skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this some "Kissinger bad" propaganda take?

US didn't bomb Laos, it bombed Vietnamese Communists covertly operating in and from Laos against Republic of Vietnam and US. The reason that it was a covert war was geopolitical - every actor there operated covertly.

In my country we still find ordnance from WW2 or even WW1. I even had some close encounters.

It looks like some early training of children can save lives. What I can read from https://laos.worlded.org/projects/uxo-education-and-awarenes... is that the education is mainly addressed toward primary school children meaning that the children below the age of 6 will not receive any education (from the program, perhaps there are other programs). What is completely lacking is education of parents.

Now what about cluster bombs in Ukraine?

These have been proven to be highly effective against Russian attacks.

If we talk about future safety concerns then Russian forces have laid mines over vast areas. The density can be as much as 5 mines per square meter and I doubt that they will share the mining maps when this eventually ends (if they even have systematic maps). Already the area affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam by Russians has mines randomly scattered all over the area because of massive flooding.

Ukraine is keeping track of its cluster munition usage and the low percentage of unexploded munitions is a mere drop against the mayhem Russia has created.

Keep in mind that Russia has very clearly declared its genocidal goals.
This for me does not make sense as a copyright violation. It’s like saying that Adobe is in trouble because you drew something infringing in Photoshop. If you prompt the model with the intention of creating something infringing by mentioning the name of the characters and the work, and you get something infringing out, then it’s you who have infringed the copyright, not the maker of the tool.
You can try, but I have Mistral on my local computer and it doesn't need the Internet. And people have pirate dumps they're going to run this stuff through.

I'll just do it myself.
It does make sense. It's just counter intuitive and not the way most puzzle games work.

It makes it quite hard. I'm not sure if it's a good hard or a bad hard yet.
Attribution weights could be the basis of new type of copyright asset licensing scheme.
For all those tech employees who fed the company's model, a license in perpetuity to at least a portion of that value...but only if you fight for it. They are training to replace you, watching your every move, your thought processes, ready to make you a function call.
> Clojure is a immutable, functional language,

It is so not. Clojure is to immutable-functional as Prolog is to logic: a procedural language with fancy syntax and funny execution order, masquerading as the other thing.

=> (def globalX 0) (defn getX [] globalX) (getX)
0
=> (def globalX 1) (getX)
1
=> (while (< globalX 10) (def globalX (+ globalX 1))) (getX)
10

It's built on the JVM. How could it be otherwise? Sure, you can program in the immutable-functional style in Clojure, but under the hood, it's procedural. You have to deal with all the same procedural issues: the compiler doesn't really smooth anything over for you.

> This sounds very bitter.

This is bitter. But I thought what you replied to praised Clojure.
Nintendo's design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: 'I wanted to make something weird'
I do. If the incentive to actually create is gone.
How were you eventually convinced that it is not true?
Salt was very bulky (less so than grain of course) but I don't think it made a very good medium of exchange. Shipping goods on land especially was extremely expensive.

.e.g according to Diocletian's price edict (so the prices themselves are probably not accurate due to inflation by ratios might be) a laborer could afford to buy ~7kg of salt for his daily wage.

Salt was supposedly very cheap, actually the same price as grain by volume. So it really wouldn't have made much sense to drag bags of salts with you just to sell it for pennies (salted meats or fish etc. probably would've have been a much better option).
I assembled a split ergo keyboard kit, here's what I learned [video]
Interesting, but most features seem to be reserved to Patreon sponsors.
Who pays for these job guarantees, and how do we ensure that there are meaningful jobs always available that fit both a persons skills and interests? Or are we assuming that anyone unable to find a job would jump at the chance to do whatever scrap job the government is willing to throw their way?

Markets are important in the system we've built, we can't just toss out market effects and assume nothing else will break. Whether markets are the "right" approach or the one that a majority of people still want is up for debate, but in the meantime much of our society is based on markets operating relatively freely as the approach of both understanding sentiment and allowing markets to shift without centralized control. Getting rid of the downside in our job market would almost certainly break the job market all together, as there are few downsides motivating people to try to find and keep a job.
That's not evidence. That's the claim. If you claim that he was put to death for making fun of someone, you can't prove that by claiming that he made fun of someone. It's total conspiracy theory stuff.

All those references are in the class of this salt stuff in the OP. They're whole fiction.
There’s a lot of marketing around llms, with related spam everywhere. For a while i tried using chatgpt for instance as a replacement for google search, but it fails even at that. I do still use it for basic queries but can never be trusted to be reliable.
if only this website didnt autoplay
IMHO almost every game I have ever played in which there is a vowel/consonant distinction begins immediately by telling you how Y is handled.
Ask HN: Share resources on first principles thinking?
Elon Musk talks a lot about thinking in "first principles", what are some good books or publications that can explain this method of thinking?

The question is seeking recommendations for books or publications that delve into the concept of "first principles" thinking, a problem-solving approach frequently advocated by Elon Musk. This method involves breaking down complex problems to their fundamental truths and using those foundational elements to devise innovative solutions. The aim is to understand this mode of thinking better by exploring resources that explain and elaborate on the principles behind this mindset.
They won't replace anyone yet, but you're sleeping on AI if you think it's not super helpful. For programming it has pretty much replaced Google for me, as I can ask very detailed questions that are specific to my code. Of course you should always double check the work, but it has definitely made me more productive.
How do customers know that the source code on Github is the actual source code used for the product?
>Furthermore, the Israeli flag itself is the Star of David (representing Israeli land) between two blue lines which are the river and the sea. It has always been Israel’s slogan and aim, “from the river to the sea”.

This is completely incorrect.

Wikipedia:

“The blue stripes are intended to symbolize the stripes on a tallit, the traditional Jewish prayer shawl. The Star of David is a widely acknowledged symbol of the Jewish people and of Judaism. In Judaism, the color blue symbolises God's glory, purity and gevurah (God's severity).[19][20] The White field represents Chesed (Divine Benevolence).[18]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Israel#:~:text=It%20sy....
Only if they think that 3% would not otherwise use Wikipedia. But in reality that 3% would just use the web app instead, no? In fact if they put a web link in the app store, would anyone even notice the difference?

OT I know, but I really don't get the whole native app thing, particualry for non-profits or charities.
37C3: Fuzzing the TCP/IP Stack
Why do you put a zero in front of the year? It took me way too long to figure out what you meant by “01976”. I have never seen anyone do this lol. I’m aware that date codes on components sometimes do that kind of thing but using it in text is just bizarre
>> You end up with huge screenfuls of boilerplate

that grossly exaggerates it. It's annoying but nothing like that.
Only available in the USA https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050917053-C...
I can easily see it happening. "Content" is at least as big business as "tech", and the people in it are politically better connected.
I wanted to like this but I kind of hate it. The overall goal is so uninspiring.
I always thought it (memes) was about identifying your peer group.

Comradery can lessen stress I'm sure.
You never forget your first sewing machine (or find one that lives up to the memory)
Um, I think you need to rethink this comment bearing in mind that a large proportion of people in the world don't have the money for a monthly internet bill at all.
The cost for one unit looks less then 100. Way less than 50 even. Is it truly non profit?
Aren't some of the examples basically asking for that content?

Ask someone about two Italian brothers in a video game with a red and green hat that have M and L on them. What do you think you would get?

If I describe "imagine a comic book duck that swims in a sea of gold in his vault" you would immediately think of Scrooge McDuck, no?
It sounds like you're only seeing the extreme examples of the divide between individualism and communalism.

There are much more reasonable arguments made for individualism than "f you I got mine", just like there are more reasonable arguments for communalism than the ones posed by Stalin.
If you are ventilating regularly your CO2 levels are not raising to ridiculous levels in the first place. I'm pretty sure for most people the novelty of the CO2 measurement device wears of quickly.
Did you read the article? It shows a lot of examples when no specific names are mentioned, or even with very generic prompts producing copyrighted material.
> If you prompt the model with the intention of creating something infringing by mentioning the name of the characters and the work, and you get something infringing out, then it’s you who have infringed the copyright, not the maker of the tool.

Yeah but that is not the case, they never mentioned Mario and Luigi, yet, that's what the output turned out to be.
Like star on Github I use favorite on HN as bookmarks.
Video: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12235-fuzzing_the_tcp_ip_stack
I get it, but the syntax is surprising. This is more like += etc. so I would expect a notation like ()= (ie. apply-equal) in a way that is not related to piping I guess.
it does exist and I think it was even added to the SQL standard in some update

what FOR UPDATE does is (simplified) to lock a mutex for each row the select statement returns which are released once the transaction commits

this has the effect that parallel running transactions have to wait until the new computed value is visible before reading it and in turn there is no problem with lost updates

just to be clear this is a very simplified explanation in many ways
Perhaps we should simply take this as an opportunity to finally abolish copyright. Smaller artists mainly earn their money with commissions. They are paid to do a very specific thing. Whether there is a copyright on the result is irrelevant. Someone else who would "steal" the image and use it without payment would apparently have fewer requirements. The person could have simply taken any AI image. Therefore, the artist in the scenario would not receive any money from the second person anyway.

Apart from this, it is mainly large companies that benefit from copyright laws. Why should we have laws that restrict progress just so large capitalist companies can maximize their profits?
> The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of owned.

And yet it's the best system we've devised so far. Maybe we should go back to the older systems where the only way to climb the social ladder was to go to war pillaging our neighbors and taking them as slaves
The first yield is just the effect name. There is a shorthand syntax for effects with only one function, such that you only define the name once:

effect ctl yield( i : int ) : bool

See bottom of this section https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#sec-handling.

When handling the effect you don't 'define' the name, you implement it. Of course you have to mention the name then, just like e.g. with interface implementations
This is an interesting idea. I assume that while the protected material would be obvious in some case, in many it would not. Would the tool have to be able to identify (and properly attribute) copyrighted material in its output?
> and the people in it are politically better connected.
reply

Tech companies have more money to throw at politicians.
We Just Got a Major Step Closer to Teleporting Images Using Only Light
Meta does it another way. Instead of one giant data warehouse or various DW silos, build a data platform API stack supporting heterogeneous storage adapters, privacy policies, regional locality policies, and retention policies underneath supporting heterogeneous D*L operations. This sidesteps duplication of and denormalizing data and allows for maximum data discovery, reporting, and reuse. And while GraphQL can't be all things to all people, it's pretty damn good. If needing {MySQL,PostgreSQL,{{other_thing}}}-compatible or REST APIs, then build them similarly.

ETL should be minimized (except for external data, which is a bad sign of data owned or managed by a third-party) and replaced with the equivalent of dynamic or materialized "views". Prefer to create hygienic "views" of data against original data rather than mutating and destroying such original data with destructive transformations.

Finally, have a deeply-integrated, robust, enterprise-wide, fine-grained ACL system and privacy policy to keep everyone (and system users) from accessing anything without a specific business purpose need and an approval audit record stored via some sort of blockchain-like tech.
>>Europe locks you to a country and culture you don’t necessarily want to live in.

I'm European and I don't feel that way at all - the very opposite in fact. Care to expand?
The post shows many examples where the prompt explicitly avoids any mentions of copyrighted materials but the generated results includes them regardless.

Did you even read the post?

But also, the argument of 'user responsibility' doesn't hold up on its own regardless (imo).

If I make and sell a toy printer that can only ever produce 3 pictures, and all of them contains copyright materials, would you really say that it's fine and responsibility falls under the end user? And I could sell that printer without any issues?
I don‘t think this is bad science at all.

From the article:

> All incident.io developers are given a MacBook which they use for their development work.

Non-MacBook machines are apparently not an option, for whatever reason. Comparing against other machines would be interesting, but irrelevant.
not in japan.
Did ClosedAi (OpenAi) ever confirm or deny that they trained their models on copyrighted materials?
I did have a bit longer comment typed out but didn't follow through on it. That is to say that yes, for common code (or as a developer told me, stuff you've written before and just can't be bothered to find again), it can knock stuff out in seconds that might take me a few hours, so in that sense it is very impressive. But that's just writing code that's been written many times already, and I'm not a developer anyway. I think it shows that in truth, few of the issues we solve are novel.
Nick Bostrom on superintelligence, human enhancement and existential risk (2015)
San Francisco rapper apologizes for video criticizing Mayor London Breed
I built something similar - https://github.com/mxsjoberg/md2website
It’s one way of getting China to close the gap as they don’t care.
What about when you prompt the model without the intention of creating something infringing, and still get those same characters out in the result?
I know this sort of undermines this post, but just incase anyone is actually in search of a good markdown to wiki generator, use Quartz. (https://quartz.jzhao.xyz)

It's basically Obsidian Publish but free.

(not made by me)
Hidden gems of moreutils
using this analogy, copyright holders want to sue the guitarist for having listened to "Stairway to Heaven"
The robot from Metropolis?
Article is from 5th December and lists 15,000 Gazan casualties, now over 21,000.
The DALL-E/*GPT revolution sounds like the death of personal and corporate property.

That's gonna leave a Marx[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/7WDKivqFOgA?si=nWq5aeKA4dLytX3Z
These don't seem all that difficult to fix to me. Most of the examples are not really generic, but are shorthand descriptions of well-known entities. "Video game plumber" is practically synonymous with "Mario" and anyone that has the slightest familiarity with the character knows this.

Likewise, how difficult is it to just use descriptive tools to describe Mario-like images [1] and then remove these results from anyone prompting for "video game plumber"?

1. The describe command can describe an image in Midjourney. I imagine other AI tools have similar features: https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/describe
We need clearer laws that only apply to Generative AI. Too many comparisons and parallels are being drawn to actual people. "Like what if someone learned how to draw by watching trademarked material, and then accidentally produced it" But these models aren't people and they exist in a category of their own.

I do think it's somewhat trademark infringement by these models, also that it should be allowed and that ultimate responsibility should be on the person using the images in a final work meant for consumption by the general public as stand alone media.
Exactly: the prompts incite the same recall as humans have when seeing that prompt; it is just better than most people are drawing it.
The user didn't create it, the cloud-hosted machine owned by OpenAI, that charges for access, did.

When prompted with 'futuristic robot' and 'italian plumbers'.

So the argument is that if openAI had not used copyrighted and trademarked source material, this wouldn't be happening. It's not transformative as it's reproducing these copyrighted materials and trademarks verbatim.

That's how it makes sense.
This only mentions ChatGPT (and M$ by association) but how would this impact "open" models? Even if their makers are somehow prevented from updating them, the models themselves are already in the wild...?
I don't even think they want to fix it. They just want to see money. Some form of "tax" per prompt or other ridiculous "models".

This is such a nice, profitable opportunity. Much better than pay per view or subscription models for humans.
What do you think you would get?

What I might think is irrelevant. It is the content that the LLM produces that is relevant.
disclaimer: I work on GenAI at google, but views are my own

The question is, how did the model create Mario&Luigi or Scrooge McDuck without training on copyrighted data? It can't just crawl Wikipedia because Fair Use in Wikipedia doesn't constitute Fair use for a commercial AI model.

One possible outcome is more transparency on what datasets were used to train the models.
Do you have data for that?

Occupancy is at record highs in most US cities. It’s simply too little inventory, mostly due to local regulations and NIMBY’s. Most housing is owned by ppl, and a lot of the nation’s net worth is tied up in housing, disencentivising the lowering of house pricing.

You could see it duting covid in NY, people left and inventory went up. Rent and housing came down.

Same now in SF, ppl leave, inventory goes up, prices come down.

It’s not that complex really. Solving it will not be easy though.
I think that's concurrent but didn't affect any ACME-issued certs. There's also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1872371 which appears to affect 177,060 ACME certs issued with dns-01, and the notification timeline there matches what I received that led me to submit this. Looks like they were delegating DNS lookups to a third-party recursive resolver instead of doing them locally. Oops!
Are there any molecular biologists here? I'm curious: what happens to society if/when we figure out protein folding? Hypothetically, how does the world change if we had a 100% accurate way to model quaternary structure from primary structure?
There are good arguments for the copyright infringement belonging to the user, not the model maker, in this thread.

One issue with that is that there is not a reliable way to determine if copyright is being infringed.

Even if models could be used responsibly, there might not be a reasonable expectation that most people will. If infringement is so easy and avoiding it relatively hard.

I'm not sure what legal prescriptions should be made on this basis, but it's an interesting thought.
s/canonicity/standardization/
> I always thought R was a vestigial artifact of the bad old days of computing that had no place in the Real World

Why on Earth did you think that? Because it's not what the hip frontend devs use?
Eh? With a gun to my head I'd say the CCP cares more about censorship than the NYT does about plagiarism, but it's not an easy call. The problems are the same ("training set contains lots of stuff I don't want the LLM to say").
Or another „copyrighted“ droid for that matter, after all it’s a classic.

Same with robot cop, what the hell did you expect to get…

Or Italian plumber with red hat with M on it, that’s just a description of Mario
You're trading the copyright itself. But you're proposal would ban that.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean with your second point. There are several kinds of handler types: `fun`, `ctl`, `final ctl`, `raw ctl`. The implementor of the handlers is restricted to what these handler types allow. You can implement both generator traversal and exception throwing in this system.
This talk mentions other reasons for the move away from the magrittr pipe, apparently it was very difficult to debug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eDHNVceCU&t=1h08m33s
> At least in the Netherlands it's extremely difficult to fire someone (which is a good thing).

In your experience, has this led to more careful hiring?

One big downside I've seen at some companies in the US is that its so easy to fire someone that companies can tend to hire whoever walks in the door. Especially at larger and publicly traded companies, it can often be more important to fill seats and show company growth when times are good and fire by the thousands at the first sign of any economic issues coming ahead.

I don't personally mind it being easy for a company to fire someone as long as that situation is clear before accepting a job, but it would be interesting if we have clear examples of better hiring practices when the employee can't be fired easily.
I love this service. Happy customer!
Yes most of these layoffs are opportunistic and some are stock market based, but let’s not forget a couple years ago the hiring was too.

“Free” money on top of already very cheap money for +10 years and a couple of “new normals/this will never be the same” hype trends made a huge hiring frenzy possible.

Now with big boy borrow rates this is both unsustainable and a good opportunity for the C suites to “shine” and get paid.
Updated six programming ebooks, created four interactive TUI apps for exercises, wrote blog posts, recorded YouTube videos, newsletter prospered, read 100+ novels, and so on. Had a great year in terms of ebook sales despite worries over AI tools.

Year in perspective: https://learnbyexample.github.io/2023-year-in-perspective/