?

A retort to this would be that both NYT and ChatGPT are on the internet, so it's no added fuss of hopping in my car, driving to Walmart, and picking up a DVD case. My response to it would be that both the LLM and Netflix are content aggregators to the user. I can read the NYT, or I can read the NYT summary on ChatGPT and ask it for life advice with my pet hamster, or ask it how to reverse a linked list in bash.
Yes that article sums up my feelings on the modern car. But my main concern are the repairs 5-10 years from now. It’s crazy to think that a car would be recalled by just some software glitch if that’s what I read is correct.
Thank you for the response.

> Well, you did state, "We don't need all of the power of SQL." Sorry, but I took "we" to be "all of us." Perhaps "we" meant just you and your colleagues for your particular use-case.

The context of that sentence is talking about the specific proposal of the blog post, which states that their usecase did not require all of SQL. I can understand why it would be confusing as I switched to "we" in the next sentence. For my usecase, as well, we do not need all of the power of SQL.

> Let's get down to brass tacks. The "security engineering" which I don't think would be onerous comprises

> ...

> Do you still consider these to be onerous?

What you have listed is not an actual solution, just a list of things you'd need to solve it. The security engineering is how you actually use it. I could say the only thing you need for the DSL to SQL solution is a programming language, my list would be one item, but would that be reflective of the actual complexity in solving the problem? No. So I cannot say whether or not it is onerous. Additionally, the solution I mentioned is around 200 SLOC, but it has another 200 SLOC of tests, so how to test this is a valid question as well. My tests also don't require a database to with data in it to test, we just validate that the query looks like what we expect it to.

> Granted, your use-case probably isn't this simple. Then again, we still have 196 lines to work with before we hit the dreaded 200.

Thank you for the example, it clarifies in my head more how this would be implemented. Do you have an example of how this works if you are performing joins between tables? Does every table need to have some sort of user id in it directly for that to work?
Then you probably shouldn't build large solar farms. Leaves still a huge amount of area open on top of roofs, parking lots, streets which could be used for solar without cutting down a single tree. Though it somehow didn't prevent those roads and houses to be build :p
And while I don't like cutting down trees, just fire protection - and that gets an even larger topic in the future - should tell you to cut down trees directly around houses, so rooftop solar should be possible in most places.

But the thing is: the pacific northwest should be ideal for wind power. So that would be the main emphasis. And then build a high power line to Nevada. Which delivers solar to the northwest and in the nights wind power to Nevada.

Germany already has a 1.4GW powerline to Norway operational, where we network the grid to optimize renewable utilization.
For the folks who are doubting his point: Is there anything you've bought new ten years ago that you still have (and works!).
Because they are all custom sizes. And they don't break often. It's like 10 years after purchase where there aren't too many other owners looking for parts and the original company doesn't support it anymore.
Note: this is essentially what the AWS CDK does.

Yet another example that configures is code is configuration is code is…
Sounds like an amplification attack, you are just in a rotation with a ton of other random hosts generating the traffic which is probably why the packet rate is low.

You could try doing some research on the forged IPs and see who they are associated with. Also try pinging them, my guess is they are down or returning insane latencies.

Either way I wouldn't lose sleep, any server I've ever managed or owned always got weird little visits from the packet goblins from time to time, it is fun puzzling them out. Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is an enemy action.
Cool, didn’t know about sd before. The missing part is a more modern awk somehow.
Do LLM really give an economic advantage though? I've mostly seen them used to write quirky poems and bad code. People are scrambling to find use-cases but it's not very convincing so far.

On the other hand, if LLM are used to "launder" copyright content and, accepting the premises of copyright law, this has the effect of reducing incentives to do creative work, that has obvious negative implications for economic productivity.
Trump received between $500,000 and $1 million dollars by selling his NFT collection.
These funds came via a licensing deal between NFT INC LLC and CIC Digital LLC.
Arkham Intelligence, an on-chain service, said in a Thursday report that a wallet associated with former United States President Donald Trump transferred more than $2.4 million in ethereum (ETH) to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase in the previous few weeks, likely to sell those holdings.

After months of collecting Trump NFT royalties, he started transferring ETH to Coinbase three weeks ago. According to Arkham’s post on twitter, his highest amount was $4 million. For $2.4 million, he has sold 1,075 ETH, which is based on the deposits made thus far.
Some of the future is now for CSS
This bug touches nothing hardware specific. In alternative timeline where mobile OSes arent fisher price parodies of proper operating systems, they could push the same image to all iphones and have a proper hardware abstraction layer take care of the specific details.

There is nothing fundamentally incompatible about the last couple of generation of iphones. ARMv8 CPU, PowerVR derived GPU. If the mobile computing space weren't driven by greed, this would be a non issue.

A Sandy Bridge era intel machine deployed in 2011 is easily capable of running the latest Linux, BSD or win10. And in the case of the first two, I'd wager it will continue to be viable for the foreseeable future.
Why is it that, that people always underestimate the technical complexities of thise things.

a) military nuclear technology will never see civilian use, claiming otherwise is beyond naive and ignorant

b) civilian nuclear powered vessels have been tried and deemed uneconomical (no, one specialized cargo ship requiring the power from a nuclear reactor to break through 1.5 m of ice doesn't count...)

- so far a grand total of 600 maritime reactors (see point one for the military part) in history have been built globally, 400 or so of which are still in operation, in order to decarbonize global shipping that is close to the number of reactors needed yearly, and not even the military providers have the capacity to build that many (e.g. the Russians built, what, six of those since 2014!)

You keep hand-waving all of that away...
This also makes you a target for enemy services (for enabling "friendly government") and friendly services for being a potential whistleblower.

Quite the cost in my eyes...
Agreed, there's a big menu on the left, completely unusable.
If every other closed source SaaS platform who has made a similar claim is anything to go by: it will work until an an executive decides against it

Or maybe I'm just jaded to centralized platforms

Still a cool idea though
Storing heat for a few hours can be done pretty easily and cheaply though. Indeed many houses already have technologies like water tanks and storage heaters that do this.
If 20% of a NYT article is recalled correctly, does that mean I can publish 20% of a movie if surrounded by junk? What if I do that 5 times over?
cat-v at it again lmao
Developer Productivity for Humans: Software Quality
Means nothing.

An ambit claim that Rupert is throwing out there to see what he can get.
Those nitpickers are probably people who have tried to track a regression in a big codebase before. It's not OCD, it's just useful version control.
If you could take a copy of the car, leaving the original at the dealership, and the likelihood of experiencing any penalty were the same as pirating a movie, yes you would. Nice false analogy though.

If it were possible to make infinite perfect reproductions of cars at near zero cost and you were arguing that we shouldn't so car dealership owners can continue to be rich, you're a sucker.
À long time ago (~2013) I managed to land an interview after someone saw my geeky ramblings on early Twitter. Nothing came out of it but early Twitter was more open to that sort of interactions even if you didn't have tnousands of followers.
You can read about the Despensers here:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despenser_War

> In February 1321 Mortimer, Hereford and Lancaster agreed on an attack on the Despenser lands in Wales.[3] Edward responded in March by mobilising his forces in Wales, demonstrating that he intended to make any attack on the Despensers an attack on the crown, and therefore treasonable.[3] The king travelled to Gloucester and called upon the Marcher Lords to join him there; Mortimer and Hereford declined.[3] Mobilising more forces, Edward marched on to Bristol, and repeated his call for the Marcher Lords to convene with him there in May.[4] They again declined.[4]

> Edward had returned to London, where he held his own parliament to discuss courses of action.[5] Mortimer led his army east towards London as well, reaching St Albans in late July.[5] The city of London refused to let Mortimer's forces in, and his forces placed the capital under effective siege.[5] Lancaster arrived in August to support him and a tense stand-off ensued, with the younger Despenser threatening the rebels from a ship on the River Thames, and the barons threatening to begin to destroy royal properties and lands outside London unless he desisted.[5]

> The Earl of Pembroke, a moderate baron with strong French links, intervened in an attempt to defuse the crisis.[6] Edward continued to refuse to negotiate or exile the Despensers, so Pembroke arranged for Queen Isabella to publicly go down on her knees to appeal to Edward to exile the Despensers.[6] This provided him with a face-saving excuse to exile the Despensers and defuse the crisis, but it was clear Edward intended to arrange their return at the first opportunity.[7]

This relates to the time period in question. So the Despensers and the king were on the same side. Lots of confusing info... But, this story is nothing about right, just power.

How can the BBC say the abbot is the gangster in this scenario?

The reason is that their job is to accommodate themselves and their audience to power. It's nothing to do with right or wrong. Even historical power from 700 years so cannot be questioned - one cannot start to unravel even that ancient ball of string.
Why hasn't the Times also sued the Internet Archive? They've tried to block both the Internet Archive [1] and Open AI [2] from archiving their site, but why have they only sued OAI and not IA? The fact that they haven't sued IA which has comparatively little money would seem to indicate that this is not about fair use per se, but simply about profit-seeking and the NYT is selecting targets with deep pockets like OAI/MS.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/new-york-times-website-i...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/08/25/major-media-organizations-are...
This triggered a memory from my early days of learning to code...

When I was in middle school and high school – late '90s and early '00s – I got heavily into forums and message boards. Customizing them was a major part of how I taught myself to code, and me and some friends spent a lot of time building RPG features into them. Shops, battle systems, and lots of other RPG and community features. Every action required a full page reload, as XMLHttpRequest wasn't a widely known thing yet. (I didn't hear of it until maybe '04 or '05, but it looks like it first appeared in '99?)

There were no CC-licensed game asset collections, but there was a site, rpg-icons.com, that had a assets from many games, mostly RPGs. Breath of Fire, Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy, and so many more. I would spend hours looking through that site, searching for the perfect sprite to use for this or that item. It was a lot of fun to use assets from our favorite games to do our own creative thing. Maybe not super legal, per se, but still super fun.

I haven't done game stuff in almost 20 years, but almost my entire career has been web stuff. I'm glad resources like this – CC-licensed game assets – exist for today's kids learning to code.
Miele vacuum cleaners are great. Our Dysons and other newfangled bagless crap came and went, but the Miele is still here, and still rocking.