skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The responsibility for ensuring that copyrights were not violated fall on the person publishing the work. Whether they drew something themselves, hired an apprentice artists with no legal training to draw something, took a photograph of something, or used AI to create an image should not matter.

Why does anyone assume that ChatGPT or other tools would NOT produce previously-copyrighted content?

I can see a naive assumption that since it is “generated” it’s original. However that assumption falls apart as soon as you replace “ChatGPT” with “junior artist”. Tell them to draw a droid from a sci-fi movie, don’t mention anything else. Don’t say anything about copyrights. Don’t tell them that they have to be original. What would you expect them to produce?
> No one is going to say that google is copyright infringement just because it is showing content from other websites verbatim

Journalists [1] and Getty Images [2] did in the past

[1]: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/07/14/025216/web-caching-g...
[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/getty-ima...
I think the bigger problem is that replication/ingestion (ie: what fivetran does) has come to represent 'ELT'. Likely by design.

And you don't need that pesky transformation part.

Except you really do, when you get beyond having a source system or two.
Anyone here who knows a good project that attempts to solve large sparse linear systems using ML, preferably in Python?
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This is nice, thanks.

One thing I'd add to the schematic checklist is "label every net". It makes setting up net classes much easier and clearly communicates the design in the layout.
…is Ted Kaczynski popular among tech workers? Even the hardcore socialists I know aren’t really fans beyond acknowledging he had a good point or two.
AI Is a Healer, Not a Killer
> However, this blog post won’t be 100% comprehensive, or even the best starting point for most people. That’s because I’m writing this for myself. I find that the best way to learn new things is by "forcing myself" to re-explain them to others.

I really like this attitude and have started embracing it myself both on paper and in notes on my website.
If one has an IMDb account it's possible to get a "reference view" by default which looks better in my opinion (old IMDb-style): "Account Settings" - "Content Settings" - "Show reference view".
No legal precedent has been set as of yet. The "precedent" you describe is the argument AI companies have been using (that training their models on information available on the Internet should be considered "fair use") but whether AI training actually satisfies the four-factor test for fair use remains to be seen.
Cork will protect the next spacecraft to visit the Moon
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> we keep feature branches short-lived (ideally at most 2-3 weeks)

People that do trunk-based development would consider 2-3 weeks as quite long. My definition of short-lived is about 1 day.
In what sense would I be running away with something? The original thing is still there, to the extent you can talk about data being somewhere.

I don't think I need to "gaslight myself" into anything; as far as I can tell, making a copy has not ever felt morally wrong to me.
You’re not supposed to run from it, you’re supposed to help. Only a sociopath would turn away from suffering and not try to help.
Because in that context the equals sign makes sense, e.g. "Call function F with X equal to 5."
Sadly, the social contract has been dead long before, this is just one of those occasions where it undeniably shows.

The purpose of those companies is to maximize profits, not to employ people or to uphold a social contract.
It also makes the testing of the right hand side of the pipe rather difficult

a <- a |> mean()

Allows me to test `a |> mean()` to check it works before it gets assigned to replace a. Very useful when you have very long pipe commands. <|> Wouldn't allow this.
Seems billionaires are obsessed with both sci-fi and the middle ages, they want to fly to mars and also they want to have a wild-west era free lawless everything for them with no to little rights for others and having them as slaves.
"Most viewed" is a very incomplete statistic. I often "view" pages just to look up something like "is this film worth watching?" or "what else has this person directed and is worth watching?" – kind of like a reference similar to imdb, except without imdb's clunky interface.

But this "view" isn't really a "read". There are other pages I've also read much more in-depth, and in terms of "time spent" it would probably rank much higher.

I'm sure some people do read these pages more in-depth too, but there's no real way to tell who is using them merely as a reference and who is actually reading them.

Back when phone books were common it was probably the most "viewed" book.
Makes me think of this (crazy expensive) arcade machine

https://www.betson.com/amusement-products/space-invaders-fre...

which implements space invaders on an LED display. The visuals are absolutely gorgeous but the machine at my local mall is set to be a ticket redemption machine which doesn't deliver enough gameplay per dollar to really seem fun.
> Is it possible that you are in India

I am, unfortunately.

> Email us and we'll get you up and running

Will do. Thank you very much!
And it goes on to say "unless such use of copyrighted works unreasonably prejudices the interests of the copyright owner, in light of the nature or purpose of the work or the circumstances of its exploitation in Japan."

Which suggests that when AI art threatens commercial interests, the protection offered by 30-4 can disappear.

To me it sounds like they tried to please everyone and left the hard decisions about conflicting interests to the courts (in particular the courts will have to decide what "unreasonably" means).
Unemployment figures have been purged of many, many people that just gave up working in COVID.

And given the political importance of unemployment figures there is probably a great deal of additional manipulations the government does on them as it approaches election year.
Props to _0vzt for keeping Blot rocking for a decade - it's like they've got a secret sauce for static site magic. And yeah, Sephr's right about needing clearer pricing. It's like playing hide and seek with numbers! Lastly, devjab's take on pricing clarity is spot on. It's a breath of fresh air when you don't have to turn into a detective to figure out what something costs.
I have not programmed a quantum computer before. My current state of ignorance, and so im relying only on intuition here, is that it is massively parralel in the same way that the surface of water in your cup is massively parralel.

To program a serial algorithm in a quantum computer would be to miss the point. You could encode the interactions between clumps of qbits to function as nodes in a wave simulation.

There would be few enough nodes in the wave that it would be not equivalent to a true wave simulation. It would be a discretization, but now it functions as an analog asic like proxy for the real thing. If the groups of qbits are smaller than the true nodes in a wave surface your computation would be faster than the real thing, but lower precision.

In a classical computer this would have to be done with buffers, or a very narrow set of parralel deterministic programs, otherwise impossible. (examples: a subset of cellular automata rules, gravity sort)

Is any of that right or am i completely off base.
What is this title? Is this the english version of Bild now?
Your argument is nonsense.

The junior artist in your hypothetical would have as much liability, if not more.
I just found I spent more time battling the aspect ratio than anything else. It isn't that it was too wide (though it was, for me) ... it's that it wasn't tall enough (pixel wise) for the width. This meant I never quite had enough height for ANY comfortable IDE/document/web usage.

Being able to have 4 or 5 non-ideal height windows side-by-side was just 4 or 5 times as annoying for me.

The LG solves all the issues I had with the Samsung. I get the same width in pixels, in a smaller dimension (so reduced head movement) and I get more pixel height.

For those benefits, as I am not a gamer, I happily sold the CRG9 and accepted lower (but still fine on the eyes) refresh rates.

Couldn't be happer. I used the CRG9 for a few years, it had to go.
If the model was trained on works by artists (without their knowledge or consent, as seems to be the case) and you get it to spit out art that is basically identical in either content or style to that artist, and they don’t know, or are too poor to effectively sue you, should they just suffer? If you then make money off what is effectively their work, why shouldn’t they get paid? If they only work on commission and rightfully charge a premium, are you not actively gouging their business (knowingly or not)?

I don’t think they should miss out on the protections, or the ability to make money off their work if they desire. The fact that LLM’s give this “plausible deniability” shouldn’t be an excuse to tolerate it.
I can't stand the idea that everyone needs a job; most of these jobs are useless. What we need is to solve problems and make less work for ourselves, but we're doing just the opposite: creating more and more work ad infinitum. And then they use that as an excuse for why we "need" constant population growth.

These "bullshit jobs" are only able to exist because the ruling class has made it so that we can't access the basic necessities of life if we don't allow ourselves to be exploited. We already make enough food and housing for everyone on Earth, it's a solved problem but greedy people arbitrarily make it so that only certain people can access it, that way they get to keep wielding power over us.
Taken to its conclusion, liability is then on everyone who decides to publish anything that ChatGPT “tells” them, because it might cross the threshold on plagiarism.

Are the OpenAIs of the world ready to shield their customers from that liability?

If it turns out that using ChatGPT to help you write your resumé opens you up to accusations of plagiarism, or DALL·E to create an image for your website opens you to copyright violation, will you use them?
I have to assume they are simply misusing the tool (or work in a very specific niche that somehow doesn't benefit from it).

Does it solve problems for me? No, not really - but it's a huge productivity booster in helping me find solutions.
It's really surprising how much of the entries are coming from linear TV. I think on the German stats it's around half the entries. Rest of the top entries is news & sports, many of them also pushed by linear TV. Maybe it's just the holiday season, but still interesting to see.
There was a story about reverse engineering highspeed Broadcom networkcard firmware on HN last week. That included a custom compression if I remember correctly.

This is the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38772862
If the information is difficult to verify the correct way is to be measured.

My main gripe here is the sensationalist take on complex issues, starting with the over-the-top title.

This could have been a substantive and interesting discussion...

Edit: I tried to look past the clickbaity title to get to the interesting part, which I think to find the reason for specific people being 'purged'. Alas it is apparently not possible...
I cannot find any other video game plumbers except Mario, Luigi, Waluigi, and Wario.

Well, I say that but there is John, a plumber, in the adult romantic comedy game Plumbers Don't Wear Ties [0]. Named by PC Gamer as number one on its "Must NOT Buy" list in May 2007.

[0] https://limitedrungames.com/collections/plumbers-dont-wear-t...
I would assume that this would be considered "critical national infrastructure" and there'll be close cooperation between the private operators and the National Protective Security Authority which a child agency of MI5
But I’m sure you want to help the person who is suffering more before you help the person who is suffering less yes? The idea that “suffering is suffering” is almost sociopathic.
I added those in succession:

> man woman king queen ruler force powerful care

and couldn't reliably determine position of any of them
Weirdly some of the most vocal about this have been professional illustrators and artists who make a lot of money off what is essentially selling fanart commissions, not sure if they're understanding it could impact their work if they get what they want.
I wholeheartedly disagree with your assertions on mortality. Global population growth is slowing and is set to peak in the 2060s and will decline afterwards. We're more at risk of not having enough hands to take care of an aging population. An educated populace has fewer children and many countries are already feeling the strain of being below the replacement rate.
I can't tell if this is typical hn pedantry or genuine misunderstanding, so I'll point out that I was not referring to "some entity named Simone", I was referring to the particular Simone in this very comment thread, for whom we have strong evidence about preferred pronouns.

> Of course, it's still safer to look them up if you don't actually know the person in question and want to use he or she.

Physician, heal thyself.
I highly doubt he’s involved with this, and he would probably be pretty annoyed with the name being used.

My understanding is that he’s grown to be a bit resentful of how the term has been carried away and used, and he cringes/dislikes software that “misuse” the term.
Note that at least Samsung renders the Unicode character as a yellow warning triangle, because “caution sign” I guess: https://emojipedia.org/samsung/one-ui-6.0/caution-sign
Its not as bad as most people make it out to be
> To be fair to the system the OP describes, a doctor who's prescription was forged and the pharmacist who filled it could both he considered harmed when someone fills a bogus script. Both are licensed professionals that have a lot to lose if there is reason to believe they may be involved in writing or selling bad prescriptions. Given that we've already empowered law enforcement agencies to enforce the law, its reasonable for them to step in here to catch those forging prescriptions and risking direct harm to others' rights.

IMO desperate person who tries to buy 90 pills of Oxycodone with forged prescription (OP's example) needs help, not a criminal record.

> What is unreasonable and the main discussion above is the process of dodging the 4th amendment to investigate these people without a warrant.

Fully agree with this.
What are a few good reasons?
making sure that a dataset is clean and not full of material that's improperly sourced, copyrighted, unfit for use due to licensing or ethics, is not nearly hard enough nor "impossible" for it to be a situation where people should just "give up".

and yes, while open source models might be harder to regulate, those big corporations that currently use those things without distinction, exist as pretty established entities, and profit from services they offer in millions of dollars. there's more of a substantial existence, and more of a substantial scale of money they actually move. and they don't just "make a tool available", or have users do unambiguous actions where it would be the users that are infringing on anything, but do indeed use questionably sourced data and turn that into a model and offer that as a service. dirty data is very much a part of the deal with those.
> Shoulda picked postgres, it's more general, but hand was forced by clojure, which was the original hipster in the stack I expect.

Are you implying Clojure is not compatible with Postgres?
This article places the origin of “bring home the bacon” to an African American boxer’s mother in 1906. He mentions gravy in the response, so I suspect they’re talking about bacon as in meat from the back half of a pig, like a bone-in pork leg rather than the sliced pork belly we envision today. The (figurative) bacon he was encouraged to bring home would be a big piece of meat like a roasted ham.

https://jonathanbecher.com/2020/06/14/bring-home-the-bacon/
> Then, workers would pound the obelisk out of the quarry using dolerite balls, working shoulder to shoulder and creating dust in the process. This method of quarrying left no chisel marks on the unfinished obelisk, and it is a marvel to look at.

I am having a hard time visualizing this; the lack of chisel marks is presumably because the tools had no sharp pointy ends, but I still don't really understand how they were able to create a smooth, sharp surface with it, especially at the angles.

(I can, however, pretty clearly picture what sort of shape the workers' lungs were in after doing this for awhile.)
Or you just dehumanize those suffering.
The problem is that nothing will change until professionals stop seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed entrepreneurs and throw in with the burger-flippers, register-jockeys, warehouse minders, and gig runners. Not just on pay and job security; on training, on transit, on housing.
My biggest issue with Mac-only shops is that almost nobody actually deploys to Mac. The majority of Mac-only firms I've worked at deploy to x86 Linux and develop in a VM on their Macbook (even pre-M1). Unless your business is writing Mac-native apps, MacOS is probably going to be a second-class deployment platform for you.

Even in an ideal scenario where your app already works on ARM, you will be dealing with OS-specific quirks unless your production machine runs MacOS.
Yeah there is always this one smart person with very old rental contract. Let me quickly travel in time a grab something in Berlin for EUR 600. Good luck next time you'll end up scanning the apartment listings.
Isn't oat milk just putting oats and water in a blender basically?
Your problems might be more complex, but it helped me, a noob programmer with 6 months of experience, launch a full fledged product that I now charge people real money for. Practically all the code was written by GPT-4.

Can this product scale to 10M users? No clue. Does it have all the features that I wanted? Not yet. But is it live, usable, useful and profitable?

Absolutely.
> > It can't just crawl Wikipedia because Fair Use in Wikipedia doesn't constitute Fair use for a commercial AI model.
> Why not?

Because it’s tantamount to lying and deceptive conduct? It’s like asking for a licence to use something non-commercially, getting a hold of it, and conveniently deciding 10 minutes later, that you’re actually going to become a re-seller for all this stuff you have. Or going to the soup kitchen because you don’t want to pay your private chef tonight.
No paywall: https://archive.is/ZoqT6
Regarding the negation, you can consider it in a few different ways, depending on your use case.

If your qubit is "all values", the negation is the lack of any value, e.g. "a measurement that results to 0".

However, in most cases, you will have a segment within the possibilities. E.g. one qubit can hold "vertically polarised light at frequencies between X and Y at phase P", then the negation could be one of "horizontally polarised light at that frequency and phase", or, more common, same polarization and frequency but the phase is 180 degrees off P. That way, if you add them together, you get the cancellation. Another negation is "all other possible combinations".

However I must note that when you call a qubit "all possible combinations" that's not a typical qubit value.

Think of it like this, "binary" is "0 or 1", but a "binary value" is only one of either 0 or 1. A qubit value is, depending on your interpretation, photons of some polarisation, frequency and phase, or electrons of a particular spin, or some other combination of those. Some of those can have multiple combinations, for example a qubit value could be the combination of a bunch of photons at different values. Or, an electron with an "unknown spin". Or an electron with an unknown spin that's the complement of another electron at another unknown spin, but when you measure either you will reveal the other, and so on. So, only some qubit values will have "all possible combinations" i.e. "when observed, it could literally be anything".

The internal of "what was the value before you observe it" is, well, controversial, and to most people, almost irrelevant, and even, "not good to consider".
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^ Just pointing out, the parent didn't say NP-hard or -complete, so they weren't wrong (but could be misunderstood). But saying Quantum doesn't help for NP isn't right either.
Most people who dismiss AI have simply used GPT-3.5 or some crappy model on huggingface and concluded that AI is useless.
And lost, if memory serves.
> and they certainly weren't due to AI!

TFA has not a single shred of evidence to suggest any one of these have anything to do with AI. It just seems like poor journalism and/or clickbait.
> Why would someone purchase a quick-release steering wheel? What does it help them accomplish?

The “actual” answer is that quick release wheels makes getting in/out of race cars much easier. In some of them it’s nearly impossible to get your knees past the wheel if it’s not removable.

Generally though, it’s just for looks and to feel like a real racer with your momo wheel.
People responded with civility which, in retrospect, you may not have deserved.
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Honestly kind of a disappointing book. It could probably be something like 15 pages long if you cut out the filler anecdotes.
"Many people never stop to consider or admit their dependence on this ancestral or their own responsibilities as a beneficiary of it. ..."

Absolutely, see my reply above.
Well if it would stupid and economically deleterious to do it, you can count on the EU to at least talk about doing it, if not actually doing it.
No one will pay someone to do a job that has no purpose (unless the government mandated it). You might think a job is pointless but a there is nothing a businessman hates more than paying people to do nothing.

If you want to see what giving people housing for free does, look at public housing. When there is no profit incentive to keep it maintained, they inevitably decline into decrepit eyesores as the government bureaucracy assigned to maintain it can’t manage.
Huh which is what all execs do now

Double-huh, almost every market I see is a cartel or monopoly.

Hm, the conservatives never talk about free markets anymore.

I'm sure it's a coincidence.
> and assigned everything to the public domain

In the US, this isn't possible. There is no legal mechanism for putting things into the public domain outside of the expiration of the term of copyright. The best you can do is to promise not to enforce your copyright.
If I run a thesaurus over a plagiarised text, it would be a long bow to draw to say that’s “transformative”. I feel like this “oh but it’s transformative” argument is becoming rapidly load-bearing in the context of LLM arguments and I don’t really see nearly enough justification for it.
No kidding. Gmail is not email. It's an email client. And a very limited one at that.
> people are not naturally cooperative

Not perfectly cooperative, sure, but shockingly cooperative. Just recently I was sat in a commercial airline for 9 hours and struck by how much harder it would be to transport several hundred consciousness chimpanzees.
There's a flip side to that. It also allows companies to take credit for things their employees did. My dad got screwed like that, invented something pretty neat and the company he worked for claimed it was theirs because he worked there, even though he did 100% of the work in his garage at home.