skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Summary by Wolters Kluwer: […] Everyone else (including commercial ML developers) can only use

That is a weird (wishful?) interpretation. Doesn't article 4 give the exception to everybody for the purposes of text and data mining, including commercial ML developers?

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj
I doubt that Copilot is trained on NYT texts and MS isn't the owner of any GPT.
I can follow Susskind's lectures about gravity. I understand metrics and tensors. Have you seen EW's talks? What was your take? I found them impenetrable and impossible to follow. Perhaps it's just me and my ignorance. But I happen to believe that a real expert in a field can explain it to a non-expert. By that measure, EW has not demonstrated expertise.
I knew before clicking, just from the title, that it was going to be a Louis Rossmann video.

If you're reading this Louis, thanks for all your work and for fighting the good fight.
Army Combat Uniform's insect repellent at center of fraud case
Played a lot of Scorched Earth, both single- and multi-player.
I think the main arguments are:

1. Training an LLM is akin to human learning. It is legal to read a textbook about music to learn music, and later to write a book about music which likely includes some of the concepts you earlier learned.

2. Neither the LLM nor the output text contain sufficient elements of the copyrighted work to qualify for copyright protection. Just like if you turned old library books into compost and sold the compost, you wouldn't expect to pay authors of those books a royalty for the compost sales.
EU-US, but were I consulted by the Chino-Russia camp, I'd say encouraging this debate is in our best interest and we should do our best to promote the issue as a real "danger"
Because the comment was a leading question?
> causes you to spend more time scrolling than actually watching content.

This is not actually true. While scrolling to find something to watch is frustrating, people have a low tolerance for it and so switch to another service, continue with something that they have been watching anyway, or decide to entertain themselves in some other way.
The "public interest" is served by exposing corrupt politicians, not by not prosecuting someone who was allegedly bribing them and/or committing campaign finance violations.

I think it was smart to separate charges. Juries don't like long trials. They don't like complicated charges either. The fraud is a slam dunk and will result in a significant sentence. It's also largley unrelated to bribery.

Anyone who gets charged (let alone convicted) on campaign finance in the US is an absolute buffoon. Why? Because bribery is legal in the US. It's called "lobbying". You can also hire politicians for "speaking engagements". Lastly, you can contribute pretty much as much money as you want through PACs and super-PACs.

The fact that anyone gets charged with this at all is a testament to human stupidity, greed and hubris.
How about we give everyone in prison the opportunity to do good things, use their brains, and better themselves? Why limit it to just this one asshole? Because he's a tech nerd?
I agree. I also really wonder if the donations really did much, or (if like everything else) he just budgeted X dollars for politicians thinking it would magically help him.
What programming language isn't full of inconsistencies and gotchas?
To be honest reading all your replies it seems like you have spent too much time on HN and have convinced yourself that Netflix is the devil and you must get rid of it from your house to save your family. If you are paying $10-20 a month and your wife/kids are getting a couple hours of entertainment a day out of it then there really doesn't seem to be a problem. A decade or two ago you would be paying $200+ for cable TV for ads and much worse programming.
How fortunate for the recipients of circa $100 million political campaign donations SBF made from customer funds that a second trial will not now take place.
This reminds me of when Condi Rice joined the Board at Dropbox. Yuck.
Yes, because HN crowd or AI/software crowd in general is famous for being drug free and never indulging in various psychedelics out in the desert.
I can't tell what you think you're saying. Not only was this done routinely, it was much easier than the more obvious problem of providing the army with grain.
Consider how commercial search engines are fine to show text snippets, thumbnails and site caches.

AI developers will most likely rely on a Fair Use defense. I think this has a reasonable chance of success since, while the use of a given copyrighted work may affect the market for that work (in this case NYT's article), it can be argued to be highly transformative usage. As in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music: "The more transformative the new work, the less will be the significance of other factors", defined as "whether the new work merely 'supersede[s] the objects' of the original creation [...] or instead adds something new".

There's also potential for an "implied license", as in Field v. Google Inc for rehosting a snapshot of a site, where "Google reasonably interpreted absence of meta-tags as permission to present 'Cached' links to the pages of Field's site". As far as I can tell in this case, NYT's robots.txt of the time was obeyed, which permitted automated processing of all but one specific article for some reason.
Eventually the SCOTUS will have to decide if training is a form of fair use. There are plenty of arguments on both sides.

The LLMs built and trained 10 years from now will be much more advanced. Will it be possible for anyone to prove if specific content was used/not used in the training? If the courts rule against fair use, it will be a minefield to enforce.
Keeping going after errors is common for many scripting languages, isn't it?
Per capita or total? Of course the total may be bigger because there are almost 3 billion Chinese people.

Personally, I would never buy anything from a Chinese company. Who knows what kind of shortcuts and spyware they have
> It is not a label, it is scientifically established and accurate name

Not all all. To someone who only understands the meanings of the individual words, the term is extremely ambigous. "Natural gas" could simply mean "air" or could refer to any gas that is naturally occuring in our atmosphere.

The reason why "natural gas" has the meaning that it does is purely convention and has no scientific basis or justification.

> The associations of the name with other terms are not correlated with education, they are caused by it

Education is not how we learn language. We learn language primarily contextually based on experience. While learning additional languages can be assisted by education, contextual experiencea are required for mastery.

> ergo the only proof needed is logical.

That's not how logic works...at all

> nobody except some woke and poorly educated Americans wants to change.

Scientists at Yale are "poorly educated"...? Throwing that accusation out pair with the word 'woke' exposes you as a partisan who has no intrest in learning or constructive discussion

That's not how logic works. Go learn about how logic and science are used together.
(in the UK)

The US has had similar precdent for a while.
>"so they’ve lifted simple garden variety infractions out of criminal law and placed them in administrative law."

Many "garden variety infractions" are human errors. I do not think those were ever a subject to criminal prosecution disregarding whether the ability to clog the courts.
Ukrainian tradition and folklore prominently features these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumak . While the Wiki page mentions that in Ukrainian The Milky Way is called The Way of Chumaks it doesn't explain why -- but if you know the folklore, you'd immediately see that the idea is that it's the salt spillovers from their carts.

Salt was one of the most important goods that were traded over long distances. And no, technologically it wasn't advantageous to transport seawater or try to convert seawater into salt. Ukrainian city of Soledar that was prominently featured in the news last year literally means "gifting salt" -- and it has huge historical salt mines under it.

So, not only in antiquity, all the way through to the 19th century salt was one of the key goods traded over long distances. It wasn't as scarce as diamonds, but due to high demand it was still a worthwhile thing to trade.
Could a simple blood test detect cancer?
That in no way negates the possible existence of a conspiracy. Officials in the Bahamas may have received bribes and want to cover that up.

So the logical question now is: why did the Bahamas refuse to grant consent for a trial on those charges?
Ask HN: What happens to the other AI startups?
Prior to GPT upending the AI world, there were tons of AI and machine learning startups in various domains. What’s next for those companies? Do they throw away the investments they’ve made and pivot to using OpenAI offerings?
Data is dynamic.
Ok for old data. What about new data?
I think your question is incorrect. It’s very likely no-one thinks it’s perfectly legal. There probably are many people who think it’s not a big deal, though. Try coming up with a dataset that doesn’t have any copyrighted material in them. Like seriously try. You can’t use pretty much anything newer than a century old. Everything is copyrighted by default. Very few new things are explicitly in public domain or licensed in a way that would allow usage. Now imagine LLMs trained on early 20th century newspapers, books and letters. Do you think it would be good at generating code or hip copy for homepage of your next startup?
Fear Took over the American Suburbs (2021)
> Carla requires Jack which defaults to non usable state at every installation and is a nightmare to set up in a reproducible way

I've been using linux audio for the last 15 years and I've been trough it all. However, things have much improved since I've switched to Pipewire. No more need for a bespoke implementation of the jack daemon, it's implemented natively right there in Pipewire, vastly simplifying setup and removing any annoyances that keeping the Jack daemon working entailed. As a bonus any jack client/jack graph visualizer, including carla, gets a direct view to all Pipewire clients, not just native jack clients. You can then use Carla to route audio directly from your hardware inputs and outputs trough, for example, pulseaudio client (blissfully unaware of whats happening) and then trough as many jack clients as you wish. It's truly a magical™ piece of software.

As for Carla, make sure you are in the "Multiple Clients" mode, activate the experimental features and check "Enable plugin bridges" and "Run plugins in bridge mode when possible". This seems to make it more stable and make it so that if a plugin crashes Carla will disable it and at worst you will lose the related plugin parameters.

I've been running Carla with Pipewire for more then a year as my system wide DSP stack (almost like a virutal AV Reciever) and its fairly stable.
The politicians have already been publicly shamed and many gave back the money.
The world's job is to contain an increasingly aggressive, expansionist China. If global trade is impacted then that is an acceptable consequence. Sometimes win-win isn't achievable and win-draw or win-lose is the best you can realistically hope for.
> document.querySelectorAll('.bg-card.text-center.p-2.rounded.relative.h-full')

> NodeList(524)

That's a lot of quality audio software for Linux :) (Edit: I realize now there is a counter in the top right... Oh well)

Happy to see it, although I personally mostly use Windows for audio stuff... If Ableton worked on Linux I'd probably leave Windows behind.
I agree with the writer on current discussions on ambition and early career advice: they’re bland, abstract, and mostly focused on the “self”. It lacks a bigger picture of how a person should interact with their community.

A more practical early career advice that generalises consists of only two steps.

(1) Find a community you enjoy spending time in. (2) Create value for people in that community.

Feeling useful and creating value for other people is what can drive you to push yourself, grow, and have pride in your work.
Again, your comparisons just totally ignore the reality of the US market. You might as well say "I wish car companies would be willing to sell all their vehicles at a loss."

To be clear, I wish it were different. I owned a 2015 Volt, and I loved (still love) that car, and I think it would be the perfect vehicle for most people. I get 35-40 miles of electric range, which for me means a round trip to work plus 1 "errand" trip. The benefits were I never had to worry about range anxiety (I'd frequently use all of 0.1 miles of gas if I went over electric range during the day), I never needed to special charger at home (it would charge overnight on a normal US outlet), and for long trips I didn't have to worry at all about "charger anxiety" because it would just switch over to gas.

And what happened? The Volt was always a money loser for GM, despite most owners loving the car. It was a huge lesson to me that (a) marketing is hugely important in the car industry, and (b) most people's car purchases are basically emotional decisions. It doesn't matter how "practical" your car is, many people essentially see their car as an extension of their identity.

Again, I wish it weren't this way in the US, but pretending it's not doesn't do anyone any good.
There's also Leaf, and here again it's ignored like it never existed.

I suspect what these people actually wants is 2024 Mediocrity, which Leaf, Bolt, Mini Cooper, etc., are not as they're all hatchbacks, which isn't the mentally defaultest style of a automobile, but Tesla is.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_(advertising_campai...
Locked downness is a non issue coming from a previous android fanboy. iOS is just superior in every way. No I don’t care that you can change some font on your android phone.
Well played! "Something beyond anything he could possibly imagine", indeed.
If I were OpenAI, I would tell the court that the LLM's have now been repaired to never reproduce long passages of any of the training data. I would implement that with a simple post-filter.

I would then offer to pay damages of 3x revenue for all historic requests that resulted in 50+ words of Times articles to be reproduced.

And an analysis of the logs will probably show that only happened tens of times and total revenue from those requests was like $3.
The big lever for losing weight is diet, not exercise. It isn't necessarily one of these drugs, although they help a lot with diet.
In between tickets and regulations, there's insurance. Say that my car bumps into a parked car. My insurance pays for the repairs. The insurance company figures out how much to charge me. Simply saying that a driverless car pays for the damage that it causes might be the way to manage this issue.
I've dug deeply into LSF in the last few years and it's like a car crash - you can't look away. It feels like something that started in the early unix days but was developed into perhaps the late 90s, but in reality LSF was only started in the 90s (in academia). As far as I can tell development all but stopped when IBM acquired it some ten years ago.
> It seems pretty clear "an affordable daily driver" is not really what US drivers want

I don't agree with this statement. Automakers continue to use the chip shortage of a couple years ago as an excuse to only manufacturer full-loaded cars of all types. I haven't seen a single base model new vehicle for sale at the dealership in years, ever since the chip shortage began (and is no longer a problem).

The US driver doesn't want anything in particular, I have no clue how you can characterize a market of 200 million people with that statement. Maybe rich people in the Bay Area "want" a full loaded Model S, but there are huge numbers of people in America that make a fraction of Tier-1 salaries. They still care about the environment and want a sub-30k car that has fewer features than a Tesla. It's unfair to toss their desires aside and claim that the market knows what the people want. It's like saying the American Macintosh user wants expensive Apple computers because Apple doesn't make a cheap computer.

The US auto industry is in a state of regulatory capture. They all operate in a coordinated manner to not undercut each other and sell cheap cars. They can all make more money as an industry if they just sell the most expensive possible car to the consumer, and convince them they got a great deal by offering 96-month car payments and inscrutable lease offers that end up scamming the consumer at every urn.
The difference between buildings and software is that generally a building has a defined „done“ state, but a piece of software keeps changing until it has so many scars of unmaintainable mess that it’s cheaper to start a new company than to fix it.
There are many people in this country that will buy a 2 year old used car for just a few thousand under the new price because the majority of their lives they’ve been told buying new is a waste of money. My friend’s in-laws are like that and it drives him batty.
"It sounds like we disagree fundamentally one one key point: participation in society imparts implicit expectations on the participant."

Having read the dialogue between w4ffl35 and you and noting your large differences of opinion I realize I should have chosen my words somewhat more carefully in my first post when I used 'owe' when commenting about the statement "My content is mine".

I did mean 'owe' in the literal sense but I also implied 'obligation' which I should have made clear given that those who were homeschooled would perhaps consider themselves less obligated to owe anything to society. I clarified this to some extent in my reply to sensanaty when I raised the matter of one's obligation to society as being very divisive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815042. Suffice to say, I was rather amused when I read the dialogue between w4ffl35 and yourself as it was an almost instant verification of the accuracy of my comment.

I'm essentially in full agreement with your stance on the matter. I say that as someone who does not live in the US but who has not only been there many times and even worked there but also who has relatives who were born there some of whom were homeschooled. Thus, I well understand w4ffl35's position but I vehemently disagree with it. In response to my post w4ffl35 says "What an incredibly weird way of looking at one's life", so the chasm between our views could hardly be any wider.

Homeschooling is essentially outlawed where I am so I have had the opportunity to compare the educational model here with that of the US. For the most part I cannot imagine not being in school with dozens of my peers around me, I would have felt socially isolated and there's little doubt that I'd be less well integrated into society had I been in a homeschool environment. (I'm not saying that everyone would go this way but I pretty much reckon I'd have been worse off socially. Moreover, I went to a coed school and I consider that as being a distinct advantage.)

As an outsider, I find it very difficult to reconcile w4ffl35's rampant individualism (which noticeably characterizes or differentiates the US from that of almost every other country I've been in) with the way that I was socialized—which was in a society where utilitarian values—the greatest good for the greatest number—was the norm both in government and in education, and which was accepted by almost everyone (debate over such issues was almost unheard of).

From my observation, the social contract where I live is far more cohesive and intact than it is in the US although, unfortunately, in recent years its cohesion has come under considerable stress due to cultural influences from US.
It's reasonable for NYT to not want LLMs regurgitating their front page, but beyond that I don't care. I don't like that IP lasts so long, especially for content like news.
I'm not surprised because even myself with all the available resources of the 'net am able with good results find where someone is from photos. The easiest is finding out where a YouTuber is if they go outside... I never shared my results - I only did it out of curiousity - could this be done - I also located a random photo someone took out of their airplane window of the ground... It takes persistence and the same kind of logic as debugging.
Software that is a one off sale is rarely profitable to do as that comes with the additional cost of updates and patches.

The development cost of the updates and patches has to come from somewhere - either significantly marking up the initial purchase cost to fund the on going development (side bit: when a one time purchase server shuts down people are up in arms about that) or with some form of subscription model.

If a driverless car maker can be liable for the software that they released some time ago and didn't update, then the funding of that development effort has to come from somewhere.

If some of the compute or data updates is in the cloud, that comes with an ongoing cost. Compare with getting a DVD with a database of road updates once a year ( https://ford.navigation.com/product/Catalog/2023-Green-DVD-M... ) and the "this road is closed" ( https://www.wyoroad.info/pls/Browse/WRR.STATIC5?SelectedDist... ) or "there is heavy traffic, a different route is suggested" services. Those come with an ongoing cost somewhere.
I wonder what's gonna happen to the cooperating witnesses. Their CTO has been pretty active on GitHub!

https://github.com/garywang
I remember being annoyed at this too, then I stopped doing Android development so I also consider it a solved problem.
I use a dict completion prompt to extract keyterms from various LLMs. Technically, this is transfer learning and I use it in a way that allows set operations to filter the vector space to speed things up. In a version I built of this, I referred to it as a "back of book index".

One issue would be that the prompt for keyterm extraction might miss crucial keyterms, but a subsequent access of those might update them...
Do you have a good method for cleaning things up? I usually factory reset any new phone and then uninstall via adb the obvious pre-installed spyware/adware/junk (facebook, chrome, candycrush, etc). But it's hard to know what else I can uninstall. I usually go overkill, uninstall most things, see what broke, factory reset again, and then uninstall a little less on the next round. But surely there's a better way.
Keep digging. Sounds like you’re on your way to enlightenment.

I believe in you
Self-hosting would definitely be very interesting.
This is what happens when you take your customers, and your creative talent for granted, systemically, for decades.
HPC software is one area where we have arguably regressed in the last 30 years. Chapel is the only light I see in the darkness
Amazon has turned into "Aliexpress but more expensive and faster". Look up almost anything on Amazon and the results will be a made-up brand attached to a trashy product which costs 1/10 the price directly from China.
Tend to be called utilities. Recurring bills regardless. Internet shifted from being an entertainment subscription to more of a utility.
It's becoming even more so if you compare it to Israel's water/cost input output..
The name certainly made it harder for me to understand what I was looking at when I first clicked the link, expecting to see a Linux DAW.
> Is affordable? Yes, but not for everyone. Same with salt back than.

That isn't possible; someone who can't afford salt dies. It's like claiming that water "isn't affordable for everyone". It is, and it must be, because people who can't afford it also can't exist.
One concern people have with these drugs is -- it seems like GLP-1 users who do not exercise disproportionately lose lean body mass. So their total weight goes down but their body fat percentage goes up. I don't think it's a huge effect and is basically expected for a low calorie diet with no exercise -- the solution is to exercise.