skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, this is the Guardian reporting on their own (by way of The Observer) poll.

Further down the article you can piece together most people seem to have given “I don’t know” answers given the low numbers for both answers on Boolean questions.

I wouldn’t take this seriously as representative of the population at large.

That said, and more concerningly, you could also find that most Brexiteers might agree with this poll entirely and would still do it all over again “to teach Brussels a lesson” whatever they think that means.
You're Gonna Write A Migration For This When the PM Asks For Batch Operations On Subtrees isn't as catchy, I suppose.
I feel like there’s no way 1 will fly. Very soon ai and humans will explicitly have to follow different laws because they operate very differently.
Which environmental activists are saying that? That's a pretty specific claim.
Louis is great. I really appreciate his candor.

I'm always amused at how petty trillion dollar companies can be. Amazon killed his 7yr old affiliate account days after his first video critical of them. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiKflg8Uko4
>The "public interest" is served by exposing corrupt politicians

What is the corruption here?
I'm not even talking about interacting. They even try to avoid sitting next to dirty foreigners on the bus or train.

Don't make excuses for racism.
I.e. the fraud isn't made worse by the fact it was turned into donations

Not sure how that's true. If he scammed a bunch of people to buy a boat, that's one thing. If he scammed people and then directly influenced a very close election, that seems a little worse?
> "Generative AI" is obviously copyright infringement

You're saying this as a matter of fact when it's not clear at all. We'll see what happens with the NYT case because it touches on all the major points.

It's gonna call into question all web scraping and indexing because they're also distillations of copyrighted content in the same manner.
Ask HN: In 2024, become an expert in Docker or Podman?
I'm a DevOps and need to up my container game. I plan to become an expert in Docker but Podman is a serious contender. It looks like Podman might have a bright future since Red Hat is investing a lot of money in it while Docker is still scratching their heads looking for a business model that the community won't reject. Podman seems to have a better financial future outlook since it's subsidized by Red Hat's OpenShift strategy.

Although I know Docker is the "standandard" and Podman sometimes has incompatibilities with Docker which it shouldn't have.

HN folks seem to prefer Podman instead of Docker.

What's the smartest choice here? Invest my time to become an expert in Docker or Podman?
> Android rules except in one aspect - battery life.

This is like saying Windows is better than Linux for battery life, which is obviously ridiculous because it's primarily about the hardware, not software. Put Android on Apple's excellent silicon and watch how suddenly "Android" has really good battery life.

Anyway, both are disgusting passive consumption oriented walled gardens, and phones in general are terrible computers as software goes.
I agree that populism is a threat to democracy and also that the obvious potential solutions are less than ideal. It’s a tough problem, and one I worry about in the United States.

It’s hard to convince people that are pissed off about their lot in life that the person telling them they can fix all of their problems if they were only elected may not have their best interests in mind, or that their ‘solutions’ are not at all practical, or that they’re just interested in power and don’t plan to fix anything.

I guess I just don’t understand how anyone gets emotionally invested in a politician.
you underestimate timing / luck, and the overwhelming draw of a ponzi scheme.

the main thing he needed was the audacity.. chutzpah... effrontery to ignore the consequences and commit whole heartedly.

He was always going to get caught, and he ignored that.
Because the Britons got betrayed on the biggest issue - immigration. The powers that be just replaced the immigrants with different kinds. It seems that there is nothing the native population of a western country can do to stem the inflow of foreigners even when the ruling people have clear mandate - like in Italy and UK.
Looking at the list of specific points, it really just seems like most people voted “bad impact” down the line, even for things like “the NHS” and “control over immigration.” I’m not British, but surely for these it would be more accurate to say “no impact” or so?
There are basically no benefits unless you are very very rich and knew what was coming far enough in advance for some convoluted disaster capitalism.

Most reasonable non thick people were either against it to start with, or have since realised they've been misled.
I realize you're trying to be cute, but my argument isn't "more curation is always better." My argument is, "if you're going to do curation anyway, you might as well acknowledge as such and maybe even be intentional about it."

Curation is a means to an end, not an end itself. And rewriting history on main would violate the obvious rule of not rewriting history that you collaborate with others on.

If you're genuinely curious, see my other comments in this thread. That should clarify things.
It's a real problem. I'm from NL where we just voted one of the worst assholes in dutch politics to the top spot, and I'm still in partial denial about it. "never again"... unless of course we do it again.

The harder problem is what to do about it? Democracy doesn't guarantee 'good outcomes' it only guarantees 'somewhat supported outcomes'.
If you plug in the numbers into a sample size calculator you will find that a sample size of 2000 enables you to get an estimate within 5% of the true value 99.999% of the time for an infinite population.

So, not exactly small, no.

https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html
A minister post to find and pursue the opportunities for Brexit was created to showcase the benefits and the entire office has come up with nothing of note, most of the benefits were possible within the EU already.
It's less of a problem than not having electricity because there's no wind or it's night.

And with EVs the demand is going to massively increase.

It's good to have as much renewables as possible but it's also very needed and useful to have Hinkley C.
The article does not mention napster, where did this reference come from?
Related ongoing thread:

NY times is asking that all LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38816944 - Dec 2023 (93 comments)

Also:

NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790255 - Dec 2023 (870 comments)

NYT sues OpenAI, Microsoft over 'millions of articles' used to train ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784194 - Dec 2023 (84 comments)

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781941 - Dec 2023 (861 comments)

The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781863 - Dec 2023 (11 comments)
As far as I remember, it works with git commit just fine. It's also far from being unknown.
This is clearly not true in the desert.
My point is that say every artist gets some small token payment once, and then what? That's not enough to live on, so we're right back to square one and we've solved nothing.

Incidentally yes, training AI on AI output will work fine, as long as you have a signal of quality. For example, upvotes in a subreddit would work fine. But that's not crucial to my point, which is that what OP is asking for will accomplish exactly nothing.
> That’s a very American viewpoint.

Not really. It's the viewpoint of most cultures throughout history.

> I think individualism should be punished.I think individualism should be punished.

Individualism allows for innovation and creativity.

> I nearly had a panic attack taking the New York subway the other day because of all the individualism.

This is a shame. Were you raised in Japan?
> Lonestar, a host name which pointed to a Cray T3E

Lonestar5 was a Cray again. Currently Lonestar6 is an oil-immersion AMD Milan cluster with A100 GPUs. The times, they never stand still.
Or if you want to use scrcpy, which I find indispensable.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
This was a massive infowar against the whole country. There are tons of gullible people to 'convince' using their own prejudice, and there were quite a few people who saw it as a quick rise to power -- most of these people did very well with it as well!

The goal was never in doubt really, and it was never the 'good of the country', or its people.
I replied to their comment because it was related, but where do you get the impression it is not supportive?
I’m responding to the idiots poking holes in that claim.

It's funny when you don't read carefully.
Donating isn't a crime. The charges that will never see the light of day in a court are for campaign finance violations and bribery, which are crimes - and not just on behalf of the 'sender.'
Yep. And the moment sales drop, then they say "Millenials/GenZ are shunning the American dream due to changing tastes", not because the cost ratio has become ridiculous,
Yeah, and it's not like his crimes were stealing money, with where the money went being largely incidental to the theft.
you don't have to make money off it, you just can't publish it, except as a parody or commentary or possibly a tutorial on how to draw mario if the judge is having a good day

but "making money = infringement" is folk wisdom. you could certainly say making money attracts attention and increases likelihood of legal action
is it possible you create a vector index on the open documents and that index basically has searchable value but doesn't leak anything vital? if it were just English you were searching for, then it wouldn't need encryption.
Vast majority of Gaza residents have never had the chance to vote for anyone. The last elections were 2006, vast majority are under aged 35 and thus too young to vote in 2006.
Here's a breakdown of one of them: https://gizmodo.com/nytimes-bizarre-softball-article-ftx-sam...

It would be more accurate to say that the NYT has been far too eager to positively misrepresent and run interference for crypto in general, so of course the face of crypto got his fair share of that for a couple of years.
Not quite. Hamas rules the Gaza strip only and even this isn't 100% grass roots. They used to get strong backing from Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
To the last point, in a few days part of Canada and the UK’s special deal around cheese will expire and UK cheese will become more expensive and the UK’s quota will go to EU countries that will be able to export more to Canada.

Overly beneficial trade deals are harder to come by for the UK than they thought because outside the EU they’re a minor market with little clout.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/british-cheese-in-canad...
> Three of his former close friends and colleagues, including his ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against him in hopes of reducing their own sentences.

This kind of deal feels a bit like torture, or duress at least.
The Google 0-day all Infostealer groups are exploiting
> There are other terms the authors could use: oligopoly, oligarchy, inverted totalitarianism, plutocracy, soft despotism, rent-seeking.

Those are motivations behind centralisation, but they won't all apply to all attempts at centralisation. There may be some situations where none of those particular motivations are the apparent reason behind a particular attempt at centralisation.[0]

Using any one motivation, rather than the descriptive "centralisation", to describe the phenomena will necessarily miss instances of centralisation that the discussion should apply to. Using a long list of motivations every time would be unwieldy, and could still miss instances that should be referenced.

[0] e.g. Signal https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
I get what you're saying, but the reality is that most researchers aren't any more code literate than the average person. Which is to say, they know just enough to make things worse. Hopefully those errors are removed before publication, but in my experience, they are not. Especially when it comes to coding.

Also, a larger point is that this was fundamental research. A very hard thing. You're supposed to be getting it wrong most of the time. Then when you think you've got it right, you try to publish. Then you hope the reviewers actually read anything you wrote and catch all the errors [0]. But a lot of the time, errors sneak through and really only get discovered after a few years/decades. That's fine in the end, as science is a 'strongest-link' system where we really only care about the big and correct discoveries. 'Weak-link' systems are the opposite, they are governed by the small little falsehoods and errors.

[0] Very unlikely, reviews almost always only review to see if the paper is of a high enough quality for the journal to include. I want to be clear on this point: Reviewers do not re-do experiments and typically do not go back through your math, let alone the code you used. Now, each field is different and has different standards, and those vary wildly. But generally, reviewers aren't there to make sure the science is right.
> I seriously don't understand the issue.

You don't understand it because it doesn't impact you?

I keep an eye on my subscriptions too, mainly because my banking app automatically categorises outgoings so they are easy to keep track of.

It is easy for subscriptions to pile up though, at one point last year I had three subscriptions to different on-demand training and book repositories. I realised I hadn't used them for three months and cancelled them all.

Many gyms relie on subscribers not using the facilities, they are commonly oversubscribed. Cancelling something like a gym subscription, or a meditation app has some amount of guilt associated with it too, like you failed to achieve what you imagined when you first signed up.
None whatsoever. Brexit has been a disaster, especially for Wales which received substantial EU funding.
They may be, but are this many people really looking up details about 2017's XXX: Return of Xander Cage? "XXX" makes a couple other appearances on the list, so I'm inclined to believe there really is a good amount of traffic being directed to Wikipedia by accident from search users.
Why use this form of for when you can just use seq and it works in any shell including fish?
I am interested in how you are seeing that working. Are you imagining neighbourhoods would maintain tens of thousands of street outlets and pay for the electricity too? Many people have to park on the street away from their houses, so how do you decide who to charge for it? Smart meters would be a disaster. Just another privatized rent seeking apparatus waiting to turn the screws, and if it public then our income taxes shelling out for private car owners yet again. I don't think city's own taxes are likely to afford such a network, depends on the city of course. But if we are talking about mass adoption then it has to work for poorer neighborhoods, such places struggle to keep the roads maintained let alone a charging network that covers every parking space.

Sorry I hope I am not being too dismissive, I am interested in if you have thought some of it through and have answers.
I was super ambitious early in my career then lost all belief in the mission of any company.

I’ve since spent decades seeking startup success with only mildly good results sometimes, never anything that could be said to be a big win.

I feel like I have no ambition at all and yet I continue to work incredibly hard.
As long as you have a decent sample set, which the reputable polling companies do.
Yet fair use can trump the owner's prohibitions. Your ISP can cache copyrighted materials, storing and reproducing them for other customers. Your browser stores the copyrighted images in your cache and 'reproduces' them if you browse the same page again.

It's a complicated area, not clear cut at all
There's a difference in punishing individual expression and freedom, and ignoring something bad going on. Cultures like Japan's punish people for wanting to veer away from the family expectations/role in any way. It's ridiculous and anachronistic.
Should the NYT not sue https://commoncrawl.org/ ? OpenAI just used the data from commoncrawl for training.
I don't think it makes the scam worse.

For example, imagine this was the test case that people wanted to push on campaign finance reform. Politicians finally give in and say "yeah you know you're right, this was really wrong. From now on, funding campaigns via dark money channels with stolen money is punishable by death."

Is campaign finance fixed? Did we make any meaningful progress on any actually meaningful problem?
As a German enjoying my rights by living in another EU country I can only say: The UK is welcome to come back, the sooner the better.
I wonder how many dormant subscribers those services have. I find it hard to believe that they'll have many.

They are not like a gym where it's work to use. Instead, they are exactly the opposite.
A bunch of rich people are raiding a little bit of work, each, from a whole bunch of people, then walling it off so they can get richer.

I’d not have a problem with this, personally, if their models were as available as the stuff they took from others. Instead it’s take, take, take… now wait a minute, that pile of loot I stole is mine!
Rejoining the Customs Union and the Single Market would be pretty straightforward and agreeable to the EU. Of course it would mean regulation without representation - but play silly games, win silly prizes.
Even something you research is not guaranteed to match your order due to comingling. I personally stopped using Aamzon altogether even if some things are okay, this company does not deserve my trust at all..
Would you happen to have a sample / example of this technique? I'd like to explore it.
I'm not sure if the American prosecutors are legally bound to the agreed terms, but pragmatically, you want to respect the agreement for the sake of potential future extraditions. If you break the terms today, the Bahamas aren't going to go to war over that with you, but they may deny future extradition requests.
It seems likely that a majority has been against Brexit before, during and after the vote. But that's democratically irrelevant since a lot of them chose not to vote.
A lot of Brexit politics was about immigration: how EU rules mean you cannot bar any European from entering and reading, except in extreme circumstances. And indeed, UK is much more international than many European peers.

But what happened post-Brexit is that (legal) immigration numbers are at all time high. There is a high fraction of low skilled immigrants from outside EU, often with questionable English and, well, looking different - which matters to some people. My point isn't to disparage hard working people, but that it's very visible.

So that's a major Brexit pledge gone completely awry. I don't think there is anything Brexit-related that made migration control objectively harder, only that the control failed. Although what also happened, not unrelated, is that high-skilled immigrants from EU largely left, because post-Brexit UK is not very attractive to Europeans. This is very perceptible especially in health care, where shortages of doctors and nurses are now quite scary.

And the immigration is so high in then because UK has always had labour shortages, patched by foreigners. It's only the country of origin that changed.
The concepts are the same and I'm not sure deep knowledge of any particular tool is that valuable. The future definitely seems to be containerd or Podman.
It’s not about hard/easy, it’s the supported devices. I spend very little on phones (current one is a OnePlus Nord, which I bought for 250€) as I don’t like to use them.
There’s loads. Genealogy companies (find your unknown link to European citizen through Great Uncle Norris), immigration lawyers, people working for GB news…
Did you read the linked article? It raises some fantastic points and questions, in a healthy scientific manner.

Your laundry list of weather events over a 12 month period is nothing unusual given that you can look back n years or decades and find similarly active or eventful seasons.

What are your thoughts on the section about lag in proxy records?
It's made a big difference with the Africans and similar arriving in dinghies from France. Under the EU we could send them back to France. Now no.
> If you have a problem involving natural language data

That's a big "if", isn't it? We're seeing claims like "The future is an LLM at the front of just about everything: “Human” is the new programming language"[1] but so far that's not panning out, and it seems really dubious. Natural language seems like an absolutely atrocious user interface. As a machine operator, I'm going to use levers, wheels, and buttons to control the machine. As a computer programmer I'm going to use programming languages to control the machine. I'm not going to speak English to it.

So, ok, this marks an advance in NLP. How do we get from there to "omg it's gonna change everything!!!1111oneeleven"

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-ceo-we-bet-the-farm...
As long as the sample is representative, of course.

2000 does seem small enough that it would be hard to ensure no bias creeps in.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently.

It seems like they’ve accelerated our capabilities- previously tiresome and difficult-to-automate things are easier- but have done very little for our fundamental understanding. We have a tool, but cannot dissect it and explain how it fits together. LLM’a themselves don’t appear (happy to be wrong here) to actually have improved our understanding our NLP and associated theory. Yeah, it can parse a sentence and bang out some JSON/sql/mid-tier-essay, but these models (so far) aren’t helping us figure out how and why, and I think that understanding is critical to progress further. Anthropic seems to be trying to push a bit further on that front at least, but for all we know, they might just turn into another scummy OpenAI on us.
Your great analogy provoked a thought, and at risk of taking it too seriously:

The bridge you describe sounds like one that was built and would be maintained in a more organic way. If we repaired more, we'd perhaps have more objects built like this. And we'd in turn learn much more about interactions between materials, and have a larger body of knowledge (and maybe folk wisdom) about objects built with such interactions.

But yes, more risk and uncertainty, which is intolerable in the current culture (though I suspect it could become more tolerable if our energy systems and supply chains start to break down, and the current calculus stops making sense)
"see: Ayn Rand."

I'd have bet on that if it weren't a certainty—no good if bookies' odds were only even money. :-)

Hayek, von Mises and Friedman were friends I assume?
My reading is that at each generation step they ordered all possible next words by the probability assigned to them by the model and recorded the index of the true next word (so if the model was very good at predicting Harry Potter their indices would mostly be 0, 0, 0, ...).