skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve filed a few returns in new zealand and it seemed pretty simple, I was a simple case though
LLM's are definitely the sort of thing people in general mean when they say "AI".

The act of using "an AI" to generate a license restricting the use of AI can have many motivations, but an obvious one is the simple "use their own weapons against them" principle.
I think I ended up sending over $30K to John Bradley for xv.

A buddy wanted to scan his album cover, so I bought a HP scanner and wrote some CLI software to do it. Then I started thinking about making a Unix GUI for it and kept thinking "I need to do X like xv does, I need to do Y and Z like xv does." So eventually I decided to just build it as an add-on to xv, and made a deal with John Bradley to sell it, giving him his shareware license cut.
> Euro-China JV's might be in with a chance

They already are due to Volvo/Polestar and MG.

Clearly, acquiring a heritage Western brand is a great way to help expand market share within the West while minimizing blowback.
It's sad seeing peers become luddites over AI. It's never been the right side of history to be on.
Not sure what good means. Nobody likes to pay tax.

If you mean legible, common-law taxation is going to be messy by nature. Civil-law jurisdictions will be more legible. France has published formulas for theirs.

If you mean simple, Estonia deliberately chose a simplified foundation for their post-Soviet era -- a tripod of land-value tax (not a property tax); flat income tax with some basic deductions; and VAT. They are new enough that exceptions are probably modest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Estonia
I love this thank you. Fuck so called “AI” and their theft of content. I really hope with all my heart the New York Times gets a big win. It’s simply not okay to blatantly use data you do not own to train your models. This is simply theft.
Thank you, this is really useful!
Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01
Unveiling Shiso, a hidden gem of nature and coexistence
Do It Yourself Blind Repair
A very nice for profit site. Their business model seems to be selling parts for repairing window blinds, but the site is a treasure trove of information on the topic of window blinds, and the design of the site, organization and presentation of information regarding this specialized topic are beautiful. Just wanted to share it, no affiliation.

NB: despite the richness of information, the site fails to help me because it's missing info on the specific type of blinds I was interested in ;)

EDIT: relevant Wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_blind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_shutter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shutter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_shutter_hardware

Window shutters are often used as/instead of window blinds
in Europe. The linked site sadly doesn't seem to cover shutters yet, presumably because they're not popular in the USA currently. EDIT: possible explanation by another commenter - "They're hella illegal in America because of weird fire code rules": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845794
IANAL...

I think that depends on the application of "designed to simulate human intelligence" (Definition "b").. If that statement does not apply to the previously mentioned "algorithms" in the definition, I think it's safe for most (current) search engines.

I do believe the license would prohibit you from passing this through an intermediate AI system, as there's no exceptions or allowance.

I imagine there would be a fight in various laws/constitutions saying that the license is illegal/not allowed/etc in most places as it would not support accessibility (e.g. AI based text-to-speech for those that need it)...

And then there's no severance clause/statement, which is technically in the CC licenses (legal version), to protect the rest of the license should one part be found invalid.. so ultimately the whole license is probably invalid for most countries since the limitation will almost certainly (eventually) violate someones rights to read the public information (which will probably have AI incorporation at some point, e.g. text-to-speech with automatic summarization, searching by context, spelling corrections, perhaps translations, etc.)
Last time I looked at Canadian payroll services, many were very affordable. Why bother spending the time on this ?
Defaults matter and inertia is real. There’s no way to repeal amendments today in practice.

It seems ridiculous to me that we can change the whole administration every generation but we can’t replace the laws while we’re at it? Are dead men somehow wiser than we the living that the laws apply to?

Every law under a representative system should have a default expiration date no later than an average human lifespan.
Live Templates: connect a template in HTML to a stateful back end
The live-template element provides a connected, or "live" template that connects to a stateful backend application provided by Livestate. After connecting to a LiveState channel, it will

- render the initial state
- subscribe to state
updates and re-render on changes
- push events to a Livestate channel which may then compute a new state

If you squint really hard, you can think of it as HTMX meets Elixir ;)
Conversely, is there any ‘well-known’ statement that explicitly permits using a work for ml training, analogous to human learning, without permitting wholesale copying? (I've looked casually and not seen one, but I'm not well-read in either domain.)
A license like this can deny the copyright owners permission in certain cases. However, this applies only to the things for which copyright law asserts that the copyright owner has exclusive rights to to so and their permission or license is required.

For example, if applying some AI-enabled tool to process the data doesn't require permission of the copyright owner (using the copyrighted work without creating copies or derivative works generally doesn't, except in the scenarios explicitly listed in law), then it doesn't matter if the license doesn't permit that, because the user doesn't need to agree to the license.
Support for >8 channels led me to use WavPack instead of FLAC.
> [citation needed].

GC is undeniably easier to work with, at least at first, and the comment I was responding to was about "inexperienced programmers". No bleeping citation needed because it's my opinion see. I'm not saying that GC is better than linear types (it's not), but apparently the very thought that GC might be easier on "inexperienced programmers" is enough to send HN commenters into a tizzy!
Try finding work as a sole proprietor contractor, remotely for a US company. It's cheaper for them vs hiring an in-office employee, and with higher US tech salaries and currency conversion, you'll generally come out ahead too
Mix C Compiler - came with a great C tutorial book
Honestly no, it's mostly due to inexperience with operators and not really understanding what the "best" way to find operators is. I did also look at the Crunch Data one (I was having some issues setting that one up), but didn't even find Zalando during my search.

OperatorHub is currently the main resource I use, but GitHub stars aren't exposed in the search so I have been looking at the "Capability Level" chart and checking for Github popularity when I find one with the feature support I want.

I'm facing this exact same issue now when trying to find an operator for Redis. I am not sure if I am just missing out on the "right" option by limiting myself to Googling and Operator Hub and looking for the one with the most Github stars, so I am open to tips.
Worked for me (iPhone, no content blockers)
I'd be interested to hear about creative DRM policies that were used. I remember some used a secret hash key that seemed to be easily cracked with cracker apps/software.
If it is not ruled fair use, or similar, all non-copyright countries are going to advance far faster. Whilst there are many ethical discussions to have, this will come down to the simple fact of there being people who will take the data anyway and thus have the advantage in datasets, assuming that matters.
Another comment pointed to this web form: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843556

It’s not a downloadable sheet , looks like, but it’s something.
The EU doesn't have income tax? I think that's false.
Author mentioned that the reason for the new blog is to be easier to create posts. But doesn't mention much of what changed in the workflow. Seems he's using md files. But then what was he using before? If MD->MD, then what changed? Using Obsidian to be easier to edit and sync between devices?
Well transfer payments are a lot more complicated than some folks would have you believe - Canada as a nation benefits from all our parts being within a common business zone so while some areas are mineral rich other areas have strong service economies that have needed help through the pandemic.
This seems to be a troll yes. I use a variation of Creative Commons minus commercial allowances and also put a statement banning using my code for training too. It’s still “open source” by the way!
Why should calculating how much money to give the government cost money?
A low resolution grid is cheap, but having enough censors for local accuracy is expensive because fault lines are so complicated:

https://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/earthqu...

What you really want is censers placed based on the underlying geology rather than a grid and then to combine that with a model of the geology.
Are there any loops?

I extend this question to all the people who have posted their own graphs of other similar things.
can you say more about the application there? what does the data look like and why is symbolic regression important? asking for a friend ;).
That it would require rewriting everything that is already using attribute((cleanup)), which is a lot of code these days. Just make-work for no benefit.

> it would violate the rule

Good, let's change that rule for this case.
I think looking at our ancestors diet gives us the best place to start. And it gives us insight as to why our bodies might work a certain way. Then we can optimize from there based on scientific knowledge gained going forward.
Quick glossary:

DAS - "Delayed autoshift," the delay is between when you press the button and when the long keypress starts to register as multiple clicks, auto-shifting the piece to the sides. So this is kind of a software-based "convention" that everyone knows, you open your word processor, you press the down arrow, it goes "down" one line and then waits for a quarter-second and then starts going in a more fluid motion steadily downwards as the software converts the continuous keypress to effectively be a stream of down-button-presses. Tetris has this too, if you hold down left/right you'll move once then after a delay it'll start shifting constantly to the edges.

tapping, hypertapping - tapping a NES controller very quickly by using pressure in your grip to create a "springy" system where you can rapidly flip up/down across the actuation point, so that you don't wait for the delay and the computer-auto-button-presses but communicate each button-press yourself

CTWC - Classic Tetris World Championship, hosted by the Portland Retro Gaming Expo.

Rolling - strategies where you flip tapping/hypertapping "upside down", so that the hand holding the button in tension is actually pressing on the D-pad while the hand actuating the button rapidly is pressing on the traditional bottom of the controller. I don't know what styles are popular but the controller itself might be held upside down to facilitate this. This is something like pressing on your mouse button with two or more fingers in an alternating rhythm in clicky-style games, normally the directional pad is too small to hit with multiple fingers but this technique allows multiple fingers to each register a separate keypress.

Maxout - I believe this refers to when the score overflows the digits available for display and the game just tells you that you have 999,999 points and you have to use independent means to confirm how much you actually scored

CRT monitor - hopefully I don't have to explain this to folks here but a big bulky sort of display that was used before LCDs became ubiquitous, short for "cathode ray tube," which is a big electron gun that we would eagerly point at our own faces hoping that the electrons all got 100% absorbed by little phosphors on the actual screen, which could be reliably triggered to emit red, green, or blue light.
How to Compare Prompts with ChainForge [video]
What's the convenient lie taught about branches?

The standard concept that I remember is 'a branch is a pointer to a commit', which still feels accurate
The ransomware could be doing two things:

1. encrypting the data in place, and withholding the decryption key unless the ransom is paid

2. exfiltrating the data to some cloud storage provider, and threatening to publicly release the information if the ransom isn't paid.

The "copies of the stolen data" in question probably is referring to the latter. While it could also theoretically be encrypted as well, my guess is that they got lazy and didnt.
If we want to address climate change, we have to acknowledge that having children is the most environmentally destructive action you can possibly take. The message governments should be sending is "don't have children." 8 billion is too many. I heard from somewhere that if everybody on Earth lived a first world lifestyle, we would quickly deplete all of the available resources.

Population decline is our chance to rebalance ourselves with nature.
Wow. It's not often an HN comment leaves me speechless.

I hope I'm misunderstanding your point. Because it's pretty morally repugnant to suggest children should be made policy "losers" -- and "hardship" as a euphemism for "hunger" is wild. Not to mention that the circumstances of a child's birth are irrelevant when determining whether we should feed and care for them.
I don't think it's that easy. To borrow a quote: "too simple, sometimes naive."
This isn’t migrating your entire app to a new ecosystem, this is starting up an empty machine, cloning a repo, opening Jupyter, and running some dummy training tasks with dummy training data. It takes 5 minutes from setup to teardown. It’s not difficult.
How is GenAI different from other code generators?
"I'm sorry, I'm having difficulty understanding. Will you say it again and slower, please?"

Or write it out, or switch to a different language if you have one in common.
I think what's clear is that regardless of how complex this appears, we should never blame mistakes or loopholes arising from this complexity on the law makers. Only on tax payers.
It’s not a big ask to force so called “””ai””” companies to you know, pay for the use of content. If a human did what models are doing, it would be considered plagiarism at best. It’s not okay. They can pay a license if they want to profit off my content.
Ok, there’s a lot of criticism in the comments, but I think the intent here is quite clear. How would you phrase this better, in order to prohibit use in n “AI” without effectively banning normal uses? (Putting aside issues like fair use and enforceability)
This is a total nothingburger. No reasonable person should expect timely or accurate information about a current event on any social media platform. It's weird for Vice to try to make this into a story.
A better source is Cajori's (1913) 7-part history of logarithms in the American Math Monthly, [20(1) 5–14](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2973509),
[20(2) 35–47](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974078),
[20(3) 75–84](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2973441),
[20(4) 107–117](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2972960),
[20(5) 148–151](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2972412),
[20(6) 173–182](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2973069),
[20(7) 205–210](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974104)
The political left and right is a figment of your imagination
Nice work, looks very clean.

Small suggestion for the date picker:

I appreciate that you can click on the month+year to navigate between years much more quickly than using the previous/next month arrows, but it's a bit non-obvious. There should be a hover effect when the cursor is over the month+year, e.g. a gray rounded rectangle, just like a gray circle appears when you're hovering over the arrows or a date. This would make it clearer that this is clickable.
I think telling someone how they can use something is pretty much the most egregious restriction possible, other than not actually sharing it. Limiting uses is certainly enough to firmly disqualify a license from being open.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to train my own LLM?
Hey, HN!
Long-time lurker; a bit intimidated to post this:

I'm an IB diploma candidate (in HS), and writing a research paper is an important part of that curriculum. I am hoping to write my paper on how an LLM's training data impacts its output, comparing one trained on, say, Wikipedia as opposed to Reddit.

I have access to some reasonably powerful Nvidia GPUs and plenty of time to train.

I'm fairly decent at "technology," as wide of an umbrella as that is -- I use Linux, have messed with things like koboldcpp, etc. -- but my programming abilities are weak; all I've done is 6.00.1x (intro to python) through edX.

Does this seem like a reasonable project? I know the results will be bad, but will they be enough to measure differences in some way?
The article says they actually got rid of the one child policy in 2015 thinking it would change the decline, but obviously it did not work that way.

It doesn't seem like China is any different from other modern country in this regard; fertility is on the decline almost everywhere. I've become fairly convinced that it's the fall of religion that has precipitated it - the "Death of God" as Nietzsche called it. Personally speaking, the thought of working a 996 style job (that could be mostly bullshit) all my life does not really inspire much desire to have children to perpetuate that economic meat-grinder. It'd be nice to think there was something more to life, but it seems illusive.
What's wrong with Ford Galaxy, Volkswagen Touran or Sharan, Seat Alhambra ...?
Newer system. But technically with the upgrades in Toronto, they should be able to run driverless.

Recently discontinued Scarborough Rapid Transit could have been driverless, but still wasn’t.

Toronto’s will have both a driver and and an on-train “guard” person to look out the window to make sure nobody is trapped in the door or something. Might get eliminated tho: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/toronto-says-no-to-ttc...
I think the Chinese perspectives of how a war against Taiwan might proceed was dramatically altered after watching Russia get slapped around by Ukraine. I'm convinced it delayed any aggressive move by China against Taiwan by a decade, if not more.
Denied OBS PR regarding Kick support lights up
I missed the part on why should git branches have rules in the first place?
it's not super hard as a self-employed person, if you don't want it to be. Just setup your business as a real company and pay yourself via payroll instead of pass-through

There may be other tradeoffs, but there may also be other advantages. the original point of just being aware of both sides of the coin is a big part of it, most people don't look at the deductions on their paycheck. hell, a significant number of people think their entire tax bill is just what they have to pay in April
The free software powering bgammon.org
Given TFA (a comic) has "you might expect git to enforce some rules about branches", I figured there might be an education problem going on. I didn't expect such things, but being there from the earliest days might be why. I don't even think reset and rebase are "weird stuff", for that matter. I use them multiple times a week.
There has already been one court decision that pushes against a blanket fair use protection for AI training: https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2023/10/13/judge-bibas-i...

And I think there are dozens of unfinished AI copyright infringement lawsuits... with likely more to come, I speculate.

https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2023/12/27/master-list-o...

https://heathermeeker.com/ai-copyright-et-al-litigation-scor...
I thought flexbox solved this.
Banning or limiting commercial use is still absolutely open source whether you like it or not. You can see the source, it’s open source. We don’t need everything to be a socialist utopia hippie fest
Making realloc(buff, 0) undefined means that the compiler is permitted to do nothing instead of calling free on buff. Because this both complies with the C23 standard and makes the computer do less work, I won't be surprised if we start seeing compilers applying this optimization. Hopefully we'll at least get a "-frealloc-size-zero-free" compiler flag or something.

BTW, if the "we" implies you're a WG14 member, I wanted to thank you for helping move the language forward. C23 has tons of nice features that makes it compelling to move to (#embed, true/false being keywords, binary literals, built-in endianness macros, etc), which is why I'm concerned about adding more undefined behavior to the standard because some BSD variants didn't comply with the previous standard.
Going cap in hand to an angel investor for every £10k loan is not viable. And they don't have the levels of cash needed for this.

Why not use banks for this as well?
You have made your post-truth viewpoint clear.
30 years is a generation, it’s a timescale that doesn’t surprise me as much given how much macro economic change there has been. 5 years feels like yesterday, and china is not materially different economically in that time AFAIK
Anecdotally, the bank often cannot tell you how much. It has come up multiple times on /r/personalfinancecanada that the bank isn't really sure or generates a few different calculations. I also worked for a mid sized Canadian bank where the advisors couldn't consistently do it either.
Interesting. Curious if you were using GPT 4 or the free tier?

I have a different experience. GPT4 has enhanced my reading by allowing me to correlate it with history, sociology etc.

I don’t have the explicit objective of having my priors challenged — I have very complex priors. I seek more new connections that I never made before. GPT4 has been able to do both for me. Take Malthus — I asked it for the historical positions for and against Malthusian hypothesis and asked it to speculate what would happen in a reality where people believed it. It’s a purely intellectual exercise but I was able to see more perspectives than what I could imagine.
One interesting, slightly related thing about git branching I run into every once in a while:

$ git checkout -b test
Switched to a new branch 'test'
$ git checkout -b test/1
fatal: cannot lock ref 'refs/heads/test/1': 'refs/heads/test' exists; cannot create 'refs/heads/test/1'

Forward slashes are special in branch names; I'd guess because there's a filesystem representation of the branch name happening in there.
This makes sense, but there doesn't appear to be a gap on the calendar demo page [0], is that intentional?

0: https://schedule-x.dev/demos/calendar
Would it not make more sense for a "fuck AI" license to stipulate that the content can only be used to train a model if the model is made publicly available under an open license?
Sounds like slug heaven. But I guess if they don’t take $1 coins, it’s not as worth it finding a washer that will go where a quarter goes.
I’m not GP, but the main one I see if the mental model that a commit is a full representation of the contents of the repo at the time that commit was created (rather than being a change set or deltas between commits).