skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with Google is it is super trivial to exclude your text - tag on page, header on server, etc.. So all the conversations about google "stealing" context always seemed pretty silly to me.

Compared to that AI offers no way to opt out, which is a big difference.
If by "reasonably well" you mean 12-year-old kids working on slave labor assembly lines, I suppose.
This isn’t an appeal. There’s no general ability to submit amicus briefs. Well, there is a way to, but trial courts ignore them (as they should, because this is a case between specific parties, and unless someone has some sort of privity making them worth hearing from, outside opinions are just noise).
>shitty thing if Germany forced the EU to slap tarrifs on imported chinese cars

That's not going to happen. The German industry itself doesn't support protectionism because virtually all carmakers are heavily invested in the Chinese market both for its consumers and for manufacturing.

Audi last year alone invested 3 billion in a new factory in Changchun[1] together with FAW. Anti-subsidy investigations from the EU are not going to result in any major trade issues.

[1]https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/press-releases/cornersto...
I, a human, can read a copyrighted work and then write a new work and own the copyright on that new work as long as it is not substantially the same.
I disagree also, but for a different reason. People are justifiably put off by the lack of decent charging infrastructure in the U.S. for all but Tesla. Lot's of people want a car that is their daily driver that can also drive the kids to grandma's without a lot of hassle.
Sir Humphry Davy’s unpublished poetry found in notebooks
> He is famous for discovering elements of the periodic table, for inventing a lamp in 1815 that would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of miners and as an electrochemical pioneer. But it is the unpublished poetry of the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy – and the intriguing connections between his poems and scientific breakthroughs – that is now electrifying academics.
This thread is already full of silly archetypes and over generalizations not borne out by the reality. With that in mind: When you say drug using, “curious hacker mentality” all I can think of is Eric Raymond and the implication that this wizard of fetchmail is just too smart to work with the boring likes of von Neumann, Turing and Shannon, Tao, etc.

> Not being able to partake in THC consumption EVER

The all caps tickles me. I don’t think this is a huge sacrifice outside some limited circles. Some of the smartest people are ethical vegetarians.
Switches are really only for enumerated/integral types, where a single variable can take on a small number of interesting values. Some if-else situations don't translate to switch-case at all, though. One such is when you're faced with decision tree logic, involving multiple variables. Another occurs when you need to (or are stuck with) matching various strings.
tata nexon at $20k
> Are you trying to say that no one is entitled to their own inventions?

The subject of this thread is copyright, not patents. Though I do believe all intellectual property is bogus (including trademark, which repealing would limit the influence that would be required for the capitalist hellhole you mention), I feel the most strongly so about copyright, which has nothing to do with inventions.
Analog circuits still have finite bandwidth and rise/response times. The engineering trade-offs are more complicated than the gp presents.

The big but mixed advantage of an analog control loop or signal processing chain is "no software".

There's no real reason to do simulations on an analog computer today, though I think using one for model-in-the-loop would be fun, and somebody is probably doing it somewhere.
Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
The people who read the FT usually pay for it. Most of these LLMs are trained on a set of pirated content that they didn't pay for - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llam...

Most copyrighted works will specifically say that the customer / user is prohibited from storing and reproducing those works.
The LLM model is fixed somewhere in a tangible medium and it (allegedly) includes an unlicensed copy of a copyrighted work. The LLM spitting that out to users is (allegedly) both an infringement and evidence the model itself is infringing.
The absurdity of ticketing driverless vehicles makes it all the more clear that American police will lobby hard in favor of it
And LLMs can do meaningful research? Or even consistently produce meaningful output without every hallucinating?
"A few hundred million dollars" is not chump change to any organization; especially one that is in its growth phase. They raised $300M [1] in their last round so that would wipe out the all of the investment money they brought in.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/openai-funding-valuation-c...
Impounding the vehicles would punish the owners for what the manufacturer did. We definitely shouldn't do that.
Seems like a “whatabout” comment - lame
What license requires attribution to read and understand the code? Or to use techniques from code for totally different purposes, embodied in different code?

You may have a point for verbatim regurgitation of code, but I’m having a hard time seeing a violation in ingestion code and learning how it works.
In your account you can set showdead=yes which makes you see all the [flagged] comments. If you see a pattern (same users) then it might be worth sending that to the moderators (contact link in the footer of the page).

I've seen user accounts with AI behavior in comments, also in submissions, also as a business even ("AI powered marketing agency posting to social media"). It's tiny compared to regular spam. And hopefully (with showdead=no) you don't see a lot of spam as user flag it.
I'm surprised it took this long for a lawsuite to emerge.

Interestingly, I think this going through would actually help the big players (Google/MS/Apple) a lot in the medium term. They sit on huge amounts of training data from their own services and also have the money to acquire copyrighted material, while everyone else would have to build on datasets under a permissive license (like Wikipedia), since scraped data would be a minefield.
We all "train" ourselves on copyrighted materials and later use / or not gained knowledge for our own benefit be it financial or pleasure.

They're just on a hunt for some extra money.
Can you provide a source about his sentencing?
It’s not about punishing him. It’s about bringing to light the names of the corrupt politicians.
This is a loosing battle and a dying mentality. By enforcing values they may not agree with, you run the risk of alienating yourself from your family.

Why not find other activities you can enjoy with your family instead of trying to limit something that is inexpensive and not harmful in the long run?
anabrid, the computer behind THAT was funded by the German govt's DARPA:

https://www.sprind.org/en/projects/ulmann/
Same here, but IMO, if company believes that such software is useful (and they wouldn't be using it if company believed otherwise), then why do they often (always?) include node_modules in exclusion rules? After all, node_modules usually contains a lot of untrusted code/executables
As they should, because there’s no such thing as “your own well.” A well lets you pump water from a shared aquifer. If 100 parcels of land were on one aquifer and one resident pumped all of it, leaving none for anyone else, it would be a misleading lie to say they were just pumping “their own well.”
Yeah it's just reliably the top 1 or 2 comments on anything related to SBF as well as being discussed in no fewer than 10 articles in a small publication called the New York Times.
Don't worry, some of the politicians who received money stolen from regular people have verbally committed to donating the same amount of money to their own nonprofits.
He donated to both sides, the objective seems to have been to influence crypto policy and regulation.
TL;DR: Android only needs winusb to work, before Windows 8 (2012) windows only used Vendor ID and Product ID to decide what driver to load, so you had to install a new .inf driver file for every new device. Newer versions ask the device for a Microsoft OS Descriptors (MOD) payload that tell windows what drivers to load, usually winusb and MTP. The devices need to support this, the author says the pixels started supporting this since the Pixel 2 (2017).
I think royalty and licensing fees are more likely. Some formula will be invented to calculate the value of the training data, and model makers will have to pay that out. But that only works for people with the ability to leverage the legal system. The rest of us will get told to pound sand.

NYT and similar publishers are just looking for a new income stream. Rent seeking in the new AI age will probably be more profitable than producing new content.
If it’s illegal to make any material gain off skills learned through other people’s work, we’re all criminals.
That was then, this is now. Huge amounts of recent tech hiring were driven by barrel-bottom interest rates and massive stock inflation as people everywhere hedged during covid. The hikes ended the gravy train to a limited degree.
I'm mildly surprised that the compiler seems to compile the code so literally so that the binary blows up like that with a linear runtime as well. I would've guessed that for such a straight-line execution on one of the simplest mathematical operations to yield a boolean, a modern highly-optimizing compiler would've done something with it.

What would it take to make the compiler optimize this code meaningfully?
Typically the output of an LLM is a classifier that gives scores reflecting the "best" next token, for some measure of best. You can deterministically just take the highest score or you can randomly sample in a way that makes it more likely to get a token with a higher score, according to different schemes. The point is that this all rests in the performance of the output classifier layer.

From my skim, this proposes to inject randomness throughout the model (as opposed to just during sampling the classifier output) which according to the author (I'm paraphrasing) lets the full power of the model be used to make the most of that randomness, instead of just jittering the output. So the output is still random but it's a function of random noise being added through the model layers instead of just at the output, supposedly demonstrating better properties. I have no opinion about it as I haven't studied it.
Personal use of copywritten material is fine - there is no breach of copyright when you download a picture from Google for yourself.

If you use it commercially then there is breach.

Uploading copywritten content is a breach of copyright as well, even without commercial use.

Google/Facebook are hosting and giving access to a bunch of media, which might or might not be copywritten - it's the individuals problem.They make.money from ads, not from the content.

AI companies stole copywritten media to train their commercial LLM, sell them or their products and make profit.

I don't think it's the same.
"Natural evolution stopped working"

You do realize that "natural evolution" doesn't happen within time scales of less than a single generation, right? The environment can change faster than that.
>So your argument is that the tool running remotely as a service somehow makes it different from one running on your local computer?

no, my argument is that the tool being run by midjourney makes them liable for how it is operation. because it's their model, their program, their computer. They are responsible at every level.

>So if someone copies the contents of a novel into Google Docs, Google is liable for their copyright infringement, but if they paste it into Word running on their computer, all of the liability is on them?

not sure why you think that's relevant, but yes google is liable for copyright infringement facilitated by their platform. that's why if you upload a full-length video to youtube and the rights-holder posts a DMCA, google will delist or delete your video.

> At what point does the liability shift? What if all of the functionality is implemented in JavaScript in the browser, rather than running on someone else's server?

why the fuck would javascript change anything?

>I don't think the situation is nearly as cut and dry as you make it out to be.

it really is, there are well-established precedents for how this works and it's only not "cut and dry" if you arbitrarily consider AI startups to be exempt from the same rules that apply to everybody else.
I'm still not really sure what gamer gate was or who the Internet historian is
That plays a major role as well. It's usually 50% charging infrastructure and 50% cost.
Read about the 'fair use' doctrine and put yourself in the shoes of someone who is training a model, and see if you can argue, from their perspective, why it should be allowed.
I'm going back to FRAMESETs :V

Responsive UI like its 1996!
Agreed. This is why I rewrite history so I curate commits so that I have only 1 commit in main ever. You’re already doing curation, I just do a little more!
the answer obviously is you're getting a service contract and the company will claim you're responsible 99.9% of the time.

the best of capitalism will definitely happen.
Well, the way I've seen it explained, seems like it's similar to being able to dereference some object locally to read a value (observation) but not having access to that global state between the two variables to write it (we don't know yet at least).

The problem being that dereferencing (observing) is a mutating operation.

So, maybe we will find something some day.
A bit of a professional deformation :o)

Science evolves.
I'm the same way. Recently after a lot of painful effort, at a healthy weight after a lifetime of overweight/obesity, but at what cost to my mental health?
I made a little portrait frame and MCU that draws Conway's Life.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09CTQ37DB (I got the 16x16 for $16). Another <$10 for the ESP32. A soldering iron ($40 for a pinecil), $verylittle for solder and hook up wire. In my case, a 3D printer ($500) plus filament ($20), and some design software ($500/year, because Fusion 360 expensive).
I do the exact same thing and couldn't imagine using YouTube another way.

YouTube sometimes hides the watch later option, which is getting annoying (it only shows up at certain screen widths now on non-app), but I can usually find a way (even if I have to resort to emailing the URL, then later dropping it in a wider browser window on my desktop.

(Only difference is I actually drag longer videos towards the top of the list since they can sit there a while until I get a few minutes to actually watch them).
Isn’t this the case already with the Industrial Revolution where we began mass-producing (mostly) better day-to-day utility items rather than getting from a specific craftsman?

I’d think that the clothing industry went through something similar already.
> whilst avoiding that "auto-mode"

what do you mean by this?
The query execution might be commodity, but the purchasers will still need to store their data somewhere, and this somewhere will need to be able to service the bandwidth and requirements of the query execution providers.
Possibly yes, but I'm not sure how to do that on a per plugin basis, as it would otherwise break modern ones with larger GUIs.
Why do you think it is legal to train students on copyrighted material? Copyright is supposed to protect from unauthorized reproduction, not unauthorized learning. That the NY Times is able to show some verbatim reproduction, it is a real legal issue, but that should not be extended to training generally.
I would love a quickest path between two words. For example between color and colour
Slack does exactly this, but then it makes business sense for both parties because they can tell a company "buy licenses for all your employees, but don't worry we won't charge you if they send less than N messages a month". When dealing with individual consumers the service doesn't really have any incentive not to charge you.
I’m not sure if I have any subscriptions or not. I don’t subscribe to Netflix or Spotify or the like. But isn’t my internet bill, cell phone bill, my water bill, my electric bill, etc. basically a subscription?
"I call on everyone to defend my corporation, clearly the good guys, against the new York times, clearly the bad guys."

Just your usual smiling trendy unkempt beard sociopath corporate marketer in post-corporate business casual trying to hide as a folksy warrior of the people.

Or maybe he's an AI generated fuckface profile that cranks out ai generated propaganda for the AI corporation. Well, if he's real he should be prepared to be replaced by one soon, because word salad bullshittery is incontrovertibly the BEST thing llms are capable of.
This was a waste of my time to read.

Freezing the first version of an API forever and ever is how you wind up with software with bugs that can never get fixed.
seems that site is basic html, not plain text, isn't it ?
We do have plenty of other activities, which is part of the reason it would make sense to pay less for streaming services that we use periodically.

What makes you say this will alienate the family? Should I give up whenever my values for raising my children are not 100% endorsed by others?
Huh! Interesting that the extraditing country has that sort of right. Curious if that's a right or more of a courtesy/norm?
That worked great for natural gas from Russia…
"they knew so much, and understood so little"
Nuburu Appoints John Bolton to Its Board of Directors
What if you produce a substantially similar work ?

Who owns the copyright then ?
The best version of their tech was probably around 2016.
"rename" shares the same fate, there are several implantations, completely different from each other
I don't find CTEs particularly fun, copying and pasting the whole tower of CTEs into another SQL window to debug the one I'm interested in is decidedly not a form of entertainment I pursue.
"bugs that can never get fixed"

means

"Features that can never change"
I don't think so no. I've had some artists delete albums i've purchased and then been unable to redownload them.
Eurostar cancels all trains today after Thames tunnel floods
*paid
Humans mostly don't have the ability to reproduce articles verbatim years later and those that can certainly don't have the capacity to serve copies and derivatives to the entire free world ... and even if they did they would quote and paraphrase selectively and non-competitively with attribution to the source. LLMs do all the functions humans can't with none of the guardrails or attribution.
A tank is the safest vehicle for little Ada!
It's not so much that it's avoided entirely, just that the narrative has been about the corruption of the crypto industry and SBF himself and not what the money was used for and what that indicates about the political system as a whole.
Thankfully 'full Stalin' is a bit of an exaggeration. Stalin's great purge killed a million or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

For what it's worth the BBC and Reuters articles on this suggest it's cracking down or corruption rather than on people leaking to the US, though I guess none of them really know.
Isn’t that a massive misunderstanding of LLMs? If I have infinite monkeys and typewriters, that does not mean the typewriters (or monkeys) contain copyrighted text.

LLMs are basically an optimization of infinite monkeys using statistics.

I can see how outputs can be infringing copyright, but I’m having a very hard time seeing how the weights can be. It feels like saying a musician is infringing copyright if they understand a song well enough to be able to create an infringing reproduction, even if they don’t.
Followed, hopefully, by publishing that info so it's not lost to the dustbin of time

Where I throw stones at myself is that I have a "perfect is the enemy of good" problem in that I don't publish writeups that are incomplete, because I keep hoping that if I just spend more holidays banging on it then I'll figure out why the parser works most of the time
This is true and I see it with cops and free speech as well. Everyone loves to hate cops… until they need them. Everyone wants to defund the police… until they are a victim of crime. Everyone wants to enforce certain speech patterns… until it affects them
Exactly this. If I read a blog summary of a paywalled article that enhances my knowledge and I use it to do my day job better, did I infringe on the original copyright?
A bold national initiative would be to require that any new or renovated parking space, public or private, include at least one power outlet dedicated to that space. Not necessarily a full charging station -- just a regular 120V/15A power outlet.

Everyone parks their car at night. If parking anywhere for eight hours meant getting another day of driving, then buying and operating an EV would be feasible for absolutely anyone. The market would sort out the rest.

Assumptions/facts: average new car price in 2023 is $35,000; Tesla Model 3 is $39,000; 1,800 watts from standard outlet; 300 watts/mile; average daily driving distance 37 miles; US EVs continue trend toward NACS plug adoption; Tesla continues buildout of fast-charging network for long-range driving.
From the article:

"His sentencing has been set for 28 March."
Don’t you get better single core performance in m3 pro? Iirc it has stronger performance and efficiency cores as well.
who is liable in case of a self-driving car causes an accident? Is the liability any different between an accident and a potential accident (ie ticket) ?

I for one do not buy the argument that the intent to break the law is not there. To understand why this is the case: imagine a really fast self driving car that enters the runway at an airport. It speeds up as it attempts to take off. It does not take off and in the process - best case - causes delay for everyone using the airport. Now, I could argue that this car is a plane and it was in fact NOT programmed to NOT take off. Therefore everything is good.

In my opinion: self-driving cars do not belong on the road unless there are real consequences to their screw ups. Right now it's a beta test where you might just lose your life and nobody is going to be held accountable.
I don't think you can have automated retry because if the application logic lives outside the database and is not subject to its transaction processing (which is the common programming pattern today, I think), the database has to arrange for a re-run of that logic if any of the observed database state changes (such as the followers_count returned from the SELECT statement in the example). This means that the code implementing the application code has to be ready to execute multiple times without ill effects, and application programmers need to be aware of that.
The GPL also explicitly forbids you from imposing any additional restrictions on the rights to redistribute the code you provide.

I think the main reason the requirement to publish the sources is limited to the person who receives the binary is simply practical. For one, there is basically no way to sue as a third party to a contract - even if the contract required you to publish all of your code openly, someone who didn't receive the binary can't really have standing to sue if you just don't publish it. Also, at the time the GPL was created, sending source code carried some measurable cost, so making it public would have been at least mildly expensive.
> What license requires attribution to read and understand the code?

BSD, MIT, several others. Without a license you cannot read the code.
I remember being annoyed at this. However, this was a solved problem a long time ago — sometime after I switched to macOS and stopped paying attention to the Windows side of things, there started appearing universal ADB drivers.