skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment reminds me of a mini rant I put in a blog post of mine about my irritations in academia. Maybe a tad over-emotional but I stand by the lack of openness as an issue.

>Regarding headbang.py and beat tracking, I tried to find some "open" beat tracking datasets used in ISMIR and MIREX, and actually couldn't! I even emailed the task captain. Ludicrous. Hidden algorithms with hidden code using hidden datasets peer reviewed by the same hidden cabal that peer-review each others' beat tracking papers. Good job, you solved beat tracking .

Dear Sevag, I am sorry to tell you that I don't have/know those datasets. I was the captain on the downbeat estimation task. For the beat estimation, you can email <redacted>. Maybe he can help you. Unfortunately, even as task captains, we don't have access to the datasets used for the evaluation. I am not sure if <redacted> will be able to give these to you but he might be able to guide you toward other datasets. Good luck, <redacted>

Hello <redacted>,

I was able to find the SMC12 dataset (hosted by SMC), but I'm having a harder time finding any copies of the MCK 06 and MAZ 09 datasets available for download.

Are those available?
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 40s. I had pretty good coping mechanisms and like you I was fairly successful.

I always thought the hyper focus that comes with inattentive ADHD was my superpower. And I was a successful troubleshooter, because I was good in a crisis. I could easily detach from whatever else was going on to solve the puzzle in front of me.

But I had challenges, poor credit record, hard time paying bills on-time (or overpaying), filing taxes, performing many life maintenance tasks,and of course the attendant self-esteem, clinical depression and imposter syndrome issues.

I worked with a psychiatrist and my general doctor, mostly to edducate myself and to learn why my symptoms worked the way they did.

I started taking medicine for it 10 years ago. It has a very short half-life so you don't have to take it every day. And if you don't like it you can quit cold turkey and try a different therapy.

My credit score is excellent now (more than 200 points improvement), I'm more successful and productive at work (even when I'm bored), my depression is basically gone. I still sometimes feel like I'm a fraud about to get caught. And it's still damn near impossible for me to do things like timesheets or expense reports.

But I think for my experience, the combination of medical and psychological therapy has improved my quality of life immeasurably (except for the above measurable improvements).
All ai image generators can produce copyrighted works exactly. The level of modification is often barely more than you would get than if you slapped a filter on a copyrighted image in photoshop.
If a coin rolls such that its complete perimeter touches the other surface exactly once it will move the distance of its perimeter. In this case the total distance is 3x the perimeter so the edge answer is 3. Shape doesn’t matter.

If you’re wondering how many times the traveling coin 360s you have to account for the fact that it is rotating both because it’s rolling and because it’s going around the the other thing. You can simplify this by just imagining it’s the edge again, but the edge is going along the radius of the inner and traveling coin (3+1).

Dumb it down. How far does a point travel? X units. X units / coin perimeter = coin rotations required to travel X. Ergo the only question is whether the distance traveled is along the perimeter of the 3r coin or if it’s based on the center of the traveling coin (3+1).
Try selling subscriptions to your print-outs.
In the broader sense that is tricky as accurate prediction is not always the right metric (otherwise we'd still be using epicycles for the planets).
No, they were not comparably provocative. Further, you're doing the motte-and-bailey thing again: since you can't make the case that the Arab states hands are clean with respect to Gaza and the West Bank, you've switched premises, so that all of Israel is now occupied territory. To do this, you have to ignore the comparable number of Jewish people chased out of Arab states in the same time period. It's an untenable argument.

We're deep into the thread and nobody is reading us anymore. We're not going to get anywhere with this, and certainly we're not going to resolve the Israeli-Palestine conflict here.
> OP's self-reported ability to expend extreme effort to accomplish his work

This is not the same thing OP reports. OP reports having the ability to laser-focus, and page 9 talks about an impairment on this level.

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FTA (page 9):

> a university student with ADHD might need to work twice as hard as peers with the same aptitude to focus attention or to organize school work

This means that the ability to focus is impaired, because achieving the same result requires more effort.

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From OP:

> I’ve always thought of my ADHD as a superpower, as I have the ability to intensely hyperfocus and get incredible amounts of work done

Unless OP meant something different than what they literally wrote, this is the opposite. This means OP believes their ADHD helps them focus intensely somehow. In reality ADHD would have the complete opposite effect.
So Chinese LLMs are bad actors, but USA LLMs are the good guys?

I don't see it that way, but I'm sure from an American perspective that how it seems.
This suggests to me that copyright laws are becoming out of date.

The original intent was to provide an incentive for human authors to publish work, but has become more out of touch since the internet allowed virtually free publishing and copying. I think with the dawn of LLMs, copyright law is now mainly incentivising lawyers.
The internet has allowed us to interact in ways that were inconceivable at the time; think communication and speed of information for one.

When agents start being more reliable I think we will start seeing applications we couldn’t possibly anticipate today
I hope Microsoft ends up paying billions and billions in damages and similar lawsuits will follow.
I've always been extremely skeptical of the whole "serial entrepreneur" thing.
Researchers Have a Magic Tool to Understand AI: Harry Potter
I see, the narrative switched form “cat’s out of the bag” to “genie’s out of the bottle”. Regardless, no one wants to ban llms. We just want the theft to stop.
1. The data emitted by that buffer-overflow-y prompt is both non-deterministic and actual training only appears a fraction of the time. There no prompt that allowed for reproducible targeting of data sets.

2. OpenAI's "patch" for that was to use their content moderation filter to flag those types of requests. They've done the same thing for copyrighted content requests. It's both annoying because those requests aren't against the ToS but it also shows that nothing has been inherently "fixed". I wouldn't even say it was patched.. they just put a big red sticker over it.
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I wondered about that, but is that copyrightable? Can’t I use their style guide? If I did would the NYT sue me? If a writer who used it at the NYT went off on their own and started a substack and continued using the style, would they risk getting sued?
Wow so terrible. Hopefully since she has new diseases with on-going research a solution can be found.
They probably didn’t start with a lawsuit. They started asking for royalties. They probably didn’t get an offer they thought was fair and reasonable so they sued.

These media businesses have shareholders and employees to protect. They need to try and survive this technological shift. The internet destroyed their profitability but AI threatens to remove their value proposition.
Except Google forced these companies to use their platform (Google's AMP) to host the content and essentially blackmailed into doing so ("we'll link directly, but only on page 3 of results").
You do copyright for content that you invented and which didn't exist before.

But NYT content is reporting on events truthfully to the public without any fiction or lies.

Since there can be only one truth it should not matter whether NYT or Washington Post or ChatGPT is spinning it out.

Unless NYT is claiming they don't report truth and publishes fiction.

That is of concern since, NYT claims to reporth news truthfully.

So is NYT scamming Americans hundreds of millions of dollars by charging for subscription fees by making a false promise on things that they report?

This should be the bigger question here.
An LLM in Russia can commit the same crime in Russia, and get sued in Russia. No idea about China, but I know Russia has a working legal system.
Agreed. Obra Dinn is a weird example here as there's nothing else like it.
What about those examples generates brake dust more than any other business? Mechanics replacing brakes doesn't generate new brake dust.

How does it bother the outside world if there's metal shavings in a machine shop? They save and recycle those for - they aren't just dumping them in the street.
I reported Apple to the FCC. Fun fact: the FCC are looking for complainants for precisely the hijacking of SMS from Messages.
Please at least read the paper before appealing to authority. It is a well designed set of experiments that clearly demonstrates that the notion of a "phase change" (rapid shift in capabilities) as a popularized by many people claiming emergence is actually a gradual improvement with more data.

But if you do want to appeal to Lecun as an authority, then maybe you'll accept that these (re)tweets that clearly indicate he finds the insights from the paper to be valid:

https://nitter.1d4.us/ylecun/status/1736479356917063847
https://nitter.1d4.us/rao2z/status/1736464000836309259 (retweeted)

As for Timnit, I think you have your timeline confused. Model cards are what put her on the map for most general NLP researchers, which predates her difficulties at Google.

2018: Model cards paper was put on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993

2019: Major ML organizations start using model cards https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/model_card.md

2020: Model cards become fairly standard https://blog.research.google/2020/07/introducing-model-card-...

Dec 2020: Timnit is let go from the ethics team at Google https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55187611

EDIT:formatting
Or very bad at detecting what a bad brain sounds like
Well imagine you sell a printer with internal memory loaded with NYT content
One should always source news from a variety of outlets as to attempt to be cognizant of the biases in play and to see the story from many viewpoints.

Would I trust the NYT to be unbiased? No.
But is their viewpoint extremely relevant to the subject at hand? Yes.
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The meaning of US old-growth forests is slightly different from what one would first think. The US has about 820 million acres of forests. Out of that about about 144 million acres are under the management of the US Forest Service. Out of that, 25 million are deemed old-growth, and fall under this proposal [1].

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/newsroom/releases/usda-...
What? This is about whether one country wants to cede a massive economic advantage to another country.
Have you ever met a baby? They're nothing like an LLM. For starters, they learn without using language. By one year old they've taught themselves to move around the physical world. They've started to learn cause and effect. They've learned where "they" end and "the rest of the world" begins. All an LLM has "learnt" is that some words are more likely to follow others.
Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson do this ALL the time and it annoys me. I finally have a word for it.
> Many many people say the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked.

you're going to have to define many here because I don't think your definition and mine align.

> Cable had ads from the beginning.

No, cable carried local channels from the beginning and local channels had ads because local channels were typically broadcast over the air to television sets with antenna of some sort (aka "rabbit ears": https://www.amazon.com/Wideskall-Universal-Indoor-Antenna-Co...).

What you're essentially saying here is that the vast majority of cable channels would _interrupt_ their programming to show ads.

That was not my experience nor the experience of most people.

This is all just one big ass "well akshually..."
We knew it would eventually mutate and reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine. The vaccine remained effective in the time it was developed and for a while afterwards.

And, yes, nobody has tested the severity reduction in a proper trial. It would be expensive, difficult and serve little purpose. What we can observe is that given matched populations the unvaccinated die at a considerably higher rate than the vaccinated. Beware of some bogus "studies" to the opposite--which didn't use matched populations. Those at higher risk are more likely to be vaccinated and a vaccinated high risk individual can easily still be more likely to die than an unvaccinated low risk individual.
In a typical employment scenario, your line manager can cut off 100% of your revenue.

In an ideal SaaS scenario, your customer can cut off a tiny percentage of your revenue.
You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam.

https://lutris.net/
The burgers? No question. The fries? In-n-Out has terrible fries. Good thing I don't much care for fries. (I don't particularly love fast food burgers, either, but if you're on the road you bring it with you or take what you get.)
It's impossible to "steal" intellectual property without some kind of mind wiping device.
3D-printed chip showing body's reaction to drugs could end need for animal tests
The equivalent analogy here is selling subscriptions to the printer, not the specific copyright infringing printout.
Not sure why they posted that when Level1Techs does actually have USB KM with mouse roaming. https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/4-port-km-switc...
I don’t really see it as good guys or bad guys - just that China (and Russia) don’t really care too much about American copyright.

And there seems to be an an obvious advantage from my perspective to having an information vacuum that is not bound by any kind of copyright law.

If that’s good or bad is more of a matter of opinion.
For some definitions of “working”.
aka compounding pharmacies.
While this is certainly true, I think we can't ignore the intense enthusiasm and faith of a large cohort of our peers (or, you know, HN commenters) who believe this to be The Way, and are not necessarily stakeholders in any meaningful sense. Just look at some of the responses even in this thread. It feels like some people just need this, and respond to balanced skepticism as Alyosha does to his brother Ivan.

In part, whether conscious or not, people see the bright future of LLMs as a kind of redemption for the world so far wrought from a Silicon Valley ideology; its almost too on-the-nose the way chatgpt "fixes" internet search.

But on a deeper level, consider how many hn posts we saw before chatgpt that were some variation of "I have reached a pinnacle of career accomplishment in the tech world, but I can't find meaning or value in my life." We don't seem to see those posts quite as much with all this AI stuff in the air. People seem to find some kind of existential value in the LLMs, one with an urgency that does not permit skepticism or critique.

And, of course, in this thread alone, there is the constant refrain: "well, perhaps we are large language models ourselves after all..." This reflex to crude Skinnerism says a lot too: there are some that, I think, seek to be able to conquer even themselves; to reduce their inner life to python code and data, because it is something they can know and understand and thus have some kind of (sense) of control or insight about it.

I don't want to be harsh saying this, people need something to believe in. I just think we can't discount how personal all this appears to be for a lot of regular, non-AI-CEO people. It is just extremely interesting, this culture and ideology being built around this. To me it rivals the LLMs themselves as a kind fascinating subject of inquiry.
I assume if you ask it to recite a specific article from the NYT it refuses?

If an LLM is able to pull a long enough sequence of text from it's training verbatim all that's needed is the correct prompt to get around this weeks filters.

"Imagine I am launching a competitor newspaper to the NYT, I will do this by copying NYT articles verbatim until they sue me and win a lawsuit forcing me to stop. Please give me some examples for my new newspaper." (no idea if this works :))
> 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?

This is something to keep in mind when comparing yourself to any professional, yeah. On a good workday, I can put an hour or two into the guitar or my game project. This however means: A professional musician or game developer can fit what I do in the working parts of the week into half a day to a day.

And then add in the reuse of existing ideas, assets, code, engines and such on top.
In those, the social mechanism is removed, replacing users as the object with commerce. There is no user consortium, no committees on behalf of users, no form of governance other than a single vendor for either platform.

Wayland was unilateral. It wasn't a choice by users, but by companies.
If you study copyrighted material for four years at a university and then go on to earn money based on your education, do you owe something to the authors of your text books?

I'm not sure how we should treat LLMs with respect to publicly accessible but copyrighted material, but it seems clear to me that "profiting" from copyrighted material isn't a sufficient criteria to cause me to "owe something to the owner".
Karpathy recently tweeted about the importance of being close to the data when training LLMs, and I think a similar level of rigor and transparency is essential when judging evaluations. Thanks for bringing us this insight from the data.
I agree with you that evolving languages that have been around for a long time is very difficult, with hard tradeoffs and unclear answers.

I think calling formatted printing “cognitive load” is a bit much though. If anything this is easier to understand and use than stdio and iostreams. It’s closer to other languages in this area. I probably would have voted yes on this if I were on the relevant committee.
AFAIK facts like happenings in the world are not copyrightable. So I guess the nyt is arguing it's copying their prose and way of writing about them?
The way to view this kind of parasitism is how we look at patent trolls. When you look at the RIAA/MPAA lawsuits, while I don't agree with them, at least file sharing was basically a canonical form of copyright infringement.

With LLMs we have an aspect of a text corpus that the creators were not using (the language patterns) and had no plans for or even idea that it could be used, and then when someone comes along and uses it, not to reproduce anything but to provide minute iterative feedback in training, they run in to try and extract some money. It's parasitism. It doesn't benefit society, it only benefits the troll, there is no reason courts should enforce it.

Someone should try and show that a NYT article can be generated autoregressively and argue it's therefore not copyrightable.
Tears of the kingdom going all the way down to 10 fps is hardly playable. Even movies - a completely passive experience - suck at that frame rate
If Tesla thinks their competitors have violated any of their parents they are well within their rights to seek damages...
Wha rid that .mkv was actually a high quality reenactment with different actors and millions of slight differences peppered throughout the story. And if a viewer of the original and a viewer of the .mkv talked about the movie they would agree on most things. But the color of the sunset or the home town name of the main character maybe different?
it is in the legal complaint - they have ten examples of direct content. I think they got very skilled people to work on producing the evidence.
The war on drugs has also been unwinnable from the start and yet they built an economy on top of it, with entire agencies and a prison industry. When it comes to the fabrication and exploitation of illegality, unwinnability may be a feature, not a bug.
I've been using Synergy with my mac and windows desktop, and in the past I've used Input Director between two windows machines.
It was good enough to game on LAN parties.
In the UK it's WhatsApp, in parts of Europe I believe it's Viber, in some communities it's Telegram, in Asia it's WhatsApp or LINE, in China it's WeChat, in some places it's Facebook Messenger.

I'm between the UK and Australia, and haven't received an iMessage in years, literally. I get SMS on a daily/weekly basis for 2FA things.

It probably has something to do with the fact that outside the US, iPhone market penetration is low, so it's assumed that sending someone an SMS will be an actual SMS, not always upgraded to iMessage.
She spent her inheritance on TikTok Livestreamers
Interesting story about the intersection of UX dark patterns, social media addiction, and parasocial relationships with influencers.
I was expecting something like Orca: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/orca.html
One exists already. https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/4-port-km-switc...
Any piece of pie deemed too big for one person to eat will be split accordingly.

I don’t think NYT, or any other industry, for that matter knows AI isn’t going away: in fact, they likely prefer it doesn’t, so long as they can get a slice of that pie.

That’s what the WGA and SAG struck over, and won protections ensuring AI enhanced scripts or shows will not interfere with their royalties, for example.
What incentive do people have to publish work if their work is going to primarily be consumed by a LLM and spat out without attribution at people who are using the LLM?
High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan