skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I do believe that the government should regulate use of the word “medicine” in trade. It also regulates a lot of other words, like “ketchup” and “ice cream”. The government regulates what “12 fl. oz” means when you buy a can of root beer, and regulates exactly how the number of calories should be printed on the wrapper for a chocolate bar.

Notice how a lot of desserts in the frozen section of your grocery store are labeled “frozen dairy dessert”. That is because those specific desserts are not permitted to be called “ice cream”, just like how oscillococcinum should not be permitted to be called “medicine”.

There’s a balance here, but oscillococcinum is not an edge case. It is pseudoscientific fraud.

I’m glad that this isn’t the Wild West of snake oil salesmen like we had back in the day. People used to really get hurt! I think more of these regulations would improve the situation even more—herbal supplements, for example, should be labeled with the quantity of ingredients more accurately—right now, it can be a bit of a crapshoot due to the variations between vendors or even between different batches from the same vendor.
The Apple Magic keyboard I have does this and thought it was a common feature of Bluetooth keyboards. Apparently not...
Given the right spacing of keys, I suspect a crab could manage a pretty high wpm rating. Assuming the brain could keep up of course.

Sort of like tap dancing on the FAO Schwartz piano (Big), but with six legs per creature instead of two.
These things have unfortunately been sold out for a while. Not only that, if I wanted to use the BBQ20 with my phone I'd have to connect it to a BLE chip and a battery which is way more hacking than I wanted to do on this project.
The world would be a better place if we could all just be happy with standardized legal agreements: the pros/cons are easier to know ahead of time for both parties, you don't need much legal advice around them, and there isn't a lot of legal busy work that nobody really wants to do (even lawyers).

Having said that, the common answer from a lawyer of "it depends" is often true: there are often a lot of nuances that many people don't consider. For example you would think a mutual NDA should be pretty standard, but as it turns out it can be really complex.
If you use BitWarden paid version ($10/yr) then after an autofill of username/password, the totp is automatically added to the clipboard.
Well, mostly because of corporate greed of ownership. But the underlying issue is that Ai training in AI is a recipe for ruining the entire training set. At least in these early stages.
I think we'd need to be clearer on the parameters and definitions of what damaging levels of stress are. You might be able to measure stressors applied to the body and then body the bodies inflammation markers (new field).

15 minutes of low effort legwork might stimulate cartilage cell growth. But what's to say that an hour or so of low effort legwork (biking) isn't beneficial to the bodies endurance systems. Both of which the body would recover from and go back to optimal function.

Even hard workouts have their place in developing a healthy body, of which your body returns to optimal function through the bodies recovery processes.
Some AI apps. You can't really load a capable LLM in 4 GB. Or does this limit not apply when dealing with WASM and WebGPU?
We have labor laws and healthcare, they're just not enough and intrapreneurship probably isn't enough to fix them systemically. I see this as healthy growth, the people who don't get healed from what modern medicine currently covers are desperate enough to try these outlandish remedy attempts. If a lot of people have the same problems and figure out a cure, it will get incorporated into whatever they teach the MDs.

People ARE individuals, on a physical level too. Modern medicine is notoriously bad at addressing this, and until the technology catches up the only alternative to people trying things on their own is state-mandated trials on vulnerable groups.
Not all of the functions are transcendental--things like cbrt and rsqrt are in the list, and they're both algebraic.

(The main defining factor is if they're an IEEE 754 §5 operation or not, but IEEE 754 isn't a freely-available standard.)
Isn't this super common? Pretty much every bluetooth keyboard I've had can do both wired and bluetooth
They can write whatever they want in their Terms of Service. That's the logic.

That doesn't mean that courts will meaningfully enforce it for them.
And even then my 8 year old could easily create a grizzly silhouette from a photo in 2 minutes. Is this really something to struggle over?
oh, duh! thank you for walking me through the steps.
"excess people" ? I am not sure you are looking past the immediate point here.. micro-economics are sometimes useful, but not the whole story..
This is wrong for at least two reasons:

1) The data scraped from the web is filtered, deduped, ranked, and cleaned in a variety of other ways before being used for training. While quantity is necessary for a model to learn the structure of language, quality is even more important once you have a model that can produce coherent output so a lot of work goes into grooming the data.

2) There have been a bunch of papers and training runs that show synthetic data created specifically for training a model is as good or better than scraped human produced data. The importance of scraped web content is quickly declining because you can now generate infinite higher quality examples using existing trained models. The only relevance it has now is for knowledge about new developments and that is a much easier stream to filter since most of the important stuff comes from official sources and you don't need as many variations since you can just generate your own using one or more examples.
Easy on paper, hard to get right when trying to do this in C or Rust!
Yeah I do not like it as well. Especially since redhat tried to force it on users of CoreOS Container Linux, with a completely new os without any upgrade path and half the features. Forking base worked at the beginning , but was painful and broke sometimes. I migrated all coreos machines to flatcarlinux which was a fork of coreos and was bought by Microsoft and is still maintained by them. What a strange world. (I was a big fan of back than and used centos/fedora heavily. I dropped everything in favor of Debian/tumbleweed/manjora and almalinux(centos migrated))
I think flatcar uses squashfs
Seems very likely to me.
> I firmly believe that training models qualifies as fair use

There's a hell lot of money to be made from this belief so of course the HN crowd will hold it.

Some of us here who have been around the copyright hustle for a little longer laugh at this bitterly and pray that the courts and/or Doctorow's activism saves us. But there's so much money to be made from automatized plagiarism and the forces against are so weak, the hope is not much.

The world will be a much, much poorer place once all the artists this view exploits will stop making art because they need to make a living.

See https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1744422377113501998 and https://i.imgur.com/zOOcPCi.jpg
Very interested, any way to follow you?
according to who? Taking nihilism point of view: we are nothing but.a ephemeral spec of dust in cosmo epoch. to me/subjectively I matter a heck whole lot to myself :-)
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> overcome the arduous learning curve

Oh man. This reminds of the end of my developer career. I moved over to management because of awful RSI but in a desperate attempt to keep typing I learned the AlphaGrip. If I can master that thing, I can master anything!

http://www.alphagrip.com/
How do you get rid of the trash Shorts?
Of course it is! It being illegal doesn't mean Instagram is incentivized to crack down on it

And if you're a tiny independent artist you also aren't well-resourced to do anything about it.

(Afaict the best thing we can do is maintain a culture that demands attribution)
don't forget libiberty which is linked in using -liberty
(and freedom for all)
They're into their second half century doing this. Would they have made it this far without being a little weird? Maybe, but it's hard to A/B something like that. I understand it well enough after following the comic that long.

It's not for you.

(this is a reference to an ancient Penny Arcade bit: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/the-adventures...)
The speed of GPT-4 via chatgpt varies greatly on when you’re using it.

Could the data have been collected when the system is under different loads?
This is why Bill Gates spends so much time fundraising for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation - He's providing the social proof to the IRS that it's not simply his pet projects or marketing arm. He provides much if not most funding, but he gets assent and agreement from other wealthy donors.

(My opinion is that it's nearly all bullshit - A ton of what the foundation does is provide incentives for both government and NGO aid-services to stay locked into Microsoft products, but I don't think it's at the level of charity fraud)
Training on copyrighted data is not a violation of copyright.

Generating images in the style of an artist is not a violation of copyright.

Generating copies of copyrighted images is a violation of copyright.

AI companies only have to address the last point here, which frankly shouldn't be too hard.
Just seconding Privacy.com, I use them for all my online payments and it is a super easy workflow.
Ask HN: What coding guide do you give your Devs?
What coding guideline do you use for your internal Developers? It would be interesting to see what is being used as code instructions to assure code quality, security, re-useability and many other factors which are relevant to good coding practices.
I agree with you except for point 2. A well performing model should show such drastic changes wrt the seed value. Besides the huge amount of training data as well as test data should mitigate differences in data splitting. There would be difference but my hunch is it would be negligible. Of course as you said no one has tested this out so we can't say how the performance would change either way
>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.

This comes down to the product of AI.

If the AI produces a cancer treatment identical to what is already covered by patent, I think commercialization would be contingent on the permission of the IP holder.

If the AI produced a novel cancer treatment, using a transformative synthesis of available knowledge, Most people would not expect royalties.
Google is not producing something that competes with or is comparable to what it's parsing and displaying, which makes it very different.

Google is displaying the exact content and a link to the source, and is functioning as a search engine.

Copying music (or whatever), and then outputting music based on the copied music is not the same thing as a search engine, it's outputting a new "art" that is competing with the original.

Another way to put it, is that you can't use a search engine to copy something in any meaningful way, but copying music to produce more music is actually copying something.
In the case of YouTube, it's not trash videos that frustrate me, it's YouTube's UI.

First, they have been injecting unrelated recommendations into search results, under headers like "For you" and "People also watched". I don't want to see a pimple-popping video when I'm searching for something related to woodworking. (That's an extreme example, but I have actually seen those types of videos injected into completely unrelated search results. In fact, I just did a search for "hand cut dovetails" as a test and YT recommended two different disgusting pimple/pore videos in the first few dozen results.)

Second, they don't admit that they are out of results. Instead, when search results dry up they coughing up unrelated recommendations so that you can keep scrolling forever. This makes it look like there are more results than there actually are, which is completely unhelpful.
1. Who cares if it needs a lot of batteries? Batteries aren't that expensive. It'll have a lot less than a car, and people buy cars all the time. The utility of these things will be off the charts and even if they cost more than the average car there will be a big market. People will buy them with financing, like cars. And by doing more things they will reduce the need for other specialized devices like dishwashers, further justifying the cost.

2. Yes, robots will need to be cautious around people, especially children. But if it has a soft cover and compliant joints and good software we should be able to make it safe enough. They will not need to be imposing 7 foot tall giants. I expect they will typically be shorter than the average human. Maybe even child size with built in stilts or other way to reach high things.

3. Extension cord? Swappable auxiliary battery? This seems trivial to solve if it turns out to be a real problem. And if you have two (or borrow your neighbor's) they can help each other out.
I hope you payed for the book you read.

If openai would pay usage fees for the training material per user its generating content for - it would never be profitable - artist would be fine off. But even all the shares are owned by people who have given this system none of it‘s knowledge.
Or just get an ICE car and stockpile the fuel.. Way fewer steps required.
Any chance of including some of the better fine tunes, e.g. wizard or tulu? (worse than mixtral but I assume other finetines will be better just like wizard and tulu are better than LLAMA2)

I guess their cost is same as base model although would effect performance.
Even in the top 0.1% many are self made. My comment wasn't about whether they are self-made or not (and many people who got a head start in life have done very impressive things, one of the surgeons who pioneered transplant surgery was from a very wealthy midwestern family who made their money from the railroad industry). My comment was about Byrne's assertion that there are more ways to become rich that don't require social skills than ones that do. That doesn't seem true to me.
Bluesky 2023 Moderation Report
So basically natives don't reproduce, we import more immigrants who reproduce much faster, and those immigrants leaving their homeland allows more "growth space" for the existing people there.

That's essentially a population replacement on the planet-scale, isn't it?
> It’s pretty stupid that in an age where we strife for universal rights, your job could strip you from defending yourself on the public justice system, with all its defects and warranties…

I agree it's pretty stupid, but it is becoming the case for more and more people; while slightly different than the situation in the UK, forced arbitration clauses strip the right of the employee to seek justice, and they're getting more and more common.
> It can reorder your computations so that something that used to sum to 1 now sums to 0, it can cause catastrophic cancellation, etc.

Yes, and it could very well be that the correct answer is actually 0 and not 1.

Unless you write your code to explicitly account for fp associativity effects, in which case you don't need generic forum advice about fast-math.
If you switch to private browsing mode you can get an extra 500 tabs. :)
It's all a tradeoff of how system response vs. stability and how much overshoot is tolerable.

For the domains I've worked in, with physical components, system response isn't instantaneous, but some level of overshoot is tolerable as long as the system rapidly converges and (this is the important part) cannot end up in a positive feedback scenario. The derivative term tends to amplify noise, which is never what you want.

A little anti-windup, some generous limits around your max extents, and perhaps a gear-shift to switch bandwidths when you approach steady-state, and it's surprising how many problems can be solved with a filter and a PI controller for the closed-loop component of the system. Maybe the actuator is walking you up and down a complicated model space, maybe you've got multiple PIs driving multiple models...but there's a good chance a PI will do a decent job somewhere in the solution.

Use a PID if you want to make more work for yourself.

Specifics will depend on your exact system.
As California transitions to EVs, loss of gas tax revenue may hurt roads
ASUS are leading high-end laptop market
Can you give an example of a query where you find GPT4 is short with outputs? I’ve use custom instructions so that may have shielded me from this change.
Is this the Golden Age of hardware vulnerabilities?
Kaprekar's Routine
If you deactivate the video history, Youtube’s homepage stays empty
+1. I'm years away from fp-analysis, but do the transcendental expansions even converge in the presence of fast-math? No `sin()`, no `cos()`, no `exp()`, ...
I'm in the EU and very excited that i possibly could compile and sideload apps like that to my phone soon.
Is it Windows or BIOS/UEFI option? Will it work on Linux, *BSDs?
There are a multitude of supplements with clinical evidence to support their efficacy that are neither #1 nor #2. These include caffeine, ginseng, various vitamins, etc. If you go to examine.com, they analyze the strength of the studies and the effect size. Most won't have the effect size of prescription drugs but some are absolutely worth taking, particularly fish oil and vitamins like B and D.
>Why is art some special case that should be protected, when many other industries were not?

Because in this case the art is still necessary for the machine to work. You don't need horse buggies to make a car, nor existing books to make a printing press. You DO need artist's art to make these generative AI tools work.

If these worked purely off of open source art or from true scratch, I wouldn't personally have an issue.

>Why should we kill this technology to protect existing artistic business models,

We don't need to kill it. Just pay your dang labor. But if we are treating proper compensation as stifling technology, I'm not surprised people are against it.

Maybe in the 2010's tech would have the goodwill to pull this off in PR, but the 2020's have drained that goodwill and then some. Tech's made so many promises to make lives easier and now they joined the very corporations they claimed to fight against.

>Nobody can really answer these questions.

Well it's in courts, so someone is going to answer it soon-ish
In a comment it takes too much effort to specify every word you use, so instead comments relies much more on context. If a discussion is about models getting neutered then AI safety probably means that and so on.

But when you write a full article then the context is your article so you have to specify what you mean there, and the effort to specify it in an article is relatively little work compared to doing it in every comment.
It worse than that, because a lot of people react to the unfairness of society rewarding dishonesty by becoming dishonest as a revenge.

Those people weren't thinking into doing bad things before. But now they are.
I can’t see carrying one of these for use with a phone/tablet (at least not with this version’s chunkiness) but something like this with a trackpoint added would make a great companion for a home theater PC. Even better if it had multi-pairing so it could switch between a PC, console, streaming box, etc.

Currently am using a Lenovo ThinkPad Keyboard II for this purpose which is pretty good (dual RF/BT modes let me switch between devices, trackpoint is better than the chintzy integrated trackpads in most couch-keyboards), but something that takes up less coffee table space and is more like a remote would be even better.
You can not be doctor without degree. But you can certainly do same MBAs job without MBA. And then the whole doctor pipeline is much more interconnected and larger process. Simply giving out medical degree and dumping them out of the door doesn't work. Hospitals and residencies need to be involved.

Law schools might be better comparison. The number of lawyers graduated is not limited...
> We don't even understand the universe.

Exactly... Only when we (better ?) understand the universe will we know if (and how) we (meaningfully) add much to it.
It’s unambiguous about repeating articles of NY times pieces with hallucinations interwoven occasionally. This isn’t nearly as strong of an argument.
That’s a great documentary.
Who is blaming the poor? They are too poor to drink water? That makes no sense.
I'm really waiting for The Great Hardware Stagnation. We have accumulated too much cruft. This stagnation could last for, idk, 20 years, to really optimize everything. Then we could start Another Era Of Hardware Progress.
I understand that, only pointing out the hypocrisy
> This extends to music as well, if someone hears a song and is inspired by that in their work, the original artist gets credit.

That's only true in a very narrow set of circumstances. Imagine the case where someone listens to 10,000 songs, and then takes the sum total of that experience and writes their own. There's no credit given to the inspiration that each of those 10,000 songs gave. And that is in fact much closer to what AI is currently doing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240116101034if_/https://www.ny...
If people in the area generally wanted vegetables, someone would sell them. So the most likely case is that the vast majority of people in food desserts don't really want vegetables.
I have a similar experience without Apple.

But.

Those synced passwords are a huge, juicy target. Someday, someone is going to get them. This process is a vulnerable mess.
ISO File And LUKS: Termux, GNU xorriso, cryptsetup, proot-distro, Alpine Linux
nerd-sniping HN into accepting an advertisement?
When I hear the phrase, I rewrite it to "don't trust, verify."
The raw materials for many of these industrial products came from plunder.
Asus Zenbook Duo 2024 – is this the best mobile dev experience?
Dummynet and the rest of this functionality comes from FreeBSD, where it has existed for a long time. I was doing packet loss testing with it 15+ years ago. Works great!
And the people making the algorithms & internet interfaces could not give a flying fork less about those long term external consequences . . .
use FOSS
Why do you keep leaving out the part where the "others" are making their money using the unpaid labor of this artist and many, many others, without compensating them for it? Are you seriously suggesting that this artist should stop expressing their upset because they have the option to build a plagiarism machine instead?
Competently measuring performance is difficult. Stuff like the OS accumulating cruft over time can dominate trend lines. Broadly irrelevant reshuffles of program layout can have noticeable impacts on cache behaviour.

I don't bother with competent performance measurement. That involves statistics and the like. Instead I run the thing through callgrind and use that as a proxy for reality, or play fewer-branches-better. That and wall clock time to warn me if I've walked off the edge of some quadratic algorithm.

In principle I'd like to measure performance carefully and reliably, but that probably involves running under an emulator hacked to tell you things about performance, or on bare metal as the only code executing on the chip. Both are difficult.
I played around quite a bit with Tensorflow Lite in the ESP32 - mostly for things like wake word detection and simple commands - works very well and you can get pretty much real time performance with small models.
> someone hears a song and is inspired by that in their work, the original artist gets credit.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty certain that’s not actually how things work.
Imperial is weird.
Not to mention the possibility that the Post Office could remotely change the accounts without postmaster's knowledge, that is worse than ignored bugs