skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well we live in a world where cryptographic methods exist so solving identification and attribution is theoretically possible without any laws.
The treads can come close together if the rear wheels lock up and the car twists/drifts, but the pattern in the sign is still “practically” impossible. Eg I can’t think of any movement a car could realistically do to make that pattern except maybe if the driver pulled the handbrake on then the car was buffeted by a tornado in random directions.
Good News in 2023 (you might have missed) [video]
Record labels aren't generally considered as "creators" of music, although they sometimes are to some extent.

And Disney bought most of its iconic properties, it didn't build them inhouse.
So no more capitalism. Beware slippery slopes.
No, everybody please switch to Chrome and then sue Google for creating a browser monopoly. Firefox and Mozilla are paid by Google only to prevent this from happening.
I probably used the wrong words, buy instead of copyright maybe I mean exactly ownership of information, that is, intellectual property.
> actually volunteering or working on problems.

This is a huge problem for communities. The same people that you'd want to run the local kids hockey association or sewer board are drowning in work.

I think the fundamental problem is that society has become to competitive, optimized and effective for our own good.

Like, you'd want the genius entrepreneur guy to run a pub, not some 100 million dollar tech company.

You notice that when visiting poorer countries, that normal people have restaurants and that they are way better. Where as restaurants where I live are run by shady bad people to a big extent -- and by bad people I mean both in a moral sense and a practical sense.
Memes are the propaganda device of the 21st century.

I remember the White House under Obama studied how to instrumentalize them, and their instrumentalization got much worse during Trump. There is quite a bit of persuassive science behind them.

Memes do not meme well.
One wishes.
The internet we live in is the one shaped by the MPAA and RIAA.

I have nothing against creators, they deserve to get paid.

For what its worth, LLMs are facing the coke vs Pepsi challenge, and sadly they are most definitely Pepsi.
NixOS Home Manager
all functional languages are difficult to debug.

y = h(f(g(x)))

where do you put the print statements or loggers?
> This argument might hold more water when generative models are more than fancy compression algorithms/text completion engines.

I doubt that part of the argument would change even if we perfected brain uploads.

Now, if you gave the current LLMs a robot body with a cute face, that'll probably change minds faster, regardless of the underlying architecture.

> who is making money off of these models?

When the models are open source, or at least may be downloaded and used locally for no cost, that would be the users of the models.

And back to the biological comparison: I learned to read (and also to code) in part from the Commodore 64 user manual, should I owe the shareholders anything for my lifetime earnings? As I got to the end of that sentence, a thought struck me: taxes do that. And in the UK the question of if university should be funded by taxes or by the students themselves followed the same lines.
Let’s say someone proposes that all code any individual or company writes must be made publicly available immediately upon authoring. After all, some people choose to write OSS and do so voluntarily.

Are you also confused by the statement, “software engineering is a profession, not a charity” in the context of that argument? I’ve found the only people who claim to struggle to understand this are motivated in a particular direction (the “we should be allowed to profit from others work” crowd).

I’ll restate it more specifically for the literalists: art is both a profession and a hobby (as clarified in my second comment and as is self-evident to everyone on the planet). If you’re using the existence of the hobbyist creator as an excuse to capture the economic value of the professional creator, you’re 1) an asshole and 2) likely to destroy much of the incentive that allows professional creators to get as good as they are today and in such diverse forms, from such diverse perspectives (especially in the memetic diversity sense, which I care most about).

> some sort of class-struggle narrative

The history of funding methods is one of the most informative lenses one can apply to art history. It literally distorts the historical record (oh it turns out the only good artists in the world were those painting church stories eh!). The economic history is real and isn’t changed by your dismissive reference as “some sort of narrative.”

> you’re presenting an argument for UBI

No I’m not. I’m presenting an argument for forbidding AI companies from rent-seeking on other people’s work and destroying the incentive to continue producing original work.
For anyone interested in Susan Sontag I can recommend the POD “Philosophy this!” and the episodes about Susan. They are well worth a listen.
No i don't realize anything. I had it on just to reproduce a backend and connect to it with my stuff for a while. I just copied whatever the linux (which doesn't have the same problem) backend had and did my work.

Defaults matter. And wasteful defaults denote a certain mindset. Not a good one.
The Punt Gun and the Race to Save America's Wildlife
I can’t imagine not having this. We use k3s to run everything locally and it works great. But we (un)fortunately added snowflake in the last year — it solves some very real problems for us, but it’s also a pain to iterate on that stuff.
No-one is going to buy a major media company and then throw the rights into the public domain. What they would do is buy the rights and then sue all competitors in the GenAI space.
No, not necessarily. If it lowers the humidity, then it can take less energy to heat the house after venting. So it can actually save energy.
If the people inspired by sci-fi have a "dangerous political outlook" then what does that say about the people who write it, like the author Charles Stross?

Stross greatly over-estimates how much influence sci-fi has. I've been in the tech world my whole career and have encountered plenty of sci-fi references in that time. It never went beyond cute codenames for projects. In particular, I've never encountered a project that could be traced back to someone saying, "hey that sci-fi story had this cool thing in it, how do we make that?". It just doesn't happen.

The boring reality is that new tech or even long term research visions tend to be extrapolations of what already works, occasionally disrupted by an accidental breakthrough. ChatGPT didn't get invented because researchers watched Star Trek and then sat in a brainstorming session wondering how to make it. It came out of a decade long research programme in which many different directions were explored to see what could be done with GPU powered neural nets. When we finally did get AI that talks like Cmdr Data, it was almost accidental and the next year was spent figuring out what exactly had been built.

Similarly, the idea that colonizing Mars or living in space wouldn't have occurred to anyone except for sci-fi is just daft. These ideas are extremely obvious. Musk isn't inspired by sci-fi; he's explained many times that what drives him is the idea that humanity should be multi-planetary as a risk reduction measure. Peter Thiel wants to extend life because living forever has been a dream since before the start of writing. Why should we give sci-fi authors any credit for these common visions?
I would like to know what if things were like the original US Copyright Act of 1790.

"The length of copyright established by the Founding Fathers was 14 years, plus the ability to renew it one time, for 14 more."

maybe even the Copyright Act of 1831: the original copyright term became 28 years, with an option to renew the copyright for another 14 years.

I remember reading an article by Jerry Pournelle where he said authors generally sold their work, and they would get the rights back for the renewal term. They were good with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
The class of models that Yann Lecun is bullish on (look up I-JEPA) do exactly this.
Ye well I didn't mean running away from eventually knowing something, but rather running away from the nagging propaganda spam.
“At broad” isn’t customary English, and the author doesn’t seem to be a native speaker. It’s probably intended to mean something like “in general” or “a big-picture view”.
> When you operate a business where all the developers are on the same team then it is crazy

Even if it's not a single team, it's still crazy most of the time. I've been in orgs with tens of teams, each operating anything between 1 and 15 microservices where there was never the need for SemVer.

Upgrade strategies that span across teams are not hard if there's good telemetry and good communications. Add a new endpoint with the new desired behaviour; deploy it; communicate to your users; track usage of the old endpoint, and when it comes down to zero delete it.

Adjust this process as required (e.g. send comms in advance, give deadlines, work with consumers to expedite, maybe negotiate more time to transition, etc).

This decouples producer from consumer updates, gives everybody a chance to self organise and keeps things moving.
> it misses the main point of the new table formats

I didn't miss it; it's irrelevant.

It makes, almost no difference in practice, between a competent implementation in one and a competent implementation in the other.

It makes absolutely no difference that they are open source.

Understanding the details of each of the individual components will give you no meaningful insight into how to build a lakehouse.

...because, when you slap all those parts together, in whatever configuration you've picked what you end up with is a database.

A big, powerful cloud database.

Well, you have a database now and you still have zero insights and zero idea how to get any of them; that because you didn't understand that you need to build some kind of data warehouse on top of that database. You need to load the data. You need to transform the data. You need to visualize the data and build reports on it. If you're good, you probably need to preprocess the data to use as training inputs.

I'll say it more clearly and explicitly one. more. time:

- Having a database != having a data warehouse.

- Having a big cloud database build out of cloud storage, table formats, metadata engines and query engines != a lakehouse.

Having an empty database is of no value to anyone, no matter how good it is.

All of those parts, all of those things are only the first step. It's like installing postgres. Right, good job. We're done here? Reports? Oh, you can probably import something or something or I know, powerBI is good, let's install that. It'll tell you you have no data... but... we've got the infra now right? Basically done.

It's just step 1.
Ok, sure, but that's not a GenAI thing, that's a plain old boring copyright thing. If I draw a bunch of C3POs and slap them on my Adwords website then I can expect a C&D letter post haste, who cares if the material in question came out of my pen, Photoshop or a GenAI model?
Would you recommend something less boring for scale?
I would paraphrase one of Clarke's laws and say that "Any sufficiently advanced text generator is indistinguishable from an intelligent entity."

Just because a computer program's output is remarkably good does not mean there is any emergent intelligence, any more than a technology we don't understand means there is magic.
We can still map customer journeys and spend smart, even with crumblier cookies.
Ask HN: What could make torrenting more popular again?
I feel like less and less people use torrenting and rely on centralized services instead. This is unfortunate because it's an amazing piece of software that has worked very well over decades.

Things like sharing big files would benefit a lot more if they shared it through the torrent network rather than on some hosting provider.

Torrenting today has turned into a niche, even though we live in a time where it's easier than ever.

Take a look at
- https://instant.io
- https://webtorrent.io/desktop

Do you have any ideas on what could popularize the technology again?
If llms are intelligent entities legally equivalent to a human child, then they incur an even more serious legal problem, as we are all in violation of the 13th amendment.
wouldn't it just be better to start a new html5 without JS trend? It can the defector standard for document based web! A lot of modern CSS options to build nav menus now days[1]:

Form submit etc to send network traffics are all available, JS is only needed when you wanna do something cute like network call (AJAX) or change dom elements without refreshing the page. And come up with kluge such as allowing js to change the route with in the domain.

Footnotes:
1.https://1stwebdesigner.com/pure-css-navigation-menus/
I agree of course but may I say that your phrasing sounds like maybe 80% ChatGPT lmao.
That's a good point. I agree it's not clear cut one way or another and we gotta let it play out.
> History students using AI should be much more productive than they were in my day! I wonder whether essays are far longer now than they used to be.

We should not aim for endless productivity. In this world of surplus information, "click-bait" titles, SEO content, etc., we should aim to produce less. This includes learning: learning should be done as a meditative process to understand the human condition, not simply to output the most comprehensive essay.

While the end result might be interesting, the most worrisome part about this is the mentality: the general attitude of becoming too machine-like moves us away from quiet solitude that is so integral to humanity.
> It seems like there are a lot of design rules that are not common knowledge.

Even worse, there ard a lot of design rules that are shared as common knowledge, but that are wrong or detrimental to modern designs. Rules that applied when all you had were througholes, slow rise times and no emission tests to worry about.

Modern MCUs for example might just run at 8 or 16MHz if so configured but can have rise times in nanoseconds, so emissions must be considered despite the "slow speed" of the clock.

Another big one is having multiple capacitors one decade apart for decoupling, ie 1uF, 0.1uF and 10nF or something like that. With modern SMD capacitors you'll almost never want to do that. Instead use multiple large ones, ideally in the smallest package you can.

> And, is there a place, maybe a slack or discord, that would review designs?

I've had a good time over at MicroType Engineering's discord[1], got a separate room for design feedback. Also has a YouTube with some helpful videos[2].

[1]: https://discord.gg/CwWUxqdr

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/@MicroTypeEngineering
I think we'd need to see these things get a lot more reliable for them to be viable in this use case. This seems like a "leaky net" as opposed to some more deterministic strategy (e.g. grepping large lists of keywords, or parallelizing the task over thousands of human analysts). When you're looking for a needle in a haystack you need to inspect every leaf and stalk.

So should we put copyright through the shredder on the wager that somehow generative techniques will find applications for mass surveillance?
“Pornhub” alone gets 441 million searches monthly. A lot of people probably decide to randomly read the Wikipedia page.
Oracle is certainly a software company. If they aren't a tech company, then Microsoft isn't either. Doesn't seem like a useful classification scheme.
I wonder what Adobe Firefly does with these prompts?
Please see social constructivist or cognitivist learning theory.

Learning and expression of what is learned are part of the same learning process and it is entirely artificial to separate one of them to be part of learning style, and the other as not being part of it.

Virtually all learning is also learning how to express the subject being learnt.
One benefit is you can have different branch restrictions. Staging can be less strict (e.g. allow merging even if test suite is failing while master can have stricter requirements, like no merging unless tests are passing.

Or only require code owner approval on staging->master (or only requiring code owner approval on merging to staging)

I’m sure there are ways to accomplish the same sort of thing with tags, I’m not hugely tied to this workflow (other than it seems to work for our team)
They're a poster boy for Latam tech due to their growth.

While this post makes sense -- limiting tech choices -- it's rather contrarian, limiting choices to bleeding edge tech, which can go away or change on a whim.

But their culture has always been like this, I once attended a conference were they touted how they were using 'hexagonal architecture', at the time, it felt like something only Google or Amazon could get away with (inventing tech buzzwords).

For what it's worth, they have a wrap for always talking up how they use bleeding edge/buzz word tech at meetups, interviews and the like. I guess they can get away with being a unicorn in their market (i.e. Latam neobank)
5 years is not a super long time. It just can feel that way sometimes.
What Dune can tell us about setting our goals
In a late-stage capitalist society (i.e., heavily dematerialized), you're almost asking, "What would a capitalistic world without ownership look like?" That sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Well I definetly think there is a contradiction of too absurdities here, because if I read your book how could you forbid me to tell my friend about it?
Why 'techno-optimism' is the way to reinvent innovation
The world is a big place.

China can't produce LLMs because of inconvenient truths.

The US can't produce LLMs because of copyright.

Decentralized open source LLMs might exist that could work, but they won't have the giant GPU clusters.

A rich country with lax rule of law wins? Maybe that's why Sam went to the Saudis?
Very interesting model — what do you actually do with this conception? Do you have software that helps you reason about your inbox/rest of life this way?
You still equate copyright infringement with physical theft. They are not the same.
and we can definitely feed them. Plenty of resources lying around.
The more restrictions you put on firing people, the less likely employers are likely to hire, given the commitment.
Tell HN: Choose a Yearly Theme
AFAIK the EU AI Act primarily prevents profiling, social scoring and other high risk activities from using AI.

It generally didn’t care about generative AI.
LLMs are clearly a type of lower level intelligence. Intelligence does not require consciousness.
And that tech was not destroyed by regulation. It was replaced by the superior tech of torrents.
I’m confused how this makes the hack around mutate better? In particular the article says that instead of

… |> mutate(foo = f(foo)) |> …

You can write

df$foo <|> f

But that seems to not be the case? You need to introduce new names, e.g.

… -> tmp
tmp$foo <|> f
tmp |> …

Which seems worse to me. Maybe I’m missing something.

For comparison, consider jq's |= operator where you might write e.g.

… | (.foo |= f) | …

Which I think composes better with pipelines that do not “mutate” (or rather, make substitutions)
This is not what copyright is [1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Also, not really necessary. It's more of an Old Wives Tale than an effective practice.

The only place I have trouble with mold is in the bathroom, and that's because so many homes built before the 80s were built without ventilation fans in the bathroom. The places I've lived with proper ventilation have not had mold problems.
You can learn more about yearly themes from this excellent CGP Grey video:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

Here's my yearly theme log, which I started mid-2022:

[2] https://taylor.town/yearly-themes

It's been a great experience!
> Would you ever actually use generative AI to pirate something when you could just torrent it? While there may be an argument that generative AI is infringing copyright, it is not really a very good tool for it.

How do you square this with literally the first image in the OP showing side by side GPT reproing copyrighted work? imo a good modern art project would be someone making a website that “archives” NYT articles by laundering them through GPT rather than using the archive link that everyone posts to get around the paywall. Even HN guidelines bend over backwards to allow bypassing the paywall by allowing these links.
Is "Closed AI" the new "Micro$oft"?
Hmmm good point, I was going to say ownership of physical things can be treated fundamentally differently from ownership of information, but in a theoretical less and less physically grounded world that doesn't seem like the right conception of ownership.
This line of logic is more frightening to me than actual AI. LLMs are really useful in a lot of scenarios but it takes 5 minutes playing with one to see that it isn't intelligent.

But since you are the type of person who is seemingly using LLM "written" code in production, your ability to accurate assess anything is suspect at best.

"Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic".

No, an LLM is not intelligent. I do not understand why people will go through mental gymnastics to conclude they are.

queue all the typical arguments supporting them being intelligent and demanding I give reasons for them not being
This is a shame. CBC should trim the fat elsewhere.

What are your thoughts on state funded media? I see the benefits but also the drawbacks, namely their partisanship when a political opponent wants to stop the hand outs
Honeybee venom and melittin suppress growth factor in breast cancer (2020)
I never felt like I needed the premium features. It seems like they offer a higher level of granularity when organizing your subscriptions.

For me, the features offered by the free version are perfect and I often wonder why YouTube doesn't have something like these features built-in.
Notice is highly different from getting nauseous.
Not just every launch, but also if you leave it long enough, it'll pop up again during the same session. This was what made me finally uninstall it.

And while Firefox has lots of flags and ways to tweak things like this, it's not straightforward and requires time to interrupt my workflow to address. Definitely not worth it for me on macOS. I might change my tune if I switch to Linux, but at that point I'll likely look into something like LibreWolf.
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This argument only works if you assume all output of an LLM comes merely from its training data, and that it receives no alignment via RFHL, no outside data ground truth via RAG and so on. The engine might be a probabilistic token predictor, but the car is the sum of its part and those parts are not just the engine.
python, but if other people would like to use it, I'd rewrite it in go for the sake of easy distribution.