skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, it definitely spits out facts, often not hallucinating. And it can reiterate titles and small chunks of copyright text.

But I still haven't seen a real example of it spitting out a book verbatim. You know where I think it got chunks of "copyright" text from GRRM's books?

Wikipedia. And https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Wiki_of_Westeros, https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page, https://data.world/datasets/game-of-thrones all the god dammed wikis, databases etc based on his work, of which there are many, and of which most quote sections or whole passages of the books.

Someone prove to me that GPT can reproduce enough text verbatim that it makes it clear that it was trained on the original text first hand basis, rather than second hand from other sources.
Any examples? Actual Java code works all the way back to 1996 IME, the only thing that breaks is reflection nonsense, usually Spring.
Wow,

If some site that the allowed anyone to upload and download anything put that as their TOS, would they be absolved of copyright liability also?

It raises fine-grained questions. Is Midjourney generating/offering a copyrighted image the violation or is the user downloading it the violation?

"Your honor, I blame the users/meddling kids"
So you need a legal process to determine if that generation was actually infringing on copyright.
IANAL so I have no idea really, and I think most of the other commenters here can’t say for sure either.
Does us law prohibit selling machines or services that potentially can perform copyright infringement?
At least one court said you can't copyright generated images, and so I don't think midjourney is exactly claiming it as its own

In fact, they acknowledge that copyrighted material can be created.
Decision in Challenge to Trump Presidential Primary Petition [pdf]
Maybe. But you can already xerox a book for private use without getting permission from the author anyway, can't you?
Disney isn't on great terms with the party of Sonny Bono at the moment.
> “Allow HDMI Devices to Control this TV”

It would IMO be nice to have a default-off option to disable CEC on a specific port. Or to disable certain CEC features.
I'm not able to get it to work – installing Love got me a love.app file, but nothing I can run in the terminal.

The Love docs imply that the contents of your repo need to be be zipped up and then... something else happens? https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

If you could make an idiots guide to running the game, I'd appreciate it, I've been wanting an orbit-based game like this for a long time
Wait, so you don't think that China is a brutal country that doesn't give a damn about the lives of their people?

Leaving out the deeply incorrect "stone age" part, that strikes me as a perfectly reasonable objective fact.
Mice Thrive at 6700 Meters
Just a reminder. Back when I tried, I wish someone had stamped this on my forehead.
It's unlikely that ChatGPT penned this dreidel commentary. The nuanced understanding of dreidel spinning - especially the tactile aspects like grip and timing - reflects personal experience, something ChatGPT lacks. Also, the comment's informal tone and specific focus on practical skills over theoretical models seem more human. ChatGPT typically provides more generalized, theory-based responses, not delving deeply into the practical, less-discussed aspects of niche hobbies like dreidel spinning.

source: https://chat.openai.com/share/be44306f-2836-4dc8-8f13-7c15a4...
How do you get to third on hn with 8 points and 0 comments in 2 hours?
Well this has been hilarious.
Isn't AWS Global Accelerator just the edge CDN (like Cloudflare) here? When the actual web server went down it will not able to cover it, looks like AWS Global Accelerator lacks the Cloudflare feature of showing you the last cached result.
I feel like an artist should be more upset with what could be created from the prompt that was not true to the original film, with only minor changes to the prompt. For instance, a picture of batman and joker having drinks together on the roof top.
A affects B, doesn’t mean B only depends on A.
I think it's a totally valid rant too. We get so used to our tools laughing at us saying "Ha ha ha! You didn't say the magic word!" And then a few searches or manual lookups later, you learn the magic word and use it, the tools say "Ha ha ha! We've deprecated that function!" And slowly through our careers, we just start accepting it as an inevitable fact of programming.
It's difficult to stress how little I care about using a decade old+ version of http versus a 2 decade old+ version. This only further exacerbates my feeling that there's not actually a significant & real complaint against grpc or it's complexity, if we're arguing one of the most well established rfc's is the issue. That's not a grpc issue at all.

Does grpc have an issue, or is this just general vague pissy anti-modern bellyaching in general? Cause it started insubstantial as heck to start from & if this is the first go to argument, my gods man, zero tolerance for this whiner shit. This is the times. Grpc is not at fault here for using vaguely modern competent protocols. What shit.
> Biden need to step in

I agree, slapstick is very funny
That's probably true. My adopted home of Singapore holds enough foreign reserves to more than back every Singapore dollar they issued. In practice, 'foreign reserves' is mostly another name for US government debt.
„(2002) Google was merely a popular search engine and web browser that was competing with the likes of Netscape Navigator for market share.”

ಠ_ಠ
Would it, really? And would you own that new scene?

Midjourney is a paid service which uses copyrighted works as source, without any agreement with the copyright holders, while declaring that its users own all the assets that it creates for them.
Well, it may be legal to create such a painting, but (depending on details) it may be a derivative work, in which case the original work's copyright still applies.

In other words, in your example, the painter is not necessarily free to distribute their painting while ignoring the original image's copyright.
I think by overall value it pales in comparison to Delphi. At leas this is my experience.
I’m using dadjokes.io, would recommend.
I got it – these are the steps I took:

1. Download Love from https://love2d.org/
2. Launch love.app
3. git clone git@github.com:whyboris/Gravity-Wars.git
4. cd Gravity-Wars.git
5. zip -9 -r GravityWars.love .
6. open GravityWars.love
It's a fair point that Python minor version changes can and do involve removal of previously deprecated APIs, which would break old code that used those APIs.

That said, when I look through the 3.11 release notes you refer to, I see basically three categories of such changes:

- Items that were deprecated very early in Python 3 development (3.2, for example). Since 3.3 was the first basically usable Python 3 version, I doubt there is much legacy Python 3 code that will be broken by these changes.

- Items related to early versions of new APIs introduced in Python 3 (for example, deprecating early versions of the async APIs now that async development has settled on later ones that were found to work better). These sorts of breaking changes can be avoided by not using APIs that are basically experimental and are declared to be so (as the early async APIs were).

- Items related to supporting old OSs or data formats that nobody really uses any more.

So, while these are, strictly speaking, breaking changes, I still don't think that "constant breaking changes" is a good description of the general state of Python development.
How much should you save for home repairs?
It seems the rule of thumb is to expect to pay ~1% of your home's value in maintenance and repairs. Newer homes may require less, older homes may require more. The challenge with this, however, is that it's unlikely that your home will need this amount in repairs/maintenance each year. Some years may require less, some years may require more. This rule of thumb holds water when averaging your home's repairs over a long time frame.

I was interested to understand how different scenarios might impact my home repair savings plan. I built a simple calculator that simulates 10 years of repair and maintenance expenses. In each scenario, the calculator projects how much to save each month to pay for all 10 years worth of expenses, but also how much I may need to fork over at one time when an unexpected repair wipes out my expenses.
No HTTP server software can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but OpenBSD httpd is at least privsep, always runs in a chroot, and each process is pledged quite tightly, that means http/tls protocol speakers can't write to the filesystem, can't fork any processes, and can't execve(2).

lighttpd doesn't even chroot by default.
> “regulators say you have to label this” and “regulators say you cannot buy this even with informed consent” are two different things

They are the same issue, because labels get applied even when not needed which destroys informed consent.

Allergies cover a huge range of sensitivities. People with quite severe allergies can consume small quantities and not notice when someone else with the exact same allergies just in a more severe form would die from consuming it. Thus ‘may contain nuts’ isn’t informed consent what’s needed is a sliding scale of risks not CYA language on basically every package.
Chinese Nvidia RTX 4090D to launch today with reduced Tensor core specs
Ace Has Prepared a List of Pirate Sites It Wants to Shut Down in 2024
Looks like a screen capture of a Houdini simulation.
I agree with the authors conclusion that we make this stuff hard on ourselves.

No one hates software developers more than other software developers, and no one understands usability less than a software developer.

This is one of those things I thought would get better over 30 years but has just continually gotten worse.
That reasoning contains the highest level of mental gymnastics that I've seen this whole year.

Name a single victim or negative effect coming from that experiment.
"Mmmm heavy, this is a good steak."

"...Sir that's a brick."

I mean really, marbling, color, thickness... I think weight is arguably the LAST way you grade a steak. Some of best steaks I've head were tiny, but exquisite.
I’ve been following Kala for most of the last year. Her ingenuity is simply spectacular. She has yet to explain why she is building the tunnel or how she is avoiding any trouble from the authorities (she’s regularly getting a dumpster full of excavated rock removed from her suburban driveway in view of her neighbours).
To avoid the binary search making it trivial, maybe just tell you which guesses are correct and which other guesses match a value somewhere, like yellow letters in wordle. I think that would be more interesting but I have only played it in my head so the error margin could be significant. Of the top of my head I would use the lesser digits to search the space systematically while making the major digits match the color as best I could. Still it is fun as is and I have added it to my window of daily puzzle tabs.
Now second
> There were major breaking changes from 2.4 -> 2.5, and smaller but still breaking ones for 2.5 -> 2.6.

Such as?
There are reasons other than speed that makes people move away from Python.

Btw, recently CPython has sped up a lot. Between versions 3.9 to 3.12 many programs run about twice as fast. Much of that improvement is thanks to the 'faster-cpython' project (which Microsoft is generously funding).

I contributed about a 1% speedup during that time, too.
Oh cool! That's a vote for getting on Mastodon...
FedRAMP vetted sites and vendors still get hacked too tho
Funnily that series is so good that it brought me into podcast ecosystem as a whole, but I still can't relisten to it. WW1 is just too bleak and hopeless to be "enjoyed".
The actual behavior is indeed a bit ridiculous:

>>> print('%r' % str)
<class 'str'>
>>> def whatisit(x):
... print('It is %r' % x)
...
>>> whatisit(min)
It is <built-in function min>
>>> whatisit(exit)
It is Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

Excuse me?

IMO if the REPL wanted a friendly feature like this, it should be a generic REPL feature, not a hack applied to the function exit.
Damn, I think I played this game like 20 years ago on my friends computer? (taking breaks from playing Aliens vs Predator 2)
I am not a lawyer but adding your own items and creating a hypothetical scenes seems more like fair use than the reaction videos on youtube do? Or, is that a different ballgame altogether?

Curious to find out. I am not a lawyer.
SpaceX Explosions – Engineering Done Right [video]
The nice thing about solar is it's very cheap, and as a grid provider you can just charge more for energy at night to disincentivize use when the sun is not shining. We do not actually need constant energy supply at all hours of the day and night and solar can cover a great deal of energy needs for very cheap. You can also deploy solar even on a large scale in very short time scales. Want to build nuclear? You start applying for permits today and by the time the earth has surpassed 2.0 degrees C of warming maybe you start generating electricity.

Even though I don't like natural gas for energy generation, let's say an area is currently being served by a natural gas plant. But now everyone wants electric cars and more power is needed. You can deploy a whole boatload of solar and use rate structuring to incentivize consumption in the day time (you charge your car at work). Now the gas plant spins up at night but it is only running half the time, and all day long people are using emission-free solar energy. And they aren't burning gasoline for their cars anymore. Plus if there is a power outage they can use their car as a home battery backup.

So yeah, I don't think it really makes any sense to say "we have 78 seconds of battery backup so solar is pointless". You can make a HUGE dent in people's energy-related carbon emissions if you install solar tomorrow. Or you can pay much more and install nuclear in 15 years. Maybe we should start building out nuclear now but it would absolutely not be to the exclusion of solar! Even if we built 1000 new nuclear power plants in the US we would still need lots of solar and wind energy.
You are arguing that Spotify should not pay royalties or license fees for songs, because it is the user might break the law by playing an unlicensed song.

Oh, wait. It isn't the user. Spotify and Midjourney are actually the guilty party in this scenario, for distributing copyrighted works and probably for storing them without permission in the first place.

Midjourney may be a tool, but it is a tool containing a large body of copyrighted and unlicensed images, including trademarks, and even illegal content. And that is what the court cases are going to be about.
The NN has copyright material stored (maybe in compressed form) inside of it. That's quite literally the definition of copying, and if you do that without licence copyright infringement.

Note how software licences typically give you the licence to make a copy for running the program? That's because the act of copying the program from the medium (cd, USB stick, HDD...) is considered copying.

I really don't understand what's so difficult to grasp about this. And yes it is illegal to sell equipment whose purpose is circumventing copyright protections.
I think there is a more obvious influence on “formal” communication: Google’s smart compose and smart reply.

Students writing papers now increasingly use Google Docs as Google pushes into the education space, and Google workspace has 9 million paying orgs. It seems possible that being consistently exposed to the same models/suggestions in school and then work (the main “formal” contexts for most) could have a drastic impact on professional communication.

I’d be interested to see someone study an organization’s language before and after adopting Google’s products to see what, if any, influence it has.
Can you imagine TikTok building their own LLM engine into the product? Delightfully dystopian. And training it on all that user generated content!
By being the new post with the most points and comments in 2 hours.

If another post would was more recent and had more points it would be higher.

These posts get a temporary boost but if the points stay the same while being at the top, it'll disappear pretty soon.
Prompters aren't artists, and neither are image generators. The corporations that create these generators are responsible for the content they illicitly fed into them that they are now spewing out.

If you sell me an endless coloring book that occasionally spits out copyrighted content, that's on you.
It allowed to copy text from screen and paste into its editor, had a modem terminal app, contact app and a calculator. It was a joy to use!
These things are turned off because product owners and project managers are almost never power users of the software they are tasked with steering. They seem to believe that all users are of their own skill level at maximum, because who could possibly know more? “They aren’t the product owner! I am! Everyone who doesn’t use this like I do is using it wrong!”

And this kind of thing is how “new” outlook gets written, which is an absolute shitshow compared to the legacy outlook client.
1. GPT-4 is excellent for step by step instructions. "How do I delete my account?" "How do I change the font in Y?"

2. Basically anything that needs large scale copy pasting. A website had a list of names, phone numbers, other IDs, and I just wanted to strip out the name into a list. If a spreadsheet doesn't work, then ChatGPT it is.

3. Brainstorming ideas. ChatGPT surprisingly sucks at this because it tries to be deterministic - ask it a question 10 times and it'll keep giving a similar result. The API is a lot better at it, especially completion models (davinci-002).

4. Basically as a "renderer" for https://random-character-generator.com/ The site determines whether a character is "brave", "strong", etc, and the AI figures out ways to "show, don't tell". It took me 7.5 hours to write 150 traits by hand. GPT-3 does 150 traits in 2.5 hours, together with quality checking and typo fixing. I can probably get it to write whole modules in GPT-4 today, but it's not a priority project now.
- e/acc movement will become more popular

- Open-source AI models as good as the state-of-the-art
closed ones

- Social media is bombarded with AI generated political
propaganda from both sides

- More adoption of crypto and decentralized apps

- SOL reaches all time high

- NFTs become popular again

- Argentina's economy starts recovering

- No AI innovation in the EU because of regulation

- X/Twitter will be going strong, grows more than ever

- Linux gaming will improve a ton, but anti-cheat software still won't work
This can keeps getting kicked down the road a couple years. Bundled into some other huge bill or abother. Not too long an extension usually, but gee, sure seems unlikely Congress will ever have to actually reckon with their monsters ever, will ever have to re-decide a thing that was deliberately explicitly built as a short term thing to be re-evaluated.

> But these conversations were halted after Congress and the Biden administration squeezed a short-term extension of the spy program through the annual defense bill, potentially keeping it in effect until 2025.

I am a strong leftist progressive who believes in strong competent doing government, very much. But the inability of government to have to face up to old decisions & evaluate how things have been going & make new better informed decisions keeps being super undermined by awful shitty omnibus bills. (Personally I think one party actively sabotages the system & does not want governance or compromise, but anyways...)
No reason required - people do all kinds of things 'just because'.

The rock removal isn't much of an issue if you, say, ring your local council and ask where they stockpile material. Our council has several acres with piles of sand, clay, rock, mixed, etc. that gets dumped after trenching, levelling, et al. jobs and reused when fill is needed.

"Good" rock (for some value of) can even fetch a bit of cash from garden centres and elsewhere.
Cognitive load is one good dimension to think about here. I like that it is a human concern. There are probably multiple.

What I think is challenging is figuring out what the teams should be - this can be more complex than it appears. Do you have an "auth team" for example? How do you ensure the people in that team are happy that their CV is going to be "done auth for 2 years" when they next do their job.

For small companies you might have micro teams, where there are 0.1 members on that team - I.e. it is at the point of part of someone's role. But treating it like it's own team (it get's own repo(s)) might make sense.
If you limit your dependencies to what’s available in your distro’s LTS or stable release breaking changes are much less common. Living on the bleeding edge has a cost.
> UK has vehicle manufacturing but no steel production. In case of a war, it's military production is zero.

All of Europe drives steel production out by taxing energy to crazy levels. Can’t eat a cookie and have a cookie. Environment or military security.
I suspect #points is the main factor. And the algorithm wants to surface fresh stuff, otherwise we'd still all be talking about Sam Altman. Glad we aren't :-) (nothing against Sam...)
Not totally sure, but the bit about the water makes it sound like a storm shelter, which is a totally valid thing to build under your house in certain places.
if it's fair use; that may or may not cover every case of 'xerox a book for private use' but certainly the publishers who are suing library genesis under us law don't think it does
I think that’s an energy conversion for petrol vehicles.
It doesn't have details on how this is actually done.

Do they mean walk outside and ask many random strangers if they'd buy widget X?
I have an emoji recommender here: https://github.com/smuzani/openai-samples/blob/main/node_exa...

It's wired into my command line. There's some crude instructions how to wire it into zsh on the README, but honestly, GPT-4 can give better.

Your other uses sound like they're common enough to use on the command line too.
It does looks like Taycan, guess that's the directive engineers were given by the CEO.

"We've engineered the SU7 to offer a level of driving performance that stands among the best in its class, including the Porsche Taycan Turbo."

https://twitter.com/leijun/status/1739597487495925780
Ernest Scribbler helped win WWII for the British with a joke that was over 60,000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke.
We can’t measure cognitive load though. Or if we can, no one knows a way to apply that to software projects.
Trigger warnings do not work
I think a revisit of Conway's paper[1] might be appropriate. Between that, and the recent talk by Kevlin Henney about architecture[2], you'll be in far better shape to make such decisions.

[1] https://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCK-Pu80EEs
If any dev out there is looking for a challenge/cool thing to do, here it is: a TUI DE following the practices of TurboC/TurboPascal, CUA visuals and keybindings from edit.com and support for multiple languages and LSPs.
Xiaomi officially unveiled its first car Xiaomi SU7
It would still be distributing copyrighted work, even if it doesn't store a copy at any stage. It would go the way of Napster.
> we need more if statements!

Waiting for the Will Ferrel skit of this. Though this article was funny enough on its own. The Python program to generate the C code was hilarious.
"Most Sophisticated" iPhone Security Vulnerability: "Operation Triangulation"
this is an excellent essay; thank you for finding the link
A lot of families in the US are forced to larger vehicles (minivans or SUVs) when they have a second child -- my wife and I greeted twins and had to get rid of our VW Jetta because it could _barely_ fit 2 car seats in the back.