skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument that procedural text and image generators are similar to us is ridiculous.

Agreed. The amount of endless whataboutisms AI proponents have to continuously invent around comparing humans and AI machines as having 'similar' characteristics to justify mass copyright violation is just absolutely laughable.

> The issue is ai companies stealing content and reselling it.

The key point here is the 'reselling' part, without credit, attribution or permission to do so and then claiming the creation as one's own. The fact that these AI companies won't disclose their training data, tells us that they know they are in deep trouble. The so-called 'fair use' excuses isn't going to work this time.

Given that Apple paid news orgs to train on their licensed data, the lawsuit with the NYT should not be a surprise for OpenAI and Microsoft (as they knew that they needed to pay for a license to access and train on the data) and will eventually end with a licensing deal with the NYT.
That's the mostly overly American thing I've read this year... Make consumers file a class action against car manufacturers (good luck with a Tesla and mandatory arbitration), all to avoid doing the sensible thing: Make some rules for this market.

The likes of Musk will moan and bitch about it, but regulation is a perfectly good solution for this.
Depends on what you mean by activity.

Bots don’t consume nearly as much bandwidth as people, they generally don’t care about assets like images or videos and the don’t download millions of copies of 100GB games. But they can make a very high volume of requests.
Wasn't ChatGPT trained on the entirety of Wikipedia? And probably millions of pieces of scientific literature, and arts, and movies and games and and and...

Perhaps the hyperbole of the entire corpus of human knowledge isn't quite technically right, but it's close enough.
thanks for the clarification.

I am not a native speaker myself; but suspected the intention of the author was more or less the same -- thanks for confirming
In General Relativity, the curvature of spacetime is affected by matter. Matter is governed by quantum mechanical physical laws, so General Relativity has to interface with quantum mechanics.

To illustrate the problem: If an electron is not in a fixed position, but is rather spread over a range of possible locations (described by a wavefunction), then what is the gravitational effect of the electron? General Relativity, being a classical theory, contains the assumption that the electron's location and velocity can be precisely determined, so that its effect on the curvature of spacetime can be calculated. There's no way in General Relativity (as presently formulated) to take into account the electron wavefunction.

If you start thinking about ways to interface General Relativity (GR) with quantum mechanics, you quickly realize that GR itself has to become quantum mechanical. Quantum mechanics is like a virus: once it gets into one part of the theory, it spreads everywhere. There's no way to build a logically coherent theory of the Universe that is only partly quantum mechanical. It's 100% or 0%.
These are fair points, and definitely a rough spot.

Eg at work we use M1/M2 macs and dev on those using docker - so that’s a Linux VM essentially with some nice tooling wrapped around it.

We certainly see differences - mostly around permissions (as docker for Mac doesn’t really enforce any access checks on files on the host), but we also mostly deploy to ARM Linux on AWS.

We went Mac only from a mix of Linux, Windows and Mac as we found the least overall friction there for our developers - Windows, even with WSL, had lots of problems, including performance issues. Linux we had issues finding nice laptops, and more support issues (developers are often not *nix experts!). Mac was a nice middle ground in the end.
"one way to get tree-structured data from a relational database with a SQL query is to write a recursive CTE (Common Table Expressions), which are just as fun as they sound."

I promise you that CTEs, even recursive ones, are not scary and that once you get the hang of them are actually fun.
3D printed multilayer structures for high-numerical aperture achromatic lenses
He does ingest a lot of frames of input consisting of mostly that.
Every BLAS you want to use has at least some connection to UT Austin’s TACC.
No, the abstractions are not sufficient. We do care about these details, a lot.

Of course, not every application is optimized to the hilt. But if you want to so optimize an application, exactly things you're talking about are what come into play.

So yes, I would expect every competent HPC practitioner to have a solid (if not necessarily intimate) grasp of hardware architecture.
Oh yeah.

I have been thinking about display controllers for a while. In the 8-bit age home micros (like the C-64, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 400, TI-99/4A) usually had an ASIC display controller.

Some people have built sequels of those computers using DIP chip electronics, such as

https://www.commanderx16.com/

and get frustrated because a decent framebuffer takes a lot of parts: there is an ad in Byte magazine from 1979 or so that shows a color framebuffer for an S-100 machine that is almost as large as my 4080 in area and packed with chips on both sides. It's not hard to design such a thing out of latches and counters and comparators but it is a lot of parts that need to be repeated across rather wide data paths. It's expensive for a product so they wind up making a display controller based on an FPGA or a microprocessor instead, if and when they do get to the point of making an ASIC it will be to put almost the whole computer on one.
How do you know you are inputing "well known entities" if you don't know it beforehand ? If I type "columbian coffee logo" and end up with logos of brands that existed before hand, should I just reverse engineer the whole internet to find out if these logos existed already or not ? The AI should show its inspiration. A human who takes inspiration of something else for its creation knows precisely what it used, and if he crossed the line of plagiarism or not, but the way AI work are too opaque for that. I think the thing it needs to do is reveal its sources, nothing more, but it also means for the AI companies to reveal their dataset, and maybe information they shouldn't have, nor disclose.
Proper adoption of IPv6 by BitTorrent clients. Since IPv4 addresses got exhausted, it became very hard to properly set torrent clients. In many residential networks it's impossible for the end user to open ports. This slows down peer discovery and upload/download speeds.

Also incorporating distributed search/discovery into clients. Tribler does something along this lines.

I wonder if the adoption of SSDs to replace conventional spinning rust HDs is contributing to decrease in torrent usage. While faster, SSDs tend to have less storage capacity when compared to a similar priced HD. Perhaps people are less inclined to shared files when they lack spare local storage capacity.
There is no shortage of bookmark managers. I think you are better off concentrating on a "simple chat" UI for bookmarks and keeping it clean (hiding the left bar...).

I would pay for this if I could import:

- Thousands of links. This is when LLM search excels.

- A specific list of hierarchical tags that are used for tagging. Open-ended AI-generated tags are always hit or miss, they don't know WHY I bookmarked a link.
It's not stealing and they're not reselling anything. That's why it's called Generative AI
I mean... 9 days isn't exactly 'old'
yes that seems to be the intended meaning; though I haven't seen such usage elsewhere (I am not a native speaker of English so my exposure is limited)

thanks
I suspect this would disincentivize operators to take care in the way they write their detection rules, and the nondeterminism of the LLM would then result in false negatives. So the rate of growth of the needles set would increase, and the analysts would be getting lower quality information mediated by the LLM.

In a world where false negatives--i.e. failing to detect a sharp needle--are the worst possible failure mode, approximations need to be handled with exceeding care.
When I've taken Waymo rides, the weirdest part of the experience was that it actually obeyed speed limits and stopped at stop signs. The latter actually freaked out other drivers.

I can't wait until the selfishness of humans is no longer a factor when it comes to road safety.
I'd love to know more about the "random fluctuations" of spacetime. I thought the only "randomness" in the universe was nuclear decay. Where can I learn more about the "random fluctuations in the curvature of spacetime"?
Just to be clear, the reason two doses is listed is because the original two dose regimen is no longer protective. Several recent studies show each updated booster helps decrease long COVID risk, but the virus evolves quickly.
That sound, as if layers and layers of renteering aristocracy were forced to work again against their will.
> and were either hospitalized or tested on outpatient basis.

This is makes the results / findings questionable, at best.

Hospitalized means they (likely) received treatment. Outpatient likely less so. The treatment itself might be a contributing factor to the outcomes. But that's disguised once you mix participants.

Why would those doing the study not know this?
I am sorry that you took it that way, it wasnt intended as such. I responded out of curiosity.

edit: Thank you for your response none the less.
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By that logic I can torrent movies and distribute them all I'd like as long as I call it "Generative Watching" or something like that.

And OpenAI quite literally sells access to their models, and if those models are pushing out verbatim copyrighted works as has been alleged by the NYT, then they are by definition reselling copyrighted works without permission.
So it makes generative AI essentially unusable, because you don't know if the output is plagiarism or not, so you'd just doubt it always and never use it.
This is not completely accurate. The theory proposed by Oppenheim and his collaborators appears to be a consistent theory with classical gravity interacting with quantum stuff.

It is subjectively rather ugly, but it does appear to be a counterexample to this 100% or 0% dichotomy.
I am firmly in test-driven development camp. My test cases build and run interactively. I rarely need to do a full build. CI will make sure I didn’t break anything unexpected.
Alternatively, could go the chatgpt assitant route. aka tell chatgpt to generate a talon script that does <insert description of problem want talon script to help with>.

simlar demo examples:

quick macros for talon : https://github.com/rntz/quick_macro

creating macros with chatgpt : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUGShgAvN_E

System Level Python Macros With Voice Commands Using Talon : https://www.bekk.christmas/post/2021/22/system-level-python-...

zendesk macros : https://www.salto.io/blog-posts/the-best-way-to-quickly-clea...

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[0] : https://www.cursorless.org/docs/user/installation/
The majority of file paths will include at least one '.'
AirBnB will get away with it forever. While short term rentals might get banned in a handful of cities, the service now operates worldwide. The stock might be overvalued but if you examine their financials it's simply not plausible to think that failure is imminent.
Is anyone asking actual creators what they think of AI?

Like, you wrote that huge thing about how it's replacing a line of work but that isn't the case. I'm not very good at editing images and tho this has changed my world I the sense of what I can initially accomplish - I still need a graphic designer.

I like to occasionally make websites that I never really do anything with, it's been years since I've made one and I'll just say with coding this changes everything for people that actually know what they are doing - it saves so much time.

Our time is the most valuable thing we have. AI can help creators accomplish things in a fraction of the time it would take without it.

Copyright law isn't for creators it's for corporations - don't pretend otherwise
Ask HN: Are you switching to an AI related role?
With AI/AGI supposedly someday supplanting a subset of tech roles, are there folks who are retooling their careers to ride the wave rather than weather the storm? Are you taking courses, making internal/external job changes, adding AI sounding terms to your resumes? Or, maybe just abandoning simple coding work in favor of roles that are less replaceable via LLM autofill?
For over a year there was a fake trail that went through a mountain in Google Maps from a ski hill to a waterfall. Local SAR would regularly have to rescue people trying to take the trail; I think at least one person was killed there.

People had long been trying to remove the fake trail from Maps, contacting Google, posting signs at the trailhead saying there was no trail to the waterfall, all to no avail. The fake trail was at last removed in November 2023: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/google-maps-...
> but the unit price of a Block 2 Coyote is reportedly around $100,000

Making an anti-drone system was never the issue in terms of technicalities, but rather the feasibility, taking down a $1000 drone with $100k “missile” is still crazy cost ratio that won’t work. I think the best way is counter drones with drones within the same category, a personal project I worked on proved that such thing is doable.
That’s why I write test first. I don’t want to build everything.
If the queries can be executed by any provider, you are talking about a commodity product.

The business model of selling a commodity is wildly unlike the business model tech is in today.
Why can’t gravity take into account the electron wavefunction? Electromagnetism and other forces work well with electrons in a superposition
So either it stirred within you emotions, or you're discrediting it because you're assuming that it does in others. I'm curious which of those it is. Is it the latter? Why would you care so much what others feel? What sort of violence would it imply?

So many unanswered questions. You have a fascinating mind gnicholas.
This to me is true for low code tools that are aimed at non-developers. “You can write software without software developers!” But low code tools made specifically to help developers’ workflows can be great. Maybe would be good for OP to clarify type of low code tools
Here's an example from Australia:

"On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the 17th prime minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered."
Completly agree. NHTSA should (imho) have full regulatory control over the approval of any and all self-driving car tech on the road. (Rather than just 'Voluntary Guidance' suggestions and 'safety-related defects', which encourages manufacturers to ship a known-defective product, and hope NHTSA can't catch it in a recall)
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
> are you teaching the class or taking it?

I teach it, my background is located in my profile and my research focuses on CS education.

Scale and impact do matter, I wholeheartedly agree. However, I stand by my point that genAI is mirroring how humans learn - repetition of previously observed actions. As part of my dissertation, I argued that humans operate using 'templates', or previously established frameworks / systems. Even in higher cognitive tasks like problem solving, we rely on workflows that we were trained on previously. Soloway referred to problem solving as a mental set of "basic recurring plans" [1] and if you look at the old 1980s Usborne children's books, they required kids to retype code [2]. For creative tasks, depending on the actor's background, Method and Meisner both tell people to draw from previous experiences and observations to develop a character. This behavior is similar in many areas like music, dance, martial arts, cooking, language acquisition, etc.

I am not making an ethical argument that GenAI violating copyright is okay because that's what humans do. I'm arguing that GenAI mirrors how humans learn. We observe a behavior and attempt to recreate that behavior. The difference is that humans can extract a fraction of the behavior and utilize it as part of something larger while GenAI cannot to the degree humans do. I'm sure GenAI would struggle to recreate "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" because of the two polar different visual elements of the film (cartoon and real life).

In regards to your "If you’re talking ethics, talk about impact" section, its a bit of a loaded question. One side of the conversation could state that GenAI is helping many people that do not have confidence in their creative ability to produce their ideas, while the other could state its making it harder for artists.

Yes, it absolutely is hurting artists and I fully support the recent writer's strike over AI concerns. But I do not believe that diminishes how the mathematical models used in GenAI mirror our own skill acquistion.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5010283

[2] https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
Completely ignore the troll, your reply was perfectly structured and I really enjoyed your take on decision making when buying software.
I don’t notice myself sitting and waiting for a build. I don’t want to waste my time setting up a new workstation so why bother?
What about the humans who created the 'virtual influencers'?
Show HN: Fill and sign PDF from any website with a single line of code
A nice followup to Twilight of the Æsir is to watch "The Northman" (2022). It depicts beautifully their worldview. It does not shy away from showing their dark side too.
hmmm I suspect this is because it is GPLv2 which doesn't require the freedom to RUN the program (which apple doesn't give you)

apple seems to ship software with gplv2 (old bash, etc) but no GPLv3 software.

...even though they are technically in violation of the GPL by modifying and shipping bash binaries without full source - it is missing rootless.h (not the X11 file)
Curious as to why it took so long. Anybody around knows?
100%. Like, maybe my original post sounded like a sop to manufacturers--to be totally clear, hell no. I want them not selling shit at all if it isn't exhaustively checked by an independent regulatory body. But if we can't have that, I want customers feeling the fear of God and not buying the stuff because the responsibility for the tool falls on them too.
Open models are a thing though, how do those fit into things?
To the author: The GIFs on the GitHub pages seem to be about double the speed from the YouTube videos. I find them too fast to follow.
He went for a swim and drowned. The facts of his disappearance are known and fully acknowledged insofar as anyone has been able to discover them. That's hardly an equivalent scenario to that of, e.g., Li Shangfu.
What about comma? https://comma.ai/ Seems like our old friend geohot built exactly what you want.

Positive HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927971
Nah the Weinstein thing is a meme, Oppenheim and his collaborators are proper scientists who write real papers about their stuff where they do real maths and physics. Not even comparable.
Good luck getting in touch with any meta support, the company is run like a mafia and unless you know someone who knows someone that work there, most likely you will get an automated useless response.
You might like the book "Your Brain on Work" by Dr David Rock. In fact, I'm due for a re- read.

https://davidrock.net/about/
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ... but that's the way to bet.
You’re also assuming these statical models learn in the same way humans do, which is very likely not true.

Tho tbh I’m not really sure what OPs point was

i don’t think the amount of training data is relevant here.
I only use laptop screen in emergencies. Storage is fast enough.
Is there a place where I can legally obtain images to run on the vm?
What happens when the manufacturer folds after the first major accident they're found liable for and now the entire remaining fleet doesn't have anyone liable for it?

If the regulators step in to remove the vehicles from the road then who makes the consumers whole now that their vehicle, and perhaps livelihood, is gone?

I suspect certification is the only reasonable path. If the regulators believe these systems are safe for the road then they should build the framework for establishing that bar. If such a framework is not possible to build then I think that also answers that question.
One day I will learn cmake. But not today :)
Interesting.

My 5 year old sons favourite app on his Android tablet is ScummVM.

I bought all the Putt Putt, Freddy Fish, and Spy Fox games on Steam, and after copying the data files over to ScummVM on Android, my son has been enjoying them a lot.

I'd much prefer him spending his time with these rather than these toxic mobile games that target young kids with repetitive loops locked behind countdown timers and in app purchases.
Good, the more MSM die the better, put those tax dollars in something more important.
This looks great, I'm going to enjoy perusing the collection.

Nothing by falkTX / KXStudio?

https://kx.studio/

https://github.com/falkTX

EDIT: Oh I see there are some but they're not listed under Developer.
Steam. I bought a ton of these on Steam and just copied the data files over to my sons tablet. Works perfectly, including localisation.
With my limited insight, I think a lot of big whale industry topics like Supply Chain relied a lot on OR (solvers techniques) and sharing that knowlege would indermine their dominance. That kept it locked heavily.
I’m surprised it’s allowed at all. To my knowledge, Apple has never allowed general purpose virtualization software.
I still believe the free market can work for self driving cars. If there's demand for offline self driving cars, someone will make them. Probably someone in Asia will make them affordable.

But I believe regulatory capture and anti-competitive tariffs are likely to make affordable, buy-and-use cars impossible to sell in the US. Regulations will likely change annually, like they do for cars right now. The govt will be worried that China has control of our morning commute.

I hate being cynical, but cars do seem like a lost cause.
I’m just in the middle of re-reading Simon Wardley’s collected blog posts on Wardley Mapping (via the soft cover book).

My recency bias aside, its uncanny how much his concepts infuse this Economist article.

Almost every paragraph echoes a concept from Wardley’s writings; diffusion versus evolution, inertia, co-evolution of practices and capabilities, capital flows, initial innovation versus refinement of an idea, and with hindsight, eventual ubiquity.

I greatly enjoyed the serendipity of this article appearing alongside my holiday reading.

One point missing from the article is the increased speed of diffusion via communication, and the relatively evolved states of compute, and other required underlying infrastructure for AI.

One could map the user needs of farms and farmers and todays knowledge enterprises, alongside the underlying infrastructure required to deploy tractors and AI, and draw some conclusions.
I'm also 40, and I've driven so little that I might well have saved money by spending the cost of learning and getting certified on taxis and public transport for the same trips.

No idea how far we really are from a no-steering-wheel-needed car, so this may or may not remain true as the years continue to pass, but now I live in Berlin and (non-express) public transport nationwide is only €49/month and is good enough to rely on — I've even seen people literally take a kitchen sink with them on the tram.
> the worst case scenario is that it turns out to be bad for developers and for free software.

Which would in turn be very bad for society.