skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If you think OpenAI is less valuable because it can't use copyrighted content, then it should give some of that value back to the content.

But we are allowed to use copyrighted content. We are not allowed to copy copyrighted content. We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it. If one doesn't want anyone to see/consume or be influenced by one's copyrighted work, then lock it in a box and don't show it to anyone.

I have some, but diminishing sympathy for artists screaming about how AI generates images too similar to their work. Yes, the output does look very similar to your work. But if I take your work and compare it to the millions of other people's work, I'd bet I can find some preexisting human-made art that also looks similar to your stuff too.

This is why clothing doesn't qualify for copyright. No matter how original you think your clothing seems, someone in the last many thousands of years of fashion has done it before. Visual art may be approaching a similar point. No matter how original you think your drawings are, someone out there has already done something similar. They may not have created exactly the same image, but neither does AI literally copy images. That reality doesn't kill visual arts as it didn't kill off the fashion industry.
Developers generally need to run a bunch of resource intensive tools to build the application in the first place, so an underpowered system will already be choking.

Straw man. Of course, if you crank that knob to the extreme bad things happen.

There might be a case for specifically running testing on a slower machine, though.

Agreed here. I think the optimal is for devs to be able to do intensive operations on a fast machine, dogfood for most of their time on a average machine, then test on a somewhat slow one.
Apple did build the iPhone without Steve Jobs...

He was in fact very much initially opposed to the iPhone, thought the money spent on its development was a huge waste of time and money. Jobs had to be convinced it would be a success by Scott Forstall and Jonny Ives.
So far, looks like funding a UBI study. As the IP owners are approximately "everyone" in law, UBI is kinda the only way to compensate all the IP owners.

https://openai.com/our-structure
This is the same training technique Stanford ALOHA is using

https://mobile-aloha.github.io/

https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha.aspx

https://venturebeat.com/automation/stanfords-mobile-aloha-ro...
This is awesome to see that it's possible. I've always wondered about the same sort of concept, but instead it would be trying to use Crystal to run the latest Rails version. I lack the time/energy/knowledge to try it, but it would be interesting to see how close you could get to either power or port Rails to Crystal, and if it would even be worth it (in terms of speed and type safety, etc).
"Troubleshooting performance issues is often skipped in favor of migrating applications to better hardware platforms."
> Who cares if they're also getting value out of you doing it,

The author, presumably.

> particularly when that value comes at no cost to you?

Who would (has) argued that there is a cost.

> in return for providing a useful service to you (and one you don't have to use if you don't think it's useful).

I think they agree with you, and are making the claim that since they choose not to use the service (considering it exploitative), it is getting increasingly difficult to distribute their work in a way they find ethical.

I'm not sure I agree with their arguments completely, but they aren't really "strange" as you suggest.
> Regardless of legalities, that's wrong to me.

I see it differently. To me, if you post your work online as an artist, it's really there for everyone to view and be inspired by. As long as nobody copies it verbatim, don't think you've been hurt by any other usage. If another artist views it, and is inspired by it... so be it. If an AI views it, and is inspired by it, again, no harm done.
I am going to say something that will earn me a lot of downgrades, but it needs to be said because it is the truth and it is important. Grifting in our society went sky high when Trump started doing it and he was not punished for it but rewarded.

To be fair, Hillary Clinton was also a liar and a grifter but she did kind of get punished and publicly humiliated for many of her lies.

Generally speaking if someone behaves badly in public and is not punished, it creates a great incentive for millions of others to do the same thing. Some people are moral by nature and will behave morally even if evil and amorality is all around them. Those are the heroes and saints. The people that will help slaves escape in slave societies the ones that will help safe victim populations when their own government is openly encouraging genocide. These people are great, but very few.

There are also the almost criminals, people that are always thinking in the backs of their minds of doing something awful, and it is only the possibility of punishment that is keeping them. Well when someone engages in bad behavior openly and publicly, and is not punished, even rewarded, those people will rush into bad behavior themselves.

So there you have it.

P.S.: To be fair Elon Musk deserves honorable mention for openly and publicly engaging in amoral behavior and getting away with it.
I think it really boils down to there being too many of them.

We used to award about 70K MBAs each year. In the 2010s we awarded close to 200K every year. We've declined somewhat but we're still minting tons of degrees.

Even factoring in our economic growth in the US, there's just no way there's actually that much demand for people with this training.
David Korn's ksh93 was passed on to a new set of developers, who attempted to release a new version; AT&T rolled back these changes due to performance problems which raised questions of support status. It does appear that ksh93 development has resumed, and a new version was released late last year.

https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases

The independent pdksh spawned mksh, which is the default shell used in Android (as it has a BSD license); mksh appears to be very much active.

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm [https site has cert problems]

OpenBSD also forked oksh from pdksh. This is certainly well-maintained.

https://github.com/ibara/oksh
My LaTeX book is the most popular on GitHub
*Not a "dedicated" resistive heating element (obviously the motor doubles as a resistive heating element). Also below a certain ambient temperature, heat pumps with heating elements run at approximate the same efficiency as the heating element itself. None of this is bad design though, if the ambient temperature is a bit higher than the minimum temperature, you would then get additional COP from the heat pump.
Last I tried Vritualbox isn't reliably available on M1
I'm curious if Gabe over at penny-arcade would be upset if his comics were used in an art class to train a new generation of artists.
No one is using Midjourney to replace artists. Artists are using Midjourney to speed up the most tedious parts of their work.
Reminds me of a saying from a dear friend: „Humanity is a boat with a big hole and we constantly need to shovel out water to keep it from sinking.“
If your complaint is that smart people were already doing those things, but that better way had no name, or industry leadership, just word-of-mouth and vibes -- I agree? That's kinda why the whole manifesto came about. It was people collecting a bunch of successful practices and branding it so they could more effectively evangelize them. That's what manifestos are. But like all revolutions, sometimes you win and need to declare victory and go home. Delivery agility won. The remaining "Agile Industry" is mostly cancer.

To be clear - I'm asserting that the Joel test was part of the broader delivery agility current in the industry. This current sprang from the lessons of the first web boom, and the fantastic changes in delivery possible on the web. In the shrink-wrap floppy world, yearly releases left so much time to just wander around and get lost. Head would spend weeks not compiling, and savvy devs knew the right times to merge head into their long-lived feature branches. Joel was explicitly reacting against that, and to SEMA, RUP, and the 90s planning driven movement where sub-module teams would write against fixed apis that hadn't been implemented yet.

Maybe I'm exaggerating. I agree that he differed sharply from the XP and other agile folks in some ways, and would never have signed the manifesto. But who was Joel talking to when he wrote: "Another great thing about keeping the bug count at zero is that you can respond much faster to competition. Some programmers think of this as keeping the product ready to ship at all times. Then if your competitor introduces a killer new feature that is stealing your customers, you can implement just that feature and ship on the spot, without having to fix a large number of accumulated bugs."

Or Joel again: "The other crucial thing about having a schedule is that it forces you to decide what features you are going to do, and then it forces you to pick the least important features and cut them rather than slipping into featuritis (a.k.a. scope creep)."

You can argue that people were already doing these things, but clearly Joel thought there was an audience that wasn't (including early 90s Microsoft!).

Compare that to the manifesto: "Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage."

Anyway: Single-backlog. Ship at any time with a single click. High quality. Clear comms. Dev focus. Blah blah. It's not Scrum, but I'd definitely call that agile as we understood it in 2001. If you think that's just good practice, and has nothing to do with "agile", I'm happy to retire the word. Time to move on.
> in observable reality asking ChatGPT to maximize paperclip production does not in fact lead to ChatGPT attempting to turn all life on Earth into paperclips (nor does asking the open source LLMs result in that behavior out of the box either)

I agree with you that current publicly available LLMs do not pose an existential risk to humanity. On the other hand I believe there is a better than 10% chance that the cutting edge LLMs of 2044 will be very powerful.

Do you believe (A) that LLMs are unlikely to become powerful in the short term, and/or (B) that if LLMs become powerful, then they are likely to be safe even without a significant and concerted alignment effort?

IMO even if LLMs are extremely unlikely to become powerful in the short term, then I still might be better off if LLM development is banned, ie:

P1: Humans are close to developing powerful non-LLM AI systems.
P2: Humans are not close to developing techniques for safely using powerful AI systems.
P3: If governments ban AI development, then the speed of AI capabilities development will be significantly reduced.
P4: It is a waste of scarce expertise and political capital to focus on making an LLM carve out in AI regulation legislation.
C: If it is extremely unlikely that LLMs will become powerful in the near future, then I am made much better off if governments ban all AI capabilities research (including LLMs).
A Journey from Monolith to Micro front ends at Udemy – Part 3/3
Learn about Udemy's successful migration to micro frontends, enhancing development processes and boosting performance metrics.
D term is complicated and it really depends on the situation. You can usually get away without a D term and have acceptable overshoot as long as you have the right anti-integral windup setup, and your I vs P ratio isn't too high.
Is that boundary something that the internet is likely to be able to recognize or enforce though? In 100 years? In 500?

What are we building for here?
Let's be clear though, the platform is not a platform of free speech as in 1st Amendment free speech. Actually I'm not sure what definition it falls under because they don't allow threads, they don't allow you to see posts without logging in (though s/twitter.com/nittern.net solves that?!), and it seems to have just become a pay to speak platform (or maybe I'm soft-shadow banned for reporting so many accounts). I'm not sure under what metric this Twitter is better than the one before.
Agreed with the overall sentiment, but let's be clear. OpenAI is currently a (capped) for-profit company. They are partnered with Microsoft, a for-profit company. They commercially license their products. They provide services to for-profit companies. The existential crisis of the last six months of the company seems to have been over moving in the direction of being more profit-oriented, and one side clearly won that battle. OpenAI may soon be getting contracts with the defense department, after silently revoking their promise not to. Describing them as a non-profit company is de facto untrue, regardless of their nominal governance structure, and describing them (or them describing themselves) as a non-profit feels like falling for a sleight of hand trick at this point.
CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024
Facebook to track activity on websites viewed within in-app Webview
I charge my phone while I sleep.

If I owned an EV, I would charge it like I charge my phone.
I think GP was referring more to aspects of a zombie apocalypse like servers being shutdown or power grid not working. Things that can happen for relatively short periods today.
Satire is always linked to the object of the satire, that's he fair part.

LLM text and images aren't.
Side comment: I respect the author’s right to choose words that ring well to them, but jeez, as a non native english speaker, reading this, i am happy my device has a dictionary function.
To me the "value" of an MBA is as I sit around the Principal PM, Director of Product region with 15-20 years under my belt and contemplate rounding myself out for a VP, CTO/CIO role (these are a little orthogonal, but I also have a substantial engineering and SRE background).

That's balancing things out, getting a better grasp of corporate leadership knowledge (in the sense of finances, accounting, corporate structure, legal).

There's a large difference between that and the "high school to college to MBA to Big 4 to management" pipeline, which is being looked at with a lot more skepticism at least, if not cynicism.
People that don't charge at home do certainly charge this way. And they will continue doing that, at least until they can charge at most stops.

IMO, more people have brought electrical cars than who can make practical use of them right now. We will have lots of impractical issues on the news on the next few years.

Growth pains, I guess.
She talked about physical reads as an edge and gave two aspects of finding the edge.

a) she put herself in a room with her adversaries, the other poker players, and paid attention to how their behavior correlated with their hands

b) she brought up what she noticed and was discounted by other players.

These are two excellent components of an edge:

1) primary data and repeated experience

2) watching the consensus reject that data

Data scientists go through a stage called EDA, or exploratory data analysis, where they just play around and look at the shape of data. From that, they can begin to form conjectures and dig further to validate or refute their hypothesis. Cate was doing that IRL.
I loved BeOS. In the 90's it was my main OS including at work.
When Be announced that BeOS will be gone, and Be too...
I went to Linux. And never looked back. Started with a RedHat Linux 5, tried Debian, but could not get Debian to work with the dial-up modem, so went RedHat 5, then 6 and all those that followed until Fedora went out.
It's a trifecta of lies:

1. Domain-specific engines is too complicated. Let's have a general purpose search engine.

2. Too many buttons is too complicated. Let's have a single search box.

3. Guessing what you want when you are anonymous is too complicated. We need your search history to tailor your search for you.

Please, search engines, hear me: you can not simplify the needs and wants of 7 billion people and zettabytes of online content into a single little shitty search box! It's too complicated!

At this point the only thing these search engines are good for is for finding the URL of something you already know the name of. It's a phone book. I type Hacker News on google, it tells me its phone number: https://news.ycombinator.com/
I use emacs and I respect emacs developers, but it is not originally emacs bindings:
http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/
Of course these are just opinions. It just doesn't seem like a perspective that's serving them well, except to make them feel bad about the art that they've been putting out… in the same way… for years and years… unchanged… with no tangible new issues for them or their readers… except the optional sadness that comes from this optional choice to be upset that other people are making money.
Lol, "git "er done" moments right there.

I have had my share too. Good stuff.
I miss it too, I did almost every CS class at university paired and we generally scored very well.
You are using the word "theft" in a way which does not describe conduct that is actually theft.

Not all of us participate in the form of thought control that has been euphemistically pushed as "intellectual property."
While there may be general agreement that Pascal is a great teaching language and a weak systems language, I believe that early versions of mac operating system (system N, not OSX) relied heavily on a modified version of Pascal. Perhaps Steve did not get the memo.
A Reflection on Yuval Harari's Interview: Mindfulness, Thinking, and Learning
A personal reflection on the Lex Fridman's interview with Yuval Noah Harari, specifically on the How To Think section. https://lexfridman.com/yuval-noah-harari/. Would like to hear what you think, and your recommendations of good reading/listenings. :)
It would be nice if you used a label you had to pay a fee for whoever owns the label, if you don't want to pay a fee to the owners of an artstyle, then you can always use public domain works. Hell, this might be even better for public domain works and restoration if a small fee went to them as well.
There is a reason why the word was chosen, in essence, it is about the meaning of the word
Yes. Google used to be amazing, then it turned into an advertisement company. Slowly at first, then about a decade ago the pace increased.

But the worst part is, Google SEO has infected the entire web and made it into complete garbage.
Hopefully, this last decade or so will just be a blip before we return to baseline, where it can be wild and free again.
That truly sucks.

I was speaking to my own experience. Across an iPhone, Watch, two laptops (one corporate managed), and an iPad, it all 'just works' so to speak.

I've seen your issue before and it usually is because your non-iMessage phone number is associated with the same contact record as your iMessage computer account (probably your email). The iPhone will preference sending an iMessage over a text, so if your computer is on, you won't get a text. Sadly there is no 'force-sms' setting so the (admittedly awful) workaround is to create a second contact in your son's phone that is just your phone number.

It is indeed bullshit that it doesn't work for you.
Why does everybody like linear algebra?
ouch. market sucks right now I'm sorry man. what kind of work do you do? what languages?
My brother in law had something like a 5 year gap. He had a mental breakdown and went on disability. He's doing great now, but that first boss he had after coming back to work was a saint, putting up with so much emotional baggage and spent personal time coaching him out of giving up.

So, yeah, if you are taking on someone who has been out of the workforce for a long time, you take on lots of risk. But once they are back in the workforce and getting good referrals, the gap shouldn't matter as much.

(And seeing it first hand: if you are having mental health problems, staying home and playing video games for 5 years will NOT make it better).
A Scandal Tearing Apart the World of Record-Breaking Dogs
Illegal if you do it explicitly. Legal if you do it by proxy criteria and plausible deniability.
Contact details for myself, if that is what you meant, should be irrelevant.

Most (if not all) the needed information will be available in the documents under this directory:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/flexos/

There are also copies of the OS available here:

https://bitsavers.org/bits/DigitalResearch/FlexOS/
Value has been taken. Motivation to create has been taken if the second you upload something it gets sucked in to a model that any old person can create infinite iterations.
Measuring progress by application numbers, and similarly implying that some arbitrary number is too low, is honestly silly. The higher your application count the more you're wasting your time spraying and praying. Focus on leads that are either realistic or just out of reach and work on those, applying to countless jobs that aren't even remotely relevant to your skillset is a waste of your own time.
Ideally they have a fast machine to run compilers and shit on, but then the actual product they are developing runs on a slow machine.

Luckily, Chrome has a feature to deliberately throttle the CPU and network speed for precisely this reason.

Sadly hardly anyone uses it.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, agree this would be a good idea.
We don't have this view but best place to get an idea of this with current site would be the /models page (https://artificialanalysis.ai/models) and scrolling to the over time graphs and looking at the variance. To see if being driven by individual hosts can also click into the by-model pages and see the over time graphs, e.g. https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mixtral-8x7b-instruct
Anecdotally this does not apply to my laptop from 2014. It was born with a HDD and upgraded to SSD a couple of years later. It still feels fast enough and, more up to the point, it doesn't feel to get any slower by the years. Actually it's getting faster and that was the feeling I had with my previous laptop from 2006.

OK, I've been using Linux on them since January 2009, so no Microsoft software (but Teams is slow, I installed it a couple of years ago and uninstalled it.) I used Ubuntu until one year ago, then Debian.

In all those years JavaScript browser engines got much faster for everybody, not only for me. Browsers are faster now. Some sites are slower but NoScript and uMatrix take care of most of those problems. They add others, such as fiddling with settings to enable as little of JS to make the sites work. Maybe I should account the time I spent doing that as part of the slowdown.

Everything else I use is at least as fast as it used to be. Let's see what I have open right now on my screen: emacs, Thunderbird, VLC, KeePassXC, Slack, Telegram. Slack has never been fast but it's not slow either. LibreOffice is fast enough and it doesn't feel slower than what I remember it to be. And in the background: some docker containers (three PostgreSQLs, one redis,) a Rails app + Sidekiq, a Django app + Celery, one webpack for a Vue.js SPA. They are OK and this computer is a few times slower than what I could buy now.

So, some software eat up all the hardware improvements of the last 10 years, some other software didn't or actually improved.

Edit: of course I also have a browser open on my screen. Firefox with one window per virtual screen and many tabs per window. htop is saying 15.7/31.1GB.
For #1, don't folks in cold climates normally use an electric engine heater to get the gas car started?

When I was planning a trip to Tahoe, during inclement weather, I figured my new RAV4 Prime (a hybrid) would be perfect. I'd drive the whole way on gas and keep the battery fully charged; if I got stuck on Donner Pass, I think the battery can keep the main compartment at a reasonable temperature all night without running the ICE. Fortunately that never came up but it was an interesting thought at a time when folks were getting stuck on Donner for 10+ hours.