skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem here is that most often the value in the structure is the hierarchy of the data and NOT the displayed tree. You will want to do stuff with the data like traverse it, show relationships, reorder it, etc.

IMO, it's a dangerous thing to hold VISUAL information in a data structure in a database. Seems shortsighted.
Would be cool to detail what “full fledged product” chatgpt wrote for you. Usually these statements are vague and never reveal what exactly the product or code are, and when they aren’t it turns out that the author is not exactly a “noob” and the code wasn’t entirely written by chatgpt and is not more than the equivalent of a google search.
The real problem is too much power to management without accountability. If the team suffers due to management decisions, how about we yank the management first?
Barbie's surprising role in Moon exploration
They mention it a lot, and again at the end in the cautionry section:

> And for the love of all that is good, if you actually need a tree, use a tree.

It’s in almost every section.
I don't see how that logic differs from using `=` as an assignment operator.

"Assign X with value equal to 5"
That’s…not exactly a winning point for Delta lake IMO.

Massive corp, with their own opaque interests and endless bodies to throw at problems has picked a favourite. That favourite being an “open” format controlled by another opaque enterprise company. I’d half expect M$ to just take it wholesale, and start modifying it to suit their own ends, until eventually the “open source” component is some skin-deep façade that completely and utterly dependent on M$ infra.
Mostly offtopic: This reminds me of the LiveJournal page where you could view all the latest images uploaded to that site. It was a mix of everything from news to porn and gave a small insight into the zeitgeist. It was also voyeuristic, and to this almost 50 year old it seems similar to the endless-refresh consumption of tiktok.

The web was definitely much, much smaller back then. You couldn't do something similar with any of the large social media sites, although maybe a small random sampling would work. I wonder if part of the perceived ills of social media are due to the sheer scale of it all? It's impossible to be "caught up" with anything anymore, there's always another trillion gallons pouring out of the firehose. Perhaps that's partly why HN endures, it stays small?
Seems to be working reasonably well for China. Or maybe that’s not considered “real” communism.
this is actually very fun and addictive lmao
Cliff’s Notes has a strong fair use claim, because they offer basic criticism and surface-level commentary alongside their summaries.
Wow. I feel really sorry for these giant corporations who have wielded armies of lawyers against fanfic artists to prevent fair use, and to prevent trademarks and patents from expiring on the timelines enshrined by law.

Can we all have a moment of silence for poor Bob Iger? Maybe we can start a GoFundMe to help him out?
I don't think that's a fair analogy. One forces 99% of websites to make a change, while the other is something that would need to be done by the big companies doing the scraping.

A Do Not Track flag being legally binding would force small websites, e.g. a local restaurant website, to implement something they likely are not aware of and secondly do not technically understand.

A company that is mass scraping data for their AI model is much more likely to understand and respect that scraping the data has legal implications, and would be technically capable in implementing a scraping solutions that accounts for a robots.txt.
Yes, I'm somewhat curious what the end of that find command is before it gets piped to xargs. I need to remember to -prune more often.
We can design it. That is what Congress should be doing by passing laws.

We have a system that is kind of working. Laws and regulations are ways to tweak the system, tune it for better performance.

So, lets say we notice that huge wealth inequality is having a negative impact, then we can tax the wealth, and yes, 'distribute' it, like to build roads. That does NOT mean suddenly we are communist.

People stuck in the Capitalist's/Communism argument, if they think it is binary, then really don't understand either one.
> is not what medical information privacy is about

It is exactly what medical privacy is about. Embarrassing and potentially life changing issues come up routinely with medical privacy. These are things that primary care physicians and staff grapple with on a daily basis (and that I did as a medical guy in the military).

The infidelity example I used was actually part of one of the many HIPAA training classes that I've attended over the years. In the (real life) example the nurses were gossiping about the case in the elevator. It happened that a family member was in the elevator with them.

> Someone who is cheating and/or getting STDs without telling their spouse is harming the spouse.

Someone who has the flu and goes to a restaurant is actively harming the staff and other customers. Should we have a public registry for anyone who gets the flu?

Someone who has HIV and has unprotected sex is actively harming/killing their partner (and has been prosecuted as such). Should we make everyone's HIV status public?

I'm sorry you find the subject of infidelity distasteful, but if you work in healthcare at all you'll quickly come to realize that many personal health issues that are commonly treated are deeply embarrassing and potentially socially devastating to the patient.

Hence the need for stringent medical privacy protection.
Then use a tree if you need a tree?
Fluid Corpus Manipulation (FluCoMa)
The Fluid Corpus Manipulation project, or FluCoMa, pioneers innovative approaches in music composition by harnessing the expanding repositories of sound and gestures in the digital realm. This project integrates the latest advancements in signal decomposition DSP and machine learning into the arsenal of tools available for computer composers, creative coders, and digital artists who are adept in technology. This fusion of cutting-edge techniques opens up new creative possibilities in the field of digital composition.
I forgot shorts exist, there are ublock origin filters that work beautifully. I haven't blocked the upcoming ones because there are very rare in my feed and I just unsubscribed from the few notorious offenders
What I realize is the content you’re so brazenly feeling entitled to cost money to produce, and the idea that your loss of privacy justifies your theft is absurd.

You’re not starving, this isn’t food.
UT Austin really is a fantastic institution for HPC and computational methods.
Thanks! Will take a look. The question is if course how emscripten implements longjmp.
The second link provided by jmyeet gives more details. Apparently they made a roughly flat surface by splitting the stone by cutting a line of holes into which they fit dried wooden wedges. Then they soaked the wedges in water, causing them to swell, opening a crack along the line. Then they bashed this surface flatter by pounding dolerite balls on any imperfections. You can see traces of this process on the surfaces of the abandoned obelisk lying in Aswan.
Ten years ago.

Adams has had limited success in the last 8 years or so. "Dilbert" isn't carried by many, if any, papers. Do I presume that Adams is currently failing a lot so as to (metaphorically) sharpen his axe, or that his "systems thinking" only goes so far, or did he depart from the path os success?
I‘m impressed that they were able to transport a obelisk as one piece with a ship. Were they able to built large enough ships from wood?

According to Wikipedia the largest ships they built were 30m long with a width of 5m. Going 1.5m deep they were able to transport several hundreds of tons.

I still wonder how they managed to load the obelisks onto the boat without capsizing it.
Password managers: boon or bane? [video]
The drawings depict the bottom of the obelisk as free standing on the ground or another base. Is that correct? I would have assumed the bottom of it would extend into the ground somewhat for stability (which would have the benefit of being easier to erect)
>This is the bit I don’t get from the “feed everything to machine” LLM-maximalists. Do they think courts don’t take context into account, do they think all actions happen in a vacuum and that they can just skip along and ignore laws at their pleasure

An entire generation of unicorn startups believed that (Uber, AirBnB, etc.). We see in the news every day that once you have enough money laws don't apply to you (most things Elon Musk does, the fact that Trump can defy court orders repeatedly and not go to jail, etc.) so yes, this seems entirely plausible.
> It's a bummer because one of them is also a 2018 fully loaded and I would have a hard time even selling it to someone

I'd happily fix that for you if you want. I'd even pay shipping to take it off your hands. Anything would be an upgrade for my mom's old toshiba laptop ;) email in profile
> Quantum doesn’t help for NP problems.

Notice that the GP is about the other way around. Solving NP-hard problems will absolutely make quantum computers useless.

And in the case of physics simulation (the actually valuable use for a quantum computer), there's no guarantee that you can't find a probabilistic solution.
The ability to provide a reference to the source is the crucial difference here.

I agree that it should be possible to implement that for generative AI, although the training may become significantly more expensive in order to maintain that information, and the AI companies have little interest in doing so. They’ll probably rather try to heuristically assess possible copyright issues after the fact in a post-processing step.

The more interesting question is if copyright holders can claim unauthorized use of their works beyond the case of near-verbatim reproduction, because the works collectively inform the AI in a more general manner.
Not sure where you are getting nausea from.
Postgres has a datatype and search operators that work natively like this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html

For instance:

CREATE TABLE test (path ltree);
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('Top');
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('Top.Science');
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('Top.Science.Astronomy');

And then a simple search with:

ltreetest=> SELECT path FROM test WHERE path <@ 'Top.Science';
path
------------------------------------
Top.Science
Top.Science.Astronomy
How is this better than subscriptions? (Genuinely asking)
Apparently we can’t. So I’m looking at this as a form of triage. At the very least, we can help those who are suffering the most, right? Because right now I’m neither being treated for my mental illness or my homelessness so there you go.

But yes, many people would rather protect and house animals than protect and house people. So I guess as humans we should have the same priorities, no?

But if you think protecting the environment is more important than providing people shelter I don’t know what to say. And in fact, I am going to state that it is easier to care about the climate than to provide people with housing, which is why people focus on the formal rather than the later.
Another way to make a fake tree is to store a JSON blob. If the data only has internal relationships, that can be easier than trying to keep the sort number unique and in order.
this comment has already aged poorly because cities are starting to push airbnbs out and taxi usage is at least somewhat up
> And a whole universe of potential trademark infringements with this single two-word prompt: animated toys

If you flood the market and dominate children's culture with toys from your TV shows, you absolutely cannot complain when your toys are considered iconic enough to be the generic "animated toy". These images don't replace or substitute the things they are depicting.
I've been looking for just a tool like this since Rewind was first introduced. Count me very interested!
There is a large sub-genre called "military sci-fi," with much of what he wants. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_science_fiction)

Another area to look is "Victorian sci-fi." (https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/victorian-science-ficti...)
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
This is another evidence that democracy is not possible with the existence of tech billionaires. These robber barons will continue to exercise power to mold the world into their own desires, it doesn't matter what the people really want. Democracy, a concept that the West pays lip service to, cannot survive in a world dominated by multi billionaires. They need to be completely destroyed (as billionaires not as people) for democracy to survive - a concept that Americans from 100 years ago understood.
It’s not an old contract, only 2 years old at this point, it’s cheap thanks to a Genossenschaft. Buy yes we’ve been lucky, I would be glad to see more people benefiting from Genossenschaft, it’s a fantastic system.

Edit: I moved 5 times since 2015, across 3 countries, I know how horrible and difficult it is to find flats, even more in a place where you’re not speaking the language or know the culture. I never pretended it was simple. I’ve been refused flats for absurd reasons such as because of my foreign last name (like, explicitly), or because I was working remotely before it was considered acceptable.
Not a bad idea! I'll look into it :). The temptation is real all the time.
I really liked your article.

Is this a typo: “Hive, Delta Lake and Iceberg all support support of schema registry or metastore.”?
This was the same take from the competitive debate community when I showed them my body of work around automating the process of summarizing documents. The vitriol and hate I got from the “educators” about me depriving the students of their oh so necessary education time via summarizing hundreds of documents was extremely strong. Needless to say, I hold those who believe in work for “educations” sake in contempt and I’m gleeful to see wide spread proliferation of the tools for young folks to subvert the intentions of authoritarian “teachers”.
Yes the article is terrible. I thought I'd take advantage of it nonetheless being highly voted, to try to write something more informative, that hopefully people will read and not just take the article and submission title at face value.
Hopefully you’re more sure about whether it’s secure or not.
You will have to define "own works". How can you measure how "owning" some work is?
I used to use NetNewsWire, so I redownloaded it. I'll check out Feedly... never afraid to evaluate new tools.
My personal observation is people who are against copyright in absolute terms have never or rarely needed their protection. (Or never considered the implications.)

I’m not making a dig at people here. This is just human nature. It’s difficult to see the value in something that you only see as an obstacle.

Open source software is rather unusual. It’s a commune on a massive scale and it gets its value from the generosity of others. in my opinion, it is possibly one of the greatest achievements in the history and future of computing.

However, it heavily depends on copyright to exist. GPL has encouraged (or forced) many companies to contribute to the community when they wouldn’t have otherwise.
Rainbolt could do it better
Until they are.
In my former PHP life I've seen people looping through objects and constructing a JSON string by hand instead of using a simpler single json_encode() call.
I'd tweak that statement. Experimenting on the kernel is fine. Experimenting on humans without their consent is not fine.
Would you not just be able to do the CTE as you would a correlated sub query? Something like:

WITH batch AS (
SELECT id FROM user_profile
WHERE followers_count IS NULL
LIMIT 10000
)
UPDATE user_profile
SET followers_count = 0
FROM batch
WHERE user_profile.id = batch.id

But with the difference that if you didn’t want to round-trip to the application for each batch you could now make this a recursive CTE?
> * I don't think generative AI is sustainable in the long term if it ends up killing all the websites/artists that created the original material. *

This is the elephant in the room. Every tech wave has had its way of cajoling creators into investing time & money to make original material, then the rules changed.

Google, promised reach and new markets for content, it worked. Then they introduced snippets, ads and whole lot of other things to keep visitors on their freeway, while avoiding sending visitors to the original site.

Reddit, Stack Overflow and others, started with gamification (points, badges) & community to incentivize users to contribute original content.

Now AI is shaking up all these approaches. But with each one, the incentive to create original material appears to dwindle, since the returns are becoming less and less.

Like what's the incentive for any professional now, if AI is going to regurgitate their original content, without any upside (i.e. no potential for reach, no gamification, no community, no recognition, etc).
Copyright should be the problem of the person using the works and not the problem of the AI generating it.

Unless Nintendo plans on busting down the doors of every person who tries to draw Mario or preventing little Timmy from making a parody of Coca-Cola, making it where AI cannot generated copyrighted works is insane imo.

Those brands should be proud to be such a big part of the cultural fabric that it is difficult to get away from their branding. Plus it's not infringement to my knowledge until you use it for commercial purposes so as long as no one as creating Lario and Muigi to sell or otherwise use in business, it's no different than drawing it yourself.

If the AI is completely unable to generate non-infringing works even if you are _trying_ to get away from it (which the author very much doesn't seem they are, they are purposefully making and show prompts that infringe), that's the problem of the AI creator then.
China is authoritarian-capitalist lol
Unions and taxes are the alternative. Nobody should be a billionaire. If there wasn't such a concentration of wealth among a few, detached sociopaths we wouldn't have to worry about their pseudo-religious delusions.
These days it’s enough to completely mindbreak a model via DPO. Seeing how modern open source LLMs are willing to do anything was quite a surprise given how locked down ChatGPT is.
....and? It's literally true everywhere in the world. I've moved abroad 13 years ago, obtained citizenship of another country, settled here, but I still wouldn't call myself local. Why is that a problem, and why is this in any way shape or form "limiting" in moving across Europe? The truth is you can move to any country any company incredibly easily with an EU citizenship, and yet OP finds it "locking" in some way, and I was curious what they mean, because in my opinion and in my experience it's the exact opposite.
You explicitly said wind turbines, which your own reference shows are not "orders of magnitude" more dangerous. Thanks for destroying your own claim.
Cars can be used to ram people.
But most people simply dont want to do that.

What is different about cars and new tech is that new tech comes with the ability to track and monitor all users. So historically we didnt mind if one in ten million people wanted to ram people with their truck on purpose. But now the power to monitor everyone all the time to prevent these "one in ten million" crimes exists.

Its up to you to decide if the trade off is worth it.
It isn't "real" communism. It's a semi-socialist dictatorship, just like the USSR was. It just has more elements of capitalism.
If the doubling the word count seems daunting, you can try rewriting your 20k words into a short story and still get something out of it.

If you're anything like me you'll probably never return to finishing the novel and it'll rot on your hard-drive for years to come. At least if you package it up as a short story it'll be just as rewarding as a completed NaNoWriMo.

Then if you're happy with it you can still publish the short as a kindle ebook (Which can probably be completed by the end of January and you'll start off the new year accomplishing significant.)
Yes, good book, but out of date. How many snow crashes have you seen? I can recall triggering them on retro computers like a Color Computer 3 running OS-9, and a Sun 3, but since then, hardware seems to have changed in a fundamental way that doesn't allow snow crashes.
The point is that it's difficult to become a big corporation without a monopoly, and it's difficult to maintain a monopoly without government help through patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Trade secrets--which have got nothing to do with with patents, copyrights, and trademarks and I should have just said has much--are another way to maintain a monopoly without government help, but trade secrets themselves are difficult to maintain if the secret gets out, and it almost always gets out.
Nope, it’s not. It has a very capitalist society in terms of structure, regulation, safety nets, etc. On paper, sure, land is a 70-year lease, but China appears to just want to renew them.

This is also because China already tried pure communism. There were no corporations, all industries were state owned. This lasted about a decade and was a bloodbath with famines, and almost all intellectuals or people with degrees were executed for promoting inequality by their existence (not kidding - actual history (“Stinking Old Ninth”) - go look it up at your library). Be careful what you wish for when putting communism and inequality in the same sentence.

Do not assume China is the only guilty party. The USSR, as just one example, imprisoned 3,000 biologists for being on the wrong side of an evolution debate for being against Lamarckism. This culminated with banning study of neurophysiology, cell biology, and other fields. (The “Lysenkoism” purges - showing that, ironically, communist countries are among the most dangerous places to be a scientist.)
Nature is capitalistic. Big fish eat little fish.

A communist system would have to be a layer over a capitalist one. It would be maintained by a foundation of billionaire dictators.

But, assuming a system controlled by billionaire dictators, we probably don't need any "ism". Just dictate. Ideally to everybody's benefit.
I'm opposed to my (fairly minor) copyrighted works being used in GenAI datasets as well. I just have no practical way to stop it, and there aren't clear enough damages to sue. That doesn't make it legal.
> We can design it. That is what Congress should be doing by passing laws.

They sure are passing laws, yet there has been repeated failures at affecting the desired change despite near unilateral agreement among the lawmakers about the direction of the desired change. This includes the war on drugs, the prohibition, and so on.

I'm not disputing these laws have some effect, I'm disputing the ability to envision an outcome, and pass a law such that it has the desired effect.
Microsoft had dragged backwards compatibility for years (and still do, to a lesser amount) and they were proud of the less they were leaving behind.

OTOH I am sure that the Linux kernel we have today would run on my old Pentium 286.

So I am not sure what to take of this.
FWIW, I had forgotten that there's an easier way to implement the policies:

https://asciinema.org/a/629411
people still print stuff, now it’s just on the internet, podcasts, etc so I don’t see why copyright should change just because the mediums have. also marking out as a “societal convention so it must be useless” is also pretty silly when money, gender, and whole heap of other concepts are societal conventions but still useful