skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely. Remember when the VCR came out and some parties absolutely freaked out and Jack Valenti said

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

Then we invented from whole cloth reasons why they were perfectly OK because there was a ton of money to be made and everyone would actually be better off if the VCR was a thing and everyone knew it because it ended up argued after millions of VCRs were already in households.
This would require spacetime to be quantized (presumably at the Planck length or something smaller) though, yes?

I've always thought entanglement makes more intuitive sense on a graph substrate of some kind, where the "spooky action at a distance" is actually just an anomalous edge in the graph connecting two vertices which would otherwise be more distantly separated. This begs the question of how the edges in the graph came to be or whether they're modifiable at all though.
Most of them pivoted to LLM.
You’re trying to constrain meaning to your sensibilities. An authority you don’t have.

Note humanity does not use Latin in day to day life.

Language is not immutable physics.
> Model 3/Model Y has been the most sold new car in California and a few other areas, selling more than the usual toyotas and hondas.

California has a $7500 rebate for PHEVs. That's on top of the federal rebate IIRC. California also offers the clean air vehicle passes to use HOV lanes.

So there's some additional help in California to push EVs and Tesla only makes EVs. When the Prius was the big fad car you saw them all over the place in California as well.
Language models have completely overhauled the NLP space. If you have a problem involving natural language data, you can prototype working pipeline in an afternoon. Often this prototype is very close in performance to a 'proper' solution.
Campaign finance reform is a popular issue with voters, not so much policymakers. Same as voting and election reform.

What it says is that industries can perform regulatory capture by funding the right people in office. Crypto just doesn’t have the same clout at oil and gas and other groups.
Everyone parents differently and I’m not trying to prescribe what you should do, but here is something that I’ve found works well.

Set your entertainment budget for the household at whatever you are paying now for streaming services and when they inevitably want to add Paramount or Discovery onto the what is available in household, you say “that is fine, but we can only have 3 streaming services (or if the kids are older: we only have a budget of $x month for streaming), which means we have to cancel one in order to add this new one”

Because it’s hard to claw back what they already are used to, you’re putting them in a position where they must consider opportunity cost. If they are clever, they will say, “let’s switch for 3 months so we can watch what we want and switch back to our original setup.” This way introduces scarcity without being the “bad guy” - after all, the budget is the budget. It also gives them choice but not the freedom to choose everything so they can take some agency and better prepares them for the challenges of the Real World(tm).
It was discontinued because it turns out that affordable EVs aren’t actually what Americans want.
I am in the US market. I was an active car buyer before I decided against it,

I and my peers (30 and younger) just aren't buying new or even used cars due to financial reasons, let alone EVs.

The capital outlay on a new car, let alone an EV is too high when factoring incomes, and alternatives.

And these are peers of mine in VC, Finance, Engineering Management, L7+ engineers. For our friends who are doing average jobs the affordability crisis is even worse.
It makes perfect sense if you think about the opposite scenario.

US: We want you to extradite this guy for fraud.

Bahamas: No problem, he's all yours.

US: You are under arrest for murder; enjoy the electric chair.

Bahamas: Wait a minute!
The only way to enforce values that others dont agree with is to aggressively draw a line in the sand and be 100% willing to go low contact if not no contact over it. If that's not a trade off you're willing to make over it, then you dont hold that value all that closely.

I say this has someone who has actually cut off family members over things people would consider trival. Like soda. I literally cancelled an entire summer vacation with my family over it. No soda, high processed foods for my child. For me, it's a imminent matter of health for my kid who has GI issues to my family, it's be being over strict. I was willing to blow up everything over it.

Are you willing to cause strife over stream services? Because this seems silly enough yo outsiders that I think you'll find it hard to convince your family. You'll probably only get to hard draw your boundary and deal with the fall out.
Humanoids from Agility Robotics and seven other companies vie for jobs
Where did you find that Internet Historian is a nazi? I only found something when searching "Internet Historian nazi", a reddit post that also claims that Jontron is a white supremacist. This post: https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/18erlt0/internet_histo...

If you actually googled "Internet Historian nazi" for a guy you don't even know who he is, that would be pretty funny.
I understand the concern. I meant that in the context of making plans people tend to diverge.

You are right in that in solving present problems people do converge.

It would be nice if people could follow plans to avoid having problems in the first place.
That gave me a chuckle actually, JDM car names do sometimes look like spelyng misteaks.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_vehicles
I appreciate the clarity of this article. I know it was written by the author for themselves, but it feels like it could have been written for me!
How times have changed. What you consider a matchbox is a normal vehicle that's trying to pass for a SUV...

Energy wise, better a matchbox than a tank
No they are not.

This is a negotiation tactic by the NYT to drive up the licensing price. Period.

The Napster/Music Industry analogy has no resemblance to this situation.

The only meaningful question that might be answered as a result of this is, what permission and access rights do crawlers have to content that is publicly and legally available.
What if they said that after planting false trails or setting up people to spefically cause purges.
Witchhunts tend to be a good time for the intel guys to set up people with just rumors and whispers with far less blowback than trying to assassinate them.
Paleontologist discovers rare soft tissue in fossil of crab
Individuals can buy self-driving cars from Mercedes-Benz today. They are only level 3 autonomous, but the manufacturer does assume legal liability for incidents that occur during autonomous operation (traffic tickets may be a separate issue). There is a hefty subscription fee for the Drive Pilot service.

https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot
> Try coming up with a dataset that doesn’t have any copyrighted material in them.

Isn't this what Mistral AI did?
I disagree, it's in a large part a computer science problem.

So for instance, I work on a decentralized VR world (https://overte.org/). Our architecture is very similar to that of the web -- we have a 3D analog of a web server, and a 3D analog of a web browser. Authentication is like on the web -- anonymous by default. Storage is wherever you want to fetch stuff from by HTTP.

That's technically different from other systems in the same space. Eg, Second Life is a very centralized system. There's a grid, the various simulators are placed on a map, there's a central asset storage, and everyone must log in.

If Second Life open sourced their backend, then the resulting outcome would be competing centralized platforms, where you either log into SL, or you log into the alternative. Each of those is a self-contained universe that you can be completely be removed from.

And sure, there are various political implications there, but it's also a matter of what technical decisions and tradeoffs you make. SL for instance assumes everyone has an user account. Our system assumes everyone is anonymous by default. In SL there can be a coherent notion of a "world map" because a central entity decides which simulator goes where. In our system, such a thing is not possible because any given world has an arbitrary size and arbitrary owner, there's no way to say Alice and Bob are neighbors, nor there is a central system to ask for a definitive answer.

The system is so well designed for this that IMO it likely was one of the things that made the business model of the original maker of it (High Fidelity) fail. The design is just naturally resistant to monetization. To the point that when I first encountered it, I was baffled at how it was ever going to make any money. The very design looks like something a highly ideological and anti-corporate group would come up with to make sure that even if some of them fell to the "dark side", there still wouldn't be a way to make a profit.
It really hinges on substantially similar. If I copy Harry Potter and change every instance of Harry Potter to Michael Rose surely it's infringing. If I write a coming of age story set in a magical land I'm probably OK. Which do you think LLM produce?
> In the humanities we have traditionally used a well-structured and elegantly-written essay as the gauge of learning and understanding. Will that have to change?

No! If the student produces a poorly written essay they should receive a bad grade.

This "engaging with the LLM" is nothing more than Googling the answers. It's incredibly detrimental to the student's understanding. One way to prevent this kind of cheating would be to require essays to be hand-written, or typed on a mechanical typewriter.
I think syntax needs some more work.

I am hopeful of S7 but I still believe that R needs some proper PL engineering.

It has many dangerous corner cases and mutability when it shouldn't.

I migrated to Julia for my experiments/computations. Safer.

Still R has some great ideas but not developed to their proper extend.

S7 is in the right direction.
Satic typing could also be a big thing.
Show HN: dextk - Android dex file parser in Go
> it drives him batty.

Similar boat. My parents and I buy new, but then we keep using the car for 10-15 years.

It doesn't make sense financially to buy a used car and then upgrade to another used car in 4-5 years.
Can you specify some examples of how "iOS is just superior in every way"?
Are these really higher resolution than the 2010 scans from an electron microscope[1]?

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/12/snowflakes-by-microscope/
I don't think about it. The more energy is wasted unnecessarily, the more my social status rises.
I'm in an "(actually) creative" field, not a brogrammer, 20 years of writing code, and have a vastly different opinion than you do.
Cruel and unusual punishment: play LoL with a special matchmaking algorithm that always teams you with griefing trolls.
The third option would be to change our copyright laws to reflect the new technology, rather than neutering the technology or restricting use of its outputs. Even if that’s the wrong way, it’s important to remember that we’re not inescapably trapped in the status quo
One was a tech VC, the other was unhoused. They forged an unlikely friendship in
Brought together by a Bay Area volunteer program, Nathaniel Todd and Bruce Armstrong found support and solace in each other
We all make judgements about what is worth pursuing. I'm not a fan of string theory because the sub-field over-promised and under-delivered for decades. I'm content to let others who know more get excited if the field is going to be saved by EW or anyone else. Spending time is a zero-sum, and the cost/benefit does isn't worth it to me.

But this is neither evidence of prosecution or an ad hominem. It's true that his other statements about politics and the world in general, particularly his propencity to accept and promulgate conspiracy theories without evidence, make me doubt his honesty and his moral fabric, but that's a relatively minor part of why I won't spend time on this.
There is some really good content here for any programmer.

And with volume 3, such a contrast: the author teaches C++17 and... Fortran2008.
I think that's going to be a geodesic in a hyper-dimensional manifold. There was an article here about 'wordlets' on a hyper-sphere and a piece on time and LLM and the relating manifold. Visualising LLM topology (multi-dimensional topological manifolds) is a very rich area for exploration. I'm waiting for someone to use PHATE to do the dimension reduction, it's used in neuroscience to reduce dimensionality providing information not visible using PCA, t-SNE, LDA or UMAP.
Just plain wrong
I prefer the name, as I find there's a straight line correlation between stupid names like "Data Lakehouse" and bad engineering practices. Another sign is the dumber the buzzword, the more consultants and middle men exist to skim money off a problem that should never exist in the first place.
If the work goes beyond fair use, it is a copyright violation. It doesn't matter if it was created by a person or an AI.

Technology that makes copyright violations easier/quicker have typically been found legal if "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses".
A Brief History of Algorithmic Composition
Right, but... we violate that all the time. If I'm abiding by the other terms of the tourist visa (90/180 days, e.g.), and all the work that I do is for a company in my home country, paid by that company in my home country bank account, and occupies about an hour a day max, I don't think it violates the spirit of the law (the letter of the law is, of course, subject to judicial interpretation).

Is it a violation of my tourist visa to take a phone call from work when I'm on vacation?

The big benefit is the prolonged duration of the visa that allows you to really settle in and live there for a while.
Haha I don’t think Netflix is the devil — I’ve been a subscriber for years, and have owned NFLX for almost as long.
I'm curious what purchases you can even justify with this mental model. Is a $50 dinner at a restaurant once a week worth it (60K+ USD over your lifetime)? What about a night at the movies with the family (easily 50K-100K+ total)? The two fancy coffees you mention are themselves multiple thousands worth.
You can’t use their generative AI tools on images it deems NSFW, even if the part you’re generating isn’t.
This comment is ignorant of history

It happened with Napster, then Apple Music, now streaming services

There is no widespread file sharing in the general public, instead we have devices that we don’t own, and streaming subscriptions

Apple didn’t just copy all the music onto iPods and sell it — it took them a decade of deal making and lots of money to acquire the rights to the content

I’m not saying what’s right or wrong, just saying that this comment has very little understanding of these battles
Exercise improves health outcomes even more than going from obese to non-obese, so we want to encourage even fat people to exercise. But it is also good to not be obese.
I don't understand the glee so many people have over this. I love being able to use Generative AI tools. How is it different than if I asked a person to draw these pictures for me? I know someone will gleefully clobber this question with a legal answer, but God, let's move forward, hunh?
It's quite specifically about whether to put Sam Bankman-Fried on trial when he's already going to jail for the rest of his life.
I don't think anyone minds a shorter copyright length. the 100 years crap is way too long.

But that doesn't mean DMCA as a whole needs to expire. It just needs to be reeled the hell in and especially punish blatantly false claims.
Tether Letters to US Senate and US House Committees
> "Tether is grateful for the opportunity to address the concerns raised by U.S. lawmakers, and we are committed to continuing Tether’s close work with law enforcement in the U.S. and globally” stated Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. “Tether seeks to be a world class partner to the U.S. as we continue to assist law enforcement and expand dollar hegemony globally.”
Great Readme. Strikes the perfect balance between quickly informative and enjoyably cute.
I think a substantial number of us don’t care or are happy to see it. It’s just another level of abstraction to work with. I think some artists feel the same although I understand those who don’t.
Ask HN: What do you use to practise leetcode?
Exactly. Your argument boils down to "I'm the worst demographic for a car company, but I want them to make money-losing vehicles for me."
> I guess this all depends on one’s definition “bombed back into the Stone Age”.

Well, yeah. And it's not exactly a technical term. Don't get me wrong, the strategic bombing was very destructive and killed a lot of people. The way I interpret the phrase is that bombing a country "back to the stone age" means destroying their industrial production. And strategic bombing didn't do that. Germany and Japan's GDPs did not crater; their production of military hardware increased through 1944. I'm sure the bombing kept it from increasing more, but that's not what the phrase implies. When the Allied armies entered Germany in 1944 their opponents were armed with guns and tanks, not bows and spears.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24241000-2023-12-27-...

Microsoft is the first defendant listed. You can read the Times' claims against Microsoft.
Easy. Just login.
Not enough. Out of two classes of 30 kids I'm the only parent that doesn't agree with it. Pretty weird to be the 'luddite' when I've always been at the tech frontier.
I unlock the bootloader and install a custom rom (pretty much exclusively LineageOS nowadays, I’d try GrapheneOS, but I’d have to spend far more on the phone than I’m willing to get that). That is everything cleaned ;) I only buy phones with LineageOS support.
This was settled years ago in the US by Bridgeman vs Corel (Corel could copy old photos for their library disc). Also see Meshworks vs Toyota (3D scan of real car is not a new work). It's all based on Feist vs Rural Telephone (telephone directories not works of authorship). Museums have been whining about this for years, but not winning in court. Wikimedia puts up images under those rules, and no one has ever successfully sued Wikimedia over that, although there's been some huffing and puffing.

Feist is why the US doesn't have database copyright, and that's a Supreme Court decision based on the copyright/patent clause in the Constitution. It's a very strong holding, in that says Congress can't enact laws to make copyright cover things that don't have human authorship. "The standard of originality is low, but it does exist."

Bridgeman Art Library (the company) has been arguing for years that UK law lets them own copyright of pictures of old masters. That's over.

This has implications for large language models.
I was thinking of the VCR as well. SCOTUS ruled that "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses" making VCRs legal.
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Plenty of discussion days ago about this and the case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781863
Thanks, I'm quite interested in this, so I'll certainly give the paper a read!
Yeah, I’m trying to find ways to introduce the concept of opportunity cost. You’re right that there’s a difference between clawing back and declining to add new services, even though it’s just a matter of framing. I’m all for letting people choose which ones they want, and you’re absolutely right that in an ideal world they will realize that they’d rather rotate than always have the same ones.
Social media's biggest user protest rocked Reddit
A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the social media site is changed for ever
This feels like a humble brag.

Yes, lots of people don’t track their money that well. There’s an industry devoted to helping people do better at tracking their money.

One of the problems is that subscriptions aren’t consolidated. You might subscribe to streaming services individually or through a third party, such as Roku or Apple. And then of course, there are other types of subscriptions, such as music, news, patreon, recurring political contributions, and substack.

Another issue is that you might subscribe to a service which you are excited about, but you don’t actually end up using it, and you forget about it entirely.

And probably the main problem is that a lot of people don’t review their credit card statements rigorously.
Yup, wouldn't want to buy anything on Amazon that I haven't thoroughly researched prior to visiting Amazon. Their search algorithm is worse than useless, it's predatory. Much better to buy directly from a reputable store if it's expensive/important.
I think the idea is that individuals who grow their own business benefit longer from their creation than a billion dollar company you sell it to. So it's a way to incentivize more entrepreneurs and less aquisitions that conglomerate everything towards BigCo.
What happens when an AI is used to make decisions where the user/victim is entitled to know exactly why the AI did what it did? From a business and legal perspective I think the current AI solutions are dangerous and should be used very sparsely, exactly because even the creators can't point to the exact pieces of information that caused the AI to make the choices it did.

I totally agree that we need explainability (probably through symbolic systems, not fancier models), but I think you’re overestimating how much more satisfying explanations from more traditional AI are. “My rules told me to do X” is a bit more helpful for a troubleshooting engineer than “my training data trained me to do X”, but from a ‘business and legal perspective’ the difference is much less pronounced IMO.

Both answers mean you did something wrong in creating the machine. The fault will always lie with the creator.
lmfao, launching again is free
> Tier-1 salaries

Even at Tier 1 salaries it's unaffordable without parent's help.

I and my peers are 30 and younger, and work in VC, PE, IB, PM, SWE, Tech Sales, Dentists, Doctors, and other high salary jobs in the Bay Area, and even we don't want to buy cars (new, used, or EV) because the cost outlay is ridiculous, and could be better used to to save for buying a house or a condo or fully paying off student loans.
https://www.napster.com/us/
NYT ran stories making him out to being a victim, how his family was "caught on the middle," how FTX was simply a success story turned to bad luck. NYT effectively lead blocking PR
Show HN: Tonight's Bedtime Story – AI generated stories with images and audio
Hey HN - sharing out my holiday hacking project.

Tonight's Bedtime Story uses the OpenAI API to generate a bedtime story based on a prompt (or you can just say "tell me a story"). It also generates an image prompt and uses that to create a cover image with dalle-3 then turns the text of the story into audio for easy playback. It's been interesting to see how well this does (as well as some of its limitations).

Heres one of my favorite stories it has generated so far: <https://bedtime-ai.nokk.io/stories/2Zek3PtK4SoQaHO1edZDPuQnh...>

The project is built on Nokkio[0], a full-stack React framework, and the code is available on GitHub[1].

Hope you like it, suggestions welcome!

[0] https://www.nokk.io

[1] https://github.com/bradleyboy/bedtime-ai
I run 'pong' and 'snake' on it because they're recognizable and because they can teach kids what makes the games they already know tick on the inside. Of course you can make anything else on it as well, and my kids come up with all kinds of neat ideas all by themselves.