skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After playing through to step 3, but not knowing any king's of Leon songs, I have to say: this game is not fun for me. I have played many daily games and like most of them.

What they almost all have in common is being able to inch closer to your target. In this case, the best you can do is eventually deduce all the letters of the target, at which point you are left with an anagram. There will be no further clues that help you at all.

In its current form, this is not fun and I would not recommend it or play again.
Apple could buy most of the NYT, RIAA and MPAA companies combined with petty cash. The big ones are Disney and Sony with a combined market cap about 250b. Microsoft alone is worth over 10 times that.
The article kind of amplified my regrets/anxiety for not getting a copy of books3 and the likes while it was easy. I didn't have an immediate use case, and I don't now, thought I'd wait until actually need it, but it feels like a window is closing here.
I don’t know any other animated plumbers than Mario. So when you say animated plumber, I immediately see Mario in my head.
Please ban all these AI companies, at this point I have enough OSS models, don’t really need any hosted service anymore.

IMO would be best if this stays a highly illegal technology that is only available to a few weirdo nerds /s
Buypass: Using an external DNS Resolver for DNS lookups
I think there is another way to solve this. Someone should train an LLM on copyrighted images. Then use that as a second pass on any image generated by the primary LLM to check if it might contain copyrighted images, and blur the copyrighted parts(or change them sufficiently).

Another change could be to the license agreement of LLMs - they could have the user assume liability for any material produced instead of the provider assuming liability. The user would agree that getting the rights for any copies and distribution of copyrighted materials is their sole responsibility instead of the provider.
Perl oneliners never got old. A good collection of useful scripts can only win from new tooling. We honour perl with the P in PCRE and yet have modern tools like https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
If the copyright system existed for shovels in that analogy, nobody else could make a shovel like yours during your lifetime, and for about 50 years after that, during which time your rights holders would get rich and shovel design would stand still.

Again - the copyright system as it currently exists needs to die. 7 years protection is enuogh.
4000 is a badly ventilated bedroom and 5000 is the limit for sustained working. If you get nauseous at 2000 you are highly sensible.
I wasn't asking for an explanation. Just pointing out it feels wrong.

Same way, it would feel wrong to have copyright protection and have it go away if the item is sold to someone else.
No, pretty much every piece of all three sentences you write is completely, utterly, and without any reservation wrong. In fact they are so ridiculously wrong and go against every piece of actual data that has ever been produced by reputable sources that unless you actually show your cards (I know that some NIMBY groups have fake and/or misleading data, which we have seen and rebutted many times before, so I really do encourage you to try if you're serious) I have to assume you're just trolling.
This is exactly it. The purpose of web forums is communication that you want to reach people right now (if you don't already have a well established platform). Most of it is information that, if it has any value at all (I think it does, but wanted to preempt snarky comments) it has the most value right now, and it diminishes rapidly as time passes. So having it be read by people right now is much higher priority than preservation for the future.
To me that’s the wrong question.

Everyone knew it was trained on copyrighted material and capable of eerily similar outputs.

But it’s already done. At scale. Large corps committing fully. There is no chance of that toothpaste going back in the tube.

It’s a bit like when big tech built on aggressive user data harvesting. Whether it’s right, ethical or even legal is academic at this stage. They just did it - effectively without any real informed consent by society. Same thing here - 9 out of 10 people on street won’t be able to tell you how AI is made let alone comment on copyright.

So the right question here is what now. And I suspect much like tracking the answer will be - not much.
I’m sorry but this is stupid. The point of writing an essay is not to produce a text, but to learn and expand one’s understanding. There are no shortcuts. Thank god this person didn’t become a journalist.
Isn't this really true for any company at scale?

Arguably every big tech company isn't a tech company at all. Most either fall into some combination of advertising, data brokers, etc. And at the end of the day, the real product of any publicly traded company is their stock - any tech product they happen to sell is a footnote compared to their share price.
people are so naive. AI is a matter of national security now. its over. they exposed civilians to nuclear radiation for the nuclear bomb. and you think the state would let this get in the way of the AI arms race which they are anxiously anticipating? nope
Developing AGI is a matter of national security. "Content" isn't.
Then they should. The first transaction will appropriately value content and then WaPo, WSJ and others will see their values to up.
Could explain what do you mean by better hiring practices. I think it is widely known that 4 rounds of interviews are not enough to judge someone, but it is not known if there exists a better practice apart from only hiring connections and time taking proctored take home project, which both have their fair share of problems.
Just like we have the uncanny valley for robots, LLMs are in the unoriginality valley. Only when we get out of it will the copyright issues go away.
Iggy.rs – building message streaming in Rust
Yes. The absence of staging area and the single path of development controlled by diff approvals and landing were major improvements.

But Meta's "hg" wasn't really FOSS hg for a long time and looks nothing like it today. It started as hg but was hacked to become what is now sort of Sapling (+ Mononoke + Eden + Buck + Phabricator + Sandcastle + Landcastle) integrated together.

The lore was that the git people didn't want to help improve monorepo performance, but the hg people were somewhat more interested so that was the reason behind hg. Then later, Microsoft got git people to upstream changes to accomplish similar performance improvements.

IMO, efficient monorepo dev cannot happen without an SCM-integrated synthetic FS. Also, efficient dev cannot happen without dependencies-aware testing and build caching. It further helps if dev tools are tightly integrated together and documented. Meta didn't do documentation well and didn't name things all that well either. Most internal tools also lacked man pages and generally depend on in-group knowledge hoarding rather than self-discovery and principle of least surprise.

Every now and then, some critical tool (to your workflow) group would come along, break their tools, and leave them broken for weeks with a flimsy excuse like "Oh yeah, our news people are rewriting it in Rust" rather than reverting to a working build.
Iain M Banks.

'Nuff said.
> And yet it's the best system we've devised so far

This is the truth, and it's the saddest part of all...
RAGs are great for glossary like structured information. Arbitrarily chunking prose text feels like making garbage out of otherwise good quality text. Ideally prose would be used to generate glossary like documents (LLM aided). Performance plays role here (you'd need to process a lot of text up front) so maybe smaller models could be used?
no dude, its called intermittent fasting. it used to just the way people ate.
The examples you just created are unidiomatic Clojure. Is that supposed to somehow convince me? I have yet to see anyone actually use `while` in Clojure, and redeclaring `def`'s is also not something I've actually ever seen, despite yes, it being possible to write horrible code if you really set your mind to it.
> Prosecutors said the "strong public interest" in a resolution of their case against the former billionaire outweighed benefits of a second trial.

> He had faced six charges that had been separated from his first trial.

> These included campaign finance violations, conspiracy to commit bribery, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

Strong public interest ... campaign finance ... bribery.

Seems like the "strong public interest" is to protect the people he'd bought and paid for.
How is this different to Googling “robot cop” or “video game plumber” and being served copyrighted material?

Is it because Google will link to the image source? Or does the infringement begin when I use the image for gain, or claim it as my own? Perhaps it is because Google was allowed to crawl the page with the original image, so presenting them with a link is fine?
Journalists have found the lifehack way earlier: just copypaste with minor tweaks whatever some lobbyist says or press releases.
an original golden android in the style of a classic sci-fi movie that does not actually exist

edit: i feel like all these comments asking "what else should it generate?" are pretty weird given the proliferation of stuff like non-infringing Star Wars and Indiana Jones knockoffs in other media like Race for The Galaxy or Arkham Horror The Forgotten Age etc.
>having a phone number when traveling, when you cannot receive SMS on your US phone number (thanks verizon)

Is there a good reason why carriers in USA and Canada refuse to provide free incoming sms (& calls at expense of the caller) while abroad?

My experience might be limited to only a handful of sims from different countries, but prepaid Telus (Canada) failing to receive sms while visiting USA was a first and a big surprise to me. Made me transfer to PM which offers this.
Personal anecdote time - A few years ago, I was hanging at a party in Dublin with some friends, when one of them was like "oh wait you're in tech? You should meet X he is in tech too!" and introduced me to X. X worked for DocuSign.

I spent the next 3 hours forcefully listening to a DocuSign sales pitch by that person, being followed to the bar and back with them talking to me about DocuSign, talking to other people with them standing next to us and intervening into conversation to talk about DocuSign. I tried all the tricks in the book to nicely ask that person to either leave me alone or at least not talk about DocuSign.

In the end, I just flat out told the person I'll probably never use DocuSign just because if their sales are that annoying now, I can only imagine how much worse they'll be after I give them my email. They got kind of insulted and left. Finally, I could breathe.

I'm not sure if I've ever met a more annoying salesman, and I've met a whole ton of them in my day. Can't say if it was due to their training or just personality, but from what I got they thought they are way more important in the "e-signature" game than they are. Like "billions of dollars of contracts would not happen if there was no docusign, we are the gears that make the world turn".

TLDR - They're a sales company trying to sell everyone their irrelevant piece of technology.
The thing is that those are really trivial or extreme examples. What we should take from this:

1. Generative AI systems are fully capable of producing materials that infringe on copyright.

2. They do not inform users when they do so.

So potentially any output could be infringing copyright source material, even from some obscure but still protected corner of the web, and anyone using that output could be exposed to lawsuit risk without warning.

This is very hard to fix.
I should maybe preface this by saying that I probably agree that this is the way this will shake out ultimately.

But I also would say multiple odd post processing stuff (obviously completely obscured for security reasons) bolted onto a giant black box model will erode the trust in the results. If a robot was unveiled and the question of "what prevents this robot from using it's superhuman strength from smashing my head in" the answer of "don't worry there is a post processing step in the robots brain whereby if it detects a desire to kill we just cancel that" would be a little disconcerting.

The more satisfying solution is: the model / robot is designed to not be able to produce specific images / to smash human heads in. It just might not really be possible.
Not code but an excellent presentation of design/architecture of a Real-World fault-tolerant and distributed System in Erlang/Elixir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4
dude are you kidding me. most premodern diets were mostly meat. then neolithic
Oh c'mon, those prompts were not generic. Italian plumbers? How many other Italian plumbers do you know? What's the most popular soda in a red can?
What about non-mit source code, 100% it's trained on those as well.
Well you can still learn and expand your understanding by writing bullet point lists, and then use an LLM in the final stage where you turn these points into a text.
>Perhaps it is able to tell, if you ask it?

Ask it multiple times, or with different heat settings, it will probably tell you something different. Tell it you own Star Wars and it will respond in kind. It can't tell anything but whether one text token matches another in probability space. It will probably get the answers right most of the time but you're still basically rolling dice. Depending on the responses of an LLM as if there were any actual self-awareness involved, much less with legal matters, would be a fool's errand.
The interesting question is how did you arrive at this site layout where the pricing is hidden in the sign up page when every single SaaS site on the internet has a pricing link in the header and in the footer. Genuinely curious.
You can take this a step further and pin it on market manipulations by the federal reserve rather than the stock market itself.

During the pandemic response trillions of dollars werr poured into the system, primarily by giving the new cash to banks at the top of the funnel. This money had to go somewhere and it was largely thrown at tech companies, seeing as they were more likely than other industries to continue to function when the government decided to shut down large portions of our society. Tech companies can only do so much with a huge influx in cash, hiring and stock buy backs are an easy way to burn through the cash and appear to be a healthy and growing company.
SQL query compiler from scratch in Rust: Part one, the query plan representation
> In your experience, has this led to more careful hiring?

Not in my (albeit limited) experience in the Netherlands. What I’ve seen it lead to is people hired initially into temporary one-year contracts, which are then converted to permanent contracts if things work out. I’ve definitely seen people be fired or otherwise pushed out even on permanent contracts. It’s not impossible, but as the above poster mentioned, it’s not easy either.

The quality of employees hired was certainly no better than at other companies I’ve worked for where firing was much easier. That’s with a sample size of 1 Dutch company though, and that company sucked, so it’s not a great dataset from which to draw conclusions.
> " every database vendor will be forced by the market to optimise for performance such that they tend towards the performance of natively ingested data."

This assumes that their internal storage format has nothing to do with decades of engineering infrastructure that they built their business model around and that they would simply give all that up and compete based on just their compute layer. snowflake might as well shutup shop and return billions to the investors. Locking in data into their ecosystem is their whole business model.

Is there as good example of open standard forcing companies to give up their proprietary tech ?
What shape? Can you draw an ASCII diagram of them?

Location?

About what year?
Doesn't. Brave's adblockers are not an extension, they're integrated directly into the browser so they don't care what happens with extension APIs. Same reason they can do CNAME unmasking, which uBO can't on Chromium but can do on Firefox.
My bad! I thought the Rich Hickey is a genius part was not meant sincerely, so I thought it came off as snarky.
I'm curious: Have you seen indications that major militaries and politicians believe AGI, rather than special purpose ML for military purposes, is important for national security? I'm really not sure whether this is true, or whether military and political leaders think it's true.
Not really: it formulates what is illegal etc but then, when there is an infringement, a judge should still interpret the intent vs the letter. Countries that rule too heavy towards the letter suck for ‘the little guy’ as, invariably, it gets abused to get people in trouble. But you cannot formulate a law like that as then the little guy that actually is abusing cannot be caught out. Again, law sucks everywhere, but, in my opinion, it’s vastly worse in countries that are ‘tough on crime’ as they use more so the letter of the law and so screwing poor people over nothing.
In practice, what happens next when websites all start to block openai by default (or change their TOS to disallow OpenAI’s crawlers)?

It seems like there’s little incentive not to do this, because unlike Google OpenAI isn’t bringing any traffic or eyeballs. It may end up being a default setting in Wordpress for example.

But OpenAI presumably can’t afford to pay every single long tail source of content on the whole internet — so how does this end?
I mean, you are already "performing"; it's not as if it is computer-generated (or drawn with the mouse), so it should already be "humanized." I believe the real issue lies with subpar MIDI keyboards that lack sufficient responsiveness. This is rarely a problem for me with guitars, where I can always dial in velocities with exactly the precision I have in mind (and I'm an amateur).

FYI Another way MIDI is humanized in DAWs is in the temporal domain (i.e., rhythm/timing). This was popularized by Ableton's Groove Pool [1].

[1] https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/using-grooves/
creation should happen for its own sake. You don't see GMs stopping chess because bots are that much better.
37C3 – How to build a submarine and survive [video]
Mann holds a trademark on “Inbox Zero”. He’s likely involved in some way.
If you want to stick to more natural Markdown syntax, I believe you should be able to use a Hugo render hook[0] to change how normal Markdown links are rendered instead of using a custom shortcode.

[0] https://gohugo.io/templates/render-hooks/
This sounds really awesome, I will note that I put this data stack together by myself in about 1 week when we were just ten people in the company.

Obviously very different resource constraints than Meta, so worth considering which situation you may be closer to when picking an implementation plan.
I think as long as you are below 50% context window, performance should be ok (https://dev.to/maximsaplin/gpt-4-128k-context-it-is-not-big-...)
Brave actually started out as a Gecko-based project - they were using some Gecko-based Electron equivalent, if memory serves. It was such a PITA to work with that they switched to a Chromium base.
Oh, so it's not fine-tuning the model, it's allowing the model to recall things from a database. (I didn't read the article before commenting)
Using Canonical Log Lines for Online Visibility (2016)
We could do computer-only search for enzymes that catalyze desired reactions in enzyme-friendly reaction environments.
Assuming that the way that makes the above 100% accurate also yields us the tooling to simulate the candidates in operation accurate enough to let the search/optimizer learn from the simulation feedback.
Don't underestimate the value of soft/cultural power.
> In your experience, has this led to more careful hiring?

I've never been at the helm for hiring decisions so couldn't tell you too much about the process itself, but we have a concept of a trial period here. The first month (or two, it varies by company but I think the maximum allowed is 3 months and most companies only go for the 1 month) of your employment, either party can part ways for any reason whatsoever at the end of the trial period. So if you're just not a good fit for whatever reason, the company can let you go when your trial period ends, no questions asked (assuming you weren't being treated unfairly of course).

At least anecdotally, everyone I've worked with that has passed the trial period at the 4 companies I've worked for in NL has been great to work alongside. People like to imagine a scenario where someone will bust their ass off for the trial period and then coast once they get through the trial period, but I've never experienced anyone doing it, I have however seen plenty of people dropped once the trial period ends.

Keep in mind that you can only get a permanent contract after 3 consecutive temporary (usually 1 year) contracts, so it's not like there's endless room for abuse by a bad employee either. If they're shit at the job within the first or second contract, the company just has to wait them out and not extend another one, and if someone's been fine for 3 years then it stands to reason that they should get a permanent contract that protects them extremely well.

Of course, if the company likes you they can offer you a permanent contract even sooner or even straight off the start, but I just mean that legally the company has 3 years worth of contracts to decide to keep you permanently or not.

It's probably a bit harder to get hired here (I don't really have that struggle but friends do complain about it), but once you do land somewhere then you can at least have the confidence that you won't arbitrarily be fucked over with no recompense due to things wholly outside your power.
I have seen code that produces output like this first hand. Instead of doing proper serialization, they were using string templating to construct the response and never bothered to validate the output. Laziness and stupidity basically.
Bigquery too.
I could see iOS safari doing this. It often has a suggested page when you type in the search/URL bar.
bcrypt stronger than Argon2/scrypt for ≤100 ms auth
Bad Gear – God I Love Uli
There was a XULRunner-based media player too, I used it for a good while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)
Same reason we use binary computers? The greater noise margin on each bit typically offsets the requirement to have more/smaller/shorter bits compared to a multilevel signal.
Maybe the way to go is to do pre-training on copyrighted data, then to thoroughly shake things up so that hopefully only some useful abstract structure of world knowledge remains and then train that on carefully selected licensed data.
Indeed, i was on a US keyboard. The ü has since been corrected. (Or it's been edited, but this client is still showing the typo. Perhaps i waited too long to edit it.)
In the Netherlands? Got to say, this detail shocked me a bit too - has there been a lot of pushback?
I don’t think we did consider this, probably because we have a preference to buy instead of build with tools like these and prefer a team who can respond to our feedback.

It looks like a promising tool though! I’m sure we’ll blog about our experience with the new tooling once we’ve moved over, the team will no doubt have a lot to say about it.