skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Based on the comment you replied to, it seems they are indeed producing verbatim copies.

Well i'll leave it to the legal system to decide if that's true.

But in any case, that's no different from a human with a photographic memory doing the same thing after reading a paragraph. We don't blame them for their superior memory, or being inspired by the knowledge. We don't claim they've violated copyright because their memory contains an exact copy of what they read.

We may still demand that they avoid reproducing the exact words they've read, even though they are capable of it -- which is fine. We can demand the same of AI's. All I object to, is the idea that a smart AI, with a great memory is guilty of something just by reading or viewing content that was willingingly shared online.
Why am I doing all these interviews that grill me on big O(n) if they’re not even using it?!
True, but that doesn't mean we should spend 100x on a highly processed freeze-dried version that had been sitting on a warehouse shelf for 3 years.
It is very hard to share a motor/generator between multiple weights on land, because you would need multiple adjacent mineshafts, so the economics are difficult. At sea there is plenty of depth anywhere you care to sink something.
Bear in mind that the security/surveillance sector of the economy (including police) are heavily incentivized to exaggerate the risks of crime, as are politicians who want to appeal to a certain sort of voter. There's a lot of money to be made out of running a police state.
My guess is that this is useful when interacting with memory-mapped IO devices - individual accesses can have meaning at the device level, so you don't want the caches getting in the way (and e.g. removing / combining accesses or providing stale data).
> It took them years to learn how to code well. All that effort should be contributed to the world for free.

I mean, there is a plethora of open source work that is actually contributed to the world for free, right?
So do we just pray AGI is impossible?

Companies are trying and spend many money to make it possible in this moment.
Reddit takes Ireland's media regulator to court in bid to overturn designation
Supercomputers were not clusters like we have today until the mid-90's.

In the first written description of how to build a Beowulf cluster, by Radajewski and Eadline in 1998 [1], the management node was refered to as the "server node" and the compute nodes as "client nodes".

I believe the term "compute node" was first used in the context of the Intel ASCI Red supercomputer that was installed at Sandia in 1997. This later led to the Cray XT3, XT4, XT5 families of machines that used the same terminology.

But I believe the term was not in generic usage outside of those specific supercomputers until around 2005-2010.

[1] https://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/archive/Beowulf-HOW...
i don't know what you're talking about. white people in jackson, mississippi moved to the suburbs. this is a fact. this has nothing to do with your comment.
The latest GPD devices with occulink, real USB4, and 64G mem are in a different league of device capabilities though. They can even drive 3d AR and VR glasses.
It's a tremendous waste of money for a business to spend expensive developer time waiting on garbage workstations. Simply targeting benchmark/latency metrics is enough.
I just think it is entirely unimpressive. "Remote hands" robots, even with pretty fine-grained dexterity, are not at all uncommon in a huge variety of industries. There's zero autonomy here.

Fool me once, shame on you. I'm still waiting for 2015's "solved problem" of FSD (Musk: "I view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what we need to do and we will be there in a few years.") - though in "fairness" to Musk, apparently somewhere in the last few years, Tesla must have "lost" the solution. In 2022, "Our focus now is just on working on solving this problem".
> "...clearly states that his work was free to use only if it was not used to make a profit"

Replace "use" with "copy". No one may copy the work to make a profit. Fair Use has long been an exemption to copyright, with Learning an example of Fair Use. But no one expected AIs to learn so quickly. I don't think it is clear either way, and will end up in SCOTUS.

Free and redistribute the material
>> ingest copyrighted work at very large scale and sell derivates of those works to gain massive profit / massive market capitalizations?

Entire industries exist dedicated to such things. News aggregators. TV parody shows. Standup comedians. Fan fiction. Biography writers. Art critics. Movie critics. Sometimes the derivative work even outsells the original, especially when the original was horrible or unappreciated. I have never played Among Us or the new Call of Duty, but I do enjoy watching NeebsGaming do their youtube parodies of them.
There's really no reason for anyone to be confident that this is or is not fair use. The law around fair use is a quagmire of conflicting ideas, cases, and opinions and most of the law is in the form of precedents since the letter of the law is so vague.

One only needs to read the Supreme Court decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith. In this case, it was found to not be fair use, but with a forceful dissent from Elena Kagan. And this is just a straight-up use of a photograph / art-piece. Add technology to the mix and things get really messy quickly.
>For example, most people wouldn't be against the creation and release of a cure for cancer developed in this way.

Intellectual property law does presently restrict the development of cancer treatments and demands in many cases exorbitant royalties from patients and practitioners, so I'm not convinced that this is accurate. If people believed that the loss of opportunities would constrain innovation in the field of cancer research, I think they'd expect the AI users to pay royalties as well.
Calling it copyright today is a misnomer, it's not actually the act of copying the work that's a problem; it should actually be called "Performance Rights" or "Redistribution Rights." The part where this gets complicated is that OpenAI has (presumably, if they haven't that's a different matter) acquired the works through legal means. And having acquired them they're free to do most anything with them so long as they don't redistribute or perform the works.

The big question is where "training an AI on this corpus of works and then either distributing the weights or performing the work via API" fall? Should the weights be considered derivative works? I personally don't think so and although the weights can be used to produce obviously infringing works I don't think this meets the bar of being a redistribution of the work via a funny lossy compression algo like some are claiming. But who knows? Copyright is more political than logical so I think the bend is really gonna be a balance of the tangible IRL harms artists can demonstrate vs. the desires of unrelated industries who wish to leverage this technology and are better for having all this data available.
Kind of a weird hit-piece - I'm not understanding why I should be shocked. When I visit the Zoo gift shop, I am not under the impression the zoo manufactures the stuffed animals.

Still, I guess, there's something fun about feeding conspiracy theorists a conspiracy.
You need to learn more about cloaking. This is a fascinating topic. There are many techniques to show different results to Google and a real web user, like checking the user agent, checking the ASN for the originating IP, checking for indications of a real browser, etc.
I don't understand what you're saying.

The way I understand it, he managed to find a way to retrieve ids assigned to functions that have an action in game.

By trial and error and because the ids are generated by a PRNG which he knows. He just needs to retrieve the starting state and then boom.

It matters to know whether an in-game action/function is mapped to a given id, contrary to what you're claiming. Otherwise, what's the point? These ones can't not just arbitrary. That's what he is looking for.

(Why these unnecessarily complex explanations is my question though.)
Why is your password manager only on your phone and not synced between your devices?
it is possible that those works are not transformative, but 99.9% of the output is.

Human artists can also create copies when instructed to.

That doesn't mean that the rest of their work isn't transformative, or that the process of leading isn't fair use.

Similarly, the law doesn't bar artists from learning, but provides recourse, when and if artists create and sell copes.
Epic vs. Apple court battle ends, Supreme Court refuses to hear both appeals
People understand they have a problem and don’t know what to do.

They prioritize things they think will help, to the exclusion of generally healthy and good things (veggies, etc).

I think it’s human nature, although I’m sure good parenting helps.

Although I know some really smart people who spend $100/month in athletic greens and other well advertised snake oil. Pretty much all OTC supplements are bogus or have little effect. Yet smart people buy them. Hoping.
This will allow virtualization software to run on ios now its banned by app store rules. Also this will allow alternative app stores.

A phone is like a PC just that its locked boot loader, locked operating system.
Or they lost means of income? Like is this a difficult concept? Livelihoods will most likely be lost and probably never really coming back. Sure we can say industries change; however, we had protections in place to prevent artists losing money due to people copying… A company has said “screw the rules, here’s a supercharged printer.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted” is a cliché because it’s true. And can be monetized.
> that formal treatment and healthcare for the underlying condition targeted by the "wellness" product is prohibitively expensive for American customers

This just isn't true. The vast majority of Americans are either covered by pretty decent employer-subsidized healthcare plans OR are poor enough to receive all of their medical care for free.

These companies thrive because many people have a (reasonable) distrust of big pharma.

I agree that single payer healthcare would pry be more efficient, but other than allowing pharma companies to advertise, our system really isn't that bad. We lead in almost every area of medical research, the standard of care is quite high, wait times are low and we have some of the best outcomes in the world.
Very interesting! I wonder how much friction there would be in migrating the data from outline to affine.

Have you tried affine? If you did, how is the performance? Something I like a lot with outline is that it's super reactive and fast, even on low end servers or clients. Only the startup time is bad.

What do they mean by "neglected self host"? Is it just because the docker packages are not up to date? Can't we just build and run what's on github?
If you can't understand why somebody would "choose" to be upset that they're struggling to subsist while a company worth billions is using their labor without compensation to generate revenue, you're not worth discussing this with.
> I firmly believe that training models qualifies as free use

Can you explain what you mean by "qualifies as free use?" I've never heard that term before.
I tried actually looking for anyone who actually did experiments to confirm whether or not software is getting slower and... uh... I can't really find anyone who has done such an experiment. Possibly, this is just the shittification of search, but everything that turns up is essentially just a link to a thought piece on the bloat of software, which almost invariably degenerates into shitting on Electron.

On anecdotal evidence, one thing I recall from the late 90's/early 00's era of computing is the sheer prevalence of splash screens. If you wanted to open an application up, the first thing it displayed was a splash screen, with a progress bar that would animate to show you that it was doing something. And these splash screens have become far less prevalent in modern software, which at least anecdotally throws some doubt on Wirth's Law.
Is "training a neural net" an entirely novel legal construct?

At what point does fair use become unfair, and should that question be considered separately from the context of doing it trillions of times?

And the further context of the resulting computer code being used to make a profit?
Yes, the slowness of my IDE will surely empower me to optimize... performance of rando enterprise internal website #25628 that I'm currently working on.
Quality index is equally-weighted normalized values of Chatbot Arena Elo Score, MMLU, and MT Bench.

We have a bit more information in the FAQ: https://artificialanalysis.ai/faq but thanks for the feedback, will look into expanding more on how the normalization works. We are thinking of ways to improve this generalized metric.

A sticking point is quality can of course be thought of from different perspectives, reasoning, knowledge (retrieval), use-case specific (coding, math, readability), etc. This is why show individual scores on home page and models page: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
This is the horseshoe theory of... radical extremes?
Hm, that's true. I'd say it's not good 2fa, but it is 2fa tho. Matter of definitions.
It’s a bit different: Apple users might accept the trade offs for whatever design decision Apple makes, but that wouldn’t explain why the rest of the industry followed them. The fact that they did suggests this is less a universal truth than a personal preference which is not broadly shared.
> Can you relate to that feeling? If yes, thank you.

> If no, your words are empty and hold no value.

Being sympathetic towards those people doesn't mean you should bend to their will if you don't believe it's the right thing to do. I can be sympathetic to a child who cries over not being able to ride a roller coaster because they aren't tall enough without thinking the height requirement should be removed.
Huberman is almost as bad which is funny to me because he's regarded as an authority.

Worst is the completely useless powder called Athletic Greens that he pushes left and right.

There must _really_ be big bucks in supplements and lifestyle products like this, as it's coming just as much from very learned Harvard PhD's as Alex Jones.

Currently it's bro science connected to life extension, cold baths, red and blue light gadgets etc. and before that Paleo after an endless chain of products going back to the end of the 19'th century where the bourgeoisie were electrocuting themselves, poisoning themselves or lying in various useless massage machinery.
Good as a political strategy too
This is a load of bullshit and I sincerely hope you know that as well as I do.

As a thought experiment, let's say I pirate enough ebooks to stock a virtual library roughly equivalent in scope to a large metropolitan library system, then put up a website where you can download these books for free. I make money on the ads I run on this website, etc. This is theft, but as "compensation" I put some percentage of my revenues into funding a UBI study that might, if we're lucky—in half a century or so, in a progressive, enlightened version of the future we are by no means guaranteed to realize—make a fractional contribution to the thrust of a successful UBI movement.

Does that make what I'm doing okay? Should all those authors deprived of royalties on their work now, even deprived of publishing opportunities as legitimate sales collapse, understand my token contribution to UBI as fair compensation for what I'm taking from them?

That to me is a joke, and the only difference between it and what OpenAI is doing is that OpenAI's product relies on a technical means of laundering intellectual property that seems tailor-made to dodge a body of existing copyright law designed by people who could not possibly have conceived of what modern genAI is capable of. We will see what our lawmakers and courts make of it now, but either way, making a promise to pay me back later does not justify you in taking all the cash out of my wallet without my consent. Nor, for that matter, does tearing it up and returning it to me in the form of a papier-mâché sculpture of Shrek's head protruding from the bowl of a "skibidi toilet".
I don't see many people suggesting this, but I also quite like this way of thinking about it. The idea that it should be illegal for models to learn from artists, or that artists have a right to extract payment from the model, doesn't make much sense to me, it's too much of a radical departure from the way we treat human learning.

But it seems unfair that a company can own such a model. It's not their work, it's a codified expression of basically our entire cultural output as a species. We should all own it.
Precisely, but how well is that working out in practice?

Forcing them to CARE about targeting benchmark/latency metrics is the sticking point. And that requires shoving their face in it for long enough that it becomes unbearable.
https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/software/advanced-con...

Here's another. These pages interactively go over tuning pid controllers for position, velocity, and position with gravity compensation.

These docs are designed for high schoolers to learn about programming PID.
Nobody is saying hand-write it in assembly like RollerCoaster Tycoon so you can get decent performance on a 90MHz Pentium with 16MB of RAM.

Tons of software would run faster if it DIDN'T use custom stuff. Don't load a JavaScript framework for form validation if using `required` and `pattern` are enough. Don't write your own sorting algorithm unless it's faster than qsort(). Don't write your own data storage engine if SQLite covers your use case.

Story time: I once wrote a memset() replacement because one compiler kept optimizing out my memset() call and didn't have memset_s(). It slowed my program down a lot. When I looked carefully I saw I was always resetting the whole buffer, even though I was keeping track of how much had been written to it. Fixing that lead to a ~10x speedup (0.1s to process a large word processor document went to 0.01s, occasionally 0.02s).
SeeAct: GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent
Differences in male and female behavior being attributed to biological differences is just as foolish as considering the world flat, because "that's what we know is true". Males and females are known to take on similar activities and exhibit similar behaviors, showing that the stereotypical behaviors were not caused by the underlying biology.

But yes, there are certainly biological differences.

(Apologies for copying your style of argument, I couldn't help myself.)
Sounds like resuming from a snapshot.
yes, but why we even give them chances? when they know their ultimately purpose is dangerous?
Why would we assume anything?

What is the pinnacle of human achievement?

Clearly not art if we measure it by how easy it is to automate. Is that why artists took pride in themselves? Because they thought they couldn't be automated? Because some one said that art was important because of feelings?
Wasn't too long ago that stray texture data would be left lying around from other processes, too. You could exploit that to read the contents of the user's banking tabs and stuff like that.
In a way it will remove value but in a way it will add value back in terms of an avalanche of derivative junk, lacking authenticity and context. If you find value in memes for example there will be a lot of that type of content in the future.
Agree, it's somehow unwieldy... not sure what it is exactly.
Right, I don't think anyone disagrees with that.

The question is about someone/something writing a book _influenced_ by Harry Potter -- do they owe JK Rowling royalties?
The California AB5 law was really detrimental to a lot of industries like journalism with weird rules about how many times an individual contractor could publish to the same publication. A lot of that industry's work moved out of contracting with people in California basically overnight just to avoid the hassle of it. People were leaving the state or having to change careers because it really fucked with their ability to earn money.

Also: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-wo...
definitely a SV / tech hub thing. if the market supports it, sure, but I'm in a big Canadian city and the offerings just aren't like when I was in the US.

plus I'm tired of the new guy uselessness, and having to learn and navigate around new clusterfucks -- at least at the last gig you knew where those clusterf's were
Looks like it just makes it hard to call yourself a "self-employed independent contractor" if you only have one customer and work for them for a very long time. (As opposed to a contractor who might temp for 6-18 months at a time.)

IE, if you are essentially a permanent employee in day-to-day behavior but self-employed on paper.

BTW, once I was in a contract-to-hire situation where the hire part kept getting put off and off. I had to politely remind my "client" that they could get in trouble if they put me into the normal performance review system.

This does make me wish there would be guidelines about how long "contract-to-hire" and "temp" situations should last. A clearly objective line makes things very easy to discuss and anticipate.
> AI's do not make a copy of the source material. It very much just adjusts their internal weights, which from a broadminded perspective, can be seen as simple inspiration, and not copying.

I think the term "AI" is one of the most loaded and misleading to come up in recent discourse. We don't say that relational databases "pack and ship" data, or web clients "hold a conversation" with each other. But for some reason we can say that LLMs and generative models "get inspired" by the data they ingest. It's all just software.

In my own opinion I don't think the models can copy verbatim except in cases of overfitting, but people like the author of the post have a right to feel that something is very wrong with the current system. It's the same principle of compressing a JPEG of the Mona Lisa to 20% and calling that an original work. I believe the courts don't care that it's just a new set of numbers, but instead want to know where those numbers originated from. It is a color of bits[1] situation.

When software is anthropomorphized, it seems like a lot of criticisms against it are pushed aside. Maybe it is because if you listen to the complaints and stop iterating on something like AI, it's like abandoning your child before their potential is fully realized. You see glimpses of something like yourself within its output and become (parentally?) invested in the software in a way beyond just saying "it's software." I feel as if people are getting attached to this kind of software unlike they would to a database, for example.

A thought experiment I have is whenever the term "AI" appears, mentally replace it with the term "advanced technology." The seeming intent behind many headlines changes with this replacement. "Advanced developments in technology will displace jobs." The AI itself isn't the one coming for people.

[1] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
That structure already exists in some places in the US, often mainly to pool HR expenses and healthcare. I suspect it will grow significantly.

The biggest risk for this is people who "really are" independent but are currently working on a long-term contract for a company, and it sounds like we'll have to wait for case-law to apply.

I suspect the rule of thumb of "you make $50/hr or more effective" will probably continue to hold.
It will vary by school, but accounting and finance are typically just a small piece. Basically an MBA covers all major topics that impact the functioning of a business, marketing strategy, HR, leading people, economics, information systems, operations management, quality control, etc.
South Africa's new plan to end power cuts is seriously flawed
Could imagine it being related to CUDA as well. Memory being consistently zero-initialized helps prevent application bugs.