skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One allegation that stands out is

> DMCA Section 1202 violations by all defendants regarding removal of copyright management information from items in the datasets

Aside from the obvious fact that OpenAI doesn't want "© 2023 The New York Times" appearing anywhere in their output, I'm sure it's also removed because LLMs don't adapt well to metadata and can't reliably correlate metadata to the exact text it's attached to, treating it instead as input text itself. One imagines a first round of training where this metadata was retained and every response from the LLM came back with a perfunctory hallucinated copyright from another publisher.
Great read! As 'flatlander' with no residency bias here (MA), I visit NH and VT often and would say VT is the better place for a casual visit (can't comment on live). Those NH billboards and box stores add-up whereas the entire state of VT can seem like a large national park.
> Why do we end up with absurd overly restrictive regulations?

Beacuse instead of making the law, "go 3 mph beacuse I'm fearful of what will happen" fearful people install a speed bump so they don't get called a totalitarian. Then they get mad when people don't go 3 mph, even though that isn't the law, beacuse you know, they are totalitarian.

Classic banana republic stuff.
This is very impressive, but if I'm going to go through the pain of not using gsuite/O365, I'm not going to consider something I can't self host or export to one of those quickly if your saas fails.
How is this different than what any new market entrant encounters? This is what sales and marketing is for; business as usual. I’ve never launched a product that the world was familiar with before I launched it.
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> TurboTax, which I'm effectively forced to use

FWIW TurboTax is easily piratable. There are even instructions out there to crack it yourself with a .NET assembly editor.

I do my taxes in a VM without Internet access and mail in the filings, so there's no way for any information to be backhauled to Intuit or anyone else.
Like what? You enter 'the blue RV behind the big Oak on that dirt road that doesn't even have a name' in the address field for the deliveries?
We need these kind of stories. Can't wait for similar data engineering stories.
The tension between China and 'the West' over China's advancing technological edge is fairly amusing - since China's technological advances were largely brought about by the USA's neoliberal economic program, which involved shipping a whole lot of technology to China in order to take advantage of the cheap labor and boost profits for American investors.

I really can't think of any instance in industrial history where a leading power just gave away their core technology. America had to steal textile technology from Britain (see the great book 'Smuggler Nation' (2013, Peter Andreas) [1] on that); Britain and France had to steal chemical technology from Germany (after WWI, that was a significant cause of tension as the British and French raided German manufacturing centers for blueprints and recipes) - but with China, the USA's financial oligarchs just gave them the factories because they wanted to destroy domestic unions and thereby raise their profit margins.

All these efforts to use intellectual property and espionage laws to roll it all back are doomed to failure, it's a classic case of trying to close the barn door after all the animals have escaped. Not only that, a knock-on effect is that the decades of lowered investment in domestic manufacturing infrastructure in the USA, has put the entire country in a backwards position (note how we can't even maintain our aging rail network, let alone build high-speed rail networks like China has).

If you want someone to blame, the architects and champions of neoliberal trade policies and the financialization of the US economy are the ones responsible for this debacle.

[1] https://harpers.org/archive/2013/02/smuggler-nation/
> Like, say car insurance

Not only is this a strange opinion, that you want some kind of entity to decide whether or not each of our health conditions are at-fault, your analogy to car insurance isn't even true in no-fault states, of which there are many.
> Nice experiment, even though we know that LLMs distill an internal world model representation of whatever they are trained on.

There are still a lot of people who deny that (for example Bender's "superintelligent octopus" supposedly wouldn't learn a world model, no matter how much text it trained on), so more evidence is always good.

> There is the FEN notation in which in every move the entire board is encoded.

The entire point of this is to not encode the board state!
The only use case I have ever used Wordpad for was to open text files with Linux End-of-Lines on a Windows computer with only Wordpad and Notepad (that do not see LF as proper and of lines and just displays one line of mess).
We started off with Quickbooks 10 years ago. Switched to Xero about a few years after that and have been using Xero ever since. I don’t recall the reasons for switching but Xero has been fine for a small dev shop.
I've been very squeezed for time the last couple of years and have tried to buy my way out of this situation, which is one of the reasons I'm so bullish on humanoid house robots.

I hired landscapers one year for over $3K, they did well but they came once a month. It was way too expensive for what they did. I tried hiring a guy on an ad-hoc basis, he did a bunch of half-assed work for $30/hr, then disappeared leaving a bunch of garbage in my yard. Cleaners are available for an $25+/hr on freelance sites. I have someone coming in right now for $30/hr, and they're ok, but they only do 4-5hr chunks and so the house has to get noticeably dirty for them to be worth it. No one will come for 1hr/day and do laundry, they have transit overheard, scheduling, etc. Snow clearing is $300+ per season, but they don't show up for anything less than 3", which happens only ~5 times per season, and they'll only do it within 24hrs (ie, you're not going to get your snow cleared when you need it, because everyone needs their snow cleared after a huge snowfall, you might actually be stuck in your house). I spent a bunch of time finding a student do clear snow and he came once and then ghosted me.

I could keep ranting, but the point is simple: the reality is people are hard to find, more expensive and less reliable than your post implies. There is a lot of overhead and the end result is that a bunch of work that should get done, simply does not get done.

A $30,000 10 year mortgage at 6% is $11/day, $4000/year. Charging costs are negligible, like a couple of cents per day. My EV moves 2000kg 100km for $1.50, moving clothes and brushes around the house is nowhere near that. Any competitive company will also provide regular OTA updates that makes your robot more capable over time.

The bar for these humanoids to succeed is very low.
It's ambiguous and overloaded. Even if you explain to users (a situation you should never find yourself in), they'll still subconsciously maintain the overloaded meaning.
3, assuming properly implemented, is good engineering and not a mis-step at all, IMO.
"I held these beliefs long before reading anything by Rand."

Right. I've not only read several of Rand's books but I still have my decades-old copy of Atlas Shrugged. She didn't change my mind but she enlightened me about people like you think.

It's strange how people with such opposite and irreconcilable views can actually live in society and yet, somehow, it still manages to function.
Since I haven't seen it mentioned here, our small team adopted coda[0] in 2020 which has a similar thesis, as our organization's central information hub, and have not looked back. It has the simplicity of falling back to plaintext, but whenever we want to structure data better gives us tables, charts, publishable forms, sites, etc.

It's exciting to have more tools in this space, as I think it addresses a major use case across workplaces in today's world of remote-centric work: Asynchronous knowledge transfer and documentation, especially amongst non-technical workers and organizations. Extremely poor documentation of process and practices, largely because of poor documentation tools (just word docs and the like) is the biggest knowledge-hole I have observed within non-tech workplaces.

[0]: https://coda.io
I'm not really sure that I see an "app chaos problem". For each company/job workflow that I've encountered, there are a set of apps that solve for the specific use-case.

For example as the head of devrel at the last company that I worked for, we used Atlassian products for internal documentation and work tracking, we used Google's docs and sheets for collaborative writing with external teams, and we used github and markdown for external docs building. It's all text, but the work flows were different, had different needs (like permissions), and ultimately we found the right tools for the job.

I wish you luck with this endeavor, but I hope that your looking for a specific problem. To solve that isn't "app chaos".
They were certainly good at commercializing xerography.

The problem comes when you make all your money from one tech and then another comes along to sweep that tech away. You're disincentivized to walk away from your sunk costs and current revenue.

Steve Jobs called the Xerox execs "toner heads" for exactly this reason. The same is true of today's gas engine car companies.
Yes, this is "making coffee" the same way it is "making dinner" to place an unpacked, frozen Hungry Jack TV dinner in the microwave and hit "start".

You could queue up a dozen of kitchen use cases that individually look impressive if you don't think at all.

But they are just rhyming variations of "pick&place, then hit the button".
Obviously, it's a transputer, at least it looks like one.
Most books, movies and songs make their creators no money at all. The famous, profitable ones are a very small fraction. Creatives create because they enjoy creating. And for the possibility of fame, which doesn't require copyright, as evidenced by all the influencers who achieve fame in spite of producing no media whatsoever apart from videos of themselves.
> The problem is that a stockfish based bot knows some very strong moves, but deliberately plays bad moves so it’s about the right skill level.

What are you basing this on? To me it seems like difficulty is set by limiting search depth/time: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet/blob/master/src/api.r...
I got $148.25 in two payments for the Vergara v. Uber TCPA settlement. They sent me an unsolicited SMS.
The article is missing the interesting bits, so here are the relevant Wikipedia pages:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum
I think you have a point, and I have often felt the same way. However, it gets very murky when deciding where the line of "currently relevant" gets drawn versus what is just "historical". There are so many factors, including whether or not it feels that an injustice was ever addressed in a meaningful way by a population that continues to identify with and evangelize the perpetrators of that injustice.

How many firings for presumed inflammatory conduct have you witnessed or hear from first-hand witnesses? Personally, I've been fortunate not to have experienced any of these, but I do believe they exist and reading about them is useful for informing my worldview. It's helpful to understand how corporations and institutions are ingesting and digesting societal trends around evolving cultural awareness of injustice in order to protect their commercial interests.

Very serious injustices have occurred within the recent past. Take, for example the 1985 MOVE Bombing, in which Philadelphia police bombed a house in a predominantly black neighborhood during an armed standoff with the MOVE group. Whether or not you feel the bombing of an armed group was a justified use of force by police, the subsequent 61 homes that were allowed to burn down are harder to justify. This was followed by the ethically fraught decision by the Philadelphia Health Commissioner to cremate/dispose of any human remains without contacting family members, with the ultimate result that those remains were used in UPenn and Princeton "forensic anthropology" courses without any chance for their families to reclaim their remains.

More recently, I personally witnessed Philadelphia police corral Black Lives Matter protesters into an enclosed space on the side of the highway with no exits and fire tear gas into the crowd. On the news, I watched a number of similar confrontations take place in multiple cities in the nation.

When inequality continues, I have come to appreciate that the ability to feel that a grievance is historical is a privilege. A significant motivation for people to turn to history is to better understand the struggles through which they are currently living. For these people, understanding the historical context is not a way to bring up old grievances, it is a lens through which they can properly understand how systematic disparities in due process and access have produced today's injustices. It is an aid to better identify how currently extant systems create unfair conditions at a large scale.
Can you link to a page about that Bluesky's moderator part? Thanks!
Word, Excel, Google Sheets, Access, etc. All of these are substantial software titles with massive feature sets. How do you propose to offer even a fraction of the capability and at a high caliber of quality when your focus is spread so thin across so many of them?

I acknowledge I'm coming across as a naysayer, but I almost didn't click the link because my common sense insisted it must be a toy, and you might need to overcome a similar initial reaction from other prospective users.
Was dying for an explanation of what the hell it is, here's that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
Wordpad is usually my go to when opening a unix text file (without carriage returns) that Notepad renders into a unintelligible mess. Word renders it properly, but then typically requires a bunch of subsequent formatting adjustments (font size, etc.) for good readability.
I have declined at least once, never heard anything about it
On your first point: I think the trend is more will start to care. I agree many platforms provide a lot of security features, but few allow you to encrypt with custom keys though.

On your second point: That's a good point, bad phrasing on my part. Thanks for the feedback.
hint: JetBlue
Which online tool works best for SEO? Ahrefs vs. Semrush vs. Ubersuggest, which tool is most effective?
Not sure how Gmailify is different from OSS project simplelogin.io (or similar services). Although this kind of service is targeted at privacy, they do exactly what Gmailify does, are very reliable and can be self-hosted, at least for simplelogin. Moreover, it does not come with such a lock-in.
What’s the value proposition here?
> people who see humans (as Kant would say) as an end

Kant's arguments would apply just as much to intelligent, self conscious machines as to humans; nowhere does he base his conclusions on something as dumb as "because we're biological".
Sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career
787 has issues, too.
Same here. Open a text file in Notepad and the contents extend way past the edge of the screen. Open it in WordPad and turn on line wrapping.

Oh! Also, needing to open an RTF when Word wasn't installed.
Study Shows Recovery from the Great Depression Linked ToAbandoning Gold Standard
From the article, describing the now-retracted paper:

“In people with hearing loss,” the authors wrote, “hearing aid use is associated with a risk of dementia of a similar level to that of people without hearing loss.” They proposed “up to 8% of dementia cases could be prevented with proper hearing loss management.

From the article, describing the replication work which led to its retraction:

Mur and his colleagues intended to build on the article with a related analysis on the same UK Biobank data. But when he couldn’t replicate the main findings, Mur scrutinized the paper more deeply. [...] Most notably, he found that hearing aid use did not correspond to a lower rate of dementia for people with hearing loss, as the authors reported. He found the opposite: among people with hearing loss, the dementia rate was higher for those using hearing aids.
we go into detail on this in the client side scripting chapter of our book:

https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/
tbf the human side of those conversations isn't much better. I think if someone tried prompt injection hacks on me I'd be tempted to be politely obtuse to troll them right back.

Turing's version involves experts who definitely aren't in the same room waving to each other, but the fundamental problem is it isn't a particularly good test
Brilliant article that accurately captures a lot of differences. I'm a relatively recent Vermont resident who went through middle school unable to remember which was NH and which was VT, and find this article to be an excellent primer.
Humans and machines find good moves in different ways.

Most humans have fast pattern matching that is quite good at finding some reasonable moves.

There are also classes of moves that all humans will spot. (You just moved your bishop, now it’s pointing at my queen)

The problem is that stockfish scores all moves with a number based on how good the move is. You have no idea if a human would agree.

For example mis-calculating a series of trades 4 moves deep is a very human mistake, but it’s scored the same as moving the bishop to a square where it can easily be taken by a pawn. They both result in you being a bishop down. A nerfed stockfish bot is equally likely to play either of those moves.

You might think that you could have a list of dumb move types that the bot might play, but there are thousands of possible obviously dumb moves. This is a problem for machine learning.
Big Tech might actually prefer it: On one end, they lose a whole lot of money by having to license scraping a bunch of sources, but on the other hand, no open source model, and no small company, has a prayer of building a model legally.

It's not even down to the NYT and such: Think facebook, or reddit, suddenly being able to charge others for their massive amount of data, while they force anyone posting there to make their content usable for their own training to post there at all. Imagine a world where, say, Microsoft buys the times, just because it's better for them to not just have the training data, but to tell every competitor to get bent if they want a license. 'Google buys Disney for the training data'. If AI is that useful, and we make copyright that strong, what we might see is ailing media companies being bought out by tech.

Ultimately IP law is about the tradeoff of more original content and more usefulness for the world, and AI massively changes where the center of balance is. So I don't expect a ruling for the NYT to remain the law of the land for very long, just due to economic pressures.

Ultimately it doesn't matter which side people like aesthetically: If an AI trained with no regard for copyright is that much more useful than one that quotes every source and pays it some money, then piracy will ensure. If it doesn't really help, then copyright will keep being very strong.

It's not even a matter of countries, but hackers. Would Aaron Swartz, working on his own LLM, pay for copyright dues or not? Because there's enough people in tech with that mindset that we'll end up with LLMs trained by a group that thinks like he did.

We will have laws, people in places that aren't subjected to our laws, and pirates. It's now it always works.
Spotted the Panzerführer.
Why America's Car Buyers Are Rethinking EVs
Is that the same concept that Deno uses?
> If only Mozilla would...

I've read many negative comments about Mozilla every time it's in the news. Although we can acknowledge that there have been some governance missteps, Mozilla has been a consistently positive presence in the modern Web.

> ...create an RSS reader, or bring it back to Firefox.

Here are instructions for using the Feedbro extension:

https://github.com/bigideas-ca/firefox-rss-howto
I like your explanation overall. But "point-to-point equivalence" is a little off from the math notion of homomorphism, and I think also the type theory version, if I understand correctly how you're using that phrase. It seems to imply that the homomorphism is 1-to-1 (as does the phrase "if you know the mapping you can turn one into the other"), which isn't necessarily required for the mathematical idea of a homomorphism: homomorphisms can map multiple elements of the source space to a single element of the destination space. So there may not be a well-defined way to 'go back' from the result of applying the homomorphism to the original input. (A homomorphism that isn't 'lossy' in this way is called an isomorphism.)

An example is reduction mod 5: it's a (ring) homomorphism because the relevant laws of arithmetic work just the same if you do arithmetic in the ordinary integers then reduce the result mod 5, or if you instead reduce all numbers mod 5 first and then apply special 'modulo 5' versions of those arithmetic operations. (E.g. 7 + 19 = 26 = 1 mod 5, but also (7 mod 5 + 19 mod 5) = (2 mod 5) + (4 mod 5) = 1 mod 5, where that last '+' is addition mod 5 instead of integer addition.) But you don't, given just '1 mod 5', know whether the original source integer was 1, 6, 21, -4, or any of infinitely many other choices.

Another example: projecting 3d space down to 2d by just dropping the third coordinate: (x, y, z) -> (x, y). That's a vector space homomorphism, but there isn't a way to recover the z-coordinate given just (x, y).

An example from the Haskell wiki mentioned above (I think you're referring to https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Monoids#Homomorphisms) is the `length` function: given only the result of applying the homomorphism, `length(a)`, it's not possible to recover a.
>Computers are not humans.

A computer that can reason and is self aware like a human is _morally equivalent_ to a human unless your morality is based on some kind of human supremist philosophy. And I imagine in future human supremacists are going to be regarded the same way white supremacists are regarded currently.
You can export everything in 1-click! It only supports JSON, HTML, CSV for now tho. PDF support will come at one point.
The first section of my comment was based on a napkin gross margin calculation as best I could.

I e: sales - cost of goods sold.

In this case I divided by the number of cars sold to get an idea of who was making more.

I don’t see why you’d need to normalize for the type of cars sold. It’s irrelevant. If you have 2x the margin, because of not using dealers, that would be an overwhelming difference and I would imagine be in teslas favor for this calculation.

If I sell 100 items, and they cost me $9, and I sell them for $10. I’ve made $100.

$1,000-$900=$100

If I sell 1 item, for $1,000 that cost me $900, I’ve still made $100. My margin is the same in both calculations.

10%.

But I also am not sure if the original comment perhaps meant markup vs margin.