skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've updated the paper and removed the SELECT, CLOSE and CLOSED procedures as discussed.

I still think a close feature which - in contrast to Go - would just signal all waiting threads and abandon communication could be useful. I implemented this in the C library I use for experiments: https://github.com/rochus-keller/CspChan

> the proposal for it to take a timeout, which could then be detected via execution of ELSE?

It could still be added in future, e.g. as an additional parameter to SEND or RECEIVE, but in a similar way to CLOSE it makes things more complicated, and there is an alternative solution with a separate thread sending after a delay a over a channel which is received in a WITH statement where also the candidate channel waits.

> have you considered asking Dr Wirth for feedback?

I have qualms about bothering him with this in his well-deserved retirement, especially as he has demonstrated with Oberon-07 in which direction he would develop the language (see also https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/16/comparing-oberon+-w...).
Yes, it’s ok to reproduce the headline and banner image for search visibility. Not the whole article.

Whether their coverage is biased or not is immaterial to their legal argument.
In this specific case, it was a dog running under my feet and me not wanting to stomp on her. But my balance has never been great -- also, as mentioned, interested in general stuff as I age -- so I'll definitely research that, too, thanks!
> I'm also near or far sighted (can never recall which).

Take off your glasses and try to read a book at arm length, and close up. If you can easily read it at both distances, you might have good vision. If you can only read it when it's far, you are far sighted. If you can only read it when it's near, you're near sighted.
He laments that users "don't know about the freedoms we promote which are increasingly in their interest", but wasn't this the point of Open Source as compared to Free Software, to refocus the messaging from the user's freedoms to the economic benefit for companies?

The Free Software Definition mentions "user" 22 times and "freedom" 79 times, whereas the Open Source Definition has zero occurrences of these terms. It doesn't seem surprising that the user freedom message isn't getting through if you completely scrub it from the messaging.
This is a really great idea! If you don't mind, I'll put this on a list of to-do features.

I was testing a "nudge" feature, where you need to move a mouse a little faster towards the other screen to have it jump across. It was not bad, even though I've found it to be most intuitive when the cursor simply moves freely like it was one big desktop.

Clipboard would be awesome to have, but considering privacy, security and data protection concerns, it's just too risky.
I guess growth regulators must be pretty well tested because the concept is inherently quite scary, but it is still a bit scary to an uninformed person like myself, haha, so I’ll ask the dumb question. No side effects in humans, right? Your customers could still have kids?
Maybe this is a missing-comma type issue, and they mean that the last time that AI came up with an antibiotic was 60 years ago
Probably didn’t even want the plane. Just order a plane and get all the latest spy tech for free to study.
Maybe she needs to sue Goodreads too. It's most likely a way for her to claw relevance for her unmarketed book by attaching "AI" to it and also "poor artist" to her work.
The Switch hardware is visibly inadequate for even their own first party games built in the last few years that use a compensatory art style. 4k@120fps isn't needed and I'm not even particularly a highly concerned gamer that nitpicks about frame rates but you can watch many of their games frequently dip from something acceptably smooth above 30fps into 10-20 fps slideshows. Inconsistency is worse than low, especially if you're required to time button presses which is something Nintendo loves to implement in their game designs.
Show HN - TweetPedia: read the most informative posts from X (Twitter)
During the last month I have been working on how I could improve social network (know as Twitter in the past), so I come with the idea of "separate the wheat from the chaff".

has a lot of posts everyday, but probably 80% of them are irrelevant and don't contribute anything. Thus, I wanted to publish a site where people can contribute adding their favorite tweets on interesting topics like science, sports, art, nature...

What can you do on this site?

- Explore tweets about different topics.
- Filter the tweets by categories, the language they have been written, if they have an image or a video, if they are part of a thread...
- Login via login and then add new tweets to share with the community or filter your added tweets.

If you want to visit the site, take in account that you have to be logged in in order to see the tweets, because Elon removed the possibility of see tweets without login (you can sign in the official page and then go to my site). If you don't have an X account you can't see the posts.

In a near future I want to add more functionalities, like giving to the logged users the possibility to create lists to save the tweets.
Two stories:

1. Once I was working at a mobile app shop. We basically had 3 or 4 models of apps and would customize for clients: a clickable map with information for convention center, a menu for restaurants, a service ordering template for hotels and so on.
It was the beginning of the tinder fever in Brazil and me and my coworkers were all single male college students. We wanted to hack tinder to maximize matches. In a few hours we were able to "sniff" the requests, understand the payloads and make a rough api in a python script. We noticed that the swipe limit was only on the client. So we basically swiped right all the girls in our city and selected the ones that didn't interested us. We were having burgers when we noticed that the automatic approach isn't always the preferred one: There were acquaintances there that we matched but never had the intention to, which led to many apologies or at least embarrassment. One of the boys actually got very "successful" with this method (sexually) and even started a shade business selling guaranteed matches to lonely guys. He marketed on facebook with very depressing slogans "you are always being rejected? People avoid you? Send me a message" and people actually paid him blindly hundreds of reais before receiving any concrete product or result. Loneliness is indeed a kind of hunger.

2. I have a friend that is a phd in biology (neurobiology and cognitive diseases) and started to make videos on tiktok etc during the pandemic to explain diseases, infection rates etc. She started to get more and more audience, for 3 reasons (we could identify by the comment section): the scientific content, the "lifestyle" content (how to clean your hands, how to use a mask properly etc) in which she added some fashion and organization opinions,
and obviously the pervert ones (she is actually very beautiful, is always with makeup on videos etc). Then she started to make lives to answer questions of the chat. Then these lives became routine. Then the lives became more lifestyle-based with her going to the mall or getting her hair done. In a few months she already had some followers that would pay her monthly to just talk to her. Nowadays she is making 6 figures of dollar basically by talking with followers all day, without nudity or anything like that. She continues to do her research but the grants and publishing became irrelevant financially to her. She seems very happy, but concerned when this "season" is going to end. Loneliness is indeed a kind of farm.
Kaggle: GPU Notebooks with 4 CPUs, 29 GBs of RAM
Moreover, the hope is that GEs would mean more well rounded students, liberal thinkers. There is little proof of that outcome being achieved. I wouldn’t want to scrap them though, out of fear of what less well rounded graduates might act like.
Ah ok, copying and pasting code into the comment box doesn't retain code formatting ...
1. Presenting/public speaking
2. Frontend development
3. Mobile app development
I’ll restate it for clarity: I like high-quality information. Producing and publishing high-quality information is not free.

There are ways to make it free to the consumer, yes. One way is charity (Wikipedia) and another way is advertising. Neither is free to produce; the advertising incentive is also nuked by LLMs; and I’m not comfortable depending on charity for all of my information.

It is a lot cheaper to produce low-quality than high-quality information. This is doubly so in a world of LLMs.

There is ONE Wikipedia, and it is surely one of mankind’s crowning achievements. You’re pointing to that to say, “see look, it’s possible!”?
Anglo concertina.

I've always been a half-baked instrumentalist because I rely too much on my singing to do the heavy lifting. This year is gonna be about building up my instrumental repertoire to a point where I can do sets/shows with just my concertina.

By the end of the year, I want to be able to do a full street performance with my concertina (and actually be entertaining.)
robots.txt is not meant to be a mechanism of communicating the licensing of content on the page being crawled nor is it meant to communicate how the crawled content is allowed to be used by the crawler.

Edit: same applies to humans. Just because a healthcare company puts up a S3 bucket with patient health data with “robots: *” doesn’t give you a right to view or use the crawled patient data. In fact, redistributing it may land you in significant legal trouble. Something being crawlable doesn’t provide elevated rights compared to something not crawlable.
Not to be confused with Max Bircher-Benner, the inventor of Birchermuesli.
> if NYT goes under a dozen similar outlets can replace them overnight

Not when there’s no money in journalism because the generative AIs immediately steal all content. If nyt goes under no one will be willing to start a news business as everyone will see it’s a money loser.
You might find the following useful :

Visual Understanding Environment - https://vue.tufts.edu/

Came across this in another thread recently - https://quarto.org/
> Why using authored NYT articles is “stupid IP battles”

When an AI uses information from an article it's no difference from me doing it in a blog post. If I'm just summarizing or referencing it, that's fair use, since that's my 'take' on the content.

> having to pay for the trained model with them is not stupid?

Because you can charge for anything you want. I can also charge for my summaries of NYT articles.
When music people copyright things beats sounds or "style" in music it's even more shameless.
I didn't anthropomorphize the LLMS. It isn't about laws for the LLM, it is about laws for people would build and operate the LLM.

If you want to assert that groups of people that build and operate LLMs should operate under a different set of laws and regulations than individuals that read books in the library regarding "profit", I'm open to that idea. But that is not at all the same as "anthropomorphizing these AI black boxes".
Wow, I completely missed the news on relaxed nesting making its way into browsers. That's fantastic. The whole "you should usually include an ampersand, but sometimes it's not required" rule was really frustrating as a concept.

I get that it took some engineering changes on the parser front, but this is so much cleaner as far as syntax goes.
Wouldn't the indoor light have to be strong enough to make you want to wear sunglasses indoors?

You would probably have to put stage lighting in your house to get the same affect as being outside. My eyes behave pretty different and seem to get a "workout" when I am outside in sunny weather.
I already had cheaper HD Netflix subscription, and didn't notice difference between it and UHD Prime/Apple TV/Hulu. I only noticed that I didn't have UHD when I was cancelling it, to be honest. Maybe my TV is not big enough or I am too far from the screen for this to be noticeable (65" Sony OLED TV about 3 to 4 meters from my coouch).

Regarding the pirated content - I just started, so my experience have pretty low sample size. Still, majority of shows I downloaded so far are in 4K. The only one in 1080p is older show, for which I think there's no 4K source material.
Proper profiling.
It’s disingenuous to frame using data to train a model as a “view,” of that data. The simple cases are the easy ones, if ChatGPT completely rips a NYT article then that’s obviously infringement; however, there’s an argument to be made that every part of the LLM training dataset is, in part, used in every output of that LLM.

I don’t know the solution, but I don’t like the idea that anything I post online that is openly viewable is automatically opted into being part of ML/AI training data, and I imagine that opinion would be amplified if my writing was a product which was being directly threatened by the very same models.
Yes, for some things.
> Now, I know nothing about 3D printing, but I fail to see why a 3D printer needs firmware updates to remain functional five years down the road, if it’s working today and the hardware doesn’t break down.

Most don't need updates to remain functional, but this is still a very immature and rapidly evolving industry. The quality difference in the last two years is significant and a lot of the advances are in firmware, not just hardware. The difference between old and new firmware could be a higher quality print in half the time.
We need planning. Imagine doing planning like this "drone in a forest" in a different domain like "migrate this project from python to rust".

https://youtu.be/m89bNn6RFoQ?t=71
It’s also interesting that we seemingly have no idea how or why it works.
This is really compelling, and the principle seem like it should work in humans. Can anyone with more knowledge of biochemistry think of any reasons why this gluconic acid polymer approach might not work in humans?
There is no rule of law saying LLMs cannot be trained on WWW data.

New York times made it ridiculously easy for anyone to access their content by putting it in WWW for making money from page impressions. And they started ingesting links of their content to social media, search engines, etc.

And now they are acting surprised someone used the content to train an LLM.

Should have done their job in the first place to prevent it from training LLMs and make it less.

But they didn't because that affects their page impressions and ad views.

Because the more open the content the more money they make everyone click on a link and see the ad.

You can't have it both ways.

If you do gambling by making content so open so you can get more views from ads, you also get to enjoy the consequences and not cry like a baby asking for billions by making stupid decisions in the first place.
Why don’t they train their AI on non-copyrighted material? It’s only fair for the copyright owners to want a share of the pie. I’d want one as well for my work.
I'm trying to get into lower-level programming, especially kernel code. Unfortunately, since I'd prefer to be able to modify existing systems this means (re)learning C, but that's what everything is written in so that's how it is.
TeTriRF: Temporal Tri-Plane Radiance Fields for Efficient Free-Viewpoint Video
I don't use "the Internet" much, but this what I did:

- no notifications on new emails on mobile, only messaging apps (I have one, for work mostly)

- Slack paused notifications schedule

- disable javascript on mobile chrome, use another browser if js is required

- very few mobile apps (3-4), other than stock email, calendar etc
I think it did come up back in the day sort of, for example with libraries.

More importantly, ever case is unique so what really came up was a set of principles for what defines fair use, which will definitely guide this.
(Author here, a woman.)

Different strokes for different folks, I guess - she's involved with a couple of organizations that over the peak of the pandemic used videoconferencing software heavily, so everyone needed each other's emails for that. Plus another organization that just runs via email AFAIA. (I'm not saying she's the absolute hardest-hit by this kind of thing; e.g., some of the volunteering she does where this failure mode would be catastrophic is fine because those contacts reach her via WhatsApp.)
Yep. Prolonged vacancy is bad too. Usually pest problems are highest when moving in, and then keeping a place clean and occupied is the best way to maintain pest-free apartment.
I lived in the lower unit of a duplex that was a converted 1880s house and saw mice in the basement and heard neighbors' complaints of mice upstairs, but we never had them on the first floor.

Later we moved to the upper unit and found that when the kitchen was put in to convert the house to a duplex, someone had cut a big hole for the kitchen pipes that left a clear view down to the basement-- and a perfect tunnel for mice. We covered the hole and didn't have any more mice after that.
So if regular insulin is already overpriced, how overpriced will this medication be?
The beamer package manual had nice hints, like ~1 page just about font size. With statements like

> In beamer, the default sizes of the fonts are chosen in a way that makes it difficult to fit “too much”
onto a slide.

Many of the ideas apply outside of latex/beamer. It's one of the better free documents about the technical aspects of slides. At least if the presentation is still driven by content on the slides, but that decision is a whole different story.
> Why shouldn't the creators of the training content get anything for their efforts?

Well, they didn't charge for it, right? They're retroactively asking for money, but they could have just locked their content behind a strict paywall or had a specific licensing agreement enforceable ahead of time. They could do that going forward, but how is it fair for them to go back and say that?

And the issue isn't "You didn't pay us" it's "This infringes our copyright", which historically the answer has been "no it doesn't".
1) UI Design. I’d love to learn how to build apps that are aesthetically pleasing.

2) Computers. This year I’m making an effort to work through the NAND to Tetris course. I’ve always wanted to learn how computers work from the ground up.

3) Spanish. I had a strong start learning Spanish this year but haven’t been as consistent. I’m aiming to become conversationally fluent next year.
I see. I think I've heard that Microsoft's BASIC was fairly popular, and I recently also downloaded BBC BASIC for CP/M - BBC BASIC is widely popular, but the only downside of its good documentation is that it doesn't say which version each thing is supported in.
Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster [video]
This looks really nice! I can't seem to find a LICENSE file in the repo though, would you mind sharing what license it uses?
This is amazing!

I'm saying that as a long-time user of a desktop setup consisting of Lin-Mac-Win boxes arranged left-to-right for at least two decades. Polyglot is to programming languages as multi-platform is to hardware. Fortunately, that's gotten easier as system-on-a-chip or SoC designs have proliferated in the last few years.

My current setup consists of 2x $250 Ryzen SoC Mac-mini copies straight outta Shenzhen and an M1 MBP.

I only wish that the once resilient world of open source KVM solutions such as synergy had not devolved into a recursive nightmare of forks where getting a working multi-platform open source software KVM without cost is challenging. Sadly, my current setup uses a good 'ole KVM switch but the button pressing is distracting.

I look forward to trying something like this again one day. Thanks for sharing!
Due to the many references made to it in the text, I suspect you have mainly or only programmed in Java? It is greatly advantageous to have used many languages (especially 'in production') when coming to design your own, not least as you will then be aware of and can reference precedents for your language features. For example the @ flags on functions are essentially shell script flags.
MiniMA-2-3B
An interesting fact is that .su, the TLD used by the linked website, is the TLD for the Soviet Union.

So effectively the Soviet Union never ceased to exist on the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
Thanks; just the kind of response I was hoping for! Is the problem an inability to express real world design constraints in a high level HDL?
where would you put the comma to fix that?
NYT seems to agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781941
once a Cascading Shit Show, always a Cascading Shit Show.

all credit to @fat, whose talk on the Cascading Shit Show is sadly no longer on youtube. At least I still have the socks.
For layout I do recommend The New CSS Layout by Rachel Andrew (https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout) it is a few years old now, but not much has changed in layout since it was published.
Isn’t that problem with everything now and Google search? I can’t find information that I can confidently trust to be genuine. Just SEO spam.

Recently I was looking for information on better food and treats for diabetic dogs and was inundated with so much bs I gave up.
I would give anything to be able to jump back in time to watch humanity grow. There is so much history pre-metal eras that we simply know nothing about.
It has to be the right religion. The world's population centres do not have a 1:1 match of religious services to families living there.

Putting humans in the wrong religious grouping leads to more persecution.
While I will certainly find AI summarization useful I think in this case the summary misses the human experiential component that we get from the recollections of the host and guest.
Julia 1.10
I love me some F#, but F# isn't a scripting, and it's compile times were pretty terrible the last time I used it on Linux. It's been a while, though, so maybe things have improved.
Muscle starts to atrophy naturally after 40. If you don't counteract it with some strength training, things get bad.
yes, I've used ChatGPT. API allows temperature to be configured. Is there a reason to offer tips?
Seems like a pretty vulnerable target in future Hamas/Hezbollah conflicts. I'm assuming a fab like this would necessitate its own local Iron Dome system if there's not already one in the vicinity. I'd imagine that just a couple of lucky rocket hits could do billions of dollars worth of damage to a fab like this. Now I'm curious if you can get rocket attack insurance in Israel...
> It's likely fair use.

I agree. You can even listen to the NYT Hard Fork podcast (that I recommend btw https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/podcasts/hard-fork-execut...) where they recently had Harvard copyright law professor Rebecca Tushnet on as a guest.

They asked her about the issue of copyrighted training data. Her response was:

"""
Google, for example, with the book project, doesn’t give you the full text and is very careful about not giving you the full text. And the court said that the snippet production, which helps people figure out what the book is about but doesn’t substitute for the book, is a fair use.

So the idea of ingesting large amounts of existing works, and then doing something new with them, I think, is reasonably well established. The question is, of course, whether we think that there’s something uniquely different about LLMs that justifies treating them differently.
"""

Now for my take: Proving that OpenAI trained on NYT articles is not sufficient IMO. They would need to prove that OpenAI is providing a substitutable good via verbatim copying, which I don't think you can easily prove. It takes a lot of prompt engineering and luck to pull out any verbatim articles. It's well-established that LLMs screw up even well-known facts. It's quite hard to accurately pull out the training data verbatim.