skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I agree the scale in which we are exposed to shit on the internet is unprecedented, I disagree that we can run from it.

Just go to a library. Start browsing. Eventually you will stumble upon a book about the Secons World War. Or about Rwanda... In the information era, you will be exposed accidentally to these kinds of stuff, and learning to recognize that and to develop strategies that prevent this exposure to numb us I think is much more effective than trying to run away from it.
If they created it, they own it, why shouldn't they be claiming that?
> I don't see any developped country pressing the brake on AGI in the near future

It’s already happening with EU AI Act https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...
My brother worked in protein folding (although his statement about specifically AlphaFold was years after he left that field) but I showed him the AlphaFold results from like 5 years ago and his reaction was "oh ... Yeah they solved protein folding"

So at least according to him we've lived in that world for the last 5 years.

As a person working with / tangentially to people in the same field I would say that it's made things faster and more scalable, but protein structure isn't the be all end all of things. Researchers use AlphaFold a lot for filtering potential candidates, but that is only one step in a lot of steps. A SNP mutation -> protein structure change -> functional change is already difficult without then considering that the vast majority of mutations that create function change in humans are not in exons, so something like AlphaFold (in the form I'm familiar with) would be useless for those as well.

Eventually though an AI system that can go mutation->function change is entirely possible, although it is much much further in the future. In that case though I think you'll be quite close to a future where combined with things like CRISPR therapeutic treatment for all heritable disease would be possible.
I wouldn’t classify that as “database locking”, but as “idiosyncrasy of a particular database system”. It’s a QoI issue.
I recommend using Feedly to organize and browse your RSS feeds. I've been using it for over a decade now!
Fun fact: there’s no such thing as a 12-arm snowflake. Any 6*2^n arm snowflake is just a 6-arm w/ split branches
Build my own B2B platform under 200 lines of code of JS.

It blew my mind after finishing it, and i learned one hard lesson: All the frameworks are bullshits (they're too complicated for nonsensical reason). That's it.
Some people are pointing out that they found it easy to read your pricing before you added this site. I’d like to offer a different perspective. So many tech products and startups lack this sort of easy to find clarity.

Many times in my professional life we’ve dismissed products we might have bought if they had a pricing page as clear as yours. Not so much because they necessarily did anything wrong, but because we rarely have the time to “research” tech products that are “nice” but not “necessary”. So where some companies might have sold us an eternal product license for $5 a month, they didn’t because they didn’t have this sort of pricing page, where they very clearly explain the exact price of their product in as few words as possible. Some may find that ridiculous, but I’m fairly certain that if we do this, then others does as well as we’re very rarely unique.

One of the consequences of having done this professionally at many organisations for two decades is that I also do it as a private person. Maybe that’s even more lazy, but it is what it is.

So I think you did well to add this!
I once came across the take that the shift in popular sci-fi from utopian to dystopian lead to a generation of wealth that has been shaped by these stories.

The logic is that if you have lots of popular fiction describing the future a certain way, these ideas will influence the future to become that way to an extent.
You've presupposed that this is all about stupid stuff in the first place. Moreover, mixing tabs and spaces for indentation leads to sadness. But squash and rebase are perfectly compatible with over another.

Programmers sometimes have to decide stuff. That's okay.
It's a free text box, you can ask it anything you want, but yes; the answers to large scale questions have been quite lacking in my experience. But as a systems guy rather than a developer, those tend to be the actual problems that I have.
You are acting schizophrenic brother
What exactly am I stealing if I don't take the deal, walk away and then enjoy an AI-generated artwork that just so happens to resemble the thing closely instead? I'd think that stealing requires taking something away from someone, regardless of how hard certain industries try to gaslight me into expanding the definition to protect their business model.
In an ideal world where the incentive of a student is solely to broaden their understanding perhaps that's true (although I'd still be inclined to use an LLM for getting a broad brush overview of a new topic, or ideas of where to start investigating).

However, the education system, as formulated in many countries, isn't solely focused on broadening understanding and instead on students getting a degree with a given grade to aid them in getting a job in their preferred career.

With that goal in mind, their incentives may not be solely focused on learning and more on passing essay questions by creating texts. In that case, it's possible to see how their incentives might line up with the use of LLMs to partially or wholly create their essays.

This is, of course, nothing new. There's a reason why universities have plagerism detection software and systems. Students often do not write essay purely themselves, and LLMs will be just one technique to allow them to do so more easily...
Are you sure that you can use "Lego"? Isn't that word a trademark or something? "Building blocks" should suffice to convey the meaning without any legal problems.
Thank god this isn't pervasive
A nice small tutorial explaining the basics of Git under the hood.
Yeah, I am not sure it's actually the being aware part, it's the pressure to performatively take a stand - "upvote this comment to change the world" sort of stuff, which turns into "you're a bad person for not upvoting" through the social media treadmill. Stating your position unequivocally as possible and/or demonizing your opponents acting like an influencer gets more clout than actually volunteering or working on problems. It's got to be a nightmare if you fall into that cycle and it seems a lot of kids do.
Just make LLMs be like your average human and forget details. I know that it's easier to say than to do, but so are many things worth doing. I can't plagiarize - my language and visual memory doesn't work that way. Such an LLM will have to "create" and answer from more fuzzy memory.
This is what will kill generative AI and there is nothing the courts or lawmakers can do about it. Even in a fair use scenario you can't beat the TOS.
> I don’t see LLMs as playing any significant role in building understanding.

Wrong. LLM plays a significant role in building understanding in this day and age. Combining Google (Internet) Search and LLM to do one's research and knowledge accumulation is the bread and butter.
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100%.
after a lifetime of being overweight I found the will to make diet changes and ended up losing about 90lbs. The thing that's missed in these 'it's just calories in, calories out and will power' types of comments is that the commitment required to accomplish the weight loss is nothing compared to life consuming commitment required to maintain the loss over multiple years.

After 5 years of vigilance the mental and social toll was just too much and I gradually let down my guard within about 3 years I was up 50+lbs.

So now 10 years on it's corner cutting because there's a medical intervention that can help or just weakness because I can't find the will to do it to myself and people around me all over again?

Not helpful.
Honestly I've always wondered what would happen (and how much the entertainment world would change) if a company like Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc did just that. Or heck, if it turns out you need the rights to train LLMs and its easier to do that with public domain stuff, they just flat out bought half the entertainment industry and assigned everything to the public domain. Every Disney work every for example.
Also, apparently ARM64 did drop the conditional instructions (somehow I missed the memo):

https://offlinemark.com/2023/07/29/til-arm64-doesnt-include-...
Ye "sign up" implies that you have accepted the pricing.

A common dark pattern is that you need to enter PI to get to the pricing so that they can call spam you forever. (I am not accusing the linked site of doing it, I haven't checked.)
If a child is instructed to read a copyrighted work at school, which later becomes a factor in his own derivative works, he won't be in breach of copyright.

Why should other intelligent entities be prevented from reading copyrighted works and gaining whatever there is to gain from those works the way any human might?
First, copyright is not "ownership of information"

Copyright is acknowledgement of creatorship

Without copyright, I can claim to be the author of Romeo and Juliet or Harry Potter or The Firm - and you can never prove me wrong

Look at countries around the world that either do not recognize or enforce copyright from other locations (or which have no concept for native productions) if you want to know what a "world without copyright" would look like ... it exists already around the globe
Developing AGI, as an abstract idea, is a matter of national security. That doesn't mean people are willing to accept the real-world consequences of it. Especially when it could affect them financially.

Additionally, I'm not even sure the US is capable of having national priorities at the moment. The Congress has become incapable of making decisions. While the executive and the judiciary branches have stepped up to compensate, they tend to handle each issue separately without any general direction.
> payback period of over 3 decades

That's quite good for infrastructure, considering that it operates for hundreds of years - that's the age for most bridges, tunnels, etc.
Ah, I see. After looking it up some more, I'm also quite convinced that I misapprehended the definition. My bad.
Artists are "rightsholders" and their ilk. You didn't even separate the two in your former comment, so you clearly weren't talking about corporate owners of IP like Sony and Disney, exclusively.

Maybe you believe no artist who works for a corporation has any motivation but money, as opposed to purely "indie" artists, I don't know where the line in your head is drawn, but you do seem willing to throw most artists under the bus for some arbitrary standard of purity.

AI is harming working artists right now, and will likely never harm corporate rightsholders. They'll simply run their own AIs and fire as many people as they can get away with. The end result will not be that only the "true" artists survive but simply less art of any kind, everywhere. So I stand by my comment.
That doesn't mean you can then use the output of generative AI in non-TDM jurisdictions without getting sued.

Also TDM exceptions are not necessarily going to be lawful/possible in many jurisdictions.
That's a really eloquent way of saying "It's already happening, so give up on it." I'm sure it works out great for taking action and solving problems.
Am I the only one believing that copyright has long outlived its usefulness? After all, copyright is not some natural law or mathematical consequence, but rather a social convention that made sense in the era of the printing press.
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I would argue the opposite. Some parents now seem to treat children like small adults. 6 year old on the internet? How did this become normal?

Kids are not small adults. They need time to fully develop before they are ready to comprehend and understand "stuff".
I love SiYuan Note.
When I discovered that exported Markdown files weren't interlinked, I wrote a Python script that uses the API and links them all together and published it on their forum.

I assume you did the same?
Going way back the Skylark of Space series was all about people showing up to some solar system where two species are fighting it out and then they settle it but then they find some other species is planning to wipe them all out so now they need to speed run 10,000 years of technological development to survive.

The Lensman books by the same author are about a drug war and space war that is secretly (to the people in the books) a war against diabolical invaders from another universe.

I am reading Pohl Anderson’s The Star Fox (1965) which is about a space navy veteran who that wages a private war against aliens who attacked a human settlement and (it turns out rightly) believes that aliens have no interest in sharing space with humans or any other species. Notably he is opposed by the violent “militants for peace” movement.

Niven certainly thought it was a good thing that man won the Man-Kzin wars even though he himself only wrote about them as a historical event until he got other people to write more details about it.

I would say the peace orientation was a product of the “New Wave” that ran from maybe 1960-1980, once the 1980s came around you had Tor Press which was consciously right-wing and published books like Ender’s Game, Forge of God, etc. I recently re-read The Four Lords of the Diamond, which I see as pro-war even if it ends very badly for humans.
seems like a weird thing to want from hugo, a simple a static website generator, vs linking to gitlab/github/etc from pages
Absolutely, you've touched on a crucial point in the digital age debate. Copyright, as it stands, seems increasingly out of sync with our digital lives. The scenario you describe, like a brain implant for visualizing copyrighted works, really highlights the blurred lines we're now facing.

In a world sans copyright, creativity might flourish in an open-source-like environment, but there's a catch. Big-budget projects could shrink dramatically, likely impacting the quality and scale of productions. Industries might form their own protective alliances, but would this be enough?

Your point about the need for some protection period to incentivize innovation is key. Without it, the risk of financial ruin is too high for anyone to pour substantial resources into new developments. But, how long should this period last? That's the million-dollar question.
I feel like the outcome is obvious, there will be a finite list of IPs who's owners have enough money to actually sue, which will get filtered out of the output of publicly available models. They will just slap a detector model on the end of the generator to filter them out.

Private models will not care, nor will things change for IP owners with lesser power.
I completely disagree. Tech exceptionalism makes no sense. We should be making technology to ensure people have their rights protected, not to come up with technobabble excuses to pretend such rights don't exist.

Just because people having been posting memes and reposting pictures and comics with cropped credits and pirating stuff that doesn't mean any of this is legal.

Legality isn't about what you can technically do thanks to how the computer works, or how HTTP works, or how the laws of physics work. Legality is just about what is law and what is not.

Redistributing copyrighted works without license has always been illegal. People don't get sued for it all the time because it isn't worth the hassle and most small time copyright holders simply lack the resources to pursuit action against random Internet strangers across the Internet. That doesn't mean they don't have a copyright, they merely chose to not exercise it. And that's not a W for technology. That's literally just more abuse than a person can cope with. It's an L for society. That's like if you started getting so much spam in your e-mail that you gave up marking them as spam. That doesn't make them not spam.

For example, if I wrote something in my blog and someone made a scrapper that reposted it entirely in their website full of stolen posts, I could take legal action against them. For a blog post. For something I wrote on the Internet. That's my right. But imagine how much time I'd have to spend to do this. It would be easier to check if Google has a way to tell someone stole my content and just get them delisted from Google than going through legal channels.
You've misunderstood the point of the article and only seem to be reinforcing that in these messages. The point is not being conservative on the whole, but conservative within the already established technology choices in the company.
Regarding (2), automating surveillance at scale.

If you manage to put a bunch of listening devices at a place you're moderately interested in, a cafeteria at an enemy base for example, you might end up with literally hundreds of hours of conversations, most of them completely uninteresting, but a few that might possibly contain nuggets of information of the utmost importance. Listening to all these conversations requires resources. This is even more difficult if the people there speak in jargon, in their own language, and nobody but an expert in the subject can determine which conversation snippets are significant.

If you have good LLMs, you can run all your recordings through extremely high-quality speech recognition and then use something like Chat GPT for summarization, classification, finding all mentions of the nuclear reactor in <place> etc. Same goes for satellite image analysis.
I'm sure they're interested in it, but I'm uncertain that they view it as a promising and critical enough capability to push for a higher priority when weighed against other interests.

For instance, neither of your examples - surveillance or automated drones - has anything to do with AGI. They don't need LLMs to do mass digital surveillance; they already do that and were doing it for decades before LLMs were a twinkle in anyone's eye. Sure, they'll try to tap into the user data generated by chatgpt etc. (and likely succeed), but that's not a different capability than what they're already doing. And automating drones - which, by the way, this is not future technology as you seem to imply, it's here today - is a special purpose ML system, that maybe benefits from incorporating an LLM somewhere, but certainly isn't pinging the chatgpt api!

But sure, you're exactly right at the end, I have no idea whether they see other angles on this that are new and promising. That's why I asked the question, I'm very curious whether there are any real indications thus far that militaries think the big public LLM models will be useful enough to them that they'll want to put a thumb on the scale to favor the companies running them over the companies that make their bucks on copyrighted content.
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isn't this what llamaindex is doing though?
Telling my child not to make a mess so he can avoid cleaning it up would not be an effective tactic at anything other than acting smug.

You're presupposing that this decision is worth making for programmers in the first place. I don't see why that ought to be true.
I’m no LLM expert but I think there is a distinction to be made between the LLM dataset and the output it gives to the user. What you’re suggesting is that it’s difficult to remove something from the dataset, which may be the case. But that doesn’t mean the user will necessarily be able to access it.

My guess is that this is much easier to attack from the user end.
Yeah I feel like it’s some kind of time delay.
You can kinda see how the lightbulb appeared over Jimmy Wales head with Fandom
Just curious - why do you want to move away from ikiwiki? Wondering if there are issues or major flaws?
With a particularly memorable film clip which was the first time I remember seeing the equivalent of what the Wachowski's later called Bullet Time.

And the film clip doesn't seem to be on YT...

Edit: can't find the full music video, but there's a clip just showing the "bullet time" bits:

https://youtu.be/ZWXafUHFQu4?si=KL7-ICpWKvUyXczb
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Not possible in the US with all its closed-up office and hotel rooms.
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Copyright in its current form yes.

But the concept and closer to the original (creators lifetime + x years or some such) seems still very valuable.

Copyright is still the bedrock of how many tech software business actually can make money.
This is definitive proof that YouTube subscriptions is dead
thats irrelevant since an LLM is not an intelligent entity. Whatever you're arguing about is fiction.
It is dystopian, and it already exists, e.g. printers refusing to print anything that looks sufficiently like money.

Like many things, I suspect this will end up getting worse before there's a chance for it to get better.
>There are many tried and proven alternatives.

Other than patronage, what is there?

Also, patronage is garbage, in my opinion. It ensures artists are exclusively either already wealthy, or well connected. It also helps ensure that the wealthy are most often represented in the art created; for some reason this seems like a bad idea to me.
Try reading this article. https://fs.blog/first-principles/

It basically boils down to starting from the basics and working your way up from there, you do this to not get stuck in (social) conventions that might not make sense for the problem at hand but that probably made sense when those conventions were conceived.
Many small owners together can bring a class action though
It's fair use, whereas generative AI doesn't satisfy the same criteria. From https://www.ogcsolutions.com/is-fan-art-copyright-infringeme... :

For fan art to fall under the fair use exception, it must meet all four of the following criteria:

It must be transformative, meaning it adds something new and different to the original work.

It can’t be used for commercial purposes.

It must not negatively impact the market for the original work.

And finally, it must be created for a limited and non-exclusive audience.
I think it's a bit understated just how much popular culture shapes our view of the world, not only of what's true, but also of history, what might come true, inevitable patterns in history, and so on.

But then, many alive today have probably seen more of the world through a screen than outside of one, so it perhaps shouldn't be surprising.

Dunno, maybe Plato was onto something when he wanted to ban fiction in his republic...
A child isn't a computer program, and no amount of anthropomorphizing will ever make them so.

Especially ChatGPT and other LLMs, they're not even close to being AGI or an "intelligent entity" as you put it, despite what all the AI-bro hype and marketing would like everyone else to believe.
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That seems unlikely, unless they settle out of court. And why would the NYT settle like that without receiving a billion?

Courts are likely to make generally binding decisions.
Just because you didn’t comprehend the content doesn’t mean others didn’t. I also fundamentally disagree with your point. Producing good LLM output is an interactive intellectual process requiring expository writing skills.